The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-11-21

Sense at my hands, experiences which tHust to establish the assertion that there are great many things as we'll as great many others.
 "l tell you, sir" said Mir Dennis Han. nifin, chairman of the Democratic central committee, and proprietor of "Keno
 Hall," in the little town of (~eIl, call i,) Prince, Dakota Territory, " tell you. sir, you have made good purchase in buying the paper. and If you need a steerer or cappeT, or want fellow to fight where you can't do it yourself call right onto me, sir, right onto me. seen a good many editors licked in my time, licked some myself, licked 'em right smart, too |; but like your politics and your looks, and when you want a shirt you know where am."
 had purchased the Prince Tribune, turned 1t into a Democratic paper, and settled down in the little town of l goo inhabitants to make living The town to which have given an assumed name for its inhabitants are sensitive, was six squares long and four squares wide. The main street had but one side and fronted the prairie There were couple of drug stores, dry goods empolyum," the sign proclaimed, two hardware stores, two furnishing stores for steamboats, for it was on the Missouri river, three hotels two livery stables, half a dczen lawyers offices, and the rest was made up ot whisky saloons and gambling shops
 The mayor kept a hardware store, and
 vas looked up to with much respect, so much, in fact, that when he once signed himself George Sseepuls, Mair," an al derman standing by took of his hat as he called attention to the omission of the final "e" to the Maire." The county clerk, an estimable gentleman, was the "look-out " for faro bank kept by the district attorney, and of which the pro
 bate judge was the " dealer" Back of the bAr-room, owned and run by the city clerk, was the office of the police justice, who was also foreman of the fire depart ment, and ranged beyond were the gin mills and gaming houses of the various other city authorities. Around the cor ner were the whisky parlors of the three county jsdges, and, a little beyond, the keno apartments of Mir Hann,hn.
 "You see, you don't know our people very well yet, but when you do you Il like
 em. They are great kickers If they don't like thing, they kick Oh, they're kickers, and you Il find it out. They kicked agin the editor you bought out kicked hard. told him, let 'em kick, and he did but he didn't have the con stitution 70 stand it. They gave him the backcap and landed him but if you treat
 em right anyways near right, they y'll stay with you
 Mir. Hannifn had been chairman of the Democratic county central commit tee for number of years, distinction conferred upon him for his sagacity in ropipg money into the town" To his younger days he had been one of the best three-card monte men in the west but as he grew older he cast aside the road and settled down into what he called square game of keno, sir, square as a greenback tor all but suckers"
 MT. Noel, the district attorney, had come up from the circus fiug, around which he had ridden until his muscles were iron. Besides his official functions he had time to take care ot his livery-sta- bic and his fAro-bank, and to appear every evening on the trapeze at the "opera bouse." Sometimes his duties collided, and two or three times his en- agreements compelled him to adjourn court that the audience might not be kept waiting for him at the pending matinee. When he ran for office, he pledged himself never to prosecute any one who voted for him, and to 4il every man who didn't, which pledge he sol emnly stood by, though he only convicted the worst ones" among those who failed to support him. His hvery-stable gave him considerable trouble until he had regulated the understanding of the town, and taught some of the fiji ials, as we'll as a member of the lesser lights of the town, the lesson that dealing in horses after dark was often attended with per sonal discomfors This simpl fled mat ters and left him more leisure to take care of strangers, and see that they got safely into his faro-bank.
 Among the more inn ocent recreations of the county clerk, Mir Dicks, was to ineoriate his system whenever he had cause for rejoicing, and, as he was re- markedly garrulous on such occasions, the county judges would fiod themselves to adjourn their ID meetings fcom Nah'S " sAAAi~' uuhs hhSy Nout0 Stt(h uiu in a reasonable state of sobrie,y When once, as to the nature of.he causes which had led up to rem arkabIe state of exhilaration, he said it was be. cause his baby was born the previous night, and when reminded that he had presented the same valid reason at the previous meeting the week before he mumbled to himself: "Well, 1 know very well its something abou, the baoy; An l remember. The baby oied last night; that's it. Koew very well the baby had something to do with it." There was some little complaint about MT Dicks habifs in reference to papers filed with him, deeds, mortgages and the like Sometimes they could be tound, aud sometimes they couldn't, but Mir Dicks ~oald al~ays preserve his good humor and go with the applicant from bar-room to barroom occasionally turn in Q m, thN rni<sino q Ao~uunsrt Ooa A..