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^ SYNOPSIS. Elara Harnish. kao^vn all through Alas ka aa "Burning Daylight," celebrates his 30th birthday wlfh a crowd of miners at the Circle City Tlvoli. The dant? leads to heavy gambling, In which over $100,000 is staked. Harnlsh lotes hia money and his mine but wins the mall contract. He starts on bis mail trip with dogs and sledge, telling his friends that he will be In the big Yukon grold strike at the start. Burning Daylight raaktp a sensationally rapid run across oountrV with the mall, appears at tho Tivoli apd is now ready to Join his friends In a dash to the new 'noniHtns' thiit srold will be found in the up-river illstrlct Haxnlsh I buys two tons of flour, which he declares wlU be worth Its welgbt In gold, but when he arrives with his flour he finds the big flat desolate. A cr>mrade discov ers gold and Daylight reaps a rich har vest. He goes to Dawson, becomes the most prominent figure in the Klondike and defeats a cornbtnatloa of capitalists In vast mining deal. He returns to civilization, and. amid the bewildering complications of hl?h finance. Dayilsht finds that he has been led tn Invest his eleven millions In a manipulated scheme. He goes to New York, and conrronung bia disloyal partners with a revolver, he threatens to kill them If his moiney Is not returned. They are cowed, return their stealings and Harnlsh goes back* to San Francisco where he meets his fate In Dede Mason, a pretty stenographer. He makes large investments and gets tfcto the political ring. For a rest he goea to the country. Daylight gets deeper lntrt hl*h finance In San Franclsoo. but oftet^ the longing for the simple Mfe nearly over comes him. Dede Mason buys a horse\ and Daylight meets her In her saddle trips. One day he asks Dede to go with him on one more ride, his purpose being' to ask her to marry him, and they cantter vw%y. she trying to analyze her feellngsi. a v\/ ^ANilnuAW unftr i cn av??wiumh'?%n But through It all ran the golden thread of love. At first he had been content Just to ride with Dede and to be on oomradely terms with her; but the desire and the need for her In creased. The more he knew of her. the higher was his appraisal. Bad she been reserved and haughty with him, or been merely a giggling, sln> perlng creature of a woman. It wouldf have been different Instead, she amazed him with her simplicity and wholesomeness. with her great store of comradeliness. The latter was the unexpected. He had never looked apon woman In that way. Woman, the toy; woman, the harpy: woman, the necessary wife and mother of the race's offspring?all this had been bis expectation and understanding of woman. Bnt woman, the comrade and playfellow and JoyfeTiow?this was what Dede had surprised him in. And the more she became worth while, the more ardently bis love burned, un consciously shading his voice with caresses, and with equal unconscious ness flaring up signal fires in his eyes. Nor was she blind to it, yet. tike many women before her, she thought to play with the pretty fire and escape the conseauent conflajcration." "Winter will soon be coming on," Bhe said regretfully, and with provoca tion. one day. "and then there won't be any more riding." "But 1 must see you in the winter Jmt the same." he cried hastly. She shook her bead. Tve been pretty good." be declared. T leave it to you if I haven't It's bean pretty bard. too. I can tell you. You Just think It over. Not once have I said a word about love to you. and me loving ^ou all the time. That's going some for a man that's used to having Ms own way. I'm somewhat of a rusher when it comes to travel ing. I reckon I'd rush God Almigbtly tf it came <to a race over the Ice. And yet I didn't rush you. I guess this fact is an indication of how much 1 do love you. Of course I want you to marry me. Have I said a word about It, though? Nary a chirp, nary a flut ter I've boon niitet and eood. though I It's almost made me sick at times, tbis keeping quiet I haven't asked you to marry me. I'm not asking you now. Oh. not bat what you satisfy me. I oure know you're the wife for me. But how about myself? Do you know me well enough to know your own mind?" He shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know, and I ain't going to take chances on It Oow. You've got to know for sure whether you think you could get along with me or not. and I'm playing a slew conservative game. I ain't a-going to lose for overlooking my hand." Thi# was love-making of a sort be yond Dede's experience. Nor had sbe ever heard of anything like it "So you see." he urged, "just Tor a square deal we've got to see some more of each other this winter. Most likely your mind ain't made up yet?" "But lt\is." she Interrupted. "I wouldn't dare permit myself to carc for i you. Happiness, for me, would not Me that way. I like you, Mr. Harnish. and all that, bait it can never be more than that" "It's because you don't like my way of livtag." be chained, thinking In bis own mind of the sensational joy-rides and general profligacy with which the newspapers had credited him?think ing this, and wondering whether or not. in maiden modesty, she would disclaim knowledge of it To his surprise, her answer was flat and uncompromising. "No; I don't." "1 know I've\been brash pn some or those rides that got into the papers," he began bis defence, "and that I've been traveling with a lively crowd?" "I don't meart that," she said, "though 1 know about it, too. and can't say that I like* it But it Is your life in general, your business. There are women in the world who could marry a man like you' and be happy. but I couldn't <uid tno more i careu for such a man. the more unhappy I should be. You see, my unhapplness. In turn, would tend to mf&e him un happy. I should make a mistake, and he would make an equav! mistake, though his would not be so hard on hlni because he would still have his btulness." "Business!" Daylight gasped. "What's wrong with my business!? I play fair and square. There's noth ing underhand about it. wkicb can't be said of most businesses, whether of the big corporations or of the cheat ing, lying, little corner-grocerymen. 1 play the straight rules of the game, and I don't have to lie or cheat or DreaK my wora. "Don't you see," he went on, "the whole game is a gamble. Everybody gambles in one way or another. ;The farmer gambles against the weather and the market on his crops. So does the United States Steel Corporation. The business of lots of men is straight robbery of the poor people. But I've neven made that my business. You know that I've always gone after tbe robbers." "I missed my point," she admitted. "Walt a minute." And for a space they rode in si lence. "i see u more cieariy uunn i w state It, but it's something like this. There is legtlmate work, and there'9 work that?well, that isn't legitimate. The farmer works the soil and pro duces grain. He's making something that is good for humanity. He actual ly, in a way, creates something, the grain that will fill the mouths of the hungry." "And then the railroads and market riggers and the rest proceed to rob him of that same grain," Daylight broke in. "There ain't much difference be tween playing halfway robber like the railroad hauling that farmer's wheat to market, and playing all rob ber and robbing the robbers like I do. And, besides, halfway robbery is too slow a game for me to sit In. You don't win quick enough for me." "But what do you want to win for?" Dode demanded. "You have millions otfiH mllllnna nlrenHir? whv Pftll't. VOU dto good with all your money?" Daylight laughed. "Doing good with your money! Ain't it fui^ny, to go around with brass knuckles and a ^blg club breaking folks' heads and taking their money away from them until I've got a pile. an<S then, repenting of my ways, going around and bandaging up the heads the other robbers are breaking? 1 leave It to yon. That's what doing good with money amounts to. Every once In a while some robber turns soft hearted and takes to driving an am balance. That's what Carnegie did. ! He slashed heads In pitched battles at Homestead, regular wholesale head breaker he was. held up the suckers for a few hundred million, and now ( he goe* around dribbling It back to tbem. Funny? I leave it to you." He roiMed a cigarette and watched 1 her half furiously, half amusedly. His ronKoa nnrt h?r*h ffpnprfllflZfttionS of a harsh school were disconcerting, and | she came back to her earlier position. "I can't argue with yqu, and you know that. No matter h|ow right a woman is, men have such $ way about j 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 a higher joy than mere gam bling. Haven't you ever made things yourself?a log oabin up in the Yu kon, or a canoe, or raft, or something? And don't you remember how satis fied you w\ere. how good you felt, while you were doing it and after you had it done?" While she spoke his memory was busy with the nssociatlons she recall ed He saw tbte deserted flat on the river bank by the Klondike, and he cam ?Vio nn(Mn?j nnrt warrhonses spring up. and all the log structures he had built, and his sawmills work leg night and day on three shifts. "Why, dog-gone It. Miss Mason, you're right?In a way. I've built hundreds of houses up there, and 1 remember I was proud and glad to see them go up. I'.ta proud now, when I remember them. And there waa Ophlr?the most God-forsaken moose pasture of a creek you ever laid eyes on. I made that into the big Ophlr. Why. I ran the water in there from the Rinkabilly, eigbly miles away. They all said I couldti't, but I did it. and I did It by myself. The dam ami the flume cost me four million. But you should have seen that Ophlr?pow er plants, electric lights, and hunr dreds of men on the pay-roll, working Proposition 1 ? #?' City Girl and Country Lad View thei Farm Life From Different Angle# "I ho?p oftpn wnnrlpreri Mr. Clover top. If the people living oa these dear old farms amid scenes of such peace ful and quiet rural beauty, have as keen an appreciation of the wondrous beauty of field and hill and meadow and sky as we dwellers in the city have when we catch our all too fleet ing glimpses of them when we face hitherward for our brief midsumnver holiday," said Miss Annabelle Gush Ington to Adoniram Clovertop whcin he was taking her from the station out to his farm. Then she added: "O, 1 am quite sure that you muBt be sensible of all the charm and beau ty of your quiet, happy, peaceful en vironment. Are you not. Mr. Clover cop?" "Wa-al, It's this-away," said Mr. Clovertop?"when a feller has pulled out o' bed at three-thutty in the morm in' an' has milked nine keows In miis keeter an' fly time an' the keow crit ters has basted ye with their talis Her night and day. I (guess I do get aD inkling of what you mean 'by making a thlrfg. I made Ophlr, and she was a hummer." "And you won something tVere that was more than mere monej," Dede encouraged. "Now do you ltnow what I would do if I had lots o( money and simply bad to go on pis ying at business? Take all the southerly and westerly slope of these bare bills. I'd buy them in and plant eucalyptus on them. I'd do It for the'Joy of (ioing it anyway; but suppose I had tht t gam bling twist in me which yon 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 firewood?pnak ing something where nothing vrsU toe tore. And everybody who ever crossed on the ferries would looik up at these forested bills and be made glad. Who was made glad by :rour adding four dollars, a ton to Flock Wells? It was Daylight's turn to be slrtent for a time while she waited an an swer. "Would you rather I did things like that?" he asked at last. "It would be better Tor the vworId. and better for you." she answeretd non-committally. CHAPTER XVI. All week every one in the office knew that something new and big was afoot in Daylight's mind. On Sunday Dedo learned all about it "I've been thinking a lot of our talk." he began, "and I've got an idea I'd like to give It a flutter. And I've got a proposition to make your hair stand up. It's what you call'legiti mate, and at the same time It's the gosh-dangdest gamble a man ever went into. How about planting min utes wholesale, and making two min utes grow where one minute grew d? fore? Oh. yes. and planting a lew . m 11 lin h nt irees. i ui>?00/ ocicioi uiukvu them. You remember the quarry 1 made believe I was looking at? Well, I'm going to buy it. I'm going to buy these hills, too, clear from here around to Berkeley and down the other way to San Leandro. I ov.rn a lot of them already, for that ma<Uer. is Two-Sided a couple o' hours an' mebbe kicked ye over a few times an' then ye have Ho give a drove o' screechin* hawgs their feed on' a hundred ole hens is chasi n' ye all over the barnyard cluckln' for their breakfast an' a calf or two draffs ye all over the barnyard while ye a lr tryin* to git them away from their mothers' an' the thermometer shoot a up to a hundred in the shade an' yB have to dig weeds or bug taters al'J flnv nr pit in hav or chase ten or il w" ~" I dozen miles after some keow critter that has got out o' the paster, an' then ye have all that mllkin' to do over again at night an' ye finish up ycr , cnore9 by lantern light the longest day in the year, when all that hap pens, ma'am, ye ain't in no condition to git sentymental over 'lights an' shadders' an' 'peaceful scenes' an' sich like. Thar's two sides to ev'ry proposition an' I reckon my side o' this beauty bizness ain't the same as yours. 'Glowin' sunsets' and 'rosy morns' don't appear the same to me as to you!"?Judge. Brave men were living before Ag amemnon. PNDON VS C/1U or m?W/LD~t "MMr/M?Dm "?rc.' Company.) mpariy I nish, and That Is All." But mum Is the word. I'll be buying a long time to come before anything much is guessed about it, and 1 don't want the market to jump up out ot sight You see that hill over there, it'a mw hill rnnnlnc clear down Its slopes through Piedmont and halfway along those rolling bills into Oakland. And it's nothing to all the things I'm going to buy." He paused triumphantly. "The ferry system between Oakland and San Francisco is the worst one horse concern in the United States. You cross on it every day. sii days In the week. That's say, twenty-five days a month, or three hundred a year. Plow long does it take you one way? Forty. minutes. if you're lucky. I'm going to put you across lb twen ty minutes If that ain't making two minutes grow wtiere one grew before, l.Viz.o/1 n-' Vi Mttla a nnlpn ?\uy\.A uu ui;r ucau r. u mw? ?KK. I'll save you twenty minutes each way. That's forty mlnues a day, times three hundred, equal to twelve thou sand minutfs a year. Just for you. Just for one person. Let's see: that's two hundred wfhole hours. Suppose I sav? two hunriced hours a year for thou sands of other folks?that's farming some, ain't Is? Come on. Let's ride up that hill, and when I get you out on top tvbere you can see something. I'll talk, sense." A srpall footpath dropped down to the drf bed of the canyon, which they crossed before they began the climb. The slope was steep and covered with matte 0 brush and bushes, through which the horses slipped and lunged. Showers of twigs and leaves fell upon them., and predicament followed pre dicament. until they emerged on the hllltrrp the worse for wear but happy and excited Here no trees obstruct ed ijie view. The particular hill on whl>fh they were. out-Jutted from the reg'jlar line of the range, so that the swfjep of their vision extended over tbrpe-quarterB of the circle. Below, on thcj flat land bordering the bay. lay j Orikland. and across the bay was San i FVancisco.. Between the two cities j they could see the white ferry-Doaie on the water. Around to their right vas Berkeley, and to their left the scattered villages between Oakland nnd San Leandro. Directly in the fore ground was Piedmont, with Its desul tory dwellings and patches of farming land, and from Piedmont the land rolled down In successive waves upon Oakland. "Look at it." said Daylight, extend ing his arm in a sweeping gesture. "A hundred thousand people there, and no reason there shouldn't be half a million. There's the chance to make j five people grow where one grows j now. Here's the scheme in a nutshelL j Why don't more people live in Oak land? No good service with San Fran- j cisco, and. besides, Oakland is asleep, j It's a whole lot better place to live tn ; than San Francisco. Now, suppose l I buy In all the street railways of Oak- : land, Berkeley, Alaaneda. San Leandro, j and the rest?bring them under one ' head with a competent management? ! Suppose I cut the time to San Fran- j cisco one-half by building a big pier out there almost to Goat Island and j establishing a ferry system with mod- | ern up-to-date boats? Why. folks will want to live over on this side. Very pood They'U need Land on which to build. So, first I buy up the land. ? Jut the land's cheap now. Why? Be cause it's in the country, no electric roads, no qu,\ck communication, no body guessing that the electric roads are coming. I'll build the roads. That will make the land jump up. Then I'lJ sell the land 03 fast as the folks will want to buy because of the im proved ferry s.fstem and transporta tion facilities. (TO BE, CONTINUED.) TO GOME BACK HOME EVERYBODY IS INVITED TO RE TURN TO PALMETTO STATE NEXT JANUARY. REDUCED RATES ARE GIVEN The Request Is Made That All Who Are Interested Will Communicate With Headquarters In Columbia.? V* ; * * ' * V '# ' A Large Crowd is Expected. Columbia.?By the simultaneous ac-^ tion of the mayors of South Carolina cities and town, Just issued, there has been proclaimed a great "home com ing of South Carolinians" residing in othor states, to take place during the National Corn exposition, which will be held In Columbia next January. The mayor has joined with other may ors of the state in issuing a proclama ;ion. '. It is propped that every person of South Carolina birth and parentage, low residing in some other state, shall ?e invited by personal letter to return X) this state during the National 3orn exposition, and their realtives md friends remaining in this state ire requested to send the names and iddresses of these native South Caro> iniana to the National Corn Exposition issociation, Columbia, in order that ;he exposition officials may keep them nformed as to the movement. The railroads have already granted re iuced rates for the exposition, cov ?* - 1 ** Utaaia I jring xne lerrtiurjr casi ui tuo uhdsid ?ippi and south of the Ohio river, and t is believed that this is an oppor :une time for a genuine reunion of South Carolinians living in other parts of the country. The National Corn exposition is a great national agricultural show, and t is already attracting attention from :he leaders in agricultural develop nent throughout the nation. The leg slature at its last session made an ippropriation to assist in this exposi :ion, and the federal government will Bake an extensive and important ex libit. Practically all the state agri jultural colleges and experiment sta :lona will also be represented. I. A. DuBose Has Been Released. Columbia.?J. A. DuBose, of Bishop rills, who was arrested in connection, with the death of his friend, J. D. 3tuckey, who was found dead with his :hroat cut in a local sanitorlum on Main street, was released by Coroner Walker. Coroner Walker said that ae would very probably hold an in quest but that he had not, decided upon the date.' Coroner Walker gave the opinion that Mr. Stuckey commit ted suicide. Mr. DpBose was arrested and placed in the Richland county Jail because of the knife with which it is supposed Mr. Stuckey's throat was ? * J i? Ui* / n.,D/v?A\ rrtAm cut was IUUUU 1U. Ul?> l uuuuoc on Lady street. General Order On Encampment. Columbia.?A general order on the encampment of the South1 Carolina regiments of the National Guard at Anniston, Ala., has been issued by W. W. Moore, the adjutant general. The following dates for the various regi ments are given: Third infantry. July 6 to July 16; First infantry, July 16 to July 25; Second infantry, July 26 to August 4. Instructions as to transportation, preparation of pay miia nnH mnntp? will be announced in order to be issued later. Fell Asleep On Track and Was Killed Greenville.?Inquest into the death of Lewis Revan, who was found in a .mangled /condition on the railroad tracks in Greer, reveals the fact that the man was in a drunken stupor and had fallen asleep on the tracks and was killed by a freight train. The man was 35 year sold and leaves a wife and seven children. He was employed at Victor mill. Checking Books of State Officers. Columbia.?The legislative commit tee to check up the books of the state officers assembled here to begin their work. They will probably require several days to complete their duties. Boys' Corn and Cotton Club. Chester.?The Boys' Corn and Cot ton clubs assembled at the county court house Saturday afternoon. A most enthusiastic meeting was held and much progressive work was map ped out. Rules for the contests were j not finally adopted and the clubs will meet again shortly to consider same ! The following reports were received j on subscriptions for annual pre- I miums: Cotton club?T. J. Cunning- j ham. Jr., $56; W. Gary simpson, $t>: i Corn club?Ernest J. Locke, $40; "W. D. Knox and R. L. Cunningham, $25; I Zeigler Has Been Refused Bail. Columbia.?Chief Justice Gary sev eral days ago refused bail to James G. Zeigler, of Aiken, on habeas corpus proceedings brought by attorneys for Zeigler, viz: J. D. Salley, J. \V. Thur mond and J. F. Williams. Solicitors R. L. Gimter and George Bell Tiramer man and Senator T. G. Croft appeared for the state. Zeigler is the man who shot and killed Officer Patterson, of the Aiken police force about a year Knon ago ana smue mm nmr uc u<u , confined in jail pending trial of bp < as<?. Interest In County Convention. Columbia. ? There is considerable interest being taken in the county convention to be held in the near fu ture at the court house. The action by several of the clubs in indorsing Woodrow Wilson has b?..en read with considerable enthusiasm throughout the state and it is expected that there will be some discussion along this line by the Richland delegates at the meeting. So far no opposition has developed to the re-eelction of H. N Edmunds as couuty chairman and R Beverly Sloan as secretary. m NEWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA The Latest News of General Interest Collected From Many Towns and Counties of the State. Chester. ? The Men and Religion Forward movement held a large and Interesting mass meeting at the First Baptist church. The subject was mis sions. . - Anderson.?For the loss of three fingers of his right hand, William O. Singleton, a former employe of the Williamston mills, through his attor neys, instituted suit against these mills for ?10,000 damages. Camden.?Adjutant Inspector Gen eral James W. Moore and Capt. Mc Master, ,U. S. A., Inspected the rifle range of the Kershaw Guards, Com pany a, secona regimeui, r*. v*. o. and the company and its equipment at their armory on Main street. The company passed a very creditable in spection. Paxville.?At a recent meeting of the trustees of the graded school Prof. J. D. Griffith, of Saluda, was re elected for another term. His as sistants will be as follows: Misses Catherine' McLaurin of Sumter, Annie Belle Durant of Elliotts, and Ada Griffith of Saluda. MIbs Durant will continue to conduct the music class. Orangeburg.?The trustees of Or angeburg college have purchased the Slater tract of land, just beyond the Atlantio Coast Line railroad from the present property on south Brough ton street. The price paid for these ten acres, more or less, was $5,500. This site is located within the city limits and the trustees think will fur nish ample grounds for the college, this county, according to the call of E. J. Rhame, publishing-the state ments of the condition of the banks at lhe< close of business April 18./ The of ficers of the banks ace anxiouB to comply with the law, and this they ire going to do, regardless of the out come of the test that is being made i in the supreme court as to who is the 3tate bank examiner. Orangeburg.?Sentiment is being aroused in this county as to how the Orangeburg county Democratic con vention will vote In the matter of the slection of delegates to the state con vention. The Bleasites state that they will control the convention and (rill pass a resolution endorsing Gov. Blease for re-election, while the Jones forces are working- to elect a dele^ gation that will have a majority for Jones. Spartanburg.?From developments here it appears that Beaufort Trim mier, a well known young man of this Dity, has been representing himself as a plain clothes man" and holding up speeding automobiles on the streets of the city and demanding of them $5 bond. How many tinges he has worked this game is not known. but it is believed he did an extensive business during the festival week.' Lexington.?The several banks of Columbia.?Chief Justice Gary o? the supreme court signed an order reinstating the following cases: Mrs. E. A. Lowry, plaintiff-respondent, vs.. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Com pany, defendant-appellant. Henry R. Geddings, plaintiff-respondent, vs. At lantic Coast Line Railroad Company, defendant-appellant. Shelby Low-, ranee, plaintiff-respondent, vs. Atlan the Coast Line Railroad Company, de fendant-appellant. "Winnsboro.?Alexander Henderson,, a negro who lives near the Anderson quarry in this county; is in Jail here charged with killing his wife. It is ?v>Qf qo ho was starting out I L'Uttl 5CU luub MW w for a' trip to Winnsboro his wife in sisted on accompanying him against hiB attempts to persuade her to remain at home. He is said to have maltreat ed her severely and leaving her on the roadside resumed his journey to Winnsboro. Later she died . Manning.?In the Farmers Platform Democratic club 23 delegates were elected to the cpunty convention. The list includes a majority of men whc favor the candidacy of Judge Ira B Jones for governor. The following are the delegates: W. M. Lewis, J. E Kelley, D. M. Bradham, T. J. Tisdale W .T. Touchberry, H. H. Bradham, E B. Brown, P. D. Graham, S. O O'Brian, A. C. Bradham, J. H. Wind ham, J. M. Timmons, J. W. Heriot. W. J. Bradham, J. A. Weinberg, W C. Davis, B. A. Johnson, E. B. Gamble, H. C. Boggett, S. M. Reardon, T. H Ridgeway, J. T. Davis. J. E. Davis., St. George.?St. George will have a f'stem of waterworks. An elec tion held for such purpose resulted in an overwhelming victory in favor of the proposed bond issue of $18,000, the vote being 78 to 22. Walterboro.?The town eiecuon held hera resulted in the election of all the aldermen and a second < race for mayor between the incumb ent, Dr. W. B. Ackerman and J. D. Glover, with Mr. Glover leading by 15 votes. A second primary for :uayor will be held in the near future. Much interest was shown and nearly every voter cast a ballot. Spartanburg.?Jerome H. Gaffney, a ! well-known letter carrier, was arrest ed on a charge of petit larceny, made by W. J. Woodruff, who alleges that Mr. Gaffney took $19 from the till of Eailey & Woodruff's grocery store on Broad street. Barnwell.?Gen. Frank H. Creech, commander of' the Second brigade, U C .V., has announced the appointment of sponsor and maids of honor for the brigade at the general reunion at Macon and at the state reunion this year. Miss Hattie A. Rowley, of r.roonville. has been appointed spon sor. Beaufort.?Chief of Police M. O. D j White shot and killed a white pris- | ouer, said to be named Worrell, after j a hand-to-hand encounter at the coun- I ty jail.* Morrell shot twice at White, who shot twice, White receiving only a powder burn from one of the shots fired at him. Spartanburg.?Z. V. Taylor, assist ant to the i'ice president of tht Greenville, Spartanburg & Anderson Railway Company, announced that the company would establish its termi nal station on Wofford and Spring streets juat west of Magnolia street and opposite the court house park. E 10 SAVE LEVEES THE TORRENTIAL FLOODS ARE CREEPING HOURILY TOWARD BATON ROUGE. PEOPLE ARE HARD AT WORK The Situation Has Become So Critical That the College Students Have i ' , Answered the CaJI For Help.?Refu goes Being'Cared For. ' >&$& M Baton Rouge, La.?Hundreds of cit* Izens, rich and poor, worked all day and are still working side by side wuii mree nunprea convicts auu uw groes in a desperate effort to hold the levees against the torrential floods in the Mississippi creeping hourly to-' wards the crest of the protective earthworks about this city. When the situation became so crit ical every able-bodied man! and boy joined the working force. Five hun dred cadets of the Louisiana .State University responded to the call and. . ? Joined with school boys, boy scouts and soldiers working eagerly to do their part in saving the levees. \ There are five points of feverish activity. Aa especial effort is being made to save the city pumping station and waterworks plant and about a ' \-A thousand persons of every calling are V assisting in building large mud boxes y about this property. Gov. Jfared Y. Sanders spent a day .- ! superintending the 1 workers. Simon : j Leblanc of the Ponchartrain levee board arrived hero on a special train with 150 negibes. Hunter C. Leake, president of the board, came in sbortr ly afterward with a hundred more men. Large gangs are building levees in different parts of the city. Mayor Roux has ordered every ne- ^ gro in Baton Rouge, unemployed, ar-.^B rested and put to work on the levee, but tbey are few and extremely hard to find. With thjis desperate battle against ' <.? the waters going, the refugees are fa/i anri thn&A enminar here UUV UVQtVVbW MMW w, _r,1_ are receiving every, attention. Two hundred arrived at Port Hudson, > where a concentration camp has beeajffifl established. The waters from the Torras break are slowly spreading over the open country, taking in town after town, becoming deeper every hour. The sit uation in this district was made more critical here by the break in the Mo-. %'<l reauvilie Jevee on the Bayou Dea Glaizes; Members Decline to Reduce .Mileage Washington.?The House declined .<*,1 by an overwhelming majority to cut down the mileage allowance to mem bers. During a debate on the econ omy program, upon which the House has entered, Representative Page of North Carolina introduced an amend- , ment to the. pending legislative bill tA reduce the milage from 20 cents a ' /i mile to 5 cents. Former Speaker Can 1 -J n.n Aorhi o era i not thfi rfirfllft Ky, mm mi I1UU 1CU IUC ug)u? w wm-w tion, declaring the existing rate was bar.jly sufficient to pay the traveling expenses of a Representative and Us family. On a viva voce vote thtere were very few "ayes" for the amend ment but an abounding chorus of "noes." Efforts of Smith Prove Fruitless. New York.?The efforts of Senator William Alden Smith, chairman of the Senate committee investigating the Titanic disaster, to confirm the report that a message telling of the Titanic's fate was received in New York early on the Monday morning after the wreck have thus far proved fruitless after two days of examination of wit *1 aqoqo horo UVOOVO UV* VI Dictagraph Not Allowed in Cell. Atlanta.?The jail authorities have refused to let the prosecution detec tives hide a dictragraph in the cell of Mrs. Daisy Grace in the Fulton county tower. They said it would be equiva lent to betraying the secrete of the client with her lawyers, and could not tbe tolerated. Mine Officials M9re Confident. New York.?Officials of the United Mine Workers of America, who have been in conference here for two days expressed confidence that a strike of the mine workers of the three anth racite districts, who have been idle since April 1, has been averted, and that a satisfactory agreement will be entered into with the operators be fore the end of this month. After be ing in conference for four hours, the members of the three anthracite boards issued a c&U for a general con vention at Wilkesbarre, Pa., May 14. 105 Bodies Have Been Buried. Halifax, N. S.?Fifty-nine bodies ol the. unidentified Titanic victims were committed to their last resting place. Four bodies, identified, as, Roman Catholics, were buried with the rites of their church in Mount Olivet ceme^ tery, and nine Hebrews, in the He brew cemetery, with customary cere monies. The remaining forty-six in terred in Fairview cemetery. A large plot of ground had been purchased by the White Star representatives and the graves will be marked with a suit able monument. Adjournment in Senate Delayed. Washington.?After a series of con ferences Senator Penrose, the Uepu?> lican leader of the Senate, expressed the belief that it was a physical im possibility to consider the appropria tion bills and other prospective legis lation before, probably July 1. Thia would be after the national party con. vention. "I am anxious for an early adjournment," he said, ''but the tarffl debate has hardly started and some ol the largest and most important appro priation bills are yet to be completed."