The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-02-13

ing tramp, feiloW Wltn munger enougn to steal, but with not enough courage tc rob. He looked as though he were about te be hanged, and when gave him five dollars and told him that he was free, he looked at me in bewildemeDt burst into tears, and hurried away. Sc MT. Malone has gone to the peni. tentiary. The gallows would be more be6tting. suppose you noticed how lightly he got of and how severely the law took hold of Tillottson. It is nearly always the way in this country. The jury looks with commiseration on the man who sheds blood, but frowns darkly upon the thief. The leading men of the country censure this-they condemn ii in unmeasured terms-but let northern newspaper affirm 1t and they denounce the paper as slanderous sheet"
 "Yes, Len replied, because they know that the northern paper does not speak oi it in the desire to bring about a reform, but uses it as political lever. The law is not enforced in the nerth much bet. ter than it is in the south. Blood may be cheap in the south, but in the north hu- man life is sold at wholesale. The rich proprietor of a great mill looks without feeling upon the women and children who are wearing out their lives in his service. He needs not say that he cannot better their condition. He can we'll afford to pay them more for less work. Does he help the poor consumptive who is dying at his loom1 No, he assists in getting up charity ball, which, after the expenses are paid, leaves but little for the suffering widow and the starving child. He as- sists in getting up the ball, not because he is desirous of relieving distress, but because he knows the newspapers will praise his generosity. The fashionable woman dances while the starving woman waits for something to eat"
 "Why, my dear boy" said the colonel,
 
 you are getting very warm for a man who is trudging through the snow. You almost make me think that we are in a harvest field. Is not that a shock of wheat9 ? Oh, no, it is only stump covered with snow. You observe that my eye sight is no so good as it used to be. An. have made you laugh. do not like to see you so serious, for then you look like an old man. Len, it is useless to discuss the evils of our time. They are many, they are powerful and cannot be corrected except by those who practice them."
 "And to them," said Len, "we need not look for correction" ;"
 "You are right. Thank God that l have never oppressed anyone. Say, do not the people of this community amuse vou?"
 "Yes, l find in them an interesting study"
 :" l know you do. When go to church or any public gathering, am always en- ter.ained by what hear. la the city we find slang: here we find an expressive dialect. l would like to know the origin of some ot the words hear. The other day l heard Mort Haney, in speaking of striking a negro, say, didn't faze him. When you think of it, 'fa1e is an ex. pressive term. Then again. there is the word 'momox,' meaning to execute badly. The first time ever heard it, Honeycut used it in telling me that he had hired negro to bottom chair but that he had momoxed' 1t. Your grandparents use many words that amuse me, but notice that their dialect is little different f,om that Of many of the people. At first did not understand the cause, but 1 soon learned that it is because they are from Tennessee. am not sure, but think that they introduced the word 'momox.' tell you this is tiresome walking. Let us sit on the fence and rest awhile."
 They had crossed the field. Len
  turned over rail to knock the snow of, and the colonel, thanking him for his con. sideration, climbed up and seated him. self.
 "Do you know, Len, that these people are now glad that the war terminated as 1t did ?"
 |" l have not heard many of them ex. press themselves but think that they are." They are, sir, without doubt. They now know that had the Confederacy succeeded in establishing itself they could have hoped for nothing better than social slavery. They know that the slave owner would be supreme and that poor man would be looked upon with con- tempt. If congress should now grant to the southern states the right to go out of the union, not one of them would go out.