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COCHRAN. GA.
Muzzle the does.
Race suicide Is unknown among tie
flies. Swat 'em!
The snow shovel In Chicago is be
ing traded off for a pair of ice tongs.
A Massachusetts man fractured his
Jaw by yawning. Was he in church
er at a banquet?
A man never knows just how game
he Is until somebody asks him to take
a ride in his aeroplane.
Many a citizen is complaining these
days because his neighbor does not
sharpen his lawnmower.
If the speed craze continues to In
crease we shall soon hear canoeists
complain of joy riders in motorboats.
These are the days in which sto
ries of canoeing episodes are accom
panied by the words: ‘‘He could not
swim.”
When the baseball player uses his
.bat the fan refrains from using his
hammer. One good knock forestalls
another.
Diaz Is said to be worth $20,000,-
000. Which goes to show that the
old man possessed considerable ralny
day wisdom.
The New Jersey onion crop has been
practically ruined by cutworms —but
we still have Texas ani Bermuda to
fall back upon.
A Spanish prince has been arrested
In Paris for shoplifting, but this will
not necessarily make store thievery
a fashionable amusement.
A noted German materialist, while
trying to reach a book, fell and was
seriously hurt. An argument in fa
vor of the flve-foot library.
A Massachusetts man has been
arrested for selling his wife for $4.50.
Don’t know who made the complaint.
Maybe it was the purchaser.
A strange thing about the modern
young woman—she seems to have lots
more hair on the top of her head some
days than she has other days.
Speaking of extreme speed, a St
Louis woman obtained a divorce in
12 minutes the other day. Evidently
St. Louis is jealous of Rena.
Manufacturers of sticky fly paper
are inclined to think that this "swat
the fly" movement is another com
bination in restraint of trade.
1
The scientists are trying to find an
answer to the question, when Is an
egg noodle? Off-hand one would nat
urally say, when it’s in the soup.
A Kansas Judge rules that stealing
another man’s wife is petty larceny.
This is one time when we try to ap
pear wise by making no comment.
The farmer's wife wins as a cook
over the city housewife, in an ex
pert's opinion. The farmer's appetite
Is no uncertain factor in the result.
The European artist who has come
over to this country to paint New
York will probably find that the job
has been well attended to already.
A feminine highbrow t**:s us that
flirting rests one's mind. If that is
the case the minds of some of our
young people are In a state of eternal
rest
The government now wants to ex
amine and license owners of motor
boats, but we should like to see some
canoe owners examined and sent to
an asylum.
Middletown, Conn., has a “news
boy" seventy-three years old who be
gan carrying papers before the Civil
war and has stuck to his llfework like
a chorus girl.
Every bride has her bridegroom, but
he Is looked upon merely as a neces
sary detail. Sometimes he is allowed
to have his name in the paper, but his
picture —never!
Emperor William's sister tells us
that he is not the composer of the
“Song of Aeglr." Superflous informa
tion. Nobody believed he composed
It in the first place.
After seven years of experimenting
Germany is to drop its scout dogs,
•which it hoped to use in war. The only
thing about war that the dogs really
enjoyed was the commissary depart
ment
The streets of Chicago are so un
safe that the chief of police recom
mends police escort for all unaccom
panied women who have to be out in
the evening. Such is civilization in
Chicago.
The Chicago high school professor
who is advocating scientific court
ship and a course in trained oscula
tion has no chance. The field has
been pre-empted, and not even the
supreme court can oust the trust es
tablished long before supreme courts
were ever thought of by one Prof
Dan Cupid, who from his firm in
trenchment in monopoly of the sub
ject gives the laugh to the learning o!
the schools.
SYNOPSIS.
John Calhoun become* secretary of
state in Tyler’* cabinet with the fixed de
termination to acquire both Texas and
Oregon. Nicholas Trlst, hi* *ecretary, is
sent with a message to the Baroness von
Jut*, spy and reputed mistress of the
British minister. Pakenham. Trlst en
counters the baroness and assists her in
escaping from pursuers. She agree* to
•ee Calhoun, and as a pledge that *he
will tell him what he wants to know re
garding the Intention* of England toward
Mexico, she gives Trlst a slipper, the
mate of which has been lost. Tnst is or
dered to Montreal on state business, and
arranges to be married to Ellsatfpth
Churchill before departing. The baroness
says she will try to prevent the marriage.
A drunken congressman, who is assisting
Trist 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 10 day*
she would lose both Texas and Oregon.
Calhoun orders Trlßt to head a party
bound for Oregon. Calhoun excites th#
Jealousy of Senora Yturrio. and thereby
secures the signature of the Texaa 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 th#
way that Polk has been elected and
Texaa annexed, and that there is to be
¥ar with Mexfc-o. The baroness tells
rtst that In return for a compromise of
the Oregon boundary on the forty-ninth
degree, she has sold herself to Pakenham.
She tells him the story of her lifs.
Trlst breaks Pakenham’s key to the
baroness’ apartments. Pakenham calls
for his price, and the baroneas refuses to
pay. He insults her. She compels him
to apologize, holds him up in his true
light, and he declares that shs is pure as
Rllly. The treaty is signed by Paken
am. The baroaass gives the treaty to
Calhoun and tells him she got it for
Nicholas. Calhoun Invites th* baroness to
a diplomatic ball at the White House.
CHAPTER XXXVI-—Continued.
Beautiful Bhe surely was. Her ball
gown was of light golden stuff, and
there was a coral wreath upon her
hair, and her dancing slippers were
of coral hue. There was no more stri
king figure upon the floor than she.
Jewels blazed at her throat and caught
here and there the filmy folds of her
gown. She was radiant, beautiful, ap
parently happy. She came mysterious
ly enough; but I knew that Mr. Cal
houn’s carriage had been sent for her.
I learned plso that he had waited for
lief arrival.
As I first saw Helena von Rltz, there
stood by her side Dr. Samuel Ward,
his square and stocky figure not un
dignified in his dancing dress, the stiff
gray mane of bis hair waggling after
its custom as he spoke emphatically
over something with her. A gruff
man, Dr. Ward, but under his gray
mane there was a clear brain, and
In his broad breast there beat a largo
and kindly heart.
Even as I began to edge my way to
ward those two, I saw Mr. Calhoun
himself approach, tall, gray and thin.
He was very pale that night; and I
knew well enough what effort It cost
him to attend any of these functions.
Yet he bowed with the grace of a
younger man and offered the baroness
an arm. Then, methlnks, all Washing
ton gasped a bit. Not all Washington
knew what had gone forward between
these two. Not all Washington knew
what that couple meant as they
marched In the grand procession that
night—what they meant for America.
Of all those who saw, I alone under
stood.
So they danced; he with the dig
nity of his years, she with the grace
which was the perfection of dancing,
the perfection of courtesy and of dig
nity also, as though she knew and
valued to the full what was offered to
her now by John Calhoun. Grave,
sweet and sad Helena von Rltz
seemed to me that night. She was
wholly unconscious of those who
looked and whispered. Her face was
pale and rapt as that of some devotee.
Mr. Polk himself stood apart, and
plainy enough saw this little matter
go forward. When Mr. Calhoun ap
proached with the Baroness von Rltz
upon his arm, Mr. Polk was too much
politician to hesitate or to inquire. He
knew that It was safe to follow where
John Calhoun led! These two con
versed for a few moments. Thus, I
fancy, Helena von Rltz had her first
and last acquaintance with one of our
politicians to whom fate gave far
more than his deserts. It was the
fortune of Mr. Polk to gain for this
country Texas, California and Oregon
—-not one of them by desert of his
own! My heart has oft(.i been bit
ter when 1 have recalled that little
scene. Politics so unscrupulous can
not always have a John Calhoup, a
Helena von Rltz, to correct, guard and
guide.
After this the card of Helena vor
Rltz might well enough Indeed been
full had she cared further to dance.
She excused herself gracefully, say
ing that after the honor which had
been done hor she could not ask more.
Still, Washington buzzed; somewhat
of Europe as well. That might have
been called the triumph of Helena von
Rltr. She felt It not. But I could see
thai she gloriefl in some other thing.
1 approached her as soon as pos
sible. “I am about to go,” she said.
"Say good-bye to me now, here. We
Eh alt not meet again. Say good-by to
aie now, quickly! My father and I are
wing to leave. The treat? for Ore
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Tell me good-by.”
“I will not say It," said L “I can
not.”
She smiled at me. Others might
see her lips, her smile. I saw what
was In her eyes. “We must not be
selfish." said she. “Come, I mufit go.”
“Do not go,” J Insisted. “Walt.”
She caught my meaning. “Surely,”
she said, “I will stay a little longer
for that one thing. Yes, I wish to see
her again. Miss Elizabeth Churchill. I
hated her. I wish that I might love
her now. do you know? Would —would
she let me—lf she knew?”
“They say that love Is not possible
between women,” said I. "For my
own part, I wish with you.”
She Interrupted with a light tap of
her fan upon my arm. “Look, is not
that she?"
I turned. A little circle of people
were bowing before Mr. Polk, who
held a sort of levee at one side of the
hall. I saw the tall young girl who
at the moment swept a graceful
curtsey to the president. My heart
sprang to my mouth. Yes, it was
Elizabeth I Ah, yes, there flamed up
on the altar of my heart the one Are,
lit long ago for her. So we came now
to meet silently, with small show, In
such way as to thrill none but our two
selves. She, too, had served, and that
largely. And my constant altar Are
had done Its part also, strangely, In
all this long coll of large events. Love
—ah, true love wins and rules. It
makes our maps. It makes our world.
Among all these distinguished men,
these beautiful women, she had her
own tribute of admiration. I felt rath
er than saw that she was In some pale
filmy green, some crepe of China, with
1 I ' l '-
“She Is Beautiful I” I Heard the Lady At My Arm Whisper.
skirts and sleeves looped up with
pearls. In her hair were green leaves,
simple and sweet and cool. To me
she seemed graver, sweeter, than
when I last had seen her. I say, my
heart came up Into my throat. All I
could think was that I wanted to take
her Into my arms. All I did was to
stand and stare.
My companion was more expert in
social maneuvers. She waited until
the crowd had somewhat thinned
about the young lady and her escort.
I saw now with certain qualms that
this latter was none other than my
whilom friend Jack Dandridge. For a
wonder, he was most unduly sober,
and he made, as I have said, no bad
figure in his finery. He was very
merry and just a trifle loud of speech,
but, being very intimate in Mr. Polk’s
household, he was warmly welcomed
by that gentleman and by all around
him.
“She Is beautiful!” I heard the lady
at my arm whisper.
‘‘ls she beautiful to you?” I asked.
“Very beautiful!” I heard her catch
her breath. “She is good. I wish 1
could love her. I wish, I wish—”
I saw her hands beat together ’hs
they did when she was agitated. I
turned then to look at her, and what
I saw left me silent. “Come," said I
at last, "let us go to her.” We edged
across the floor.
When Elizabeth saw me she
straightened, a pallor came across her
lace. It was not her way to betray
much of her emotions. If her head
was a trifle more erect, if indeed she
paled, she too lacked not in quiet self
possession. She waited, with wide
straight eyes fixed upon me. I found
myself unable to make much Intelli-
gent speech. I turned to see Helena
von Rltz gazing with wistful eyes at
Elizabeth, and I saw the eyes of Eliza
beth make some answer. So they
spoke some language which I suppose
men never will understand —the lan
guage of one woman to another.
I have known few happier moments
In my life than that. Perhaps, after
all, I caught somtßhing of the speech
between their eyes. Perhaps not all
cheap and cynical maxims are true,
at least when applied to noble women.
Elizabeth regained her wonted color
and more.
"I was very wrong In many ways,”
1 heard her whisper. For almost the
first time I saw her perturbed. Helena
von Rltz stepped close to her. Amid
the crash of the reeds and brasses,
amid all the broken conversation
which swept around us, I knew what
she said. Low down In the flounces of
the wide embroidered Bilks, 1 saw
their two hands meet silently, and
cling. This made me happy.
Of course It was Jack Dandridge
who broke in between us. “Ah!" said
he, “you Jealous beggar, could you not
leave me to be happy for one minute?
Have you come back, a mere heathen,
and proceeded to monopolize all our
ladles. I have been making the most
of my time, you see. I have proposed
half a dozen times more to Miss Eliza
beth, have I not?”
“Has she given you any answer?” I
asked him, smiling.
“The same answer!"
"Jack," said I. "I ought to call you
out.”
"Don't," said he. “I don't want to
be called out. I am getting found out.
That's worse. Well- —Miss Elizabeth,
may I be the first to congratulate?"
"1 am glad," said I, with Just a
slight trace of severity, "that you
have managed again to get Into the
good graces of Elmhurst. When I last
saw you, I was not sure that either of
us would ever be Invited there again."
“Been there every Sunday regularly
since you went away," said Jack. “I am
not one of the family In one way, and In
another way I am. Honestly, 1 have
tried my best to cut you out Not that
you have not played your game well
enough, but there never was a game
played so well that some other fellow
could not win by coppering it. So I
coppered everything you did—played
It for just the reverse. No go—lost
even that way. And I thought you
were the most perennial fool of your
age and generation.”
I checked as gently as I could a
joviality which 1 thought unsuited to
the time. “Mr. Dandridge.” said 1 to
him. “you know the Baroness von
Ritz?”
“Certainly! The particeps criminls
of our bungled wedding—of course I
know her!"
“I only want to say,” I remarked,
"that the Baroness von Ritz has that
little shell clasp now all for her own,
and that I have her slipper again, all
for my own. So now. we three—no.
four —at last understand one another,
do we not? Jack, will you do two
things for me?”
“All of them but two."
“When the Baroness von Rltz in
sists on her intention of leaving us—
just at the height of all our happiness
—1 want you to hand her to her car
riage. In th. second place, 1 may
need you again—”
“Well, what would any one think of
that!” said Jack Dandridge.
I never knew when these two left
as in the crowd. I never said good
by to Helena von Ritz. I did not
catch that last look of her eye. I re
member her as she stood there that
night, grave, sweet anepeead.
I turned to Elizabeth. There in the
crash of the reeds and brasses, the
rise and fail of the sweet and bitter
conversation all around us, was the
comedy and the tragedy of life.
‘‘Elizabeth,” I said to her, "are you
not ashamed?"
She looked me full In the eye. “Nof
she said, and smiled.
I have never seen a smile like EU»
abeth's.
EPILOGUE.
‘Tls t v - Star Spangled Banner) O, lons
11 ..y It wave.
O’er the land of th* free, and th# home
of the brave!
—Francis Scott Key.
On the night that Miss Elizabeth
Churchill gave me her hand and her
heart forever —for which I have not
yet ceaeed to thank God —there began
the guns ol Palo Alto. Later, there
came the fle!d3 of Monterey, Buena
Vleta, Cerro Gordo, Contreras, Cheru
busco, Mollno del Rey—at last the
gune sounded at the gate of the old
City of Mexico Itself. Some of thnt
fighting I myself saw; but much of
the time I was employed in that man
ner of special work which had en
gaged me for the last few years. It
was through Mr. Calhoun's agency
that 1 reached a certain importance
In these matters; and so I was chosen
as the commissioner to negotiate a
peace with Mexico.
This honor later proved to be a
dangerous and questionable one. Gen.
Scott wanted no Interference of this
kind, especially since he knew Mr.
Calhoun’s Influence In my choice. He
thwarted all my attempts to reach the
headquarters of the enemy, and did
everything he could to secure a peace
of his own, at the mouth of the can
non. I could offer no terms better
than Mr. Buchanan, then our sec
retary of state, had prepared for me,
and these were rejected by the Mexi
can government at last I was op
dered by Mr. Polk to state that ws
had no better terms to offer; and as
for myself, I was told to return to
Washington. At that time I could not
make my wr.y out through the lines,
nor, In truth, did I much care to do so.
A certain event not written In his
tory influenced me to remain for 4
time at the little village of Gaudalupe
Hidalgo. Here, in short, I received
word from a lady whom I had fop
merly known, none less than Senora
Yturrio, once a member of the Mexi
can legation at Washington. True to
her record, she had again reached In
fluential position In her country, using
methods of her own. She told me
now to pay no attention to what had
been reported by Mexico. In fact, I
was approached again by the Mexican
commissioners, introduced by herl
What was done then is history. Ws
signed then and there the peace of
Gaudalupe Hidalgo, In accordance
with the terms originally given me
by our secretary of state. So, after
all, Calhoun’s kindness to a woman in
distress was not lost; and so, after
all, he unwittingly helped In the end
ing of the war he never wished be
gun.
Meantime. I had been recalled to
Washington, but did not lwow the
nature of that recall. When at last I
arrived there I found myself disgraced
and discredited. My actions were re
pudiated by the administration. I my
self was dismissed from the service
without pay—sad enough blow for a
young man who had been married less
than a year.
Mr. Polk’s jealousy of John Calhoun
was not the only cause of this. Cal
houn’s prophecy was right Yet. none
the less, after his usual fashion, he
was not averse to receiving such credit
as he could. He put the responsibility
of the treaty upon the senate! It was
debated hotly there for some weeks,
and at last, much to his surprise and
my gratification. It was ratified!
The north, which had opposed this
Mexican war—that same war which
later led inevitably to the Civil War
now found itself unable to say
much against the great additions
to our domain which the treaty had
secured. We paid fifteen millions, in
addition to our territorial indemnity
claim, and we got a realm whose
wealth could not be computed. So
much, it must be owned, did fortune
do for that singular favorite, Mr. Polk.
And, curiously enough, the smoke had
hardly cleared from Palo Alto field
before Abraham Lincoln, a yc-ung
member In the house of congress, was
introducing a resolution which asked
the marking of “the spot where that
outrage was committed." Perhaps it
was an outrage Many still hold it
so. But let us reflect what would have
been Lincoln's life had matters not
gone just as they did.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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