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THE INTER-VEIL.
I.
Into the si’cnt valley,
Knee to knee,
I rode between two riders
I could not see.
Because the dark had fallen "twext
and me.
II.
We passed a lonely out-fire,
And one turned;
Aer his eyes an instant
The low light burned,
And in that Hash their blueness I had dis
cerned.
III.
Bid he, the other rider,
Was Dimly dark scanned,
amid the darkness
That held the land—
0 upon the bridle, I saw his hand.
IV.
Out of the silent valley,
Knee to knee,
I rode between two riders
I could not see—
Known for a day. forever unknown to me.
—Elizabeth Foote, in the Century.
TOOT OTOOTOTUUUOTUTO
fhe
POPPY BOAT.
IIOMAS had turned to
s! K leave the room with his
* C< T o mother, at me over but be his looked shoulder. back
“You may come with me
in u.c Poppy Boat,” he said, gracious
ly. The Poppy Boat is his, and it trav
els between here and the Land of
Dreams. Thomas has such queer no
tions about dreams. He thinks,
among other things, that you can al
ways choose the people who are going
with you, and he never falls to make
up Ills own party every night. This
night he chose me, which was a great
honor.
“And I'll wait for you at the Bridge,”
lie added, as his mother drew him out
of the room. The Bridge is just where
you begin to think that in a few min
utes you Avill be asleep. Thomas al
ways plans to meet his Dreamland
guests at the Bridge, but sometimes
they are so long in coming that he has
to go on without them.
I thought perhaps he would not wait
for me to-night, because first 1 had to
talk a little with his father, and then
his mother came and talked to me; and
after all that, I had to go home and
get ready for the journey—and it was
late—O' so late—before I came to the
Bridge.
But although Thomas was impatient,
he waited for me.
“And where are we going first?” I
asled him.
“To the Baby Land,” he said, his
face aglow, “to find a baby sister.”
And so we started off.
The Poppy Boat is like a poppy
flower. You sit in the middle, and
then, if you are cold, you draw the
petals up over your head. The river
is blue and quiet, and there are many
other Poppy Boats which are glidin & j r
around here and there all over it. One
of them drifted up by us. In the mid
dle of it was something very tiny and
very fair. I held my breath when I
saw wliat it was. “Thomas,” I wliis
THnT “t'h.e’s from the Baby Land!
Perhaps she’s a little sister. • ?
Thomas waved his hand to her, and
she waved hers back very prettily. So
Thomas guided our boat until it came
closer to hers. I wish you could have
seen her boat. It was pink—not red,
like ours—and the petals were
and satiny and so delicately shaded.
And they were drawn up close
her, as if she felt that the night
cold.
Thomas leaned over gently
pushed the petals back. “Are you
baby sister?” he demanded, eagerly.
She nodded a baby head at
.“I’m just going home,” she told him.
“We are just going there, too,” he
sured h’er. “Come on along home
us.” She said she would, and
clapped his hands.
“Let’s find my mother and tell her, •
he suggested.
“She’s around here somewhere. *
And Thomas held his hand out to
little sister, who put a dear baby
into his. And so the two boats
together, and we drifted on.
“Do you know where your
goes in her Poppy Boat?” I
Thomas.
He thought a moment.
she goes with me.” he said, “and
times with father. Sometimes
goes where they build houses,
sometimes where they make
and sometimes— • *
“If she goes to so many places,
have to hunt all over to find her,”
said, “and so we better begin
away.
Thomas drew his forehead
puckers, which means that he is
ing hard. “Dresses first,” lie
nounced, finally; “she’s been
about them. tt
Sure enough, so she had, and to
that very night. “Do you know
they make dresses?” I asked the
sister.
Y’es, she did, and if we wanted to
there, all we had to do was to
“Dresses! Three dresses! To
I want to go!” and then we’d be
but if we didn't say It just right—if we
should get it all mined up and. say, for
instance, "Drosses: Two dresses!
Three dresses I want to go:" or o
• dresses!’ or anything like that, there
was no telling where you'd go to, the
baby sister said.
Thomas picked it up immediately,
without a bit of trouble, and before
she had fairly finished telling me about
it, he had said the v/aole thing, just
exactly right, and was drifting away
from me in his boat, and I was floating
away from him in another boat which
bad mysteriously appeared under me
from somewhere.
“Thomas! Thomas!” I cried to him in
dismay. “Five dresses! Six dresses!
All the dresses you want, Thomas, if
you’ll come back!” But he had gone
so far that I could only just see him,
a wee little speck on the edge of the
water, next to the sky, and 1 was all
alone.
Then I racked my brain to think bow
it was. you said those things about
dresses, but I couldn’t remember. The
more I tried to remember the more I
forgot. Presently I forgot what it was
I was trying to remember, and just
drifted along, not thinking of anything
in particular. I met several people I
knew% but no body was going in my
direction. And after a while the river
narrowed until it was just a thread,
the trees came down closer to the edge
and I could hear the singing of birds
and the chirping of crickets, and all
sorts of land sounds. Then suddenly,
but gently, my boat pushed on the
shore and stopped.
“Do I get out now?” I asked of no
body in particular. And nobody an
swered, so I got out, anyway.
I had only to take one look about me
to. be sure that I was u^ider in a pleasant
place; flowers were my feet; the
sky was blue above my head; the air
was sweet and sunny, and yet I was
not contented.
“Whatever is the matter with me?”
I scolded myself. “Here I am. in a
lovely place, clothed and in my”—I
stopped myself immediately. “That’s
just exactly it!” I exclaimed. “Clothes
is just what I want. Let me see—
what was that I wanted to say? Oh.
yes—I have it now!” And I shouted
triumphantly, “Clothes! Three clothes!
To clothes I want to go!” And away
I went in my Poppy Boat.
1 had not yet remembered about
Thomas, or his mother, or the baby sis
ter. I was simply interested in the
scenery as I went along. There Were
heaps of dark things along the coast
that looked like rocks. “It’s a rock
bound coast,” I exclaimed to myself.
“I’ve heard of such things before. tt
But they were not rocks—they were
piles of old clothes.
“Now, what did I want to come here
for?” was my first and only question
as my feet touches the beach, and I
could find no answer to it. I wan
dered around for a little while, and
then I stepped into my boat and drift
ed away. Where I went I do not now
remember. But I heard from Thomas
the next day.
“I know where mother went last
night,” he called to me, running into
our house soon after breakfast.
“You don’t!” I exclaimed. For who
ever heard of so astounding a bit of
knowledge as that?
“In the Baby Land!” lie shouted,
fairly dancing in his joy. • • And the
baby sister is at our house now!”
“No!” I said, unbelieving.
n You come and see,” he said, draw
iug me by the hand. And I went. And
j it was just as Thomas said.—Helen
Lockwood Coffin, in the Club Woman.
A Floating Theatre.
A new river vessel has been built for
use for a floating theatre, The seating
capacity is for 100U people and there
are boxes for the elite and a pit for
the orchestra. In addition, the vessel
is sufficiently large to admit of
ous sleeping rooms for the actors, the
deck hands and all those
with either the show or the boat.
entire force numbers forty, On
steamer which tows tlie floating
tre, besides the boilers and engines,
• there is a complete electric light plant,
besides a kitchen and dining room.
■ boat starts at Pittsburg and visits
towns of the coal miners and
workers along the Monongahela
Next it returns and goes down
Ohio to the Kanawha, tlienec to
and later up the Illinois River to
Salle. Then after going back to
Mississippi, the boat slowly makes
way in tlie direction of New Orleans.
A Fai-iat-Tlu'oiver of the Lakes.
The wonderful traffic on the
Lakes, and the interestin . r types
traveler observes up there, are
scribed by Louise Morgan Sill in
I article entitled.“Through Inland
in Harper’s Magazine. "One of
most interestng persons
with the lake traffic is a sort of
to the landlubber cow-boy. He is
tically the lariat-tlirower of
prairie-like lakes, but he does not
cattle or anything so trivial. His
may be a wharf or an
ton freighter, and he never misses
cast. Lie makes no pretence to
thing picturesque, and it is doubtful
he would care to be so described;
picturesque he is as he swings
rope in the air from dock to vessel,
vice versa. ti
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t) GEORGIA. ^ f*
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-3.
Brief Summary of Doings
Throughout the State.
j The seventh district convention wiR
assemble on May 4. There are fifty
i eight lodges in the district, and all
will be represented. The proceedings
of the convention will be of great in
terest to all Masons.
* * *
Exhibit to Be Ready June 1st.
Governor Terrell announces that the
Georgia exhibit at St. Louis will be
complete in every detail by June the
first. The building will be turned over
finished by May 20, and it is believed'
iliac in ten days thereafter the exhibit
can be in place.
* * *
Reward Offered for Murderer.
A reward of $100 has been offered
j by Governor Terrell for the arrest ot
Evans Jones, who is wanted in Lau
rens county for the murder of War
ren Green in December, 1903. Jones
escaped shortly after the. crime was
committed and has not been heard
of since.
* *s *
Georgia Troops Invited.
Georgia has been invited to send
1.250 of her regular organized militia
to take part in the fall maneuvers of
the United States army, to be held at
Manassas, Va., beginning September
5, next. Governor Terrell has received
a letter from the war department ex
tending this invitation and giving the
particulars of these maneuvers.
m
Bound Over on Peonage Charge.
William J. Fleeman, an old and
highly respected farmer in Oglethorpe
ccuuty, was arraigned before Judge
Klnnebrew, at Athens, on the charge
of peonage. He waived trial and gave
bond in the sum of $1,500. The wit
nesses in this case were not sent to
jail in Atlanta as in former cases, on
account of the expense attached to
such procedure.
* *
A Hustling Tax Collector.
Without having to sell a dollar’s
worth of property, Muscogee county
has not only collected all its taxes
for 1903, but the final report of Tax
Collector Andrews, made to the coun
ty commissioners, show's that not only
was all the tax money secured, with
the exception of $332.40 on the insolv
ency list, but $407,232 not on the di
gest was collected, making the net
gain over the entire digest $64.83.
O
Masons to Meet in Rome.
Great preparations are being made
by the Masons of Rome Tor the great
j| Masonic celebration that occurs in
that city May 4 and o. Already the
necessary committees have been ap
pointed and invitations have been sent
to every lodge in Georgia and quite
a number in Alabama, Tennessee,
Florida and Mississippi. The indica
Dons are that this celebration will
surpass all others that have preceded
it.
j * *
Saloons Close During Revival.
While a revival was in progress at
Griffin the past w r eek, every store and
saloon in the town closed between the
hours of 3 and 4 o’clock at the request
of Rev. T. C. Betterson, of the First
Methodist church, w'ho conducted the
rncoDng; It is the first time in the
history of recent years that such a
history of recent years that such a
general recognition has been given an
effort of this sort, and the fact that
the whisky men were as prompt as
any other merchants in closing
doors has caused much comment.
* » *
The Centennial Commencement of
State University.
All Georgians are naturally
en in the celebration of the one
dredth commencement of their
university. In order to bring
before the minds of the living
courage and faith of the fathers
planted a university here in the
of an almost unbroken forest the
ent commencement will be
as was the first, under a bush
erected on the very spot where the
bor stood one hundred years ago.
university calls for a general gather
ing of alumni and citizens on this
picious occasion.
Mill Sold Under Court Order.
Commissioner Billups Phinizy
Receivers A. L. Hull and T. P.
cent have sold the property of
| Athens Manufacturing Company
an order of Judge Newnan, of
federal court. Judge John R.
of Athens, purchased the check
for $20,900, and the yarn mill
bought by J. Y. Carithers and W.
Bryan for $38,000. The other
of the company brought enough
run the total up to $75,000.
tral of Georgia railway bought
erty along its right "or way for yard
purposes to the amount of $5,000. The
new purchasers will at once make
gteat improvements on the property,
1 and will have two of the finest mills
;n the south if the court confirms the
sale.
* * *
Will Withdraw Injunction Suit.
Attorney General John C. Hart has
gone to Washington to represent the
siate in the injunction proceedings
against the Ducktown Copper mines at
Ducktown, Tenn. It is these mines
that have been issuing the fumes that
have destroyed a great deal of vegeta
tion in Georgia. Arrangements have
been made between the state and the
mining companies, however, to settle
4 the suit, as the companies have agreed
to us another process in roasting the
metal. Attorney General Hart will
probably withdraw' the suit when it
is called.
*
Faced Five Different Juries.
The case of the State vs. Gill John
son, charged with the murder of Dr.
A B. Frix, near Trenton .about three
years ago, w r as terminated at Dalton
Saturday by a verdict of not guilty.
This is probably the most remarkable
murder trial ever tried in the courts
of this state. Johnson has been tried
by five different juries, three times in
Dade county and twice Hn Whitfield,
The case was tried twice nn Dade,one
of the trials resulting in a verdict of
guilty and a new trial being granted
by the supreme court; it was brought
t« Whitfield county by a change of
venue, after which it was tried at Dal
ton once, then carried hack to Dade
county and again tried in Dalton, re
sulting as stated. The case was bitter
ly fought on both sides.
* * *
Meeting in Interest of Canal.
Governor Terrell has received a let
to; from Governor W, S. Jennings, of
Florida, inviting him to be present
anc * to appoint delegates to attend’
a Panama canal convention to be held
at Tampa, Fla., beginning May 4,
nex ^> to discuss plans by which • the
people of the United States may se
cure the greatest benefits as the re
sult of the building of the canal.
Governor Terrell replied that he
would be unable to attend the con
vention himself on account of official
duties, but stated that he would be
glad to appoint delegates. Governor
Terrell is a strong advocate of the
Panama canal, and was one of the first
to come out in favor of it when the
matter v, r as under discussion in the
senate.
* *
To Test Peonage Laws.
A mass meeting of Tifton citizens
■ was recently held in the city court
; hall for the purpose of taking action
o.i the peonage case of S. M. Clyatt,
which has been certified by the United
States circuit court of appeals in New
Orleans to the United States supreme
court for information. The case, as al
ready mentioned in these columns, is
tin first conviction in many years, un
der the United States peonage laws,
and arose from Mr. Clyatt having two
negroes who had left his employ ar
rested in Florida under warrants from
, 1 this state on charges of gambling and
^ larceny. Five thousand dollars is re
■ported to have been pledged towmrds
securing the best legal talent in the
country to see that Mr. Clyatt’s side
of the case w r as properly presented to
the supreme court. An effort will be
made to employ Mr. Elihu Root. Every
turpentine operator and saw mill man,
as well as every one employing
in this section, feels that they are
fectefl by Judge Swayne’s construction
of this law, and take a vital interest in
the case.
j Shareholders
May Sue.
In the federal court at
Judge Newman rendered a decision
the case of Daniel W. Smith
others against Bird M. Robinson,
A Wimbish and others, which, in ef
feet, gives the right to the
ers of the Atlanta National,
Home and Inter-State Building
Loan associaions to sue the
named in their bill filed on
21, 1903.
Judge Newman holds that the
holders have a perfect right to
and that the defendants named
be brought into the suit and made
ties to it. *
The bill filed on November 21
leges that Bird M. Robinson, of
Y 7 ork, as a shareholder in the
tions and an expert in' such
recommended a receiversTnp for
building and loan associations;
W. A. Wimbish, of Atlanta, had
seff appointed attorney for the
ceivers, who were W. A.
and John T. Pendleton; that
bish recommended that the bid f
( delations, the unadministered assets of the
submitted by the
j Finance company, of New York, be
i cepted, and that this company,
j ing never been chartered, was
more than a dummy organized
Wimbish and Robinson to buy th
’
j assets. The bill further a 62
j sums of money aggregating Vu'ii
- or more, which were turned
; the receivers to Wimbish, hav
j been satisfactorily accounted r
a short time ago the d taut,'
filed a demurrer to this bill
j j in the substance, association that had the shareholders right
no an'i"*^
action against the associations
i receivers. They also took exccmL, Tn *
! certain . alleged scandalous
allega V*- v
made against them in connection
| i the elation. Baltimore Building and Loar asso
Judge Newman sustained the
last demurrer, but held that the share
holders had a perfect right to br.ng
suit.
~
FUND FOR HEROES.
Carnegie Hits Upon a New Charitable
Scheme--An Incentive to D:ds
of Bravery.
It was ma’de known at Pittsburg, Pa,
Friday, that 4ndrew Carnegie has cre
ated a fund of $5,000,000 for the bene
fit of the dependents of those losing
their lives in heroic efforts to save
their feiiowmen or for the heroes
themselves if injured only.
Provision is also made for medals to
he given in commemoration of heroic
j ! acts,
The endowment is to be known a:
“the hero fund,” and consists of ?5,
000,000 of first collateral 5 per cent
bonds of the United States Steel Cor
poration. The trust is placed in the
hands of a commission, of which Chas.
L. Taylor is president, and F. M. Wil- I
met, secretary. The scheme was ccn- j
ceived by Mr. Carnegie immediately
after the Harwich mine disaster, when
he summoned to New Y'ork Charles L. j
Taylor, chairman, and F. M. Wil mot
manager of the Andrew Carnegie re
lief fund, to discuss with them plans |
fie the relief of the sufferers from this i
catastrophe.
in a letter to the hero fund comm’t
tee, Mr. Carnegie outlines the general
statement of the funds, which in his
own words is—
“To place those following peaceful
vocations who have been injured in he
roic effort to save human life, in some
what better positions pecuniarily than
before, until again able to work. In
case of death, the widow and children
or other dependents to be provided
for—the widow until she is remarried
! and the children until they reach a
self-supporting age. For exceptional
children, exceptional grants may be
made for exceptional education.
Grants of in i3 of money may also be
made to heroes or heroines as the
commission thinks advisable—each
cr *se to be judged on its merhs.
is Prided that no gran. b, to be
continued unless it be sobers and
I jr °P er ta used, and the recipients re
respectable, well-behaved mem
^ f rs *-he community,
1 ^ medal shall be given to the hero
Gr w ^ ow > or next of km, which shall
rrciie the heroic deed it conunemo
The medal shall be give. 1 for
heroic act, even if the doer be un
m/jured, sru l also a sum of money
the commission deem such a
£U< dc 3i]able.
“The sea is the scene of many he
roic acts,” says Mr. Carnegie’s letter,
“and no action more heroic than that
of doctors and nurses volunteering
their services in the case of epidem
ics. Railroad employees are remark
able for heroism. All these and .simi
lar cases are embraced. Whenever he
,r> ‘ sm is ‘lispiaj ad by man or-woman
in saving human life, the fund ap
i plies. M
CONGRESSMEN DHL A RED INNOCENT
Special Investigating Committee Makes its
Report to the House.
A Washington special says: Tn? re
port of the special committee of the
luouse appointed to investigate the re
port from the postoffice department
prined under the caption “Charges Con
cerning Members of Congress,” was
made to the house Monday bj r Chair
man McCall. The gist of the report is
contained in the following paragraph:
.. After a careful consideration of ail
cases specified in the report numbered
1395 (the report of the postoffice coni
niittee on charges), in so far as they
relate to the present, members c-f the
house of representatives on committee
assumed to be the limit of their juris
tlicion, they have unanimously reached
the conclusion that nothing has ap
pearod in connection with the charges
that would justify the finding that any
member of the house of representa*
tives has profited financially in the
. 1 slightest degree, or that any member
was guilty of improper concuct in con
nection therewith, or that any Kiemher
has done in connection with any of
said cases anything that did not ap
pear to be within the line of his official
duty, according to long established cus
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