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CHAPTER XIII.
On Secret Service.


If the world was lost through women
she alone save it--Louis de Beau
fort.
In the days of which 1 write, our
civilization was, as 1 may say, so
embryonic, that it is difficult for US
now to realize the conditions which
then obtained.
We had several broken railway sys-
TENS north and south, but there were
not then more than 5000 miles of rail-
way built in America. All things con-
sidered, 1 felt lucky when we reached
New York less than "a hours out from
Washington.
Up the Hudson 1 took the crack
steamer Swallow, the same which just
one year later was sunk while trying
to beat her own record of nine hours
and two minutes from New York to
Albany She required IL hours on
our trip. Under conditions then OBJ
| tanning, it took me a day and a half
| more to reach Lake Ontario Here,
happily, 1 picked up frail steam
craft, owned by an adventurous soul
| who was not unwilling to risk his life
| and that of others on the uncertain
and ice-filled waters of Ontario. With
| him l negotiated to carry me with
| others down the ST. Lawrence. One
| delay after another with broken ma
! chinery, lack of fuel, running ice and
what not, required five days more of
my time ere reached Montreal.
As 1 moved about from day to day,
making such acquaintance as l could,
I found in the air feeling of excite
ment and expectation. The hotels,
bad as they were, were packed. The
public places were noisy, the private
houses crowded. Gradually the town
| became half-military and half-sayage-
| Persons of importance arrived by
| steamers up the river, on whose ex-
| panse lay boats which might be bound
| for England-or for some of Eng
| lands colonies. The SUPERINTENDENT
| yet removed to Ottawa, later capital
| of Ontario-was then housed in the
old Chateau Ramezay, built so long
before for the French governor,
| Vaudreuil.
| Here, / had reason to believe, was
now established no less a parsonage
than Sir George Simpson, governor of
| the Hudson Bay Company. Rumor had
| it at the time that Lord Aberdeen of
| England himself was at Montreal.
| That was not true. but I established
| without doubt that his brother really
| was there, as well as Lieut. William
| Peel of the navy, son of Sir Robert
| Peel, England's prime minister.
was not a week in Montreal before
learned that my masters guess, or
his information, had been correct The
race was on for Oregon!
All these things. I say, saw go on
about me- Yet in truth as to the in
| ner workings of this l could gain but
little actual Information 1 saw Eng
lands ships, but it was not for me to
| know whether they were to turn Cape
| Hope or the Horn / saw Canada S
! yoyageurs, but they might be only on
! their annual journey, and might go no
farther than their accustomed posts
| in the west In French town and Eng
lish town, among common soldiers,
voyageurs, innkeepers and merchants,
l wandered for more than one day and
felt myself still helpless.
That is to say, such was the case
until there came to my aid that great,
est of all allies, Chance.
! CTO BE CoNTNUEDl
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great Importance regarding the far
northwest A missed cog now may
cost this country 1000 miles of terri
tory, 100 years of history
In spite of myself, l began to feel
the stimulus of a thought like this.
1t was my salvation as man. / be-
gan to set aside myself and my own
troubles
You are therefore," he concluded,
to go to Montreal, and find your own
way into that meeting of the directors
of the Hudson Bay Company. There
is a bare chance that in this intrigue
Mexico will have an emissary on the
ground as well. There is. reason to
suspect her hostility to all our plans
OF extension, southwest and northwest.
Naturally, it is the card of Mexico to
bring on war, or accept it if we urge;
but only in case she has England as
her ally. England will get her pay by
taking Texas, and what is more, by ia
king California, which Mexico does
not value. She owes England large
sums now. That would leave England
owner of the Pacific coast; for, once
she gets California, she will fight us
then for all of Oregon. 1t is your
duty to learn all of these matters
who is there, what is done; and to do
this without making known your own
Identity
1 sat for a moment in thought. 1T
is an honor" said l finally; AN honor
so large that under it 1 feel small
Now" said DR.. Ward, placing a
gnarled hand on my shoulder, you
begin to talk like a Marylander It's
race, my boy, a race across this con
tinent. There are two trails-one
north and one mid-continent On these
paths two nations contend in the
greatest Marathon of all the world
England or the United Statesmen
archy or republic-aristocrac or HUI
| manity!'
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In Different Parts of the House.

Caller Ito little daughter of the
house)-Hullo dear? Where are you
off to?
Daughter of the House-Tm just
going up to watch Marie do mothers
hair.
Caller-Oh, deari Then I'm afraid
we shan't be able to see your mother.
Daughter of the House-Oh, yes;
you'll find her down there in the
drawing room.
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Munyon's Paw-Paw Pills are, a tonic
to the stomach, liver and nerves. They
invigorate instead of weaken; they en-
rich the blood instead of impoverish it;
they enable the stomach to get all the
nourishment from food that is put into
it.
These pills contain no calomel. no
dope, they are soothing, healing and
stimulating They school the bowels to
act without physic- Price Is cents
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CONSTIPATION

M u n y o n $ Paw
Paw Pills are unlike
all other laxatives or
cathartics. They coax
the liver into activ-
ity by gentle meth
DDS. They do not
scour; they do not
grippe; they do not
weaken; but they do
start all the secre-
ITEMS of the liver and
stomach in a way that
soon puts these or
gans in a healthy
condition and cor
reefs constipation.
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Hshed testimonial or used a letter
without the written consent of the
writer, and never has the Company
allowed these confidential letters to
get out of their possession, as the
hundreds of thousands of them in
their files will attest.
Out of the vast volume of experience
which Mrs. Pinkham has to draw
from, it is more than possible that she
has gained the very knowledge needed
in your case. She asks nothing in re-
turn except your. good will, and her
advice has helped thousands Surely
any woman, rich or poor, should be
glad to take advantage of this gener-
Gus offer of assistance. Address Mrs
Pinkham, care of Lydia E. Pinkham
Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass.
Every woman ought to have
Lydia e. Pinkham's SO-page
Text Book. 1t is not a book for
general distribution, as it Is too
expensive. 1t is free and only
obtainab1e by mail. Write for
1T today.
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ARE YOUR CLOTHES FADEDf
Use Red Cross Ball Blue and make them
white again. Large 2 OF. package, 5 cents
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Hard ened.

Scott-Is it true that Cooleigh is
financially embarrassed?
Notifies fearfully in debt, but 1t
doesn't seem to embarrass him much.
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ADVICE
TO WOMEN

Women suffering from any form of
Illness are invited to promptly COM
municate with Mrs Pinkham at Lynn,
Mass. All letters are received, opened,
read and answered by women. A Mo-
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The Pronouns.

I'VE must economize,'' said the
man of high financial authority.
Your grammar is at fault" replied
the ordinary citizen. why do you
insist on using the first instead of the
second person plural?'
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PROMINENT
ODD FELLOW
Bad Case Of catarrIh and Other
Complications Fully Re-
stored by Peruna.

Mr.. Chas. L.
Sauer. Grand
Scribe. Grand
Encampment
L o. o. F., of
Texas, writes
from San An
tonic, Texas:
Nearly two
y c a T s ago I
q C c e p t e d a
po s / tion as
secretary and
tr e a Surer of
on e of t b e
lie a d ing dry
goods estab-
iishments of
G a Nv e s t on,
T e K a 8. The
Q u d d Q n
change from q
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His Wife.

What do you do for a living.
Mose?"
Use de manager OBJ a laundry"
Whats the name of this laundry ?'
ELIZA Ann"
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The reason the bigot advertises his
one idea so vigorously is that it is
his whole stock N intellectual trade.
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Your tracts to the Hottentots may
count for little compared with your
acts to your own wasierwoman.
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DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets first put up
40 years ago. They regulate and invigor-
ate, stomach. liver and bowels. Sugar
coated tiny granules
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Send &c stamp for five samples of our
very best Gold Embossed, Good Luck,
colors and 1oveiest designs. Art Post Gard
Club. 73l jackson St., Topeka, Kan.
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Not Serious,

Not Serious.
Il hear there are grave charges
against Senator links"
What are they?"
1.-The sections bills."-Baltimore
American.
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Mrs. winsIow's Soothing Syrup.
children teething softens the gums reduces in
hammation allays pain cures wind collie &c a botIe.
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A Brush With Madam.

A Brush With Madam.
Artist-Madam, it is not faces alone
that paint, it is souls.
Madam-Oh, you do interiors, then
Boston Transcript.
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Avoid pushing to the front by going
back on your friends.
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man can freely talk
of her private ILL
ness to a woman /;
thus has been es-
tablished this con-
fdence be tween
Mrs Pfnkham and
the WON en- of
America which has
never been broken
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Ever notice what poor care other
people take of their health?
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Woman is a miracle of divine cont
dictions.-Jules Michelet-
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to procure systematic and artistic
growth: Cleveland, Buffalo, New York,
Philadelphia, st. Louis, New Orleans,
Hartford. New Haven, Seattle, San Fran
cisco, Les Angeles. ST. Paul, Denver,
Chicago and Cincinnati This movement.
which shows keen appreciation of the
value of beauty, Is not confined 10 the
United States. It appears TO be q wave
that has spread over the world. London
is spending millions in building the Vic
toria memorial. with extended approaches,
formal parks and architectural surround
ings, in cutting new streets ana WIDEN
ing old streets. Paris. having spent two
hundred and sixty-five million dollars on
the Haussmann plans is now contem-
plating an expenditure Of two hundred
and thirty-six million dollars on new ar
tistic improver2 ents. Rome, Berlin, Wen
ma and other European cities are eXpend-
ing vast sums in beautifying their cities.
Australia, Japan and Johannesburg have
commissions artists studying schemes
for the artistic growth Of their cities
The original idea was 10 keep open the
vistas down the long streets that led TO
the Capitol and the White House that
those buildings might be seen in he dis
lance from many directions. This was
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a final kick that sent it crashing against
the desk.
Old man Cannon beamed approNinsly no
the peachy boy and he came around from
behind the desk and picked up the VaIse.
Then he turned to lack ana some of the
other hands who had strolled over from
the station just to see what the new COW
puncher in town was going to do and
remarked:
This sure looks like a right peeart
ki-oodle of boy when ne amt got none
o. that mizzable Brazos alfalfa juice
under his surcingle. hey?
And the hands al agreed with old man
Cannon that the newcomer behaved IKE
he was consid able on the right side.
"Yee-ow. I'm son OF a night-herdin
grave robber. and | on'y work when II s
black. yawnin' dark, burn my Happy
ears.' sung out our towhead after he q
seen his glazed bag duly deposited bennd
the hotel desk by benign old man Cannon
Come on, y pasty faced pill-swlzzlers.
anil we'll gulp somethin' raw an burn
in.'
From a canvas bag tucked In the chest
of his flannel shirt he pulled out wad
of yellow money nigh as big as an Ara
pahoe papoose.
"Nuthin' but pizen liquid flame is a
goin' t. make any kind O. hit with me.
blaze my eyebafs," he yipped. and he
took the ziSZag r-ute for IT and led the
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AMBASSADORS
JJ.JUSSERAND
OF FRANCE
Will SPEAK M HONOR
OF.IENFAMT

the states This gave sixteen streets that
led to the Capitol. For miles down any
Of these streets the dome OF the Capitol
has been visible ever since its erection
The grandeur of it's architecture arising
from it's hilltop and visible above sur
rounding objects impresses all who cross
one of these sixteen streets and glance
toward the hill. This view of the Cap
itol is the best known picture In Amer
lea. 1t deserves it's renown.
The streets were laid out wondrous
broad The hills of Maryland rolled away
to the north and east. The Potomac lay
placidIy TO the west, with level stretches
bordering it. A level plain leading from
the Capitol to the Potomac was even then
set aside by L'Enfant as Mall, and It
was his idea that here should be grouped
the government buildings on either side
of great avenue. Here again was the
architect century ahead of his time, for
now the government is coming back TO
his original and realizing that all that
has been done rot in accordance with II
has been wrong. Likewise did LEnfant
face the Capitol to the west with the
idea that the city would grow in that d.
rection, but the architects who came
after him sneered at the idea of the city
taking to the fats when the rolling hills
to the east offered such superior building
sites. SO they faced the Capitol TO the
east and today II stands with its back
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door to the city which insisted on grow.
ing in the direction that L'Enfant said ir
would
But LEnfant had his rivals and ee-
tractors as we'll as his weakness. He was
as cratic as are most great geniuses. be
tween his enemies and his weaknesses ne
was eventually discharged by the govern
rnent There was a very material difference
in his opinion and that Of the government
when settling time came. Through all the
wears Of his extreme age he was pushing
a claim against the government for money
held 10 he due 10 him for service rendered
In the end he was III want IN his old age
Mr.. Thomas Atwood RIGGS and Mr.. WI
liam Dudley Diggs. landed gentlemen Nv
ing near Washington. took him TO their
country homes and maintained him until
he died In 1925. His former grave was
on the land of William Dudley Digs.
And just now the pendulum of approval
is swinging back to the l. Enfant plan
1t was a decade ago that the government
appointed a park commission to report
upon the tendencies Of the development
Of the city Of Washington. On this COM
mission were the greatest authorities that
the nation boosted. 1t consisted OF
Charles F. Mckim, architect, man hon
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mustache was gone His tallowy hair
was tousled around his damp forehead.
He looked taller and hussier to us IMAM
he had seemed with his spike-taiied coat
on Underneath the sleeves of his shirt
anybody could see that he had pair OF
sure-enough arms on him. even II tney
were gym-trained arms.
In his right hand he was carrying
a black glazed bag such as cowpunch-
ers used to affect on their travels
When he got to the car door. stun
bowling like a Navajo full OF mescal.
he threw his glazed bag with all his
might right into the middle of the
crowd Of hands standing around the
platform.
The bag struck lack Padget, one Of
our men, in the chest and came near
knocking him down. lack picked up
the bag and grinned.
"Yee-ow." yelled this apparition-he
was some apparition to Andy and me,
you can gamble the case note. zee
ow! Gimme path! I'm SO plumb full
o loco weed that I'm a-swervin. Gin
me a path, Yee-oW.
Andy and 1 felt twenty-seven pounds
lighter than the forequarters OF a
prairie dog; that's about how light
Andy and / felt.
Gimme that grip, y skunk" bawled
our pinky boy. lurching up to our man
lack Padget-and I'll just mention
here that lack was whole lot vicious
when 1t came his turn to be that way.
and with the words he plumb knocked
lacks hat into the gravel. lack picked
the hat up and laughed
You sure have strayed long piece
from the reservation, eh hombrey%
said lack good naturedly. to our howl
ing towhead.
.Yee-ow." bawled the youngster from
New York who was going TO be our
guest The iron what branded me
was het in the Goals o Perdition-yee-
owl
The hands, standing around and
and indulgent
some Injun. that boy-Injun right"
they said to one anoth& Looks like
a albright boy. at that, when tn juice
amt a-purhn' in him.
I'm sassy hussy from Hell-rr-
Sartain crick, and the roper what gifts
a loop over me has got t wear more
horns than hairs" howled our peachy
hoy from New York: and then he
started to kick his glazed bag to the
hotel across the street.
lack Padget. our map--the most
dangerous man. as I'm telling you, that
we had when the situation got what
YOU might call right close-Zack stopped
ia nick up the grip and carry 1t for
the new ARRIVAL
.Y' might dent up y'r gear that-a-
way, ombrey, remarked Jack indul-
gently. in picking up the bag.
Rang went one Of the toWhead 8
guns and the bullet hit the valise
only about four inches from where
lack had hold Of the handle
"I.esgo O. that, y spawned coyoter
hawled our son of millionaire from
New York. This yere is my game O.
feet BALI!
And when lack dropped the bag still
srtnning. the ptnky boy finished kicking
h. grip across thc dusty road and across
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ored in this country and abroad, acknowl-
edged to be the absolute leader OF his
profession; Augustus Saint Gaudens.
sculptor, the greatest artist that America
has ever produced: D. II. Burnham. an
eminent authority upon city development,
and Frederick Law Olmsted, who has
had a hand In fashioning all the great
pa rlls in the nation.
These men labored long on the problem
Of making Washington the city beautl-
full. In the end they reported that the
plan proposed by L'Enfant In 1890 was
not to be improved upon. The plan laid
down then was the plan that should be
followed today. century of growth.
century of experience, a. century OF study
ing the problems in hand had not de-
veloped an idea that was an Improve
rnent upon the original plan of the father
Of the city.
It was in 1902 that this report was
made 1t awakened the whole nation 70
an Improvement of cities. To indicate
the magnitude of this movement 1t may
be we'll to mention among the cities
and towns which have taken active steps
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The Order of Templars.

The order of the Templar was organized
about the year Ills FOR the purpose or
protecting pilgrims on their way 10 the
Holy Land ard back. says the Detroit
Free Press The founder OF the order 10
supposed TO have been Baldwin IL. Kin 9
of Jerusalem, For a long time the Tenn
plars was the most highly honored organ
ization in Europe. but jealousy on the
part of the sovereigns coupled with their
desire to get hold of the great wealth OF
the Templars. caused the persecution OF
the order. which finally (about 13os) re-
suited i'm its practical extinction. THIS
order was abolished in 1872.
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way up to the bar. the boys all falling
in behind.
I'd kind o. like I see that boy in the
bunk-house o. old Circle-Z,' Zack PaGget
remarked approvingly TO thu other hands
as they went along. Acts a heap like
he's got tn right kind o gizzards an
trmmn's.''
The towhead blew the gang about
dozen times and by that time he was
four aces with every cowpuncner IN
Buena Ventura. The more riotoaN ne Gol
them while standing up at the bar the
better they liked him.
After a while all hands concluded tnat
il would be about the right thing 10 dance
that drummer some more, and so com
nlittee of six. headed by the peacny boy
numbered upstairs and broke in the drum
mer's door. They yankeG him down 10
the barroGm and danced him nice ana
pleasant for about half an hour. the tow
head. that we figured would have to stand
for a lot of that sort OF thing. hlnSel
acting as master OF ceremonies. Ihen
they stuck the drummer up on another
shelf and started out In a compact bunch
TO make the rounds.
Don't you lamb ropers down this-a-
way never shoot up town none? de-
manded our pinky boy as they started
out.
There was a note of reproaeh in his
tone that sort O. shamed the boys ana
nut them on their mettle
well" sheepishly replied lack Padget,
Eve haint SHOT 'er up none f'r bout SIX
months now. and so L reckon fday
about tn day
The suggestion went win Wiio o1i';
All the boys hoped their cayuses anu
cne was got out of old man Gannon's shed
ior the newcomer. .
They talk about that day yet out In
Bucna Ventura. those that were ,iTre
when 1t happened. If there was one pane
Of glass left in that town when the sun
went down it wasn't reported Inc toWn
was IN n cloud of cayuSe- kicked ous'
al dag. and nary cowpunche,Tr h lnou i,st
Of disrnounting to liquor up Tney Jus,
rod in and alongside the bars anu
drank and then gave their causes the
spurs and shot out again. hoWlins.
Going in face foremost wasn't action
enough for our pinky boy. He backed his
horse into every rum shack in town. anu
every time he got by with the stunt the
boys gave him whoop. he was All
kinds of a horseman, even ii lie was
academv-trained and hunt finished
Along toward shutdown he seemed nKe
he was all in. and the boys anectonately
picked him up and packed hlm OF 10
bed in the best room of the Lone star
that old man Cannon mad set aSioe ioi
him.
And I'm wantin' you all t know that
this yere's a albright ombrey' Ahoy
and / heard them say to each otner as
they stripped the towhead for bed
After they'd got him to bed, all snug
and comfortable, and then had gone on
and scattered around town TO VINO uP .Ile
day Andy and / borrowed old man Can
mons fountain pen and scripoied our
checks and went up to the peachy KID
room TO pay our bets. - -
He'd won the bets on the bit, in way
of speaking-that is. he'd come ip all
alone, leaving Andy and me hun down
in the stretch.
You See. II at night in the billiard
room at his Jaws home in Sew York