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THE COST.

The first of it I distinctly recall was after a children's party at our house. Carlotta singled out Mrs. Burbank for enthusiastic commendation. "The other women sent nurses with their children," said she, "but Mrs. Burb?nlc carae herself. She was so sweet iu apologizing for coming. She said she hadn't any nurse, and that she was so timid about her children that she never could bring herself to trust them to nurses. And really, Harvey, you. don't know how nice she was all the afternoon. She's the kind of mother il approve of, the kind I try to be. Don't you admire her?" "I don't know her," said I. "The only time I met her she struck me aa fcehiK well, rather silent."

"That's it," she exclaimed triumphantly. "She doesn't care a rap for men. She's absorbed in her children and her husband." Then, after a "pause, she added: "Well, she's welcome to him. I can't see what she finds to care for." "Why?" said I. ' "Oh, he's ditinuisb.ed-lookin;sr. and polite, offensively polite to womenlie doesn't understand them at all thinks they like deference and flattery, 1 he low-grade molasses kind of flatteryHo has a very nice smile. But lie's so stilted . and tiresome, always r... 4 r. i ? . Vi rt nftpftt It's -mViot

rl IKJlln, l.Li'J nu IL c. )AJOC. L- O Wild. I call the presidential pose. No doubt he'll be President some day." "Why?" said I. It is amusing to watch woman fumble about for rea rons for her Intuitions. CarloCtat Hid uncommonly well. "Oh, J don't' know. ' He's the sort of highaveraged American that the people go crazy about. He he looks like a '.President, that sort of solemn no-sense-of-humor, Sunday look, you J; now what I mean. Anyhow, .he's goIns to be President." I thought not. A few days later, vrhfle what Carlotta. had said was Jreah ln'rmy mind, he overtook me walking: to the capitol. As we went on together, I was smiling to myself. He certainly did look and talk like a

President. He was of the average height, of the average built, and of a wrt of average facial mold; he had hair ' that was a compromise among the average shades of brown, gray, and black, with a bald spot just where most men have it. ' His pose I saw that Carlotta was shrewdly, right. . He was1 acutely selfconscious, and was acting his pose every instant. He had selected it early In life; he would wTear it, even In his nightshirt, until death. He said nothing brilliant, but neither did he pay anything that would not have been generally regarded as sound and sensible. .Ills imnxessive manner of de

livering nis words made one overvalue the freight they carried. But I

poon found, for I studied him with in-; slje3 state that meant his election.

I had no yearning for puppetshlp, however exalted the title or sonorous the fame; but to be the power that selects the king-puppet of the political puppet-hierarchy, to be the power that selects and rules him, that was the logical development of my career. In Burbank I thought I had found a man worthy to wear the puppet robes, one who would glory in them. He, like most of the other ambitious men I have known, cared little who was behind the throne, provided he himself was seated upon it, the crown on his head and the crowds tossing the hats that shelter their dim-thinking brains. Also, in addition to magnetism and presence, he had dexterity and distinction and as much docility as can be expected in a man big enough to use for important work. In September I gave him our party nomination for eovernor. In our one-

creafing interest, thanks to my new point of view upon him, I soon found that he had one quality the reverse of commonplace. He had magnetism. Whenever a new candidate was proposed for Mazarin's service, he used to ask, first of all, "Has he luck?" My first question has been, "Has he magnetism?" and I think mine is the better measure. Such of one's luck as is not the blundering blindness of one's opponents is usually the result of one's magnetism. However, it is about the most dangerous of the free, gifts of nature, which are all dangerous. Burbank's merit lay in his discreet use of it. It compelled men to center upon him; he turned this to his advantage by making them feel, not how he shone, but how they shone. They went away liking him because they had ' new reasons for being in love with themselves. I found only two serious weaknesses. The first was that he lacked the moral courage boldly to do either right or wrong. That explained why, In spite of his talents for impressing people both privately and from the platform, he was at the end of his political career. The second weakness was that he was ashamed of his

very obscure and humble origin. Hel . ... , t 1. 1 1 9 l

Knewtnatnis nein? wncuy seu-mau was a matchless political asset, and he used it accordingly. But he looked

As 1 had put him into the governorship not so much for use there as for use thereafter, it was necessary to pAtect him from my combine, which had destroyed his two immediate predecessors by over-use they had become so unpopular that their political careers ended with their terms. Protect him I must, though the task would be neither easy nor pleasant. It involved a collision with my clients a square test of strength between us. What was to me far more re

pellent, it involved my personally tak-1

ing a hand in that part of my political work which I had hitherto left to Woodruff and hi3 lieutenants. One does not in person chase and catch and kill and dress and serve the chicken he has for dinner; he orders chicken, and hears and thinks no more about it until it is served. Thus, all the highly disagreeable part of unpolitical work was done by others; Woodruff, admirably capable and most careful to spare my feelings, received the demands of my clients from their lawyers and transmitted them to the party leaders in tiie legislature with the instructions how the machinery was to be used in making them into law. As I was financing the machine of both parties, his task was not difficult, though delicate. , - But now that I began to look over

on it somewhat as the beggar looks on" Woodruff's legislative programme in

the deformity he exhibits to get alms. Neither weakness made him less valuable to my purpose, the first one. if anything, increased his value. I wanted an instrument that was capable, but strong only when I used it. I wanted a man suitable for development first into governor of my state, and then into a President. I could not hate ' got the presidency for myself, but neither did I want it. My longings were all for power, the reality, not the shadow. In a republic the man

who has the real power must be out

of view. If he is within view, a mil

lion hands stretch to drag him from the throne. He must be out of view, putting forward his puppets and changing them when the people grow bored or angry with them. And the

President in all important matters

he must obey his party, which is, after

all, simply the interests that finance

It: In unimportant matters, nis so-

called power is whittled down by the

party's leaders and workers, whose requirements may not be disregarded. He shakes the plum tree, but he does it under orders; others gather the

fruit, and he gets only the exercise

and the "honor."

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advance, I was amazed at the rapacity

of my clients, rapacious though I knew them to be. I had been thinking that the independent newspapers there were a few such, but of small circulation and influence were malignant in their attacks upon my "friends." In fact, as I soon saw. they had told only a small part of the truth. They had not found out the worst things that were done; nor had they grasped how little the legislature and the governor were doing other than the business of the big corporations,

most of it of doubtful public benefit, to speak temperately. An hour's study of the facts and I realized as never before why we are so rapldly developing a breed of multi-millionaires in this country with all the opportunities to wealth in their hands. I had only to remember that the system which ruled my own state was in full blast in every one of the states of the Union.' Everywhere, no sooner do the peopleppen or propose to open a new road into a source of wealth, than men like these clients of mine hurry to the politicians and buy the rights to set. up toll-gates and to fix their own schedule of tolls. However, the time had now come when I must assert myself. I made no radical changes in that first programme of T3urbank's term. I contented myself with cutting off the worst items, those it would have

ruined Burbank to indorse. My clients were soon grumbling, but Woodruff handled them well, placating them with excuses that soothed their annoyance to discontented silence. So ably did he manage it that not until Burbank's third year did they begin to come directly to me and complain of the way they were being "thrown down" at the capitol. Roebuck, knowing me most intimately and feeling that ,he was my author and protector, was frankly insistent. "We got almost nothing at the last session," he protested, "and this winter Woodruff tells me we mav not get the only thing we're asking." I was ready for him, as I was for each of the ten. I took out the list of measures passed or killed at the last session in the iDterest of the Power Trust. It contained 78 items, 34 of them passed. I handed it to him. "Yes a few things," he admitted "but all trifles!" "That little amendment to the Waterways law must alone have netted you three or four millions already." "Nothing like that. Nothing like that." "I can organize a company within 24 hours that will pay you four millions in cash for the right, and stock besides." He did not take up my offer. "You have already had 13 matters attended to this winter." I pursued. "The one that can be done Really, Mr. Roebuck, the whole state knows that the trustees of the Waukeegan Christian University are your dummies. It would be insanity for the party to turn over a hundred thousand acres of public land gratis to them, so that they can presently sell it to you for a song." He reddened. "Newspaper scandal!" he blustered, but changed the subject as soon as he had shown me and rerhown himself that his" motives were pure. I saw that Burbank's last winter was to be crucial. My clients were clamorous, and were hinting at all sorts of dire doings if they were not treated better. Roebuck was questioning, in the most malignantly friendly manner, "wfcether, after all, Harvey, the combine isn't a mistake, and the old way wasn't the best." On the other hand Burbank was becoming restless. He had so cleverly taken advantage of the chances to do popular things, which I had either made for him or pointed out to him. that he had become something of a national figure.; When he got SI votes for the presidential nomination in our party's national convention his brain was dizzied. Now he was in a tremor lest my client!! should demand of. him thines that .would diminish-or ptroy

this sapling popularly wmcn, in in a dreams, he already saw grown into a mighty tree obscuring the national heavens. I gave many and many an anxious hour to anxious thought and careful planning that summer and fail. It was only a few days before Doc Woodruff appeared at Fredonia with the winter's legislative programme that I saw my way straight to what I hoped was broad day. The programme h brought was so outrageous that it was funny. There was nothing in it for the Ramsay interests, but each of the other ten had apparently exhausted the ingenuity of its lawyers in concocting demands that would have wrecked forever the party granting them." "Our friends are modest," said I. "They've gone clea.n crazy," replied Woodruff. "And If you could have heard them talk! It's impossible to make them see that anybody has any rights but themselves." "Well, let me have the details." said T. "Explain every item on this list: iell me just what it means, and just how the lawyers propose to disguise it so the people won't catch on." When he had finished I divided the demands into three classes the lm possible, the possible, and the prac tlcable. "Strike out all the impossible." I directed. "Cut down the possible to the ten that are least outrageous. Those ten and the practicable must be passed." He read off the ten which were be-

jond the limits of prudence, but not Tijob-and-hanging matters. "We can Tiass them, of course," was his comment. "We could pass a law ordering the state house burned, but " "Precisely," said I. "I think the consequences will be interesting." I cross-marked the five worst of the ten possibilities. "Save those until the last weeks of the session." Early in the session Woodruff began to push the five least tad of the bad measures on to the calendar of the legislature, one by one. ,When the third was introduced, Burbank took the limited for Washington. He arrived in time to join my wife and my little daughter Frances and me at breakfast. He was so white and sunken-eyed and his hands were so unsteady that Frances tried in vain to take her solemn, wondering, pitying gaze from his face. As soon as my study door closed behind us, he burst out, striding up and down. "I don't know what to think, Sayler," he cried. "I don't know what to think! The demands of these corporations nave been growing, growing, growing! And now Ycu have seen the calendar?" "Yes," said I. "Some of the bills are pretty stiff, aren't they? But the boys tell me they're for our best friends, and that they're all necessary." "No doubt, no doubt," he replied, "but it will be impossible to reconcile the people." Suddenly he turned on me, his eyes full of fear and suspicion. "Have you laid a plot to ruin me, Sayler? It certainly looks that way. Have

"Governor!" and He Laughed In Wild Derision. you a secret ambition for the presidency " "Don't talk rubbish, James," I Interrupted. Those few meaningless votes In the national convention had addled his common sense. "Sit down calm yourself tell me all about it." He seated himself and ran his fingers through his wet hair that was being so rapidly thinned and whitened by the struggles and anxieties of his ambition. "My God!" he cried out, "how I am punished! When I started in my public career, I looked forward and saw just this time when I should be the helpless tool in the hand3 of thte power I sold myself to. 'Governor!" He almost shouted the word rising and pacing the. floor again. "Governor!" and he Jaughed In wild derision. I watched him, fascinated. I, too, at the outset of my career, had looked forward, and had seen the same peril, but I had avoided it. Wretched figure that he was! what more wretched, more pitiable than a man groveling and moaning in the mire of his own self-contempt? "Governor!" I said to myself, as I saw awful thoughts flitting like demons of despair across his face, and I shuddered, and pitied, and rejoiced shuddered at the narrowness of my own escape; pitied the men who seemed myself as I might have been; and rejoiced that I had had my mother with me and in nie to impel me into another course. "Come, come, Burbank," said I, "you're not yourself; you've lost sleep " "Sleep!" he interrupted, "I have not closed my eyes since I read those cursed bills." "Tell me what you wtit done," was my suggstion. "I'll help is any --ay I can any way that's practicable." "Oh, I understand your position, Sayler." he answered, when he had got control of himself again, "but I see plainly that the time has come when the power that rules me that rules us both has decided to use me to my own destruction. If I refuse to do these things, it will destroy me ?nd a hundred are eager to come forward and take my place. If I do these things the people will destroy me and neither Is that of the smallest importance to. our master.".

At the Theaters

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IS NOT SO IN RICHMOND.

Prof. W. S. Hiser has prepared figures showing that Indianapolis has a spirit of giving which would be of great benefit to the local Y. M. C. A. movement if Richmond would follow. A number have said that Indianapolis has not given any more in proportion to her wealth than has Richmond, but Mr. Hiser's figures seem to show otherwise. They follow: Indianapolis Y. M. C. A., 1007 $27".000 pledged; $2."r0.fK wanted; ?2:J,XX more than expected. Indianapolis Y. W. C. A., March, 1907 110,000 pledged; ?10O.nH wanted; $40,000 more than expected. Indianapolis Butler university, March 1007 ?253,0OO pledged; $250,000 wanted; $3,000 more than expected, $000,000 pledged; $G0O,Ot.sO wanted; $00,000 more than expected. Indianapolis Technical institute, (within last two years) $513,000 pledged; $500,000 wanted; $13,000 more than expected. Totals $1,179,000 pledged; $l,10O,000' wanted; $79,000 more than expected.

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