The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-04-28
All gentlemen attending this reception will be expected
 to wear & white shirt

The inference was plain as the pim- ples on Mrs. Judge Gildersleeves's nose. They thought we hadn't a white shirt. They thought we'd at- tend with an army blanket thrown carelessly over our shoulders. The object was to let us know that Mrs. Judge Gildersleeve didn't look upon us as knowing what belonged to man. ners. It was all right. We didn't go. As to whether the Gildersleeve ring came out ahead opinions differ. Our account of the party, headed: "'Gathering of Vultures" is still going the rounds of the press. In that ar- ticle we proved Judge Gildersleeve to be an embezzler and horse thief, and we adduced positive evidence that Mrs. Judge was broken-down and played-out fortune teller who had been compelled to skip from St. Louis. The judge called at the Kicker office next day with shotgun, but when we brought out more letters proofs that he had served time in three prisons and that Mrs. Judge still had the workhouse cut on her ndlT Wu6u SUc ATElVeQ III ATlZOQA- the judge did not shoot.
 The Jackass Hill set next tried to make us sing small. They got mad because we weren't putting them in every issue. Colonel Decker had two shillings worth of repairs made to his mule harness, and the Kicker didn't notice it. Mrs. Prof. Froth- ingham turned an old silk dress top- to- bottom, and the Ktcker didn't come out with a notice that she had received another $500 dress from Worth. Major Hornblower put a porcelain door, knob on the front door of the adobe, and the htcker didn't come out and list it as one of the en- terprises bound to bring in new set- tiers and boom real estate. It was, therefore, determined to down us. Lily De Lisle, the red headed daughter of the one- legged county clerk, made her debut, and we were not invited to the blow out. It was an action in- tended to break our heart, and we promptly countered. It was on our tip that the sheriff went up about ten o'clock that evening and gathered in two bigamists from New England, an embezzler from Ohio and a fugitive from Chicago, all of whom were looked upon as the cream of society, and were airing their frills and scal- lops at the great debut.
 We are here to stay. We put up our own shanty with our own hands. We board and lodge ourself, and we have not only got the cost of living down 80 fine, but are getting our white paper so cheap that we can make money on a list of thirty sub- scrilers and three pages of dead ads. We are going to run the Kicker after our own style, whether it pleases the bigbugs of Jackass Hill or the half starved coyotes in Poverty Hollow. While we don't banker after invita- tions to euchre parties and church so- cials, we don't propose to take a snub from any set While we are willing to boom the town, we don't propose to sit up nights to let the outside world know that some citizen has added bathtub to his dug out, or that some merchant has inst received fresh wad of bedticking.
 There have been hints thrown out by the courthouse ring that we are to be starved out. Try it on, gentlemen ! We are now fifteen dollars ahead of the game, have paper enough on hand for ten weeks, and our living expenses last week footed up only sixty-seven cents. We came to stick.