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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 1 (t q t) GEORGIA. ^ f* j ^ <? -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 tom. tt