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AS tlic Governor rode past my
grandmother's house on the
spring morning when lie left the
Stun' forever he wore Ills uniforiu ami
carried the sword with which he after
wards leil the charge nt San Jacinto.
11' was a tall mini, broad-shouldered
iiinl well-knit, with a certain graceful
tslateliuess which, though he hail it by
nature, he hail not left uncultivated. It
was held In lliose days to be a mark of
the person of uallty, nail from the
lime when us a boy of 10 he had lain
on the puncheon floor of his father's
cabin spelling out Pope's l'.hul by tlis
light of a pine knot, the Governor had
always felt himself a person of quality.
My grnudinothor was on the porch as
lie passed and he bowed low to her,
ceremoniously dotting his hat, as he al
ways did to ladies. It was 4 he last time
she ever saw him, and though she had
beeu his warmest frieud, he kept his
own counsel with her as with every
one else.
To the day of his death, he never ex
plained hlinse'.f. "Sir," he would say,
In response to every attempt to draw
hi in out, "let us speak of something
else." And the bow villi which he said
It was conclusive. When he had just
reached the summit of what had been
his ambition; when he was Governor
of what was then the pivotal State of
the Vulon, with the Presidency as a
pcssiblllty for him, and the United
St ites Semite for life a certainty, why
It was that he chose to dress himself
In his uniforiu and ride out into the
wl'derness beyond the J ississlppl,
nerer to return, ills biographers have
no! been able to explain except In
vague generalities. How my grand
m it her knew the story I cannot say,
further than that she was the friend
not only of the Governor himself, but
f Virginia r'ra.er and of John Kudi
eott, the Governor's private secretary,
wlm made the trouble between them.
"It Is true, my dear," said my grand
mother to me, "that Kudieott was n
Yankee and an impecunious school
teacher, but lie was a Harvard grad
uate and a gentleman. The Kndicotts
are an excellent family almost as good
4is our own, or as Virginia's. And t lie
Governor, you know, though one of the
best bred men I ever saw, lacked the
great advantage of descent from well
bred people."
Those who conc'.ude from this that
my grandmother was something of a
Tory will nut be wholly mistaken, but
If they had known the charming o'.d
lady us we'.l as I they would forgive her
as easily as I do, even though which
Is not likely they are as radical In
their politics as 1 am thought to be by
mime.
The Governor's honeymoon was bare
ly over when lie left the State. The
fact of his resignation, which ho had
addressed In due form to the presiding
olllcor of the Senate, was not generally
known until he was IHHI mile away,
hilling In n Cherokee cabin, smoking
an Indian pipe, as silent and Impassive
ns any other savage of those around
lilni. For that was undoubtedly his
Idea nt the time 4o renounce civilization
forever unit live a barbarian among
barbarians.
Mm. Krazer, Virginia's mother, was n
famous match-maker and one of the
Governor's stnuuehest partisans. "If
lie was born lu n cabin," she said to
my grandfather a few days before the
wedding, "he has more brains than nny
other man In the State. I expect to see
It I in President yet
With visions of Virginia in the White
House and herself as the power behind
the throne, she was correspondingly
elated on the night of the wedding. It
Is no part of iny purpose to attempt to
ilescriue tier reelings when the cntiis
trophe came ami she found herself
face to face with the elliunx of one of
those tragedies which compel silence
In nil who are Incapable of reslgtwi
tion.
When Kudieott first met Virginia
r ruier ne was not more man ;:,, very
handsome, and with nil unassuming
self-possession which made nmeuds for
his luck of the oeremouloua courtesy
habitual to the society Into which he
wait thrown. There hud been a umrkd
attraction between him and Virginia
from their first acquaintance, and Dine
who did not know her mother expectvd
It to be a match. I!ut Virginia, before
any one knew of her engagement to the
Governor, hail begun to hold Kudieott
at arm's length, and after the climax
there was never the slightest scandal
connecting her name with his.
She was not more than 'M at the time
of her marriage. Six weeks later, when
she stood before the fireplace of her
sitting-room as the Governor entered
nt 11 o'clock at night, she wore the
niuslln whose contrasting whiteness
had so heightened her brunette beauty
on the day after her marriage. The
Governor had just come from a con
ference of his political friends and was
Hushed and hopeful. His wife did uot
move ns he entered the room. Her
face was half averted when, with Ins
usual impressive gallantry, he took off
his hat at the door and crossed the
room to kiss her hand. He had taken It
In his and his lips had almost touched
It when she hastily almost violently
withdrew It. Slipping past him, she
stood in the center of the room facing
him as lie turned, not understanding
her at all and thinking that she had
begun to develop an unaccustomed
playfulness.
She did not leave him long In error.
"Do not toucn me!" she said In a voice
which, though It trembled wMli excite
ment, showed the decisiveness of long
premeditation. "Do not touch me. I
cannot bear it."
The Governor stood motionless, with
the puzzled look of one whose Intellect
is overcome. She might have pitied
him nud receded had she beeu callable
either of seeing or understanding, but
she had liecome a mere automaton,
governed by long-suppressed emotion.
"I cannot bear it!" she repeated. "I
do not love you. I have never loved
you. I have tried to learn. I cannot.
I have tried to become a true and duti
ful wife to you. I cannot. I have tried
to forget the only man I ever loved. I
cannot. There must be an end of It all,
and it must come now!"
"Virginia!" said the Governor, help
lessly. "Virginia "
"Do not stop me!" she went on, with
Increasing rapidity. "I am not Insnne,
though I am near It. I am a good wom
an, sir. At leant, I have nothing with
which to reproach myself, except the
shame of having allowed them to make
you believe I love you. It was all my
mother's fault and yours. Why did
you follow me? Why did she force me
on you, when I did not love you, when
never can love yon; when I have
ceased to wish to love you?"
She paused a moment for breath. The
Governor did not move. He had leaned
his e'.bow on the mantel, and now, with
fallen around her face. As yet the
Governor's mind hud assimilated hard
ly auything of what she had said. It
had come upon him a supreme calamity
at the climax of his good fortune. He
seemed to himself to have died sud
denly and to he striving to wake to
consciousness in another world. The
one idea which shaped itself clearly in
the chaos of his brain was tint his wife
had never been so splendidly beautiful
ns now, when she stood with head
thrown back and flashing eyes, lifted
above herself by the stress of such an
effort as no one person ever makes
twice in a lifetime, as very few ever
make at nil. A moment later, over
come by Hie inevitable reaction, she
had rushed sobbing from the room,
leaving the Governor still standing at
the mantel. Immovable, ns he had stood
since she began.
He had made no attempt to follow
her. She had gone only a few minutes
wheu he stood upright, threw back his
shoulders, walked twice up and down
the room and then took his seat before
a writing desk, drawn close to a win
dow overlooking the river. Settling
down in the chair with his elbows on
lis anus nud Ins hands locked across
his breast, he looked steadily out of
the window, motionless, ns the clock
on the mantel struck the hours, one
nfter another, until the small, square
window panes began to grow luminous
with the dawn. Then he rose, and un
locking a drawer in the lower part of
his desk, took out a mahogany box
with silver-mounted corners and a
heavy silver plate in the center oi Hie
lid. He unlocked it deliberately, nnd,
taking from It a pair of the long blue
steel dueling pistols of the period,
tried the lot ..i of both, nnd then look
ing nt them, snld aloud;
"They are the ones Kenton gave nie
'The same, sir, I had the misfortune to
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his hand supporting his chin, he stood
looking nt her blankly.
"I will not be stopped," she said,
intehlng her breath with a sob. "I will
tell you everything, everything, the
whole miserable truth that Is killing
me. I love John Kudieott. I have never
loved anyone else. I never will. He
does not know It, and ho never, can
know K. unless you tell him. Now you
know what a wretch I nm, and you
kuow what you have done to make me
so."
As she stopped she drew herself up
and threw back her long black hair,
which had escaped from her comb .!
be obliged to use In my difficulty with
my much-ref,pected frieud, Gen. Jack
son." '
Before be had concluded his uncon
scious mimicry of Kenton's presenta
tion speech he recognized the fact that
he had caught the solemn pomp of that
statesman's carefully-modulated peri
ods. The Incongruity of the idea grew
uion him, and as he turned one of the
pistols over nud over in his hand he
almost smiled at the u'ter lack of log
ical sequence In his own mental
processes. Simultaneously 'he seemed
to have reached a conclusion, for he
replaced the pistols nnd locked the case.
"No," he said, "I will not do It. Ho Is
a good boy and It Is not his fault nor
hers either. She Is ns good a woman as
ever lived, and I am a fool."
He spoke now with the decisiveness
he had shown nt Horseshoe Bend,
where, as everyone knows. (Jen. .Tuelr.
son had called him the bravest man In
the army, lie was almost cheerful ns
he rose nud left the house, walking
towards the bluffs, ns was his morning
muni, wuii tue light, swinging step lie
hud learned ou the trail with the Che
rokee friends of his boyhood. He did
not return until 11 o'clock, nnd goit-g
straight to his ollice he found John
Kudieott, his secretary, waltlm? fur him
with a formidable bundle of papers.
l so your own Judgment, my boy, ou
nil that will not keep until to-morrow.
I nm busy to-day with work that .au
uot wait."
He passed Into his Inner rooms ns he
said this, and began sorting the papers
In his private pigeonholes. Kudieott
could hear hi in tearing them, but If he
wondered, he nskod uo questions, nnd
the Governor kept up his work long
nfter his usual dinner hour. When he
went home he found what he had ex
pected. Ills wife had gone to her
mother, nnd he never saw her again.
It Is said he wrote her a most affec
tionate letter, but if he did, nothing he
said in It changed the course of his life
or hers. "Xonseuse. Ills heart did not
break." said my grandmother. Why.
all the world heard of him nt San Ja
cinto. A brave man's heart never
breaks while he has work to do."
Perhaps she was right. At any rate
there was uo tremor In the Governor's
voice as he spoke to her that morning
riding with his horse's head turned to
ward the old Cherokee trail that led
across the Mississippi through Arkan
sas to the Iudlnn Territory.
"Hood morning, Mrs. Tupton," he
said as he bowed to my grandmother.
'It Is a beautiful day, and your roses
are almost beautiful enough to be
worthy of you."-Utioa Globe.
The Hcaann.
Kessle-Is your friend Longhair to.
lug out to play football?
Barbara-What made you thiuk so?
"Why, he's headed that wj." Yon,
ers Statesman.
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Lund! Kotal Is one of the forts nf .hp Tv-hri.l i..
prluclpiil pnsa In the mountains twpuiutliig lmlia frJ irea
AiKimuiNiuu. nerore me recent capture of tliepbnf
the hostile tribesmen It una ernrrlsniiPfl hv n mwiu J
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A BritWiCoiunlsnder. I'"1'1 by Ul I"'l'an Governniont.-Klnck and White
MADE FLOUR FOR TROOPS.
Old Mill In Cumberland Gap Which
Did Service in the Civil War.
There Is standing at Cumberland
Gap, Just across the State line from
Mlddlesboro, Ky., an historic old mill,
which during the civil war ground the
breadstuff for thousands of Confeder
ate and Federal soldiers.
The mill is located at the foot of the
famous Pinnacle mountain ou the south
side. It has an overshot wheel of the
old-fashioned kind nbout the same size
and almost a duplicate of the noted
waterwlieel which attracts so much at
tention near the entrance to the Ten
nessee centennial. The mill was built
by John Locke, who came from North
Carolina about l.SOti. The stones which
formed the foundation of the structure
were hauled from the old north state
at a cost of $1"(). Locke operated It
successfully for ninny years, and after
he had accumulated a small fortune he
built n flour mill just above It. He also
erected n carding factory and an up
right sash sawmill. All the machinery
was run by the famous enve spring of
the 1'lnnncle mountain, which gushes
Gen. George Morgan ordered Ibtq
to be fired, us lie did not wish th
remain in operation and glvesucw
the Confederacy. Accordingly ana
of men was detailed to do the lit
They bad just set lire to the Jon
mill when the Confederate bate
from the adjacent mountains op
fire on the Federal works. TheM
lost no time In getting under cora.w
ns the wind blew the tl.unes nwsjfni
the corn mill It wns saved. It ouii
been In operation for several yeinuS
may never grind again.
Origin of "Blue Blood."
The origin of the term "blueW
Is most suggestive. After the w
Moors were driven out of Spain
aristocracy of Spain was held tin
slst of those who traced their llm
back to the time before the Slw
conquest. These people were wii
than those who had been miieM
Moorish blood. The veinii upon Ifl
white hands were blue, while thetM
of the masses, contaminated bj 1
Moorish infusion, showed black H
their hnnds and faces. So the w
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out of King Solomon's cave 300 feet
above the level of the valley.
It comes from the mouutuln side a
verltuble torrent, foaming, hissing,
seething, carrying huge bowlders be
fore It and cutting a channel through
the everlasting rocks tu Its mad rush
to the valley below. This torrent, ac
cording to the estimate of mechanical
engineers, would furnish 100 horse
power, and although old man Locke
harnessed only a part of the turbulent
stream to his wheels he secured suffi
cient power to operate the machinery
for many years. At his death a few
years prior to the war John C. Newly
bought the plant and he owned It when
the. war broke out. He furnished the
Confederacy with thousands of bushels
of meal and hundreds of barrels of flour
ground by these old mills, and when
the Federal army took possession of
the Gap the same burrs made bread
stuff for L'nele Sam's men. When the
Confederates began storming the Gap
prior to the Federal forces evacuating
elare that their blood was "1
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nunc tiuu vi i Frllrl
bluck. The phrase passed to r j
wnere It had no sucu si---- .j
was, In fact, quite arbitrary. ' 1
it came to England and An-
Revlval of Old J"lr''
mi.. 1.-otrv la C0BIW
fashion again. Women are
the old curio shops, trying
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ueauiuui oiu ctuuw .-dM
years ago. iuc
Is rarely changed, the Qua'Wj
and twisted gold being consiOT
. , ... .i..i Tim old
and rings are especially J
and bring
found.
remarkable pr"
reople around a drug store oJ
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