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Hardwood <T5 cents per load un
til September 1st. T. F. Ashcroft.
5 or 6 doses 666 will cure any
case of fever and chills. Price, 25c.
Miss Dorris Carlton, of Velasco.
Texas, is the guest of Mrs. G. 7.
T .ompson.
Deputy.U. S. Marshal J. E. New
ton. of Camden, spent Tuesday
night at Huttig.
Miss Olhe Davis, of Bernice, La.,
is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. C. J.
Pryor, this week.
Mrs. Thos Fomby and son, of
Waldo, are the guests of tier sister,
Mrs. J. G. Benson.
Mrs. G. W. Clarkson and chil
dren, of Dumas, are here the guests
of Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Pilkilton.
Mrs. E. R, Thompson and chil
dren left Saturday morning for
Springdale to visit her parents.
A. G. Fish was at Monroe Sun
day visiting A. F. Landers, who is
in St. Francis sanitarium there.
W. H. Moore and family arrived
home Saturday from a visit with
relatives at Washington and Nash
ville. __
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Thos. Green early Monday morn
ing. Tom says he weighed ten or
twelve pounds.
Marshal T. F. Ashcroft left
Thursday morning for Texarkana
on business connected with the
federal court.
Store Manager D. M. Clowney
) left last Sunday for St. Louis to
purchase fall and winter goods for
the company store.
— - - Skin Dfcrcnt Cured.
Sold under the positive guarantee
to refund the money. Hunt's Cure
has become the standard remedy
for skin diseases. You run no risk
in giving it a trial, because it is
guaranteed. Ask your druggist.
^Cashier Louis Cartall left Tues
dav for Pulaski Tenn., to join his
wife who is visiting her parents
there, for a week’s vacation.
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Mrs. A. L. Pace, of Farmervill-,
and Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Marony,
of Oakland, were guests of H. P.
Heard and family this week.
Dr. F. O. Mahony has entered
i to a partnership with Dr. R. A
Hilton, of El Dorado, and will move
to that city in the near future.
The Hutiig baseball team met
defeat las1, Saturday and Sunday
afternoon in Monroe by a picked
team from their city league. The
score was 10 to 0 and 9 to 1.
Manager L. A. Bodine, of the
Wisconsin Lumber Company, left
Tuesday morning for Lee Center,
111., in response to a telegram noti
fying him of his father's death.
Rev. John Stanley Thomas, pas
tor of the Presbyterian church at
El Dorado, occupied the pulpit at
the Methodist church here both
Sunday morning and evening and
delivered two able sermons which
were highly appreciated by good
audiences.
Tne Woman's Horne Mission So
ciety met Monday afternoon with
nineteen members and four visitors
present. Leader, Mrs. Hoskins.
Prayer by Mrs. Rushing. Study:
The lesson given in the July num
ber of the Missionary Voice. Mrs.
Paddock gave in her membership.
Architect Jennings, of Fort
Smith, is directing a large crew if ^
men in constructing a dormitory to
accommodate 75 girls at Arkansas
Cumberland College. Clarksville,
Arkansas, and also a dining hall to
serve twice as many. These build
ings are to be completed before the
college opening September 22nd.
Mrs. Lou Millstead escaped a
serious injury Sunday nigfct when
the seat she was riding on was
thrown from the rear of a spring
wagon near the Harper Springs
church. It was thought at first
that she was badly injured, but no
bones were broken and she is im
proving daily.
5 or 6 doses 666 will break ary
case of fever and chills. Price, 25c
Among the out of town guests
who attended the L.ucas-Pitts wed
ding on Sunday afternoon, were:
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Lucas and fam
ily, of Logtown, La.; Mrs. J. 0.
Switzer and Messrs. Leon Hen
dricks and John Williams, of Mon
roe; J. E Ball, of Arkansas City: j
Geo. Emo-y. of Enos. La., and E
Edw. Hall, of Memphis.
Notice.
Our new gh is no*w ready. It
has a huller that makes the cotton
bring from one-eighth to one-fourth
of a cent more than one'without
the huller. Price for ginning will
be: Cotton, one-twentieth: or for
cash. 50c per hundred gross we ght
of bale. Will buy seed at the high
est market price. Satisfaction
guaranteed. Give us a chance.
We will pay a premium for the first
bale and gin it free.
Neel &. Brasher.
Stop lh.it Hnpumjtism.
Get a bottle of Hunt's Lightning
Oil. This is the remedy that every
one is talking about because it st ps
the pain so quickly. For neural
ia and headaches there is nothing
better. Ask your druggist.
Baptist Church Notice.
Sunday school at 9:45 a. m.
Preaching at 1 1:00 a. m. and 8:00
p. m. Sunbeam Band at 3:00 p.
m. B. Y. P U. at 7:00 p. m. A
cordial invitation is extended all to
attend these services.
Rev. W. T. King. Pastor
State of Ohio, city of Toledo, lg
Luras County, I
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is
senior partner of the firm of K. J. Cheney
& Co., doing business In the City of To
ledo, County and State aforesaid, and
that said firm will pay the sum of ONE
HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and ev
ery case of Catarrh that cannot he cur'd
by the use of HALL'S CATARRH CURE.
FRANK J. CHENEV.
Sworn to before me and subscribed In
my presence, this 6th day of December.
A. D. 1SS6.
(Seal) A. W. GLEASON,
Notary Public.
Halt’s Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally
and acts directly upon the hlood and mu
cous surfaces of the system. Scud for
testimonials, free.
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Sold by all Druggists, 76c.
Take Ball's Family Pills for constipation.
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ple of the cities and towns was ahso
lutely necessary In order to carry the
proposed measure, it would seem only
fair and just that the voters of the
cities and towns should give their
support at the polls to the measure
advocated by the rural voters.
The principal .gainers under the
Pond Issue Amendment will lie the
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not now, under the existing laws,
raise the funds to build water and
sewor systems. The property valua
tion there is not now sufficient to
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years, which will give them cash for
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The Land of Broken Promises
A Stirring Story of the
Mexican Revolution
=By DANE COOLIDGE=
Author of
-THE FIGHTING FOOL," “HIDDEN WATERS,"
“THE TEXICAN,” Etc.
Illustrations by DON J. LAVIN
"onvriirhr 1914 bv Frank A. *
A story of border Mexico, vivid.
Intense, such as has never before
been written, Is this one of Ameri
can adventurers into the land of
manana. Texan, mining engineer,
Spanish senor and senorita, peon,
Indian, crowd its chapters with
clear-cut word pictures of busi
ness, adventure and love, against
a somber background of wretched
armies marching and counter
marching across a land racked by
revolution and without a savior.
Several minutes later the form of
Don Juan appeared at the lower door,
and in no uncertain tones he requested
them to cease.
"The Senor Aragon Informs me,” he
said, "that your inuuic annoys him.”
"Well, let him come to the balcony
and ssy his ‘buenas noches,' ” an
swered Phil resentfully.
“The gentleman refuses to do that!”
responded Don Juan briefly.
“Then let him go to bed!” replied
De I.ancey, strumming a few synco
pated chords; "I'm singing to his
daughter.”
At that Don Juan rame down off the
porch in his slipjfers and they engaged
in a protruded argument.
"What, don’t I get a word?” de
manded Phil grievously, “not u pleas
ant look from anybody? ’Swee-eet
Gracia Waved Him Good-Night.
honey-bee, be sweet to me!'” he
pleaded, turning pathetically to the
lady's balcony; and then, with a sud
d°ii flourish, a white handkerchief ap
I peared through the crack of the shut
ters and Gracia waved him good night.
“Enough, Don Juan!” he cried, lay
ing down the guitar with a thump;
"this ends our evening's entertain
ment!”
After paying and thanking the stolid
musicians Phil joined Bud and the
pair adjourned to their room, where,
in tlie intervals of undressing, Phil
favored the occupants of the adjoining
r'partments with au aria from "Beau
tiful Doll."
But for all such nights of romance
iiicl music there is always a morning
afterward; and a fine tenor voice set
to ragtime never helped much in the
development of a mine. Though Bud
lad remained loyally by iiis friend in
liis evening serenade he, for one, never
forgot for a moment that they were
in Fortuna to work the Eagle Tail
and not to win the hearts of Spanish
Mexican senoritas. no matter how at
'ractive they might be.
Bud was a practical man who, if he
•iver made love, would doubtless do
t in a perfectly businesslike way,
ithout hiring any string bands. But
t. the same time he was willing to
iake some concessions.
“Wei!, go ahead and get your sleep
then.” he growled, after trying three
times in Hip morning to get his purd
ner up; "Ijn going out to liie mine!”
Then, w ith a saddle gun under his
knee and Ills six shooter hung at his
hip, ho rode rapidly down the road,
turning out from time to time to let
long cavalcades of mules string by.
The dead-eyed arrleros, each with his
combined mule-blind and whiplash
swinging free, seompd to have very
little on their minds but their pack
lashings, and yet they must be three
days out from Moctoziima.
■ Their mules, too, were well loaded
with the products of the hot country
—fanegas of corn in red leather sacks,
oranges and fruits in hand made
crates, panoches of sugar in balanced
frames, long joints of sugar-cane for
the dulee pedlers, and nothing to Indi
cate either haste or flight.
Three times he let long pack trains
go by without a word, and then at last,
overcome by curiosity, he inquired
about the revoltosos.
“What revoltosos?” queried the old
man to whom he spoke.
I "Why, t,hc men of Bernardo Bravo,”
answen d . uu; "the tinin unu are
marching to take Moctezunia.”
"When I left Moctezuina," returned
the old man politely "all was quiet—
there were no revolt! . os. Since then,
1 cannot say.”
"Rut the soldiers!" or' d Bud.
“Surely you saw them! They were
inarching to fight the rebels.”
“Perhaps so,” shrugged the arrlero,
laying the lash of his topojo across i
the rump of a mule; “but. 1 know noth
ing about it."
“No," muttered Rud, as he continued
on his way; "and I'll bet nobody else
does."
Inquiry showed that in this, too, ho
was correct. From those who traveled
fast and from those who traveled slow
he received the same wondering an
swer—the country might be filled with
revoltoscs; but, as for them, they
knew nothing about it.
Not until lie got back to Fortuna
and the busy federal telegraph wire
did he hear any more, news of r;u; in©
and bloodshed, and the light, which
dawned upon him then was gradually
dawning upon the whole town.
It was a false alarm, given out for
purposes of state and the "higher ixdl
tirs” with which Mexico is cursed, and
the most that was ever seen of Ber
nardo Bravo and his lawless men wan
twenty miserable creatures, half
starved. but with guns in their hands,
who had come down out of the moun
tains east of Mociezuma and killed a
few cows for beef.
thoroughly disgusted, end yet
vaguely alarmed at this hit of pjiera
bouffe warfare, Ftiol set b ar-elf reso
lutely to work to bunt up men for
their mine. and. as many poor people
were out of employment becroise of
the general stagnation of bnsitue-s, be
st on had ten Mexicans at bis cell.
Then, as Phil bad dropped out. of
sight, be ordered supplies at the store
and engaged Cruz Mendez—<who had
spent his fortune in three days—to
pack the goods out on his rrnlrvs.
They were ready to start the rsext
i morning if Ue Lancey could be found
I to order JJje powder and toots, and as
the afternoon wore on and- no Phvl
appeared. Hud went on a long hum
which finally discovered him in the
balcony of their window, making signs
U\ the language of the "beat,” as «
man who flirts with a woman in, Mex-.
lco Is called.
"Say, Phil," he hailed, disregarding
' his pardner's obvious preoccupation;
! "break away for a minute and toll me
! what kind of powder to get. to brr, k
that schist—the store closes at lire
o’clock, and—”
He thrust bis,head out the door an
he spoke and paused, abashed
Through the half-closed portal' of the
next balcony but one he beheld tlm
golden hair of Gracia Aragon, and she ,
fixed her brown eyes upon him with '
a dazzling, mischievous smile.
"O ho!” murmured Hud, laying*! com
pelling hand on I)e Lancey and hack
ing swiftly out of range; "so this is
what you’re up to—talking signs! But
say, Phil,” he continued, be ckoriing
him peremptorily with a jerk, of his
head. "I got ten men hired ;;nd a lot,
of grub bought, and if you dnn't pick
out that mining stuff we’re going t >
lose a day. So get the lady to excuse
>ou and come on now.”
"In a minute.” pleaded Phil, and he
went at the end of his allotted time,
and perhaps It was the imp of jealousy
that put strength into Hooker's arm.
“Well, that’s all right,” said Bud, as
Phi] began his laughing excuses; "but
you ‘want to remember the Maine,
pardner we didn't come down here to.
play the bear. When tliey’s any love
making to be done I want to be in
on it. And you want to remember that
promise you made mo—you si id you
wouldn't have a tiling to do with tin*
Aragon%niti'it unless I was with you!"
“Why, you aren’t—you aren't jeafc
ous, are you, Bud?”
"Yes, I’m jealous!’ answered Honker
harshly; “jealous as the devil! Au»5
i want you to keep that promise, 800?"
“Aw, Bud—” began l>e I.anoev in-,
credulously; but Hooker alleiK-ed him
with a look. Perhaps he was really
jealous, or perhaps he only said so to
have his way, but Phil saw that h>
was in earnest, ami he went quietly
by bis side.
But love bad set his brain In a
whirl, and be thought no more of IPk
promise—only of some subtler way ot’
meeting his inamorata, some w*y
which Bud would fail to see.
CHAPTER XIII.
For sixty days and more, while the
weather had been turning from c6b'
to warm and they had born laborin' .
feebly to clear away the great slid"
of loose rock that covered up the
ledge, the Kagle 'i ail mine had re
mained a mystery.
Whether, like the old Eagle Tail of j
frontier fable, it was so rich that cutty j
the eagle's head was needed to tun*
the chunks into tweuty-dollar gold
pieces; or whether, like many othea
frontier mines, it was nothing but ar.
hole in the ground, was a matter stilfl
to be settled. And Bud, for one, wun
determined to gpftle it quickly.
“Conte on," he said, as Phil/he* A
tated to open up the w\iy~io uieletm' |
"we got a month, maybe less, to got to |
the bottom of this; and then the hills
will be lousy with rebels. If they's i
nothing here, we want to find out'
about It quick and skip—and if we
strike it, by grab, they ain't enough
red flaggers In Sonora to pry me ;
loose from it. So show these hombres
where to work and we'll be up against
rock by the end of the week.”
The original Kagk> Tail tunnel had j
been driven Into the side of a steep ;
hill; so steep, in fact, that the loose |
shale stretched in long shoots from
the base of the frowning porphyry
dikes that crowned the tops of the '•
hills to the bottom of the canyon. On i
either side of the discovery gulch
sharp ridges, perforated by the gopher- |
holes of the Mexicans and the ancient J
workings of the Spaniards, ran di- j
rectly up the hill to meet the contact,
nut it was against the face of the big j
ridge itself that Kruger had driven j
ins drift and exploded his giant blast |
of dynamite, and the whole slope had
been altered and covered with a slide
of wick.
Against this slide, in the days when
they were marking time, Hud and his
pardner had directed their energies,
throwing tiie loose stones aside, build
ing up walls against the slim and
clearing Che way to the solid schist.
There, somewhere beneath the jumble
of powder-riven rock, lay the ledge
which, if they found it. would make
them rfrh; and now with single jack
and drill. th°y attacked the Jngt lmgp
fragments, blasting them into pieces
and groveling deeper until they could
strike tlie* contact, where the schist
and porphyry met. and the gold spray
had spewed up between.
It was slow work: slower than they
tiad thought, and the gang of Mexi
cans that they had hired for muckers
were marvels of ineptitude. Left to
themselves, they accomplished noth
ing, since each problem they encoun
| tered seemed to present to them «nne
; element of insuperable difficulty, to
solve which they either went into cau
cus or waited for the bote. Mean
; while they kept themselves awake by
I smoking cigarettes and telling stories
about Berhardo Bravo.
To the Mexicans of Sonora Bernardo
Bravo ~was“the personification of all
the malevolent quaMties—he being a
bandit chief who had turned first gen
eral and then rebel under Madero—
and the fact that he had at last been
driven out of Chihuahua and therefore
1 -over into Sonora, made his malevo
lence all the more imminent.
Undoubtedly, somewhere over to the
east, where the Sierras towered like a
blue wall, Bernardo and his outlaw
^followers were gathering for a raid,
and Urt' raid would bring death to SO
ilOfa .
1 He wps a bad man, this Bernardo
Bravo, and if half of the current sto
ries were true, he killed men when
ever they failed to give him money,
.and was iw?ver too hurried to take a
f.-iir daughter of the country up behind
?n:m, provided she took Mb fancy.
' Yes. -surely lie'was a bad man—but
thj t did: not clear1 away the rock.
1'or the first weetk Phil took charge
of .the gang, urging, directing ahd ca
jolins them, and the work went mer
rily on, though rather slowly. The
MexVans liked to work for Don Felipe,
he wvs so polite and spoke such good
Spanislt; but at the end of the week
•tt devek>i>od that Bud could get more
results out of them.
Every time Phil started to explain
.anythin?; to one Mexican nil the oth
■ere stopped to lU'ten to hitn, and that
took time. But Bud's favorite way of
directing a man was by grunts and
signs and bending his own bark to
1 the task. Also, he refused to under
stand Spanish, and rut off all long
, winded explanations and suggestions
by an Impatient motion to go to work,
which the trabajadores obeyed with
ibrugs^and grins.
J3o IVn Felipe turned powder-man
and' bxicki-mith, sharpening up the
drill* sit the little forge they had fash
lotted and loading the holes with dy
mimfe.i.v when it became necessary to
bneak a rock, while Bud bossed the
unwilling Mext'uns.
Til am old tuxL"el behind their tent
they set: a heavy gate, and behind it
they . stored their precious powder.
Then!, came I tv portable forge and the
black! mith Sinn1. just inside the mouth
of tiie cawe, ami the tent backed up
agai’is l it for protection. For if there
is nu ono tldng, mud. to horses that
the irebels are wont Jo steal, it is
gi:<nt. powder to blow uivsculverts with,
or !t> . lay on the counters of timorous
coir'try merchants and frig4^#i them
intx making .contributions.
y,s , for their h or see. Bud kept them
bef It 3 and hob\’< d, close to the house,
an i *> one ever saw him without his
ip n. Tn theimort’fng, when he got up,
It , t( pk it from under his pillow and
t ting lit on this 2>*lt, and there It
j .lavtsifunt il bedtime.*
lie Also kurpt a. shin* watch on the
trail, (above and belmv, and what few
men Sid pass thrtmigln were conscious
of hiii eye. Therefore! it was all the
.uore Kiurprining when, one day, look
ing nr* suddenly rroni heaving at a
— ;it roa'bjte. eas.Ute bi^, Leoui. «iyi
TerT Amigo, gazing down at fPuii from
the cut bank.
Yes, it was the same man, but with
dilterence—his rifle and cartridge
belt'’ were absent and his clothes were
torn by the brush. But the s&rno
good-natured, competent smile was
there, and after a few words with Bud
lie leaped nimbly down the bank and
laid hold upon the ;ook. They pulled
together, and the houlder that bad
balked Bud's gang of Mexicans moved
easily for the two of them.
Then Amigo seized a crowbar ard
slipped it into a cranny and showed
them a few things about moving rocks.
For half an hour or’more he worked
along, seemingly bent on displaying
his skill, then he sat down on the
bank and watched the Mexicans with
tolerant, half amused eyes.
If he was hungry he showed it only
by the cigarettes he smoked, and
Hooker, studying up the chances he
would take by hiring a deserter, let
him wait until he caine to a decision.
"Oyez. Amigo,” he hailed at lest,
and, rubbing his hand around on his
stomach, he smiled questioningly,
whereat the Yaipii nodded hts head
avidly.
‘‘Stawano!” said Hooker, “ven." And
he left his Mexicans to dawdle as they
would while be led the Indian to ramp.
There he showed him the coffee pot
and the kettle of beans by the fire, set
out a slab of Dutch oven bread and a
88'It of jerked beef, seme stewed fruit
and n can of sirup, and left him to do
his worst.
In the course of half a?i hour or so
he came back and found the Taqul
sopping up sirup with tile last of the
bread and humming a little tune. So
they sat down and smoked a cigarette
and came to the business at hand.
“Where you go?” inquired Bud; but
Amigo only shrugged enigmatically.
"You like to work?” continued Bud,
and the Indian broke into a smile of
assent.
“Muy bien," said Hooker with final
ity; "I give Mexicans two dollars a
day—I give you four. In that enough?"
“Si,” nodded the Ya<jui, and without
more words he followed Hud back to
the cut. There, in half a day, he ac
complished more than alt, the MexW
cane put together, leaping boldly up
the bank to dislodge hanging boulders,
boosting them by main strength up
onto the ramshackle tram they had
constructed, and trundling them out
to the dump with the shove of a mighty
hand.
Fie was a willing worker, using his
head every iniuute; but though he waa
Bud Was Doing the Blacksmithlng.
such a hustler and made their puny
efforts seem so ineffectual by coni pari*
son. he managed in some mysterious
way to gain the Immediate approval
of the Mexicans. Perhaps it was his
all-pervasive good nature, or the re
spect inspired* by liis hardihood; per
haps the qualities of natural leader
ship which had made him a picked
man among hia brother Yaquis. But
when, late in the afternoon, Bud came
bark .from n trip to the tent he found
Amigo in charge of the gang, heaving
and struggling and making motions
with his head.
“Good enough!” he muttered, after
watching him for a minute in silence,
and leaving the new boss in command,
he went back and started supper.
That was the beginning of a new
day at the hlagle Tail, and when lie
Lancey came back from town—whith
er he went whenever he could conjura
up an errand—he found that, for once,
he had not been miseed^.
CONTINUED IN NEXT ISSUE.
Close by Canton, China is the hill
called Queen of Heaven mountain, oil
the lower slopes of which is ’he
famous City of tlm Dead. There bodies
wait in their coffins sometimes sev
eral years before the priests are able
to determine an auspicious day for
Interment. ,