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The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-17

to show his appreciation of my devo- tion, the editor told me that might pull the hand press all day.
 Many years have elapsed since I set up "small pica" in that office, and when crossed its sacred threshold the other day, I fingered near the door until l felt firm enough to speak to the printers who stood at the cases. There was the same old unabridged dictionary lying on the imposing stone, and there stood the same old press-and-what the same old editor advanced to meet me 1! When had last seen him, he was running his fingers through his hair, after the manner of the country lawyer, but now he could hardly reach back far enough into the past to touch his hair. Red veins, like an illuminated map, crossed each other on the top of his head, and his two front teeth, stained with tobacco, looked like yellow fangs.
 "I am delighted to see youw said he, when I had made myself known. "Sit down. By tine way, we had & wedding in town the other night, and I want you to write me up something funny about it. Bill," addressing a young fellow as an old man entered the door, "get Uncle Ham Boyson's paper for him. Walk back, Uncle Ham. You know this man, don't you?" He introduced us.
 "Oh, mighty well, mighty wellp Uncle Ham exclaimed, as he shook my hand. "Mighty well. Eat a many meal O vidults at my house" :"
 Never was in his house in my life Strange that some old men will per- sist in being such liars.
 "Yes," Uncle Ham continued, "many meal. You must come out an see us fore you go back. My folks never will furgive you eff you don't" Uncle Ham withdrew, and after promising the editor that I would make his office my headquarters dur ing my stay in the "city," I went down. In the street, near the side walk, there was large pile of green wood, and while was thoughtfully looking at it, gawky boy came down from the printing office, shoul- dered chunk and staggered up- stairs.-Opie ?. Read.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-17

him, and then taking up the water jug, he poured out the water and strode toward the house. went with them. went into a dining room. There was tired woman, but her face was sweet In a sort of Christian resig- nation. We all sat down to the table. Bill, then l seed that I was the boy that had laid by the jug. Did tho rich mans wife bring up such pictures1 Did the woman whom people call beautiful show me any sweet grasses or wait to me on a perfumcd breeze the low song of the dove? No, she showed me some glitterin' beads and teched me with the cold and stitl hand of unconcern."
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-17

put on a clean shirt about every eight days."
 "But, my gracious, Is there any thing wrong In thatp"
 "To some folks thar mouten't bc but thar Is to me. A fellor came along hero once and changed hls shirt every twelve days"
 "Well," said the sawyer, "what else did he dog"
 "Run away and married my daugh- ter, that's whut he done, Then thar came along a feller that changed his shirt bout ever ton days. IIc run away with my wife. Thcn another feller changed his shirt about ever nine days, run away with my pocket. book that contained fifteen dollars so, tlnd that the ofncr man changes his shirts the worse hc is, an fearin that you mont run away with my mule colt reckon yoI better go now while Eve got my eye on you.'
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-17
DIDN'T GO DRY.

A man who had gone to Tennessee to buy stock farm, after looking at \ place which seemed to suit him, asked
 "Does this spring go dry?"
 "No, sir" said the owner of the place. "l have been living in this neighborhood for thirty years and have never known that spring to go dry"
 The prospector bought the tarm. Six months afterwards he sought the man who had sold 1t to him. and said
 "I want to tell you that you are an old liar"
 "l don't know what you mean, sir" l"
 "i bought a stock farm from you about six months ago"
 "l es, sir, that's fact"
 "I asked you if a certain spring ever went dry?"
 "Yes, believe you did"
 "And you told me that 1t did not?"
 "Yes, remember"
 "But, sir, 1t is as dry as a powder horn"
 "Wait minute. told you that the spring didn't go dry?"
 "Yes, you did"
 "And you say there's no water thereI"
 Not drop"
 "Well, then, it's not spring. When anything goes dry 1t Is not 8 spring, but simply a hole in the ground. Webster tells us that a spring Is n stream of water flowing out of the ground, and if there Is not water flowing out of the ground at the place which you designated, why 1t iS not spring. If you had asked me if the water gave out might have told you yes, but as it was was compelled to yield to an impulse of truth and say that the spring did not go dry. Sorry you are dissatisfied with the farm. You ought to be little more explicit"
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-17
A BAD SIGN.

An old fellow who was running a sawmill down in the southern part of Tennessee had considerable trouble in getting man who understood the business of sawyer Finally, when the owner of the mill had become wholly discouraged, a respectable fel- low came along and asked for a situa- ton. He showed paper from one of the leading mill men in the country, stating that the applicant was one of the best of sawyers. He was engaged, and when he had been at work about three weeks, the proprietor of the mill called him one morning and said
 "Mr. Collier, you needn't go to work today"
 "Are you going to shut down7"
 "Yas, 50 fur ez you air consarned." !"
 "What, you don't want me any longer?"
 "Yas, that's it."
 "Why, haven't I been giving sstis- facti0n!1
 "Oh, yas, 50 fur ez yo' work goes" !"
 "Then what is the matter?'
 "Wall, have noticed that ycu put on too many shirts"
 "I don't understand you"
 "Wall, you change yo' shirts too often. You have been workin' here now three weeks, an I notice that you
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-17
THE "LAwp" WAS WITH HIM.

A man named Bill Dick Packer, who was noted in the neigborhood oi Lick Skillet for his activity in jumping from one religion to another, lay III of fever. The preacher who had last taken Mir. Packer into his fold was sitting under the front shed of the cross roads store, smoking borrowed tobacco, when man came up.
 Good morning, brother Atcher- son." said the preacher. "Can you tell mo how brother Bill Dick Packer is this morningH"
 "Mlghty low jcs whilcr go," brother Atchcrson replied
 "Was there any preachers about him?"
 "No, there want none about that 1 seed"
 "liah there been any round there lately2"
 "iIain't hearn nv none"
 "Well, Pve been nightly pestered," {" said the preacher, "fur fear some preacher of contrary denomination would slip in and snatch Brother Bill Dick Packer over to his side. The preacher that finally gifts him will be made man In this here ncighbor. hood"
 Just then another man came up. "Brother Foster" said the preacher, "do you know whuther or no any preachers have been hangin' round Brother Bill Dick Packer'sf woulder been thar myself, you understand, but my j'ints have been sorter stiff this week. Feedin' the hogs the other day an my ole white sGw hemmed me up in the corner of the fence an give me a few sich rounds that l hsin't hardly been able to bend myself sense. Did you say thar was preachers round tharf"
 "T ain't said notbin' yet" Brother Foster replied. "You axed me ques- tion an kep' on CT tAikin' like you didn't want fl answer. l wnz over nj Bill Dick Packers jest now, an thar want preacher in sight"
 "Alr you shore thar want CT Free VIII UT CT Up-The- Creek Methodist slippin' ronn' summers, ready to git in thar work5"
 T am pretty certain"
 "Air you shore thar haln't been none fcolin' roun' thar in the last day UT two?r
 T am shore"
 "Wall, how is Brother Bill Dick this mornin!"
 "He's deAd.n
 "Thar!- exclaimcd the preacher, Athar the things settled. I've won two bushels of sced corn am saddle. Bet with some of the brctherin that Brother Bin Dick would stick with me, an Pve come out erheAd. Brother Foster, I hain't superstitious, bat 1t
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-17
THE srEps OF THE THRONE.

"rho judgc k easy with the drunk. aris," whisperOl an attorney to DO. licc sergeant.
 "fes, always, have seen him shcd tears whom compelled to tlnc ono. He Is leader In the temperance cause now, but they say that hc was once "A most degraded sot. That was years ago, but hc has not forgotten t."
 "What k this woman charged withf" the Judge asked
 "Shc lsa very had character, your honor" said an officer. "She has been in the city hut fcw months, but she has given Us great deal of trouble. She has been In nearly oyery police station, has been picked up drunk night after night"
 The woman wore ragged black dress, and over her face she had drawn a tattercd veil
 "Thi" Is very bad" said the judge.
 W 'A' lpNi HhtllNl
 "i don't think l have any" she sobbed.
 "There, don't take on that way Is it possible that you cannot keep from drinkinRI"
 "l am so far gone, sir, .o near the end of a miserable lilo, that thore ls moi even straw to which 1 can cling"
 "fou talk like an intelligent and educated woman. You must have something of a history What drove you to such A lifc2"
 "Perhaps tho time has come for mo to toll" she rcplled "l onoo wor. ahlpcd man" She drew tho veil closer about her face. "I had no thought but of him." she went on. "Wc were married. Iie lifted mo to heaven, and kiecling on the stops of his throne, my arms were ever out stretched toward him. A little boy came to us, and seated on tho steps of tho throne, 1 held hlm to my bosom. My love was so intense that 1t was trcmnlous. was afraid that it could not last. But, oh, this Is no place to speak of It."
 "Go ahead. pray you," said the judge.
 "One night,' the woman continued, "my husband was brought home drunk, but from the steps of the throne ! wound nay arms about his neck. The next night hc wa. drunk again. The steps of the throne was . hard seat now. For months he went on In this way. One night when I held up my arms to put them about his neck he spurned me with his foot. 1 took up my little boy and he uttered "A faint cry, close against my heart. The little fellow was H. He l,ade me put him down. did so. The little angel lifted his eyes and lookel At me. 1 held out my hands"
 "i.et him He there," said my hus- band
 "Oh, do let me take him. Bee, oh God, he Is dyingp
 "Don't touch him. Don't you sue that ae Is an ape. Throw this ape out of the house and bring my boy. Are you such wretch that you have exchanged \ child for an spei"
 The little eyes looked appeaiingly at me. The hlekering llgh. gent ont Of them. dropped on my knees. I seized the precious form and fled from the house. The steps of the throne were covered with blood. I don't know where [ wept--I don't know --o
 Catch him !" some one cried. The judge had fallen from his chair. The woman tore aside her veil, fell upon her knees beside the Judge, pressed a kiss upon his brow and said:
 Edward, God knows I forgive yOu.n
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-17

Gentleman (to Uncle Rastas)-- "Why, Uncle Rxstus, you never charged ms thirty live cents before for carrying in ton of coal.n
 Uncle RAstus--HDAt's csse de prfcs hab rig, Mistah SmiE Yo, kainf ex- peck to git seben dollah coal carried in at de old rates, sah. .s-- Tzs zpocA.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-17

She (with emotion) -"There's Mir. Bangs, the poet he seems to be all wrapped up in his thoughts."
 He (freezingiy)-"Yes! l think he would look better wrapped up in an overcoat. York Stm.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-17

A walking stick in New York cre- ates much less excitement than a walk ing match.-New Orleans Picoyaae
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-10-10

Let your vote tell for protection, ma
tional state, county, township, district,
church, school, home and individual
Protection against national disaster
which must ensue if our laws smile on
crime and openly encourage drunkenness
and shame as they Go today
Protection against blasphemy. which
one of the great parties encourages by
placing that outlaw Bob Ingersoll upon
its platform once and again to insult
every Christian and to openly break his
nations laws.
Protection for men struggling to be
free from runs calling bondage, but who
are met at every turn by our govern
ment's licensed tempters.
Protection FOR the weary, heart broken,
abused and beaten wives who arc left to
the tender mercies of worse than devils,
because the government licenses bestial-
ity and crime.
Protection for crouching children, who
once had father, but now have worse
than brute in his place, because our gov
eminent licensed agents to steal his man
hood and ruin his soul!
Yes, we want protection!
Let US pray for it, work for it and vote
for it.
We cannot remove those evils which
| today threaten Our homes, our native
land and our every dearest interest, but
we can do cur individual duty We can
do our utmost. and then, if destruction
comes, VIC shall escape condemnation
But there are too many earnest ones of
work for such destiny. Our land shall be
savedl-Rev C. w Pitcher.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-10-10
A Hopeless Platform.

As we have served faithfully in the Re-
publican party for over twenty five years.
we know the awful wrenching Of soul and
shirt that it has cost to leave the ranks
of the party which we know has accom-
plished so much In the best interests of
our whole country. But we also realize
that there is no hope for gaining any
material aid from the Republican party
for the promotion Of prohibition, as their
last platform is more hopeless than. any
thing that has been accepted by the party
in the past upon this subject, In tho face
IF greater demands made by the Prohibit
ton voters both in tho Republican and
Democratic parties.-Nsw York Church
Union. -.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-10-10
A Manly Foe,

IN lis Rockford (Ills) speech, DR.. John
a brooks said: During the war liTed
IN kentucky and preached for the church
AT Emincncc for two years, and for tho
church ct Flemingsburg for two years,
ana there was in charge. also, of col
iSge OF my denomination. AT Flemings-
5o,arG | was ON the border between the
tlhes of the Confederate and Federal
forces, and sometimes was within one and
sometimes within the other. | was in
IN. me Coafederacy one day and in the Union
lne next 1t was there that | saw most
u the horrors of war. 1t was there that
= id nc only rcbellious act that am
conscious of ever having done, both to
inc Confcderacy and Union forces. 1t
was unlawful on tho one hand to feed
ana comfort q Union soldier; it was I'M
lawful "a on the other to feed and comfort a
confederate soldier But as the Lord
ives ives no hungry man. whether he wore
sAe gray or the blue. was ever turned
from my door unfed. In spite of all their
safeats, nen who wore the blue were in
ny house for days and weeks, and were
nursed back from the grave by myself
wife, and have gone out to live again.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-10-10

We shouldn't want to belong to party
that couldn't ask the moral sympathy of
the churches. We shouldn't want any
thing to do with party that found its
frrlest friends in the saloon. The third
partv people who seem so intent upon
working in the interest OF the Democratic
party are playing directly into the hands
of tho saloon.-Topeka (Kan.) Capital
Gep)
Oh no, were not. We do not propose
to vote either the Republican or Demo
cratic tickets, for the reasons named in
the first two sentences of the above eX-
tract You should go and do likewise.
They Need Not Have Gasped.
M. Miller has frankly stated his strong
feeling in favor of high license, and he
would gladly sign any high licencc bill
that the Legislature might pass. This is
known to the liquor interest, and also tho
strong license feeling of the mass of the
party. and the want of such q feeling in
he mass of the Democratic party. The
temperance Republican sentiment, which
is strongly anti-saloon, but not yet ready
to leave the party for the Prohibitionists,
will be retained doubtless by the action
of the convention But tho circumlocu-
TN of the platform is wholly unneces-
sarv. Taken with the candidate and the
known sentiment of the party, the declar-
alton is high license plank, and the con-
vention need not have gasped at tho
phrase. -Harper's Weekly.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-10-10
BLAINE ON PROHIBITION.
His opln.on on the Only Way to Get FRO
hibition.

Ills OpInson on the Only Way to Get f'ro-
Iiibition.
Mr., Blaine, in his speech at Farming
ton, Me, recently, took occasion to ex-
press his opinion of Prohibition and the
Prohibition party.
1t was his first utterance on the subject
during the campaign. He thought that
thirty seven years under Prohibition
law had given sufficient assurance of its
efficiency. The state was far richer and
better because of it. The Prohibitionists
say they must support national party,
put the only result would be to defeat the
Republican candidates and give the coun
try to the Democrats. He referred to the
record of the Democrats on the temper
anco question and asked how long Pro-
mbltion would prevail in the state should
the Democrats secure control The efforts
OF the Prohibitionists against the Repub-
means, he said, was like a stab in tha
back In the course of these remarks he
referred to David B. Hill, the sanity
representative of temperance in New
York. About the only way he could zee
TO obtain complete Prohibition was to
nave every one bitterly and finally dis
gusted with rum.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-10-10

Togus Home, at Augusta, is the Soldiers
home of Maine. Liquors are sent to it
because the United States government
owns the ground and under interstate
commerce Law they must come in. This
sheds light on pensions, for many of these
men-doubtless the great majority-sp spend
their So per month pension for liquor.
Mrs. Stevens, president Of Maine w. c.
r. u, says she finds the poor women
whom she helps to cid. and whose hus-
bands are in tho home, have themselves
and children to support because the men
spend their entire pension money for
liquor, often being in debt at the first Of
the month so that they have to be trusted
o month ahead on their drink bills. Mrs.
Stevens wrote Gen. Stephenson, governor
of tho home asking what proportion Of
the inmates drank and how much beer
and other liquors were consumed by them
monthly He returned Ler note saying:
For satisfactory reasons l decline to
answer your question" The acting libra
riaa made the statement that 1,700 men
were registered. and 400 of them were
GruZl,ards.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-10-10
BUSINESS ABOVE PARTY.
New York snioonists "Distrust" in Spite of
Assurances.

New York saioonists "Distrust" in Spite of
Assurances.
Among the resolutions passed at Buff
falo recently by the New York Saloon
Keepers convention, none was moro sig
niffcant than the following, which proves
two things: First, that 1.-The first con-
Germ" of the sGloonist is his business and
that party success is o minor considera-
ton, and second, that the Republican
party has repeatedly assured the saloon
lists that their business will not be Sc
riously disturbed"
When such saloonists as Shed Shook,
Silver Dollar Smith, Buffalo Miller and
others support the party it is safe to sup
pose that the assurances" are ample.
Resolved, That while we hold protec-
ton to our business and property against
unjust legislation as higher than party
allegiance, and appeal to our fellow citi-
gems, irrespective of party, for fair treat
ment. VIC arc distrustful of tho Republi
can party notwithstanding the assurances
1t has so frequently given that our bust
ness will not be seriously disturbed.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian., 1888-03-20
LEGISLATIVE NEWS.

Senate bills as follows have been
passed since our last report: To re.
peal an act regarding holding two
additional terms of Christian Circuit
Courts; TO amend the act establish.
ing Court of Common Pleas in
Christian county 10 amend the acts
chartering the town Of Tyrone, in
Anderson county; TO amend acts and
reducing into one all acts relating to
Falmouth, in Pendleton county to
create voting place in Breaks, Car
Isle county; TO amend the charter OF
West Covington to amend the char
ter of the city of Ludlow 10 regulate
the time of holding the Courts of
Justice of the Peace in Warren coun-
ty to change aud fix the time OF
holding the regular City Court OF
Bowling Green; to incorporate the
Journeyman- Plasterers Associa tion
Covington to amend the charter OF
the Slate Ford Coal Company; to
regulate the time of holding Courts
of Levy and Claims in Simpson ooun-
ty; to benefit the late Sheriff of Crit
tenden county; TO repeal an act
changing the time of holding the
Court Of Claims in Elliott Ito author
ize the County Judge of Logan coun-
ty TO change the time of holding
Quarterly Courts in said county; to
authorize special term of the Court
of Claims in Marshall county ; 10 ben
eft Justices of the Peace IN Lower
town precinct in Daviess county; TO
prescribe the pay of Justices of the
Peace in Edmondson and Hancock
counties, also regulating the time of
holding the Courts of the Justice of
the Peace in the Third District in
Hancock county; TO empower the
Clay County Court to sell the old
public square and buildings thereon,
also authorizing said Court to levy
taxes for new public buildings; TO
increase the jurisdiction of Justice of
Peace in Crittenden and Caldwell
counties; to incorporate the town of
South Louisville; to establish Court
of Common Pleas in Laurel county ;
to change tho time of holding the
Court of Claims In Owen county; to
change the time of holding the Levy
Court of Pulaski county; to incorpo.
rate the Monroe Normal School at
Flippin, in Monroe county; to require
common school teachers to obtain
certificates of qualification therefor,
with an amendment repeating the
law giving exclusive privilege to
graduates of certain schools to teach
common schools simply on presenta-
ton of their diploma, and further re-
quires all applicants for such posi-
tions TO be properly examined; 10
incorporate Ike town Of Granard, in
Fayette county; to incorporate the
National Institute at Madisonville
TO establish a public graded school in
School District No. 7, in johnson
county TO incorporate the Hanson
graded school; TO Incorporate sys-
tenn of public schools in Adairville
and in school district 90, near Adair-
vile; to incorporate the Lynnlanl
Female College in Hardin county; to
establish a system of Common
Schools in Dixon, Henderson county ;
to establish a system of schools for
colored children in Hawesville and
within two miles of the courthouse ;
to repeal so much of the General
Statutes as makes the offices of Sur