The age-herald., 1897-09-09
GOSSIP OF THE STREET
 AND HOTEL LOBBIES


 Arkansas is the worst misunderstood state in the union." said c. N. Forsyth, of Little Rock, who was in the city yes terdaA Arkansas is not well known, either. from some cause or other There must be negligence some where in our advertising department, our neighbcrs never hear of us only during a political campaign, unless some negro is lynchsd by outraged citizens. Arkansas, how ever is one of the largest states in the union, and has more navigable rivers, perhaps, than any of its sistsrs. It has the blsst granite fin the south and the best coal outside of the Pennsylvania anthracite. It's timber resources are unsurpassed in extent and variety; it's agriculture possibilities are fllimitable.
 ''Ths fruit of Arkansas is excellent and famous. while the mineral wealth of the state is beyond compare. This year we have the finest and best crop of cotton ever raised, and if nothing happens to prevent, everybody in the commonwealth will be well off this fall.
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 The gentleman was not intoxicated. He had merely been imbibing little freely. Of course he had seated himself in on5 of the most comfortable of the hotel chairs. Collar and cravat, why, these, with his hat, were not needed to complete his personal appearance. They adorned the floor, not so advantageously or beeomingly, perhaps. as they would his person.
 Th5 porter nudged him gently, the clerk shook him roughly, still he slept on, dreaming of dollar wheat and the gold in the Klondyke Philosophy and politics he jumbled together in a mass. Bryan man he must have been, for he continually mumbled something about pressing a crown of thorns down upon the brow of labor. When he scratched his hand and made a great rent in his coat with a loose tack on the chair he philosophically concluded that this was the thorny side of life.
 A hot tamale man sauntered up to his chair, gave him a fierce tug and yelled, Red hoti red hot!! wheat still risin' hot tamale, cum along and buy 'em." The man awoke, and arose rath- CT quickly, rubbed his eyes and glanced about. "Yer looxin' for trouble" said he to the hot tamale vender. Now, ain't lookin' fer trouble, but I'm the fore runner of trouble" said he.
 Ths man sank down. Soon he was again in the arms of Morpheus, proba,- ply dreaming of other arms. People passed, glanced and just considered it one of the many well "car7goed" ships encountered in the night.
 'The very fact that the farmers of the south have been hindered in getting credit for the past two seasons, has been a god-send Ito them," remarked w. r. Bankston, a planter from Blount county. "It was hard for them to get goods on ths prospe otive value of their crops. AS a result they were forced to hold them until they were harvested, then they had the money to use as they desired. By this th=y received more than twice as much as they would in goods on a credit
 This, of coutse, has had it's effect everywhere in general. Of course, how ever, the south and west have reaped the largest rewards. The wholesale merchants are selling more goods to the retail merchant. The farmer is pay s ing cash and the retail merchant is en- abl=d to pay cash. The farmers have quit laying around the crossroads stores talking politics two or three days in the week, and this is a healthy sign
 "We had very striking object les son in Blount the other day. A farm that was formerly offered for sale at s4,o00 sold for $S,O00. The ris= in values is coming as g. natural consequence of changing conditions"