The Pulaskian., 1918-01-18


 Faulkner county. I think that the Wandering Fairy remained on the other side of the Arkansas so I am having a hard time of it. Yesterday morning I left Chadwick. The weath- CT was threatening, but the sun came out and I thought it would clear up. About noon I warmed good and plen- ty at Geo. Harris place. He is a prominent colored farmer, had nice house and plenty of everything and 1 would have gotten 8 good dinner if 1 had only asked for it, but you see had been getting most too much to eat and I thought it would be good for me to miss a meal. Everywhere I went they would feed me on good old country sausage, spare ribs, back bones and fresh pork, with the best sorghum molasses and everything else good that grows in the country, with hickory nuts and goobers to eat from supper until bed time and I really thought it was my duty to Hooverize.
 Harris told me the way to Preston, which is Twilight postoffice. A little way further on I asked another man about the road, but he assured me that I would get lost if I tried to go through the woods as I had started so he told me the safe way, but the first thing I knew was going the Harris way. Along the travelled road I saw lots of nice tame hogs, ten to iY1 hfrx1 hut of I into the woods when hog saw me he ran like deer A squirrel scamp cred across my way in front of me and I walked right up onto a covey of quail These woods have lots of great big trees in them, but l was a little bit uneasy for it was showing all the time, not snow, but little round balls of frozen rain drops until there was over an inch of them on the ground which would have made big rain. After two or three or four miles of woods 1 came to saw mill and inquired the way to a ferry on the Arkansas River. "Oh," said the man, you can find your way, any man who could find his way across these bot toms could find it to and back" The snow kept falling until this morning, Friday, the 11th, it is about six inches deep. There is no gas and fuel question out here, only wood and pine knots and we are burn ing enough wood in day here to bring five dollars in Little Rock
 I was going to write you about gold mine, but l will write you about Gold Creek.
 Gold Creek took it's name from the fact that the Indians had buried gold in three different places on it and came back severay years ago to dig it up. It is said they buried $9,000 on it. Coal crops out along the creek and is found in wells from 12 to ii inches thick. l am stopping with Robert Kimball. and he says his place is all underlaid with it. It lies near the food of Round Mountain.
 l entered Faulkner county at Cato intending to take a short cut to Leo- widge, but I found it a long one. I spent a night with Jno. HarvelI at Chadwick. They had just returned from Conway. Mrs Harvell is to take her two hounds and go right back. A fellow from Texas had bunch of ponies which he could not sell so he said he would take them for hounds n6 fuly hoo oIx fa d. rabbits. Mrs Harvell said she would give her two hounds for pony. I think it very wrong for her to bear the hound market in that way.
 c. $. Harrell had one tall stump left in his field He noticed a hawk lighting on it occasionally so he set a trap on it and kept it there last year until he caught twenty hawks and one owl. Then the wind blew it down and he says now he is going to set another stump out there. Others could do like wise and save their chickens.
 C. 5. Harrell received a present of five cent tobacco sack full of peas. He planted them and that fall gath cred two bushels. It was this way. They were extra early peas and he planted early in the spring and gath cred a crop then planted them again and from the second crop he got the two bushels.
 
 MT. Harrell sent to Little Rock for box of caps for an old-fashioned mug zle-loading rife and could not get them. Then he tried other places and finally got a. box in Conway. He uses it to kill hogs with because he never misses with it.
 Ben A. BargaiI. Pole, on R. F. D. 1, Levy, was the first man to take the Pulaskian on this trip. He has his larder well stocked with meat,