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17
SYNOPSIS.
Elam Harnish, known all through Alas
ka as “Burning Daylight,” celebrates his
30th birthday with a crowd of miners at
the Circle City Tivoli. The dance leads
to heavy gambling, in which over SIOO,OOO
is staked. Harnish loses his money and
his mine but wins the mall contract. He
starts on his mail 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 mail,
appears at the Tivoli 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 Harnish
’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 rich har
vest. He goes to Daw-son, 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 his
•eleven millions in a manipulated scheme.
He goes to New York, and confronting
his disloyal partnej-s 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 San
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
•on one more 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 lie with a money manipulator.
Daylight undertakes to build up a great
industrial community. He is insistent
that she marry him and yet hopes to win
her. Daylight falls back into his old
(•drinking ways. There is a flurry in the
money market.
CHAPTER XlX.—Continued.
“Dede, if I tell you, flat and straight,
•that I’m going up to live on that ranch
at Glen Ellen, that I ain’t taking a
cent with me, that I’m going to
scratch for every bite I eat, and that
I ain’t going to play ary a card at the
business game again, will you come
along with me?”
She gave a glad little cry, and he
nestled her in closely. But the next
moment she had thrust herself out
from him to the old position at arm’s
length.
“How is this, possible? .How can
you leave your business?" Has any
thing happened?”
“No, nothing’s happened yet, but it’s
going to, blame quick. I’ve taken
your preaching to heart, and I’ve
come to the penitent form. I’ve taken
my last drink. You’re marrying a
whisky-soak, but your husband won’t
be that. He’s going to grow into an-,
other man so quick you won’t 'know
him. A couple of months from now,
-up there in Glen Ellen, you’ll wake up
some morning and find you’ve got a
perfect stranger in the house with you,
and you’ll have to get Introduced to
liim all over again. You’ll say, ‘l’m Mrs.
Harnish, who are you?’ And I’ll say,
Tm Elam Harnish’s younger brother.
I’ve just arrived from Alaska to at
tend the funeral.’ 'What funeral?’
you’ll say. And I’ll say, ‘Why the fu
neral of that good-for-nothing, gam
bling, whisky-drinking Burning Day
light—the man that died of fatty de
generation of the heart from sitting
in night and day at the business game.’
’Yes, ma’am,’ I’ll say, ‘he’s sure a gone
’coon, but I’ve come to take his place
and make you happy. And now,
ma'am, if you’ll allow me, I’ll just me
ander down to the pasture and milk
the cow while you’re getting break
fast’ ”
“But you haven’t answered my ques
tions,” she reproached him, as she
emerged, rosy and radiant, from the
embrace that had accompanied the
culmination of his narrative.
“Now just what do you want to
know?” he asked.
“I want to know how all this is pos
sible? How you are able to leave
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"Dear Elam,” She Whispered, “Dear
Elam.”
your business at a time like this?
What you meant by saying that some
thing was going to happen quickly?"
"Let’s go and get married,” he urged,
all the whimsicality of his utterance
duplicated in his eyes. “I’ve been work
ing like forty horses ever since this
blamed panic set in, and all the time
some of those ideas you’d given me
were getting ready to sprout. Well,
they sprouted this morning, that’s all.
I knew I wanted to ride in the hills
with you just about thirty million
times more than I wanted to go to the
office. And I knew all the time it
was impossible. And why? Because
of the office. The office wouldn’t let
me. And then I made up my mind
that I was to the dividing of the ways.
One way led to the office. The other
way led to Berkeley. And I took the
Berkeley road. I’m never going to
set foot in the office again. That’s all
gone, finished, over and done with,
and I’m letting it slide clean to smash
and then some. I’m wiping the slate
clean. I’m letting It all go smash.
When them thirty million dollars
stood up to my face and said I couldn’t
go out with you in the hills today, 1
knew the time had come for me to put
my foot down. And I’m putting it
down. I’ve got you, and my strength
to work for you, and that little ranch
In Sonoma. That’s all I want, and
that’s all I’m going to save out, along
with Bob and Wolf, a suit case and a
hundred and forty hair bridles. All
the rest goes, and good riddance. It’s
that much junk.”
A knock at the door interrupted
him, and he was left to stare delight
edly at the Crouched Venus and on
around the room at Dede’s dainty pos
sessions, while she answered the tele
phone.
“It is Mr. Hegan," she said, on re
turning. “He is holding the line. He
says it is important.”
Daylight shook his head and smiled.
“Please tell Mr. Hegan to hang up.
I’m done with the office and I don’t
want to hear anything about any
thing.”
A minute later she was back again.
“He refuses to hang up. He told
me to tell you that Unwin is in the
office now, waiting to see you, and
Harrison, too. Mr. Hegan said that
Grimshaw and Hodgkins are in trouble.
That it looks as if they are going to
break. And he said something about
protection.”
It was startling information. Both
Unwin and Harrison represented big
banking corporations, and Daylight
knew that if the house of Grimshaw
and Hodgkins went it would precipi
tate a number o’s failures and start a
, flurry of serious dimensions. But Day
light smiled, and shook his head.
He caught her by the hand and drew
her to him.
“You let Hegan hang on to that line
till he’s tired. We can’t be wasting
a second on him on a day like this.”
“But I know something of the fight
you have been making,” Dede con
tended. “If you stop now, all the work
you have done, everything, will be de
stroyed. You have no right to do it.
You can’t do it"
Daylight was obdurate. He shook
his head and smiled tantallzingly.
“Nothing will be destroyed, Dede,
nothing. You don’t understand this
business game. It’s done on paper.
All I stand for is paper. I’ve got the
paper for thousands of acres of land.
All right. Burn up the paper, and
burn me along with it. The land re
mains, don’t it? Nothing is going to
be lost —not one pile out of the docks,
not one railroad spike, not one ounce
of steam out of the gauge of a ferry
boat. The cars will go on running,
whether 1 hold the paper or somebody
else holds it.”
By this time Hegan had arrived in
an automobile. The honk of it came
in through the open window, and they
saw it stop alongside the big red ma
chine. In the car were Unwin and
Harrison, while Jones sat with the
chauffeur.
“I’ll see Hegan.” Daylight told Dede.
“There’s no need for the rest. They
can wait in the machine."
“Is he drunk?” Hegan whispered to
Dede at the door.
She shook her head and showed him
in.
“Good morning, Larry,” was Day
light’s greeting. “Sit down and rest
your feet. You sure seem to be in a
flutter.”
“I am,” the little Irishman snapped
back. "Grimshaw and Hodgkins are
going to smash if something isn’t
done quick. Why didn’t you come to
the office? What are you going to do
about it?”
“Nothing,” Daylight drawled lazily.
“Except let them smash, I guess. I’ve
had no dealings with Grimshaw and
Hodgkins. 1 don’t owe them anything.
Besides, I'm going to smash myself.
Look here, Larry, you know me. You
know when I make up my mind 1
mean it Well, I've sure made up my
mind. I'm tired of the whole game.
I’m letting go of it as fast as I can,
and a smash is the quickest way to let
go. All you’ve got to do is to protect
yourself and all our friends. Now you
listen to me while I tell you what to
do. Everything is in good shape to
do it. Nobody must get hurt. Every
body that stood by me must come
through without damage. All the back
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“Use a Different Tone of Voice, or You’ll Be Heading for a Hospital.”
wages and salaries must be paid pron
to. All the money I’ve switched away
’ from the water company, the street
cars, and the ferries must be switched
back. And you won’t get hurt your
self none. Every company you got
stock in wjll come through —’’
“What have you done to him?” He
gan snarled at Dede.
“Hold on there, Larry.” For the
first time Daylight’s voice was sharp,
while all the old lines of cruelty in his
face stood forth. “Miss Mason is go
ing to be my wife, and w’hile I don't
mind your talking to her all you want,
, you’ve got to use a different tone of
■ voice or you’ll be heading for a hos
pital, which will sure be an unex
pected sort of smash. And let me tell
you one other thing. This-all is my
doing. She says I’m crazy, too.”
Dede stepped forward where she
confronted the two men.
“Wait," she said. “I want to say
: something. Elam, if you do this in
sane thing, I won’t marry you. I refuse
, to marry you.”
i Hegan, in spite of his misery, gave
. her a quick, grateful look.
i “I’ll take my chance on that,” Day
. light said. “And now, Larry, you’d
better be going. I’ll be at the hotel in
• a little while, and since I’m not go
i ing to step into the office again, bring
, all papers to sign and the rest over
i to my rooms. And you can get me on
• the ’phone there any time. This
, smash is going through. Savvee? I’m
quit and done.”
He turned to Dede as soon as He
i gan was gone, and took her by the
। hand.
“And now, little woman, you needn t
• come to the office any more. Consider
I yourself discharged.”
i “I’d cry. if I thought it would do any
good,” she threatened.
“In which case I reckon I’d have to
' hold you in my arms some more and
sort of soothe you down,” he threaten
। ed back.
As he stood at the top of the steps,
leaving, she said: —
“You needn’t send those men. There
will be no packing, because I am not
going to marry you.”
“I’m not a bit scared,” he answered,
and went down the steps.
CHAPTER XX.
Three days later. Daylight rode to
Berkeley in his red car. It was for the
last time, for on the morrow the big
machine passed into another’s pos
session. It had been a atrcwuous three
days, for his smash bad been the big
gest the panic had precipitated in Cal
ifornia. The papers had been filled
with it, and a great cry of indignation
had gone up from the very men who
later found that Daylight had fully
protected their interests. It was these
facts, coming slowly to light, that
gave rise to the widely repeated
charge that Daylight had gone in
sane. It was the unanimous conviction
among business men that no sane
• man could possibly behave in such
fashion. On the other hand, neither
> his prolonged steady drinking nor his
affair with Dede became public, so
■ the only conclusion attainable was
■ that the wild financier from Alaska
; had gone lunatic. And Daylight had
I grinned and confirmed the suspicion
■ by refusing to see the reporter. He
; halted the automobile before Dede's
door, and met her with his same rush
ing tactics, enclosing her in his arms
before a word could be uttered.
■ “I’ve done it,” he announced.
, “You’ve seen the newspapers, of
i course. I’m plumb cleaned out, and
■ I’ve just called around to find out
; what day you feel like starting for
, Glen Ellen. It’ll have to be soon, for
’ it's real expensive living in Oakland
■ these days. My board at the hotel is
• only paid to the end of the week, and
I I can’t afford to stay on after that
■ And beginning with tomorrow I’ve got
to use the street cars, and they sure
> eat up the nickels.”
He paused, and waited, and looked
, at her. Indecision and trouble showed
on her face. Then the smile he knew
, so well began to grow on her lips and
in her eyes, until she threw back her
, head and laughed in the old forthright
boyish way.
“When are those men coming to
[ pack for me?” she asked.
[ And again she laughed and simu
. lated a vain attempt to escape his
, bear-like arms.
. “Dear Elam,” she whispered; "dear
[ Elam.” And of herself, for the first
. time, she kissed him.
। ! “Now, I've got an idea.” Daylight
' said. “We’re running away from cit-
. I les, and you have no kith nor kin, so
. it don’t seem exactly right that we
should start off by getting married in
■ a city. So here’s the idea: I’ll run
. up to the ranch and get things in
shape around the house and give the
• caretaker his walkingpapers. You
follow me in a couple of days, coming
, on the morning train. I'll have the
I preacher fixed and waiting. And here's
. another idea. You bring your riding
togs in a suit case. And as soon as
the ceremony’s over, you can go to
the hotel and change. Then out you
, come, and you find me waiting with a
couple of horses, and we’ll ride over
the landscape so as you can see the
prettiest parts of the ranch the first
thing. And she’s sure pretty, that
ranch. And now that it’s settled. I'll
be waiting for you at the morning
train day after tomorrow."
, Dede blushed as she spoke.
“You are such a hurricane.”
■ “Well, ma’am,” he drawled, “I sure
. hate to burn daylight. And you and 1
have burned a heap of daylight. We’ve
been scandalously extravagant. We
might have been married years ago.”
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Race Between Man and Horse.
At Dublin yesterday a large crowd
, witnessed a ten-mile race on a grass
track between Michael Horan’s trot
ting mare Kathleen and P. Fagan, the
pedestrian.
Fagan received IS minutes' allow
- ance and covered three miles one fur
long in that time. He was caught 700
■ yards from the tape and beaten by
: 300 yards tn 53 minutes 5S seconds.—
i Ixjndon Daily Mail.
MAKE UNCLE SAN '
BUILD > ROADS
Good Country Roads Far More Im
portant Now Than Railroads,
Thinks Leader Oscar
Underwood.
That Hon. Oscar W. Underwood is
an ardent advocate of good roads,
appears from the following extracts
from a speech reprinted from the Con
gressional Record, the extracts being
but a small portion of the speech:
“For many years I have been in fa
vor of the government of the United
States either establishing post roads
or lending its aid to the building of
post roads throughout the country. It
is the only way you can build them.
“It is far more important to the
great majority of the people of the ।
United States to have a road that car
ries their produce from the farm
door to the railroad station and from
the store in the town back to the
farm door than it is to further de
velop a great railroad that will carry
them to New York or San Francisco.
“We can begin by giving national
aid to assist the states, or we can
commence by building several great
national highways, like the Cumber- ,
land pike, that was completed a cen
tury ago, and yet remains as a monu
ment to the wisdom of our fathers. 1
4
“I have just this one suggestion to
make to you, and it is not my own
thought, that instead of advocating
one system today by this association
and another system tomorrow by an
other association, go to the congress
of the United States and say to them:
“Appoint a joint committee to con
sider the building of post roads in ]
the United States; give them author- ,
ity to hear everybody that wants to i
come before the committee; give them -
authority to find a verdict as to which
is the best way to start this great ;
national movement by proper legisla
tion, and then you have concentrated j
the power in the hands of the men ]
who in the end must exercise it.” I '
didnlHSnt :
CONGRESSMAN
JOHN LAND
■ Mr. Underwood Supported Scott Anti-
, Gambling Bill.
L
1 An effort has been made to cast a
! snear on Mr. Underwood’s record by
> charging that he appointed Congress
s man Lamb as chairnnin of the agri
- cultural committee of congress. Every
j well-informed man knows that Mr.
Lamb was not appointed by Mr. Un
. derwood, but was chosen by the Dem- ।
f ocrats of congress in caucus, because I
1 he was the ranking Democrat, he hav- i
t ing served seventeen years as a mem- |
t ber of that committee. Mr. Lamb it
■ was who got the great agricultural
I appropriation measure acted on fa
> vorably in the house. Even if Mr.
1 Lamb did not favor the Scott anti
gambling bill, Mr. Underwood did.
1 Moreover, he succeeded in getting
’ the house to consider it and made a
splendid speech in favor of it. In
1 fact, Mr. Underwood has never done
1 or said anything during his whole ca
reer in congress that was against the
1 wishes of the great agricultural class.
On the other hand, he has been their
1 ablest champion. There is not anoth
er man in the United States tn pub-
’ lie life today who has done more.
For weeks the opposition has had
a corps of experts engaged in Wash
’ ington searching the records of con
gress in the hope of finding some ac- ,
' tion or utterance of Mr. Underwood's :
’ that might injure his candidacy. They i
, have searched back for seventeen •
years. They have burned the woods ■
( and sifted the ashes, but they have
, found nothing against him.
J
1
; UNDERWOOD WILL i
L GET NEW YORK
‘ Neither Party Has Ever Won Without
Its Vote.
■ Neither party has ever elected a
president without the electoral vote
of the state of New Y'ork. While New
I I Y’ork will have an uninstructed dele
; gation, the New Y’ork state commit
tee has endorsed the record of Leader
Underwood in the house, which indi
cates very strongly that they favor
1 ! his nomination and election.
1 i With four Democratic candidates in
1 I the field, no one of them will go into
' the national convention with anything
like a majority of the vote. Under
the Democratic rule it takes two
thirds to nominate. It will be seen
therefore, that the nomination will be
1 secured in the convention and any
> candidate has an oportunity of getting
the nomination.
’ This is the first time in fifty years
a Southern Democrat has had such a
bright chance of getting the nomina
tion. Georgia should, therefore, in
' sist upon her preference and do all
' in her power to give the nomination
’ to the son of her daughter state, Ala
bama.
ASEVERE SICKNESS LEAVES
THE KIDNEYS WEAK
After recovering from a severe spell
of sickness some time d’go, I was all
run down and suffering from poor
blood. I would have pains in my back
and hips and my kidneys bothered me
all the time. I started taking Swamp*
Root upon the recommendation of •
friend and found it was just what I
needed. My blood became ail right
and after taking a few bottles, I was
surprised at the effect it had on my
kidneys. They were entirely cured
and I have much to be thankful for
that your great remedy did for me.
Yours very truly,
W. O. BLACKMON,
Phenix City, Ala.
Sworn to and subscribed before met
this the 14th day of July, 1909.
W. J. HIRS, Justice of the Peace.
Letter to
Dr. Kilmer AC*.
Binghamton, X. T.
Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do For Tea
Send to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Bingham
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Always remember to be a gentle
man —unless you are a woman.
Garfield Tea, by purilylng the blood, eradi
ates Rheumatism, Dyspepsia and maay
chronic ailments.
Rather than lose out at the last min
ute, the bride will promise to obey—
but she always has her finger*
crossed.
A Believer.
Gifford Pinchott, at his brother**
house, in Park avenue, New York, lis
tened quizzically to a political story
that was being submitted to him for
verificatio nby a popular reporter.
“When the reporter finished his nar
rative Mr. Pinchot laughed and said:
“I'll reply to that as the old Italian
peasant replied to the statement that
his fellow-countryman loved birds too
well ever to eat them:
“ 'Well, I don’t mind believing that
myself,' the old man said, ‘but there’*
a good many who wouldn’t.' ”
Probably Made a Hit
A young woman who presides over
one of the kindergarten schools of
Cambridge appeared at her desk re
cently attired in a new close-fittlnff
skirt. With no thought other than
the conducting of her regular routine
work, the teacher went about her du
ties. She noticed, however, that one
of her charges was paying little at
tention to his work, but following her
with his eyes wherever she chanced to
go. Approaching the little fellow
with the intention of ascertaining the
trouble, she said: “Well, Tommy— n
Before she could go any further the
youngster shook his boyish head and
said: "Say, teacher, that’s a classy
skirt you’ve got on!” —Boston Post.
Another Use for Medicine.
A Chicago family which employs a*
Its butler an old-fashioned negro was
constantly annoyed by the doorbell of
the house getting out of order. On
several occasions an electrician who
used some sort of white powder in
his work, had been called in to fix
the bell.
One evening when there wer*
guests at dinner, one of them com
plained of a sore throat. The mis
tress of the house turned to the but
ler and said:
“Sam, when dinner is over, go to
the drug store and get a small bottle
of Dobell’s solution.”
“Before de Lawd!" exclaimed th*
negro in genuine distress. “Is dat do’-
bell out of ordah ag’in?”— Popular
Magazine.
COFFEE HURTS
One in Three.
It is difficult to make people believe
that coffee is a poison to at least on*
person out of every three, but people
are slowly finding it out, although
thousands of them suffer terribly be
fore they discover the fact.
A New York hotel man says: “Each
time after drinking coffee I became
restless, nervous and excited, so that I
was unable to sit five minutes in one
place, was also inclined to vomit and.
suffer from loss of sleep, which got
worse and worse.
“A lady said that perhaps coffee wa*
the cause of my trouble, and suggested
that I try Postum. I laughed at the
thought that coffee hurt me, but she
insisted so hard that I finally had
some Postum made. I have been ua-
Ing it in place of coffee ever since, for
I noticed that all my former nervou*-
ness and irritation disappeared. I be
gan to sleep perfectly, and the Postum
tasted as good or better than the old
coffee, so what was the use of stick
ing to a beverage that was injuring
me?
“One day on an excursion up the
country I remarked to a young lady
friend on her greatly improved appear
ance. She explained that some time
before she had quit using coffee and
taken to Postum. She had gained a
number of pounds and her former pal
pitation of the heart, humming in the
ears, trembling of the hands and leg*
and other disagreeable feelings had
disappeared. She recommended me to
quit coffee and take Postum and wa*
very much surprised to find that I had
already made the change.
“She said her brother had also re
ceived great benefits from leaving off
coffee and taking on Postum.” “There’*
a reason.”
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