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mvx jrarm 1 1 m i iwiw iijmp n 17 SYNOPSIS. Rert.it or John Calhoun Is Invited to be rom eeretarv of st:ite In Tyler's cab inet. He dec-hires that if he accepts Texas rnd Oregon must be added to the Union, le sends his secretary. Nicholas Trlst. to n.sk the Baron'ss von Ritz. spy of the liritish ambassador. Pakenham. to call at tin apartments. While searching for the baroness' home, a carriage drives up and Nicholas la Invited to enter. The occupant Is the baroness, and she asks Nicholas to ussi.st In evadlm? pursuers. Nicholas notes that the haroness has lost a slipper. She Riven him the remaining slipper as a pledge that she will tell Calhoun what he wants to know regarding England's in tentions toward Mexico. As security Nicholas gives her a trinket lie Intended, ror his sweetheart. Elizabeth ChurchllL Tyler tells Pakenham that Joint occupa tion of Oregon with England, must cease, that the west has raised the cry of "Fifty-four Forty, or Fight." Calhoun be comes secretary of state. lie orders Nicholas to Montreal on state business, end the latter pians to be married that night. The baroness says she will try to prevent the marriage. A drunken con- rrressman whom Nicholas asks to assist n the wdding arrangements, sends the 1aroness" slipper to Elizabeth, by mis ake. and the wedding is declared off. Nicholas finds the baroness in Montreal. he having succeeded, where he failed, in discovering England's intentions regard ing Oregon. She tells him that the slip per lie had In his possession contained a note from the attache of Texas to the British ambassador, saying that If the United States did not annex Texas with in KO day, she would lose both Texas and Oregon. Nh holas meets a naturalist. Von Hittenhoren. who gives him information about Oregon. The baroness and a British warship disappear from Montreal simul taneously. Calhoun engager Von Ritten hoTen to make maps of the western coun try. Calhoun orders Nicholas to head a party of settlers bound for Oregon. Nicholas has an unsatisfactory interview Willi Elizabeth. Calhoun excites the Jealousy of Senora Vturrlo and thereby B'viires the signature of the Texas at tnch to a treury of annexation. Nl.olis Btarts for Oregon. CHAPTER XXV. Oregon. The spell nnd the light of eich pith we pursue If wni;tti be there, there Is happiness too. Moore. Twenty miles a day, week in and week out. we edged westward up the Platte, In heat and dust part of the time, often plagued at night by clouds of mosquitoes. Our men endured the penalties of the Journey without com ment. I do not recall that I ever heard even the weakest woman com plain. Thus at last we reached the South pass of the Rockies, not yet half done our journey, and entered upon that portion of the trail west of the Rockies, which had still two moun tain ranges to cross, and which was oven more apt to be infested by the hostile Indians. Even when we reached the rapped trading post, Fort Hall, we had still more than GOu miles to go. By this time our forces had wasted M.s though under assault of arms. Far back on the trail, many had been forced to leave prized belongings, rel ics, heirlooms, implements, machinery, h.11 conveniences. The finest of ma hogany blistered !n the sun. aban doned and unheeded. Our trail might have been followed by discarded im plements cf agriculture, and by whitened bones as well. Our footsore teams, gauut and weakened, began to -faint and fall. Horses and oxen died In the harness or under the yoke, and were perforce abandoned where they fell. Each pound of superfluous weight was cast away as our motive power thus lessened. Wagons were aban doned, goods were packed on horses, oxen ar.4 cows. We put cows Into the yoke now, and used woii en instead of men on the drivers' .seats, and boys who started riding finished afoot. Gaunt and brown and savage, hun gry and grim, ragged, hatless, shoe less, our cavalcade closed up and came on, and so at last came through. Ere autumn had yellowed all the foliage back east in gentler climes, we crossed the shoulders of the Blue mountains and came into the valley of the Walla Walla: and so passed thence down the Columbia to the valley of the Wil lamette, 300 miles yet farther, where there wer then some slight centers of our civilization which had gone for ward the year before. Here were come few Americans. At Champoeg, at the little American mis sions, at Oregon City, and other scat tered points, we met them, we hailed and were "hailed by them. Messengers spread abroad the news of the arrival of our wagon train. "Messengers, too. came down from the Hudson bay posts to scan Our equip ment and estimate our numbers. There was no word obtainable from these of any Canadian column of occupation to the northward which had crossed at the head of the Peace river or the Saskatchewan, or which lay ready at the head waters of the Eraser or the Columbia to come down to the lower settlements for the purpose of bring ing to an issue, or making more diffi cult, this Question of the joint occu pancy of Oregon. As a matter of faC ultimately we won that transcon tinental race so decidedly that there never was admitted to have been a second. So we took Oregon by the only law of right. Our broken and weakened cavalcade asked renewal from the soil itself. We ruffled no drum, fluttered no flag, to take possession of the land. But the canvas covers of our wagons gave way to permanent roofs. Where -w h?il known a hundred camp-fires. BY HOTOH AUTHOR Or THE WIIPPI BUBBJC ILLUSTRATIONS by ftAGfiVf G.KETIKER C05Yl01-rT 199 x BOBBJ-MERR1LL COWANS row we lighted the fires of many hun dred homes. CHAPTER XXVI. The Debated Country. The world was sad, the garden wu a wild! The man, the hermit, alghed till woman smiled! Campbell. Our army of peaceful . occupation scattered along the more fertile parts of the land, principally among the valleys. Of course, it should not be forgotten that what was then called Oregon meant all of what now is em braced In Oregon, Washington and Idaho, with part of Wyoming as well. It extended south to the Mexican pos sessions of California. How far north it was to run, it was my errand here to learn. I settled near the mouth of the Wil lamette river, near Oregon City, and not far from where the city of Port land later was begun; and builded for myself a little cabin of two rooms, with a connecting roof. This I fur nished, as did my neighbors their similar abode, with a table made of hewed puncheons, chairs sawed from blocks, a bed framed from poles, on which lay a rude mattress of husks and straw. From the eastern states I scarcely could now hear in less than a year, for another wagon train could not Our Men Endured the Penalties of start west from the Missouri until the following spring. We could only guess how events were going forward in our diplomacy. The mild winter wore away, and I learned little. Spring came, and still no word of any land expedition out of Canada. We and the Hudson bay folk still dwelt in peace. The flowers began to bloom in the wild meads, and the horses fattened on their na tive pastures. Summer came on. The fields began to whiten with the ripening grain. I grew uneasy, feeling myself only an idler in a land so able to fend for itself. I now was much disposed to discuss means of getting back over the long trail to the eastward, to carry the news that Oregon was ours. It was at this time that there occurred a startling and decisive event. I was on my way on a canoe voy age up the wide Columbia, not far above Uie point where it receives its greatest lower tributary, the Wil lamette, when ell at once I heard the sound of a cannon shot. I turned to see the cloud of blue smoke still hang ing over the uurface of the water. Slowly there swung into view an ocean-going vessel under steam and auxiliary canvas. She made a gal lant spectacle. But whose ship was she? I examined her colors anxiously enough. I caught the import of her ensigu. She flew the British Union Jack! England had won the race by sea! Something of the ship's outline seemed to tne familiar. I knew the set of her short masts, the pitch of her smoke-stacks, the number of her Kuns. Yes. she was the Modeste of 11 J I the English navy the same ship which more than a year before I had seen at anchor off Montreal! News travels fast in wild countries, and it took us little time to learn the destination of the Modeste. She came to anchor above Oregon City, and well below Fort Vancouver. At once, of course, her officers made formal calls upon Dr. McLaughlin, the factor at Fort Vancouver, and accepted head of the British elements thereabouts. Two weeks passed in rumors and counter rumors, and a vastly dangerous ten sion existed In all the American set tlements, because word was spread that England had sent a ship to oust us. Then came to myself and certain others at Oregon City messengers from peace-loving Dr. McLaughlin, asking us to join him in a little cele bration in honor of the arrival of her majesty's vessel. Here at last was news; hut it was news not wholly to my liking which I soon unearthed. The Modeste was but one ship of 15! A fleet of 15 ves sels, 400 guns, then lay in Puget sound. The watch-dogs of Great Britain were at our doors. This question of mon archy and the republic was not yet settled, after all! I pass the story of the banquet at Fort Vancouver, because it is un pleasant to recite the difficulties of a kindly host who finds himself with the Journey Without Comment. jarring elements at his board. Pre cisely this was the situation of white haired Dr. McLaughlin of Fort Van couver. It was an incongruous as sembly in the first place. The officers of the British navy attended in the splendor of their uniforms, glutting in braid and gold. Even Dr. McLaugh lin made brave display, as was his wont, In his regalia of dark blue cloth and shining buttons his noble fea tures and long, snow-white hair ma king him the most lordly figure of them all. As for us Americans, lean and brown, w-ith hands hardened by toil, our wardrobes scattered over a thousand miles of trail, buckskin tunics made our coats, and moccasins our boots. I have seen some noble gentlemen so clad in my day. It was, as may be supposed, late in the night wsen our somewhat discord ant banqueting party broke up. We were all housed, as was the hospitable fashion of the country, in the scattered log buildings which nearly always hedge in a western fur-trading post. The quarters assigned me lay across the open space, or what might be called the parade ground of Fort Van couver, flanked by Dr. McLaughlin's four little cannon. Aa I made my way home, stumbling among the stumps in the dark, I passed many semi-drunken Indians and voy ageurs, to whom special liberty had been accorded in view of the occasion, all of them now engaged in singing the praises of the "King George" men as against the "Bostons." I was almost at ray cabin door at the edge of the forest frontage at the rear of the old post, when ' I caught slimose. In the dim light, cf a hurry ing figure, which in some way seemed to be different from the blanket-covered squaws who stalked here and there about the post grounds. She passed steadily on toward a long and low log cabin, located a short dis tance beyond the quarters which had been assigned to me. I saw her step up to the door and heard her knock; then there came a flood of light more light than was usual in the opening door of a frontier cabin. This dis played the figure of the night walker, showing her tall and gaunt and a little stooped; so that, after all, I took her to be only one of our American fron tier women, being quite sure that she was not Indian or half-breed. This emboldened me, on a mere chance an act whose mental origin I could not have traced to step up to the door after it had been closed, and myself to knock thereat. I heard women's voices within, and as I knocked the door opened just a trifle on its chain. I saw appear at the crack the face of the woman whom I had followed. She was, as I had believed, old and wrinkled, and her face now, seen close, was as mysterious, dark and in scrutable as that of any Indian squaw. Her hair fell heavy and gray across her forehead, and her eyes werf small and dark as those of a native woman. Yet, as she stood there with the light streaming upon her, I saw something in her face which made m puzzle, ponder and start and put mf foot within the crack of the door. "Threlka," I said quietly, "tell madam the baroness it Is I, Mons. Trist of Washington." CHAPTER XXVII. In the Cabin of Madam. Woman must not belong to herself; sha in bound to alien destinies. Friedrich von Schiller. With an exclamation of surprise, the old woman departed from the door. I heard the rustle of a footfall. I could have told in advance what face would now appear outlined in the candle glow with eyes wide and startled, with lips half parted in query. It waa the face of Helena, Baroness von Ritz! "Eh blen! madam, why do you baf me out?" I said, as though we had parted but yesterday. In her sheer astonishment, I pre sume, she let down the fastening chain, and without her Invitation I stepped within. I heard her startled "Mon Dieu!" then her more deliberate exclamation of emotion. "My God!" she said. She stood, with her hands caught at her throat, staring at me. I laughed and held out a hand. "Madam baroness," I said, "how glad I am! Come, ha3 not fate been kind to us again?" I pushed shut the door behind me. Still without a word, she stepped deeper into the room and stood look ing at me, her hands clasped now loosely and awkwardly, as though she were a country girl surprised, and not the Barones3 Helena von Ritz, toast or talk of more than one capital of the world. (TO BE CONTINUED.) WHERE MAN IS NOT MASTER Unable to Discover Secret of Avoiding That Troublesome Cold In the Head. Man. says Persius, is a very noble piece of work, and is indeed king of kings except at those times whsjn he is troubled with a cold In his head. It it be not Perslus, it was Horace or Juvenal. It Is a fact of great interest that they are so common. Other epidemic diseases measles, typhoid, scarlet fe ver, diphtheria may get hold on mm once and there Is an end; It Is not usual to have any of them twice. Wp brew in our blood Immunity. The poi son of the disease evokes in ua Its proper antidote; our blood cells make a sort of natural antitoxin and keep it in stock, so that we are henceforth protected against the disease. A well-vaccinated nurse, for instance, works with safety in a smallpox hospital, where the very air is infective; but her blood was so changed by vaccination that the small pox cannot affect her. By scarlet fe ver, again, we are, as it were, vacci nated against scarlet fever the reac tion of our blood against the disease immunizes us. No such result follows influenza or a common cold; we brew nothing that is permanent; we are Just as susceptible to a later Invasion as we were to the invasion that is Just over. The Mean Thing. The Suffragette (smilingly) Won't you do something to help our good causo along, Mr. Goodcraft? Mr. Goodcraft I'd like very much to do one thing for you, but I fear It's impossible. The Suffragette T ut! tut! Noth ing's impossible what would you Uks to do for us? Mr. Goodgraft Endow a few ce!k in your favorite nrUonal TIGERS IN AGREEMENT WITH POLICE. Judge Wilkinson Asks Investigation of Sensational Report. Xatchcz. .Judge Wilkinson opened the March term of the Adams County Cir cuit Court Wednesday. In his charge to the grand jury, he referred to the recent arrest of 30 men for selling beer and said that he had been informed that there was an agree ment in Xiitchez lor the owners of soft drink establishments to be arrested ev ery three months and to pay lines of $50 on each arrest. He charged the grand jury to investigate this matter and to look into the matter of violations of the prohibition laws. The city au thorities and Chief Ramsey have no knowledge of any agreement to make arrests of proprietors of soft drink es tablishments at stated periods and will welcome any investigation on the part of the inquisitors. STATE'S COXTON ACREAGE President Hightower Says It Will Be No Change. Jackson. According to President O. R. Hightower of the Mississippi division of the Farmers' Union, there will be little or no change in the cotton acreage in this state during the current crop year. "Of course, in some counties and com munities there will be considerable in crease," says President Hightower, "but, taken as a whole, the acreage will be practically the same as last year." President Hightower explains the phe nomenal increase in fertilizer sales, which aie much in excess of expectations of manufacturers, on the ground that the fine open weather during the winter sea son permitted the farmers to do a great deal of hauling, and they did not decide on the quantity of fertilizers to be used until the near approach of the planting period. OIL MILL MtN TO MEET. Important Convention Will Be Held in New York, June 7, 8 and 9. Jackson. Several oil mill managers in the state, will attend the annual con vention of the Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers' Association to be held in New York on June 7, 8 and 9. The fact that the boll weevil has in vaded this industry, which is one of the most important in Mississippi, will ren der the New York convention one of exceptional interest. The mills in this state ar seriously considering the ques tion of crushing peanuts, and that themo will also be brought up for discussion. PAPER FROM SLABS. If Experiments Are Successful, Papet Mill Will Be Built. Pascagoula. The English syndicate, with, local capitalists, that has contem plated establishing a paper mill at thU port, will make a test to determine whether paper can be successfully made from pine slabs cut by the sawmills. A cargo of pine slabs will be shortly shipped to Norway and there manufac tured in the paper mills. If the experi ment is satisfactory, a large amount of capital will he immediately invested in a paper mill here and employment fur nished to hundreds of laborers. Fifteen thousand dollars is estimated as bein the cost of the test. Lumbermen Will Picnic. Hattiesburg. At a meeting of the di rectors of the Mississippi Pine Associa tion the regular meeting of the associa tion was set to be held in Hattiesburg, Tuesday, April 11. As is their custom, the Order of Hoo-Uoos will meet in the evening and a class of kittens be admit ted to the mysteries of the order. A banquet, followed by a ball, will be ten dered at the Hotel Hattiesburg. A num ber of prominent members, of the order from a distance will be present, among them J. II. Rami, of Nashville, Tenn., who holds the office of supi me scrivena tor. May Reimburse Owners. Natchez. Either at the special session or at the regular session of congress in December, Congressman William A. Dick son of Centrevillc will introduce a bill to protect the Natchez front, provide other improvements and to reimburse the owners on the eastern bank of the Mississippi river between Yicksburg and Raton Rouge for the damage done their lands by the building of the Louisiana levee system. Negro Lynched Near Rockport. Rockport. An unknown negro was lynched near here by a mob composed of about fifty men, after he had shot and killed Daniel Reasley, a white farmer, who lived near this place. The negro made his escape after the shooting, but was captured later by a posse and was being hurried to the town jail here, when his captors were overtaken by the mob, which forced them to give up tho prisoner. Merchant Murdered. Ackerman. PJeaman Bruce, a mer chant of Ackerman, was shot from am bush and possibly fatally wounded Thursday. A negro, known as Parine, is charged with the shooting and is be ing searched for by several posses. If captured it is not improbable that he will be Ivnehed. Sell Big Plantation. Indianola. The Sledge Lake wood plantation, comprising 1,301 acres, near here, was sold to Illinois people for the neat sum of $75,000. The woodland, which was half of the farm, brought $25 per acre, while the cleared land brought $75 per acre. Bakei Made Field Agent. Natchez. James W. Miller, president of the Mississippi Retail Merchants' As sociation, announces that he has ap pointed Col. E. R Baker as field agent foi the association. $3.50 REGIFE CURES WEAKKIDHEYS, FREE RELIEVES URINARY AND KIDNEY TROUBLES, BACKACHE, STRAIN ING, SWELLING, ETC. Stops Pain in the Bladder, Kidneys and Back. Wouldn't It be nice within a week or so to begin to say goodbye forever to the scalding, dribbling, straining, or too fre quent passage of urine; the forehead and the back-of-the-head aches: the stitches and pains In the back; the growing mus cle weakness; spots before the eyes; yel low skin; sluggUh bowel; swollen eye lids or ankles; leg cramps; unnatural short breath; sleeplessness and th de spondency T I have a recipe for these troubles that you can depend on. and if you want to make a QUICK RECOVERY, you ought to write and get a copy of it. Many a doctor would charge you $3. DO Just for writing this proscription, but I hava it and will be glad to send it to you entire ly free. Just drop me a line like thlst Dr. A. E. Robinson. K-261 Luck Building. Detroit, Mich., and I will send It by re turn mall in a plain envelope. As you will see when you get it. this recipe contain only pure, harmless remedies, but it has great healing and paln-conquerlng power. It will quickly show Its power once you use it, so I think you had bettor eo what it Is without delay. I will send you a copy free you can use It and cure your f4jlf at home. PA'S ANSWER. "What Is an Indeterminate pa?" "Matrimony, my eon." SCALES ALL OVER HER BODY "About three years ago I was af 'ected by white scales tin my kneos and elbows. I consulted a doctor who treated me for ringworm. I saw no change and consulted a specialist and he claimed I had psoriasis. I contin ued treatments under him for about six months until I saw scales break ing out all over my body 6ave my face. My scalp was affected, and my hair began to fall. I then changed doctors to no avail. I went to two hospitals and each wanted to mako a study of the caso and seemed unable to cure It or assure mo of a euro. I tried several patent medicines and was finally advised by a friend who has used Cuticura on her children sinco their birth, to purchase the Cuticura Remedies. I purchased a cake of Soap, tho Ointment and the Resolvent. After tho first application the itching was allayed. "1 am still using the Soap and Oint ment and now feel that none other Is good enough for my skin. Tho psor iasis has disappeared and I every where feel better. My hands were so disfigured before using the Cuticura Remedies that I had to wear gloves all tho time. Now my body and handa are looking fine." (Signed) Miss Sara Burnett, 2135 Fitzwater St.. Philadel phia, Pa., Sept. 30, 1910. Cuticura Soap (25c) and Cuticura Ointment (50c) are sold throughout the world. Send to Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., sole props., 135 Colum bus Ave., Boston, for free book on af fections of the skin and scalp. Somewhat Satirical. A whist enthusiast wrote and pub lished a book on the game and sent a copy to a famous player for I1I3 opinion of It. In about a week tho book was returned to him, with tho folowing letter: "My Dear Sir. Your favor of the 10th instant, accompanied by your book, was duly received. I have read it very carefully. It Renins to bo a very good game, but I don't thiuk It Is as good a game as whist!" Severe Critic. Alice I like Tom immensely and he's very much the gentlemai; but he does like to talk about himself! Grace; Yes, dear, your knight hath a thousand I's. Puck. TO DRIVE OUT MAMMA ami m 11.1t i r xnn system TVre the OH Standard HOV'KM VACKi.K& CHILL TON10. l';u tuuw wlint yon nre Uik ng. The formula Is plainly printed n eTery bottle. Showing It Is simply Oululne and Iron in a Lhni. lees form. '.ftae Quinfn drWe oul tli inaliina and tiie Iron bullda up the Bystem. bukl by all aealera tor M je&ra- Vrict 00 cents. What is passing in the heart of an other rarely escapes tho observation of one who is a strict anatomist of his own. Shelley. Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Cum and Mullen ia Nature's great remedy- Cures CouRhs, Colds, Croup and Whooping Cough and all throat and lunff troubles. At druggists. 25c. 50c and $1.00 per bottle. What we are doing speaks with greater force than what we are say ing. Royston. Garfield Tea purifies the blood, eradi cates rheumatism, gout and other diseases. Go to sleep without supper, but rise without debt. Talmud- sentence