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Rub-My-Tism will cure you.
Arthur Carter who lives west of
town is quite sick with fever.
Eorn to Mr. and Mrs. G. W.How
ell a sweet little girl on last Mon
day. __
C T. Thompson is home from a
two week's vacation spent in the
Ozjrks.
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T. L. Holloway of Marion. La .
was a business visitor in HutUg
Tuesday.
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Mrs. A- J. Russell and children
of Camp No. 2 are visiting friends
in Camden.
Charley Woolley left Sundav
morning for Atlanta, La., where he
has a position.
T. P. Milstead and family have
excharge houses with W. G.
Thompson and family.
Henry Lee. who is now located
at McGehee, was here Tuesday
visiting old friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bird are tin
happy parents of a fine boy born
to them Thursday of last week.
Pat Pitt was called to Orange.
Texas, last Saturday on account
of the serious illness of his father.
Rub My-Tism will cure you.
Mrs. J. J. Henderson and chil
dremhave gone to Orange. Texas,
to join her husband wno located
the -e.
Mrs. W. G. Thompson and
daughters arrived home Sundav
from a visit with friends and rela
tives at Wesson.
Mrs. C. S. Watkins arrived honv
"**’ visit
at HaTe. "Mo., and her
bi other in Colorado.
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parents
G. C. Pyle, foreman at Camp
No 2, was called to Hot Springs
Saturday on account of the illness
of his son who is there.
5 or 6 doses 666 will break any
case of Chills and Fever; and if
taken then as a tonic the Fevei
will not return. Price 25c.
M L. and A. P. Phillips and fam
ilies attended the Woodmen of the
World dinner and visited relatives
at Oakland, L.a.. last Saturday.
"What does your father do?'
asked a man of a small boy th*
other day. "What ever mother
says," was the immediate answer.
Congress has passed a new law
reducing the term required foi
settlers on government lands to
secure title from five to three
years.
The Misses Simonton of Ruston
and Miss Simmons of Dallas. Tex
as, who have been the guests of
Mrs. D. A. Keasler, have returned
to their homes.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Loyd are re
joicing over the arrival of a fine
little girl af their home Tuesday,
which accounts for Joe wearing
such a smile these days.
Mrs. R. T. Carter and daughter.
Miss F.dith. of New London and
Mrs. J T. Fike and son of Hamp
ton were the guests of Mrs. C. A.
Berry the latter part of last week.
Mrs. James Russell and children
left for their home at Rochelle.La..
Thursday after a visit here with
her parents. Mr." and Mrs. L. G.
Gibson. Her brother, George Gib
son, accompanied them.
Mrs. T. E. Carpenter of Mist and
Miss Mable Moseley of Hamburg
were here the first of week visiting
their nephew which ailived at the
home n Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Williams Monday.
G. E. Mike), the Socialist candi
date for governor, was at Strong
last Thursday night, but as he
could find only one Socialist and he
lived in the country and had to go
| home, he did not SDeak as he in
' tended to.
Percy Pryor. Grant Sehon anc
I Harris Perntt left Monday morn
! mg for Alabama Landing where
they met a crowd fiom S >earsville
! La., and all spent a few days fish
mg. __
A letter received Tuesday frorr
-he pencil pusher for this orgar
tated that he was spending th;
day at Excelsior Springs, Mo., anc
intimated that he would take a
bath while there. Hard to believe,
ain't it?
We were shown a spider wee
Monday morning in the yard of M
Bradshaw in which the spider had
hoven the name of Woodrow Wil
on. the next president of the
United States, very near as plain
is anyone could write it.
The first bale of Union county
cotton of this season was marketec
it El Dorado last Thursday by J.
M. Whately and auction off on th>
public square by Judge E. O. Ma
hony. going to Hendrix, Alphin &
So., at 17c a pound. The bale
weighed 505 pounds.
The editor and wife left last
Saturday morning for Nebraska
City. Nebr.. to visit with his fatter
and sister for a couple of weeks
md boost Union county and Ar
kansas in that part of the country.
He carried along the 500 folders
left out of the 24.000 printed last
fall for the Arkansas on Wheels?
train. ____
Starch has been held recently by
an English scientist to be a poison,
io far as using it in an infant's foot'
;s concerned. A druggist war
fined for selling a so-called infant'?
food which was over 70 per cent
■tarch. The maker's theory wa:
that the starch would be converted
into sugar by the addition of ho
water but this could not be de
pended on. Xny prepared infant'r
food, the court held, should con
tain little if any raw starch.
Tons of Confederate money has
been kept stored in the treasury at
Washington for half a century.
Now it is being gotten rid of. by
distributing it to colleges, libraries
and other public institutions. The
larger institutions are being served
first and sets of the bill will be giv
en out free as long as they last.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Towns, who
reside about three miles west of
Huttig. were called upon to ex
perience the greatest grief that can
come to parents, when Mavis, their
sweet little 3-year-old daughter,
: was called to the arms of Jesus at
13 o'clock Saturday afternoon.
August 24. 1912. They have our
deepest sympathy in their bereave
ment and we can point them to
God. who alone can furnish balm,
for their bleeding hearts in trials
like this. _
Dr Gaston Odin, a Paris physi
cian who has been studying cancer
for many years, claims that he has
now isolated the germ which
causes it and also has produced a
serum which will at least prove be
yond a doubt whether the cancer
microbe is present in the patient's
blood and will in many cases pro
duce a cure. All such rlaims of
course must be varified before
they can be accepted as final.
You will find on sale at the
Union Saw Mill company store,
the Union hole! and Bell's cream
parlor four different loc; 1 post card
views in colors. If these sell well
the publisher expects to add sev
eral other views to the list. They
will be sold at two for five cents.
Yellow
Ldter
MDiain
Johnston
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fHAPTER I—Harding K°nt calls on
I.ouise Farrish to propose marriage ami
fintls the house in great excitement over
'he attempted sulelde of her sister Katie
urine. Kent starts itn Investigation and
finds that Hugh Crandall, suitor for
Katharine, who had been forbidden the
muse by General Parrish, had talked with
Katharine over the telephone just before
■lie shot herself. A torn pleee of yellow
pa pet is found, at sight of whhdi Gen
eral Farrish is stricken with paralysis.
GITA PTKR ft Kent discovers that
’randeil lias left town hurriedly. An
•*re\v Kiser, an aged hanker, commits
tuieide about the same time as Katharine
attempted her life.
GTTAPTFR TTT—A yellow envelope is
huind in Kiser's room. Postoffice inspec
<ir Davis, Kent’s friend, takes up the
ease.
GTTAPTKR IV—Kent is convinced that
Crandall Is at the bottom of the mystery.
GTf \PTKR V—Kent md Davis search
"randall’s room and find an address,
'T.ock Box 17. Ardway, N. J.” Kent
roes to Ardway to investigate and be
comes suspicious of a "Henry Cook.”
“Which direction did he go?” I
rled, all excitement at the thought
hat Crandall was escaping just at the
ery moment when I, for the first
ime, had made sure of his identity.
"He must be followed and found at
nee,” l said, turning to the landlord.
Don't his actions look to you like
hose of a guilty man? The minute he
iears me ask about a yellow letter he
iisappears from the hotel. There is
o train by which he can escape. So
iesperate Is he that he hires a horse
nd tries to get away cross country.”
I had honed by my eagerness to
llr In the landlord something of my
•■ n feeling in regard to Crandall's
uilt, but these country yokels are
mrd to move.
“What do von suspect him of?" he
nquired calmly. "Why should he
ant to escape from you? Have you
ot a warrant for him?"
I was not yet ready to divulge mv
cason for wanting (’randall captured,
iven if we had him. what definite
rime was there of which 1 could ar
ise him? I was morally certain that,
ite yellow letter or letters emanated
:om him. yet how could I prove it? A
ew thought came to me.
“Where is his baggage?” I asked.
“He only had a hand satchel with
!tn,” said Mr. Williams, “and I guess
hat is up In his room.”
"Suppose we go look for It,” I sug
ested.
“You don’t do no such thing ns that
u my hotel,” said the landlord de
isively, "not unless you've got a war
ant. He's paid for his room for a
ock in advance, and there ain't no
,w to prevent his going and coming
"The Postmaster’s Disappeared,"
Some One Explained.
| as ho pleases, so long as there ain't
| no warrant out for him. If he wants |
to get out of town behind the fastest i
horses In Jones’ stable I ain't a-going
to try to stop him, and what’s more, if
he has left his grip In his room it is
going to stay there. Maybe or maybe
not there are things in it, but there
ain’t no prying stranger going to know
what’s there unless he can show me
due warrant of law.”
“You may he defeating the ends of
I justice,” 1 warned him sternly, indig
| nantly resenting his remark, yet see
; ing no way in which 1 could success
fully dodge his appellation of “prying
! stranger” without revealing my whole
hand, and this I wras determined not to
,lo until Davis arrived and I had had
an opportunity to consult with him.
“1 may be blocking your plans,” said
:he landlord gruffly, “but you’ll get no
more help out of me unless I know
what it is you are after. The right
Wind of a mystery doesn’t hurt the ho
d business, but there’s things that j
:o, and if you want any help from me,
oung man, I’ve got to know what’s
;oing on.”
“I wish I knew myself,” J said mcn
I
(ally, adding aloud • "When 1 am
ready to speak you w ’l hear many
things that will astound > ><■■■■ Mean
while. I tell you that I have ev' • • . *-a
son to believe that that man who fled
from here is a great criminal and that
If you do not aid In his apprehension
you will he doing a serious wrong to
the community. Ill tell you this
much. I am convinced that he war re
sponsible for this woman's death and
for other deaths.”
"Maybe he is and maybe lie ain't,"
said the landlord. "I saw the lad;
myself, and nobody can persuade me
it was anything but a suicide. Why, I
cut her down!”
“I am not denying that she commit
ed suicide,” I replied with seme as
perity, "but I am morally certain that
!f she killed herself she was driven to
it by the man who has just fled. 1
insist on being allowed to examine his !
baggage.”
“Look here, young mr.n.” ea'd Mr j
Williams, "I have told yon once ami
f r all that the baggage of no guest ii
• his house is going to be examiner
v, i hout due process of law. And
want to say rght here that it's ovidet
that you yourself know a lot mor<
• bout this case than you are tellitie
if you are ?n officer and cat) show no
a warrant 1 am ready to give you a1
ie aid and assis nee I can, bul unD
"ou do. I'd advise yem to keep you
’’ose out of things that ain't i-our but
ess and to stay out of places yen
■ in’t got a right to be in."
The suspicion crossed my mind thn
it might he he who l ad discovered nv
in the post office the ni::lit before. I
molded quickly that it ('-old not hav<
•eon, for he •> as in the hole) when 1
rrived, I felt sure it must have hem
iiher Crandall or the postmaster
i'lainlv, though, there was nothing
nrther to he gained by argument wltl
he obtuse Mr. Williams. After alt
Imre ought not to bo much difficult
n tracing Crandall by the vehicle i.
hi' 1) he had driven away That row!*
ait until Davis arrived. Meanwhile (
■ondered on what 1 could do to throw
ght on the case. 1 had it. 1 wouli
'«it the post office Brain and see wha
could learn about the heider of thv
ock box from which Davis believer
he yellow letters came.
Abruptly leaving the landlord, 1
trolled out mto the street, determined
o go boldly to the post office and
• ake imniiries. As I approached tin
mliding I saw- a little group of vil
tgers gathered in front of it. the
•ices of some of whom I had noted at
he inquest. They seemed to he ex
iiediy discussing some happening. )(
as i!<’t without some trepidation that
came closer. If my visit to the post
■trice had been discovered and there
as anyone in the crowd who could
deufify jue, an awkward situation
uilght develop. 1 put on a bold front,
however, and approached closer.
•"What's (he matter?" I asked, try
:ng to make my inquiry seem casual.
"The postmaster’s disappeared,’
some one explained.
“Where?”
Don’t know, said mv Informant
"He didn’t come to the oftioe at all to
lay. When the people come for their
■ nail after the New York train got ip
he wasn’t here Hank Rollins alwavt
’'rings it up on the stage, and as he’;
passing, throws it off on the boarc
walk and tiie postmaster comes on
and gets It. Nobody ever goes fm
heir mail for a few minutes aflci
hat, to give him a chance to get it
orted. The first persons who sot her*
’oday found the mail-sack lying just
where the driver had Hone it.”
“Yes, sir.” broke in an old mar
whom I board them rail “Dad” Hutch
tnson. “Yes, sir, I was the first to no
(See it. 1 was going to the office t<
see if maybe there was a letter for m
rom my daughter Mary, who lives up
ooston way. and I noticed the sack
lying right over there. 1 went into
the nfTice to tell the postmaster about
\t and kind of have a little fun with,
him. and hless my soul if there was
hide or hair of h;m to he seen any
'here. Looking through the boxes, I
ould see that the back door was
standing open, and I went around
’lo re and looked, and I couldn’t seo
rnything of him, ei’her. ft didn’t seem
right for the n nil to he lying out there
"ii the sidewalk, ’(was like taking un
due liberty with government propert"
-o I dragged the sR"k around and flung
it in the door and went looking for th<
constable. Then 1 heard about the sui
vide and the Inquest down to the hotel
;o I went down there to fetch bin
and all the crowd that had been dow:
to the inquest come trailing along.”
“I noticed when l come along her
hist night that the post oflW vv:.
dark,” volunteered another of th
crowd. “I don't know jus? what tint- i
it was, but it was Just before it begs i
to rain. I remember, now, thinking*;
kind of funny the off) o was shut tr j
so early, but. I didn’t stop to invest
gate. I'll bet he wasn’t here last nigh
either.”
“It's burglars, that’s what it Is.
said an excited youngster. "1 sa
Diem at work. I come along here, la;
night and thorp was a flash, like from
a dark lantern. Right In thorp behind
the boxes, It was. They must a been
at work then. I'll bet they killed him
and hid his body and made away with
all the money and stamps.”
"How many of them were there?”
"Hid you see them ?”
“What time was It?”
Questions poured think and fast on
the youngster, who evidently had told
all he knew and a little more. I took
advantage of the furor his story had
created to Flip around to the rear of
the building, where 1 found a self-ap
pointed committee of citizens and the
constable guarding the door.
“Has anything been stolen?” I
asked.
“Not as far as we can discover,”
said the constable. “There ain’t no
disorder about the place and the safe
hasn't been busted, as far as I can
see. I ain't made any regular inves
tigation, being as this is government
property.”
“Has no one any Idea where the
postmaster is?" 1 asked.
“That’s just what we’ve been trying
to find out. Jim, here, as soon as we
found Rouser wasn’t here, went up to
the Widow Smith’s, where he boards.
Thought maybe he'd just overslept or
something like that, or maybe was
sick. Put Mrs. Smith went up and
looked in his room and come down and
said he hadn’t been home all night.”
“Yes,” interrupted Jim, “and w’hat’s
more, she said it was nothing unusual
for him not to come home. There was
lots and lots of nights recently when
he didn’t show up. She had no idea
where he spent his nights. She’s a
woman that minds her own business
She Reached Into the Silt and Brought
Out a Neat Package of One Hundred
Dollar Bills.
and don’t interfere none -with her
hoarders' goings and comings as long
ms they pay their money regular.”
■‘Tvtoit are vr>n onfnrr to do about
Keeping the umoe open?'* T asi-ed,
much puzzled over this new mystery.
How 1 wished for Davis! Mystery
seemed to be piling on mystery with
every step I took. Heyond the one
conviction I had that Hugh Crandcll
was in some way to blame for it all, I
saw nothing that would help me in my
undertaking.
“We’ve arranged about that. We’ve
sent for Jennie Cox to come ovet at d
take charge. She always take? t.oid
when Charlie Rousc-r wants to take a
day or a halfday off She knows the
combination of the safe and the money
drawer, and has been sworn in as spe
cial assistant. She'11 know what to do
and who to notify.”
“It may interest you to know' th.t
Post Office Inspector Davis will be out
here tonight,” I told them. “I left
him in New York last night, and he
promised to Join tne here."
Suspicion flashed into the faces of
all my auditors.
"Maybe that’s why Rouser has dis
appeared,” suggested the constable.
"He’s been spending a lot of mom y
lately, Rouser has. Maybe he km ,v
the inspector was coming aud wus
abort in bis accounts.”
"He couldn’t have known it," I pro
tested. "The Inspector himself didn't
know he was coming here until lr.’e
yesterday afternoon, and there isi t
any way possible that the postmas! r
could have been advised of his com
ing.”
The arrival of the substitute official
diverted the conversation. Miss C< i,
an unimaginative, unattractive wom
an of thirty, In a most matter-of-fn t
way entered the building and took
charge.
"The first thing,” she said as she
calmly hung up her hat and coat, "is
for all you men to get out of here ro
that I can sort the mail.’’
Even the constable moved toward
the door, impelled by the authority in
her tone and his own respect for gov
ernment property. 1 determined n t
to be routed so easily. It seemed to
me that the occasion afforded me ati
excellent opportunity, not to solve the
mystery of the missing postmaster,
but to work out one of my own puz
zles—who It was that had rented Lev k
Box 17.
"Miss Cox,” I said, "as a pcrroryl
friend of Post Office Inspector DavH,
who is to join me here in a few hoit s
in connection with an important mat
ter, and fe>r your own sake a* well. [
would suggest that you should keep at
least two of us here as witnesses. This
's government propertv The postmas
ter has disappeared and some of the
government’s property may ho miss
ing. If your inspection Is made in the
presence of two witnesses there can
be no question about your statement
of the condition in which yon found
things. I really think it is a neces
sary precaution. I would suggest that
two of us. say the constable and my
self. be permitted to remain as wit
nesses.”
"By giuger, he's right,” said the
constable, whose attitude toward me
st once became one of decided friend
e
i State Wide Prohibition
(Act No. 2)
REPEALS
Local Option, 3-Mile Law
and all Special Acts
ACT No. 2
MaJ^es it unlawful to serve a guest
with a glass of wine or cider in
your own home
ACT No. 2
Mafes it unlawful to make a bar
rel of cider, a cask of wine, a bot
tle of blackberry cordial jor your
own family use from your own ap
ples, grapes and berries grown on
your own place
ACT No. 2 ^
By driving away immigration checks
development of the state, lowers the
price of farm lands and raises taxes
ACT No. 2
If repealed at any time, leaves the
state Wide open, because aM load
option and special laws will have
been swept away
If Act No. 2 carries, temperance loses
all it has gained under Local ( Ipiion