Show SM SAM HOUSTON AND ELIZA ALLEN this Is a love story with a strange ending many of its facts are shrouded in mystery and will never be known A hundred guesses have been made in explanation of its hidden incidents ci el dut but the full truth remains forever in the graves of the man and woman who enacted the unusual little drama sam houston pioneer and son of a pioneer had been intended tor for a storekeeper ile he had bad a soul for adventure and loathed mercantile life so as a boy ho be ran away to the indians was adopted by them and learned front from the tribesmen all the wondrous art of the wilderness when the war of 1812 broke out houston was not yet 20 yet he ought fought with a reckless courage that won him many wounds not a little glory glary and the lifelong affection ot of andrew jackson under whom he served the war over he studied law and rose rapidly in political rank from district attorney to congressman and within nine years to the governorship of tennessee A splendid future seemed to stretch before him ile he was the idol of the southwest ile he was tho the friend of president jackson who never forgot a friend ile he was waa A man of young handsome destiny brilliant the presidency itself seemed almost with in his reach the world was at his feet ready to do his bidding not a public character in america had brighter prospects than sam houston ile he was spoken of as aman of destiny then came the love affair that changed his whole life while he was governor of tennessee houston met miss ellza eliza allen alien the beautiful daughter of a rich nashville man miss allen alien was local social queen and was the acknowledged belle of that part of tennessee houston simple direct honest was quite captivated by the girls dazzling charm all and d became her devoted adorer she had bad many suitors more polished and better versed in the ways of the world than was the sturdy young statesman soldier who governed the state yet to the tha surprise of more than one of her ber friends she listened to houstons Hous tons ardent wooing and soon became engaged to ta him whether miss aless allen alien really loved houston or merely saw how bow splendid ii a future seemed to ue lie lievore him Is not known at any rate sho she married him amid such imposing as the little frontier city could muster with so BO lovely and ambitious a wife people predicted houstons Hous tons star would mould rise to unequaled height then something happened noone no one knows what but shortly after the tha wedding the whole state was scandalized to learn that bride and groom had separated not as the result of a petty lovers quarrel that could bo be readily patched up but that they had parted forever neither hou houston 8 ton nor n or hla his wife would tell what had caused the sudden break in their supposedly happy relationship hut but while the bride ret returned arned to her fathers house houston resigned his governorship gave up his hard won honors and golden n prospects and left tennessee ills hla fr friends argued argued pleaded and stormed in vain ile he was wag set on throwing away his future and would not melleven tell tel leven even his most intimate frienda why he did so the secret of houston houstons Hous tons a s separation ep from his wife remained a mystery and remains so BO to this day that the cause was terribly serious may be judged by the fact act becomes become an that at ho he not only indian abandoned h b I 1 a career but turned his back on civilization as well journeying to arkansas he joined the cherokee indians indiana donning pant raint and blanket living among the savages for years as a member of 0 their tribe and refusing to go bade back to his own people or to regard himself as anything but an indian yet to houstons Hous tons parting from his wife the united states owes ther annexation of tex texas for in time houston left the indians and plunged into the warfare the american settlers sett lera were waging to wrest texas from mexico he treed freed texas und and made a republic being chosen as its first president then he arranged tion ot of tho the new republic to the united states and was elected governor ot ol the state of 0 texas meantime he had married again and his second wedded life Is said to have been very happy lle ho fought bitterly against the secession of his state when the civil war wai began and tor for his flere fierce loyalty to the union was deposed from office when the secession of texas was wa announced and his own son entered the confederate army houston said tc his wife my heart la is broken tac years later he died his last word being tho the name of the beloved state he had bad built up and so governed and which had at the last a deposed him SO W |