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12 "~!~ SYNOPSIS. Elam Harntsh, known all through Alas ka as "Burning Daylight." celebrates his 50th birthday with a crowa 01 miuc<a at the Circle City TlvoU. The dance leads to heavy gambling. In which over $100,000 ia staked. Harniah loses his money and his mine but wins the mail contract. He tarts on his mail trip with dogs and ledge, 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 mail, appears at the Tlvoli and Is now ready to Join hia friends in a dash to the new ?;old fields. Deciding that gold will be ound In the up-river district Harnish buya two tons or 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 rich har vest. He goes to Dawson, becomes the moat prominent figure In the Klondike and defeats a combination of capitalists ?i-'-" Ua Mturna trt Ill ft voai IllitllliJS ucai. a A.JS I WW. civilization, and. amid the bewildering complications of high finance. Daylight finds that he, has been led to Invest Ills 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 Harnish 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. 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 ?* ? 1-1? n.irnnoa KulnCT f fV on one mure na?. mo i>ui &sk her to marry hlra. CHAPTER XIV.?Continued. He bung almost gleefully upon ber actions In anticipation of what the fractious Bob wa9 going to get. And Bob got it, on his next whirl, or at tempt, rather, for he was no more than haif-way around when the quirt met him smack on l%i tender nose. There and then, in his bewilderment, sur prise and pain, his fore feet. Just skim ming the road, dropped down. "Great!" Daylight applauded. "A couple more will fix bim. "He's too smart not to know when he's beaten." Again Bob tried. But this time he ? I? orniinH whpn the ** tto UGIC1J \|uaib?l Ui VC4 44V. .. -w doubled quirt on his nose compelled him to drop his fore feet to the road. Then, with neither rein nor spur, but by the mere threat of the quirt, she straightened him out. Dede looked triumphantly at Day light "Let me give him a run?" she asked. Daylight nodded, and she shot down the road. He watched her out of sight around the bend, and watched till she came Into sight returning. She certainly could sit her horse, was his thought, and she was a sure enougb hummer. God, she was the wife for a man! Made most of them look pretty slim. And to think of her hammering all week at TK o f troo no nlnro a 1/ pCniUCI. A liUb nwo uw for her. She should be a man's wife, taking it easy, with silks and satins and diamonds (his frontier no tion of what befitted a wife beloved), and dogs and horses, and such things. But the quarry was doomed to pass out of his plans for a time, for on the following Sunday he rode alone. No Dede on a chestnut sorrel came across the back-road from Berkeley that day, nor the day a week later. As the third week drew to a close and anoth er desolate Sunday confronted him. Daylight resolved to 6peak. office or no office. And as was his nature, he went simply and directly to the point. | She had finished her work with him. and was gathering her note pad and pencils together to depart, when he said: "Oh. one more thing. Miss Mason, and I hope you won't mind my being frank and straight out You've struck me right along as a sensible-minded girl, and I don't think you'll take of fense at what I'm going to say. You know how long you've been in the of fice?it's years, now, several of them, anyway; and you know I've always been straight and aboveboard with you. I've never what you call?pre sumed. Because you were in my office I've tried to be more careful than If ?If you wasn't in ray office?you un derstand. But Just the same. It don't make me any the less human. I'm a lonely sort of a fellow?don't take that as a bid for kindness. What 1 mean by it is to try and tel' you just how much those two rides witti you have meant. And now I hope you won't mind my Just asking why you haven't been out riding the last two Sundays?" - She played nervously with a pencil for a time, as if debating her reply, while he waited patiently. "This ridicgJI?'"*?e began; "it's not what they c~.. ? right thing. 1 leave it to you. You know the world That's the trouble. It's what the world would have to say about me and my employer meeting regularly and riding in the hills on Sundays It's funny, but it's so. I could ride with one of the clerks without re mark, but with you?no." "Look here. Miss Mason," said Day .light "I know you don't like this talking over of things in the office Neither do I. It's part of the whole thing. I guess; a man ain't supposed to talk anything but business with his stenographer. Will you ride with me next Sunday, and we can talk it ovei thoroughly then and reach some sort of a conclusion. Out in the hills it the place where you can talk some thing besides business. 1 guess you've Been enough of me to know I'm prettj Bquare. I?I do honor and respecl you, and. . . and all that, and . . . " He was beginning to floun der. and the hand that rested on tb< desk blotter was visibly trembling He strove to pull himself together "1 just want to harder than anything ever in my life before. 1?I?I can' explain myself, but I do. that's all Will you?Just next Sunday? Tc morrow ?" Nor did he dream that her low ac quiescence was due. as much as any thing else, to the beads of sweat on his forehead, his trembling hand and his all too-evident general distress. "Of course, there's no way of tell ing what anybody wants from what they say." Daylight rubbed Bob's re bellious ear with his quirt and pon dered with dissatisfaction the words he had just uttered. They did not 1 ' J 4- K atvi f CO TT say wnai^ne' uau utsaut iucw w "What I'm driving at Is that you Bay flatfooted that you won't meet me again, and give your reasons, but how am I to know they are your real rea sons? Mebbe you Just don't want to get acquainted with me, and won'( say so for fear *of hurting my feelings. Don't you see? I'm the last man In the world to shove in where I'm not wanted. And If I thought you didn't care a whoop to see anything more of me. why I'd clear out so blamed quick you couldn't see me for smoke." It had been a happy day. Daylight had met her on the back-road from Berkeley, and they had had hours to gether. It was only now, with the day drawing to a close and with them approaching the gate of the road to Berkeley, that he had broached the Important subject. She began her answer to his last contention, and he listened gratefully. "But suppose. Just suppose, that the reasons I have given are the only ones??that there is no question of my not wanting to know you?" Then I'd trn on lireine like Sam Scratch." be Bald quickly. "Because, you see. I've always noticed that folks that incline to anything are much more open to hearing the case stated. But If you did have that other season up your sleeve, if you didn't want to know me. if?if, well. If you thought my feelings oughtn't to be hurt just "I Could Ride With One of the Clerks N< because you had a good job with me. . . Here, bis calm consideration of a possibility was swamped by the fear that It wa3 an actuality, and he lost the thread of his reasoning. "Well, anyway, all you have to do is to say the word and I'll clear out. And with no hard feelings; It would be just a case of bad luck for me. So be honest. Miss Mason, please, and . tell me if that's the reason?I almost I trnf- a hnnr-li that It Ic " i "Oh. but that isn't fair," she cried. ' "You give me the choice of lying to . you and hurting you in order to pro i tect myself by getting rid of you, or of throwing away my protection by telling you the truth, for then you. as you said yourself, would stay and i urge." Daylight smiled grimly with satis ! faction. I "I'm real glad. Miss Mason, real i g.'ad for those words." t "But they won't serve you." she went on hastily. "They can't serve t you. I refuse to let them. This Is our ? last ride, and . . . here Is the gate." Hanging her mare alongside, she i bent, slid the catch, and followed the ' opening gate. t "No; please, no," she said, as Day I light started to follow. Humbly acquiescent, he pulled Bob i back, and the gate swung shut be tween mem. nui mere was muio . say, and she did not ride on. ; "Listen. Miss Mason." he said, in a t low voice that shook with sincerity; "I want to assure you of one thing f I'm not just trying to fool around witb you. I like you. I want you, and I awtfttic. : A. . /wr//o/? of , 'W///FF FANG (Copyright, 1910, by the New York Herak (Copyright, 1910, by the MacMUlan Ci was never more earnest In my life. There's nothing wrong In my Inten tions or anything like that. What I mean Is strictly honorable?" But the expression of her face made him stop. She was angry, and she was laughing at the game time. Dede Mason .had quick, birdlike ways, almost flitting from mood to mood; and she was all contrition on the instant "Forgive me for laughing." she said across the gate. "It wasn't really laughter. I was surprised ofT my guard, and hurt, too. You see, Mr. Harnlsh, I've not been . . ." She paused, in sudden fear of coro nlptlne the thoueht Into which her birdlike precipitancy had betrayed her. "What you mean is that you've not been used to such sort of proposing." Daylight said: "a sort of on-the-nin. 'Howdy. glad-to-make-your-acqualnt ance, won't-you-be-mine' proposition." She nodded and broke Into laughter. In which he Joined, and which served to pass the awkwardness away. He gathered heart at this, and went on in greater confidence, with cooler head and tongue. "There, you see, you prove my case. You've had experience in such mat ters. I don't doubt you've had slath ers of proposals. Well. I haven't, and I'm like a fish out of water. Besides, this ain't a proposal. It's a peculiar situation, that's all. and I'm in a cor ner. I've got enough plain horse sense to know a man ain't supposed to argue marriage with a girl as a rea son for getting acquainted with her. And right there was where 1 was In the hole. Number one. I can't get ac nrtfVi WA1I In tho rtfRnfl NIllTTI qUCUULCU nuu /VU ? ber two, you say you won't see me out of the office to give me a chance Number three, your reason la that folks will talk because you work tor me. Number four, 1 Just got to get acquainted with you. and 1 just got to get you to 'see that I mean fair and all right. Number five, there you are on one side the gate getting ready to go. and me here on the other side the gate pretty desperate and bound Without Remark, but With You? o." to say something to make yon recon sider. Number six. I said it. And now and finally, I just'do want you to reconsider." ^ He was such a boy. this big giant of a millionaire who had half the rich men of San Francisco afraid of him. Lives and Wi a**-.- lj <?w* n?c^rlKnr1 men oi ucucro uucn uru Best That Which They Never Have Experienced. Finally, a man of genius, when he writes a book, and "all the good comes rushing into his soul," Is In an abnormal state, and hence, the lives of men of letters have often been in glar ing contrast to their writings. Mon taigne tells us that he always ob served super-celestial opinions to be accompanied with subterranean mor als; on the other hand, the most latl tudinarian professors of epicureanism have often lived like anchorites or trappists. Some of the best sea songs have been written by men who never snnffpd a salt water breeze; stirring war songs Lave been written by titniu 1 men and women who would have shrieked at the sight of a mouse; and ? hymns steeped lu the very splrlr of devotion have been written by men of i doubtful morality, who were never less at home than In a Christian . church. Charles Lamb was ready to i wager that Milton's morning hymn In i Paradise was penned at midnight; and . r_. J)NDON Tf/E CALL Of rz/fmo: "Af/U?r/rt?D?N"?rC: I Company.) ompany. Such a boy! She had never imagined Ibis side of his nature. "How do folks get married?" be was saying. "Why, number one. tbey meet; number two, like each other's looks; number three, get acquainted; and number four, get married or not, according to how they like eacb other after getting acquainted. But how in thunder we're to have a ctiance to nna out whether we like each other enough la beyond my savvee. unless ve make that chance ourselves. I'd U ) "I Like You, I Want You and I Never Was More Earnest In My Life." come to see you. call on you. only I know you're Just rooming or boarding, and that won't do." "It*9 getting late now. anyway." Daylight hurried on. "and we've set tled nothing at all. Just one more Sunday, anyway?that's not asking much?to settle It In." She gathered the reins Into her hand preliminary to starting. "Good night." she said, "and?** "Yes," he whispered, with Just the faintest touch of imperativeness. "Yes," she said, her voice low but distinct. At the same moment she put the mare Into a canter and went down the a V*o/*lr tiro r*/^ trlaT?PP If!* lUttU UUIIUUV o uov/nfrutu Q.wuv, tent on an analysis of her own feel ings. , CHAPTER XV. Life at the office went on much the way It had always gone. In spite of their high resolve, there was a very measurable degree of the furtive in their meetings. In essence, these meetings were stolen. They did not ride out brazenly together in the face of the world. On the contrary, they met always unobserved, she rid ing across the many-gated backroad from Berkeley to meet him halfway. Nor did they ride on any save unfre quented roads, preferring to cross the second range of hills and travel among a church-going farmer folk who would scarcely have recognized even Day light from his newspaper photographs. He found Dede a good horsewoman? good not merely In riding, but In en durance. There were days when they covered sixty, seventy, and even eighty miles; nor did Dede ever claim any day too long, nor?another strong recommendation to Daylight?did the hardest day ever see the slightest chafe of the chestnut sorrel's back. "A sure enough hummer," was Day light's stereotyped but evor enthusias tic verdict to himself. His lifelong fear or woman naa orig inated out of nonunderstanding and had also prevented him from reaching any understanding. Dede on horse back, Dede gathering popples on a summer hillside. Dede taking down dictation in her ewift shorthand strokes?all this was comprehensible to fcim. But he did not know the Dede who so quickly ehanged from mood to mood, the Dede who refused steadfastly to ride with him and then suddenly consented, the Dede in whose eyes the gctfden glow forever waxed and waned and whispered hints and messages that were not for his ears. In all Buch things he saw the glimmering profundities of sex, acknowledged their lure, and accept* ed them as incomprehensible. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Hard Advice. "My wife seems so unhappy all the time. I wish there was gome way I could make her a merry woman." "There is a way. Make her a merry wiiow." ritings Unlike we know positively that Thompson, who 6ang the praises of early rising in the "Seasons," used to lie abed till noon. Sir Richard Steele could dis course eloquently on temperance? when he was not .drunk; Wood worth. In his "Old Oaken Bucket," sang the praise of cold water under the inspira tion of brandy. Doctor Johnson, who wrote so well o"n politeness, interrupt ed his opponents with "You lie, sir!" "You are a vile Whig, sir!" Burns was a compound of "dirt and deity;" Rousseau, who was always filling peo ple's eyes with tears, betrayed and 6?andered his benefactors in turn, and 6ent his children to the foundlings hospital. When Moore proposed to Scott to go and see Melrose Abbey, as Sir Walter had described it. by moon light, "Poob, pooh," said Scott, "you don't suppose I ever saw it by moon light!"?William Matthews. A Meeting of Extremes. "Do you know why he put his best foot forward?" "I suppose he had to do It to sart his face." k/I UST BE STUDIED?IMPORTANT LETTER SENT OUT BY STATE FARMER'S UNION. C00P0RATI0N BEING URGED The Schools and Colleges of the State of South Carolina Are Asked to Aid / In This Work?The Faculties Are : V. " ' ; ' Shown Importance. > , v i Columbia.?Letters urging a careful Btudy of the question of marketing r*%?r\r\a Viqq hoon aonf mif tn fill nf "thP WlWfO 11UU WWVU DVUV vwv vw m>? w??' .? schools and colleges of the state by E. W. Dabbs, the president of the South Carolina state farmers' union. In his letter President Dabbs points out that "there is something wrong in our system of political ecoonomy when so much distress is laid on the subject of production and so little at tention is given distribution. The following letter has been sent out to the colleges of the state: "To the colleges of South Carolina: Allow me as the head of the Farmers' Union to request you to take up ac tively the study of marketing, espe i cially as applied to farm produce, j There Is something wrong in, our | system of political economy when so j mucQ stress is laid on the subject of ! production and so little attention Is given to distribution.. I believe that it is a hopeful sign of the times that these subjects-?of farm finance and credit and farm marketing occupy so much of the public mind?the minds of the men who are shaping the desti nies of the human race. I am sure that you who are training thfc youth of our country will bond your* best _i ... . . \ energies tu iiciy ua jusi. bo muu as yo urealize how much we' need your help. It has been ray desire, and it meets with the approval of' the ex ecutive committee of the state Farm ers' Union, to present this matter in person to your faculties and students, but, owing to the stress of farm work and on account of the lateness of the season, I take this method of en listing your help, trusting that you will not wait for me to present, this matter in person. ' Respectfullr, 'E. W. Dabbs, , 'Pres. S. C. State Farmers' Union." Another Attempt To Get Bail. Aiken.?Attorneys for James Seig ler. now in the Aiken jail, charged i with killing Policeman Wade Patter son, hove served notice upon attor neys for the state thaft they will make application for ball before Chief Jus tice Gary. Solicitor Gunter is now busy in the Aiken court and has ask ed that the hearing be set for one day next week. This application was heard by Chief Justice Gary some months ago, and at that time bail was refused. The attorneys for the de fendant are going before him again with practically the same affidavits as before, with additional ones. Election For Annexation. Columbia.?With the consent of all parties and the understanding that the matter is to be tested in the courts, Governor Blease signed an order for an election to be held on the question of the annexation of a cer tain portion of Lee county to Sumter county. There is doubt on the con-. struction of the Constitution on this point and it was in order to get the courts to pass on the matter and clear up the doubt that the consent order was signed by the governor. Two Negro Preachers Drowned. Anderson.?Two negro preachers, Jim Harris and Stewart Hayney, were drowned In the Savannah river wnue attempting to cross the stream in a beateau. On account of heavy rain the river was swollen and the swift current capsized the boat as it reach ed mid-stream. Up until a late hour I the bodies of the negroes had not been recovered, although a large crowd gathered on the banks to search for them. There were no eye | witnesses to the capsizing of the boat, ; but several persons were attracted by the cries of the two men in the water. To Put On Railway Mail Scrvlce. saiuaa.?A leiegraui Hum v>uu gressman Byrnes of this district an nounces that the postal officials will put on railway mail service over the August* Northern from Ward to Sa- i luda on May 13. At the same time the | star route from Ridge Spring to this /place will be discontinued and the rural routes probably rearranged. One or more new rural routes will have to be established fcom Saluda. With the installation of railway mail ser vice Saluda will receive morning mail five hours earlier than at present. South Carolina New Enterprises. The secretary of state has issued a commission to the Standard Serial Building and Loan Association of i Bamberg with a minimum capital of | i $50,000 and a maximum capital ol j I $500,000. The petitioners are H. M. i onH n M Eaves. A charter has been issued to the W. B. Farr Co. of Clinton with a capital stock of $12, 00. The officers are \V. B. Farr, pres ident, secretary and treasurer, and M. C. Farr, vice president. A general furniture business will be conducted. Train Meets With Peculiar Accident An engine pulling Southern passen ger train No. 35, running from Char lotte to Columbia, met with a peculiar accident at Sharp, a small station be tween Blythewood and Killian. The train was being ' double-headed" bj an extra engine coming from Char lotte and the flanged rim, or "shoe,' on one of the trailer wheels of the front engine became detached and came off, rolling for a considerable distance into a nearby field. The rimless wheel rolled for fully a train length before the train was stopped. .i FROM THE PALMETTO STATE Short Paragraphs of State News That Have Been Gotten Together V/ith Care by the Editor. King.?Interest in good roads ir? this section is growing. An enthusias tic meeting has just been held w-hich was addressed by Charles Helsebeck and Will Moore of Rural Hall. Columbia.?The governor appointed W. C. Vincent, of Bluffton, to be a member of the board of fisheries, vice James W. Moore, whose term has expired. Greenville.?Chairman C. D. Smith has issued a call for the county Dem ocratic convention to be held May 6. The county will send 14 delegates to the state convention at Columbia. Lexington.?Alex Gunter and J. C. Thomas, two young white men, were committed to. the county chain gang by the mayor of Brooklaud for dis orderly conduct, Gunter receiving a anntencAd of twentv davs and Thomas ten. Columbia.?The proceedings that were brought by Attorney General Lyon to oust B. J. Khame as state bank examiner, which were to have been heard by the supreme court several days ago, were postponed until May 3, when argument will be he&rd. Chester.?Ernest Crosby, a negro, who has been wanted by the Chester couuty authorities for a long time on a charge of enticing labor, was caught and placed in jail by Deputy Sheriff W. W. Benderman. It is alleged that Crosby was enticing farm labor from some of the largest planters in the county away to Georgia to work for a railroad. Beaufort.?In addition to the con tinued rains of the winter and early spring, it has rained here steadily for several days past; on one farm grown fowls were drowned in the flood. The ground 1b so boggy and wet that the farmers can not g# In their staple crops, and are consequently blue over the prospects. Columbia.?Several hundred Colum bia voters heard the six candidates for the two vacancies on the com mission government council at the Court House here and much interesl was manifested in the various speech es. James A. Hoyt, chairman of the city Democratic executive committee, presided over the miblic meeting which began at 8 o'clock and lasted a little over two hours. Gaffney. ? Elaborate preparations n nrvm ? An HA fPrtAtr tKr OiC 11U TV guiug UU 1U VJIaiLUVJ Wi WUV coniitag of the convention of the Wo man's Missionary conference which convenes in this city on1 May i, last ing through the 5th. The convention is annually one of the greatest events of the Methodists of the state and judging from all the pains being take? to make this convention a success, il will be one of the most enjoyable ever held. Spartanburg.?The Imp Film Com pany, one of the standard moving pic ture film companies of the*world, has secured, through C. P. Hammond chairman of the board of stewards ol Bethel Methodist church, the right with all the necessary protection, tc take pictures of the church that is tc be built jiear Crescent Milla in one day. This adds to the novelty of the plan of building an edifice from sur to sun. Greenville.?In the United States district court sentence was pronounc ! ed upon aged J. B. Palmer, his daugh ter, Lou Belcher, who has passed the I fiftieth milestone of life's Dathway and Charles B. Palmer, his son, 4? years of age, convicted of murder and conspiracy. Father and son are tc 1 labor for two years and five years respectively, In the United States pen itentiary at Atlanta, while the daugh ter Is to serve six years in the state prison of Kansas, at Lansing. Spartanburg.?Hai^e J. Staggs was shot and seriously wounded at Mot low's Creek, near Carnpobello, this county, by George Odom. There was but one eye-witness to the tragedy, a brother of the wounded man, and h has refused to make a statement. II seems that Staggs and his brother overheard Odom use his name and stopped to ask him what he was Bay ing about him. It is said an old grudge existed between the men and one word led to another and thee finally came the shooting. Ravenel.?Frank Jones, colored, ol Charleston, brakeman on the local freight of the A. C. L., was instantly killed by falling between the cars while the train was going at full speed, about two miles south of Rave nel. It is reported lhat Janes was * _ t i. .,.111 U _ U?1 J u drinKiag. I lie inquesi will ue uciu uj Judge D. H. Fowles. His remains will be taken to Charleston for burial Columbia.?The office of the adju tant general issued the first officia order of the instruction camp in riflt practice on the rifle range near Char leston on May 20 to 30. The cami will be in charge of Maj. T. T. Hyde Columbia.?The board of directors of the state penitentiary rejected al bids before them for installation o the electric chair and will call foi new bids at their next meeting or May 8, according to a statement bi Chairman Sanders, following the ad journment of the board. Aiken.?A cyclonic wind did con siderable damage in the outskirts o I Aiken and for a distance of 15 mile: ! east of the city trees were blowi down, telegraph and telephone polei razed and fences and outbuildings toppled over. The heaviest 'damag* was done just outside the city. Washington.?Th3 senate declinec to confirm tiie nomination of Mrs Julia K. D. Tolbert as postmaster a Ninety-Six, after her name had beei sent in some time ago by President Taft. Columbia.?The state board of par dons has made report to the governo; on 45 cases. Clpinenry was recom mended in 17 of the 45 cases accord ing to a published statement fron the chief executive's office. The mem hers of the board are E. F. Warren Hampton; J. A. Summersett, Colum bia, and R. Mays Cleveland, Green ville. mm if TO BE STARVING HAVE NO CLOTHING?MANY ARE HUDDLED IN CAGES OF THE SULTAN'S MENAGERIE. ARE TERRIBLY TORTURED Moorish Women Are the Ringleaders in the Crueltiesr-Homes of Jews -jn Are Looted and Then Burned?Many ' 0 Moorish Soldiers Arrested. ?I ' 'H Fez,?The Jewish quarter of Fes presents a lamentable spectacle, as a result of the recent pillaging by the - revolting populace and mutinous Moorish soldiers. On the occasion of the last previous ra raging of the quar ter the scenes enacted did not ap proach in horror and devastation those of the past week. Of the 12,000 Jewish residents o? the capital no fewer than 7,000 have been rendered homeless by fire, and these have now taken refuge, naked and hungry, in the gardens of the Sul tan's Palace. . ^ A terryfying scene. 4?. presented there, for hundreds of emaciated hu man beings are huddled together in empty cages of the Sultan's mena&erle ' and these are surrounded by feages containing wild beasts, which, mad dened by this sight of human' flesh, fill the gardens with their roars. When they attaced Mellah, the Jewish quarter, the. people composing n IUD lUilil laiCU JLUVU W CI o VUiOUJ 0ViUT ated by desire for loot. They tore the clothing from Men, women and chil dren alike and these, shrieking with terror, raced for refuge into tS^pa&?M5l ace gardens. The mob then sacked and burned at its leisure, destroying everything that came in its way. The synogogues were wrecked and the sacred hooka and parchments' torn and burned. Ob jects too heavy to be carried off, like'gHjp beds and furhiture, were first hacked to pieces and then .piled together in the streets and set on fire. The streets are a picture of desola tion, resembling a scene after an earthquake.1 Here and there are-to be seen the naked corpse of persons who >' were struck down while trying to escape. At the French, British, and other Consulates bread 1b being suppplied to the starving refugees. Strike Forces Ship to Givp Up Trip. Southampton.?The White Star lin er Olympic, which has been held off Ryde, Isle of Wight, for several days, by a strike of her firemen, abandoned the schedule trip to New York and returned to port. This course waa made necessary by the desertion* of her seamen; when the line attempt ed to replace the striking firemen with non-union men. M m. sSm! 'tf'raKii m rTSSs j* ' Fate of Richeson is With Governor. A Kw AAttnoAl fA* DUDIUU. A liual ot?7|i uj tvuuon &i/t; Clarence V. T. Rlcheson, the confess- IP ed murderer of his former sweetheart, Miss Avis Linnell, to secure a com mutation of the death sentence, was taken when the attorneys appeared before Governor Foss. The lawyera urged the Governor to lay their peti tion asking that the,sentence of death be' changed to one of life imprison ment, before the Executive Council. Although the lawyers would not di vulge all of the grounds upon which they seek to have the sentence conU muted, they lay stress upon the men tal condition of their client W Ready to Negotiate With Uncle Sam. St Petersburg.?The minister of foreign affairs, M. Sazonoff, in the Douma referred to the abrogation by the United States of the Russo-Amerl- M can treaty of 1832. The minister said ^ that President Taft had made the ab rogation in the form acceptable to in ternational intercourse. Assertions ' J that Russia had violated the treaty 'j were not, however, he said, believed d In Borlnnc Mrrloa ?n America.. If the ,'k United States should take steps to negotiate a new treaty, Russia would take Into consideration all the wishes of Russian society. Refused to Go To Aid of Titanic. , Washington.?In a sworn statement filed with the senate committee In vestigating the Titanic disaster. Er nest Gill, donkey engineer on the liner Californian now at Boston, said that vessel was so close to the Titanic on the night of the tragedy that the latter's distress rockets were plainly visible. He charged that the captain of the Californian refused to go to the aid of the distressed vessel. Cap tain Lord of the Californian, in Bos ton, emphatically denied the statement made bv Gill. ; ' - i ] Recover Bodies of Astor and Straus. f New York.?The bodies of Col. John r Jacob Astor and Isidor Straus, the i millionaire merchant of this city, who , lost their lives in the Titanic disas . ter, have been recovered and are on board the cable ship ilackay-Bennett. . News of the recovery of the bodies > I was communicated in a dispatch to ? the White Star Line Company. The i wireless dispatch from the cable ship j Mackay-'Bennett, gives additional iden tificauon oi iony*nuit ul uic ucicw fore unknown recovered dead on the Mackay-Bennett. Will Pick Up American Refugees. Washington.?The army transport Crook will leave San Francisco for the %\*^*coast of Mexico to pick up any American refugees who may wish to leave the country. The Crook will visit Topolobampo, Altata, Mazatian, all in the state of Sinaloa; San Bias, Tepic, Manzanillo, in Colima, and Aca pulco. in Guerrero. The vessel is sent at the request of the state de partment after urgent requests from many Americans stranded in the Mex ican states bordering the Pacific. - ..