The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-05-22


 A physiologist has written three col umn article on When to Eat Eat when you are hungry, we should think, is the best time
 The Mississippi river is falling so rap idly that the government, unless haste is made, will lose the opportunity of is- suing rations to the colored people.
 When two political parties become so much alike that no difference can be distinguished between them, it is safe to say that neither one of them is right.
 Ex-President Hayes has become a mag azine writer That he has succeeded in getting his matter printed is sure sign that there must be something at least peculiar in his style, for magazines do not encourage obscure writers.
 The man who threw the fatal bomb in Chicago has only been eight months in this country. He improved his oppor- tunities Some men live here during many years and die without having ere ated sensation. If Mir Lingg were to come to Arkansaw and throw a bomb he would soon feel the ungentle pressure of rope.
 It is said that Queen Victoria re quested the prince of Wales to edit the life of John Brown, but that the prince positively refused The queen was much grieved and in conversation with a prominent gentleman said; "Yes Hi ham 'urt. Hi thought e would do i'm self the honor of hediting such work, but was mistaken Halas, the cad is not cold until the noble body is forgot teR. Hi would get somebody else to hedit it but don't want to pay out any money Halasl"
 Towrite lightly, think deeply; to write heavily-don't think at all. The man who with a desperate. mental effort vaguely remembers some old idea ex- pressed in academic groves where sub lime cranks moped in learned reverie, and who puts it on paper in such awk- ward ond confused expression that its source is almost hidden, fancies that he has accomplished a great work; and the editor of the magazine, noticing that it is badly written with quill pen which has an impeachment in its speech, de cides that the article is a masterpiece. Freshness and clearness of style, force and originality of thought avail noth- ing with the editor whose feet are in the muddy streets of the present and whose nose is thrust between the leaves of a mouldy manuscript of the past. The country newspaper of Arkansaw is not run by this kind of an editor. He casts no eye on the past; he looks to the fu- ture, to tomorrow when Uncle Abner Boyle shall come in with a dozen eggs and peck of new potatoes.
 The American Press Association, now tnc SISdttSI Hc"S cuEtHu III tnc NoTlu, thus picks up the great paper of the "Queen City of the west:
 |" For example, the Cincinnati Enquirer reproduced on the l4th of April last, the whole of our special Lincoln page, re-engraving the pictures. and crediting the matter to tne Washington Hqtchd, which newspaper took the matter in plates from us paying two dollars for their use. Wepresent our compliments to the bright and enterprising manager and owner of the Cincinnati Enquirer, MT. John R. Mclean. He knows a good thing when he sees it"
 The great dailies are by no means in- capable of error Their editors at least many of them, have grown old in ruts and are unconscious of the wonderful progress going on around them They imagine that labored editorial-pro- found because it is labored-is of more interest to the people than bright mis- cellaneous matter. Many of the great papers might with profit reproduce pages from the Washington HatcAet, not only the matter sent out by the Ameri- can Press Association, but the original articles which appear in that excellent journal