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SYNOPSIS.
John Calhoun baconu aacratary of
«t*t, In TyUr'z cablnat with the fixed de
termination to acquire both Texas and
Oregon. Nicholas Trlst. his secratary, la
aent with a message to the Baroness von
Rita, spy and reputed mistress of the
British minister, Pakenham. Trlst an
counters the baronesa and assists her In
escaping from pursuers. She agrees to
aee Calhoun, and as a pledge that she
will tell him what he wants to know re
fardlng the Intentions of England toward
texlco, she gives Trlst a slipper, the
mate of which has been lost Trlst Is or
dered to Montreal on state business, and
arranges to be married to Elisabeth
Churchill before departing. The baroness
says she will try to prevent the marriage.
A drunken congressman, who la 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.
She 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 days
•he would lose both Texas and Oregon.
Calhoun orders Trlst to head a party
bound for Oregon. Calhoun excltee the
Jealousy of Senora Ythrrio, and thereb.-
secures the signature of the Texas at
tache to a treaty of annexation. Nicholes
arrives In Oregon. Later the baroness ar
rives on a British warship. She tells
Nicholas that a note she placed In her
■Upper 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.
She 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
Ciay. He insults her. She compels him
o apologize, holds him up In his true
light, and he declares that she Is pure as
• Uly. The treaty Is signed by Paken
ham. The baroness gives the treaty to
Calhoun and tells him she got It for
Nicholas. Calhoun Invites the baroness to
• diplomatic ball at the White House.
Nicholas and Elizabeth are married.
Nicholas Is chosen a commissioner to ne
gotiate peace wlt'h Mexico. Owing to en
mity on the part of Polk his actions are
repudiated and ho Is dismissed from the
•ervlce. -he senate, however, ratifies the
traaty.
Epilogue—Continued.
With the cessions from Mexico came
the great domain of California. Now,
look how strangely history sometimes
works out Itself. Had there been any
Suspicion of the discovery of gold In
California, neither Mexico nor our re
public ever would have owned It!
England surely would have taken it.
The very year that my treaty eventu
ally was ratified was that In which
gold was discovered In California!
jlut It was too late then for F igland
•to Interfere; too late then, aiso, for
fclexlco to claim It We got untold
fnilllons of treasure there. Most of
those millions went to the northern
atates. Into manufactures, into com
merce. The north owned that gold;
and It was that gold which gave the
The Trail of Democracy, of America, of the World.
north the power to crush that upris
ing which was born of the Mexican
war—that same uprising by which
England, too late, would gladly have
•een this union disrupted, so that she
might have yet another chance at
these lands she now had lost for ever.
Fate seemed still to be with us, aft
er all, as I have so often had occasion
to believe may be a possible thing.
That war of conquest which Mr. Cal
houn opposed, that same .war which
grew out of the slavery tenets of his
otherwise splendid public life —found
Its own correction In the civil war.
It was the gold of California which
put down slavery. Thenceforth
•lavery has existed legally only north
of the Mason and Dixon line!
1 We have our problems yet. Perhaps
gome other war may come to settle
them. Fortunate for us If there could
be another California, another Texas,
another Oregon, to help us pay for
them!
I 1, who was Intimately connected
with many of these less known mat
ters, claim for my master a reputation
wholly different from that given to
ihim In any garbled "history" of his
life. 1 lay claim In his name for fore
sight beyond that of any man of his
lima He made mistakes, but he made
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BY fMEFYON HOUGH
aotw®. or tbb bubble
them bravely, grandly, and consistent
ly. Where his convictions were en
listed, he had no reservations, and he
used every means, every available
weapon, as 1 have shown. But he was
never sslf-seeklng, never cheap, never
Insincere. A detester of all machine
politicians, he was a statesman worthy
to be called the William Pitt of the
United States. The consistency of
his career was a marvelous thing, be
cause, though he changed In his be
liefs, he was first to recognize the
changing conditions of our country.
He failed, and he Is execrated. He
won, and he Is forgot
My chief, Mr. Calhoun, did not die
until some six years after that first
evening when Dr. Ward and I had our
talk with him. He was said to have
died of a disease of the lungs, yet
here again history Is curiously mis
taken. Mr. Calhoun slept himself
away. 1 sometimes think with a shud
der that perhaps this was the revenge
which Nemesis took of him for his
mistakes. His last days were dream
like In their passing. His last speech
In the senate was read by one of his
friends, as Dr. Ward had advised him.
Some said afterwards that his Illness
was that accursed “sleeping sickness"
Imported from Africa with these same
slaves. It wers a strange thing had
John Calhoun Indeed died of his er
ror! At least he slept away.
It was through John Calhoun, a
grave and somber figure of our his
tory, that we got the vast land of
Texas. It was through him also—and
not through Clay nor Jackson, nor any
of the northern statesmen, who never
could see a future for the we»t-*-that
we got all of our vast northwest
realm. Within a few days after the
Palo Alto ball, a memorandum of
agreement was signed between Min
ister Pakenham and Mr. Buchanan,
our secretary of state. This wag done
at the Instance and by the aid of John
Calhoun. It was he —he and Helena
von Rltz—who brought about that
treaty which, on June 16, of the same
year, was signed, and gladly signed,
by the minister from Great Britain.
The latter had been fully enough Im
pressed (such was the story) by the
reports of the columns of our west
bound farmers, with rifles leaning at
their wagon seats and plows lashed to
the tail gates. Calhoun himself never
ceased to regret that we could not
delay a year or two years longer. In
this he was thwarted by the Impetu
ous war with the republic on the
south, although, had that never been
fought, we had lost California-—lost
also the south, and lost the Union!
Under one form or other, one name
of government or another, the flag of
democracy eventually must float over
all this continent. Not a part, but all
of this country must be ours, must be
the people’s. It may cost more blood
and treasure now. Some time we shall
see the wisdom of John Calhoun; but
some time, too, I think, we shall see
come true that prophecy of a strange
and brilliant mentality, which In Cal
houn's presence and In mine, said
that all of these northern lands and
all Mexico as well must one day be
ours—which Is to say, the people’s—
for the sake of human opportunity, of
human hope and happiness. Our bat
tles are but partly fought. But at
least they are not, then, lost
For myself, the close of the Mexi
can war found me somewhat worn by
travel and Uly equipped In financial
matters. 1 had been discredited, 1
say, by my own government My pay
was withheld. Elizabeth, by that time
my wife, was a girl reared In all the
luxury that our country then could of
fer. Shall I say whether or not I
prized her more when gladly she gave
up all this and Joined me for one more
long and final journey out across that
great trail which I had seen—the trail
of democracy, of Am,erioa, of the
i world? i
▲t last we reached Oregon. It holds
the grave of one of onrs; It Is the
home of others. We were happy; we
asked favor of no man; fear of no one
did we feel. Elizabeth has In her time
slept on s bed of husks. She has
cooked at a sooty fireplace of her
own; and at her cabin door I myself
have been the guard. We made oar
way by ourselves end for ourselves, as
did those who conquered America for
our flag. "The citizen sfunding b> the
doorway of his home shall save the
Republic.” So wrote a later pen.
It waa not until long after the dis
covery of gold In California had set us
&U to thinking that I was reminded
of the strange story of the old Ger
man, Von Rlttenhofen, of finding some
pieces of gold while on one of his
hunts for butterflies. I followed out
his vague directions as best I might
We found gold enough to make us
rich without our land. That claim Is
staked legally. Half of It awaits an
owner who perhaps will never coma
There are those who will accept al
ways the solemn asseverations of pol
iticians, who by word of mouth or pen
assert that this or that party made
our oountry, wrote Its history. Such
as they might smile If told that not
even men, much less politicians, have
written all our story as a nation; yet
any who smile at woman’s Influence In
American history do so In Ignorance
of the truth. Mr. Webster and Lord
Ashburton hare credit for determin
ing our boundary on the northeast—*
England called It Ashburton's capitu
lation to the Yankee. Did yon never
bear the other gossip? England laid
all that to Ashburton's American wifo!
Look at that poor, hot-tempered devil,
Ynijo, minister from Spain with us,
who saw his king's holdings on this
continent juggled from hand to hand
between us all. His wife was daugh
ter of Gov. McKean of Pennsylvania
yonder. If She had no Influence with
her hnsband, eo much the worse for
her. In Important times a generation
ago M. Genet, of France, as all know,
was the husband of the daughter of
Gov. Clinton of New York. Did that
hurt our chanoes with France? My
Lord Oswald of Great Britain, who ne
gotiated our treaty of peaoe In 178J—
was not his worldly fortune mado by
virtue of his American wife? All of
us should remember that Marbola,
Napoleon’s minister, who signed the
great treaty for him with us, married
his wife while he was a mere charge
here In Washington; and she, too, was
an American. Ersklne, of England,
when times were strained In ISOS, and
later—and our friend for the most
part—was he not also husband of en
American? It was as John Calhoun
said —our history, like that of England
and France, like that of Rome and
Troy, was made In large part by
women.
Of that strange woman, Helena, Bar
oness von Rltz, I have never definitely
heard since then. But all of us havs
heard of that groat uplift of central
Europe, that ferment of revolution,
most noticeable In Germany, In 1848.
Out of that revolutionary spirit there
came to us thousands and thousands
of our best population, the sturdiest
and the most liberty-loving citizens
thle country ever had. They gave us
scores of generals In our late war, and
gave us at least one cabinet officer.
But whence came that spirit of revolu
tion In Europe? Why does It live,
grow, Increase, even now? Why does
it sound now, close to the oldest
thrones? Where originated that germ
of liberty which did Its work so well?
I am at least one who believes that
I could guess something of Its source.
The revolution In Hungary tailed
for the time. Kossuth came to see
us with pleas that we might aid Hun
gary. But republics forget We gave
no aid to Hungary. I was far away
and did not meet Kossuth. I should
have been glad to question him. I did
not forget Helena von Rltz, nor doubt
that she worked out In full that
strange destiny for which. Indeed, she
was horn and prepared, to which she
devoted herself, made clean by sacri
fice. She was not one to leave her
work undone. She, I know, passed on
her torch of principle.
Elizabeth and I speak often of ,
Helena von Rltz. I remember her '
still —brilliant, beautiful, fascinating,
compelling, pathetic, tragic. If It was*
asked of her, I know that she stlJ'J
paid it gladly—all that saerifi<j-'»
through which alone there can
worked out the progress of human 1, ty,
under that Idea which blindly we at
tempted to express In our Dec.'' ira "
tlon; that Idea which at times we ' m *y
forget, but which eventually
umph for the good of all the Wo’f 11 '
She helped us make our map. • shl &u
not that for which she stood he-ip \us
hold It?
At least, let me say, I have clfiough\t
this little story might be set /down#
and, though some to-day may sjmile at
flags and principles/1 should like. If 1
may be allowed, 'to close with the
words of yet another man of those
earlier times; /‘The old flag of the
Union was rrfy protector in Infancy
end the prldfe and glory of my riper
years; and/by the grace of God, under
Its shadow i shall die!” N. T.
/ THE end.
Pair of Prize Winner/s. /
SHEEP FARM PROFITS
Many Valuable Services of Ani
mal Not Fully Credited.
, Need Variety of Feed, But Will Do
Great Things in Ridding Place of
Various Weeds—Three Av
enues of Money-Making.
(By W. A. MKERROW.)
The most profitable and pleasant
kind of farming Is that which embraces
the growing of live stock. The farmer
who Is continually taking fertility '
away from his land by selling grain
crops Is a robber of the soil. In a
through a rural community we will in
variably find that all the most pros
perous farmers are growers of live
stock in some form, and the far-sigjbt
ed ones, those that intend to a
belter farm than they found, h/ave
sheep. Sheep serve a threefold Ipur
pose and many of their most valua
ble services are not fully credited.
They have been one of the chief fac
tors In the development of British ag
riculture, and wherever given an op
portunity have done wonderful' things
in our own country. The fame) of the
sheep as a killer of weeds and (general
scavenger has in many cases really
done them harm. It is not possible to
make a flock of sheep pay and make
them subsist entirely on weeds and
rubbish which other animals will not
eat. This must be distinctly under
stood, but on the other hand, they
want a variety and will do great
things in ridding a farm of weeds.
They relish young burdocks, ragweed,
dandelions and will eat thistles If
sprinkled with salt. Thfttr three most
important avenues of profit are: First,
mutton production; secoid, wool pro
duction and, third, the preservation of
soil fertility.
Mutton as a food is gradually becom
ing more Important and prices should
remain steadily on the increase re
gardless of the of supply.
There Is no reason, why the Ameri
can people should / not eat as much j
mutton per capita as the English, and
this would mean p/actically a doubling ■
of the present comsumption. Further-/
more, the big flacks on the western/
prairies are grad/ually decreasing an
this deficiency n/ust be supplied froL
some other souiice. There is a brigC t
future for the / farmer’s sheep.
cost of maintai/iing a flock of sheen/ ls
very light, andp with fair wool prices,
the fleece sh®uld nearly pay for/ tbe
year’s keep. I Then we have the l/ amb
as profit and! pay for our time. 1 -j- be
time spent ifn caring for the flo' cl£ l 8
a small lterfn, and In summer %ould
be considered as a recreation. L arn tjs
of some getod mutton type be
ready for / market at from tt iree t 0
seven moifiths old, depending on tbe
trade whych they supply. T)j e sma n
flock owifcer will usually flnij a good
local derfcand, especially for tbe ear i y
or Easticr lambs. Any man located
near a l/arge city will find it profitable
to groy - early lambs, to b e dropped
In JanJuary or February mar keted
about i Easter time. The selection of
good iev/es and a pure-brei/ ram of the
right/type are essentials in thls busl .
ness / and are great factor s in the suc .
cesMful flock, no matter lS y ba t t be aim
Is. K We must have breeding before
gocid feeding can help us xhe best
ew/e lambs must be ret^j n g d and ewes
paJst their usefulness discarded. It Is
imi possible to set any' definite age at
v/hich ewes pass thei r bes t t f o r it is
llargely a matter of individuality.
J The second source G f revenue or the
\ maintenance fund. a/. we call lt ls tbe
[ fleece. Wool prices bave been rather
j discouraging this y ear> but there are
j numerous causes ,£- or this, and It Is
j not likely to occu r aga i n . Tariff agi
| tators and the tn an ufactureers have
both been working a g a j ns t the poor
grower and consequently prices have
been low. But 't a king normal prices,
we find that a g oo d clip becomes quite
an item. It is possible to get a fairly
heavy fleece Without sacrificing mut
ton conformatj on and this Is the type
that Is most Profitable. Length of
staple isnnecessary. essary but the fiber
should be fim 3 an d 0 f sufficient density
to shed rain/ The s beep with a long,
coarse fleec, e tbat par ts along the
back as sooc as web j s subject to colds
and other r e j e g a t e d diseases. The time
for shearing an d marketing the wool
j * s subject 'entirely to local conditions,
hut we not think there is any dan
\ger of Quding a ready market at
•yh£ c" rent price. American woolen
r n aiV//''';tturers t m p or t i ar ge quantities
°t ’o/ each year, and even without a
‘ uld afford to pay a higher rate
M/ e present price. Last, and of
fj nportance to the farmer is the
value o t the sheep as a Preserver of
soil fertility. Of all farm manures
that off the sheep is most valuable.
Feed (given to a sheep w n\ either be
utilized in makiDg muttoip or returned
to thle land in the moef~ useful form
for wlant growth. Th ef y thrive best
on at class of food whi/ c b is in itself
helpful to the land upL n which it Is
grown. Clovers and 4if a lfa are suit
able for the bulk of tbfeir ration. The
gnfeat danger In a mlj/d climate ls dis
ease. Sheep are especially subject to
parasites and parasites multiply very
Hapidly during warn/, weather. Let a
/flock become thorou/ghiy infected with
the deadly tape wc 0 r even the lit
' tie stomach worm/ and they are per
fectly useless. them healthy an
with a moderate /amount of feed they
will always be fat and ready to turn
Into money. Ond pastures are the
spreading groun/ds for the intentinal
parasites, and itf j a the lambs that are
harmed by theta, i s entirely during
the warm weatAj er that the worms can
be contracted 1 an d it is from short
grass that the/i a mbs usually get them.
The older sW eep drop them In their
feces, then tf, e y breed If the weather
Is warm an* are ready to be taken
In by the laLub that nibbles the grass
whereon th/ ey are lodged. New pas
ture fields'/for the lambs in the sum
mer montMg are an essential to prof
itable sheLp farming. The danger of
keeping t* 0 i arge a flock ls very immi
nent whe/ re t be acreage is small.
There / are certain qualifications
which a /man must have before he can
be succ4 ss f u i with sheep. He must be
willing Lo pay some attention to them
and kn/o W when they are ailing. Dur
ing th (L i a mblng season there are many
little tfhlngs that require attention, and
In ora er to do them right a man must
have/ a real love for his work. The
time# required In caring for them ls
not /long, but the way which It is done
ls ymportant. To him who under
s^amds the sheep there ls a certain
P'4asure in caring for them which no
ot Jner occupation can afford. Gentle,
s jbond to good treatment, the sheep af
fords a source of pleasure and profit
/combined.
If a colt Is worth raising at all he
ls worth raising well.
Milk clean, but do not “tug” to
keep up the milk flow.
The drains should be properly laid
out and carefully graded.
A little care at farrowing time will
often save a valuable litter.
Study the methods of successful
sheep men and Imitate them.
Encourage the boy to fit some live
stock to show at the local fair.
A small amount of linseed meal
added to the horse ration is Invalu
able.
Wherever you find the dairy cow
you will find a well established civili
zation.
A bull tied In tne stall will get lazy
and useless, besides making extra
work in his care and feed.
Bran is coarse and fibrous, and
therefore not the best feed for the
digestive organs of the pigs.
The real value of a sheep cannot be
determined, particularly as a breeder,
until he is one year of age.
A dairy farm of a dozen cows can
maintain a flock of fifteen to twenty
sheep almost without expense.
Rich horse manure and urine from
grain-fed cattle is far superior to fer
tilizers and very much cheaper.
Grubb flies worry the sheep in hot
weather. Provide a dark, cool shed
or let them run in thick underbrush.
Leaf blight Is the disease that
makes black spots on the leaves, and
often defoliates the trees in August
and early September.
Millet ls a catch crop. It grows
best in hot weather and feeds in the
surface soil. Three pecks per acre ls
about the right amount of seed to sow.
Good Implements Essential.
Good garden Implements are essen
tial for successful gardening. Much
of the benefit and pleasure derived
from work in the garden is missed by
having poor tools.
Dried Beet Pulp.
Dried beet pulp may become as
much a standby for green feed af
meat scrap is a source of animal feed
Both are always ready.
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"George acts like a fool.”
“No. An actor could never come as
close to nature as that." —Variety Life.
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Hicks’ Cafudink is the best remedy—re
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Cold and restores normal conditions. It’s
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At drug stores.
Disappointed.
Knlcaer —Was Subbubs disappoint
ed in his house?
Bocker —Yes; what he took to be
the henhouse turned out to be the
bungalow.
“Boy Scout” Movement Spreads.
The “boy scouts’’ movement has
reached the Malay peninsula, and
Singapore is to have a fine organiza
tion under the patronage of the gov
ernor and chief justice. It is a good
thing in many ways, aside from the
military training, and bids fair to
become one of the permanent and
most popular Institutions of the penin
sula. All through the British colonies
“boy scout” organizations are being
formed.
DECIDED NOT TO OPEN IT.
Caller—l was thinking about open
ing a drug store in this neighborhood.
Do you think one is needed around
here?
Resident —Great idea. There’s no
place within ten blocks where a man
can buy stamps or see the city direc
tory.
A Triumph
Of Cookery—
Post
Toasties
Many delicious dishes
have been made from
Indian Com by the skill
and ingenuity of the ex
pert cook.
But none of these crea
tions excels Post Toast
ies in tempting the palate.
“Toasties” are a
luxury that make a delight
ful hot-weather economy.
The first package tells
its own story.
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