The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1889-05-25

his locality:
Corn planting has begun.
The weather has been good since | wrote last
We need rain and need Ii like the fellow in Texas
did q revolver.
Grandfather Saylers ploughed up his orchard this
spring and has sowed Ii down in oats
Aunt Betty Hinton has already over one hun
dred chickens. A little later on We correspondent
will take dinner some Sunday with Aunt Betty.
Fried chicken, with good gravy and early sweet
potatoes, make a nice dinner and Aunt Betty knows
how to cook 'em.
Squire Rodkey cut his foot last week AS he
can't work for a week two he will put in his
time holding down a nail keg at Turkeys store.
Jim Henry, enterprising blacksmith and
wagonmaker, Is remodeling old Doc Young's spring
wagon. 1t will have q new bed and two coats of
paint and when done, Jim says, outshine any rig
In this end of Erwin township.
Your correspondent went fishing the other night
over by Ricketts, old mill and caught as fine
string of catfish as was ever pulled out of little
Wild Cat.
Jim Simms our school teacher last winter, has
gone TO Russaville to read law with Judge Wal
ters Jim is a smart fellow and Is bound to win.
They say him and Mandy Unger will probably
splice along about fair time. How Ii this Jim2
Mart Reddy and Sarah Spitzenberger were jined
as man and wife last Sunday. Squire Hicks did
the job The happy couple have moved into Jim
Henrys old wagon-shop and Mart Is going to chop
cord-wood for old Andy Chittick. Martis hustler.
There's new boy over at Jake Taylor's, but rs
Jake has nine already, not counting this last one
the fact of another's coming Is not worth mention
ing. More anon.
Mans inventive power is something wonderful
to contemplate. His marvellous discoveries In the
fields of science, his ingenious applications of the
forces of nature in constructing machinery and all
sorts of appliances which have contributed 90 much
to the happiness and progress of the human race,
are all browning tributes 70 his genius and skill.
Restless in his energy, untiring in his zeal, and
with an ambition bounded only by his always
lively and vivid Imagination, he has applied steam
to an engine that makes journey across the CONT
nent only matter of a few hours, and has taken
electricity and made it agency by which the
human voice can be heard, in It's lowest tones
for miles. These and thousand other things
equally as grand and wonderful has he accom-
plshed, and still the end is not yet But with all
his skill and genius there is thing he has not
learned to do and in all probability never will and
that is:
TO STOP THE TONGUE OF sCoLDING, sHREwIsH WIFE.
He may have the inventive genius of Edison,
the wisdom of Solomon, the learning of dozen
generations in his head but all these will avail
him nothing. AS well might he try to beat down
a brick wall with tack hammer as toattempt to
reason with Jealous minded, quarreling and fault
finding woman. Such one is born of the devil
and makes of mans life hell on earth.
Do you know that there is no little pleasure to
be derived from the imaginary possession of an
object2 warrant you that not a few persons will
tell you that the pleasure they had while In the
imaginary possession of some coveted article was
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