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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 plana for generous
loot.
One afternoon a few days ago the ml*
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 •
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-arbrac, 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 therefpf e leave ^message for your
mistress. Would you mind providing
me with paper and pencil?”
The maid bowed respectfully and
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 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
sllhoutte 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 hsjt
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
urniled 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
l f ranger 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 Is Reported That Officers Are Very
Much Dissatisfied with Their
Uniforms.
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But, tor some Inscrutable reason, out
soldiers appear to think their uniform
is a badge of shame, or, at least, of
servitude, says the London Truth. Any
aelf-reapecting officer, so far as I can
see, would rather die at the head of s
'orlorn hope than go to a theater oi
restaurant or a private ball full of reg
imentals. A noncommissioned office!
who sees a brother warrior privileged
to walk down ths 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 beard of Its being
used for this purpose is by the humble.
Impecunious pri vate, who charges a fe
male admirer so much an hour—<r#o
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 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 a decided im
provement if uniforms were worn in
England as they are on the continent.
And from the merely professional poini
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.
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 a* o-ninth an
fima ooMumptloB.
STARTLING PROJECT.
ENGLISHMAN WOULD DIG HOLE
TWELVE MILES DEEP.
Would Solve Many Questions Un*
known to the Scientific World—
Estimated Cost $25,000,000
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 ths
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,- i
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
terior 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 the
fact of the known density of the globe
That density in the earth’s entirety is
about 5.5 times the density of the water
that covers three-quarters of the sur
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
fYtat tVft nlanat iinnl/I nnf maintain Ita
shape as it does, he 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 of
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
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 qil
'veils, 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
it the Interest of scientific knowledge.
ODD WILL OF RICH MAN.
Nephew Will Inherit Fortune from
Uncle After Serving Three
Years 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 offloer 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
listed for the purpose of carrying out
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
no sons of his own, was determined that
his next of kin, his nephew, should be
come a soldier.
Young Travis said it was not neces
sary for his uncle to make that clause
: in his will which makes service in the
United States army compulsory for him
as he had always intended to enter the
army as soon as he was 21.
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
tience and effort those foreigners do ex
hibit, remarks the Chicago Record-Her
ald, in getting at the bottom of thing*
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