The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1889-03-23

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he knew nothing of the quarrel.
At the supper table saw, and regretfully, too,
must admit, that Savely and Lucille had covered
up, with the rose leaves of reconciliation, the
memory of their little difference. Savey did not
speak to me during the meal, but more than
once felt that his cold, grey eyes turned upon
me.
After supper Major Eli Hammonds and Captain
Joe jimmy came over a visit consoling Ito me, at
east in the fact that ii did not include the author
of "The Barons Daughter; or "The Whispering
Duke" for, not having read the story, I was i'll
fitted to give my opinion of IL. | had seen her
several times since had promised to give an honest
criticism OF her performance and on each occasion
she had persistently urged me To throw aside all
less important employment and to give myself up
to reading which she knew should find elevat-
ing If not ennobling. There was something else
with which was pleased Savely soon took his
departure diamonds brought his fiddle, having
heard that | was fond of music, and, Immediately
after | had shaken hands with him. he seized his
whiskers spurted yellow streak into the fire.
place, and then began TO play writing tune,
which he termed, whip the Devil" | soon dis
covered that .Whipping the Devil" was as far as
he had gone in the direction of musical accomplish
ment. He argued, | afterward learned, that no
man could master more than one thoroughly good
piece, and that, instead of flirting with the many
new and shallow airs OF composers who understood
the ways of society better than they comprehended
the melodies of true music, he would devote him
self TO that grand old tune, whip the Devil"
composed by an old Virgnian who afterward wrote
that pathetic song, Dancing in the New Ground"
and who, Hammonds sorrowfully told me,
killed by an old family horse.
Colonel" said Hammonds, when, to the relief
of us all, he had put down his fiddle that corn
you declared would undoubtedly be caught by the
frost Is In 'rosen ears now. Had a fine mess to-
day and I'll tell you that late corn fried i'm bacon
grease, is about fair article of diet rs YOU can
strike"
"Yes," the colonel answered, "but eating corn i'm
the fall seems like trying TO reach back after a
departed season. | am little peculiar in that
regard, and to me new sweet potatoes arc not of
good flavor until fodder pulling time"
jimmy had begun TO twist about i'm his chair.
eli" said he, "if you in Norfolk tonight,
what would you order?"
"Well Joe"
"By the way" the colonel broke in, there is a
considerable revival going at Mt. Zion. Yes,
and, BurwOod, you must go up there. Ii is an old
log church, situated up on the ridge. There you
will find q characteristic lot of people, very differ
ent from the people down here. They are what we
call -ridgers, and nearly all OF them live from
hand to mouth. l have known some of them to
neglect corn that suffering for work, and haul
four cross-tes ten miles TO railroad and sell them
for fifteen cents apiece"
pretty hard lot" said jimmy. "They wear dingy
brown jeans, and are never SO happy when they
are eating fried bacon and drinking coffee without
sugar. They don't know what it is to live. Do
they, Eli?"
mo, uon't know the nrst principle well, Joe,
talk about living like king, If you was In Nor"
"Maj0r, received letter from Fred to day"
Mrs. Osbury remarked with timely interruption.
"Where is he?"
"In California, enjoying himself very WE'LL"
"You have never heard anything from the
woman, have your"
A shadow crossed Mrs. Osbury's face. NO."
she said, mot word"
al heard that we to have wedding in this
neighborhood pretty soOn," jimmy declared, be-
- ~ "a Ito Il liz
"Who?" Hammonds asked.
"Oh, somebody not a thousand miles from here.
By the way, colonel, "what do you think of the
Mickleburg bank robbery"
"Quite a financial Transaction" the colonel
answered. "The snatching of $4,000 out of
TX entnckv hank fails To create q sensation