The Green Forest tribune., 1908-10-02
.BUELL'S TRIP TO TEXAS How John T alked About Ar
 kansas Away from Home TOLD IN CAMP ON RED RIVER John's Tale of Woe Heads
 a Stranger for Arkansas

earthly, possessions including his family, into a small two- horse wagon drawn by span of light weight donkies and emigrated to Texas. John was then younger man than he is now and had the responsibility of the raising of a family, and the bur- den rested heavily upon his rather thin shoulders. He de- cided, as quite few people de- eide nowadays, that Arkansas is trifle too slow for an ambitious fellow, and from what John had heard Texas was the place he was looking for.
 The monotony of the long journey over rough roads, had began to have it's effect upon the movers, when John struck camp one night on the Red river bot tom, well down on the border of the Lone Star state. Here John "met up'; with some other movers, who like John were hunting for location, but who unlike John, did not know where they were going. They had tried Texas and had decided the particular portion at least they had tried was a good place to get away from.
 After a supper of dry salt bacon fried to crisp, a cold water corn pone, a little Arkan- sas sorghum and some black coffee, John dusted a few crums of home-spun out from a small kit of tools he was carrying in his pants pocket, lit his old clay pipe and proceeded over to his neigh bor's camp to "gas'' until bed time.
 John reluctantly admitted that he was from Arkansas, while he sought information about the country in which he was about to land. John told his new ac- quaintance that he had grown tired and even sick at heart toil- ing among, the rocks, grubs and stnmps of old Arkansas and that he had decided to seek out a home on the broad, fertile lands of Texas, where he could &C., cumulate a competency before old age should render him unfit for labor, for which character of exercise John yet shows a pre- ference at times.
 "What kind of country is that northwest portion of Arkansas, asked one of the gentleman of John, as he stirred the ashes in the faded camp fire for coal to light his pipe to join in the smoke that seemed to be giving John some special sat- 
 "Oh, it's poor country" said John. "It is very mountainous, most of the land is thin and There is no market now for anything much and I can't see much future for it."
 ''ls it healthy country?" per- sisted the stranger.
 "Oh, yes, said John it is very healthy. People enjoy excellent health up there.''
 "How about the water, is it good?"
 "Yes, indeed, said John, the water is fine as can be, and that reminds me" said John, ''I am getting powerfully thirsty since 1 find no more water fit to drink on this trip. 1 would give a dol lar tonight, if 1 had one, for gourd full of water from the well on my fathers old place." added John as he yawned a little and punched up his pips which he had ceased whiting so briskly for few moments.
 "Do they raise any fruit in hat country? asked the gentle nan who had already decided hat there was an air of incOnsis. ;ency somewhere about Johns manner of conversation.
 "Fruit, we'll I should snigger," 'aid John venting a broad smile. l That is one thing l can say for hat country and tell the truth. t is a fruit country unsurpassed. They raise fruit of all kinds in