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. Elnm Itarnlsh, known all through Alas
tea an "llurnlng Daylight." celnbratos his
30th birthday with a crowd of mlnura ut
th Clrclo City Tlvoll. Tho danco leads
to houvy Rumbling, In which over $100,000
.Is stakod Ilarnlsh losos his mnnoy and
'Ills tnlno but wins the mall contract. Ho
tarts on tils mall trip with dogs and
sledge, tolling his frlonds that he will bo
in tho big Yukon gold strlko at tho sturt.
llurnlng Daylight mukes a sensationally
rapid run across country with tho mall,
appears at tho Tlvoll nnd Is now rciuly
to Join his friends In n dash to the new
?:otd rtolds. Deciding that gold wltl be
ound In tho up-rlvur district Hnrnlsli
buys two tons of Hour, which ho declares
Will be worth Its weight In gold, but
when hn arrives with his flour he finds
tho big Hat desolate. A comrade discov
ers gold and Daylight reaps a rich liar
VosL CHAPTER V. Continued.
Hack In Duwuon, though ho remained
true to his word and never touched
hand to pick nnd shovel, he worked as
hard qb ever In his life. He had a
thousand Irons in the (Ire, and they
kept him busy. Heavy ns were bis
expenses, ho won more heavily. Ho
took lays, bought half shares, shared
with the men ho grub-staked, and mndo
personal locations. Day and night bis
dogs were ready, and he owned tho
fSBteat teams; so that when a Btnm-
pede to a new discovery was on, It was
Durnlng Daylight to tho foro through
the longest, coldest nights till ho
blazed bis fitakcB next to Discovery.
In one way or another (to say nothing
of the many worthless creeks) ho
came Into possession of properties on
the good creeks, such ob Sulphur, Do
minion, Excclsls, Slwash, Crlsto, Al
hambra, and Doollttle. The thousands
ho poured out flowed back In tens of
thousands.
Dawson grow rapidly that winter of
1896. Money poured In on Daylight
from tho sale of town lots. Ho prompt
ly Invested It where It would gather
more. In fnct, ho plnyed tho danger
ous game of pyramiding, and no moro
perilous pyramiding thnn In a placor
camp could bo Imagined. But ho
played with his eyes wldo open.
Corner lota In deslrnble locations
old that winter for from ten to thirty
thousand dollars. Daylight sent word
out over the trails and pnsscs fd tho
nowconierB to bring down log-rafts,
and, as a result, tho summer of 1897
aw bis saw mills working day nnd
night, on three shifts, and still he bnd
logs loft over with which to build
cabins. These cabins, land Included,
old at from one to several thousand
dollars. Two-story log buildings, In
the business part ot town, brought him
from forty to fifty thousand dollars
apiece. Theso fresh accretions of cap
ital were Immediately Invested In oth
er ventures'. Ho. turned gold over and
over, until everything that he touched
eomod to turn to gold.
With tbe'summer rush from the Out
Ide came special correspondents for
the big newspapera and magazines,
and one and all, using unlimited space,
they wrote Daylight up; so that, so far
as the world was concerned, Daylight
loomed the largest figure in Alaska, or
course, after several months, the
world became interested in the Span
ish War, and forgot all nbout him; but
In the Klondike itself Daylight still re
mained the most prominent figure.
. CHAPTER Vl.
A c -
It was held by the thousands ot
bero-worshipplng checbaquos that Day
light was a man absolutely without
fear. But Bettles and Dan MacDonald
and other sourdoughs shook their
heads and laughed as they mentioned
women. And they wore right. He had
always been afraid of them from tho
time, himself a lad of seventeen, when
Queen Anne, of Juneau, made open
and ridiculous lovo to htm. For that
matter, bo never had known women.
Born In a mining-camp whoro they
wore rare and mysterious, having no
titers, his mother dying while he was
an Infant, be had never been in con
tact with thorn.
But It wna loft to tho Virgin to give
him his final fright She was found
one morning dead In her cabin. A
hot through tho head bad dono it,
and she had loft no message, no ex
planation. Then caroo tho talk. Some
wit, voicing public opinion, cnlled it a
ease of too much Daylight. Sho bad
killed herself because of him. Every
body knew this, and said so. Tho cor
respondents wrote it up, and once
more Burning Daylight, Iflng of tho
Klondike, was sensationally featured
In the Sunday suppioments or the
United States. Tho Virgin had
straightened up, so tho feature-stories
ran, and correctly bo.v Never had sho
entered a Dawson City dance-hall,
When she first arrived from Circle
City, she bad earned her living by
washing clothes. Next, she bad bought
a sewing-machine and' made men's
drill parkM, fur caps, and moosehlde
mittenB. Then she bad gone as a clork
into the First Yukon Bank. All this,
and more, was known and told, though
ope and all were agreed that Day
light, while the cause, bad been the
innocent cause of her untimely end.
And the worst ot it was that Day
light knew It was true. Always would
BR&fflK jakack
ho remember that Inst night ho had
soon her. He had thought nothing of
It at tho ttmo; hut, looking back, he
was haunted by every Itttlo thing that
had bapponed. In tho light of the
tragic ovent, ho could understand
ovorythtng her quietness, that calm
certitude as If all vexing questions of
living had boon smoothod out and
wcro gone, and that certain ethereal
HwectnoBB about all that she bad said
nnd dono that had bocn almost mater
nal. Ho remembered the way sho had
(poked at him, how she had laughed
when he narrated Mickey Dolan's mis
tnko in staking tho fraction on Skook
n ni Gulch. Her laughter had boon
lightly Joyous, whllo at tho same time
It had lacked Its old-time robustness.
Not that sho nnd been grave or sub
dued. On tho contrary, sho had been
so patently content, so filled wjth
poaco. Sho had fooled hlm.ool that
ho was. Ho had oven thought thnt
night that her feeling for him had
passed, nnd he had takon delight in
tho thought, and caught visions of tho
satisfying future friendship that would
bo theirs with this perturbing lovo
out ot tho way.
And then, when ho stood at tho
door, cap In hand, and said good night.
It had struck him at tho time as a
funny and embarrassing thine hnr
bonding over his hnnd nnd kissing it.
He had folt llko n fool, but he shivered
Through It All Moved Daylight,
now when ho looked back on It and
felt again tho touch ot hor lips on his
hand. Sho was saying good-by, an
eternal good-by, and he had never
guossed. At that very moment, nnd
for all the moments ot the evening,
coolly and dollbcrntoly, as he well
knew her way, she hnd been resolved
to die. If ho had only known It! Un
touched by tho contagious malady
himself, nevertheless ho would have
married hor If ho had had the slight
est Inkling ot what buo contemplated.
And yet he know, furthermore, that
hors was a certain stiff-kneed pride
that would not have permitted her to
accept murringo as on net ot philan
thropy. There had really been no sav
Ing her, after all. Tho lovo-dlseaso
bad fustened upon her, nnd she had
been doomed from the first to perish
or it
Six thousand spent the wlntor or
1897 In Dawson, work on tho creeks
wont on apace', whllo beyond tho pass
es it was reported that one hundred
thousand more woro waiting for the
fepring. Late ono brief nftornoon, Day
light, on tho benches between French
Hill nnd Shookum Hill, caught a wid
er vision ot things. Bonoath him lay
tho richest part of Eldorado Creek,
while up and down Bonanza ho could
see for miles. It was a scene of a
vast devastation. The hills, to tbolr
tops, had been shorn of trees, and
thoir naked sides showed signs of gor
ing and perforating that eyen the
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mantle of enow could not hide. Be
neath hlm, in every direction, wore
tho cabins ot men. But not many
men were visible. A blanket of sraoko
filled tho valleys and turned tho gray
day to melancholy twilight. Smoke
nroflo from a thousand holes In the
snow, where, deep down on bed-rock,
In the frozen muck and gravel, mon
crept and scratched and dug, and ever
built more fires to break the srln or
tho frost.
Organization was what was needed,
he decldod; and his quick imagination
sketched Eldorado Creek, from mouth
to source, and from mountain tan tn
mountain top, in tho hands of one ca
pablo management. Even steam-thawing,
as yet untried, but bound to come,
ho saw would be a makeshift. Whnt
should be done wos to hydraulic the
valloy sides and benches, and then, on
the creek bottom, to use gold-dredges.
There was tho vory chanco for another
big killing. He had' wondered just
what was precisely the reason for the
Ouggonhnmmors nnd tho big English
coucorns Bending in their high-salaried
exports. That wns their scheme. That
wns why they had approached him for
tho Bale of worked-out claims and tail
ings. They" wcro content to lot the
small mine-owners gopher out whnt
they could, for there would bo mil
lions In tho loavings.
And, gazing down on the smokv in
ferno of crude effort, Daylight outlined
tho now gamo ho would play, a game
In which tho Uuggcnhnmmers and tho
rest would hnvo to reckon with him.
But along with the delight In the new
concoptlon camfc a weariness. Ho was
tired of the long Arctic years, and ho
was curious about the Outside the
Hell- Roaring, Burning Daylight.
great world of which he had heard
other men talk and or which he was
as Ignorant as a child. There were
gameB out there to play. It was n
larger table, and there was no reason
why bo with his millions should not
sit In and take a hand. So it was,
that artornoon on Skookum Hill, that
ho resolved to play this last best Klon
dike hand and pull tor tho Outside. It
took time, however. He put trusted
agents to work on tho heels or great
exports, and on tho CreokB whore they
began to buy bo likewise bought
Whorover they tried to corner a
worked-out croek, thoy found him
standlug in the way, owning blocks or
claims or artfully scattered claims
that put all their plans to naught.
followed wars, truces, compromises,
victories, and defeats. By 1898, sixty
thousand men were on tho Klondike,
and all their fortunes and affairs
rocked back nnd forth nnd wero af
fected by the battles Daylight fought.
And more and more the tasto for tbe
larger game urgod In Daylight's mouth.
Horo he was already locked In grap
ples with tbe great Quggonbammers,
and winning, fiercely winning. Pos
sibly tho severest struggle was waged
on Ophlr, the veriest of moose-pastures,
whose low-grado dirt was valu
able only because of Its vastness. Tbe
ownorsblp of a block of seven claims
In the heart ot it gave Daylight bis
grip, and they could not come to terms.
The Quggenhammer experts conclud
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ed thnt It was too big for him to
handle, nnd when they gave him an
ultimatum to that effect he accepted
and bought thorn out The plan was
his own, hut ho sent down to the
States for competent engineers to car
ry It out. In tho Rlnkabilly water
shed, eighty miles away, he built his
reservoir, nnd for eighty miles the
huge wooden conduit carried tho wa
ter across country to Ophlr. Est
mated at three millions, tho reservoir
and conduit cost nearer tour. Noi
did he stop with this. Electric power
plants wero installed, and his work
ings wero lighted as well ns run hv
electricity. Other sourdoughs, who
had struck it rich in excess ot nil
their dreams, shook their hoads gloom'
lly, warned him that he would go
broke, nnd declined to invest in so ox
travngant a venture. But Daylight
smiled, and sold out tho remainder or
his town-site holdings. He sold at the
right time, at the height or the placer
boom. When ho prophesied to his old
cronies, In tho Moosehorn Saloon, that
within ilvo years town lots In Dawson
could not be given away, whllo the
cnbins would bo chopped up tor fire
wood, he was laughed at roundly, nnd
nssurcd that tho mother-lodo would
bo round ere that tlmo. But he went
ahead, when his need for lumber was
finished, selling out his sawmills ns
well. Likewise, ho beean to net rid
of his scattered holdings on the vari
ous creeks, nnd wlthouHhanks to any
ono ho finished his conduit, built his
dredges, Imported his machinery, and
mnde tho gold of Ophlr immediately
accessible. And ho, who five years
before had crossed over tho divide
from Indian River nnd threaded the
silent wilderness, his dogs packing In
dian fnshloi, himself living Indian
fashion on straight moose meat, now
heard tho hoarso whistles calling bis
hundreds of laborers to work, and
watched thorn toll under tho whlto
glare of tho arc-lamps.
But having done the thing, he was
ready to depart. And when he let the
word go out, the Guggenhammers
vied with the English concerns and
with a new French company in bid
ding for Ophlr nnd all Its plant. The
Guggenhammors bid highest, nnd the
price they paid netted Daylight a clean
million. It wns current rumor that ho
was worth anywhere froni twenty to
thirty millions. But he alono knew
Just how he stood, nnd that, with his
last claim sold and tho table swept
clean or his winnings, ho had ridden
his hunch to the tuno or Just n tritlo
over cloven millions.
His departure was a thing that
passed Into tho history or tho Yukon
along with his other deeds. All the
Yukon wns his guest, Dawson tho
seat or tho festivity. On that one
Inst night no man's dust save his own
wns good. Drinks were not to be pur
chased. Every saloon ran open, with
extra relnys of exhausted bartenders,
and tho drinks were given away. A
man who refused this hospitality, and
persisted in paying, round a dozen
fights on his hands. The veriest
chechaquos rose up to defend tbe
name of Daylight from such Insult.
And through it all, on moccasined feet,
moved Daylight, hell-roaring Burning
Daylight, overspilllng with good na
ture and camaraderie, howling his he
wolt howl nnd claiming the night as
his, bending men'a arms down on tbe
bars, performing feats of strength, his
bronzed race flushed with drink, his
black eyes flashing, clad in overalls
and blanket coat, his ear-flaps dang
ling and his gauntleted mittens swing
ing from the cord across the should
ers. But this time It was neither an
ante nor a stake that he threw away,
but a mere marker in the game that
he who held so many markers would
not miss.
TO BE CONTINUED.)
At IT SOMETIMES HAPPENS.
The man at tbe corner of tbe down
town alley was selling some kind of
cement
It was worth 25 cents a bottle, as
he explained to his hearers, but In or
dor to Introduce It he was making a
special price of one dime, good for this
particular occasion only, and be guar
anteed satisfaction or money re
funded. "Will it mend broken chlnar in
quired a lean, undersized man In the
crowd.
"It will mond anything but a broken
promise or a ruined character. Say,
my friend, here's a couple of sticks ot
wood, fastened together at the ends.
If you break them apart I'll make you
a present ot a bottle."
Carelessly tbe undersized man took
the Joined sticks In his hands.
Then he gave them a. sudden, vio
lent wrench.
Bu they didn't break apart
It Is saddening to have to spoil a
story In his manner, but sometimes,
in tbe Interests of historical accuracy,
It has to be done.
Dire Necessity.
"Yes, sir, In a year from now, tbls
Amalgamated Balloon stock will be
worth $10,000 and I'll sell it to you for
60 cents."
"If It'll be worth $10,000 In a year
from now, why don't you keep It your
self?" , "Well, you see, I need a shave and
a' hair cut, and I'd be a holy show if I
waited that long." Judge.
E OF SILENCE
Kept At a Memorial to Dead
Wife.
Hoosfer Home In Which Nothing Hat
Been Touched Since the Death
Angel's Visit Three
Decades Ago.
Center, Ind. Tho story, however
strange, is now bo old that the people
in and about this village have long
ceased to discuss it. Occasionally an'
elder of tho neighborhood, in driving
with a stranger along the narrow
highway, will point out the "Houbo of
Silence" and in a matter-of-fact way
relate its half forgotten history the
home that for 30 yenrs or more to all
the world, save alono Its master, who
Uvea elsewhere, has been as closo
locked as the tomb that for as many
years has held its one-time mistress.
And so it will remain they say until
James Perry Mugg is laid beside the
wife of bis youth, whose Blmplest
thing touched by her vanquished hnnd
he treasures as never miser treasured
hoarded gold.
Without the old house Is not unlike
scores of the humblo structures one
will see in a day's drive in the conn.
try, with weatherboarded front and
window lighting either cramped room,
the paint rain-washed nnd sun-burned
from every board theso many years.
But about all Is the scar of decay. The
plank stop at the doorway crumbles
under tho lightest footfall. Tho time
stained blinds kro closo-drnwn, shut
ting out every ray of light. Tho
swallows and tile wasps huve nested
in the eaves nnd in tho window ledges
und Bplders draw their feathery films
over the unwashed panes. Nearer the
highway the bluegrass lawn has been
close cropped by tho grazing cattle,
but about the house the weeds grow
rank and wild. At the rear is a de
tached shed, mounted by a dlnnor bell
In which the sparrows have found a
homo.
Within not one thing has been
changed Blnce tho call, of the death
angel three decades ago. On an old
fashioned dressing caso such as might
Well awaken envy In the lover of the
antique, lies a copy of "Christian
Hymns," and by Us side an open
Bible, used, doubtless, In the sad rites.
Hung over the back of a mohalr
cushloned chair a shawl of some fine
fabric Is fast falling to pieces. On the
table by the side of the shaded lamp
sits a work-basket, with the spools of
cotton. Us needles and skeins of yarn.
On a wall shelf tbe dishes are ar
ranged Just as they were left after the
final meal. By a peg on the wall a
sunbonnet had hung, but the strings
have rotted away and It has fallen
to the floor. A broom standB In the
corner, having swept tho now faded
rag ccrpet the last time when hands
now folded upon a pulseless bosom
were vigorous and strong. And by the
table wltb Its shaded lamp, Its work
basket, and ( a few stmyle books, is a
child's rush-bottomed rocking chair.
How it links the dead past, with the
living present! Out with the thresh
ers in one of the fields of the CO odd
acres which James Perry Mugg holds
here, is a stalwart young man, sing
ing as ho thrusts tho yellow sheaves
into the greedy maw of the noisy ma
chine. It was he who sat in the rush
bottomed chair and; hoard the stories
ot the dust-covered books from his
mother's lips.
Says Crows Are Good to Eat.
Topeka, Kan. Prof. L. L. Dycho has
eaten crow, but unliko a few of our
politicians he considers it "first-class
eating." Tho professor avers that
"the flesh of the young crow is as good,
as that of tho guinea hen. It la a lit-,
tlo dark, but It has a good flavor and
is fine of texturo." Ho is also fond,
ot tbe young rod-tailed hawk which,
cooked right, he declares, could not
bo distinguished from chicken.
Hog In Well Lives 52 Days.
Henryetta, Okla. A hog that had
bene at tbe bottom of a dry well for
62 days was found alive by John B.
Jordan, farmer. .When tho animal was
pulled out by Jordan and four neigh
bors It was only a skeleton. It walked
a quarter of a mile to the barn.
Man Decapitated by a Car.
Spokane, Wash. Robert Cool, a re
tired Illinois farmer aged seventy-four,
slipped on tho snow in crossing a
Great Northern track and was decapi
tated by an empty mall car which was
being switched. His body was crushed
beneath the wheels,
HOUS
A FEDERAL HEALTH BOARD.
It Is gratifying to note that tho bill
for the creation of a federal health
board will not be allowed to pass with
out n protest. Reports of organized
resistance como from all parts or the
country, nnd It may bo that tho oppo
sition will soon bo sufficiently solidi
fied to defeat a project that promises
inflnlto mischief for tho community,
nnd suffering nnd injustlco for thoJn
divldal. Tho proposal Is based upon thoso
specious claims that aro notoriously
hard to controvert. If a federal health
board were to confine its uctlvltleB to
tho promulgation of salutary ndvlco
upon hygienic mattcra, to tho abate
ment of quackery, and to tlm mirltv nf
drugs, It might be possible to Bay
much In Its favor, although It would
Btlll be difficult to say that such an
organization is needed. But we know
that it will attompt to do far more
than this, soelng that its ndheronts
have loudly proclaimed their Intcn
tlons. Indeed, there is no socrocy
about them. It is confidently expected
that tho board will consist of advo
cates of one school of medicine only
and thnt thA methods of thnt school
Will bo not only recommended, but
enforced upon tho nntlon. Indeed a
board thnt wns In any way representa
tive of the medical profession as a
wholo would bo stultified by Its own
disagreements. Outside tho domnln
of simple hygiene, for which wo need
no federal board at nil, there is no
single point of medical practice upon
which allopaths, homeopaths, eclectics
nnd osteopaths could bo in unison.
Any board that could be devised by
tho wit of man must bo composed of
representatives of ono school only,
and this mentis that all other schools
aro branded as of an Inferior caste,
even though nothing worao happened
to them. And something worse would
happen to them. If we aro to establish
a school of medicine, If we are to as
sert that tho government of the Unit
ed States favors ono variety or prac
tice more than others, why not estab
lish also a sect of religion and be
stow special authorities upon Bap
tists, Methodists and Episcopalians?
An established school of religious
conjecturo seoms somewhat less ob
jectionable than an established sect
of pseudo-sclontlflc conjecture.
Those who suppose thnt a federal
board of health would have no concern
with Individual rights aro likely to
find themselves undeceived- It Is for
tho purpose of interfering with Indi
vidual rights that tho proposal has
been mnde. We need no special
knowledgo of conditions to be nwaro
thnt what may be called unorthodox
methods of healing have made sad In
roads Into tbe orthodox. Homeopathy
clnlps a vast number of adherents
whcVaro Just as well educated and Just
as injtelllgeut ns thoso who adhere to
tliOyOldor school. Osteopathy, eclecti
cism, and half a dozen other, methods
of practice aro certainly not loslncr
ground. Beyond them la tho vast and
increasing army or tlioso who may bo
classed under tho general and vaguo
name of mental healers. Those who
aro addicted to any of theso forms of
unorthodoxy need have no doubt as
to the purposes of tho federal health
board. Thoso purposes are to mako
it dimcult for them to follow their
particular fadB and fancies, to lead
them, and If necessary to drive them,
from medical unorthodoxy to medical
orthodoxy.
Now tho Argonaut holds no brief
for any of tho excesses and tho super
stitions connected with the care of the
body In which this ago Is so rife. But
It does feel concerned for tbe preser
vation of human liberty and for the
rights of the individual to doctor him
self in any way be pleases so long as
he does not indubitably threaten the
health of the community. He may
take large doses or small ones, or no
doses at all; he may be massaged,
anointed with oil, or prayed over, JuBt
as tbe whim of tho moment may dic
tate, and probably it makes no par
ticle of difference which he does. But
he has the right to choose, Just as he
chooses tho color of his necktie or the
character of his underclothing. It is
not a matter in which any wise gov
ernment will seek to Interefere. This
is preclsoly the liberty that the health
board Intends to take from him.
Orthodox medicine, conscious of Its
losses, Is trying to buttress Itself by
federal statute, to exalt allopathy to
tbe status of a privileged caste, and
to create un established school ot
medicine Just as some other countries
have allowed themselves to create nn
established school of religion. It Is
for the common sense of the commu
nity to rebuke that effort and to re-
pel an unwarranted invasion upon elo
mentnry human rights. Nan Fran
Cisco Argonaut.
Waiting.
"Have you named your baby yet?"
"No."
"Ho's getting pretty old to be with
out a name, isn't ho?"
"Yes; but mywifo wishes to call
him Perclvnl, und we're waiting to
Bnd out whether he's going to havo
i lisp."
Stung.
"You call this cako angel food." said
tbe harsh husband.
"Yes, dear," said the timid wlro, "but
If tho diet doesn't seem oxactly what
you want, hero aro .some devilled
crabs." Washington Star.
8ounds Plausible.
"Why do people speak or a 'cool'
million?"
"I don't know, unless It's because a
twin with a mllllou dollars can keep
cool, no matter ho'w high the coBt ot
living soars."
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