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THE JOURNAL.
Published Weekly.
COCHRAN, GA.
Fortune telling Is prohibited In New
"York, but fortune hunting is not.
A bouse In St. Louis was set on fire
by a tireless cooker. Now what’ll we
do?
After all. In charging a dollar for
trimming hair the barbers ate making
i cut-price.
Just when we were getting used to
peanuts and spring water, the price
of meat goes down.
A Detroit woman was divorced
■while attending a card party. Again
the law of compensation.
A new SIOO counterfeit bill is in cir
rNlatlon. When buying bacon, exam
ine your change carefully.
There should be some great world
market in which war scares could be
purchased cheaper by the dozen.
The man who boasts of calling a
spade a spade may pass a snow shovel
without being able to recognize it.
A sacred cow in Central park. New
•York, is suffering with a severe cold.
Nothing is too sacred for the grip
germ.
One Denver woman Insists that she
never Owned a hat. Then she never
kept anybody waiting while she pinned
it on.
The czar solemnly gives It out lhat
he hopes God will be lenient with Tol
stoi. Can you beat that, for Russian
humor?
That New York is the hottest place
in summer and the coldest in winter
does not necessarily spell climatic
■superiority.
* Chicago captured most of the rib
hon§ at the New York horso show, but
New York isn't kicking much. She
bus the gato receipts.
Kane and scientific development of
at rial navigation is the end to be
worked for; dare-devil stunts endan
ger the aviator wilhout advancing the
art.
The students at Wellesley have been
declared to bo “a vast lump of unas
simllated indigestible stodginess."
What thi3 means no one shems to
know.
A Detroit lady who has been having
matrimonial troubles says she mar
ried once on a bet and once for spite.
She appears to have lost In each in
stance.
Statistics now Indicate that smokers
make the best athletes. We liavo
known for a long time ttiat certain
kinds of cigarettes make one strong in
a certain sense.
Sir Ernest Cassel lias bought a
gramme of radium for $72,000. It was
probably marked down from $75,000
and Sir Ernest may bo said to have
secured a bargain.
Into the realm of elides comes the
question of whether the person who
toils such an excruciatingly funny
story that another person dies laugh
ing is really a friend.
Saner kraut, too, is going up. Scar
city of cabbage, Is the given cruise,
tint a 25 per cent, annual increase in
consumption may have suggested the
idea that there was more money in it.
Another reduction in the running
time between New York and Phila
delphia lias been made, but it lias not
yet. become possible for Philadelphi
ans who do business in New York to
go home to lunch.
After having been six days without
food a sailor swam several miles to
the shore of Australia, pursued by
sharks. A man who can get away
with a yarn like that wastes his tal
ent before the mast.
* Now the French are experimenting
with a weapon to be used against
airships One warlike invention is
barely introduced when, before It has
time to become practicable, a counter
acting invention fairly shoves it aside
The coachman has shared the fate
of his horse in the subordination of
both to the up-to-date automobile. It
js the good-looking chauffeur who now
snakes a runaway match with the ro
mantic young heiress.
We are informed that a man in
Washington sprouted a lemon tree in
his thumb after he had cut that useful
member in whittling a lemon. If the
report had said it was an orange tree
or a rosebush we should never have
believed it.
Miladi says she just can't under
stand how women ever kept up with
all the gossip of the town before the
invention of the telephone.
Only 18 deer hunters were killed
during the deer-hunting season just,
closed in New England. Apparently
the hunters are learning bow to shoot
When a boa constrictor died in Lit
tle Rock the other day its body was
found to contain human hair, teeth
and human bones. The boa was evi
dently In the undertaking business.
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CHAPTER 1.
The Makers of Maps.
There Is scarcely a single cause In which
t woman is not engaged In sonie way
fomenting the suit.-Juvenal.
"Then you offer me no hope, doc
tor?"
The gray mane of Dr. Samuel Ward
waved like a fighting crest as he
made answer:
"Not the sort of hope you ask,” A
moment later he added: "John, X am
sshamed of you.”
The cynical smile of the man I
called my chief still remained upon
his lips, the same drawn look of suf
fering still remained upon his gaunt
features; but in his blue eye I saw a
glint which proved that the answer of
bis old friend had struck out some
unused spark of vitality from the
deep, cold flint of his heart.
"I never knew you for a coward,
Calhoun," went on Dr. Ward; "nor
any of your family. I give you now
the benefit of my personal acquain
tance with this generation of the Cal
aouns. I ask something more of you
than faint-heartedness."
The keen eyes turned upon him
again with the old flame of flint which
a generation had known—a genera
tion, for the most part, of enemies.
"Did not Saul fall upon his own
•word?" asked John Calhoun. “Have
not devoted leaders from the start of
the world till now sometimes rid the
scene of the responsible figures in
’.oat fights, the men on whom blame
rested for failures?"
"Cowards!" rejoined Dr. Ward.
'Cowards, every one of them! Were
there not other swords upon which
they might have fallen-—those of their
enemies?"
“It is not my own hand —my own
•word, Sam," said Calhoun. “Not that.
You know as well as I that 1 am
already marked and doomed, even as
I sit at my table to-night. A walk of
i wet night here in Washington—a
turn along the Heights out there when
:ha winter wind is keen —yes, Sam, I
lee my grave before me, close enough;
Dut how can I rest easy in that grave?
Man, we have not yet dreamed how
jreat a country this may be. We
tmi6t have Texas. We must have also
Oregon. We must have —"
"Free?” The old doctor shrugged
ills shoulders and smiled at the arch
pro-slavery exponent.
“Then, since you mention it. yes!”
retorted Calhoun fretfully. “But I
aliall not go into the old argument of
those who say that black is white,
that south is north. It is only for my
own race that I plan a wider America.
But then —” Calhoun raised a long,
thin hand. “Why," he went on slow
ly, “1 have Just told you that I have
failed. And yet you, my old friend,
whom I ought to trust, condemn me
ip live on!”
"Yes,” he said, at length, "I condemn
you to fight on, John;" and he smiled
Srlmly.
“Why, look at you, man!" he broke
jut fiercely* after a moment. "The
type and picture of combat! Good
bone, fine bone and hard; a hard head
ind bony; little eye, set deep; strong,
wiry muscles, not too big—fighting
muscles, not dough; clean limbs;
itrong fingers; good arms, legs, neck;
wide chest —”
"Then you give me hope?" Calhoun
lashed a smile at him.
"No. sir! If you do your duty, there
Is no hope for you to live. If you do
not do your duty, there is no hope for
you to die, John Calhoun, for more
than two years to come—perhaps five
years—six. Keep up this work—as
you must, my friend —and you die as
surely as though I shot you through
is you sit there. Now, is this any
comfort to you?"
A gray pallor overspread my mas
ter’s face. That truth is welcome to
no man, morbid or sane, sound or ill;
but brave men meet it as this one did.
"Time to do much!" he murmured
to himself. “Time to mend many
broken vessels, in those two years.
One more fight—yes, let us have it!”
But Calhoun the man was lost once
more in Calhoun the visionary, the
fanatic statesman. He summed up. as
though to himself, something of the
situation which then existed at Wash
ington.
"Yes, the coast is clearer, now that
Webster is out of the cabinet, but Mr.
Upshur's death last month brings in
new complications. Had he remained
our secretary of state, much might
have been done. It was only last Oc
tober he proposed to Texas a treaty
of annexation.”
"Yes, and found Texas none so
eager," frowned Dr. Ward.
“No; and why not? You and I know
well enough. Sir Richard Pakenham,
the English plenipotentiary here, could
tell if he liked. England is busy in
Texas. Texas owes large funds to
England. England want Texas as a
colony. There is fire under this smoke
talk of Texas dividing into two gov
ernments, one, at least, under Eng
land's gentle and unselfish care!
"And now, look you,” Calhoun con
tinued, rising, end pacing up and
lown, "look what is the evidence,
faa Zandt. charge d’affaires in Wash-
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“I Don’t Pretend to Know Now All You Mean."
ington for the Republic of Texas,
wrote Secretary Upshur only a month
before Upshur's death, and told him
to go carefully or he would drive
Mexico to resume the war, and so cost
Texas the friendship of England! Ex
cellent Mr. Van Zandt! I at least
know what the friendship of England
means. So, he asks us if we will pro
tect Texas with troops and ships in
case she does sign that agreement of
annexation. Cunning Mr. Van Zandt!
He knows what that answer must be
to-day, with England ready to fight
us for Texas and Oregon both, and
we wholly unready for war.”
“But, John, another will have to
make it, the one way or the other,”
said his friend.
"\ T es!” The long hand smote on
the table.
"President Tyler has offered you
Mr. Upshur's portfolio as secretary of
state?"
“1 have not yet accepted,” said Cal
houn. "If I do, it will be to bring
Texas and Oregon into this Union, one
slave, the other free, but both vast,
and of a mighty future for us. That
done, 1 resign at once."
“Will you accept?”
Calhoun's answer was first to pick
up a paper from his desk. “See, here
Is the dispatch Mr. Pakenham brought
from Lord Aberdeen of the British
ministry to Mr. Upshur just two days
before his death. Judge whether
Aberdeen wants liberty—or territory!
In effect he re asserts England's right
to interfere in our affairs. We fought
one war to disprove that. England has
said enough on this continent. And
England has meddled enough.”
Calhoun and Ward looked at each
other, sober in their realization of the
grave problems which then beset,
American statesmanship and Amer
ican thought The old doctor was first
to break the silence. "Then do you
accept? Will you serve again, John?"
“Listen to me. If I do accept, I shall
take Mr. Upshur’s and Mr. Nelson's
place only on one condition —yes, if
I do, here is what I shall say to Eng
land regarding Texas. I shall show
her what a Monroe doctrine is; shall
show her that while Texas is small
and weak, Texas and this republic are
not. This is what 1 have drafted as a
possible reply. I shall tell Mr. Paken
ham that his chief’s avowal of inten
tions has made it our imperious duty,
in self-defense, to hasten the annexa
tion of Texas, cost what it may, mean
what it may! John Calhoun does not
shilly-shally.
“That will be my answer,” repeated
my chief at last
“Yes, I shall have Texas, as I shall
have Oregon, settled before I lay
down my arms, Sam Ward. No, I am
not yet ready to die!” Calhoun’s old
fire now flamed in all his mien.
"The situation is extremely diffi
cult,” said his friendly slowly. “It
must be done; but how? We are as
a nation not ready for war. You as a
statesman are not adequate to the
politics of all this. Where is jour
political party, John? You have none.
You have outrun ail parties. It will
be your ruin, that you have been
honest!"
Calhoun turned on him swiftly.
"You know as well as I that mere
politics will not serve. It will take
some extraordinary measure you
know men—and, perhaps, women."
“Yes,” said Dr. Ward, "and a pre
cious silly lot they are."
Calhoun nodded, with a thin smile.
“As it chances, I need a man. Ergo,
and very plainly, I must use a wom
an !
“There are two women in our world
to-day," said Calhoun. “As to Jack
son, the old fool was a monogamist,
Vvl still is. Not so much so Jim
Polk of Tennessee. Never does he ap
pear in public with eyes other than
for the Dona Lucrezia of the Mexican
legation! Now, on& against the other
—Mexico against Austria —”
Dr. Ward raised his eyebrows in
perplexity.
“That is to say, England, and not
Austria," went on Calhoun coldly.
"The ambassadress of England to
America was born in Budapest! So I
say, Austria; or perhaps Hungary, or
some other country, which raised this
strange representative who has made
some stir in Washington here these
last few weeks.”
"Ah, you mean the baroness!” ex
claimed Dr. Ward. "Tut! Tut!”
Calhoun nodded, with the same cold,
thin smile. "Yes," he said, “I mean
Mr. Pakenham’s reputed mistress, his
assured secret agent and spy, the
beautiful Baroness von Ritz!”
He mentioned a name then well
known in diplomatic and social life,
when intrigue in Washington, if not
open, was none too well hidden.
“Gay Sir Richard!" he resumed.
“You know, his ancestor was a broth
er-in-law of the duke of Wellington.
He himself seems to have absorbed
some of the great duke's fondness for
the fair. Before he came to us he
was with England's legation in Mexi
co. ’Twas there he first met the
Dona Lucrezia. 'Tis said he would
have remained in Mexico had it not
been arranged that she and her hus
band, Senor Yturrio, should accompany
Gen. Almonte in the Mexican ministry
here. On these conditions. Sir Rich
ard agreed to accept promotion as
minister plenipotentiary to Washing
ton!”
“That was nine years ago,” com
mented Dr. Ward.
“Yes; and it was only last fall that
he was made envoy extraordinary. He
is at least an extraordinary envoy!
Near 50 years of age, he seems to for
get public decency; he forgets even
the Dona Lucrezia, leaving her to the
admiration of Mr. Polk and Mr. Van
Zandt, and follows off after the
sprightly Baroness von Ritz. Mean
time, Senor Yturrio also forgets the
Dona Lucrezia, and proceeds also to
follow after the baroness—although
with less hope than Sir Richard has
taste! The Baroness von Ritz has
brains and beauty both. It Is she who
is England's real envoy. Now, I be
lieve she knows England's real inten
tions as to Texas."
Dr. Ward screwed his lips for a
long whistle, as he contemplated John
Calhoun’s thin, determined face.
"I do not care at present to say
more,” went on my chief; “but do
you not see, granted certain motives.
Polk might come into power pledged
to the extension of our southwest
borders—”
"Calhoun, are you mad?” cried his
friend. "Would you plunge this coun
try into war? Would you pit two peo
ples, like cocks on a floor? And would
you use women in our diplomacy?”
Calhoun now was no longer the
friend, the humanitarian. He was the
relentless machine; the idea; the sin
gle purpose, which to the world at
large he had been all his life in con
gress, in cabinets on this or the other
side of the throne of American power.
He spoke coldly as he went on:
“In these matters it is not a ques
tion of means, but of results. If war
comes, let it come; although I hope It
will not come. As to the use of wom
en —tell me, why not women? Why
anything else but women? It is only
playing life against life; one variant
against another. That is politics, my
friend. I want Pakenham. So, I must
learn what Pakenham wants. Does
he want Texas for England, or the
Baroness von Ritz for himself?”
Ward still sat and looked at him.
"My God!” sstid he at last, softly; but
Calhoun went on:
“Why, who has made the maps of
the world, and who has written pages
in its history? Who makes and un
makes cities and empires and repub
lics to-day? Woman, and not man!
Are you so ignorant—and you a physi
cian, who know them both? Gad,
man, 70U do not understand your own
profession and yet you seek to coun
sel me in mine!"
“Strange words from you, John,”
commented his friend, shaking his
head; “not seemly for a man who
stands where you stand to-day.”
“Strang* weapons—yes. If I could
always u. .ay old weapons of tongue
and brain I would not need these per
haps. Now you tell me my time is
short. 1 must fight now to win. I
have never fought to lose. I cannot
be too nice in agents and instru
ments."
The old doctor rose and took a turn
up and down the little room, one of
Calhoun's modest menage at the na
tion's capital, which then was not the
city it is to-day. Calhoun followed
him with even steps.
"Changes of maps, my friend? Lis
ten to me. The geography of America
for the next 50 years rests under a
little roof over in M street to-night—
a roof which Sir Richard secretly
maintains. The map of the United
States, 1 tell you, is covered with a
down counterpane a deux, to-night.
You ask me to go on with my fight.
I answer, first I must find the wom
an. Now, I say 1 have found her, as
you know. Also, I have told you
where I have found her. Under a
counterpane! Texas, Oregon, these
United States under a counterpane!"
Dr. Ward sighed as he shook his
head. “I don’t pretend to know now
all you mean.”
Calhoun whirled on him fiercely,
with a vigor which his wasted frame
did not indicate as possible.
"Listen, then, and I will tell you
what John Calhoun means —John Cal
houn, who has loved his own state,
who has hated those who hated him,
who has never prayed for those who
despitefully used him, who has fought
and will fight, since all insist on that.
It is true Tyler has offered me again
to-day the portfolio of secretary of
state. Shall I take it? If I do, it
means that I am employed by this ad
ministration to secure the admission
of Texas. Can you believe me when
I tell you that my ambition is for it
all—-all, every foot of new land, west
to the Pacific, that we can get, slave
or free? Can you believe John Cal
houn, pro-slavery advocate and ora
tor all his life, when he says that he
believes he is an humble instrument
destined, with God’s aid, and through
the use of such instruments as our
human society affords, to build, not a
wider slave country, but a wider
America?”
“It would be worth the fight of a
few years more, Calhoun,” gravely an
swered his old friend. “I admit I had
not dreamed this of you.”
“History will not write it of me,
perhaps,” went on my chief. "But you
tell me to fight, and now I shall fight,
and in my own way. I tell you, that
answer shall go to Pakenham. And I
tell you Pakenham shall not dare to
take offense at me. War with Mexico
we possibly, indeed certainly, shall
have. War on the northwest, too, we
yet may have unless —” He paused;
and Dr. Ward prompted him some
moments later, as he still remained
in thought.
“Unless what, John? What do yon
mean—still hearing the rustle of
skirts?”
“Yes! —unless the celebrated Bar
oness Helena von Ritz says other
wise!" replied he grimly.
“How dignified a diplomacy have
we here! You plan war between two
embassies on the distaff side!” smiled
Dr. Ward.
Calhoun continued his walk. “I da
not say so,” he made answer; “but, If
there must be war, we may reflect
that war is at its best when woman
is in the field!"
iTQ RE CONTINUEXV*
METHODISTS OF NORTH
AND SOUTH WILL UNITE
LONG STEP TAKEN TOWARD
WELDING SOUTHERN AND
NORTHERN METHODISTS.
CHURCHES CONSOLIDATED
One Great Church Will Be Built In
Chattanooga, Where Factions
Will Worship Together.
Chattanooga, Tenn.—A long step
was taken here in the organic union
of Methodism in America, when the
Centenary Methodist Episcopal church,
South, and the Methodist Episcopal
church, Northern branch, agreed to
consolidate and build one great
church and be one people.
A meeting of interest to American
Methodism, as a whole, was held in
this city. Twenty-five representatives
of each branch of Methodism met anti
discussed the future of Chattanooga
Methodism. Members of these two
churches, which separated in ISI3, on
account of political and ecclesiastical
differences, declared themselves one
in spirit, and, while recognizing loyal
ty to their respective denominations,
every speaker showed himself unal
terably in favor of a reunion of the
Methodist family in America.
John A. Patten and Bishop William
Anderson, both members of the com
mission on organic union, participated
in the discussion. President John H.
Race of Chattanooga university made
a strong appeal for union
GEORGIAN HEADS COMMISION
Judson C. Clements of Augusta, Ga.,
Receives High Honor.
Washington.—Judson C. Clements
of Georgia was elected chairman of
the interstate commerce commission
to succeed Judge Martin A. Knapp of
New York at a special conference' of
the commission. Mr. Clements is the
senior member of the commission.
The chairman exerts a powerful in
fluence upon the operations of the
commission and, what is equally as
important, he is ex-officio of the me-
mil
1 '«? yj/i
JUDSON C. CLEMENTS.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner.
diators under the Erdman act, which
provides a means of adjustment of
controversies that may arise between
common carriers and their employees.
The commissioner of labor is the oth
er mediator.
Judge Clements is a native of Geor
gia, born in 1846. He was appointed
to the commission 1 y President Cleve
land in March, 1892, and has received
three successive appointments.
Slayers of Groce and Cannon.
Washington.—Actuated by the de
termination that those responsible for
the execution of the Americans, Can
non and Groce, during the Nicaraguan
revolution shall be prosecuted, the
.’state department asked Consul Moffat
at Managua for a report on the situ
ation. .. ~
No Alarm Over Eddy Will.
New York.—New York officials of
the Christian Science church profess
themselves unalarmed over the an
nouncement that the Mother church
in Boston may lose the $2,000,000
.which Mrs. Eddy intended should re
vert to it upon her death.
Prohibition Advocate on Blacklist.
Montgomery, Ala.—The state sen
ate passed the bill increasing the sal
ary of the incoming governor to $7,-
600. It is understood that Governor
Comer will sign the measure, and that
is its only hoR?, as Governor O'Neal
is prohibited from increasing his own
salary. The house of representatives
adopted a resolution which is aimed
to keep Brooks Lawrence, the prohi
bition advocate, out of the halls of the
general assembly, it directs the gov
ernor to take legal steps to enforce
the resolution.
Farmers Favor Direct Vote,
Washington.—The national officers
of the Farmers’ Union memorialized
congress in a strong resolution to
pass legislation providing for the pop
ular election of United States sena
tors. The resolution recites that the
upper body should be brought closer
to the people, that the objects for'
which the national government was
formed might be secured. It insists
that the people at all times should
have a voice in choosing the highest
official representatives of their respec
tive states.