The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-08-02
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 sHeilo, oah,s said the groceryman so the bad boy, as he came in the store ~ssh high sanding collar on. . pair of tooth pick shces and cane with an ivory head, and eUf buttons as biz as individual butter plates. what you gos on that dude rig Tor? Nov ycn are going to turn ont just as thought you would all the time, . no-account dude. Have your folks seen you. ?"
 "Yes, they have seen me-" said the boy, as he put the head of the cane in his mouth, " and doat you call me bab' any more. l am growing 90 l am al- most as tall as you are. l am only wear ing these clothes for fun to-day. You see our wash-wcman has been doing some washing for dude down ,owa. and he owed her eight dollars, and he I wouldn't pay her. and pa told her 10 70 and deliver his washing this morning and take his clothes, and he would be apt to pay. So she got his clothes before he got up, and brougkt them up to oar 1 house, where she is at work to-day. and | put them on, and when the dude comes out of his boarding. house with his linen ulster on, and slippers, ard sees me. he will JuN lay nsh, down and blaI am cuiy trying 10 help a hard wosking woman collect pay for her wesk. Say, what kind oi . masher would l make anywayr
 1 70, you look too intelligent about the head for . dude" said the grocerymas. | c n.,s s~ll hoe s< Axs~nL- ing againg have seen him come out of several saloons lately. and one day he had his hat damned down over his nose, and another ume his coat tai was split clear l up to his neck and he smelt strong of beer. It is sad to sec a man go wrong that way"
 "No, pa has not gone to drinking again. He has joined a new society to proven, other people from drinking, and if he don't gea killed he IS liable to do some good, bat he has had hard luck 90 far. This society pa be- longs 10 believes m moral su asion, and when any member sees man about to drink. they go 10 him and reason with him. Pa came home in hack the first day he was on duty. He ven, into a saloon and saw man just blowing the roth ofi . glass of beer, and pa went up to the man and touched him on the arm and said, |. II was in your place would no, drink that!" The man held the beer up to the light and looked through it and said, Vosh de mAdder ion dot peer Pa said 1t was full of alcohol and the man said, Yell, do, vos vol won't and pa told him 1t was full of headache, and ed his health, and the man told pa to 20 away and mind his own business, and pa said any man that would take viper in his stomach, to steal away his brains was fool, and unfit to exercise the right of 2 freeman, and vote. guess that made the fellow mad, for he took pa by the collar and poured the beer down the back of his neck, inside his collar, and the saloon keeper came around from behind the counter and thre~ pa oui dooIs through wire screen. pa didn't get his clothes dry for two days, and he smells like a malt house. That was the beer you smelled. Pa went in one other saloon and found an old man juss pouring ou, some whisky, and he tackled that man and the man told pa to go and soak his head, but pa isn't one of the kind of men that goes and puts his head to soak every time anybody tells him, and he talked to that man real harsh. He told the man he was taking poison. a deadly poison that you'd surely kill him, and the man swallowed it and said he had been taking that hind of poison for forty years, until he had to have about 90 much poison regularly. He wiped his mustache and IsL- temperance fellows don't want to tackle an old soaker like me. What you wan, to do is to save the young fellows that are just beginning to drink There is a party of young fsllows in the back room drinking wins, and what you want to do is to reason viah them That was enough for pa and he vent in there and found four young fellows sitting around table, and they were pretty full. Pa began to talk ! to them about their couSse, and how they were going the right vay to reach the penitentiary, and how they would ruin themselves and their families. Pa says he thinks the 6rst bottle exploded it's cogh accidentally, but the cork hit him on the nose and the vine went all over his shir, and down his neck, and he is not sure but one of the young fellows did il on purpose. He sAys before he could re- cover from his assonishmsnt two of the wicked vresches that he vas trying to save took him by the heels and stood him on his head up agaiast . partition and two others popped corks down his trousers legs, and he thought . regular Niagara Falls of wine was running down him. Then they ses him up On the floor and shampoooed his head with cham pagne. poured his boots fali, pulled his hat down over his eyes and let him on, the back door. He got hack and vas taken home, and ma ssys she hasn't sen such a sight siacs the last presidential election. She asked pa how it happened that SO much good wine got ouiside oi him, but pa wouldn't say anything, he was SO mad He loaded Bis revolver this 1 morning and he will convest somebody t~r.v>~~.u~. v.~s~<sv,1~~ i.