The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1889-01-12
VARIETY is THE SPICE OF LIFE.
lincoln Neb.! Journal.

Lincoln JNeb.! Journal.
AS we pen these lines" wrote the able editt
our eyes rivers of tears, and soul is fraug
with poignant woe. A gentle, luminous star tn
shone more lustrous than all the stars about HI
has died out, and is dead forever Gladys Swiv,
hurst-Gladys, the beautiful, the young, is dead
At this iuncture the foreman entered the al
editors room, and informed him that short lite
was necessary To fill the last column ON the seco
page and the editor wrote this:
I'VE must have money 10 carry on our
business. Several hundreds of dollars are
due Us. and il they are not forthcoming i'm
mediately, the accounts will be placed In the
hands OF a collector"
Having dashed this of, he continued the
article about the dead one:
"IIer lite and death reminds me of the
short but beautiful existence of the flower;
born under smiling skies, nouTished by gen.
tie breezes, only to be cut oil by the pitiless
wind from the north 1t seems like an un-
hallowed dream-that Gladys is dead; but
she is doubly dead in that she died SO
young"
IIere he was called to the telephone and
was instructed by the manager of the Broke
slate Coal company TO write and print
short reading notice for that corporation,
and he at once compiled this:
every mans house should be his palace,
and palace would he very uncomfortable
without warmth. The prudent man will
Orucr ms coal OF the BTOkeSIate I Gal COM
pany. This coal is free from dirt dust and
clinkers. II burns freely and gives great
heat. Purchasers will always receive full
weight and having used this coal once, will
buy no other"
Then the death notice continued:
lit in the morning OF the wedding
day; the golden glow of the sunlight,
streaming into her chamber, seemed prom
Use of life of happiness to come but. ere
the shadows OF the evening had fallen upon
the brown earth, the deeper and colder shadow
death dimmed those tender eyer, left the dan
upon her beautiful brow, and all was over"
Here messenger handed him a note. lie re
it, and taking another sheet of paper, sent I
following to the printers:
james CObbeton tells a good joke AN
Shellhorn. For several nights the latter had be
annoyed by cattle which broke into his yard, cat
ing general havoc. At last, enraged hey ond endu
ance, he bought gun, and, hearing the usual ract
in the garden about midnight, he opened the wi
dow of his room and blazed away. In the NOR
ing he found that he had shot one of his own Gov
which had broken from the stable and wander
into the yard. The laugh is on Andy"
He again resumed the obituary:
I'VE have watched this young girl grow fro
childhood to young and glorious womanhood
have watched her when she went by like q sunbea
and marveled at her beauty; and to- day we see I
bridal robes substituted by the cliDging ceremei
of death, and our tears seem drops of blood eboi
from a crushed and angnished heart"
When this was written a reporter entered {
room and handed him q marked copy Of a lo'
contemporary after reading which he rapid
penned the following:
"The scurrilous dishrsg which is published in
obscure alley of this town by a lop-eared leper W
spends his evenings trying to wash the tar of
body with benzine, says that we received fifty d.
lars for supporting General Strutover for the off
of constable. 1t Is scarcely worth while for US
brand this as an infamous lie which would ma
Ananias green with envy, were 1t not for the IA
that there are people who do not know the tr