Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1912 — Page 6

(Copyright, 1910. by the New York Herald Company.) (Copyright. 1310, by tie MacMillan Company.

CHAPTER IV.

This time the trail 'was easier. It Was better packed, and they were not carrying mail against time. At Forty lllle they laid over two days for the sake of the dogs, and at Sixty Mile Daylight’s team was left with the trader. Unlike. Daylight, after the terrible run from Selkirk to Circle City, they had been unable to recuperate on the back trail. So the four men pulled on from Sixty Mile with a fresh team of; d Bled. The toiler, irvrr r : : > camped in the :v: < r the 'mouth of tl.. S*- •' " talked town si' others laughed • - P whole maze of “Just supposing *'.f i . ?tk '4cmf come on the St “MU-.be ycu-all ’ll ; again mebbe you-a’l t will. Ycu-all ’d bet: r.r< , go In with me on it " * But they were atul "You’re as bad as i.iarj • r, a: i J >e Ladue,” said Joe Hines, “Tl. • re always at that game. You k ,--.v that

big flat jest below the Klondike and under Moosehide Mountain? ’Veil, the recorder at Forty Mile was tollin’ toe they staked that not a month ago —The Harper & Ladue Town Site. Ha! Ha! Ha!” Elijah and Finn joined in his laughter; but- Daylight was gravely In earnest “There she is!” he cried. “The hunch Is working! It’s In the air, I tell you-all! What’d they-all stake the big flat for if they-all didn’t get the hunch? Wish I’d staked it.”

The regret in his voice was provocative of a second burst of laughter. “Laugh, dang you, laugh! Why ycur eyes ain’t open yet. You-all are a bunch of little mewing kittens. I tell you-all if that strikes come on Klondike, Harper and Ladue will be millionaires. And if it comes on Stewart, you-all watch the Elam Harnish town site boom. In them days, when you-all come around makin’ poor mouths . . He heaved, a sigh of resignation. “Well, I suppose I’ll have to give you-all a grub-stake or soup, or something or dther.” In the meantime there was naught, to show for it but hunch. But it was coming. As he would stake his last ounce on a good poker hand, so be staked his life and effort op the hunch that the future held in store, a big strike on the Upper River. So he and his three companions, with dogs, and sleds, and snowshoes, toiled up the frozen breast of the-Stewart, toiled on and on through the white wilderness whoi.e the unending f. I never broken by the voices of men, the stroke of an ax, or the distant crack of a rifle. Gold they found on the bars, but not in paying quantities, and in the following May . ti: y returned to Sixty Mile. Ten days later. Harper and Joe Ladue arrived at Sixty Mile, and Daylight, strong to obey the hunch that had come to him, traded a third interest in his Stewart town site for a third interest in theirs on the Klondike. They had laith in the Upper Country, and Harper left down-stream, with a raft-load of supplies, to start a small post at the. mouth of the Klondike. “Why don’t you tackle Indian River, Daylight?” Harper advised, at pafttpg. “There’s whole slathers of creeks and draws draining in up there, and somewhere gold just crying to be found. That’s my hunch. There’s a big strike coming, and Indian River ain’t going to be a million miles away.”

“And the place is swarming with moose,” Joe Ladue added. “Bob Henderson’s up there somewhere, been there three years now, swearing something big is going to happen, living off’n straight moose and prospecting around like ~a crazy man.” Daylight decided to go Indian River a flutter, as he expressed it ; and lingered a few days longer arranging his meager outfit. He planned to go in light, carrying a pack of seventy-five pounds and making his five dogs pack as well, Indian fashion, loading them with thirty, pounds each. Depending on the report of Ladue, he intended tp follow Boh Henderson’s example and live practically on straight meat. When Jack Kearns’ scow, laden with the sawmill from Lake Linderman, tied up at Sixty Mile, Daylight bundled his outfit and dogs on k board, turned bis towm-site application over to Elijah to be filed, and the same day was landed at the mouth of Indian River. He continued down Hunker to the Klondike, and on to the summer fishing camp of the Indians bn the Yukon. Here for a day he camped with Carmack, a squaw-man, and his Indian brother-in-law, Skookum Jim, bought a boat, and, with his dogs on board, drifted down the Yukon to Forty Mile. Then It was that Carmack, his broth-er-in-law, Skookum Jim, and Cultus Charlie, another Indian, arrived in a canoe at Forty Mile, went straight to the gold commissioner, and recorded three claims and _a discovery claim on

BURNING DAYLIGHT

BY JACK LONDON

Authod Of " The Call OeTke W/ld7 U Wfi/TE /AN<L "MAPr/NfDENfre Illustrations By Dearborn Melvill

Bonanza Creek. After that,Tn the Sourdough Saloon, that nightr tbey exhibited coarse gold to the skeptical crowd. Daylight, too. was skeptical, and this despite his faith in the Upper Country. Had he not, only a few days before. seen Carmack loafing with his Indians and with never a thought of prospecting? But at eleven that night, sitting on the edge of his bunk and un'r.cing his moccasins, a thought canse to him. He put cn his coat and k. t and went back to the Sourdough. Carm? was still there, flashing his ■ ar.-.> gold in the eyes, of an unbe’u: generation. Daylight ranged Iri-reside of him and emptied Car- • into a blower,! This he ter a I ng time. Th'cn, from - • ok. into another blower, lie - ■ 1 - > veral ounces of Circle City < F ty Mile gold. Again, for a long ■•* riudied and compared. Final- * ; icketed his own gold, returned 1 ks, and held up his hand for skvr.ro.

i-oys. I want to- tell you-all something,’ he said. “She's sure come—the up-river strike. And I tell you-all, clear and forcible, this is it. There nint never been geld like that in a blower in this country bdfere. It’s new gold. It’s got more silver In it

“Who-all’s Got Faith to Come Along With Me?”

You-all can see it by the color. Carmack’s sure made a strike. Who-all’s got faith to come along with me?” No ope volunteered. “ib&n who-all ’ll take a job from nie, cash wages in advance, to pole up a thousand pounds of grub?” Curly Parsons and another, Pat Monahan, accepted, and, with his customary speed, Daylight paid them their wages in advance and arranged the purchase of the supplies, though he emptied his sack in doing so. He was leaving the Sourdough, when he suddenly turned back to the bar from the door. “Got another hunch ?” was the query. “I sure have,” he answered. “Flour’s sure going to be worth what a man will pay for it this winter up on the Klondike. Who’ll lend me some money ?” ' . On the instant a score of the men who had declined to accompany him on the wild-goose chase were crowding about him with proffered goldsacks. “How much flour do you Want?"’ asked the Alaska Commercial Company’s storekeeper. “About two ton.” The proffered gold-sacks were not withdrawn, though their owners were guilty of an outrageous hurst of merrl ment. , i ■ ■

“What are you going to do with two tons?” the storekeeper demanded. “I’ll tell you-all in simple A, B, C and one. two, three.” , Daylight held up one finger and began checking off. “Hunch number one: a Big strike coming in Upper iCountry. Hunch number two: Carmack’s made it. Hunch number three: ain’t ho hunch at all. It’s a cinch. If one and two is right, then flour just has to go sky-high. If I’m riding hunches one and two, I just got to ride this cinch, which is number' three: If I’m right, flour " ’ll balance geld on the scales this winter.”

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(To be Continued.)

SEATS FOR TWO

By Jean Dickerson

(Oopyrltfit. isa, by Aasooiatcd LKenuy Cress.)

It w#s a popular play and Alice Ludirgton bad hastened her shopping and luncheon in order to secure a seat before the curtain arose on the matinee performance. “We have seats for two,” said the man in the hox office as he ran over the tiny pigeonholes and then placed his pencil point on the chart “Seven and eight M." \ *' - 1 “I want only one,” said Alice, feeling rather forlorn and wishing she had asked Maud Fenwick to accompany her.

She went down the aisle of the theater with a little thrill of anticipation. The seat was on the right hand side near the aisle, and as she Settled herself in it with a flutter of soft brdwn draperies she noticed that the seat beside her, number Seven, was unoccupied.

“That is the other seat,” she thought, as she removed her hat and laid it on the vacant chair. “I do hope nobody takes it.” On her left was a stout woman whose features possessed a vagueness of outline that denoted a tendency to weep at emotional moments in the play. Alice fluffed her soft hair into order and read her program. Just as the lights were lowered some one entered the row of seats at the other end. M ithout looking up Alice removed her hat to her lap and was conscious that a man was sitting beside her. With eyes fixed on the opening scene of the play, was oblivious to everything else, for as the first act proceeded toward its close she saw its resemblance to her own heart tragedy.

There was a young western girl and the handsome ranchman w.ho loved her. There was a stern, nar-row-minded parent who had forbidden marriage because of the traditional wildness, though unproven as yet, of the ranchman The girl, obedient to her New England upbringing, gave

“I Want Only One.”

up ber lover and he went away in anger, believing her love to be a mere milk and water sentiment. There ended the resemblance between the two stories. Alice's life had resumed its dull, even monotony after her father's death. She had never heard of Dale Loomis after his return to Wyoming, and she lived alone with her mother in a gloomy uptown residence on a side street. All that was five years ago, and the brief visit she had paid to the western ranch where she had met Dale had been like some dil ftfr beautlful dream until this play re-enacted some of the scenes before her wistful eyes.

The girl and her lover galloped freely over the plains, even as she had galloped alongside Dale’s big chestnut,' her wiry little pony responging to every touch of her firm hands. She felt the cqol, sweet air of the prairies and saw the shadows of fleeting clouds against the distant ranges. She saw moving masses of horned cattle and heard the thunder, of their hoofs as they pounded past. Some of these things she saw in the play—the rest of it was magic woven out of her memory. After the death W the father the play moved along' different lines from that ,of Alice's experience. There was much adventure woven with pathos and a note of tragedy. When the curtain rang down on her first act, Alice found her eves near to tears and her heart aching with its old sorrow, for she had been very near to the brief, happy days of the P a st.'. /' vv:':' ••

Afi the lights Sashed up she composed herself and looked around at her companions. The stout woman on her left was openly crying, even as she ate chocolates from a box She smiled through her tears at Alice.

“I know Tc a fool,” she said, apologetically, “but I’m so sorry for that young man—don’t you think that girl was a ’weak-minded thing not to throw up everything and marry him, even if she had to live On a cattle ranch?”'

“I don’t believe she objected to the eatfcie ranch,” said Alice gently, “but I am sure if she had to live it over again she would be true to her own convictions and her —her love for the man."

She turned her head and instantly sat rigid with surprise anjd suppressed emotion. Sitting beside her on the right was Dale Lodmis, his stern profile turned away from her and a certain tenseness in his attitude betraying that he was/fconscious of her presence.

It seemed hours before the curtain rose on the second act. Not once did she stir from her position, so fearful, was she that any movement on her part would compel his attention, and she dreaded to meet his eyes and perhaps—perhaps find all the tenderness gone out of them. If he looked at her indifferently, coldly, she believed she would die.

While the second act went swiftly to its end a new terror assailed her. What if he should leave after this act? He would thus drop out of her life forever —nothing but the merest chance had brought them together -in the maelstrom of the big city, and sueb a current does not serve twice iii a lifetime.

Once more the lights sprang up and the stoqt woman at her last hand turned ’a radiant face to Alice. "I guess it's coming out all right in Ahe end,” she said. "That girl loved him right along, didn't she — just as you said?” “ A warm eoldr flooded Alice’s fair face and she nodded speechlessly. It came upon her then like a .shock that Dale Loomis must have overheard her former conversation with the woman.

“I suppose she thought she was doing right,” went on the woman. “You know, the Bible says, ‘Children Obey your parents.’ I wonder if he thought that maybe she was doing the best she could? There, the curtain's going up—now, we’ll watch it come out all right in the end!”

She creaked herself to a bolt up-j right position the better to enjoy the performance. Alice, sitting in the shadow of the woman’s broad shoulders, merely caught glimpses of the play as the love story drew to a close. Once she stole a glance at Dale and surprised his eyes bent on her fa-ee, instead of the stage. Then, as the mimic ranchman of the stage once more declared his love for the girl, she felt a broad, warm hand covering her own cold little fingers in a familiar grasp. They sat thus as the play ended amid a burst of applause, and as the curtain rang down Dale leaned over and whispered close to her car: “Is. it all right for me, too, Alice?” “Yes," her lips trembled in reply. And the emotional stout woman never knew how much she had done to bring about a happy ending to a romance that found its climax in the two seats beside her.

PRICES UP ON THE BOWERY

Food and Coffee in Famous Section of Manhattan Cost More Than Ever Before.

Sugar costs more today than it did six weeks,ago. Therefore coffee on the Bowery lias been increased , from one

end. two cents per cup to three and four—and in some,, exceptional cases even to five cents. And it isn’t apt to return to the old .price. There was a day when one could get a “golden stew” on the Bowery—always provided, that one wanted a golden stew and had the price—for five cents. It rose to eight cents, and to ten, and now the real gilt article commands 15 cents in every Bowery soup emporium. It is also true that a dish of golden stew is apt to satisfy hunger for a considerable period. There are men who keep quite fat upon "it, from one year’s end to another.

The pinch of the penny is being felt throughout the East Side’. During the summer just past the five-cent piece of ice was smaller than ever „ before known. On the authority of the buyers, the ten-cent hod of coal has shrunk to a pocketful. Not long ago a nickel’s worth of bacon was a sizable bit in any shop east of Madison avenue and south of Thirtieth. Now it is barely enough to slip in the old man’s dinner bucket. Even garlic has been boosted In price. A year ago Antonio, who fills the interior of a loaf of hard baked bread with garlic by way of lunch, and on that diet sticks a pick in Manhattan’s bosom ten long hours a day, could get enough for a dime to scent up a subway express train. Now he can hardly scent subway local for the same price. Rent and milk and flour and all the other necessities of life have been increased in price here in the York Letter to the Cincinnati Times-Star.

Slept in Two Beds a Night.

An Englishman who arrived at the Gotham hot long ago, insisted upon having- a room with a southern and eastern exposure. When, however, He insisted that the room be furnished with two single beds they told him that there would be an extra pharge for two persons. He said he wanted the room for himself alone. Then he left a call for midnight each night, but It was he never left the hotel after that hour. His regular bedtime was bine o’clock. -

The puzzlement of the management was cleared away when it was discovered that the visitor was in the habit of sleeping the first three hours in one bed. At midnight he would change to the other. Asisstant Manager McGoldrick said he had forgotten to question the visitor how he acquired the habit of sleeping in two - beds the same night.

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