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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 9, 1911)
Apr' K. ;' yn3LT A i mtMmmneaMAmwwwmni i nrw mam ti -- ID SYNOPSIS. Hi'iiiilnt John t'lillidim In orfi red tlio oririlli of Hucrdiiry (if Htntn In Tylvr'it ciilihii'i. Ho (liM-liui'M that If lie nccrptH II niiMiiH (hut Tcmih nnil OrcKoti mum lie ndilt'il Id Dim I'tiloti lie ilium to I'lirn tin- IlllclillnliH of Knulitnil with p'KUIil to Mexico, thriiiiKli II.imiiii-kh Von t lux, w rict Kiiy 11111I reputed mlKtii'MH of tlm 1'jMUIIhIi imilmM.iinl'ir. I'alo'tilmm. I To hpiiiN lila niTii'ttir, NIiIhiIiim TrlHl to brim; tin' liaroiii'H'4 to his iiprii itnt-iit. W'lillo Hi'MicliliiK for tlir IiiiI'oni'mh' liotui', a carrliiKu rillvi'H up ninl In- Ih I ti It ! to liter. Till' orri'paiil Ih the liiitiitic.sH, who mi hIic Ih Im'Iiiu purmii'il The piiiHinrrt nro Hluiki'ii off. Tin- li.iioni'MM iuiihi'MIh to ni'O Calhoun. XU'IioIuh iioIih Hint slii' liim hint 11 Hllpper. Kin- kIi Nicholas tlm it'iunliilin; Hllpper iih 11 philci' that nhe will loll Calhoun all, ami. an nci'iirlty, Nlchol.ia kIvcm her a Itlnlul ln Intetnli'il for IiIh HWeetlit'iirt, HHsMlietli Cliiiuhlll Nlrliolan In ordered to leave at onee for Moulteal 011 Htalo IhihIih'.hk. hy Calhoun, wlm luis lieeciine HiTii'tnry of Htiitu, ami plaim to Im man led tluu night. Tyler waiiM I'aKi'iimiin Hint inteirerenre iiv KitKlliml In the nllalix of IIiIh eontliienl will not he tol. raleil The wi Mt ih -iiiiiiiiIh that the Joint oieupimy of Ore Kon with (Ireat jJrMiilu 1 eaNe, ami Iiiih ralceil the cry or "l-'irty-foiir. Forty or KlKht." The liarnii'HH ii IIh N'Ii IioIiim hIiu Will do her liext to pi event hi inill'llap' Khu teturim the Iilnld't and he 'prouilxeM to return her Hllpper. Nli IioIiim ciiIIhIm the HcrvleOM of CoilK'iev.Mliian DatlilrlilKe. 11 lejectril Hilltor of Kllzulioth'H. to iimkImI In (he iirraiiKi'iuentK for Hie weddlnK and entrilHtN til til With the let 11 in of the Hllp pel to tho ImroiicHH Tim ciiiiKrcKNiniiii CclH ill milt anil hciiiIm the Hllpper lo ICIIzu holli. The weddltiK Ih ilei lined orf, ami NIchohiH Ih oidered from the hoiiHe hy lIllSNiheth'H father NIiIh.Ium H ordered to Kilin Hi'i'i'PH to a ineelliiK of the Hud Hon I lav dlrei'tuiH In Monti eal and learn ICiiKland'H Intentions 11'aidlim Ori'Knn, Nh'holiiH hop tho liar hm leave the ill- jeetora' inecilnK In Mnnlrenl, where ho had failed to khIii iiiIiiiIhsIoii She witrni I1I111 that Ills life Is In danger and he ac I'L'ptH an Invitation to piinh the nlht at tier home. CHAPTER XVI. Continued. "Yet you spoke of others who might conio horc. Wliat others? Who are they? Tho representatives or Mex ico? .Somo nttaeho or tins Hrltlsh embassy at Washington? Some min ister rroni England ItKolf, sent here direct?" She smiled at mu again. "I told you not to go back to your hotel, did 1 not?" I got no further with her, It seemed. "You Interest mu sometimes," she went on Hlowly. at lam, "yet you iieeni to have ho little brnln! Now. In your employment, I should think that hraln would bo somewhat useful at times." "I do not deny that suggestion, madam." "Hut you are unable to analyze. Thus. In tho matter or yourself. I suppose If you were told of It, you would only say that you rorgot to look In the toe of the slipper you hud. "Did you credit the attache of Mex ico with being nothing more than a drunken rowdy, to follow me across town with a little shoe in his car Hiiro ?" "Hut you said ho wiib in wine." "True. Hut would that be n rea son? Continually you show your lnek of brain In accepting as conclusive results which could not possibly have occurred. (Jranted he was in wine, granted ho followed me, granted he had my shoo In his possession what then? Does It follow that at the ball at tho White House he could have removed that bhoo? Does monsieur think that I, too, was in wlno?" "I agree iliat I have no- brain! 1 cannot guess what you mean. 1 can only beR once moro that you explain." "Now listen. In your most youth ful and charmliiR Innocence I presume you do not know much of tho capable ltles for concealment offered by a lady's apparel! Now, suppose I had a message whero do you think 1 could hldo It; granted, of course, the conditions obtaining at a hall In the Whlto Uouso?" "Then you did have a message? It came to you there, at that time?" She nodded. "Certainly, Mr. Van Zandt had almost no other opportun ity to meet mo or get word to me." "Van Znntlt! Madam, are you In deed In tho camp of nil theso different IntorcBts? So, what Pakeiihatn said was true! Van Zundt Is the attacho of Texas. Van Zandt Is pleading with Mr. Calhoun that ho shall take up tho secretaryship. Van Zandt promises us tho friendship of Texas K we will Rtand out for the annexation of Texas. Van Zandt promises us every effort In his power agalimt Knglnnd. Van Zandt promises us the sternest of fronts against treachorous Mexico, Van Zandt Is known to bo Interested In this fair Dona Literezla, Just as l'olk Is. Now, then, comes Van Zandt with his secret message slipped Into tho hand of murium at the ambassa dor's ball mnriaiu, the friend of Kng land! Tho attacho of Mexico is curi ous furious to know what Texas is saying to Knglnuri! Ami that-messtiRo must bo concealed! And madam con ceals it in " Sho smiled tit me brilliantly. "You como on," sho said. "Should your head be opened and analyzed, yes, 1 think a trace of brain might bo discovered by good chomlstry." I resumed Impatiently. "You put his messago In your slipper?" Sho nodded. "Yes," sho said, "in tho too of It. Thero was barely chance to do that. You seo, our uklrts are full nnd wide; thora nro curtains In tho east 100m; thoro was wlno by this time; thoro wus music; bo 1 ef fected that much Hut when you took 5440 FIOHX BYJEMERfON HOUGH AVTIIOK- OF THE MUSIttflPPI DUKBtE ILUMTRATIONf ly TCAGNUT G.ICETZNER-. COPVRIOHT 1909 r Onoj'-MERRII.I- CONPAWV uThen You Think There Is a Chanco and England tho slipper, you took Van Zandt's note! You had It. It was trtio, what 1 told I'akenham beforo tho president 1 did not then havo that note! You had It. At least. 1 thought you had It, till I found It crumpled on tho table tho next day! It must havo fallen thero from (he shoo when wo mnde our little exchange that night. Ah. you hurried me. I scarco knew whet her 1 was clad or shod, until tho next afternoon after I left you at tho White House grounds. So you hastily departed to your wedding?" "So small u shoo could not havo held an extended epistle, madam," I said, Ignoring her question. "No, but the little roll of paper caused me anguish. After I had danced I wns on the point of faint ing. I hnstened to tho cover of tho nearest curtain, whore I might not be noticed. Senor Yturrlo of Mexico was somewhat vigilant. Ho wished to know what Texas planned with Kngland. Ho has long made love to me by threats, and Jewels. As I stood behind the curtain 1 saw his lace, I lied: but one shoe the empty one was not well fastened, and It fell. 1 could not walk. 1 reached down, removed the other shoe with its note, hid it in my handkerchief thank Providence for the fashion of so much lace and ho, not in wine, monsieur, as you may believe, and Homowhat anxious, as you may also believe, expecting to hear at onco of an encounter between Van Zandt and the Mexican minister, Senor Almonte, or his attache Yturrlo. or between 0110 of them and some one else, I ninrio my adleux 1 will warrant the only woman In her stocking feet who bowed for Mr. Tyler at the ball that night'" "Yes, so far as 1 know, madam, you are tho only lady who ever left the east room precisely so clad. And so you got into your own carriage alone after awhile? And so. when you were thero you put on the shoo which wns left? And so Yturrlo of Mexico got the other one nnd found nothing In it! And so, he wanted this 0110!" "You come on," she said. "You havo something more than a trace or brain." "And that other shoe, which I got that night?" Without a word sho smoothed out a bit of paper which she removed from a nenr-by desk, and handed it to mo. "This was In yours! As I said, In my confusion I supposed you had it." 1 spread tho page upon the cloth ho Tore me; my eyes raced down tho lines. I dlri not make further reply to her. "Madam," wont on the communica tion, "say to your august friend Sir Hlchard that wo have reached tho end or our endurance of these late do lays. Tho promises of tho United States mean nothing. Wo can trust neither Whig nor Domocrat any long or. Thero Is no one party in power, nor wjll thero be. Thoro tiro two sec tions in America nnd thero Is no na tion, nnd Texns knows not whero to go. Wo havo offored to Mr. Tyler to Join tho union If tho union will al low us to Join. Wo Intend to reservo our own lnnds and reservo tho right to organlzo later Into four or moro states, If our peoplo shall so rieslro. Hut as n great stato wo will Join tho union If tho union will nccept us. That must bo scon. "Hnglund now beseechos us not to CHRK- of Trouble Between Our Country Out There?" enter tho union, but to stand apart, either for Indepenrienco or for alll anco with Mexico and Kngland. Tho proposition hnB been mndo to us to rilvldo Into two governments, one free nnd one slave. Kngland tins proposed lo us to advance us moneys to pay nil our debts If wo will agreo to this. Settled by bold men from our mother country, tho republic, Texas has been averse to this. Hut now our own mother repudiates us, not onco but many times. We get no decision. Tills then, dear mndam, Is from Tex as to Kngland by your hanri, nnri wo know you will carry It safo and secret. Wo shall nccept this proposal of Kng land. nnd avail ourselves of tho rich ness of her generosity. "If within thirty days action Is not taken In Washington for tho annexa tion of Texas, Texas will never in the history of the world be one of tho t'nlted States. Moreover, If tho t'nlted States trim!! lose Texas, also they lose Oregon, anil nil of Oregon. Carry this news I uni persuaded that it will bo welcome to that gentleman whose ear I know you hnve; nnd be lieve me always, my dear madam, with respect and admiration, yours, for the stato of Texas, Van Zandt." 1 drew a deep breath as I saw this proof of double play on tho part of this representative of the republic of the southwest. "They are traitors!" I exclaimed. "Hut there must be ac tion something must bo riono at once. 1 must not wait; 1 must go! I must take this, at least, to Mr. Cal houn." "Have 1 hem fair with you thus far?" she asked at length. "More than fair. I could not have asked this of you. In an hour I havo learned the news of years. Hut will you not also tell me what Is the nows from Chateau Ita'inezay? Then, in deed, I could go home feeling 1 had done very much for my chief." "Moiibleur, I cannot do so. You will not tell me that other news." "Of what?" "Of your nuptials!" "Madam, I cannot do so. Hut for you, much as 1 owe you, I would llko to wring your nock. I would llko to take your arms In my hands and crush them, until" "Until what?" Her fnce was strange. I huw a hand raised to her throat. "Until you told mo about Oregon!" said I. I saw her arms move Just one in stanther body Incline. Sho gazed at mo steadily, somberly. Thon hor hands fell. "Ah, Cod! how 1 hate you both!" she said; "you nnd her. You wero married, after nil! Yea, It enn be, It can be! A woman muy lovo one man even though ho could glvo hor only a bed of husks! Anil a man mny lovo a woman, too one woman. I had not known " "Monsieur, adieu!" she added swift ly. 1 bent nnd kissed her hand. "Madam, mi revolr!" "No, adlou! Go!" CHAPTER XVII. A Hunter of Butterflies. I lovo men, not upunimo tlioy nro men. but because they uro not woinon.-Quuci Christina. Thero was nt that time In Montreal a sort of nows room and public ex change, which mndo a placo of gen eral' meeting. It was supplied with newspapers and the llko, mid kept up gWlt f?.p fcylJBdfeKfft by subscriptions of the town mer chants a spacious room mado out of tho old Methodist chapel on St. Jo soph street. I knew this for a placo of town gossip, and hoped I might hit upon something to aid me In my errand, which was no more than be gun, It Rcemcd. Entering tho place Bhortly beforo noon, I made pretense of reading, all the while with an oyo and an ear out for anything that might happen. As 1 stared In pretense at the pngo beforo 1110, I fumbled Idly In u pocket, with unthinking hand, and brought out to plnco beforo me on the table, un object of which at first I was uncon scious the little Indian blanket clasp. As It lay beforo mo I felt seized of n sudden hatred for it, and let fall on It a heavy hand. As 1 did so, I heard a voico at my tar. "Meln Gott, man, do not! You break It, surely." 1 started at this. 1 had not heard any one approach. I discovered now that the speaker had taken a seat near me at tho table, and could not fail to see this object which lay be fore me. "I beg pardon," ho said, In a broken speech which showed his foreign birth; "but It Iss so beautiful; to break It Iss wrong." , 1 pushed the trinket along the table towards him. " 'Tls of little value," I said, "und is always In tho way when I would find anything In my pocket." "Hut onco sonio one bass mndo It; onco It bass been value. Tell mo where you get It?" "North of tho Platte, in our west ern territories," 1 said. "I onco traded In that country." "You uro American?" "Yes." "So," ho said thoughtfully. "So. A great country, a very groat country. Me, I also live in it." "Indeed?" 1 said. "In what part?" "It iss live years slnco 1 cross the Rockies." "You havo crossed tho Hockics? I , envy you." "You meesunderstand me. 1 live west of them for llvo years. I nm now come east." 1 wns afraid my eyes showed my Interest; but ho went on. "I haf been in the Columbia couu try, nnd in tho Willamette country, where most of your Americans nro settled. I know somewhat of Callfcr nla. Mr. Howard, of tho Hudson Day Company, knows nlso of tho country of California. Ho said to those Kng lish gentletnans at our meeting last night that Kngland should haf some thing to offset California on tho west coast; because, though Mexico claims California, tho Yankees really rule there, and will rulo thoro yet more. He iss right; but they laughed at him." "Oh. 1 think llttlo will como of all this talk." 1 said carelessly. "It Is very far. out to Oregon." Yot nil tho time my heart was leaping. So ho had been there, at that very meeting of which 1 could learn nothing! "You know not what you say. A thousand men came Into Oregon last year. It Iss llko one of tho great mi grations of the peoples of Asia, of Europe. 1 say to you, it iss a great epoch. Thero Iss a folk-niovemont such as wo haf not seen since tho days of tho Huns, tho Goths, tho Vnn dais, since the Clmrl movement. It Iss an epoch, my friend! It Iss fato that Iss In It." "So, then, It Is a great country?" I asked. "It iss so great, theso traders do not wish It known. Thoy wish only that it may be savage; also that their posts and their harems may bo undis turbed. That Jss what thoy wish. These Scots go wild again, In tho wilderness. They trade and they trav el, but It iss not homes thoy build. Sir Georgo Simpson wants steel traps nnd not plows west of tho Kocklos. Thnt iss all!" "Thoy do not spenk so of Dr. Mc Laughlin," l began tentatively. "My friend, a great man, McLaugh lin, believe mo! nut ho iss not Mc Kay; ho iss not Simpson; he Iss not Hehrens; he iss not Colvlllo; ho Iss not Douglas. And I sny to you, as 1 learned last night you seo, they asked mo nlso to tell what I knew of Oregon I say to you that Inst night McLaughlin wns deposed. Ho iss In charge no more so soon as thoy enn get word to him, ho loses his placo at Vancouver." "After a llfetlmo In tho servlco!" 1 commented. "Ycss, nftor 11 llfetlmo; nnri Mc Laughlin had brain and heart, too. If England would listen to him, sho would lenm somotlngs. Ho plants, ho plows, ho bass gardens and mills and houses nnd herds. Yess, If thoy lot Mclaughlin nlonc, thoy would haf n civilization on tho Columbia, nnd not a fur-trading post. Thon thoy could oppose your civilization thoro. That Iss what ho preaches. Simpson preaches otherwise. Simpson loses Oregon to Kngland, It may bo." "Thon you think thero Is a. chanco of trouble betweon our country nnd Kngland. out thoro?" (TO B13 CONTINUED.) AN HISTORIC INN OF LONDON House Which Witnessed Many Traglo Scenes In the Stormy History of Britain's Metropolis. London. Tho oldest Inn in London is to bo torn down to mako room for public improvements, It la known as Yo Oldo Whyto Hnrto nnd has beon so called slnco tho days of Hlchard II., who often Btoppod at tho inn whllo hunting In tho neighborhood and whoso badgo wan a white heart. Tho tavern wna establlshod in 1272, at tho northern end of Drury Inne, nnd only nnothor building, a blncksmith'B forgo, wna in tho near vicinity. Tho inn wns far beyond tho limits of London, rb then constituted, and bordering on It was a wilderness, which wns notod for its ganio. Hunting parties from tho city mndo It their hendquartors and both forgo and barroom wero lib erally pntronlzcd. Tho Whlto Hart Inn profited by tho fact thut It wns on tho routo over which criminals wero taken from Nowgato to Tyburn to bo executed. Immenso throngs soinetlmcB followod the condemned person nnd fancy prices wero paid to initio host of tho Whlto Hurt Inn for tho prlvllego of viowlng from Its windows tho "dead march." Executions wero moro nu merous in Kngland then thnn now infinitely moro bo. During tho 38 years of tho reign of Henry VIII. tho nvor ngo number of executions In tho coun try was 2,000 n year. When Jack Shop pnrri, tho notorious highwayman, wna conveyed from Nowgato to Tybun to bo executed 200,000 persons followod tho desperado to see him dispatched. Almost as great crowds attended othor executions, nnd wooden gallories wero erected at Tyburn for tho accommoda tion of tho spectators. Thoro Jona than Wild, tho thief trainer, waB exe cuted In 1725, after having been drawn to Tyburn on a curdle, followed by a I yelling, hooting crowd of many thou Rnnds. Hut his name endures in Lon don, having been given to a llttlo alloy oft Drury Lnno, whero long ngo ho conductod his Bchool for training highwaymen, housebreakers and pick pockets. In 1783 Tyburn ceased to bo 1 placo of execution. 1 Tho Whlto Hart inn was occupied lor a brief timo by Jack Cado, who Whlto Hart Inn. hoaded tho Kent rebellion In 1450 ant? whoso head a llttlo later, minus Ih? body, was affixed to London tower. How many buildings havo occuplot) tho sito of tho prcsont inn it la Im posBlblo to say. In 1669 tho inn li which Jack Cndo mado lila quarters was partially destroyed. In 1676 If was burned to tho ground. Tho build Ing that succeeded it was constructod aftor tho fashion of tho earllor ones with wldo opon courts. WORLD'S HIGHEST CHIMNEY It Is 506 Feet In Height and Con tains 16,000 Tons of Brick. Great Falls, Mont. Tho highest chlmnoy In tho world la that of thi Boston nnd Montana smolter hero. If is 606 foot high nnd 16,000 tons of brick were used in its construction. It weighs 31,000,000 pounds, nnd Is built to withstand a wind of 120 mllos an hour. Ono of thoso who lovo to Jug glo with figures has estimated that 267.000,000 eggB could bo plnceri with in tho chlmnoy nt ono tlrno, but as a lion producing an egg with regularity every morning for 730,000 years would Tho Hlghost Chimney. bo required to supply tho eggs, tho chimney is not likely to bo utilized In this manner. Tho Washington mon umont which Is CO feet, equaro at tho bottom and 20 feet Bqunro at tho top, could ho sot Inside this chlmnoy with out touching any wall, and thoro would still bo room botwoen tho walla of tho chlmnoy nnd tho monument to drlvo n span of horses from top to bottom. If railroad tracks, of standard gauge, wero laid vertically on tho In side of tho stack about 14 fcot con tors, thero would bo room for 14 trains each C00 foot long. rHliP'Jl2vr',"""i3jjLFiil Ir ' -'-' ! MM Ba OWog X JOKING P0M&C' J s'CAcn You'll bo de lighted with tho re sults of Calamet Daklnir Powdor. No disappoints no flat, heavy, soggy biscuits. calco, or pastry. Just tho lightest, daintiest, most uniformly raised and most deli cious food you over ate. HMrv4 Ml hut rnranf WarM'a run rooa expotlUon, wiwif, IfUI. ROYALTY AS THE GODFATHER Difficulty In Europo Successfully Over come by the Exercise of Some Diplomacy. In tho early days of tho reign of ths Into King Leopold of Belgium a sev enth son was born to a Brussels wom an, and -7hen tho king heard of It and was told vhat tho boy was tho seventh euccessivo ono, and that no girl had como to tho family, ho aBked to bo the baby'B godfather. Kver slnco then every sovonth eon born in Brussels has had tho samo honor, and tho moth ers havo received gifts In keeping with their station in life King Al bert, in carrying out tho old ndngo a Bhort timo ago had somo difficulty "becauso tho seventh son was twins," according to tho Frankfurter Zoitung Ho could not stand for both boyB, be causo that would glvo tho family two Alborts. Tho remedy wa3 found by Quoon Elizabeth, who suggested that hor llttlo son, tho duko of Brabant,, bo tho godfather of tho eighth boy, who consequently received tho name of Leopold. One'o Own Heaven and Hell. Most of our grier comes from with in wo torturo and torment our very eouls. Each man makes hla heaven oach man muko3 his holl. Each man knows when and whoro ho is right. Just aa ho knowB when and whero ho is wrong. Each man roallzos Just whoro and when ho Is weak, and when and whero ho Is strong. But many tnko entirely too many liberties with thomsolvos. Exchango. Lack of Material. "Barber," Bald Reggie, taking his Beat in tho chair, "It's too cold for a, close trim; glvo mo a football hair cut." "Great Scott, mlstorl" ejaculated tho barber. "You hain't got hair enough for that!" EASY CHANGE When Coffee Is Doing Harm. A lady writes from tho land of cotr ton of tho reaultB of a four years' uaa of tho food bovorngo hot Postum. "Ever Blnco I can remombor wo had usod coffco throo tlmeB a day. It had a moro or less Injurious effect upon us nil, and I myself Bufforod almost doath from Indigestion and norvous Boss causod by it. "I know it waa that, because when I would leavo It off for a fow daya I would feel bettor. But it waB hard to glvo it up, oven though I reallzod how harmful It wob to mo. 'At last I found a perfectly easy way to mako tho change Four years ago I abandoned tho coffco habit and began to drink Postum, and I also in fluencod tho rest of tho family to do tho same. Even tho children are al lowod to drink It freely aa thoy do water. And It has dono ua all great eood. "I no longer suffer from indigestion, and my nervoa aro In admlrnblo tone slnco I began to ubo Postum. We novor uso tho old coffee any moro. "Wo appreciatao Postum as a de lightful and healthful beverage, which not only lnvlgorntoa but suppllea tho best of nourishment as woll." Nnmo Given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Road "Tho Road to Wollvllle," in Pkga. "There's a Roason." iWUT' i