Wallowa County chieftain., July 29, 1909, Image 5

A GENTLEMAN
FROM MISSISSIPPI
By THOMAS A. WISE
Novelized From the Play by Frederick R. Toombs
COPYRICHT. 1900. BY THOMAS A. WISE
CHAPTER XX.
THE CALL TO AMIS.
nOTH Randolph and Carolina wero
deeply affected by their father's
I 1 words.
xJ The daughter attempted to
take ou herself the blame for her broth
er' action.
"1 was the older one. 1 might have
stopped him If I bad wished and should
bear the burden."
"No, no, father," exclaimed tho
youth, his Inborn self reliance pronint
'ug uim 10 snoumer luo consequences
of bis own mistakes. "I, aud I alone,
am responsible for what I did. I did
sot realize that it was wrong. I will
not bide behind Carolina."
Carolina Langdon bore herself better
than was to have been expected under
the strain of the painful interview.
She saw more clearly now how she had
erred. She was undergoing an Inward
revolution that would make it impos
sible for her ever again to veer so far
from the line of duty to her father, her
family and to herself.
When Randolph bad finished Carolina
took up her own defense, and eloquent
ly she pleaded the defense of many a
woman who yearns for what she has
not got, for what may be beyond her
reach the defense of the woman who
chafes under the limitations of world
ly position, of sex and of opportunity.
It was the defense of an ambitious
woman.
"Perhaps I ought to have been a
man of the Langdon family," she ex
claimed. "Father, oh, enn't you un
derstand that I couldn't doze my life
away down on those plantations? You
don't know what ambition is. I bad
to have the world. 1 bud to have
money. If I had been a muu I would
have tried big financial enterprises. I
should have liked to fight for a for
tune. You wouldn't hnve condemned
me then. You might have said my
methods were bold, but If I succeeded
I would have been a great man. But
Just liecause I am a woman you think
I must sit borne with my knitting. No,
father, the world does move. Women
must have au equal chance with men,
but I wish I bad been a man!"
"Even then I hope you would have
been a gentleman," rebuked her father
sternly. "Women should have un
equal chance, Carolina. They should
have an equal chance for the same
virtues as men. not for the same
vices."
"But an equal chance," returned the
girl fervidly. "There, father, you have
admitted what I have tried to prove.
The woman with the spirit of a man,
the spirit that cries to a woman, 'Ad
vance,' 'Accomplish,' 'Be souiothln
'Strike for yourself, ennnot Bit Idly by
rhlle all the world moves on. If it is
1 - lie that I have chosen the wrong
means, the wrong way, to better my
lot I did It through Ignorance, and
"Women must have an equal chance.
that ignorance is the fault of the
times in which I live, of the system
that guides the era in which I live.
"I am what the world calls 'educat
ed,' but the world, the world of men
knows better. It lauebs at me. It has
cheated me because 1 au) a woman
The world of men has fenced me in
and hobbled me with convention, with
precedent, with fictitious sentiment
If I pursue the business of meu as
tliey themselves would pursue It I
Mi called an ungrateful duughter. If
I should adopt the morals of men I
would be called a fallen woman. If I
adopted the religion of men 1 would
uuve no rellgiou at all. Turn what
ay l will"
"But uot every woman feels the way
you do, my daughter," broke in the
senator.
"No, you are right, because their
spirit has been crushed by generations,
by ceuturles of forced subserviency to
men. They tell us we should be thank
ful that we do uot live in China, where
Women ore physical slaves to men. In
our country they are forced to be men
tal and social slaves to men. 13 oue
Very much worse than the other?"
"Then, dear." and fa father t-
was very gentle, "ir you want an equal
chance want to be equal to a man
you must take your medicine with
Randolph, like a man."
What are you going to do. slrf she
asked, afraid.
"I'm going to spoil all your little
scheme, dear," he returned, smiling
sadly. "I'm going, I fear, to make you
lose all your money. I'd like to make
it easy for you, but I can't You've
got to tuke your medicine, children,
end when It's all over back there in
Mississippi I shall be able, I hope, to
patch up your broken lives and togeth
er we will work out your mistakes. I
can't think of that uow. The honor of
the Langdous calls. This is the time
for the light, aud any one who fights
against me must take the conse
quences." He walked over and touched the bell.
"Thomas," he said to the servant
who responded, "take that letter at
once to Senator Peabody, in the libra
ry."
"What is it, sir?" asked Randolph.
"It's the call to arms," responded his
father grimly.
Senator Peabody read the letter to
which Haines had signed Langdon's
name and Jumped up from his chulr In
the library In ostoulsbment. Without
a word to the startled Stevens he rush
ed to confront Langdon.
"What's the meaning of this?" he
shouted as he burst in on the Junior
senator from Mississippi.
"Of what?" asked the southerner,
with a blandness that added fuel to
Peabody's Irritation.
"Don't trifle with me, sir!" cried "the
boss of the senate," "This letter. You
sent it. Explain it! I'm in no mood to
Joke."
I.unsdon looked at him calmly.
"I think the letter Is quite plain, sen
ator," he said. "You can read." Then
he turned to his daughter. "This dis
cussion cannot possibly interest you,
my dear. Will you go to the drawing
room to receive our guests?"
Carolina obeyed. She seemed to be
discovering new qualities In this father
whom she had considered to be too old
fashioned for his time.
"Now, senator, go ahead, and, Ran
dolph, you bring Stevens."
'You're switching to Gulf Cltyr de
manded Peabody.
"I'm considering Gulf City," agreed
Langdon.
Peabody brought down his fist on the
table.
"It's too late to consider anything,
Langdon," he cried. "We're committed
to Altucoola. nud Altacoola It is. I
don't care what you heard of Gulf
City. Now, I'd like to settle this thing
In a friendly mnnner, Langdon. J like
always for every member of the senate
to have his share of the power and the
patronuge. We've been glad to put you
forward in this naval base matter. We
appreciate the straightforwardness, the
honesty of your character. You look
well. You're the kind of politician the
public thinks It wants nowadays, but
you've been in the seuate long enough
to know that bills have to pass, and
you know you can't get through any
thing without my friends, and I tell
you uow I'll throttle any Gulf City
plan you bring up."
"Then if you ore as sure of that you
can't object to my being for Gulf
City?" asked Langdon.
"Are you financially Interested in
Gulf City?" demanded Peabody.
"Senator Peabody!" exclaimed Lang
don. "Don't flare up, Langdon," retorted
Peabody. "That sort of thing has
lmnnened In the senate. There are
often perfectly legitimate profits to be
made In some regular commercial ven
ture by a man who has inside Jnfor
matlon as to what's doing up on Capi
tol hill." r A
"Senator Peabody," asked Langdon,
"why are you so strong for Altacoola?"
The Pennsylvanian hesitated.
"Its natural advantages," he said at
last. ,
The southerner shook his head.
"Ob, that's all? Well, if natural ad
vantages are going to settle it, and
not influence, go ahead and vote, and
I'll Just bring in a minority report for
Gulf City."
"The boss of the senate' was In a
corner now.
New and Elegant
Furniture
Queensware
Glassware
AT
Taylo
rs
JOSEPH, OREGON
Same low prices that save money
for every customer and accounts
for our rapidly increasing trade.
"Confound it. Langdon, If you will
have it, I am interested in Altacoola."
Langdon nodded.
"That's all I wanted to know." he
said.
"Now you see why It's got to be
Altacoola." persisted the boss.
"I don't mind telling you, then. Sen
ator reabody," answered Langdon
calmly, "that my being for Gulf City
waa a bluff. I've been trying to draw
you out. Gulf City is a mud bank
and no more fitted to be a naval base
than Keokuk, la. Altacoola it's got
to be. for the good of the country and
the honor of Mississippi.
"And one thing more, senator. I'd
Just like to add that not a single man
connected with that committee Is go
ing to make a cent out of the deal.
You get that straight?"
CnATTEU XXI.
IF TOU CAS'T BUY A SENATOR, THREAT
EN HIM.
S"
ENATOR TEABODY was the
most surprised man in Wash
ington when he beard the Jun
ior senator from Mississippi
state that no oue was to enrich him
self out of the government paval base
project.
He heaped a mental anathema on
the head of Stevens for saddling such
a man on the senate "machine," for
Langdon would of course never had
been put on "naval affairs" (Just uow
very important to the machine) with
out the "O. K." of Stevens, who had
won a heretofore thoroughly reliable
reputation as a Judge of men, or of
what purported to lie men. The
thought that at this time, of all times,
there should be a man on the commit
tee on paval affairs that could not be
''bandied" was sufficient to make him
who reveled in the title of "boss of the
senate" determine that be must get
another chief lieutenant to replace Ste
vens, who had proved so trustworthy
in the past. Stevens had lost his cun
ning! As the vote of Langdon could not be
secured by humbug or in exchange for
favors and as it could not be "deliv
ered," Peabody, of course, was willing
to pay in actual cash for the vote,
This was the final step, but oue in po
litical conspiracies of this nature cash.
But Langdon would not take cash, bo
Peabody had to resort to the last
agency of the trained and corrupt ma
nipulator of legislation.
He would threaten.
Moreover, he knew that to make
threats effective, if It is possible to
do so, they must be led up to systemat
icallythat Is, they should be made at
the right time. The scene must be set,
as in a play.
Senator Peabody glared at Langdon
as though to convince the latter that
to stand in his way would mean polit
ical destruction,
"So nobody is going to make a cent,
eh? Well, I suppose you want all the
profits for yourself," Turning to Ste
vens, who had Just entered, the Penu
sylvanlau cried:
"Do you but listen to our suddenly
good friend Langdon. He wants to be
tba only man to make money out of
the naval base. He won't listen to any
other member of the naval committee
making a cent out of it. Why, he"-
"Great God, sir!" exclaimed Langdon.
'You are going too far, Peabody. You
state what Is false, and you know It,
you you"
"Then you are willing that others
should have their rightful share?" put
in Stevens. "Oh, I understand now.
senator."
"No, no, no!" cried Langdon. "You
do not understand. Senator Stevens,
aud I must say I am ashamed to speak
of you by the honorable title of sena
tor, sir. I will not listen to any person
enriching himself at the government
expense, and I am your enemy, you.
Peabody, and you, Stevens, beyond re
call. You both know ycu misrepresent
me."
Langdon walked over to Stevens and
faced him directly.
"Do you remember, Stevens, Lorlmer
Hawkslee, back iu wartime?"
"Yes," aald Stevens, puzzled, "I re
member him a very fine gentleman.
The old planter sneered.
"Yes, a very fine gentleman! You
remember he got rich out of contracts
for supplies furnished to the Coufed
eratc goverumeut when it wasn't any
too easy for the Confederate govern
mcnt to pay aud wbeu be was in that
Eoverument himself. I never quite
thought that the act of a gentleman,
Stevens. It seemed to me to be very
like dishonesty. I refused to apeaa
to Lorinier Hawkslee in the Carroll
hotel at VIcksburg, and when the peo-
nle there asked me why I told them,
I want to warn you, Stevens, that I'm
likely to meet you some time In the
Curroll hotel at VIcksburg.
Stevens backed away angrily. "I
catch your Insinuation, but" he re
ceived a warning glance from Pea
body and broke Into a pleasant smile
calculated to deceive the old planter
"this once I will overlook it because of
our old friendship and the old daya in
Mississippi."
"You nre a fine talker, Langdon,"
sold Peabody. coming to Stevens' res
cue, "but I can readily see what you
pre driving at. You want an Investi
gation. You think vou will catch .some
Professional Duectory of Wallowa County
; THOS. M. DILL t
. ATTOLNEY-AT-LAW j;
.', -
.. Office first door south of New '.'
j rr&iernai mag, unierprise, ure.
. I now the town drunkard. They finally
ithtt44l overcame tils opposition, but the town
BURLEIGH & BOYD j last speaker called upon. He arose
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW $iaud ': "Mr. Tonstmaster-Fifteeu
., , , ' ., years ago I bad a practice in this town
I f In all SUte Courts and J that amounted t tMW. ajt-ar I
f Interior Denartment I refill mt. ? . . . - .
teution to all business.
- - -m. .
X D. W. SHEAHAN
I LAWYER . ENTERPRISE
t Practice in state and Federal
P Couris and Interior Department.
C. T. HOCKETT. M. D.
.
rilVSICIAN AND SIMEON
Office upstairs in Bank Build
big. Ind. Home phone in office
and residence.
of us with what you reformers call
the goods,' but forget evidently the
entirely simple facts that your family
has invested in Altacoola lauds more
heavily probably than any one else
among us. You want to raise a scan
dal, do you? Well, go on and raise it,
but remember that you will have to
explain how it happened that there is
$50,000 invested In the name of your
son and $25,000 In the name of your
daughter, Miss Carolina, not to men
tion a few thousands put in by the
gentleman who, I am given to under
stand, is to be your son-in-law, Con
gressman Nortou,
"How about that, Norton?" reabody
asked, turning to the congressman,
who had followed Stevens.
"I corroberate all you've aald." re
marked Norton. "I can state positively
that Senator Langdea knew that his
"I'm likely to meet you some time in Vie
Curroll ItotrL"
money was going into Altacoola laud.
I will swear to It if necessary," aud be
glared bitterly at Carolina' father,
feeling certain that the girl would
cling to him a opposed to her parent.
Langdon made a threatening move at
the congressman
I consider my riddance of you
mighty cheap at the price," he cried.
Come, come, Langdon," fumed Pea
body, "I must get away from here to
catch the midnight train. Let's get
through with this matter. You must
realize that you cannot tight me lu
Washington. You must know that
men .call me the 'king of the senate.'
I can beat auy measure you introduce.
I can pass auy measure you want
passed. I can make you a laughing
stock or a power.
"Why, my frieud from Mississippi, 1
-an even have your election to the sen
ate contested, have a committee ap
pointed to investigate the manner of
your election, have that committee de
jlde that you bought your way into the
honorable body, the seuate of the Unit
ed Stutes, aud ou the strength of that
decision have you forfeit your sent!
What a pretty heritage to band down
to posterity such a disgrace will be!
Why, the very school chlldreu of the
future will hour about you as 'Looter
Langdon,'- aud llicir parents Ui lell
them bow particularly degrading it
was for a uiun of yo..r reputation to
drag into your dishonest' schemes your
(on, sir, aud your daughter. For who
will believe thut this money was not
put in these lauds' without your con
sent, without your direction, your or
der? Did you uot sigu the mortguge
on which this $jo,000 was raised?"
Senator Langdon waved bis hand dep
recatiugly. "I'm learning the uuder
baiided ways of you professional poli
ticians. I'm getting wise. . I'm learn
ing 'the game,' so 1 know you're bluff
big me, Peabody. But you forget that
the game of poker was Invented in
Mississippi my native state."
Pressing a button, Langdon sum
moned a servant and aald: "Sand lu
An Awful Rcbuk.
Once upon a time a certiln romtiiu
nlty planned to give a dinner to a
i Judge there. Whim the Jud.ue came to
j w an tbe list of those Invlt.d lie raided
I vigorous protest nctirisl one name,
that of a iimn who bad boon the most
brilliant lawyer In town, t ut who was
ri i, n il. Hnn Tttmnv tt'hnm I on 1.
- J . ruf-
ruiWift In i,ir..4 T I.... I .....
, - aw ..". 1141U 111 J linn
horse and carriage. At that lime the
guest of the. evening was on his way
west in an emigrant wagon. He land
ed In this town and started In to make
his living. Since then, Mr. TonMmns
ter," he cried, with a pathetic break in
his voice "since that time I have been
going steadily down, down, down, and
our guest has been going up, up, up,
until now we nre Just about on a
level."
Twenty-Five Cents ia the Price of
Peace.
T-V. t 1 1. I I, . .1
i un iciriuie uc'iing aim umui linn.
incident to cer'nln skin diseases, s
""wwai luniaiiiiT itliuj eu ujr ai't'lj Ul
inamberlRlu'e Salve. Price 23 cents
For sale by Burnnugh & Mayfleld,
Air. names. 1 guess i ve got to have
a witness for my side."
"It's no bluff." sH);e Stevens ns
Haines entered. "Peabody can and will
break you like a plpentcni: lie's done
It to other men before you who who
tried to dispute Ms power. But I'll try
to save you. I'll as't him to be mer
ciful. Yon i.re not of any Importance
in the senate. We do not need to deal
with you"
"Then why do you both spend so
much time on me?" asked Lundon In
nocently. "Why doesn't Peabody go to
Philadelphia?"
"Langdon," said Peabody, "you know
my control of the senate is no piece of i
fiction. But I will forgive your obsti
nacy, even forget it. I"
"Look here," cried Langdon, "Just
because I'm a fat mini don't think that
I can't lose my temper." lie stopped
and gazed at his two colleagues.
"Now, you two men stay still one
moment, and I'll tell you what really
''Bccuuuc I'm fat titm't think I enn't bine
mil (CHIMT."
will happen tomorrow," he exploded,
"and I'm only a beginner lu the game
that's your specialty. The naval base
is irolnir to Allociinln"
ioou:" simultaneously cried both
Peabody aud Stevens. "You're coming
In with us!"
"No, I'm not, but I'll pass the bill so
tbat nobody makes a cent, Just as I
aid I would. I'll fool you both and
make you both honest for onco in spite
5f your natural dispositions."
Stevens cud the Pennsylvania
itared at each other In disgust.
"Furthermore," continued Langdon,
'Altacooln inntii liv Hih lump liecuuxa
mm
Good Wheat Land
From $20.00 to $25.00 per acre
Will raise'from 40 to 50 bu ihela per acre. The New Era Land
Company has somo of the cheapest and best wheat land in East
' era Oregon. This Is not wiad but the actual facts. Come and
investigate it for yourself, AUo good dairy and timothy ranches
cheap, and I have some of the biggest snaps in town property
in Eastern Oiegon.
New Era Land Company
J. B. Seibert, Manager, Enterprise, Oregon
1st Door West of Slieahan's
Red Front Livery arid
Feed Stable
First Class Accommodations
Best of Hay and Grain
ON K BLOCK SOUTH OF W. A. MOSS, Proprietor
HOTEL ENTF.KPRISJS
KETCHUM
ENTERPRISE
01 Ir!and Building.
.Independent Phone,
Home
COXAWAY A CORKIXS.
A. B. Conaway. O. M. Corklns.t
LAWYERS
Enterprise, Oregon.
t E. T. ANDERSON, M. D.
! riiYSICIAN AND SIRGEON
Calls attended t day or nlht.
Ho. no phone. Enterprise, Ore.
DR. V. A. AULT t
j,
j T
rilYSlCUN AND SIRGEON
Offiru in Dunk Building.
J,
Home plioue
residence.
both office and
i ve Khown ior some tine tint CnU
?lty was Imposnl ile. Hut m-'ne irook
d senators vu''d have in nie in -'ey
If they'd known It, so they Ui.l'-'t learn
It. Altacoola, that proud rrn f .ur
jreat gr'f. v.lll have those b::tt!eshl;
floating on her I read bo--oi.i aid tUe
country will In tV letter off. r:ul n.i
will the Hoverelm state of Ml''! 1 l ,il -!od
bless It-but neither Senator I i
Dody of Pennsylvania nor Si :i!ttor Se
vens of Mississippi Is I'olnx in 1 e n .y
lietler bcauso of It. No, .mil If you
men conic to my roninilitee ioot-i nt
l'j:tO tomorrow noon you'll Invc i
-bunco to bear bow all Unit's ro:..tn-
ibout. If you nre not there I.; tlr1 1
;lmo I'll bring In a inlni'iliy nyuri in
favor of Gulf City jiiKt to f!iov y a
hat 1 know bow to play the gm.io -:hls
Washington piim;" .
"Come, let's no. We can do nothing
tvlth him," wild lYaliody to the senior
wuii tor from Mississippi.
"Well, senator, In the name vt good
ness, what are you going to do? IViv
an you win for Altacoola without let
lug these grafters make i.ioney out of
IV nsked Haines in astonishment rs
he other two walked HV.ay. "Wluil ill
tou going to do at 1'J:.".0 tomorrow?"
Ijiugdon turned to him i.nd rolled his
yes toward Ihu celling despairingly,
"I'm blamed If I Ut. lie ex
.Maimed. (Continued next week.)
Bowel Compla nt In Children,
When s'x m inths old tho lltMe
(laughter of E. N. Dewy, u well kno wn
merchmit. of Agnewvl.le, Vu., had B'l
attack of cholera Infantum. Chamber
lain's Colli:, t h ilet a a id Diarrohea
Remedy wai gl.ei and effected a
complete cure. This roinody has
proven very successful in cases of
bowel complaint In children and
when given uctordlug to the pla'. i
prlututl direct ions can be rolled upon
Willi perfect conlt leme. When reduc
ed with water ami swae'eneil It is
j pleasant to take, which Is of great
Im port mice when a medicine must bo
given to young children. For Bale
I by Duruauch & Mayflold.
GAME LAW 8.
Any person knowing of any viola
tion of the game or fish laws of tin
state, or of persons not proporl)
keeping screens over Irrigatlor
ditches, are requested to notify
JOIfl CLI5MOX3,
Deputy State Game ai)d Forwtr
W'urdon, Zumwalt, Oregon. 41lf
w. c.
DENTIST
Successor to Boswell & Son