The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-02-23
The Aristocrat.
Bloomington Through Mail.

,BloomlnEton through Mall.
 The aristocrat is an animal of im- mensely enlarged sensations. l, is al- legged that he feels too largely for any earthly use on mos, occasions, and ex poets ever, body and everything to cringe and bow before hls naughty will. He IS the center of a little shoddy, homemade universe. and everything bends before his will, merely because he has blood in hls veins and money to back H.
 The love which the people bear far Il e aristocrat. Is d sort of gilded and washy affection. that wears out so soon as the patronage and money which he controls are devoted ,o other ends and purposes. some people conceive d burning atsec- ton for the aris'oerat al first sight; They love him passionately and kneel al hls feet and lmplore his favor with a species of devotion that some people call servll- i,y so long as he feasts and wines them. but vixen he begins to conduc, himself as II they were boring him, the tempera- ture of their affection is reduced several degrees, and eventually the thermometer oi hls regard sinks 10 zero. After the can of love which these puppets have had surging through their hearts has once frozen over, 1t takes several glasses of wine and good deal oi zap to thaw It out The lover does not pine away and die, however. He merely looks around for another aristocrat, with whom 10 fall in love-
 The average aristocrat ba,hes himself in luxury and goes to sleep in the lap Of ease several times each day. He usually drinks three or four times as much as ybody else. eN ept his admirers, with whom he irts heartlessly, and whose hearts he is as likely to trample upon as lo cherish
 In the earlier part of its career. the ,risieera. k a oap-manufaetuiei drug git. grocer or plumber In due time, its sN stem becomes so saturated with gold and silver, tha; people form an ex- aited estmation of iis value to the com mnnliy, and its head begins to swell and Its plumage 10 acquire btislt co 0 S. About this time, Il ceases to walk and travels about on wheels wi h negro dressed better than it did at the begin. ming of its career. perhaps ever on Sun day. acting as eoaehman l, rides over rldieaiously short distances distances tlias tuc p:CSiICIlt Ot tue | niteQ otatcS or Il common laborer would walk
 As |, grows old, il becomes rheumatic. grabbed and cynical, and the number of its lovers Is ve.y much increased They hover about Il and minister to it's every want as earnestly as If l, were a sic k child The aristocrat then makes it's will. af;er which it's admirers beco less numerous. Il seems that whenever thls event transpires. there Is widespread convicuon among its sultors that the fig IS up, and that their fate Is determined. They seem to forget tha, codici some tunes put an entirely different face on the aii.ar, and they cruelty desert hlm
 Al last. the aristocrat dies. and d piece of crape as large IS can be obtained. Is hung on the knob of his door, as sig nal to all corners that he has retired from business-ls out-cannot be seen Alter legal squabble over his estate. the aris- tocrat has monument erected 10 his memory. bu, for which he would soon be forgotten. Some aristocrats are born 10 H. and they are the wors, ot all