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jet. 5 I v' W 1 4 B|) *mmqi as'sB* i• 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 wSat Zf 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 _\^.al^ ^»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-.' a 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 Sf""" Hop long does it take you one tt Porty minutes, If you're lucky. put you across In twen «in*t ''Intei ACK IPMDON jurw/? of Kme (Copyright. 1910, by the New York Herald Company.) (Copyright. 1910. by the MacMlllan Company. cau or r#£W£ifi "Mf/rer/wor "ff/iprm som' 'frc. 1 I'M IT .0- 1 testi- Harnish, and That Is All." Pc*ca 3w --Si 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 action on the bowels, yet positive in its effect. A dose of Syrup Pepsin at night means relief next morning, while Its tonic properties tone up and strengthen the muscles of stomach, liver and bowels so that these organs are able In a short time to again per form their natural functions without help. Druggists everywhere sell Dr. Cald well's Syrup Pepsin In 50c and $1.00 bottles'. If you have never tried this simple. Inexpensive, yet effective remedy, write to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 201 Washington St., Monticello, III., and ask for a sample bottle. Dr. Cald well will be glad to send it without 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. 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