The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-04-28

NtAHost AA AuVAAhk NhO Vtu NVAitW~ mans question, spoke to tho man In white, behind the counter, and said, Give mo & little cl'ar whisky, if you please
 "That settled it, for with a plump, resonant and able bodied oath, the old man blurted out: You ar kain- tuckian, sho' 'nuff,' and he caught mo by both hands, and we became fast friends. We remained at that bar for hours, and when l started home the sidewalks had waves in them that seemed to mako me sea -siek, but the old man stalkcd otr when he left mo at a corner, and he seemed to walk the waters like thing ot life.' He didn't pebble, and l tloated of toward my lodgings in an almost laundering con- ,i!non. finally reached tho anchor age of home, and after having felt about all over the steps and tho door casing and numerous other places for the key hole, and having tried every thing in my pockets, from pencil sharpener to the muzzlc of my pocket gun to turn the bolt oi the latch, finally, by some Interpretation of that providence which looks after drunken men, managed to get into my chamber aud catch the bed Hs ii went sailing around the room.
 "The next day, somewhere along towards the far end of the forenoon, | went down to tho hotel again, feeling much as if had been through a corn and cob crusher, and there was the white bearded old gentleman, looking as fresh and rosy as the dewy morn. He had started me on one of my con stitutionals,' however, and 1 kept up the racket for days and nights until began to sec things which were not there. seemed to have come sud denly and unintcDtionally into the possession of one of the rarcst and largest collections of wild beasts and reptiles that 1 had over seen. If Adam Forcpaugh could have seen my nIenagerie he would have given me all of his fortune and that of his wcalthicst friends to have obtained 1t, and yet got fired of looking at It. The orDy ;hornicus, the terrorcm. gigantlcas, the horro- grinthicum and others would flop In regular when lay abed, and make themselves familiar, and got so well acquainted with them that would implore them to go away and bring in something new. Pictures of people on the wall would nod to me, and one convivial old cuss would wink at me, as much as to say, You've been there, young man. From marine view, where there WAS sinking ship, the heads of drowning men would bob up sereDely from the waters, and alto gether had quite picnic, until my friend, the doctor, had managed to get prairie oyster Gan egg with vim cgar, salt and pepper) to remain on my stomach, and, so, through course of bromide and chloral and pathway of distress, which seemed to be without an end, 1 finally came out on the so- ber and respectable side of life, and Pm gwiDe to stay thar, you heay me.
 "Ns, I thank you, just a hunyadi lemonade or dose of any other nasty thing on the side board, but pve had enough Of concentrated and liquid damnation 10 last me until am em- balmed."
 And my frIend, in the latest and shiniest plug hat, suit of clothes that would become a prince, with the eloquent jingle of gold and silver coin mixed in the pockets, started of, after lunch, to resume business, and l thought to myself that not every born and raised KentuckiaD can safely drink endless quantities of fred liduor" with impunity--or even with mint