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F. W. Scott was a business visit
or to Farmerville Monday.
Don t fail to go to the polls and
vote next Tuesday.
J. U. Brown of Prescott was
here last Saturday.
For Sale —A new organ at a bar
gain. Call at News office.
Everybody hae a hobby, doing
the right kind of job work is our.
Miss Inez Hilliard visited rela
tives and the fair at Mortroe last
week.
Rev. N. O. Hornsby of Cecil. La.,
transacted business in Huttig
1 uesday.
J. B. Crockett was here thi
week from McCehee visiting hi;
many friends.
M. Bradshaw and wif° left Tues
day for Hope where they will mak
their future home.
J. H. Sehon transacted business
at El Dorado Monday and got a
clean shave while there.
Lost —A gold watch fob with
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Tom Green and wife were among
the Huttig people who attended
the Monroe fair last week.
C. M. Caldwell, who has beer
living at Forrest City, was here
this week and may locate in Huttig
« again.
T. B. Weaver. who is now located
at Crossett. was here Sunday en
route to Farmerville to attend
court.
Mrs. D. M. Clowney is visiting
friends and ralatives at Shreveport
and other Louisiana points thi
week.
Sheriff J. W. Harman made hi:
last official visit to Huttig Monday
night when he arrested two ne
groes for selling whiskey.
J. T. Lawrence, who was shot ot
July 1 1, was in town Tuesday for
the first time. He is still very
weak, but is gaining steadily.
You owe it to your party to pc
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If every Democrat in Arkansas
does his duty next Tuesday this
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Rev. W. T. King will occupy the
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day morning and evening for the
Baptist congregation. Everybody
cordially invited to attend both
services.____
Ethel, the sweet little five-year
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. L.
Kinley, died suddenly last Friday
night of heart failure and was
buried Saturday in Union ceme
tery. The bereaved parents have
our heartfelt sympathy.
You will find on sale at the
Union Saw Mil company store.
' the Union hotel and Bell's cream
parlor four different local post care
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Mrs. C. C. Bell and sister. Miss
Delma Rieve, are home from Fer
riday, La., where they were called
by the serious illness of their father
some time ago. He is much im
proved and was able to be up who
they left. Miss Geraldine Rieve
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Donad R'.issel!. who is row
working at Kinder. La., was here
Wednesday enroute to Lawson for
a short visit with his fam;'y.
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Annie, the 12-year-old daughter
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oereaved parents have our hear;
felt sympathy in their loss.
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Illustrations YLBarncs
CTTAPTPR T f fr»! re TCent calls or:
I-OUise Parrish I* jM'onoso marriagt an
finds th< lni.se in mvat c:riteii • i;t over
’.hr attempted suicide of hor sis;or Knth
ai inc*. K* >if an iti\wstiira ion a •
fin»!s that Hn>fh (ha ndall. sudor fo
Katharine, who had on forbidden the*
l>v «b t ml Parrish. had lal'.ed with
Kafharin* over the t‘deplume just before
‘ '''* shot In i's*'!f A torn p:ce- of yellow
l■;»p<• i j« at s:?ht - r which Ren
tal F.arrhh Is s.rick n with partly us.
(■*i \ r*r»•:n if rr« nt discovers th*t
1 fin M has ! ft t'- vn hurriedly. An
1 - : .an atfed hsn' mr. enmmbs
" ida ;,i- .it t'i- .■•it 'i* Unit? as Kat mrine
attempted h» r 11 To.
FIT AF'TFTT ITT A y<j'ow cr.velepe |v
fr,nnd In Kiser’s room. Post.Tmnee
»w I »nvis, Kbit’s friend, tah* s up tin
ease.
('FTAPT»'R TAr—TC^nt Is convinced the*
Crandall Is at tin* bottom of the n: -t*f -
PIT 'PTRR A' -Kent nnd l>nv!p search
f Vanda !> s room and find fin addre ss.
‘ T <Oi *1: P..\ 1" .Ari'uvv. >. J.” Kpri
to VnUvav to in' • •'Prate a*'d be
comes suspicion? of a “Henry <* »ok.’#
FIFAPTFR VT--V woman commits ®nil
ide at th • Arc way TIot'-i. A yellow lot
hr also fi.iur's in this case.
FTT\PTFR VTf —K'-rd calls TquVa or.
I na d : ♦.t'r i* I. !and finds that
51 he had just h • n w-Ph 1 by (Vandal! from
tr- ‘••;»mo booth. “Cnc:!:" disappears. The
Ardwsy p. s»masv-r is roisslny.
FIT \T'TPR V1TT Inspector "Pavl** nr
r've* jtt Aidwav and t ie; up the inv» s
Fuatb'o lfr- discovers that the dead
" < tv i n P Parch pod-ott of Rrbltreport.
Tmnlsr t' Vrd'ne^M Kent imploring him to
drop the investigation.
CTTAPTFR TX Kent returns to Xew
v,,r,r to ran explanation from T.mdsP.
1 n f'-d* the bodv nf a woman In Fen
rat I rh and more vellnw in*tor« M*
•-os f > airhdl, whom le recot'iilT’.rrt a;
(■f.ol enter the Parrish home.
f*TT ' PC ■'R V T.oi'Vr* arr^ln imnlr.ren
' ■ !11 to dr< p the in\'c-tivPton and re
*■:*' s to cr’ e ni i* evp1an?i<ton l.r.ter
.-•it s« «-s ( andall and T^nui e In an an
nmobilc.
PIT v pTc R XT -T\er>f r: turn? to Art wav
>0 V >> !Oio** .-j that he ha-' pjnnnr-d t
rr* y\ f! ** n • -'-h.fr pn.stniaslcr and a!«o
he liifishr criminal.
f|i i j ' | T? XTT ’A' do Roohbuj the
rl■ Pont i-.-mcs r rue? T.nntso nud
a .M I'pi-Fiud hv Havis t ’ « tv'diio
r l'i no- > rr a ore,"T1’ce n•» ! 1 -• hilled
Mock Tonne, the master - r'mtn.al. 1:
V»m»d in n but in a morphine stupor.
“Young boasted to Crandall about
he weekly Utters. f?o sure did he
eel that General Farrish would not
’are openly to prosecute him that witl
iendlsh malignity he too!: delight ir
"tailing to Crandall the dread-inspi:
ng phrases he had employed and ir
'Hating on 'he terror they undoubted
v were causing the general it h
mail vender that the sight of vo.
i'd Louise examining the scrap of on.
. the yellow Utters, coming as it di'
hf on top of Katharine’s desperar
t, broug ;t on a stroke of paralysis
' I’.ior old man," 1 said, "how h'
us r.-e suffered!”
• r .1: in. titan we can imagine.
1 • * . “I do not think any on
uf a haif-crazcd drug tlend. eitht
ouid trace conceived such refinemr,
f torture as of always u lug the pan
ceUj’ar yellow stationery. Till:
h i a shook it must have given Gc
el Farrish each tin:*' he saw one <
hose yeliow envelopes lurking anion
is intoning mail! Think what
train it mnst have b< en as he wni
d morning afier morning for liter,
caring the burden of ids awful
nee! Think what horrible specter
n yellow must have haunted hi
rain as he tried to sleep! No won
er he collapsed when tie did.”
“Cut are you sute Young wrote a’
he yellow letters?”
"C: mainly,” said the inspector, get
ing up from the bench and enter'iv
he cottage.
When he returned a few minute
•ter he had in his hand a bundle o
cl low paper and envelopes. As 1 b'
mined them 1 saw that they were .
xact'y the color and texture of a',
the frr.gn ents of yellow letters th
f bad seen.
"Wh. tv did you find them?" T asked
"In a cupboard over there by tit*
replace I don’t know whether you
■diced it r>r not, but over there, too
s the type-writer on whl'di Ycut •
wrote the letters that he gave Rousei
o mail for him."
‘V lint mski’s you think Rouse,
mailed them?”
“There are six different tilings t’>:.'
prove Rouser's connection wit!
Young’s fiendish plo's. Th'» stum;
v ere put on by a 1< ft-handed man, anti
Rousor was left-handed. The answers
were revolved In the Art!way pr.-;
iltco. whore Rousor was post master.
Lock !!ox 17, to which they were ad
dressed. was not entered in the list
of box-hold- -s. You yourself found
a large sum -.if money in the port-offi-c
. ash-drawei that In d no business he
ing there. Rousor him.-* It mvs:< rlotr
!y disappeared when he found that
some one was on the trail of the y* !
low letlers. And lastly, Rousor and
Young for weeks have been together
most of the time."
‘‘How did you ieurn that?”
“Young, it seems,” the inspector
continued, “is well known in Ardway,
his boyhood having been spent in the
town. His father wan a well-to-do
lawyer who became addicted to drugs.
His mother died in the state asylum
for the insane. The constable, Dodds,
I
as known him for tv nv years, Ho
■ ent to Harvard and • -e was a
bissmate for a while or i •< ■ ,1 H"
as been going from br.d 1c- \ • o,
roll time he returned to Anivui; on
is periodic visits seeming to bo mere
nd more addicted to morphine His
nherltance was spent Ions ago and
t has been a mystery to every one
where he got considerable sums tho'
he has had at times. With all his
nul's, he has much magnetism and a
plausible tongue and mn!-«s friends
readily. 80 far as I can discover,
tier he had concoct< <1 his plot against
'enernl Vanish ho had sit’c difficulty
t obtaining satisfaction and tried to
nlis< the aid of Crandall. Crandall
< nt at once to General Farrish and
as ordered out of the house. Cran
nll, despite his treatment by the gen
ral, was determined to solve the myst
ery, and for months kr])t track of
I'oung. trying to worm out the secret
• nd render him powerless. At times
' e gave Young small sums and for a
while, as 1 have said, had hint in his
rooms. One day Young disappeared,
’aking with him some jewelry of Cran
dall's and it was only a few days ago
hat Crandall succeeded in finding him
'’ere in Ardway. Young, having
failed to blackmail General Farriyh,
tried to open up negotiations for the
•ale of his documt ntp through Cran
dall, Crandall, of course, could not
communicate wbh Genera’ Farrish, so
he calked Katharine on the telephone
and marie an appointment with her.
Fvldeitlv lie explained the whole af
fair to her, and when the tkp diations
failed it was more than she could
bon r.”
I hat an gp-ms logical, 1 said, "hut
1 fail to see yet what connection there
is between (leneral Fatrlt-h and old
Andrew Riser Nor do I see tile con
nection between the suicide of the oia
woman In the hotel at Ardwnv and
the suit ide of the young woman in
the park lake, yet in ermh of these
eas's there were yellow letters.”
'1 do not see jt myself, yet,” said
navis frankly, "aid yet I know it ex
ists. I know that the hellish idea that
I drove them all to death was planned
I by that distorted brain inside the cot
j taco there.”
ITc was silent for several minutes
I is he razed yt the risinc sun, aeetninc
i iy absorbed in the glorious spectacle.
“I'll find on*!'' he said explosively
"I'll make him tell.”
"Whal are yon going to do?” 1
•skod. "Hew will you make him?”
For answer lie took from Urn pocket
of his coal two sets of thin steed cuffs,
one for the arms and t'-e other for the
ankles, and stepped v it .in the rot
lace. I followed womb ringly and
watched hint as he turned Young over
on his face and. bringing his hands
together behind him, snapped 0,1 the
cuffs. Up shackled his feet, too, and
thon pi< king tip a stout rnivo, passed
it between the two sets of shackles
tnd around a beam in the side of the
cottage wall, leaving enough slack
to permit the shackled man a small
amount of liberty. During tho whole
operation Young hung limp and ap
parently lifeless, still in the drug stu
por, but as Davis finished his work
he began to talk Incoherently.
"The shaking up 1 gave him in fast
ening him up.” said Davis, "will bring
him to. He will wake tip In a few
minutes and then I'll find out every
thing I want to know. I'll make him
tell.”
“\Yhat are you going to do," I
pa sped, "tot lure hint?"
"No," stt'd the inspector grimly as
he dragged a stool over near the conch
and placed on it a hypodermic syringe
• « had found in the cabin, and vi.
’ a morphine preparation.
He gaged the distance with !r
•ye, and moved tho stool so that tvhi
it would be in plain sight of ti
hackled man when he awoke, it won1
he utt.rly impossible for him to i<;,<
it.
"No," he said, “I’m not going t*
torture him Hip drug raised nerve
will do It for nte.”
CHAPTER XV.
• -
The Torture.
Hell is a. place of unsatisfied desires
and in its lowest depths are those
who, writhing in the agony of tlict
decaying nerves, shriek lor their i>t
o\til morphine and shriek in vain
M- ny times in my li,e I have r>ni
the seals of men, and women, too, put
to hard ami hit.er tests.
Once I saw a moronnan whose car
had ci as hed a lovely child. Around
him pres ed a howling, angry mob,
led ly (he baby's father, who would
have had his life* With hold dating
lie stood on his pi (form as on a
throne, with his controller bar lor hi.
only we. pen. and dol ed them all
Vet, even as he stood there outwardly
so bold, 1 saw in his eyes ; misery ; s
great as man could bear and live.
For days and months I doubt not that
his night'}’ dreams brought him con
stant bcrror-pictures of the child he
bad killed.
Once, loo, 1 had to be tbe bearer
of tht news when a workman's mis
step on a frame of steel sent him
plunging down eighteen stories to
th in ilie foul tenement where I
j told my news 1 saw a tired, gaunt
! ''Oii: ,n walk the floor and scream and
uior.n, three frightened lit - le chilt^en
J clinging to her skirts.
Often, too, in my practice in the
courts, ! have seen n en in dreadful
misery—-a ruffian bold and defi :nt de
, spite t’.p biood-guilt on his soul, face
till the world courageously until the
; jury'., foreman s-aid the word that
brought the death-chair’s horror to
his heart and crumpled him weeping
i to the th or. I have seen t en of good
re " to sentenced for shameful eri • es
with their saddened families looking
on ns they burned with grief and
shame that their sins had found them
; out.
Y.ot all the concepts that my brain
had formed of the utmost in pain and
shame and misery faded into insig
nia tire before the things I saw in
that rude cottage in the Jersey hills
where tot two long days Davis and
myself kept watch on the fettered
master ciiminal—waiting. waiting,
waiting till his drug-tortured nerves
should make him tell us the secret, of
his yellow letters.
Shackled hand and foot though he
had found himself when he came out
of his stupor, his sell-control was at
first wonderful. For a few minutes
after I.acts had fastened his bonds tie
lay theie tossing and twitching, tin n
suddenly opened his eves—-piert liig,
devilish, uncanny black eyes they
were—: nd tried to sit up.
The rone through the manacles be
hind him stopped him short and
threw him bad; on his couch. At the
same time he caught sight of Davis
sitting no r the fcot of his couch In
silence they eyed each other, neither
of them saying a word. Ste Ithilv
Young shitted, first his hands and then
his feet its if to ascerf- in the extent
of his bonds. Finding himself secure
ly fasten'd, he let his eyes rove
around the room, and discovered me.
He studied my face sh- rply, as if to
read my mission, hut quickly turned
his trn-n to Oav's again, as if reeog
tii/.ii e In him his master raptor.
Then he laughed—a hideous, chil
li'. :t, deih.nl l...igh, lhal ended in an
unhealthy gurgle in his throat,
i "Weil?" he asked inquiringly.
i looked for Davis to seize oil this
propitious ii.omcnt, when Voting, ju.-t
arc tsed from drug-slumber, would l.o
week ;.nd n' rveins. ;o ply him with
. questions about the ihiugs we wished
to know, hut the inspector was too
much a master of his craft for that.
A- if he had not heard his prisoner's
us .ion. he s; t there staring fixedly
at the man before him.
One minute passed, two minutes—
tii.ee, and still Davis sat silent and
unansworlng. The cumulative force
of prolonged sl'ence began to grow
on my nerves. This waiting, waiting,
was tort ire. If only one of them
wou'd speak. To Young It must have
been far worse.
Still they kept at It, Davis staring
straight Into Young's eyes and Young
trying to stare back. For a few
minutes he sti needed, and then his
eyes shifted and tell \\'ifh a master
effort of bis will he brought them
■if!*
Ha Studied my Face Sharply as If
to Read My Mission.
hr.ck to Davis anil mud them steady,
there the two of them sat as in a
duel, the prisoner's baleful eyes shoot
ing lorth venom, hate, minder, while
in ihe other’s steady glance was pic
tured relentless justice
Of course, there could be but one
end to it Power!ul as was the w>U
in the drug-racked body, the twitch
ing of the muscles, the involuntary
drawing up of the limbs and arm;: as
far as the bonds would permit, and
most of all the clasping and tincla.sit
Insr of the fingers told what torture
ihe pile ric e was bringing io Young.
He burnt forth at last H a vi d
flow ol profanity, cur-ing Davis, nr
,ng me, cursing evorvihtng. cursing
Hod, and still Davis sat there an rigid
and as silent as the superior of a
Trnppist monastery di ing penance.
At times the prisoner's voice was
raised to a hideous shriek, at times
It. sank to a pitiful soli, and nil the
while he tugged and strained at his
bonds, twisting, turning, reaching,
living always to find some position in
which he could gain posr-ssion of (he
morphine that lay on the chair just
hevond tils reach.
To Be Continued Next Week.)
HUTTIG, ARKANSAS
AFTERNOON AND NIGHT
Saturday, November 2
Corning in all their Majestic Beauty
aiHi latperml Splendor
JONESBROS. WORLDTOURED
JF* TILROA r>
POSITIVELY
!he largest, ha»»u
I somcst anil m<»s*
tii*rHv e'ucat;,.
collection of
Tr'lined Domcs.ic
Animals in Amtr
ca. l;or Inte'li
j! encc. sajjacr y
a p.d animal une.
ness their cq*: ’’
does not exisi
TWO H0BE3
Of ciean whofr
some fini. 'jir»
finest show on
earth for la ios
and children, as if
contains no ohjc
onable fe.itu^i
d never pernes
aii impropriety
STREET FARAD?
• AT NOON
i'WO EXHIBITIONS. - AT 2 AND S P
cjoor.s ortr-j cm,- * hour ea ?l./br.
Evn ythir.tr worth serine. hroughr to our very doors Come early, brine the
whole family a..d si-c it <th. Mor.ster t:« hv i of r.ne wild beads-. T'a-ned ani
mats that d" eve> vtl.'-'e but ta'k: A herd of performing clep* »n*s beautiful h.-ises,
ponies, dog-. and n orl’C vs. 50 b n fratv f. acts by tl,o world's (yriatist a- d best
lady and gentleman performers, wl.o-e < u a’li-uefying feats have a tnnChrd and
amazed the wot la. A cost of fumy clowns, I antis of mu ic. Don't miss. the B.g
Fr . Sneu i-aiade. l yertna y the onh 3-f Show cornu g this..