Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-03-23
THE SECRETS OF SUCCESS.
Lord Roscoe Wants to Know How to
Get Kich-His Ambition Taking a
New Turn The Sprague Family.


New Turn The Sprague Family.
n. Y Correspondence St. Louis Republican.
"How do you make money!" asked
Roscoe Conkling of a rich westerner
whose acquaintance he made at Wash
ington. as the two Fat chatting in the
htters Office before q sea-coal fire q
INV days ago. 81 want to make some
money, and | want 10 learn the way to
j % it. You are rich, and you must
know the secret p The western man
could not deny the soft impeachment
Ssof being well off," but he said it was
|Eamost difficult to tell another man how
4 TO make money. 1t was like making
4 love-it came natural. "Well," said
Mr.. Conkling, with asigh, II won't beg,
and | won't steal; but if there is any
4 other way under heaven to make
money, tell you, want to know it."
He spoke like man in terrible ear
nest, but unable to discern the way to
accomplish his object. The sudden
stories about Mr.. Conkling's sudden
good fortune in getting riches at Jaw
practice are certainly untrue. Lawyers
DO not grow up in the metropolis like
mushrooms. There are too many big
lawyers here for Mr.. Conkling to step
in and take prizes. He is no doubt get
ting clients and probably will be soon
the possessor of a fair income, but now
he sits in his little Office in Nassau
street, alone with his pride. He COM
plains OF being poor, and he points
with the finger of scorn at the men
who have trod the same path that he
has and have gathered the shekels by
the way. The lawyers hereabouts can
not understand his refusal of the nomi-
a nation to the supreme bench. That
{ which is the goal of every great law
yer's ambition seems to have no at
traction for him. The question is, what
does he wants 1t is believed in we'll in
fOrmed circles that he wants to be
eecretary of the treasury; to be the
Mead of a grand army of office-holders,
md to discipline the soldiers of the Re-
publican party so thoroughly that he
will be intrenched in the power for
years to come and can oblterate half
breedism from the council of the na.
ton. If Secretary Folger is named for
the supreme bench and his portfolio
Is offered to Mr.. Conkling those who
know him or think they do, believe he
will accept it. He undoubtedly pos
sesses that refinement of mind that
takes the greatest satisfaction in life in
the exercises and possession of great
power. Nothing else COMFORTS with
his intellectual disposition and his
lofty pride. If he had great wealth it
would COY him. The remote contin-
gency of possessing a great fortune
turns his aspirations towards what
would be an ample substitute, namely
great power. Ex-Gov. Sprague seems
new man since his divorce case has
been settled. He was in New York
few days ago, well-dressed, bright-look-
ing, cheerful, and all in all, very
different from the moody man of de-
!jected air and careless personal habits
that his friends have been accustomed
to see for some years. Mrs. Sprague is
at Washington, and she is represented
as being similarly reiuvenated by the
magic touch of the Rhode Island d.
vorce law. She still has that mass of
yellow hair and those bright, dark eyes
that used to dazzle the young dashing
southern congressman at the capital.
Since the shotgun episode at Canon
Chef, Mrs. Sprague's wardrobe biou-
terie and other things dear to a
woman's heart has been locked up in
room which no one has been allowed to
enter. 1t seemed like Bluebeard's
secret chamber to those who roamed
through the house last summer. The
room itself has been described as being
amarvel of beauty in its furnishings
and decorations, and it was the only
room in the house which the broken
. spirited millionaire failed to show to
y visitors. He would take them through
the room that was strewn with the chill
drens toys, broken and overturned.
Just as they were left after the storm
that followed the discovery of Roscoe
Conkling in the house, but he would
pass his wifes apartments by. In that
dismal palace by the sea, with the fog
drifting in through broken windows,
the rain leaking through beautiful
fresco work upon rich carpets, the
mold settling upon damask curtains
and satin mural hangings, with red
faced Blowsabella as his housekeeper,
the ex-governor of Rhode Island lives
with
HIS STRANGE BOY WILLIE.
The latter is growing up to resemble
his father in appearance, and his dis
position seems to have taken coloring
from the sad scenes through which he
has passed. The father and son seem
passionately fond of each other, and
SO they sit on the piazza in a sunshiny
forenoon looking silently over the
moorland and at the oceans pillows
that roll in and break into foam upon
the sa;ias; their thoughts seem of the
past. and their faces betoken but little
hope for the future. Governor Sprague
traces his domestic troubles to Roscoe
Conklina, and bears this political
chieftain such bitter hatred that
it is no secret that he went armed
for months after his warning to Conk-
ling 20 arm himself The settlement of
the divorce suit has averted floOd-tide