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. If one should get a
stand from this It could bo lightly disked
In tho spring and a peek or two of oafs town
there, this mixture being a satisfactory
wiui i"i u? ncoo puKgraiigiiB may seem
unreasonable, but where one li put In a
corner by the drouth he has got to find his
way out by a variety pf moans.
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