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About The news. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1901-1901 | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1901)
The hillways and hollows arc dreaming of May, An’ a heigh-ho! The wood-paths we follow arc warmer each day, An’ a heigh-ho! The winds are all winging to west, to went, (The birds arc yet singing of last year's nest). An' a heigh-ho 1 There are violets peeping from tinder tlreir hoods, An’ a heigh-ho! And brown blossoms deep in the dark of the woods, An' a heigh-ho! There's a long mid-meadow green-sloping before— Oh. glad will the gardens be seven days more, An' a heigh-ho! The children are playing m roadway ami lane. An' a heigh-ho! A-laughing and saying, 'Here’s summer again!” An’ a heigh-ho! Oh, mother-hearts lighten when little one*, Mng, And all the world brightens at stirring of Spring, An’ a heigh-ho! The drowsy brook s humming steals over in waves, An’ a heigh-ho! The lilies are coming up out of their graves, An' a heigh-ho! The syringa is swaying at swing of the door, The world goes a-tnaying in seven days more, An’ a heigh-ho, An' a heigh-ho! —Sicily Thorne. k Gentleman and a Gambler. BY MILTON B. MILLER. (Copyright, 1901, by Dally Story Puh. Co.> “I am a believer/’ said the Colonel, “in man's natural goodness. I had the pleasure once in knowing an hon est gambler, and I liked him, too, for he was a gentleman. The days of this class of gamblers, however, are passed. "Moore—but that wasn't his name was a Mississippi River gambler, one of those gamblers of the old school, who played a straight and honest game. He traveled, in fact lived, on the big river steamboats. He wouldn’t have felt at home anywhere else. In no way did he attempt to conceal the truth about himself. It was simply, I ana a gambler by occu pation. and a good one. If you care to have me play with you it will give me great pleasure. If you don't, it doesn’t make a particle of difference.’ “I was then doing some newspaper work in some of the larger southern cities, and my business frequently car ried me aboard the vessels, and in this way I came to know Moore very well. 1 occasionally took a flyer or two, but 2 knew that the games were to far for *ny reach. I discovered that when Moore played with the average man, luck being equal, he would win nine ty-nine times out of a hundred. I liked Moore's society, and he was a wonderfully entertaining talker. On Rummer nights the steward used to serve dinner on deck to those who preferred to have it there. After din ner we would go up to the hurricane deck, and when Moore was on board he would bring out his flute and play for us. When the moon was out, and threw a thin blue veil over the water, or when the boat carving the dark ness swept so close to the shore that It brushed the dark willows on the banks, the rising and falling notes that came from his instrument were gentle music to the ear. I never knew him to propose a game at cards. He would play his flute until some one suggested a game, when he would take his instrument apart and put it away In an indifferent manner. "I watched him at play one night "You are a coward!" when Satan seemed to throw every card to this calm, self-possessed man. There was a cool, matter-of-fact way about him which froze the ardor of everyone else except a young man about twenty-five years old. This player was in ill-luck, but with flushed face and feverish eye he made his bets furiously, only to lose every time. It soon became evident that he was play ing beyond his means. Moore must have noticed it, for he ceased ta bet heavily against the younger man. This angered the other no little. "There was a pot of S3OO once and everyone had dropped out except Moore and the young man. Moore had bpen playing his hands passionless, but sure. No man except his opponent, perhaps, could doubt that he held the winning hand. Suddenly when his rival bet SSO, Moore laid down his hand, saying, ‘ I won't bet. I have nothing. You played that well.’ “The young man reached out fever ishly for the pile of money, and then his hand lay on the table. “ ‘That is not true,’ he said. ‘You have a good hand and you are afraid to play it against me.’ "Moore shot a hot glance across the table at him and two red spots flashed into his cheeks. “ ‘I lay down my hand,’ he said slow- "I loved his mother once.” ly, but with a slight tremor in his voice. “ ‘And I say,’ added the other in a low tone, ‘that you are a gambler, and therefore a coward.’ ” ‘Hush,' I said, laying my hand on the young man’s sleeve. ‘You don’t know what you are saying. He is not a coward by any manner of means.’ “The young man shook off my hand vehemently, and exclaimed, ‘He is a coward, and I’ll answer for my words at the first landing.’ "I looked at Moore. I had seen him sit on the hurricane deck, a revolver in hand, and as a waiter threw cham pagne bottles over the rail, raise his arm swiftly and shatter the falling glass with a bullet. There were graver stories, too, about his deadly aim in duels. He sat stiff and motionless with a terrible fire in his eyes. I was amazed by his next words: “ ‘Does the game go on?’ he asked quietly. " ‘Not with you,’ said the young man, bending forward, the veins in his fore head swelling. ‘Not until I prove that you are afraid to bet,’ and with a sud den motion he threw his hand across the table and seizing Moore’s cards turned them face upward on the table. "I was on my feet at that instant to arrest Moore’s right arm, for I felt that he would draw his revolver at the insult. But a hush fell over those around the table, and the hot-headed young man was gazing stupidly at the cards before him. Four aces lay there —an invincible hand, for straights were not played. There was a blue tinge in Moore’s white lips and the young man looked bewildered. Quick ly the young fellow burst into tears. "‘We can’t play together i'ly more,’ he cried. ‘You threw money into my pockets because I was losing too much. I can’t take it,’ he said, arising from his chair. •‘ ‘You can,’ said Moore in an even voice. ‘I laid down my hand. The money is yours. Besides,’ he added THE WEEKLY NEWS, CARTERS * iLLE, GA with a little shiver. ‘I held out an ace on you.’ "Every man at the table knew that Moore had lied. We ail got up and left the young man sitting there over the money. I found Moore shortly after ward on deck, looking into the dark ly whirling water. “ ‘Give me your hand,’ I said, ‘What in the world did you mean ? You never cheated at cards in your life.’ " Tut, tut,’ be answered, with a laugh that was slightly harsh, ‘he’s only a boy, and—and —P loved his mother once.’ ” long term in prison. Curloim Cans Mi owing Hnparata Sylem of the OoternaienU A most curious case, showing how the separate systems of the govern ment may take on confusing shape, lias just come to light In Indiana. A man who has for nineteen years been con fined in jail at the expense of the na tion, has during aJI these years been in receipt, or intended receipt, of a considerable sum of money from the same nation. It Is because the man fought in the great war that the com plication was made possible. At least, his services In battle were responsible in part for the situaton. It once oc curred to the same man that after hav ing fought the good fight for freedom and unification it might be the grace ful thing for the country to recognize his worth by a monetary consideration, so he put in an application for a pen sion. It was allowed, and the man’s name was written on the book of fame, after which he was entitled to dollars. Shortly following this period another man passed on to the great beyond, under circumstances wjiieh the coro ner’s jury considered called for the trying of somebody on a capital punish ment charge. It so happened that the pensioner was the person fixed upon as the active agent assisting the earthly exit of the deceased. Although the pensioner stoutly maintained his innocence, the proof was so strong as to lead the jury to a verdict of guilty and the committing judge to a sen tence of life imprisonment. This was in the year 1880, and for nineteen years the prisoner worked out his des tiny behind the bars. At the conclu sion of this time the man who had committed the murder took to his last bed, and it occurred to him to make a confession. So the pensioner is free now. But he still has troubles. There are some thousands of dollars in pen sion money which the wardens have failed to turn over to him, and he is obliged to sue for their recovery. Be sides, there are the wasted nineteen years, because of the implicit judical faith in the infalibility of circumstan tial evidence. —San Francisco Call. Seeking After Knowledge. Figures recently compiled by the registrar of Columbia university show that as a whole the institution stands second to Harvard in membership, the respective enrollments being 5,740 and 4,392. After Columbia came the Uni versity of Michigan, with 3,813 stu dents; the University of Chicago, 3,774; the University of Minnesota, 3,423; the University of California, 3.216; Cornell university, 3,004; the University of Pennsylvania, 2,573, and Yale, 2,544. Columbia is one of the lowest numerically in the size of its men’s undergraduate rollege. which, however, has increased more than 50 per cent in a single generation. In the scientific schools she is surpassed in numbers only by Cornell and Yale; in her graduate departments she stands first in this respect, with 4 22, against 398 at harvard. The statistics further snow the peculiar prominence of Chi cago, with her theological seminary of 180 stuuents; of Pennsylvania, with a school of 417 dentists, and another of GO veterinaries; of Minnesota, with a college of agriculture, numbering 590 in attendance; of California with her school of art, attracting 208 students; of Corneu. whose division of forestry is established with a registration of 22, and oi Yale, the only university having a separate school of music. Klephauts Ouce Itoameit In Knglstnd. While excavating for the foundations for the new buildings of the Victoria and Albert museums in South Ken sington a carload of fossilized bones was brought to the surface by the workmen. These were taken in charge by Dr. Woodward of the geological de partment. who pFbnounced them the remains of the primitive denizens of the soil that lived there before m/.n came to interfere with them. The bones belonged, he said, to a London news paper representative, to the elephant the stag and the primeval horse, anu date back to a time before Great Brit ain became isolated, ere yet the Straits of Dover had been cut through. The excavators at South Kensington also unearthed a fine specimen of the sar senstone, weighing 1,300 pounds, which must have been transported hither by ice floes in preglacial times. —Milwau- kee Wisconsin. Another Old Oooae. A goose on the farm of Mr. Watkins Ollfach Maen, South Wales, reached the extraordinary age of forty-one years last spring. Up to ten years ago this goose laid regularly, and has hatched and brought up hundreds of goslings. For some time now she has not mixed with or taken any notice of the other geese and the solitary jour ney of the poor old thing toward the end of its long and useful life is pa thetic to behold, although she is treat ed with every kindness by her kind hearted owner. It is not the height some men attain that makes them giddy—it is looking down with contempt on the crowd be neath them. XSJotnen Detectives There has been a recent discussion as to the employment of women as de tectives in hotels, in shops and in po lice cases. Women have been employed as private detectives for years by the various agencies in cases requiring specially fine work. For procuring evidence In divorce cases they are oft en employed and their aptnesa has been proved. The woman detective can change her identity with her costume far more easily than a man. If she is tactful she can win confidence and will arouse no suspicion. These advantages fit her peculiarly for the work. Women have in recent years made records in the big department stores, where they detect shoplifters and pickpockets. These women dress as though on a shopping tour and are not known to the saleswomen. They pass about from counter to counter examining goods, but manage to keep an eye on people they suspect and follow them about until they see them actually taking goods from the tables. In the customs service about a dozen women are em ployed as customs inspectors. They look out for women smugglers and have been very successful in detecting these fair swindlers of the government. It is not the amateur smugglers or the immigrant that these women look aft er, but the women who of late years have made a profession of smuggling, acting in collusion with men and ap parently making the trade pay well. They are always good looking, well dressed and liberally supplied with money, which they dispense in gener ous tips to the stewardess and boys. Women take naturally to smuggling; so the professionals are adepts at the game. Even the average woman likes the idea of getting in lace or jewels or Übe Seedless Orange The parent tree of the navel orange groves in America is still flourishing in the hot-houses of the agricultural department at Washington. Although thirty years old, it is as vigorous as ever, and there is not a month in the year when one cannot pick from it at least a few of the wonderful seedless oranges for which it is famed. The little tree, not a dozen feet high, is almost a Mecca for Californians in the capital. It is visited daily by scores of interested tourists, and more than one of them has taken off his hat in deferential honor to the tree that has done so much in adding to the wealth of the land of sunshine and flowers. Although seedless oranges have been planted in Florida, yet for some unset tled reason they have not prospered there. California has never had a real competitor in producing the delicious fruit, and there are records of nearly 2,000 carloads shipped from the Cali fornia groves in a single year. Accord ing- to a recent investigation, an Amer ican lady introduced the orange into this country. She was traveling through Brazil in 1869 and at Bahia found a seedless orange of delicious flavor, such as was quite unknown in the United States. She was a friend of Horace Capron, then the American Gi'Vej better to Uramp'S The rather unique distinction of hav ing furnished shelter to more tramps during 1900 than any other one person is claimed by Jacob Hiestand, of Here ford, Pa., who has made a practice for several years past of furnishing lodg ings in a large barn on liis premises to all wanderers who cared for such ac commodation. By a list kept by Mr. Hiestand, it is shown that in 1900. 752 lodgings were granted, divided as fol lows: January 61, February 42, March 77, April 70, May 77, June 81, July 62, August 60, September 52 October 57, November 53, December 60. Previous records show that in 1899 561 lodgings were granted, while in 1898 only 482 weary ones called to lay their bodies to rest. The highest number that called during one night was twelve, which consisted of a whole family, husband, wife and child ren, who were on a journey through the state. It is no rare occurrence for six or eight to call in the evening and apply for a night’s lodging. The only rule enforced by Mr. Hiestand is that the lodgers give up their matches and all are glad to do so, the lucifers being returned to them on their departure. During his long experience with knights of the road, Mr. Hiestand has been caused no trouble, each guest ap parently doing his best to give no oc casion for complaint. It is very seldom that he Is called upon to feed any of his lodgers, all being satisfied with the shelter afforded. Among the travelers who seek shel ter in the barn of Mr. Hiestand are a number of professional tramps. These have regular routes which bring them in certain sections at stated intervals and very seldom is it that anything oc curs to interfere with their schedule. Art In Knvelope Making-. The envelope, as we have it now, is a modern invention. The old custom, before the cheaper postage system was introduced, was to close by means of sealing wax or wafers the sheet of CEEVE'R OJVE3T EMPLOYED TO CA TCH SMUGGLERS. clothes In this way and proudly dis plays her smuggled goods and tells the story of her feat whenever an occasion offers. It was not until women began to make a business of smuggling that it was thought necessary to employ detectives of their own sex to appre hend them. Evidence is usually ob tained against them by one of the women inspectors who travels from the other side as a passenger and ob serves or makes the acquaintance of the suspected person on the trip across. If evidence has been secured the word is quietly passed to the inspector on the pier, and when the smuggler pre pares to go ashore she is asked to sub mit to a search. Every known devise is resorted to by the women smugglers in their efforts to conceal gems and lace. Frequently the contraband ar ticles are securely sewn between the lining and the material of a gown. Diamonds are hidden in the Hair and in pads and bnstles, and some women have been found with yards of costly lace rolled about their bodies. The women detectives in the employ of the custom-house pass through a civil service examination and receive |3 a day. The work, while exacting, is not heavy, the working day usually ending at noon. Sometimes an immigrant woman is discovered in an attempt to smuggle, but the effort is always a clumsy one, easily detected. But the professional smuggler is always cool, collected, plausible with plenty of nerve and many excuses when detect ed. She always affects to make light of the matter. Even when subjected to a most humiliating search by the women detectives, she never gets an gry or loses her smooth, easy manner. —San Francisco Call. TREE FROM WHICH THE FIRST ONE WAS FLUCKED STILL BEARS commissioner of agriculture, and in a letter to him she wrote glowingly 9* the fruit, Mr. Capron showed the let ter to Mr. Saunders, the horticulturist of the bureau, and the latter enthusias tically went about getting a few' plants. He wrote asking for some slips of the orange, and in the course of time back came a small box of orange twigs, but unfortunately they were so dry as to be useleess. Not to be discour aged, he wrote again, giving shipping directions, and in 1870 he received a box containing twelve newly budded trees. He planted them in the govern ment hot houses, and all but two thriv ed finely. The fame of the seedless orange trees spread rapidly. Three years lat er Mrs. L. C. Tibbets, who with her husband had decided to join the fruit growing colony at Riverside, Cal., se cured two of the young plants. Those were the first that were sent out by the department. Mrs. Tibbets plant ed them near the back door of her home at Riverside. The crop of six teen seedless oranges was the first raised in North America. Never say you know a man until you have divided au inheritance with him. —Lavater. A PENNSYLVANIA FARMER WHO HOLDS A UNIQUE DISTINCTION. paper the letter was written on. With cheaper postage and the development of the postal system the world over, together with the rule prepaying post age, came the idea of making a more convenient covering for letters. An immense industry very soon sprang up. The skill of the inventor was turned to the making of machinery which would cheaply and rapidly manufac ture envelopes of all kinds, sizes, shapes and cost, combining slight cost with neatness and strength of covers. The wafer and sealing wax became in a few years articles which few used, and then chiefly formal and public or legal documents, but the people ceased to use them altogether. This branch of manufacture is now carried on ex tensively in the west, as well as in the east, in large factories and paper mills, and the trade of the United States is increasing with the extension of the postal system and the enterprise of commercial travelers to an extent al nscst incalculable. Berlin an Cp-to-Date City. The traveler from the west will find something peculiarly striking in the first impressions received on his arriv al at the Prussian capital. The train steams into the spacious terminus, here scarcely a soul is to be seen ex cept a few biue-frocked railway port ers. There are no advertisements of any kina on wall, ceiling, platform or footway to remind the traveler of the dreary commercial character of mod ern life. The nickel-pointed helmet of the policeman emphasizes the military, the drilled bureaucratic character of the nation, and of the capital in par ticular. There is no excitement, no haste, no rush. Everybody is on' the alert, for they are modern Prussians, all; everything—control of tickets, ex odus of passengers, engaging of ’ ve hicles by means of a metal disc—is done by rate and rule with the utmost celerity consistent wit.t order.—Har per’s Magazine. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY’. :t is estimated that at an altitudo cf oyer 60 miles, the atmosphere will consist of 95 percent hydrogen. It is suggested that this may be the source of the occluded hydrogen usually found in meteoric fragments. It is proposed to establish anew cbseri atory at an altitude cf some 6000 feat above sea level, at Semmer-' ing, some 50 miles southwest of Vi enna, Austria, to be devoted to astro physics and to meteorology. Detailed plans have been prepared. An immense region in northern On tario, covering 15,680.000 acres and stretching from Quebec westward to Thunder bay, on the north shore of Lake Superior, is now for the first time recognized as being excellently adapt ed for farming. The district also con tains a, great pulp-w'ood forest, besides 3,000,000,000 feet of pine wood. The discovery within the past few years of several new elements, one of which, helium, had previously been recognized only in the atmosphere of the sun, has led to a chemical classifi cation of the "non-metals” by Pro fessor Erdmann of Halle, in which the name "noble gases” is bestowed upon helium, neon, argon, krypton and xenon. Oxygen, hydrogen and nitro gen are called “chief gases.” Presum ably it is the inertness of the five gases grouped as "noble,” their ap parent indisposition to form miscel laneous alliances, that has earned for them their aristocratic title. Among the most trustworthy scien tific measurements of ocean-waves are those of Lieutenant Paris of the French navy. The highest waves measured by him were in the Indian Ocean, between the Cape of Good Hope and the Island of St. Paul. Thirty waves, measured during a northwest gale there averaged 29 1-D feet in height, and six of them, follow ing one another with beautiful regu larity, -were 37 1-2 feet in height. Some still higher w r aves were seen, but not measured. In a moderate breeze the length of a wave w'as found to be about 25 times its height, but in a gale only 18 times. The remarkable experiments of El mer Gates have attracted the atten tion of the scientific world to his lab oratory at Chevy Chase near Wash ington. His main study is in the di rection of psychology and he has put forth some important discoveries ex plaining the action and workings of the mind. Latterly he has applied himself to an examination of meteoro logical phenomena and has promul gated. the theory that the w r or!d is a great dynamo, and that the electricity it generates in its revolutions in space, is not thrown off but is retained and manifested in what we call the weath er. Gates is. now making an instru ment to measure and record atmos pheric electricity, and it will be soon be possible, he declares in Every body’s Magazine, to have official fore casts of weather many days is ad vance which may absolutely be relied on. That some ants can hear is the opinion of Professor Weld, of the lowa State university, based on a se ries of carefully conducted experi ments. He made bis experiments on four species of ants, and found that they are able to perceive sounds, but he could not definitely determine w'hether they do so by means of or gans of hearing or through the sense of touch. The latter may be true, he thinks, the sense being excited by at mospheric vibrations, but he is in clined to believe that they really hear, as some of them showed a perception of the direction of a sound, and others, which were not disturbed when vio lently shaken in their glass prisons, seemed to be driven nearly frantic by a succession of shrill whistles. The professor’s experiments are interest ing from the fact that naturalists gen erally have accepted the belief that ants cannot hear any sounds that are audible to human ears. An Artificial Total Kflipt*. Avery clever though simple of reproducing for lecture purposes all the accompanying phenomena anu characteristics of a total solar eclipse is described in Science. A small in candescent electric lamp represents the sun and furnishes the source of light. A metallic disc slightly larger than the diameter of the lamp repre sents the eclipsing moon. This is at tached to the tip of the lamp. Strips of tinfoil are used to cover the lamp globe, the strips and intervals between being about equal, and being arranged in two groups, one on the upper and the other on the lower surface. When this combination is immersed in a small aquarium filled with clear water, to which a spoonful or two of a weak alcoholic solution of mastic has been added, and all other lights darkened, very beautiful effects ere produced. The addition of a solution of biuish green analine dye. such as malachite green, heightens the effect and pro duces the characteristic cloud back grounds. This combination gives a perfect reproduction of the wonderful atmosphere around the sun. A corona of pure golden white light, with pearly lustre of exquisite texture, the misty streamers stretching out until lost on the bluish-green background of the sky, as well as the polar streamers, ail of which is strictly according to na ture. Four Irish yew trees —one from each of the four provinces of Ireland —are about to be planted by the Irish Liter ary Society by the grave of Lord Rus sell of Killowen.
