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Christmas, New Year, Labor Day and
Loafing Day, all mixed and kneaded
in the Main Street dough-tray, seasoned
with the altar of laughter from the
fairest roses of Southern beauty, and
frantically stirred with a soiidified
solution Of noise cock tails that rose
and froze and fell again in chunks.
1t is unnecessary to detail all the
why's and wherefores and what
nots.
You know the rest: in pap RS you read;
How the Bristol PLAYERS famed and fed,
AS the Soldiers damned out ball after ball
From behind the plate. to over the wall
The result Of the game preceded The
returning crowd, and when they reach
ed the city, it was to be greeted by the
din Of whistles and bells-from the
deep-voiced siren of the fireaiarm To
the shrill llsqueak Of a goose- quill; from
the clang OF the iron-tongued monster
in the tower of Science Hill University
to the tinkle of baby's rattle. Every
available noisemaker the merchants
had to offer was disposed OF TO a hoii-
day crowd, and finally tin brass band
was formed Of Christmas horns, whist
les and toy.drums.
When the Observation-Disclosures enter.
ed The market place clad in the garb Of
human beings (the gladiators, not the
market-place), the hilarious young
citizens substituted FOR the victor's
crown of oak leaves, riding the pennant
winners upon the shoulders Of sturdy
voting sons OF the south, up and down
the thoroughfare, behind the pseudo
band. Heroes shaw and Kelly were
the first TO be borne into the Iinlelight;
then all the players in order, sollowing
up With league president w. w. Miller,
local president John ID. Copenhaver,
umpire Billy Earl, and editor Cy H..
Lyle.
But the celebration was not yet over.
Somewhere between eight o'cloclx, over
q hundred fans attended the banquet
at the Elks Hall, given by the local
management and prominent business
men TO the conquerors. 1t was real
banquet. Editor Cy H. Lyle was
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-09-14
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IL rained. Along in the afternoon.
But that was ancient history at six
o'clock. But it reigned again; Pan
|demouium. Then everybody reined--
steeds in when they reached Main st.
then Halley's Comet struck struct the
earth and coiled up afew million miles
of its tail between the Unaka National
Bank and the City Drug Store, distri-
buting free laughing gas and joy spec
trums to the waiting throng that
wouldn't go home till morning. The
moon froze. The north star shone in
the south west. The dog star barked.
Mother shook the baby's rattle, while
the baby drove the horses. Father
footed a tin horn, while our kid brother
wore cane and twirled q billed Shirt
the undignified capers of
the populace. Dogs neighed, horses
barked, automobiles shouted them
selves hoarse, and down the middle of
the street rushed the official scorer with
the throttle wide open, yelling "Honk,
honkv', until he butted up against the
tin-horn brass band, wherein the tuba
was smaller than the flute.
The jubilee celebration started at tn
ball grounds in the seventh inning,
and really isn't over yet; but ii Off
cially ended at II o'clock, midway
between Saturday night and Sunday
morning 1t was Fourth of July,
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toastmaster. He also demonstrated
his poetic accomplishments by boiling
the description of the winning game
down to an eightline poetic gem: also
by composing on the spur Of the
moment, parodial version of "Has
Anybody Here Seen Kelly?," which
Miss Leone Wagner sang to the
banquetters, whose applause was like
unto the sound that arose from the
grand stand when Shaw touched off
the fuse in that seventh inning.
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After an elegant menu had been
served to an appreciative bunch of fans
the toastmaster started the mental
feast. He said:
Ladies and fellow rooters:
We are assembled here tonight to
celebrate the ultima thule of base ball
ism; that which many struggle for and
only one gets, the elusive rag that
floats in the faces of ambitious clubs
and leads them on in the dashing race
like Will-o the-wisp. From May 22
70 the presi edent day we have batted
and field and worked away, that the
rag Of rags, with many furl, may
float in the breezes that fan our tresses.
there were times when it looked like
Yoe and Crouch would rob us OF the
Streamer and Moffet and Leake would
be able to .'shut us outu but we got OIL
by liberal use of the willow, stole
second, and came home on pinch hit.
Winning has made US so generous
that we are ready to even forgive Bris-
tol for its darndest to help Moffet de-
feat us. Here's our pledge TO help the
best team in the Appalachian league
keep the faxed floating from the grand
stand on the Soldiers battle field.
Where every team in the league has
met its Waterloo.
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Preceding u request for talk by
manager OF the Bristol team, the
toastmaster sprung the following epic
on his hearers:
There is clnb from q bordcrtown
Whose fluid gives Il great fenown,
the team is led by d man named Leake,
VINO plays tue game like hide and seek,
He did his best With his snappy band,
TO take the pennant from our hands; 4
hut Kelly was there to stop their hits.
And Shaw put one out into the styx.
Then followed this request: ave
will now hear voice from the tomb,
one hundred fathoms deep Manager
johnson will tell how it feels TO play
in the cellar all season. Mr.. johnson
was not present, although all the
Bristol players were invited 10 attend
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-09-14

nations of Europe, Austria, Russia
Sweden, Prussia and England, defeat.
ing them time and again. In some
sense, young gentlemen, you have met
and defeated such coalition. To-day
was meant for your Waterloo; but
instead, you turned the intended
Waterloo into an Austerlitz;-a sad
feature indeed was the coalition, but
sadder still was this day for the coalit-
ton.
May | be permitted to say that
another sad feature will appear to.
morrow morning in the issues of the
Journal and Tribune of Knoxville, and
in ihe Herald-Courier of Bristol, in
their crawl-down, which | predict will
oe ungraceful, and without acknow.
ledgment that the best team has won.
According to these great journals, the
Johnson City team has never really
been in the race for the pennant,
composed as it was of mediocres. To
be defeated by a mediocre team will
indeed be to them q sad feature of this
season.
| have just been handed by President
Copenhaver, of the local associa tion,
two kilograms, which indeed spell
sadness for those around the banquet
board to night, in that they call from
US, into higher ranks, several of our
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-09-14

Watch baby's bowels till the frosts come.
DR.. Fahrney's Teething Syrup keeps them
in good shape. Sample free. (sep-oC
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-09-14

Must Be, . Goal.
There can be no progress when
there Is no end In view.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-11-15
CHAPTER XII.

Daylight was in the thick of his
spectacular and intensely bitter fight
with the Coastwise Steam Navigation
Company, and the Hawaiian, Mica
raguan, and Pacif1c-Mexican Steam
ship Company. He stirred up a big
ger muss than he had anticipated.
and even he was astounded at the
wide ramifica tons of the struggle and
at the unexpected and incongruous in
terests that We're drawn into it. Every
newspaper in San Francisco turned
upon him. 1t was true, one or two of
them had first intimated that they
were open to subsidization, but Day
lights judgment was that the situa-
ton did not warrant such expenditure.
Up to this time the press had been
amusingly tolerant and good-naturedly
sensational about him, but now he was
to learn what virulent scurrilousness
an antagonized press was capable Of.
Every episode OF his life was resur-
rected to serve as foundations for ma
licious fabrications. Daylight was
frankly amazed at the new interpre-
tation put upon all that he had &C
complished and the deeds he had
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-11-15

zation known as the Pacific Slope Sea-
mans Union refused to work vessels
the cargoes of which We're to be
handled by scab longshoremen and
freight handlers. The union presented
its ultimatum, and then called strike.
This had been Daylight's objective all
the time. Every incoming cOastwise
vessel was boarded by the union Off
Gals and its crew sent ashore. And
with the seamen went the firemen, the
engineers and the sea cooks and
walters. Daily the number of idle
steamers increased. 1t was impossi-
BILE to get scab crews, for the men Of
the Seamen's Union were fighters
trained in the hard school of the sea.
and when they went out it meant
blood and death to scabs. This phase
of the strike spread up and down the
entire Pacific coast, until all the ports
were filled with idle ships, and sea
transportation was at a standstill. The
days and weeks dragged out, and the
strike held. The Coastwise Steam
Navigation Company and the Hawaii
an, Nicaraguan, and Pacific-Mexican
Steamship Company were tied up COM
Lletely. The expenses of combating
the strike were tremendous and they
were earning nothing, while daily the
situation went from bad to worse, un-
til peace at any price" became the
cry. And still there was no peace,
until Daylight and his allies played out
their hand, raked in the winnings, and
allowed a goodly portion of CONT
nent to resume business.
Daylight's coming to civilization had
not improved him. True, he wore
better clothes had learned slightly
better manners. and spoke better Eng
ish. But he had hardened and at the
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-11-15


suicide, and with one ITO Much Day
light" After that he did not talk with
her again about books. He imagined
what erroneous conclusions she had
drawn from that particular chapter,
and it stung him the more in that they
were undeserved. He pumped Morri-
son, the clerk, who had first to vent
his personal grievance against Miss
Mason before he could tell What little
he knew of her.
"She comes from Sisklyou County.
She's very nice to work with in the
office, of course, but she's rather stuck
on herself-exclusive, you know"
"How do you make that out?" Day
light queried.
well, she thinks too much of
herself to associate with those she
works with, in the office here, for in
stance. She won't have anything to
do with fellow, you see. I've ask
ed her out repeatedly, to the theater
and the chutes and such things. But
nothing doing. Says she likes plenty
of sleep, and can't stay up late, and
has to go all the way to Berkeley
that's where she lives. But that's all
hot air. She's running with the Uni
versity boys, that's what she's doing.
She needs lots of sleep, and can't go
to the theater with me, but she can
dance all hours with them. I've heard
it pretty straight that she goes to all
their hops and such things. Rather
stylish and heightened for a stenog-
rapher, I'd say. And she keeps a
horse, too. She rides astride all over
those hills out there. l saw her one
Sunday myself. Oh, she's a high
flyer, and wonder how she does it..
Sixty-five month don't go far. Then
she has a sick brother, too
Live with her people?" Daylight
asked.
NO; hasn't got any They were
we'll to do, I've heard. They must have
been, or that brother or hers couldn't
have gone to the University of Cali
fornia. Her father had a big cattle
ranch, but he got to fooling with mines
or something, and went broke before
he died. Her mother died long before
that. Her brother must cost a lot of
money. He was a husky once, played
football, was great on hunting and be-
ing out in the mountains and such
things. He got his accident break
ing horses, and then rheumatism or
something got into him. One leg is
shorter than the other, and withered
UP some. He has TO walk on crutches.
I saw her out with him once-cross-
ing the ferry. The doctors have been
experimenting on him for years, and
he's in the French Hospital now, !
think"
All Of which side-lights on Miss Ma.
son went to increase Daylight's inter
est in her. Yet, much as he desired,
he failed to get acquainted with her.
He had thoughts of asking her to
luncheon, but his was the innate chiv-
airy of the frontiersman, and the
thoughts never came to anything. He
knew self-respecting, square-dealing
man was not supposed to take his
stenographer to luncheon. Such things
did happen, he knew, for he heard
the chatting gossip Of the club; but he
did not think much Of such men and
felt sorry for the girls.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-11-15
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER I.-Elam Harnish, known
all through Alaska as Burning Day.
light" celebrates his Both birthday with
a friendly crowd of miners at the Circle
hero and a pioneer in the new gold fields.
The dance leads to heavy gambling in
which, over 100000 is, staked. Harniish
loses his money and his mine but wins
the mail contract Of the district.
CHAPTER 'II.-Burning Daylight starts
on his trip to deliver the mail with dogs
and sledge. He tells his friends that the
big Yukon gold strike will soon be on
and he intends to be in it at the start.
With Indian attendants and dogs he
dips over the bank and down the frozen
Yukon and in the gray light is gone.
CHAPTER IIT.-Harnish makes a SEN
sationally rapid run across country with
the mail, appears at the Tivoli and there
Is another CHARACTERISTIC celebration. He
mas made record against cold and eH-
haustion and is now ready to join Ids
friends in dash to the new gold fields.
CHAPTER Iv-Harnish decides where
the gold will be found in the up-river dis
trict and buys two tons of flour, which
he declares will be worth it's weight in
gold before the season is over.
CHAPTER v.-when Daylight arrives
with his heavy outfit of flour he finds
the big flat desolate. A comrade dis
covers gold and Harnish reaps a rich
harvest. He goes to Dawson, begins in
miners and becomes the most prominent
figure in the Klondi1e.
CHAPTER VI.-Harnish makes fortune
after fortune. One lucky investment en-
ables him to defeat a great combination
of capitalists in vast mining deal. He
determines to return to civilization and
gives a farewell celebration to his friends
that is remembered as kind of blaze of
glory.
CHAPTER VIT.-The papers are full
Of ''The King of the Klondike,' and Day
light is feted by the money magnates of
the country. They take him into a big
copper deal and the Alaskan pioneer
finds himself amid the bewildering COM
piications of high finance.
CHAPTER VIII.-Daylight is buncoed
by the moneyed men and finds that he
has been led to invest his eleven millions
in manipulated scheme. He goes to
meet his disloyal business partners at
their offices in New York City.
CHAPTER IX.-Confronting his part
ners With a revolver in characteristic
frontier style, he threatens to kill them
II his money is not returned. They are
cowed into submission, return their steal
tngs and Harnish goes back to San Fran
cisco with his unimpaired fortune.
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mendous culture To Daylight cul-
ture was a worthless thing, and yet.
somehow, he was vaguely troubled by
a sense that there was more in culture
than he imagined.
Again, on her desk, in passing, he
noticed book with which he was IA
miiiar. This time he did not stop, for
he had recognized the cover. 1t was
magazine correspondents book on
the Klondike, and he knew that he
and his photograph figured in it, and
he knaw, Also of certain sensational
chapter concerned with a woman's
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-11-15

That stops coughs quickly and cures
colds is Foley's Honey and Tar
Compound. Mrs. Anna Pelzer, 1926
Jefferson ST., So. Omaha, Neb., says
81 can recommend Foley's Honey and
Tar Compound as a sure cure for
coughs and colds It cured my
daughter of bad cold and my neigh
Dor, Mrs. Benson, cured herself and
her whole family with Foley's Honey
and Tar Compound. Everyone in
our neighborhood speaks highly of
it. - J. T. Bennett.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-11-15
CHAPTER x.

Back In San Francisco, Daylight
quickly added to his reputation. In
ways it was not an enviable reputa-
tiOn. Men were afraid of him. He be-
came known as a fighter, fiend, a
tiger. His play was ripping and
smashing one, and no one knew where
lor how his next blow would fall. The
element Of surprise was large He
baked on the unexpected, and, fresh
from the wild North. his mind not OPP
Grating in stereotyped channels, he
was able in unusual degree to devise
inew tricks and stratagems. And once
he won the advantage, he pressed it
,Temorselessly. GAS relentless as a
Red Indian" was said of him, and it
was said truly.
He was free lance, and had
no friendly business associations
Such alliances as were formed
from time to time were purely af-
fairs of expediency, and he regarded
his allies as men who would give him
the double-cross or ruin him if a
profitable chance presented. In spite
6f this point Of view, he was faithful
to- his allies. But he was faithful just
as long as they were and no longer
The treason had to come from them
and then it was Ware Daylight
The business men and fnanciers of
the Pacific coast never forgot the les
son Of Charles Klinkner and the Cali
fornia & Altamont Trust Company.
Klinkner was the president In part
nership with Daylight, the pair raided
the San Jose Interurban. The power
full Lake Power & Electric Lighting
corporation came to the rescue, and
Klinkner, seeing what he thought was
the opportunity, went over to the en-
envy In the thick Of the pitched battle
Daylight lost three millions before he
was done with 1t, and before he was
done with 1t he saw the California &
Altamont Trust Company hopelessly
wrecked, and Charles Klinkner a sui
side in 8 felon's cell
So 1t was that Daylight became a
successful flnancier He did not go
in for swindling the workers. Not
only did he not have the heart for it.
but 1t did not strike him as a sporting
proposition. The workers were SO
easy, so stupid 1t was more like
Blaughtering fat, hand-reared pleas
ants on the English preserves he had
read about. The sport, to him, was
in waylaying the successful robbers
and taking their spells from them
The grim Yukon life had failed to
make Daylight hard. IT required CIV
ilization to produce this result. In
the fierce, savage game he now play
ed, his habitual geniality imper-
ceptibly slipped away from him, as did
his lazy Western drawl.
He still had "reminiscences of genial
1ty, but they were largely periodical
and forced, and they were usually due
to the cocktails he took prior to meal
time. In the North he had drunk
deeply and at irregular intervals; but
now his drinking became systematic
and disciplined. 1t was an unconscious
development, but 1t was based upon
physical and mental conditions. The
cocktails served as an inhibition.
Without reasoning or thinking about
At, the strain Of the office, which was
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-11-15

done. From an Alaskan hero he was
metamorphosed into an Alaskan
bully, liar, desperate, and all-around
bad man." The whole affair sank to
the deeper deeps Of rancor and savage
ness. The poor woman who had killed
herself was dragged out of her grave
and paraded on thousands of reams
Of paper as e. martyr and a victim to
Daylight's ferocious brutality.
He was like a big bear raiding a
beehive, and, regardless of the stings,
he obst1nately persisted in paving for
the honey. He gritted his teeth and
struck back. Beginning with raid on
two steamship companies, it develop
ed into a pitched battle with a city,
state and continental coast line. AL
lied with him, on a splendid salary,
with princely pickings thrown in, was
a lawyer, Larry Hogan, young Irish
man with reputation to make, and
whose peculiar genius had been un-
recognized until Daylight had picked
up with him. 1t was Hogan who guided
Daylight through the intricacies OF
modern politics, labor organization,
and commercial and corporation law
1t was Hogan, prolific of resource and
suggestion, who opened Daylights
eyes to undreamed-of possibilities in
Notwithstanding warfare; and it was
Daylight, rejecting, accepting, and
celebrating, who planned the cam
paigns and prosecuted them With the
Pacific coast, from Puget Sound to
Panama, buzzing and humming, and
with San Francisco furiously about his
ears, the two big steamship companies
had all the appearance of winning. It
looked as If Burning Daylight was be-
ing beaten slowly TO his knees. And
then he Struck-at the steamship COM
panies, at San Francisco, at the whole
Pacific coast.
1t was not MUGS of blow at first
A Christian Endeavnr convention was
being held in San Francisco, a row
was started by Express Drivers Union
No. 927 over the handling of a small
heap of baggage at Ferry Building. A
few heads we1o broken, score of ar
rests made, and the baggage was de.
livered. No one would have guessed
that behind this petty wrangle was
the fine Irish hand Of Hogan, made
potent by the Klondike gold of Burn
ing Daylight. 1t was an insignificant
affair at best-or so it seemed. But
the Transfers Union took up the
quarrel, backed by the whole Water
Front Federation. Step by step, the
strike became involved. A refusal Of
cooks and walters to serve scab team
sters or transfers employers
brought out the cooks and walters.
The butchers and meat cutters refused
to handle meat destined for unfair
restaurants. The combined Employ
ers' Associations put up a solid front,
and found facing them the 10000 or
ganized laborers of San Francisco.
The restaurant bakers and the bakery
wagon drivers struck, followed by the
mixers, milk drivers and chicken
pickers. The building trades asserted
its position in unambiguous terms, and
all San Francisco was in turmoil.
But still, it was only San Francisco.
Hegan's intrigues were mastery, and
Daylight's campaign steadily devel-
oped. The powerful fighting organi-
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wen on and had big ranches and vine
ards down on the fiat of the valley.
The brickyard paid ten cents a cubic
yard for the clay. AS for the rest of the
ranch, the land was good in patches,
where it was cleared, like the vege-
table garden and the vineyard, but the
rest OF it was too much up-and-down.
You're not a farmer" Daylight
said.
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A Household Medicine

(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-07-06

Harrison came to Arkansas City aad into the jail where they all were and told them that pretty soon they would be taken to Little Rock, and that if they did not swear that Rhea .'i, not have anything to do with the killing they would be lynched before they got back to Arkansas City.
 Many spectators are here from sha and adjoining counties listen- ing to the proceedings. Among them are Mrs. Archard, wife of the mur- dered officer, and his aunt, Mrs. Hcnsley. of Hensley. The State is repre resented by District Attorney Nixon, and Attorneys w, B. Sorrels nd s. j. Hunt. Attorneys x. O. Pindall and S. M Taylor represent Rhea. The hearing of testimony Will las for several days
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