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Rub-My-Tism will cure you.
Dave Oglethorpe was on the
sick list several days this week.
A. P. Richardson has been on
the sick list for the past two weeks
Dr. L. F. Magee was confined to
his home by illness several days
this week.
Mrs. Fred Snider of El Dora' o
was here this week visiting friends
and relatives.
J. M. Bradshaw and wife left
Wednesday for Hope where they
will stay awhile.
Earl Collett left Thursday morn
ing for a two week's visit with rel
atives at Malvern.
I
Faytie Carter of New London
w is the guest of his sister, Mrs. C.
A Berry, this week.
Conductor F. L. Rogers is in
Little Rock to undergo an opera
tion for his health.
Mrs. Perry Filyaw of White was
here last Saturday enroute to Cecil
to visit her parents.
John W. Sanders of Ei Dorado
h is been granted a patent by the
government on a wheel.
Twins, a boy and a girl, arrived
at the home of Sawyer and Mrs. C.
A. McCormick last Friday morning.
Miss L.ucile Nipper is home from
a visit with relatives in Missouri
and with J. B. Calvert in Kentucky.
Miss Lulu Harrington is home
from a visit with her father at
Bastrop. La., and reports him some
improved.
Filer A. E. Lucas, wife and
daughter. Miss Mabel, left Monday
for a three weeks' visit to their old
home in Michigan.
5 or 6 doses 666 will break any
case of Chills and Fever; and if
taken then as a tonic the Fever
will not return. Price 25c.
We treat Piles successfully with
out knife or chloroform. Refer
ence and information on application
Drs. McCall &. Williams.
Lawson, Ark.
W. H. Wheler arrived home
Fric/ay from a visit in Colorado.
His wife stopped over at Brinkley.
Ark., to visit with relatives before
returning home.
There will be a box supper at
Felsenthal Saturday night. Sep
tember 14, for the benefit of the
church at that place. All are cor
dially invited to attend.
J. D. Henry of Dierks. who
taught a term of school at Harper
Springs year before last, has been
secured again for this term and
opined the term Monday.
Rev. C. B. Rogers of El Dorado
oicupied the pulpit at Union church
last Sunday morning and evening
in the absence of Rev. J. R. Rush
ing who is at Hot Springs.
E. A. Frost, president, F. T.
Whited, vice president, and G. S.
Prestridge. genera! manager of the
Frsot-Johnson Co., cf Shreveport
were business visitors in Hutlig
the first of the week.
Governor Donaghey has granted
a pardon to John Ford of Union
county, charged with assault with
intent to kill and sentenced to
served one year io._the penitentiary.
The pardon was to restore citizen- .
ship.
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Mrs. Tom Weaver of Huttig ar
rived in the city last week to join
her husband and will make this
their future home. Mr. Weaver is
private secretary to Genera! Man
ager A. W. Gorkins of the Worden
Alien Construction Company, who
are budding the large mills for th'
Cremer Lumber Company. . Cros
sett Observer.
Mrs. A. W. Corkins is here th
guest of Mrs. C. T. Thompson am
other friends, before joining h i
husband at Crossett.
The First National bank was
closed Monday on account of th t
day being proclaimed a legal holi
day by Governor G. W. Donaghey.
and Cashier F. W. Miles spent the
day in E! Dorado visiting relative'
and friends.
Miss S. Barreiras of St. Loui:
Mo., arrived in the city last went
to take charge of the Cremer hote
which will open in a few days. Thf
hotel contains twenty-one bee
rooms and is conveniently located
to the Cremer mills.--Crosset’
Observer.
Governor Elect Robinson will
make speeches in Massachusetts,
Indiana. Wisconsin and Oregon
during the month of October in the
interest of the national Democratic
ticket, speaking in the princi; al
cities. He will speak in Bostcn.
Indi inapolis. Madison, Portland ai d
Seattle.
Rub-My-Tism will cure you.
Mdtinncy-Malone.
At the home of the bribe's par
ents. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. McKin
ney. three miles west of Huttig. at
9:15 o'clock Sunday evening Rev.
C. B. Rogers of El Dorado per
formed the ceremony which united
in mdrriage Miss Asalee McKinney
and Mr Davis M. Malone. Both
are natives of this community and
have a large circle of friends who
will join the News in extending
congratulations.
Notice.
The Union Saw Mill Company
will pav $50.00 as a reward to any
one, not in its employ, who wiil fur
nish information from which a:i\
person shall be convicted of depre
dating or trespassing upon the tim
ber of said Company.
This 1st day of February. 1905.
Union Saw Mill Co.
Bv F. W. Scott.
Secy, and Treas
No. 10060.
REPORT OP THE CONDITION
of the
NRST NATIONAL BANK Of lilJTTiC
At Huttig, in the State of Arkansas, at
the Close of Husiness Sept.
4, 1912.
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts
U. S. Bonds to secure circulation
Banking house. Furniture, and Fixtures
Due from National Banks not reserve
agents)
Due fiom approved Reserve Agents
Checks and other Cash Items
Fractional Paper Currency Nickels and
Cents
Lawful Money Reserve in Bank, viz:
Specie SI.070.25
legal-tender notes 2.164 00
Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer
(5 per cent of circulation!
Sf 0,976.40
6.25C 00
4.091.01
15.37C20
15.203 10
1.1 16.91
315.65
3.234.25
312.50
Total
S96.87t.02
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock naid in
Surplus fund
Undivided Profits, less Expanses
Taxes Paid
National Bank Notes outstanding
Individual deposits subject to check
Time certificates of deposit
Cashier's checks outstanding
$25,000 00
1,000.00
462 4
6.250/Jo
48.855.LI
4,2!
1.056. 5
Bills payable, including certificates of
deposit for money borrowed 1 0.000.00
Total .. ... $96,976 02
Stale of Arkansas. County of Union, ss:
1, F. W. Miles, i. i «r of the ab>ve named bark,
do solemnly swear that the above statement is ti ue
to the best of my knowledge and belief.
F. W. MILES. Cashier.
Correct Attest:
F. W. SCOTT.
C. T. THOMPSON.
C. H MURPHY
Directors.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 1 1th day
of Sept.. 1912.
CHAS. S. WATKINS. Notary Public.
My commission expires January 10. 1914.
RECAPITULATION.
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts $50,976 40
U. S. Bonds and Premiums 6,250.uO
Banking House and Fixtures 4,091.01
Redeption Fund and due from U. S.
Treasurer 312.50
Cash and Exchange 3.L26.ll
Total
LIABILl+IES.
Capital Stock paid in
Surplus fund and undivided profits
Circulation
Deposits
Bills payable
$98,876.02
$25,000 00
1.462 84
6.250.00 ]
54,1 13.18 i
Hi. 001) 00
Total
S4€.8?6.U2
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SYNOPSIS,
CTJ APTKR T—Harding K*mt cpll« rv
Koulsc Farrlsh to propose marriage and
finds the house in great exciti nifnt nvc
‘he attempted suieide of her sister Katli
arine. Kent starts an investigation are'
finds that Hugh Crandall. suitor fo
Katharine, who had in pn forlildtien 11 ■ **
hmise hv General Farrlsh, had talked wit *
Katharine over the telephone .hist tv-fore
*he shot herself. A torn pieeo of yellow
paper Is found, at s!~ht rtf v.hl-'h Gen
eral Farrlsh Is stricken wP h paralysis.
f'H A PTER IT Kent disenv»rs that!
rnndall lias left town hurriedly. An- j
rtfr-w Kiser, an aged hanker, eommlts
iiuieide al.out tlie same time as Katharine
attempted her life.
FITAPTFft TTT — A yellow envelope is
found In Kiser's room. Poatofilee Insprte
ior Davl'i, Kent’* friend, tul<-*» up the
ease.
CH APTKR TV—Kent Is eonvtneed that
Crandall is at the bottom of the mystery.
CHAPTER V—Kent nad Gnvis search
Crandall’s room and find an address, ,
‘T.ock Box 17. Ardway, N .T.“ Kent ■
ror-s to Ardway to Investigate and be- I
comes suspicious of a “Henry Cook.’’
CHAPTER VT—A woman commits sui
cide at the Ardway Hotel. A yellow let
ter also figures In this case.
He dashed away to the telephone,
he landlord following. I ate my sup
>er alone and waited. Just as 1 was
inishing he came back Into the
oom, and, seating himself, began to
:at, apparently indifferent to the fact
that everything had grown cold In
he half-hour he was absent.
“Well,” I said inquiringly, "did you
'earn anything?”
He nodded and calmly finished
drinking his cold coffee, seemingly
A’lth a relish.
Expectantly I sat there, waiting for
lim to go on. He seemed not to no
lice my impatience, though it must
lave been apparent, and waited until
he had pushed back his chair and
lighted a cigarette. He always rolled
his own, and never before had I real
ized what an irritating operation roll
ing a cigarette can be made. It
seemed to me that he was taking en
irely unnecessary pains to have the
--mis twisted just so. Fjnallv T could
.trook no further delay, ami burst out
with: "Well, what have you discov
ered, Mr. Inspector?"
l supposed that he might have ob
tained a clue to where the woman's
garments had been manufactured,
ome tiny thread by which he hop'-d
o run her identity to earth. Little
vas I prepared for the startling: dis
•ovpries he volleyed a* me, so tersely,
o concretely put that I could not
iouht the accuracy of bis Information.
"The woman was Sarah Sackett,
pinster. She lived on a little farm
ist outside Bridgeport with her broth
r Robert, i* ho is somewhat older than
he. They inherited the farm from
heir parents and have lived there all
heir lives. The brother is employed
s cashier in a little country bank
bon’ ten miles away. Every morning
■ e drives inio Bridgeport and takes
he train. When his sister left, two
ays ago, he came with her to the
••atlon. He evidently is not aware
f her death, though he seems great
y worr’ed over hpr absence. He pre
mmably expected her to return last
light, for he waited over several
rains. This morning he was asking
he station agent if he had seen her.”
The dry, matter-of-fact way in which
ie recited the facts he had learned
idded to the value of his narrative,
'lore and more I marveled at the
man's detective ability. I was over
whelmed with a sense of my own in
capacity. All day long the coroner,
he constable and I had been trying
o ferret out the mystery of the unfor
unate woman’s identity wtth prac
icallv the same properties to draw
eductions from, the inspector in a
cry few minutes had not only learned
ter identity, but many other ini pop
vnt facts about her. Nor did it oo
ur to me to. doubt the tru'h of his
nformation. The assurance with
which he spoke was in itself a suf
icient guarantee.
“How on earth did you learn all
his so quickly?” I asked in amaze
ment.
He smiled with that grim tantaliz
i\S smile of his that I had seen be
fore. His cigarette had burned itself
:o a stub as he spoke. He turned it
■arefully in his fingers, inspecting it
• r if to see whether he could extract
nother puff before throwing it away,
le finally decided that he could not,
nd drew forth his cigarette papers
•id tobacco, preparatory to rolling a
:;sw one. Meanwhile I awaited his
nswer in suspense.
“Go on,” I continued. “Tell me
.bout it. I must know how you did
it”
“The principal part of a magician’s
art,” he said as he lighted his new
igarette, “lies in what is called ‘mis
direction.’ With a glance from his
eyes, with a sudden movement of his
hand he attracts your attention to
liis right side. Meanwhile his left is
doing the trick. Now, misdirection, in
my business, has just the opposite ef
fect. Amateurs, in investigating
crime, examine the evidence and see
clues pointing in some direction. They
follow those clues and find themselves
floundering. They have the right
clues, 'mt they ™o in the wrong dirtc
'on You read the evidence ailght
s to Mins Saekott (frying from
irldgeport. hut rill you; > <; to In
■ate her as Mary .rare '!< i - • rr
■Imply a wsptp of time. In 'hp
lothes she left behind her was her
•cal name.”
“Look here.” T said, “you can't
tiring n:e in that fashion. I myself
xa mInert those garments closely,
■ here was no name in them nn<l t*•' r
to marks by which she could be iden
tilled.”
"Is that so?” There was deep sar
asm in his 'one.
• And not oi ly that, even if I over
jked any marks that might hav
on there, the landlord, the corrnei
c constable and baif a dozen on
examined them ciosely. If there were
any marks, some one of us surely
would have discovered them.”
For answer he got up leisurely and
walked across to a chair where the
garments were s 111 lying. He picked
up the skirt and held il by the lower
hem.
"Hook closely at he commanded.
“Do you sec nothing there?”
I scanned the dusty cloth intently
and shook my head. He picked up the
-oat and offered it ravely for my in
spection. even turning it inside out,
sleeves and all.
“Well, what or it?” 1 exclaimed im
patiently. ”i can’t see anything there
eit her.”
“Can't you?” he asked over pleasant
ly. “That's where I found the wom
an's name.”
Again T too’,: tin heth garments and
studied them, bu I was positive that
there was no pome of any sort or any
thing to Indicate a name. I felt that
he must he simply lasting with me.
“You can’t fool me.” 1 exclaimed. “I
would wager yon a thousand dollars to
five hundred that coat and skirt do
not differ any in the slightest from
V
Breathlessly I Rushed Into the Booth
and Grabbed the Receiver.
hundreds of other coats and skirts
nom by hundr< ds of other women.”
‘‘You lose.” he responded tersely.
■\Vith one finger he began to trace an
almost invisible line on tbe goods
where there had once been a seam.
' Do you e°e that mark?”
‘‘Yes,’' I replied. “I noticed that
long ago. It simply means that, the
skirt has been lengthened or short
ened, but what of it?”
"It means more than that,” lie an
swered almost severely, as if reproach
ing me for m; lack of observation.
“It means that a thirty-eight skirt
has been lengthened an inch ami a
half. Look at this coat. The sleeve:
have been lengthened two inches. L
is a thirty-eight coat. Can’t you se>
how simple the problem has become?’
"I confess I can’t see it at all."
“Let me state it for you: A womat
from somewhere in Connecticut buy
a black suit of a rather peculiar tex
ture from a cloak and suit house tha'
receives a great many mail orders
Site requires a thirty-eight coat witl
sleeves lengthened two inches and s
thirty-eight skirt let down an inct
and a half. That’s enough to identify
any person."
“I must confess I s ill don’t se
how that knowledge will help you.”
"In these days of system ever;
house that sells women's garment
has elaborate card indexes. The great
est expense they have is in altera
tions. They figure that a roll of clot!
that co3ts so much will make so man;
suits of a certain pattern which the;
will sell for so much in a certain
length of time. They figure on mak
ing so much profit on the suits. L
the cloth is all right, the pattern pop
ular and the price reasonable, the;
can figure to a certainty on their prof
its, except for one factor—alterations
Alterations require the time of skillet
work-people and also correspondent
and frequently extra express charges.
The aim of the manager is to roduc
alteration to a minimum. For tli:
reason he keeps jceord. of every a
teratlon Trade. This particular dress
happened to come from a store where
I know the manager well. It Is their
busy season just now, and I took a
chance on finding him In his office. I
described the goods in the suit, gave
him the sire and the sort of altera
tions that had been made on It and
asked him to have his card index
looked up. I told h'm in all prob
ability tlie woman I wanted to know
about came from Bridgeport, Conn.,
or near there. Tt happened that only
three of the eight suits they had made
from this piece of goods—at least the
only ones entered on the alteration
cards- had gone to Connecticut. Of
the three, two were thirtj-six coats,
so they eottld he eliminated at once.
The third one had had the siceves
lengthened and also the skirt. The
sires corresponded, po there was very
little doubt that it had been this wom
en who had bought it. Miss Sarah
Saclcctt, the woman who committed
suicide here.”
"But even so,” T protested, still mar
veling at his revelations, "how did
you get the rest of your information
about her so quickly?”
"The address she had given was ‘In
care of the express agent' at Bridge
port. Such an address In a large city
would mean nothing, hut in a place
the sire of Bridgeport the Inference
was plain that the agent was probably
an acquaintance. If she lived in
Bridgeport, she would have given
street and number. I concluded at
once that she lived in the suburbs
near Bridgeport. 1 called up the ex
press agent, and he gave me the rest
of my facts.”
“Did he tell you why she committed
suicide
“He doesn’t dream that she has,"
the inspector replied. "I put my ques
tions In a guarded way and he hap
pened to he a garrulous fellow, who
readily followed my leads. All I
asked him was n hprp a letter would
reach Miss Sarah Hackett, saying I
had forgotten which rural free deliv
ery route it was that she lived on. He
told me that she and her brother were
still living on the old Sackett place,
Boute No. 1. 1 explained that 1 want
ed to make sure ef an important let
ter reaching her nt nr^. He told me
she was away, explaining that he had
seen her come down to the station
with her brother, and suggested that
it might lie a good idea to send the
letter in her brother's rare, and teld
me the address of the bank where
her brother eould be reached. So you
see it ts all quite simple when you
know how.”
‘‘I don't Fee. though,” 1 nhleeted,
"how anything that you have learned
In any way connects this woman with
the Parrish mystery.”
“I told you there would be other
suicides, didn't I?”
"B looks to me like a mere coinci
dence.”
‘How about the yellow letter she
wag rending?"
I started. For a m-ntorvt T had for
gotten Dip strange, tinted link (hat
seemed (o hind (ho Fairish trngcdv.
Dip Kiser rs:-a and (ho Sarah Rackett
suicide together in the terrible chain
of my story.
'We've cot to find Hugh Crandall!’’
! I exclaimed. “I will not ho content
) until wo do. Thorp is no doub* In
' my mind that ho is the author of those
i letters. Wp'vp pot to find him, Davis,
and mako b'm explain. I promis'd
| tho girl 1 lovp 1 would not rost until
I I had cleared away Dip mystery, until
: 1 had lifted th° cloud that is hang
ing over lior father and her sister
Nothing, nothing shall stand in the
wav! Think what it means to me! Tim
one I love, the one who is dearer to me
than anything else In the world, is
living In constant dread of an un
known terror. 1 feel that Crandall Is
responsible. I am positive that be is
Utility. Help ire find him, Davis! We
must find him.”
As 1 spoke Davis sat regarding me
with unmoved countenance, lie pnffei
'e.isnrely at his cigarette two or thro*
times, and then, with cutting asper
Uy, without the slightest indication
of sympathy for mj anxiety, sain
slowly:
"Harding, I told you that one of tlu
reasons for my success was that i
never undertake anything that 1 op1
not accomplish. 1 came out here t'
dud the man who has b°en using Du
naiis illegally to terrorize people t<
such an extent that they' are drive'
to suicide. I am confident that w<
will quickly locate him and nis ac
complice in crime. Rest assured that
i’ou can safely leave the plan of ae
sion to me.”
“Rut—but,” I stammered, "what i>
your plan of action? What are yo
going to do now?”
“I’m going to bed,” he replied, yawr
ing as he rose from his chair. "There-:
nothing more that, can be done tc
night.”
Impatient as I was, and anxiout
though 1 was to alleviate Louise’:
fears at the earliest moment possible
l could not hut fee] that he was right
There was nothing that could tie don
that night. I showed him where th<
room was that 1 had engaged for hir.
—next to mine—and, feeling much d<’
pressed and perplexed, was preparing
to turn in when I was startled by f.
sharp rap on my door.
“Come in," I called, thinking, o*
course, it was Davis wilh some new
theory to suggest.
Instead It was the clerk from the
office below.
“You’re wanted on the telephone,"
he said.
I had already taken off my coat and
waistcoat and I did not wait to put
them on. Just as 1 was I sped through
the hall to the telephone booth. Win
could It be that was calling me at
this hotir? It must he long after ten
j I could think of only two person;
| who know of my being in this hotel
I Louise and Hugh Crandall. I felt that
It must be Louise. Why should Cran
dall call me up? True, he could have
learned my name from the hotel reg
ister, and from my question about the
yellow letter he must know that I
was on his trail, but having escaped
from the village, why should he com
municate with me? No, it could not
be he. It trust be Lou Ire. She would
not call ire at this lime nnle. s some
thing had happened. That was it.
Something terrible had happened!
Katharine was dead, or perhaps her
father. Perhaps b»th of th"in Or
mnyhe Katharf o had spoken again.
Perhaps she had given some infor
mation that Louise felt would aid mo
iu the iivestigation that meant so
much for be. h of us.
Isn't It strange how fast wp can
think? It could nol have taken me
more than thirty seconds to race from
my room to the telephone booth in the
hall below, yet in that brief period
all these thoughts and a hundred
other queries and fears pursued earh.
other in mad tumult through my bra in.
Preathles' ly 1 rushed into the booth
and grabbed the receiver. It was the
voice of Louise that I heard. Faint
though It was, I recognized it at once,
and was overjoyed to note that th< t-e
was nothing in it of the sadness tln-re
would have been if the worst had
come to her father or Katharine.
“Is that you, Mr. Kent?" she ashed.
“Yes, yes,” I cried. “What Is it?”
"This Is Louise Farrlsh speaking.
I want you to promise me that you will
di >p your Investigation at once aud
return to the cltv.”
"What’s that?” I cried, not believ
ing my ears.
“If you love me”—she was speaking
slowly and enunciating with labored
distinctness that there might be no
mistake—“you will drop all Investi
gation at once without any questions.
i)o you hear me? Repeat what I have
said so 1 can he sure you under
stand."
Word for word I repeated her mes
sage, amazed beyond thought at Its
import. As I finished repeating it. I
cried, “Why, tell me why—” hut I
heard the thud of the broken con
nection.
Frantically I called central. T plead
ed. urged, demanded that she get the
person at the other end of the wire
again. It was no use. I called for
'he Far ishs’ number. Central report
ed, "Don't answer." I said that I
had been called Just now from tb're.
After weary, impatient minutes of
waiting and wrangling, she told me
the call had come from another num
ber, from a pay station. 1 demanded
that number at once and Anally she
got it for me. It was a drugstore
near the Farrish home. The druggist’s
clerk said that the young lady who
had been telephoning had left the
store. I tried to get him to send a
messenger around to the Farrlshs’ to
ask Miss laiulse Farrlsh lo come to
the telephone. He refused. It waa
useless. 1 was forced to give if un.
I emerged from the telephone booth
perspiring, frantic, puzzled hey.md
measure at the sudden and startling
turn in affairs.
What could have induced Louise to
send me such a message? What could
have happened?
CHAPTER IX,
r
A New Mystery.
T was up with the dawn the next,
morning and down stslrg to And a
train schedule. The only thought In
my mind was that I mu»l go to Lou
ise at onop. I could not understand
her sudden amazing change of front.
Why, after pledging me to po]ve the
mystery, should she all at once be „a
insistent that I should immediately
stop all inquiry? I had lain awake
the whole night, pondering the situa
tion and seeking a solution. What rea
son could she have? Who could ha> -j
influenced her to such action?
The first train, i found, left two
minutes before ply, J ordered turns
fast, though in no mood for eating,
and went to Paris’ room. I felt that
t needed hip •dvlce. I found him
awake, smoking a cigarette in bed.
Rriefly 1 related to hint the amazing;
telephone conversation 1 had had with
l.nulse the night before.
‘‘What possible reason could have
influenced her to make such a strang-s
request?" 1 concluded.
‘‘A woman doesn’t have to bare *
reason,” he answered—flippantly, it
seemed to me.
“You don’t understand!” I cried.
“Louise ig not the ordinary flighty
girl. Shs has the finest, best-balanced
mind of any woman I ever knew. She
never arts on impulse.”
Paris looked »t me with th»t exas
perating smile of his.
“Koni," he replied, “when you have
been married as long as I have, when
you know women as well as 1 do, you
will realize the folly of trying to fi’ tl
reasons for the things women do.
Their minds sre not governed hv rea
son, but by impulse. Every ssne wom
an knew that the hobble skirt was an
absurdity, yet when Fashion decided
in favor of the hobble skirl it was
worn. I doubt very much if MIrk Par
rish herself could tell you why she
ask«d you to discontinue your inves
tigation. Probably she acted on im
pulse. By this time she undoubtedly
jia Just as eager as she ever was for
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as he lighted another cigarette.
(To Be Continued Next Week.)
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