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Everybody ha6 a hobby, doing
the right kind of job work is our.
C. E. Thompson and family have
moved to El Dorado.
Coyt Stevenson was down from
Strong Tuesday on business.
C. T. Thompson was a business
visitor to Little Rock this week.
Dr. R. P. Burns transacted bus
iness at the county seat Tuesday.
Agent D. A. Keasler was at
Monroe Tuesday afternoon.
“Apple Man” Duncan reports
himself as feeling "sorter bad' this
week.
J. A. McWilliams of Ei Dorado
was here Monday and Tuesday on
business.
The public schools opened here
last Monday after a three weeks
vacation.
Thornton Andrews and wife left
last Saturday for their home at
Childers, Texas.
C B. Wood arrived home Wed
nesday morning from a business
trip to Monroe.
Miss Fronie Phillips entertained
a large number of her friends at
her home last Saturday night.
W. G. Bridges of Rayville, La.,
was here the first of the week vis
iting his brother. J. C., and family
S. Phillips and mother, who have
been visiting at Hampton for son e
time, arrived home last Saturday.
Mrs. M. G Lewis has returned
to her home at Lewisville after a
week’s visit with he. neice. Mrs. C.
T. Thompson.
Rev. J. R. Rushing and son, Dr.
H. C , were at Chidester several
days this week visiting re'atives
and hunting birds.
F. E. Storton, auditor for the
Wisconsin Lumber Co . is horn*
from Memphis where he went to
have his eyes treated.
Mrr. C. B. Porter was called to
Tuscumbia, Ala.. Monday by a
telegram announcing the serious
of illness her mother.
Miss Bet Collett, the popular
postal clerk, was confined to her
home several days this week on ac
count of an attack of la grippe.
' Gordon, a son of W. T. Sehon of
Sadie, La., who has been Jiving at
Bukhoma. Okla.. arrived home Sat
urday and will remain at Sadie.
George McGinty of Deering.
Mo., was here the first of the week
visiting friends. He is working for
the Wisconsin Lumber Co. there.
Whitfield Howard, a former resi
dent of Huttig who is now located
at Fort Worth, Texas, was here
this week visiting his brothers.
Clyde and Earl.
A new locomotive No. 15 of the
same make as the No. 14, was re
ceived by the Union Saw Mill Co.
Monday from the Baldwin Loco
motive works at Philadelphia.
Gov. Geo. W. Donagtey on
Tuesday pardoned W. H. Ray of
Union county, fined $28 on a
charge of emblezzlement. The
pardon was granted at the request
of many reputable citizens of the
county. _
Grahame White, the English avi
ator, is actively planing to attempt
the crossing of the Atlantic from
Ireland to New York next spring.
The designs for his giant aeroplane
call for four engines of 250 horse
power each and accomodations for
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six persons. As the speed would
be about 100 miles an hour it is
thought that the crossing could be
made in 30 hours. However it
will cost $ 100,000 to finance the
trip, and that sum doesn’t grow ot
every bush.
(low f oolish
To suffer from Skin Diseases
[itch. Eczema. Ringworm, etc J
V/hen one 50c pox of 'Hunt Cure"
is passively guaranteed to cure or
your money promptly refunded.;
Every retail druggist in the state
stands behind this guarantee. Ask
your druggist and see the guaran
tee with each box. You don’t risk
anything in giving it a trial. adv
Taken Up—1 have taken up a
large red sow. marked under cron
in each ear. which take nearly all
the end of ears. Owner can have
same by paying for this ad and pay- i
; ing for chickens killed by hog.
adv-4t Mrs. R. L. Townsend.
Mahony &, Mahony, attorney
representing Elmyry Beck as ad
ministratrix of the estate of W I!
Beck, deceased, have filed suit
in the Union Circuit Court
against the St. Louis, Iron Moun
tain and Souteern railway for
$30,000 damages, alleging that
deceased was killed in the town of
Huttig on November 26 of last
year, while attempting to cross the
track of the defendant company.
Pnuemonia and Pleurisy.
For over thirty years Hunt’s
i Lightning Oil has been acknowl
edged to be a very quick relief when
rubbed well on the chest. Mary
hundred letters testifv to the bene
fit it has given others. Why not
try it? All druggists, 25c arid 50c
bottles._adv
Besides the salary and allow
ances the president receives, con
gress appropriates each year a
liberal sum for the upkeep of the
White House and grounds. The
estimate included in the approp-ia
tion bill this year in $75,000. This
is larger than usual, for the reasen
that at the end of each administra
tion the custom is to allow an extra
amount to cover special repairt
and changes made in preparation
for the incoming new president and
his family.
Subscribe for The Huttig New
Tax Citllet tor’s Dates.
Ex-officio Tax Collector J. M.
Wallace will be at the following
places in Lapile township on the
dates named for the purpose of col
lecting taxes for 1912 and all
should meet him on those dates
and pay up:
Strong, Monday and Tuesday,
January 27 and 28.
Laoile, Wednesday January 29.
Felsenthal, Thursday, Jan. 30.
Huttig. Friday and Saturday, Jan
uary 31 and February 1.
The Womans’ Home Mission So
ciety met at the church .Monday
afternoon with nine members pres
ent and Mrs. John Perritt as a vis
itor who gave her membership.
Meeting opened by vice president,
Mrs. Buchanan, reading the 4th
chapter of Philippians; prayir by
Mrs. J. R. Rushing. Each mem
ber present had very interesting
reading. Mrs. H. C. Rushing read
a letter and a very interesting
paper. “His Name.” written by
Mrs. Cargill to the Home Mission
society. We miss her at our meet
ings but know that she is praying
for the good of the society.
How’s This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Re
ward for any case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh
Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toled >, O.
I We. the undersigned, have Known 1’. J.
Cheney for the laut 15 years, nnd believe
him perfectly lionorablo in all business
transactions and financially al l • to carry
out any obligations made by 1 is firm.
, NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE.
Toledo, O.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is tah.cn internally,
acting directly upon tho Mood and mu
cous surfaces of the system. Testimonials
sent free. Price 75 cents p r bottle. Sold
bv all Druggists.
Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
f>y ANNA KATHARINE GREEN '
„ AUTHOR OF “THE LEAVENWORTH CASE”
THE FILIGKEE RAIL" TEE HOUSE Of THEWHtfPERMG PINES*’
ILLUSTRATIONS BY
CHAKLES W ROSSEP
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CHAPTER I—George Andpr^on and
Wife see n remarkable man come nut of
ttse Clermont hotel, look around furtively
wash hie hands In the snow and pass on
Commotion attracts them to the Clermont
where it Is found that the beautiful Mine
Edith Challoner has fallen dead on the
mezzanine floor.
CHARTER IT—Anderson describes the
man he saw wash his hands in the snow
Toe hotel manager declares him to be
f hlilir1' Rrotherson.
CHARTER Tit "Physicians And that
A!jss Cl-'t I lone i was stabbed and not shot
"bill sums to clear Rrotherson of sus
ph on.
CHARTER TV—Grvee an aged detec
tive. and Swc ‘water his assistant, lake
up the case. Thev believe Miss Challoner
Stabbed hr
• ~*T—A paper cutter found
near the scene of tragedy js believed to
be the weapon used.
CHAPTER VI Mr Challoner tells of a
batch of letters found tn his daughter's
desk, signed with initials strange to him
All are love letters except one which
shows that the writer was displeased
CHAPTER V11 Tliis litter was -tgned
bv Orlando Rrotherson. The others bore
, dials which lead tn the conclusion that
Rrotherson wrote all of them
CH \PTER VTII—Anderson goes with
Sweetwater to identify Rrotherson. who
is to address a meeting of anarchists
The place is raided bv the police and
Rrotherson escipis without being Identi
fled.
"Very nea> the time. 1 remember
hearing some disturbance in the lobby
behind me. just, as I was passing auf
at the Broadway entrance.’’
"You did. and did not return?”
"Why should I return ? I am not a
man of much curiosity. There was no
reason why [ should connect a sudden
alarm in the lobby of the Clermont
with any cause of special interest to
myself.”
This was so true and the look whleh
accompanied the words was so frank
that the coroner hesitated a moment
before he said:
"Certainly not, unless—well, to be
direct, unless you had just seen .Miss
Challoner and knew her state of mind
and what was likely to follow youi
abrupt departure.”
"1 had no interview with Miss Chal
loner.”
"But you saw her? Saw her that
evening and just, before the accident?"
Sweetwater's papers rattled; it was
the only sound to be heard in that
moment of silence. Then—
“What do you mean by those
words?” inquired Mr. Brotherson, with
Etudied composure. “I have said that
I had no interview with Miss Challon
er. Why do you ask me then, if I saw
her?”
“Because I believe that you did.
From a distance possibly, but yet di
rectly and with no possibility of mis
take.”
"Do you put. that as a question?"
“I do. Did you see her figure or
face that night?”
"I did.”
Nothing—not even the rattling of
Sweetwater's papers—disturbed the
silence which followed this admission.
“From where?” Doctor Heath asked
at last.
“From a point far enough away to
make any communication between us
impossible. 1 do not think you will
require me to recall the exact spot.” ■
“If it were one which made it pos
sible for her to see you as clearly as
you could see her, I think it would be
very advisable for you to say so.”
"It was—such—a spot.”
“Then I think I can locate it for
you, or do you prefer to locate it your
self?”
“1 will locate it myself. I had hoper
not to be called upon to mention
what I cannot but consider a most
unfortunate coincidence. I met Miss
Ohalloner’s eye for one instant from
the top of the little staircase running
up to the mezzanine. I had yielded
thus far to an impulse I had frequent
ly combatted, to seek by another in
terview to retrieve the bail effect
which must have been made upon her
by my angry note. I knew that she
frequently wrote letters in the mez
zanine at this hour, and got as far as
the top of the staircase in my effort
to join her. But I got no further.
When I saw her on her feet, with her
face turned my way, 1 remembered
the scorn with which she had re
ceived my former heartfelt proposals
and, without taking another step for
ward, I turned away from tier and fled
down the steps and so out of the build
ing by the main entrance. She saw
me, for her hand flew up with a
startled gesture, but 1 cannot think
that my presence on the same floor
with her could have caused her to
strike the blow which terminated her
life. Why should I? No woman sao
rifices her life out of mere regret for
the disdain she has shown a man she
has taken no pains to understand.”
“Vou saw Miss Challoner li't h> r
hand, you say. Which hand, and what
was in it? Anything?”
“She lifted her Tight hand, but it
would be impossible for me to tell you
whether there was anything in it or
not. I simply saw the movement be
fore I turned away. It looked like one
of alarm to me. I felt that she had
some reason for this. She could not
know that it was in repentance I cann
rather than in fulfilment of my
j mreai.
A sigh from the af" ’-ling room. Mr.
| Brotherson rose, as he i . rd it, and in j
j doing so met the clear t e of Sweet
I water fixed upon his own. 1 ■ lan :
; guage was, no doubt, peculiar and it i
! seemed to fascinate him for a mo
! merit, for he started as if to approach
'he detective, but forsook this inten
i ion almost immediately, and address
ng the coroner, gravely remarked:
“Her death following so quickly u;
! m this abortive attempt of mine at an
1 nterview startled me by its coinc:
| 'ence as much as it does you. If U.
j tie weakness of her woman’s nature
was more than this—if the scorr
j he had previously shown me was a
.oak she instinctively assumed to
ide what she was not ready to dis- |
lose, my remorse will be as great as
ny one here could wish. Rut the
iroof of ail this will have to be very
onvincing before rnv present convic- i
tons will vicld to It. Some other and
nore poignant source will have to u.
ound for that instant's impulsive ac
ban is supplied by this story of m;
unfortunate attachment."
Doctor Heath was convinced, but hf j
was willing to concede something t<
the secret demand made upon him bv I
Sweetwater, who w s bundling up hh i
papers with much clatter.
Looking tip with a smile which had j
elements in it he was hardly conscious I
of perhaps himself, he asked in an off
hand way:
"Then why did you take such pains
to wasli your hands of the affair the
moment you had left Hie hotel?”
"I do not understand.’
“You passed around the corner into
■- street, did you not?"
"Very likely. I could go that way
as well as another "
"And stopped at the first lamp
post ?”
"Oh, I see. Some one saw that child
ish action of mine."
“What did you mean by it?”
".Tust. what you have suggested. I
did go through the pantomime of
washing my hands of an affair 1 eon
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Mr. Brotherson Rose as He Heard It. !
sidered definteiv ended. I had resist
< d an irrepressible impulse to see and
talk with Miss Challoner again, and
was pleased with my firmness. Vn
aware of the tragic blow which had
just fallen, I was full of self-congratu
lations at my escape from tlm charm
which had lured me back lo this ho
tel again and again in spite of my bet
ter judgnu lit, and I wished to symbol
ize my relief by an act of which 1
was, in another moment, ashamed
Strange that there should have tv ■ i
witness to it. (Here he stole a loot
at Sweetwater.) Stranger still, th::
circumstances, by tbV most extraordi
nary of coincidence:*, should have giv
en so unforeseen a point to it.”
‘ You are right, Mr. Rrotherson. Th*
whole occurrence is startling ami
most strange. But life is made up ot
the unexpectod, as none know hi tter
than we physicians, whether our prac
tice be of a public or private char
acler.”
As Mr. Ilrotherson left the room,
the curiosity to which Ik* had yielded
once before, led him to cast a glaum
of penetrating inquiry behind him full
at Sweetwater, and if either felt em
barrassment, it w as not tlie hunted ;
but tlie hunter.
Hut the feeling did not last.
“I've simply met the strongest men
I've ever encounter* d," was Sweet .1
tor’s encouraging comment to : m s If.
“All tile more glory if 1 can tin*' a
joint in his armor or a hidden pass
age to his cold, secretive heart.”
CHAPTER XI.
Alike in Essentials.
“Mr. Gryce, ! am either a fool or
the luckiest, fellow going. You must
decide which.”
A grunt from the region of the li
brary table, then the sarcastic re
mark:
"I'm just in the mood to settle that
quosGoh. This 'Tasl TuBure to my aC
count ought to makp me an excellent i
Judge of another's folly. I’ve med-!
died with the old business for the last:
time, Sweetwater. You'll have to go j
it alone from now on. But what’s the
matter with you? Speak out, my boy.
Something new in the wind?”
“No, Mr. Grvce; nothing new. You’re
rot satisfied with the coroner’s ver
dict in the Ghalloner case?”
"No. I'm satisfied with nothing that
leaves all ends dangling. Suicide was
not proved. There was no blood-stain
on that cutter point.”
“Nor any evidence that it had ever
been there.”
. “No. I’m not^ proud of the chain
which lacks a link where it should be
strongest.”
“That chain we must throw away.”
“And forge another?”
Sweetwater approached and sat
down.
“Yes; I belipve we can do it; yet
I have only one indisputable fact for
a starter. Mr. Gryce, I don’t trust
Brotherson. Though he should tell a
story ten times more plausible than
the one with which he has satisfied
the coroner's jury, I would still listen
to him with more misgiving than con
fidence. Perhaps it is simply a deeply
rooted antipathy on 'my part, or the
rage one feele at finding he has placed
his finger on the wrong man. Again
it may be—”
“What, Sweetwater?”
“A well-founded distrust. Mr. Gryce,
I’m going to ask you a question.”
“Ask away. Ask fifty if you want
to.”
“Did you ever hear of a case before,
that in sonuAof its details was similar
to this?”
"No, it stands alone. That’s why it
's so puzzling.”
“You forget. The wealth, beauty
*nd social consequeuce of tile p.es.
victim has blinded you to the strong
resemblance which her case bears to
nnb you know, in which the suffere:
had none of the worldly advantages of
Miss Ghalloner. I allude to- -"
"Wait! The washerwoman in Hicks
street!”
“The same. Mr. Gryce, there's a
stariling similarity in the two cases
If you study the essential features
only. Startling, I assure you."
“Yes, you are right there. But what
if there is? We were no more sue- |
cessful in solving that case than we j
have been in solving this. Yet you I
look and act like a hound which has
struck a hot scent."
The young man smoothed his fea
tures with an embarrassed laugh.
“I shall never learn," said he, “not 1
to give tongue till the hunt is fairly
started, if you will excuse me, we ll
first make sure of the similarity I j
have mentioned. Then I’ll explain my- j
self. 1 have some notes here, made at
the time it was decided to drop the
Hicks street case as a wholly inexplic
able one. Shall I read them?”
“Fire away, my boy, though I hardly
| see your purpose or what real bearing
the affair in Hicks street has upon
the Clermont one. A poor washer
woman and the wealthy Miss Chalion- |
er! True, they were not unlike in
their end.”
"The connection will come later," ;
smiled the young d >tective, with that
strange softening of his features
which made one at times forget his j
extreme plainness.
And he read:
"'On Hip afternoon of December 4.!
1910, the strong and persistent scream- i
icg of a young child in one of the
rooms of a rear tenement in Hicks
street, Hrooklyn, drew the attention
of some of the inmates and led them,
after several ineffectual efforts to
gain an entrance, to the breaking In
ot a door which had been fastened on
the inside by an old-fashioned door
button.
" "I be tenant, whom all knew for an
honest, hard-working woman, had not
infrequently fastened her door in this
manner, In order to safeguard her
child who was abnormally active and
had a way of rattling the door open!
when it was not thus secured. But !
she had never reftised to open before,
and the child's cries were pitiful.
‘"This was no longer a matter of
won/ler, when, the door having Ig^en
wrenched from its hinges, they all
rushed in. Across a tub of steaming
clothes lifted upon a bench in the
open window, they saw the body of
this good woman, lying inert mad
seemingly dead: the frightened child
tugging at her skirts. She was of a
robust make, fleshy and fair, and liad
always been considered a model ol
health and energy, but at the sight
of lmr helpless figure, thus stricken
while at work, the one cry was 'A
stroke! till she had been lifted otf! j
and laid upon the floor. Then sons
discoloiat on in the water at the hot
r°na of the tub led to a closer exaanln-j
ation ol her body, and the discovery |
of a bullet-hole in her breast diiectly
over the heart.
‘‘‘As she had been standing with!
face towards the window, all crowded |
that way to see where the shot had;
come from. As they were on tin
fourth story it could not have conn !
I’om the court upon which the room
’ >ok (i. it could only have come from j
Hie front tenement, towering up be '
fore them some twenty feet away. A
ingle window of the innumerable ores
confronting them stood open, and this
was the one directly opposite.
Mo body w. s to he seen there or j
iri the room b’yond. but during the ex
citement, on" man ran off to call the!
■ ollee and anothr r to hunt up the jani
>r and ask who occupied this room.
‘“Mis reply threw them all into con
:si"n. 'I he tenant of that room was,1
:e best, the quietest and most re-!1
npectable man in either building.
Then lie must be simply carelcp0 i
: nd the shot an accidental one. A
rush was made for the stairs apt]
soon the whole building was in an up=
roar, But when this especial room was
reached. It was found locked and on
the door a paper pinned up, on which
these words were written: Gone to
Xew York. Will be back at 6:30!
V, ords that recalled a circumstance to
the janitor. He had seen the gentle
man go out an hour before. This ter
minated ail inquiry In this direction,
though some few of the excited throng
were for battering down this door just
as they had the other one. But they
were overruled by the Janitor, who
saw no use in such wholesale destruc
tion, and presently the arrival of the
police restored order and limited the
inquiry to the rear building, where it
undoubtedly belonged.’
“Mr. Gryce,” (here Sweetwater laid
by his notes that he might address the
old gentleman more directly), "1 was
with the boys when they made their
first official investigation. This la
why you can rely upon the facts as
here given. 1 followed the investiga
tion closely and missed nothing which
could in any way throw light on the
case. It was a mysterious one from
the first, and lost nothing by further
inquiry into the details.
“The first fact to startle us as we
made our way up through the crowd
which blocked halls and staircases
was this: A doctor had been found
and. though he had been forbidden to
make more than a cursory examina
tion of the body till the coroner came,
he had not hesitated to declare after
his first look, that the wound had not
been made by a bullet but by some
sharp and slender weapon thrust
home by a powerful hand. (You mark
that, Mr. Gryce.) As this seemed im
possible in face of the fact that the
door had been found buttoned on the
inside, we did not give much credit to
his opinion and began our work under
the obvious theory of an accidental
discharge of some gun from one of the
windows across the court. But the
doctor was nearer right than we sup
posed. When tile coroner came to
look into the matter, he discovered
that the wound was not only too sm all
to have been made by the ordinary
bullet, but that (lure was no bullet to
lie found in the woman's bodv or any
where else. Her heart had been
reached by a thrust and not by a shot,
from a gun. Mr. Gryce, ham you
not heard a startling repetition of
this report in a case nearer at hand?
“Up three flights from the court,
with no communication with the ad
joining rooms save through a door
guarded on both sides by heavy pieces
of furniture no one person could han
dle, the hail door buttoned on the in
side, and the fire escape some fifteen
feet to the left, this room of death ap
peared to be as removed from the ap
proach of a murderous ouisider as the
spot in the writing-room of the Cler
mont where Miss Challoner fell.
dinerwise, uie place presfui-cu icj
greatest contrast possible to thv.t
scene of splendor and comfort. I b. I
not ente red tlie Clermont at that lim ■.
and no such comparison could hni
struck my mind. But I have thought
of it since, and you. with your experi
j ence, will not find it difficult to pic
ture the room where this poor wom
an lived and worked. Bare walls, with
just a newspaper illustration pinn< 1
up horp and there, a bed—tragical'.'
occupied at this moment—a kitchen
stove, on which a boiler, half tilled
with steaming clothes still huhldf d
and foamed- an old bureau a lsiri *.
pine wardrobe against an inner door
which we later found to have been
locked for months, anti the key lost
some chairs—and most pronounced of
all, because of its position directly b<>
fore the window, a pine bench support
ing a wash-tub of the old sort.
“As It was hero the woman fell, this
tub naturally received the closest ex
amination. A board .projected from
its further side, whither it had evi
dently been pushed by the weight of
her falling body; and from its top
hung a wet cloth, marking with its
lugubrious drip on the boards be
neath the first heavy moments of si
lence which is the natural accompani
ment of so serious a survey. On the
floor to the right lay a half-used cake
of soap just as it had slipped from her
hand. 'Vhe window was closed, for the
temperature was at the freezing point,
but it had been found up. and it was
put up now to show the height at.
which it had then stood. As we all
took our look at the house wall oppo
site, a sound of shouting camo tip
from below. A dozen children were
sliding on barrel staves down a slope
of heaped-up snow. They had been
engaged in this sport all the afternoon
and were our witnesses later that no
one lmd made a hazardous escape by
means of the ladder of the tire escape,
running, as 1 have said, at an almost
unattainable distance towards the left.
To ti.--i-.uNiinul:d Next Week.)
Each year just before Christmas
for 53 years the postal authorities
hav° sold “uesight and unseen"
the packages of articles wh ch
have accumulated at the dead
letter office and cannot be deliv
ered. The sale amounts to a lot
tery and as such it is forbidden by
lav/s. Each year for years the
Pathfinder has condomned the
practice, and this year the post
master general called it off. after
it was all ready. The Washington
merchants objected that the sale
hurt business, Last year the sale
of 8.000 packages brought in $ I 1
262. This year there is i bin d a
mor-.d in the lot. v'orth probably
$300. found loose in a mail bag.
Did you loose it? Pathfinder.