Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-15
THE SPENDERS A TALE OF THE THIRD GENERATION
 By HARRY LEON WILSON
Copyright, by Lothrop Publishing Company.
CHAPTER TX.

accessories so cunning. that the repe- tition seldom bores, and is, indeed, fre- quently undetected. Thus, the descent people is a little tour de force that has been performed again and again since the oldest day. But because the assault nowadays is made not with force of arms we are prone to believe 1t is no longer made at all; as if hu- man ways had changed a bit since those ugly hairy tribes from the northern forests descended upon the Roman empire. And yet the mere diff ference that the assault is now made with force of money in no way alters the process nor does it permit the re- suit to vary. On the Surface all is cor diality and peaceful negotiation Be- meath is the same immemorial strife, the life-and-death struggle-pitiless, inexorable.
 What would have beea a hostile bivouac within the city's gates. but for the matter of a few centuries, is
 
 motely concerns us, noble structure an Riverside drive, facing the lordly Hudson and the majestic Palisades that form its farther wall. And, tor the horde of Goths and Visigoths. Huns and yandals, drunkenly reeling in the fitful light of camp fires, chant ing weird battle runes, fighting for captive vestals, and pickering in un- eouth tongues over the golden spells, Shat have we now to make the parai- 1el convince? Why the same Barbar- aans, actually; the same hairy rude ness, the same unrefned, all-conquer- ing. animal force; rel-faced, big handed lot, imbued with hearty good nature and an easy tolerance for the ways of those upon whom they have descended
 Here are chiefs of renown from the farthest fastnesses; they and their curious households: the ironmonger from Pittsburg, the gold miner from Dawson, the copper chief from Butte, the silver chief from Denver, the cattle chief from Oklahoma, lord of 100000 good acres and 30,000 cattle. the lum- Der prince from Michigan, the founder or later dynasty in oil, from Texas. And, for the unaesthetic but effective Attila, an able fashioner of pork prod ucts from Chicago.
 Here they make festival, carelessly, unafraid. unmolested. For, in the lapse of time, the older peoples have learned not only the folly of resisting inevitables. but that the huge and hairy invaders may be treated and bar tered with not unproftaDiy. Doubt less it often results from this amity that the patrician strain is corrupted by the alien admixture-but business has heen business since as many as two persons met on the face of the new earth.
 For example, this particular shelter is builded upon land which one of the patrician families had held for a cen- tury solely because it could not be dis posed of Yet the tribesmen came, clamoring for palaces. and now this same land. with some adjoining areas of trifing extent. produces an income that will suffice to maintain that fam fly almost in it's ancient and befitting estate.
 Tn this mammoth pile, for the petty rental of s1o,000 or s15,000 a year, many tribes of the invaders have found shelter and entertainment in apart ments of many rooms. outwardly, in details of ornamentation, the building Is said to duplicate the Chateau Blois, those splendid palaces of Francis I. Inside are all the line and color and device of elegant opulencs, modern to the fast note.
 To this palace of an October evening comes the tribe of Zines. and many another such, for triumphal feast in the abode of Barbarian Silas Higbee.
 The admirable host-if one be broad minded-is now in the drawing-room, seconding his worthy wife and pretty daughter who welcome the dinner guests. z
 For a man who has fad for ham and doesn't care who knows it, his bearing is all We have a right 10 ex- pect that it should be. Among the group of arrivals. men of his own sort, he is speaking of the sver-shift- ing fashion ia boards. 10 the evangel of a Texas oil field who faunts to the world one Of those heavy mustaches spuriously extended below the corners of the mouth by means of the chin growth of hair. Another. a worthy tri5esman from SnOhomish. Washing ton, wears a beard which. for a score of years. has been let to be it's own true self; 70 express. fearlessly. It's own unique capacity for variation from type. These tao have rallied their host upon his modishly trimmed side vhisksrs.
 TToa'rs right says Mr. Higbse. amiably. T sin't stuck any myself on this way of trimming up a mans face. but the madam ~iIl have it this way --ssys it looks more refined and NeE TOrky. And noE. do you know. ever since I've rOrn fem this Eay-ever sinoe had isn scraped from around under my neck hsrs-I have 10 go 10 Florida every winter. Cone January sr February. I get bronchitis every sl.zss ysar.-
 Tro of the guests o1ly are alien to the tzrbaric thro1E
 There is the noble Baron R0na1lt l ds Pallizc- decorated reserved 05ssTv- wis1frL For ths moment