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(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-
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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
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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)
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I Life's Problems
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How old is she?
She is in these days as old as she
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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
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gets it.
I read an interview with a play
wright recently Edward Childs
Carpenter, I think—and he made the
remarkably true statement that
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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
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immoral.
I was stopping over night at the
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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
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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
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