Show one tilt L U M R ea 71 1 by DAVID PHILLIPS author 01 tha cost the deluge etc bobbs Coi iris T continued Con linued from last week CHAPTER A philosopher rudely interrupted after tile the funeral I 1 lingered at our fredonia place there was the estate to settle my two daughters had now no one to look after them junior must be started if ight lit at leat learning ning the business of 0 which lie he would soon be hie file head as his uncle had shown himself far too easygoing easy going for large executive responsibility so I 1 staid oil cin doing just enough to keep a face ot of plausibility upon my pretexts for not returning to washington the fact was that Carl Carlol ottas tas death had deepened my mood of 0 distaste into disgust it had set me to brookins bro bodin over the futility and pettiness of ny my activities in politics of all activities of whatever kind I 1 watched ed and my lily chil children dien resuming the routine of their laes swiftly adjusting themselves to the loss of one who nho had been so dear to them and so necess necessary a ry 0 to o their happiness the cry of man overboard a few n opples aples a few tears the salling sailing on oil with the of 0 the water smooth a gain again and the tha alces aces keen wid aid a id bright woodrun yo odrun wrote urging ther tic ne sent telegram alter after tele telegram ram still I 1 procrastinated for all al the effect it his Is letters and telegrams ams had upon me I 1 might aswell have left sly IV final answer was act as you would it if I 1 were dead probably what had glien my illy pessimism its som berest tone lone vas nas the attitude of oc tile the public toward high appointments I 1 had confidently predicted that filling all tle tl e high offices with men who had na interest but the interests interest r ajen cen who were notoriously the agents arid and servants cf the great campaign would cause a public outcry that coald could not be ignored the opposition press did make but nowhere was there a sign that the people beally angered ange reil 1 I got the clew to this mystery floan my gm gardener dener who prided himself on oil being strenuously of the opposition ion party arty I what do you think of 0 then the new ew administration said I 1 when I 1 came upon him one nio coining ining at the ihoda dendron beds much better than I 1 al allied allowed loed said he be Burbank ss got good men dieu around him you approve of 0 his cabinet of course coi arse all strong men I 1 lile like a good patty man I 1 like a man mail that has convictions and principles and stands up for eui your newspapers papers say some pretty pretta revere evere things filings about these thebe men 0 go o I 1 read so said he but 3 ou oil know inow L the general resigns from the corr mand of the army to play with a box of leaa soldiers soldier how bow that Is mr sayler got to pound em elli to please the party but nobody believes much lie he sees in tile tha newspapers newspaper si Alb whenever enever I 1 read ao an item about things I 1 happen to know its all wrong and I 1 guess they don t get it any nearer tight light about tile things I 1 don t happen to know now all this here talk of being su so many million millionaires alres 1 I dont take tahe no kind hind of stock in it no said 1 I ot of couse somes poor and suni humes els rich got to be but I 1 think lt ifa ti i all nes newspaper paper lies fles about tile these e big fortunes and about all the leading men in politics being corrupt I 1 know inow it dalint so about the leading men in ili my lily party and I 1 reckon there alai nu do more truth in fit it about the leading men of yom ji I 1 was s saying 13 ing to my wife last night its all newspaper lies hes says I 1 just like the story they printed about mrs timmins eloping ifill marla husband when she had only went over to rabbit ford folks to visit her married daughter no thegean they cant E fool me them papers one yay vay of looking at it said 1 I 1 I its is horse sense says lie ho arid and ive no doubt that to the average citizen leading a small quiet life and dealing with wilh afratis in corner grocery retail the stupendous facts of accumulations of wealth calt li and whole sale far and wide purchases of the politicians tile the vast sy steni of 0 bribery with bribes adapted to every taste and ana conscience conscience seem Ini impossibilities biliti bili ties cs of 0 partisanship and envy and sensationalism N nor 0 r can call lie understand the hie way superior men play tie the great games allies the heart ss ct cf ambition the cynicism of political oil aa I 1 prostitution and tile ilia s sis eib is if ff to the legal arid and lorel codes cod s which conics comes to men with i behs your ci tien is a hero wor chiper too to le ie knows his own and his neighbor s weaknesses eak nesses but lie he gapes up nil at abe great with ees and listens to bleir smooth atles as to tile the reading of the gospel front from the lie ic belongs to tile the large rias na choie who bel believe leNc not to the sni sn mass class of thoss those who nilo question 31 r the rivalries and aid jealousies of superior eilor men N which I 1 ich have hept them always divided into two parties the s and the outs I 1 imagine ine tile latses would lave have reni remained sun 1 in lit lie most helpless if the most delightful slavery that in which the slane accepts liis ills lowliness as a divine ordinance and looks up tip to ills his oppressors and plunderers as aa hero leaders and no doubt so long as the exuberant riches of our count country Y enable the triumphant lass to take care of all tile the hungry ry who have intelligence telli gence enough to male mal e rhems themselves elves dangerous ive we shall haxe no change chane except occasional spasms whenever a large jargo immler of unplaced intelligent hungry aie forcing the full and fat to make room for them now how long will this be if 11 our education dill dil not dot merely feed prejudices pie instead of them I 1 thorild kay not lot long As it 11 is I 1 expect to leave the as wicked and as foolish as I 1 found it at any rate until tho millennium I 1 shall continue to play tile game under the rules of human matuie instead of un der lie rides of human ideals as does doe my illy esteemed friend seat seal borough and 1 I claim chalm that A e practice niec men are as true and ami useful servants of our country and of our fellow men as lie he it nien like him are the light men like us are the lanstein that thai stil shield elds it front from the alternating winds of ra pacify acty and resentment continued next weer |