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Show IRK Abuse of Statesmen Chalked on JlvIpriDONf cm or rftwcC AtrfOJ? -- Vy?. 1W. by (Copyright copyright. SYNOPSIS. The tide-landhad been In litigation for years, and he took the bull by the Elam Harnlsh, known all through Alas- horns buying out the private owners ka aa "Burning Daylight." celebrates, hi Oth birthday with a crowd of miner at and at the same time leasing from the he Circle City Tivoli The dance leads city fathers By the time that Oako heavy In which over 100,Qu0 a staked gambling. Harnlsh loses his money and land waa aroused by this unprecedenttls mine but wins the mall contract. He ed activity In every direction and was tarts on his mall trip with dogs and ledge, telling hla friends that he will be questioning excitedly the meaning ol n the big Yukon gold strike at the start It, Daylight secretly bought the chief Burning Daylight makes a sensationally and the chief apld run across country with the mall, Republican newspaper ippeara at the TlvoM and Is no ready Democratic organ, and moved boldly o Join his friends In a dash td the new Into hla new offices. Of necessity, they 111 fold Helds " Deciding that gold be ound In The district Harnlsh were on a large scale, occupying four Juvs two tons of flour, which he declares floors of the only modemoffice buildsill be worth Its weight In gold, but hen he arrive with nls flour he finds ing In the town the only building he big flat desolate A comrade dlscov- - that be torn down later on, 'rs gold and Daylight reaps a rich har- as wouldnt dest. He goes to Dawson, becomes the Daylight put it. There waa dehost prominent figure In the Klondike partment after department, a score of nd defeat a combination of capitalists n a vast mining deal He returns to them, and hundreds of clerks and 'Ivtllsatlon, and, amid the bewildering Stenographers. As he told Dede: ompllcatlone or high finance. Daylight I've got more companies than you tnde that he haa been led to Inveet hie leven millions In a manipulated scheme can shake a stick It. Therea the AlaBe goes to New York, and confronting Is disloyal partners with a revolver, he meda & Contra Costa Land Syndicate, hreatens to Kill them If his monsy Is not the Consolidated Street Railways, the .turned. They are cowed, return their Yerba Buena Ferry Company, the teallngs and Ifarnlsh goes back to San ranclsro where he meets his fate In United Water Company, the Piedde Mason, a pretty stenographer He mont Realty Company, the Falrvlew nakee larre Investments and gets Into the yolltlcal ring For a rest he goes to the and Portola Hotel Cotnpany, and half ountry. Daylight gets deeper Into high a dozen more that I've got to refer to I ns nee in Sen Francisco, but often the a notebook to remember. There's the e ongtng for the simple life nearly him. Ded Mason buys a horse and Piedmont Laundry Farm, and RedDaylight meets her In her saddle trips wood Consolidated Quarries. Starting Ins day he asks Dede to go with him &n one more ride, his purpose being to In with our quarry, I Just kept a going ssk her to marry him and they canfer till I got them all. And there'a the way, she trvlng to analyse her feelings Dede tells Daylight that her happiness company I ain't got a ;ould not lie with a money manipulator ship building aa I s up-riv- over-ome- CHAPTER XVI. Continued. MlO. th. jLEVI P. MORTON COMING BACK r nmpfcny lng not el had been a failure Editors and publishers would not look at It, and Daylight was now using the dls gruntled author In a tittle private aecret aerue sold Mab Daylight was speechless for the mo ment. Her act meant one of so man serious things that he couldn't classify It. It smacked almost of treachery, She might have met with financial disaster. It might be her way of letting him know she had seen enough o f him. Or . . . What's the matter? he managed to ask. I couldn't afford to keep her with dollars a ton, Dede hay forty-fivanswered "My brothers expenses name for yet Seeing had to have have" been higher, as well, and I was I decided ferry-boatto build them driven to the conclusion that since I e give It Theyre It 1 don't even know who you aold her to, was Daylight's answer. And what's more, Im not bothering my head about her. She waa your mare and it'a none of my business what you did with her. You havent got her thats sure, and worse luck And now, while we're on touchy subjects, I'm going to open another one with you. And you needn't get touchy about It, for Its not really your bust nesa at all. that brother ol He more than you can yours do for him. Belling that mare ol your wont send him to Germany And that's what hla own doctors aa) he needs that crack German ape clallst who rips a man's bones and muscles into pulp and then mould! them all over again. Well. I want tf send him to Germany and give that crack a flutter, thats all "If It were only possible!" she said half breathlessly, and wholly without anger. Only It Isn't, and you know Isnt It I cant accept money fron you "Now look Mason Mist here, vm'p.. got to get tome foolish Bo ms out of your head. This mone) tlon is one of the funniest things Iv teen. Suppose you was falling overt cjlff, wouldnt it be all right for me U reach out and catch you by the arm' Aire It would. Youre standing ti ibur brother's way. No matter wha' mtlon youve got In your head Niu've got to get out of the way ant five him a chance. Will you let mi to and see him and talk It over wltl 11m? Ill make It a hard and fas' kialness proposition. Ill stake him ti let well, and thats all, and chargi llm Interest. J5he visibly hesitated. And Just remember one thing, Mlsi I son: It's his leg. not yours. Still she refrained from giving be: went 01 anrf'T)ayllght inswer, strengthening his position. "And remember, I go over to set Urn alone. He's a man, and I cm deal with him better without women folks around. I'll go over tomorrov Ill gobble them up and deliver the right xrtlcle to the city. There'a money there, too money everywhere. Everything works In with everything else Each Improvement makes the value of everything else jump up. It's people that are behind the value. The bigger the crowd that herds In one place, the more valuable la the real estate. And this la the very place for a crowd to herd. Look at It. Juat look at It! Tou could never find a Oner site for a greaCetty. AH it needs la the herd, and 1U Btampede a couple of hundred thousand people In here Inside two rears. And whats more. It won't be one of these wildcat land booms. It will be legitimate. Twenty years from now therell be a million people on this side the bay. Another thing Is hotels. There Isn't a decent one In 'the town. Ill build a couple of ones thatll make them sit up and take notice. I won't care If they don't pay for years. Their effect will more than give me ray money back out of the other holdings. And, oh, yes. Im going to plant eucalyptus, millions of them, on these hills. But how are you going to do It? You havent enough Dede asked. mqney for all that you've planned. Tve thirty million, and if I need more I can borrow on the land and other things. Interest on mortgages won't any here near eat up the Increase In land values, and Ill be selling land right along. In the weeks that followed. Daylight was a busy man. It meant quick work on a colossal scale, for Oakland and the adjacent country was not slow to feel the tremendous buying. But Daylight bad the ready cash and it had always been hia policy to strike quickly. Before . the others could get the warning of the boom, be quietly accomplished many tblnga. At thetgame time that hla agents were purchasing corner lots and entire blocks In the heart of the business section and the waste lands for factory sites, Daylight waa rushing franchises through the city council, capturing the two exhausted water companies and the eight or nine independent street railways, and getting hla grip on the Oakland Creek and h bay tide lands for bta dock system. si stem be' had been compelled to establish for himself Jones, who affected lo be surprised at nothing after his crushing experience betrayed no surprise now when the task was given him to locate the pur i baser of a certain sorrel mare 'lluw high shall I pay for her? he asked "Anv price You've got to get her, that's the point Drive a sharp bar gain so as not to excite suspicion, but get her. Then you deliver her to that address up In Sonoma County. The mans the caretaker on a little ranch I have there Tell him he's to take whacking good care of her. And after that forget all about it Dont tell me the name of the man you buy her from Dont tell me anything about It except that youve got her and delivered her Savvee?" Rut the week had not passed, when Daylight noted the flash In Dede'i eyes that boded trouble Something's gone wrong what Is It?" he said boldly. The man who Mab, she said bought her has sold her already. If I thought you had anything to do with It'oout "Tou gee. I give the value to the and by building the roads. Then 1 ell the land and get that value back, tnd after that, there'a the roada, all larrylng folks back and forth and anting big money. Cant lose. And .here's all aorta of millions In It. I'm going to get my hands on some of that water front and the Take set ween where Im going to build my pier and the old pier. Its shallow viler. I can All and dredge and put in a system of docks that will handle hundreds of ahlps. San Franclscoa water front Ib congested. No more of room for ships. With hundred hips loading and unloading on this ilde right Into the freight car of Ihrss big railroads,' factories will tart ap over her Instead of crossing to San Francisco. That mean factory ite.' That means m buying In the factory sites before anybody guesses th cat la going to Jump, much less, which way. Factories mean tens of thousands of workingmen and their families. 'That means more houses and more land, and that means me, for Ill be there to sell them the land Then therea the water. Ill come pretty close to owning the watershed Why not the waterworks too? There's two water companies In Oakland now, Qgbtlng like cata and dogs .an both shout broke. What a metropolis needs la a good water system. They can't tide-land- , afternoon. CHAPTER XVII. For six weeks hand running Day light had seen nothing of Dede ex cept In the office, and there be reso lately refrained from making ap preaches. But by the seventh Sunday hit hunger for her overmastered him It was a stormy day. A heavy south was blowing, and squall aft t squall of rain and wind swept ove-tbcity. He eould cot take hla mint off of her, and a persistent plctun came to him of her sitting by a win do and aewlng feminine fripperies o some sort When the time came foi bit cocktail to be serve to him In his rooms, be did not tak It Filled with a daring determlna foi tlon. he glanced at his note-booDedes telephone" number, and callec for the switch. At first It was the landlady's daugb ter who was raised, but In a mlnuti he beard the voice he bad been bun gry to hear. 1 Juat wanted to tell you that I n coming out to see you, be said didn't want to break In on you with out warning, that was all. exit gal er Youd Juat Let myself. They'll be done by the time the pier la ready for them. For months Daylight was burled In The outlay was terrific, and work. there was nothing coming In. Beyond a general rise In land values, Oakland had not acknowledged bis irruption on the financial scene. The city waa waiting for him to show what be waa going to do, and he lost no time about It The best skilled brains on the market were hired by him for the different branches of tile work. Initial mistakes he had no patience with, and he waa determined to start right aa when he engaged Wilkinson, almost doubling his big salary, and brought him out from Chicago to take charge of the street railway organization. Night ancf day the road gangs tolled on the streets. And night and day hammered the big piles down into the mud of San Francisco Bay. The pier was to be three mllea long, and the Berkeley bills were denuded of whole groves of mature eucalyptus for the piling. At the same time .that hla electric roads were building ebt through' th hills, thd hay fields were being surveyed and broken up Into city squares, with here and therp, according to best modern methods, winding boulevards and strips of park. Broad streets, well graded, were made, with sewera and water-pipe- s ready laid, and macadamized from his own quarries. Cement sidewalks were also laid, so that If plle-drive- -- Me Buy Her Back. could not afford both, Id better let the mare go and keep the brother. Who bought her?" he BBked. Dedes eyes flashed in the way long since familiar to him when abe waa angry. Dont you dare buy her back for me, she cried. And dont deny that that waz what you had in mind." "I wlah you would reconsider. Miss Mason. he said softly. Not alone for the marea sake, but for my sake. Money dont cut any Ice In this For me to buy that mare wouldn't mean aa much as It does to most men to send a bouquet of flowers or a box of candy to a young lady. Theres nobody I feel chumiby with except you. and you know-holittle we've chum med once a week. If It didnt rain, on Sundayr Ive grown kind of to on you. If youd Just let me buy her back " No, no; I tell you no. Dede arose Impatiently, but her eyes were moist with the momery of her pet Please dont mention her to me again. If you think It waa easy to part with her, you are mistaken. But Ive seen the last of heY, and I want totforget del-en- d nr. . . Mi ... MacMlUsaComp.!,, all the purchaser had to do wae P select hla lot and architect end sUH The quick service of DP building new electric roads Into Oil' light's land made this big district Immediate W-rly accessible, and long before the hundred In was operation system of residences were going up. 1 profit on this land was enormous, of wealth hrf a day. his turned open farming country Into ON of the best residential district of tM city. But this money that flowed In upd him waa Immediately poured bvt Into his other Investments. The ned for electric cars waa so great that N Installed hla own shops for bulldW them. But no matter what press U was on Daylight, his Sunday he f served for hla riding In the hill. I waa not the rainy winter weathW however, that brought these rid with Dede to an end. One Satnrdal afternoon In the office she told hi 'not to expect to meet her next dal and, when be pressed for so ex plana tlon. Ive the Capitol. MM?rn CDH.m2rc. ths New Torn TMld by OF A VANDAL h k Has aomethlng'-happened, ber voice. I'll ? tell you when jam - I get there." hi evaded. She came herself to the door t receive him and shake hands wltl blm. He bung his mackintosh ant hat on the rack In the comfortabl ball and turned to her for direction They are busy In there, she said Indicating the parlor, from whlcl came the boisterous voices of younf people, and throughthe open door o which he could see several coI!eg So you will have to coint youths. Jnlo my rooms. (TO BE CONTINUED ) Daylight made no answer, and the door closed behind her. Half an hour later he was conferring with Jones, an erstwhile Belflahnea of Love. and rabid proletarian whom He who loves deeply finds a awe Daylight long .before had grubstaked reyenge In acting so that his beiovet to literature for a year. The result- - one s$U appear ungrateful y Report That Ho Will "Improve His Beautiful Rhode Island Avenue Houee Alarms the Lover of Beauty. proprlattoa of $10,000 fev plus akin The sum of $100 le suggested for mall statue to Capi Charles Wilkes, who Is chiefly celebrated In popular recollection for taking Mason and Slidell, tb Confederate commissioners, from the British mall steamer Trent In 1861. Th United State government did not back up Captain Wilkes In hla act of taking the Confederate commissioner! off th British vessej In fact, nearly all diplomats thought," and1 think today.that Wilkes acted without proper authority under international law and that the Confederate and the British governments had a perfect right to proteat, nd that the United States authorities could do nothing else than to disavow "the naval officer's act. J Admirers of Major Andrew 8 Rowan. U. 8. A . who la still living, have put In a bill appropriating $5,000 for some memorial of hla famous exploit In 1898, when he waa aent by President McKinley to Cuba to communicate with General Garcia, the leader of the Cuban revolution. He made a landing from a- - open boat near Peak and with much difficulty succeeded In reaching Garcia. Mann la Friend of Poultry. Representative Mann of Illinois, who la the leader of the Republics! minority on the floor of the bouse, has introduced a bill to require all common carrier engaged In Interstate commerce to provide food and water for poultry In transit, and to prevent suffering from by providing crates of sufficient size to be humane and to be open on at least three sides so that proper ventilation may be assured. Congress haa acted before this on behalf of cattle In transit and now It la proposed to extend the humane effort to chlckena. One congressman aald that because chickens wore feathers It was supposed that they were not susceptible to cold. He added, however, that feathers, while warm, did not provide food and drink. The bill has gone to the proper committee sod there Is a fair chance of Its passage. Houee Babl Have Frolic. At one of the Washington restaurants tbs other night (here wae. a frolic of th "babies" of the house ef representatives. Men to the nimber of one hundred serving their first terms In congress gathered for a dinner st th restauranl They formed a house of representative of their own and passed the tlm making fun of the methods of their older colleagues and the personalities of some of their own number. In th main, however, they "pointed with as the real pride to themselves statesmen and referred to members of longer service as being entirely out of date and belonging In tb pigeonholes with the archives rather than on tba floor of tbe house with th "live ones. No party liner wet drawn at this gathering. Republican and Democratic bablea had fun together. Tbe tariff cam In for a bit of Protective Duty on Cats. A high protective duty was put on cats In order to protect the home Every feline, whether a Industry. wlld-ca- t a polecat or a' domestio cat Imported Into tbe United Btates or its Island possessions, it was decided, must hereafter pay $1 a bead In order to be admitted to full American catlzenshlp. As a rider to this bljl catnip waa placed on the free list. A prise was offered to th member who could make the moat stirring oration on tbe ' American flag. Representative Littleton was chosen as Judge, but tbe oratorical flights of Representative Connell of New York and Witherspoon of Mississippi were so nearly equal In grace and distance that tbe dge gave each the llrat prize. The senate galleries broke out Into applausd the other day when '.the name of Theodor Roosevelt was mentioned. Tbe senate gallery baa applauded at time tb names or William Jennings Bryan and Of many Americans without other regard to ptfltlc! party, but It muit be understood that It Is against tb rules of the senate to allow applause In the gallery. Mustn't Applaud In Senate. It makes no difference who It Is that Is receiving the applause, tb must bring down his gavel while tbe noise Is continuing and say with all due eolemlty and severity that all demonstrations of approval are not allowed and that tf they do not cease "the galleries wut be cleared. This word from the has been said thousands of times In the senate and Its effect has never been visible for more than an hour at a time. It Is only rarely tbat tbe senators themselves Isugb and It Is only once In a lifetime that they The cases where senators have broken the applause rule can be count- -, ed on half the Ungers of one hand.! Tbe senate, however, has Its Jokea frequently and while laughter la subdued, broad smiles are always In evidence. 'When Senator Jonathan P. Dolllver, now dead, referred to Senator Francis E. Warren of' Wyoming as "the greatest shepherd since Abraham," the broadest of broad smiles was visible on the face of every senator. The wool bill was Under discussion and Mr. Warren Is said to be tbe proprietor of a considerable fold.- - By GEORGE CLINTON. Washington. Borne one with a grievance or with an unbalanced mind has been scribbling on the walls of th capltol In a large, free baud with blue chalk various uncomplimentary comment about great and almost great statesmen doing their country's service In Washington. No matter what the motive which Inspires the scribbling, the act la one of a vandal because It disfigures the walls of the building, and the police and the watchmen are trying to catch the culprll It will be remembered that not long ago a large piece was cut out of the oil painting of "Perry at Lake Erie." Since then a special watch haa been kept to prevent repetition of the vandalism. False Alarm About Webstar. Washington waa much disturbed a day or two ago when It heard that somebody wltirnx chisel had chipped pieces out of the marble trousers and the marble coattail of the statue of Daniel Webster which atanda In Statuary ball A close Inspection h'A led to ;he discovery that tie Webster memorial haa not been Injured by the hand of man. Elliott Woods, lb superintendent of the capltol, aaya that In the holes which were dlacoveiw the Webster statue were put there by the sculptor and have been plainly visible ever since the statue waa erected. Some one suggested that the vandal who was at work waa a new kind of moth which bad developed aa appetite for marble garment. Former Levi P. Mov-to- n haa made up hla mind to come back and live In the capital for eight or nine month a year for the reat of hla life. He owns a beautiful residence on Rhode Island avenue, where he lived when be waa of the United States under Harrison. When Mr. Morton went out of office the Russian ambassador moved Into the residence and, following ulm, came Secretary of State Elihu Root, and then John Hays Hammond. MtVMor-tohimself lived there for a'few months two years ago. Morton Mansion In' Peril. There la a fine arts commission which is supposed to tate cogftlzanc of every attempt to Increase the beau ty of tbs capital, a cognisance which embraces the overlooking of Improvements In public buildings. The wish has been expressed that the commission might extend Its espionage to private dwellings, for some of the beautiful old places In Washington have been remodeled by their socially ambitious purchasers Into mere residence monstrosities, in many cases glaring and In most cases unbeautlful. It Is understood that Morton Intends to spend $60,000 to Improve his Rhode Island avenue home. Today It is beautiful as It is, a warm red brick pleasing to look upon and suggestive In every way of comfort It Is now said that It Is Intended to give the housejx mis stately appearance by the Introduction of white marble In places. ' The old house has been a comfort to the eye of many a Washingtonian man and visitors, and the changes are awaited with trepidation. Childrens Playground Lost Washington, with all her monuments and atatues, good, bad and Indifferent and all her vacant land, atlll has not space left In which to erect public memorials, and It ought to be aald also that projects more necessary to the public health than marble atatues, like playgrounds for the children, cannot be thought of apparently because of lack of room. For two years by meantyoJL prlyste subscriptions, for example, a little grove at the corner of Fourteenth street and Columbia road baa been used as a playground and fitted up for the children. It waa covered with oak trees of priceless value, as far aa their shade qualities are concerned, and Waa one of the most picturesque spots In the" city. It Is In the heart of a thickly settled district, where It Is a cruelty to keep children within doors and a continual danger to let them out on the street. Nevertheless congress, which would spend $75,000 for a Federal building Id a town of 281 Inhabitant, neg-- , nected to secure this breathing space The magnificent oak trees are befnz cut down', and where last summer the place xas allvd' with rhlldrenTA 'family hotel will atand. Many Monument Projected. Should congress' be In a giving motid toward the shades of the departed, It Is a question where suitable sites for memorials could be obtained The demand for spare Is Insistent, and t.be senate committee on library has record of no leas than eight requests, while the house committee doubtless has as many more An Idle Question. $100 000 for a A bill appropriating where marriage cluba are see "I statue of Alexander Hamilton already quite popular In Utah. has passed the senate. "Ahem! 'Anything like a rolling The dfrm of $50,000 Is wanted for a r pin? atatue to Matthew Fontaine Maury, the American naval officer whose On the Safe Side. scientific work descriptive of the sea "1 take things as 1 find them. Is among the classics. A memorial to Then IU see tbat you don't And thA signers of the Declaration of InIs asked for, with an ap much." dependence Tur-quln- o g Vice-Preside- n by-pla- Vice-Preside- well-know- d. |