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Local News of the Week.
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T. B. Weaver was a business!
visitor at El Dorado the first of the
week.
Mrs. He-man B-eihn and chil
dren, of Stamps, are here the
guests of Mrs. F. O. Mahony.
Don't forget the Fifth Sunday
meeting at the First Baptist Church
Saturday and Sunday of this week.
C. N. Cobb and wife were here
from Malvern the first of the week
and contemplate returning here t
live.___
For Sale -Three-burner oil stove
with oven; also reed baby buggy.
Apply to Mrs. A. V. Frost. Rowland
addition.
National Bank Examiner R cbt.
Neill, of Batesville, was here last
Friday on his official round. Mi.
Neill was recently arp i.ited to
this position and is the youngest
national bank examiner in the.
country.
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Neuralgia, Headaches, Cramps,
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J. H.'Williams has purchased the
household effects of J. A. Woolley
and will continue to conduct a
boarding house at the corner of
Fifth and C streets. Mr. Woolley
and family left Friday of this week
for Pres,cott. where they will make
their future home.
Through the kindness of Con
gressman W. S. Goodwin the Hut
tig High School has received a
complete Goverment High School
Library which comprises a large
•umber of usefui books f >. v.-se
v h:’ ,;g to learn of gov nm it de
partment U matters.
$100 Reward, $100
Th» ri'aden of tula paper wltl ba
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Address F. J. CUENiTi A CO., Toledo, Ohio.
po'd by r’t Pruo-ir:ts, 7~n.
Take Hall’s Family rill3 for constipation.
Ad
For Sale.
One gasoline cook stove, with
dishes, table and everything to cook
and eat with. Also one new Singer
sewing machine. S. R. Neel.
What is Good for Headache?
One lady says, after suffering
dreadfully for about seven years,
she tried Hunt's Lightning Oil.
which almost instantly relieved
her, and has been entirely free from
those dreadful headaches since.
Ask vour druggist.
tGbiit DIRECTORY.
ROWLAND LODGE No. 594 F & A
M.meets every second and fourth Satur
day evenings at 7:30 o'clock. Visiting
Masons always welcome.
F. O. Mahony, W. M.
D. F. Collett, Sec’y.
HOWARD CHAPTER. No. 122. R. A.
M. meets every first and third Thurs
day evening at Masonic hall. Visiting
companions welcome.
D. F Collett. H. P.
C. A. Berry, Secy.
HUTT1G CHAPTER No. 320 Order o'
the Eastern Star, meets every first and
third Friday evening at 7:30 o clock
Visiting brothers and sisters welcome.
Mrs. A. E. Lucas. W. M.
Mrs. L. G. Gibson. Sec'y.
HUTTIG LODGE No. 348 1. O.O. F
meets every Tuesday evening. Visiting
brethern cordially invited to attend.
M. H. Claybaugh. N. G.
E. L. Ware, Secy.
HUTTIG REBEKAH LODGE No. 66.
meets every Monday night at 7:30 o clock
Visitors are invited.
Mrs. Chas. Saxe. N. G.
Mrs. May Claybaugh. Secy.
SWEET BAY CAMP No. 4 1 1 W. O. W
meets every first and third Saturday e<t
nings. Visitors made welcome.
C. M. Caldwf l C.C
J. C. Bridges, C erk.
SWF.fiiT BAY GROVE Nc 14 5. W
G., meets every second and buu: h Fri
day nights in each month. Visitoisare
always welcome.
Mrs. Dona Holtsford. Guardian.
Mrs. L. M. Despain, Clerk.
Old papers at the News office
15c per hundred.
The pulpit at the Methodist
church will be filled Sunday morn
ing and evening by a visiting Bap
tist minister.
Mrs Sallie Finley, of Hillsboro,
has accepted the position as cash
ier for Seaman &. Seaman in th< ir
thirst parlors, etc.
Rheumatism and \euraiyia.
People will be glad to know that
Hunt's Lightning Oil stops the pair:
almost instantly. No other 1 ini
merit acts so promptly and with
such gratifying results. Those who
suffer should not fail to try it. Sold
by all druggists in 25c and 50c
bottles.
COLDS & LaGRIPPS
d or O doses 6GG wii! br. -k
any case of Chilis & Fever, Colds
& LaGrippe; it sets on the liver
better than Calomel and does not
ttripe or sicken. Price 25c.
SCHOOL FOR ADULTS.
“People’s high schools,” as tlrv
are called, have been flourishing in
Denmark for a long time. In that
country there are TO such schools,
with 8,000 pupils, and one school at
Askov, in South Jutland, has been in
existence since 1863. One-tenth of
the population of Denmark, it is esti
mated, has passed through tlmse
schools, which now are given small
state subsidies, though there is no
state interference with the institu
tion. The schools are not technical
or “practical.” They seek only to
develop minds on broadly cultural
lines. There are no examinations
for admission or for leaving; much
of the insl ruction is given by lec
tures. and the teacher is given wide
latitude.
Norway and Sweden, it may be
added, have experimented success
fully with similar institutions.
EVIDENCE OF EXPERTNESS.
“Does that young man understand
music?”
| “I think he must,” replied th<
man who always gives the benefit.
“Whenever he plays he sounds ex
actly like a piano tuner.”
ALL OFF.
“What did father say when you
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riage ?”
“Not a word.”
“He didn’t?”
“No; your mother said it all.”
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SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER I—Jackson Jones, nicknrt:r>*#
, "Hroadw:<y,” because ol' i.is continue*
: slur.i;!*at1on of New York’s great
, ought'are. is anxious to got away from rn*
j iion;< town of Jowsvilie. Abner Joneot
; liis uncle, is. very angry because Br"i»A
■vay r. f ~*'S to sertit .down and take
k '• m ik- gum factory In which he s>*»
< ceded to his father’s interest.
CHAPTER II—Judge Spotswno.d inf or mi*
I-1’ uiway tot ld! him by ru*
father is at his disposal. Broadw*^
i; al.es record time in < ding for his r»«,r
orite street in New York.
CHAPTER HI-With his New Yt—
friefid. I' hert Walime. Pro ad way create
r s-'riSrPion by 1 is extravagance on tr**
White Way. Four years p iss and Bros*
v suddenly discovers that he is g—
only broke, but heavily in debt. He a**
plies to his uncle for a loan and receive-*
package of eh.-wing gum with the i*4*
vice to chew it rod forgot his trouht***
’If quietly seeks work without suec-sm.
CTT \PTER TV—Broadway gives what *
’ntend' d to he a far* \v- !1 supper to !»•
New York friends, and before it Is ov***
becom* s engaged to Mrs. C r-ird. an a**
dent v idov/, wealthy and very giddy.
CHAPTER V—Wallace expostulate*
with the aged flirt and her youth f**
fiance, but fails* to letter the situation
He learns th.t Broadway is hr-ve am
offers him a r» 'ition with his father’s sP*
I 'ertising firm, hut it is declined Wallas*
akes charge of Broadway’s affairs.
CHAPTER VT—Broadway receives *
telegram announcing the death of
Uncle Abner in Europe. Broadway is
^ole heir. Peter Pembroke of the O
solidat**d Ch'-wing Gum companv nffp-j
Broadway $1,200,000 for Ids v rn plant as
1 'roadway agrees to sell. Wallace tak*
the affair in hand and insists tin* Rrnj
way hold off for a bigger pric*-* and rust*
him to Janesville to consult Jude Spa*
wood, who was Uncle Abner’s attorn*—
Her voice was deep and sorrowful
reproachful, warning, pleading, stir
ring. "I’d give it very serious though
1 if I were you, Mr. Jones." Then the
timbre of enthusiasm crept into her
tones and stirred him deeply. “Oh, it
would he perfectly gr- at of you to
stand by and protect the people of this
little town! You've a chance to do
.something very, very big—a reall>
wonderful thing! I hope you’ll do it.”
He shook his head, but not emphat
ically.
“And I believe you will,” she added,
and then her smile returned.
"I must run along, now. You’d bet
ter come -to the ofhcp tomorrow, at:
early possible. There's 6 great deai
*o he d< ne and so many things to be
'.plained I’ll expect you at ten ii
lie morning, shall 1?”
"Can 1 make it a quarter past5"
“Very well.” She turned away, hut
as sh* picked up a little shopping bag
with which she had been armed when
die came in, she evidently was re
i.lnib'd of something, for she began to
fumble in it. Presently she found
what she was seeking, and produced a
•iinall tin box, round and highly deco
iated. She handed it to Broadway,
who received it as if it had been some
hing of high value.
“This is our latest,” she explained.
I don't think you’ve seen them. Jones’
Pepsin W afers, (lood night, Mr. Jones.”
Dazed and with the box held loosely
In his hand, he gazeu at her retreating
back. "Good night — er — er — Miss
Richards.”
After she had gone, while Broadway
stood gazing after her, the box of
Josie R!charJ-».
7,Vera still LyaId loosely in
hit* band, the judge said cheerful :
"She's a nice girl, isn’t she?’*
"Is she?”
"Well, how did she strike you?”
"An awful blow.”
“An awful blow?”
Broadway caught himself. He real
i/cd (hat suck talk would not do. He
(ried to dodge the inference. "No. no."
he protested. "I mean her eyes. Her
eyes are awful blue.”
The judge smiled satfsfledly. "Ev
eryone in this town is just mad about
her.”
"They ought to be,” said .lackson.
"Have another cigar,” the judge sug
gested fervently.
This brought Broadway to his
senses. Those cigars! “No, 1 thank
you. I’ve got some gum here. But
! wouldn’t mind having another glass
of lemonade."
The judge was pleased. “Why. eer
'ainly, my boy. I ll go and get it my
self.”
Broadway spoke up hurriedly. “No;
don’t do that. Ask Mrs. Spotswood to
make it for me, won’t you?”
“Sure.” said the genial judge. “And
T’li tell her that you asked me to. ft’ll
tickle her to death.”
At this point Wallace returned. He
went to Broadway with his business
nir exceedingly in evidence.
“Say.” he said earnestly, “I’ve got a
real knockout surprise for you, young
fellow! Pembroke was waiting at the
office of the hotel. That was his man
he sent here. He knew7 we were leav
ing New York before We started. He
was telephoned to from the Grand Cen
tral station. That's how skilfully they
work in these mad days of frenzied
finance.
“He didn’t wait to take a train—he
came by motor. And just to show you
what a smart little fellow you are for
wanting to close at their price at
j noon today, I, who represented mv
j s df as Henry Wilson, jour secretary,
have given them till eleven o’clock to
morrow to close the deal at fifteen
hundred thousand dollars.
“■He’s burning up every telegraph
and telephone wire between here and
Cleveland right now, and, unless 1
miss my guess, I’m making you richer
bv several hundred thousand dollars,
just proving to you the value of pa
tience. Fifteen hundred thousand dol
lars! A million and a half!”
He had beep leaning tensely forward
in his chair. Now he cast himself
backward in an attitude of satisfied
ease.
"What do you think of that?” he
asked.
"Bob.” apid Broadway slowly, “I
can't sell this plant.”
"You can't!” It was an exclamation
of amazement*
“You don’t know.” said Broadway
dreamily. "You haven’t heard Now.
just think of what I'd be selling. Here’s
the thing my grandfather worked for
; and handed down to my fniber; and
I the thing my father worked for and
j 'landed down to me; and it's the thing
! that l should work for and hand down
o my children, and then to theirs, and
^o on and so on.
Wallacp looked at him with incrodu
lity too great, at first, for words
"'hen they finally came they were ex
plosive. "Say” he cried. “What the
b—is. the matter with you?"
CHAPTER IX.
On the way to the hotel, after they
had left the judge's house, Broadway
tried to tell Bob Wallace what, in
deed, was the matter with him. but
could not, for he bad not the len.u
idea.
"Do you really mean to keep the
plant?” asked Wallace skeptically.
“Yes, and pass it to 7ny children.”
said the dazed young gentleman.
“You haven’t any children, you con
founded ass!”
“And they’ll pass it to their chi!
! dren,” said the coming magnate of the
j chewing-gum trade.
“I think you're crazy.”
“Bob, it's a cinch. But let me tell
1 you.” And he tried to, with but slight
success.
Wallace was a shrewd young man.
“Is it your conscience or the girl that
has driven you insane?” he asked.
“I’m thinking about Jonesville. My
grandfather built this town.”
“Well, he made a blamed bad job
i of it. Why didn’t he build a place- a
man could get a decent drink in wh'i?
he was about it?”
"And my father kept it going.”
“Well, he didn’t keep it going very
fa. t.”
"And now I’ve got to keep rry faith
With it. It is a sacred duty. I must
not abandon it.”
"Say." said Wallace, in disgust.
“Where did you get that stulf? Have
you gone out and tried to get a decent
drink here? This town ought to he
abandoned. It ought to be put out
of its misery.”
I "The trust would close the plant and
ruin til these people.”
"Youd think .they were, first cousins,
to hear you talk about them.'’
"Bob," Broadway chided in a soft
and earnest voiopi "they are far more
1 ban that; far, far more than that.
1 hey are charges placed by Providence
in the care of the Jones family. Ami,
Bob. I'm the last of the Joneses."
"Let us hope there'll never be an
other like you."
"There'll never be one more earnest,
you can bet on that, Boh!"
They were in a shady stretch of
Main street., and, at night, a shady
stretch of Main street, Jonesville, is
about the darkest spot on earth out
side of Africa.
"Let's stop right here, ip the dark,
till you get over it." said Wallace. "It’s
late, but there might be some mad
dened, joyous Jonesville roisterer to
see if you went into the light.”
"I mean every word of it. There are
no roisterers in Jonesville; they’re all
honest workingmen, horny-handed gum
makers, toilers for the fortunes of my
family. That's why I’m protecting
them."
1 i lie horny hand of some insane
asylum guard will be upon your shoul
der if you don't watch out."
“Ha. ha! Ha, ha!” laughed Broad
way somewhat cacklingly.
"1 think you’re going to be violent!”
said Wallace. “He’ll probably need
both horny hands. But he’ll subdue
>0-1! Now, try to give me some co
herent notion of what's the matter
with you. will yon?”
“I've awakened to my duty.”
"line you did; you've had a nice
loiii, nap. What do you see, now you
have aroused?”
"A pleasant little city, working hap
pily at well-paid industry. I'm the pay
master, A great nation, wagging tire
less jaws. They're chewing the Jones
su n. Jones’ gum, mind you; not some
gum that the Consolidated puts up
against the public as just as good as
that my ancestors made famous. I
see—”
“Hor heaven’s sake, shut up! You'll
see scales if this keeps on. That lem
onade that Mrs. Spotswood gave you
lias gone to your empty head.”
"It was not the lemonade that Mrs.
Spotswood gave me, it was the touch
ing line of talk that—er—that Josie
Richards gave me.” He paused while
Wallace waited with his jaw loose
on its hinges. “Say, Bob, isn’t she a
queen?”
“So that’s it?”
But hn made no further protests. He
was a level-headed youth, was this
I young advertising man. He knew' as
well as anyone that if the trust feared
and wished to purchase the Jones
| gum it. could be but because the trust
Knew thtit the Jones gum was a dan
gerous competitor, if, managed as it
had been, unadvertised, it had been a
dangerous competitor to the trust,
then it was worth having—emphatical
j ly worth keeping.
And some day Broadway must do
something. He could not forever play
, the idler on the Great White Way.
even if his millions were unumbered
It was no life for an actual man, anil
| Bob was sure that hidden somewhere
I in his friend were the true element;
| of worthy manhood. Nothing had oc
j curred to bring them out, that was all
j He thought they might be coining now
Reaching the hotel, they found the
: place in utter darkness. Not a .light
even turned down for the night, was
visible at any window; not a sound of
life came from the building save a
rhythmic cadence of some sleeper soft
ly sawing wood with a dull saw.
“The clerk’s asleep,” said Bob.
“How do you know that is the
clerk?” asked Broadway, listening crit
icallv to the snore.
“I heard him singing when I first
got here, and now I recognize the
voice. He held the tune a little bet
ter. then* that’s all.”
I “Have we got to wake him up?”
“Sure! Why, it’s after eleven
o’clock!”
Nothing but the thought of Josie
Richards’ eyes could have kept Broad
way at that instant from casting ail
iis worthy resolutions to the winds.
riling to the trust and searching out
Bible upon which to swear that he
ever again would set foot in Jones
ilie. But be did remember Josle’B
>yes, and so began to hammer on the
ioor.
After a quarter of an hour of steady
tainmereng. some shouting and a lit lie
.vhistling, he was rewarded by a sleepy
uid ill-tempered voice from a slowly
>pened window.
“Heavens! Was his window closed!
tnd yet thal snore got out to us!”
“It sawed its way out," Bob suggest
'd.
"Well, what ye want?” the .angry
oiee inquired.
"Want to get in.”
“At this time the night?”
"Sure It's aiv.nys flight before w7e
ver want to go to bed.”
“Well, the Grand hotel, it don’t think
nnch of folks that stays out all night
.mg, I’ll tell you that!” the clerk cx
•lalmed, as he came down in bright
red flannels (and not much of that) to
let them in.
"All night long!”
"Ain’t it a quarter after ’leven?”
After telephoning Rankin (much to
the clerk’s disgust) to hurry to Con
necticut by the first train in the morn
ing, with well-packed bags, the two
friends crept upstairs, abashed.
The clerk scorned such a menial
service as attending them. and. in the
excitement left from the rebuke he had
received, Wallace stumbled into the
wrong room. All doors were partly
open, for the. night was warm, and no
one feared the midnight interloper,
there in innocent and simple Joucs
vi lie.
Fortunately the moonlight fell upon
the bed, and warned him. otherwise
there might have been a scandal in
f I uni Village, in which case the com
plainant (lie felt certain from that hur
ried glimpse) would have been a sylph
of close upon two hundred and fifty
pounds.
Wallace made an effort to sit up
and discuss things further with Broad
way, who seemed to be entirely awake,
though dreamy in a strange, unwonted
way, but there were two arguments
against this, the first that gnats and
moths swarmed merrily in as soon as
the oil lamp was lighted, bringing with
them more than one mosquito, the scc
! ond being that he was worn out after
a long day full of various excitements.
| "I'm going to bed,” he finally dp
cided.
| “Best place for you. Bob, this timp
of night. Polks who sit up—”
j “Oh, shut up! Good night."
“Good night. See you In the morn
ing."
“Now, why.” asked Wallace, after hp
had left his friend, "did that boy geera
so glad to have me go to bed? He art
ed just as if he wanted to kneel down
and pray, hut couldn’t while a vulgar
herd like me was looking on. Now,
what .the devil!"
He got into bed.
Broadway did not go to bed. Instead
he found a pen anil ink and some of
the soft, spongy hotel stationery in a
drawer of the bare washstand. He be
gan work with them slowly, painfully.
The pen soon failing, he dug from a
corner of a pocket in his vest the pen
cil of which he had been so proud
when Pembroke had called on him,
and continued. After an hour's hard
labor for his brain, the pencil, the soft
I paper and the tongue which he enntin
! nallv ihrust into his cheek, he had
| completed what he thought a master
j piece. He was not sure whether he
would speak it, the next day, to Josie,
Produced a Small Tin Bex.
by herself, or to the assembled multi
tude of the mill's employes, but he «ai
i certain it was great.
Having written it he spent another
hour in carefully committing it to
i memory (or so he fondly thought) and
: then got into bed.
An hour later he tried to sleep th®
night out sitting up for the bed wa*
such as he had never even read about.
*less suggestive of repose on garden
rakes and ho6e than any other had
been, he dreamed horrid dreams of
' broken-hearted villagers, starving in
the streets of Jonesvilte in such ter
rible profusion that the newspapers re
ferred to it as “Bonesville" and de
clared that he had proved to be the
chief industrial pirate of his day, ruin
ing, in the fourth generation, a fine
family name which had, for three,
stood for probity, humanity, industry
and the best chewing gum of all.
He suffered terribly a« he imagined
these grim things and a dozen times
was attacked by reporters who became
so incensed as they wrote their Btories
of his villainy that they strove to stab
him with their lead pencils; a hun
dred times was set upon by famishing
villagers who wished to pick his riba
with fang-like teeth; a thousand times
found himself stark and shivering be
fore the bar of justice in a chilly
st retell of space, where the specters of
all worthy Joneses of the paet. con
fronted him with slim, accusing fin
gers, pointed straight at his terror
stricken stomach.
The dreams were not true night
mares, though, for at the supreme in
stant of each period of petit a white
angel floated to him, rescuing him
! from that which threatened him. And
i this white augei, graceful, large-eyed,
smiling and beneficent, was always
Josie Richards. As soon as she had
rescued him each time, lie spoke his
i speech to hei, and she wept on his
shoulder.
The result of such a night of agony
was, naturally, that they slept later
in the morning than was tlie Jonesvllle
custom. When half past eight arrived
and they had not appeared, the wife
I of the proprietor sent him upstairs to
see if they had uot decamped without
paying for their rooms, or if. per
chance, they had not come there sul
j cidally inclined.
She crept up behind her liege lord
fearfully, and peeped across his shoul
der as he opened each unlocked door
in turn. Finding that they were but
peacefully asleep, she was both,
shocked at such unheard-of indolence,
and cheated at the lack of tragedy, so'
she snorted, "Scandalmis!’' as she
crashed down each step.
She was a very solid woman, widely
built. Wallace had noticed that the
night before when he had peeped in
through the door Had she tmen aware
or that terrific episode, she would have
screamed for the village constable and
had him locked up in the calaboose.
(TO BE C INTINUED Nf XT WEEK)
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