The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-11-20

made Of the same stuff. They had l. came passions
and desires. Finance was poker on a larger scale
The men who played were the men who had stakes.
The workers the fellows toiing for grub stakes
lie saw the game played according TO the everlasting
rules. and he played hand himself. The gigantic
futtity Of humanity organized and befudded by the
bandits did not shock him. 1t the natural order
Practically all human endeavors were futile. He had
seen so much Of it. His partners had starved and died
on the Stewart Hundreds Of old timers had failed to.
LOCATE on Bonanza and Eldorado while Swedes and
chechaquos had come in on the moose pasture and
blindly staked millions 1t was life and life was a
savage proposition at best Men in civilization robbed
because they were so made They robbed just cats
scratched, famine pinched and frost bit
So IL was that Daylight became a successful hnan-
cier He did not in for swindlng the workers Not
only did he not have the heart for it, but did not
strike him as q sporting proposition. The workers
were SD easy SO stupid II was more like slaughter
ing rat, hand reared pheasants on the English pre-
serves he had heard about. The sport TO him was in
waylaying the successful robbers and taking their
Spols from Them There was fun and excitement in
that and sometimes they put up the very devil of q
nght; Lis Robin Hood OF old, Daylight proceeded 10
TOD the Ich ahd III small way TO distribute To the
needy But he was charitable after his own fashion
The great mass of human misery meant nothing 70
olnl That was part Of the everlasting order lie hid
40 patience with the organized charities and the pro-
'esslonaI charity mOngers Nor, on the other hand
was what he gave conscience dole He owed no
man. and restitution unthinkable. What he gave
was iarSess, free, spontaneous gift; and il was
IoF those about him. He never contributed IN an
earthquake FUND in Japan nor to an open afr fund In
New York city When he learned that the wife of his
waiter at the St Francis was suffering from tuher-
euoS LIE sem her 10 Arizona and later when her case
was uecIaEeu hopeless, he sent her husband TOO 10
De with her to the end. Likewise he bought string
Vi horsehair brides from convict in Western peni-
tehuary, VINO spread the good news until il seemed
10 daylight that half the conVicts in that institution
were making brides for him. He bought tham all
paying from twenty TO fifty dollars each for them
1hey We're beautiful and honest things and ne deco
rated al the available wall space of his bedroo win
them. VAL
Inc grim Yukon life had failed 10 make DAYLIGHT
Iaf9. II required civilization produce this resIlt
III me herce' savage game he now PLAYED his habuaI
gehallty lmperceptbly slipped away from him as did
MS lazy western drawl. As his speech beca me sharn
ana nervous, so did his mental processes In the st
rush 0f The game he found less and less time n sand
On being merely good naaIred. he change marked
LIS race iSer The lines grew sterner Less often an
peared the playful curl OF his lips the smile In tb
Nnkiing corners of his eyes The eyes themselves
pack ana flashing like an Indians betrayed glnts of
cruelty ana brutal consciousness of power His tra
nendous vitality remained aud gadiafed from oil ~
being but il was vitality under the new aspect Of tb
man tIamphng man conqueror. His battles with ole.
mental nature had been in way impersonal. his nras
emf battles wholly with the males of his s 70
and the hardships of the TRAIL the river and The 60
harred MN far less than the bitter keenness of bs
struggle with bis fellows. ~
ne stln had "reminiscences of genIality. but they
were largely periodical and forced and they yvara
usually due TO the cocktails he took prior o roealti
III the North he had drunk deeply and at irregular In
.elfais Dus now MS drinking became systematic ana
uIsclplnea IL was unconscious develoDment b,,T a.
was based upon physical and mental condition. Tba
cocktails served as an inhibition Without REASONING
or thinking about it, the strain of the Office which %
essentially due to the daring and audacty of his ven
lures, required check or cessation and no fonnd
through the weeks and months that the cocktans
supplied this very thing. They constitutes stona
wall de never drank during the morning nor in ONCE
touls, Dul Tue instant ne left the office he proceeded
TO rear this wall of alcoholic inhibition afbwart bts
consciousness. The office became Immediately a
closed affair." 1t ceased TO exist In the afternoon
aIer Iuncs IL lived again for two hours wFvn
leaving IT. he rebuilt the wall OF Inhibition of course
there were exceptions to this and such was the reor
OF MS discipline that IL he had dinner or conference
oerore him IN which, in a business way he encoun
tered enemies or allies and planned OF prosecuted cam
paigns ne ~abstaned from drinking But the instant
the business was settled his everlasting call went ont
for Martini and for double Martini at that served
In long glass SO as not TO excite comment
TO BE CONTINUED NEXT SUNDAY.