Local News of the Week.
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C. C. Bell, of Monroe, was he.e
Wednesday on business.
Old newspapers for sale at the
News office for 15c per hundred.
E. S Etheridge and family are
home from a visit with his parents
at Nashville.
Attornrv r G. Fields, of Far
merville, was a business visitor in
Huttig Monday.
W. H. Chancellor was at El Do
r do Wednesday making final proof
on h:s homestead r ear here.
Mrs. F. W. Scott is home from
Mineral Wells. Texas, where she
has been for some weeks for her
health.
The Embroidery Club will meet
with Mrs. J. B. Loyd next Wedn^s-1
day afternoon and a full attendance
is desired.
Mrs. Chas. Saxe and daughter,
Miss Marie, arrived home last Sat
urday fron Illinois where they
spent the holidays.
See J. A. Freeman for Stove and
Hleat r wood. Price per rick
$1.25 or $3 00 per cord when
taken in that amount.
There were 42 votes cast here
last Saturday in the special el c
tion for circuit judge and Judge C
Vi. Smith received them all.
The family of E. R. Thompson
o.‘ the News force have arrived
from Camden and they are occu
pying the house at 23 B street.
For cook and heater wood, either
pine or oak, any length, see Julius
Fike at the livery stable. AIL
orders given prompt attention.
Dan Wdkinson, of Scotland, can
didate for tax assessor, was in
Huttig Wednesday meeting the
v jters and visiting with friends.
Logging Camp No. 3. formerly
located below Farmerville. has been
moved to about one mile of Spen
cer Station on the Little Rock &
Monroe Railway.
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For S^le, 80 acres of land, one
mile from Lawson, every acre tila
ble, comparatively level. House
somewhat di'apidated. but would
make a good barn. Would make
an ideal home. Price $400.00.
Terms to suit. Dr. D. McCall.
Hon. W. S. Goodwin, congress
man fiom this district has intro
d ced a bill in congress asking for
$75,000 00 prtv'ding for the
erection of a postoffice building in
El Dorado the site authorized last
ye r which carried an appropriation
of $5,000.00 to purchase same.
The open meeting of the Wo
man’s Home Mission Society at
the home of Mrs. F. E. Wood on
last Monday afternoon was well at
tended and enjoyed by all present.
Several od talks w re made and
a number of good readings given.
The refreshments served were also
highly appreciated.
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Lucas County, i
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Take Hall's Family rills for constipation.
Aav.
V. G. Seaman, who had charge
of the ice cream parlor and pod
hall for a "umber of years but
moved to Michigan several years
ago, has returned to Hrttig and
again taken charge of that busi
ness. The building will be given a
thorough overhauling and under
| his management will no doubt be
| come as popular as it used to be.
; as ne understands what the puolic
| wants and sees that it gets it.
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any case of Chills & Fever, Colds
& LaGrippe; it acts on the liver
better than Calomel and does not
gripe or sicken. Price 25c.
The regular monthly meeting of
the Huttig S hool Improvement
j Association was held at Union
i church Tuesday night There was
j not the number present that should \
have been, but the parents of Hut
tig should appreciate the fact,
whether they do or not. that there
are a faithful few who have the in- '
terest of the children at heart and ;
!
, carry on the work of the Associa- :
tion. It is safe to say that the
complaints regarding the school
; come from those who dj nothing
to he.p better conditions through !
i this Association.
Meeting of Missionary Union.
The Missionary Union met at.
the church Tuesday afternoon with !
14 members present. Meeting1
opened by singing "My Faith Looks
Up to Thee.” and Scripture read
ing. 6th chapter of Galatians, after1
which the regular business was at- j
tended to. As we did not finish;
| everything, we decided H have an- \
other business meeting next Tues- !
day and would like for every mem
ber to be present, as there will be
important matters to be attended
to. Meeting closed'with chain cf
; prayer.
Our next Missionary Tea will be
■ with Mrs. Atnip. January 20. Ev
e-ybody cordia'ly invited to attend
ELBERT BEDE SAYS
Woman as a rule are not parti
cular about a man's being so ever
lastingly good looking That's the
reason so many are married.
Parents think they h ve given
about all their iovs to their own
children—urtil grand chi'dr n
begin to arrive.
The girl who is properly raised
has to know a young man quite a
while before there is more pleasure
derived from sitting on his lap than
on that of her dad.
No young man is norma! who up
to his teens, does not think his
father is the only man in the wc r d
worthy to pat e n after, who
doesn’t about that time see his
mistake and who doesmt in later
years see that both conclusions
were immature.
A father carrying his first baby
for the first time, and trying to
appear nonchalantly unconcerned,
is a little funnier than anything
else the human mind can imagine.
In old age those who in younger
d ys did not care for children pay
the price of their ear lier selfishness,
which becomes all the more pro
nounced because of the lack of
someone to divide with and give up
to.
Most of us talk too much about
the follow who can't keep his
mouth s' ut.
No one is more entitled to a
golden harp and an eternal diadem
than th unh ppy wif who keaDc
her secret in her own hea t.
How narrow an escape most of
us have had fiom committing
| crimes for which we applaud counts
'and junes for sending others to j
jail.
Some folk- hang msto a d " •
tight that they pull the cuticle off
the face of the gooue.s of liberty, i
j )N Is
FROM TflL PL\Y Or
G FORGE M.COflM
EDWARD /AAPWIALL
lWITH PHOTOGRAPHS TROn OTE3 lil THC PLAY
CHAPTER I
Back of the massed red brick and
clapboard buildings forming, in Jones
viile, Conn., the extensive group co
veted to the manufacture of Jones’
Pep3in Gum, was the abandoned power
house, wherein wore housed the water
wheels which once had furnished force
to drive the factory's machinery. The
stream's diminishing flow, the in
creased needs of the business, and the
economy of steam all had militated to i
ward industrial abandonment of the j
old building.
Small boys never fished there, for
the sluice-waters were too swift, loaf
ers never idled there, for the watch
men of the mills were too strict in j
their guardianship; but lovers some- j
times wandered there, of moonlight j
nights; and in the afternoons, when 1
the academy sessions had ended 1
"Broadway,” really named Jackson !
Jones, but nicknamed “Broadway" be- .
cause of his continual glorification of |
New York's great thoroughfare, which :
he had seen upon occasion, sometimes
went there "to get away from Jones
ville.” This afternoon he was to teach
two Jonesville girl friends new dance
Ft ops which he had learned in New
York city. Later, dancing (Jicse wiy>
him at the Odd Fellows bail, the;
would confound all other girls in
Jonesville.
The girls came promptly. Clara
Spotswood was the daughter of the lo
cal judge, Josie Richards the daughter
of a recent manager of the gum fac
tory. Her father was now laid tip with
rheumatism, and Josie was in training
for a bookkeeper s post in the great
enterprise which swallowed most of
Jonesville's youth of either sex, as
soon as they left school.
"Now tins step, gills," i’.roadway
said in preface, “was invented on
Broadway for use upon Broadway by !
Broadway people. Don’t mistake it for
a quiet nap. It's not a sleep-dance. It
was not dreamed out in Jonesville.”
“And was everybody dancing it?”
asked Josie. »
“Every girl I saw," he answered. He
had been telling of a ball he had at
tended in New York, but not quite all
he might have told about it. “Every
one f saw, but one.”
“And was she dancing old style?”
"No; she was being carried to an
ambulance. She had just sprained an
ankle.”
“Oh, Jackson, you're too funny!”
“Thanks for those kind words.” He
watched them whirl together for a
moment. "No; not quite that way,
Clara. Don’t give a Broadway step a
Jonesville twist; you want to give a
Jonesville step a Broadway polish.”
Breathless they stopped their ef
forts. "Oh, you and your Broadway!
You're always talking about Broad
way ! ”
“Clara,” said Jackson very seriously,
“have you ever seen Broadway?”
"You know I haven’t.”
“Well, if you had, you'd never see
another place you thought worth see
ing.”
"Oh, you and your Broadway!” Josie
Richards was ait extremely pretty girl,
more serious than Clara, who was fluf
fy. “No wonder the boys all call you
'Broadway!' ”
“I suppose a minister Is prftud when
people call him 'doctor,' " w as the an
swer. "When people call me 'Broad
way,' I feel about like that.”
"I'd rather folks would call me An
drew—Jackson.” remarked Sammy.1
“Andrew—Jackson—was a—statesman j
- not—a—street.”
"Your er*— little brother," began j
Broadway, but, not being eloquent by
naltire, he left the sentence incom
plete.
‘•Ho thinks he'll he a Caesar. He
wants to kill some hoys by strategy, !
for he’s too fat to tight."
The girls laughed again. Now they I
had begun the pleasant homeward 1
walk along the high road to the border
of the village.
"Can you come to supper?” Clara
asked.
“As long as I can’t eat on Broadway
I'd rather go to your house than to any |
other place 1 know,” said Jackson.
“But I’ve got to go home first. This
collar's wilted.”
He was th“ only hoy in JonesviUe
who would have thought of that; he
was the only boy in Jonesvllle who
owned a pair of patent-leather shoes
As they passed his uncle’s residence
the old man, who was his guardian,
caught a glimpse of him through an
opening in the neglected shrubbery on
the great lawn, and sent a serving
man to bid him enter.
Jackson made a wry face for the ;
benefit of the girls, as he said good-by
to them, promising to appear for sup
per at the Spots woods’. He carefully
obeyed Hie summons, but i> irked him.
His uncle always irked’ him. He be
Moved, end there w< others who be
lieved. tea- il.- '• h, „
”.!v never vm : ..or on w.li to
i
and opposed every youns idea, particu
larly to every young idea which i
chanced to have originaled in bit. j
nephew’s brain.
“Well, Jackson,” said his uncle sour
ly- ,
“Well. Uncle Abner.”
“Ready to settle down in Jonesville, j
are you?”
“Now, uncle,” said the youth protest- j
ingly.
“Your father settled down here, I 1
lettled down here, and you'll have to |
jottle down here," said the grim, un
lovable old man. “You have oblige,
cions here. The Jones Gum factory
lia.-3 built this town, and is responsible
for it. You will have charge of the
factory before long.”
Jackson writhed. He didn’t wish to
have charge ot the factory.
“It’s not good business, uncle.” lie
had once told the man who now sai
staring at him moodily. “They'll thin I
it was The gum that made him bald.
Poor grandfather was too bareheaded
to lie a good advertisement lor any
thing, except—an Indian.”
“Why an Indian?” his uncle Inquired
without suspicion.
"As an after-taking 'ad' of the best
scalper in tbe tribe.”
This irreverence bad abruptly end
ed that dai's interview.
But this evening Abner Jones was
busy with more serious thoughts.
“When are you going to work?" he
crabbedly donanded.
“I don't soo—•"
"Jackson, every Jones for two gen- j
orations has learned the gum business ,
before he was as old as you; but you, i
foolishly indulged by your father—1 ;
have never seen such madness as the j
way he brought you up—have come to !
manhood knowing nothing of it. Don’t
you ever wish to settle down?''
"Not yet." said Jackson, boldly. "I'm
too young.”
“You’re twenty-one."
"I’m twenty-one; but I’ve lived most
of the time in Jonesville. That makes
j me just fifteen so far as actual age
goes—and yet the time seems longer
than it is," said the irreverent Jack
son.
"I’m almost discouraged. I’m free tc
ell you. Jackson, that, if your father's
will had left me any opportunity fct
loing so, I should see to it that, when
i pass to my reward, you would have
no share of the great, business which
you hold in such contempt.”
"Pass on to your—er—yes, sir," Jack
son murmured.
"I bare had tales brought to me o;
-on.e tilings you have said about Jones
ville," said the old man bitterly. "Yoi
have compared it most unfavorably
with that modern Babylon, New York.'
“Well—er—uncle, toil know New
York is—well, more metropolitan.”
"Jonesville is metropolitan enough
Jonesville is a pleasant little town
built by the industry and brains of tin
members of your family, sir—in botl
of which you seem to be most singular
ly lacking; and, while it has fewe’
people than Now York, it has more vir
lues. You will be the only Jones re
teaming after I have gone. I am fai
from well, i—” *
Instantly the young man was con
trite, lie hud no wish to hurt hh
uncle's feelings.
"I’m sorry, sir. if you are feeling ill."
he said, respectfully, "but. you see.
you've always lived in Jonesville ;
groat drain on a man’s vitality. »
didn't mean to say a word to hothei
you."
But the eld man was not to be paci
tied; his faee continued stern. "it i?
less your words ilian what seems to be
your disposition which annoys me,” hi |
burst forth. Is there nothing serious
in you?”
"I guess I'm prut tv young to sptth
(low ii. Perhaps thfit's what's the- mat
tor."
"I had settled down and had com
plote charged the bookkeeping depart
incut of this great enterprise befon
I was eighteen. You might begin tc
take life seriously.”
"You can't take it any other way ir
Jonesc ille.”
' I feel that 1 should tell you vari
ous details of the business, for my !
days here may he numbered."
The youth looked deprccatinglv
a found the dull old library, foe] mg, in
the earnestness of his revolt, that it
his own days in Jonesvllle were lint
numbered ii would give him great re
lief. Even death, lie thought—
“I’m sorry you're not well, sir.
"We are but shadows cast upon the
stream of life. Mere shadows, Jack-1
son.” 1
Jackson gazed at him with careful
eyes; that his mouth was also careful
was entirely proven by the fact that
it said nothing. A careless mouth
might ha\■ remarked that his old
uncle was a pretty solid shadow, for
h< weighed close upon two 1 <• Jre '
pounds.
"Your if'; c, said 'his very robud
invalid, ‘had some :co.!. ; ciee which '
Jackson. TTe, L*o. was frivolous; he,'
too, longed for the flesh-pots of New
York.”
' I never did, sir." he said, gravely.
‘I wish I might feel sure of that,” 1
said Abner loties. I should feel surer
of the safety of the gum."
‘ I shall never harm the gum. sir.”
"You must not only never harm it;
you must help It. Let me tell you,
Jackson—there is a trust in the gum
business—”
''Yen, sir, I've heard of it."
it would have been remarkable if he
had not. For two years the air of
Jonesvllle had been full of timid ru
mors of the gum trust. The whole
town was fearful that the great Jones
factory might be sold to it and closed.
"After I am gone they will endeavor
to secure our factory and business,"
Abner Jones went on. “I shall never
let them have it. You must never let
them have it. Of your pride in the
Jones gum—”
"It's surely been a handsome little
money maker." Broadway granted.
"1 do not like your language," said
his iisjole, "but the meaning of your
words is accurate enough. It has made
money, it still continues to make
money—as an independent gum. It—”
Broadway was getting fidgetty. The
Spots wood a were waiting supper for
him. Mrs. Spotswood was a plump
and cheerful housewife, who doted on
the recipes he hroughi back from New
York upon the rare occasions when his
uncle let him go there.
It would make more, uncle, wouldn't
it., if it lost its independence?" he in
quired.
"The plan of the trust is to take it
from the market. They have not
thought of continuing it as an indi
vidual product. They merely wish to
eliminate it utterly. This would free
their other products of its competi
tion.”
“Did some one of them chew it?"
his nephew inquired earnestly.
"Jackson, you should be ashamed'
They merely wish to take it from the
market so that it no longer will affect
their—”
“Yes, I've heard.” Ho had~*-a thou
and times.
“That is Hi'' r<‘nson I am anxious
that yon should begin to show some
vital interest in our splendid enter
prise. It must lx* protected at al! ha/,
jrds. It should be the pride, as it has
been tire fortune, of the Jones family.”
“Honest, uncle, 1 don't believe i
know enough to go into the business.
Aren t you afraid that it would spoil
lie sale of the gum if anybody should
find out I helped to make it? That
worries me. The gutn must be pro- j
tected. I leave it to you, uncle. 5—"
"Jackson, you arc frivolous. You
ire a tremendous disappointment to
me. You—"
"l don’t want to he a disappointment ■
blit I’d almost rather lie a disappoint
; nenl than a gum-maker. I'd—”
"Go'" said his uncle angrily. “I—”
But Jackson did not hear the re
mainder of the sentence, fie had
heeded its first w ord.
CHAPTER II.
‘‘I should enjoy the supper hetter,”
H road way said later at the Spotswood
family table, "if everything 1 chew,
lfter I’ve seen uncle, didn’t make me
iliink of gu;n. I wish there was a way
if eating without < hewing."
They all laughed, but not, very heart
ily. Gum was a sacred word to them
also. It was to every one in Jones
'ille.
"Let's talk things over after sup
per," said the judge. Then, after they !
had gone into his stuffy little study
Broadway. I've been talking with your
uncle.".
"That's one reason I would never
study law. You have to do such dis
Broadway Jones.
-isr
agreeable things. I’ve been talking
with him. too."
Th*' ?U(ige laughed very briefly, v*»r>
dryly. It's not politic for you to
speak that way. in.v l«>y. The old -or
—your Uncle Abner wijl he ■tire to
hi nr of it.''
"AJn:-it I protend to love him?"
“Kr--U might be hotter to."
".Jurine,” said Broadway solemnly.
'Tin a pretty good little amateur actor,
but there are some parts I'd never try
to play. One of thejn is that of loving
nephew to my 11 tide Abner Jones."
Judge Spots wood sighed. "1 know,
my hoy. and I don't know that 1 blame,
yon. I only wished to say that yr. a
matter of expediency
"I don't know just what, expediency
means, hut if it has anything to do
with Uncle Abner ! don't want to. " j
“.Well* he said today that lie hadn't
any hopes of you. He said he didn't
think you’d ever settle down. IP j
•we-e t Min to know where vott get
an your wild wars trom. rie is snooted
beyond expression to find rhat your
young friends all call you Broadway.
It’s worrying your uncle."
“What will he propose?"
"If you won't go into the business,
ho will try to buy you out "
Jackson looked at him in dumb de
light. "Kor money? Ready money?’’
“Yea; it’s what I'm afraid of. .lack
son. Re careful how you sell to him."
“I'll he careful that he pays me.
That's all I care about "
“Don't he in a hurry. What I'm
afraid of—but I ought not to talk in
this way. Abner Jones has never
done me an ill turn. Of eourse your
father was my client-—"
“And dear unrip put his hooks into
mv dad whenever he eould get them
Caught so’s he could pull, didrw^o?"
“He is a shrewd business man. But
don't sell. Jackson." The judge was
oiearlv ill at ease
"if 1 don’t sell, will I have to turn
to and make gum?"
"You ought to. A goose that lays
a golden egg should he well cured for."
“I.et uncle rnise ;he poultry. I'd
talher sell the eggs."
"But. Jackson—"
"Judge, will you come to se*' trie in
New York?"
The conversation had hrought .lack
son Jones to sudden realization of the
fact that in eleven months or less he
would tie twentv-two. and that, as soon
as he was twenty two, lie would be
free, according to the terms of his
dead father's will, to spend his own
exactly as he pleased.
"1 suppose you’ll go there just as
soon as you are master of your for
tune."
The hov leaned forward earerlv.
“When will ii hannen. judge? Will it
he on the p'idnight that begins mv
birthday, or the midnight ihat it ends
with? Quick! I've got to know."
"Better wait till rhe next day. Jack
son. That's the safest. Oh, I know
you'll go! But don't sell to your uncle.
Promise me."
"When will lie make me the offer?”
"Before your birthday, Jackson."
"Is it as close as that? is liherty ns
close as thpt? I hadn’t realized!
Couldn't we get him to tall, to me to
night about jt? if I agreed to poll <9
bon for half, would lip agree to let. my
birthday Co rue at once inetead of when
It's scheduled? Would
The judge wan laughing. somewhat
ruefully. Jackson Jones amused liim,
alwavs; to Homo extent he could sym
pathize with his revolt against Joncs
ville. lip himself hail revolted against
Jonesville in his youth, but there .had
been no fortune coming to him with
the arrival of his manhood to release
Ivin from the hated village. And. be
sides. he was uncomfortable tonight.
He wondered if he ought to tell Broad
way what he had learned.
"Will you consider me your law
| yer?" the judge asked.
| "Consider you my lawyer. Judge? Of
course you are my lawyer. Weren't
' you my rather s lawyer?"
I "Not always: I did not draw his
will, for Instance. And In other things
your uncle—well, if jour father had
| but listened, as I hope you'll listen his
; brother Abner never would have—’’
"Sure! I know. And you've already
' been mv lawyer. Didn't yon get „te
out of jail there in New Haven? Imag
ine being locked up in New Ha'on!
And I’d only dropped a melon front the
window. If the chief of police hap
pened to be going hv, was that mv
fault? I’d have eaten the melon If it
hadn't been so spoiled And still tliev
locked me up! They made a criminal
of me! it's bad enough to he a crim
inal. but to he a criminal imprisoned
in New Ha veil—heavens! Suppose a
mart should be locked up in Jonesville'
Why, he'd die of shame,”
"Well, if you accept me as your law
yer, when your uncle asky you to sell
out your interest in the Jones Guta
company you will refuse. When you
do that, he'll try to hind you not to
sell out to the trust as long as you
both live. 1 hope you'll never sell out,
to the trust, hut don't sign any pa
Pei’S. Jackson, although you know
what the trust purchase of the factory
would mean to Jonesville and to all
of 11s.”
“I'll not sell out to the trust, judge,
but if my uncle—"
“lie'll not offer you ;i (air price. He'l|
want to eel a bargain. And remem
ber that the company will get richer
every year"
“But the trust may host it."
"t hope you'll lake that chance, mv
hoy, rather than ever bo a parte to
ruining the old home town."
'All right, judge. I won't sell to
Uncle Abner- anyway, just uow. I
won t need the money. There's enough
coming to me to keep me busy for a
while."
"Jackson, I wish you might foe! dif
ferent!' about the starting of your life
as a grown mbit If you could cult),
vste a feeling of responsibility —'
It bores inn. I could never even
spell it."
' I m afraid it does, Jackson, and
that worries me. But—"
"Yen'll come to New York, some
time, and—and—"
"Jackson, f'bi afraid I shall.”
“And keep it secret Unit we're eitjter
one of Ms from Jonesville."
Jackson, said the judge, reproving
h. "you'd better get along toward
home. And don t think loo much about
those lights. Broadway, like every
other street, is safer in the daytime,
before the lights are lit."
i lie lights are Broadway's eves,"
said th« young man. Until they’re
lighted. Broadway is asleep, and you
see only men and women on it.”
“And what do von see later""
j OU < .111 a- arch me for I he 11 a me.
But they're seveiat degrees beyond
n'kpn knd u.
.'it ’■ itc had left the lodge. Jackson
'•< ’ii<1 it q.'i'.e impossible to g . se laie
!v home, ss might possibly have
dorr on almost any oihei night. !lo
'TO rife, o'j.t i iiSuc.D uLa i e. i_fc.t\j