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We print visiting cards and
stationery of all kind.
Everybody has a hobby, doing
the right kind of job work is our.
Mrs. F, W. Scott is visiting rela
tives in Pine Bluff this week.
Mrs. H. C. Bedford is quite ill*
and it is feared has appendicitis.
Miss S. Berraris of Crossett was
here this week the guest of friends.
Mrs. A. F. Funkhouser of Evans
ville. Ind., is here the guest of Mrs.
F. E. Storton.
E. H. Thompson and Russell:
Moore were E! Dorado visitors'
Wednesday.
Some people were happier when
poor, but the majority of people
prefer to be envied than pitied.
Dr. J. L. Miller of Pensacola’
Fla., was here last Friday the guest
of his friend, Dr. H. C. Rushing.
A daughter was born at 9 o'clock
last Saturday night to Mr. and Mrs.
T. M. Barton, living on D street.
Frank Parsons of Randolph, La.,
was here this week visiting his
sister, Mrs. A. J. Willey, and family.
Rev. J. R. Rushing left Tuesday
morning for Hot Springs to attend
the annual conference of the Meth
odist church.
J. R. Sims was at Felsenthal last
Sunday assisting in reorganizing
the Sunday school at that place
and reports a good showing.
Sheriff J. M. Wallace and Prose
cuting Attorney E. O. Mahony
were business visitors here and at
Felsenthal last Friday and Satur
day.
F. W. Mulkey, of the Union Saw
Mil! company office force, arrived
home last Friday from a three
weeks visit with friends and rela
tives at Lewisville.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wyman en
tertained a large number of their
young friends at their home Satur
day with an old time bear hunt
dance._
We treat Piles successfully with
out knife or chloroform. Refer
ence and information on application
Drs. McCall & Williams.
Lawson, Ark.
Mrs. S. B. Stell of Shawmut,
who was the guest of her sister.
Mrs. W. H. Moore, left Monday
morning for Bearden to visit an
other sister before returning to her
home. __ _
Rev. W. T. King, new pastor of
the First Baptist church here oc
cupied the pulpit at Union church
both morning and evening Sunday.
He will move his family here in
the near future.
F. W. Miles and family left
Thursday morning for El Dorado
where they will make their home,
he having accepted the position of
cashier of the American Bank and
Trust company there.
Ernest Helme of Springfield. 111.,
who was an employe here several
years ago. was here last Friday and
Saturday visiting old friends. He
has been working on the Panama
canal for two years and is now en
route to Brazil to work.
No Calomel Necessary
The injurious effect and unpleas
antness of taking Calomel is done
away with by Simmons' Liver Puri
fier, the mildest known liver medi
cine, yet the most thorough in ac
tion. Put up in yellow tin boxes
only. Price 25c. Tried once,
used always. * adv
T. B Weaver, who resigned his
position in the office of the Union
Saw Mill company some time ago
to accept one with the Worden
Alien Construstion company, re
turned to his old position here
Monday morning.
Official announcement has been
made that a rate of one and one
third fare for the round trip hat
been authorized for the Arkansas
State Teachers' Association mer-t
ing which will be held at Lit'.le
Rock, Dec. 26. 27 and 28.
T. L. Calcote. formerly a section
foreman on the Iron Mountain rad
way in this territory and whc
worked on the Panama canal job
for a couple of years, is now road
master between McGehee ani
Luxora. He says J. M. Plummer
well known here, is still at Panama
———
Dry Wood for Sale.
1 have Dlenty of good dry pine
cook stove or heater wood for sale.
$ 1.25 a rick or $3.00 a cord. S h
J. G. Freeman. adv
Itching Piles.
1 want you to know how much
gooc your Hunt's Cure has done
me. 1 had suffered with itching
Piles fifteen years, and when I war
traveling through Texas a man tolc
me of your Hunt's Cure. 1 got ?
50c box and it cured me.
John Bradley
Caney, Kans.
adv
The School Fair held at El Do
rado last Friday was a decided
success and many exhibits wen
on display from all parts of thf
county. The promoters shoulc
feel proud of the fair and we hope
to see it a permanent affair.
W. L. Joiner, residing near Bold
ing. was a caller at the News office
Monday and reports that he has
made 1,000 gallons of ribbon cane
syrup to date at his mill and is stil
making. This is claimed to be the
largest output of syrup from this
neighborhood in a number of years
You will find on sale at th>
Union Saw Mil company store
the Union hotel and Bell's crean
parlor four different local post care
views in colors. If these sell wel
the publisher expects to add sev
eral other views to the list. The}
will be sold at two for five cents
Sprained Baik.
Sprained back and sore muscles
throw off their soreness when
Hunt's Lightning Oil is appliec
For relieving pain of any kind th re
is nothing better, and those people
who have tried it for Neuralgia and
Rheumatism are loud in its praise.
For wire cuts Hunt's Lightning Oil
is especially fine as it takes away
the inflamation and causes rapid
healing. 25c and 50c bottles, adv
How’s This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Re
ward for any case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by Hall’s Catar: h
Cure.
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tVe, the undersigned, Live known 1'. .1.
Clieney for tbe but 15 years, and bclievo
him perfectly honorable ii all busin< ss
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations mado by bis firm.
NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE,
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Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken Internally, 1
acting directly upon the blond and mu
cous surfaces of the system. Testimonials
sent free. Price 75 cents pc r bottle. Sold
by nil Prti'T'Tlsts.
Take Ball's Family Pills for constipation.
Ad v. _
Though Uncle Sam has been
giving away land ever since the
passage of the original homestead
act. just half a century ago. he still
has about 700.000.000 acres left.
These lands are naturally not quite
so attractive as those that were
picked by the first-comers, but
many of them are desirable still.
Congress last session as an induce
ment to settlers reduced the length
of time from five years to three ;
years that a person must occupy
a claim before he can get a patent
on it. And even then he need act
ually stay on the place only seven
months of the year, and all he
needs cultivate is 10 acres of the :
160 This new law, according to
a ruling just made, also applies to i
Alaska.
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f>3 ANNA KATHARINE GREEN
, AUTHOR OP “THE LEAVENWORTH CASE**
YlIE FILIGREE BALL" THE HOUSE GF THE WHISPERING PINES
ILLUSTRATION S EbY
CHARLES .W. POSSER
COPYRICHT 1911 by
corrwujin1 mu t-y
STREET & .SMITH
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SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER I—Orors'o Anderson and
wife pee a remarkable man eome on! C'
ibe Clermont hotel, look around fur'lvclv
wash his hands In tin* snow and puss on
Commotion attracts them to the Clermont
where it Is found that the b- autlful Mis
Kdfth Challnner has fallt*n dead on th*:* !
mezzanine floor
CHAPTER II—Anderson describes tla*
man he saw wash his hands in the snow
The hotel manager declares him to be
Orlando Brotherson.
CHAPTER III.
The Man.
“You know the man?”
"1 do; or rather, 1 know a man who
answers to this description. He comes
here once in a while.
“His name."
"Brotherson. A very uncommon per
son in many respects; quite capable
of such an eccentricity, but incapable. 1
J should say, of crime, lie's a gifted
talker and so well read that he can
held one’s attention for hours. Of
his tastes, I can only say that they
appear to be mainly scientific. But
he is not averse to society, and is
always very well dressed.”
Meanwhile, George had advanced to
speak to a man who had beckoned
to him from the other side of the
room, and with whom in another
moment I saw him step out. Thus
deserted, 1 sank into a chair near one
of the windows.
Where was he? The man who had
Dining ROOM*VtvCi. WITH LOBOV
I
carried him off was the youngest in
the group. What had be wanted of
George? Those who remained showed
no interest in the matter. They had
enough to say among themselves. Hut
I was interested—naturally so, and,
in my uneasiness, glanced restlessly
from the window, the shade of which
was up. The outlook was a very j
peaceful one. This room faced a side j
street, ana, as my eyes fell upon the i
whitened pavements, I received an
answer to one, and that the most
anxious, of my queries. This was the
street into which we had turned, in
the wake of the handsome stranger
they were trying at this very moment
to identify with Brotherson. George
had evidently been asked io point out
the exact spot where the man had
stopped, for I could see from my
vantage point two ligures bending
near the curb, and even pawing at. j
the snow which lay there. It gave
me a slight turn when one of them—
I do not think it was George—began
to rub his hands together in much
the way the unknown gentleman had
done, and, in my excitement, 1 prob
ably uttered some sort of an ejacula
tion, for I was suddenly conscious of
a silence In the room, and when 1
turned saw all the men about me
looking my way.
“They are imitating the man," i
cried; “my husband and—and the
person he went out with. It looked
dreadful to me; that is all."
Meanwhile, Mr. Slater had ex
changed some words with the two of
ficials, and now approached me with
an expression of extreme consider
ation. They were about to excuse me
from further participation in this in
formal inquiry. This I saw before he
spoke. Of course they were right. But
I should greatly have preferred to
stay where I was till George came
back.
I was greatly interested, of course,
and had plenty to think of till I saw
George again and learned tiie result
of the latest investigations.
Miss Ofialloner had boon shot, not
stabbed. No other deduction was pos
sible from such facts as were now
known, though the physicians had not
vet handed in their report, or even
Intimated what that report would he.
No assailant could have approached
or left her. without attracting the no
tice of some one, if not all of the
persons seated at a table in the same
room She could only have been
reached by a bullet sent from a point
near the head of a small winding
staircase connecting the mezzanine
floor with a coat-room adjacent to the
front door. This has already been in
sisted on. as you will remember. and
if you will glance at the diagram
which George hastily scrawled for
mej you will see why. _
A. Ti., as well as C. D., are half
cirenlar openings into the office lobby.
E. F. are windows g<iv upon Hroad
way, and G. and party v ;; .ri
ly unbroken by window, dooi i any
He Was Evidently a Person of Some
I mportance.
other opening. It follows then that
the only possible means of approach
to this room Hcb through the archway
ll . or from ti.e elevator door. Rut
tiie elevator made no stop at the mez
zanine on or near the time of the at
tack upon Miss Challoner; nor did any
one leave the table nr pass by it In
either direction till after the alarm
giv'-n by tier fall.
Hut a bullet calls for no approach.
A man at X. might raise and lire his
pistol without attracting any attention
to himself. The music, which all
acknowledge was at, its full climax at
this moment, would drown the noise
of the explosion, and the stair case,
| out of view of t il but the victim, nf
j ford the same nvans of immediate es
I cape, which it must have giveij of
| secret and unseen approach. The coat.
1 room into which it descended com
f iminicated with the lobby very near
j the main entrance, and if Mr. lirotlu r
I ron were the man, his sudden appear
] ance there would thus he accounted
j for.
It began to look ban for th:s mm, if
i indeed he were the one we bad seen
i under the street-lamp: and, as Georce
! and I reviewed the situation, we felt
our position to be serious enough for
us severally to sot down our implo
sions of this man before we lost Miv
i first vivid idea. 1 do not know what
George wrote, for he seal< d his word
up as soon as ho had finished writin?
but this is what I put on paper while
my memory was still fresh and my ex
citement unabated:
“He had the look of a man of power
ful intellect and determined will, who
shudders while he triumphs: who
outwardly w’ashes his hands of a deed
over which he inwardly gloats. This
was when he first rope from th
snow. Afterwards he had a motnmt
of fear: plain, human,, everyda.' fear
Hut this w as pv:: *«-scent Before he
had turned to go, lie showed ihe sell
possession of one who feels himself
so secure, or is so well satisfied with
himself, that he is no longer con
scious of other emotions.’’
“l’oor fellow," I commented aloud,
as 1 folded up these words; “he
reckoned without you, George. l',\
tomorrow he/Will be in the hands ot
the police."
And with this sentence ringing in
my mind. I lay down and endeavored
to sleep. But it was not till very
late that rest. came.
At last I slept, but it was only lo
rouse again with the same quick real
ization of my surroundings, which 1
had experienced on my recovery from
my fainting fit of hours before. Some
one had stopped at our door before
hurrying by down the hall. Who was
that someone? I rose on mj elbow,
and endeavored to peer through the
dark. Of course, 1 could see nothing
But when 1 woke a second time, there
was enough light, in the room, early
as it undoubtedly was. for me to de
tect a letter lying on the carpet just
inside the door.
Instantly I was on nt.v feet Catch
nig the letter up. I carried it to the
window. Our two names were on it
—Mr. and Mrs. George Anderson: the
writing, Mr, Slater's.
I glanced over at George. He was
sleeping peacefully. It was too early
to wake hitn, but I could not lay
that letter down unread; was not my
name on it? Tearing it open, 1 de
voured its contents,—the exclamation
1 made on residing it, waking George.
The writing was In Mr. Slater's
hand, and the words were:
“1 must request, at the instance of
Coroner Heath and such of the police
as listened to your adventure, that
you make no further mention of
what you saw In the street under our
windows last night. The doctors find
no bullet in the wound. This clears
Mr. Brothersou.”
CHAPTER IV.
i
Sweet Little Miss Clarke.
When we took our seats at the
breakfast table, it was with the feel
ing of being no longer looked upon
es connected in any way with this
care. Vet our interest in it, was, if
anything, increased, and when i saw
(}< orge casting furtive glances at a
certain table behind me, I leaned over
and asked him the reason, being sure
that the people whose faces I saw
reflected in the mirror directly before
us bad something to do with the
great, matter then engrossing us.
v His answer conveyed the somewhat
exciting information that the four
persons seated in my rear were the
same four wlto had been reading at
the round able in the mezzanine at
tlie time of .Miss Challoner's death.
Instantly they absorbed all my at
tention, though i dared not give them
a direct look, and continued to ob
serve them only in the glass.
“Is it one family?" I asked.
"Yes. and a very respectable one.
Transients, of course, but very well
known in Denver, The lady is not
the mother of the boys, but their
aunt. The boys belong to the gen
tleman, wiio is a widower."
“Their word ought to be good.”
George nodded
“The boys look wide-awake enough
if the father does not. As for the
aunt, she is sweetness itself.
they still insist that Miss Challoner
was the only person in the room
with them at this time?”
"They did last night. I don't know
how they will meet this statement of
the doctor’s."
"George?”
lie loaned nearer.
“Have you ever thought that she
might have been a suicide ? That she
stabbed herst If?"
"No, for in that case a weapon
wculd have been found."
"And are you sure that none was?"
“Positive. S' h a fact could not
have been kept quiet. If a weapon
had been picKed up there would be
no mystery, and no necessity for
further police investigation."
"And the defectives are still here?"
"I just saw one."
"Heorj# "
Again his head came nearer.
"Have they searched (tie lobby? I
believe she had a weapon."
"Lauraf"
"1 Know it sound ; fooli.-h, but the
alternative is so improbable. A fam
ily like that cannot be leagued io
g< tlier in a conspiracy to hide the
truth concerning a m .iter so serious.
To lie sure, they may all lie short
sighted, or so little given to observa
tion Hiat they didn't see what passed
before their eyes. The boys look wid*i
awake enough, but who can tell? 1
would sooner believe that "
1 stopped short so suddenly that
George looked startled. My attention
had be* u caught by something new
: I saw in the mirror upon which my
I attention was fixed. A man was look
j ing in from the corridor behind, at
I the four persons we were just dis
< ossing. He was watching them in
ti ntiy, and I thought I knew his
fac«.
"What Kind of a looking person
was (lie man who look you outside
last night?" 1 inquired of George,
with my eyes still on this furtive
w atcher.
"A fi How to make you laugh. A
perfect character, l^uura; hideously
homely but agreeable enough. I took
quite a fancy to him Why?"
"I am looking at him now.”
“Very likely. He's deep in this af
fair. Just an everyday detective, but
ambitious, I suppose, and quite alive’
to the importance of being thor
ough."
"He is watching those people. No,
he isn't. How quickly ho disap
pea red’"
"V s, he's mercurial in all his
movements. Lama, we must, get out
of this. There happens to he some
thing else in the world for me to do
titan to sit around and follow up mur
rier clues.”
Hut wo began to doubt it others
agreed with him, when on passing
out wo wore stopped in the lobby by
this same detective, who had some
thing to say to George, and drew hint
quickly aside.
"What does lie want?" I asked, as
soon as George bad returned to mj
side.
"Ho wants pip to stand ready to
obey any summons the police may
send me."
"Then they still suspect Brother
son ?"
"They must."
As we stopped out of the hotel
George gave my arm a quiet pinch
which served to direct my attention
to an elderly gentleman who was just
alighting from it taxicab at tie kerb
lie moved heavily and with some up
pcarance of pain, but from the crowd
collected on the sidewalk, many of
whom nudged each other as he pass
ed, he was evidently a person of
tome importance, and as lie disap
pea red within the hotel entrance, i
i.sited George who this kind-faced,
bright eyed old gen Ionian could be.
lie appeared to know, for he told
me at once that he was Detective
Gryce; a man who had grown old in
solving just such baffling problem:-,
as these
That night I bided George’s coming
with an impatience 1 could not- con
irol. He was late, of course, but
when he did appear, I almost forgot
cur usual greeting in my hurry to ask
him if he had seen the evening pa
pers.
"No," he grumbled, as he hung up
his overcoat. "Been pushed about
all day. No time for anything ’
"Then let me tell you—"
But he would have dinner f'rst.
However, a little Jnter _.we had a
comfortable chat. Mr. Gryce had
made a discovery, and the papers
were full of it.
The opinion had become quite gen
eral with those best acquainted with
the details of this affair, that the
i vsterv was one of those abnormal
ones lor winch no solution would ever
be found, when the ug< d detective
show* d himself in the building and
was taken to the room, where an in
spector of police awaited him.
this is very good ot you,” the in
spector begs i >., glancing dow n at the
aedl detectives bundled up legs, and
gently pushing a chair towards him.
The elderly man thus addressed
glanced down at his legs, now propp, 1
up on a stool which someone had
brought him, and smiled, with the
l a thus of the. oid who sees the inter
ests ot a lifetime slipping gradually
away.
"I am not what l was. I ran no
longer get down on my hands and
knees to pick up threads from the nap
of a rug, or spy out a spot of blood
in the crimson woof of a carpet."
"You shall have Sweetwater Imre
to do the active work for you. What
we want of you is the directing mind
—the infallible instinct. It's a case
in a thousand, Gryce. It will make
you young again."
The old man's eyes shot fire and
unconsciously one foot slipped to the
floor. Then he bethought himself
and painfully lifted it back again.
• What are the points? What’s the
difficulty?" he a.-ktd. "A woman has
been shot—
"No, not shot, stubbed. We thougnt
she hud been shot, tor that was intel
ligible and involved no impossibil
ities. But Drs. Heath and Webster,
under the eye of the C'halloners own
physician, have made an examination
of the wound and they declare that
no bullet is to be found in the body.
As the wound extends no further
than the heart, this settles one great
point, at least. You know the vic
tim? Her name, ! mean, and the
character she bore?"
• Yes; so much was told me on my
way down."
A line girl unspoiled by riches and
seeming independence. Happy, too,
to all appearance, or we should be
more ready to consider the possibil
ity of suicide."
Suicide h\ stabbing calls for a
wiap.m Yet none has been found, l
hear.”
""None.”
“Yet she was killed Ilia* way?"
“1 ndoubtedly, and by a long and
very narrow blade, larger than a
needle but not so large as the or
dinary stiletto."
'Stabbed while by herself, or what
you may call by hen-ell? She had no
companion near her?”
“None, if we can believe the four
I members of the Parrish family who
I w re seated at the irther end of the
room.”
Vnd you do believe them?"
“Would a whole family lie-and
Xieedles'-ly ?"
“it wouldn't seem so."
“She fell just a few feet from the
• desk when she In d been writing.
No word, no cry, just a collapse ai d
sudden fall. She never looked up < r
spoke again. What do you make f
it. Gryee?”
‘'It's ti tough one, and I’m not ready
to venture an opinion yet. 1 shou 1
like to see the desk you speak of,
and the spot where she f* 11.”
A young Irllow who had been hover
ing in the background at once stepp. J
forward. He was the plain-faced de
fective who had spoken to George.
"Will you take my arm, sir?"
Mr. Gryce's whole face brightened.
This Sweetwater, as they called him,
was, I have since understood, one of
his proteges and more or less of a
favorite.
"Have you had a chance at this
thing?" he asked.
Yes, sir. they were good enough
to allow it."
' Very well, then, you're in a posi
lion to pioneer me. You've seen it
all and won't be in a hurry.”
"No; I'm at the end of my rope. I
haven’t an idea, sir."
"Weil, well, that’s honest at all
events." Then, as he slowly rose with
the other's careful assistance,
"There's no crime without its clue.
The thing is to recognize that cine
when seen. Hut I'm in no position to
make promises.”
The mezzanine was guarded from
all visitors save such as hud official
sanction. Consequently, the two re
nt, imu) quite uninterrupted while
they moved about the place, in quiet
consultation. The locale was what
Cryco wanted, and he got it. Wheth
er he got anything else it would bo
in.no „ih!r io say from his manner as
tie finally l ink into a chair by one of
the openings, and looked down on the
1 hh> below. it was full of people
coining and going on ail sorts of bus
iness, and presently lie drew back,
ami. n ring on Sweetwater's arm,
asked him a few questions.
"Who were the first to rush in here
af, r the I’n'Tishera gave the alarm'.’"
“One or two of the musicians from
the end of the ii.-’M. They had just
fins led th ir program and were pre
paring to leave the gallery. Natural
ly they reached her first.”
"Ami who followed them? Who
came next on the scene?"
' r~\,me people from the lobby. They
hi rd the disturbance and rushed up
i"'ll iv'H Hut not one of these touch
ed h«T. I .•tor her father came.”
1 Who did touch her? Anybody,
before the father came in?”
Yes; Miss Clarke, the middle
aged lady with the. Parrishes. She
had run towards Miss Challoner as
soon as she heard her fall, and was
sitting there with the dead girl’s
head in her lap when die musicians
showed themselves.”
To Bf. Continued Next Week.)