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Luther Wood and family have
moved here from Feisenthal.
A. G. Stephenson left the fi stof
the week for a business trip to Chi
cago. _
W. T. Terrell was confined to
his home this week on account of
sickness.
Wanted—Several swarms of
bees. Call at the Dental Office,
Huttig, Ark.
Mrs. D. M. Clowney left Satur
day for a visit at her old home in
Alden Bridge, La.
Fish are biting good at present
if some of the stories being told are
to be believed.
Dr. L. F. Magee was confined to
his home several days this week
with a case of the grip.
A certain young lady of Huttig
has added to her chain of friend
ship a very large “Ltnck.”
W. J. Jeffus. who was at Hot
Springs taking the baths, arrived
home the first of the week.
Mrs. C. T. Thompson left last
Saturday for Shreveport La., to
take treatment at a sanitarium.
Mrs. J. H. Knox arrived home
Sunday from a visit with her
daughter. Mrs. Maxwell, at White.
The First National Bank pays 4
per cent interest on savings ac
counts. adv
John Cobb and Frank Byers at
tended the funeral of Claybourn
Brasher at Union cemetery Sun
day afternoon.
Feminena has, cured thousands
of cases of Female Troubles and is
becoming more staple all the time.
At the Union Saw Mill Go. 4
Mrs. C. A. Townsend returned to
her home at Arkansas City last
Saturday after an extended visit
with relatives here'.
The Womans’ Missionary union »
will hold its open session on Tues
day afternoon. April 20, at 3
o’clock, with Mrs. J. B. Crockett.
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Every parent owes it to himself
and children to save part of his in
come for old age or a rainy day
Start a savings account with the
First National Bank now. adv
Mrs. W. L. Reagan and children
and Miss Bessie Spencer arrived
home the first of the week from a
visit with friends and relatives near
Farmerville. •
A. E. Frost, president, and G. S.
Prestridge. general manager of the
Frost-Johnson Lumber Co., of
Shreveport were business visitors
here this week.
Mrs. G. C. Pyle and Mrs. C. A
Berry are in Little Rock attending
the Womans’ Missionary Council
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, which is holding its annual
convention.
Prof. A. J. Dowis arrived home
Sunday from Little Rock where he
attended the meeting of the State
Teachers’ association. He reports
a very interesting and instructive
session. t_
D. W. Spencer, living just west
of town, came near being killed last
Saturday while clearing new
ground. He cut down a tree
which fell on another tree in such
a manner as to tl„ jw it on him.
He was knocked unconscious and
badly bruised about the hips, but
no bones were broken we are glad
to report.
A. G. Pish arrived home Wed
nesday from a visit with old friends
at Marysville, La.
The rules of the jitney business
have been changed in Huttig. The
chauffeur has to first be consulted
and he arranges the passengers to
suit himself.
Rev. J. T. Walters, pastor of the
Baptist church at Junction City,
will preach at Felsenthal on Sun
day morning and evening, April 18.
Everybody cordially invited to
come and hear him.
You can start a savings account
at the First National Bank with
$1. Add to it every month all you
can spare and you will soon have
enough to buy a farm that in twen
ty years will be worth many times
the original amount. adv
Claybourn Brasher died at his
home near Tucker, La., last Satur
day from an attack of typhoid fever
and was buried in the Union ceme
tery Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock,
Rev. N. O. Hornsby conducted the
services. The deceased leaves a
wife and two small children, be
sides a large number of relatives
to mourn.'his death.
Notice.
1 now have my Denmark stallion
Black Squirrel, at the Union Saw
Mill barn where he will make the
season of 1915. 1 solicit your
patronage. Terms $ 15.00 for foa
insured. L. F. Magee.
jOLBS & LaGRIPPE
5 or 6 doses 660 will break
iny case of Chills & Fever, Colds
fc LaGrippe; it acts on the liver
ettcr than Calomel and does not
ripe or sicken. Price 25c.
The ho? enjoys clean surrounding
and comfort in his buildings just as
much as a hen or the horse or thf
>0w, and the best way to get the best
results is to furnish him with this
kind of comfort. Tills doesn’t ncces
.arily mean pampering; It means just
opinion sense care.
Annual Rainfall.
According to an estimate by Sit
John Murray, the total annual rainfall
upon all the land of the globe amounts
to 29,347.4 cubic miles, and of this
iiuantlty 6,524 cubic miles drains ofi
hrougn rivers to the sea.
City of Apartment Houses.
Dwelling houses are fast becoming
only a memory In New York city. Pew
new ones are built every year, but |jun
lreds are torn down to make room for
business buildings or big apartments.
Today the metropolis is a city of
apartment houses.
Heart Disease Almost
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/£> CHARLES NEVILLE BUCK,
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FRCM PHOTOGRAPHS
OF SCENES IN THE PLAY
SYNUFSia,
CHAPTER I—On Misery creek, at the
foot of a rock from which he has fall> n.
Sally Miller finds George Leseott, a land
scape painter, unconscious, and after re
viving him, goes for assistance.
CHAPTER TI—Samson South and Siliv,
taking Leseott to Samson's home, arc n ot
by Spicer South, head of the family, who ,
tells them that Jesse Purvy lias been shot,
find that Samson is suspected of the
crime. Samson denies it.
CHAPTER Til—The shooting of .Tcsse !
Purvy breaks the truce in the Hollman- i
South feud.
CHAPTER TV—Samson reproves Tama- !
rack Spicer for telling Sally that Jim
Hollman is on the trail with bloodhounds
bunting the man who shot Purvy.
CHAPTER V—The bloodhounds lose the
trail at Spicer South’s door. Leseott dis
covers artistic ability in Samson. While
sketching wilh Ecscott on the mountain.
Tamarack discovers Samson to a jeering
crowd of mountajneers. Samson thrushes
him and denoundbs iiim as the "truce
buster” who shot Purvy.
CHAPTER VI—Leseott tries to per
suade Samson to go to New York with
him and develop his talent. Sally, loyal
but heartbroken, furthers Eescott’s efforts
The dance at Wile McCager’s threatens
trouble to Samson and Leseott.
CHAPTER VII—At the dance Samson
tells the South clan he is going to leave
the mountains. Leseott goes home to
New York. Samson bids Spicer and Sally
farewell and follows.
CHAPTER IX—Prompted by her love,
Sally teaches herself to write. Horton
throws himself into the business world
and beromes well hated by predatory
financiers and politicians. At a Bohemian
resort Samson meets William Furbish,
sporty social parasite, and Horton’s ene
my.
CHAPTER X—Farhlsu sees Samson ana
Orennie dining together unchaperoned at
the Wigwam roadhouse. He consp>es
with others to make Horton Jealous and
succeeds.
CHAPTER XI—Furbish brings Norton
and Samson together at the Kenmore
club’s shooting lodge, and forces an open
rupture, expecting Samson to kill Horton
and so rid the political and financial thugs 1
of the crusader. Samson exposes the plot
and thrashes the conspirators.
CHAPTER XII—Samson is advised bv
his teachers to turn to portrait painting.
Drennie commissions him to paint her 1
portrait. Sally goes to school. Ramson
goes to Par's to study. Drennle finds in
his studio pictured evidence of his loyalty
to Sally. |
CHAPTER XTIT—Tamarack kills Jim
Asherry. is surrendered to the militia an.l
shot from ambush by a Heilman. The
feud is on again and the law helpless in
the face of murder. Sally sends for Sam
son.
CHAPTER XIV -Samson goes home,
catches Aaron Hollis in the art of niur- i
dering Jesse Purvy and kills him. He 1
goes to Sallie. Captain Callomb hears of
the killings.
CHAPTER XV—Judge Hollman shows
how justice works—and is worked—in the
Kentucky mountains. Ho suppress--a
Samson's letter to the court. Captain Cal
lomb goes over to Misery to g r informa
tion. gets it. and begins to fight the devil
with fire Samson is indicted and ar
rested, while calling on the governor.
Early tliat morning, men began tx i
assemble along the streets of Hixon;
and to congregate into sullen clumps ;
with set faces that denoted a grim
unsmiling determination. Not only the ■
Hollmans from the town and immedi .
ate neighborhood were there, but their
shaggier, fiercer brethren from remote
creeks and covers, who came only at
urgent call, and did not come without
intent of vindicating their presence.
Old Jake Hollman, from "over yon" on
the headwaters of Dryhole creek,
brought his son and fourteen-year-old
grandson, and all of them carried Win
chesters. Long before the hour for
the courthouse bell to sound the call
which would bring matters to a crisis,
women disappeared from the streets,
and front shutters and doors closed
themselves. At last, the Souths began
to ride in by half-dozens, and to hitch
their horses at the racks. \hey also
fell into groups well apart. The two
factions eyed each other somberly, ;
sometimes nodding or exchanging
greetings, for the time had not yet
come to fight. Slowly, however, the
Hollmans began centering about the
courthouse. They swarmed in the
yard, and entered the empty jail, and
overran the halls and offices of the
building itself The Souths, now com
ing in a solid stream, flowed with
equal unanimity to McEwer's hotel,
near tire square, and disappeared in
side. Besides their rifles, they carried
saddlebags, but not one of the uni- i
forms which some of these bags con- i
tained, nor one of the cartridge belts,
had yet been exposed to view.
Stores opened, but only for a desul
tory pretense of business. Horsemen
led their mounts away from the more
public racks, and tethered them to
back fences and willow' branches in
the shelter-of the river banks, where
stray bullets would not find them.
The dawn that morning had still
been gray when Samson South and
Captain Callomb had passed tlie Mil
ler cabin. Callomb had ridden slowly
on around the turn of the road, and
waited a quarter of a mile away. He
was to command the militia that day,
if the high sheriff should call upon
him. Samson went in and knocked,
and instantly to the cabin door came
Sally’s slender, fluttering figure. She j
put both arms about him, and her eyes, |
as she looked into his face, were terri- j
tied, but tearless.
“I’m frightened, Samson,” she wliis- i
pored. “God knows I’m going to bo
praying all this day.”
“Sally," he said, softly, “I’m coming
back to you—but, if 1 don’t’’—he held
her very close—"Uncle Spicer has my
v ill. The farm is full of coal, and
days are coining when roads will take
it out, and every ridge will glow with
coke furnaces. That farm will snake
you rich, if we win today’s fight.”
"Don't!” she cried, with a sudden
gasp. "Don't talk like tLu.;.”
“I must,” he said, gently. ”! want
you to make me a promise, Sally."
“It's made,” she declared.
“If by any chance I should not come
back, I want you to hold Uncle Spicer
and old Wile McCager to their pledge.
They must not privately avenge me.
They must still stand for the law. I
want you, and this is most important
of all, to leave these mountains—”
Her hands tightened on his shoulder.
"Not that, Samson,” she pleaded;
“not these mountains where w'e’ve
been together.”
“You promised. I want you to go to
the Lescotts in New York. In a year,
you can come back—if you want to;
but you must promise that."
“I promise,” she reluctantly yielded.
It was half-past nine o'clock when
Samson South and Sidney C'allomb
rode side by side into Hixon from the
east. A dozen of the older Souths,
who had not become soldiers, met
them there, and, with no word, sepa
rated to close about them in a circle of
protection. As Calloinb’s eyes swept
ihe almost deserted streets, so silent
that the strident switching of a freight
train could lie heard dov. n at the edge
of town, he shook his head. As he met
the sullen glances of the gathering in
the courthouse yard, he turned to Sam
son.
"They'll fight,” he said, briefly.
Samson nodded.
"I don’t understand the method." de
murred the officer, with perplexity.
He Held Her Very Close.
“Why don't they phoot you at once
What are they waiting for?”
“They want to see,” Samson assured
him, “what tack I mean to take. They
want to let the thing play itself out
They're inquisitive-—and they're can
tious, because now they are bucking
the state ano the world.”
Samson with his escort rode up to
the courthouse door and dismounted
He was for the moment unarmed and
his men walked on each side of him.
while the onlooking I tollmans stood
back in surly silence to let him pass.
In the office of the county judge Sam
son said briefly:
“I want to .get my deputies sworn
in.”
“We’ve got plenty of deputy sher
iffs,” was the quietly insolent rejoin
der.
“Not now—we haven't any.” Sam
son's voice was sharply incisive. “I'll
name my own assistants.”
“What’s the matter with these
boys?” The county judge waved his
hand toward two hold-over deputies.
“They’re fired.”
The country judge laughed.
“Well, T reckon 1 can't attend to that'
right now."
“Then you refuse?”
“Mebby you might call it that.”
Sampson leaned on the judge's table
and rapped sharply with his knuckles.
His handful of men stood close and
Oallonvb caught his breath in the
heavy air of storm-freighted suspense.
The Hollman partisans filled the room
and others were < rowding to the doors.
“I’m high sheriff of this county now,”
said Samson, sharply'. “You are coun
ty judge. Do we co-operate—-or fight ?”
“I reckon," drawled the other, "that’s '
a mutter we’ll work out as we goes
along. Depends on how obedient ye j
air.”
“I’m responsible for the peace and
quiet of this county,” continued Sam- -
son. “We're going to have peace and
quiet.”
The judge looked about him. The in- 1
dications did not appear to him indica
tive of peace and quiet.
“Air we?" he inquired.
“I'm coining back here in a half
hour," said the new sheriff. “This is
an unlawful and armed assembly.
When 1 get back T want to find the
courthouse occupied- oniy by unarmed
citizens who have business here. ’
“When ye comes back," suggested
the county judge,. "I'd advise that ye
resigns yore job. A half-hour is about
cs long as ye ought ter try tor hold
hit.”
Samson turned and walked through
the scowling crowd to the courthouse
steps.
"Gentlemen,” he said, in a clear, far
carrying voice, "there is no need of an
armed congregation at this court
house. i call on you in the name of
the l;.w to lay aside your arms or scat
ter.”
There was murmur which for an in
stant threatened to become a roar, but
trailed into a chorus of derisive laugh
ter.
Samson went to the hotel, accompa
nied by Callomb. A half-hour later the
two were back at the courthouse with
a half-dozen companions. The yard
was empty. Samson carried his fath
er's rifle. Jn that hnlf-hour a telegram,
prepared In advance, had flashed to
Frankfort.
“Mob holds courthouse — need
troops,”
And a reply had flashed back:
"Use local company—Callomb com
manding.” So that form of law was
met.
The courthouse doors were closed
and its windows barricaded. The place
was no longer a judicial building. It
was a fortress. As Samson's party
paused at the gate a warning voice
called:
"Don't come no nigher!”
The body-guard began dropping
back to shelter.
"I demand admission to the court
house to make arrests,” shouted the
new sheriff. In answer a spattering of
rifle reports came from the jail win
dows. Two of the Souths fell. At a
word from Samson Callomb left on a
run for the hotel. The sheriff himself
took his position in a small store
across the street, which he reached un
hurt under a desultory fire.
Then, again, silence settled on the
town, to remain for five minutes un
broken. The sun glared mercilessly on
clay streets,, now as empty as a cem
etery. A single horse incautiously
hitched at the side of the courthouse
switched its tail against the assaults
of the flies. Otherwise, there was no
outward sign of life. Then, Oallomb’s
newly organized force of ragamuffin sol
diers clattered down the street at
double time. For a moment or two
after they came into sight only the
massed uniforms caught the eyes of
the intrenched Heilmans, and an
alarmed murmur broke from the court
house. They had seen no troops de
train, or pitch camp. These men had
sprung from the earth as startlingly as
Jason's crop of dragon’s teeth. But,
when the command rounded the shoul
I der of a protecting wall to await fur
I ther orders, the ragged stride of their
marching and the all-too-obvious bear
ing of the mountaineer proclaimed
them native amateurs. The murmur
turned to a howl of derision and chal
lenge. They wpre nothing more nor
less than Souths, masquerading in the
uniforms of soldiers
“What orders?” inouired Callnmb
briefly, joining Samson in the store
"Demand surrender once more—then
take the courthouse and jail,” was the
short reply.
Callomh himself went forward with
the flag of truce. He shouted nis mes
sage and a bearded man came to the
courthouse door.
“Tell 'em,'’ he said without redun
dancy, “thet we re all here. Come an'
git us.”
The officer went back and distribut
ed his forces under such cover as of
fered itse'f about the four walls. Then
a volley was lireci over the roof and lu
stantly the two buildings in the public
square awoke to a volcanic response of
rifle fire.
All day the duel between the streets
and county buildings went on with
desultory intervals of quiet and wild
outbursts of musketry. The troops
were firing as sharpshooters, and the
’ourthouse, too, had its sharpshooters.
When a head showed itself at a barri
caded window a report from the out
side greeted it. Samson was every
where, his rifle smoking and hot-bar
reled. His life seemed protected by a
talisman. Yet most of the firing, after
lie first hour, was from within. The
roops were, except for occasional pot
shots, holding their fire. There was
neither food nor water inside the build
5<n'ih
“We Lays Down."
inp:, tuitl ot last night closed and the
cordon grew tighter to prevent escape.
Tlie Holltnens, like rats in a trap, !
jirimiy held ou, realizing that it was to
be a siege. On the following morning
a detachment of “F” company arrived,
dragging two gatling guns. The Holl
nians saw them detraining, from their
lookout in the courthouse cupola, and,
realizing that the end had come, re
solved upon a desperate sortie. Simul
taneously every door and lower win
dow of the courthouse burst open to
discharge a frenzied rush of men, fir
ing as they came. They meant to fight
their way out and leave as many hos
tile dead as possible in their wake.
Their one chance now was to scatter
before the machine guns came into ac
tion. They came like a flood of hu
man lava end their guns were never
silent, as they bore down on the barri
cades, where the single outnumbered
company seemed insufficient to hold
them. Hut the new militiamen, look
ing for reassurance not so much to
Tallomb as to the granite like face of
Samson South, rallied and rose with a
yell to meet them on bayonet and
smoking muzzle The rush wavered,
fell back, desperately rallied, then
broke In scattered remnants for the
shelter of the building.
Old Jake Hollman fell near the door,
and his grandson, rushing out, pick* d
up hts fallen rifle and sent farewell
defiance from it as he, too, threw up
both arms and dropped.
Then a white flag wavered at a win
dow and, as the newly arrived troors
halted in the street, the noise died sud
denly to quiet. Samson went out to
meet a man who opened the door and
said shortly:
“We lays down.”
Judge Hollman, who had not partici
pated, turned from the slit in his shut
tered window, through which he had
since the beginning been watching the
conflict.
“That ends it!” he said, with a de
spairing shrug of his shoulders. He
picked up a magazine pistol which lay
on his table and, carefully counting
down his chest to the fifth rib, placed
the muzzle against his breast.
CHAPTER XVII.
Before the mountain roads wpre
mired with the coming of the rains,
::nd while the air held its sparkle of
autumnal zestfulness, Samson Souih
wrote to Wllford Horton that, if he
still meant to come to the hills for hi3
inspection of coal r nd timber the time
was ripe. Soon men would appear
bearing transit and chain, drawing a
line which a railroad was to follow' to
Misery and across it to the heart of
untouched forests and coal-fields. With
that wave of innovation would come
the speculators. Besides, Samson's
fingers were itching to be out in the
hills with a palette and sheaf of
brushes in the society of George Les
cott.
For a while after the battle at Hixon
the county had lai:> in a torpid paraly
sis of dread. Many illiterate feudis's
on each side -emembored the directing
i and exposed figure of Samson South
seen through eddies of gun smoke, and
believed him immune from death.
I With Purvy (had and HolJnian the vio
' tim of his own hand, the backbone of
the murder syndicate was broken. Ita
heart had ceased to boat. Those IIoll
man survivors who bore the potentiali
ties for leadership had not only signed
pledges of peace, but were afraid to
break them; and the triumphant
Souths, instead of vaunting their vic
tory, had subscribed to the doctrine of
order and declared the war over.
Souths who broke the law were ns
speedily arrested as Heilmans Their
boys were drilling as militiamen and
—wonder of wonders!—inviting the
sons of the enemy to join them Of
course, these thinps changed gradual
ly, but the beginnings of them were
most noticeable in the first few
months. Just an a newly painted and
renovated house Is more conspicuous
.ban one that has long been respecta
ble
Hollman'g Mammoth Department
Store passed Into new hands, and traf
ficked only in merchandise, and tha
town was open to the men and women
of Misery as well as those of Cripple
shin.
These things Ramson had explained
in his letters to the I.escotts and Hor
ton. Men from down below could still
find trouble in the wink of an eye, by
seeking it, for under all transformation
the nature <' the individual remained
much the same; but, without seeking
to give offense, they could ride as se
curely through Hie hills as through the(
streets of a policed city—and meet a*
readier hospitality.
And. when these things were dis
cussed and the two tnen prepared to
cross the Mason-and-Dlxon line and
visit the Cumberlands, Adrlent-a
promptly and definitely announced
that she would accompany her brother.
No argument was effective to dissuade
her, and after all, Lescott, who had
been there, saw no good reason why
she should not go with him.
At Kixon, they found that receptive
air of serenity which made the history
of less than three months ago seemi
paradoxical and fantastically unreal.
Only about the courthouse square
where numerous small holes in framo
walls told of fusillades, and In the in
terior of the building itself where th©
Woodwork was scarred and tom. and
the plaster freshly patched, did they
find grimly reminiscent evidence.
Samson had not mot them at the
town, because he wished their first im
pressions of his people to reach them
uninfluenced by his escort. It was a.
form of the mountain pride—an hon- »
est resolve to soften nothing, and malro*
no apologies. But they found arrange^
nients made for horses and saddlebags,
and the girl discovered that for her
had been provided a mount os evenly
gaited as any in her own stables.
CONTINUED IN NEXT 1ESUE.