Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-05-11

BE sCRAwLED HIS BIG, COARSE SIGNATURE
pen to jess, Bessie Will take Moolfo,f;eln, aut
that is worth having. Not that want NOR,
land; have enough. Yes, will marry he:
1t would serve her right II l d1fn',
but, after all, marriage is moro resp
able, and also enc las moro hold
wife. Nobody viii in, l'f're for her. X
she will bo of use to I'll. 10y and by. Tor
o-aut,iui wui4;asl ls power even ui,:"i
these fellow couii.rynlcn of mine, il cn,s
man knows how 10 bait his lines with her
Yes, l shall marry her. Bah! that is the W.
to win q wo,nan--by capture; and. what
more, they like it. 1t makes her worth Win
Mug. too. It will bc courtship of bloul
We'll, the Eisscs Will lie the sweatcr, and in
tho end she will love me the more for what
have dared for her. So, Frank Muller, sol
Ten years ago you said to yourself: There
arc three things worth having in the WORT.
first, wealth; second, women, If they take
your fancy, or, better still, one woman if
you desire her above all others; third,
power Now, you have got the wealth, for
ono way and another you arc tho richest
man in the Transvaal. In a weeks time you
will have the woman you love, and who is
swceter to you than ell the world besides. In
five years time you will have the power
absolute power Thae Oil man is clever; he
will be president. But am cleverer.
shall soon take his scat, tl,,,s"-and he roe
and seated himself iii the generals chair
land he will 60 down a step and take nine
Ay. and then will reign. My tongue shall
be honey and my hand iron. will pass
over tho land like storm. I will drive the
English out with the help of the Kaf1irs, and
then will kill the Kafiirs and take their land.
Ah!'-and his eyes flashed and his nostrils tii-
foIcd as ne said It TO hiinseIf-~then life Will
DO worth livingl What n thing is power!
What q thing it is to he able to destroy! Take
that Englisliman, my rival: today he is well
and strong; in three days he will DO gone ut
terly, and II shall have sent linn away.
That is power. But when the time comes
that I have only to stretch out my hand
to send thousands after him!-that will lie
absolute power; and then with Bessie shall
be happy"
And SO he dreamed Oil for an hour or more,
till at last the fumes of his untutorcd imagina-
ton actually drowned his reason in spiritual
intoxication Picture after picture rose and
unrolled itself before his minds eye. He saw
himself as president addressing the vOlksiaaG
and compel!ing it to his will. He saw him
self, the supreme general Of q great host, de-
feating the forces of England with awful
carnage and driving them before him; ny, be
even selected tho battle ground ON the slope
Of the Biggarsgerg in Natal. Then he saw
himself again sweeping tho natives out OF
South Africa with the unrelentins bosom OF
his might and ruling unquestioned over sui
missive people. And, last of all, he saw some
thing glittering at his fect-it was crown!
This was the climax of his intoxicatioll
Then there came Gn anticlimax. The ricl,
imagination which had been leading him on
as gaudy butterfly does child, suddenly
changed color and dropped tocarth; and then
rose up in his mind the memory of the gen
erals words: "God sets limit to a man.
doings. If he is going too far God kills him. ,
Tho l,,,ffarfy Ind satfle.i On a cn{T;,l