The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-09
CHAPTER ".
OVER THE HILLS.

So the old man and the young man made
the round OF the Bines properties The for
mer nursed a forlorn little hope of exciting
an interest in the concerns most vital to
him; to the latter the leisurely tour in the
private car was sportive prelude to the
serious business of life, as it should be
lived, in the East. Considering it as such he
endured it amiably, and indeed the long Au-
gust days and the sharply cool nights were
not without real enjoyment for him.
To feel impartially multitude of strong,
fresh wants-the imperative need to live life
in all its fullness, this of itself makes the
heart to sing. And, above the full compile
ment of wants, to have been lowered by
heaven with a stanch disbelief in the unat-
tainable-this is a fortune rather to be chos-
en- than good name or great riches; since
the name and riches and all things desired
must come to the call of it.
Our Western-born youth Of twenty-five
had the wants and the sense of power in
herited from line of men eager Of initia-
tive, the product of an environment where
only such could survive. Doubtless In him
was the soul and body hunger of his grand
father, cramping and denying through
hardship year after year, yet sustained by
dreaming in the hardest times of the soft
material luxuries that should some day be
his. Doubtless marked in his character, too,
was the slightly relaxed tension of his
father; the disposition to feast as well as
the capacity to fast; to take all, feel all, do
all, with an avidity greater by reason Of the
grinding abstinence and the later indulgence
of his forbears. A sage versed in the lore
Of heredity as modified by environment may
some day trace for us the progress across
this continent Of an austere Puritan, show
ing how the strain energies from the will
derness at the Western ocean with a char
acter so widely differing from the one with
which he began the adventurous journey
regarding. especially, tolerance Of the So
called good and many of the bad things of
life. Until this is done we may, perhaps,
consider the change to be without valid
cause.
Young Bines, at all events, was the flow
err of a pioneer stock. and him the gods of
life cherished, SO that all the forces Of the
young land about him were as his own. Yet,
though his pulses rhymed to theirs he did
not perceive his relation to them; neither he
nor the land was yet become interpretive.
So informed was he with the impetuous
spirit of youth that the least manifesto
ton Of life found its answering thrill in
him. And it was sufficient to feel this.
There was no time barren enough of sensa-
ton to reason about 1t.
Uncle Peters plan for an inspection of the
Bines properties had at first won him by
touching his sense of duty. He anticipated
no interest or pleasure in the trip Yet from
the beginning he enjoyed it to the full. Be-
mt MO fha 20.
pleased him, the out-of-doors life, the occa.
sional sorties from the railroad by horse &c
some remote mining camp, or to a stock
ranch or lumber camp. He had been away
for six years, and it pleased him to note
| that he was treated by the people he me,
with a genuine respect and liking as the
son of his father. In the East he had beer
accustomed to a certain Difference from very
uncertain people because he was the son OF
| rich man. Here he had prestige because
| he was the son of Daniel Bines, organizer
| and man of affairs He felt sometimes thai
| the men at mine, mill ranch looked hin
| over with misgiving, and had their caution:
liking compelled only by the assurance thai
he was indeed the son of Daniel They lef
him at these times with the suspicion
| that this bare fact meant enough with then
| to carry a man of infelicitous exterior.
He was pleased, moreover. to feel new
| respect for Uncle Peter. He observed tina
men of all degrees looked up 10 him, sough
| and relied upon his Judgment; the investing
capitalist whom they met not less than tn
mine foreman; the made man and the la
| borer. In the drawing room at home he hat
| felt so agreeably superior 10 the old man
| now he felt his own inferiority in a new
| element, and began to view him with NOR
| respect. He saw him TO be the shrewd maj
| of affairs, with thorough grasp OF detail
| in every branch of their interests; and
| deep man. we'll; a little narrow, perhaps
| from his manner OF life, but of unfailini
| kindness, and with rather young man
| radicalism than an old mans conservatism
1 one who, In an emergency, might be relie'
| upon to take the unexpected but effectiv
course.
In the course Of the trip to understand an