The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-26

Money"
up because you've shown him what
you can do That's the way to get on
nowadays, they tell me. Whenever
the fellows on top find the chap es-
pecially one in public office, who
makes it hot for them, they hire him.
Good business all around"
Thus, so suddenly that it giddied
me- / was translated from failure to
success, from poverty to affluence,
from the most harassing anxiety to
ease and security. Two months be-
fore | should have rejected the Pow
er trusts offer with scorn, and should
have gloried in my act as proof Of
superior virtue But in those crucial
two months l had been apprentice to
the master whom all men that ever
come to anything in this world must
first serve. l had reformed my line
Of battle, had adjusted it to the lines
laid down in tactics of Life-as-it-is.
Before l was able 20 convince my
self that my fortunes had really
changed, Ed Ramsay telegraphed me
to call on him in Fredonia on bust
ness of his own. 1t proved to be such
trifle that l began to puzzle at his
real reason for sending for me. When
he spun that trifle out over ten days,
on each of which l was alone with
Carlotta at least half my waking
hours, 1 thought | had the clew to
the mystery. l saw how I could in
crease the energy of his new enthus-
iasm for me, and, also, how l could
cool it, if l wished to be rash and
foolish and to tempt fate again.
"Oh, the business didn't amount to
much" was my answer to one of my
mothers first questions. on my re-
turn. She smiled peculiarly. In spite
of my efforts, the red came-at least
l felt red.
How did you like his sister,
she went on, again with that f1utter-
ing smile In the eyes only.
"A very nice girl" said I, in any
thing but a natural manner. My moth
er expression teased me into adding:
Don't be silly. Nothing of that sort.
You are always imagining that every
one shares your opinion of me. She
isn't likely to fall in love with me-
Certainly l shant with her.
Mothers silence somehow seemed
argumentative.
Il couldn't marry girl for her
money, | retorted.
"Of course not" rejoined mother.
But there are other things to marry
for besides money or love-other
things more sensible than either
For instance, there are the principal
things-home and children"
| was listening with an open mind
The glamour of cOurtShip and
honeymoon passes" she went on.
Then comes the suber business Of
living-your career and your home.
The womans part in both is better
played if there isn't the sort of love
that is exacting, always interfering
with the career, and making the
home life a succession of ups and
downs, mostly downs"
"Carlotta is very ambitious said I.
Ambitious for her husband re-
piled my mother, "as a sensible wom-
an should be. She appreciates that
a womans best chance for big divi-
dends in marriage is by being the ST.
lent partner in her husbands career.
She'll be very domestic when she has
children. l saw it the instant / look
ed at her. She has the true maternal
instinct What a man who's going
to amount to something needs isn't
a woman to be taken care of, but a
woman to take care of him.
She said no more-she had made
her point; and when she had done
that, she always stopped.
Within a month Ed Ramsay sent
for me again. but this time it was
business alone. i found him in a pan
fc, like man facing an avalanche
and armed only with shovel Dun
kirk, the senior United States sena-
tor for our state. lived at Fredonia.
He had seen tha~. by tunneling the
Mesaba range, a profitable railroad
between Fredonia and Chicago could
be built that would shorten the time
at least three hours. But it would
take about half the carrying business
of the Ramsay company. besides seri-
ously depreciating the Ramsay inter
est in the existing road And" con-
unued Ed. The old scoundrel has got