Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-09-12

FOR SALE-CORD WOOD. COAL
props, In 2 inch season white oak
lumber 10-13 and S16 feet long. II.
j. Riggs. 3: T: p: No: g. city
dering If this might not be the dis
tant approach of death, till, with
wide swing of the door and long,
vigorous tread, Winship came In.
She motioned him to step lightly,
and pointed to his mother.
'Marah, come here" he called, in a
loud whisper, through the still open
doorway.
You've tired her, Miss Trafford,'
Marah said. bluntly, when she appear
ed.
I'm very sorry"
Mrs. W'inship stirred
mo, dear, no." she murmured,
family. ut isn't your fault. It's
only that I'm going going home"
She dropped away again into what
seemed like sleep. Marah sat down
by the armchair. tanning her.
She'll be better now Winsnip
whispered to Paula. Come and give
your Anal Judgment on the portrait"
They slipped away silently to. the
end Of the long room, where the
woman in black and green regarded
them, with her eternal What? and
Why? For few minutes they stood
side by side without speaking. The
feeling was in both their hearts that
they We're turning their backs on
death and the past, to look out to-
wards life and the future.
you've changed 1t In some way
Paula observed at last.
II thought you might like 1t better
So" 49,
This seems to me Paula Trafford
more as she looks every day. and less
as an abstract conception"
That's It, Lady Alice said was
wrong. She said the abstract concep-
tions. rather than the mere portrait
survive best as works of art--that
1 Mona Lisa and the 'Sistine Madon-
ma will always be greater than any af
Vandyck's cavaliers, or Vigae.Le.
1 bruins Marie Antoinettes.' Perhaps
she's right, but in your case prefer,
| the more absolute likeness. You
see, I was thinking Of you too much
as type and too little as a lady
Everybody thinks OF me as type
she complained wistfully. ~ have to
stand for Money, like the female
figure on stock-exchange."
~ didn't mean that If thought
of you as representing Wealth 1t was
that great, strange. new spirit III
American wealth that is unlike every
thing else"
''Do you mean in the way in which
it's acquired?"
Eyes, and in the way in which It's
dispensed. The world has never seen
money made with SO little mercy
spent with 80 much generosity. The
spectacle is quite novel, and must be
extremely puzziing to rnoralists.'
Paula colored, and 1 looked away
They spoke In low tones 80 as not to
disturb Mrs. Winship.
II suppose she yentured, after a
. minutes reflection. that that's bet
ter than II it were ill-spent and III
gotten, too. II the money Is In your
possession, it's something at least to
do good with it,
| Good Winship observed, turning
on her one of his cleaning looks
good is an essentially spiritual quail
| ity that is not to be commended by
4 any sum in the market. You can,
do good with money; you can only
| do good yourself. 2
Money must. at least, enlarge
ones opportunities, AZ. "a r
There's no question about that
And vet the man who robs Peter an,
expects to benefit nlankind by paying
Paul can't do what YOU call good Il
any one" 81
! astill,'' she argued. s"if Paul has
4 been fed and clothed and educated
you've added something to the tota
OF human happiness
mot when you've left Peter hun
cry and naked and brutslized, anf
tricked Of the means that were hon
| estly his. That's the spectacle Il
which some of our great philanthropit
/ f]nanciers are treating us-and the
niigels who look on must often be. i,
doubt as to whether to laugh Of
weep"
4 ut seems to me cruel to say that
she said, flushing still more deeply
$50 1t is. But it's only the cruelty
inherent in the situation when Pan
reflects on the charity offered hin
through the robbery of Peter"
does he often do that?"
Perhaps not often but he'll learn
"When?"
When the American people have
begun to judge by standards of righ
and wrong. rather than by those q
material success"
Then we shall have long time
to watt
/ IF it's too long. there may be {