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For sale No. 4 lumber $1.00 per
load. Union Saw Mill Co.
Agent D. A Keasler was an El
Dorado visitor Thursday.
Dr. L. F. Magee was at Texark
ana this week on business.
Charley Woolley and Ben Brown
have gone to Texas to work.
E. L. Ware is home from a visit
with relatives at Aberdeen. Miss.
Quite a number yf Huttig people
were at El Dorado attending court
ffiis week.
Auditor S H. Dowell was over
from Shreveport this week on
business.
G. B. Bennett and C. C. Lindsay
and families have moved to Bess
may Texas.
Mrs. W. H. Meore and children
are at Washington this w°ek visit
ing her parents.
Mrs. W. H. Wheler is home from
a month s visit with relatives and
friends at Marvel.
B. T. Ingram and wife of Con
wav were here this week the guests
of his sister Mrs. T. J. Breed.
Berkshire pigs for sale. Males
$5.00 each. See A. G. Stephenson
or Frank Knox, Huttig. Ark.
Misses Beulah Johnson and Inez
Hilliard attended the Haag circus
at Farmerville Wednesday night.
If you have any real estate for
sale list same with C. A. Berryf ot
Huttig. who will sell same for you.
A. T. Howry, auditor for the
Wisconsin Lumber company was
a business visitor to Doss, La.,
this week.
Miss Bess Pollard left Monday
morning for Arkadelphia to er.tei
Henderson-Brown college for the
coming term.
W. M. Bowen, roadmaster lo'r
this division of the Iron Mountain
railway has moved his headquarters:
and family to Monroe.
Mesdames J. B. Crockett. W. 7.
King and W. H. Wheler left Thurs
day morning for Midway to atteno
meeting of the Liberty Baptist
Association.
Mrs. F. E. Wood was at Monroe
Thursday to meet her sister Miss
Luta Ballard, of Edwards. Miss.,
who is to be one of the teachers
here this year.
Every child in Huttig should
start to school next Monday morn
ing if able as it will give them an
equal start with the other pupils!
and aid ihe teachers.
An up-to-date school library of
186 volumes was installed this
week at the Harper Springs school
west of town. This will be a great
aid to the pupils of that cistrict.
R. W. Cargill had the misfortune
Thursday of last week to fall when
a wrench slipped in such a manner
as to fracture a rib. He is able to
be at his work again but is still sore.
Services at Union church Sun
day will be as follows: Sundav
school at 10 o'clock a. m.; preach
ing at 1 1 a. m. and at 7:30 p. m.
B. Y. P. U. at 4 o’clock p. m
Everybody is urged to attend any
of these services.
Here are New China's yoting
qualifications: "A man must be
over 21 years old; he must not be
an opium smoker and he must not
have committed any crime. All
these are essentia^. For the rest
to vole a man must be worth $500,
Chinese morrsy, or he must pay a
poll tax of $2 a year, and he must
have been graduated from a
grtmmar school.”
ELBERT BFDE SAYS
You never live with a woman so
long but that once in awhile she
will do something to dispel any
incipient notion you may have had
about understanding her.
The wisei a person is the more
foolish his blunders appear to be.
'
Most mothers hope to bring their
boys up with a few improvements
on the immediately previous gen
erations. bui, before they get done
a lot of these mothers would be
satisfied if the succeeding genera
tion had all the old man's g^od
qualities.
Booze adds to the avoirdupois
and subtracts from the weight of
mir'd.
A girl will let a beau spend most
of his salary on bon bons and ice
cream and then wonder why it
takes him so long to save enon h
to get married.
A person who doesn't learn
something every day is gradually
becoming a back number.
There is no use arguing with the
loud talker. You couldn't convince
him in a thousand years that he -is
wrong and you couldn't learn any
thing from him in twice the same
length of time.
Keep your nose out of other
people's business and let youi
eyes and ears follow your nose
About as soft a job as we can
imagine is that of an innocent’look
ing, sweet-faced sweet-voiced
fern lie book agent calling on the
bachelor trade.
Some folks feel as if they had
riven ten dollars to charity every
time th<=y say someone deserves
sympathy.
When the son of the house puts
0 his H^st clothes after suDper.
polishes up his shoes, spends ten
minutes in an endeavor to make
his hair lay down and leaves the
house wjth a mysterious air and j
flushed cheeks, pater familias has!
1 vision of some young damsel in
the other end of town exhibiting
unusual alacrity in clearing away |
the supper dishes.
You can seldom stretch the]
truth enough to cover a lie.
A girl will trust a young man
with her hear.t before she would
with her jewelry.
Subscribe for The Huttig New.
A Kansas Pity official of the Po
ossal railroad was one of a number
if directors on a recent trip lo the
:>acific coast, an excursion which
•ombilled a little business with much
nnket. They were gone about ten
lays and a fortnight elapsed after
lis return home when he was called
o Ohio to attend the funeral of his
life’s mother, fine of his assoei
ites, who had heard of the hilarity
ndulged in on the western trip, hut
<new nothing of the later journey
0 Ohio, met the official at a club
ifjtcr his return and paused a second |
to greet him.
“Ilowdy, colonel. I guess you had j
1 grand time while you were away, |
lidn’t you?” and lie gave a sagacious
smile to show that he had heard
about it.
The other looked up from his pa
per and grunted “uh-uh” with au ex
pression of vague surprise.
The friend went on to the billiard
room to join some of his intimates,
and in a few minutes the official got
up and followed him.
“Sav.” he said, taking him by the
arm, “what did you mean by asking
me if I didn’t have a grand time
on my trip? Don’t von know I iust
mine back front burying my mother
in-law?”—Kansas Pity Star.
The News for only $1 a year.
HOLTON C? THE NAVY
A STORY OF THE 'j
FREEING OF CUBA
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CHAPTER I.
Hope and Disappointment.
Lieutenant Thomas Holton, com
mander of the Scorpion, made an
though to place the dispatch ip his
pocket, then, taking pity upon his “sec
ond,” who was all eyes, he turned the
paper over to his Junior lieutenant,
known throughout the flotilla as "Bob
by” Frost.
‘‘Y6u will leave Newport News at
ten o’clock tonight with the destroyer
Scorpion and proceed south to the par
nt ship of the First Torpedo Moat Flo
tilla off Key West, prepared for ac
tion.”
This order was warmly welcomed by
Holton and by his second in command
of the grim, lead-colored Scorpion.
"It looks like business, doesn't it?”
ibserved Frost, with tentative inilec
ion in his voice.
“It does, sure,” chuckled Holton.
‘I’m glad we had those baffle-plates
ixed in the boiler. I suppose we
.night as well have the war-heads fixed
in the torpedoes, too. The orders say
prepared for action.’ Attend to it,
will you. Frost?”
“Aye, aye, sir,” and Frost hurried
ilong the grimy, oily deck to the after
■ompanionway.
The somewhat informal nature of
he dialogue between the two will be
orgiven by the fastidious when it Is
ointi d out that for a month th° Scor
tion had been lying at Newport News
in detached duty of a confidential na
ure under direct orders from Wash
ngton, and that Holton’s sole com
panion aboard ship in that time had
oeen his young second. Rut the period
of loneliness was evidently to end in
a burst of glory and Lieutenant Holton
was truly thankful.
In the preceding month the mighty
bf**'e-ship Maine had wallowed down
info the slimy oo/e of i is van a Harbor,
a great hole torn in her forward com
partments. In her lay one of Holton’s
best friends, a shipmate of pleasant
days following graduation at the Nrval
Academy. The cry. Remember the
Maine,” was sounding from Maine
itself ,o California. The entire conn
try was on the qul vive. Osaood. the
hero of many an American football
gridiron, had. as a C nbnn volunteer,
given up his life at the side of a ma
chine gun: Frederick Ftinsfon had
served valiantly against the tyrants of
Castile and Aragon, and other Ameri
cans had given evidence that, the fight
ing spirit was by no means dormant in
the heart of a nation of pigs and
tradesmen.”
With the situation thus there-was
little cause for wonder at Lieutenant
Holton’s emotions of mental exalta
tion. Whatever the future might hold
for Jiim, at least this seemed certain:
iliere would be action, and that is
something for which your true gentle
man of the service Is ever on the
watch
Something of the mood of hip two
voting officers was communicated to
the crew. There were brogj grins on
ell the nen's faces as they hurried
bout the performance of the various
treks, and many of them did not for
bear to turn Inquiring faces toward
their officers whenever occasion offer
ed—which expressions, naturally their
officers ' failed" to see.
At sunset everything was in readi
ness. and with a sigh of relief Holton
stretched himself on the narrow seat
running along the mess-room and lov
ingly fliled his pine. Frost did like
wise and then locked over at his su
perior. >
having the opportunity of putting into
practice all the things we've learned!"
"It won't he had fun at all,” repllen
! loRori.
Frost was about to utter another
thought when the doorway was dark
ened by the Hgure of a messenger.
“A telegram for Lieutenant Hoi
ton." be said, saluting.
Holton took it hastily and run over
the contents. Ills face clouded and
he read it again. A good strong word
was trembling on hie tips, and he was
•bout to crumple the dihpatch in his
hand when his ey» fell on the messen
ger standing at attention
"Oh, thank you," he said; "there is
no answer.”
As the messenger departed Holton
handed the telegram to his second
without a word,
"You will proceed at once to Wash
ington and report to me at the earliest
possible moment. Lieutenant Frost
\' U1 assume command of Scorpion In
your absence. ROOSEVELT."
As Frost read the message aloud his
voice quivered with excitement. “What
does that mean?" he exclaimed.
"Hanged if I know," growled TTolton
"Isn’t that just mv luck! I’ve been
working on this old not trying to get
her into shane and hoping and pray
ing for a chance to make good, and
then when there appears to be seme
thing doing, why I get skinned this
way."
Froat knew exactly how the com
niRuder felt, and h's natural exulta
tion at being placed in command of
the uescroyer was quite swallowed up
in his sympathy for a man who was
his Rood friend as well as his superio'
officer.
Holton sat for a wlfile blowing f>Iue>
"loads of smoke to the ceiling, out
wardly calm, but inwardly seething,
le went over every act In the past,
nonth or so, but could think of noth
ng he had done that would warrant
is recall in disgrace.
‘ Well, nobby," he said at length,
you're a real live captain now. And
congratulate you.’’
' “I feel like a man who Is going to
nut on a pair of hoots that are too big
for him," remarked Frost.
"Oh, nonsense!” smiled Holton.
“You're in every way qualified. I’M
vouch for you, Hobby.”
Frost smiled. .
"Thanks,” he said; "I’d rather have
! I hat from you than from almost any
i one I know.”
"Well,” laughed Holton, "take It
then; it's sincere." He arose and
called to the steward.
"Oh, you. Koko," he said, "come in
tiere and help me pack. I'm going to
leave you for a while."
Dinner that evening was rather a
mournful affair, neither Holton nor
Frost trying to make light of the mys
terious situation.
lie shook hands with Frost a* eight
o'clock and with Koko carrying his
[ hag, started for the station. He had
delayed rather longer than he should
j have done in writing supplementary
I inters to his parentR, and now he
found it was necessary to make haste
i if he was to catch the train for Wash
j ington Eventually, indeed, he and
Koko hail to run. and as he reached
the station the cars were pulling out.
The .Tap threw the bag Into the open
doors of the rear one and Ifotton made
tbe steps with a flying leap As he
did so a man who had been following
the I wo essayed a similar flight, but
his fpet missed the steps and ho clung
to the gilded rail with bis left hand.
As Holton reached down to assist
him tbe man lost his grip and went
i plunging bead over heels into the
j gravel. Evidently bis fall did not in
I jure him. for ns Holton peered back
1 along tbe rails he saw the fellow rise
! slowly and shake bis fist at. tbe de
| parting train.
If li<* had known the circumstances
under wliifli he was to meet this stran
ger at a time not far distant, his(feel
ing of relief when he saw that the
i man was not seriously injured might
have been tincture.d by emotions of
various s*rts.
Having put up at Hip Metropolitan
club, Holton passed such (imp as had
to elupse before the assistant secre
tary would be at b’s d<mk in the Navy
Department building in a fever of lm
patior.ee.
Having at length finished his cigar
and ids morning paper—which bristled
■ ith bellieose matter—Holton put on
, Ms hat and overcoat and sauntered
! -lowly to- ard the Capitol. At ten
■ o’clock he. went over to the Navy De
i 'artmerit and sent his card in to the
j assistant secretary.
Presently his summons came while
yet another man was engaged in the.
inner office. This mail, however,
brushed out past Holton as the young
Mllcer, with mingled emotion, walked
■nto the presence of Secretary Long’s
issistant.
“Good mornin, Mr. TTniton." Per
litil} no evil augury was to be detect
1 in the lieacly cadence of the greet
ng. "Sit down. sir. I'm glad you
vere tjo prompt. That’s what we need
in these days."
“Thank you, sir,” said Holton du
dously.
The assistant secretary observed
>iin keenly for a. moment, and then ap
■arenlly satisfied with his scrutiny, hr
rose and paced up and down the
ictigth of his office.
"By George, Mr. Holton!" he said.
When von realise that war is coming
—coming as sure as guns, and then
■onaider our unprepared ness for it—it
nukes you Rind it’s Spain and not
oneone rise.”
"I think the navy's pretty fit, sir,”
ventured Holton.
“Ah. the navy! And the army!”
"he words came out like bullets. "The
navy is all right, and the army, too,
'.iiat there is of it. The fighting men
f both arms of the service are the
host this world ever saw: getting
things started, that Is the trouble.
.Veil, thank Heaven, Dewey’s- " the
ssistant secretary stopped short, and
■raning hie neck forward, character
: (tally, thrust his snuare jaw close
o the officer’s face. "Wa ve all got to
do the best v.e can and be sure tk*t
when the blow comes it will come
.rom. and not toward, U3.”
Holton ycdd.d slightly.
"I liked your action in diving over
hoard and rescuing two of your men
•st summer," resumed Mr. Roosevelt.
And 1 may say that a study of your
cord has convinced me that just at
osent a little, respite from dutica
board the Scorpion will accrue to our
. dual advantage.”
✓
Tlie assistant secretary paused, and
then as Holton made no reply, he con
tinued:
"We are not yet at war with Spain—
not yet. and in the meantime I think
it will be just ns well for you to re
main in fairly close touch with my of
fice—personal touch. Hy the way, !
there's a ball at the Willard tonight—" !
"A ball!" exclaimed Holton. Then
he caught himself. “Yes, sir," he add
ed.
“Yes, a ball at the Willard. Here is
a card—you’ll note it is a personal in
vitation to you."
Hol*on glanced at it.
"1 see it, sir.” He hesitated “I am
—merely, mere’.y to go there and
dance? I mean—mean, sir, are there
any instructions?"
“I should keep my eyes and ears
open if I were you."
“Yes, sir. I’ll do that, and I hope I’ll
be able to be of some service,” he was
rising to go. "Although—although I'm
afraid I lack—that is, and—" Holton
paused and glanced irresolutely at his
chief,
“That you lack definite information, '
said the assistant sec.etary, who seem
ed to have the faculty of reading his
thoughts and expressing them before
lloiton yfiimself could frame them in
suitable, or, we'll say, diplomatic
terms.
. “Why, yes, sir—I have a feeling that
the situation is indefinite.”
“Y’es. Pit down. Mr. Holton.” Hot 1
ton resumed his chair and his chief
leaned forward, talking rapidly in a
low tone.
"Here is the nub of the situation," ;
lie began. "In the first place we have
reason, excellent reasons, for suspect
ing that there are certain elements
among the Cubans, both in the United
States and in Havana, that are strong
ly inclined *n doubt the good faith of
the United States in this brewing trou- ■
hie with Spain."
Holton, thrilled hy the promise of
revelations which these opening words
convened, thrilled, also, by his indue- !
tion into the inner affairs of the gov
ernment mill, flushed and regarded the |
eyeglasses turned toward him, with |
unblinking eyes, impatient for the next !
wrord.
’ Naturally,” continued Mr. noose- ;
veil,” the Cubans are eager to avail '
themselves of our armed forces afloat
, nd ashore, but after the work is all
■lone they want uk to clear out Which, i
if couse. we shall do. having first es
tablished soiup decent and stable, sys
tem of government down there."
”1 had not. any idea our good faith
was in question," observed Hoiton.
"it is," was the reply, "and it is
taking the form of preparations for an
attack upon our troops by Cuban
iorc.es after w<- have cleaned the Span
iards out of the island.”
"What a chance!” exclaimed Holton,
with patriotic fervor.
The assistant secretary smiled.
"1 myself regard the project as
crack-brained in its conception, but
nevertheless tt exists and must be met.
We must learn their plans at all
hazards, and I can tell you now that
while we have a general Idea as to ‘he
situation, it is little inorp than gen
eral, and details of a specific nature
would be very welcome. I want you
to see what you can do. Your record
Is that of a clear headed ntan of initi
ative and common sense. You speak
Spanish, you are equally at home in
a ballroom or In roughing it. Y'ou're
the man v.e want.”
"Thank you. sir.”
"I have been extremely confidential," j
resumed the assistant secretary, “as
naturally it was necessary I should be.
\ny further information I receive from
the Secret Service will be transmitted
"That Man Espe. ialiy ta Worth
Weighing.
tr> you. and ir turn I shall expect you
to keiji UH ill touch with :r . t e t'8 as
yon develop them Now thru, at the
hall tonight you are to become ac.
nuaintod with the following if you can
locate them.'
lie handed !inl‘on several sheets of
typewritten matter, headed by half
top- pi- >t op - i phs.
‘ That man especially is worth
watcliins." com’»med Hnltna’s chief,
pointing to the portrait of a well-ap
pearing Cuban, apparently about fifty
years old, 'and 'his girl also.”
1 understand " said Holton 1 have
a pood idea of what you want, I >ink.
Vr. Score'ary and I hope I c m't have
to tell you that | shall leave nothing
undone to cany out your wishes."
You don't." was She smiling reply
“It is rather now ground, hut It will
be interesting work, and will give me
a chance t" e-.e action, perhaps, be
fore the ros:. of the crowd.”
The assistant secretary smiled.
"Tninl mt' of the Scorpion, eh." he
laughed. "Well, I”1 wager a new suit
of clothes against an apple that, you'
soon have so much to occupy ' -
t
mind that your destroyer will be
nothing but a hazy memory.”
“I’ll try to make it so. at all events,”
laughed Holton. "Good morning, sir."
"Good morning You may rpport
here until further orders every day
at this hour.”
"Yes. sir." Holton turned and left
the office. •
The assistant secretary wheeled
around in his swivel chair and thought
deeply for a moment. Then he picked
up a pape^r.
“By George!" he murmured, "that
young chap is in for a bully time.”
Meantime Holton walk' d cheerily to
his club, and there met several brother
officers who were keen for billiards.
So the remainder of the day was spent
at this diversion.
He had a table at the Willard for
dinner, whence he intended to pro
tjeed to the dance. He dressed with
great care, and at the last thrust into
bis hip pocket an article not usually
regarded in polite society as a comple
ment of evening attire—a short, thick,
very serviceable-appearing revolver.
CHAPTER II.
The Girl and the Walter.
At seven o'clock, in immaculate eve
ning attire. Holton set out from hts
club and sallied forth to the Willard.
After studying the menu lovingly, and
having devised a dinner suitable to
the palate of one who had followed the
lure of Epicurus in Vienna, Paris, and
T.ondon, he turned from the card and
lighting a cigarette and sipping a cock
tail, he gazed about the room.
At one table he saw the Eren h am
bassador and a company of his flnllie
friends. Near by young Pembroke, of
the British embassy, was dining a girl
Holton had met. To his left sat a
dark skinned. sleek-appearlng man
with close-cropped Vandyke beard, lie
had been pointed out to Holton in
Paris as a man who had plans of Ger
man torts at Kiel for sale. The young
officer wondered what he w’as doing
bpre.
Altogether the atmosphere. Holton
decided, was just as it should be. just
as the capital of a country should act.
when the government stands on the
brink of international war
Holton bad just dispatched b!« -mt
oyster when his attenllon was attract
ed by a musical little laugh to a table
about twenty feet away from him. V
girl, slightly above th" medium height,
with slender resilient figure, was stand
ing with her hark to him. talking to
her escort, a weilbu'ltNman of fifty
o<!d. w ith iron gray hair and beard,
and the dark features of the liatin.
She was a beauty. Holton, connois
seur of femininity though he was, ad
mitted that without hesitation. Her
hair was not the coal Mack hair of her
race, but a. shining, gglden deep
! brown, which lay tipon her head in
j thick, waving convolutions. Her eyes
were blue-gray, set off by long, dark
lashes, and tine brows, which ran with
! delicate arches to the straight, findv
modeled nose. Her lips were colored
by nature, pure coral, and her teeth
flashed as she spoke.
“It's absurd, father, for you to mind.
I can waft here as well as anywhere
else—although f shan’t promise not
to oceupy myself by dining."
The father shrugged.
"Well,” he said at length, “it is
quite necessary, Ranee, and 1 shan’t
be gone long, but if you mind I'll take
you back to the hotel.”
"Not at all, not all," she protested.
“It’s so bright and Interesting here,
and you’ll return soon, anyway. No.
go on, fnther, and I'll eat"—she smiled
radiantly—"very slowly until you re
turn."
H«r cheeks had flushed with ani
mation. and the purity of her coloring,
as well as the whiteness of her skin,
convinced Holton that if her father
were Spanish, or Cuban, or something
Latin, the girl unquestionably was the
daughter of an Anglo-Saxon mother
With a gesture that amounted al
most to carelessness, she had tossed
a gold mesh hand hag on the tahle,
and now as she glanced over the card
it was quite concealed from her view.
Holton returned to his oysters, not,
however, neglecting occasional glances
at the radiant creature who had beep
left, as he inwardly phrased it. high
■and dry by h«r father.
"I should think,” lie murmured, "that
he'd be afr.iid someone would steal
h r 1—I, by George! I'd like to, you
know."
Which thought thrilled him out of
H proportion to the amount of good
sense it contained. It was at about
ibis point, that Holton's gem fell upon
the waiter attending the young woman.
He was one of those interesting p< r
sons to ho seen occasionally in great,
restaurants who seem to he above
their calling. There was a bifid n
something, passing phases of facial ex
pression. h certain movement of the
shoulders, ard above all, a firm footed
hut light tread, all of which seemed to
Holton to indicate a man misp'ared
He felt, certain of tirs a moment
later, when the gi-i again l!ft.od <h»
menu and the waher stepped to the
corner of the thine, upon which ibo
gold bag lay. With a quick slid. I'.In
movement bis hand shot out and seized
the bag. Then, hardly lifting his fin
gers from the table, he snapped his
wrist upward and the hag flew under
the lapel of his jacket, which had been
held open to receive it by the other
hand. Another Instant and l\e was in
front of the girl receiving her order
with the utmost sang frold.
<T0 BE CONTINUED NEXT WE 1K>
No. Six-Sixty-Six
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