The Yukon ny William MacLeod Raino f (Continued) "Good enough, Wally. I'll trust you. But this fight has :eaehed an acute stage. No more biiHtakes. The devil of it is we never aeem to land the knockout punch. We've beaten this bunch jl' reform idots before Winton, le- Jpre the Secretary of the Interior, before the President and before Congress. Now they're beginning all •ver again. Where is it to end?" *'Thi3 is their last kick. Probably iJuttencliild agreed to it so as to ot the party go before the people it the next election without any .poiogies. Entirely formal investi- j jation, I should say." This might be true, or it might j lot. Macdonald knew that just now i he American people, always Impul-J uve in its thinking, was supporting i strongly the movement for conserva ion. A searchlight had been turned I ipon the Kamatlali coal fields. The trouble had originated in a j lepartment row, but it had spread I jntil the Macdonald claims had be- j ;ome a party issue. The officials of i he land office, as well as the na- ! ional administration, were friendly o the claimants. They had no de-1 lire to offend one of the two larg- i >st money groups in the country. 3ut neither did they want to come o wreck on account of the Gut enchilds. They found it impossible o ignore the charge that the en ries were fraudulent and if con- j iiimmated would result in a whole iale robbery of the public domain. Superficial investigation had been nade and the claimants white vashed. But the clamor had per isted. . The facts were simple enough, Wacdonald was the original pro-! noter of the Kamatlali coal field, j Ic had engaged dummy entrymen i o take up 160 acres each under he homestead act. Later he in-1 ended to consolidate the claims j nd turn them over to the Gutten- A SIMPLE LESSON Clear the Voice—Hulokly relieve loHrMMh'SN, roughs, Son* l'hroat, ironebitlM noil l.arynjrltl*—plea*ant > flavored (oiichm— .."io tlie llox. Gorgas Drug Stores I)M)I£IIT.4KEH FIKORtI Dhas. ri. rvlauk T "'" n v I'HII Vl'> wtl I For the who I The one gift that will increase the happiness oP every mem- The Victrola and Victor Records bring into your home the whole world of music, exactly as rendered by the greatest artists and entertainers. They are the unfailing means of holding the young folks home, and of making every evening a period of enjoy ment and recreation for the grown-ups. MONDAY EVENING. Readiiyj <Mvd <dl ihe l&rhiKs fjngirifj Up Father *-• Copyright, 1917, International News Service •*".* By IVICIVICLtiItS W 1 v J *° E 1 p— n .11 11)8 ! childs under an agreement by which he was to receive one-eighth of the stock of the company formed to work the mines. The entries had been made, the fee accepted by the land office and receipts issued. .-In course of time Macdonald had ap plied for patents. Before these were issued the maga zines began to pour in their broad sides, and since then the papers had been held up. The conscience of Macdonald was quite clear. The pioneers in Alaska were building out of the Arctic j waste a new empire for the United j States, and he held that a fair ROV ernment could do no less than offer tliein liberal treatment. To lock up from present use vast resources needed by Alaskans would be a mis taken policy, a narrow and perverted application of the doctrine of con servation. The territory should be thrown open to the world. If t apl- j tal were invited in to do its share of the building, immigration would j flow rapidly northward. Within the lives of the present generation the new empire would take shape and wealth would pour inevitably into the United States from its frozen treasure house. The view held by Macdonald was one common to the whole Pacific coast. Seattle, Portland, San Fran-, Cisco, were a unit in the belief that j the government had no right to j close the door of Alaska and then j put a padlock upon it. Feminine voices drifted from the outer office. Macdonald opened, the Harmless Means of Reducing Fat Many fat people fear ordinary means for reducing their weight. Here is an method. Kx traordinary because while perfectly harmless no dieting or exercise are necessary. Marmola Prescription Tablets are made exactly in accord ance with the famous Marmola Pre scription. A reduction of two, three or four pounds a week is the rule. Procure them from any druggist or if you prefer send 75 cents to the Mar mola Co., 864 Woodward Ave., De troit, Mich., for a large case.—Adver tisement. door to let in Mrs. .Selfridgc and Mrs. Mallory. The latter lady, Paris-shod andj gloved, shook hands smilingly with j the Scotch-Canadian. "Of course we're intruders in business hours, though you'll tell us we're not," she suggested. "I've just been read- j ins the Transcontinental Magazine, i A writer there says that you are a j highway robber and a'gambler. I| know you're a robber because all, the magazines say so. But are you \ only a big gambler?" He met her raillery without the | least embarrassment. "Sure I gamble. Every time I take a chance I'm gambling. So! does everybody else. We've got to! take chance sto live." "How true, and I never thought \ of it," beamed Mrs. Selfrtdge. | "What a yliilosopher you are, Mr. j Macdonald." The Scotsman went on without] paying any attention to her offer-*) vescence. "I've gambled ever since) I was a kid. I bet I could cross Death valley and get out alive. That] time I won. I bet it would rain, down in Arizona before my cattle j died. I lost. Another time I took a contract to run a tunnel. In myj bid I bet I wouldn't run into rock, i My bank went broke that trip. When I joined the Klondike rush I was j backing my luck to stand up. Same j thing when I located the Kamatlah j field. The coal might be a poor | quality. Maybe I couldn't interest big capital in the proposition. Per haps the government would turn me dojyn when I came to prove up. I was betting my last dollar against j big odds. When I quit gambling it will be because I've quit living. "And I suppose I'm a gambler I too?" Mrs. Mallory demanded with | a little tilt of her handsome head. ! "Of all the women I know you are the best gambler. It's born in I you." Mrs. Mallory did not often indulge in the luxury of a blush, but she changed color now. This big, blunt man sometimes had an uncanny divination. "Did he," she asked herself, "know what stake she was gambling for at Kusiak?" (To be Continued) HARRISBURG ClfSßSfll TELEGRAPH I Life's Problems Are Discussed How old is she? She is in these days as old as she looks. It becomes more and more im possible to tell a woman's age. She has padlocked the family Bible, ter rorized garrulous contemporaries, put the lid on birthdays, and reduced the candles on the birthday cake to sixteen, and there they stand. When man started out in search of the fountain of eternal youth he failed. In the bright lexicon of wom an there is no such word as fail. She never weighs the pros and cons, the impossibilities or possibilities. She wants something; she goes and gets it. I read an interview with a play wright recently Edward Childs Carpenter, I think—and he made the remarkably true statement that Daily Dot Puzzle 2 . 4 ' 23. * 7b 22. - "31 * 22 • 24 .27 Jb 35 - 6 2.1 • . . 2o • 37 • 2a * 31 • ! 15 ** 17 \ #Z 3* 3o •4* €.4. Mo • ■ \ r*' \ \ ■ ■ .42 \ N \Vy 4a )I //A\ 1 s u tr ' I Trace these dots and surely you 1 Will draw well a big curlew. Draw from' 1 to 2 and so on to ttn end. Fashions of To-Day - By May Manton There is no prettier, more be f coming, more graceful scarf than this simple straight one. You can make it of fur or of fur cloth or of velvet or of fancy ma terial as you like. Velvet is exceedingly well liked and makes a very handsome set and the fur plushes are very beautiful and are being extensively used to supplement the genuine skins. There are wonderful ribbons on the market, too, that are being utilized for all such accessories when they are designed for the theatre and for restaurant din ners and occasions of such sort. You can use some of those rib bons to get a really sumptuous effect. The scarf is just a per fectly straight one and for warmth it should be lined with something soft that will drape effectively, and for interlining you can yse the wool wadding that is always light as well as warm. The muff is in barrel shape of moderate size and both are so simple that any woman who can handle thtf needle need not hesitate to undertake them. For the making will be needed, 1% yards of material 36 or 44 9610 inches wide. The' pattern No. 9610 is cut in one size. It will be mailed to any address by the Fashion 9610 Straight Scarf and Muff, one size. Department of this paper on Price 10 cents. receipt of ten cento. . women didn't try to look young for the benefit of other women or of men. "The fact is, they know they aie only as young as they look." I agree with him. It's the psycho- , logical effect we are after. We want our feelings and our appearance to correspond. One reacts on the other. The boundary line between youth and age is a purely theoretical one. I have never met a healthy woman or man, with a well occupied mind, of any age'who admitted that he felt old. When people say they feel old, they are either ill, or disappointed, or unhappy. But if those causes which depress their spirits are re moved, and they are restored to health, they will immediately deny any feelings of age. It appears to be a purely illusory state, something that no normally healthy, mentally active person has ever experienced. Why should there be the outward appearance of it? A few days ago I saw a woman come in from a morn ing ride. As she stood on her lawn in the brilliant sunshine she looked like a girl—and she is a grandmother! "How do you do it?" I asked her, and then seeing her puzzled look added: "Stay alwaya at twenty-five?" "I don't do anything," she laughed. "I just feel it." "We grizzle every day; I see no need of it," I quoted. "The bother about Emerson is that he has said about everything there is to sny so much better than any one else can." "Ah," she said, "he has not only asked the question, supplied the an swer, but given the receipt also." And she in turn quoted: " 'Work of his hands. He nor commends or grieves; Speaks for itself the fact. As unrepenting Nature leaves Her every act.' " "The things that age us are worry and fret," she continued, "and mor bid introspection, and indulging in grievances, and looking at life from the tragic standpoint and alawsy hark ing back to the past. These are all uglifying. The beautifying processes are: Forget, Forgive, Ignore, Re joice. "When any one does the best he can at the time, why worry because it is not better? Anything that hap pened yesterday is quite unimport ant to-day. Why take yourself or any body else so seriously? The game, no matter what it is, is only worth while when you're playing for the fun of it." The old mot, that no woman is worth looking at after thirty, or worth talking to before, belongs to the early Victorian period, when women put on caps at forty and pre pared to sit by the chimney corner for the rest of their lives; although, on second thought, there might have been a method in their madness. The chimney corner must have had its compensations in the days before I steam heat. The romances of the period con tain gems like these: "Her twenty seven years showed in her lined and faded "face." and "she was an aged woman, fast approaching fifty." Talk about the speed of our times. Life certainly went at a gallop in those days. They permitted a woman no time at all to gat accustomed to the first two of the three arbitrary divisions—youth, middle age, old age. But she had a nice, long old age. I can remember the old ladies who gathered in my grandmother's sit ting room every afternoon. They probably were not very old, no older I in fact, than the women who dance and skate and ride and play golf and tennis to-day. But they inspired in my childish soul a profound distaste for the winter of life. They all wore black silks or bom- j zazines and long, black, crepe veils i depended from their bonnets. These they threw very carefully over the backs of their chairs. Their were wrinkled and solemn and they never spoke of anything cheerful. They usually discussed the doctrinal points of last Sunday's sermon or scheduled the activities of the Mis sionary Society or commended or criticised the way of the last funeral had been conducted. My eyes always turned for rest to a Quaker relative, who sat composed and serene, making a witty remark now and then, or putting in an amus ing anecdote. She was so attractive in her silver-gray silk dress, with lovely brown hair bound around her head, brilliant brown eyes and a complexion like an apple blossom. The other old ladies looked at her grudgingly. They whispered among themselves that it was hardly nice for her to hold her looks so well at nearly sixty, certainly frivolous, even a thought indecorous, if not actually immoral. I was stopping over night at the house of a friend not long ago when at a late hour feminine conference one of the women began complaining of her complexion, and another was candid enough to say: "Your skin would be all right if you took care of it." "Took care of it?" repeated the other, surprised and aggrieved. "What more can I do? I'm so care ful of what 1 eat. I never touch sweets, or rich pastry, or hot cakes, or any of the things I really love. I exercise strenuously, and I certainly scrub my face well with soap and water." Columbia Brafcnola (f§i\ l|§H| and Columbia Records |j|p|]|:;! 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The first woman's'only answer was to dip a piece of antiseptic cotton in cold cream and rub It over her friend's face. Then she mercilessly held it out for inspection. "Your face is dirty," she said cool ly. "Your are motoring on dusty roads all the time. Soap and water won't really dense the face. You've got to use a good cold cream which ITETLEYS India and Ceylon TEA As a means of victory, economy is being preached the world over. Are you doing your part. TETLE y, s JEA Is economical Tea ONE LITTLE TEASFOONFVL MAKES TWO CUFS A Man's Gift From a Man's Store |lf Wm. Strouse M you are certain is made of vegetable oils." Alas, there to be no choice between unceasing vigilance and "grizzling" every day. But we might as well face it philosophically. Life's a struggle anyway. In short, this question of keeping old age at bay seems to be a com bination of proper mental attitudo and efficient grooming. 7
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