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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.