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Records of Whitman County
Record of Instruments filed for
r d in the office of the auditor of
Stman county, Monday, March 28,
isil:
LT I.imwlu
I" VVm F- Hull et al to M. W. Whit
loW seq 34-15-45, $11,200.
0 B. Carter, sheriff to B. Y.
Bai'ney, I" |„,s 14 ' 15 ' blk 9 ' La"
Cross' $1318.
C M. Speck and wife to C. F.
young, lot '- blk 5, Beach's add,
lots 2, 3, 4, blk 28 > Wiley's 2nd add,
blouse, $1.
jMjlwaiikc,- Land Co. to Lee Car
l**rlot -. blk 83, Milwaukee Land
, Co.". Ist add, Maiden, $90.
VI Homer Ueveulsh, adinr., to J. N.
Moore, 33-1-3, $5184.
'• John N. Moore and wife to BenJ.
p. Colyar, wh 33-1-39, $2592.
pine City Cemetery Ass'n to Chas.
B. Nihoul, lot 190, Pine City ceme*
tery $»•
Hattie Stephen to Edna Franzen,
nh lot 8, blk 7, Reaney's add, Pull
man, $L
Chas J. Skeen and wife to Chas.
W. Guptill, swq swq 17-11-4;,, $2000.
Harriet. B. Stubbe and husband to
Rosa 0. Goodrich, pt 31-19-46,
agreement, $3326.
Heal Mortgages
M. W. Whitlow to Win. F. Hull et
al, seq 34-15-4 5, $6200.
Leslie E. Hatch and wife to Geo.
Hatch, wli nwq, wh swq 27-17-45, ex
cept, $4000.
Herbert S. Hull and wifo to Union
Trust Co. of Spokane, nsli nwq 21
--18-42, $2000.
Colby T. Pretty man to Commer
cial State Bank, swq 1, pt Beg 1, s,-,j
seq 2-19-44, $1900.
Jos A. Wlllkomento If. A. Kaep
pler, lot 16, blk 36, Maiden, $1500.
John N. Moore and wife to T. A.
Colyar, eh 33-19-39, $2200.
Napoleon Bourbonnio to B. 1,. Bax
ter, wh swq 4-13,44, $1 100.
Chattel Mortgages
Auton Cepa to L. A. Bonney, live
stock, $155.
John Rexford to Colfax National
Bank, 2-3 crop on seq 17, nh neq 20
--IG-43, livestock, $1412.
L. P. Hubbard to Farmers Btate
Bank of Colfax, livestock. 2-3 crop
on 225 acres near Diamond, $1400.
Monroe McLean to New Mercantile
Co., livestock. $2 10.
Ed Burgess to Wm. L. Walls, crop
on nh 19-17-40, $16.
J. P. iiit_.,u,at: to Frank Nichol
son, 400 bushels wheat on iwq 21,
pt nwq 28-18-41, $125.
W. T. Bobbins to E. N. Kerby and
Son, livestock, $150.
Geo. C. Wilson and wife to Homer
A. Samuel, livestock, $490,
0. E. Anderson to F. A. Davis,
livestock. $225.
Releases
Jared Fisher to Herman Nelson.
real mtg.
Warren S. Imbler to Marion A.
Fortune and wife, real mtg.
Marion A. Fortune to Herbert S.
Hull and wife, real mtg.
M. L. Day to .las. 11. Swannack,
real mtg.
Willis R. Millikin to .las 11. Swan
nack, real mtg.
A. ,1. Hochradel to V. G. Armour.
chat.
Farmers State Hank of Colfax to
L. F. Hubbard, chat.
TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1911
1 »ee«ls
Jas 11. McCoy and wife to Olive
McKenzie, lot 12fi blk 11, .1. 11. Mc-
Coy's Ist add, I'alouse, $50.
W. A. Davis and wife to Win. F.
and Jas. 11. Hull. neq 17-16-44,
$9600.
W. .1. Splon to B. N. Rodgers, lots
1. 2, bik 50, Maldon, $550.
A. M. Foreman and wife to Alfred
P. Kingman, lots 5, 6, blk 15, Mai
den, $400.
Wm. C. Palmer and wife to Jos.
Assed, lots (',, 7, 8, blk 6, Thornton,
$1000.
F. J. Mahoney and wife to Edw.
D. Goodwin, lot 3, blk 2, Mahoney-
Lleb add, Tekoa, contract, $600.
John P. Duke and wife to Walter
Kolling, lot 1, blk 3. Fitch's add.
Palouse, assigned to Martha Silvey,
lease.
Ileal Mortgagee
Wm. F. Hull et ai to W. a. Davis,
neq 17-16-4-1, $5000.
Jos. S. Robertson and wife to in
ula C. Robertson, nwq 22-19-39,
,*2OBO.
N. F. McDaniel to Benj. Rees, lot
7. hlk 8, Elberton, $100.
Chattel Mortgages
Earl W. Etter to First National
Bank of Ritzville, 2-3 crop on wh
25-18-40, nwq 36-18-40, sh 31-18
40, livestock, $75.
W. Bumgarner to Chas. E. Scriber,
livestock, $1781.
Releases
Chas. Ssrlber to W. Bumgarner,
•hat.
Rills of Sale
Edw. D. Goodwin to F. J. Ma
honey, cow, $50.
Conditional Rills of Sale
O. Wilson to H. R. Williams, team
of mares, $200.
Assignments
Farmers State Bank of Colfax to
J. N. Harden, real mtg.
.Miscellaneous
First State Bank of LaCrosse, ar
ticles of incorporation.
Co., articles Of. incorporation.
J. M. Keeter to Washington Ma
chinery and Supply Co., Bowling al
leys, $33.
Conditional Bills of sale.
Sherman Clay an, (',,. to C. A.
Adidson, piano, $315.
Miscellaneous
R. McCraw vs. G. EI. Bushby, lis
pendens.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1911
Gov. Patents and Receipts
United States to Samuel 11. Perkln,
lie 18-14-40, patent.
United States to John W. Patter
son, seq nwq, lots 3. I 0 f 3. lot 1 0
l- 1-45; patent.
Deeds
John W. Patterson and wife to T.
S. Gooch, seq nwq, lots 3, 4 of 3, lot
lof 4-11-45; $600.
M. K. Smith to T. S. Gooch, swq
nwq, wh swq 3, geq seq 4-11-45,
$900.
C. A. Martin and wifef to .1. P.
Morris, neq 23-1 7-39, $3500
J. P. Morris and wife to Alfred 11.
Hamilton, pt 25-17-39, $520.
Magdalena Heth to Maggie Juhnke,
pi swq seq 14-16-43, $175.
Ileal Mortgages
Wm. A. Ingram el ux to Lloyd M.
Allen, tract in Garfleld, $160;
Chattel Mortgages
F. R. IPerce to Ai Camp, live
stock, etc., $7 10.
I). S. Ryan to Chas. E. Scriber,
crop on seq 1 4-40, 142.
Releases
Alois Kotttsbi to S. H. Perkln
et ux. real mtg.
Viola Scully Eagleson and hus
band to Mary E. Steward et al. real'
mtg.
Conditional Bills of Sale
Mark F. Jones and Sons to .1. A.
Ilennins et al, piano. $37.",; to A. C.
Reid, piano. I 30; to .1. L, Knox,
piano, $125; to 11. C. Owens, piano
player. $300; to li. C. Cameron, pl
um player, $675; to E. I. Deerlng,
piano, $425; to 0. D. Kenoyer, piano,
$450; to W. I-'. Snodgrass, piano,
$300; to 11. Willett, piano. $575;
Ira A. Snyder, piano, $330; to Mrs.
Catherine aßrrett. piano, $325; to
C, B. Ucßrlde, piano, $275; to W.
H. Thompson, piano, $375; to Mrs.
ty. S. Walker, piano.' *(25: to 1).
M. Gates, piano, $350; to Chas. E.
Calvert, jiano, $460; to W. 11. Wit
her, piano, $350; to Jas, F. Buff,
piano. $375; to 11. li. Wlnqulst, ji
lno, #.",7.",: to Paul A. Laurizen,
Piano, $500; to C. L. Roth, piano,
$475; to Myra Straub, piano, $375;
to Walter W. Miller, piano, $375; to
R. li. Dabney, piano, $375; to G, W.
Patrick, piano, $200; to G. A. Prel
witz. piano $475; to U. V. Butler,
piano, $390; to Mrs. Ida Carpenter,
piano, $365; to Florence C. Meagher,
piano. I"".
Assignments
Vermont Loan and Trust Co. to
Hillsboro Bridge Guaranty Savings
Bank, real mtg.
Miscellaneous
Thornton Lodge No. 197, I. O. O.
p., to the public, pt 27-19-43, plat.
THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1911.
Gov. Patents and Receipts
United States to Kyell Bennet, seq
20-18-40, patent.
Deeds
D. .1. Hewitt and wife to C. E.
Greene, lots 1, 2, of 1-20-45, $1.
C. E. Greene and wife to S. D.
Olmsted, lots 1, 2, of 1-20-45, $500.
Geo, W. Follls and wifef to Wm.
D. Parker, tract in nwq 34-18-42,
$731.
Lyman E. Price and wife to Henry
C. Burrows, swq 27-20-41, $3200.
Henry C Burrows to John F.
Bock, tract in 27-20-41, $1200.
Sadie E. Owens to Frank T. Hop
pin, all 19-14-40, seq 24-15-39, $1.
Elizabeth Hoppln to Frank T. Hop
pin, seq 1-15 39, all of 19-15-40,
$1.
Eva M- Trover and husband to
Leroy Brooks, lot 2, pt lot 3, blk 9,
Huffman's 2nd add. Tekoa, $2000.
Heal Mortgages
Win. I. Clark and wife to Hayard
T. Byrns, neq 26-15-45, $945.
Samuel H. Perkins and wife to
Union Trust and Savings Bank, neq
18-14-40, $1800.
Jos B. Schweiger anil wife to
Union Trust and Savings Bank, nwq
8-15-39, $1200.
W. L. Mustard to Snyder Merc.
Co., livestock, etc., $182.
Miscellaneous
Willada Baptist church, articles of
incorporation.
Enos F. Eldrlde and wife vs. Eli
zabeth Little and husband, lis pen
dens.
FRIDAY. MARCH 31, 1911.
Deeds
G. D. Vinton and wife to J. E.
Butner, neq neq 15-18-45, $3500.
Trustees of M. E. church of Step
toe to McGoldrlck Lumber Co., lot
16, blk 9, resurvey of Steptoe, $1
Chattel Mortgages . j
J. F. Patteno to St. John State
Bank, livestock, 2-3 crop on pt 25
--19-41, $541.
Claude .lames to J. W. Burger,
livestock, $40.
Conditional Bills of Sale.
M. F. Patterson and Co. to C. H.
VanSchoick, dental supplies, $503.
Assignments
Spokane and Eastern Trust Co. to
Burlington Trust Co.. real mtg.
Miscellaneous
Potlatch Lumber Co. vs. Ed. Har
m r and wife; lots 9, 10, blk 30, Col
lege Hill a,id. Pullman, $64.
Willi Will Gel *;{;t,130.
Colfax, Wash., April 1. — Figures
given out. at. Olympia show that Whit
man count) is entitled to a rebate of
130.28 from the unused funds
now in the state treasury, and form
erly collected under the state aid road
law. This money will go Into the
permanent highway fund.
Ail Angel's Visit.
Llteralness, albeit not divorced
from a shrewd sense of humor, is a
fundamental trait of the Scottish
mind. The heroine of this story
from Tit-Bits possesed the first qual
ity; lei us hope the minister had the
second.
Kirsty McDougall, who lived in a
remote Highland parish, had a visit
from her Edinburgh nieces, who were
to spend a week or two with the old
lady. She determined to show them
off on Sunday at the ancient village
kirk of Lochaber. Tin- young la
dles wore costumes of the purest
snowy hue. At one point of his ser
mon the minister, iv speaking of the
angels of Heaven, was heard to say:
"And who are those in white ar
ray?"
To the consternation of the con
gregation,. Kirsty was heard to ex
claim:
"It's ma two nieces,' sir, frae Ed
inburgh!
>fj. Uhe Qp
J plum!
I TREE V
% ?>y DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIP* P
U K. .'inr „l "The Csst" m
lie- Deluge." Etc W
eUux.; ' 1*l! Ot IM, ti „ eit.fl Dour_n.
CHAPTER XIII.
Roebuck & Co. Pass Under the Yoke.
And now- the stage had been reached
at which my ten mutinous clients
could be, and must he. disciplined.
As a first step, 1 resigned the chair
manship of the state committee and
ordered the election of Woodruff to
th,- vacancy. I should soon have sub
stituted Woodruff for myself, In any
event. 1 had never wanted the place,
and had taken it only because to re
fuse ii would have been to throw away
tho golden opportunity Dunkirk so un
expectedly thrust at me. Holding that
position, or any other officially con
necting me with my party's machine,
made me a target; and I wished to he
completely hidden, for I wished the
people of my state to think me merely
one of the party servants, in sympathy
with the rank and file rather than with
the machine, Yet, in the chairman
ship, in the targetshlp, I must have a
man whom I could trust through and
through: and. save Woodruff, who was
there for the place?
When my resignation was an
nounced, the independent and the op
position press congratulated me on my
high principle In refusing to have any
official connection with the machine
responsible for such infamies. When
Woodruff's election was announced It
same as a complete surprise. Such
of the newspapers as dared, and they
were few. denounced it as infamy's
crown of Infamy,— I had known it
would be. He made not a murmur,
but I knew what must he In his mind.
' said nothing until six weeks or two
months had passed; then I went
straight at him.
"You are feeling bitter against me."
said I. "You think I dropped out when
there was danger of heavy tiring, and
put you it:, to take it."
"No, Indeed, Senator," he protested,
"nothing like that. Honestly, I have
not had it bitter thought against you.
I'm depressed simply because, just as
I had a chance to gel on my '," I
again, they won't let me."
"But," I rejoined, "I did resign and
put yon in my place because I didn't
want to take the fire and thought you
could."
"And so I can," said he. "I haven't
any reputation to lose. I'm no worse
off than I was before. Let 'em do
their damnedest."
"Your first campaign will probably
be a failure," I went on, "and, the day
after election, there'll be a shout for
your head."
He shrugged his shoulders. I'm
enlisted for the war," said he. "You're
any general. I go where you order."
I hope the feelings that surged Up
|n me showed la my face, as I
gtretched out my band. "Thank you
Doc," said I. "And —there's another
gide to It. It Isn't all black,
i "It isn't black at all," he replied
ptoutly.
j I explained: "I've wanted you to
have the place from the. outset. But
I shouldn't dare give It to you except
at a lime like this, when our party has
done so many unpopular thin' that
ono more won't count; and there's so
much to lee said against us, S.i much
worse things than they can possibly
make out your election to be, that It'll
soon be almost neglected."
"They're beginning to drop me al
ready and go I a<*"k to harrying those
poor devils of ours In the legislature,"
said Woodruff.
"A few weeks more," I went on,
"and you'll be safe and you are to
stay chairman, no matter what hap
pens. When they have leisure to at
tack you, there'll lie nothing to at
tack. The people will have dismissed
the matter from their minds. They
don't care to watch the threshing of
old straw."
1 saw hat I had lifted a weight
from him, though he said nothing.
So much for my first move toward
the chastening of my clients. Further
and even more effective ln the same
direction I (rut down our cam,.
fund for the legislative ticket to one
fifth what it usually was; and, with
out even Woodruff's knowing it, 1
heavily subsidized the opposition ma
chine. Wherever it could be done
with safety I arranged for th,- trading
off of our legislative ticket for cur
candidate for governor. "The legls
lature is hopelessly lost," I told Wood
ruff; "we must concentrate on the
governorship. We must save what we
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"Let 'Em Do Their Damnedest."
can." In fact, so overwhelming!} was
our party in tin- majority, and so loyal
were its rank and file, that it was not
only by the most careful arrangement
of weak candidates and of Insufficient
campaign funds that I was able to
throw the legislature to the opposition.
Our candidate for governor, Walbrook
—Burbank was ineligible to a second
successive term — was elected by a
comfortable plurality. And, by the
ay, 1 saw to it thai the party organs
gave Woodruff enthusiastic praise for
Tt-CUiT-^ so much from what had
looked like utter ruin.
My clients had been uneasy ever
since the furious popular outburst
Which had followed their breaking
away from my direction and rest taint.
When they saw an opposition legisla
ture, they readily believed what they
read in the newspapers about the "Im
pending reign of radicalism." Silli
man. the opposition leader, had ac
cepted John Markham's offer of $ir,o,
--000 for Croffut's seat in the senate;
but 1 directed him to send Veehoft,
one of the wildest and eleven of
the opposition radicals. He dared not.
disobey me. Veehoft went, and
Markham never saw again the $75,000
he had paid Sllliman as a "retainer."
Veerhofl In the United States sen
ate gave my clients the chills; but I
was preparing the fever for them also.
I had Silliman introduce hills in both
houses of the legislature that reached
for the privileges of the big corpora
tions and initiated proceedings to ex
pose their corruption. I had Wood
ruff suggest to Governor Walbrook
that, In view of the popular clamor,
he ought to recommend measures for
equalizing taxation and readjusting
the prices for franchises. As my
clients were bonded and capitalized on
the basis of no expense either for
taxes or for franchises, the governor's
suggestion, eagerly adopted by 81111
--man's "horde." foreshadowed ruin. If
the measures should be passed, all the
dividends and interest they were pay-
Ing on "water" would go into the pub
lic treasury.
My clients came to me, singly and
in pairs, to grovel and to implore. An
Interesting study these arrogant gen
tlemen made as they cringed, utterly
Indifferent to the appearance of self
respect, in their agony for their im
periled millions. A mother would
shrink from abasing herself to save
the life of her child as these men
abased themselves in the hope of sav
ing their dollars. I low they fawned
and flattered! They begged my par
don for having disregarded my ad
vice; they assured me that, if I
would only exert that same genius of
mine which had conceived the com
bine, I could devise some way of sav
ing them from this tidal wave of pop
ular clamor —for they hadn't a suspi
cion of my part in making that tidal
wave.
Reluctantly I consented to "see
what I can do."
The Instant change in the atmos
phere of the capital, the instant out
cry from the organs of both parties
that "the people had voted for reform,
not for confiscatory revolution," com
pleted my demonstration. Mv clients
realized who was master 'it the ma
chines. The threatening storm rapid
ly scattered; the people, believing that
the Silliman programme of upheaval
was not to be carried out, were glad
enough to see the old conservative"
order restored— our people always rea
son that. It Is hotter to rot slowly by
corruption than to bo frightened to
death by revolution.
"Hen after, we must trust to your
judgment In those political matters,
Harvey," said Roebuck. "The mana
ger must be permitted to manage
I smiled at the Ingenuousness of
this speech it did not ru Q< me. Roe
buck was one of those men who say
their prayers In a patronizing tone.
Yes, I was master. But it is only
now. in th,- retrospect of years, That I
have any sense of triumph] for I had
won th,- supremacy with small effort,
comparatively with the small effort
required of him who sees the condi
tions of a situation clearly, and, in
stead of trying to combat or to change
them, Intelligently uses them to his
ends Nor do 1 now regard my achieve
ment as marvelous. Everything was
in my favor; against me. there was
nothing—no organization^ no plan, no
knowledge of my aim. 1 wonder how
much ol" their supernal glory would he
left, to the world's men of action,
from Its Alexanders ami Napoleons
down to Its successful bandits and
ward-bosses, if mankind were in the
habit of looking at what the winner
had opposed to him—Alexander faced
only bj flocks of sheep-like Asiatic
slaves; Napoleon routing the badly
trained, wretchedly officered soldiers
of decadent monarchies; and the ban
dit or ward-boss overcoming peaceful
and unprepared and unorganized citi
zens. Who would erect statues or
write eulogies to a man for mowing ■
field of corn-stalks with a scythe?
Mankind is never mote amusing than
in its hero-worship.
No, I should simply have been stu
pid had 1 failed.
Pul even lad I been disposed to
rein In and congratulate myself at the
quarter-stretch, I could not have done
It, A man has, perhaps, some choice
as to his mount before he enters the
race for success. Hut once in the sad
die and off he must let the reins go;
his -"in is confined to whip and
spur
CHAPTER XIV.
A "Boom-Factory."
In the early autumn of that last
year of his as governor, Itu.baik's
wife died — a grim and unexpected ful
fillment of their pretended anxieties
of six months before.
It was. in some respects, as great
a loss to me as to him -how great to
us both I did not —indeed, could not —
measure until era! years passed.
Sin- was what I regard as a typical
American wife —devoted to her bus
band, jealously guarding his interests,
yet as keen to see his shortcomings
as she was ie, see hei own. And how
much more persistent and Intelligent
In correcting her faults than he In cor
rectlng his! Like most men. he was
vain—-thai is, chile he mid probably
iinvi admitted In a large, vague ay
thi ''■•■■ wasn't perfect, hen it came
to details he would defend his worst
fault against any and all criticism.
Like most, women, she, too, was vain -
bill ;.v. intelligent woman's vanity, In
stead of ui?>lng her self-complacent
somehow airs '■■■" on to hide her
weak points and to sh*".w, her best
points in the lee- il light, V-i' ex
ample, "sirs. Burbank a pretty wom
aii and proud of it, was yet clous
of her deficiencies in dress and in
manners through her plain and rural
parly surroundings. It was Interest
ing and instructive, too, to watch her
studying and cleverly copying, or rath
er, adapt in-.- Carlotta; for she took
from Carlotta only that, which could
he fitted without visible joint into her
own pattern.
Latterly, whenever I was urging
upon ' hit bank a line of act lon requir-
Ing courage or a sacrifice of some i 'tie
of his many Insidious forms of per
sinai vanity, I always arranged foi
her to be present at our conferences
And she would sit there, apparently
absorbed in her sewing; but in realltj
she was seeing not only the surface
reasons I gave him, tint also those
underlying and more powerful reason!!
which we do not utter, sometimes be.
cans, we like to play tlie hypoeritu
to ourselves, again because we must
give tin, other person a chance to
play the hypocrite himself -and us.
And often I left him reluctant and try
ing to muster courage to refuse or
finesse to evade, only to find him the
next day consenting, perhaps enthus
iastic Many's the time she spared
me > he disagreeable necessity of being
peremptory —doubly disagreeable be
cause show of authority has ever been
distasteful to me and because an or
der can never be so heartily executed
as is an assimilated suggestion.
When l went to him a month after
her death, 1 expected he would slill
be crushed as he was at the funeral.
I listened with a feeling of revulsion
to his stilted and. as it seemed to me,
perfunctory platitudes on his "Irre
reparable loss"—stale rhetoric about
her, and to her most Intimate frierd
and his! I had thou he a, ild be
Imagining himself done V,h Wrtitlon
forever; I had feared hi strongly re
ligious nature would lead him to see
a "judgment" upon him and her for
having exaggerated her indisposition
to gain a political point. And l had
mapped out. what I would say to Indues
him to go on. Instead, after a tew
of those stereotyped mortuary sen
tences, he Shifted to politics and was
presently showing me that her death
had hardly Interrupted his planning!
foi the presidential nomination. As
for the "judgment." I had forgotten
that in his religion his deity was al
ways on his ride, and bis misfortunes
were always of the evil one. These
deities of men of action! Man with
his god a ventriloquist puppet In his
pocket, and with bis conscience an old
dog Tray at his heels, needing no lead
ing string!
However, It gave me a shoe-, this
•nrtfl reminder from Burbank of the
slavery of ambition—ambition, the
vice of vices. For it takes Its victims*
all— moral, mental, physical. And.
while other vices rarely wreck any bul
small men or Injure more than/wliat li
within their small circles of influence,
ambition seizes only the superior and
sets thorn on to use their superior
powers to blast communities, swtes.
nations, continents. Yet It is called
a virtue. And men who have sold
themselves to It and for it to the last
shred of manhood are esteemed and,
mystery of mysteries, esteem them
selves!
1 had come to Burbank to manufac
ture him Into a president His wife
and I had together produced an ex
cellent raw material, Now, to make
It up into the finished product!
He pointed to the filing-cases thai
cover,-, the west wall of his library
from Boor to ceiling, from north wit,
dow to south. "I base my hope on
those— next to you, of course." sain
he. Then with his "woeful widower'
pose, lie- added: "They wore her sug
i,l|l>."
I looked at the filing-cases and wait
ed for him to explain.
"When we first married," he went
on presently, "she said, 'It seems to
me, if I were a public man, 1 should
keep everything relating to myself—
every speech, all thai the newspapers
said, every meeting and the lists of
the Important people who were there,
notes of all the people I ever met any-
i ere, every letter or telegram or note
1 receive,l. If you do, you may find
after a few years that you have an
enormous list, of acquaintances. You've
forgotten them because you meet so
many, but they will not have forgot
ten you, who were one of tin- princi
pal figures at the meeting or recep
tion.' That's In substance what she
said And so. we began and kepi It
up"— he paused in his deliberate man
ner, compressed his lips, then added —
"together."
I opened one of tho filing-cases,
glanced at him for permission, took
out a slip of paper tinder the M's It
was covered with notes. In Mrs. Bur
bank's writing, of a reception given
to him at the Manufacturers' Club in
St. Louis three years before. A lot
of names, after each sum reminders
of th,- standing and personal appear
unco of tho man. Another slip, taken
at random from the same box con
tained similar notes of a trip through
Montana eight years before.
"Wonderful!" 1 exclaimed, as the
full value of those accumulations
loomed in my mind. "I knew thai she
was an extraordinary woman. Now I
see that she had genius for poll th
His expression—a peering through
that eternal pose of Lis —made mo re
vise my first judgment of his mourn
ing. For I caught a glimpse of a real
human being, one who loved and lost,
looking grief and pride and gratitude.
"If she had left me two or three years
earlier," he said in thai solemn, pos
ing tone, "I doubt, if I should have got
on,- step further. As It is. 1 may In
able to go on, though- have lost. —
my staff."
What, fantastic envelopes does man,
after he has been finished by nature,
wrap about himself In his efforts to
improve her handiwork! Physically,
, „,. -when most dressed, wo are
naked in comparison with the en
swathlngs that hide our real menial
and moral selves from one another —
and from ourselves.
My campaign was based on the
contents of those filing-cases. I
learned all the places throughout the
west — cities, towns, centralis located
Villages —where he had been and bad
made an Impression; and by simple
and obvious means we were aide to
convert them Into centers of "the Bur
bank boom." 1 could afterward trace
to the us,- we ma,!,- of those memo
ran, the direct getting of no less
than 107 delegates to the national con
vention—and that takes no account
of the vaster indirect* value of so
much easily worked up. genuine, un
purchased and unpurchasable "Bur
bank sentiment." The man of only
local prominence, whom Burbank re
membered perfectly after a chance
meeting years before, could have no
doubt who ought to be the party's
nominee for president.
The national machine of our party
was then In the custody, and sup
posedly In the control, of Senator
Goodrich of New Jersey. He had a
reputation for Machiavellian dexterity,
but I found that he was an accident
rather than an actuality.
CONJ.TN M_XT WEEK.
Two Irishmen, meeting one day,
were discuslug local news.
"Do you know Jim Skelly?" asked
Pat.
••Faith," said Mike, "an" I do."
"Well," said Pat, "he ha has had
his appendix taken away from him."
"Ye don't say so?" said Mike.
"Well, it serves him right. He
should have had It in his wife's
name."
"What's all the row over on the
next block?" a reporter asked of a
policeman.
"Aw, anly a woden weddln*."
"A wooden wedding?"
"Sure. A couple of Poles is get
tin' married."
While pigs will live on grass It
can hardly he said that they will
thrive upon It.
Unless overfed, If allowed to run
out. pigs will as a rule take a suffic
ient amount of exercise to keep in
good health.
With the breeding boar, foods that
have a tendency to fatten should be
omitted. Feed such as have a ten
dency to form bone and muscle.