THE HIITTIG NEWS.
Published Every Saturday at Ituttlg, Ark
C. A. BERRY, Editor and Proprietor.
Entered as second class matter May 3. 190? at
the postoffice at Huttig. Ark., under the act of Con
gress of March 3. 1879.
Subscription Price, $1.00 per year in advance
Otherwise $1.50 per year.
Advertising rates will be Furnished on Application.
Saturday July 12, 1913.
TOWN OEFICIALS.
Tne following are the duly elected of
ficials of the incorporated town of Hut
tig:
Mayor—H C. Rushing.
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.
That yell of anguish you hear
every once in a while these days is
the howl of despair of some G. O.
P. office holder being pried loose
from a twenty year job.
Cut the weeds, swat the fly and
clean up the premises. Remember
all these things in connection with
the hot weather breed sickness. A
stitch in time sometimes saves a
doctor’s bill and perhaps a life.
Germany has passed an income
tax law which is far more stringent
and far-reaching than the Act of
Congress which causes so much
discussion. All incomes over $1,
250 are to be taxed one to eight
per cent, that the glory of Germany
as a fighting nation may not fade
The arming of the Kasier's minions
is becoming a burden for the Ger
man people that may be intolerable
one of these.
Kind words and boquets are
more appreciated by the living
than the dead. It is not our in
tentions to lessen the honors that
we pay the departed, but we would
like to increase the flowers that
we give the living. When eyes
look loving and laughter and when
hands can press ours in friendliness,
is when words of commendation
can do most good. There are
t mes when a word of praise for
work well done will do a wealth of
good, and spur one on to greater
endeavor. Many weary workers
fail because of the pressing call of
business. There is power in ap
plause and strength in praise.
Don't wait until your friends are
laid in the silent grave, and
their dull eyes look no more
upon the beautiful earth and the
starry heavens before you speak
the words you have in your heart
and should have uttered long be
fore. Words are but simple things
but they can make or mar our
lives and lives of others.
Sermon on Luck.
This is from the Village Deacon:
“I’ll tell you about this thing of
luck. It comes to the person who
keeps the weeds cut down so that
it can find him. Luck sometimes
walks up and collars an idler, but is
more apt to nab the man who is busy
doing the best he can all the time.
Luck isn’t lying around on the
streets allowing the loafers to cover
it with whittlings. Neither is it in
a stream waiting for some lazy
fisherman to hook it. Luck gener
ally goes hand in hand with indus
try. If you sit around and wait for
luck to hand you a bag of gold and
make you a rich man you ard pretty
apt to end your days in the poor
1 ojse. A four leaf clover will
bring more luck to the busy fellow
than it will to the loafer. It may
seem a little for a man to work
hard for a long time and then have
his earnings all swept from him at
a single stroke, but it is better to
have had it and lost it than never
to have had it at all. And another
thing; luck isn’t labled. So it will
do you no good to stand around and
look for it. When luck starts out
to look for you, you won't be able
to hide from it. Go to work.”
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USE NEXT DOOR
Caught in Trap, But She Found
Out All About the Mysterious
Neighbor.
By GRACE KERRIGAN.
(Copyright. 1913, by the McClure News
paper Syndicate.)
Next door to the Needham’# was a
cottage with an acre of ground around
It. The owner had died Just as the
cottage was ready for occupancy, and
It had stood tenantless for more than
a year. There were all sorts of sto
ries as to why, as the agent who had
it in charge lived in another town,
but at length there came a young man
who announced himself as Mr. Paul
Burton, and his errand to take a year’s
lease.
The young man met Mr. and Mrs.
Needham, and he might have met their
daughter Grace at the same time had
she been home that day. Nothing was
said as to the young man’s occupation
or family, and the mystery was soon
deeper than ever.
No mother, sister or housekeeper
come with him.
He did not engage board anywhere.
He did not engage a woman to come
In and do the cooking and other work.
He did not seek to make acquaint
ances.
He evidently had no trade or profes
sion.
And when the Needham’s and others
had sized that all up and wondered
and wondered there was something
else. At the rear of the deep lot he
built a small house. It was hardly
larger than an ordinary bedroom. If
there had been any children It would
have been pronounced a play-house
There was no dog, and so It could not
be a dog house.
A week after the house had been
finished, and while the neighbors were
holding their breath, an express wagon
drove up and delivered a goose In a
crate. It w'as a gander—a pure white
gander, and those who got a close look
said It was an old patriarch who was
living out the last half of his century.
"A goose?” queried Mrs. Needham.
"Why, It’s months and months to
Thanksgiving.”
“He may be a vivisectlonlst and is
going to carve her up alive,” re
marked Mr. Needham.
“He’s got a goose for a companion!”
sneered Grace. "That’s what might be
looked for In a young man of his
parts!”
The old goose was taken out to the
goose-house and provided with excel
sior to lie on. dishes to eat and drink
from, and young Mr. Burton visited
him half a dozen times a day to ask
about his health. It was said that he
even got up twice a night to go out
there and speak a word or two of
cheer to hla pet.
"That young man is off In hla top
itory!” said some.
"The law ought to step In!” said
jthers.
"If he Isn’t making counterfeit
money then why all this secrecy?”
isked the wise ones with a wink.
No letters came for Mr. Burton. He
answered no idle questions of the
tradesmen. A minister called to Invite
him to attend church, but his ring was
Ignored. The mystery had lasted for
three months when Miss Grace Need
ham threw down her book one even
ing and turned to her father with:
"I declare that if I wore you I
wouldn’t stand It another day!”
"Stand what?”
“You know what I mean. I wouldn't
stand this case next door. I'd have a
talk with Mr. .Burton and ask him
what he means by such conduct.”
“As how?”
"As living alone ”
“That’s his business. T choose to
live as I live and that is my business.”
"But he lias to cook for himself.”
“Yes?”
"And make his bed. and sweep and
dust.”
"Yes?”
“And he has an old gander for com
pany!”
"But we have an old cat!” ‘ ''
"But-—but you won’t do anything
about it?” t
"Not a thing!”
"Then T will! Tie’s Just got to ei
plain himself or I’ll know the reason
why!”
"Spoken like Nick Carter." replied
the fnther with a laugh, and the sub
ject was dropped.
The young boys of the village had
heard all about the gander, and the
time came when they thought it would
be a good joke to climb the alley fence
and bear the veteran away. One night
they tried it, but the gander's protests
called Mr. Burton out of bed and to
the rescue. He could have put a lock
on the door next day. but he didn’t.
He bought a Steel trap without beeth
and set it where a boy might put his
foot In It.
Miss Grace Needham was very much
in earnest in her inteutious to solve
the next door mystery, but how was
she to go at it? She had puzzled for a
week, when one day ahe saw the
young man leave the house with a
market basket on his arm. He was
going to buy provisions, and would be
gone an hour. Mrs. Needham was off
to a neighbor's, so there was no one
around to say nay. As a beginning,
the goose-house was to be visited.
There was the key, perhaps to the
whole mystery. There was only a
fence to climb and the girl waa
there.
The gander could be seen through
the half-open door as he luxuriantly re
clined on his divan of excelsior, and
| his open eyes and outstretched neck
proved that he was not asleep. Miss
Grace must step inside, however, to
see if that bird had any documents
concealed under bis wings. She must
overlook nothing that might furnish a
clew.
She did, just the same. She over
looked the trap that yawned for her
right foot, and with a snap the jaws
came together. There was a wild yell
from the captive and a chuckle from
the gander. Steel traps are made to
take hold and pinch and hang on and
hurt, even when they have no teeth.
Could the girl work the springs and
loosen her benumbed foot? No sir-ee!
She tried It and failed. She must yell
and get help or wait the return of
young Burton. And if she got help
what would people say! And if the
young man returned and found her
there what would he say! There was
nothing funny In the situation. There
was nothing interesting in the old
gander.
A step approaches! A cough coughs!
‘‘Boy, I know you are in there and
caught in the trap!” said the voice of
Mr. Burton, “and I want to talk to
you a minute before I release you. I
know I have upset the town by my
coming here and living as I have, but
It’s about over. I was brought up by a
rich aunt. She loved me, but didn’t
think I amounted to much, and made
a will with the following provisions:
“As I had never helped her about
the house, even to bringing in a stick
! of stove-wood, I must keep house alone
by myself for a year and see what a
mean job it was.
“As she didn’t think I knew enough
to select a wife yet I must keep clear
of the girls for twelve months.
"As I was always a great hand to
gab and blab, I must tell no one here
my business.
“As the old gander In there had once
flapped his wings and squawked and
scared a robber away, I must take
care of him 'till he was claimed by
death.
"If I went through all this for a
year I was to have the hundred thous
and she left. If I failed it was to go
to the heathen of Africa. I didn't pro
pose to let the heathen cross one over
on me, and so I am here. I went to
the postoffice a short, time ago and re
ceived a letter from the executors to
the effect that I had done so well that
the remainder of the year was to be
cancelled. I am therefore free to do
as 1 will, even to finding some nice
girl and asking her to Bhare my for
tune with me.
“1 do not think you came here to
steal my gander. 1 think it was boy
ish curiosity that drew you. You see,
I have been a boy myself and know all
about It. I am not at all displeased
with you, and will set you at liberty at
once.”
Thereupon Mr. Burton entered the
goose-house and knelt down, and with
strong hands pressed the spring hack
and lifted out a very shapely foot and
said:
“Now you can run along home,
bubby. If I were you I’d tell mother
that I fell down stairs. Good-bye,
sonny!”
The blushes! The tears! The shame
of It as Miss Grace lijnped home! she
Just had to tell her mother, aud her
mother said she deserved to have her
ears boxed, old as she was.
“Why, what can he think of you!”
she wound up with.
That questions was answered three
months later when the father came
home one evening from his office to
say:
“Grace, which shall It be?”
"What, papa?"
“Young Burton was in to see me
this afternoon."
(Blushes.)
"Will you marry him or the gan
der?”
“I’ll—I’ll—”
She didn’t take the gander.
Woman and Military Service.
"Sister Maria Theresa,” said a vet
eran French general to a nun at a
distinguished military gathering in the
year 1889. "you were only twenty
years of age when you first gave
your services to the wounded at Bala
ciava. and you were wounded in the
execution of your duty. You were
again wounded at Magenta. You brave
ly nursed the wounded through all our
wars in Syria, China, and Mexico. You
were carried off the field at Worth,
and before you had recovered from
your injuries you were again perform
ing your duties. When a grenade fell
into your ambulance, you. without
hesitation, took it in your hands, and
carried It a distance of a hundred
yards, when it exploded, wounding
you severely. No soldier has ever per
formed his duty more heroically than
you have done, or lived more success
fully for his comrades and his coun
try. 1 have the honor to present you.
in the name of France and the French
army, with the cross, which is con
ferred only on those who have shown
remarkable bravery in action. Sol
diers Present arms!”
Wasn't Going So Far.
Last summer C. T. Heaton of Mon
tana was visiting his mother in Ohio,
He was driving one morning to a
small town, and a negro woman ask
ed him for a ride.
After she had climbed In she asked
Heaton where he lived.
“In Montana.’
"Is you drivin 'there tills mawnin’?"
she asked. "Better let me out right
now—and she climbed down.—Satur
day Evening Post
Fitted With a Name.
“What kind of a fellow is Badger?”
“Well, I call him an auto-philanihro
pist.”
"And what is that, pray?”
"An auto-philanthropist is one who
exerts all his philanthropy upon him*
•elf."
FIRST TEST OF BAROMETER
Before Putting Full Reliance on In
strument, Certain Precautions
Are Imperative.
Don’t expect a barometer to tell
you the truth about the weather until
you have tested it thoroughly. Two
common causes for unreliability are
air and water mixed with the mer
cury in the tube. These can be ex
pelled by boiling the mercury In or
der to test a barometer let it hang
for a time in the proper position, then
gently and with care incline it so that'
the mercury may strike against the
glass tube. If there is no air within
you will hear a sharp metallic click,
but if the sound is dull and muffled
it indicates the presence of both air
and moisture. The presence of air
alone is shown by minute bubbles. If
at any time the mercury seems to
adhere to the tube even in the slight
est degree, and the convex surface as
sumes a more flattened form, it is safe
to conclude that either air or moisture
is present. In any of these cases the
instrument should be put into expert
hands for rect^ication.
There are several kinds of barome
ters. The ordinary “weather glass”
in common use is more or less unre
liable and is easily made more so by
careless handling. In fact, any bar
ometer must be treated with great
respect in order to retain its useful
ness.—Harper's Weekly.
COULD YOU POINT HIM OUT?
Many of Us Have an Idea of Just the
Man the Fool-Killer Should
Locate.
The Village Pest sauntered into the
office of the Real Estate Man, seated
himself in a comfortable chair and
placed his feet on' top of his friend's
desk.
"Whaddy think,” he observed, "a
perfect woman has been found in Bos
ton.”
The Real Estate Man did not en
courage a continuance of the talk.
"Huh.”
“And a vaudeville performer is ad
vertising himself as the perfect man.”
“All of which may be very true,” ex
claimed the Real Estate Man, “but no
body as yet seems to have located the
perfect nuisance! Some day they’ll
get him, and when they do, I hope
they'll get him good.”—Youngstown
Telegram.
Geography of Blushing.
The hunter, seated under'a denuded
tree upon a mound of red and yellow
feaves, ate a luncheon of sandwiches
in the mild sunshine of an Octobci
day.
“Dogs blush,” he said. "Look at
Carlo. I’ll frighten him, and you’ll
see him blush plainly. Dogs blush in
the tail.”
He pretended that he was going to
whip his hunting dog. and the animal
showed the whites of its eyes in
fright, while the skin of its white tail
was, sure enough, suffused with blood.
The tail blushed vividly.
“Horses,” continued the huntsman,
“blush in the ears, especially in the
left ear. Cows and sheep blush just
above the fetlock. Watch that spot
on a cow. When she blushes there it's
a sign she’s nervous. Move the milk
pail then, for she is likely to kick it
over.
“Cats and mice and lions and tigers
blush at the roots of their antennae,
or whiskers.’
Escaped the Worst of It.
The worst things are the afflictions
that have never happened. Bobby had
Just been soundly spanked for falling
into the creek. “Gee!” he exclaimed,
rubbing the seat of punishment,
“what wouldn't I have got if I had
drowned?”
When you feel Lazv,
Stretchy, Half Sick,
Blue and Out of Sorts,
look to the Liver; it is
Torpid.
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companions welcome.
D. F Collett, H. P.
C. A. Berry, Secy.
HUTT1G CHAPTER No. 320. Order of
the Eastern Star, meets every first and
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Visiting brothers and sisters welcome.
Mrs. A. E. Lucas, W. M.
Mrs. L. G. Gibson, Sec'y.
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T. P. Millstead, N. G.
J. E. Greer, Secy.
HUTT1G REBEKAH LODGE No 66.
meets every Monday night at 7:30 o'clock
Visitors are invited.
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J. C. Bridges, Clerk.
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always welcome.
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Preaching every third and fourth Sun
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M F Holley, pastor
Lizzie Brown, secretary
The Baptist Sunday School meets ev
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welcome to attend.
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The B. Y. ?. U. meets every Sunday
afternoon at 5:30.
Prof. L. S. Scroggins,Pres.
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Women's Home Mission meets every
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Lulu Oliver, President
Agusta Stevenson, Secretary.
Methodist Church.
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preaching every 2rd and 4th Sunday in
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