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Show A FORTUNE TO TELL SPENDING OTHERS HOW TO GAIN WEALTH ACK 1PMDON w urr&p or 'Tsr call or rrwLD. rom "rrc. "h'rrr rANor This is a story of how a comfortable little fortune was spent in three weeks: It wasnt squandered, and In Its way that fortune put potential wealth into (Copvrlxht. 1910, by the New York Herald Company.) the hands of more than. 155,000 perMacMillan 1910. the Company. by (Copyright. sona in Chicago. When mantle of snow could not hide. Be- ed that it was too big for him to t To begin at the beginning; was beneath him. in every direction, were handle, and when they gave him an the third Chicago Land ShowSouthern the Union and planned ing to not effect ultimatum men. he that But of cabins many accepted the men were visible. A blanket of smoke and bought them out. The plan was Pacific railroad companies began to filled the valleys and turned the gray his own. but he sent down to the plan also how they could attract their Smoke States for competent engineers to car- share of the hundreds of thousands day to melancholy twilight. arose from a thousand holes in the ry It out. In the RInkabilly water- that would visit the show, to their ter. shed, eighty miles away, he built his ritory. Mny things were discussed snow, where, deep down on In the frozen muck and gravel, men reservoir, and for eighty miles the the first being the idea of booths in products grown crept and scratched and dug, and ever huge wooden conduit carried the wa- which to displayof the ralloads. the built more fires to break the grip of ter across country to Ophir. Esti- along the lines That wont do, said Gerrltt Fort mated at three millions, the reservoir the frost Organization was what was needed, and conduit cost nearer four. Nor and Charles S. Fee, passenger traffic he decided; and his quick imagination did he stop with this. Electric power managers of the Union and Southern Weve got to have sketched Eldorado Creek, from mouth plants were installed, and his work- Pacific railroads. to source, and from mountain top to ings were lighted as well as run by something different this year. Last who year we showed what our farmers mountain top, in the hands of one ca- electricity. ' Other sourdoughs, had struck it rich in excess of all can do. This year we want to show pable management. Even as yet untried, but bound to come, their dreams, shook their heads gloom- what all of us can do. What ily, warned him that he would go he saw would be a makeshift. Plan to Spend a Fortune. And right there began the plans should be done was to hydraulic the broke, and declined to invest in stv exBut Dryllght for spending this fortune. After a dozvalley sides and benches, and then, on travagant a venture. had been the creek bottom, to use smiled, and sold out the remainder of en different suggestions There was the very chance for another his town-sitholdings. He sold at the thrashed out there was evolved the big killing. He had wondered just rfght time, at the height of the placer one used, that of having two moving what was precisely the reason for the boom. When be prophesied to his old picture palaces built Into the Coliseum Guggenhammers and the big English cronies, in the Moosehorn Saloon, that at Chicago and there showing stereop-tlcoconcerns sending in their within five years town lots in Dawson and moving pictures not only of experts. That was their scheme. That could not be given away, while the farm life but of town and city life was why they had approached him for cabins would be chopped up for fire- along the Union and Southern Pacific claims and tail- wood, he was laughed at roundly, and lines. the sale of worked-ou- t would ings. They were content to let the assured that the mother-lodTwenty thousand dollars was the small gopher out what be found ere that time. But he went sum decided upon as necessary to they could, for there would be mil- ahead, when his need for lumber was make the display. The space at the lions in the leavings. finished, selling out his sawmills as Coliseum that was allotted to the railAnd, gazing down on the smoky In- well. Likewise, he began to get rid roads was put In the hands of a mov- ferno of crude effort. Daylight outlined of his scattered holdings on the varithe new game he would play, a game ous creeks, and without thanks to any bed-rock- SYNOPSIS. Elam Harnlsh, known all through Alaska as "Kuming Daylight, celebrates his hh birthday with a crowd of miners at the Circle City Tivoli. The dance leads to heavy gambling. In which over $100,010 la staked Harnlsh loses his money and his mine but wins the mall contract. He on his mail trip with dogs and starts sledge, telling his friends that he will be In the big Yukon gold strike at the start. Horning Daylight makes a sensationally the mail, rapid run across country with appears at the Tivoli and is now ready to Join his friends in a dash to the new Deciding that gold will be gold fields. district Harnlsh found in the two of flour, which he declares tons buys will be worth Its weight In gold, but when he arrives with his flour he finds the big flat desolate. A comrade discovers gold and Daylight reaps a rich harvest. CHAPTER Continued. V. Hack In Dawson, though he remained true to bis word and never touched hand to pick and shovel, he worked as hard as ever In his life. He had a thousand Irons In the Are, and they kept him busy. Heavy as were his expenses, he won more heavily. He took lays, bought half shares, shared , and made with the men he personal locations. Day and night his dogs were ready, and he owned the fastest teams; so that when a stampede to a new discovery was on. It was Hurnlng Daylight to the fore through the longest, coldest nights till he blazed his stakes next to Discovery. In one way or another (to say nothing of the many worthless creeks) he came Into possession of properties on the good creeks, such as Sulphur, Dominion, Excelsts, Siwash, Crlsto, Alhambra, and Doolittle. The thousands he poured out flowed back In tens of thousands. Dawson grew rapidly that winter of 1S!)6. Money poured in on Daylight from the sale of town lots. He promptly Invested It where It would gather more. In fact, he played the dangerous game of pyramiding, and no more perilous pyramiding than In a placer But he be Imagined. Camp could wide his open. with eyes played Corner lots In desirable locations old that winter for from ten to thirty thousand dollars. Daylight sent word out over the trails and passes for the to bring down newcomers and. as a result, the summer of 1897 saw his saw mills working day and night, on three shifts, and still he had grub-staked- he remember that last night he had seen her. He had thought nothing of it at the time; but. looking back, he was haunted by every little thing that In the light of the had happened. understand tragic event, he could her quietness, that calm everything certitude as If all vexing questions of living had been smoothed out and were gone, and that certain ethereal sweetness about all that she had said and done that had been almost maternal. He remembered the way she had looked at him, how she had laughed when he narrated Mickey Dolans mistake in staking the fraction on Skook-uGulch. Her laughter had been lightly joyous, while at the same time robustness. it had lacked Its Not that she had been grave or subdued. On the contrary, she had been so patently content, so filled with peace. She had fooled him, fool that he was. He had even thought that night that her feeling for him had passed, and he had taken delight in the thought, and caught visions of the satisfying future friendship that would be theirs with this perturbing love out of the way. And then, when be stood at the door, cap in hand, and said good night. It had struck him at the time as a funny and embarrassing thing, her bending over his hand and kissing it. He had felt like a fool, but he shivered old-tim- e left over with which to build cabins. These cabins, land Included, sold at from one to several thousand Two-storlog buildings, In dollars. the business part of town, brought him dollars from forty to fifty thousand of capaccretions fresh These apiece. ital were Immediately Invested In othy over, until everything that he touched seemed to turn to gold. With the summer rush from the Outside came special correspondents for the big newspapers 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. Of e mine-owner- s in which the Guggenhammers and the conception came a weariness. He was accessible. And he, who five years tired of the long Arctic years, and he before had crossed over the divide utside the from Indian River and threaded the was curious about the silent wilderness, his dogs packing Indian fashion, himself living Indian fashion on straight moose meat, now heard the hoarse whistles calling his hundreds of laborers to work, and watched them toil under the white glare of the 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 bidding for Ophir and all its plant. The Guggenhammers hid highest, and the they paid netted Daylight a clean price minion. U was current rumor mat he was worth anywhere from twenty to thirty millions. But he alone knew just how he stood, and that, with his last claim sold and me table swept clean of his winnings, he had ridden his hunch to the tune of Just a trifle over eleven millions. His departure was a thing mat passed into the history of the Yukon along with his other deeds. All the Yukon was his guest, Dawson the seat of the festivity. On that one last night no mans dust save his own was good. Drinks were not to be Every saloon ran open, with sxtra relays of exhausted bartenders, and the drinks were given away. A man who refused this hospitality, and persisted In paying, found a dozen lights on his hands. The veriest chechaquos rose up to defend the name of Daylight from such insult Ant through it all, on moccaslned feet mot d Daylight, Burning Da) Ight, overspilling with good nature and camaraderie, howling his howl and claiming the night as his, lending mens arms down, on the bar performing feats of strength, his bro ted face flushed with drink, his blai eyes flashing, clad in overalls s and blanket coat, his dang-lin- t and his gauntleted mittens swinging rom the cord across the shoulders But this time it was neither an ant nor a stake that he threw away, buti mere marker in the game that he ho held so many markers would notpiss. d love-diseas- e moose-pasture- low-grad- e s, n the west Message Straight to Hearts. We found that we sent our message straight into the hearts of the land hungry, said an official of the railroads who was present during the land show. They came Into our little theaters with their eyes and feet one he finished his conduit, built his Through It All Moved Daylight, Hell- Roaring, Burning Daylight. now when he looked back on It and great world of which he had heard felt again the touch of her lips on his other men talk and of which he was an as ignorant as a child. There were hand. She was saying good-by- , and he had never games out there to play. It was a eternal good-by- , no reason guessed. At that very moment, and larger table, and there was for all the moments of the evening, why he with his millions Bhould not coolly and deliberately, as he well sit in and take a hand. So it was, knew her way, she had been resolved that afternoon on Skookum Hill, that to die. If he had only known It! Un- he resolved to play this last best Klonmalady dike hand and pull for the Outside. It touched by the contagious himself, nevertheless he would have took time, however. He put trusted married her If he had had the slight- agents to work on the heels of great est Inkling of what she contemplated. experts, and on the creeks where they And yet he knew, furthermore, that began to buy he likewise bought pride Wherever they tried to corner a hers was a certain to worked-ou- t her creek, they found him not have would that permitted or accept marriage as an act of philan- standing In the way, owning blocks thropy. There had really been no sav- claims or artfully scattered claims that put all their plans to naught. ing her, after all. The Followed wars, truces, compromises, had fastened upon her, and she had been doomed from the first to perish victories, and defeats. By 1898, sixty thousand men were on the Klondike, of it. Six thousand speDt the winter of and all their fortunes and affairs 1897 in Dawson, work on the creeks rocked back and forth and were at went on apace, while beyond the pass- fected by the battles Daylight fought. es It was reported that one hundred And more and more the taste for the thousand more were waiting for the larger game urged In Daylight's mouth. In grapspring. Late one brief afternoon. Day- Here he was already locked the with French between benches Guggenhammers, great on the ples light. Hill and Shookum Hill, caught a wid- and winning, fiercely winning. Poser vision of things. Beneath him lay sibly ttys severest struggle was waged the richest part of Eldorado Creek, on Ophir, the veriest of dirt was valuwhose while up and down Bonanza he could see for miles. It was a scene of a able only because of its vastness. The vast devastation. The hills, to their ownership of a block of seven claims tops, bad been shorn of trees, and in the heart of it gave Daylight his their naked sides showed signs of gor- grip, and they could not come to terms.ing and perforating that even the The Guggenhammer experts concludstiff-knee- Union-Souther- rest would have to reckon with' him. dredges. Imported his machinery, and But along with the delight in the new made the gold of Ophir Immediately ear-flap- It was held by e n high-salarie- be-w- CHAPTER VI. p e hell-roarin- g course, after several months, the world became Interested In the Span Ish War, and forgot all about him; but In the Klondike Itself Daylight still remained the most prominent figure. the thousands of chechaquos that Daylight was a man absolutely without fear. But Betties and Dan MacDonald and other soqrdoughs shook their heads and laughed as they mentioned women. And they were right. He had always been afraid of them from the time, himself a lad of seventeen, when Queen Anne, of Juneau, made open and ridiculous love to him. For that matter, he neTer had known women where they Born In a mining-camwere rare and mysterious, having no inters, his mother dying while he was an infant, he had never been In contact with them. But tt was left to the Virgin to give him his final fright She was found one morning dead In her cabin. A hot through the head had done It, and she had left no message, no explanation. Then came the talk. Some wit, voicing public opinion, called It a ease of too much Daylight. She had killed herself because of htm. Everybody knew this, and said so. The correspondents wrote It up, and once more Burning Daylight, King of the Klondike, was sensationally featured of the In the Sunday supplements The Virgin had United States. straightened up, so the feature-storie- s ran, and correctly so. Never had she entered a Dawson City dance-hall- . When she first arrived from Circle City, she had earned her living by washing clothes. Next, she had bought and made mens a sewing-machindrill jarks, fur caps, and moosehlde mittens. Then she had gone as a clerk tnto the First Yukon Bank. All this, and more, was known and told, though One and all were agreed that Daylight, while the cause, had been the innocent cause of her untimely end. And the worst of it was that Daylight knew it was true. Always would gold-dredge- pur-hase- He turned gold over and er ventures. g, i I' j '' "'y ?: bt, ; ' 'Ha v J. V 4' sS ,t v , ' wide armed opera 11 I 50 c '1 froir be worth $10,000 in a yeat why dont you keep It your-self- l you see. I need a shave and a ha t. and I'd be a holy show If I waltpat long. Judge. ' V ' - She Well, hope for the best. You may prove one of the exceptions. Constipation causes many serious diseases. It is thoroughly cured by Doctor One a laxative, Pierces Pleasant Pellets. three for cathartic. Referred to the Lexicographer. To Renege Not to follow suit. To Reno To begin suit. Life. IN com BROMO ON DAY Qulntne monoy it it fans to car, lniiririrfund 6 Mg stator ioa aacb bvx. Se. UiUj M ' . Tablets. M. W. The evils and sorrows that afflict mankind are of mankind's own making. Marie Corelli. V v- a w V ly colored stereoptlcon pictures were thrown on the screen, their eyes were rested by the soft colors of the flowers, the waving grain and the handsome homes shown them. In the motion pictures they were shown the methods of farming, the scenic wonders of our lines, and the many cities which we reach. Altogether, I believe that we reached the people in this way better than we could In any other. f Thousands p As the throngs Get Literature. passed from the theaters after each lecture they were sent out through the front of the rooms. Into a wide hallway between the auditoriums. On one side of thU hallway was a long counter where literature Padescriptive of the cific territory was handed them and tens of thousands also registered their names and addresses. These will be turned over to the communltlee In the railroads territory for their benefit In order that they may get Into direct touch with persons seeking new homes. The cost of space, fitting up and operating the two theaters was a heavy one, and at the end of thie 22 days of the exposition the men behind the exhibit discovered that their little fortune of $20,000 had been spent. With the close of the land show workmen tore out all the handsome paintings, and the chairs and other comfortable fittings, and within a few hours nothing was left except that which the railroad men wanted the memory, planted deep In the minds of tens of thousands of persons, of their part of the West and Its opportunities. Union-Souther- n , . long. I.AXATIVB - tired from the sights they had seen and the hard floor they had tramped. They sank down into our comfortable seats, rested their feet on our padded floor, and Just listened. Then when the lights were lowered and the beautiful- They say men of brains live TO CURE A ' .,. Hope. He Tats - '"" guar-ant- e Dire Necessity. TSslr, In a year from now this Amo ated Balloon stock will be wort 0.000 and I'll sell it to you fo wf ...v - ing picture architect a specialist In the designing and building of motion picture houses and he was told to go ahead and build two of the best ones he ever planned. The result more than repaid the planners. When the theaters were turned over to the railroads they were fully up to expectations. The entrances to foyer of the two was from the main body of the Coliseum and the two wide doorways were brilliantly lighted with electric Btgns. The foyer ran the full length of the Coliseum Annex and was wide. Under foot was a soft carpet, and on the walls were scenes of farm , and home life in the west. Theaters Are Resting Place. The theaters themselves also were reached by two broad doorways each. Inside they were carpeted and fitted with comfortable 'h 3.. : , $! t. 'A 'v.' v V - , . Ife MM , f V J " chairs that furnished the grateful resting place to the thousands that had. been looking around In the big Coliseum and standing about on the concrete floors until their feet ached. The walls of the theaters also were cov(TO BE CONTINUED.) ered with paintings of western scenes. In addition to the farm scenes were IT SOMETIMES HAPPENS. views of several of the immense Irrigation projects, and a number of the T! man at the corner of the down wonders of the world. scenic towi illey was selling some kind of The cages for the moving picture cem It as worth 25 cents a bottle, as operators were fireproof, so that In he c lalned to his hearers, but In or- case of accident no flame could reach der Introduce It he was making a out Into the body of the house. The spec price of one dime, good for this ceilings of the two halls were beamed and paneled and the Interior decorapart tar occasion only, and he satisfaction or money re- tions were equal to those of any theater In Chicago. In the front of each fund room was the platform on which the it mend broken china? inlecturers a stood, and to the left of this in man the quire lean, undersized was the screen on which the pictures crow "Ii mend anything but a broken were thrown. This was one huge sheet pron or a ruined character. Say, without seam to mark or mar It, and my ad, heres a couple of sticks of the reflections cast were as clear as It woew astened together at the ends. was possible to make them. If y reak them apart Ill make you Five Hundred Lectures Given. a pr it of a bottle. Five hundred and six lectures were Ca ssly the undersized man took the ed Btlcks in hia hands. T1 he gave them a sudden, violent ?nch. , Bi ay didn't break apart. It saddening to have to Bpoll a stor his manner, but sometimes, in tl terests of historical accuracy, It h a be done. r. V- arc-lamp- log-raft- Jogs steam-thawin- given In the two theaters In the 22 days the Land Show was open or an average of 23 lectures a day. Thirty different men and women from different parts of the country Bent out the call for their particular sections; each presenting in his or her own way the advantages to be derived from residing there. Governors day at the Land Show was November 28, and on that day Pacific companies the threw open their theaters to the governors of ten western states, welcomed them there, and It was there tha the messages of these states were told to Chicago. Other distinguished visitors were Invited, and they also talked to thousands. On the special days of the states represented at the exposition the programs were given, as a usual thing, In one of these theaters. Men stood at each door of the two theaters all day long with counters In their hands, and every person that entered was ticked off on the little watch-llk- e machines they held. At the epd of each day th9 total was taken from each and they were set hack to zero again ready for the next day. 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