II Local News of the Week. If
Old papers at the News office.
Mrs. Geo-gia Eradshaw is visit
ing with friends at Sadie. La.
5 or 6 doses 666 will cure any
case of fever and chills. Price, 25c.
Mrs. R L. Townsend and chil
dren are visiting this week at
Portland._
Leave the braggart alone and he
will tell of all the mean things he
has done in his entire life.
A. P. Richardson, who is now lo
cated at Warren, was here visitmg
friends Saturday and Sunday.
Our huller cleans the cotton and
seed. Neel & Brasher Gin,
Huttig. Ark.
Mrs. T. W. Pearson and children
have arrived from West Plains.
Mo., to again make Huttig their
home.
T. B. Weaver and wife arrived
home Sunday afternoon from a
three weeks visit at Mineral Wells
Texas.
1 am prepared to do all kinds of
first-class dress making. Work
guaranteed. Mrs. E. R. Thomp
son, 23 B street.
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Geo. S. Prestridge, vice-presi
dent of the Union Saw Mill Co .
was up from Shreveport this week
on business.
Mrs. C. Howard and daughter.
Beatrice, arrived home Wednesday
from an extended visit with hei
parents in Knoxville, Miss.
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and acts as a healing oil on cuts
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and 50c bottles.
W. H. Wheeler is serving as a
member of the grand jury in El
Dorado this week. W. L. Reagan
who was on the petit jury, was ex
cused.
L. L. DeCou, formerly of El Do
rado, who had charge of closing
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pany here before returning to his
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and is now fighting under the
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There will be a meeting of the
Lyceum Course Committee at Un
ion church Monday night, October
5, at 8 o’clock. All members of
the committee and signers of the
guarantee are requested to be pres
ent and come prepared to make
their reports on number of tickets
sold and be able to pay money over
to the treasurer.
The Magic Washing Stick.
“The Magic Washing Stick is the
finest thing in the world. Cleans
the clothes without'rubbing makes
the whitest clothes I ever saw. 1
cannot do without it any more. All
you say of it is true, it does all you
say it will. I would give it for
nothing I bay.e ever used. 1 hope
every lady will try it,’’ writes Mrs.
W. F. Gammill. Ashdown, Ark
This peculiar article is sold by gro
cers and druggists, three 10c
sticks for 25c, or by mail from A
B. Richards Medicine Co.. Sher
man, Texas.
Mrs. R. T. Carter and daughter,
Edith, were here Thursday enrcute
to El Dorado where they are mov
ing from New London.
5 or 6 doses 666 will break any
case of fever and chills. Price, 25c.
The highest temperature re
corded here during September was
98 degrees on the 12th and 13‘h
1 and the lowest was 47 on the 24th.
| The rainfall for the month was one
and forty-seven hundredths inches.
Married—At Camden Wednes
day morning at 7:00 o'clock. Miss
| Annie M. Kennedy, adopted daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Ketchum.
and Mr. Jack Bernard, the popular
telegraph operator at the Iron
Mountain depot here. The happy
couple arrived in Huttig Wednes
day evening and are housekeeping
in the Cottage at the corner of 3id
and B streets.
Cemetery Cleaning.
Ail parties interested are earn
estly requested to be present at
Harper Springs cemetery early
Saturday morning. October 3rd. to
help clean up the cemetery.
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Your druggist guarantees tore
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if it fails to cure. Give it a trial.
Notice.
The Union Saw Mill Company
will pay $50.00 as a reward to any
>ne, not in its employ, who will fur
nish information from which any
>erson shall be convicted of depre
rating or trespassing upon the tim
ber of said Company.
This 1st. day of February, 1906.
Union Saw Mill Co.
By F. W. Scott,
Secy, and Treas
$100 Reward, $100
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PLANTS MUST BE KEPT BUSY
Manufacturer* Have Come to Realize
That Period* of Idleneaa Cut
Into Profit*.
One of the strong points made by
modern systems of efficiency is that
no business plant will be a success
unless it is kept running somewhere
near its top capacity, remarks the
Manchester Mirror and American.
Many manufacturers, for instance,
will recall how in former days they
gave comparatively little thought to
this Idea. There was little effort to
systematize mill production down to a
regular basis. If there was a period
of weeks when production fell off, it
attracted comparatively little notice.
Modern scientific efficiency analyzes
production costs more carefully, it
shows how when production falls be
low a normal level even for a day
there is a heavier burden to be add- 1
ed to each article produced, as "over- |
head charge,” and for all labor costs
baaed on work by the hour, day or
week.
One reason why newspaper adver
tising has grown very fast during
recent years Is that retail merchants
understand how this principle applies
to their business. In former days a
merchant fitted out his store, hired
his clerks and sat down to wait in a
passive fashion for business. He was
very apt to find that he did not do
an amount of trade that was normal,
either for the capital Invested in
equipment and stock, or for the cost
of his help. The result was. that the
proportion of failures among retail
merchants used to be abnormally j
large. There is rarely any money in
a store that does not have the ap
pearance of being busy.
It is not a difficult thing to turn the
current of trade in any given direc
tion. It is not. hard to convert an idle
or half worked and unprofitable re
tail plant into a busy and profitable
one. If the stock is well chosen and
offered at fair prices, the public can
always be interested In it. It is sim
ply a question of taking in detail
Ihe various attractive features of the
stock, and talk about them through
the newspaper. |
The Land of Broken Promises
A Stirring Story of the
Mexican Revolution
=By DANE COOLIDGE=
Author of
"THE FIGHTTNO FOOL,” “HTODF.N WATERS,*
“THE TFX1GAN," Etc,
Illustrations by DON J. LAVIN
A story of border Mexico, vivid,
Intense, such as has never before
been written, is this one of Ameri
can adventurers into the land of
manana. Texan, mining engineer,
Spanish senor and senorita, peon,
Indian, crowd its chapters with
clear-cut word pictures of busi
ness, adventure and love, against
a somber background of wretched
armies marching and counter
marching across a land racked by
revolution and without a savior.
"A hundred Mexicans!” he repeated
und Gracia murmured "Oh!” and was
gone.
“Miss Aragon is very loyal to her
country,” observed Don Juan, but ;
Hooker only grunted.
Somehow, since those four Mexicans
had come to his camp, he had soured
on everything south of the line; and
even the charming Gracia could not j
make him take back his words. If she
had intended the remark as a chal
lenge—a subtle invitation to follow
her and defend his faith—she failed
for once of her purpose, for if there
was any particular man in Mexico that
Bud hated more than another it was
her false-hearted father.
Hooker had, in fact, thought more
seriously of making her a half-orphan
than of winning her good-will, and he
lingered about the hotel, not lo make
love to the daughter, but to strike ter
ror to Aragon.
The company being good, and a
train being expected soon, llud stayed
over another day. In the morning,
when he came down for breakfast, he
found that Aragon had lied before him.
With hie wife, daughter and retinue,
he had moved suddenly back to his
home. Hooker grinned when Don Juan
told him the news.
"Well, why not?’ he asked, chuck
ling maliciously. "Here it's the mid
dle of the rainy season and the war
going on all summer and nary a rebel
in sight. Where's that big light you
was telling about—the battle of For
tuna? You've made a regular fortune
out of these refugees, Hraehamonte,
but I fail to see the enemy."
"Ah, you may laugh,” shrugged the
hotel-keeper, ‘but wait! The time will
coine. The rebels are lost now—some
day, when you least expect it, they
will come upon us and then, believe
me, my guests will be glad they are
here. What is a few weeks' bill com
pared to being held for ransom? Look
at that rich Senor Luna, who was here
for a time in the spring. Against my
advice he hurried home and now he
is paying the price. Ten thousand
pesos it cost to save his wife and
family, and for himself and son his
friends advanced ten thousand more.
1 make no evil prophecies, but it
would be better for our friend if he
stayed on at my poor hotel.”
“Whose friend?” inquired Bud
bluffly, but Don Juan struck him upon
the back with elephantine playfulness
and hurried off to his duties.
As for Hooker, he tarried in town
until he got his mail and a copy of
the Sunday paper and then, well sat
isfied that the times were quiet and
wars a thing of the past, he ambled
back to the Eagle Tail and settled
down for a rest.
Flat on his back by the doorway
he lay on his bed and smoked, reading
ills way through the lurid supplement
and watching the trail with one eye.
Since the fight with Aragon’s Mexi
cans all his apprehensions had left
him. He had written briefly to I’hil
and Kruger, and now he was holding
the fort
It had been a close shave, but he
had escaped the cowardly assassins
and had Aragon in his power. Not by
any force of law, but by the force of
fear and the gnawing weakness of Ara
gon's own evil conscience.
Aragon was afraid of what he had
done, but Jt.was the suspense which ;
rendered him eo pitiable. On a day
he had sent four armed Mexicans
to kill (his Texan- not one had re- i
turned and the Texan regarded him
sneertngly. This it was that broke
the Spaniard's will, for he knew not
what to think. But as for Bttd, he lay
on his back by the doorway and
laughed at the funny page.
As he sprawled there at his reading,
Amigo came in from tlu; hills, and he,
too. was content to relax. Gravely
scanning the colored sheet, his dark
face lighted up.
It was all very peaceful and pleas
ant, but it was not destined to last.
CHAPTER XXI
i
On the morning after they had
laughed at the comic paper and decid
ed that all the world was fair. Hooker
a^id Amigo were squatting by the lire
and eating a man’s-size breakfast.
The creek, swollen by yesterday’s
torrential rain, had settled to a rivu
let. The wind had not risen and the
sun was just over the hill when, with
a rush and a scramble, Amigo threw
down his cup and was off In a flash for
the rocka^ _ __ _ _ _ _
I
""Vmvricrht. TPM hv A . '
A moment later two men rode down
the canyon, and then two more, and
two more. It was a column of men.
all armed with rifles, and they cast
e-nvious eves at Copper Bottom as they i
halted before the cani[ As for Bud, '
he saluted gravely, for he knew them
for what they were.
These were the lost forces of Ber
nardo Bravo and Salazar, Rojas and
the other bandit chiefs, and they
marched, as he well knew-, upon For
luna. They marclved quietly, and the
great whistle had not blown.
It would make a rich prize, Fortuna.
if they could take it by surprise! The
ransom for the Spanish haciendadns
alone would amount to thousands'of
dollars, and the mine-owners could
afford to pay anything in order to save
their works.
A box of dynamite under the giant
concentrator and the money would bo
produced at once, and yet the scoun
drels halted at a one man camp to
steal a single horse.
A flicker of scorn passed over Hook
er's face as the leader came dashing
up, but the Texan greeted him with a
slow smile.
"Buenos dine, general!” he said;
"jou have many men.”
‘Enough!” observed the "general''
hurriedly, "but some in the rear are
cn foot 1 suppose you are in sym
-Bny -* . our great cause, l will as<
you for that horse. Of course, 1 will
give you a receipt.”
He fetched out a blank-book as he
spoke and motioned to a ragged beg
gar at his heels. Bud checked the
man's rush with a look.
"One moment!” he said, and as the
soldier turned back his general glanced
up sharply.
“Only this, Senor General,” an
swered Bud. “You are welcome to
anything 1 have—food, blankets, mon
ey— but 1 cannot give you that horse.”
"But. senor!" protested the general,
regarding him with arrogant pig eyes
that glinted wickedly, “this poor sol
dier’s feet are sore. Surely you would
net make him walk. Only name your
price and I will give you a receipt for
him, but my man must have the
horse."
There was a pause and men began
to dismount and move in closer. AI
a word from their commander any
one of them would draw and kill him.
aR Hooker very well knew, but his
love for Copper Bottom made him ob
durate.
“If the man is lame,” he said, “I
will give him another horse-—but he
cannot have this sorrel."
He stepped quickly over to the cor
ral and turned with his back to the
gate, while the commander spat out
orders in Spanish and armed men
came running.
“Senor,” he said, advancing'brusque
ly upon the defiant Hooker. “I must
trouble you for that pistol.”
“No, senor!" answered the cowboy,
keeping his hand upon his gun, "not
to you nor no man—and I’ll never give
It up to a Mexican!"
“Oaral!” exclaimed the officer impa
tiently, “you are an Americano—no?”
“Not only that,” rumbled Hud, draw
ing himself up in his pride, “1 am a
Tejauo also, and if uny man touches
that horse I’ll kill him!”
His voice trembled with anger, but
hie hand was steady and tli* Mexicans
did not deceive themselves.
"Ha, un Tejano!" murmured the
men who stood about, and one or two
who had started to climb the fence
thought better of it and dropped back
to the ground.
Bud knew the fate of several men
who had proclaimed themselves Amer
icans to the insurrectos—boastfully
done, it was said to be the quickest
way there was of drawing a Mexican
bullet, liut to be a Texan was differ
ent—somehow the very name suggest
ed trouble to their minds and an Ala
mo fight to the death. Hooker saw
that he had made an impression, and
he was not slow to follow it up.
“If you need a horse,” he said to
the general, “let your man go up that
arroyo and he will find one hobbled on
the flat. Then give me your receipt
for two hundred dollars gold and 1
will contribute a saddle.”
It was a reasonable concession, un
der the circumstances, and. best of all,
it saved the general’s face. The hid
eous frown with which he had regard
ed the American changed suddenly to
a look of pompous pride. He Jerked
an Imperious head at his ragged re
tainer and drew forth his receipt book
with a flourish.
While he waited for the horse to ap
pear he turned upon his snooping men
and drove them to their mounts with
curses. Evidently it was no sinecure
to command in the army of the liber
ation. and the veiled mutterings of1
his followers showed that they were
little better than tigers in leash.
Mounted upon horses, mules, and
even burros; armed with every con
ceivable weapon from a musket to
standard repeating riflee, they were a
tatterdemalion army, more lit for
"treason, stratagems and spoils” than
the sterner duties of war.
Bud looked them over closely, well
satisfied to have his back against a
wall, and when the low browed re
tainer came hurrying hack with the
horse he quickly took the worthless
receipt and watched them on their
way. Then, as the last camp-follower
disappeared, he ran for his saddle and
rifle and within a minute he was
mounted and away.
Tiiere were rebels below him—very
likely there were more to come—the
only safe place for Copper Bottom
was over the hills at Fortuna. With- j
out stopping for path or trail, he head- j
ed straight northwest over the ridges, !
riding as the cowboys do when they j
rake the range for cattle. Hardly had
he topped the first high crest when
he came in sight of Amigo, loaded
down with his cartridge-belts and car
rying his heavy Mauser.
In a long, shambling trot the Yaqui
was drift :ng along the hillside with
the free grace of a wild creature, and i
when Hooker pulled down ltis horse I
to kpep pace with him he laughed and !
motioned him on. Taking the lead, he
loped <>n over hogback and barranca,
picking out the best trail by Instinct
and setting such a pace that Bud was
hard pressed to keep up with him.
He had heard It said that in the
Yaqui country no white man. no mat
ter how well he was mounted, could
outdistance tlie Indians on foot, and
now he knew It was true. But why
this killing haste on the part of Ami
go? He had neither friendslnor kin
In town; why, then, should lie run sr*
last to warn them of the enemy?
They racked on, tip one hill and.
down another, while the tnsurrectos,
followed the canyon that swung to thru
south, and finally, in a last scramble.
they mounted a rocky ridge and.
looked down upon old Fortuna.
Already the hat d driven peons were
out in the fields at work and smoke
was rising from the mescal still. Ara
gon was busy, but his labors would bo
worse than wasted If the red flaggers
took him prisoner. As Bud breathed
his horse he hesitated whether to ridi>
back and warn him or press on and.
notify Fortuna; but even for that
brief spell the Yaqui could not wait.
"Aritos," be said, coming close and
holding nut his black hand; “1 go thiss
way!" And be pointed along the ridge.
"But whj ?” said Bud. still at a lossi
to account for his baste. Then, seeing*
the reticence In the Indian's eyes, he
thrust out his hand In return.
"Adlos, Amigo mio!" he replied, and
with a quick grip thp Yaqui was gone.
With that same deceptive speed he
shambled through the bushes, Htill lug
gfng the heavy ritte and making for
higher ground. Bud knew he had
some purpose—he even had a sneak
ing idea that It was to take pot shots
at Captain del Hey—but six months In I
Mexico had made him careless, and he
half hoped the Yaqui would win.
The captain had It coming to him,
for his brutality, but with Aragon It
was different—Aragon had a wife and
Speed Was What Wa* Needed.
daughter—and, with the memory; of
(Jracta in his mind. Hud sent his horse
plunging; down the ridge to warn ijiem
before it was too late.
There were some brush fences So be
jumped, but Copper Hottom took U*>m
flying, and us they cut into the riw r
trail he made the mud-puddles .
Across the fields to the south'- Hint
could see the peons running for cover
■—the insurrectos must be in sii;ht be
yond the hills.
He was going south, they were mov
ing west, but it was five mile*? north\!
again to the town. Speed was what I
was needed and Copper Bottom gave
his best. They dashed into FVjrtuna
like a whirlwind, and Hooker raised
bis voice in a high yell.
“Insurre.ctos!" he shouted. "Ladro- I
nes! Pr onto a Fortuna!”
There was a rush, a moment's si- j
lence, and then heads appeaned from
every window and women ran scream
ing with the news. Aragon catoe rush
ing from the store and confronted him
juigrily t then,, leading, conviction la
' ■ I ’ I
iiis tones. he called for horses and ran
frantically Into the house.
A shrill screech came from the hill
side, where a serving-woman had
scampered to view the valley, and. as
she pointed her linger and screamed,
mothers laid hold of their little ones
and started up the valley on toot.
Still the men ran about In the horse
pen and Aragon adjured his women
folk in the houee. Burning with Im
patience, Bud spurred his way to the
corral where they were fumbling with
reata and rigging and dropped a rope
on the first horse he saw. Then he
snatched a side-saddle front a trem
bling peon and slapped It on the
brute's back. Grabbing up the bridle,
he led the horse back to the house and
bridled It while he shouted for haste.
Still the women tarried, and the
sound of galloping came from the
south. Then, as all seemed lost, the
Mexicans came humping out from the
stable with the family coach, Aragon
and hie wife leaped In, and Gracia,
neatly attired in a riding-skirt, c%ine
tripping down the steps.
Even in such times as these she
seemed to realize her first duty to
herself, and Hooker had to gaze for a
moment before he helped her up. She
offered her foot and vaulted lightly
into the saddle; the coach went pound
ing on ahead; and as the servants
scattered before her she galloped off
at the side of Bud.
Behind them the rumble of distnnt
hoofs rose up like the roaring of wa
ters, and the shrieks of fleeing women
echoed from the roadside, hut once
eafely in the canyon their lead was
never lessened and, with coach-horses
galloping and postilions lashing from
both sides, the whole cavalcade swept
into the plaza while the town of For
tuna went mad.
Already the great whistle was blow
ing hoarsely, Its deep reverberations
making the air tremble as if with fear.
Americans were running hack and
forth, distributing arm* and rushing
their women to cover; Don Juan, his
chin quivering with excitement, was
imploring all comers to be calm; and
the Aragons, coming flying up to the
door, added the last touch to the panic.
They with their eyes had seen the
1 rebels; they were riding In from the
south’. Other men. equally excited,
swore they were coming from the
north, and a disorderly body of So
nora miners, armed as If by magic
with guns which had long lain hidden,
hanked themselves about the store and
office and clamored for more and more
cartridges. Then a rip of gun-fire
echoed from across the canyon, and
the miners made a rush to the attack.
The whistle, which had obscured all
sound as a cloud obscures the light,
stopped suddenly In Its roar, and the
crowd at the hotel became calm. The
superintendent, a wiry, gray-halrad
little man, with decision In every
movement, came running from his
fort-like house on the hill and ordered
all the women to take shelter there
and take their children with them.
So. while the rifles rattled and stray
bullets began to knock mud from the
walls, they went straggling up the hill,
rich and poor, patrician and peon,
while the air was rent by the wails
of the half-Indtan Mexican women,
who held themselves as good as cap
tured by the revoltosos, concerning
whose scruples they entertained no
Illusions.
The women of the aristocracy bore
themselves with more reserve, as be
fitting their oirth and station, and the
Americans who gathered about them
with their protecting rifles pretended
that all would be well; but In the
minds of every one was that same
terror which found expression In the
peon wail and, while scattered rebels
and newly armed miners exchanged
valleys on both sides of the town, the
non-combatant Americans sought out
every woman and rushed her up to the
big house. There, if worst came to
worst, they could make a last stand,
or save them by a ransom.
So, from the old woman who kept
the candy stand in the plaza to the
wives of the miners and the cherished
. womenfolk of the landowners, they
' were all crowded ineide the broad halls
of the big house; and seventy odd
! Americans, armed with company rifles,
paced nervously along the broad veran
das or punched loopholes in the adobe
walls that Inclosed the summer garden
behind.
Along with the rest went Hooker
and Gracia, and, though her mother
I beckoned and her father frowned
sternly, the wilful daughter of the Ara
gons did not offer to leave him as they
scampered up the hill. In fact, she
rode close beside him, spurring when
he spurred and, finally, when the
shower of stray bullets had passed,
she led on around the house.
•.“Won’t you help me take my horse
ii'.tide the walls?” she asked. Bud
fol Wed after her, circling the fortress
wb tfe blank adobe walls gave shelter
to1 t \e screaming women, and she
smile.I upon him with the most en
gtwins' confidence.
OOb JiNuc-b 1.4 NeXT li>Sl E.
S/ascribe fu the News.