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Cole l.. Blease.
Letter From Mr.. Weston.
August Is. 1912


MIR. II. ]. Hardy. Columbia. $. C.
Dear Sir; You showed me letter
which you received from Gov. Blease
this morning. and asked me to give
You the facts as to what transpired at
an interview held in the governors
Office the latter part of February.
1911. AT your request / accompanied
you to the governors office to see If
something could not be done about
his veto of the provision made in the
appropriation bill for inspectors
charged with the duty Of enforcing
the labor laws Of the State. There
were present at this interview Gov.
Blease, you and l. l stated to Gov.
Blease that you were the secretary of
the City Federation Of Trades and de-
sired to see if some provision could
not be made for the enforcement of
the labor laws. Gov. Blease replied,
with great deal Of spirit, that as
long as he was governor no law
should pass which would interfere
with the right Of any one above 21
years OF age to contract for the dis
position Of his own time. 1 replied
to the governor that this was not the
question, as the law had already set
tied that point, but the question was
the enforcement Of these laws. l then
said to the governor. What about
these poor women who clerk for their
LIVELIHOOD" He replied that II they
did not like their situation they
could get other employment. In the
course of the interview the governor
SAID thar the factory inspectors were
worthless. replied that cared
nothing about the personnel. that il
these men were not doing their duty
they could be removed and others put
in their places. Finally the governor
said that he would see that the law
was enforced through his liquor con-
stables. 1 told him that this was i'm
practicable, as these constables did
! not have the right TO enter a MANI
featuring or mercantile establishment
for that purpose. OF course / can
the parties to this interview, but the
thoughts and sentiments herein at
tributed TO the governor correctly ex-
press his attitude in this matter.
might add that this interview made
quite an impression upon me, as
was the author of the bill providing
for inspectors. without these in
spectors the benign laws passed for
the protection of the laboring people
depend entirely upon the conscience
OF the employer. OF course quite a
number observe the law. but doubtless
there are some who do not. Thous-
ands of dollars are being spent in the
enforcement of our liquor laws; there
are game wardens to protect our
birds and fishes, and l can not under
stand why the people who labor in
the factories and the mercantile es-
adjustments should not be OF as much
consequence to the State as the birds
and fishes and the enforcement of the
liquor law. / would therefore say
that your interview published on Feb
ruary "a, 1911, correctly expresses the
governors attitude in this matter. and
| have never heard that Gov. Blease
charged any misrepresentation as to
showed me his letter to YOU this
morning.
Yours very truly,
Francis IL. Weston.
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N $3.OO0.O0O BABY.
John. Jacob AstOr Born Wcdnes,Iav &
to Wealth.

New York, Aug. 14.-Mrs. Madeline
force Astor, survivor of the Titanic
disaster, in which her husband Col
John Jacob Astor. lost his life. gave
plrth to a son at SIS o'clock this
morning.
The new arrival has been named
John Jacob Astor after his father.
The boy becomes direct heir to SS.-
O0O, 900 of the Astor fortune.
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from the grounds when he finished
speaking followed by many Of his
supporters, reducing the crowd bv
nearly one-half. Judge Jones has
many friends in the audience who
punctuated his remarks frequently
with expressions of approval. A great
many Bleaseites remained TO hear
Judge Jones and there was no dis
position other than TO grant him a
fair and respectful hearing.
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CANDIDATES At LAURENS,
lNQCiSTTOR IN AUDIENCE TRIES
To LINE UP CANDIDATES..
Peoples and Earle. Opposing Candi-
dates for Attorney General, De-
clare Themselves for Blease.


Laurens, Aug. 14.-Thos. H. Pee
Piles and j. Il. Earle came out today
for Blease. This declaration Of pref
erence as between the leading can
didates for governor by two of the
four candidates for attorney general
was the news feature of the State
campaign meeting in Laurens. Fairly
good order was kept in the crowd
of 5000 persons which filled a natural
amphitheatre ut the edge of the
town except when the chairman, John
NJ Cannon. was unable to get a hear
ing for Judge Jones when the latter
sought to make categorical reply to
GOV Blease. Judge Jones gave lit
tie time to elf-dcfense but spent the
greater part of his As minute period
in explaining policies which he ad-
vocates and contrasting these with
the policies comprehended in "Bleas-
ISM though he did not once mention
the governors name. Gov. Blease
repeated the substance Of his ad-
dress yesterday at Newberry, omit
ting, however. the charges there made
by him against relatives of Judge
Jones who live in Newberry. Gov
Blease referred again to the attitude
Of b. r. Tillman. senior senator from
South Carolina, toward the Blease-
Jones campaign.
Jones and his crowd" Blease said.
are trying to take a safety pin and
pin Jones on to Ben Tillman's coat
tail. Edgefeld county has got a man
In the race for the United States
senate who served you as senator, as
superintendent of the penitentiary and
for years in congress. He has done
much for South Carolina. Laurens
county has got young man in the
race who is honorable and high toned
and worthy Of any trust that may be
reposed In him. Why should the
Jones people try so hard to hang on
to Tillman? He has his own fight
tn make. IL they have proper re-
spect for themselves and for Tillman
they wouldn't do it.
Il do not need Tillman's indorse-
ment. 1 have proved during the past
l9 months that / am we'll qualified to
be governor as Ben Tillman or any
body else. They say Hampton was
defeated because he interferred in a
family fight and they are doing their
best to get Tillman to interfere in a
family fight now, but they are not
going to get Tillman into it," The
governor declared in characteristic
eloquent language that Tillman
would never be found lined up" with
the management of The State.
Messrs. Peoples and Earle were put
on record as to their preference be-
tive, n Blease and Jones through
inquisitor. farmer from Sullivan
township named Tumblin, who wore
a Blease badge the size of a half dol
lar and who repeatedly yelled, "Hur-
rah for Barney Evans!"' while the
attorney general j. Fraser Lyon was
speaking. Mr. Peoples, however, re-
Trained from expressing himself until
after he had ascertained by means
of hand primary that many persons
present others than Tumblin were in
terested B. B. Evans, who left Sat-
urday for Black Mountain, y. c.. did
not return until long after his turn
to speak came today. in fact not until
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BITTER ATTACK BY BLEASE.
JONES. IN FIERY SPEECH. CALLS
GOVERNOR n FALSIFIER.

Candidates Do not
Mince Words ut Newberry Meet
ing - Blease Makes DerOgatOry
Statements Concerning Brothers of
Judge Jones, and Latter Under
takes to Convict Governor of a
Lic' - Blease Answers Question
which He Has So Far Ignored -
Terms Blease an Anarchist.
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Rolla Wells will take in the dollar
bills for Wilson's campaign. The
handling Of small change shows that
Treasurer Wells is doing business for
the people. At the stand where the
interests do business cash is counted
by the barrel rel.--Wilmington star.
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CHAPTER v.-continued.

Back In Dawson, though he remained
true to his word and never touched
hand to pick and shovel, he worked as
hard as ever in his life. He had a
thousand irons in the fire, and they
kept him busy. Heavy as were his
expenses. he won more heavily. He
took lays, bought half shares. shared
with the men he g~rub-staked, and made
personal locations. Day and night his
dogs were ready, and he owned the
fastest teams; SO that when a STAN
pede to a new discovery was on. 1t was
Burning Daylight to the fore through
the longest. coolest nights till he
blazed his stakes next to Discovery.
In one way or another Ito say nothing
Of the many worthless creeks) he
cane into possession of properties on
the good creeks. such as Sulphur, Do
minion, Excelsis, Siwash, Cristo, Al
hambra. and Doolittle. The thousands
he poured out flowed back In tens of
thousands.
Dawson grew rapidly that winter of
1896. Money poured in on Daylight
sN0AA A SdlC VI NOWH LUIS. ne pIOIIUl-
ly invested 1t where 1t would gather
more. In fact. he played the danger
Gus game of pyramiding, and no more
perilous pyramiding than In a placer
camp could be imagined. But he
played with his eyes wide open.
Corner lots In desirable locations
sold that winter for from ten to thirty
thousand dollars. Daylight sem word
put over the trails and passes for the
newcomers to bring down log-rafts,
and. as a result, the summer of 1897
saw his saw mills working day and
night, on three shifts, and still he had
logs left over with which to build
cabins. These cabins. land included,
sold at from one to several thousand
dollars. Two-story log buildings, in
the business part of town, brought him
from forty to fifty thousand dollars
apiece. These fresh accretions of cap
ital were Immediately invested In 9TH
er ventures. He turned gold over and
over. until everything that he touched
to turn to gold.
With the summer rush from the Out
side came special correspondents for
the big newspapers and magazines.
and n and all, using unlimited space,
they wrote Daylight up; so that, SO far
as the world vas concerned, Daylight
loomed the largest figurs in Alaska. or
after several months, the
world became interested in the Span
lsh War. and forgot all about him; but
the Klondike itself Daylight still re-
NAMED the most prominent figure.
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AS TT SOMETIMES HAPPENS.

The man at the corner Of the down
town alley was selling some kind oil
cement.
1t was worth rs cents a bottle, az
he explained to his hearers, but in or.
der to introduce II he was making a
special price of n dime. good for this
particular occasion only, and he guar.
anteed satisfaction or money 70.
funded.
"Wfll 1t mend broken china?" In
quired a lean. understood man In the
crowd.
1T will mend anything but a broken
promise or a ruined character. Say.
my friend. here's a couple Of sticks II
wood. fastened together at the ends.
II you break them apart I'll make you
a present of a bottle"
Carelessly the understood man took
the joined sticks in his hands.
Then he gave them a sudden. vfo
lent wrench.
Blu they didn't break apart
1t Is saddening to have to spoil q
story In his nsanner. but sometimes,
in the interests of historical accuracy,
II has to be done.
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THE PEEVISH CHILD
NEEDS TREATMENT

When a child sulks drowsily, or Is
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In cases where the use of a gentle,
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ly the perfect laxative, being mild, yet
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DR.. Caldwells Syrup Pepsin is sold
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he remember that last night he had
seen her. He had thought nothing OF
1t at the time: but. looking back, he
was haunted by every little thing that
had happened. In the light oil the
tragic event, he could understand
everything-her quietness, that calm
gertrude as If all vexing questions or
living had been smoothed out and
We're gone. and that certain ethereal
sweetness about all that she had said
and done that had been almost mater.
nal. He remembered the way she had
looked at him, how she had augbed
when he narrated Mickey Dolan's mis-.
AXE in stalking the fraction on Shook
I'm Gulch. Her laughter had been
lightly joyous, while at the same time
IL had lacked its old-time robustness.
Not that she had been grave or sub.
dued. On the contrary, she had been
SO patiently content, so filled with
peace. She had fooled him, fool that
he was. He had even thought that
night that her feeling for him had
passed, and he had taken delight I'm
the thought, and caught visions of the
satisfying future friendship that would
be theirs with this perturbing love
out of the way.
And then, when he stood at the
door, cap in hand, and said good night.
1t a struck him at the time as a
funny and embarrassing thing, her
bending over his hand and kissing it.
He had felt like a fool, but he shivered
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RAILROAD MAN WRITES
REMARKABLE LETTER.

In 1903 and 1904. I was a terrible
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Personally appeared before me this
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true In substance and In fact.
HENRY GRASS,
Notary Public,
Door County, Wis.
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DlSFIGURED WITH CRUSTS

Some time ago I was taken with
eczema from the top of my head to
my waist. 1t began with scales on my
body. l suffered untold itching and
burning, and could not sleep. / was
greatly disfigured with scales and
crusts. My ears looked as If they had
been most cut off with a razor, and
my neck was perfectly raw. l suffered
untold agony and pain. l tried two
doctors who said l had eczema in its
fullest stage, and that 1t could not
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which cured me of eczema when all
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Il suffered with eczema about ten
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and / believe Cuticura Remedies are
the best skin cure there IS" (Signed)
Miss Matte ]. Shaffer, r. F. D. /. Boz
8, Dancy, Miss, Oct. 27, 1910.
Il had suffered from eczema about
~ ySoAo "hCh UOllS UtSdu u DIGdk
out on different parts OF my body. II
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One box OF them cured me entirely. l
recommended them to my sister for
her baby who was troubled with tooth
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baby" (Signed) Mrs. F. L. Marber-
ger. Drehersville. Pa. Sept. 6. 1910.
Although Cuticura Soap and ONT
ment are sold everywhere, a sample
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mailed free on application to "Cutt-
cura,." Dept. l.. Boston.
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.NU1H0P or ~ZHE CHLL ~ MEHWl
MH//E HNG" MAR7W Ek2x"TG

mantle OF snow could not hide. Be
meath him, In every direction, were
the cabins or men. But not many
men were visible. A blanket OF smoke
filed the valleys and turned the gray
day to melancholy twilight. Smoke
arose from a thousand holes in the
snow, where, deep down on bedrock,
in the frozen muck and gravel, men
crept and scratched and dug, and ever
built more fires to break the grip OF
the frost.
Organization was what was needed,
he decided: and his quick imagination
sketched Eldorado Creek, from mouth
to source, and from mountain top to
mountain top, In the hands Of one ca
pable management. Even steam-thaw-
ing, as yet untried, but bound to come,
he saw would be a m%akeshift. What
should be done was to hydraulic the
valley sides and benches, and then. on
the creek bottom, to use g~old-dredges.
There was the very chance for another
big killing. He had wondered just
what was precisely the reason for the
Guggenhammers and the big English
concerns sending in their ~high-salaried
experts. That was their scheme. That
was why they had approached him for
the sale OF worked-ou claims and tail
They were content to let the
small mine-owners gopher out what
they could, for there would be mil
lions in the leavings.
And, gazing down on the smoky in
of crude effort, Daylight outlined
the new game he would play, a game
In which the Guggenhammers and the
rest would have to reckon with him.
But along with the delight in the new
conception came a WEAKNESS. He was
of the long Arctic years, and he
was curious about the Outside-the |
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Through It An Moved Daylight. He'll Roaring. Burning Daylight.

now when he looked back on it and
felt again the touch of her lips on his
hand. She was saying good-by, an
eternal good-by, and he had never
guessed. At that very moment. and
for all the moments of the evening.
coolly and deliberately, as he well
knew her way, she had been resolved
to die. II he had oaly known It! I'm
touched by the contagious malady
himself. nevertheless he would have
married her II he had had the slight
est inkling of what she contemplated.
And yet be knew. furthermore, that
hers was a certain stif-kneed pride
that would not have permitted her to
ACCEPT marriage as an act of philan-
thropy. There had really been no saw
Ing her, after all. The love-disease
had fastened upon her. and she had
been doomed from the first to perish
Of 1t.
Six thousand spent the winter of
1897 in Dawson. work on the creeks
went on apace. while beyond the pass
es 1t was reported that one hundred
thousand o we're waiting for the
spring. Late one brief afternoon. Day
light. OF the benches between French
iIill and Shookum Hill. caught a Wild
er vision of things. Beneath him lay
the richest part OF Eldorado Creek.
while up and down Bonanza be could
see for miles. 1t was a scene OF a
vast devastation. The hills. to their
tops. had been shorn of trees, and
their naked sides showed signs OF gor-
Ing and perforating that even the
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SYNOPSIS.

Elan Harntsh. known all through Alas
IA as Burning Daylight" celebrates his
9th birthday with a crowd OF miners al
the Circle City Tiyoli. The dance leads
20 heavy gambling, In which over $100, 0I
staked Harnish loses his money and
his mine but wins the mail contract. He
starts on his mail trip with logs 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 -four, which he declares
viii be worth It's weight in gold, but
when he arrives with his -four he finds
the big fiat desolate. A comrade discov-
ers gold and Daylight reaps a rich har-
vest
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SURPRISED DOCTOR.
Illustrating the Effect Of Food.

The remarkable adaptabiiity OF
Grape-Nuts food to stomachs so dis
ordered that they will reject every
thing else, is illustrated by the case
Of a woman In Racine. Wis.
two years ago. she says, II was
attacked by q stomach trouble SO SO.
rious that for a long time l could not
take much Of any sor Of food. Even
the various kinds prescribed by the
doctor produced most acute pain.
We then got some Grape-Nuts food,
and you a imagine my surprise and
delight when l found that l could eat
It with a relish and without the slight
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When the doctor heard OF II he told
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day. because he feared I would grow
tired Of 1t as had of all other food.
But to his surprise. land that OF
everybody else). / did not tire of
Grapo-Nuts. and became better day by
day, till. after some weeks. my stom-
ach entirely recovered and l was able
70 eat anything my appetite craved.
my nerves, which had become so
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great world of which he had heard
other men talk and of which he was
as ignorant as a child. There were
games out there to play. 1t was a
larger table, and there was no reason
why he with his millions should not
sit In and take a hand. So 1t was.
that afternoon on Skookum Hill, that
he resolved to play this last best Klon.
dixie hand and pull for the Outside. II
took time, however. He put trusted
agents to work on the heels of great
experts, and on the creeks where they
began to buy he likewise bought.
Wherever they tried to corner q
worked-out creek, they found him
standing In the way. owning blocks OF
claims or artfully scattered claims
that put all their plans to naught.
Followed wars, truces, compromises.
victories. and defeats. BY 1898. sixty
thousand men were on the Klondike,
and all their fortunes and affairs
rocked back and forth and were AZ
fected by the battles Daylight fought.
And more and more the taste for the
larger game urged In Daylight's mouth.
Here he was already locked In Crap
pies with the great 0uggenhammers,
and winning. hercely winning. Pos
sibiy the severest struggle was waged
on Ophir. the veriest of moose-pas-
lures. whose low-grade dirt was vaIu.
able only because Of Its vastness. The
ownership OF a block OF seven claims
In the heart Of 1t gave Daylight his
grip. and they could not come to terms.
The Guggenhammer axparts connlxal
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A Feed Of Hax.

Once upon a time" G. M. Thurnauer
served upon a murder Jury. For hours
and hours the body dellberated-11
agreed upon a verdict. but the twelfth
obdurately refused to change his po-
sition. Finally a court officer raped
at the door and inquired as to the
prospects OF agreement.
None in sight" responded the thor
oughly Disguised C. M.
Perhaps l had better bring in IL
suppers. then" suggested the Of
ficer.
NO" said Thurnauer. glazing vi
ciously at the un~persuadable member.
bring In IL suppers and one feed OF
hay"