THE ItUTTIG NEWS.
Published Every Saturday at ttutttg, Ark
C. A. BERRY, Editor and Proprietor.
Entered as second class matter May 3. 1907 at
the postoffice at Huttig. Ark., under the act of Con
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Saturday, April 25, 1914.
TOWN OEFICULS.
Tne following are the duly elected of
ficials of the incorporated town of Hut
tig:
Mayor—C. T. Thompson.
Recorder—W. H. Moore.
Marshal—Thos. Ashcroft.
Aldermen- L. A. Bodine. A. E. Lucas,
J B. Crockett, D. A. Keasler and F. W.
Scott.
Board of Education—W. H. Moore, F.
W. Scott, C. T. Thompson, E. N. Collett.
L. G. Gibson and L. F. Magee.
THE SENATE DEBATE ON CANAL TOEIS.
The debate on the canal tolls in
the senate has shown that the
ablest senators on the Republican
side have thrown partizanship to
the winds and are supporting Pres
ident Wilson in his efforts to have
the free toll provision repealed.
Senators Burton of Ohio and Lodge
of Massachusetts have both deliv
ered brilliant and statesmanlike
speeches in support of the repeal.
This question is really getting to be
more of a tempest in a tea pot than
anything else. Many people have
not given it serious thought and
are being misled by shallow dema
gogues who prefer to make their
living with their jaws instead of
work. The Panama canal, which
will be opened to traffic in about
three months, has cost Uncle Sam
about $400,000,000. If Uncle
Sam should build a railroad from
the Atlantic to the Pacific at a
similar cost anyone would say he
was insane if he allowed American
locomotives to run over it free of
toll, and yet that is about what it
would amount to if we allowed
American vessels to go through the
canal free of tolls. The tolls on
the coast-wise shipping will amount
to probably seven million dollars
per year, as that is what is now es
timated to be the figures. There
are very few people in the country
who would willingly vote seven
million dollars per year out of the
U S. Treasury and into the pock
ets of the New York shipping trust.
The only sensible way to operate
the Panama Canal is to compel
every ship of commerce to pay the
same rate of toll, because the canal
itself is a great blessing to any ship
that can use its priviliges.
TltC OLD STORY.
N ’arly every murderer who walks
to the gallows or the electric chair
has a word or two of warning for
young men who have not listened
to the adyice and pleading of their
friends. No exception to this
proceeding was the warning of
■'Whitey Lewis,” one of the four
New York gunmen who met his
death at'Sing Sing recently. Be
fore preparing for the death pro
nounced upon him by the law he
said:
“There are many boys who are
well brought up and have good
parents who do not look out for the
company they get into. Bad com
pany is the cause of their fall.
‘Keep away from bad company'is
the best message 1 can send. What
I said the other day about bad com
pany. A fellow who honestly earns
$6 a week is better cff than he who
gets $1,000 a week if he does not
get it straight.”
There it is again. Bad company.
How many murders who have gone
down to dishonored graves have
uttered those words before? And
how many boys with a disposition
to break over the traces and get
away from parental restraint really
pay attention to the message which
comes with regularity from the
prisons of this country?
Radium is fast loosing its pres
tige as a cure-all, the best doctors
i 1 the country realizing that it has
been over-advertised. But the
fakirs and quacks will continue to
exploit it just the same and thou
sands of people, grasping at last
straws, will be misled.
Many tiresome pages have been
written about the Monroe Doctrine,
what it meant when it was promul
gated. how it has been administered
and interpreted and what it means
today. To make a long story short
it is the same today it has always
oeen. It asks European powers to
refrain from making wars of con
quest on the American hemisphere
and to insure to every nation on
that hemisphere the right to govern
itself as it sees fit, and that request
is put in such plain and forcible
language that no nation on earth
can misunderstand it.
Take it from one who by force
of circumstances is forced to do
his heaviest sleeping between three
and ten in the morning, the busy
woodpecker and the noisy bluejays
are nuisances that should be abated.
Hon. Villa, who drove some six
or seven hundred Spaniards out of
Mexico and confiscated their es
tates. probably figured that Old
Spain is too feeble to make much
of a protest anyway.
Swat the flies and swat 'em often,
including every known kind and
then some.
BRIDGED THE CHASM
By WILLIAM O. STEVENS.
"YesBir, we've been bridgin’ the
bloody chasm today.” Flushed with
the conviviality of the Blue and Gray
fraternization, a stranger dropped
thumpingly into a chair at my table
in the Monticello cafe.
“Stiggins’ my name, I’m c’mander
of Winslow post up state,” he re
sumed, engagingly, “last time I was
down here to Norfolk 1 helped in
the fust bridgin’ of the chasm on
record, that's why I come all the
way to this.” My polite look of in
quiry opened the flood gates wide, and
the story flowed ripplirtgly.
“Well, sir, I enlisted 1 November,
'64, gets my bounty and calls myself
Jones. Then right off the cap’n of our
comp’ny was pickin’ on me all the
time. I stood it patient till one day,
while I was settin' under a tree on
picket duty, he come by. Then I gets
up easy an’ give him a socker on the
jaw. He didn’t wake up for two
hours.”
Mr. Stiggins paused to ring for an
other high ball. The place was de
serted except for a lanky fellow in a
broad felt hat whom I noticed bending
over the hotel register an hour be
fore, and who now seated himself at
the adjoining table with his paper and
cigar.
“Well, they jugged me for six
months, and that prison was where
we bridged the chasm, like I said. It
was an old stone warehouse made
over, an’ chock full. The room I was
in—’bout ten by twenty—held four
Yankees an' six rebs, with a guard at
the door. ’Twa’n’t long before we got
real friendly, an' right off we begun
layin’ plans for escape. We all want
ed to git out, an' that was what Car
roty called our bond of union. Car
roty—we called him that because he
had flannel-shirt hair—was a real
smart Johnny Reb from a South Caro
lina regiment sent up with the other
prisoners from Roanoke. He was a
spy and he was crazy to git out; uster
talk looney 'bout his wife an' kids.
“Now, he’d smuggled in a little
Sheffield knife, an’ when he found
that in the scuffle of gifting me in
they'd left my jack knife, he almost
whooped. I give it to him an’ be took
it off in a corner. Then, settin’ my
blade against his blade, he pounded
with a loose brick till he'd saw-edged
his’n. Next he saws on the iron bar
in the window. It took four days to
git through, an’ while he sawed he had
us all round him singin' to cover the
squeakin,’ the Rebs whoopin' Ronnie
Rlue Flag an’ we four yellin’ Red, !
White an’ Blue. The day guard was
a Dutchman, an’ the noise give him
such fits he kep’ as fur from the door
as he dared an’ plugged his ears.
“Now, I was the strongest in the
bunch by a whole lot, an’ when Car
roty gone clean through he says, ‘Stig
gins’—he foun’ Jones wa’n’t my real
name—‘Stigins, we need your biceps
on that bar, an’ only one man can git
a holt to once. The next cloudy
night, when the guard walks up the
corridor, you bend the bar out, and as
I’m the only death sentence here, I’ll
j skip out first; then you pull It back
I
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A sore or cut let« the
germs under the skin.
If you don’t stop its
breeding tnerc will be
mUlionsln a few days.
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-Toll It By Tho Bell”
For Sale by B. F. Moody.
•o's you can hang a coat over it when
he comes past again. Keep bracin’ it
till you let ’em all out.’ You see, lit
eal'lated I'd git out last.
'Bout two o’clock I gits up puiet an
takin’ good holt, bent the bar an
braced it with my foot till I coulo
jes’ squeeze out aidgewise. Then 1
drops onto the flat roof of the nex
buildin’ an’ makes tracks for Ports
mouth. Nex’ inornin’ early I jump on
the tail of a train carryin’ furlough
men, an’ In four days I was in Pitts
burgh enlistin’ again an’ gettin’ an
other bounty.
‘‘Carroty? Oh, early nex’ mornin
they fcfun’ me gone an’ the busted
slat In the winder; so they give Car
roty time to write home an’ shot
him.”
Up rose our neighbor, threw off hi;
hat, and leaning his hands on our ta
ble, looked Stiggjns in the eye. I no
ticed then that his hair was brigh
red. But Stiggins fell back with wild
bloodshot eyes. “Carroty,” he whis
pered hoarsely.
"No, Carroty’s son; stranger," turn
ing to me, “for ten years I’ve attendee
encampments looking for this man
and I reckon I’ll take no interfer
ence. If you don’t get right up,” this
to the shapeless huddle in the chair
“I'll do the trick right hyah.” A steel
barrel flashed from his pocket. “Bui
I’d rather not mess up tne floor if 1
can help it."
“For God’s sake, man,” T began
aghast, but he swept rne aside men
acingly. Then he collared his dazed
prisoner and thrust him out into the
midnight.
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PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO T3V
COttSTIT'U.i.i.O.iS OP AHE SPATE
OP aK pANSas.
Notice is hereby given that tilt
following joint resolution, proposing,
an amendment to tlie state > unsli
lution, was passed by the (ji net's
Assembly at its reguiar session ui
1913, anil that tile same will be
submitted to the electors ot' Un
State at tiie next general election
to be held Monday, September 11th,
1914, for adoption or rejection.
Proposed Amendment £(o. 15.
/Tliat the following is hereby pro
posed as an amendment to tin
Constitution of the State of Ar
Ua lisas, and tiie same being subnit
ted to tiie electors of tiie Statt
lor approval or rejection at tht
next general election for Senators
and Representatives, if a majority
of tiie electors voting at sinlie.ee
tion adopt such amendment tin* same
shall become a part of tiie Consti
tution of the State of Arkansas
to-wit:
That Section Fifteen (15) of Article
Five (5) oi the Constitution of tile Stu.e
of Arkansas, as amended by Amendment
No. 13. declared by the Speaker of the
House of Representatives on February
10th, 1913, to have been adopted, be
amended so %- to read as follows:
' Sei tion 15. The members of the Qen
eral Assembly shall receive as their
salary the sum of Seven Hundred an i
Fifty ($750.00) Dollars, except the Presi
dent of the Senate and Speaker of the
House of Representatives, each of whom
shall receive as his salary Fight Hun
dred and Fifty ($860.00) Dollars, for
the term of two (2) years; and in ad
dition to such salary the members of the
General Assembly shall receive five
cents per mile for each mile traveled In
going to and returning from the seat of
government over the must direct and
practicable route Said salary shall lie
payable in the iollowirig manner, to-wit:
Five ($5.00) Dollars per day for Hu* first
hundred days of any regular session of
the General Assembly: Provided, the
President of the Senat- and Speaker of
the House of Representatives may draw
Six ($6.00) Dollars per day for the first
hundred dais of any regular session
The remainder of tic dr salary i U1 lie
paid to them quarterly on the first due
of January. April. July and October of
the year following any regular session
of the General Assembly, and the Audi
tor of State shall draw his warrants in
favor of tiie members of the General
Assembly on said dates for the amount
of salary due each at that time, and
mail same to the members at their re
spective p. stoffiee addresses. No mem
ber of either House shall receive any
salary or emoluments for his servl. es
other than is provided for herein The
terms of all members of the General As
sembly shall begin on the day of their
election.
The above resolution was filed In th‘»
office of the Secretary of State on March
6. 1913.
T-lach elector may vote for nr against
the Hhove amendment.
Witness my official signature this 19th
dav of February. 1914.
KART.R \V. 1IODGFS
Secretary of Blau
(Seal)
Colored Column
Emma Gox. of Dermott. is visit
ing friends here this week.
N. G. Caston moved his family
to Hot Springs last week.
The Carnden District Conference
of the A. M. E. Church is now in
session here, having convened
Wednesday night. A local pro
gram was rendered. The follow
ing ministers were present at the
opening: Presiding Eider R. R.
Black, Camden; Revs. N. H. J.
Powell. Texarkana: W. M. Crane.
Bearden: J. W. Clayborn, Camden:
R. W. Prater. Hillsboro circuit: W.
M. Geeter, Griffin; S. B. Brown,
■Vlillville: B. T. Carter, Camden; W.
C. Cook, Felsenthal; J. D. Barnett.
Fordyce; D. A. Harden. El Dorado;
Prof. G. R. Whitney, Bearden.
Others are yet to come.
Services for Sunday as follows:
Sunday school at 10 o'clock. Sub
ject, "The Last Sheep, and the
Last Goin.”—Luke 15:1 -10; Matt
18:10-40. Sermon at 11 o’clock
by Dr. O. L. Moody, and at 3 p. m.
by J. W. Clayborn. and at 8 p. m\
by S. P. Perry.
Prof. L. S. Scroggins was an El
Dorado visitor last Saturday and
Sunday.
Old papers at the News office
15c per hundred.
MOLLYCODDLE
LAXATIVES
Can Not and Do NJ Touch the Liver
1 hey may clear out tia- intestinal tra* t,
but. do not relieve the dammed-up bih*.
\ears ago May Apple Hoot (called Po
dophylhn) was a last-reso-t bile starter.
It griped fearfully, but brought out the
bile. Podophyllin with the gripe tak* n
out is now to be had under the name
For Sale by B. F. Moody.
Lodge Directory.
Roosevelt Chapter, No. 188, Order of
the Eastern Star, meets every second
and fourth Tuesday in each month.
Mrs. C. Williams, W. M.
Emma Bear), Secy.
EAST LAKE LODGE No. 6362 G'
U. 0. of O. F. meets First and Third
Thursday in each month.
G. W. Smith. N. G.
T W Scates, P. S.
GOOD LUCK LODGE No. 259 F. &
A. M meets First and Fourth Saturday
night. All visitors welcome.
Geo. Kelso. W. M.
J. H. Law, Sec.
OMEGA COMMANDERY No.4 Knight
Templars meet every 2nd Thursday
night in each month.
J. H. Law, E. C.
E. Brooks. Recorder.
SPINOLA Lodge No. 261, C. of W.
A., meets every first and third Wednes
day night at 8 o'clock.
W. I. Henry, Gov.
S. G. Crayton, Secy.
LEBANON, Chapter No. 41, R. A. M
meets every 2nd and 4th Thursday night
at 7:30. Joe Scott, H. P.
J. H. Law, Secy.
Royal Circle of Friends, R. A.Williams
No. 324, meets every first and third
Friday night. All visiting friends are
welcome. G. W. Smith. President.
Lula Oliver, Secretary.
JEWEL TABERNACLE, No. 412.
meets every 1st and 3rd Tuesday.
Augusta Steverson, H. P.
Tena‘Harris, C. R.
BLUE LIGHT L ODGE No 153K.ofP.
j meets First and Third Tuesday in each
month. . J B Francis, C. C.
A. Lewis, K. of R. S.
ELECTRIC LIGHT COURT OF CA
LANTHE, No. 70. meets first and third
Tuesday in each month at 1:45 p. m. I
Lizzie Oliver. W. C.
Ever Pittman. R. D.
I
Spanolia Camps No. 26 1 C. W,, W O 1
W. mee every first and third Thursday at
7:30 o'clock. J. C. E,lus, Gov.
S. G. Crayton. F. S,
OBLIGE GALE CIRCLE No. 213;
meets every first and third Saturday at !
1:30 o clock, Emma Barns. Gov.
Mary Adkins. Secy.
HOUSEHOLD RUTH, No. 2990. of
G. U. O. of O. F., meets the first and
third Thursday in each month at 1:50
p. m. Carrie Averett, M. N.G.
Eva Pittman. W. R.
STATE LINE TEMPLE NO. 337
meets every 2nd and 4th Friday night a ;
8 o'clock. C. S. Scates?,. C. M.
W. B. Bahnes. C. S.
Board of Education-W. A. High,
president; W. M. McCormick, vice pres -
| <Jen|{ doe Scott, treasurer; Prof. L. £.
| Scroggins, secretary; Lonnie Poole, as--1
sislant secretary.
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ing it to a bank, there to thrive and increase, is
watering the sob of the future years so that t’>ey
will be productive of the good things of life, instead
of a barren waste?
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For the accommodati on of Confederate Veterans, Sons
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phis, Frisco and Souti icm Railways,.
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Arrive Jacksonville, 7:00 A. M. Tuesday, May 5.
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and 6. inclusive, with retui n bruit May 15. Upon payment of
50 cents limit may be exit nded to June 4. 1914.
Pullman fare, F_i tile Rock to Jacksonville:
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F.c dining Chair Cars and. Coaches without additional charge—
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