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J Local News of the Week, if
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Lee Nichols was a Memphis
passenger Tuesday morning.
Dr. J E. Cashion made a busi
ness trip to Harrison this week.
For first-class dressmaking see
Mrs. E. R. Thompson, 23 B street.
5 or 6 doses 666 will cure any
case of fever and chills. Price. 25c
Ike Felsenthal, of El Dorado
was a business visitor here Wednes
day.
Miss Flora Cargill spent Sa'.ur
day and Sunday with friends at
Camden.
C. H. Andrews, the popular saw
yer, spent Sunday in Camden visit
ing a friend.
J. F. Carter, of HamQton, was
the guest of his sister, Mrs. C. A.
Berry, Tuesday.
Born—to Mr. and Mrs. R. H
Tally at 7:30 o'clock Wednesday
evening, a daughter.
Our huller cleans the cotton an
seed. Neel &l Brasher Gin,
Huttig, Ark.
County Clerk Elect J. J. Craij.
of El Dorado, was a business vis
itor in Huttig Tuesday of this week
E. L. Ware arrived home Sunda\
morning from a three weeks vis.t
with his mothe' at Aberdeen, Mist.
Mrs. N. H. Knox was down frorr
El Dorado this week visiting her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Phil
lips.
E. E. Pollard and family lef;
Wednesday morning for Searcy
where they will make their future
home.
Rev. John F. Johnson, of Mor
rilton. preached two excellent ser
mons here Sunday at the Baptisl
church.
Mrs. T. S. Hoskins, Jr., lef
Tuesday morning for Decauter,
111., for an extended visit with her
parents. _
Store Manager D. M. Clowney
and Cleik H. P. Heard were at
Little Rock this week buying
Christmas goods.
S. R. Neel. C. T. Thompson and
the editor attended the mass meet
ing on the cotton situation in Ei
Dorado Tuesday.
Up to Wednesday night of th s
week Neel &l Brasher had ginneo
128 bales of cotton and shipped
one car of cotton seed.
No. 666
Thii i* a prescription prepared especially
for MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER.
Five or tix doiet will break any cate, and
if taken then at a tonic the Fever will not
return. It actt on the liver better than
Calomel and doet not gripe or ticken. 25t
C. T. Rose left Wednesday af
t rnoon for Campti. La., where he
has accepted a position in the < ffice
of the Frost Johnson Lumber C<.
C. T. Thompson went to Vicks
burg Saturday to meet his w>fr,
who was returning from a visit with
Mrs. A. W. Corkins at Savannah,
Georgia.
W. F. Fhillips, who had been
visiting his parents here, left Tues
day morning fsr Wheelen Springs
to take charge as agent fir the
Iron Mountain at that ilace.
We take this method of thanking
our many friends and patrons for
the large number of letters we have
received telling us of the truly
wonderful results gained by the
use of Hdnt’» Lightning Oil in the
treatment of rheumatism, neural
gia. headache and other characters
of pain. We appreciate this spon
taneous outburst of approval. A.
B. Richards Medicine Co., Sher
man, Texas.
G. E. Thompson, W. M. McCoy
and B. Hartsfield were at Little
Rock this week seeing about the
government land to be opened for
settlement, soon in Montgomery
county. „'
It is reported that a number of
persons are hunting quail out of i
to the grand ju,ry. It is a sin to J
kill small, young quail and the law
should be enforced.
RUB-MY-TISM
Will cure your Rheumatism
Neuralgia, Headaches, Cramps,
Colic, Sprains, Bruises, Cuts and
Burns, OM Sores, Stings of Insectf
Etc. Antiseptic Anodyne, used in
ternally and externally. Price 25c
Rev. C. F. Medlin, of Arkade’
uhia, has accepted the pastorate of
the Baptist chu ch at Feisentha!
md will also teach this term of
chool at that place. The public
■chool will open October 5.
Thomas Elmore Lucy, the noted
lumorist, will lecture at the Union
hurch Monday night, October 12
This will be the first number of th
Lyceum course, to be given unde
he auspices of the Huttig School
mprov-.ment Association.
Thera Is more Catarrh l i fhls section of
the country than nil otle r diseases put
together, and until the last f w years
was supposed to be Incurable. For a great,
many years doctors pronounced it a local
disease and prescribed local remedies, and
by constantly falling to cure with local
treatment, pronounced It incurable. Sci
ence has proven Catarrh to be a consti
tutional disease, and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney &
Co., Toledo, Ohio, Is the only Constitu
tional cure on the market. It is taken In
ternally In doses from 10 drops to a toa
spoonful. It a'ts directly on the hlood
and mucous surfaces of the system. They
offer one hundred dollars for any casrt It
falls to eure. Send for circulars and tes
timonials.
Address: F. ,T. CHCVHY A CO., Toledo, O.
Fold bv DruTeists, 7’c.
Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
_ Ad*
Australian Flying Fox.
More enterprising travelers have at
various times attempted to bring in
as a curiosity the Australian flying
fox. Unknown in this country, this
overgrown bat., which at Us largest
measures more than five feet across
the tips of its wings, is one of the
great pests of Australia. In their
“camps" in the dense scrub of gullies
and swamps, they may be seen by the
thousands, crowded so thickly on the
trees that branches are frequently
broken by their weight. Their nightly
raids In search of food cover consider
able distances and they are especially
partial to figs, bananas, peaches and
other soft fruit. Various expedients
have been tried to protect the
orchards, but hitherto these have
proved more expensive than success
ful. On one occasion hundreds of
thousands of foxes were shot at an
expense to the government, of New
South Wales for powder and shot of
SO cents each. A little later whole
sale destruction by means of dyna
mite and other explosives was at
tempted. The foxes avoided the trees
that had been so carefully charged,
and. the explosives did no harm.
MUCH READY CASH ON HANO
English Nobleman Had $500,000 In
Bureau Drawer and Sent to
Bank for Like Amount.
Among the eccentricities of the
rich, the passion for always possess
ing enormous sums of ready cash is
surely one of the most extraordinary. ■
A former Lord Dysart one day asked a
companion-nurse to go to town and
get a check cashed for him at the
llank of England. When she was
ready to start the old peer sat down
end wrote out a check for £100,000,
and told her to be sure and see that
she got one note for the whole
amount.
The check was duly presented, and
the bank, having satisfied themselves
as to the' nurse's authority for making
such a request, suggested that a clerk
should accompany her and 'hand the
£100,000 note In person to his lord
ship. After having done so the clerk
told the peer that only three such
notes were In existence. “One,” he
said, "we have at the bank, another
I have just handed to your lordship,
and the third, which some time ago
disappeared from circulation, we have
never been able to trace.” "Perhaps
I can ljclp you,” said Lord Dysart. and,
going to a bureau, he unlocked a
drawer and took out the missing
£100,000 note, which had been lying
there for years.
Mr. Ralph Nevlll, who tells the story
In Fancies. Fashions and Fads, also
mentions a relative of his who died
in the forties of the last century, and
who had a similar mania for keeping
great sums of money at home. He
had a love for putting banknotes In
books, and a sum amounting to little
short of £30,000 was extracted from
between the leaves of his library by
his executors.
The Land of Broken Promises
A Stirring Story of the
Mexican Revolution
=By DANE COOLIDGE=
Author of
“THE FIGHTING TOOL," “HIDDEN WATERS,"
“THE TEXICAN," Etc.
Illustrations by DON J. LAVIN
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.
“Many thanks, senor,” he said with
a crinjiilg and specious politeness.
"We have come far and the trail is
long, so we will eat. The times are
hard for poor men now—this traitor,
Madero, has made ns all hungry. It is
by him that wte poor working men are
driven to insurrection—but we know
that the Americans are our friends.
Yes, senor, I will take some of your
beans, and thank you.”
He filled a plate as he spoke and
lifted a biscuit from the oven, con
tinuing with his false patter while the
others fell to in silence.
“Perhaps you have heard, senor,” he
want on, "the saying which is in the
land: Mucho trabajo, paco dinero;
no hay frijoles, viva Madero! [Much
work, little money; no beans, long
live Madero:]
"That, In truth, Is no jest to the
Mexican people. This man has be
trayed us all; he has ruined the coun
try and set brother against brother.
And now, while we starve because the
mines are shut down, he gathers his
family about him in the city and lives
fat on the money he has stolen.”
He ran on in this style, after the
fashion of the revoltosos, a:.d by the
very commonplace of his fulminatious
Bud was thrown completely off his
guard. That was the way they all
talked, these worthless bandit-beggars
—that and telling how they loved the
Americanos—and then, if they got a
chance, they would stick a knife in
your back.
He listened to the big man with a
polite toleration, being careful not to
turn his back, and ate a few bites as
he waited, but though it was coming
dusk the Mexicans were in no lnrrry
to depart. Perhaps they hoped to stop
for the night and get him in his sleep.
‘Hill they lingered on, the lender alt
ting on a log and continuing his
harangue.
Then, in the middle of a sentence,
and while Bud was bending over the
fire, the Mexican stopped short and
leaned to one side. A tense silence
fell, and Hooker was waked from his
trance by the warning click of a gun
lock. Suddenly his mind came back
to his guests, and he ducked like a
flash, hut even as he went down he
heard the hammer clack!
The gun had snapped!
Instantly Hooker's hand leaped to
his pistol and he tired from the hip
pointblank at the would-be murderer.
With a yell to the others, one of the
Mexicans sprang on him from behind
and tried to bear him down. They
struggled for a moment while Bud
shot blindly with his pistol and went
down lighting.
Bud was a giant compared to the
slunted Mexicans, and he threw them
about like dogs that hang on to a bear.
With a man in each hand he rose to
his feet, crushing them down beneath
him; then, in despair of shaking off
his rider, he staggered a few steps
and hurled himself over backward into
the Are.
A yell of agony followed their fall
and, as the live coale bit through the
Mexican's thin shirt, he fought like a
cat to get free. Rocks, pots and ket
Threw Them About Like Dog# That
Hang Onto a Bear.
tle§ were kicked In evejv direction,
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and whan Hooker leaped to his foot
tho Mexican soramhtod up and rushed
madly for tho crook.
Rut, though Rud was froo, tho bat*
tlo had turned again: t him, for in the
brief interval of his Jit i>t the other
two Mexicans had run for their guns.
The instant he rose they covered him.
Their chief, who by some miracle had
escaped Rttd’s shot., gave a shout for
them to halt. Cheated of his victim at
the first he was claiming the right to
kill.
As Hooker stood blinded by the
smoke and ashes the fellow took de
liberate aim— and once more his rifle
snapped. Then, as the other Mexi
cans stood agape, surprised at the
failure of the shot, the cannonlike
whang of a Mauser rent the air and
the leader crumpled down in a heap.
An instant later a shrill yell rose
from up the cajtvon and. as the two
Mexicans started and stared, Amigo
name dashing in upon them, a spitting
pistol in one hand and his terrible
“wood chopping” knife brandished
high in the other.
In the dusk his eyes and teeth
gleamed white, hie black hair seemed
to bristle with fury, and the glint of
his long knife made a light as ha
vaulted over the last rock and went
plunging on their track. For, at the
first glance at this huge, pursuing fig
ure, the two Mexicans had turned and
bolted like rabbits, and now, as the
Yaqui whirled in after them, Hud could
bear them squealing and scrambling
as he hunted them down among the
rooks.
It v. as grim work, too, even for his
stomach, hut Hooker let the Indian fol
low his nature. When Amigo came
back from his hunting there was no
need to ask questions. His eyes shone
so terribly that Hooker said nothing, !
but set about cleaning up camp.
After he had washed the ashes from
his eyes, and when the fury had van- j
ished from Amigo's face, they went as
by common consent and gazed at the
body of the chief of the desperadoes.
Even in death his face seemed strange
ly familiar; but as Hooker stood gaz-1
ing at him the Yaqui picked up his
gun.
"Hook!" he said, and pointed to a
bullet-splash where, as the Mexican
held the gun across his breast. Bud's
! pistol shot had flattened harmlessly
against the lock. It was that which
had saved the Mexican chief from in
stant death, and the jar of the shot
had doubtless broken the ride and
saved Bud, in turn, from the second
shot.
All this was in the Yaqul's eye as he
carefully tested the action; but, when
he threw down the lever, a cartridge
rose up from the magazine and glided
smoothly into Ihe breech. With a rifle
full of cartridges the ignorant Mexican
had been snapping on an empty cham
ber, not knowing enough to jack up a
shell!
For a moment Amigo stared at the
gun and the man, and his mouth drew
down with contempt.
"Ha! Pendejo.!” he grunted, and
kicked the corpse with his foot.
But If the Mexican had been a fool,
he had paid the price, for the second
time he snapped his gun Amico had
shot him through and through.
CHAPTER XX.
In a country where witnesses to a
crime are imprisoned along with the
principals and kept more or less in
definitely In jail, a nnyi thinks twice
before he reports to the police.
With four dead Mexicans to the
Yaqui's account, and Del Rey in
charge of the district, Hooker followed
his second thought—he said nothing,
and took his chances on being arrest
ed for murder. Until far into the night
Amigo busied himself along the hill
side, and when the sun rose not a sign
remained to tell the story of the fight.
Men, horses, saddles and guns—all
had disappeared. And, after packing a
little food in a sack. Amigo disap
peared also, with a grim smile in prom
ise of return.
The sun rose round and hot, the
same as usual; the south wind came
up and blew into a bellying mass of
clouds, which lashed back with the ac
customed rain; and when all the eartli
was washed clean and fresh the last
trace of the struggle was gone. Only 1
by the burns on his hands was Hooker
aware of the fight and of the treachery
which had reared its head against him
like a snake which has been warmed'
and fed.
Nowhere but in Mexico, where Use
low pelado classes have made such
deeds a subtlety, could the man be
found to dissimulate like that false
assassin-in-chief. To pause suddenly
in a protracted speech, swing over and
pick up a gun, and halt his victim for
the shooting by the preparatory click
of the lock—that indeed called for a
brand of cunning rarely found in the
United States.
There was one tljing about the affair
that vaguely haunted Hooker why
was it that a man so running as that
bad failed to load his gun? Twice, and
with everything in his favor, lie had
raised his rifle, to fire;, and both times
it had snapped in his hands. (Vrtninly
he must have been inept at arms—or
accustomed to single shot guns.
The reputed magic of the swift-fir .
ing rifles evidently had been his undo
ing. but where had he got his new
gun? And who was he, anyway? With
those two baffling questions Bud wres
tied as he sat beside his door, and at 1
evening his answer came.
Tiie sun was swinging low and he
was collecting wood down the gulch
for a fire when, witli a sudden thud of
hoofs, a horseman rounded the point i
and came abruptly to a halt. It was ;
Aragon, and he was spying on the
camp.
For a full minute he scanned the
house, tent and mine with a look so
snaky and sinister that Bud could read j
his heart like a book. Here was tire
man w’jo bad sent the assassins, and !
he had come to view' their work!
Very slowly Bud’s hand crept 1
toward his six-shooter but, slight as j
was the motion, Aragon caught It. and
sat frozen in his place. Then, with an ;
inarticulate cry, he fell flat on his !
horse's neck and went spurring out j
of sight.
The answer to Bud's questions was
very easy now. The Mexican who had
led the attempt on his life was one
of Aragon’s bad men. one of the four
gunmen whom Hooker had looked
over so carefully when they came to
drive him from the mine, and Aragon
had fitted him out with new arms to
make the result more sure. But with
that question answered there came up
another and another until, in a sud
tlen clarity of vision. Bud saw througli
the hellish plot and beheld himself
the master.
As man to man, Aragon would not
dare to face him now, for he knew
that he merited death. By his sly
approach, by the look in his eyes and
the dismay of his frenzied retreat,
he had acknowledged more surely
than by words his guilty knowledge
of the raid. Coining to a camp where
he expected to find all dead and still,
lie had found himself face to face '
with the very man he had sought to
kill. How, then, had the American
escaped destruction, and what had
occurred to his men?
Perhaps, in his ignorance, Aragon
was raging at his hirelings because
they had shirked their task; perhaps,
not knowing that they were dead, he
was waiting in a fever of impatience,
for them to accomplish the deed. How
ever it was. Bud saw’ that he held the
high card, and he was not slow to act.
In the morning he saddled Copppr
Bottom, who had been confined to the
'orral for weeks, and went galloping
into town. There he lingered about •
the hotel until ho saw his man and |
started boldly toward him. Surprisq,
alarm and pitiful fear chased them
selves across Aragon's face as he
stood, but Bud walked proudly bv.
"Good morning, senor!” was all Bud
said, hut the look in his eves was
eloquent of a grim hereafter.
And instead of hurrying back to
guard his precious mine Hooker loi
tered carelessly about town. His
mine was safe now—and lie was safe.
Aragon dared not raise a hand. So lie I
sat himself down on the broad veranda i
and listened with boyish interest to
Don Juan’s account of the war.
"What, have you not heard of the
battle?” crifd portly Don Ju^n, delight
ed to have a fresh listener. "Agua
\pgra has been taken and retaken,
and the railroad will soon be repaired.
My gracious! have you been out in
•he hills that long? Why, it. was two
weeks ago that the rebels captured
•he town by a c»up, and eight days
later the federals took it back.
“Ah. there has been a real war. Mr.
Bud! You who have laughed at the !
courage of the Mexicans, what do you
think of Bernardo Bravo and hjs men?
They captured the last up train from
Hnrtuna; loaded all the men into the
ore ears and .empty coaches; and,
while the federate were still in their
barracks, the train ran clear into the
station and took the town by storm.
"And eight days later, at sundown,
the federate took it back. All, there
was awful slaughter averted, senor!
But for the fact that the fuse went
out two hundred Yaqul Indians who
led the charge would have been blown
into eternity. I
‘‘Yes, so great was the charge of
dynamite that the rebels had laid in
their mine that not a house in Agua
Negra would have been left standing
if the fuse had done its work. Two
tons of dynamite! Think of that, my
friend!
"But these rebels were as ignorant
of its power as they were of laying
a train. The Yaquis walked into the
town at sundown and found it de
serted—every man, woman and child
had fled to Gadsden and the rebels had
fled to the west.
“But listen, here was the way It
happened—actually, and not as com
mon report has it, for the country is
all In an uproar and the real facts
were never known. When Bernardo *
Bravo captured the town of Agua N'e
gra the people ae< laimed his a hero.
“He sent word to the junta at R1
Paso and set up a new form of gov
ernment.^, All was enthusiasm,, and
several Americans "i* c\* 'is ranks
to operate the machine guns and can
z
The Arti!!ery Drove Them Back.
non. As for the federals, they occu
pied the country to the east and at
1 erupted a few sal'-ies, but as they
had nothing hut their rifles, the artil
lery drove them >toack.
“Then, as the battle ceased, the
rebels began to celebrate their vic
tory. They broke into the closed can
tinas, disobeying their officers and be
ginning the loot of the town, and
while half of their number were drunk,
the federals. being informed of their
condition, suddenly advanced upon
them, with the Yaquis far in the lead.
“They did not shoot, those Yaquis;
but, dragging their gens behind them,
they crept up through the bushes and
dug pits quite close to the lines. Then,
when the rebels discovered litem and
manned their guns, rhe Yaquis shot
I down the gunners.
°«cr /
"Growing bolder, they crept farther
to the front the .relu'ls becune disor
ganized, (heir men became mutino'ii#—
and at last, when they saw they would
j surely he taken, the leaders hurieU
I two (fins of dynamite in the trenches
hy the hull ring and set a time fuse,
to explode when the Yaquis arrived.
"The word spread through the town
like wildfire all 'the people, alt the
soldiers (led every which naj lo es
eape and then, when the worst was
expected to happen, the dynamite
failed to explode and the Yaquis
rushed the trenches at sundown."
“Did those Yaquis know about the
dynamite?’’ inulred Ibid.
"Know?" repeated Pen Jnatl, waving
the thought away; "not a word! Their
commander*: kept It from them, pven
alter they discovered the mine And
now the Indians are making boasts;
they are drunk with the thought of
their valor anil claim that the rebels
fled from them alone.
"The road master came Into town
this morning on a velocipede and said
that the Yaquis are insufferable, think
ing that it was their renown as fight
ers and not the news of the dynamite
that drove all the soldiers from town.
“However, Agua Negra is once more
In the hands of the government; the
track is clear and most of the bridges
repaired; so why quarrel with the
Yaquis? While they are. of course,
nothing but Indians, they serve their
purpose in battle.”
“Well, 1 guess yes!" responded Hud
warmly. “Serve their purpose, eh?
Where were these Mexican soldiers
and them Spanish olTicers when the
Yaquis wt'.re taking the town? And
that was just like a dog-gotted Mexi
can—setting that time fuse and then
not having it go off. More’n likely the
poor yap that fired it was so scairt he
couldn't hold a match -probably
never lit it, jest dropped the match
and run. They’re a bum hunch. If
you want to know what I think. I'd
rather have a Yaqui than a hundred
of 'em!”
“A hundred of whom?" inquired a
cool voice behind him, and looking up
Hooker saw the beautiful Gracia gaz
ng out at him through the screen
door.
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