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8YN0P3I8. Klain Harnlsh, known all througrh Alas ka as "Burning Daylight," celebrates his JOth birthday with a crowd of miners at the Circle City TlvolL The dance leads ' * ? ?- ?*inn non 10 neavy gamoung, in wmu. la staked. Harnish loses his money and his mine but wins the mall contract. He tarts on his mall trip with dogs and sledge, telling his frlenas that he will be Ip the big Yukon gold strike at the start Burning Daylight makes a sensationally rapid run across country with the mail. | appear* at the Tivoli and Is now readv to Join his friends in a dash to the new gold fields. Deciding that gold will be round In the up-river district Harnish buvs two tons of flour, which he declares will be worth Its weight In gold, but whpn hp arrives with his flour he finds the big flat desolate. A comrade 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 combination of capitalists In a vast mining deal. He returns to civilization, and, amid the bewildering complications of high finance, Daylight finds that he has been led to Invest nls eleven millions In a manipulated scheme. He goes to New York, and confronting his disloyal partners with a revolver, he threatens to kill them If his money Is not returned. They are cowed, return their stealings and Harnlsh goes back to San Francisco where ho meets his fate In Dede Mason, a pretty stenographer. He makes large Investments and gets Into.the political ring. For a rest he goes to the country. Daylight gets deeper Into high finance In San Francisco, but often the longing for the simple life 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 mope ride, his purpose being to | ask her to marry him and they canter | away, she trying to analyze her feelings. Dede tells Daylight that her happiness could not He with a money manipulator. Daylight undertakes to build up a great Industrial community. He is insistent that she marry him and y?t hopes to win her. CHAPTER XVIII. When lie ferry system began to ran. and the time between Oakland | and San Francisco was demonstrated 1 to be cut In half, the tide of Daylight's terrific expenditure started to turn. ! Not that it really did turn, for he promptly went into further invest ments. Thousands of lots in his resi dence tracts were sold, and thousands of homes was being built Factory sites also were selling, and business proper ties in the heart of Oakland. All this tended to a steady appreciation in the value of Daylight's huge holdings. But, as of old. he had his hunch and was riding It. Already he had begun bor rowing from the banks. The mag nificent profits he made on the land he sold were turned Into more land, into more development; and Instead of paying off old loans, he contracted new ones. As he had pyramided in Dawson City, he now pyramided in Oakland: but he did It with the knowledge that it was a stable enter prise rather than a risky placer-min ing boom. Work on Daylight's dock system went on apace; yet it was one of those enterprises that consumed money dreadfully and that could not be accomplished as quickly as a ferry system. Not content with manu facturing electricity for his street rail ways in the old-fashioned way, in pow er-houses. Daylight organized the Sier ra and Salvador Power Company. This Immediately assumed large propor tions. Crossing the San Joaquin Val ley on the way from the mountains, and plunging through the Contra Cos ta hills, there were many towns, and even a robust city, that could be sup plied with power, also with light; and It became a street-and-house-llghtlng project as well. As soon as the pur chase of power sites in the Sierras was rushed through, the survey par ties -were out and building operations begun. \nd so it went. There were a thousand maws into which he pour ed unceasing streams of money. In the spring of the year the Great ; Panic came on. The first warning was when the banks began calling In their unprotected loans. Daylight promptly paid the first of several of his personal notes that were present ed; then he divined that these de mands hut Inrtiontpd the wnv fho tetnH was going to blow, and that one of those terrific financial storms he had heard about was soon to sweep over the United States. How terrific this particular storm was to be he did not anticipate. Nevertheless, he took every precaution In his power and had no anxiety about his weather ing it out. And in the end, when early summer wj.s on, everything began to mend. Came a day when Daylight did the un precedented. He left the office an hour earlier than usual, and for the reason that for the first time since the panic there was not an item of work waiting to bo done. He dropped into Hegan's private office, before leaving, for a chat, and as he stood up to go, he said: ? "Hegan. we're all hunkadory. We're pulling out of the financial pawnshop in fine shape, and we'll get out with out leaving one unredeemed pledge behind. The worst is over, and the end is in sight. Just tight rein for couple more weeks. Just a bit of i nlnrh nr a flnrrv nr en nnw nnH than and we can let go and spit on our hands." For once he varied I is programme. Instead of going directly to his hotel, he started on a round of the bars and cafes, drinking a cocktail here and a cocktail there, and two or three when he encountered men he knew. It was after an hour or so of this that he dropped into the bar of the Parthenon for one last drink before going to din ner. By this time all his being was pleasantly warmed by the alcohol, and he was in the most genial and best of spirits. At the corner of the bar sev eval young men were up to the old trick of resting their elbows and at tempting to force each other's hands down One broad-shouldered young giant never removed his elbow, but put down every hand that came against him. Daylight was Interested. ~U'r Slossoc," the barkeeper told i him. In answer to his query. "He's j the heavy-hammer thrower at the U. ; C. Broke all records this year, and the world's record on top of it He's a husky all right all right" I Daylight nodded and went over to j him, placing his own arm In opposi tion. "I'd like to go you a flutter, son, on that proposition," he said. The young man laughed and locked hands with him; and to Daylight's as tonishment It was his own hand that was forced down on the bar. "Hold on." he muttered. "Just one more flutter. I reckon I wasn't Just ready that time." Again the bands locked. It happen ed quickly. The offensive attack of Daylight's muscles slipped instantly into defence, and, resisting vainly, his hand was forced over and down. Day light was dazed. It bad been no trick. The skill was equal, or, if anything, the superior skill had been Ms. Strength, sheer strength, had done it He called for the drinks, and, still dazed and pondering, held up his own arm and looked at it as at some new strange thing. He did not know this arm. It certainly waB not the arm he had carried around with him all the years. The old arm? Why, it would have been play to turn down that young husky's. But this arm?he con alis<h rillhlmia UUUCU CU 1W A ??. AW nnu perplexity as to bring a roar of laugh ter from the young men. This laughter aroused him. He Joined In It at first, and then his face slowly grew grave. He leaned to ward the hammer-thrower. "Son," he Bald, "let me whisper a secret Get out of here and quit drinking before you begin. The young fellow flushed angrily, but Daylight held steadily on. "You listen to your dad, and let r 'W "We're Pulling Out of the Fins him say a few. I'm a young man my self. only 1 ain't. Let me tell you. several years ago for me to turn your hand down would have been like com mitting assault and battery on a kin dergarten." Slosson looked bis incredulity, while the others grinned and clustered around Daylight encouragingly. "Son. I ain't given to preaching. This is the first time I ever come to the penitent form, and you put me there yourself?hard. I've seen a few In my time, and I ain't fastidious so as you can notice it. But let me tell you right now that I'm worth the devil alone knows how many millions, and that I'd sure give it all, right here on the bar, to turn down your hand. Which means I'd give the whole shoot ing match just to be back where I was before I quit sleeping under the stars and come into the hen coops of cities to drink cocktails and lift up my feet and ride. Son. that's what's the matter with me. and that's the way I feel about it. The game ain't worth the candle. You just take care of your self, and roll my advice over once in a while. Good night." He turned and lurched out of the place, the moral effect of his utter ance largely spoiled by the fact that he was so patently full while he ut tered it. Still in a daze. Daylight made to his hotel, accomplished his dinner, and prepared for bed. "The damned young whippersnap per!" he muttered. "Put my hand down easy as you please. My hand!" He held up the offending member and regarded It with stupid wonder. The hand that had never been beaten! (Copyright, 1910, by the New York Herald (Copyright, 1910. by the MacMIllan C( | The hand that had made the Circle Cltv elants wince! And a kid from college, with a laugh on his face, had put it down?twice! Dede was right. He was not the same man. The situa tion would bear more serious looking into than he had ever given it But this was not the time. In the morn ing. after a good sleep, he would give it consideration. CHAPTER XIX. Daylight awoke with the familiar parched mouth and lips and throat, took a long drink of water from the pitcher beside his bed. and gathered up the train of thought where he bad left it the night before. He reviewed the easement of the financial strain. Things were mending at last. While the going was still rough, the greatest dangers were already past His mind moved on to the incident at the corner of the bar of the Par thenon, when the youiig athlete had turned his hand down. He was no longer stunned by the event, but ne was shocked and grieved, as only a Btrong man can be, at this passing of bis strength. He had always looked upon this strength of his as perman ent, and here, for years. It had been steadily oozing from him. As he had diagnosed it, he had come In from un der the stars to roost In the coops of cities. He bad almost forgotten bow to walk. He bad lifted up bis feet and been ridden around In automo biles, cabs and carriages, and electric cars. He bad not exercised, and tie had dry-rotted his muscles with alco hol. And was It worth It? What did all his money mean after all? Dede was right It could buy blm no more than one bed at a time, and at the same time it bad made him the abject est of slaves. It tied him fast. Which was better? he asked himself. All this was Dede's own thought It was what rhe bad meant when she prayed ho vniilri en broke. He held uo his offending right arm. It wasn't the same old arm. Of course she could not love that arm and that body as she had loved the strong, clean arm uncial Pawnshop in Fine Shape." I O nH Ko/Itt r\9 tfAiro K^f LI a HMn uuu uv/uj \ji j cai a uciuic. nc uiuu v like that arm and body himself. A young whippersnapper had been able to take liberties with it. It had gone back on him. He sat up suddenly. No. he had gone back on it! He bad gone back on himself. He had gone back on Dede. She was right, a thou-, sand times right, and she had sense enough to know it. sense enough to New Use foi Plan Is Put Forward to Utilize Some of the Sixty Per Cent. Waste Time. The American school plant is valued at more than $1,000,000,000. and as used for school purposes alone utilizes but thirty-nine per cent, of the time which could be given to the needs of the community. This, according to the National Magazine, represenfs a total j loss of school plants to the country I of mnrfi than $30 000 000 pverv vear. An active movement is now taking place to turn 6chool property during the summer months into children's playgrounds and places of amusement and to make them the center of recre ation. of political and social life, the same as in country places, where they serve many purposes, oftentimes even for church services. Evening schools, free lectures, in door sports, folk dances, civic and ed ucational meetings and gymnastic ex ercises are among the things men tioned for which school plants should be utilized. It is DroDosed by some ? ..Tp PNDON r//? CALL Of THfWLD; m/?77N rom "trc.' I Company.) jmpany. refuse to marry a money-slave with a whisky-rotted carcass. He got out of bed and looked at *1# In *Vl< th A wardrobe door. He wasn't pretty. The old-time lean cheeks were gone. These were heavy, seeming to hang down by Hl? Arm* Went Out and Around Her. i their own weight He looked for the lines of cruelty Dede had Bpoken of, and be found them, and be found the harshness in the eyes as well, the eyes that were muddy now a^fter all the cocktails of the night before, and i of the months and years before. He looked at the clearly defined pouches that showed under his eyes, and they i ? K V?4rv? Un maIIa/1 tm ^Vin alaoVA I OUUV^ACU U ILIii 1IC I UHCU up yuv oiwv of his pajamas. No wonder the ham mer-thrower had put his hand down. Those weren't muscles. A rising tide of fat had submerged them. He stripped off the pajama coat Again he was shocked, this time by the bulk of his body. It wasn't pretty. The lean stomach had become a paunch. The rigid muscles of chest and shoul ders and abdomen had broken down Into rolls of flesh. And this was age. Then there drifted across the field of vision of his mind's eye the old man ^he had encountered at Glen Ellen, coming up the hillside through the fires of sunset, white-headed and white-bearded, elehty-four. In his hand the pall of foaming milk and In bis face all the warm glow and content of the passing summer day. That had been age "Yes slree. eighty-four, and spryer than most." he could hear the old man say. Next he remembered Ferguson, the little man who had * uttled into the road like a rabbit, the one-time man aging editor of a great newspaper, who was content to live in the chapar ral along with bis spring of mountain water and his hand-reared and mani cured fruit trees. Ferguson bad solve'd a problem. A weakling and an alco holic. he had run away from the doc tors and the chicken-coop of a city, and soaked up health like a thirsty sponge. He sat down suddenly on the bed. startled by the greatness of the Idea that had come to him. He did not sit long. His mind, working In its , customary way, like a steel trap, can vassed the idea in all its bearings. It was big?bigger than anything he bad faced before. And he faced it square ly, picked it up in his two hands and turned it over and around and looked at It The simplicity of it delighted him. He chuckled over it, reached his decision, and began to dress. Midway in the dressing he stopped in order to use the telephone. Dede was the first he called up. \ "Don't come to the office this morn ing." he said. "I'm coming out to see you for a moment" He called up others. He ordered his motor-car. To Jones he gave in structions for the forwarding of Bob 1 and Wolf to Glen Ellen. Hegan he eurprised by asking him to look up 1 the deed of the Glen Ellen ranch and make out a new one In Dede Mason's i name. "Who?" Hegan demanded. ] "Dede Mason." Daylight replied im perturbably?"the 'phone must be in- < distinct this morning. D-e-d-e M-a-s-on. Got It?" Half an hour later he was flying out to Berkeley. And for the first time the big red car halted directly before the house. Dede offered to receive him In the parlor, but he shook his head and nodded toward her rooms "In there," he said. "No other place would suit." As the door closed, his arms went out and around her. Then he stood with his hands on her shoulders and looking down Into her face. (TO BE CONTINUED.) * the Schools to have the schoolhouses opened every day of the week. Sundays in cluded, so that the community may get the greatest possible benefit from them. If this movement grows pupils | no longer find after vacation a musty j smelling deserted building, but rather I one which has been in use every day I in the year by those who love to give J the public every possible advantage of | the' buildings provided for public pur- y poses. Other Things. Braggs?There are still other things than money even in this dollar chas ing age. Waggs?Good! That's Just what I'm looking for. Let's grab them and form a trust. Braggs?But I was referring to such things as a clear conscience and self respect Waggs?Doesn't matter at all. It will read all the better In the proa- 1 pectus when we come to sell the stock. * ?Life. ' ' T, INCREASE SHOWN IN ASSESSMENT! REPORT IS MADE BY THE BOAR OF EQUALIZATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA. PROTESTS WERECONSIDERE rotal Value of Cotton Mills, Oil Mil and the Fertilizer Factories of tl State of 8outh Carolina For Tax J tlon Is $31,970,255. Columbia. ? Comptroller Gener tones announced the reduction on b lessments of cotton mills, oil mil ind fetrllizer factories as found 1 the state board of equalization at meeting when the protests were co lidered. The following reductions were a nounced for the cotton mills: Q houn mills, Calhoun Falls, reduce from $500,000 to $450,000; Langl< Manufacturing Company, Langle from $876,000 to $800,000; Brog< mills, Anderson, from $498,900 $425,000; Beaver Dam mills, Edg field, from $140,000 to $120,000; Mo oghan mills, Greenville, from $1,05' 000 to $960,000; Piedmont Manufa turing Company, Piedmont, from $ 320,000 to $1,120,000; Ashley Man facturing Company, Newberry, fro $16,000 to $10,000; American Pre ? * ^ tO UlOlfl UOmp&nyi w/uiumwia^ liurn 000 to $26,000; Granby cotton mi Columbia, from $900,000 to $850,00' Chesnee mills, Chesnee, from $300,0 to $280,000; Drayton mills, Sparta burg, from $587,600 to $560,000; Fo Mill Manufacturing Company, Fo Mill, from $200,000 to $166,000. Farmers' Oil and Manufacture Company, Blacksburg, from $15,000 $10,000; Tyger Shoals Milling Coi pany, Wellford, from $30,000 to $2 000; Due West oil mill, Due Wei from $33,000 to $24,000; Allendale C< ton Oil Company, Allendale, fro $60,000 to $30,000; Fairfax oil- mi Fairfax, from $20,000 to $15,000; W kin8vllle Cotton Oil Company, W kinsvllle, from $10,000 to $8,000; W) terboro Cotton Oil Company, Walte boro, from $27,000 to $26,000. Combahee Fertilizer Company, Charleston, from $350,000 to $15 000; Tidewater Fertilizer and Stc age Company, Port Royal, from $2 400 to $15,000; Read Phosphate Coi pany, Charleston, from $330,000 i $100,000. South Carolina To Make Fine Showii South Carolina will make a fii showing at Seattle within a few wee! for when the National Electric Lig Association meets there far its th tv.flfth annual convention fro June 10 to 14, the state will be nepi seated by an Imposing list of m< who make life brighter for everybod Included In the South Carolina mei bership are the Anderson Wat< Light and Power Company, the Chf leston Consolidated Railway, Gas ai Electric Company, the Columb Railway, Gas and Electric Compan the Darlington Light and Water Coi pany, the Florence Electric and Ut ity Company, the Georgetown Ele trie Company, the Spartanburg Ra way, Gas and Electric Company ai the Sumter Lighting Company. Gives Decision In Important Case. In the United States district cou Judge Smith handed down his de< sion in the Columbia case of Edwa H# Titus against the Granite Brii Company and the Columbia Savini Bank and Trust Company, which h nHmotpti some general Interest, t) motion having been made for a tei porary injunction restraining the i sue and execution of a mortgag Judge Smith signed an order, enjoi Ing mortgage of its property. Severe Storms Visit Chester County Chester county was visited by a tt rific rain storm and in the Hazelwof Bection it appears to have spent i fury. At the latter place hail can down in such fusillades that ov mucii of the territory visited by tl storm there will have to be a coi plete replanting of the crop. Civil Service Examination June 1. Civil service examination will 1 held at Camdftn June 1 to select thn mail carriera. J. Blakeney Zemp, tl issistant postmaster, is secretary i the civil service commission of th Jistrict, may hold the examinatioi Not only will there be many contes ints for the examination from Car len, but several persons from oth< sections of the state have signifie :heir intention in standing the exam lation. The carriers salary will t ?50 a month, but will be increased i ;he end of the year. Railroad Schedule To Be Aired. The question of the schedule on th Northwestern railroad will be aire before the railroad commissioners i >umter in the near future, the con nissioners having written they wi )e here for that purpose. The sche< lie has been giving a great deal c lissatisfaction since It was change ast February, and the commissio las ordered it changed back. A pet ion was received by the commissioi o allow the schedule to stand as low is, the petition coming from tb Summerton end of the line. \ New Chapter in Arson Case. A sensational chapter was added t he charge of arson against Allenda 5osneil, charged with the burning c iV. J. Gibson's home, when four chi iren lost their lives January 28, whe fenry Brown was arrested charge vith being accessory to the charge c irson. Brown is said to have coi essed to a local magistrate and B. J iVharton, deputy insurance cominii lioner, who has been working oh th :ase for some time, saying that h ivas present when Gosnell fired th lousa. "'FK'. - " "Tf HARDWARE MEN'S MEETING Proper Entertainment to be Given _ the Visitors?Called Special Meet 0 ? to Consider Arrangements. Charleston.?Visiting hardware deal ers of the two Carolinas, here In Con D vention next month, may be given an excursion trip around the harbor in the steamer Sappho. This was one of the plans discussed for the entertainment of the hardware men by several local D hardware dealers, who 'met at the Chamber of Commerce to plan for this Is Convention, to which about 350 visit ors are expected. To complete arrange ments for this convention a general a- meeting of the hardware men of the city is called at Shrine Hall, corner of King and Wentworth streets. At this meeting, in pursuance of act ion taken, Mr. E. H. Mclver made a re port as to details of these entertain ment plans, based upon investigations made. Mr# Mclver was appointed chairman of the committee which con ferred, and will be in possession of factB which he will lay before the hardware men as a basis of action in planning to give the visiting hardware men a good time. The annual convention of the hard ware men of the Carolinas will be held here June 11, 12, 13 and 14. The Isle of Palms will be the place of meeting and general headquarters of the Con vention, and here, in the midst of the surf bathing, the sea breezes and the general gayety of the island season, they will discuss hardware and other appropriate subjects. They will also give careful attention to the various exhibits?that is, the exhibits of hard ware which will be set up for their in spection by various hardware manu facturers of the country. South Carolina New Enterprises. The secretary of state has issued a charter to the Elmwood Development n<fo1 * l UOIliyau/ Ui V/U1Uwuia rr i?,u of $6,000, The officers are: Frank H. ig Gibbes, president; Albert E. Douglas, to vice president, and W. A. Clarkson. m- The company will conduct a general 0,- real estate business. A commission 3t, has been issued to the Jenkins Ex )t- press Company of Columbia with m capital of $5,000. The petitioners are 11, E. A. Jenkins, C- G. Guignard and II- G. A Guignard. The company will 11- do a general trucking and transfer *1- business. A charter has been issued sr- to the Kilgore-Elwell Company of Charleston, with a capital stock of of $2,000, to do a general buildfers' sup 0,- ply business. The officers are: E. F. >r- Elwell, president and secretary, and 0,- L. A. Kilgore, treasurer. A commis si- slon has been Issued to the Saluda to Cemetery association of Saluda, with a capital stock of $1,000. The peti tioners are B. W. Crouch and J. W. ig Pitts. ae its ht Ir m e an iy. m >r, ir id ia iy, m il (C il id Several New Candidates Announced. Several new candidates have been announced in Clarendon county. Among the new candidates are W. R. Davis, H. L, Johnson and J. B. Holla day for county supervisor, while the incumbent, R. E. McFaddin, announces that he will not be a candidate for another term. Archie I. Barron for clerk of court, E. B. Gamble for sher iff, P. H. Stoll for solicitor, E. J. Browne for superintendent of educa tion and H. C. Padgett for coroner are all announced for re-election, while John L. Johnson Is a candidate for the office of coroner. Only two candi dates have announced so far for the house of representatives, Joseph H Burgess and R. D. White. Politics In Charleston County. Chairman HeDry W. Conner of the Charleston county executive com mute will call the organization togeth er probably within the next few days, but the time for the flrst meeting since the day of the memorable dual convention has not been definitely de termined, and it may be even longer than a week before the flrst meeting of the representatives of all the Demo cratic clubs of the county. When the meeting is held it will include, of course, not only the members of the organization reported upon by th? coi .jaittee on credentials of the Barn well convention on May 6, but also ol the clubs which sat on the opposite side and refused to give their creden - ? nonHftlnatfl in thfl llcUS OI* ULUOi wiao ^ui biv/i|/uvw proceedings of the body, which has now had Its status established as th? legal and proper convention. Want Commission Form. The Charleston Community club proposes to get active at once on the matter of a commission form of gov ernment for Charleston. It is pro posed to test the views of all candi dates who may offer for the legisla ture and work to defeat all who maj be opposed to the new form of admin istration. The candidates who meet the requirements will, of course, be supported by the members of the club, | The idea of the club is to secure the passage of a bill at the next sessios of the legislature. A Negro Detectives Shot and Killed. A negro detective, Sam Washington was killed at New Sumter. Ne\* Sumter is the village around the C. M j ? Betts company lumber plant, about | t four miles east of Sumter. Another negro, L. J. Jefferson, was shot and luomiioiv wounded. Lewis Little, vuu*^ - the negro who did the shooting, escap ed. Washington had been working up blind tiger cases and had a warrant for the arrest of Little. He went to Little's house and arrested him. When they reached the door Little shot the detective. Young Man Killed By Llvo Wire. Chester Foster, a young man of IS years, was killed on Main street neai the centre of the town by a live wire while he was assisting in swinging a cable of the Southern Bell Telephone company for which he was working, The electric light wires and the tele phonecables run on the same pole. The young man was up on the cable i about midway between two posts | p and 30 feet from the ground wher reaching round to get some instru ment out of his belt he touched j 11y? wire. The state pays twenty doi> lars A day for berkley county work. DETECTIVE OF GOVERNOR The Expense Account as Itemized by Col. l. M. Green Wat Accepted by Comptroller General Jonea?Th* < Statement Hat Been Issued. Columbia. ? Comptroller Genera! Jones issued a warrant for $360 to L. M. Green, lieutenant colonel cu the staff of the governor for 31 days' ser vice as a special detective of the of fice of the ohlef executive. The ac count was Itemized by Col. Green and was accepted by the comptroller gen eral. On April 15 Col. Green filed an account with the comptroller general for $203 for one months' service. Of \ this amount $105 was for expenses and $100 salary. The account was turned down by the comptroller gen eral on the grounds that it was not , itemized according to law. Col. Green on May 13 filed a second account for $360 which was accepted because the dates of the service were given. ' > In his first account. .Col. Green charged the state of South Carolina $30 for Investigating the Olar lynch-." .v Ing. In his second account he charged $60. According to the expense ac count of Col. Green he spent five days 'V' In Berkely county from May 6 to 10 for which ho. received $100 or $20 J per day. la fails first account submit* ted Col. Green charged the state $18.50 for investigating the Tolley- ' Mudrow-Cheshire affair in Anderson < and In the second account this lnves* tlgatlon was put down at $20. The re port shows that Col. Green received < , i on an average of $10 a day for his work as a detective. The services were rendered between March 18 and May 10. Executive Clemency Granted Two. Columbia.?The governor has grant ed a pardon to Henry Gilliam, who was convicted in Newberry In 1903 of mur- 1 der with recommendation to mercy and sentenced to life Imprisonment In the state penitentiary. Major Green, alias William Green, who was convict ed .it Orangeburg In 1899 of murder and sentenced to be hanged, but whoae sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by. Gov. McSweeney, was granted a parole. Since assum ing office the governor has extended clemency In 368 cases. Are Working For Record Crop. Florence.?The farmers of this coun ty have Joined heartily with R. E. Currin, the county agent of the farm demonstration work in the corn and cotton contests for this year, and they are working hard for a record crop with everything In their favor so far, exempt the late start. Crops ordinarily look well, clean and well advanced, considering the late start Mr. Currin is aleo planning for a corn show that will he preparatory to the big corn show this fall, and will have a good committee of business men to help him out in the enterprise. Both Legs Cut Off By Street Car* Greenville.?J. J. Moore, a 60-year old man, had both legs cut off by the motor car, which operates between Greenville and Anderson. He is not ' -i-j i- ?-?i? tr?1 expecieu 10 rewver. moore auguieu from a street car at the point, where the Fendleton street line crosses the tracks of the Columbia & Greenvill? railway. He started down the railway toward the Augusta street station and was run down by the motor car on Its nightly trip to Anderson. Gaffney Wants Veteran# Reunion. Gaffney.?A movement was started to secure the state reunion of the Confederate veterans for Gaffney this year, and steps were taken looking toward extending an invitation to meet in Gaffney in August. Those who are agitating the matter, state that they are meeting with a hearty 3pirit of co-operation on every hand, md Indications now are that Gaffney will be able to invite the veterans to :om* here. A. Whirlwind Campaign. Newberry. ? The corporators and :ommitee having the matter in charge lave decided to make a whirlwind jampaign for raising the necessary unds to build and equip the New jerry County hospital. It was decid ed to procure the amount in one day, md for that purpose a hospital day eill be named and committees will hat day canvass the city and county, t Is hoped to have the stock all sub cribed within the next ten days, and o have the hospital in operation by he middle of November. To the Road For One Year. Barnwell.?Mace JefTcoat, a white nan, was sentenced to one year at ard labor in the penitentiary or on he chaingang, having been found ;uilty of storing whiskey for an ille ;al purpose. This was his second ffense, and there was, therefore, no lternative of a fine. He is the first person in this county to be sentenced without the alternative of paying a ne. fie serveu nonce 01 appeal he supreme court, and pending the earing bail was granted in the sum f $1,000, which was furnished. A Remarkably-.Convention, Columbia. ? The State Democratic lonvention that has just adjourned ,-as one of the most remarkable gath rings that has been held In this state i mr.ny a year. It was conspicuous ecause of the unusual evidence of ntereat in the political situation aud he high character of the delegates. Ten who have not for years taken any art in political affairs made the sac ifice of attending the convention and tie personnel of the convention was eoidedly above the average in thi* t&te.