Show IIItlIU11 AND 11 lit They are Il 3l In gtllLlVintrknnnI In I praying Inr Rain 1lltIe I lock Ark Oct 7Drouth and forest flits are playing considerable consider-able havoc in Arkansas and the Ituo l lien grows worse every day Thou sands 01 dollars worth 01 IIlu Sills < tlmher a < cal Other prOI erty has been dentrojed by fire and stock In nearly all eve thin s of the state are suffering from the scarcity of water while In Same plapcs there in I not enough l alit a Ind tile to supply the people with drinking water No general rain has fallen lOll over fifty days and In Some loclllltl es the Irught 14 I ot oven longer dura tlou I he forests living ns dry as tinIer i tin-Ier and the round cored with diy lea ves and decaying Vegetation has luIhed Splendid material for fires arid from all actions reports ot tile aMrnU8 forest eonllotatlOI11 are bllg celved Mlle I 01 fence have been destroyed raw mlll turned cabins gulled and In some tntanee the fit It net have Inn eommunleatd to large fields of open cotton which were Mtrojpd In hiimlrrU of loealltl a wells arid prlngs havo entirely dried UI find people are hallllnl ater from the neare9t Streams WI h some trtrr wbIVi Sections fire tenty nlle distant I Nearly all late vegetables have ben 1101thed In the thrills People In many beauties at holding meeting and plllylng for rain |