Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 95, 22 April 1907 — Page 3

The Richmond Palladium and Sun-Telegram, Monday, Aprif 22, 1907.

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A man may lose bis own character and still surrive. and eTen go far. But If ho lose belief in character as a force, he Is damned. He coald not eurvir In a community of scoundrels. Burbank sat motionless and -with closed eyes for a long time. I watched the people In the throng of carriages hundreds of faces all turned toward him, all showing that mingled admiration, enry and awe which humanity gires its exalted treat. "The president! The presi dent!" I heard erery few yards In excited nndertonea. And hats were lifted, and once a crowd of enthusiastic partisans raised a cheer. "The president!" I thought, wtth mournful irony. And I glanced at fa Ira. Suddenly he was transformed by an expression the most frightfml I have ever seen. It was the look of a despairing, wear, Ticlons thing, cornered, glrlng battle for its life like m. fox at bay before a pack of huge dogs. It was not Burbank no. he was wholly unlike that. It was Burfcank'a ambition, interrupted at its meal by the relentless, cure-aiming fcuater, Fate. "For God's sake, Burbank!" I exclaimed. "All these people are watching ns." "To hell with them!" he ground at. T tell you. Sayler, I will be nominated! And elected too, by God! I will not be thrown aside like an emptied orange-skin. I will a'aow them that I am president." Those words, aaid by some men, in some tones, would have thrilled me. Said by him and in that tone and with that look, they made me shudder and ahriak. Neither of us spoke again. When he dropped me at my hotel we touched hands and smiled formally for appearances before the gaping, peeping, peering crowd. And as he drove away, how they cheered him the man risen high above 80.000,000, alone on the mountain-peak, in the glorious sunshine of success. The president! The next seven months were months of turmoil in the party and in the country a turmoil of which I was silent spectator, conspicuous by my silence. Burbank, the deepest passions of his nature rampant, had burst through the meshes of partisanship and the meshes of social and personal intimacies in which he, as a "good party man" and as the father of children with social aspirations and as the worshiper of wealth and respectability, was- entangled and bound down; with the desperate courage that comes from fear of destruction, ho was trying to save himself. But his only available instruments were all either Goodrich men or other kinds of machine-men: they owed nothing to him, they had nothing to fear from him a falling king is a fallen king. Every project he devised for striking down his traitor friends and making himself popular was subtly turned by his cabinet or by the senate or by the press or by all three Into something futile and ridiculous or contemptible. It was a complete demonstration of the silliness of the fiction that the president could be. an autocrat if he chose. Even had Burbank seen through the fawn-ings and the flatteries of the traitors round him, and dismissed his cabinet, whatever men he might have put into It would not have attached themselves to his lost cause, but would have used their positions to ingratiate themselves with the power that had used and exhausted and discarded him. He had the wisdom, or the timidity, to proceed always with caution and safe legality .and so to avoid impeachment and degradation. His chief attempts were, naturally, upon monopoly; they were elyly balked by his sly attorney general, and their failure was called by the press, and was believed by the people, the cause of the hard times which were just beginning to be acute. What made him such an easy victim to his lieutenants was not their craft, but the fact that he h& lort his sense of right and wrong A man of affaire may not. indeed wit not, always steer by that ceotpes? but he must have It aboard. Withoit he cairn ot know hew far off t! course he is, or how to get back to I No ship ever reached any port exce that of failure and disgrace, vale' It, in spite of all tta tackings befr the cross-winds of practical life, kr In the main to the compass aad to ti course. His last stagger was or seemed be an attempt to involve us in a with Germany. I say "seemed to 1 because I hesitate to ascribe a projas infamous to htm, even when v balanced by despair. The first u? dispatch he ordered . his Goodrl secretary of state to send, somebc leaked to the newspapers before could be put into cipher for tran mission. -It-was not sent for froi the press of the entire country rose . clamor against "deliberate provoca knn of a nation wjth which w a Trade i Simp). Addrulpt.2. The Shine That WonTt Explodi

and' wish to "remain, at peace." He repudiated the dispatch and dismissed the secretary of state in disgrace to disgrace the one stroke in his fight against Goodrich in which he got the advantage. Bat that advantage was too small, too doubtful and too late. His name was not presented to the convention.

, CHAPTER XXXIIF. A "Spasm of Virtue." X forced upon Goodrich my place as chairman of the national committee and went abroad with my daughters, We stayed there until Scarborough was inaugurated. He had got his nomination from a convention of men who hated and feared him, bat who dared not float the -people and fling away victory; he had got his election because the deflection from our ranks In the doubtful states far outbalanced Goodrich's extensive purchases there with the huge campaign-fund of the interests. The wheel-horse. Partisanship, bad broken down, and the leader. Plutocracy, could not draw the chariot to victory alone. As soon as the election was over. our people began to cable me to come home and take charge. But I waited until Woodruff and my other faithful lieutenants had thoroughly convinced all the officers of the machine how desperate its plight was, and that I alone could repair and restore, and that I could do it only If absolute control ' were given me. When the ship reached quarantine Woodruff came aboard; and, not having seen him in many months. I was able to see, and was startled by, the contrast between the Doc Woodruff I had met on the train more years before than I cared to cast up, and the United States Senator Woodruff, high in the councils of the party and high in the esteem of its partisans among the people. He was saying: "You can have anything you want, senator," and so on. But I was thinking of him, of the vicissitudes of politics, of the unending struggle of the foul stream to purify itself, to sink or to saturate Its mud. For we ought not to forget that if the clear water is saturated with mud, also the mud Is saturated with clear water. A week or so after I resumed the chairmanship, Scarborough invited me to lunch alone with him at the White House. When I had seen him, four years before. Just after his de-. feat, he was in high spirits and looked a youth. Now it depressed me, but gave me no surprise, to find him worn, and overcast by that tragic sadness which canopies every one of the seats of the mighty. "I fear, Mr. President," said I, "you are finding the men who will help you to carry out your ideas as rare as I once warned you they were." "Not rare." was his answer, "but hard to get at through the throngs of Baal-worsbiperB that have descended upon me and are trying to hedge me in." "Fortunately, you are free from political and social entanglements," said I, with ironic Intent. He laughed with only a slightly concealed bitterness. "From political entanglements yes," eald he. "But not from social toils. Ever since I have been in national life, my wife and I have held ourselves socially aloof, be cause those with whom we would naturally and even inevitably associate would be precisely those who would some day beset me for immunities and favors. And how can one hold to a course of any sort of justice, if doing so means assailing all one's friends and their friends and relatives? For who are the offenders? They are of the rich, of the successful, of the clever, of the sooially agreeable and charming. And how can one enforce justice against one's dinner companions and in favor of whom? Of the people, rolceless, distant, unknown to one. Personal friendship on the one side; on the other, an abstraction." "I should not class you among those likely to yield many inches to the social bribe." said I. "That is pleasant, but not candid," replied he with his simple directness. "So man of your experience could fail to know that the social bribe is the arch-corrupter, the one briber whom it Is not in human nature to resist. But, as I was saying, to my amazement, in spite of my wife's precautions and mine, I find myself beset and with what devilish insidiousness! When I refuse, simply to save myself from flagrant treachery to my obligations of duty, -1 find myself seeming, even to my wife and to myself, churlish and priggish; Pharisaical, in the loathsome attitude of a moral poseur. Common honesty, in presence of this social bribe, takes on the sneaking seeming of rottenest hypocrisy. It is indeed hard to get through and to get at the men I want and need, and must and will have." "Impossible,", said I. "And if you could get at them, and if the senate would let you put them where they seem to you to belong, the temptation would be too much for them. They too would scon become Baal-worshipers, the more assiduous for their long abstinence." "Some," he admitted, "perhaps most. But at least a few would stand the test and just one 6uch would repay and justify all the labor of all the search. The trouble with you pessimists is that you don't take our ancestry into account. Han isn't a falling angel, but a rising animal. So, every Impulse toward the decent. every gleam of light, is ft tremendous gain. The wonder isn't the bad but the good, isn't that we are so imperi feet, bnt that in euofa a few thousand Lxeacs jut ao fat so far an. I.

mow you and I nave In the main the same purpose where is there a man wfco'd like to think the world the worse for his having lived? But we work by different means. Tou believe the best results can be got through that ' in man which he has inherited from the past by balancing passion against passion, by offsetting appetite with appetite. I hope for results from that in the man of to-day which is the seed, the prophecy, of the man who Is to be." "Your method has had one recent and very striking apparent success." said I. "But the spasm of virtue will pass." "Certainly," he replied, "and so too will the succeeding spasm of reaction. Also, your party must improve itself and mine too as the result of this spasm of virtue." "For a time," I admitted. T enry you your courage and hope. But I can't share in them. You will serve four stormy years; you will retire with friends less devoted and enemies more bitter; you will be misunderstood, maligned; and there's only a remote possibility that your vindication will come before you are too old to be offered a eecond term. And the harvest from the best you sow will be ruined In eome flood of reaction." "No." he answered. "It will be reaped. The evil I do, all evil, passes. The good will be reaped. Nothing good is lost" "And if It is reaped," I rejoined, "the reaping will not come until long, long after you are a mere name in history." Even as I spoke my doubts I was wishing I had kept them to myself; for, thought I, there's no poorer business than shooting at the beautiful soaring bird of illusion. But he was looking at me without seeing me. His expression suggested the throwing - m a . Lti j Li

open 01 me ounas mains a man a in- to gtart The Great Lugar Shows" on most self. the roa(j The first performances will "If a man." said he absently. "Axes be given in niS home town, and each his mind not on making friends or de- and everjr citiZen, almost to the man, feating enemies, not on elections or on be present at one or more of the history, but just on avoiding from day performances. Mr. Lugar has workto day, from act to act, the condemns- e(J hard during tne past few weeks in tion of his own self-respect The getting everything in first class shape blinds closed as suddenly as they had and he hag certainly succeeded. Your opened-he had become conscious that correSp0ndent was invited to pay a some one was looking in. And I was ... . - . . araa ,jrlf1 nflo invH.

wishing again that I had kept my doubts to myself; for I now saw that what I had thought a bright bird of illusion was in fact the lost star which lighted my own youth. Happy the man who, through strength or through luck, guides his whole life by the star of his youth. Happy, but how rare! ; CHAPTER XXXIV. i In the folowing September I took my daughters to Elisabeth. She looked earnestly, first at Frances, tall and slim and fancying herself a worn- J an grown, then at Ellen, short and ; round and struggling with the giggling age. "We shall like each other, I'm sure," was her verdict. "We'll get on well togetner. Ana ranees . smiled, and .uen nodded. They evidently thought so, too. "I want you to teach them your art," said I, when they were gone to settle themselves and she and I were alone. "My art?" "The art of being one's self. I am sick of men and women who hide their real selves behind a pose of what they want others to think them." "Most of our troubles come from that, don't they?" "All mine did." said I. "I, am at the age when the very word age begins to Jar on the ear, and the net result of my years of effort is I have convinced other people that I am somebody at the cost of convincing myself that I am nobody." "Xof you are master," she said. "As a lion-tamer is ma-ster of his Hons. He gives 'all his thought to them, who think only of their appetites. And his whole reward is that with his life in his hand he can some times cow them through a few worthless little tricks." I looked round the attractive reception-room of the school. "I wish you'd take me in, too," I ended. She flushed a little, then shook her head, her eyes twinkling. "This is not a reformatory," said she. And we both laughed. As I did not speak or look away, but continued to smile at her, she became uneasy, glanced round as If seeking an avenue of retreat. "Yes I mean just that, Elisabeth," I admitted, and my tone explained the words. She clasped her hands and started up. "In me in every one," I went on, "there's a beast and a man. Just now with me the man is uppermost. And he wants to stay uppermost. Elisabeth will you help him?" She lowered her head until I could see only the splendor of her thick hair, sparkling like black quartz. "Will you dear? Won't you dear?" Suddenly she gave me both her hands. "Let us help each other," she said. And slowly she lifted her glance to mine; and never before had I felt the full glory of those eyes, the full melody of that deep voice. And so, I end as I began, as life begins and ends with a woman. In a woman's arms we enter life; in a woman's arms we get the courage and strength to bear it; in a woman's arms we leave it. And as for the span between the business, profession, career how colorless, how meaningless it would be but for herl t THE END. i PROSPECTS LOOK GOOD . FOR THE JUGAR CIRCUS Eaton's Show Is About Ready For the RoadTHE ACTORS IN TRAINING. Eaton. O., April 22. Joseph Lngar, one of Eaton's most popular and well LknciJLawvjoim" ro en.. is now aliout ready

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tion, it was found that everything necessary for a first-class one ring circus had been prepared. There now seems to be no doubt that this circus will be one of the best of its kind, and the people visiting it will be pleased. On Sunday several members of the band came from their respective homes and they will begin practice at once. Several acrobats, and i the "great" samoya are here, and getting ready for poines and dogs is working hard ev ery day, and these attractions promise to be among the best features, Space will not permit further special comment, but suffice it to say that Joe Lugar will "make a go" of the show business and give one of the neatest an(j best one ring circuses on the road today. Artificial sac, the, 2Qth century fuel. ' lOtf WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP GRADUATION EXERCISES. Milton, Ind., April 22 The Washington township schools will hold their annual commencement at Doddridge Chapel. The graduates and the subjects on which they will speak or declaim follow: Marcie Wise "Frances E. Willard." Paul C. Hurst "Phoenicia and Her Work for Civilization." M. Delzell Preston "The New Slav ery." Emma C. Wol ford "Thomas A. Ed ison." Charleine Burgess "The Farm Home." Emmett F. Doddridge "Patriotism a Reality." Nettie M. Shank "Is Whatever is Worth Doing, Worth Doing Well?" Howard E. Hurst "Americanism Roscoe E. Doddridge "The Phan tom Ship." Cora M. Wise "Choice of Perma nent Values." Clarence Wolford "Success in Life.' Floyd Cooke "The Nobility of La bor." Rev. A. R. Jones will have the in vocation and benediction, and County Supt. Chas. W. Jordan will present the diplomas. . The graduates of the High school are Paul C. Hurst, Emory C. Wolford, Marcia A. Wise, M. Delzell Preston. Head Ache Sometimes? If so, it will interest you to know that it can be stopped with Dr, Miles' Anti-Pain Pills : and without any bad aftereffects, and this without danger of forming a drug habit or having your stomach disarranged. They positively con , tain no opium, morphine, cocaine, chloral, ether or chloroform in any form. Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills relieve pain, and leave only a sense of relief. The reason for this is explained f by the factthat headache comes from tired, irritable, turbulent, over-taxed brain nerves. AntiPain Pills soothe and strengthen these nerves, thus removing the cause. They are harmless when taken as directed. "We use Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills for the cure of headache, and ire think that there is nothing that will equal them. They -veill cure the severest spell of nrvous or sick headache in a very few minutes. 1 am of a nerrous temperament, and occasionally have speiis when rnv nerves seem to be compietely exhausted, and I tremble so I can scarcely contain myself. At these tirns I always take the Anti-Pain Pills, and they quiet me rigrht away. It is remarkable what a soothing effect they have upon the nerves." MRS. F. K. KARL. Detroit, Mich. Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Fiii are sold bv your druggist, who will guarantee that the first package will benefit. If it" fails, he will return your money. 25 doses. 2 cents. Never sold In bulk. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind

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