Year: 1878

f ed to take concentrated solution oI ! ptysma gogue on account of his mouth being so dry. It's wonder he don't give his paper some. to mois ten the reading matter. -Arkansaw 1 Traveller

 f the reading matter found in the ] DEMOCRAT was as stale and dry as that usnlly dosed out to the Travel CTS few readers we wouldn't depend on ptysmagogue, but would drown the thing Tn the sea at once. Why Warmers paper is so dry that he has to do It up for mailing on corn cobs chromo fashion, and even in the danIpest weather it can not be read by artificial fight for fear of setting iI on fire.

 If the Little Rock merchants could only see the trains of cotton wagons that pass through our town esch day, they would hurry mp and get good road from the Fort Smith and Little Rock railroad to Boone countv.-H Harrison Times.

 Cotton is arrlving from Arkansas in large quantities, and our streets present livelier appearance than they have for months past. Spring. feid Mo Times.

 Little Rock is every year losing a large trade from Boone, Newton, Ma rion and other counties north of the mountain by not having road open ed up to tap the Fort Smith road. We have made fieqnent mention of the importance of this matter. and have often wondered why the busi- ness men of our Capital evince so little interest in the premises. It looks as tho they don't care cent whether they get the trade from that section of the State or not. We'll. Springfield will be exceedingly glad to hold the trade, and will continue to laugh and grow fat over the lack of energy and business sense eyinc- ed by Little Rock Tn this matter.

 Ut has been our custom for sev- eral years, when nearing the old years end, to urge our farmers to adopt some method of keeping their farm accounts. A farmer cannot tell what he is doing unless he does keep some account of receipts and expenses. Colman's Rural World for December 4th, has this to say on this subject;

 The new year will soon be here When'it comes, will it not be wise for the farmer to adopt system of ac. counts? Let him, if he does no more put down in one column all the money he receives from the sales Of products of the farm. Let him pat down in an other column all that he pays out for the farm, for the hire of hands, taxes &c,, and at the end of the year balance accounts and see how he stands with he farm, or the farm with him. But what would be be still better would be to keep an account with each field, or each crop, or each kind of stock, charging It with al, labor and expense bestowed upon It. and crediting with the receipts oh. tained from it? The farmer could then socn ascertain what was paying and what was not paying. A man cannot tell how his farming pays without adopting some system like this.

 The fact is patent to every ob server and corroborated by all the facts of the situation, that there is not money enough in circulation and that that is the cause and the only cause of our lack of prosperity. Until we have money enough in circulation to insure remunerative wages to labor and profitable prices for our az riculturai products there never can be general prosperity. and that is the whole truth in nut shell.-Gazette

 Our Little Rock contemporary thus closes an article, and very sensible one, too, in which au extract ap- peared in this paper last week is ta- ken up and discussed at some length. We do not remember now from what paper the extract was taken, and we only notice it again at this time to say that we are as far from endors ing the idea which the Gazette form ulutes as follows: "Money is cheap land plentiful, and, as a consequence "products are dear, but the people "haye no products to sell, therefore ''the hard timesn as is the Gazette itself The only idea which we saw in the extract reproduced by us last week which struck us as worthy of notice, or thought, was that con tained in the hit made at eXtrava- gant and wasteful living, and the pnnneatt,- fr.