The Terral Tribune. (Terral, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, May 17, 1912 Page: 2 of 8
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lURNING
DAYLIGHT
33y JACK LONDON
Author of "The Call of the Wild"
“ White Fang" "Martin
Eden" etc
Illustrations by Dearborn MelvUI
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(Copjrliht tgio br tha New York Herald Co)
(Coprriiht ibis by (be MacMillan Company)
1W SYNOPSIS
Elam Harnlah aaovn all through Alas-
ka as "Burning Daylight" celebrates his
Oth birthday with a crowd of miners at
the Circle City Tivoli The dance leads
to heavy gambling In which over 1100 000
la staked Harnlsh loses his money and
his mine but wins the mall contract 1I
starts on his mall trip with dogs and
sledge telling bta friends that he will be
In the big Yukon gold strike at the start
Burning Daylight makes a sensationally
rapid run across country with the moll
appears at the Tivoli and Is now ready
to Join his friends In a dash to the new
fold fields Deciding that gold will be
ound In the up-river district Harnlsh
buys two tons or (lour which he declares
will 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 Ids
eleven millions In a manipulated scheme
He goes to New York and confronting
hie disloyal partners with a revolver he
threatens to kill them If his money Is not
returned Thev 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 be goes to the
country
CHAPTER XI— Continued
Daylight could not persuade him-
self to keep to the traveled roads
that day and another cut across coun-
try to Olen Ellen brought him upon
a canyon that so blocked his way that
be was glad to follow a friendly cow-
path This led him to a small frame
cabin The doors and windows were
open and a cat wns nursing a litter
of kittens In the doorway but nc one
seemed at home He descended the
trail that evidently crossed the can-
yon Part way down he met an old
man coming up through the sunset
In his hand he carried a pall of foamy
milk He wore no hat and lr his
face framed with snow-white hair and
beard waa the ruddy glow and con-
tent of the passing summer day
Daylight thought that he had never
seen so contented looking a being
"How old are you daddy?" he quer-
ied "Eighty-four" was the reply “Yes
slrree eighty-four and spryer than
most"
“You must a’ taken good care of
yourself" Daylight suggested
"1 doq’t know about that I ain’t
loafed none 1 walked across the
plains with an ox team and fit Injuns
In ’SI and I was a family man with
seven youngsters I reckon I was aa
' old then as you are now or pretty
nigh on to It"
"Don’t you find It lonely here?"
The old man shifted the pall of milk
and reflected
“That all depends" he said orscul
arly “I ain’t never been lonely ex
cept when the old wife died Some
fellers are lonely In a crowd and I’m
one of them That’s the only time
I’m lonely Is when I go to ’Frisco
But I don’t go no more thank you
’most to death This Is good enough
for me I’ve been right here In this
alley since ’54 — one of the first set-
tlers after the Spaniards"
The old man chuckled and Day-
light rode on singularly at peace with
himself and all the world It seemed
that the old contentment of trail and
camp be had known on the Yukon
bad come back to him He could not
shake from hts eyes the picture of
the old pioneer coming up the trail
through the sunset light He was cer-
tainly going some for eighty-four The
thought of following his example en
tered Daylight's mind but the big
game of San Francisco vetoed tbe
Idea
CHAPTER XII
Instead of returning to tbe city on
Monday Daylight rented the butchers
horse for another day and crossed tbe
bed of the valley to Its eastern bills
As on the previous day just for the
Joy of It he followed cattle-trails at
haphazard and worked bis way up to-
ward the summits Coming out upon
a wagon road that led upward bo fol-
lowed It for several miles emerging
In a small mountain-encircled valley
where half a dozen poor ranchers
farmed the wine grapes on the steep
slopes Beyond the road pitched up-
ward Dense chaparral covered the
exposed hillsides but In the creases
of the canyons huge spruce trees
grew and wild oats and flowers
Late In the afternoon he- broke
thmugh and followed a well-defined
trail down a dry canyon The dry
canyon gave place to one with a slen-
der ribbon of running water The
trail ran Into a wood-road and tho
wood-road emerged across a small flat
upon a slightly traveled country road
There were no farms In this Immedi-
ate section and no houses Tbe soil
was meager the bed-rock either close
to the surface or constituting the sur-
face Itself Manzanlta and scrub-oak
however flourished and walled the
road on ellber side with a jungle
growth And out a runway through
this growth a man suddenly scuttled
In a way that reminded Daylight of a
rabbit
He waa a little man ' In patched
overalls bareheaded with a cotton
shirt open at the throat and down tbe
chest The sun waa ruddy-brown In
his face and by It his sandy hair was
bleached on the ends to peroxide
blonde He signed to Daylight to
halt and held up a letter
“If you're going to town I'd be
obliged If you mall this" he said
"I sure will" Daylight put It Into
bis coat pocket "Do you live here-
abouts stranger?”
But tho little man did not answer
He was gazing at Daylight In a sur-
prised and steadfast fashion
"I know you" the little man an-
nounced “You’re Elam Harnlsh —
Burning Daylight the papers call you
Am I right?”
Daylight nodded
'Well I'm glad 1 wrote that letter
this afternoon" the little man went
on "or else I'd have mlseed seeing
you I've seen your photo In the pa-
pers many a time and - lve a good
memory for faces 1 recognized you
at once My name's Ferguson"
‘Do you live hereabouts?" Daylight
repeated bis query
‘Oh yes I’ve got a little shack
back here In the bush a hundred yards
and a pretty spring and a few fruit
trees and berry buhhe9 Come In and
take a look And that spring Is a
dandy You never tasted water like
It Come In and try lt“-
Walking and leading bis horse Day-
light followed the quick-stepping
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eager little man through the green
tunnel and emerged abruptly upon the
clearing If clearing It might be called
where wild nature and man’s earth-
scratching were lnextricitbly blended
It was a tiny nook In the hills pro-
tected by tbe steep walls of a canyon
mouth Here were several large oaks
evidencing a richer soil The erosion
of ages (rotn tbe hillside uad slowly
formed this deposit of fat earth Un-
der the oaks almost burled In them
stood a rough unpainted cabin tbe
wide veranda of which with chairs
and hammocks advertised an out-of-doors
bedchamber Daylight's keenr
eyes look In everything Tbe clearing
was Irregular following the patches
of tbe best sotl and every fruit tree
and berry bush and even each vege-
table plant had the water personally
conducted o 1L The ttny Irrigation
channels were everywhere amt along
some of them the water was running
Ferguson looked eagerly Into hts
visitor's face for signs of approbation
"What do you think of it eh?"
"Hand-reared and manicured every
blessed tree" Daylight laughed but
the Joy and satisfaction that shone In
bis eyes contented the little man
"Why d’ye know 1 know every one
of those trees as If they wera aons of
mine I planted them nursed them
fed them and brought them up Come
on and peep at the aprlng"
"It’s sure a hummer" waa Daylight’s
verdict after due Inspection and sam-
pling as they turned back for the
house
The Interior was a surprise The
cooking being done In the small lean-
to kitchen the whole cabin formed a
large living-room A great table In
the middle was comfortably littered
with books and magazines All tbe
available wall space from wall to oell-
Ing was occupied by filled book-
shelves It seemed to Daylight that
ba had never seen so many books as-
sembled In one place Skins of wild-
cat ’coon and deer lay about on tha
pine-board floor
Daylight found himself charmed and
made curious by the little man Why
was be biding away here In tba chap-
arral he and bis books? So It was
when between them they bad washed
and wiped tbe dishes and put them
away and bad settled down to a com-
fortable smoke that Daylight put his
question
"Look here Ferguson Every since
we got together I’ve been casting
about to find out what's wrong with
you to locate a screw loose some-
where but I'll be d&nged If I've suc-
ceeded What are you doing here
anyway?"
Ferguson frankly showed his pleas-
ure at tbe questions
“First of all" be began "the doctors
wound up by losing all hope for me
Gave me a few months at best and
that after a course In sanitariums
and a trip to Europe and another to
Hawaii They tried electricity and
forced feeding and fasting I was a
graduate of about everything In the
curriculum They kept me poor with
their bills while I went from bad to
worse Tbe trouble with me was two-
fiat
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Think of It Eh?”
fold first 1 was a born weakling and
next I was living unnaturally— too
much work and responsibility and
strain 1 was managing editor of
the Tinea-Tribune in San Francisco
and 1 wasn't strong enough tor tbe
strain Of course ray body went back
on me and my mind too for that mat-
atr It had to be bolstered up with
whisky which wasn't good for it any
more than waa tbe -living In clubs
and hotels good for my stomach and
tl e rest of me So I quit quit every
thing absolutely and came to live In
tbe Valley of the Moon — that’s the
Indian came you know( for Sonoma
Valley I lived In the lean-to tbe first
year then I built the cabin and sent
for my books 1 never knew wbat hap-
piness was before nor health Look
at me now and dare to tell me that I
look forty-seven"
”1 wouldn't give a day over forty'
Daylight confessed
"Yet the day I came here I looked
nearer sixty and that waa fifteen
years ago"
They talked along and Daylight
looked at tbe world from new angles
Here waa a man neither bitter nor
cynical who laughed at tha clty-dwell-era
and called them lunettes a man
who did not cars for money and la
whom tha lust tor power bad long
alnce died
It waa not until ten o’clock that
Daylight parted from Ferguson As
he rode along through the starlight tha
idea came to him of buying the ranch
on the other side of the alley There
waa no thought In hla mind of ever
intending to live on It His game was
In Ban Francisco But he liked the
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Here Was a Man Who Laughed at
City Dwellers and Called Them
Lunatics
ranch and aa soon aa be got back to
the office he would open up negotia-
tions with Hillard
The time passed and he played on
at the game San Franctaco’a atti-
tude toward Daylight bad undergone
a change While he with his slashing
buccaneer methods was a distinct
menace to the more orthodox finan-
cial gamblers be was nevertheless so
grave x menace that they were glad
enough to let him alone He had al-
ready taught them the excellence of
letting a sleeping dog lie
Dede Mason was still in the office
He had made no more overtures dis-
cussed no more books He bad no
active Interest In her and she waa to
him a pleasant memory of wbat bad
never happened a Joy which by bis
essential nature be waa barred from
ever knowing Yet while bis interest
had gone to sleep and bla energy was
consumed In tbe endless battles be
waged he knew every trick of the
light on her hair every quick definite
mannerism of movement every line of
her figure as expounded by her tailor-
made gowns Several times six
months or so apart he had Increased
her salary until now she was receiv-
ing ninety dollars a month Beyond
this he dared not go though be got
around it by making the work eaBler
This be had accomplished after her
return from -a vacation by retaining
her substitute aa an asslstanL Alao
be had changed bis office suite so tbat
now tbe two girls had a room by them-
selves The more he saw of her and
tbe more he thought be knew of her
the more unapproachable did sbe
seem to him But since be bad no In-
tention of approaching her this was
anything but an unsatisfactory fact
He was glad be had her In bla office
and hoped she’d stay and tbat was
about all
Daylight did not Improve with the
passing years Tbe life was not good
for him He was growing stout and
soft and there waa unwonted flabbi-
ness In bla muscles Tbe more be
drank cocktails the more be was com-
pelled to drink In order to get the de-
sired result tbe Inhibitions tbat eased
him down from' tbe concert pitch of
bis operations And with tbla went
wine too at meals and tbe long
drinks after dinner of Scotch and soda
at the Riverside Then too hla body
suffered from lack of exercise and
from lack of decent human associa-
tion bla moral fibers were weaken-
ing Never a man to bide anything
some of bla escapades became publlo
such as speeding and of Joy-rides In
his big red motor car down to Ban
Jose with companions distinctly sporty
—incidents tbat were narrated as
good fun and comically In tbe news-
papers (TO BE CONTINUED)
Motor Regulations In Japan
Tbe regulations for motor traffic In
Japan are neither long nor compli-
cated In case of a vehicle being In
tbe street In an unsafe state It la tbe
duty of tbe police to order It to stop
or to allow It to proceed only after
defects have been remedied
Speed la limited to eight miles an
hour save In Yokohama where tbe
speed limit Is six Allies Motors must
not race When cars meet they must
slow down When a motor meets
procession a funeral or fire engines
proceeding to a fire It must pull up
and take another route Violation of
these rules will be followed by fine
or Imprisonment The regulations are
not quite so Draconic as they appear
for the Japanese streets are very nar-
row and abound In picturesque and
capricious turnings
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Drink before retiring
Every man haa some good In him
but sometimes It takes a lot of coax-
ing to bring It ouL
There are time when every one
haa to take a certain amount of back
talk from Jila conscience
Cure for Insomnia
"Dibble says he can’t Bleep"
"He ought to read the war news
from Mexico"
Needed It
The Star — I must have real food In
"the banquet scene" tonight
Hard-Pressed Manager — Why?
The Star — Because I’m hungry
Her Little Ring
Mary had a little ring twaa given
by her bean and everywhere that
Mary went that ring waa sure to go
She took the ring with her one day
when she went out to tea where she
might display It to the girls who num-
bered twenty-three
And when the glrla all aaw that
ring they made a great ado exclaim-
ing with one voice: "Has It at last
got around to you?"
Time
"How long have you been a widow
Mrs Weed?"
"It will be a year the 4th of next
month"
"Dear me! Ia It aa long aa that?
How time fllea!"
"Oh do you think so? Well If you
ever have to wait a year to look pleas-
ant when men offer you attentions
you’ll give up the Idea that time la
much of a flyer"
KNOW8 NOW
Doctor Was Fooled by Hie Own Casa
For a Time
It’a easy to understand how ordi-
nary people get fooled by coffee when
doctors themselves sometimes forget
the facta
A physician apeaka of hla own expe-
rience: "1 had used coffee for years and really
did not exactly believe It was Injuring
me although I had palpitation of the
heart every day (Tea contains caf-
feine— tho same drug found In coffee—
and Is Just as harmful as coffee)
"Finally one day a severe and al-
most fatal attack of heart trouble
frightened me and I gave up both tea
and coffee using Postum Instead and
alnce that time I have had absolutely
no heart palpitation except on one or
two occasions when I tried a small
quantity of coffee which caused severe
liTltattoa and proved to me I must let
it alone
"When we began using Postum It
seemed wreak — that was because we
did not make It according to directions
—but now we put a little bit of but-
ter In the pot when boiling and allow
tho Postum to boll full 15 minutes
which gives It the proper rich flavor
and the deep brown color
"I have advised a great many of
my friends and patients to leave off
coffee and drink Postum In fact I dally
give this advice" Name given by
Postum Co Battle Creek Mich -
Many thousands of physicians use
Postum In place of tea and coffee In
their own homes and prescribe it to
patients
’"There’s a reason" and It Is explain-
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