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STARTLING PROJECT.
ENGLISHMAN WOULD DIG HOLE
TWELVE MILES DEEP.
Would Solve Many Questions Un
known to the Scientific World
Estimated Cost $25, OOO, 000
and to Take 85 Years.
Experiments to be tried in the Wash
ington monument by officers of the geo
logical survey to try to determine the
compressiveness of the earth’s mass,
has awakened widespread interest in
scientific circles. Coming as it does on
the heels of a project broached . by
Charles Algernon Parsons, of England,
to bore a hole 12 miles into the earth,
the scientific world has much food for
speculation.
Prof. Parsons estimates that to sink
a shaft 12 miles deep would cost $25,000,
000, and that it would require 85 years
to accomplish it. This shaft, cut down
into the earth, would represent the
equivalent of a hole one foot deep In a
mass 666 feet thick. It would solve
many questions that the scientific knowl
edge of the world has left unanswered,
yet It would investigate only the crust
and leave thousands of miles of the in
teridr mass still untouched.
The amount of compression at the
globe’s center should, to some extent at
least, define the character of the mass
of which it Is formed. It is argued that
the great mass of the interior of the earth
is solid. Against the contention that
the planet, under a crust 25 miles thick,
is a mass of fiery liquid is arrayed th*
fact of the known density of theiglobe
That density in the earth’s entirety it
about 5.5 times the density of the water
that covers three-quarters of the eur
face.
The assumption of a comparatively
thin crust requires, according to Sir
William Thompson, that this crust
should have a rigidity possessed by no
known substance. The sun exerts such a
strain upon the substance of the earth
that the planet could not maintain its
shape as it does, h e maintains, unless the
supposed crust were at least 2,000 or
2,500 miles in thickness.
There is a gradual increase in the tem
perature while penetrating the surface
of the crust. This increase in some lo
calities is as rapid as one degree for each
56 feet of descent; in others one degree
for'75 to 85 feet.
In the Comstock silver mines of Ne
vada, at a depth of 3,065 feet, water has
a temperature of 170 degrees, Fahren
heit. The deepest excavations in the
earth are at the Calumet and Hecla cop
per mines in Michigan, where the longest
perpendicular shaft goes down 4.900
feet, while one of the standing shafts
is more than 8,000 feet in length.
There are in these mines 250 miles ot
lateral galleries. Colossal engines are
required to ventilate the immense sub
terranean city and to keep the tempera
ture endurable in the lower levels. All
deep mine borings prove how stupend
ously difficult would be the task of de
scending below the mile level.
At the lowest rate of increase in the
temperature in penetrating the earth, the
heat at the depth suggested by Mr. Par
j sons, 12 miles down, would be 800 de
! grees Fahrenheit. This heat, though far
from the fusing point of wrought iron,
(3,280 degrees), would render the use
of tools, even if the lower borings of the
shaft were constructed as they are in oil
wells, a difficult process. It would defy
the most colossal scheme of artificial re
frigeration to render such depths avail
ible for entrance by human beings.
No considerations of commercial ben
efit enter into the plans of Mr. Parsons
in suggesting the 12-mile boring into the
crust of the earth. It is a scheme purely
ix the interest of scientific knowledge.
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ODD WILL OF RICH MAN.
Nephew Will Inherit Fortune from
Uncle After Serving Three
Ye^rs as a Soldier.
“That he shall serve at least one full
term of not less than three years in
the ranks of the United States army,
at the expiration of which, if his dis
charge shall read: ‘Service honest and
faithful, character excellent,’ and shall
have reached the grade of a noncommis
sioned officer and bring to the executors
I herewith appoint a letter of com
mendation from the officer under whom
he served, I bequeath to the said George
O. Travis the sum of $130,000, knowing
that, after such service, he will have
had enough experience of the world and
disciplinary training to insure the
proper disposal of what has taken me a
lifetime to accumulate.”
Such are the terms of the will of the
late S. Houston, a wealthy man of Chi
cago, made to his nephew, George O.
Travis, a telegraph operator of Okla
homa. The other day the young man
became of age and appeared at the Unit
ed States army recruiting office and en
lisCed for the purpose of carrying out
I the dying request of his uncle.
Mr. Houston was an old soldier, hav
ing served in the civil war in the Fourth
United States artillery. Unable to con
tinue an army career, Houston, having
nolsons of his own, wras determined that
his next of kin. his nephew, should be
I come a soldier.
Young Travis said it was not neces
sary for his uncle to make that clause
i in his will which makes service in the
, United States army compulsory for him,
1 as he had always intended to enter the
' army as soon as he w as 21.
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A Hole with a Future. •
An English engineer proposes to find
| out what is in the interior of the earth.
He will do this by digging a hole 12 miles
! deep, provided with air locks and cool
ing apparatus. The work will require
85 years and cost $5,000,000. What pa
j tience and effort those foreigners do ex
hibit, remarks the Chicago Record-Her
in getting at the bottom of things.
REMEMBER WOMAN’S GLANCE
Men May Forget the Color of Her Hair,
But the Power of Her Eye
Is Potent.
A woman's eyes are the first objects
to attract a man’s attention, and they
are the last things he remembers about
her. Long alter he has forgotten the
color of her hair, the dimple in her
chin and the soft, sweet sound of her
voice, the look in her eye remains witft
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 eyee
will be as clear to him as the daylight.
Ten years after love has been laid
away in his little satin-lined casket
that glance will rise like Banquets
ghost at the feast and startle him just
at the moment when the man is look
ing most intently into the eyes of an
other woman.
It is not the color of a woman’s eyee
which a man first observes or last re
members. Nine times out of ten a
man will turn from the glance of a
pair of soft brown, cowlike eyes to
gaze into the green orbs of the red
headed girl on the other side of the
table, 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 Vill 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
can be gotten out of him.
The fact that Becky Bharpe’s eyes
were green or mat vieopa.ua o
were yellow never Interfered with the
machinations of those fascinating la
dies, nor dulled their reputations as
coquettes. Color, size and shape may
j make an eye beautiful, but they never
can give if that something which so
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. v
j When the jvorld was sentimental
! men called it *Jsbul.‘* Then they gre'w
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 as
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
j lectured upon niuous-oxide gas
throughout the country patented th«
rotating chamber for a pistol. It was
not considered particularly valuable un
i til after his first company that made it
! had failed and fights in Texas and witl
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
1 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 work the next day. A
few years later he multiplied by 40 the
value; of certain labor in another fac
tory, and by another invention saved
j the company |50,000 on contracts al
ready made. Later, with a sewing ma
j chine company, he forged shuttles from
I one piece of bar steel and cut previous
costs in half. Since that time he has
j made forgings by the use of drops
| weighing as much as a ton dropping
| with dies sometimes six feet upon iron,
i steel and copper. An example of his in
; ventive genius is the instance of his
| forging offhand from a single piece ol
! copper commutator bars for electric
dynamos after the electrician in charge
had said that such a scheme was im
possible.
Priest and Donkey.
When Archbishop Farley was privat*
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
this, 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 wanl
fur thet horse.”
“Oh, I wouldn’t be Interested In know
ing thet,” replied Farmer Shoude.
"No?”
“No; but I wouldnT mind knowln
what ye’d take.”—Philadelphia Press.
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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 recognize ability and
admire it, even when its possessor had
foiled his best laid plans for generous
loot
Une afternoon a few days ago the mi*
tress of one of the most beautiful of tht
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 ths
bell rang, and the maid went to ths
door. Opening it, she found, smiling in
a polite and friendly manner, a tall, dis
tinguished looking and well dressed man,
who lequested 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 soim* .
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 the 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
mistress. Would you mind providing
me with paper and pencil?”
Tlio maM. rAftTlUCtfllllY ftTld
touched an 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 hef ftoUte attitude
near the window. Her profile was re
1 markably well denned. The pencil and
paper were brought and handed to the
| polite stranger. Be did not begin writ
ing at once. He paused, as if In thought
Then he looked long and keenly at the
gilhoutte 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.j
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
j turned, and the maid handed her the
ndte. “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.”
i Mary took the note and read it. She
smiled slightly as she handed it back.
“He means, madam, that he did not
enjoy his stay, I think.”
j The note read:
"Mr». Blank.— Dear Madam: A complete
Itranger 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.”
GARB OF BRITISH TROOPS.
It la Reported That Officers Are Very
Much Dissatisfied with Their
Uniforms.
Bui, ror some lusctuiame reasuu, oui
soldiers appear to think their uniform
is a badge of shame, or, at least, of
aervilude, 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 oi
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 oi
any rank seems to consider that uni
form can enhance his attractions to
the female eye, and the only way is
. 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
j 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. In every foreign country
soldiers—and officers most erf 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 a 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 x livery,
and not encouraged so much as they
now are to consider it a privilege to
appear as civilians.
Pneumonia Kills Thousands.
During the months from November to
April one-fifth of all deaths in the large
cities of the United States are from
pneumonia, while but one-ninth are
tntoe consumption.
Quality Tells!
400,000
Kimballs
Have Been Sold
400.000 KIMBALL Pianos and Organs have been sold;
think what it means—400,000 people have selected and
bought KIMBALL’S because they concluded it was the
best to buy. This number includes tens of thousands of
Colleges, Schools and Musicians, and hundreds of the
Greatest MUSICAL ARTISTS the world has ever known.
It's the Best to Buy.
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J. N. CORNATZAR,
General Agent, Memphis, Tenn.
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And Other
Pai n.
All pain in any disease is
nerve pain, the result of a tur
bulent condition of the nerves.
The stabbing, lacerating,
darting, burning, agonizing
pain that comes from the prom
inent nerve branches, or sen
sory nerves, is neuralgia, and
is the “big brother” of all the
other pains.
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pains by soothing these larger
nerves, ana restoring men
tranquility.
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leave no bad after-effects, and
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backache, stomachache, sciat
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They also relieve Dizziness,
' Sleeplessness, Nervousness,
Car-Sickness, and Distress af
ter eating.
‘ For many years I have been a con
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