The Yukon Trail By William MacLeod Raine < > (Continued) But if 't was only Sheva Cross To elimb from foot to crown, I'd soon be up an' over that, I'd soon be .runnin' down. Then sure the great ould sea itself Is there beyonf the bar. An* all the windy wathers are between us. so they are. Och anee! The rich, soft young voice with its Irish brogue died away. The little audience paid the singer the tribute of silence. She herself was the first to speak. '• '.Divided' is the name oL" it. A namesake of mine. Moira O'Neill, wrote it." she explained. "It's a beautiful song, anil I thank ye for singing it," Macdonald said simply. "It reminds me of my own barefoot days by the Tay." Later in the evening the two din ner guests walked back to the hotel together. They discussed casually the cost of living in the North, the raising of strawberries at Kusiak, and the best way to treat the mos quito nuisance, but neither of them referred to the Macdonald claims or to Sheba O'Neill. CHAPTFJit VI Wally Gets Orders Macdonald. from his desk, looked tip at the man in the doorway. Self ridge had come in jauntily, a cig-ir in his mouth, but at the sight of the grim face of his chici the grin fled. "Come in and shut the door," or dered the Scotsman. "I sent for you to congratulate you, Wally. You did tine work outside. You told me, didn't you, that it was all settled :it last —that our claims are clear listed for patent?" The tubby little man felt the edge of irony in the quiet voice. "Sure. That's what Winton told me." he as sented nervously. ' , "Then you'll be interested to know that a special ngent of the land de partment sat opposite me last night and without batting an eye came across with the glad news that he was here to investigate our claims." Selfridge bounced up like a rub ber ball from the chair into which he had just settled. "What!" "Pleasant surprise, isn't it? I've been wondering what you were do ing outside. Of course I know you had to take in the shows and caba- Fashions of To-Day - By May Manton 9587 Dress with Side Closing, 36 to 42 bust. Price 15 cents. Stop! Women^S^ SBwrf statesman f MBA® In ®nr wrtls@M@mts istrw; |[|//J Iwtftestoonidlwß W-. ttal LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND Is the greatest £wamem ills knmm IYDIA E.PINKMAM MEDICINE CO. LYNN. MASS. SATURDAY EVENING. Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1917, International News Service ■,* By "P "P " i I I T" OONOU p DON'T Tool ( I KNOW IT - BUT WWF™ ■ rets of New York. But couldn't you] edge in an hour or two once a week to attend to business?" Wally's collar began to choke him. I The cool, hard words pelted like hail. "Must be bluff, Mac. The muck-! rake magazines have raised such a) row about the Guttenchild crowd putting over a big steal on the pub- j lie that the party leaders are scared I stiff." "I understand that, Wally. What; I don't get is how you came to let ! them slip this over on you without oven a guess that it was going to happen." That phase of the subject Self- j ridge did not want to discuss. "Bet you a hat I've guessed it right—just a grand-stand play of the I administration to fool the dear peo pie. This fellow has got his orders] to give us a clean bill of health., Sure. That must be it. I suppose it's this man Elliot that came up on the boat with us." "Yes." "Well, that's easy. If he hasn't i been seen we can see him." Macdonald looked his man Friday j over with a scarcely veiled contempt. I "You've about as much vision as a' breed trader. Unless I miss my > guess, Elliot isn't that kind. He'll j go through to a finish. If he sees' straight we're all right, but if he is a narrow conservation fanatic he This is one of the prettiest gowns that could be offered for the combination of materials that is so much in vogue. Here, it is made of charmeuse satin with serge, and it makes a very practical and useful garment, but you could copy it in char meuse for the skirt and trim ming with crepe de chine or Georgette crepe for the bodice portion, or you could copy it in a plain material with a fancy one. There are numberless ways in which the design can be used, or as a matter of course, you can use one ma terial throughout. For the medium size will be needed, 2J4 yards of material 44 inches wide for the bodice portion and 2)4 yards 44, iH yards 54, for the skirt and trimming. The pattern No. 9587 is cut in sizes from 36 to 42 inches bust measure. It will be mailed to any address by the Fashion Department of this paper, on receipt of fifteen cents. might go ahead and queer the j whole game." "You wouldn't stand for that."! the quick glance glance of Selfridge asked a question. The lips of the Scotsman were! like steel traps and his eyes points] of steel. "We'll cross that bridge if we come to it. Our first move is 1 to try to win him to see this thing our way. I'll have a casual talk I with him before he leaves for Kam- ! atlah and feel him out." "What's he doing here at all? If; he's investigating the Kamatlah | claims, why does he go hundreds of mils out of his way to come in to i Kusiak ?" asked Selfridge. Macdonald smiled sardonically. | "He's doing this job right. Elliot i as good as told me that he's on the job to look up my record thor- j oughly. So he comes to Kusiak first. In a few days he'll leave for ;' Kamatlah. That's where vou come! in. Wally." - "How do you mean?" "You're going to start for Kamat lah to-morrow. You'll arrange the stage before he gets there—see all the men and the foremen. Bine 1 them up so they'll come through with the proper talk. If you have any doubts about whether vou can 1 trust someone, don't take any chances. Fire him out of the camp. Offer Elliot the company hospitality. I.oad him down with favors. Take him everywhere. Show him every thing. But don't let him get any proofs that the claims are being worked under the same manage ment." "But he'll suspect it." "You can't help his suspicions. Don't let him get proof. Cover all) the tracks that show company con- | trol." "I can fix that." he said. "But I what about Holt? You know how i bitter he is—and crazy. He ought j to be locked away with the flitter-1 mice." "You musn't let Elliot meet Holt." 1 "How the deuce can I help it? No . chance to keep them apart in that' little hole. It can't be done." "Can't it?" Something in the quiet voice rang 1 a bell of alarm in the timid heart of Selfridge. "You mean—" "A man who works for me as my lieutenant must have nerve, Wally. I Have you got that? Will you take I orders and go through with them?" I Wally nodded. His lips were dry. • "Go to it. What am I to do ?" j ■ "Get Holt out of the way while' Elliot is at Kamatlah. It isn't do- | ing Holt any good to sit tight \ clamped to that claim of his. He I needs a change. Besides, I want \' him away so that we can contest his I claim. Run him up into the hills. ; Or send him across to Siberia on a J' whaler. Or, better still, have him ! ' arrested for insanity and send him 1 to Nome. I'll get Judge Eandor to hold him awhile." "Leave it to me. The old man is I, going on a vacation, though he, doesn't know it yet." (To be Continued) HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Life's Problems Are Discussed BY MRS. WILSON WOODROW Do you want a second chance in life? What would you do with it if you had it? Suppose a tricksy, mischievous fairy named "Lob" should pick you out for his attentions; and it is quite possible that he might, for. of course, Mnce "Peter Pan." we all believe in fairies? Suppose he should suddenly trans port you to his enchanted island, and there", by his magic, have things so arranged that you could begin life all over again, say. at the age of twenty, one? To draw long dreams of beauty, love and power From founts o£ hope that never will outrun. And drink all life - s quintessence in an hour. Give me the days when I was twenty-one!" And suppose you had that "sec ond chance" under exactly identical conditions and circumstances to re deem that crowning folly, or wrong, or mistake to which you look back with such regret, and which you feel Has materially distorted your des tiny? Wouldn't you regard that good fairy as a supreme benefactor, one who has granted you the greatest of all possible boons? Since the be ginning of the world man has spent much of his time crying: "Oh, if I only had it to do over again!" "Oh, if I could only be given a second chance" Well, the Second Chance is the theme that Barrie has taken for his latest play, "Dear Brutus." now run ning in London; and he has used the fairy "Lob" and the enchanted island as the method by which to accomplish it for his characters. Opinions differ about the merits of the play. Some critics regard It as the greatest achievement of Barrie's peculiar genius, while others call it incomprehensible nonsense. To set tle the question to our own satisfac tion we shall have to wait for the production of "Dear Brutus" on this side of the water. But the fact remains that Barrie has as usual hit upon a profound truth concerning human nature to embroider with his fancy; for of all those whom "Lob" carries off to the magic island none alters in any way his original experience. Tlicy make exactly the same errors over again, commit exactly the same follies in the second chance that they did in the first. The mismated couples choose once more the wrong ma trimonial partners, and the thieves again show their bent for dishon esty. The author's theory is that our mistakes and sins are due to some inherent quality In our individual characters, and that so long as this Daily Dot Puzzle ~ | • I \ 7 14 16 • • • * 1 4. a * " •' s ,|7 . • * <g 37 ? : v . • .21 19 k * 40.11 24 '* 23 3fc 2b. 25 So •i 8 . *33 35 * i*9 i' * 3+ 32 * Can you find my dancing partner? Draw from 1 to 2 and so on to the end. remains unchanged our destinies will continue unaltered. Of course, in the dramatic form tlie theme is presented with all Mr. Barrie's exquisite fancy and deli cious humor: but taken simply as a bald statement, it is rather dreary and depressing. It is rather a favorite subject with the imaginative writer. I re member a magazine story which I read some years ago of two men who were shipwrecked on a desert island. One had been a financial success, the head of a great cor poration; the other, as he bitterly declared, his "industrial slave." Ar riving on the island, however, their positions are reversed. The subordinate by a ruse ob tains possession of all the weapons and supplies which tney have saved from the wreck, and during sleep ties up his former employer, refus ing to release him unless the latter agrees to work for him under con ditions of virtual slavery. The cor poration chief, compelled to assent or starve, enters into the agree ment and faithfully keeps it for a year. But by the end of that time, through the exercise of those char acteristics and talents which had previously advanced him and through the lack of these same Qual ities in the other man. there was a second shift In their relative posi tions. The moral is, that a special aptitude will always express itself under any conditions. It is a sort of doctrine of "pre destination" as applied to temporal affairs. We all have our different bents, and the only way we can achieve success is by following those bents and trusting to them. The man on the desert island who usurp ed the authority was not a born executive. His talents lay in a dif ferent direction. lie should have found out what they were and have cultivated them. Our destiny is within us. "I myself am good for tune." We are not forced like cattle in the stockyards to follow certain set runaways, but are free to roam the range. If we go slam into a barbed wire fence, or get ourselves bogged in the mire, that is largely due to our own heedless blundering. It is silly to blame it on destiny. There is this to be said, though, for Mr. Barrie's thesis in "Dear BrutUS," that practically every one of us would, as he claims, make ex actly the same errors on a second chance that we did on the first. Hut it is all 'nonsense to cry: "Oh. if I only had a second chance!" You have dozens of second chances. There seems to be something in the great scheme of things which keeps presenting the same' problem to us over and over again—generally in a slightly different guise, but un changed in its essentials —until we finally succeed in mastering it. It may be a fear. Again and again, and at the most unexpected times and places, that haunting ter ror will rise to chill our souls until we deliberately face it, walk straight up to it, and find that it is only a spectre. "Oh, friend, never strike sail to a fear." Or our special problem may be some lack of moral stamina or weakness of character. Again and again you will find yourself put to the test until you brace the weak wall within you and throw out a sup porting buttress of two. It is idle to attempt to side-step or run away from anything. The thing you have lied from will be the first one to greet you on the new ground. You have about as IIES ap T —intuitu Six Minute Pudding Here's new one —a most I delicious desert that can be made in a hurry. To one and one-half cups of milk add one cup of Grape-Nuts and one level table spoonful of sugar, boil six minutes, cool and serve with milk or cream. Add rai sins if desired. Get a package of Grape- Nuts from your grocer and try this pleasing recipe. much chance as Little Dtiffydown dilly in Hawthorne's fable had of escaping old Schoolmaster Toil, for it will be remembered that every where Daffydowndilly went he dis covered Toil in one shape or an other. and when at last he returned to desperation to the sehoolhouse, he found that the companion with whom he had been throughout his wanderings and whom he had sup posed a fellow-truant was none oth er than Toil himself and in his Tery grimmest guise. If your lot seems bitter, then, and your destiny hard, just look over your own little garden-patch and you'll probably discover what over shadowing weeds have prevented your flowers from blooming. 11' .you can't discover them yourself, there are always plenty of kind friends close at hand who will take pleas ure in pointing out their exact loca tion and giving you the full botani cal details. Then there is only one thing to do. Weed the garden thoroughly. 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