if Local News of the Week, if
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M. Bradshaw and family have
moved to Bokhoma. Okla.
Dr. H. F. Mayfield made a busi
ness trip to Little Rork this week
A. E L. c«s a'.is a tu^-ness vis
■ or ; e&j. tn;~
week
Sha"fT J M. Walbc° - s hero
!, r1 ■ ! ; : ■ " i|]p
Vv. M. Brock, of Nat. viii.j. it
here this week, the guest of his sis
ter. Mrs W M-or3.
Dr. R P. Burns and family have
moved to Cali n. where he will
practice his profession.
W S. Lewis, of Strong, candi
date for road overseer of this town
ship, was here Monday on business.
J. Clayton Johnson and wife, of
Monroe, were the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. T. B. Weaver the first of
this week.
See A. G. Griffin at the livery
barn for garden plowing or stove
wood Piompt work and quick
delivery. Phone No. 40.
J. D. Nelson, of Strong, who is a
candidate for re-election as con
stable of Lapile township, was in
Huftig 1 hursday
Store Mai -ger D M Clowney
was in St L.'Uis this we-k uying
spring .nd ummar goods for the
Union Saw Mill Company.
Bob Warnock. of Magnolia, can
didal- foi Congress, is speaking in
Cla k c. unty this week in tn- in
t ’rest f ujs oandiua.v. Adv i
O. D. Newby and family, who
moved to Colorado about two years
ago. are now living at Wesson,
where Mr. Newby is employed by
the Edgar Lumber Company.
IraT. Winfrey, district organizer
of the Woodmen of the World,
with headquarters at Camden, was
here tins week visiting the mem
bers of Sweet Bay Camp No. 411.
M; - Loci' N:pp - left Sur day
for a vi: ;t with datives ip Perry.
IV :. ar.d befcie returning home
will jij t -ot Louis to pur hase the
spri' g and summer millinery for
the Union Saw Mill Company store.
' 33 & LaGSIPP1^
or 6 doses 660 will bi ;k
any case of Chills 8c Fever, Cold9
& LaGrippe; it acts on the liver
better than Calomel and does not
gripe or sicken. Price 25c.
The State Supreme Court on
Monday reversed and remanded
for a new trial the case of H. E.
McLemore who was convicted of
catth steal' g "d sentenced to
one v ;r m the pen t mtiary at the
last t rru t me Union Circuit
Cou't _
o has been oper
h ire for some
ftcu in as agent
. . La., a.id has moved
Ms family to i hat town O. L. Cline,
oi battle Mountain, Nevada, has
taken the position of operator here.
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Neuralgia, Headaches, Cramps,
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The quadrennial weighing of the
mails d-med by 'he postoffice de
partment mei-oed at 12:01 a.
m. ■ s ma will continu -
105 cays. 1 his is done for the
purpose of determining th 1 amount
of pay due the railroads for carry
i g the mails.
A letter received from T. J.
Breed, who is now cashier of the
new Amite County Bank at Glos
ter, Miss., states that they have
$25,000 on deposit at the close
of the first week's business.
The Woman's Missionary Union
f ' Fir'.-t Pat-tist .h • 'c1' hid a
v - t ht
ft a x . : tu eiiv red
by Rev V.. H G ,/n of El D-rado.
Pcf p- hm°r'ts we-e served and a
f> ;! e will
have pure >u. j C. B. Wood's
in’erest in the livery business here
and will continue same with A. G
Griffi as manager. See me for
draying. rigs etc. Also stove and
heater wood. Calls answered at
all hours of the night. Phone No.
40. S. R. Neel.
The Woman's Home Mission So
ciety met at the church Monday
afternoon with twelve member^
oresent. Mrs. Hemphill conducted
the meeting which was very inter
esting and instructive. The Soci
ety realized $41.50 from the sud
per given la-t Thursday evening at
the church.
A. S. Sorrells, one of Union coun
ty's most respected citizens and a
member of the board of trustees of
the State Agricultural School for
this district, died at his home in
El Dorado Monday night after a
brief illness. Mr. Sorrells was also
a candidate for the nomidation for
■ pres ntatD at th coming pri
mary. __
The Woman's Missionary Union
of the Baptist church of Felsenthal
gave a box supper at the church
there on last Saturday night and
rt • • $24.00 to be applied on the
pastor's salary. This society was
recently < ganized with the assist
ance of Mrs. W. T. King and sev
eral other ladies from Huttig and
bids fair to be a factor for good iri
that community.
University Farm School,
The members of the faculty cf
the College of Agriculture, Uni
versity of Arkansas, will conduct
a University Farm School at El
Dorado for one week commencing
Monday. February 24. which shouia
be attended by every farmer in
Union county
i here will be le tures by men
who ki ow on every important mat
ter connected with farming, such
as soil building, stock breeding and
raising, seed selection, animal dis
eases. dairy work, etc.
Here is a chance to learn more
in a week about farming than you
could in six months hard study.
Don't fail to attend. You will be
the one who suffers if your neigh
bor attends. It costs you nothing
but your time to attend.
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ROWLAND LODGE No. 594 F. & A.
M meets every second and fourth Sacur
lav eve- at 7:50 o'clock. Visiting
Masons a.wa s welcome.
F. 0. Mahony, W. M.
D. F. Collett. Sec’y.
HOWARD CHAPTER. No. 129. R. A.
:V1. meets every first and third Thurs
day evening at Masonic hall. Visiting
companions welcome.
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C. A. Berry, Secy.
HUTT1G CHAPTF- R No. 520 Order oc
the Eastern Star, meets every first and
third Frida,' evening at 7:30 o'clock.
Visiting brothers a,id siste s welcome
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HUTTIG LODGE No L48 t. 0. 0. F.
meets every Tuesday evening. Vis.eng
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SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER I—Jackson Jones, nicknamed
"Broadway,M because of his continual
glorification of New York's great thor
oughfare. is anxious to get away from his
home town of Jonesville. Abn r Jones,
is uncle, is very angry because Broad
ay refuses to settle down and tak* a
la« ••• in the gum factory in which he suc
<■ eded to his father’s interest.
CHAPTER TI—Judge Spotswood informs
p" adivay that left him by his
father is at his disposal. Broadway
nia'-es record time in heading for ids fav
orite street in New York.
CHAPTER III—With his Now York !
friend. Robert Wallace. Broadway creates
n sensation by his extravagance on the
White Way. Four years pass and Broad
"ay suddenly discovers that he is red
only broke, but heavily In debt. He ap- !
plies to his uncle for it lout and receives
■ package of chewing gum with the ad- !
vice to chew It t. nd forget his troubles.
\ 'ie quietly seeks work without success.
CHAPTER IV—Broadway gives what is
intended to be a far* well supper rn ids
New York friends, and before it .is over
becomes engaged to Mrs. G rurd. an an- I
dent widow, wealthy and very giddy.
* HAPTER V—Wallace expostulates :
with the aged flirt and lu-r youthful 1
'"tnoe. hut fails to better the situation. !
He learns that Rroadwav is hr*.’ e an i
of ers him a position with Ids father’s ad- 1
vertising firm, but It Is declined. Wallace I
takes charge of Broadway’s affairs.
"The natural thought will bo that I
am marrying her for her money."
‘‘Nonspnse. They'll know better than
that. Everyone’s aware that you have
all the money any man cotthi—”
"So you think so?" For the first
time Broadway laughed. It was a
scornful, scathing, tragic laugh. It
startled Wallace.
"Well, haven't yon?”
'Must a second. Hankin’ Oh. Ran
I kin:"
Rankin was entering, even as he
; called, bringing in a telegram. Broad
! way took it without heeding it and
I thrust it in his pocket unowned, lie
I was intent on showing Wallace how
; affairs really were with him.
"Rankin," he warned the man, "I
! don’t want to be disturbed for the next
ten minutes. I have some business
which I wish to talk over with Mr.
Wallace without a single interruption.”
"Very well, sir.”
As soon as the man had left the
room Broadway settled to his task of
making a clean breast of it.
"I'm going to let you in on a little
secret. Bob--my secret. No one else
in the world knows. I wouldn't tell
anyone else but you. I wouldn't tell
you if it weren’t for the fact that we’ve
always been so close and such good
friends. But remember—it's Masonic!”
Wallace gravely bowed. “Certain
| ly.” He was intensely puzzled; he
could not imagine what was coming.
“Well,” said Broadway, with no
further prelude, “Bob. I’m broke!”
“You’re . . . what?” said Bob
incredulously.
“Broke. Dead broke. Are you sur
prised?”
"Say, what kind of a joke is this?”
Broadway laughed ruefully. “It’s no
;oke to be broke, Bob; but It’s even
worse than that with me. I’m in
debt!”
“In debt!”
"To the extent of about fifty thou
sand dollars.”
"Well, what have you done with all
your money?”
“Put it back into circulation where
•t came from,” Broadway answered,
| sighing.
“You mean Wall street?”
“No; Broadway.”
“Investments gone wrong?”
"1 never invested any money. The
only thing I ever did was to spend it.”
“But you couldn't spend all the
money you had!”
“It was easy. Everyone seemed
glad to take it.”
“But 1 supposed you had an enor
mous income.”
"Well, that’s what they all thought
and still think. That’s why I’ve been
able to go along and run head over
heels in debt 1 owe tailor bills, boot
bills, jewelry bills, flower bills, res
taurant bills. I've got a stack of bills
in that room there that would make
Rockefeller complain of the high cost
of living, and 1 can’t pay them be
cause I’m broke. Elat . . . broke!
It’s hard to believe, isn't it?”
“Why, you always led me to believe
that .ou were a millionaire?”
“Not exactly that. But I did not
deny the stories fhnt, somehow, got to
going round. Maybe 1 lied a little. At
that, I would be worth a million by
now if I'd had any business ability,
with the bank roll 1 had to start with.’’
“When I came here to New York
and started to burn up Broadway, five
years or so ago, I w»as worth two hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars There
was cash, real estate and my small in
terest in the chewing gum factory
First thing I did was spend the cash,
then I sold the real estate, then I
bold my interest in the factory.
“I had no u=e for anything but cash.
“My I'ncle Abner bought me out
I and cheated me. He paid me just a
hundred thousand, a measly hundred
ercy oui ot wnicu h<7T since tSen made
a dozen fortunes. I hear the gum
trust offered him a million dollars for
the plan? and the gooa will last year.”
“Jones’ Pepsin!”
"Yes: Jones’ Pe^ln. made 'n
.Tonesvide. It’s the o...est gum on ii*e
market. Ever chew it?”
"No”
“Don’t. It’s awful. It’s terrible
stuff!”
“Well, go on. What happened,
then ?”
“? could scarcely wait to get hold of
that money and get out of that town
1 wanted New York: nothing but New
York. I had heard about New York; f
hi»] read about New York; I’d been
down here as a kid on visits. I talked
New York. I dreamed New York. Why.
from the time I was a kid, in knicker
bockers. to the time I left Jonesville,
everybody called me ‘Broadway.’
That’s where it began.”
“I thought It started here.”
“No! when I was a kid in Jones
ville. That was my name—‘Broadway’
—just because 1 wore patent-leather
shoes and put on a clean collar, now
and then That’s the kind of a town it
is
“I’ve lived up to the name. I zimss
1 know every newsboy, policeman, ac
tor. chorus girl, wine agent, gambler
and bartender on the street. I’ve been
to bed just one night in five years be
fore six o'clock in the morning and
that was when I had a toothache and
my face was swollen. It was not the
pain that kept me in; it was the looks
of the puffed face.”
He drew his breath in slowly, almost
wonderingly. “Oh, what I haven’t done
to Broadway!’’ he continued. “Well,
>ou've seen me. You’ve been with me.
You know.”
Wallace nodded. “I always thought
you were pretty speedy, but I thought
Peter Pembroke.
you could afford it. The trouble with
you is you've been too liberal.”
“Liberal! Why, when I go into a
restaurant the waiters come to blows
*o see who'll get me. In barber shops
as I approach you'd think some one
had just yelled 'Fire!' the way the bar
bers dash :ar the chairs. Oh. I've beer
i he bright-eyed baby b >y around this
town, all right. It's cost me a fortune
—all I had.”
His voice trailed into silence; Wal
lace sat looking at him dumb.
“But I’ve had a wonderful time!”
spid Broadwaj finally.
x “How long have you been broke?”
“About six months. My credit’s car
ried me on. When I first went broke
I made up my mind i wouldn’t run in
debt, no matter what happened. I put
on an old suit erf clothes that morning,
and started out looking for a job."
“What kind of a job?”
“Any kind of a job Messenger boy. I
elevator boy -1 didn't care! I promised j
myself I'd earn my living without beg
ging. borrowing or stealing.”
He told Wallace^ of his stealthy
starch for the elusive job which was
to have paid up Ins debts and started
him ag.-.iu, tlrs time as a millionaire
in process of construction of new mil
lions.
'1 started lc.oktr.r for a 'hoy-wanted
sign. It sounds funny, but it 1b a fact.
My intentions were (he best in all the
world But 1 got to thinking of some
tilif.l else ■ - L !’• dJ walked.a. block
hr two, and where do you suppose I
was when I woke up? In Delmonico’s,
taring breakfast! Turned in there out
of force of habit.
"I made a dozen attempts to do the
ri*ht thing. I cut out automobiles and
rode in street cars for ibree days; I
went to an opening night at a theater
and sat in the gallery; I bought a pair
of ready-made shoes; I ate meals at a
forty-rent table d-hote and smoked,
five-cent cigars—practicing, just prac
ticing, trying to get used to it.
"But I couldn't. That was all—I sim
ply couldn’t! All my good resolutions
went to smash every time I took a
look at Broadway. I knew' my credit
was good; the things I wanted were
• here; I could have them; so—well.
I too* them, that was all!”
“And now,” said Wallace, who had
set. at first incredulous, and, later,
spellbound, during the recital, “you
are fifty thousand dollars in debt!”
"1 don’t know the exact amount, but
that’s a fairly good guess.”
“You’ve been pretty quiet about it.
It hasn’t seemed to worry yon much!”
“Hasn’t w’orried me?’ Broadway’s
voice was bitter. “Well, I don’t mind
telling you that I have just come out
of the first sound sleep I’ve had in
weeks. I ll bet I walked to Chicago
and back every night the first month
I was broke.”
“I don’t understand?”
“I mean if you had measured up my
carpet by the mile. I thought so much
and w orried so much that 1 didn’t dare
trust myself alone. I had the weird
est ideas; T did the craziest things. Do
you know that I belong to the Salva
tion Army?”
“What!”
"On the level. I went to Newark
and joined one night.”
"What was the idea?”
“I thought it might helw me forget
my troubles. I played the bass drum
for two nights and couldn’t stand if
any longer. Er—have you ever been
in Newark?”
“I’ve beeu through there on the
train.”
“That’s bad enough. Guess what I
suffered! I got off the train! Oh, you
can’t realize what I’ve been through
Bob! I've made a bluff and pretended
to be happy all the time; but. believe
me, old pal, there have been times
when I’ve started for the Brooklyn
bridge—and I won’t tell you about a
bottle of poison and a gun full of lead
which I considered using. I didn't care
about the money I’d spent; what wor
ried me was that running in debt, day
after day, with no chance of repav
ing.”
“But you kept on accepting credit.”
“And it was wrong—dead wrong!
But—well, I guess it must be in my
blood. I couldn't help it.”
“How about your uncle?"
Broadway laughed, a cackling, scorn
ful laugh.
“He's a rich man. Have you tried
him?"
I “Yes; tried him and found him
( guilty. I wrote and told him I was
short of ready cash, after I had spent
the pittance that he paid tne for my
interest in the Jones’ gum. I asked
him if he wouldn’t lend me, aay, ten
thousand dollars."
“Did he answer?”
“Sure, he answered. Sent me a pack
age of the gum and the advice: ’Chew
this and forget your troubles.’ He’s in
Europe now. He's worth a million, if
he's worth a nickel, and he bought me
out fot practically nothing!"
’’Stingy?’’
“Stingy? He’s so mean that every
time he's asked to have a drink he
takes a cigar and then saves up the
cigars, puts them in old boxes, and
gives them away for Christmas pres
ents.”
"Where have you been getting
enough for tips and pocket money?”
“I sold that big French car I said
was in dead storage. And do you re
tnember that I said I’d lost a lot of
jewelry? I hadn’t. I had pawned it.
How's rny work, eh?”
“You're a wonder! I’ve got to hand
t to you. But why didn’t you confide
in me long ago?”
"I didn’t have enough courage to
confhie in anyone. I could only keep
on hoping that some miracle would
happen. I’ve thought of nothing ex
cept money and how to get it.
“And, Bob, last night, at that ban
quet table, I sat looking at Mrs. Ge
rard, thinking of her millions and won
dering w hat she'd say to me if I should
fejl my story, trying to pluck up nerve
■nough to. take her into my confidence
nd see if she wouldn't help. That’s
ow it started. I didn’t realize what
was doing; but 1 must have been
taring at her for ten minutes when
.ie called a waiter who, presently,
landed me a note.”
“What did it say? Was it from her?"
"Yes, and it said: Why do you stare
t me so?’ ”
“Did you answer it?"
“Yes.”
“What did you say?”
“Oh, l couldn’t help it—I was dea
erate. 1 said ‘Because I love you!’”
“And she answered?”
"Yes; ‘I love you, too.’”
‘And you wrote?”
“ ’Not as much as I love you.’ W.
id quite a correspondence. Seve
eight notes each way.”
“Who sent the last one?”
"She did, and it said: ‘Will j
me?”’
““he really proposed to you?”
“On the level, and I didn’t say i
thing. The letter carrier lost his jo1
right there. For fear =he'd change he;
mind before the next mail arrived !
leaned across the table and yelled
'Yea!’ ”
“I’d gone, you know. Exactly what
then happened?” Wallace asked.
“She fainted: general excitement:
smelling salts: she slowly caine lute
to her senses Then the usual speech'
'Where am I?' That was my cue of
course although it hurt! Embrace
List?, a-'irmiK-oii-nt to “ “ dip"_
ly; wild applause. Then somebody
ordered 20 cases of wine.
"And the next thing I remember ia
old Rankin culling me when yon came
! here today. What do you think of all
( of it?”
i “It's terrible! Ton can't afford to
let it go any further."
I "I can't afford to do anything, with
“You’re Not Sore at Me, Bob, Are
You 7"
out signing a tab fot it," said Broad
way ruefully.
“You can do something. Haven't
you any 'get up and go?’ ’’
"That seems to be all that ia left for
me—to 'get up and go’—as far as poa
nible—unless I marry her.’’
“If you’d go to work you’d have the
makings of a business man."
If I went to work I wouldn’t have
he makings of a cigarette."
How do you know? You haven’t
tried. I’ll get you a job."
“Where?”
"With my 9n». on my recommenda
tion.”
“You’d lose your reputation.”
“I’ll see the guvnor tomorrow. I can
get you. probably, five thousand a year
to start with.”
“Five thousand a year? How could
I stay here In New York on that? I
pay more for this apartment.! I owe
ten times that much, right now!”
“I’ve got twenty thousand dollars of
| my own. I’ll lend you that.” , >
“I’d never be able to pay it back ”
“Thi^t. doesn't make any difference.**
I “Yes, It does,” said Broadway s»ub
j bornly. "Even though you loaned nve
! enough to pay up all I owe. I'd owe
| you, wouldn’t I? What's the od<’»
, whether I’m in debt to you or to the
1 other fellow? I’d never get even with
I the world that way.”
"Hat you mustn’t marry her; It Isn't
1 right.”
“How do you mean?”
“Would you cio anything so low, and
so contemptible, as to marry a woman
l deliberately for her money?”
Broadway shrank a little, then rose
In self-defense. “Who says I'm marry
ing her for her money?"
“You know you don't love her.”
Broadway answered hotly. He felt
that he must answer hotly. It was the
only thing remaining for him.
“I don’t know anything of the kind!
Now, you see here; suppose you were
iu trouble. Wouldn’t you love sny
one who’d come along and help you
out of it?” He sighed. "Besides, it’s
too late now. The engagement's been
announced."
Wallace was Intensely stubborn. He
would not hare this thing. “Engage
ments are broken every day in the
week,” he argued earnestly.
Broadway made a gesture of dissent.
“Now, you leave it all to me,” said
Wallace soothingly. "I ll have a talk
with Mrs. Gerard, and 1 11 guarantee
to prove to her that it's all an utter
impossibility. You needn’t enter into
it at all. I'll take the whole thing on
i my shoulders, and—”
Broadway shook bis hesd emphatic
ally, although regretfully. “No; there's
no use, Bob. I told you I wouldn't lis
ten to any argument against it. My
mind is quite made up, snd that's all
there Is to it.” He pulled a yellow
back out of his pocket. “See this? A
j hundred dollars. That's my bank
j roll.”
Wallace went to him with friendly
i warning. “You’ll lose every friend yqu
' ever had in all the world!”
“No; I won’t; people with money
never lose their friends."
| “I know one you’ll lose,” said Wal
lace gravely.
-You?’
“Yes; unless you tell me within the
next 24 hour* that you're reeonsid
•red all this rot, and that you're going
| to fight thing* out the way a real man
should, I'll never speak to you again!"
| ''Bob!" Broadway actually paled,
“That goes; 1* it getting nte ape-.
. thing—this giving you ad vice? Will it
put a dollar in or out of my pocket,
whether you marry that, old woman or
not? You’re nothing to gne except *.
friend and a pal: hut I don’t want t*v
aee yon do something you’ll regret for
all the balance of your life. I'-n sorre
you're in trouble, and there isn’t any*
thing 1 won’t do to help you. ftl go,
the limit in everything l'\e got. But ,
if you don't give up ail idea of that,
marriag’e, never expect the friendship,
of a man vyl\o has anj decency os self -t
respevt. . ‘ (
"That’s all I've got to say. Now, I'll*
be going.'*
(TO BE CONTINUED NEXT'WEEK)
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