The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-08-02
MR. NAsBY's DREAM.

1nc ku1tu&kux tckt<r, zum tne Iotedo Bkadk, xTiesen by the renowned hrmoriss, Nasby, does not ind its way into TIE TRAVELLER On account of its political significance, hut on account of ;,s humor. which can alike be enjoyed by demccra, and republican:
 CoSFEDERrT X ROADS twich is in the state uv Kentucky), loon ,9, ISSl..- Since Haypey's Weekiy her josncd hands with the Corners and becum trooly dime kratic, determined to encurridee 1t. and we made up a puss and subscribed for one copy, which dubbles its cirkelashen in the Corners. Elf its cirkelashen will dubble everywhere the Harpers will hev accomplished their purpus, and will come back permanently to the dimocrisy wich they left in IS6i, after the var cut orf the south from the trade, and the republi- kins reioozed 10 hev any paper wich cari- catoored the goriller Linkin.
 The fust number we reserved con- taned cartoon based upon the story uv Virginia and her father Nireinius.
 he'd great deal uv trouble to make the Corners understand the meanin uv the pikier. he'd to tell em ,ha, Virginia wuz tue dawter uv Roman of6ser, sort ry briggadeer-general, e it were; that the emperor wuz in love with her, and wuz bound to hev her anyhow. that the gal wuz in love with another feller and the emperor, to get her, he'd one uv his favorits trump up a story that she wu. reely his slave. and that this sneekin ouss prot the girl afore the emperor. who uv course gave judgment in favor uv the sneek-the pint being to gitthe gal asay from her father and lover, when she wood be immejitly tufned over to him: that when judgment wuz rendered, the father, to save the gal from fallin into the hands uy the tyrant, snatched a knife from a butchers stall and killed her.
 Deekin Program remarked that it wuz a shameful waste uv property that in the good old days in Kentucky a likely gal like that wood bring SI.5oo in Noo Orleens.
 Then 1 went on to show that, in the pikter, Virginia, the innosent gal, stood for the republikin party that the crooel emperor wich wuz agoin to take her any how wuz Blanc, and that Virginius, the father uv the gal, wich wuz a killin the virgin to prevent her from fallin into the hands uv Blanc, wuz the independent re- publican party, made up mostly uv Hdr- bey's He<k!y and Mast, the artist, wich 1 now hily respect.
 They pre,ended .c understand i,. but they didn't. 1t ain'T classikle allushens that kesch the Corners. They 6on' | know much about Nirginius, bu, Jist in- vi,e em over to Bascom's. That they comprehend. My costitooents mus, be appealed to mostly thro the bowels.
 Alter exh austin myself tryin to explain the pikter, went to bed and dreeme1 The pikier wassfresh in my mind. Ther wuz the independent republican. labeled independent republikin," so you cooden't make any mistake iher wrr Virginia, the hapdsome gal, Ia aoeled :" re- publkin party" so't 700 coodent make any mistake about that and ther wuz the emperor, labeled '' Blane," so't 700 cooden't make any mistake about him. Mir. Mast hez to label all his pikters now |, sence he has jined the dimocrisy.
 To begin with, 1t wuz all in the dreem jist ez it wuz in the pikter. Blanc rushed forrerd to seeze the republikin party, and the independent party, Mir. Curtis, seezed the gal, and drawed her to one side, and waved the butcher-knife aloft, and wux a goin to strike.
 Ther wuz immejitly tremenJus change from the pikfer. The damsel staadin for the republikin party wuzn't shrinkin gal at all, but she wuz tall, strappin, splendidly propogshened femals yith muscle onto her. And tho indepeud0t voter wuzn't hardy soljer, with legs ike the cedan of Lebanan and muscle Ike a blacksmith, bat he wuz . thin-1oGEed, narrer-chested. long-haired, sallo w-faced dude, with his hair parted in the middle. He wuz a leanin on the gal instead of the gal leanin on him, and the moment he quit leanin onto the gal his knees knock ed together and 1t wuz with great ditfi- kitty that he stood alone. He wuz so week without his nateral support that he he'd to ketch onto a southern dimocrat wich stood near to keep on his feet at all, and the shadder of the southern dimo- crat hid him from mortal view. He wobbled.
 The order uv things e wuz set down in the pikter wuzn't observed at all. Ther wux variashun d6renk from vat the in- dependent voter expectsd.
 The fair damsel, the rspuh,ican party, suddenly developed great deal uv muskeler power and considerable will of her own. She siz to hsr fsil hise and fetched ths indspesdeat dude one under the ear that sent him in one direckshun and the Knife another, and then she jumped onto the two uy em, acd kep lumpin on em 6ll Mr. Nasa didnt know whether he vu Nasf or Curtis, and Mir. Curtis wuz in grate doubt whether he wuz Curtis or Mast. Hevin finished the in- dependen, party, she rushed over to Blanc, and throwin herself in his mus keller arms, reposed there conf dinly and CT quietly ez any well-behaved young female ever did h the arms uv her ownest.
 The independent party arir and sed