The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-04-02
CHAPTER XIV.
A "Boom-Factary."

A "Boom-Faetsry."
In the early autumn of that last
ear of his as governor, BuIba ks
life died-a grim and unexpected full
llment of their pretended anxieties
six months before.
1t was, in some respects. as great
loss to me as to him-how great to
5 both I did not-indeed, could not
easure until several years passed
he was what I regard as a typical
nerican wife-devoted to her hus-
I'd. jealousiy guarding his interests,
as keen to see his shortcomings
abe was to see her own. And how
ma more persistent and intelligent
IN srecting her faults than he in cor
recs his. Like most men, he was
Vainhat is, while he would probably
nase'mitted in a large, vague way
'hat wasn't perfect, when it came
&c oeS he would defend his worst
laui' inst any and all criticism.
Like nwomen. she, too, was vain
out an tlligent woman's vanity, in
steao haking her self-complacent
somehow urs her on to hide her
weak POI. and to show her best
polnts III best light For ex-
ample. Mfsurbank a pretty wom-
an anu piosf it, was yet conscious
oi her escies in dress and in
manners ,hi her plain and rural
carry suiioun gs. It was interest
Ing ana ihsei e, too, to watch her
studying and c.rIy cony;rg ~ r.tb.
en- aoAp.ins otta; for she took
from Carlotta o .h.+ uh;ct, could
be fitted without,h1a ;oint ;r+o ber
own pattern.
Latterly, when ,r.,,g
upon nufpahA If action requir-
Ing courage vi ce of some one |
| of his many insidit fo-.. =, nor.
| scnai vanity, | alw. .rr.n.od fo-
| her to be present at conferenca.
| And she would sit t .nn.ra,tI,,
| absorbed in her sewinl, - r..,;tv
| she was seeing not OF,
| reasons I gave him, liz .ho
| underlying and more pow re.eon.
! which we do not utter, s,. he.
cause o;, h...,,ypocrite
1 10 our SCiS %. dSe@AA !
| give the other person -
| play the hypocrite himself -.
And often 1 left him reluctan.
| ing to muster courage to I
finesse to evade, only to find ~
next day consenting. perhaps ,,.
iastic. Many's the time she
me the disagreeable necessity OF
~ dico
cause show OF authority has ever
distasteful to me and because al
der can never be SO heartily execJ
as is an assimilated suggestion.
When I went to him a month al
her death, / expected he would S
he crushed as he was at the fune
7 listened with a feeling OF revuls
to his stilted and, as it seemed to
perfunctory platitudes on his II
remarkable loss"-stale rhetoric alb
her. and to her most intimate frl'
and his, | had thought he would
| imagining himself done with ambit
forever; | had feared his strongly
ligious nature would lead him to
a Judgment upon him and her
having exaggerated her indisposit
to gain a political point. And l
mapped out what would say to ind
him to go on Instead, after a
| of those stereotyped mortuary
fences. he shifted to politics and
presently showing me that her de
had hardly interrupted his planni
for the presidential nomination.
for the Judgment" I had forgot
that in his religion his deity was
ways on his side, and his misfortu
| were always of the evil one. Tn
deities of men of action, Man
his god a ventriloauist puppet in
pocket, and with his conscience an
dog Tray at his heels, needing no Il
ing string
However. it gave me shock,
vivid reminder from Burbank of
slavery of INSTRUMENTATION.
vice of vices. For it takes its victi
all-moral, mental. physical. 4
while other vices rarely wreck any
small men or injure more than wha
within their small circles Of inhuel
ambition seizes only the superior
sets them on to use their supe
powers to blast communities. sta
nations, continents. Yet it is ca
virtue. And men who have
, themselves to it and for it to the
, shred of manhood are esteemed
mystery of mysteries. esteem tn
selves,
had come to Burbank to manu-
ture him into a president His
and / had together produced an
| cellent raw material. Now. TO n
IT up into the finished product.
He pointed to the filing cases
covered the west wall of his lib
from floor TO ceiling from north
dow to south Il base my hope
those-next to you. of course.
he. Then with his wceful widow
pose. he added: They We're her
gestions
/ looked al the fling ceases and
ed for him 70 explain.
When we first married he Y
| on presently she said 1t seems
me. IL were a public man, | sh
: keep everything relating TO myse
every speech, all that the newspa
said. every meeting and the list