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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. / //'M //JK 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- 54-40 riomr BY EMERSON HOUGH AUTHOR. OF THE MIWIJ'.PIPPI BUBBLE ILLUTTP AT IOK S hy TIAGNUf G.KJETTNER COPYRIGHT 1909 ,by BOBIW-COKPANV “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.