Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-29

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 " T,odney took do,cn q gun aud begun to
 clean tt.
 to free it from an escaped splinter from the snuff brush. When me an paw war keepin' comp'ny satin warnt good enough for me He Flowed l wuz to have half creation. Sence we wuz married he ain't never found time. en- durn' all these years, to build me bird house. l wuz raised in Tennessee, an we uns had a house for martins made putin gourds, an it was pearty.'
 Mrs ney'-Swift- leaned toward her and whispered something in her ear. She regarded him tentatively, then grinned. At her time of life why should she put faith in the promises of men? You fix its.up, an you get your bird house, was the conclusion of his sentence. ss+ 4. 4 45, ,.
 While this discussion had been. in progress tie viands had not been neg leeted except by such members of the company as had been bereft of appe- tite+ by loftier 9emotons-in conse- quence of which the table appeared to have sustained visitation of seven teen year Iot-;ssts. Eidora.l ever eco homie i'll the value she placed not only upon hersalf, but her environment. pro- posed to her guests that they should wash the dishes, an art in which they were by no means deficient, being no. DO e'exceptiot~~to~ ma jority of range T. .I,o o1 ,,J. ,o1x suits. And thus it came to pass that Eudora's suitors, swathed in aprons, meekly washed dishes shoulder to shoulder. while their souls craved the performa of ~sl lprous deeds
 MAs this wAsthe last stagesNa tion onl sthe way tohost Trail, Mary Car Smichael was Nfforce oblded fp con; ,. tent B herself tifsAsMrs Yletts should cali Or send fofylher. After supperxs Chuggs wi lfh frresih fhorsessto the stage. left Rodney's, apparently for some port in that seemingly painless sea of foothills. .-That. at.-thera-.should4 be .trails, and defined routes over this vast. nn varied stretch of space seemed more wonderful to Mary than the chartel highroads of the Atlantic
 Very lonely seemed the Rodney mountainsb A breeding dese1ation had settled }op it ,atyesose 'ef Hay. apd all the lau}htE ana ssRh Gfdstftepas. s1kd gayly ringing vo6ftes of. the' y6tnsg, Yolk could not dspel the feeling of being adrift in tiny shell on the black wa ters of some unknown sea. or thus 1t f'esemed to stranger within their 'S: s's. Rodn, rsa.ed Gf'1 e1,,ns th4Sap; F!a.t
 her sunb hnet lhftM u evf fnihA Asa,. sSs1 g. t, As N, N {sAtIss veyance. Warren Rodney took down gun from the wall and began to clean it. His industry with the gun was of a part with the impotent daw- dtsng in the garden. HA eyes would seek for te'dgrag and thss boNle of pil iszaG dull. klazed sSway. .Han6 having found them. he would forget the req son of his quest Not once that even. ing had they rested on his wife or any member of bis family. He had shown ' no interest in any of the small hap ! penings Of hona the Frank HrWaf fyy yof ! Budora sasbit6rsI4tie hckerings af the girls and boys over the division of household labor.
 From one of the rooms that opened to the world like q stage to the au- dience Mrs. Rodney kept her evening vigil The last faint amethystine haze on the mountains eas deepening They fh6useNay @Fh sgchalleHging ifnmens sity, mockihg the irHtiful grasp ofthese \, pygmfes o1isthe thousand| hills.
 Eudora now. came to her.motb&rs witt. great news. Hawks had taken the first opportunity of being alone with her to tell her of Jim's release from jail and of his abortive encounter with Simpson in the eating house. He had not deferred theetelling from any feel ing, of reficence regarding, the dis Xclosnre of family affairs before stran- gers. News travels ih the desert by some unknown agency Twenty four hours after thing happened it would be safe to assume that every COW and <sheep outfit in, "a radius of 300 miles { dwould be discu$singit over their camp I fires. and thisHengS bhfore tlfere hWce an inch of telegraph wire or rail, road tie in tl.e~ country. fia-viis~ .,se. merely reserved the news for Eudora s