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5 or 6 doses 666 will cure any
case of fever and chills. Price. 25c.
G. N. Cobb and wife are home
from a visit at Malvern.
E. N. Coilett was a business vis
itor at Strong Tuesday.
Jim Cobb of Lapeer transacted
business in Huttig Wednesday.
N. H. Knox and wife of El Dora
do visited relatives here this week.
5 or 6 doses 666 will break ar y
case of fever and chills. Price, 25c.
C. G. Bell of Monroe transacted
business in the city among the
pines Wednesday.
J. G. Phillips was a business vis
itor to Junction City the first of the
week.
Mrs. L. M. Cartall and Mrs. C
A. Berry were Monroe visitors last
Saturday.
Misses Mary Bell Co'lett and
Inez Hilliard visited several days
this week at Monroe.
J. G. Tucker, counter jumper al
the commissary, “dolled-up" Sun
day and visited at El Dorado.
Pine heater and stove wood
$3.00 per cord. Measurement
guaranteed. T. F. Ashcroft.
Rev. J. R. Rushing was quite
sick the first of the week, but we
are glad to report him as bein*
much better.
Rev W. P. Whaley, presiding
elder of the Camden district of the
Little Rock conference, held hit
quarterly conference here last Fri
day night.
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Malaria or Chills & Fever
Prescription No. 686 is prepared especially
for MALARIA or CHILLS A. FEVER.
Five or six doses will break any case, and
if taken then as a tonic the Fever wil not
return. It acts on the liver better than
Calomel and does not gripe or sicken. 25c
Rev. J. F. Johnston, the nev
pastor of the Baptist church, arc
family arrived here the first of th
week and services will be held
at the Baptist church Sunday.
Mrs. A. P. Holtsford and son ar
rived home Tmsday from Smack
over where sh^ went to look at a
farm Mr. Holtsford recently pur
chased from J. H. Raybourn.
There was no preaching at the
Methodist church Sunday on ac
count of the illness of Rev. J. R.
Rushing and none at the Baptist
church on account of Rev. John
Johnston not having been able to
move here last week.
B. B. Green, the Lawson mer
chant, suffered from burglars for
the third time in the last few years
on Monday night when his store
was broken open and his safe blown
open with some explosive. We
did not learn the amount of his loss
but the safe was worth at leatt
$ 1 00. _
We have round trip tickets to all
local points on sale at this office
and would be glad to sell you round
trip tickets, saving you money by
buying them and at the same time
make a better showing for our sta
tion in this manner. We solicit
your business. D. A. Keasler,
Agent St. L. 1. M. &. S. Ry.
W. A. Cannon, convicted in the
Union Circuit court at the Spring
term, on the charge of violating the
liquor laws of the state and sen
tenced to pAy a fine of $50 and
costs, has been pardoned by Gov.
Hays. The petition for the pardon
was signed by the prosecuting at-1
torney and many citizens of this
county. ___
Mr. Vines, the county fai m dem
onstration agent, will on Monday
afternoon, Nov. 9th, at 4 o'clock in
| the town of Felsenthal vaccinate
1G head of hogs for B. F. Mahony.
Everv owner of hogs in this vicinity
should be present and seethe work
done and several shoula learn to do
the vaccinating.
HAD MORE THAN THEIR SHARE
Class of Englishmen Who Rivaled In
the Number of Their Wive*
“Bluebeards" of History.
It was formerly no uncommon
thing, when journeying through the
Essex marshes, to meet with fathers
of families to whom the epithet
“Bluebeard” might, without any im
propriety, be applied, remarks Inn
don Tit-Bits. To have married half t
a dozen wives was no unusual expe
rience with these men, many of
whom, indeed, had gone through the !
marriage ceremony with thrice that
number. Even that total had on oc
casion been exceeded, as in the case
of a native of Candy island, who had
espoused twenty-five different wom
en, while his son, who was but
thirty-five, had already been wedded
fourteen times.
Yet for the most part these exces
sively connubial men were very re
spectable fellows, whose sole mistake
w'as in choosing wives from the
neighboring uplands instead of woo
ing those who had become acclima
tized from having been born and
bred among the marshes. Conse
quently the newly wedded hrides,
who had been accustomed to fresh
and bracing air, on taking up their
abode among the fogs and mists of
the unhealthy flats, soon succumbed
to ague or fever, which generally car
ried them off within the year, leav
ing their husbands to console them
K'lves with fresh partners, who in
heir turn rapidly gave place to suc
cessors.
MANY POUNDS AT PARTY.
Bridget — They had a regular
pound party at Mike OTlourke’s last
night.
Nora—Tell me about it.
Bridget — Barney O’Flannigan
pounded Pat McGinnis black and
blue and the rest of the crowd
pounded Barney nearly to death.
No. 10060.
HEPORT OE THE CONDITION
of the
FIRST NATIONAL BANK 01 HITTK?
At Iluttitf, In the State of Arkansas, a;
the Close of Business Oct.
31, 1914.
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts $72,184 4
Overdrafts, secured and unsecured .... 74 8-i
I. S. Bonds to secure circulation 6,250.0c
Bonds, Securities,etc other than stocks) I6.5C
Slock in Federal Reserve Bank 300.0(
■tanking house. Furniture, and Fixtures 3.99 1.51
/ther Real Esiale owned . 130.Of
)ue from National Banks (not reserve
agents) 10.800 34
^ue from approved Reserve Agents 6,310 90
Checks and other Cash Items . 266.7T
iotas of other National Banks 2.125 01
motional Paper Currency Nickels and
Cants 86.40
.awful Money Reserve in Bank, viz:
Specie $8,037.75
egal-tender notes 2f .00
Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer
(5 per cent of circulation)
Total
1.062 7f
312.50
SI 10.91 1.92
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock paid in
,urplusfund
Jndivided Profits, less Expenses and
Taxes Paid
Jational Bank Notes outstanding
ndividual deposits subject to check
ime certificates of deposit payable in
30 days .
Time certificates of deposit payable after
30 days or alter notice of 30 days or
longer
Cashier’s checks outstanding
Bills payable
Liabilities other than those stated above
$25.
2
20,
000 00
,100.0c
556 61
250.00
643.62
44.00
416 03
896.52
000.00
5.14
Total
SI '0.91 1.92
State of Arkansas, County of Union, ss:
I, C. T. Thompson. Cashier of the above-named
bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement
is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
C T. THOMPSON. Cashier.
Correct Attest:
F. W. SCQTT,
L A. BODINE.
C. H. MURPHY,
Directors.
Sub cribed and sworn to before me this Vlh day
of Nov , 1914.
ASA PONDER. Notary Public.
RECAPITULATION.
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts
Overdrafts
U. S Bonds. Securities, etc
Stock in Federal Reserve Rank
Banking House and Fixtures
Other Real Estate
Cash and Exchange
Redemption Fund
Total
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock paid in
Surplus fund and undivided profits
Circulation
Bills Payable
Deposits
Liabilities other than above stated
Total
$79,184.45
7*1.84
6.966.50
300.00
3,991 51
130.00
27.652.14
312.50
$1 10,91 1.92
$25,000.00
3.656.61
6,250.00
20,000.00
bt.f.OO. 17
5.14
$i .0,911.as
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.
"I would have met him in the open,”
said Hooker.
"And yet—’’
"1 didn’t want to," he ended bluntly.
“Didn't vant to fight him and didn’t
want to kill him. Had no call to. And
then—well, there was you.”
"Ah!” she breathed, and a flush
mounted her pale cheeks. She smiled
as she reached out. once more for I lie
food and Hooker resolved to do his
best at gallantry, it seemed to make
her so happy.
“So you were thinking of me,” she
challenged sweetly, "all the while? I
thought perhaps I was a nuisance and
in the way. I thought perhaps you did
not like me because—well, because
I’m a Mex as you say.”
"No, rca’am,” denied Hooker gazing
upon her admiringly. “Nothing like
that! When I say Mex I mean these
low, peiado Mexicans—Don Juan tells
me you’re pure Spanish.”
"With perhaps a little Yaqui,” she
suggested shyly.
“Well, mebbe be did sny that, too.”
confessed Bud. "But it's .lest as good
rs Spanish—they say all the big men
In Sonora have got some Yaqui blood
—Morral. that was vice-president; the
Tomes brothers, governors—”
"And Aragon!” she add'd playfully,
but at a look in his eyes she stopped.
Bud could not look pleasant and think
of Aragon.
An, ye«, she rattled on. ‘‘I know.
You like the Yaquis better than the
Spanish—I saw you shaking hands
with that Indian. And what was it
you called him-—Amigo?”
"That's right,” smiled Hooker; “him
afid me have been friends for months
now out at the mine. I’d do anything
for that feller.”
“Oh, now you make me jealous.” she
i pouted. "If I were only a Yaqui—and
big and black—”
“Never mind,” defended Hud. “He
was a true friend, all right, and true
friends, believe me, are scarce.”
There was a shade of bitterness in
his voice that did not escape her. and
she was careful not to allude to Phil.
His name, like the name of her father,
always drove this shy man to silence,
and she wanted to make £iin talk.
“Then you ought to be friends with
me,” she chided, after a silence. “1
have always wanted to be your friend
—why will you never allow' it? No,1
but really! Haven’t I always shown
it? 1 remember now the first time that
I saw you—I was looking through my
hole among the passion-flowers and
you saw me with your keen eyes. Phil
did not—hut he was there. And you
lust lpoked at n*> once—and looked
away. Why did you never respond
when I came there to look for you?
You would just ride by and look at
mo once, and even Phil never knew’.”
“No," agreed Bud, smiling quietly.
“He was crazy to see you. but he rod*j
right by, looking at the windows and
such.”
“The first time I met him," mused
Gracia, "1 asked about you. Did he |
ever tell you?”
Bud hung his head and grinned
sheepishly. It was not difficult to make
out a case against him.
And so Gracia had not wanted Del
Rey killed as he thought she did
She was not the vicious woman he !
taad thought her for a time. She was i
just the gentle, noble girl he had !
sworn to protect and conduct across |
the border to her fiance. Again came 1
the desire to claim her, but there was j
not only Phil to be thought of but
the fitness of himself to be the mate
of this woman.
‘‘Is it something I have done?” she
asked at last. “Is that why you never
liked me? Now', Mr. Hooker, please
speak to me! And why do you always
sit so far away—are you afraid of me?
I3ul look."—she moved closer to him
‘‘here we are alone, and 1 am not afraid
of you!"
“Of course not," answered Hud, look !
ing across at her boldly. “Why should [
you be—you ain't afraid of noth- I
ing!”
“Is that a compliment ?" she demand
ed eagerly. "Oh, then I’m so happy— |
it's the first you ever paid me! But \
have 1 been brave," she beamed, “so
far? Have I been brave, like a man?" I
“Sure have!” remarked Hooker im
personally, "but we ain't there yet
Only thing I don't like about you is
you don’t eat enough Say. don’t pick i
;ii> them crumbs let me pare off soup !
more of this jerked beef for you. Can t,
nobody be brave when they're hun
gry, you know, and I want to bring you 1
in sale."
\\ hy. sne inquired, as she accept
rd tlie handful of moat. "Is is on
Phil’s account?” she ventured, as he
sat gazing stoically at the horses.
"You were such friend- weren't you?"
she went on Innocently. Oh, that is
why I admire the Americans so much
—they are so true to each other!”
“Yes,” observed Hooker, rolling his
eyes on her, “we’re fine that way!”
"Well, I mean it!” she insisted, as
she read the irony in his glance.
“Sure! So do I!” answered Hooker,
and Gracia continued her meal in si
lence.
“My!” she said at last; “this meat is
good! Tell me. how did you happen to
have it on your saddle? We left so
suddenly, you know!”
She gazed up at him demurely, eurl
otis to see how he would evade this evi
dence that he had prepared in advance
for their ride. Rut. once more, as he
had always done, Hooker eluded the
cunningly laid snare.
”1 was figuring on pulling nut my
self.” he replied ingenuously.
“What? And not take me?" she
cried. “Oh, I thought—but dear me,
what is the use?”
She sighed and dropped her head
wearily',
“1 am so tired!” she murmured de
spondently; “shall we be going on
soon?"
“Not unless somebody jumps ns,”
returned Bud. "Here, let me make
you a bed in the shade There now”
— as he spread out the saddle-blankets
tempt ingly—“you lay down and get
rome sleep and I'll kinder keep a
watch.”
"Ah, you are so k’nd ” she breathed,
as she sank down on the bed. “Don’t
you know,” she added, looking up ai
h rn with sleepy eyes that half con
cealed a smile, ”1 believe y’ou like me,
after all.”
Sum” confessed Purl, returning
her smile as honestly; "don't you wor
ry none about me—1 like you fine.”
He slipped away at this, grinning to
himself, and set down to watch the
plain. All about him lay the waving
grass land, tracked up by the hoofs of
cattle that had vanished in the track
of war. In the distance he could see
the line of a fence and the ruins of a
house. The trail which he had fol
lowed led on and on to the north. But
all the landscape was vacant, except
for his grazing horses. Above the
mountains the midday thunder-caps
were beginning to form; the air was
very soft and warm, and— He woke
up suddenly to find his head on his
knees.
“Ump-um-m,” he muttered, rising up
and shaking himself resolutely, "this
won't do—that snn is making me
sleepy."
He paced back and fo’th. smoking
fiercely at brown-paper cigarettes, and
still the sle°p came back. The thun
der-clouds over the mountains rose
higher and turned to black; thpy let
down skirts and fringes and sudden
stabs of lightning, while the wind
si cked in from the south. And then,
with a slash of rain, the shower was
upon them.
At the first big drops Gracia stirred
uneasily in her sleep. She started up
as the storm burst ever them; then, as
Bud picked up the saddle-blankets and
spread them over her. she drew him
down beside her and they sat out the
storm together. But it was more to
them than a sharing of cover, a patient
enduring of the elements, and the
sweep of wind and rain. When they
rose up there was a bond between
them and they thrust ana parried nc
more.
They were friends, there in the rush
of falling water and the crash of light
ning overhead. When the storm was
over and the sun came out they smiled
at each other contentedly without fear
of what such smiles may mean.
CHAPTER XXVII.
As the sun, after a passing storm,
comes forth all the more gloriously, so
the joy of their new-found friendship
changed the world for Hud and Gra
eia. The rainbow that glowed against
the retreating clouds he'd forth more
than a promise of sunshine for them,
and they conversed only of pleasan'
tilings as they rode on up the trail.
The dangers that still lay between
them and the border seemed very re
mote now, and neither gave them a
thought. There was no one in ail the
wide world but just these two, this
man and woman who had found then,
selves.
Twenty miles ahead tay the northerr,
pass, and from there it wp.s ten mor,
to Gadsden, but they spoke neither <»
the pass nor of Gadsden nor of who
would be awaiting them there. Their t
talk was like that of children, incon
sequential and happy. They told of
the times when they had seen each
other, and what they had thought; of
the days of their childhood, before
they had met at Kortuna; of hopes
and fears and thwarted ambitions and
all the young dreams of life.
Iiud told of his battle-scarred father
and their ranch in Arizona; of his
mother and horse-breaking brothers,
and his wanderings through the West:
Grocia of her mother, with nothing of
her father, and how she had flirted in
order to be sent to school where she
could gaze upon the upstanding Amer
icans. Only Bud thought of the trail
and scanned the horizon for rebels,
but he seemed more to seek her eyes
than to watch for enemies and death.
They rode on until the sun sank low
and strange tracks struck their trail
from the east. Bud observed that the
horses were shod, and more tracks of
mounted men came in beyond. He
turned sharply toward the west and
followed a rocky ledge to the hills,
without leaving a hoof-print to mark
i the way of their retreat.
Those hoof prints brought Bud back
from the land of dreams in which
he had hem wandering to a realiza
tion of the dangers that lurked about
! them. But a little way ahead was the
pass they must cross, and he sud
denly realized that they could not
safely do so in the broad light, of
day. lie must not take such chances
of losing his new found happiness.
By the signs the land ahead was full
of bandits and ladrones. men to whom
human life was nothing and a woman
no more sacred than a brute At the
pass ali trails converged, from the
north and from the south. Not by any
chance could a man pass over it in the
daytime without meeting some one on
the way, and if the base revoltosos
once set eyes on Gracia it would take
more than a nod to restrain them.
So. in a sheltered ravine they sought
cover until it was dark, and while
Gracia sl^pt, the heavy-headed Bud
watched the plain from the heights
above.
As ho watched ho dreamed of a
home in which this woman now sleep
ing beside him was the queen. He
dreamed of years to come with un
bounded happiness throughout all of
them. Thoughts of Phil and duty to
his pardner were far away. Nothing
on the plain below served to distract
him from this drenm of happiness.
As far as he could see there was
nothing that savored of danger for
the woman in his keeping. There
were no sounds or signs of either
federal or revolutionary troops, from
I both of which they were fleeing, and
! from both of which he must guard
her. Again they were in a world that
; was ail their own, an Rdon with but
: one man and one woman,
f For an hour ard more he watched
and dreamed, and with the dreams
: came the desire for sleep, the cry of
| nature for rest. Gracia stirred, then
j spoke softly to him, calling him by
name, and her voice wras as music
far away.
When sdio awoke and found him nod
ding Gracia insisted upon taking his
place. Now that she had been re
freshed her dark eyes were bright and
sparkling, but Pud could hardly see.
The long watching by night and by day
had loft his eyes bloodshot and swol
len, with lids that drooped in spite of
him. If he did not sleep now he
might doze In the saddle later, or ride
blindly into some rebel camp; so he
made her promise to call him and lay
down to rest until dark.
The stars were all out when he
awoke, startled by her hand on his
hair, but she reassured him with a
word and led him up the hill to their
lookout. It was then that he under
stood her silence. Tn the brief hours
during which he had slept the de
serted country seemed suddenly to
have come to life.
By daylight there had been nothing
to suggest the presence of men.
I-Jnt now as the velvet night set
tled down upon the land It brought
out the glimmering specks of a hun
dred camp-fires to the east and to the
north. Bnt. the fires to which Gracia
pointed were set fairly in their trail,
and they barred the way to Gadsden.
"Look!” she said. "I did not want
to wake you, but the fires have sprung
up everywhere. These last ones are
right in the pass."
“When did you see them?" asked
I locker, his head still' heavy with
sleep. "Have they been there long?"
"No; only a few minutes.” she an
swered. "At sundown I saw those over
io the east—they are along the base
of that big black mountain—but these
(lashed up just now; and see. there;
ure more, and more!"
“Some outfit coming in from the
norih,” said Hud. "They've crossed
over the pass and camped at the first
water this side."
“Who do you think they are?" asked
Gracia in an awed voice. "Insurrec
tos?"
"I.ike as not,” muttered Hud. gazing
from encampment to encampment.
"Hut whoever they are,” he added,
“they're no friends of ours. We've got
to go around them.”
"And if we can’t?” suggested Gra
cia.
"1 reckon we'll have to go through,
then. * auswered Hooker grimly. “We
don't want to get caught here In the
morning.”
"Ride right through their camp?” j
gasped Gracia.
"Let the scuttles get to sleep," he
They Thrust and Parried No More.
| "ent on. hail' to himself. "Then, jurt
before the moon comes up, we ll try to
••dge around them, and if it comes to
a showdown, we'll ride for It! Are
you game?”
lie turned to tread the answer, and
s he drew herself up proudly.
"Try me!" she challenged, drawing
nearer to him in the darkness And so
they stood, side by side, while their
hands clasped in promise. Then, as
the night grew darker and no new
dres appeared. Hooker saddled up the
well-fed horses and they picked tkeir
way down to the trail.
The first fires were far ahead, hut
they proceeded at a walk, their horses'
leet falling silently upon the sodden
ground. Not a word was spoken and
they halted often to listen, for others,
too, might be abroad. The distant
fires were dying now, except a few
where men rose to feed them.
The braying of burros came In from
the flats to the right and as the fugi
tives drew near the first encampment
they could hear the voices of the night
guards as they rode about the horse
herd. Then, as they waited impatient
ly, the watch-fires died down, the
guards no longer sang their h i/*h fal
setto, and even the burros were still.
This was their opportunity. If they
were to get through that line of I 'ep
Ing men it must be done by steilth.
Should they he discovered it would
mean one man against an army to,
protect the woman, and the odds, great,
as they were, must be taken if need
be. •
It was approaching the hour of mid
night, and as their horses twitched res
tively at the bits they gave them the
rein and rode ahead at a venture.
At their left the last embers of the
fires revealed the sleeping forms of
men; to their right, somewhere in the
darkness, was the night herd and the
herders. They lay low on their horses*
necks, not to cast a silhouette against
the sky, and let Copper Ftottom pick
the trail.
With ears that pricked and swiveled,
and delicate nostrils snuffing the Mex
ican taint, he plodded along through,
the greasewood, divining by some in
stinct his master’s need of care. The
camp was almost behind them, and
Pud had straightened up in the sad
dle. when suddenly the watchful Cop
per Bottom jumped and a man rose up
from the ground.
"Who goes there?” he mumbled,
swaying sleepily above his gun. and
Hooker reined his horse away before
he gave him an answer.
"None of your business," he growled
impatiently. “I am going to the pass '*
And ns the sentry starpd stupidly after
him he rode on through the bushes,
neither hurrying nor halting until he
gained the trail
“Good luck!” he observed to Gracia,
when the camp was far behind. “He
took me for an officer and never saw
you at all.”
“No, I flattened myself on my pony,'*
answered Gracia with a laugh. “Ho
thought you were leading a pack
horse."
“Good.” chuAiled Hooker; “you did
fine! Now, don’t say another word—
because they’ll notice a woman's v^co
- and if we don’t run into some morn
of them we'll soon be climbing tha
pass.*’
They had passed through some per
ilous moments, but Gracia had hardly
realized the danger because of the as
surance of Hooker, who was careful
not to frighten her unnecessarily. But
it was an assurance which he had not
felt himself, and he was not yet cer
tain of their safety.
The waning moon came out as they
let r the wide valley behind them, and
then it disappeared again as they rods
info the gloomy shadows of the can
yon. For an hour or two they plodded
slowly upward, passing through nar
row defiles and into moonlit spaces,
and still they did not mount the sum
mit.
CONTINUED IN NEXT ISSUE.