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♪♪

[singing] There's a long, long trail a winding

into the land of my dreams.

Where the nightingales are singing

and the white moon beams.

There's a long long night awaiting Until my dreams all come true.

Till the day when I'll be going

down that long long trail with you.

♪♪

[singing] There's a long long trail a winding

into the land of my dreams.

Where the nightingales are singing and the white moon beams.

There's a long long night awaiting

until my dreams all come true.

Till the day when I'll be going

down that long long trail with you.

♪♪

Dad why don't you stay here with our bags. I'll take him home.

What time do the bears come out?

Dad can you stay here with our things?

- I'm just taking him to his cabin. - Where would I go?

[wolf howl]

Halden!

- A tree fell on him. Do you want help? - No!

Dad?

- What are you doing? - Nothing.

We could have stayed at the International Exposition

You could have met a nice young girl

and we'd be home instead of walking in this muck.

We'll go back to Philadelphia after I finish my contraption.

We're city people.

You want to go back to Philadelphia and

have Graham Bell steal my contraption?

You didn't have to let that last young man go.

He was probably a spy for Bell.

Did you see how everyone fawned over him at the Exhibition.

Over his 'telephone.' Which you know was my cable voice machine I showed him.

- You could have challenged him. - After he's presented at the Centennial?

I don't think so. Telephone?

- What kind of name is that? - His worked.

♪♪

My dreams are just like

all my dreams

ending in the sky.

Some fellows look and find the sunshine

I always look and find the rain.

Some fellows change the planet in time

why couldn't it be my own fame.

Believe me.

I'm always chasing rainbows.

Waiting to find a little bluebird

in the rain.

♪♪

Tell me again why I came here?

It just needs a little fixing up.

A little?

- Surprise! It has a floor! - Look at the potential!

Did you see the stream in the back?

We could run a pipe bringing water into the house?

Why run a pipe? Just put a bucket under the roof.

This isn't what I agreed to. I thought you were talking about

a long driveway.

- Behind the house is room for a laboratory. - My father didn't immigrate to have his children live like this.

Listen to yourself.

Who is going to build this? Pipes to bring in water?

A new laboratory. It will take 12 men at least.

Are you tired of paying 3x as much, 4x much for a sack of cloth

as those city slickers in NYC.

And by the time it gets here it's been eaten by worms.

The answer to your prayers has arrived.

Salvation for the people of Oregon.

Announcing the Oregon Pacific Railroad.

Formulated by civil war hero

Col. T Eggington Hogg.

We will build a road of steel across the mountains

stretching from here to Boise City and from there

it's the garment mills of NY, the slaughterhouses of Chicago

the industry of London, and the apparel from France.

Shorter than any route ever proposed by 300 miles.

No longer a tumultuous ocean voyage

to begin from where you started. I can see the gleaming glory

of the steam locomotive right here on this street.

With refined coaches for the ladies and smoking cars for the gentlemen.

When that mid-day choo choo leaves

I'll be right there. I've got my fare.

♪ I will be right there with bells when that old conductor yells

'All aboard, all aboard for Santiam!"

When the mid-day choo choo leaves from Santiam

I'll be right there, I've got my fare.

When I see that rusty-haired conductor man

I'll grab him by the collar

and I'll holler "Santiam Santiam!" That's where I'll board the train

that takes me cross the plain, out East where I'll explain

How in love with Santiam, I am.

I will be right there with bells when that old conductor yells

"All aboard, all aboard, all aboard

at Santiam!"

[horse whinney]

We need 20 men to clear trees for the right-of-way.

I'm hiring a dozen men!

I'll double what he's paying you!

Three times what he pays you for 2 weeks construction work.

There's a future with the railroad!

- Lunch included! - Work for a lifetime not a week.

It's easy work. We're building a laboratory.

All you have to do is follow Wiley Creek

around to the 3rd bend.

I'll be right there with bells when that old conductor yells

"All aboard, toot toot, all aboard toot, all aboard to Santiam!"

Listen friend, there's plenty of men to go around.

You don't need to pay them more than their worth.

That just makes it harder on business owners. Men you'll come to

for supplies. If you need to hire a man, talk to me.

Is there a labor syndicate? I assumed this was the wild, wild west.

Wild, wild west? What were you expecting? A ruthless gang

of conspirators? Perhaps 2 government agents fighting for liberty and justice?

None of them kind live here.

These good folks have a code of honor and decency they abide by.

- Especially if they want work. - As long as they follow your code.

We're not telling them what to do. They can do anything

they want. If they want a bottle of whiskey

they remember who is putting silver in their pockets.

I wouldn't wait around for those men to arrive.

You might be sitting a long time.

♪♪ I don't care what they may think of me

I'm happy, go lucky

some say I am lucky, so jolly and carefree.

I don't care, I don't care

if people do not try to treat me fair.

There's naught can amaze, dislike cannot daze me,

cause I don't care.

I'd like to place an advertisement.

2 lines 2 bits. Each additional line 10 cents.

How many words fit on a line?

Depends on the words.

- Assistant Wanted - One line.

Must be good at math.

- Second line. - Thirst for scientific knowledge.

- Another 10 cents. - For grand undertaking.

Don't think I don't see through you.

Using my paper to recruit for the railroads.

For the railroad?

You tell that Rupert Fochs I can't be bought.

What do you think of that, mister?

Professor Thomas Foolery....

Invent? Invent a better a world!

♪♪ I don't care, I don't care

if I do get the mean and stony stare

there's naught can amaze, dislike cannot daze me,

cause I don't care.

- What's wrong with the railroad, anyway? - I don't like them.

- We must hire more men. - Every able bodied man has already been working

for the past 3 months. - Every man? - Except the crippled.

The men are hardly making a dent.

- They're not working hard enough. - 20 men can't do the job.

Gentlemen, we 100 men or more.

- Won't find that many men around here. - Or a machine. To cut down the trees.

And when we get to the summit we'll need 1000 men on each side.

We could import the Chinese.

- Not those people. - Crocker did it.

- What do you do with them when you're done? - You don't want that kind living here.

Send them back to China.

- What if they won't go? - Stay here and starve?

They built outside San Francisco

that's nothing but Chinamen.

We'll pass a law. They leave or face arrest. Like the black man.

- How do you get them here? - Put them in steerage on the Pacific Mail Steamship.

But it'll take 2 months.

You figure a month to get over there and advertisie

and a month to bring him back.

I have something you will find interesting. It's an elixir.

A tonic squeezed from the plant

grown in Peru and lemon from California.

We're talking about labor, not refreshment.

But those you will find most refreshing.

The problem isn't the men

the problem is their

ability to work a full day. Their lackluster effort.

What we need is something to give them strength, the energy

they need to put their back into their work, and keep their mind off their own lives.

[gagging] Cod liver oil is better than this.

- It's not the taste that matters. - What we need is a machine

that will push trees over.

- Push a tree over? Trunks as wide as a man is tall?

It can't be done.

- Fochs, what's in this? - The natives drink it as a cure.

-For what, I'd like to know.

Parker, you haven't tried yours.

My stomach is a bit upset after dinner.

This tonic will remedy that.

They're building great machines

that lift a full ton of material, the 'steam shovel.'

Surely they can build one to cut down the forest.

[gagging] I think I shall take sick.

We can place an advertisement

for a machine if you'd like, Mr. Fulton.

Hold a contest, though no one west of the Mississippi could build one.

You'll wait a year before such a contraption could be set to work.

- If it ever worked at all. - There's no need.

No need to list the contest in Santiam.

- Don't want Shay at the newspaper sticking his nose in it. - Quite right.

Fochs, you've gotten me quite excited.

- Col Hogg? - Have your clerk draw up a leaflet

for a machine contest and telegraph the newspapers in NY.

- I will. - Bully idea for a machine, Mr. Fulton.

I think it will do. I think it will do it!

It will work. It must work!

- We need a machine that will do the work of 10 men. - 20 men!

I agree, gentlemen! A machine is the answer!

You were against it before.

Yes, well, not now. I feel it's a great idea.

- Yes, a great idea! - Are you feeling better, Mr. Parker?

Yes, quite! I must say!

- Invigorated! - No lethargy, Col Hogg?

Quite extraordinarily, no!

Here is the answer to get the labor from the men we need.

- That vile poison? - It's a cure for their malaise.

Until such time as a machine can be built.

- Here, here! - To the machine! - To the tonic!

To the railroad!

Fochs, let's have another taste of that tonic.

♪♪ Some fellows look and find the sunshine

I always look and find the rain.

Some fellows change the planet in time

why couldn't it be my own fame.

Believe me

I'm always chasing

rainbows.

Waiting to find a

little bluebird in the rain.

♪♪

You were that woodcutter I dug out underneath the tree.

- Yes sir. - How's your leg?

Works good enough. I come looking for work.

- How'd you hear about that? - Seems you riled up the railroad.

They're talking about you in town.

- Apparently. - Might want to stay out of town for a bit.

I'm not afraid of them. It's just a railroad. What can they do?

You don't want them talking bad against you like they do me.

- People say things all the time. - Mr. Fochs said some things about you.

Bullcrackie. No man tells me what to do.

What do they have against you, any way?

No matter. Come on.

♪♪ I'm free, single, disengaged,

looking for someone to love.

♪♪

Men, I know you're working hard

to clear the way for the transcontinental railroad.

But I'm here to ask you: Do you poop out at parties?

Are you unpopular?

The answer to all your problems is in this little bottle.

Try some.

♪♪ I'm free, single,

disengaged, looking for someone to love. ♪♪

Just give it a moment.

It's just like candy.

Help me move this.

Why did you leave Philadelphia? We moved for my father's health.

- Moved all the way out here? - Smoke from the furnaces

was affecting him.

Does the smoke blow all the way across the country?

I also needed a place to work on my inventions without eavespeaking.

I read those cities are so packed you can't find anywhere to lay down at night.

It's not quite that bad.

Although it might as well be.

Some people take an interest in other people's business.

- Is that what happened to you? Someone taking too many liberties with your personal affairs?

Mrs. Phoebe Jane Vanderbuilt Cross.

Commander Cross' eldest daughter.

She was a bit fervent about cats. She had dozens of them.

You can imagine

it was quite an olfactory experience for her visitors.

I invented an automatically cleaning cat litter box.

I was shunned in proper circles after that.

- You moved here because of a cat? - Silly, really.

Well, that's something.

♪♪ I saw

your eyes, your wonderful eyes,

with love light

and tenderness beaming.

They thrilled me through

they filled me, too.

With wonderful dreams

I am dreaming.

No need to speak

no more shall I seek, for my heart

has taught me their meaning.

And love has come

at last I know

your eyes have told me so.

I saw your eyes

your wonderful eyes

with love light and

tenderness beaming

They thrilled me through

they filled me too

with wonderful dreams I am dreaming.

No need to speak

no more shall I seek

for my heart has taught me their

meaning. And love has come

at last I know

your eyes have told me so. ♪♪

I couldn't have done it without you.

It's not enough.

If I could just focus the sun.

Mirrors. If there were mirrors on the inside.

To capture more heat...

Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay.

I've got to make this work.

You could eat with me, you know.

- You could eat out here. - I value my life too much.

We've had enough mutton for a while.

Well we could have other things if I hadn't used all my savings

on that, that... - Magnetic Kinetic Future Vision Contraption.

Yes. That.

Think of it! It tells the future. It's almost finished.

- I just need a distillation of argon for the clairvoyant gas. - Clairvoyant gas?

It's all around us. It's between the molecules of oxygen.

It's been here since the beginning. It's the telemetric conveyor

of the future. But first...

I have to find a way to separate the argon from the oxygen.

Just think what this machine can do, Dad.

Powerful magnets pull the answers

out of the argon gas. And you get your answers

here on this card. - It's blank.

That's why I need the clairvoyant gas. Do you think...

you could sell some bonds? - No.

- We can't sell the remaining savings. - Do you know what this is worth?

People will remember me forever because of this. A machine that tells the future.

- Think of it, Dad. Think of it! - With my savings

decimated we have no future. - No more mystery!

- Our manifest destiny revealed! - If all things are known why ask the question?

- Why indeed? - You miss my meaning. - So you will sell the bonds.

Will I sell the bonds? Ask your machine if I will sell my bonds.

Ask your machine if you'll get married

so I'll have grandchildren and be happy. - ♪ You said that yesterday.

♪ You don't care what I say. ♪ It's the same thing every day

♪ I listen any way. - ♪ To find a girl that's fit...

you'll have to show some grit. Won't happen in this pit.

♪ Well I don't give a...

- Anything broke? - Halden. It's good to see you again.

Where's my dad? Amos?! Amos!

I've had it with this. You're going to get yourself killed

and take me with you. - Not today.

You and your new fangled inventions. For what? To get your name on a patent?

- I want you to quit this stuff. - It's my life's passion.

Get a job. Stop all this artistic invention and do something useful.

Something the world needs. Go back to teach.

It's a high respected profession and fairly lucrative.

- These men don't want university. - Of course they do.

- I went to school. - And can you read?

- I read the newspaper alright. - Ah ha. Well that's something.

Halden has no need for reading or writing. He's never going to hold an office position.

I'd like to be a teacher.

- Someday a machine will do all the spelling for him automatically. - Lunacy!

Absurd. You think a machine

will do thinking for him also. - I read this.

Looks like they want someone to build a machine. I was going to bring it to you tomorrow.

Against the good senses of the common folk, the railroad seeks

the invention of a tree toppling machine to open a trail over Santiam Pass.

Prize $2500!

Unbeknownst to this publication Mr. Fochs listed an advertisement in NY newspapers

hoping to award the prize within 2 months!

Oh my god! This is incredible!

I can finish the Magnetic Kinetic Future Vision Contraption!

♪♪ Ta ra ra boom de ay! ♪♪

What a palooza.

- Halden! - Good morning.

Morning.

It's cold.

- I guess it's a good thing we kept each other warm. - Yes.

- Wood cutters must do it all the time. - I'm sure they do.

- Let's get back to work. - Do you think I could get something to eat?

Right, yes, of course. See what Amos is cooking.

Thank you for bringing the newspaper.

I thought you'd be interested.

I am... I'm very interested.

I'd like to help you....

build it. - I'd like you to...

to be my assistant.

- Yes sir. - Well very good.

There's a lot I can learn from you.

There is no invention without discovery. And there's no discovery without exploration.

Or explosion!

Yeah. If necessary...

You can only learn if you're open to the possibility.

- I try to be. - Open?

To the possibility.

Oh Halden.

I've wanted you since you pulled me out from under that tree.

I'm so inspired with you around.

I want to be with you all the time. I love listening to you.

Watching you work. You're unlike anyone I've ever met.

Back East I was just doing what I had to do.

With you here....

Halden, I feel so inspired.

I was so worried and I was never going to see you again.

I don't ever want to leave you.

I fixed you breakfast.

Halden? You must stop wearing me this man out.

Right.

We're not thinking clearly. You shouldn't have stayed so late last night. You're exhausted.

My father's right.

Clearly we should not have you spend the night.

I'm going to town. I'm going to win that prize.

Mr. Fochs I'm here to respond to your advertisement....

No, no. I should introduce myself. I'm Professor Thomas Foolery...

My assistant showed me the advertisement.

- What do you think Fochs will do? - Nobody crosses him.

They say he's the reason men don't come home.

My colleague in the laboratory....

No, no. The boy I hired....

You raise a child to take care of you...

not the other way around.

♪♪ You made me love you

I didn't want to do it. I didn't want to do it.

You made me want you. And I thought

you saw through it. I really thought you knew it.

You made me happy some time. You made me glad.

But there were times, son,

you made me feel so mad. ♪♪ - I just want you to be a good man.

♪♪ You made me sigh, for

I didn't want to tell you. I didn't want to tell you.

I want some love that's true, yes I do,

indeed I do. You know I do. ♪♪ You didn't realize you needed me till now.

♪♪ You know you got the kind of kisses that I'd die for.

You know you made me love you. ♪♪

Eh, bullcrackie.

Mr Fochs....

Oh, it's you.

Pardon me, I was wondering if you could direct me to Mr. Rupert Fochs.

- You were, were you? - My son wants to talk to him

and I'm trying to avoid an unfortunate encounter.

- I thought you'd moved on. - No, I'm not so easily deterred.

- So I see. - Mr. Fochs, I have with me plans...

for a tree toppling machine... - What is your name?

- Pardon? - Wise men speak when they have something to say. Fools speak when they have to say something.

Plato!

- Yes. - You might say I have great faith in fools.

Self confidence, my friends call it.

- Edgar Allen Poe.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh. When a son gives to his father both cry.

- Shakespeare. A good book is the lifeblood...

of the spirit. - Milton.

Of the spirit. - Milton.

Show me a family of readers and I'll show you people who move the world.

- Washington Irving. - No.

Your name. Your gentlemen as am I. Surely we can begin

by telling me who you are. - Foolery. Prof. Thomas Foolery...

Professor Foolery? There isn't any university around here.

- Aren't you a bit out of your league. - My father's health. He needed fresh air.

Yes, it is refreshing.

- Charles Dickens. - Shorter.

- I've met my Waterloo. - Exactly!

Napoleon? That scoundrel? If you'd said it in French I would have gotten it.

Quel damage.

- Parlez vous francais? - Not around here.

Mr. Fochs, what I want to talk to you about is your contest to design a tree toppling machine...

- Design and BUILD. - Yes. I have the plans.

The plans? The contest isn't for the best plans.

Whoever wins the contest will be the one to deliver the machine.

- Exactly. And I'm confident... - Confident?

I believe it was a writer who said "All you need is ignorance and confidence,

and success is sure." Since you seem so well equipped with both,

I bid you good day.

There's something familiar about you. Rancher?

- No. - You work for the railroad.

- Absolutely not. - You serve time in jail?

- Of course not. - What does your son want with Fochs.

The contest for the tree lifting machine.

Ruffians, houses of ill repute, drinking, gambling, lawlessness....

that's what a railroad brings. I presume that a gentlemen

who is in need of more money has trifled it away like a fool.

- An outrageous presumption! - Go saw your timber.

Ignorance and confidence? Who said that?

Twain somebody. Writes children's books.

Something you might teach.

Ignorance and confidence.

He certainly has a lot of....

ignorance and confidence. Well I'm confident we're going to find out who the ignorant one is!

I told my wife I love you.

♪♪ If you don't believe I love you, look what a fool I've been.

If you don't think I fell for you

see what a hole I'm in.

I tried to be so kind

shy as I could be.

Then you went and tried to deny me..

I can't get you off my mind.

Off my mind, it's so unkind.

I'm going to stay, yes, going to stay this way.

Just before I met you I had the old lonesome blues

but take a look at me now I've got the happiness news.

So if you don't believe I love you

look what a fool I've been. ♪♪

I love you, sir. It's not just about the work.

Confound that man at the newspaper. He called you a fool and me an ignoramus.

Whereas you may be, I certainly am not.

And could you be more circumspect in the future and keep that in your private quarters.

Thank you.

[music]

Congratulations, Mr. Harrison.

If your machine does the trick you'll win the $2500 prize.

[laughter]

It's the Cascade Mountains, Mr. Harrison, not a field of sunflowers.

You should have considered that.

The cussed machine toppled over. What goldarned good does it do if it falls over?

- Are we supposed to bring the trees to it?

I must say, Fochs, this contest idea of yours is half-baked.

We should have brought in the Chinese.

Put that dead varmint down and answer the question.

Harrison is the man who built the steam shovel you mentioned, Mr. Fulton.

Clearly a 7 story tree is more

than a child's toy in a sandtable.

Those men seem quite dodgy. Bit over spirited.

I know we have to hire every man but

do you have to hire the barbarian? - Very unstable.

Chinamen are so grateful for what we pay them.

We don't have those sorts of behaviors.

- You think we could pay them in rice? - I don't see why not.

Crocker is threatening to bring the Southern Pacific RR up the Willamette Valley.

That would mean financial ruin.

Get this railway line done this winter.

There is a local 'professor' working on an entry to our contest.

- Yes? - He brought the plans to my house months ago.

Though there's no telling if his design will succeed.

Did you see this week's newspaper?

- Not now, Dad. - The railroad found a machine.

- Can't you see I'm in the midst? - You're always in the midst.

This newspaper is filled with grammatical errors!

The spelling is dreadful...

The newspaperman writes atrociously....

[steam boiling] [explosion]

What the devil happened?! Weren't you watching the boiler release??

Halden, are you okay?

Sunlight heated the water pressure too fast. There was too much steam.

It happened because you're careless. Two months of work destroyed.

- We only need to repair the boiler. - So you can blow it up again?

- Useless. What good are you? - Don't blame Halden.

Dammit. Eternal tarnation!

He should have been watching the controls. Damn near was killed.

I shouldn't have put him in there.

Dammit.

Hello, sir.

- Where is your master? - Sir?

- The inventor. Where is the professor? - He'll be back.

- I'm here about his tree machine. - It's in the back.

I can't let you see it, sir. Not till the professor is done at the end of the month.

I at least expect to see the progress

if I am to consider his entry into the competition.

I can't let you do that, sir. It's his invention, and he gets to decide when to show it.

Impertinent cripple.

Step aside.

Very well. End of the month.

But no later or the contest prize will be awarded to another.

Here. This should help with your limp.

Drink it at once.

It's his own damn fault.

♪♪ Some of these days,

you'll feel so lonely.

You'll miss my hugging

You'll miss my kissing.

You'll miss me, honey,

when you go away.

I feel so lonely

just for you only.

For you know, honey,

you've had your way.

But as I leave you

- What has become of me? - I know it will grieve you.

- He could have been killed. - You'll miss your little baby

Yes!

I said I'd be with you no matter what.

I didn't know your machine would be more important than...

- I hope you get what you want. - Where are you going? We have work to finish.

I'm already finished.

Ignorant? 11 grammatical errors in the first page!

And you call yourself

a publisher! A man of letters to the great unwashed?!

You dubious dilettante, prosaic proselytizer!

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Hamlet.

Have you nothing better to do than a few misspelled words?

At first it's only a few words.

Then missed punctuation. What comes next?

Communicating with a few letters?

The loss of 2500 years of scholarly research

cut down to just a few characters.

You lay the demise of Western civilization

at my feet as if I were to blame.

Me thinks the lady doth protest too much.

Since you are so highly educated perhaps you would be so gentle

as to come in the day before publication

to peruse the prose for any possible misapplication.

Work for you? As a clerk?

I wasn't about to hire you.

You wouldn't be soiled by this ignoble profession.

Merely to see if you would deign to enlighten those of us in the periodical publications

with your superior knowledge of the alphabet.

You expect me to come down here?

- Every week. - Tuesday after sunrise.

And peruse what you scrawl on a page.

Of course you may wish to pen your own epistle.

An epiphany on the merits of shearing the sheep before washing them

or sharpening the blade of the saw before cutting the tree.

Mock me no more.

Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies. - Sophocles.

New York University.

We studied the Classics freshmen year.

- New York University? - Class of '34.

Foolery?

Amos Foolery!

- We lodged together 2nd year! - O'Brien?

Is that you? I've seen a ghost!

Not dead yet!

Keep up, boy!

Yes sir, I'm coming sir!

Give him some of your tonic! This is mine. - You have 2 bottles.

Keep up, boy. You don't keep up you don't get paid.

Just pour it down his throat. That'll get him going.

Come here, boy. Get on your knees.

Sir? - Come on, get down.

Open your mouth.

Open your mouth. I ain't gonna hurt you.

A little left....

That'll get him he going!

It's freezing out here. What are you doing?

Working.

On what?

You were happier in Philadelphia, weren't you.

We had running water.

This is the biggest mistake I've ever made.

You know, I wasn't....

the best husband to your mother.

She knew it before I did.

But I couldn't stop.

Eventually she forgave me.

But it took a long time for me to forgive myself.

Forgive yourself, Thomas.

Everyone else has.

♪♪ My love, the world is waiting for the

sunshine. Every...

rose is heavy with dew.

The thrush

on high its sleepy mate

is calling and

my heart

is calling you. ♪♪

[wolf howl]

Did you see this? I can't let that man

continue publishing with so many grammatical erros.

I don't think anyone will notice. - It's an insult to my intelligence.

[Olde English quote]

Exactly what I was thinking...

It's as simple as ABC.

With a pull of this lever the tree is felled.

I'll say this: I'm most impressed.

It's fueled entirely by sunlight. With the sunlight hitting

my solar collector device which store the energy in a salt solution

you never need fuel again. It's quite self-sustaining.

- Never need fuel? - No, none whatsoever.

No need for wood.

I used a special glass to create that sphere on top of the boiler.

It concentrates the light so well it works even on a cloudy day.

- And at night? - The water is a salt brine solution...

with other elements. There's no need to worry about heat 10 hours after sunset.

- That is an interesting design. - It will revolutionize your industry, Mr. Fochs.

I can see that.

This editorial about the railroad ruining our town

is not going to win you any friends.

These people are not dumb. They deserve to know the truth.

- At what price? - You've changed.

- At what price? - You've changed.

-What?

You stood up in front of the President of our University, Albert Gallatin,

and argued the same point about truth

regardless of the outcome.

I did a lot of things in my youth that I regret.

You can't be serious. This is the basic moral foundation of humanity.

Have supper with me tonight. It will be like old times.

Not quite. Not at our age.

We didn't know what we were doing. You never know.

You never know.

♪♪ I can see how it can be

everybody has a sweetie but me.

No matter how I try I don't see why

it hurts me so

it makes me want to sigh and cry. Please won't someone come and take a chance on me.

Love me like no other could

oh baby, can't you see?

I'm free, single, disengaged,

looking for someone to love.

I want someone to cuddle me

call me turtle dove.

Lots of loving is just what I need.

Love me like I'm your true love indeed.

I'm free, single, disengaged,

looking for someone to love.

Sometimes I feel sad and blue, I don't know what

in this world to do. - Sometimes I lay awake

till the break of morn,

regretting the day I was born.

I am just as lonely as can be. - Want someone

to buzz around me like a bumblebee.

I'm free, single, disengaged,

looking for someone to love.

I want someone to snuggle me

call me turtledove.

Halden! - Love me when I'm dead and in my grave.

I'm free, single,

disengaged, looking for someone to love.

Halden!

Halden?

Halden!

Halden?

Hello, sir.

I've been so worried about you. I've looked everywhere for you.

Here I am.

What happened to all these trees?

We cleared it, didn't we.

Why?

Railroad men hired us to do it.

They say when the road's open they're going to cut down the whole mountain.

The whole mountain? - To sell back East.

What is this?

- It builds up my strength. - Did you drink all of this?

Not at once.

I shouldn't have said those things to you. I was mad.

It was stupid. - You don't need me.

Oh yes, yes I do.

I really do. Please come home. - I don't have a home.

Come with me.

I'll get you something to eat.

- I have supper for you. - That smells terrible.

Where is the tonic bottle?

Why?

Why not?

I couldn't keep up.

They forced me to drink it the first time.

I didn't like it. But then...

I started to feel as strong as they were. Like I could do anything.

When I found you you could barely stand.

It sneaks up on you.

It feels good at first.

You get so into it

you don't see how badly it hurts you.

You have to eat something.

- I see you're reading the walls. - It's to keep the draft out.

We've got to stick together.

They try to divide us. And then they conquer.

- The Civil War is settled. - That's not what I'm talking about.

These tycoons use us as pawns.

To play their own games. If the people in this town

were better educated they wouldn't be so easily misled.

I'm afraid your own Tom

has fallen prey.

He always wants to be the center of attention.

He'll do anything to get there. - That contraption of his...

could ravage mountains. Take every tree

they want to sell to feed their steam machines.

- I hardly think it's that bad. - You watch, Amos.

A machine like that could decimate

an entire forest in a day.

Tom is foolish, but he's not destructive.

What other purpose does he think that contraption serves?

He's trying to raise

money for another invention of his.

Some pile of gears that he says....

will predict the future.

I can see the future as clear as your eye.

Fochs and his ilk

have these people bamboozled.

If you were to tell them true patriots live outdoors

and only anarchists live in houses they'd burn theirs down.

They need education.

Even if that means classes by the light of kerosene.

I hardly think the uneducated are that beguiled.

Not beguiled

poisoned.

You're awake!

- Where have you been? - Late night at the newspaper.

I was worried sick. Halden is finally asleep.

- Halden is here? - He's been up all night.

- I was about to come looking for you. - Your father's personal affairs are none of your business.

How's Halden? - I found him freezing on the trail.

He's been drinking some sort of tonic he got from the other wood cutters.

I bet I know who gave it to him.

Fochs? You didn't tell me you'd be out all night.

- What am I supposed to think happened to you? - You played right into his hands.

Fochs.

That contraption you built for him isn't for cutting a trail.

I know.

Crocker's team is surveying up from California right now, gentlemen.

If we don't get this railroad built by this summer our prospects are lost.

What about that tree machine you mentioned?

- We'll have to modify his contraption, gentlemen. - Another bungled attempt?

- Oh no, it works quite effectively. - Is he a Russian?

He's invented a means to concentrate the light

from the sun in order to generate the steam power.

He's boiling water in the sun? That's nearly impossible.

- That's remarkable. - Not quite.

Along with his invention to harvest trees, he's also invented a reason to no longer need the trees.

He's not burning wood in the boiler?

Entirely heated by the sun.

And his solar collecting device can be adapted for almost any machine.

- Where's the profit in that? - There isn't any.

What sort of a fool invents an idea without considering the margins?

- A dangerous sort, this man. - The economy would collapse without turning a profit.

- What if others got a hold of this invention? - You can't let this fester.

- Indeed. This man is a radical anarchist. - How will you put a stop to it.

Call in the army.

There's no need. He's only one man.

There's another way.

He can't have it! Or my plans. Some people do the worst things to get what they want.

No matter what it does to someone else.

It's up to us to stop them. Put that in your newspaper.

- Front page, last edition. - Going out of business?

No, going into business, with your father.

- Dad? - We're going to start a night time university.

- So people can read the newspaper. - You mean like Halden?

We might even accept him as our first graduate student.

He barely has any education at all.

- But has a thirst for education. We were thinking of talking to him about teaching.

Teaching? He wouldn't want that.

Really, Tom? You of all people should know what Halden wants.

You're going to college.

Yes?

- I thought you'd moved on. - I'm not that easily deterred.

I'm here to award you the prize.

Pity. There was a fatal flaw in the design.

You're not getting a contraption from me.

The machine simply blew itself up.

- I see. And what of the designs? - They were all destroyed in the fire.

But you could recreate them.

Especially the design for the solar collecting device.

Yes.

That's what I wish to speak with you about. I see a bright future...

with that contraption of yours, harnessing the power of the sun.

Very inventive. I wish to purchase the patent.

With a guarantee of royalties with every usage of the device.

- Say 20%? - It's worth more than that.

- 25%. - Not interested.

Prof. Foolery thinking of the benefits to humanity your invention brings.

Yes, I could see the usefulness.

All right!

My investors will never forgive me. 40%.

With 2 conditions.

The railroad and all those you associate with

will stop handing out that tonic poison to your workers.

That is a most unusual condition.

- I don't see how it relates. - You've got them so hopped up they don't know when to stop.

You're a businessman, Mr. Fochs. Stick to business.

Leave the pharmaceuticals to doctors.

- We're simply doing our best to insure the future of mankind. - No quibbling.

Stop distributing the bottle or you don't get the patent.

What's the second condition?

Your railroad will grant the land with a building

to a university to be established here in Santiam.

I never accounted

for your business acumen, professor.

My hat's off to you.

Fochs wants the solar collecting device!

That's wonderful, sir! - At long last I invented something useful.

Doesn't matter what anyone else thinks of you, I love you.

- Did he accept? - With conditions.

- School house for a university. - Here? How impractical.

- He wants what? - We have plenty of land, it's no matter.

He also insists that we stop delivering tonic to the workers.

What business is it of his?

We dare not let his solar collecting device reach the public.

Most peculiar man.

What if we no longer called it a tonic. What if we offered it...

with fizzy water, as a soda fountain beverage. - As a soda fountain beverage?

Add sugar. Give it a catchy name.

- Design a unique bottle for it. - That could work.

The railroad would no longer be in the tonic business.

Brilliant!

Instead everyone would have to buy it from us!

Do you suppose we should name the solar collector

after him - as a gesture?

Yes, we may as well call it 'Tom Foolery.'

[laughter]

♪♪ I don't care, I don't care

what they may think of me.

I'm happy go lucky, some say I am plucky,

so jolly and carefree.

I don't care, I don't care,

if people do not try to treat me to fair.

There's naught can amaze, dislike cannot daze me,

cause I don't care.

Well, that was something.

I could use a drink. - I'll spot you a pint across the street.

I'll take you up on that. - Step right up!

See the sensation of the nation!

A drink that gives people strength, a machine that cuts down trees?

And men flying through the sky? Whoever heard of that?

You might as well convince a court jester could be king.

Stick to pictures about sea monsters. Make them fly!

That's what the people want to see!

A picture about flying sharks? That's absurd.

- Good day. - Good day, sir.