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SYNOPSIS.
Klttm Harnlsh, known all.through Alas
ka an "Burning Daylight," celebrates his
30th birthday with a crowd of miners at
the Circle City Tlvoll. The dance leads
to heavy gambling. In which, over $100,000
Is staked. Harnlsh loses his money and
his mine but wins the mall contract. He
•tarts, on Ms mall trip with dogs and
•ledge, telling his friends that he will be
In the big Yukon gold strike at the start.
Burning Daylight makes a
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sensationally
rapid run across country with the malt,
appears at the Tlvoll 'and Is now ready
to Join- his friends In a dash to the new
fold fields. Deciding that gold will be
found In the up
buys two tons of 1
river district Harnlsh
flour, which he declares
iuys
rill be worth Its weight in gold, but
when he arrives with his flour he finds
the big flat, desolate. A comrade discov
ers gold and Daylight reaps a rich har
vest He goes to Dawson, becomes the
most prominent figure In the Klondike
and defeats a combination of capitalists
In a vast mining deal. He returns to
civilization, and, amid the bewildering
complications of high finance. Daylight
finds that he has been led to Invest his
eleven millions in a manipulated scheme.
He goes to New •JTork, and confronting
his disloyal partners with a revolver, he
threatens to kill them If his money Is not
returned. They are cowed, return their
stealings and Harnlsh goes back to San
Francisco where he meets his fate In
Dede Mason, a pretty stenographer. He
makes large Investments and gets into the
political ring. For a rest he goes to the
country. Daylight gets deeper into high
finance in San Francisco, but often the
longing for the simple life nearly over
comes him. Dede Mason buys a horse and
Daylight meets her In her Saddle trips.
One day he. -,asks Dede to go with .him
on onev mdre ride his purpose being to
Wk her
.to marry ,him, ana they canter
•my, she' trying to analyze her feelings.
CHAPTER XV.—-Continued.
But through It all ran the golden
thread of love. At first he had been
content just to rtde with Dede and to
be on comradely terms with her but
the desire and. the need for her in
creased. The-- more he knew of ber.
the. higher was his appraisal. Had
•he been reserved and haughty with
him,' orJ been merely a giggling, sim
pering creature of a woman, it would
have been different. Instead, sbe
amazed him with her simplicity and
wholesom^ness.- with herx great store
of comradeliness. The latter was the
unexpected. Ha had never looked
jgt:j «l$n• wotoaj|.-to that way. Woman,
S V-#1 the toy woman.
thin
woman,
ther of the
offspring—all this jhad bden his.
•quotation and understanding of
woman. But woman, the comrade and
playfellow and Joyfellow—this was
&ede had surprised him In. And
nttn she became worth while, the
Ardently his love burned, un-
cqhsclouslyshadingbis voice with
caresses, and with equal unconscious-:
0i:.v4iM flaring, up signal fires In his eyes.
•fS! MM she blind to It, yet, like many
sljyf women before,, her. she thought to play
w|thf jthe pretty fire and escape the
sequent conflagration," Kt
Winter will soon he coming on,"
«l$.sai£ regretfully, and with provoca
tion, one day. "and then there won't
M. any more riding.""''*
*But I .must see you tin the winter
jut the samei* he crled hastly.
She shook her head.
"SP*e been pretty good," he declared.
V* ®T It to you If I haven't. It's
wjsn pretty hard, too. I can tell you.
Iwat" think It.over. Not once have
IP j" 1 Mid a word about love to you, and
t'i *n* to^lnfc you .all the time. That's
somefor a manthat's used to
own -*ayv.v-T'm: somewhat
ef a rusher whei) it comes to travel
I i* tag ,1 reckon I'd rush Qod Almightly
If it came to a race over the Ice. And
'"l yet I didn't rush you. I guess this
fwt is jui indication of how .much I
pi So love. you. Of course I want you to
i* mm A*. H&ve I said a word about
ICitiwwhT Nary a.chirp, nary a flut
*«t- rvf been quiet and good, though
*'»*ipoi«,n»ademesick at Umes, this
)Mfeitt!Dfc«ulet»t
Haven't asked yon to
.I'm not, Mking you now.
Ob, Qotbutwhatyou satisfy me. I
n» wlf® for me. But
fc#jMH^inmtt.T ,Do yon know me
U4 5# knowr your own mind?"
Wflwwl hta,al»ouMew. "I don't
to take
—k" on Its now. You've got to
whefher you think you
^ilftngi: frttb me or not, and
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^»ervativei^m^^
|o ^J«|e for overlooking
Nor-hid she
of aarthlng Ukelt
nrye^\* ji^st. for
w'Sire-.fot to. e«f some
&&er Ihla wivter. Most
mind ain't made up yet'-"
sp^ermltmyielf to cire ^«lr
», fo» »e, wpuld not lte
10-.'
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been traveling with a lively crowd
"I don't mean that," she said,
"though I know about it, too, and
can't say that I like It But it is your
life In general, your business. There
are women In the world who could
marry a man like you and be happy,
but I couldn't And the more I cared
for such a man, the more unhappy 1
should be. You see, my unhapplness,
in turn, would tend to make him un
happy. I should make a mistake, and
he would make an equal mistake,
though his would not be so hard on
him because he would still havte his
business."
"Business!" Daylight gasped.
What's wrong with my business? I
play fair and square. There's noth
ing underhand about it, which can't
be said of most businesses, whether of
the big corporations or of the cheat
ing, lying, little corner-grocerymeo. I
play the straight rules of the game,
and I don't have to lie or cheat or
break my word."
"Don't you see," he went on, "the
whole game is a gamble. Everybody
gambles in one way or another. The
farmer gambles against the weather
and the market on his crops. So does
the United States Steel Corporation.
The business of lots of men Is straight
robbery of the poor people. But I've
never made that my business., You
know that I've always gone after the
robbers."
"I missed my point," she admitted.
"Walt a minute."
And for a space they rode in si
lence.
I see it more clearly than I can
state It, but It's something like this.
There is legtimate .work, and ther^fs
work that—well, that isnt legitimate.
The farmer works the soil and prb
duces grain. He's making something
that is good for humanity. He actual
ly, in a way, creates something, the
grain that will fill the mouths of the
hungry."
And then the railroads and market
riggers and the rest proceed to rob
him of that same grain," Daylight
broke in.
"There ain't much difference be
tween playing halfway robber like
the railroad hauling that farmer's
wheat to market, and playing all rob
ber and robbing the robbers like I do.
And, besides, halfway robbery Is too,
slow a game for 'tne to sit in. You
don't win quick enough for me."
But what do you want to win- for?"
Dede demanded. "You have millions
and millions, already why can't you
do good with all your money?"
Daylight laughed.
"Doing good with your money!
Ain't it funny, to go around with brass
knuckles and a big club' breaking
folks' heads and taking their money
away from them until I've got a pile,
and then, repenting of my ways, going
around and bandaging up the heads
the other robbers are breaking? 1
leave It to you. That's what doing good
with money amounts to.. Every once
In a- while some robber turns soft
hearted. and takes to driving an am
bulance. That's what Carnegie, did.
He smashed heads In pitched battles
at Homestead, regular wholesale head
breaker be was, held i)p the suckers
for a few hundred mlllion. and how
he goes around dribbling ty badf to
them. Funny? I leave It to yon*
He rolled a cigarette and waibiMd
her half curiously, half amusediy. -flis
replies and harsh generalisations of a
harsh- school were -disconcerting, and
she came hack to her earlier position.
"1 can't argue with you. and you
know that No matter how right a
woman Is, men have such a way about
them—well, wb^t they, say Bounds
most convincing, and yet the wonjan
Is still certain they are wrong. But
there is one thing, the creative Joy:
and It's a higher Joy than mere gam
bling. Haven't you ever made things
yourself—a log cabin up lb the Yu
kon,"or a canoe, or raft, or nomeitbing?
And doh'f yon remember how aatis
fied froftt were, hdw. good you felt,
tarhtMffou dofng ft aud *fter you
had it doner ..
While she spoke his memory, was
thto'&sdociatlons she recall
9®- deaarted flat, op" the.
spring up, and all the log structures
frli sawmllls work
three shifty
?"Wby. dog-gone it, Miss Mason,
you're right—In a way, I've built
hututretfa ?W htousfes titf "therer and I
M^artJeTT-^J proud aad' glad to
nTpro*»d now. when
a thing. 1 made Ophir, and she was a
hummer."
"And you won something there that
waB more than mere money," Dede
encouraged. "Now do you know what
I would do if I had lots of money
and simply had to go on playing at
business? Take all the southerly and
westerly slope of these bare hills. I'd
buy them In and plant eucalyptus on
them. I'd do it for the Joy of doing It
anyway but suppose I had that gam
bling twist in me which you talk
about, why, I'd do it Just the same
and make money out of the trees. And
there's my other point again. Instead
of raising the price of coal without
adding an ounce of coal to the market
supply, I'd be making thousands and
thousands of cords of firewood—mak
ing something where nothing was be
fore. And everybody who ever
crossed on the ferries would look up
at these forested hills and be made
glad. Who was made glad by your
adding four dollars a ton to Rock
Wells?
It was Daylight's turn to be silent
for a time while she waited an an
swer.
"Would you rather I did things like
that?" he asked at last
"It would be better for the world,
and better for you," she answered
non-committally.
CHAPTER XVI.
All week every one In the ofltce
knew that something new and'blg was
afoot In Daylight's mind. On Sunday
Dede learned all about It
"I've been thinking a lot of our
talk," he began, "aad I've got an idea
I'd like to give it a flutter. And I've
got a proposition to make your hair
stand up. It's what you call legiti
mate, and at the same time It's the
gosh-dangdest gamble a man ever
went into: How about planting min
utes wholesale and making two min
utes grow where one minute grew be
fore? Ob. yes. and- planting a few
trees, too—say several million of
them. You remember the quarry
made believe I was looking at? Well,
I'm going to buy It I'm going to buy
these bills, too. clear from here
around to Berkeley and down the
other way to San L«andro. I own a
lot of them already, for that matter.
But niium la. the word. I'll be buying
a long time to come before anything
much is guessed, about it. and I don't
want the market to jump up out of
sight You see that hill over there.
It'a my hill: running clear down its
slopea through Piedmont find halfway
along those rolling hills Into Oakland.
An4?tt'a nothing to all the things -I'm
going to buy." 4,'i
He paused triumphantly.
""The ferry system between Oakland
afed 8an Rrancisco. is, the. worst.. one
borae concern fa the United
Yon cross on it every day, six days
j® week., That's say, twenty-five
daj« ,n .months or three hundred a
tr
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Hop long does it take you one
tt Porty minutes, If you're lucky.
put you across In twen
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minutes grow where one grew before
knock off my head with little apples
I'll save you twenty minutes eacb
way. That's forty mlnues a day, tlmei
three hundred, equal to twelve thou'
sand minutes a year, Just for you, Jusl
for one person. Let's see: that's twfl
hundred whole hours. Suppose I sav
two hundred hours a year for thou
sands of other folks—that's farming
some, ain't ls?&Come on. Let's rld
up that hfll, and when I get you oul
on top where you can see something
I'll talk sense."
A small footpath dropped down tc
the dry bed of the canyon, which the}
crossed before they began the climb.
The slope was steep and covered with
matted brush and bushes, through
which the horses slipped and lunged
Showers of twigs and leaves fell upoa
them, and predicament followed pre
dicament until they emerged on tb«
hilltop the worse for wear but happ
and excited. Here no trees obstruct
ed the view. The particular hill on
which they were. out-Jutted from th«
regular line of the range, so that the
sweep of their vision extended over
three-quarters of the circle. Below, on
the flat land bordering the bay. lay
Oakland, and across the bay was San
Francisco. Between the two cities
they could see the white ferry-boati
on the water. Around to their right
was Berkeley, and to their left th
scattered villages between Oakland
and San Leandro. Directly In the fore
ground was Piedmont, with Its desul
tory dwellings and'patches of farming
land, and from Piedmont the land
rolled down in successive waves upon
Oakland.
"Look at it" said Daylight, extend
ing his arm in a sweeping gesture,
"A hundred thousand people there,
and no reason there shouldn't be half
a million. There's the chance to make
five people grow where one grows
now. Here's the scheme in a nutshell.
Why don't more people live in Oak
land? No good service with San Fran
cisco. and. besides, Oakland is asleep.
It's a whole lot better place to live in
than San Francisco. Now, suppose
buy in all tbe street railways of Oak
land. Berkeley, Alameda, San Leandro,
and the rest—bring them under oh«
head with a competent management?
Suppose I cut the time to San Fran
cisco one-half by building a big pier
out there almost to Goat Island and
establishing a ferry system with mod.
em up-to-date boats? Why, folks wtli
want to live over on this side. Very
good They'll need land on.which tc
build. So. first I buy up the land.
But the land's cheap now- Why? Be
cause It's In the country, no electrlo
ro?d8. no quick communication, no
body. guessing that the electric roads
are coming. I'll build the roads. That
Will make- We land jump up. Then
Ml sell the land as fast as the folks
will want to boy because of tbe tn
proved ferry system and transport*
tion facilities.
i*o BB *66irh3f\mik)
Is tbe^ strongest force then
latitat only a^few lu^ve' made the di*
FOR EVERY FAMILY
.. MEDICINE CHEST
To the head of every family the
health of its different members is
most important, and the value of an
agreeable laxative that is certain in
Its effect is appreciated. One of the
most popular remedies In the family
medicine chest is a combination of
simple laxative herbs with pepsin that
is known to druggists and physicians
as Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. This
preparation is mild and gentle In its
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its effect. A dose of Syrup Pepsin at
night means relief next morning,
while Its tonic properties tone up and
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Druggists everywhere sell Dr. Cald
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any expense to you whatever. ....
ABOVE MERE STORY TELLER.
Willie (aged seven)—Say, paw,
what's a raconteur?
Father—A fellow who wears a dress
suit when he tells stories.
LAWYER CURED OF ECZEMA
"While attending school al Lebanon,
Ohio, In 1882, I became afflicted with
bolls, which lasted for about two
years, when the affliction assumed the
form of an eczema on my face, the
lower part of my face being inflamed
most of the time. There would be
water-blisters rise up and open, and
wherever the water would touch it
would burn, and cause another one to
rise. After the blister would open,
the place would scab over, and would
burn and itch so as to be almost un
bearable at times. In this way the
sores would spread from one place to
another, back and forth over the
whole of my upper lip and chin, and
at times the whole lower part of my
face would be a solid sore. This con
dition continued for four or five years,
without getting any better, and in fact
got worse all the time, so much so
that my wife became alarmed lest it
prove fatal.
"During all this time of boils and
eczema, I doctored with the best phy
sicians of this part of the country, but
to no avail. Finally I decided to Try
Cuticura Remedies, which I did, tak
ing the Cuticura Resolvent, applying
the Cuticura Ointment to the sores,
and using the Cuticura Soap for wash
ing. In a very short time I began to
notice improvement, and continued to
use the Cuticura Remedies until I was
well again, and have not had a re
currence of the trouble since, which is
over twenty years. I have recom
mended Cuticura Remedies to others
ever since, and have great faith in
them as remedies for skin diseases."
(Signed) A. C. Brandon, Attorney-at-
Law, Greenville, O., Jan. 17, 1911.
Although Cuticura Soap and Oint
ment are sold everywhere, a samplo
of each, with 32-page book, will be
mailed free on application to "Cuti
cura," Dept. L, Boston.
Celtic Arithmetic.
Into the general store of a town up
In New York state there recently came
a big, good natured Irish woman, who
wanted to be weighed. She stepped
off the scales almost as soon as she
had stepped on.
"Shure, these scales is no good!"
was her disgusted comment. "They
only weigh up to wan hundred, an' I
weigh something loike wan hundred
and noinety pounds."
Tis easily discouraged ye are, Mrs.
Casey," said a friend. "Just step onto
them twict, me dear, and let Mickey
here do the sum for ye."
RESTORED TO HEALTH.
After Suffering with Kidney Disorder®
for Many Years.
Mrs. John S. Way, 209 S. 8th St., In
dependence, Kans., says: "For a num
ber of years I was a victim of disor
dered kidneys. My back ached con
stantly, the passage
of tbe kidney secre
tions was irregular
and my feet and an
kles badly swollen.
Spots appeared be
fore my 'eyes and I
was very nervous.
After using numerous
remedies without relief, I was com
pletely cured by Doan's Kldbey P^lls.
In view of my advanced age, my cure
seems remarkable."
"When Your Back Is Lame, Remem
ber tbe Name-DOAN'S. 50c. nil stores.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
A thlrror often' prevents a woman
from getting lonesome.
FLAX GROWING
IS PROFITABLE
WESTERN CANADA FARMERS BE
COMING RICH IN ITS
?y PRODUCTION. *'1 &
So much has been written regarding'
the great amount of money made out
of growing wheat in the prairie prov
inces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and
Alberta, Western Canada, that many,
other products of the farms are over'
looked. These provinces will always
grow large areas of wheat—both
spring and winter—and the yields will
continue to be large, and the generals
average greater than In any other
portion of the continent Twenty, thir
ty, forty, and as high as fifty bushels
per acre of wheat to the acre—yields
unusual in other parts of the wheat
growing portions of the continent—
have attracted world-wide attention,
but what of oats, which yield forty,
fifty and as high as one hundred and
ten bushels per, acre and carry off the
world's prize, which, by the way, "was
also done by wheat raised in Sas
katchewan during last November at
the New York Land Show. And then,
there is the barley, with its big yields,
and its excellent samples. Another
money-maker, and a big one is flax.
The growing of flax is extensively car
ried on in Western Canada. Tho
writer has before him a circular is
sued! by a prominent farmer at Saska
toon. The circular deals with the
treatment of seed flax, the seeding
and harvesting, and attributes yields
of less than 20 bushels per acre, to
later seeding, imperfect and illy-pre
pared seed. He sowed twenty-five
poi\nds of seed per acre and had a
yield of twenty-nine bushels per acre.
This will probably dispose of at $2.50
per acre. Speaking of proper prepa
ration of seed and cultivation of soil
and opportune sowing, in the circular
spoken of there is cited the case of a
Mr. White, living fourteen miles
south of Rosetown, "who had fifteen
acres of summer fallow a year ago
last summer, upon which he produced
thirty-three bushels to the acre, when
many in the district harvested for
want of crop. Now, there can be no
proper reason advanced why such a
crop should not have been produced
on all the lands of the same quality
in the adjacent district, provided they
had been worked and cared for in the
same manner. This year rt911) tho
same man had one hundred acres of
summer fallow, had something over
3,800 bushels of wheat. He also had
1,800 bushels of oats and 300 bushels
of flax."
There are the cattle, the horses, the
roots and the vegetable products of
Western Canada farms, all of which
individually and collectively deserve
special mention, and they are treated
of in the literature sent out on appli
cation by the Government agents.
Touch Preventer.
Howell—Why do you call your dog
"Strike Breaker?"
Powell—I have done it ever since
he grabbed a fellow who was about
to strike me for money. w-
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, a safe and Bure remedy for
infants and children, and seo that it
Bears the
Signature of
In Use For Over 30*YearsT
Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria
The Proportion.
Knicker—Did he speak at a dinner?
Bocker—No he ate at a talk.
Cole's Carbollsalve quickly relieves and
cures burning, Itching and torturing skin
diseases. It Instantly stops the pain of
burns, Cures without scars. 25c and 60c
by druggists. For free sample write to
J. W. Cole & Co.. Black River Falls, Wis.
Too often the man with the hoe gets
the worst of an encounter with the
man with the gold brick.
Dr. Pierce's Pellets, small, sugar-coated,
easy to take as candy, regulate and invig
orate stomach, liver and Dowels and cure
constipation.
Wealth may not bring a man happi
ness, but it surrounds him with a
multitude of would-be friends.
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Many a woman encourages a man
by trying to discourage him.
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