Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1912-02-01

knuckles and a big club breaking
folks heads and taking their money
away from them until I've got a pile.
and then, repenting of my ways, going
around and bandaging up the heads
the other robbers are breaking? l
leave it to you That's what doing good
with money amounts to. Every once
in while some robber turns soft
hearted and takes to driving an am
bulance. That's what Carnegie did.
He smashed heads in pitched battles
at Homestead, regular wholesale head
breaker he was, held up the suckers
for a few hundred million, ard now
he goes around dribbling it back to
them. Funny? l leave it to you"
He rolled cigarette and watched
her half curiously, half amusedly. His
replies and harsh congratulations OF a
harsh school were disconcerting, and
she came back to her earlier position.
81 can't argue with you, and you
know that. No matter how right a
woman is, men have such way about
them-well what they say sounds
most convincing, and yet the woman
is still certain they are wrong. But
there is one thing, the creative joy;
and it's higher joy than mere gam
bling Haven't you ever made things
yourself-a log cabin up in the Yu-
kon, or a canoe, or raft, or something?
And don't you remember how salts
fed you were, how good you felt.
while you were doing it and after you
had it done?"
While she spoke his memory was
busy with the associations she recall
ed. He saw the deserted fiat on the
river bank by the Klondike, and he
saw the log cabins and warehouses
spring up, and all the log structures
he had built, and his sawmills work
ing night and day on three shifts.
why. dog-gone 1t, Miss Mason,
you're right--in way. I've built
hundreds of houses up there, and l
remember I was proud and glad to
see them go up. I'm proud now, when
remember them. And there was
Ophir-the most God-forsaken moose
pasture of a creek you ever laid eyes
on. I made that into the big Ophir.
Why, ran the water In there from
the Rinkabilly. eighty miles away.
They all said couldn't, but did It,
and did 1t by myself. The dam and
the flume cost me four million. But
you should have seen that ophir-pow-
er plants, electric lights, and hun.
dreds of men on the payroll, working
night and day. / guess ! do get an
linking of what you mean by making
thing. / made Ophir, and she was a
hummer"
"And you won something there that
was more than mere money" Dede
encouraged. Now do you know what
would do II l had lots of money
and simply had to go on playing at
business? Take all the southerly and
westerly slope of these bare hills. I'd
buy them in and plant eucalyptus on
them. I'd do 1t for the joy of doing 1t
anyway; but suppose had that gam
bling twist In me which you talk
about why, I'd do It just the same
and make money out of the trees. And
there's my other point again. Instead
of raising the price of coal without
adding an ounce OF coal to the market
supply, I'd be making thousands and
thousands OF cords OF nrewooa-nax.
ing something where nothing was be-
fore. And everybody who ever
crossed on the ferries would look up
at these forested hills and be made
glad. Who was made glad by your
adding four dollars ton to Rock
Wells?
1t was Daylight's turn to be silent
for time while she waited an an
swer.
Would you rather did things like
that" he asked at last.
1T would be better for the world,
and better for YOU" she answered
non-committally.