The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-12-12
ARKANSAW HOTELS.
The Place Where Hog 's. Head Is Served the Whole Year Round--t xtra
 Charge for Whole Bricks.

The country hotel in the most remote parts of ArkAnsaw Is an ins,i,u,ion of marked individuality. Its fare Is below that of an ordinary fArm-hous6 and is be tween the fare of village hotel and something worse. The something worse, however. has not yet been found. The proprietor of the country hotel is not proud and naughty. He appears at ease among his guests and not untrsquentIl he brings in backlog or m Ikes the windlass of the well n the back part oi the yard .creak under the influence o' his mighty arm. When a guest asks !: What time do you have supper r he replies:
 "Wall, hour or . half hour by sun oI about dusk. Along there, summer"
 The great support Of his table is the hogs head. Oace or twice A month you can enter into a social engagement with hog s.hcad and derive much pleasure sHo profit, but when you are compelled to meet hogs head three times a day, a contempt for its presence gradually in- fuses itself into your blood.
 z There don't seem 10 Dc nothing but heads about ths hogs in this country said a eentlem an a. tho tAo'e. addressing the proprietor of the F. ,eneeT:r hotel, l +Hah P
 1 sOa an average how m any heads does one hog have iu this country7"
 SOoe, O co 'se."
 f didat kao~. l didat know bet :he hogs in this country were com posed entirely Of heads"
 Don't like hog 's.head, eh7'
 "Well, as casual acquaintance l have no obj .ction to it. but hlvs no desrc to become intimate with it."
 Wall, at supper time you'll git su,hin else"
 "I hope SO"
 Atsupper the guest, pointing to disA, said:
 "You've still got hogshead, I sec"
 "Ns sir. told you that you d gi, su,hin' else fur supper, ao' you ve go. it."
 "Well, what do you call that1r
 "lt's pigs head. Any man sha, don't know the dif Hence bet ~esa a hogs head an a pigs head ain't got sense enough to recogn zs good es,in when he sees it. Stranger, see that you never have been round nose You ought to 70 out an knock round the world. You don't pear to have no sperence io this country. You ough.er stop at that house about . mile from here"
 "What do they have taeTe3'
 "Nothin' tall"
 "Then I'll go ovsf ssd stay q. that house. Good day"
 The hotel in a new railroad town is diferen, from the country hotel. In many respects the county hotel is sspesior. The railroad hotel, bu it oi unseAsoDed pine and still uopainted. is knowo as he N ~ York house or the CaicaSo hotel. The proprietor once ran 2 bling hoa SC and having been badly deieaied, Is nov in position to be avenged. h the summer hts guests melt. h the winter they fresr.- The rooms are small chso. mos of oreariness. The walls are lAthed but have not been plastesed, and the beds An, the bedsi
 q wish," said drummer, addressing the proprietor of the New York house "th a you would put To, of ~hole br icks in my bed and take ou. those sharp-cor . rered bri-k-baw."
 "All right" That night when the drummer vent up he found . ~heelbArro~.loado of bricks in his bed The next day when he askea for his bill, the landlord said:
 "Lets see, you had whole bricks in your bed, didn't you 2" "Yes.n
 "Ose dollar extra" The proprietor of the New Yosk houss is sa accommodating sensiemas, but he insists upon being pad for his tosbis He has his favonsss, and when one of the@ usexpecsedly comes alosg. the be t bed is the hoase, even tkosgh some enc elss is eccnpyisg is, .as bs given sp Axgunents ase neva ased to eGect this