The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-11-21

Like his highly esteemed brother, Mir. Nathan Pettigrew was weAlthy. He owned several valuable farms, one or ,wo creameIys, equines of lengthy pedigree and biooded stock galore. Nathan Pet tigrew was the first mar in the little iowa town.
 Whenever the Big Man of a country hamlet decides to visit the city, he Is q ,riHe skittish about it for iesr his native town will lip up when his weight is re- moved and spill out the inhabitants whom he is obliged to leave behind. Hos ever, he is too selfish to feel the leas; particle of sympathy for the big city he is to honor with visit. nor for the ;rem- bling victims whom his august p' esence is expected to parai,ze, asitate and Pain- fully confuse Clothed in the accumu- lated dignity acquired by years ot exis. tence as the big bull toad in a small vii laee puddle, and an old-.tyle stove. pipe hat, he enters a city with the maj jestic tread of a county superintendent of public instruction, and is not C fl the train ten minutes before his new sui, of clothes is arussically frescoed by the mud from the wheels of a passing milk wagon, and some unregeners,e rewsbcy in moment of abstraction spits on the great mans boots.
 He is iost,ed, thumped and pounded from block to block; policem en watch him grand, bsjeweled ho,el-clerks size him up; confidence men spot him for a gray :" barbers draw blood on him, and harrass him with impoitunities to pur. chase hair oil, face cream, tonic and Jus re; newsboys guy him, and bar-keepers pump him full of liquid crime which costs less than fifteen cents gallon and makes a man want 10 set fire to sn orphan asy- lum.
 But after all, the Big Man the High Mucky-Muck is not alone te blame for the unpleasant predicament in which he hu0S nlIhSCh WhGb hC kOCS away hOth home. His own town people, the sub servient, trucking, sycophantIsh, time serving human beings who have so long be fore him " crooked the pregnant hinges of the knee" that they are bow legged just because he has few thousand dol lars in loose change, and lives in big house with plaster on the walls, and who never make any municipal move until they consult his wishes. always elect him town trustee, and mortgage their homes to him at usurious interest, and grin like South American chimpanzees whenever he makes a sickly attempt at vulgar wit, these are the poor, deluded creatures who are to blame for the Big Medicine nan s egotism. And when he gets home from his jamboree in the city, they are on hand at the railway station to meet him, and lawn around him like some NeWfound- land pup, and his collapsed 6ag of self conceit will again begin to inaate, and go on swelling and swaying over the heads of the common herd until after three or four years more of quiet seclu- sion he makes another delirious break and again goes of to the city, when it will be busted as wide open as before and thus the Big Man of the country vii lage will amble on through Ii until he is gathered to his fathers and his neigh bor- ing dupes have set up another false, yet nickel plated god.
 The reader will pardon this Aggression when he learns that, to a certain extent, these remarks apply to Mir. Nathan Pet tigrew. Concerning that man we may as we'll frankly state that it would require years of scientific research and industrious delving in the richest mines of erudition to enable a man to acquire knowledge worthy his acceptance. But in reality Mir. Nathan Pettigrew had employed hf,y-eight years in acquiring a stupen- dous lack of information. And oa ,h;s, one of his few memorable trips to Chi cago, he had brought it all along with him.
 Peletiah," said Nathan, as the two brothers walked along Wabash avenue, on their way to the store, what kind of a rig is thatp'
 Mir. Nathan Pettigrew was pointing into the window of retail furniture store.
 "That is kind of a patent eombina- ton self-propelling and reclining invalid chair" ansx cred Peleiiah. "Why, what ofit?"
 "I'm going to have one of 'em, by gum. Becky is a kind of an invalid l; weakly like, you know, and if you don't l mind III send if nn fo the house and go