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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1911)
tfapfuptrpjf.-fr. ,. ,. MMMBWWWMIWiWWWBWHMBBMWMWMBiMWMBHWWMtMKliniMI1WBMIWWWilW"lwBtl'WW I,'. 28 SYNOPSIS. John Cnlliomi Iipcojiim sccrotnry of uliito In Tylcr'H rnhlnot with tlio itxcd do toriiiltmtluii to uciiilro both Toxiih and Oregon. Nltliolus Trlflt, IiIh RerroUry, Ih ncnt with 11 tiR-HMiii,'!' to tlio Iliironuai von Hltz, spy unci reputed inlniroan of tliu llrlllHh minister, l'nlienlmm. Trlst en L'ountLTa tlio ImrotiPMs iind iihhIkIh hor In rHLitptiiK from pursuer Hliu aureus to fulhntin, and iih 11 ploilKo that hIuj will tell him wliiit ho wants to know rc KiirillnK the Ititentlonx of ICiikIiiiiiI toward Mexico, Hhe kIvch Trial 11 sllppur, tlio Jiiuti) of which linn been lost. Trlst Is or di.'iril to Montreal on Htuto liuilncss. and in ranges to liu niurrleil to Kllzaliotli Churchill heforu ili'purfliiK Thn li.irone.ss naVH hIiu will try to pinent tlio mnttliiKu A drunken coriK'riMsinnii, who Is assisting wTrlHt In his uvililliiK urraiiKenientx, blun deringly sends tint ImronusV sllppor to IJIIzubDth Instead of tliu owner, unit the tnarrliiHu Is ileclnreil olT Nlcholns IIiicIh thn tuironesi In .Montreal, sho tinting suc ceeded, where he fulled, Iti dlsoovurlnn ICimland'H Intentions remirillnK OreKon Bhi) tfllH him the (dipper ho had, con tained n note finm tlio Texas tittacho to 1'akeiihnm, saving Hint If tliu United States did not anuax Texas within 30 duyt nlio would loso both Toxus nnd Oregon. Calhoun orders Trlst to head 11 party hound fur Oregon. Calhoun e.xcltos tlio Jealousy of Henora Vturrlo, and thereby Bociires the signature, of tliu Texas at tncho to a treaty of annexation. Nicholas arrives In Oregon. I.utur tlio baroness nr iIvoh on a llrlllsli wnrshlp HI10 tolls Nicholas that a noto she placed In her slipper enused tlio brealtlng off of his inarriaKe, and that she intends to return to Washington to repair tlio wrons Nicholas follows her. llo loarns on tlio way Hint 1'ollc has beon elected and Tcxns annexed, nnd Hint there Is to be war with Mexico. The baroness tolls Trlst that In return for a rompromlso of the Oregon boundary on tlio forty-ninth degree, she hns sold herself to I'akunlintn .She tells him tlio story of her life. Tilst breaks I'nla-nluiin's key to tlio baroness' apartments. I'nkenlmm calls for Ills price, nnd the batouess refuses to pay. lie Insults her. Hho compels him to apologize, holds him up In his true light, nnd he declares Hint sho Is pure as n Illy. The treaty Is signed by I'aken linm. Tlio barruuss elves tlio treaty to Calhoun and tills him sho got It for Nicholas. Calhoun Invites the baroness to a diplomatic ball at tlio Whltu House. Mcholns nnd nilzahclh tiro married. Nlcholns Is chosen 11 commissioner to ne Kotlnto peace with Muxlco. OwltiR to un inlty on the pnrt of folk his notions nro repudiated nnd ho Is dismissed from tlio pervlco. Tliu Bunate, however, ratllles the ttaty. Epilogue Continued. With tho cessions from Mexico camo the great domain or California. No8 look how strangely history sometimes works out Itself. Hail thero haon any suspicion of tlio tllscovery of gold In California, neither Mexico nor our re public eor would havo owned It! nnglnrtd surely would havo taken It. The very year that my treaty eventu ally was ratified wns that In which gold was discovered In California! Hut It wan too lato then Tor Knglund to Interfere; too Into then, also, for Mcitco to claim It, Wo got untold millions of tieasuro there. Most of tliosn millions went to the northern Ltatca, Into niauufacturfs, Into com merce. Tho north owned that gold; and It naj that gold which gavo the Tho Trail of Democracy, north tho powor to crush thnt upris ing which was born of tho Mexican war that Bamo uprising by which England, too lato, would gladly have Boon this union disrupted, so that sho might havo yot another chanco at theso lands sho now had lost for over. Fato seomod still to bo with us, aft er all, as I havo bo often had occasion to bellovo may bo a posslblo thing. That war of conquest which Mr. Cal houn opposed, that Bamo war which grew out of tho Blavery tonets ot his othenvlso splendid public life found Its own correction In tho civil war. It wns tho gold or California which put down slavery. Thenceforth slavery has existed legally only north of tho Mason and Dixon lino! Wo havo our problems yet. Perhaps somo other war may como to settle them. Fortunato for ub If thero could be another California, another Texas, another Oregon, to help ua pay tor thorn 1 I, who was Intimately connected with many of theso loss known mat ters, claim for my master a roputntlon wholly different from that given to him In any garbled "history" or his Ilfo. I lay claim In his namo for fore sight beyond that ot any man ot his time. Uo made mistakes, but ho mado WHB&rmammmamBmmxmmsaBBmiBmmBmmamKaMmmBmgBm 54-40 FIOHX BY EMERSON HOUGH .author, or. the ttifp i.Wippi bvb&HS ILIWTRATIOW by MAGNUT G.ICE1TNER- COPYPIOHT igoq Ay DOBDi'-MERHflt-tCOMPAKV them bruvely, grandly, and consistent ly. Whoro his convictions woro en listed, ho had no reservations, nnd ho used overy means, every available weapon, ns I havo shown. Hut ho watt never Hclf-seoklng, novcr cheap, ncvor Inslncero. A dotester of nil machlno polltlclnnB, ho was a statesman worthy to bo called tho William Pitt or the United Stntcs Tho consistency of his career was n mnrvolous thing, be cause, though ho changed In lite be liefs, ho was first to recognlzo tho changing conditions of our country. Uo failed, and ho is oxoctatcd. llo won, nnd he Is forgot. My chief, Mr Calhoun, did not die until some six years after that llrst evening when Dr. Ward and I had our talk with him. Uo wub said to have died of n disease of tho lungs, yet hero ngaln history Is curiously mis taken. Mr. Calhoun slept himself away. I sometimes think with a shud der thnt perhaps this wns tho revonco which Nomcsts took of him for his mistakes Ills last days were dream llko In their passing. Ills last speech In tho senate was read by one of hts friends, as Dr. Ward had advised him. Somo said afterwards that his Illness was that accursed "sleeping sickness" Imported from Africa with theso same slaves. It were a strange thing had John Calhoun Indeed died of his er ror! At least ho slept away. It was through John Calhoun, a gravo and Bomber flguro of our his tory, thnt wo got tho vast land of Texas. It was through him also and not through Clay nor Jnckson, nor ruiy or tho northorn statesmen, who never could bco n future for tho west that wo got all ot our vast northwest realm. Within a few days after tho Palo Alto ball, a memorandum of agreement was signed between Min ister Pnkonham and Mr. Huchanan, our secretary of stato. This was dono at tho Instanco and by tho aid of John Calhoun. It was he ho nnd Helena von Rltz who brought about thnt treaty which, on June 15, of tho samo year, was.slgned, and glndly signed, by the minister from Great Urltaln. Tho latter had been fully enough lm piessed (such wns tho story) by tho reports of tho columns of our west bound farmers, with rifles leaning at their wngon seats and pIowb lashed to tho tall-gates. Calhoun himself never cenbcd to regret that wo could not delay a year or two years longor. In this ho wns thwarted by tho Impetu ous war with tho republic on tho south, although, had that never been fought, wo had lost California lost 1 also tho south, and lost the Union! I udor one form or other,, ouo nutno of America, of the World. of government or another, tho flag of democracy eventually must float ovor all this continent. Not a part, but all of this country must bo ours, must bo the peoplo'B. It may cost moro blood and troasuro now. Somo tlmo wo shall seo tho wisdom of John Calhoun; but somo tlmo. too, I think, wo shall enn como truo that prophecy or a strango and brilliant mentality, which In Cal houn'B proaonco and In mlno. said that all of theso northorn lands and all Mexico as well must ono day bo ours which Is to sny, tho peoplo'B ror tho sako of human opportunity, of human hopo and happiness. Our bat tles uro but partly fought. Hut at least they aro not, then. lost. For mysolf, tho close or tho Mexi can war found mo somewhat worn by travel nnd Illy equlppod In financial matters. I had been discredited, I say, by my own government. My pay was withheld. Elizabeth, by that tlmo my wlfo, was a girl reared In nil tho luxury that our country then could or ror. Shall I say whothor or not I prized her more whon gladly sho gavo up all this nnd Joined mo ror ono moro long and final Journey out across that groat trail which I had seen tho trail of democracy, of America, ot tho world? At last wo reached Oregon. It holds tho gravo of ono of ours; It Is tho homo of others. Wo woro happy; wo asked favor of no mnn; fear of no ono did wo feel. Elizabeth has In hor time slept on a bod of husks. Sho has cooked at n sooty flroplaco of her own; nnd nt her cabin door I mysolf havo been tho gunrd. Wo made our way by ourselves nnd for ourselves, as did those who conquered America for our Hag. "Tho citizen Btnndlng In tho doorway of his homo shall savo tho Republic." So wrote a later pen. It wns not until long after tho dis covery of gold In Cnllfornln hnd aot us all to thinking that I was reminded of the strango story of the old Her man, Von Hlttcnhofen, of finding Bomo pieces of gold whllo on ono of his hunts for butterflies. I followed out his vague directions as best I might Wo found gold enough to mako us rich without our land. That claim Is staked legally. Half of It awaits an owner who perhaps will nover como. Thero aro thoso who will nccept al ways tho solemn nssovoratlons of pol iticians, who by word of mouth or pen assert that this or that party made our country, wroto Its history. Such as they might smilo If told that not oven men, much less politicians, havo written all our story aB a nation; yot nny who smile at woman's lnflucnco In American history do so In Ignoranco of tho truth. Mr. Webster nnd Lord Aphhurton havo credit for determin ing our boundary on tho northeast England called It Ashburton's capitu lation to tho Yankee. Did you ncvor hear the other gossip? England laid nil that to Ashburton's American wlfo! Look at that poor, hot-tompored devil. Yrujo, minister from Spain with us, who sawhls king's holdings on this continent Juggled from hand to hand between us all. Ills wlfo wns daugh ter of Gov. McKean of Pennsylvania yonder. If she had no Influence with her husband, so much tho worso for her. In Important times a generation ngo M. Genet, of Franco, ns all know, wns tho husband of tho daughter of Gov. Clinton or Now York. Did that hurt our chances with Franco? My Lord Oswald or Great Hritaln, who ne gotiated our treaty or pcaco In 17S2 was not his worldly fortune mado by vlrtuo of his American wlfo? All of us should remember that Marbols, Napoleon's mlnlstor, who signed tho great treaty for him with us, mart led his wlfo whllo ho was a more charge here In Washington; nnd nho, too. was an American. Erskino, of Ergland, when tlmos woro chained In 1&0&, and later and our friend for tho most part was ho not also husband of an Amcilcan? It waa as John Calhoun raid our history, llko that of England nnd France, llko that of Rome nnd Troy, wns made In largo part by women. Of that strango woman, Helena, Rar eness von Rltz, I havo never definitely heard slnco then. Hut all of us havo heard of that great uplift of centrnl Europe, that ferment of revolution, most notlcoablo In Germany, In 1818. Out of that revolutionary spirit thero camo to us thousands nnd thousands of our best population, tho sturdiest and tho most llberty-lovlng citizens this country ovor had. They gavo us scores of genorals In our lato war, and gavo us at least ono cabinet officer. But whenco enmo that spirit of revolu tion In Europe? Why does It live, grow. Increase, oven now? Why does It sound now, closo to the oldest thrones? Whoro originated that germ of liberty which did Us work so well? I am nt least one who believes that I could guoss something of Its source Tho revolution In Hungary failed for tho tlmo. Kossuth camo to boo us with pleas that wo might nld Hun gary. Hut republics forget. Wo gavo no aid to Hungary. I was far away and did not roeot Kossuth. I should havo been glad to question him. I did not rorget Helena von Rltz, nor doubt that she worked out In full that strango destluy for which, Indoed, sho was born and prepared, to which sho devoted horself, mado clean by sncrl flco. She was not ono to leavo her work undone. Sho, I know, passed on her torch of principle. Elizabeth and I speak often ot Helena von Rltz. I remember hor still brilliant, boautUul, fasclnntlng, compelling, pathotlo, tragic. If It was asked ot her, I know that sho still paid It gladly all that Bncrlflco through which alono thero can bo worked out tho progress of humanity. tinder that Idea which blindly wo at tempted to express In our Declara tion; that idea which at times wo may forgot, but which eventually must tri umph for tho good of all tho world, Sho helped us mnko our map. Shall not that ror which sho stood help us hold It? At least, lot me say, I havo thought this llttlo story might bo Bet downj and, though somo to-day may smilo nt flogs and principles, I should llko, If I may bo allowod, to closo with tho words ot yet another man of thoso oarller tlmcB: "Tho old flag of tho Union was my protector In Infancy and tho prldo and glory of my rlflor years; and, by tho graco or God, under Ita ahadow I shall dlo!" N. T. , THE END. JOHNSCN HOME AS MUSEUM Gloomy Place Where Famous Diction ary Was Compiled to Become National Property, London. Dr. Johnson's gloomy eighteenth century house In Cough Bquuro Is to become national prop erty as a JohnBonlnn museum. Tho building, which Is now marked by a tablet placed thero by tho Society of Arts, is the most noteworthy of all Johnson's London residences. The "stout old-faBhloncd onk balus traded house," ns Carlylo found It eighty yuarB ngo, will need somo re storing; for Its foundations havo been shaken by the printing mnchlnery only recently taken out of tho base ment. It hns a typical paneled door M If i 1 fir .-:fl an .; 'nji ,. 1 ot- Where Dr. Johnson Wroto Hit Dictionary. or the period, with carved lintel. Its walls aro or rod brick, and the high pitched roof, pierced by windows, has twin gables overshadowed by a tall chimney stack. Hero Johnson spent tho busiest decade of his life, nnd hero his dictionary was begun and finished. Ho had an upper room fitted llko n counting house, and hero his copy ists wroto out tho Jllustratlvo pas sages from tho various authorities, which Johnson himself hnd marked with lead pencil. At times, but not often, he walked In tho garden, "n plot of delved ground no longer than a bed quilt." But the house hns other associa tions than thnt of tho dictionary. Johnson here began both the "Ram bler" and tho "Idler," nnd here ho was living when his tragedy or "Irene" was produced by Garrlck. Hero nlso his wire died. In 1755, when John son had been In Gough square seven years, tho great dictionary was pub lished. SKULL WAS TRANSPARENT Gtranrjo Conditions Free Man rrom Murder Charge In Philadelphia Court Brain Was Normal. Philadelphia If It hadn't boon for tho dlsooveiy that Joseph C. Qtilnn had a skull ns fragile as an egg nhell, Potcr Fox, Jr. might havo boon held by Coroner Ford for lnlllotlng tlio In juries! which rnueod Qulnn's (loath. When tho coroner learned Quinn'n skull was so thin that lari;o print could bo rend through It whon It was held to the liglH. ho discharged Fox on tho ground that Qulhn's death was traceable to tho abnormality. Qutnn wns muscular and athletic, llo went to a poolroom nt Island road nnd Woodlawn avenue and mado a disturbance. Fox, the proprietor, trlodfto quiet him. As Qulnn became Increasingly ugly Fox struck him It was a blow that would havo done llttlo or no harm to an ordinary man, but Qulnn dropped to tho floor. Doctor Wadsworth, who performed tho autopsy, testified Qulnn's skull would bend under tho pressure of his fingers. Tho man's brain, ho added, was normal. OLD CHURCH AT ANTIETAM Most Severe Fighting In Famous Bat tle Occurred In Vicinity of This Edlflco. Sharpsburg, Md. Tho church shown In tho Illustration Is located ono mile from this place, on tho fa mous Antletnm battlefield. It waa built by tho German Baptists In 1853. Somo of tho most severe fighting or tho battle or Antletam occurred near IT"! irM. Staphs T' "- - Sr?ITJlTLWlJWJ.,l.;rli rHKSSftiBWrtf-' :&. IU M1JCIJ nttlb- HI 111 II. - Wiwra .."B'V; M .III' p. Where Dunkarda Worship. horo and niter tho battlo tho church was used as a hospital and embnlm Ing station. During tho battlo tho Hlblo was taken by a Now York sol dier and arter an absence of 41 years was returned nnd Is now occupying Its ojd placo on tho pulpit. Phlladelphlans Bashful. Philadelphia, Mrs. Mnry Taylor, national organizer of tho Waltross' union, told local waitresses that Phila delphia were too bashful to tip ClrlD. rflJLlMI & T"Ir?lll S JWJ i ISRAEL'S S'fifadtk I PENITENCE ffiyj I! I Sunday School Lnon for Juae 4, 1911 m f lmf I 1 Specially Arranged for Till J Paper Bh&BB I LKSSON THXT-Hobpii II. MKMOHY VKU8K8 1-6. OOLDKN THXT-'Thou Art n Gcd. flendy to Pardon, Gracious nnd Merciful, Slow to AtiBcr." Nch. 9.17. TIMI2 Uorpr bpRnn to prophody toward thp closo of tho rplgn of Jeroboam II. In Isrnpl, whose rpn cIo.hciI H C. "01 (Iicct'hcr), or 7C3 (HastlnsfO His prophetic life extended Into the days of Hezeklah, Kins of Jtidih, who cntno to the throno (Ilcecher), H. G. 7a (HastlnRs), 7.'7. PLACK Hosea waa a prophet of tho northorn kingdom. I'UOPHKTS-Iaulnh and Mlcah; perhaps AmoH. What wnB tho iniquity of Israel from which Hosea exhorted her to re turn unto tho Lord? Tho degradation of religion Into a sensual and revolt ing worship of Idols, and tho foolish and weakening separation rrom tho Southorn Kingdom. Tho period was ono of frightful violence and confu sion; nil ties of social llfo were loosened; Immorality, lrrcllglon, su perstition, panic and despair contrib uted to tho common misery and ruin; it hardly needed prophetic InBlght to foresee tho Inevitable end In tho total dissolution or tho state. Their reliance upon Assyria Tor snl vatlou Instead or upon Jehovnbi their reliance upon Egypt, tho land of horses; their reliance upon idols, tho work of their own hands. All tho In ner woes of tho nation sprung from its Idolatry, and all Its woes from without sprung from tho mischievous foreign alliances against which tho prophets continually protested. Noto that this Is moro than a confession; it Is a promlso of amendment, a vow of total nbstlncnco from theso sins. God promises to the repentant na tion, promises Tor tho past, rorglve ncss. I will heal their backsliding, that horrible disease or apostasy from tho Father's lovo; for the present, love; I will love them freely, "without money and without price," for what price could pay for this lnestimablo blessing? for tho future, ever-Increasing progress nnd blessedness; God will bo to his restored peoplo an enriching, stimulating, reviving dew, causing them to throw out now branches, strlko new roots deeper Into the soil, blossom In beauty and fra grance, and bring forth fruit in abun dance. What Is tho significance of tho threo comparisons used of tho re stored people? 1. They arc to bo llko tho Illy, In Ub purity nnd beauty. 2. They nro to bo llko Lebanon, rooted deep in tho earth, with Its foothills stretching forth llko roots; or perhaps tho reference is to tho firmly rooted cedars of Lebanon; nt any rato tho comparison signifies strength, which is to bo added to beauty. 3. They aro to bo llko the ollvo tree, which is not lovely as the lily but Is gnarled nnd ugly; nor strong and imposing llko the mountain and Its great cedais, but feeblo and Insignificant to tho eye; but It Is green when other trees nro bare, and It brings forth abundance of rich fruit. Tho confident statement (whether mado b Jehovah, or, nB some com mentators and both authorized and re vised voraloiiB hold, by L'phinlm him self) that Ephrnim (that is, Israel, tho hading tribe being put for tho entire Northern Kingdom) has nothing moro to do with Idols; ho Is through with them; they tiro laid awny with his un happy past. This actually happened utter tho exile; tho returned Jews had had enough of Idolatry, and never ngaln lapsed Into that sin. Hosea certainly did not mean, as ho Is bo often misunderstood to mean, that Israel was bo firmly fixed In Idol atry that tho nation could never bo moved from that Iniquity. Tho proph et was addressing Judah, the South ern Kingdom, and bidding her hold aloof from her Idolatrous neighbor and let him alone, lest she herself contract tho foul disease. The sum of wisdom, according to Hosea, is that wisdom consists of three things: Understanding, know ing tho things that Hosea had been setting forth, namely, God's dealings with his children. Understanding thnt God's ways uro always right, straight, allko when they spread themselves out In an unbrokenievel for the pious, and when theyopposo themselves In rocky stumbling-blocks to the un godly. Hosea began his warnings at tho point whoro we feel tho most prldo. Our nation Is proud ot Its wealth and power, but these two things lead to worldlness, which lo our greatest peril. What would bo tho substance of Hosea's message to tho nation and to each ono of us? "Take with you words, and return unto the Lord." Our sins must fco acknowledged, humbly before God nnd frankly beforo every one who should hear the confession for any reason. Then wo are simply, In Christ's strength, to obey Sam Jones' oft-repented Injunction, "Quit your, meanness!" Wo aro to "ceaso to do evil, learn to do well." Thero Is a story of an ancient king who lighted n lamp and had it hung in his palace; ho then sent horalds forth to bring Into his nresonco every crimi nal and rebel, that they might obtain pardon. Thoso thnt camo whllo tho lamp waa burning wero sot free; but thoso that delayed till the lamp had gone out, or altogothor neglected tho Invitation, met with a' terrlblo death, Unlike this, God forever holds forth his offer of mercy, and his loving heart always ycarnB after tho sinner; but with each wilful delay we harden our hearts till at last they aro fixed In the ways of sin. (Evaporated I Milk is the handiest tiling in the pan try. It is pure and always ready to use. 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