The Green Forest tribune., 1903-07-25

leCCS LII IIllS dWlui UlSdSI0F, put it will certainly be a long time before all of it's devastating evil dences have been wiped out.
 Friday morning, the 17th, found us in Nepraska's state capital the name sake of our beloved war president and the home of the great "Commoner." Lincoln covers a large section of the country and considerable of the country covers Lincoln. It is a city made up largely of suburbs. It will be many years before this city fills the full measure planned for it by the real estate boomers some years ago. Some miles in most every direction from the business portion are collections of houses, where start has been made at additions to the city. An occasional paved street and street car line stretches out for a long distance on what are seem- ingly only country roads. Lin coin is a good town, however, and may some day be one of the best cities of the middle west if per chance it does not become a victim of some of the tornadoes and cyclones the dread of which seems to terrify the inhabitants so often at this season.
 A resident on the line of the St. l.. & N. A. road who travels much on other roads is certainly often impressed with the differ ence in the depot buildings on our road and even those on many of the through lines, and this diff ference is in favor of the home road by large majority. Many towns much larger than Green Forest are offered poorer accom- modations than the poorest to be found on the St. l.. & N. A. and the smaller towns are not the only ones neglected. The Union Pacific passenger depot ill the city of Lincoln, for instance, is not larger than is the one at Green Forest and there is not a home in our town that presents a more diIapidated appearance. It looks as though it is just on the verge of tumbling down. The platform has rotted away, if it ever had one, while the roof is perforated so as to make it but little better place than was the home of the proverbial "Arkan- sas Traveler.'' The St. l.. & N. A. will not suffer in comparison with other roads in many other respects.
 Nebraska has had an exceed ingly bad deal on crops this year, so excessive have been the floods, and when the Nebraska farmer fails to raise corn and wheat he is hit hard. Plenty of corn and wheat means plenty to sell, plenty of feed for hogs and cattle and plenty of money, and unlike Arkansas plenty of money is es- sential to good living in Me- braska. There is actically no diversity of crops here. Grain is the long suit and it is a long suit sure enough. As an ordinary year Nebraska will produce about enough surplus corn, wheat and hogs to pay off the national debt.
 There is no immediate danger of Nebraska people suffering on account of a crop shortage. There is yet enough grain in the country to last over till next sea- son if the failure should be com plete. The Nebraska farmers experience with droughts has taught him a thing or two. He lays up for d rainy day, or the season when the rainy day comes not. When crops flourish he makes money, when they fail he holds his own.
 If the people of North west Arkansas would promote the fruit industry with as many hours of. labor per day and as persistent ly and philosophically as the average Nebraska farmer tills his soil, our country would be transformed into a paradise Tn ten years. Energy and perse- verance are wonderful factors in the development of any country.
 J. l.. R.