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THE MAID WAS NO FOOL.
Gentlemanly Intruder with Thievish
Intention Compliments the One
Who Foiled Him.
Thieves, if the adage may be trusted,
have a fine senes of humor. This is the
story of one who was enough of the
fine gentleman to recognite ability and
admire it, even when its possessor had
foiled his best laid* plans for generous
loot.
One afternoon a few days ago the mis
tress of one of the most beautiful of the
new houses along Riverside drive went
out in her carriage, with the information
that she should not return for several
hours at least. About four o’clock the
bell rang, and the maid went to the
door. Opening it, she found, smiling in
a polite and friendly manner, a tall, dis
tinguished looking and well dressed man,
who requested the privilege of seeing
Mrs. Blank for a moment on business of
importance.
“Mrs. Blank has gone out and left no
word as to when she will come back,”
said the maid.
"Has she been gone long?” inquired
the polished stranger.
“About two hours,” said the maid.
“Unfortunate,” murmured the
stranger, In a vexed voice. “It is so im
portant. May I come in and wait for a
short time? She may return."
The maid led the way into the recep
tion hall and bade the elegant stranger
be seated. He settled' himself comforta
bly, and looked around with critical in
tentness. Bric-a-brac, objects of art,
rare bronzes ornamented (he tables and
the mantels. The maid sat at a respect
ful distance, with her profile severely
outlined by a window. Fifteen minutes
passed. The stranger stirred uneasily
in his deep chair. He spoke:
“I beg pardon, but I think it will hard
ly be possible for me to wait longer. I
shall therefore leave a message for your
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me with paper and pencil?”
The maid bowed respectfully and
touched ah electric button. The polite
stranger watched her with interest. An
other maid appeared.
‘‘Annette, this gentleman desires to
leave a note for madam. Will you please
get paper and pencil from the study?”
She returned to her polite attitude
near the window. Her profile was re
markably well defined. The pencil and
paper were brought and handed to the
polite stranger. He did not begin writ
ing at once. He paused, as if in thought.
Then he looked long and keenly at the
silhoutte of the maid against the win
dow, and wrote briefly. The note was
inclosed in the envelope and sealed. He
rose to his feet, and with a profound bow
handed it to the respectful and attentive
maid.
‘‘Kindly give this to your mistress.
No, it will not be necessary to leave my
card. She will understand perfectly.”
He bowed and was gone. The maid
watched him until his smooth silk hat
disappeared from view.
A few minutes later her mistress re
turned, and the maid handed her the
note. “A gentleman left it, madam,
asking that I should give it to you im
mediately you returned.”
Her mistress handled it curiously, ob
served the address with some doubt, and
opened the envelope. She read care
fully twice and then looked inquiringly
at the maid. “What does this mean,
Mary?” she asked. “Here, read it.”
Mary took the note and read it. She
smiled slightly as she handed it back.
“He means, madam, that be did not
enjoy his stay, I think.”
The note read:
"Mrs. Blank.—Dear Madam: A complete
stranger takes the liberty of informing
you of what you are probably already
aware, and with great pleasure attests to
the valuable fact that your maid is no fool.
“Her profound admirer,
“A FRIEND OF RAFFLES.”
-A
GARB OF BRITISH TROOPS.
It Is Reported That Officers Are Very
Much Dissatisfied with Their
Uniforms.
But, for some Inscrutable reason, our
soldiers appear to think their uniform
is a badge of shame, or, at least, of
servitude, says the London Truth. Any
self-respecting officer, so far as I can
see, would rather die at the head of a
forlorn hope than go to a theater or
restaurant or a private ball full of reg
imentals. A noncommissioned officer
who sees a brother warrior privileged
to walk down the street in plain clothes
turns sick with envy. No soldier of
any rank seems to -consider that uni
form can enhance his attractions to
the female eye, and the only way in
which I have ever heard of Its being
used for this purpose is by the humble,
impecunious private, who charges a fe
male admirer so much an hour—two
pence, I believe, the usual fee—for
walking out in company with him.
What makes this'the more strange is
that it is entirely peculiar,to the Brit
ish army. Ifc every foreign country
soldiers—and officers most of all—seem
to be Extremely proud of themselves
therein. The effect of smart military
uniforms in brightening up a crowd,
whether out of doors or at any evening
assemblage, is undeniable. As a mere
matter of aesthetics most people will
agree that it would be & decided im
provement if uniforms were worn in
England as they are on the continent.
And from the merely professional point
of view I cannot help thinking that it
would be of advantage to the army if
soldiers of all ranks were expected to
take more pride in the king’s livery,
and not encouraged so much as they
now are to consider it a privilege to
appear as civilians.
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Pneumonia Kills Thousands.
During the months from November to
April one-flfth of all deaths in the large
cities of the United States are from
pneumonia, while but one-ninth are
from consumptioa.
REMEMBER WOMAN’S GLANCE
Men May Forget the Color of Her Halrt
But the Fowdf of HeT Eye
Is Potent.
A woman’s eyes are the first object!
to attract a man’s attention, sad they
are the last things he remembers shout
her. Long after he has forgotten the
color of her hair, the dimple la her
chin and the soft, sweet sound of her
voice, the look in her eye remains with
him, says an authority on the sub
ject
He may not be able to single her
glove out of a pile of keepsakes; he
may have cast her photograph upside
down into the waste Dasket with a lot
of others; the slippers she made him
may have been worn out by his valet
but still some particular turn of her
glance, some little trick of dropping
her lashes or lifting her brown eyes
will be as clear to him as the daylight
l Ten years after love has been laid
1 away in his little satin-lined casket
that glance will rise like Banquo’s
ghost at the feast and startle him just
at the moment when the man is look
1 ing most intently into the eyes of an
other woman.
It is not the color of a woman’s eyes
i which a man first observes or last re
1 members. Nine times out of ten a
i man will turn from the glance of a
1 pair of soft brown, cowiike eyes to
gaze into the green orbs of the red
headed girl on the other side of the
tabled and many a doll-like, blue-eyed
beauty weeps because some pug-nosed,
tawny-eyed woman has lured away her
sweetheart
Ask any man the color of his sister’s
eyes and he will look at you blankly.
“Jove," he will remark, “I—I believe
I’ve forgotten. But they’re all right.
There’s something about them that’s
catchy.” And that is positively all that
/von Ha troHan aiit nf Him
The fact that Becky Sharpe’s eyes
were green or that Cleopatra’s eyes
were yellow never interfered with the
machinations of those fascinating la
dies, nor dulled their reputations as
coquettes. Color, Size and shape may
make an eye beautiful, but they never
can give it that something which so
I many beautiful eyes lack and so many
! homely ones possess, the power to
! make a man break a bank or sell his
j overcoat in order to give his wife what
she wants.
When the world was sentimental
men called it “soul.” Then they grew
practical and apathetic and they called
it “character.” But no man will ever
know what it is any more than he will
ever know why he married the particu
lar woman he picked out or why the
cook has left. It is a question us
subtle and elusive as either of these.
WONDERS IN MECHANICS.
Some That Were Worked by Young
Americans with a Genius for
Invention.
A young man who at 21 had been be
fore the mast, had worked in the
chemical department of a mill and had
lectured upon nitrous-oxide gas
throughout the country patented the
rotating chamber for a pistol. It was
not considered particularly valuable un
til after his first company that made it
had failed and fights in Texas and with
the Seminoles in Florida proved its
worth. The Mexican war made a de
mand for it.
The same mechanic, says the
World’s Work, who did so much for
early ax-making developed details in
revolver-making. The American plan
of not hesitating at the cost of new
appliances was never better shown
than in this big armory. The owner
was probably the first man to suggest
the mining of harbors with torpedoes
for defense, and he was the first to lay
a submarine electric cable. One day a
young man from Vermont came to his
works.
“What can you do?” asked the su
perintendent.
“I’m a machinist, a toolmaker and a
diesinker and I can play a horn in a
band,” was the reply.
He went to jvork the next day. A
few years later he multiplied by 40 the
val&e of certain labor in another fac
tory, and by another invention saved
the company $50,000 on contracts al
ready made. Later, with a sewing ma
chine company, he forged shuttles from
one piece erf bar steel and cut previous
costs in half. Since that time he has
made forgings by the use of drops
weighing as much as a ton dropping
with dies sometimes six feet upon iron,
steel and copper. An example of his in
ventive genius is the instance of his
forging offhand from a single piece of
copper commutator bars for electric
dynamos after the electrician in charge
had said that such a scheme was im
possible.
PrieBt and Donkey.
When Archbishop Faxley was private
chamberlain to the late Pope Leo, some
20 years ago, he was called upon to meet
all sorts of persons. Many of them
measured wits with him, and few scored
victory. On one occasion a young
Frenchman tried his best to anger the
prelate, then Mons. Farley, by scoffing
at religion and clergymen. Failing in
thiB, he resorted to sheer impudence,
saying: “I am informed that in Mada
gascar, whenever they hang a priest,
they hang a donkey along with him.”
The young man laughed, and Mons.
Farley, looking at him mildly, said:
“Well, let us both be thankful, my young
friend, that we are not in Madagas
car."
Much More to the Point.
“Ef yer real interested,” said Dea
con Skinner, “I’ll tell ye what I want
fur thet horse.”
“Oh, I wouldn’t be interested in know
ing thet,” replied Farmer Shoude.
“No?”
“No; but I wouldn’t mind knowin’
what ye'd take.”—Philadelphia Press.
MARK HANNA’S COURTSHIP
How, When a Young Grocer, He
Wooed and Won the Daughter
of Daniel Rhode*.
Nearly 38 years ago Mark Hanna
vfras just starting on his business ca
reer as a grocer in Cleveland. He
was poor, plodding, and to the casual
observer a very every-day sort of young
nan, says the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Daniel Rhodes was one of the rich 1
coal owners of the state. He had one
daughter, Gussie, the very idol of his
soul. Around this lovely girl the
brusque old father had wreathed all
the sentiment, all the hopes of his fu
ture existence. Everything was to be
done for Gussie. Mrs. Rhodes, her
fond mother, was a joint idolator at
the daughter’s shrine, and the doting
parents had dreams of a rich, influen
tial suitor, a splendid marriage and a
brilliant social career for Gussie,
when, as usual, the unexpected hap
pened. Gussie Rhodes met and loved
the obscure, poor young man, Mark
Hanna. Mr. Rhodes was astounded
when the daring young grocer called
upon him and asked for the hand of his
daughter. He refused absolutely to
grant the young suitor even time
enough to beg. He said “no" curtly
and sharply, and when he saw his
daughter he tried to scold her, but in
stead he took her in his honest arms
and begged her not to think of “this
unknown man, Hanna." He said he
never, never could consent to such a
choice for his child.
Gussie Rhodes told her father, witfc
many a reassuring embrace, that she
would never marry without his con
sent, and she added: “But, papa dear,
I shall never marry any man but Mark
Hanna.”
Then she promised her father not to
see her lover or write to him for a
year at least. She kept her promise,
and in the course of a few weeks, ah
though she never audibly murmured,
and was sweetly gentle and loving to
all about her, she grew pale and wan.
She neither ate no slept. The old fa
ther Whs at his wit’s end. Some one
proposed a foreign tour for that change
of scene which is supposed to work
wonders in heart affections, and,
presto at a few hours’ notice, father,
mother and daughter were on board
an Atlantic liner.
For nearly a year the “change of
scene” prescription was faithfully pur
sued and the patient, always cheerfully
submissive, gentle and charming, ob
viously grew frailer day by day. Al
most in despair the old man brought
his child home again and one morn- j
ing he gathered the courage to ask
her if she till cared for Mark Hanna.
“Why, father,” she replied, “I shall
'Iways love Mark; I told you that,
you know, a year ago.”
Poor old “Uncle Dan” Rhodes! That
was a bitter day for him, but he was
equal to the occasion. Sending for the
obscure young man, he said to him:
"Mr. Hanna, Gussie loves you, that Is
my only reason for accepting you as
her future husband. You are poor. I’ll
fix it so Gussie can live as she has
been accustomed to and I suppose I
must see y«u marry her.”
Now the coming young man cast ever
Bo slight a shadow of his future great
ness on the opportunity of the present.
“Mr. Rhodes ” said he, “I most grate
fully accept the gift of your daughter’s
love. To marry her is for this world to
become a paradise for me, but I cannot
make her my wife unless she will be
content to live as my means will enable
us. I can neither accept aid nor per
mit my wife to accept it from any
one.”
So Mark Hanna and Gussie Rhodes
were married, ana the bride went from
her father’s big house to live in a tiny
little cottage, where with one maid of
: all work, she was as happy as a queen
! for some years.
LINE OF CASTE IN ENGLAND
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The American in That Country Soon
Becomes Conscious of Its
Restrictions.
What is it, at bottom, that makes 1
the English atmosphere so difficult
for an American to breathe in freely?
It is, I believe, that he teels himself
in a country where the dignity of life
is lower than in his own; a country
where a man born in ordinary cir
cumstances expects, and is expected, to
die in ordinary circumstances; where
the scope of his efforts is traced be
forehand by the accident of position;
where he is handicapped in all cases
and crushed in most by the superin
cumbent weight of caste, convention,
“good form” and the deadening artifi
cialities of ah old society, comments a
writer in the North American Review.
That unconquerable buoyancy which
infects the American air like a sting
and challenge and braces every Ameri
can with the inspiration that he has a
chance in life; that there are open op
portunities, unreserved possibilities,
no battering at locked doors, no floun
dering in blank alleys; that here, in
short, it is the man himself who
makes his career—is sometning which
the English have so utterly lost as to
be incapable of realizing it
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