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THE JOURNAL
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
COCHRAN. GA.
This Is the time to swat the fool
who rocks the boat.
The electric fan is the busiest and
best thing of the hot season.
A bald head never seems to worry
the man who has a sense of humor.
But how can a woman kiss her pet
poodle if he's muzzled as the law re
quires?
The man who refuses to wear a
■traw hat Is guilty of undue restraint
of trade.
Uncle Sam has called In all SI,OOO
bills, but this will not disturb the 1
ultimate consumers.
Goldfish worth SBOO were recently
stolen from Philadelphia, but the con
sumer must have sardines.
It takes a considerable amount of
assurance to Induce a man to commit
suicide on account of hot weather.
In Detroit a receiver Is to get
$958,000 for his work, the word re
ceiver thus reverting to Its original
meaning. ,
Dr. Wiley says that it Is easy
•enough to keep cool, but not If he's
going to keep on finding fault with
everything we eat.
Look out for a man on your front
door step almost any day now with a
complete history of 4he Mexican revo
lution, wrlten right up to date.
When we visit that old farm must
we shun the old yellow gourd, the
straight handled gourd, the tin.- hon
ored gourd that bangs by the wt.iT?
Chicago grocers are In favor of sell
ing eggs by weight. If eggs were
sold according to their strength some
of them would be worth their weight
In gold.
The only excuse that there ever
was for tipping disappears when the
one who receives the tip Is compelled
to band It over to the operator of a
tip trust.
In New York an automobile tire ex
ploded and hurt two persons, and In
Elgin a golf ball blew up. What are
the perllß of the proletariat as com
pared with these?
A Chicago woman is suing for di
vorce because her husband got into
the habit of being shaved by lady
barbers. Another strong argument In
favor of whiskers.
The man with a fish story may be a
pest but he Is outclassed In pestifer
ousness by the proud amateur who
boasts of the achievements of the
garden In his back yard.
School girls In Chicago are being
taught to alight from street cars
gracefully, but we are willing to
wager that few of them learn to do It
gracefully In a hobble skirt
A western society Is carrying on a |
campaign to substitute apple blossoms
for orange blossoms as bridal flowers.
Some married men are mean enough
,V> propose lemon blossoms.
The population of Ireland keeps da*
creasing, but not because the Irish
are losing vitality. The main reason
les that It has become so easy to get
from Ireland to this country.
A New York physician demands
that the statue of perfect man be
placed In every school building. The
boys are all In favor of the man who
Invented the summer vacation.
Will the unwashed soda water glass
and the beer glass, which takes long
chances In passing from lip to lip,
learn something from the fate of the j
public drinking cup? The answer is, |
"Not yet."
A woman’s club has appealed to the |
sterner sex for answer to the ques j
tion, “Has a girl the right to pro- j
pose?" to which almost any nice bach- j
elor will reply, “Y’es, If she is the
right girl.”
The Chicago than who seeks dl- j
vorce because Ills wife will not let i
him scrub the floor in peace Is firmly j
convinced that while a man may he;
tri young to marry he never is too j
old to repent.
“If you murder one person you get
hung." says a Washington paper. No.
you don't. Pictures sometimes get
hung, but people who kill others get
hanged, provided the law is permitted
to take its course, which is not always
the case
A college professor who hadn't any
thing else to do has made the discov
ery that the average man uses only
400 words per day in conversation. It
seems a very small number of words,
fcut the average man's wife probably
succeeds in maintaining a fair average
for the family
In one of the schools of Massachu
setts the boys are permitted to figure
baseball averages for the purpose ol
stimulating their interest in mathe
matics Why not get them to learn tc
write by permitting them to practice
cp. the psm‘= of the ball players in
f-r.rd -* '■--t'.bMng epigrams by Pe
—ir ••J-rankLii?
SYNOPSIS.
John Calhoun becomes aecretary of
Itata In Tyler"* cabinet with the fixed de
termination to acquire both Texaa land
Oregon. Nicholas Trlst, hla secretary, la
tent with a message to the Baroness von
Rltz, spy and reputed mistress of the
British minister, Pakenham. Trlst en
counter* the baroness and assists her In
escaping from pursuers. She agrees to
tee Calhoun, and as a pledge that she
will tell him what he wants to know re
fardlftg the Intentions of England toward
lexloo, she gives Trlst a slipper, the
mate of which has been lost. Trist la or
dered to Montreal on state business, and
arranges to be married to Elizabeth
Churchill before departing. The baroness
says she will try to prevent the marriage.
A drunken congressman, who Is assisting
Trlst In his wedding arrangements, blun
deringly sends the baroness' slipper to
Elizabeth Instead of the owner, and the
marriage is declared off. Nicholas finds
the baroness In Montreal, she having suc
ceeded. where he failed, In discovering
England’s Intentions regarding Oregon.
Bhe tells him the slipper he had, con
tained a note from the Texas attache to
Pakenham, saying that If the United
(States did not annex Texas within 30 days
she would lose both Texas and Oregon.
Calhoun orders Trlst to head a party
bound for Oregon. Calhoun excites the
Jealousy of Senora Yturrto, and thereby
secures the signature of the Texas at
tache to a treaty of annexation. Nicholas
arrives In Oregon. Later the baroness ar
rives on a British warship. She tells
Nicholas that a note she placed In her
slipper caused the breaking off of his
marriage, and that she Intends to return
to Washington to repair the wrong.
Nicholas follows her. He learns on the
way that Polk has been elected and
Texas annexed, and that there Is to be
war with Mexico. The baroness tells
Trlst that in return for a compromise of
the Oregon boundary on the forty-ninth
degree, she has sold herself to Pakenham.
Bhe tells him the story of her life.
Trlst breaks Pakenham’s key to the
baroness’ apartments. Pakenham calls
for his price, and the baroness refuses to
pay. He Insults her. She compels him
to apologize, holds him up In his true
light, and he declares that she Is pure as
a Illy. The treaty Is signed by Paken
ham.
CHAPTER XXXV.
The Proxy of Pakenham.
A man can not possess anything that ts
better than a good woman, nor anything
that is worse than a bad one.—Simonides.
When I reached the central part of
the city, I did hot hasten thence to
Elmhurst mansion. Instead, I re
turned to my hotel. I did not now
care to see any of my friends or even
to take up matters c business with
my chief. It is not for me to tell what
feelings came to me when I left
Helena von Ritz.
Sleep such as I could gain, reflec
tions such as were inevitable, occu
pied me for all that night. It was
mid-morning of the following day
when finally I once more sought out
Mr. Calhoun.
He had not expected me, but re
ceived me gladly. It seemed that he
hud gone on about his own plans and
with his own methods. "The Senora
Yturrio is doing me the honor of an
early morning call,” he began. "She Is
with my daughter In another part of
the house. As there is matter of some
importance to come up, I shall ask you
to attend.”
He dispatched a servant, and pres
ently the lady mentioned joined us.
She was a pleasing picture enough in
her robe of black laces and sulphur
colored silks, but her face was none
too happy, and her eyes, It seemed to
me, bore traces either of unrest or
tears. Mr. Calhoun handed her to a
chair, where she began to use her lan
guid but effective fan.
“Now, It gives us the greatest re
gret, my dear senora,” began Mr. Cal
houn, “to have Gen. Almonte and your
husband return to their own country.
We have valued their presence here
very much, and I regret the disrup
tion of the friendly relations between
our countries."
She made any sort of gesture with
her fan, and he went on: “It Is the
regret also of all, my dear lady, that
your husband seems so shamelessly to
have abandoned you. I am quite
awnre, If you will allow me to be so
frank, that you need some financial
assistance.”
"My country is ruined,” said she.
“Also, senor, I am ruined. As you say,
I have no means of life. I have not
even money to secure my passage
home. That Senor Van Zandt —”
“Yes, Van Zandt did much for us,
through your agency, senora. We
have benefited by that, and I there
fore regret he proved faithless to you
personally. lam sorry to tell you that
he has signified his wish to join our
army against your country. I hear
also that your late friend, Mr. Polk,
has forgotten most of his promises to
you.”
“Him I hate also!” she broke out.
“He broke his promise to Senor Van
Zandt. to my husband, to me!”
Calhoun smiled in his grim fashion.
“I am not surprised to hear all that,
my dear lady, for you but point out
a known characteristic of that gentle
men. He has made me many promises
which he has forgotten, and offered
[ me even of late distinguished honors
i which he never meant me to accept,
j But since 1 have been personally re
sprusible for many of these thing 3
which have gone forward, I wish to
* make what personal amends I can;
j and ever I shall thank you for the
! find which you have done to this
j country. Believe me, madam, you
j served your own country also in no 111
manner. This situation could not
have been prevented, and it is not
your fault. I beg you to believe that.
Had vr,u and I been left alone there
would hive been.no war.” ,
54”*40
FIGHT
BY EMERSON HOUGH
AUTHOR, or THE IPPI BUBBLE
iimnrPAnoNy ty magnut g.keitoer.
COPvniOHT 1909 BOBBJ-KBRRII.I. OOKfAKV
“But I am poor, I have nothing!”
she rejoined.
There was Indeed much in her sit
uation to excite sympathy. It had
been through her own act that nego
tiations between England and Texas
were broken off. All chance o? Mex
ico to regain property in Texas waa
lost through her Influence with Van
Zandt. Now, when till was done, here
she was, deserted even by those who
had been her allies In this work.
“My dear senora,” said John Cal
houn, becoming less formal and more
kindly, "you shall have funds sufficient
to make you comfortable at least for
a time after your return to Mexico.
I am not authorized to draw upon
our exchequer, and you, of course,
must prefer all secrecy in these mat
ters. I regret that my personal for
tune is not so large as it might be,
but, in such measure as I may, I shall
assist you, because I know you need
assistance. In return, you must leave
this country. The flag is down which
once floated over the house of Mexico
here.”
She hid her face behind her fan,
and Calhoun turned aside.
"Senora, have you ever seen this
slipper?” he asked, suddenly placing
upon the table the little shoe which
for a purpose I had brought with me,
and meantime thrown upon the table.
She flashed a dark look, and did not
speak.
“One night, some time ago, your
husband pursued a lady across this
town to get possession of that very
slipper and its contents! There was
in the toe of that little shoe a mes
sage. As you know, we got from it
certain information, and therefore de
vised certain plans, which you have
helped us to carry out. Now, as per
haps you have had some personal ani
mus against the other lady in these
same complicated affairs, I have taken
the liberty of sending a special mes
senger to ask her presence here this
morning. I should like you two to
meet, and, if that be possible, to part
with such friendship as may exist in
the premises.”
I looked suddenly at Mr. Calhoun.
It seemed he was planning without
my aid,
"Yes,” he said to me, smiling, ”1
have neglected to mention to you that
the Baroness von Ritz also is here, in
another apartment of this place. If
you please, I shall now send for her
also.”
He signaled to his old negro at
tendant. Presently the latter opened
the door, and with a deep bow an
nounced the Baroness von Ritz, who
entered, followed closely by Mr. Cal
houn’s Inseparable friend, old Dr.
Ward.
The difference in breeding between
these two women was to be seen at a
glance. The Dona Lucrezla was beau
tiful In a way, but lacked the thor
oughbred quality which comes In the
highest types of womanhood. Afflict
ed by nothing but a somewhat mer
cenary or personal grief, she showed
her lack of gameness In adversity. On
the other hand, Helena von Ritz, who
had lived tragedy all her life, and was
now In the climax of such tragedy,
SSII I
jf mw/h
“Yes. Van Zandt Did Much for Ue, Throuflh Ycur Agansy, Senora. 1 *
was smiling and debonair Vs though
she had never been anything but
wholly content with life! Bhe was
robed now In some light filmy green
material, caught up here and there on
the shoulders and secured with silk
en knots. Her white neck showed,
her arms were partly bare with the
short sleeves of the time. She stood,
composed and easy, a figure fit for any
company or any court, and somewhat
shaming our little assembly, which
never was a court at all, only a pri
vate meeting in the office of a dis
credited and disowned leader In a re
publican government. Her costume
and her bearing were Helena von
Ritz’s answer to a woman’s fate! A
deep color flamed In her cheeks. She
stood with head erect and lips smiling
brilliantly. Her curtsey was grace
Itself. Our dingy little office was
glorified.
“I Interrupt you, gentlemen,” she be
gan.
“On the contrary, I am sure, my
dear lady,” said Dr. Ward, "Senator
Calhoun told me he wished you to
meet Senora Yturrio.”
"Yes," resumed Calhousi, “I was just
speaking with this lady over some
matters concerned with this little slip
per.” He smiled as he held It up gin
gerly between thumb and finger. “Do
you recognize It, Madam Baroness?”
“Ah, my little shoe!” she exclaimed.
“But see, It has not been well cared
for.”
“It traveled In my war bag from
Oregon to Washington,” said I. "Per
haps bullet molds and powder flasks
may have damaged It.”
“It still would serve as a little post
office, perhaps," laughed the baroness.
"But I think Its day 3 are done on such
errands.”
“I will explain something of these
errands to the Senora Yturrio,” said
Calhoun. "I wish you personally to
say to that lady, If you will, that
Senor Yturrio regarded this little re
ceptacle rather as official than person
al post.”
For one moment these two women
looked at each other, with that on
their faces which would be hard to
describe. At last the baroness spoke:
"It Is not wholly my fault, Senora
Yturrio, if your husband gave you
cause to think there was more than
diplomacy between us. At least, I can
say to you that It was the sport of It
alone, tie Intrigue, If you please,
which interested me. I trust you will
not accuse me beyond this.”
A stifled exclamation came from
the Dona Lucrezla. I have never seen
more sadness nor yet more hatred on
a human face than hers displayed. I
have said that she was not a thorough
bred. She arose now, proud as ever,
it is true, but vicious. She declined
Helena von Ritz’s outstretched hand,
and swept us a curtsey. “Adios!”
said she. “I go!”
Mr. Calhoun gravely offered her an
arm; and so with a rustle of her silks
there passed from our lives one un
happy lady who helped to make our
map for us.
The baroness herself turned. “I
ought not to remain,” she hesitated.
"Madam,” said Mr. Calhoun, “w«
can not spare you yet”
She flashed upon him a keen look.
‘lt is a young country," said she, “but
It raises statesmen. You foolish, dear
Americans! One could have loved yon
all.”
"Eh, what?” said Dr. Ward, turn
ing to her. "My dear lady, two of us
are too old for that; and as for the
other —”
He did not know how hard this
chance remark might smite, but as
usual Helena von Ritz was brave and
smiling.
“You are men," she said, “such as
we do not have In our courts of Eu
rope. H Men and women—that is what
this country produces.”
"Madam.” said Calhoun, "I myself
am a very poor sort of man. I am
old, and I fail from month to month.
I cannot live long, at beat. What you
see In me Is simply a purpose —a pur
pose to accomplish something for my
country—a purpose which my country
itself does not desire to see fulfilled.
Republics do not reward us. What
you say shall be our chief reward. I
have asked you here also to accept
the thanks of all of us who know the
Intricacies of the events which have
gone forward. Madam, we owe you
Texas! ’Twas not yonder lady, but
yourself, who first advised of the dan
ger that threatened us. pers was,
after all, a simpler task than yours,
because she only matched faiths with
Van Zandt, representative of Texas,
who had faith in neither men, women
nor nations. Had all gone well, we
might perhaps have owed you yet
more, for Oregon.”
"Would you like Oregon?” she
asked, looking at him with a full
glance of her dark eyes.
“More than my life! More than
all my fortune!” His voice rang
clear and keen as that of youth.
“All of Oregon?" she asked.
"All? We do not own all! Perhaps
we do not deserve It. Surely we could
not expect it. Why, If we got one
half of what that fellow Polk is claim
ing, we should do well enough—that
Is more than we deserve or could ex
pect. With our army already at war
on the southwest, England, as we all
know, is planning to take advantage
of our helplessness In Oregon."
Without further answer, she he’d
out to him a document whose appear
ance I, at least, recognized.
“I am but a woman," she said, “hot
it chances that I have been able to d«
this country perhaps something of a
favor. Your assistant, Mr. Trist, has
done me in turn a favor. This much
I will ask permission to do for him.”
Calhoun’s long and trembling fin
gers were nervously opening the doc
ument. He turned to her with eyes
blazing with eagerness. “It Is Ore
gon!” He dropped back into his chair.
“Y’es.” said Helena von Ritz. slowly.
“It is Oregon. It Is bought and paid
for. It Is yours!”
So now they all went over that doc
ument, signed by none less than
Pakenham himself, minister plenipo
tentiary for Great Britain. That docu
ment exists to-day somewhere In our
archives, but I do not feel empowered
to make known its full text. I would
1 had never need to set down, as I
have, the cost of It. These others
never knew that cost, and now they
never can know, for long years since
both Calhoun and Dr. Wa.d have been
dead and gone. I turned aside as
they examined the document which
within the next few weeks was to be
come public property. The red wafers
which mended It—and which she
smilingly explained at Calhoun’s de
mand —were, as I knew, not less than
red drops of blc-od.
In brief, I may say that this paper
stated that, in case the United States
felt disposed to reopen discussions
which Mr. Polk peremptorily had
closed, Great Britain might be able to
listen to a compromise on the line of
the forty-ninth parallel. This compro
mise had three times been offered her
by diplomacy of United States under
earlier administrations. Great Brit
ain stated that in view of her deep
and abiding love for peace and her
deep and abiding admiration for
America, she would res’gn her claim
of all of Oregon down io the Colum
bia; and more, she would accept the
forty-ninth parallel; provided she
might have free navigation rights
upon the Columbia. In fact, this was
precisely the memorandum of agree
ment which eventually established
the lines of the treaty as to Oregon
between Great Britain and the United
States.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Particular e-s to Color and Quantity.
Albert, aged four, heard his mothei
ask his grandma, who was going shop
ping, to buy her a bunch of little black
kids (curlers), at which Albert began
crying, exclaiming:
“I don't want a whole bunch of little
black kids. I only went one little sla
ter, and I want her white, like me.'*
A Statement of Fact.
The world is very, very old. It hat
seen a great many things in Its time,
strange and eventful, and It growl
cider every year.—Boston Tiatwc-ilps
PUTTING IT RATHER NEATLY
Piece of Humor That Lifted Diffident
Professor to the Highest
Summer of Joy.
It Is told that after Professor Ay
toun had made proposals of marriage
to Miss Emily Jane Wilson, daughter
of Christopher North, he was, as a
matter of course, referred to her fa
ther. As the professor was uncom
monly diffident, he said to her;
“Emily, my dear, you must speak to
him for me. I could not summon
courage to speak to the professor on
this subject.”
"Papa is in the library,” said the
lady.
“Then you had better go to him,”
said the professor, “and I will wait
here.”
There being apparently no help for
It, the lady proceeded to the library.
“Papa’s answer is pinned to the
back of my dess,” said Miss Wilson,
as she re-entered the room.
Turning around, the delighted suitor
read these words:
“With the author’s compliments.”—
Success.
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