The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-21
cHAPT TER, v.
49, ~
Over the Hills.


made the round of the Bines properties.
The former nursed forforn lit
tie hope of exciting an interest
in the corcerns 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 August 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 it's .fullness, this of itself makes
the heart to sing. And above the full
complement Of wants, to have been dow
cred by Heaven with stanch disbelief in
the unattainable-this is fortune rather
to be chosen than a good name or great
riches; since the name and riches and oil
things desired must come to the call of it.
Our western born youth of 25 had the
wants and the sense of power inherited
from a line of men eager Of initiative, 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 tllro hard
ship 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 we'll
as the capacity to fast; to take all, feel
all, do all, with an avidity greater by rea
son 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, showing. how the
strain energies from the wilderness at the
western ocean with character SO widely
differing from the one with which he be-
gan the adventurous journey-regarding
especially, a tolerance Of the so-called
good and many Of the bad things Of life.
Until this is done we may, perhaps con-,
slider the change to be without valid cause.
Young Bines,. at all events. was ii the
flower of 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 retrospective. So informed was
he with the impetuous spirit of youth that
the least manifestation of life found it's
answering thrill in him: And it was suf-
| fcent to feel this. There was no time
barren enough Of sensation to reason
| about it. IL,
Uncle Peters plan for an inspection of
the Bines properties had at first won him
by touching his serse of duty. He antici-
pated no interest or pleasure in the trip.
Yet from the beginning he enjoyed it to
the full Being what he was, the constant
movement pleased him, the out doors
life, the occasional sorties from the rail-
road by horse to 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 met with a genuine respect and
liking as the son of his father. In the
east he had been accustomed to certain
| difference from very uncertain people be-
cause he was the son Of a rich man. Here
/ he had prestige because he was the son Of
| Daniel Bines organizer and man Of affairs
| He felt sometimes that the men at mine
mill or ranch looked him over with mis-.
giving, and had their cautious liking com
PEELED only by the assurance that he was
indeed the son OF Daniel They left hin
at these times with the suspicion that this
bare, fact meant, enough with them t.
carry man Of infelicitous exterior
! He was pleased. moreover, to feel new
respect for Uncle Peter. He observed tha
men of all degrees looked up to him
sought and relied upon his Judgment; the
| investing capitalist whom they met no
| less than the mine foreman; the made maj
and the laborer. In the drawing room a
home he had felt SO agreeably superior
to the old man; now he felt his own in
1eflOrlty III a new clement, ana DeSan u
view him with more respect. He saw hin
to be the shrewd man of affairs, with
thoro grasp OF detail in every branch o
their interests: and a deep man. as well
a little narrow, perhaps, from his name
! of life, but of unfailing Kindness, and will
i rather a young mans radicalism than al
old mans conservatism; one who, in al
emergency, might be relied upon to TAX
the unexpected but effective course. .;>r
For his own part old Peter Bine
learned in the course Of the trip to under