The Pulaskian., 1917-11-16

side of the head is piece of pottery. One is a bowl about the size of soup bowl, with small projection on o1- posite sides for handles. Another is of . half gallon capacity and is or namental with circles of hicks made by sticking the finger nails in the clay while soft. It is completely GOV cred on the outside witn these marks. Another is platter about ten inches in diameter. There is also a water bottle with short neck. It is said the neck is a pecularity of ancient water bottles and are only found on the Arkansas river. Then they have an ornamental pot sent to them by their sister from Panama. This is a most wonderful specimen of the an cient pottery art It has three legs resembling COW horns, about seven inches long. These legs are hollow with a slit in them about one-eighth of an inch wide and inside of each leg is a marble. The legs are attached to the bowl with what appears to be a human head very artistically formed and each exactly alike, There is au ornament on them which looks like the head of an ornamental screw. My first impression of this vessel was that it was used by a sorcerer to burn incense in, but a closer observation shows signs of smoke on the outside, so' it was probably used to cook or brew eatables or drinks in. They also have machete from Panama.
 The Rector farm is one of the most romantically located farms on the Arkansas River. On the opposite side the river runs at the foot of hills and mountains, while in the rear is the toughest mountain in the county. The ancient mound builders, the Indians, French, Spaniards and Americans have all made this their first choice.
 There is a woman on this place from the Boston mountains, who came to pick cotton. She had never seen a railroad train nor a large body Of water. She was disappointed in the train and thought it rather common place, but she thought the river won- derful Of course she knows how to spin, so one of the men, who has long lint cotton, is going to get her to spin lot of thread from it and then his daughter is going to crochet it into a bed spread
 There are women on this farm who do not need to be advised to econo- mize and work on account of the war. Some have been in the habit of wear ing oyeralls and working in the field for years and some have been known to nail box on the cultivator to held the baby while they did a full days blowing with it. It is said that every man who has such wife gets along in the world fine and has no family troubles, both he, his wife and daugh- ters all being content with their lot in life and all live happily together.
 H. M. Rector was doing business with Jew in Little Rock when the latter remarked there are some of those b-backs. He wondered what a b-back was, but as he did not want to appear green, he asked no questions. The Jew was horse dealer and show ed some country men every mule and horse in his barn after which they said, We will be back after while" "Ah'', said the Jew, didn't tell you they were b-backs."
 MT. Rector told me several good ones, but this is the best of all He was in Hot Springs when a boy asked him Why is it that you can carry a very little hog big bucket of slop and the hog will eat it all, get in the bucket and have room to spare, yet the bucket was full to the brim of slop." wonder myself, who is wise enough to explain this phenomena?