The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1889-05-18

"Fust rate" old Buck answered. taking q cup of
coffee which Mrs. Osbury handed him. "Dont look
50 mighty old, neither"
"Whats he doDg2"
mot much of any thing Running sort of liv-
cry stable"
"Let's see" said the colonel. "what was the
name of that fellow who married old Bob's daugh-
ter, that black eyed one2"
Don't recollect. Wasn't il Ilankins?'
"No, his name began, think, with e.. What
in the name of common sense was his manner Wasn't
il Cooper"
"No," Buck replied. "You are thinking of that
fellow that married Miss Pemberton."
"Confound that fellows name, it was on the end
of my tongue this very minute"
81 come in of speakin' it just then" said
Buck. at begins with an l. l think. Why,
remember when he was married heap better than
do things that took place the other day. Humph.
thought had it then"
"Are any of you going to church to- day2" Mrs.
Osbury asked. Brother Fuller breaches his fare
we'll sermon"
elias the Lord called him Off" the colonel
inquired.
Eyes" Mrs. Osbury rejoined, "he is going over to
Haywood"
"Increase of pay, reckon"
Eyes, l suppose So"
Are his services more needed over there than
they are here?"
81 suppose not"
"Well, them" said the old gentleman, "he is going
simply because he gets more money. The Lord
hasn't got anything TO do with it,"
"But Remington, would you muzzle the OK"
That's all right, Mary. | wouldn't muzzle him
and wouldn't go to hear him preach, either. That
statement about the OK is very fortunate thing,
and warrant you ii Is quoted in every house in
Kentucky whenever nythiug is said about the pay
of preachers. don't object TO their receiving pay,
but do object to their attempt to make me believe
that the Lord tells them TO go, not where they can
do the most good but where they can make the
most money. What in the deuce was that FOOLS
name?"
The colonel showed back his chair and sat- slowly
nodding his head in worrying effort to recall the
name of the man who had married old Bob Sewers
black eyed daughter
Mrs Osbury and Lucille went to church the
colonel still in perplexed thought, betoOk himself
the library old Buck went out to the crib
TO take consoling turn at his long neg lected flute
and Henry and l. crossing the stubbe- field, strolled
in thu woods The was bright, and the frosty
"nip" that was in the air, driven from the fields
took ambush in the deep shade of the trees. The
rabbit, sitting crouched down in bed scratched out
under the end of sn old log, melted, with his gentle
BREATH the frost the dead leaves that lay under
| his nose and the squirrel, with his nervous tail
summed himself high up in the forks of an oak.
Henry and talked on many subjects-talked as
though we had been boys together and had net
after long separation.
al was very much amused in Louisville, the other
day." said my friend. Gan old gentleman
divine, they term him-who had preached in the
country during many years, was given a charge In
the city. Believing that ne mad carried MS molly
warfare into of Satan's most strongly
intrenched dwelling places, he proceeded to visit
the dens of iniquity with view of preaching
sermon to men. l went, and although his effort
was honest, it was assuredly absurd. 1t does seem
to me that such attempts the parts of preachers
are rdculously ILL timed. The idea of giving the
experience of two hours to men who have had q
similar-or worse-experience OF many years; and,
besides man who has been the rounds has learned
more in two hours than preacher can tell him in
two years. All, my dear boy, ii is very easy for
u.s. in certain sense, to be as wise as serpens, but
who among US Is as harmless a dover Thackeray
lamented, you know, that since the burial of the
author OF Tom Jones, 1t left to no other writer
to depict the passions of a man. Thackeray had
not read the American newspaper very closely he