The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-09
CHAPTER xx.-contlnued.
Doctor Won Herzlich Expounds the High
town Hotel and Certain Allied Pho


town Hotel and Certain Allied Phe.
nomena,
cit will so continue the doctor placidly
resumed until the race achieves differ
emit ideal. Now you will say. but there
can be no ideal so long as there is no
imagination; and as / have directly
moment soon-said, the race is too young
to have achieved imagination. The high
est felicity which we have yet been able
toimagine is a felicity based upon much
money: Our highest pleasures. the ma
terial pleasures which money buys. yes?
We strive for it. developing the money
getting faculty at the expense of all 9TH
ers: and when the money Is obtained we
cannot, enjoy it. We can imagine to do
with it only delicate eating and drinking
and dressing for show to Others and
building houses immense and splenddly
uncalculated for homes of rational dwell
ing. Art, science, music literature, So
GEOLOGY. the great study and play of our
humanity, they are shut to us.
Our young friend Bines is a specimen.
~ is as II he We're a child having received
from another a laboratory full of the most
beautiful instruments Of science. They
are valuable, but he can do but common
Things with them because he knows not
tnelr possibilities Or. we may call it
stored energy he has; for such is money,
the finest, subtlest. most potent form Of
stored energy; it may command the high
est fruits ofgenius, the lowest fruits Of ami
mality; 1T is also volatile, elusive. Our
young friend has many powerful batteries
or It, But he is no electrician. Some he
Will happily waste without harm to him
self. Much of it. apparently. he will con-
vert into the champagne he now drinks.
For week since / had the pleasure of
becoming known to him he has drunk it
mere each day, copously. He cannot i'm
agine a more salutary mode of exhaust
ing his force. I am told he comes of a
rather who died at fifty and who did in
many ways like that. This one at the
rate have observed, will not last so long
He Will not so long correspond with an
environment even so unexacting as this.
And his son. perhaps his grandson, will
become what you call broke; will, from
lack OF pressure to learn some useful art,
and from spending only. become useless
and helpless. For besides drink, there
is gambling. He plays what you say,
the game of poker. this Bines. You see
the gentleman, rounded gracefully in front,
who has much the air of seeming to stand
behind himself-he drinks whisky at my far
right yes? He Is Of a rich trust, the
magnate director, as you say, and plays
at cards nightly with our young friend.
lie jested with him in my presence before
you entered, saying, 4 will make you look
like'-I forget it now, but his humor-
GUS threat to reduce our friend to
the aspect of some inconsiderable sum
IN the money of your country. l cannot
recall the precise amount, but it was not
SO much as what you call one dollar.
Strange, is it not, that the rich who have
too much money gamble as fevershly as
the poor who have none, and therefore
have an excuse? And the love of dis
play for display. If one were not a sci
enlist one might be tempted to say there
is, no progress. The Peruvian grandee
sfod his mules with pure gold albeit that
metal makes but inferior shedding for
beasts of burden. The London factory
girl hires the dyed feathers Of the ostrich
to make her bonnet gay; and your money
people are as display loving. Lucullus and
your latest millionaire joy in the same
emotion of pleasure at making show.
Ach! we are truly in the races childhood
yet. The way of evolution is so unfast,
yes? All! you will go now, Mr.. Oldaker.
I shall hope to enjoy you more again.
Your observations have interested me
deeply; they shall have my most high at
tention Another time you shall discuss
with me how it must be that the cosmic
process shall produce happy mean be-
tween stole and epicure, by learning the
valuable arts of compromise, yes? How
Zeno with his bread and dates shall learn
not to despise a few luXuries, and Vitel-
Illus shall learn that the mind may some
times feast to advantage while the body
fasts'
Thru the marbled corridors and regal
parlors down long perspectives of Per
sian rugs and onyx pillars, the function
ragged.
The group at PercivaIs table broke up.
He had an appointment to meet Colonel
PoindeXter the next morning to consum-
mate the purchase of some oil stock GER
tain to appreciate fabulously in value. He
had promised to listen further to Mr..
Isidore Lewis regarding plan for OBJ
tanning control of a certain line of one of
the metal stocks. And he had signified
his desire to make one of a party the af-
fable younger man would guide later in
the evening to q sumptuous temple Of
chance, to which, by good luck. he had
gained the entree The three gentlemen
parted most cordially from him after he
had paid the check.
To Mr.. Lewis when Colonel Poindexter
had also left, the young man with a taste
for gaming remarked, ingenuously:
Say, Izzy, on the level, there's the
readiest money that ever registered at
this joint. You don't have to be Mr. Will
liam Wsenham to do business with him.
You can have all you want of that at
track Odds"