Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1887 — Keen Observation. [ARTICLE]

Keen Observation.

A man in never ho much impressed with his wife’s power of discernment ns when he goes home drunk and attempts to play sober. As a rule/ the man has only taken one drink. He doesn’t understand why*one drink should make him drunk, but after o while he acknowledges that he 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 homo, he had reached that close observing stage of intoxication when a man stops and minutely examine® the most unimportant objects and makes wise comments. In this state of drunkenness, a man takes notice of every household article. Every chair demands a certain amount' of attention. After sitting down with studied gravity, Mr. Haiwey 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 remembering that he Lad often seen his wife pick feathers from the carpet after having jammed the pillows in making the bed, he 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 liia mind there lurked a suspicion that his wife might fancy him to bo drunk. 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 togrind. 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 tha bucket has been taken off? Come bn away. Yon are as drunk as a fooi.” “Keenes’ observation I ever saw,* said the gentleman to himself. “Nezer saw thing like iL”—Arkansaw Traveler* l x '