The Pulaskian., 1917-09-07
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 Kindly charge this interruption of your equilibrium to account of the laconie author of Pea Ridge Pod However, he also is due some credits for one minute and a half of his valu able time, honestly expended in se- curing the addition of this friendly unit to The Pulaskians corps of country correspondents. The Pea Ridge Pod man with his vision di- rected down the railroad track from whence was due "The Short Line" on which, it is assumed, he had arranged to take passage for Little Rock, hur- riedly suggested, with scant prelimi- naries, that this letter. which must be written on Sunday, should briefly advise the readers of this journal that Farrel1-Hensley was somewhere on the map of Arkansas. This course, he hinted, was quite proper and formal, as an introduction and would secure for Farrell-Hensley a quiet, formida- ble place in an isolated column Of. The Pulaskian. and, as he hiked off toward the depot, hitting gait strongly suggestive of an overtraining n pedestrianism, leaving in his wake a noise that sounded very like "it may be prelude to something"
 Briefly, then, Farrell-Hensley is q dual town, that is it is two towns. Hensley and Farrell, and are located on "The Valley Route" of the Mis- souri Pacific Railway. about 20 miles southeast of Little Rock, and are part of Perkins Township, which town ship enjoys the distinction of having on several occasions been the object of barter and trade. Shortly after "the war; Perkins Township, Camp bell Township at that time, was eeded to Saline County, by Pulaski, for po- litical reasons and handsome cash consideration. Many years later, when the political crisis had passed, Saline passed the township back to Pulaski for consideration of less than one-third the price paid in the first trade. During all these years of varied alliances, Perkins Township has maintained an obdurate and sul- len silence, never protesting, never complaining; through the years of storm and earthquake, through years of intrigue, wars and rumors of war" tragedy and romance of her peoples and never, with all these exciting scenes, going and coming and taking place on the bosom of her fertile soil, never since the misty day of creation, has she relinquished her eternal grip on the N w and N |, corners of the counties of Jefferson and Grant some character and grip?
 Perkins Township is great; is a land of milk and wild honey" land of vast and rich cotton plantations, a land where the coon and the rubber footed "pickaninny' sleep side by side in the sun, while the white mans chile" in the big house on the hill, is fretting and wrestling with it's silver spoon.
 Oh, yes, Perkins Townships got q history, but it has never been printed Somewhere, mayhap, in the musty archives of it's affiuence yiu may find the manuscript
 A structure built upon an unknown foundation, though of approved gran deur. will not satisfy the observing and inquisitive investigator, and that, and the persuasive suggestions of the "Pea Ridge Pod" man, briefly mention ed at the other end of this letter, are the reasons why the telling of the story of Farrell-Hensley must be con tinued The Spectator