THE IHJTTIG NEWS.
Published Every Saturday at Huttig, Ark
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Saturday, May 30, 1914.
TOWN OmCJALS.
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. Magse.
MEXICAN SITUATION IS NERVOUS.
The public is now in such a state
of mind that it is not surprised at
anything that happens in Mexico.
One thing is certain, and that is
that Huerta will not be the ruler
of Mexico for many more days.
Huerta has been sustained and
supported largely by the Roman
Catholic church and as General
Villa has intimated that he ex
pects to hang every Catholic priest
and bishop that is left when he
takes the City of Mexico, and as it
appears that Villa will be able to
capture Mexico City in a short
time, it will be seen that Huerta
and his Catholic machine are in a
desperate situation. The threat on
the part of General Villa against
the Catholic dignitaries is reported
in the dispatches as being based on
the fac; that the Catholic church
has furnished many millions of dol
lars to the Huerta government.
This is probably true, but General
Villa realizes that the Catholic
priests and bishops in Mexico have
designedly kept the working class
es in ignorance and poverty so that
the few could own the many as
helpless slaves. All the revolu
tionists are particularly bitter
against the priests and bishops,
very much like the French peas
ants were when they brought on
the great French revolution of
1789 in which they hung a priest
on one side of a lamp post and a
feudal lord or nobleman on the
other side, holding both equally re
sponsible for the poverty and mis
ery existing at that time in France.
Mexico is much like France in
1789, suffering from the same
identical causes, the corruption and
rottenness of the church and state.
TtIL PROGRAM IN CONGRtSS.
President Wilson and the Demo
cratic leaders in Congress have
finally reached an agreement as re
gards the program of legislation at
this session of Congress. It is now
agreed that as soon as a bill repeal
ing the free tolls becomes a law,
Congress is then to pass the ad
ministration anti-trust biils and the
usual appropriations and then go
home and repair their political
fences. President Wilson was par
ticularly anxious that a bill should
be passed establishing banks of
farm credits, out it is realized by
all that the prolonged debate on
the Panama Canal tolls and the
unforeseen developments in the
Mexican situation have rendered it
impossible for Congress to carry
out the full desire of the President.
However, the farm credet or rural
credit bill will have the right-of
way when Congress meets next
December. It is even argued by
tome that it is better that the pro
gram should run this way and that
the rural credit banks should fol
low the establishment of the new
currency system of regional banks
now being established so that the
rural credit banks can be made to
lit into and harmonize with the
regional banks.
If I were a young man on a fairly
decent salary I’d decide how much
1 ought to save out of it each week.
Then I wonld put that amount in
the bank each Saturday as 1 drew
my pay and I’d either live on the
other half or starve. I’d rather
take the chance of r tarving a little
as a young man th m cf being de
pendent upoi somebody else when
I am too old to work. When 1 have
saved up a few hundred dollars in
this way I would get my banker to
find me a safe loan add I'd see how
it felt to have a few dollars coming
in regularly that 1 didn’t have to
work for.-»-Ex.
There is much ahead of us. We
don’t know what gravity is; neither
do we know the nature of heat,
light and electricity, though we
handle them a little. We are
only animals. We are coming out
of the dog stage and getting a
glimpse of our environment. We
don’t know, we just suspect a few
things. It will take an enormous
evolution of our brains to bring us
anywhere. Our practice of shoot
ing one another in war is proof that
we are still animals. Tne make-up
of our society is still hideous.—
Thos. A. Edison.
Another of the mysteries of life
is why a girl will stick a patch of
court plaster on her face and call
it a beauty spot.
One big difference between
Huerta and some other people is
that he does his drinking in public.
It is not to be denied that the
President is earning his salary ar.d
has been for some time.
Huerta wears glasses, and re
ports say that he also empties
them.
A woman's ideas of keeping a
secret is to keep it going.
IS RADIATION FROM WITHIN
Source of True Joy Need Not Be
Looked For in the Out
side Things.
The oil of joy springs from the
■well of being, rising up through the
rock of wisdom and flowing gently
down through the stream of life, to
be partaken of by all who recognize
its existence and realize its efficacy.
Mistaken, indeed, are those who im
agine that joy is something that
arises from outside things. It is some
thing that comes from within. Many
a soul has been deprived of all the
outer things which are generally
thought necessary to happiness—and
yet has heard in its heart the song
j of joy.
The man on the street who knows
; nothing of the source or real nature
! of true joy, recognizes fully the ad
vantage possessed by the person, who
has ever a reflected image of joy in
his soul; and he also realizes the dis
advantage attached to those who lack
this feeling of joy, and who go
through life grumbling, complaining,
fault finding—those wet blankets, kill
joys, gloom dispensing, crepe hanging
“grouches," who serve only to tor
ment humanity.—William Walker At
kinson in Nautilus.
Let Uncle Try for Another.
The little Brateiyihl boy visited his
uncle, who lives away out in the coun
try. Uncle is a devout man; a pillar
of the church and a breeder of fine
horses. And upon a certain pretty colt
did our little friend cast his eye with
admiration and covetousness.
"Uncle Samuel,” he said, “will you
please give me that colt?”
“Why, no, Harold," answered the
uncle. “‘I can't give you that colt.
Do you want a colt very badly?”
■'I'd rather have a colt than any
thing else in the world!”
“Well, if you want a colt that much
you ought to pray for it. When I
want a thing very badly, I pray for it
and it comes to me."
‘‘Honest, uncle? Well, I’ll tell you
von give me this colt, and then you
pray for another one.”
Across the Mexican Border
Between the Battle
Lines of the
Federal and
Revolutionary
Troops
The Land of
Broken Promises
By DANE COOLIDGE
Author of “Th* Fighting Fool,” “Hidden Wafer,” “The Temiran," F.te.
WE feel that we are indeed fortunate in
being able to announce this truly remark
able story for serial publication in this paper.
It is a stirring story of the Mexican revolution in which this
portrayer of western character has painted vivid pictures of the
scenes of carnage in war-infested Mexico; the plight of
American refugees in bolder towns; the wantonness of both
the Mexican federal and revolutionary troops, and in fact gives
a graphic and truthful description of present conditions and all
through the medium of a powerful story. Mixed with the hair
raising adventures of two Americans is a passionate love story.
It Is the Type of Story Every Reader Will Appreciate
!
Colored Column
v On last Friday night quite a large
crowd witnessed the closing exer
cises of the Huttig colored school.
There was not a single failure,
every child playing well his part,
which reflected much credit on the
i teachers. The exercises were bet
ter than any held for some time.
| There were several contestants for
the prizes. The fkst prize was
one dollar, and was awarded to
| Ruby V. Terry of the ?th grade.
iThe second prize was fifty cents,
j and was awarded to L. V. Stitcher
of the 4th grade. G. B. Francis,
Robt. Shepherd, Joe Bradford.
Robt. Fairchild, W. A. High and
Chas. Driver acted as judges.
A grand reception was given at
the school house Tuesday night in
honor of L. S. Scroggins and wife,
because of the special interest tak
en in the pupils during the past
term. On Wednesday they left for
El Dorado to attend the Normal
that is now in session there.
Rev. D. A. Hardin returned to
El Dorado Monday.
Eddie Reed, wh,o has been at
Monroe being treated for heart
trouble, has returned, but is no
better.
Alberda Smith is on the sick list
this week.
Bessie Davis, of Fordyce, is here
visiting relatives.
Card of I hanks.
I take this method of thanking
those of you who have tried so
earnestly to help make the past
term of school pleasant and profita
ble. I can but say that 1 endr-av
ored to do my duty. The greaiest
deeds of the past were accomplish
ed by keeping uppermost in mind
the thoughts of duty and to con
quer. Again I thank you one and
all for your kind and hearty sup
port. L. S. Scroggins.
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1'EOPOSL’D AMRHOMraT TO THE
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OjT AEvAAS.vi.
Notice is hereby given that tin
following joint resolution, proposing
<iu amendment to the totate Const!
lotion, was passed by the Genera
.vsstmbly at its rtgUiar session o.
an 1 tnat the same will hi
submitted to tiie electors of tin
State at the next general election
to be held -Monday, September 14tli.
1914, for adoption or rejection.
Proposed Aineuament iso. IS.
That the following is hereby pro
posed as an amendment to tin .
Constitution of the State of Ar
kansas, and the same being submit
ted to the electors of the Stall
lor approval or rejection at tin
next general election tor Senator.
and Representatives, if a majority
of tile electors voting at such elec
lion adopt such amendment the same
“hail become a part ol the Const!
tution of the State of Arkansas
to-wit:
That Section Fifteen fir,) of Article
Five (.r)» of the Constitution of the .state
of Arkansas, as amended by Amendment
No. 13, declared by the Speaker of the
House of Representatives on February
loth, 11)13, to have been adopted be
amended so A- to read as follows:’
"Section 15. The members of the Gen
eral Assembly shall receive as their
salary the sum of Seven Hundred and
Fifty (J750.00) Dollars, except the Presi
dent of the Senate and Speaker of the
House of Representatives, each of whom
shall receive as ills salary Fight Hun
dred and Fifty (J850.00) Dollars, for
the term of two (>) years; and in ad
dition to such sulary 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 most direct and
practicable route Said salary shall be
payable In tiie following manner, to wit:
Five < $5.00) Dollars per day for the first
hundred days of any regular session of
the General Assembly; Provided, the
President of the Senate and Speaker of
the House of Representatives may draw
Six ($11.00) Dollars per day for the first
hundred days of any regular session.
The remainder of their salary shall tie
paid to them quarterly oil the first dav
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 the members of the General'll
Assembly on said dates for the amount I
of salary due each at that time, and i
mail same to the members at their re- I
sportive pnstofflee addresses. No mem- '
her of either House shall receive anv
salary or emoluments for his services
other than Is provided for herein The
terms of all members of the General Ar- I
semblv shall begin on the day of their
election.
The above resolution was filed In the
office of the Secretary of State on March '
6. IMS.
Fach elector may vote for or against
the above amendment.
Avttness my official signature this 19th
day of February. 1914
EAR1.F W. HODGES,
Secretary of State.
(Seal)
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or cross the Continent, a Bell
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serve you — to do your errands to
carry your messages — to keep you in
touch with home no matter where you
/may be.
Every Bell Telephone is a Long Distance
Station.
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and Telephone Company
. C. H NORWOOD, Manager,
El Dorado, Ark.
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Two Big Meetings In
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ELKS
June 8, 9, 10, 1914
Arkansas Travelers
June 11, 12, 13, 1914
These are the two largest State Conven
tions held in Arkansas, and elaborate
preparations are being made by the Littie
Rock Board of Trade and Ghamber of
Gommerce for the entertainment of visitors
during the week of June 8-13, inclusive.
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F. E. SCHROEDER,
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LITTLE ROCK.