THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, JULY 85, 1001. 51 HIS QUEER SYSTEM OF POKER Utorthodsx Mithtdi And th Fight tha F.llow.d in Thiir Wtki OLO MAN GREENHUT TELLS THE STORY ttranger Trample, on Arkntisns tjlty Tradition nml Octs Awnj1 nltli H Mm l,lll I'let'o nf llin I.tianl Mono)'. "Tsln't mattor ot rooorO." said old man Oreenhut, with a romlnscent look In hU ere, "thut any strnnsor has ever cotnu to Arkansas City with any notion o' doln' up the town what pot away with thu propo sition an' any conald'ablo romnant o' tho wad ho had with blm whdn he arrov.e, Tho cltlzons o' this town is mostly capable in on, what le well rjualMcd to drink red liquor alralnht an' set Into 'most nny sort of a (tamo without ilrawlu' weapons, Mess luurc's some prnvoratlotiB, an' when It Mines to draw poltor It's universally acknowledged Up an' dpwn tho river that thcro ain't no superior came played anywhere. Tho kmIcmI that comes hero with a notion In hta nut o' m&ktn' u' nvcrlastln' fortune out o' such hands on a uiorclful l'rovldancc may ullow him to hold In two or threp nights' play In gen'ly considered to ho liinnln' In great hick If ho gels out o' town without havln' n subscription took up (or his benefit about the tlmo the next boat Ilea up. "There has bqep a good nnwy times, truo enough, when things looked doubtful. Play ers has come that had new- wrinkles In tho way o' holdln' out, or staekln' the curds, or soma now system o' piny ihat puzzled till boys for n aviIIoj An' there's been sumo come that sure kunwed the game an' played It ulmlghty skillful. Hut nnnu of 'em, as I said, ever reely pot away with tho 'propo sition. "Tbero was one feller, though, that r.howcd up here about six years ago that comn monstrous near hrcakln' tho record. That la to say, If ho'd have understood tho first principles o1 poker ho'd ha' busted tho town wldo open, un' tho mortlfyin' thing about t was twnB poker ho wrb play In , That Is, 'twas called poker, an' ho sure did win, but tho wny ho played It was one o' the soven wondars o' tho world. We talked about It finite some, after he- left, an' tho unanimous verdict was that If he'd ha' knowod what lie 'was doln' nn' how to do It he'd ha' Just ovorlastln'ly skint the entire crowd out ' what money tlicro was Instead o' comln' nut consld'ablo ahead an' him not knowln' Just how ho dona It or what ho'd done. It Biiro wcro be- wllderln', an' well cal'latad. to innko a man lose his faith In Providence, 'thnut he, was one that stuck to his religion spile of any thing. Iliul n Nrw MjMem. "Th puKlIn' thing 'about It were that tho feller seemed to be playln' poker all the time an' the rest o' the party wns playln" It for all they knew, but ho wero either playln' on a syatem that was en tirely unboknownst to everybody In this part o' tho world, or elso ho wero that out rageous Ignorant o' the first principles as would dttigiaee a half-grown boy. An' yet he won! Some of 'cm was Inclined to think at first that It were a new systom an' thero was u good deal o' speculation on how H would work, played -constant, but nobody had tho nerve to try It, sonln' It weru plumb contrary to all science as poker s understood an' they couldn't Bet up that childlike confidence In heaven's mercy that would lead 'urn to look for ovprwhalmln' luck In tho matter o1 cards at tho critical moments o' the game. "Tho way of It, wad" Ihls, He Just landed from the bna.l,..ans day. An' wtlkmlijin- thn levee bit. lookin- round, " an' saym- nothn' to. nobody. Therq didn't, (eetn W bo no reason for anybody to pay attention to him, an' consequent, nobody did, for ho wa'n't a man that looked ltko a sport, nor yet a huslness man. Just 'peered to have rot out f'm somewheres on' dldn t know his way back. Aer he'd looked 'round a spell ho sort o' drifted In to the natei an' wrote his name, absent-minded like, on the register, nnd said 'yea' when the pro.- prletor as't him If ho wanted a room. Thon ho Just sat 'round for a day or two, sayln' nothln' to nobody all the tlmo. Didn't np near to have ambition enough to tat his meals, for ho'd wait till everybody was roost through roro nea go into mo ninur room. An' even when ho took a drink, which wa'nt often, he did It all alone, with out seemln' to take no Intorest In It. " 'Long about the third day he began takln' shortwnlks, an' blmeby he got as fas as to come In hero an' look 'round Beeln' the bar. ha called for sqnte red liquor an' drank It anil' then scctn' a chair he sot down. There hadn't been much doln' for a woek or two an' I says to Jake Inter bottom that It mought he a good Idea to stnrt a game o" poker. 'This here stranger, I says, 'don't look as If ho knowed one card fron nnothor,.but 'taln't likely "he's quite aa simple as ho looks, an' mobbe,' J says, you might get him Into tho game. Don't mako It too stiff right away,' I says, 'an' who knowe but you might get a small stake out of hlmT 'Taln't very prnmtsiny l says, but some men Is like crooked cat tic. There's moro meat on 'em than they looks.' I.noktitl Unit to Juke. "V'ol, Jake, h didn't think there was nothln' doln'. He looked the stranger over an' tort o' turned up his nose, hut things was quiet an' finally he says: 'I don't reckon he's got ?f0 In the world an' If wo win that wo 11 only have to chip In an send him away, Thero ain't the makings of a citizen Into him, no wny I can figure It an wo don't want nun settin' around for over. Put we might take a shy at It, JUBt to pass tho time.' "So him an' 8am Dlalsdell an' Ooorgo Dnscom kind o' got together an' played a fnw hands, thlnkln' ho stranger might show somo Interest an' propose to Join the game, but he never stirred. Just not still an' chawed his tobacco Jlke ho dldn' Blvo n d for nothln. So dually II.ib- com he spoke up an' says: 'Thla s prqtty alow playln' three-banded, We'd oughtor havo somebody elso In the game an' thoy waited a mliuito to see If that would catch him, but ho never oven looked 'round. Bo Wlntorbottom says: 'Voudn't ,you like to play?' an' the stranger says: 'Yes,' Just tho nio absent-mtnded-llko way he'd spoko to the hotvl proprietor an' ho went over an' sot In, I sold him $10 o chips an' they dealt him cards, it were a tabl stakes game an' each man had put up ten "The stranger, ho talked lke a Yankee an' looked like a Frenchman, but his name on tho hotel register wao Dennis McCarthy an' for all tho Interest ho showed In the cards after lie got 'cm ho might havo been a Chinee, Ho Just put up when It come his turn an' drawed enrds every tlmo, but ho never made a bet till his ten was all gone and' then he bought ten more as calm an' collected as a Itnotholo In n board fence. "Well, he played along, If you. can call It playing poker, Just 'llko that until 111 third ten-spot was gone un' he bought ten more worth o' chips. Then ho caught hand that seemed to Interest him sonic for ho studied It a long tlmo after Rascom had he', ten on his curds, before, lift said anything. Then he said, 'I call,' an' shoved a $10 bill Into the pot. They showed down an' tho stranger had a pair o' querns, tins com, he had thre sevens, so be raked the pot c course for AVlnterbottom an' HIM. dell had parsed out. "Well, that there McCarthy, If hli name was McCarthy, Just s&t therq and called every hot that was made after that (or tftrre-quartera or an Ijour, never s such a thing before nor since. '1'eared llko d on'y Just found out he could call an' 'd beon playln' along afore that on the u that alt tho other feller had to do to In the pot was to make a bet' an' as If d got In his head that callln' was all was 'lowed to do under the rules. What- he ove ;r nis iooi notion was, i uoni p ieuu say, but that'd Just what he did. Just led every tlmo It come to him, to call I.cttliiK Hli" DfMvn l.lKhtlr. "Just naturally that looked easy, an' I 111 nay for tho boys that they didn't try i play It low down on htm for a good hll All llidif .11,1 L-aa In wnll fnr n pretty strong hand an' than bet It for what It was worth an' watt for a call. As there was three o' them to one o' him, they naturally outhcid him ns a rule, but pome how or other he managed to scoop a pot Ju St about often enough to keep him even. Ho (i nnugnt ?z.j atter he lost his nrst nity, there wns river n hiimlrpil nn thp table. so The boys wasn't pushln' him very hard, so jey only net nves an tons an once in a hllo ho'd show down the best hand an' icoop a pot. An' blmeby we was all stir- Ised to see ha wns gottln' ahead, Still, nn't no iramn In mum It nhnul. ThcvM all got the Idee 't ho hand't got mueh of a iu, un' tney was playln' moro for tlio fun the thing than to do him up, 'Prntlv unnn tit, tu.lnlt 1ln pniwrht n fnnr. Hush un n, Jackpot an' tho stranger be openeu it. Kjnisuoii stayed an' tne otners dropped out. They each drawed ono card tno stranger lie bet ten. iuaisueii looxcd his draw an' found he'd tilled a lice nt final ll. so ho raised It for hln nlle. wbleb us $30, an' the stranger called. He showed own u full housa an' Ilbilsdvll had la aa do illggln'. ".Next hand ll.lsrnm nnnned thn fni'k nn n pat Btralght, an' the stranger ho come In n iirnwo'i ono enru. Tho ottiers stayed Hit nil' llnKPntil tint hlu nlli. wlili'h una twenty odd, un' tho stranger ho called un' showed down a flush, so llascom wan obliged to dig. "Then 'twas Wlntcrbottbin's turn, aa It annened. nn' hr rmctm.l If nn Ihpnn They was pluyln' a Jack again on account o' tno nanus snowed, an I'm blamed it the atno tning didn't happen, The stranger io como iu an' drawed two cards, Winter- inttnm n Mb nlln f.nul.,t tun ...... ..... ...v, iiunuup. The other two droppeii out an' the stranger no cuneu an- showed three kings. Illdn't Worry 1 1 1 ot, "It looked llko a mnut ninnvln run n luck, but tho stranger uever turned a hnlr. He did call for the drinks all around, as a sort o' recognition, but he sot ns ealm as ever, waldn' for his cards, an' lookin' as if .im uinn t Know what to do with 'cm when they come. The others had bought fifty nplet-e whon they come back, so hnrn n money enough on thn table to make It worth while, an' the bets got strongor. First, Wlnterbottom he bet twenty on twp pairs an' the strancer nulled nn nn nir Then llascnm he bet ten on a pair o' queens .. w.o nuuiiMur cHiica on ace nign. Then 'Inlsdoll bet twentv.flvn nn iii i.i. Ilascom saw It on aces un. Wlntorhntt.m' stayed out. havln' imtliln' n- hn . , , t - auni,5C khou on a nuie-nigh straight, No matter wimi uo neiu ne wouldn't raise. "Dlahdell klnd o' imt huffv this timo ., seoln' tho stranger waa still protty woll to me gooq, ne negan russln' a Utile an' pro posed to take- off tho limit. Thn mh... said they yero jvlllln'. an he said 'yos.' allien ii h' uiuirt 'pear like 'yes' was most tuo only word he knowed In thn Ian, guage. "Well, tho bels were heavier nft HP tlSnt nn tho stranger ioat what he hnd In rrnm m him 111 the next (hrnn nnt nnllln it.. , lwiiiu VM 1C most l dlculous hands oiuyeu rignt niong in ror tho next deal, so they knowed bo'must hayo moro money In his, clothes, it, wrta hla first say, Bascom havln' tho nee. an' ho dur 'nnt , livo. dollars ah cqinq Id. the ante'boln' a dol lar. Tho others staved, nn tnp0,i drawod three cards. When It come to tho bottln' he bet a dollar an' Wlnterbottom nut up fifty, havln' filled n flimn. m.i.n dropped out an' Dascom rnlaod it fifty, ucv-aripy never said, a word, but he pulled out his wallet and flashed up a huudrod dollar bill. Wlntcrbotl nm ralaAft It nttv an' Duscom raised; It fifty moro, an' the ouniiKLT iaiu qown nnouier hundred. "It looked like his finish there, for sure, for, o' course, nobqdy thought ho had much oi a nana an' the boys thought all they had to do was to keep up the criss-cross un' whlpaaw blm out of his tain whother Dascom or Wlnterbottom wuuiu win, um one or 'era was sure to au' the money would stay right heret "Wpll, they kep' It up for flvo minutes, I reckon, till naseom come to tho end of hla wad. He on'y had six or seven hundred In his clothes an' Wlnterbottom wasn't much stronger. It didn't lopk worth while for Dascom to send for more mnnnv. fnr m, Btranffflr'n nnnlcptlmnlr tuna A ..!.. nn I..., j fished out hla last hundred from one of his pocgeiB, so uaspom Just made good when Wlnterbottom raised, an' (he stranger got his ehanca to call, nobodv Unnnsln! thnt ho had more'n perhaps three of a kind, an' ? nni mat, no navin- called on every hand he hold, whother 'twas good for any thing or not. llnsiioni Mce. HU IHuiHle. "It wa a fatal mlatnkn nni ncn, It aa soon as ho'd done It, fpr tho stranger nfuni an' uasneq up r thousand-dollar bill. 'Stead o' ralaln' Wlnterbottom, as any other player on earth would ha' done, ho. Just dono his fool act over again an' called. Then he shpwed down four deuces an' scooped In tho not as rnnl n if '....,, eight dollars Instead of a Httlq ovor two inousanq, "Dascom sort o' aamiprl fnr hn cu .i,,. a mlstak.o he'd made, but Wlntorbojtpm, ho realized tha.t somethln' had to be did quick, i( uo reacuea out with one hand for the money. "You never cot them rir.n hn,.. est,' ho says, pullln' his gun, o' course, as no spiiae. no Knowed it meant fight, but he wasn't lookin' no more, than any of us for tho kind of a fight that came. "McCarthy, ho was quicker than chain llghtnin', an' reachln' over with one hand ho grabbed WlntorbottonVs gup while ho put the monty In his pockot w((h the other. Then with nque-er snrt o' twist ho wrenched the gun out o' Wtnterbottom's hand niid threw t plumb through the win dow. Wo was all stundln' ready to see that Interbottom, had fair play, not conjldorln' U etlquetto to Interfere unless he ahould get the worst, of It, but, Lord bleRs you, he hadn't no show at all, The stranger he Just rpsp out of hla ehatr an' glyo n leap (Ike a buckln' broncho clean over the table. Ho c-omo down with both heels on Winter bottom's chest and Wlnterbottom was out of (t. Dlalsdell an' Dasoom both drawed on tho Instant, but 'twan't uo use. That stranger was all over tho room at once, awattln' Ilascom behind the car with his fist an' klckln' Dlalsdell under the chin at the same time. I didn't think It was worth whllo to take a hand myself, sceln' how things was goln' on' beln' some In years, so I Btepped behind tho bar an' waed, "Well, ihem three men tried for a minute or so to get up, but they couldn't. McCarthy was on top o' the whoo of 'em as fast aa they moved an' he had 'em all whipped In less time than It takes to tell It, I heer'd afterward that ho'd lived In I'arls some an' had learped somo oumgcmn foreign vay n' boxln' with his feet that no Chrlillan c'd ever stand up against. They all give In after n little ap' I didn't blamo 'em,, havln' soen for myself what the stranger o'd da. "Well, that wns the end of 1(. Thn stranger he walked out nftor the scrimmage was over. look(n' ns cool as ever. He looked Lack when he got to the door an' taya. -uood night, aeo you again.' Dut wu never 414, He p(t town (he next inornln' on an early boat. I've often thought, though, that It were a merciful dispensation that he didn't know enough poker to raise Instead 0' calling." HAM" A MII,MO. KOIl A Til'. An Kplnode of the Flush MIiiIhk l)a of Cnllforntn. "I see that James H. Kceue, who Is not only a power on Wall street, but a fortu nate man on the turf as well, advises women not to dabble with tho market," said an old Chicago Doard of Trade man to a Chicago Tribune reporter. "Well, I suppose bo will make one exception to his rule, excellent though It Is, for the fact that James It. turned up on the right sldo of the famous Coinstock deal was due to a woman. A gambler by the name of Bald win went west In those brisk mining days when sturdy men who were used to hnrd work 'struck It rich,' or wore their lives away trying to. "Fortune did not come Daldwtn's way and ho died, leaving his wife In San Francisco poorly provided for. Sho was an expert Beamttress and as such waa engaged by Mrs. Mnckay, wlfa of the leading member of tho 'Dig Four,' who were then prospect ing with Indifferent success In tho Corn stock mine at Carson City. Thcsu miners frequently met and talked over matters at tho Mackay home. They were all plain people whciie discussions were held In open session, qultu regardless of tho presence or absence of Mrs. Mnckay or her seam stress. "Mrs. Duldwln, however, wns familiar with mining nnd stock terms and when the 'Dig Four' struck the lode unit saw great wealth In store for them sho wns nble to follow Intelligently all their plaus for mak ing the most of tho mine on tho market. More than that, she Intended to profit by tho Information. Bho still had a number of diamonds her husband had given her, and so, going Into tho business miction of the city in search of a broker, wandered Into thn olllce ot James It. Keene, then a Cal lfornlnn. " Mr. Keene,' she explained, 'I want to put au Important matter in your hands. I nm n poor woman and u widow, but roy husband at one tlmo had money, and from him I lenrned something about tho stock market. I have saved some diamonds he gave mo nnd now I want you to take them, realize ou them nnd Invest every cent Iu ConiBtock.' "'Why ComstockT' asked Keene. somo whnt surprised at the unhesitating wuy this woman stnkcd her only possessions. She explained nnd tho shrowd financier lis tened with glistening eye, " 'Now, Mrs. Daldwln,' he said whon she finished, 'I'll tcl you what we'll do. You keep your diamonds. Set your own valua on them and I shall Invest tbnt amount for you and protect It, should there be da turbanee In the market, You watch the reports and when you see fit let me know and I shall eell. Every cent shall be yours, for the Information you have glvtn me Is worth much moro than your dla monds and any commission 1 could charge,' "Mrs. Daldwln watched the market as sho made dresses for Mrs. Mackcy, drcsni- lng as she did of a competency that would onabto hor to return to her old home and llvo In comfort. Comstock rose and rose. In fact, It became the wonder ot the day. Finally Mrs, Daldwln estimated that the value ot her diamonds would by that time have earned about $10,000 or 1)5,000, so she went to Mr, Keono to close the deal. "James H. groeted her effuslvoly and told his bookkeeper to cast up the ac count and make out the check. Now that the deal was over she grew nervous as Mr. Keene a.)i hs assistant busted them selves with the flguros. "'How much is It?' 'sho asked, timidly but earnestly as Keene was signing' tho draft. "The financier contlnuod his writing. 'Six hundred and forty thousand,' he re plied wth good-natured carelessness. Then he turned to hand her the check, hut Mrs. Daldwln had to be lifted from the floor and restored to consciousness, before she could tako It. 'Of course Keeno won heavily on the deal and soon after went to New York, wnore ne dropped a good portion of his earnings trying to corner wheat In Chi cago, but even at that, was still fthe4.'' Winter Wheat, Noticing the crops front Culbcrlson east ward to Crete, July 4 and 5, the marked superiority of the winter pvor spring wheat was apparent, Nearly all thq winter wheat was safe, while the spring wheat sijffcrad from trying heat and dry weather. Oyer tho South Platte region, and doubtless a larger portion of the state, winter wheat, properly bandied, la safer than spring wheat. The falluroB are oftener duo to lack of lato summer and fall moisture and lata plowing, Insufficiently prepared seed bed, than to severity of wjnter or unfavorablq springs. The shorthand farmer who must thresh and help his neighbors thresh beforo plowing for wheat allows weeds to absorb a 'large share of available moisture In July and Auguat before he Is ready to plow and does pot conserve and store un sufficient soil moisture to Insure quick germination, full fall growth and entry Into winter with soil and subsoil moist two to three feet la depth. Often tho ground has so nearly dried out beforo plowing that a firm, moist seed bud cannot bo socuied and tho seed germinates slowly and unevenly and the crop' often enters Into winter with Insufficient mplsturo and may not be well rooted before winter. Methods that are successful In Sallnu county, Nebraska, are outlined In tho his tory of n crop grown by the writer. The grouni was plowed In July npd early August, ns soon as tho preceding crap of grain could he reniovud, Uach day's plow ing was harrowed twice the sanis day. As soon aa caoh field was plowed slx-horso teams cross-harrowed, Onco In ten days I repeated tho borrow ings and a fine, firm seed bed was secured, soil moisture conserved and wee! growth kept down. It was seeded September 5 to 20 with ono and one-half bushels per acre of Turkey rctl whent, being careful tp drill cast and west, crosswso of prevailing winds. The depth of seeding was two and 0110. half to threo Inches. The wheat cpv ered tho ground beforo winter. Tart of tho crop was harrowed lightly late In March to break tho winter crust. Tho crop was cut and threshed out of shock, using two steam threshers and two sets of men, This was dono to get Into Chicago In July option. Tho yield of ro speptlvo fields was 40, 45, 4714, 40, and, 52 bushels per acre, Tho first par tested 64H pounds to tho bushel and graded No. 1 hard. The average of all cars was por cent. The local elevator recelvod, cleaned and shipped the crop for 1 cent a bushel, Freight and other shipping oxpenses, 18 cents a bUBhel. Cost of threshing from fluid and haulng over one and one-halt miles to elevator, 10 rents a bushel. Al lowing 3 per acre for use of (and, 2,5Q per day for team work, Jl for hand work, the cost of placing the wheat In elevator was 26 cents a bushel, an average of about TU.40 per acre. I realized ht cents a bushel. From this deduct tho cost of growing and threshing 2 cents, which leaves 30 cents a bushel, a margaln of 113 per cent on a crop of 5.0Q0 bushels. John Scheve, running a farm of 700 aores In the northern portion of Cage county, has for twenty years averaged 25 bushels of wlpter wheat per acre. Hs methods are somewhat as those outlined above, Crete, Neb, R. F. STEPHENS, SEARCHING AMONG THE STARS Btcint Wondin ( tbi Huvsni Oburyed bj AitroBomtri. WAVES OF STARLIGHT MEASURED Speeulnt Inn mm to thn Gsnur nf the Sudden Outlmrnt of Light hr at 5rvr fltnr In the ConMelln tton nf Terpens. No achievement of tho human Intellect Is more wonderful than tho discovery of planets revolving around many of the stars, writes Prof. Simon Newcomb In the New York Times. If theso bodies could be seen with a telescope there would bo nothing wonderful In their being found. Dut they arc generally, so far as wo know, entirely dark; nt least they send forth no light that the human eyo could discern In the most powerful telescope, They arc, and must forovcr bo, Invisible. How, then, Is their existence made known? Dy their attrac tion on the stars around which thoy re volve, and which they cause to swing first to ono side nnd then to the other. Hut this swing of n star is so small as to be entirely beyond the powfr of detection by the n.ost delicate eye aided by the most powerful telescope. To all appearances tho stars remain absolutely ut rest, except for tho slow, straightforward motion which wo find many of them to have when observa tions on their positions are extendud through years or generations, If wo can not see any motion, how do wo know thut the stars move? This Is the real wonder. It Is dono by analyzing the light which tho star sends to us. It bus long been known that light reully consists In minutes vibrations or wavellko motions In nn ether which fills all space. There are from 10,000 (0 100,000 of thoso waves In tho length of a single Inch, and yet they travel forward so rapidly that they would encircle thn earth seven times beUreq two beats of tho clock. Smult though they are, enub little wave has its crest as have the billows of the ocean. On the latter tho distances between two suc cessive crests may be more than tho length of a ship or less than that of a ship's boat. So It Is with light; although countless mil lions of millions' of waves pass In a single second, some vibrate more rapidly than tithcrs. iiy tho aid of the spectroscope the astron omer analyses tho light of a star and thus finds the length of certain of the waves Which It sends toward us. If It Is moving In our direction thesa wuves will be a lit tle shorter than when It Is moving away from us. And thus, it Is sqtd, that by measuring tho length of the light wave which a star emits It can be determined whother the stnr Is Increasing or dimin ishing Us distance from us, When these most difficult and doltoato measures were mado upon a number of the brighter stars U was found that some of them changed their motion to or from us, For a few hours, or perhaps a few days, a star would do moving toward us, then it would slacken Its pace and move away from us, to return toward us again. Thus It wquld vibrate backward and forward, as )t were, llko a swinging pendulum. As a matter of fact, re know that the motion was more likely to bo around and around In a circle. Dut this circle, though millions ot miles in extent, Is so small as to be quite Invisible t the enormous distances Of the fixed stars, The motion of tho stars whfch I have described, being fmado known by the light, can be ns"weHlfiibterrnlnecl upon t atar at the most lirlrnwiurablo distance, a upon ono Jn our inimdalate1' nelghbqrhopd. And thus It Is that thesn mMjons are made out when the teIe,scopprfals to shay any movement 'whatever, Thej can bo caused only by the 'attraction of jrivlsltjle but massive bodies revolving around the stars cs the planets revplve arotjnd the sun. go exact have theso measures been ma,1e q recent times that the form of tho orbit of a dirk body can, In somo cases, bo cal culated with more or less oxaotnoss. And! thus It happens that, If there arp any In habitants on these planqts, our astronomers here on earth could tell them more about tho motlpn of the word on Whoh they lya than the most civilized of tha earth's peo ple a few centuries ago knew of the mo tions ot the earth on which we dwell, Uletnnoc anil Urln htneiB. The most recent researches show that there Is an Immense variety among the stars, especially as tp their actual bright ness. Of course a star of any glyen bright ness will look fainter the further It Is from us, Thus t was In former times supposed aa mo prigptest stars were most near to us. Dut this Is not always the case. It s true that Slrlus, tho brightest star n tha heavens, Is among the nearer ones about twice as far a.B the nearest star known. Dut the next brightest Is Canopue, wblch never rises in our northern latitudes, though It may sometimes be seen In thu Gulf states. It Is there visible low down near the southern horizon some time during the Wlitor evenings. QUI, at the Cape of uooa nope, made a long series of the most exact measures on the posltlpn of thjs star umonc those scattered around It with a view of determining Its distance. The re sult of his work was that this distance must bo Immeasurably great. Had. t been only ten million Units tho dlstonoo of tho sun, he would bava found It out. Thn result of bis work la that this star must bo thousands and perhaps tens of thousands of times as bright as our sun. If our earth reyolvod around It at the samo distance that It dpes from the sun every thing on ts surface would Immediately melt wtb fervent heat. Thero aro a number of cases recorded In history pf new and very bright stars bias ing forth In the heavens. This, however, occurs very rarely. Sometimes two such stars, would bo seen In the course of a century. Frequently aeyeral centuries qave elapsed without anything, of tho kind helng recorded. Dut In recent times, when peo ple watch the heavens more carefully, It Is found that such an occurrence takes place every year or two. Oenerally, however, tho star Is so small that only a trained expert observer would have noticed It among the thousands ot Its companions. Very wonderful, therefore, was tha hissing out so recently as last February of the most brilliant star of this kind, whose appearance has been recorded during the last 200 years. It Is now well known under the name of Nova Perscl, or the new star In tho constellation ot Perseus. It has not yet been determined that any star visible In the most powerful telescope existed In tho pa,pe where this one appeared. Yet It blazed up until It wns tno nrightest star In the spring sky except Slrlua. Then It grad uajly faded away and has slnco become Invisible. Whether It will dliappear en tirely wo do npt yet know. No astronomer now' doubts that Ihtsa stars existed beforo they blazed up In tbls way, only thoy wre sq much smaller as not to be noticeable. A most, Interesting and important question, Is what was the cause of such an outburst of lghl. Is it possible that our sun may Increase Its light and heat In thn samo way? Even were this posttble, the chances for such an occurrenoa would be ton small to cause concern to tho moat timid person. Out of a hundred mlli Hon stars scarcely one In a year meets with the accident. If our sun were as liable to the accident as any other star wo should probably have to wait millions of years before it occurred, The actual cause of such an Increase of light Is quite unknown to us. Perhaps the most plausible expla nation Is that one star felt Into another. A collision between theso two bodies would result In an enormous evolution of light and heat such as we see In the cneea ot new stars, Dut In the present state ot our knowledge this Is little more than a sur mise. The wlseat astronomer acknowledges that he does not know the causa of tho outburst. What gives most color to the Idea of a collision Is that the most recent researches on the nature ot the stars show that they are very different from each other In thtlr physical constitution and density. Many of them are little more thsn bright bubbles of heated gas, lighter and thinner than air, but enormously compressed b the weight of tholr superficial parts, which bear upon tho Interior. If such a compressed gas were struck by a moving 3lar the result would bo an explosion like that of a bombshell. This would account both for the rapid rise of the star's brilliancy and Us slow fading away. Additional plausibility Is given to this view by the fact thnt ao such star has ever been known to blase out more than once. Whether when II tades away It sinks back Into Its former Insignificance no ono knows. Thtro Is only ono case In which a star pre viously known and recorded thus burst forth. That was In 1S68. In this case tho star did sink ta Just about Its former brightness, I 10 WAS ON1.V HIOHT T1IKS. Tlint'H Why lit- Hlil Sot Cnre for Mrn-y AiuliTon' Kle. Ho wns young then, Ho Is old now. Ho ho proudly recalls to his tptlmates thut day In his Ufa when Mnry Anderson, lli'.Mi a budding actress, now the sedate Mrs. Antonio do Navurro, chased, cnugltt nnd kissed him. Three resounding smueks, one 011 the lips and one on eneh cheek wero prizes ho didn't appreciate then, but that ho now vainly tries to recall whenever the nuniM of the "pride of Kentucky," Is men tioned, He lived In Louisville. Ha wns less buld then than now; less manly, perhaps! les iiinireeliitlvn certainly. This Is how he tells or It: "I was about S yenrs old. Mary Aiuler son was 17, with but a few months of stage experience nnd with none of that great distinction sho afterward won. We were neighbors, She was tull and .so tl.ln as to arouse sarcasm to flow from the jvn of tho crltleH. A great tomboy, sho nould run, Jump, climb n fence or tree, ride 11 horse or throw a ball as well as uny of the boys In the neighborhood. One duy wile romping about eho called to ine; " 'Come here, V und kiss inn.' "I hadn't learned to appreclato a kls then ns 1 hnve later. They were too com num. I preferred the sort I could buy nt tho stores with 'my pennies. 80 off I ran, with Mary Anderson chasing me. Up the steps Into tho house, up stairs to tho gur ret. through thut und down the back stairs, dodging through one room after unotner und under bods until, well tired out, sought refuge under a parlor sofa, where I thought J was safely hidden. Dut I was like the ostrich with his lieno burled in the sand, My feet stuck out nnd reveuled my. place of refuge. Caught by my pretty pursuer I had to ylelil und accept Iter kisses. "Years passed on and Miss Anderson was making her last tour of the United States. Bho waa playing In Detroit and was stay ing at the Jtussell house. This lad who had run nway from her kisses was in col lege u,t Ann Arbor, thirty-eight miles away. Uut J went to etrot, senf up my pnrd and was shown to tho private parlor of the nctress where Dr. Hamilton arlffln. her stepfather and manager, and joe Anderson, her brother, were. "Did I run away this time? Not much, I vfalHed up to her. .recalled the Incident qf our younger days, mid Mktd for a kiss. "With ft cheery 'Ye, for old times' rake and for all the fnmlly. J'U give you ope,' aha said, and while we all laughed. I pot my reword for my boyish, punishment, "When M.-s. de Navarro waa here two years ago she Intrpduced me to har hunt band, who uppeared never to tiro pf hear ing of her girlish pranks, nnd tn whom I told the story of how I ran away from his wife's kisses, There was nn old town pump I told him about, where his wife, as a girl, used to drink from the spout, He said on his next trip ta America they would go to Louisville and then 'I will buy fhat pump and take It to England and put It where I pun, drink from the spout mysqlf.' He was much chagrined to knqw that the pump and all others like It bed been removed from th,e Louisville streets by order of thq city council. That proved to him, he paid, that all city coun cils In (he United States should be abolished. His wife laughed a pleased laugh nnd eald; 'Oh, nonsense!' nut rpo could see she did not think It waa quite nil nonsense." WHAT WOMEN MlttS IN MEN. Chief (traces Ave te ne Attentive nd Appear Wall In Society. Tha casual overy-day accomplishments of a man have much to do with women's lik ing, and first of all comes savior falre, says a writer In the Cosmopolitan. He may' or may not be what Is rather vulgnrly de scribed as "a society man," yet he must understand and be familiar with the myriad little usages that form society's unwritten law, To be at ease n any set, to bo equal to emergencies, to carry off an awkward situation with urbanity and perfect eelf- poesesslonthls faculty wins unstinted ad miration fropj a woman. And then there are the things that go with this knowledge of the proper thing to do, the- little courte sies, the dellcnte and tactful attentions that moan everything and nothing, tho ability to order a dinner properly, to make things go pff smoothly, to carry out a plan without a blunder or a Jar, the carriage ready at the proper moment, the flowers specially arranged, the right seats at tho theater, everything foreseen, every possible occur rence provided for. every want anticipated, every contretemps avoided, Thine are all unimportant In themselves, yet In tho mass thoy never fall to create a strong improsslon Jn 0 woman, for a woman hates blunders and will trust a man In great things If she eees that he has a genius for making small things go off well. Drouth 11 nil .ew tieeilliiir, It needs no prophot to predict that nearly all the new seeding wl be klled through put the belt affected by the drouth. Many fields n our locality that had a solid stand of timothy and clover two weeks ago are entirely bare today, the young plants hav ing been entirely burned out, Whonever this has happened It will be advisable tn allow the old meadow to stand over till spring, although the trouble on newly soeded ground Is not beyond, remedy. I propose to sow clover and timothy on Ihe stubblo where these were killed by thp drouth and disk the seed In well about the first of August. If the rains begin then there will be a good fall growth and the timothy at least wilt pass through the winter and possibly the clover. Another plan Is to sow n eorn as soon as possible now and cultivate In. If the corn Is too large to cultivate with a two horse plow a onetborse oultlvator may be pressed Into service. 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