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10 SYNOPSIS. Elam Harnish. known all through Alas ka as "Burning Daylight," celebrates his <va.v v i ... ? . ..t /vf minora At wn oircnaay wun a cruwu ui uu..... ? . the Circle City Tlvoll. The dance leads I to heavy gambling. In which over $100,000 J Is staked. Ha mis h loses his money and his mine but wins the mall contract He tarts on his mall trip with dogs and sledge, telling his friends that he will be in the big Yukon gold strike at the start. Burning Daylight makes a sensationally rapid run across country with the mall, appears at the Tlvoll and Is now ready to Join his friends In a dash to the new gold fields. Deciding that gold will be found In the up-river district Harnlsh buys two tons of flour, which he declares will be worth Its weight In gold, but when he arrives with his flour he finds the big flat desolate. A comrade discov ers gold and Daylight reaps a rl.ch har vest. He goes to Dawson, becomes the most prominent figure In the Klondike and defeats & 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 his eleven millions In a manipulated scheme. He goes to New York, and confronting Ms 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 8an Francisco where he 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. CHAPTER XI.?Continued. Daylight could not persuade him self to keep to the traveled roads that day, and another cut across coun try to Glen Ellen brought him upon """""" *???* on hlnoVad hffl WRV that he was glad to follow a friendly cow path. This led him to a small frame cabin. The doors and windows were open, and a cat was nursing a litter of kittens In the doorway, hut no one seemed at home. He descended the trail that evidently crossed the can yon. Part way down, he met an old man coming up through the sunset In his hand he carried a pall of foamy milk. He wore no hat, and In his face, framed with snow-white hair and beard, was the ruddy glow and con tent of the passing summer day. Daylight thought that he had never seen so contented looking a being. "How old are you, daddy?" he quer ied. "Eighty-four," was the reply. "Yea, slrree, eighty-four, and spryer than most." "You must a' taken good care of yourself," Daylight suggested. "I don't know about that I ain't loafed none. I walked across the plains with an ox team and fit Injuns M a T ?- ? ? ? man wUh ID 01, ana a wan a ituuii; muu ? seven youngsters. I reckon I was aB ; old then as you are now, or pretty nigh on to It." "Don't you find it lonely here?" The old man shifted the pail of milk and reflected. "That all depends," he said oracul arly. "I ain't never been lonely ex cept when the old wife died. Some fellers are lonely in a crowd, and I'm one of them. That's the only time I'm lonely, is when I go to 'Frisco. But I don't go no more, thank you 'most to death. This is good enough for me. I've been right here in this valley since '54?tone of the first set tlers after the Spaniards." The old man chuckled, and Day light rode on, singularly at peace with himself and all the world. It seemed that the old contentment of trail and camp he had known on the Yukon had come back to him. He could not shake from his eyes the picture of the old pioneer coming up the trail through the sunset light. He was cer tainly going some for eighty-four. The thought of following his example en tered Dayngnts mma, Dut tne Dig game of San Francisco vetoed the idea. CHAPTER XII. Instead of returning to the city on Monday, Daylight rented the butcher's horse for another day and crossed the bed of t'je valley to Its eastern hills. As on the previous day, Just for the Joy of It, he followed cattle-trails at haphazard and worked his way up to ward the summits. Coming out upon a wagon road that led upward, he fol lowed It for several miles, emerging in a small, mountain-encircled valley, where half a dozen poor ranchers farmed the wine-grapes on the steep slopes. Beyond, the road pitched up ward. Dense chaparral covered tne exposed hillsides, but in the creases of the canyons huge spruce trees grew, and wild oats and flowers. Late in the afternoon he broke through, and followed a well-defined trail down a dry canyon. The dry canyon gave place to one with a slen der ribbon of running water. The trail ran Into a wood-road, and the wood-road emerged across a small flat o olicr^ilv trorflloH onunfrv rnnH There were no farms in this Immedi ate section, and no houses. The soil was meager, the bed-rock either close to the surface or constituting the sur face itself. Manzanita and scrub-oak, however, flourished and walled the road on either side with a Jungle growth. And out a runway through this growth a man suddenly scuttled in a way that reminded Daylight of a rabbit. He was a little man. in patched overalls; bareheaded, with a cotton shirt open at the throat and down the chest. The sun was ruddy-brown in his face, and by It his sandy hair was bleached on the ends to peroxide blonde. He signed to Daylight to halt, and held up a letter. "If you're going to town, I'd be obliged if you mail this." he said. "I sure will." Daylight put it into his coat pocket. "Do you live here abouts, stranger?" But the little man did not answer. He was gazing at Daylight in a sur prised and steadfast fashion. "I know you," the little man an Dounced. "You're Elam Hamish? Burning Daylight, the papers call you. Am I right?" Daylight nodded. "Well, I'm glad I wrote that letter this afternoon," the little man went on, "or else I'd have missed seeing you. I've seen your photo in the pa pers many a time, and I've a good memory for faces. I recognized you at once. My name's Ferguson." "Do you live hereabouts?" Daylight repeated his query. "Oh. yes. I've got a little shack back here in the bush a hundred yards and a pretty spring, and a few fruit trees and berry bushes. Come in and take a look. And that spring is a dandy. You never tasted water like it. uome in ana u-y iu Walking and leading his horse, Day light followed the quick-stepping, eager little man through the green tunnel and emerged abruptly upon the clearing, if clearing it might be called, where wild nature and man's earth scratching were inextricably blended. It was a tiny nook In the bills, pro tected by the steep walls of a canyon mouth. Here were several large oaks, evidencing a richer soil. The erosion of ages from the hillside had slowly formed this deposit of fat earth. Un der the oaks, almost buried in them, stood a rough, unpalnted cabin, the wide veranda of which, with chairs and hammocks, advertised an out-of doors bedchamber. Daylight's keen eyes took in everything. The clearing was irregular, following the patches of the best soil, and every fruit tree and berry bush, and even each vege table plant, had the water personally conducted to It. The tiny Irrigation channels were everywhere, and along some of them the water was running. "What Do You 1 Ferguson looked eagerly Into his | visitor's face for signs of approbation. "What do you think of it, eh?" ' "Hand-reared and manicured, every blessed tree." Daylight laughed, but the Joy and satisfaction that shone In his eyes contented the little man. "Why, d'ye know, I know every one of those trees as if they were sons of mine. I planted them, nursed them, fed them, and brought them up. Come on and peep at the spring." "It's sure a hummer," was Daylight's verdict, after due inspection and sam pling, as they turned back for the house. The Interior was a surprise. Tho cooking being done in the smali, lean to kitchen, the whole cabin formed a large living-room. A great table In the middle was comfortably littered with books and magazines. All the available wall space, from wall to ceil ing, was occupied by filled book shelves. It seemed to Daylight that he had never seen so many books as sembled in one place. Skins of wild cat, 'coon and deer lay about on the pine-board floor. Daylight found himself charmed and made curious by the little man. Why was he hiding away here in the chap n mn t K/i on/1 Vi 1 o V,r?r\lrc? Qn If ai i aii uc auu uio uvvno i w >v when between them they had washed and wiped the dishes and put them away, and had settled down to a com fortable smoke, that Daylight put his question. "Look here, Ferguson. Every since we got together, I've been casting about to find out what's wrong with you, to locate a screw loose some where, but I'll be danged if I've suc ceeded. What are you doing here, anyway?" (Copyright. 1910, by the New York Herald (Copyright, 1910. by the MacMillan Co | Ferguson frankly showed his pleas ure at the questions. "First of all," he began, "the doctors wound up by losing all hope for me. Gave me a few months at best, and that, after a course In sanitariums and a trip to Europe and another to Hawaii. They tried electricity and forced feeding and fasting. I was a graduate of about everything in the curriculum. They kept me poor with their bills, while I went from bad to worse. The trouble with me was two fold; first I was a born weakling; and next, I was living unnaturally?too much work, and responsibility and strain. I was managing editor of the Times-Tribune in San Francisco, and I wasn't strong enough for the strain. Of course >my body went back on me, and my mind, too, for that mat atr. It had to be bolstered up with whisky, which wasn't good for It any more than was the living in clubs and hotels good for my stomach and tLe rest of me. So I quit, quit every thing, absolutely, and came to live in the Valley of the Moon?that's the Indian name, you know, for Sonoma Valley. I lived in the lean-to the first year; then I built the cabin and sent for my books. I never knew what hap nlnono m?? hnfnrp. nor llfialth. Look at me now and dare to tell me that 1 look forty-seven." "I wouldn't give a day over forty," Daylight confessed. "Yet the day I came here I looked nearer sixty, and that was fifteen years ago." They talked along, and Daylight looked at the world from new angles. Here was a man, neither bitter nor cynical, who laughed at the city-dwell ers and called them lunatics; a man who did not care' for money, and In whom the lust for power had long since died. It was not until ten o'clock that Daylight parted from Ferguson. As he rode along through the starlight, the Idea came to him of buying the ranch on the other side of the valley. There was no thought In his mind of ever i intending to live on it. His game was in San Francisco. But he liked the ranch, and as soon as he got back to the office he would open up negotia tions with Hlllard. The time passed, and he played on at the game. San Francisco's atti tude toward Daylight had undergone a change. While he, with his slashing Kii/tnnnnnM *>-> ft s9fc + inr?t uuLuaucci uiciiiuuof wao a uiouuvt j What Liszt E Hla Compelling Personality, Genius and Inspiration Made Possible the Later Wagner. But he Introduced Into the musty academic atmosphere of musical Eu rope a strong, fresh breeze from the Hungarian puzta; this wandering piano player of Hungarian-Austrian ? ? ? ?? oAnmnnAlita tQllffhf uiuuu, a gcuuiue guouiuyuii>.c, . music a new charm, the charm of the unexpected, of the improvised. The freedom of Beethoven in his later works and of Chopin in all his music became the principal factor in the style of Liszt. MubIc must have the shape of an improvision. In the Hun garian rhapsodies, the majority of which begin in a mosque and always end in a tavern, are the extremes of his system. His orchestral and vocal works, the two symphonies, the masses and oratorios and symphonic poems are full of dignity, poetic feel ing. religious spirit, and a largeness of accent and manrer. Yet the gypsy glance and gypsy voice lurk behind many a pious or pompous bar. Apart from his invention of a new form?or rather the condensation and revisai V PNDON *5f CAU Of TfffWLD* ' "Af/lfir/M f?>?/V, n?rc.' Company.) mpany. menace to the more orthodox finan cial gamblers, he was nevertheless so grave a menace that they were glad enough to let him alone. He bad al ready taught them the excellence of letting a sleeping dog lie. Dede Mason was still In the office. He had made no more overtures, dis cussed no more books. He had no active Interest In ber, and she was to him a pleasant memory of what bad never happened, a joy, which, by his essential nature, he was barred from BMLa 1 Here Was a Man Who Laughed at City Dweller* and Called Them Lunatics.. ever knowing. Yet. while his interest had gone to sleep and his energy was consumed in the endless battles he waged, he knew every trick of the lieht on her hair, everv ouick definite mannerism of movement, every line of her figure as expounded by her tailor made gowns. Several times, six months or so apart, he bad increased her salary, until now she was receiv ing ninety dollar) a month. Beyond this he dared not go, though be got around It by making the work easier. This he had accomplished after her return from a vacation, by retaining her substitute as eui assistant Also, he had changed his office suite, so that now the two girls had r. room by them selves. The more he saw of her, and the more he thought he knew of her, the more unapproachable did she seem to him. But since he had no in tention of approaching her, thl? was anything but an unsatisfactory fact. He was glad be had her in his office, and hoped she'd stay, and that was about all. Daylight did not improve with tne passing years. The life was not good for him. He was growing stout and soft, and there was unwonted flabbi ness in his muscles. The more he drank cocktails, the more he was com pelled to drink In order to get the de sired result, the Inhibitions that eased him down from the concert pltcb or his operations. And with this went wine, too, at meals, and the long drinks after dinner of Scotch and soda at the Riverside. Then, too, his tody suffered from lack of exercise; and, from lack of decent human associ* tions, his moral fibers were weaken ing. Never a man to hide anything, some of his escapades became public, such as speeding, and of Joy-rides in his big red motor car down to San Jose with companions distinctly 6porty ?incidents that were narrated as good fun and comically in the news papers. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Destruction of Rats. An East Africa publication contains a description of a method of destroy ing rats, followed in Java, In which carbon bisulphate In employed. In carrying out the method a small quan tity, usually about half a teaspoonful of the carbon bisulphide Is poured in to the rat bole and after waiting a few moments to let the liquid evap orate. the mixture of air and vapor is lighted, a small explosion resulting and filling the hole with poisonous gas. killing the rats instantly. Such a pro cess practiced openly might be objec tionable under some circumstances be cause of danger from fire resulting from the explosion and a field for in vention appears to offer itself to pro vide some form of fire-proof gun or explosion chamber suitably formed to be inserted .in the mouth of the rat hole and adapted to enclose the ex plosion and discbarge the resulting noxious gas into the hole.?Scientific American. lid for Music of an old one?the symphonic poem? Liszt's greatest contribution to are Is the wild, truant, rhapsodic extempore element he Infused into modern mu sic: natiirs In hpr mnnf rerklesa. un trammeled moods he interpreted with fidelity. But the drummers In the line of moral gasoline who controlled criti cism In Germany refused to see Liszt except as an ex-piano virtuoso with the morals of a fly and a perverter of art. Even the piquant triangle in his piano concerto was suspected as pos sibly suggesting the usual situation of French comedy. The Liszt-Wagner question no lonfc C presents any difficulties to the fair minded. It is a simple one, for men still living know that Wagner, to reach his musical apogee, to reach his public, had to lean heavily on tb? musical genius and individual inspira tion of Liszt, The later Wagner would not have existed?as we now know him?without first traversing the gar den of Liszt. This is not a theory bu? a fact.?From Franz Liszt?The Res and Legendary," by James Huneke.* In Scribner'B. NEWS OF SOUTH CAROLIN Short Paragraphs of State News Th. Have Been Gotten Together With Care by the Editor. Columbia.?Encouraging reports, i dlcating a large attendance at tl meeting to be held in Charleston < April 25, 26 and 27 are being receiv* from every part of the state. Chester.?The 15-year-old child i Abe Sanders, a negro, who lives ( P. B. Good's plantation in the Moui Pleasant section of Chester count was burned to death several days ag Allendale.?Theo. Best, a negro, wi shot and killed by Dennis William another negro, at hot supper near her Williams is still at large, but has be* located. Chester.?At a meeting of the. Wi ker-Gaston camp, United Conf'edera Veterans, X R. Simrill and Capt. \ H. Edwards were elected delegates the annual reunion In Macon, Gi nert month. H. W. Hafner and W. Turner were elected alternates. Hopkins.?This little town, has u dergone In the past several montl more changes than ever before in like space of time. Several new bull ings in and around here are now the course of construction. Columbia?Charlie Zimmerman, wl was convicted in Edgefield county October, 1906, on the charge of murdi and upon a recommendation to men was sentenced to life imprisonment the state penitentiary, has been p roled by the governor during good b havior. Mallory.?Farmers here are alreac rapidly planting cotton. The acreaj has been somewhat reduced, but tl reduction in the amount of fertilizi being used thiB season has beep co Biderable. Many farmers have r duced by more than half, and it thought the average reduction wl be more than one-third of the amoui used last year. T7>J J TWa r\olw Tnnlmnflf ?iU5CHCiU. luo J-?au j iusnu\<uv car of the Southern railroad reach< Edgefield on schedule time and tn series of lectures were given, those i night bteing illustrated. J. P. Inlner was in charge of the car as a repr sentative of the railroad and demo strated the use of machinery in tl model dairy equipment. Greenwood.?A moat unsual erei in South Carolina court happenin{ was the commitment to jail here < Miss Belle Yoe by order of Judf Seaae for contempt of court. She wi adjudged In contempt of court b cause she had refused to vacate ce tain lands condemned by the town < Greenwood, such condemnation beta recently affirmed by the suprea court Conway.?Dr. J. T. Howell, tb hook worm specialist ,who has bee conducting a campaign against the di ease in this county for the past thr? months, has finished his work an will leave Horry within the next fe days. The doctor came to ua son time 'n January under the auspic* of the state board of health, and ht made many friends in the count who will regret to learn of his lea ing. During his stay here Dr. Howe has had 3,265 applicants and of thi number he has treated 2,029. Charleston?At the coroner's i: *ue3t ,the chauffeur of E. W. Hughe whoHe touring car killed little Ade Abrahams on King street, was exoi aratori frnm all blame. The chauffeu Joseph Harper, a negro, was declare to have exercised all possible effo In preventing the accident and thi he was not speeding the machin The accident is said to have bee caused by the child running into tt machine, rather than the machlt running her down. Charleston. ? Thrilling with tt war-n pleasures of reunited comrad ship, yet tinged with sorrowful r membrances of former member whom death has removed from the seats at the festive board, the 36t annual reunion of the Washingto Light Infnatry Veterans, held, at the armory, and followed by the annui dinner at the home of Mr. Nichols Blschiff, was an event not soon to t forgotten by those who participate^ There are still surviving only aboi a dozen members of this comman and nearly all of them were gathere together. In addition to the veteran there was present the commiasionc officers of the Washington Light Ii fantry, National Guards. Oharleston.?Mr. L. C. A. Roessle ? ?* ? ooworol mnnthn acn HTinminOf his candidacy for the office of Sheri of Charleston county, has withdraw from the race in favor of Mr John ] DeVeaux, who made the race again: Sheriff J. Elmore Martin four yeai ago. Columbia.?Among the depositoi when the Lexington Savings Ban went into the hands of a receiver wa the state penitentiary, which ha something like $22,000, and Governc Blease meant this fund when he r ferred to the state having funds o deposit in the bank, Easley.?Piedmont presbytery coi vened here with a sermon by Rev. V H. Frazer of Anderson. Rev. G. i Wilcox wa3 elected moderator. Th ruling elder, J. W. Todd, was electe clerk. Full reports frjm churches ii dicated a successful year from ever standpoint. Mallory.?A. S. Payslnger, at pre: ent the chief of police of Clio, ha been appointed rural policeman fc this section of the county. He wi make Latta his headquarters. Hi election by the county commissioner has met with the hearty approval c the citizens in his territory. Chester.?A. C. Fischel announce his candidacy for rel-election to th office of county auditor of Cheste county. He has had the office for onl one term. Mr. Fischel is the first cai didate to throw out his challenge t the people for this office. Rock Hill.?The public works con mission in a statement issued state that the people of Rock Hill would b asked to vote for a bond issue of $5C 000 to secure funds to go to the Catav }a river for the city's water suppl; The petition will be circulated In few days, asking that an election b bald. \ WHEREIN DADDY WAS WRONG Tommy Resented Injustice Done to Saw, After He Had Proved Its Temper. Mr. A? , who was planning to build an outdoor sleeping porch at the back of his house, had an expensive new saw- sent home from a hardware store. He left his office early the next afternoon, with the intention of get ting the porch well under way before dinner; and, as he was very much in terested In doing the work himself, he donned a pair of overalls and went at it In good spirits. An hour or so later he came tramping into the house, his face dark with exasneration. and flunff himself down in disgust. "That new saw I bought isn't worth five cents," he stormed. "Why, the thing won't cut butter!" His small son Tommy looked up In wide-eyed surprise. "Oh, yes, it would, daddy," he said, earnestly; "why, Ted and I sawed ft whole brick in two with it Just this morning!"?Harper's Magazine. RASH ALL OVER BABY'S BODY Itched So He Could Not Sleep "On July 27,1909, we left Boston for ft trip to England and Ireland, taking baby with us. After being in Ireland a few days a nasty rash came "out mil over his body. We took him to ft do? tor who gave us medicine for him. The trouble started in, the form of a rash and was all over baby's body, i head and face, at different times. It irritated, and he would scratch it with all his might The consequence was it developed into sores, and we were afraid it would leave nasty\ scars on his face. * "When we reached England we took Laby to another doctor, who said his condition was due to change of food and climate, and gave more medicine The rash got no better, and it used to Itch and burn at night so bad that the child could not sleep. He was com nlatelv covered with it at different times. It was at this time that my mother advised ub to try Cutlcura Soap and Ointment After using Cutl cura Soap and Cutlcura Ointment for about nine months the places disap peared. There are not any scars, or other kind of disfigurement, and baby la completely cured by the Cutlcura Soap and Ointment We have no fur ther trouble with baby's skin. Noth ing stopped the itching, and allowed baby to sleep but Cutlcura Soap and Cutlcura Ointment." 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