Show ar air PF at lj jc ii f J L il TT V li AK KiL A jl by B 7 DAVID CS R IHAl IM TOIL klirs irS A LI or 0 the cost cist the dalu rc etc e L azzy N I 1 lm lugt ba com coerant rANT continued from last week CHAPTER XI burbank it was through carlotta that tha t I 1 cams came to know chow bin bank well lie ile was in thal house representing the easternmost district of 0 our state ak M I 1 r rs ta sa J j jayr w il i K A jait it wj w J th I 1 7 q tw aay N ZI Q N I 1 VIP rl I 1 A 11 I 1 eisaw saw anly the lips and eyes of ellzabeth elizabith crosby I 1 had disliked him when we were boys in the state assembly together and when I 1 met him again in washington be seemed to rue me to have all his faults 0 of 15 years before aggravated by per si stence in them finally I 1 needed ills his place in congress for a useful lieutenant of woodress Woo Wood druSs and ordered him beaten tor for the ile he made a bitter fight against decapitation and as lie he was popular with the people of his district we had some difficulty in defeating him dut but when lie he was beaten lie hs was of course lic help lp less and hopelessly discredited tile people soon forget a fallen politician lie ile tool off his coat and ancl worked hard and well for the election of tho th TOPA who had euchred him out of the nomination when lie he returned to washington to finish ills term lie ile be g gan an a double despe inte assault upon my friendship the direct assault was unsuccessful successful 1 I under understood it and I 1 was in no need of lieutenants MOM than I 1 could easily take care of already striving to serve we me scores of the brightest most ambitious young men of the state eager to do my biddins whatever it might be in tho the house that in return I 1 would tahe rare of them would admit them to the coveted inclosure round the plum tree the plum tree Is there any kind hind of fruit which gladdens the eyes of ambitious mari man that does not glisten upon some one or of its many boughs heavy laden with corporate and public honors and wealth burbanks Eur banks indirect attack through his wife and carlotta fared better the first of it I 1 distinctly recall was after a childrens party at our house carlotta singled out mrs burbank tor for enthusiastic commendation the other women sent nurses with v alth their children said she but mrs burbank came herself she was so sweet in apologizing for coming coining sha said rhe flie any nurse and that bat she was so timid about her children that she never could bring herself to trust thern to nurses and really harvey you dont know how nice slie she was all tile the afternoon ashes the kind of mother I 1 approve of the kind I 1 try to bo be dont you admire her 1 I dont know her said I 1 tho on only ly time I 1 met her she struck me as lein being well rather silent it she exclaimed triumphantly she caie a rap tor for men ashes absorbed in her children child chil dran rc i and her husband then thel after a pause she added well ashes welcome to him I 1 cant see what she finds to care tor for eliy why said 1 I oil oh lies hes looking and polite offensively polite to women bomon lie he understand them at 1 I thinks they like deference and flatt ry rya the low grido grade molasses mild kind of 0 flattery ile he has a nery ery nice smile emale but lies hes so stilted and tiresome always always serious se flous and such a pose pos its what I 1 call the presidential po pose se no ko doubt hell be president some day AV why y said 1 I it Is amusing to watch woman tumble fumble about for reasons for her intuitions carlotta barlotta dar lotta did uncommonly well oh I 1 dont know iles hes the sort of high hig b averaged that the people to go crazy about he he aie looks like a president that sort ot of solemn no sense ot of bomor sunday look you know what I 1 mean anyhow hes going to be president I 1 thought not A few days later while what carlotta had said was fresh freeh in my mind he overtook me walking wall ting to tile the capitol As we went on together I 1 was smiling to myself he certainly did look and talk like a president ile he was of the average height af the average built and ot of a sort of average facial mold he had hair bair that was a compromise among the average shades of brown gray and black with a bald spot just wl where c most men have it ills his pose I 1 saw that carlotta was shrewdly idly right lie v was as acutely self co conscious nEcious and was acting his pose every instant lie hall had selected it early in life lie would vituld wear it even in Ms las alg nightshirt glit shirt until death ho he said nothing brilliant but neither did lie he say anything ehst would not have been gerie generally rally desai regarded ded as souni K and sensible ils ills impressive mariner manner of delivering ills his words made one over valus tho the they carried but I 1 soon scon found for I 1 stu dici him with increasing interest thanks to my new point of view upon him biri I 1 soon found that he had one quality tile the reverse of commonplace ho 0 had ad ma mas etisa whenever never a new candidate was pro posed for Ma malarins service lie be u ed to ask first cr all ilas has ho he luck ay ny iy first question lias has been 11 kas he be ma magnetism net ism and I 1 think mine is the better measure such of ones luck as is not the blundering blindness of ones opponents is usually the result of ones ilag magnetism however it is about the most dangerous of the free gifts of nature which are all dangerous burbanks merit lay in his discreet uze use of it ft it compelled men to cen center ter upon him he turned this to his advantage by making them feel not how he 5 shone h rn e but how they shone they vent away liking him because they had new reasons for biting in love with themselves I 1 found only two serious bieak v eak nesses 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 Impress impressing Inz people both pria tely and from the platform ho be was at tile the end of his political career the second weakness was that he was ashamed of his 1113 very obscure and humble origin lie he knew that his being wholly self sef f made was a matchless political asset and ho he used it accordingly but he looker on oil it somewhat as tile the beg beggar ar looks on the deformity he exhibits i to 0 get alms neither weakness made him less valuable to my purpose the fir first t ore one it if anything increased his value I 1 wanted an instrument that was capable but strong only when ahen I 1 used it I 1 wanted a man suitable for development first into gov governor error of ray my state and then into a Pres president dent I 1 could not lot bave got tile the presidency for myself but neither did I 1 want it my aly longings were all for power the real reality ity not the shadow in a republic the man who has the real power must be out of view it if lie he is within view a million lion hands stretch to drag him from the thione tin one ill ila must bs be out of view putting forward his puppets and changing them when the people grow bored or angry with thein and the president in ail ill important matters he must mast obey ills his party which is after all simply the interests that finance 1 it in matters his ln a so called power is whittled down by 11 lle 0 leaders and woi kers whose requirements may not bo be disregarded he shakes the plum tree but he does it under orders others gather the fruit sad and ho he gets only the exercise and the honor I 1 had no yearning for however howeler exalted the title or sonorous the fame but to be the power that selects the king hing puppet of tho the political puppet hierarchy to bo be the power that it selects and rules allm that eliat was the logical development of my career in bin burbank bank I 1 thought I 1 had found a tran ran worthy to wear tile puppet robes oile who would glory int in them bern lie ile like wast of the flit other ambitious ds mca I 1 have known cared little who was as behind the throne brone provided lie he himself was v as seated sealed upon it the cre crown on oil ills his head and the crowds tossing the ilic I 1 hats i ats tint thit shelter their dim thinking bra brains I 1 ns also in addition to n and presence pip pie senco sence be had dexterity and t id distinction and as much docility as can be in a man bis big enough to use C tor for important work arto to be continued |