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For sale H.. 4 lumber $1.00 per
1 Union Saw Mill Go
T. G. Moore has moved to Lapile.
J. A. McKinney was an El Do
rado visitor Monday.
Mrs. G. F. Pope left Mo’d y
for a two week s visit with relative s
in Camden.
Earl Collett arrived home Sun
day from a visit with relatives at
Malvern. ___
Mrs. Geo. Mobely of Monroe was
the guest of Miss Mabel Lucas the
first of the week.
—
Lester Malone who is now work
ing at Monroe was here last Satur
day visiting with Fiends.
Eugene Taylor has been appoint
ed postmaster at Lapile to suceed
Mrs. B. C. Burnside, resigned.
W. C. Thompson, wife and child
ren arrived home Thursday from a
visit with relatives at Wesson.
If you have any real estate for
sale list same with C. A. Berry, of
Huttig. who will sell same for you
The missionary tea will be held
with Mrs. Voss next Tue d.y
Everybody cordially invited to at
tend.
W. A. Hemphill arr'vcd home
Thursday from Mineral Wells
Texas, where he has been for sev
eral weeks for his health.
S. W. Lowery of Crossett was
here Thursday visiting and was ac
companied home by his wife who
has been visiting her parents Fri
day.
There will be an examination
held at Bolding on Oct. 31st to se
lect a postmaster in accordance
with the recent ruling of President
Wilson.
About fifty citizens from this
section of the county were at El
Dorado this week as witnesses in
the case of the State vs H. E. Mc
Lemore.
W. T, Winsor. wife and children
of Wymore and M. G. Berry of
Nebraska City, Nebr., arrived in
Huttig Thursday on a visit with the
editor and wife.
Mrs. Chas. Saxe had a night
blooming cerus bloom the first of
the week which was an interesting |
sight to many who had never seen
one bloom before.
The Grand Jury at the last term
of court returned 129 true bills,
mostly misdemeanors, at a cost of
$1,078.50. They were in session
twelve days and examined 177
witness.
Mrs. S. J. Mathes has rented
the hoifse at the corner of Thira
and A streets, furnished it new
throughout and is again ready to
take boarders. If looking for a
boarding house see Mrs. Mathes.
The managment of the Union
Hotel was*changed Wednesday
when Mrs. Lee Nichols assumed
charge. Mrs, N. E. Mulkey and
children who have been managing
it have returned to Lewisville their
former home.
Services at Union church Sun
' day will be as follows: Sunday
school at 10 o’clock a. m.: preach
ing at 1 1 a. m, and at 7:30 p. m.
B. Y. P. U. at 4 o'clock p. m.
Everybody is urged to attend any
of these services..
Dr F. O. Mahony of this place is
on the'pro£ram at the second an- j
nual meeting of the Arkansas!
Surgeons of the St. Loclis Iron
Mountain railway which meets in
Little Rock Tuesday and Wednes
day October 21 and 22. His sub
ject is the "Ups and Downs of a
Country Doctor”.
Robert Adams one of the oldest
settlers in this county died at his
h~>me near Bolding Thursday
mor ning.
A suprise wedding took place at
the home of Squire C. Wood
Sunday afternoon at .4:00 o’clock
when that official performed the
ceremony which made Miss Mabel,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. G.
Freeman, who reside near here,
and John Harrison man and wife.
Both are young to enter into a
contract of this kind but we wish
them success and prosperity
For the biggest man in the Unit
ed States the honor must be award
ed to Harry Everett, 18 years old.
an Arkansas youth, who weighs
673 pounds. He recently traveled
from his home to Roanoke, Va..
and his great size createt a sensa
tion wherever he was seen. His
back is three feet in breadth and he
requires trousers of such a prodig
ious size that a single leg contains
cloth enough for an entire suit for
a small man.
Eminent's Boss, a Jersy cow
owned in Michigan, has established
a new world's record for Jersey
cows. Her record for the year,
under the supervision of the Mich
igan agricultural college, shows a
production of more than 18.700
pounds of milk, testing over 1,130
pounds of butter. The former Jer
sey record was held by Jacoba
Irene, who produced 17.250 pounds
of milk in a year. The new record
is also nearly 180 pounds ahead of
the champion Gurnsey record held
by Spotswood Daisy Pearl.
ELBERT BEDE SAYS
* Every person should memorize
some poetry. It has a wonderful
soothing effect upon the disposition
in times of worry.
It's your own fault if your wift
doesn’t appear as entrancing and
tempting after marriage as before
Those who wish they could do
certain things should remember
there is nothing to keep them from
trying.
There is a difference between
being breezy and being filled with
hot air.
When a woman asks her husband
what to do about a certain thing,
an argument is about to begin.
It is easier to learn things than
it is to teach others.
It is quite evident that the latest
governorship of New York isn't to
be a stepping stone to the presi
dency.
Good women don’t seem to h've
as much influence upon men as they
should. Half the reprobates in the
world seem to have the best
wives.
Some men will put up with
annovances from their dog more
readily than from their children.
■The woman who lives like she
thinks her neighbor shou’d is pretty
near a perfect woman.
A woman suffrage speaker says
that those who say Eve was made
o,ut of Adam's ribs are mistaken.
Some of the men claim it was a
mistake that she was made at all.
Doesn’t it make you feel cheap
to tell a good story to a friend, only
to have him remind you that he
was the one who told you the story
in the first place.
Don't buy your wife cut glass
and pretty dishes unlQss you cau
afford to have her invite her friends
in to use them.
About the time a baby gets big
enough not to be a trial to look
after, she is too big to be cute.
BOLTON of
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A STORY OF THE )
FREEING OF CUBA ^ >
fy Lawrence Porry
Arrfhor of “ft™ Merrtthpw’’ “IVinrp or ChsnfTeurretc.
I]lu*txatlOM* by
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CYNOPSIS.
j CTTAPTRK T—Lieutenant TTolton Is de
«ached from hit command In the navy a»
the outset of the Spanish- \merican war
| and assigned to important secret service
! duty.
hHAPT^R TT While dinlne at a Wash
j ington hotel he detects a waiter In thf4 act
of robbing a beautiful young lady, who
thanks him for his service ami gives her
tame as Miss La Tossa. a Punan patriot.
Later he meets l*er at a hall. A secret
orvlce man warns Holton that the girl
is a spy.
CHAPTT5R TII—Senor' fa Tossa chides
his daughter for her failure to secure im
portant information from Holton. She
leaves for Iter home in Cuba. Holton is
ordered to follow her.
CHAPTLK IV—They meet on t^e Tam
pa train. Miss La Tossa tells ITolton ah'
is a Cuban spy. and expresses doubt re
; gardlng the sincerity of the United States
i Holton is ordered to remain in Tampa to
i guard the troop transports.
As he sat there thinking, the train
j . topped at a small station to change
engines. When it started again the
conductor came into the smoker call
lng Holton's name. He responded, and
the conductor gave him a long, official
appearing dispatch. The message ran
as follows:
“Holton:
"Congress declared war today
Sampson will lie ordered to blockade
the Cuban coast. Troops will mobi
lize at Port Tampa. They will pro
ceed thence in tranaports to Cuba. You
will remain in Tampa, availing your
self of the Gnat fa small torpedo boat,
built for a battleship to carry} to pre
vent any atfempt to destroy trans
ports. You will watch Cuban camp at
Tampa for developments regarding
matters already brought to your atten
tion and will hold yourself in readi
ness _ to land secretly on Cuban soil
to perform intelligence work with re
gard to location and movements of
Spanish warships. You will work nil
I der direct orders of the Secretary
! [Longl. • ROOSEVELT.”
"Whew!”
Holton sat hack in his seat. So war
had come. What would happen now?
So far as he was concerned, Holton
vas likely to be well in the forefront.
He was exalted, thrilled in every liber
of his being. He put the dispatch in
his pocket and walked back through
the train to his car. As he reached
Miss La Tessa's section he found her
folding up a bit of paper and putting
it in her waist
Had she. too, received a dispatch?
Holton did not doubt it. So he wasted
no words.
"Well, it has come to pass,” he said;
"war lias been declared, and within
a few months Cuba will be as free as
:ven you could wish.” • _
"God grant it," she murmured.
Holton held out his hand.
“Good night, Miss La Tossa," he
j .aid.
She shook his hand cordially, lin
geringly even.
"Good night,” shp replied.
Her eyes sobght his, and for a mo
I ment it seemed as though she were
| going to speak. Then she turned
away.
Holton waited an instant, and then
he. too. averted his face.
“Good night,” he said again, and
| went to his own berth, where the
I porter had completed his preparations.
CHAPTER V.
Mycterlous Messages.
At. Tampa Holton met and had*
breakfast with several army engineers
who had been engaged in laying out
campsites in the pine woods back of
Tampa. Then in tlie afternoon lie pro
! needed on to Port Tampa, nine miles
i away. Ahead, rising into the blue
I sky like some dream palace in Sahara,
the Tampa Hay Hotel, with it's, brick
! walls and gleaming silver domes and
minarets.
It brought hope to his heart, and his
' steps were more springy as he hur
| ried toward the Immense structure. A
negro boy took his bag as he entered
the lobby, and the clerk smiled as he
had not done since the winter throng
left the hostelry early in March.
After a hath and shave he set out
lo the bay to view his new command.
He found her in charge of an able
seaman, Conroy, who welcomed him
with enthusiasm.
Holton stepped aboard and chuckled
when he recalled the comparatively
lnrg^ deck space of the Scorpion.
The friiat was almost a toy craft, and
yet her regulation torpedo gun on the
after deck, the machine gun forward,
and the little conning tower, heavily
plated with steel, gave add»,,iate hinj,
that she was by no means built for
I pleasure.
"It is likely we’ll be busy before
; long. Conroy,” he said. “I’ll have my
luggage brought down from the hotel
I and cotne aboard at once. How many
men have we?”
I "Only Howard, the engineer, and
! me," was the reply.
“All right. The fewer the better.
! I’ll return shortly, and perhaps take
her out."
Subscribe for The Huttig New.
Whereupon Holton stopped out with
a blithe stride. In the lobby of the
hotel he buried bis face iji a W bipg
ton newspaper and spent a half hour
absorbing the war talk of the day.
His reverie was interrupted by a
hotel page, who handed him a card
bearing the name Jose Rodriguez, Ha
vana.
“Mr. Rodriguez wishes to know if
you will do him the honor of calling
upon him in his rooms,” announced
the boy.
“Rodriguez! And who is he?”
“He’s a very wealthy Spaniard who
ias been here some time.”
"Well, then, you will tell Mr. Rodrl
uez that if he wishes to see me, he'll
nd me here.” *
"Yes, sir. I'll tell him that,” and
he hoy hurried away.
“I like the nerve of that.” growled
folton, returning to his paper.
In a few moments the page stood
before him again.
"Well?” Holton looked up impa
i iently.
"Mr Rodriguez said, sir, that he
does not wish to speak to you in the
lobby, and that it will be best for
vou if you visit him as soon as you
can in his rooms.”
Holton (lushed angrily.
“Say. bov. get this straight. You
■Mvp Mr. Rodriguez Mr. Holton's com
pliments. and say to Mr. Rodrigue®
liar Mr. Holton ways for him to go to
the devil "
The page fled, and Holton, with a
short laugh, strolled over to the
cTerkjs
"Who is this man Rodriguez who
sends peremptory messages to guests
of the hotel?" he inquired.
"A curious duffer,’ was the reply.
"Rich as get nut. and very exclusive.
He very seldom comes out of his room
Hid he seed for you?”
"Yes. lie did me the honor. By the
way, ] wish you'd have my junk taken
from my room and put abroad the
Gnat; will you?”
“Certainly, sir." Having given the
order Itoiton paid his bill, and was
about to go down to his boat when a
negro tapped hitn on the armi
Holton turned suddenly, his nose al
most colliding with a note which the
man held out almost at arm's length.
"This for me?” he asked.
“Ya-as, sub.”
Holton took it, broke open the enve
lope, and glanced hastily over the
I ^
A Negro Tapped Him on the Arm.
contents. Then, with a frown, ho
^rned to a boy.
"Say, youngster,” ho commanded,
"take me right up to Mr. Rodriguez's,
room, will you?"
On reaching the third floor, the bov
led the way down the hall, stopping
before a door at the end of the corri
dor.
"Here it is, sir."
•All right." Holton gave the lad a.
coin and rattled his knuckles agains*
the panel
The door was opened by an intelli
gent-appearing Cuban, who conducted
the caller into a luxuriously furnished
reception-room and asked hint to sit.
down. Soon a door opened and a tall,
sallow man, handsome in a languid
Latin way. cnnfionted him.
"Ah. Senor Holton. You honor me,"
he murmured.
"Then you are Mr. Rodriguez?”
asked Holton abruptly.
"Yes, yes,” responded thp man, who
was clad in a well-made suit of crash
with a crimson sash about his waist.
“I repeat, I am battered at your visit.”
"I am glad of that,” Holton re
joined sillily; "hut I come in response
to a note stating that matters of in
terest to a Miss l a Tessa were press
ing. t^ill ■ ou do me the kindness •>
enliyhten me as >o the manner in
which iny acquaintance with Miss La
’loses interests yovf?"
The Spaniard bowed. "You are di
rect, like ali Americans." he said.
“Well, be it so."
He took from a table a bottle of
very rare Abuelo Oloroso, and poured
» little in a glass. He pushed it
toward Holton.
“l drink,” he said, smilingly bril
liantly, “to Miss La Tossa, and may
she have a most, comfortable trip on
the Gnat.”
Holton left, his glass poised.
“What, on earth are you talking
about!” be cried.
“Miss La Tossa, as you know,” the
Spaniard said, “is in Tampa.”
“Yes, 1 know that,” said Holton.
"She came down on my train."
“It is not good for her to he here.”
"The climate?” queried Holton, dis
ingenuously.
"No, not. the climate,” was the re
ply, so sharp and so spirited, so much
in contrast to Rodriguez's previous
manner of speech that the naval offi
cer started. “Not the climate. She
is engaged in activities here that your
government regards as most perni
cious.”
"YTes, and your own government?"
came hack Holton.
“My government,” Rodriguez smiled
genially, “happens to be your govern
ment.”
So saying, be handed Holton a pa
per which, as the officer read it, con
vinced him beyond question or cavil
Hint. Senor Rodriguez was none other
Gian an attache of the United States
State Department, whose name was
anathema to evety Spaniard or loyal
< 'uban.
He was, in sooth, none other than
Ramon del Key, a spy, with neadouar
ters in Washington, who, although a
naturalized American, had done more
effective, if unobtrusive, work for
1 ’uha I,ibre than most other Cuban
patriots roiled into one.
Holton rose and. with a smile of
genuine pleasure, thrust out his hand
‘‘I have heard of you." he said; "and
I'm glad to know you."
“Thank you. I, too. have heard of
you. But. to business. Miss Da Tossa
must not stay here, and yet her re
moval must be brought about, quietly,
for various reasons. It is best that
Miss Da Tossa he transported at on* e
to Cuba on the Gnat, very quietly and
ntatioiisly, where agents of min*
■ ill meet her and conduct her to hei
istate in the province of Santiago.
Dnce there, I promise you she'll not
leave in a hurry. Tour orders will
come to you from Washington within a
[ very few hours. In the meantime I
suggest, you have everything ready.”
"I see—and Miss Da Tossa?”
"Miss l*a Tossa will he escorted
aboard the Gnat at seven o’c'ock pre
c sely, and now l bid you good day
and thank ><#u.”
“Thank you," and Holton left, won
dr ring if the man realized all he war
th.inking him for.
He lost nb time in making his way
to tlie Gnat, where he astonished
Conroy and Howard by suinmonint
them to the cabin.
“Is there any way,” he said, “it
which this room can be made more
comfortable for a young lady V’
Neither of the two men spoke, re
garding I toitofl with open-mouthed as
tonishment.
"It's this way," smiled Holton, “the
G lat’s been ordered to lake a young
Ci ban woman over to Cuba, and—and
want her to be comfortable.”
Tlie faces of the two men radiated
curiosity, but Holton said nothing fur
ther to enlighten them.
Promptly at seven o’clock thai
evening a closed carriage drove rap
idly down the long^harf and stopped
abreast the gangway leading to the
Gnat. The door wits flung open, and
del Roy and an American, their arms
linked through those of Miss Da Tossa,
descended and without a word walked
I down tlie pluck and aboard the tor
pedo boat.
Holton met them by the conning
tower and lifted his cap.
‘‘How do you do. Miss I.*a Tossa?”
he said, smiling in greeting.
She dashed a vague look at him, and
lowered her eyes without speaking *
Del Rey bowed in a courtly man
inr to the girl. “I trust yon will have
l pleasant voyage, and I beg to apol
gize for my seemin'* rudeness.”
The captive deigned no reply, and
timed her back as the two men re
raced their steps up the gangway.
A few minutes later the diminutive
■ nrship was churning her way out
1 hroiigh the hay
Holton turned to the girl, who stood
llsconsolately, viewing the re' edaig
shore.
“I am sorry. Miss T,a Tossa, hut you
will recognize, of course, that I am
doing nothing hut obeying orders,
which are to see that you are very
comfortable* and agreeably enter
tained until you reach Cuba.”
She evidently had determined not
to talk to her captor, but changed her
mind with womanlike suddenness.
“I shall thank you if I am com
fortable, hut I slia'l thank you still
more if you give over any idea of
entertaining me. You may he sure
that the less 1 see of you the bt’tt ’r I
shall be pleused.”
“If you will follow me. Miss Da
Tossa,” he said, with sudden stiffen
ing of mauner, "1*11 show you your
cabin."
The dark came roiling across the
sea. It was a wonderful night, a night
spangled with constellations and undu
lating black velvet waters, which
picked up tlie liitle torpedo craft, hold
I ing her high and then sending her
gliding silently down long inclines, a'
the bottom of \> hic't slip s* exited to
nestle a moment before her screw
kicked her up another quivering hill
Some Mme later the lia-h'a of a crab
which iiad bt en following astern of the
Gnat began to creep closer and closer
aboard, and dark clouds of smoke, hi
, lowing from three squat funnels, blot
ted out the northeastern horizon.
■ Holton saw the vessel If,*, ;(|iH fas
tly recognized her as a torpedo hoar,
destroyer. His only doubt was as to
her nationality.
Tills was speedily settled, for sud
denly Ardois lights began to blink
from the bridge, interpreting which
Holton learned that the destroyer
Itainbridge wisiied to speak to the
(In at..
In a few minutes the Bainbridge
! swished up and the sharp voice of
j I ieutenant Commander Jameson sound
ed from the bridge.
“On board the Gnat!”
“Aye, Aye!” yelled Horton.
There followed a silence which last
ed until the destroyer slid her high,
sharp bow and conical forward deck
alongside the little torpedo boat.
Jameson jumped aboard and after re
turning Holton's salute he said for
mally:
“I have orders to take a Miss I a
Toasa from the Gnat and land her
at -well never mind where."
“Very good, sir. Any orders for
I me?”
"Yes, here they are." Jameson took
an envelope from his overcoat-pocket
and handed it to Holton. "Now, then.
I'll take the girl.”
But the girl. In fact, did not wait
to be taken. Site stepped forward
mos' gracefully, and addressing Jame
son, said:
"I am ready; 1 am quite happy at
my change of prisons and my shift of
jailers.'’
"Ha, ha!” laughed the prosaic
Jameson, nudging Holton in the ribs,
and offering his arm to the girl who
walked up a small ladder to the deck
of the destroyer without so much as
a glance at Holton.
With a blast of her siren the Bain
bridge Hhot on Iter way to Cuba, while
tie (That made a long sweep and
timed upon her course.
While this maneuver was in prog
ess Holton, still Hushing with veva
ion, ripped open the envelope and
ead the latest phase of what he had
•ome to regard as a game of battiu
,ore and shuttlecock.
Shorn of technical verbiage, the or
lers which were signed by the new
ssistant spcmtaiy. Allen, instructed
■ jlton to lose himself and the Gnat
oiiong fb' -t. ' '^olau u keys of
st 11*11 r11 sue') Hmr. ms tfi<* transport.!
"re gathered at I’ort Tutupa, when
e was then to guard them from night
Hacks which might comp sneaking
n under cover of tbj darkness from
eawi.rd.
CHAPTER VI
Action Indeed.
Holton’s orders were to keep himself
I ind tile Gnat hidden, and this lie did
I <0 effectually (hat to all intents and
purposes he might just as well have
gone down with his little craft and
crew in Nicholas Channel.
At length, when he had begun to
think he wbr immured for life in this
blazing little byway, came the welcome
j orders to proceed to Port Tampa,
there to carry out Instructions already
in his possession, namely, the piotec
tion of transport from attack !>'• « a
I ter. With light hearts the three men
got their craft under way, ran up the
bay, and in good time drew in under
! the counter of a steamship, lying near
) the end of the long slip.
It was as though a magieiitn’s w n*d
had been waved over *bp port Hong
the slip day transport after transport,
| nearly a score of them, the hi: cj^
smoke of others draping the horizon
in long, grimy clouds Freight trains
were rumbling up and down the track^"
and officers of various departments of
j the army, their shirts open at the
I throat, dusty, sweaty, hot, hurried
| everywhere.
I “It surely looks like business,” chuo
kled Holton as he slipped on his uni
form coat over a marine's drab shirt
and prepared to visit the hotel.
l,ife at the hotel was made more
, brilliant by the arrival of Shatter and
his staff, but Holton, who had had all
the brilliancy and inactivity he want
ed. found himself praying fervently for
orders that would send him out as
officer on one of the vessels of Ad
miral Sampson's North Atlantic
Squadron. Hut no such orders came,
and Holton hnd just about attuned his
mind to a weary grind to last at least
several months longer, when some
thing occurred to change very inateii
: i"v the attitude of the government in
regard to the movement of the troops
i as Tampa.
In short. Admiral Sampson cabled
that after a mysterious voyage r.cross
the Atlantic ocean and Caribbean sea.
Admiral Corvern and Ins squad! on
of battleships and cruisers were bot
tled up in Santiago, lie could not at
tack thepi because of the forts and
mines, and he requested that troops
he F<oit at once to co-operate with the
navy from fhe land side
It was then that, the Secretary of
War wired General Shaffer to proceed
forthwith to Cubs.
Flat-cars laden with General Ran
dolph's artillery, rambled down the
slip, and the puns were hoisted into
yawning ports in the 3id>'s <>f the trans
ports; provisions, supplies of all sorts
bore them company, and no one doubt
ed any longer that at last the army
had received its bid ^o the field of bat
tle.
(TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK)
No. 666
This ii p prescription prepared especially
for MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVIR.
Five or six doses will break any case, and
if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not
return. It acts on the liver better than
Calomel and does not fitipe or sicken 25c
Old l)V.» M'S f V \l thn dTlJi
1UJ lor 15 cenU.
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