The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-10-17

r. k. Huddle thus announces the sus
 pension of a publication to which he ha.
 devoted much physical and intellectua
 energy:
 FeIl07O -e;tisenS and 6eloved combanions :, dt6t; In the September number of tht
 1A'oHSA Mail Mogasine, promised that the
 October number would be much improved
 unless should burst hame string. I take my pen in hand to let you know that the hamt s'rlng IS burst-so am I. Three or four o
 my creditors have had the impudence to in
 slst that must pay their bills, which amount to about $Icoo, and are unwilling to give me any time to make the money. They were
 bent on having il last week, and you know
 how difficult it is for poor boy with hole In the seat of his pantaloons and nine chil dren with holes in the seats of their respec. tive pantaloons, to make $I coo in four days. found couldn't do it, even by working | nights, so l was obliged to decline their kind invitation. 1 candidly told the gentlemen who have the honor to be my creditors, tha, there IS money is the ThyoHsh .KaH and that II they would permit it to survive, there would be enough in it for them and me too. did not lie to them. There is more in It than all of us will ever be able to get out. I put T3coo in cash and $6,ooo ooo in hard work into 1t, myself, and as they have thousand dollars in it and my former partner put in about 5 9oo, can lick the elivered An hanias that says there was never anything in it.
 All my earnings for ten years go clown in the general wreck, and there is no submarine diver skillful enough to raise them from the Vasty deep. This is the place where my read CTS should shed few tears of sympathy and adopt resolutions of condolence. There is nothing that does a sensitive man more good when he hnds all the proceeds of years of hard labor swept away, than to receive ex- pressions of coincidence. When his babes romp barefoot before him, their toes rosy with the nipping frost, and his wife in the faded calico dress which she has been wear ing four years until business would brighten up and enable her to go to bed early in the evening instead of remaining up until mid. night to wash his only shirt, comes to him With sad smile and inquiries whether they will have roast turkey and cranberry sauce or plain mush for dinner, nothing can be more soothing and cheerful than to range them all around the family altar and read a lot of resolutions of coincidence to them. If is also great satisfaction to the editor to know that he published a magnificent paper, and letters from parties whose names never were on his subscription books, assuring him of that fact, cannot fail to make him feel opulent and happy. Unlike Mir. Wakeman, of the Curreaf, shall neither cry suicide or go mad. purpose getting new handspring in my backbone and having myself nickel-plated afresh, and go right on writing humorous matter that will serve as an universal emetic. owe the world adeep, bloody and terrible revenge, and that is the way shall get it. am open to an engage ment for religious column in any firs;-class humorous or sporting newspaper that can put up hard cash every Saturday evening, and can furnish as good recommendations as any man in America. Iwrote them my. self, and if these are not enough, can write some more on short notice.
 Finally, all parties having bills against the IAroMSh HaH M2SG-;He will please present them to the sheriff, whom we have secured at great expense to act as funeral director. He is very obliging and will take grea, pleasure in showing them just how much they will be unable to get by the time the costs are paid He is as cheerful and attentive in his capac- ity of business manager as the most fasti- dious creditor could desire, and scarcely day passes but what he officially notifies me that arran gements for receiving me at court have been perfected. The editorial club moulders in the hell-box, and the fighting d itoT can be found peacefully nursing his twin offspring, while his wife goes to the theatre with her rich uncle. hope that no one will have the unkindness to intimate that have grown rich by this failure. Such a declaration would be likely to startlc my neighbors, who support me, and give them the mysteries. Truth crushed ts earth" But no matter-I can bear it.