Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1884 — Keen Observation. [ARTICLE]

Keen Observation.

A, man is never so much impressed with his wife’s power of discernment as when ho goes home drunk and attempts to play sober. As a rule, the man has only liken one drink. He doesn’t understand why one drink should make him drunk, but after a while he acknowledges that ho did take two ' drinks, but the last one was so small that he had forgotten it. When Mr. Harvey Blades, a wellknown official of Arkansas, went home, he had reached that close observing stage of intoxication when a man stops and minutely examines the most unimportant objects and makes wise comments. In this state of drunkenness, a man takes notioe of every household article. Every chair demands a certain amount" of attention. After sitting down with studied gravity, Mr. Harvey Blades noticed a feather * lying on the floor. He debated for a while whether or not it would be an illustration of sobriety to remove it, and roinembering that ho had often seen his wife pick feathers from tho carpet after having jammed the pillows in making the bod, A* arose, took up the feather, examined

it a moment, raised a window and threw it out This performance did not entirely satisfy him, for in his mind there lurked a suspicion that his wife might fancy him to be drank. In looking around for another test he discovered the water-bucket He knew that to bring fresh water, beyond a doubt, would settle the question of his sobriety, so he took up the bucket and went out to the well. Feeling around and not finding the “moss-covered bucket,” but deciding that it must be at the bottom of the well, he began to turn the windlass. For fifteen minutes he turned the crank. “Deepest well I ever saw,” he mused, and continued to grind. After awhile his wife came out and said: “Harvey, what in the name of common sense are you doing ?” “Try’n to draw bucket water. Deepest well I ever saw. Grindin’ for hour, bucket not up yet." “Why, don’t you know that we had the well cleaned out, and that the bucket has been taken off? Come on away. You are as drunk as a fool.* “Keenes’ observation I ever saw,” said the gentleman te himself. “Nezer saw thing like it.”— Arkansan) Travelei'.