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reasons might be given for this; among not the least of which is the fact that new community is neither the country to give credit or to lend commercial accommoda- tions. Arkansas is still emphatically subject to the latter objection. Nevertheless those who have weathered the storm thus far, now understand their ground, and they can safely promise themselVes that all the changes will be for the better. As we do not, however, undertake to advise merchants, we shall re- serve our remarks to this class to a future number. One thing we will say while pass ing: no agricultural community was ever yet greatly benefited by an over supply of traders.

 In a previous number 1t was accidentally remarked, that certain causes, which, after annexation, should be consummated would have no force, had caused more heterogene- ous collection in Texas than in any other State of the Union This we think true. Yet with Texas, as with all other aceSteyn States, the great mass of the population will be found to haze emigrated from some cas- tern point of the same latitude. In this re- spect, man seem to be kind of indigenous animal he does not thrive well unless he sees the rising and setting of the sun at the same hours to which he has always been accustomed.

 There is also something in the habits, manner and pursuits of those with whom we are brought up, which gives us tastes not likely to be overcome when transferred to a neighborhood of different feelings Rea- soning from this general principle, which has so universally governed the settlement of the Western States, 1t is fair to infer, that the mass of Texan population will be made up from the cotton and sugar growing regions: Cdroinians, Georgians, Floridians. Alabam- ians, Missssippians, and Louisianians, with their large slave populations must eventually supplant all others. Regarding this as cer- tain, we look forward with certainty to the time when the large locomotive population which passes through our city, from the States of Missouri and Illinois, and all of whom have come from the same latitude, will return northward in accumulated num- bers. Arkansas will thus twice become the throughlare for those who mistake their lat- tude-those who understand raising stock, and growing hemp and grain far better than growing cotton and sugar-men who are willing to labor, where the weather Is not too warm, but Who know nothing about working every day in the year alongside of large plantations of slaves

 It being established as it must be with eve ry rehecting mind that Texas will be thus populated, the inquiry naturally arises, Whe- ther our small farmers and planters ill the north and west of Akransas, wllnot be more profted by remaining at home and turning their attention to stock growing-a produc- ton which will find aready market in Texas, than by breaking up and going to a coun,ry the pursuits of which will be adapted 10 few of them? It will be our purpose in the next two or three numbers to unfold to the citi- zens of Arkansas the advantages which the settlement of Texas will open to the indus trlous, who are willing to stay at home and by industry profit by them. We are aware that we write during dscouraging time. Our immediate neighborhod has had two or three bad crop years in succession. But these providental occurrences should not make us abandon the country

 Van Buren, Ark, 10th Aug, 1915.