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MoAonn Of the and the
A1hC FROuChD CIVIC Changing Bn o ~

Governor was on Deck, but when there
was no one to keep Tab on him he be-
gan to find 500 Bills in his Clothes
when he was looking for Card and
1t seemed to Vex him a good deal.
A few Years before w. Harold be-
came surrounded by Currency he had
taken Wife. without very much of a
Struggle. LeOnora was of very Nice
Family that owed something on the
House and kept a Girl part of the Time.
After she began to have Governess
for Stuyvesant Jimpson and an I'M
ported Nurse for the little Evelyn
Jimpson her Memory seemed to blur in
Spots and she couldn't have done up
the Dishes to save her life.
When she was out in her Brougham
1t kept her busy not seeing her Child
hood Friends who used to go to kissing
Parties and Taffy Pulls with her. That
was why she wanted to Travel. She
fairly ached to get to Paris, where True
Social Worth is recognized right on the
Jump.
Her Husband, also, was getting sore
on his Birthplace. His Acquaintance
would not stand for the w. Harold
Gag. They called him "BilI"
Then, on top of 1t all, the two Cases
of Offspring needed the French Lang
uage. Leonora was already feeding
their Legs to the Mosquitoes because
some one had told her that the real
Cream Cheeses always left the Kids
partly uncovered, la Parisienne.
w. Harold closed out all his Interests
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-07
By George AIDE.

Accordingly he threw up a Shack with
Onyx Foundations and Florida Water
piped into every Room. 1t faced four
different Ways. The Excursionists
rode in from as far away as Swanzey
to look at 1T and wait for the Real
Things to come out and pile into the
Elue Assassin and go out hunting Baby
Carriages.
After the keen Pleasure of being
pointed out had somewhat dulled and
the Homicide Wagon had palled ON
them and Polo was a Bore and Ping
Pong a Misdemeanor and Golf a Crime,
poor Harold and Leonora found them
selves up against it, strong and plenty.
She gave few Dog Parties and one
Tor Prince, but even these gaieties
petered out after while. Sometimes
Leonora was afraid that in order to
Kill Time she would either have to min
gle with her Children or else take to
Reading, but she hated to cause Talk
She and w. Harold found themselves
in the great Army of the Unemployed.
And yet all the Factories were running
double Shifts and Haryest Hands get
ting So cay. q,
At last they became SO Desperate
and Lonely that they fell in love with
each other cut of yearning Sympathy
and this gave Use to so much Scandal
that they had to go back to the Other
Side to live it down.
MORAL: Beware of Government
EOrdS
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w. Harold and Bunch, including a.
Retinue of Private Secretaries, Hair
Dressers and Maids, as we'll as Keep
er, sometimes known as a Valet, set
out for Yurrup. AS Harold sized up
the Carayansary he swelled with Sat-
isfaction and said, Little would any
one Suspect that we have been out of
the Hazel Brush less than Months"
Now that he was beyond the Range
Of the. unlettered Reub, he began to do
little Landscape Gardening ON the
Frcntispiece, laying out a. very neat
Set Of Depews. He wore Gloves even
at Night and worked for Hours trying
to get side-hold on the Piccadilly
Accent.
The joyful Jimpsons cut 14-foot
Cash right through the center Of the
Continent. They saw everything men,
toned in the Red Book and finally
struck Paris, with a loud metallic
Sound. There they settled down to
remain forever, in the Shade of the
sheltering Absinthe Frappe with the
Grisettes singing in the Trees.
But W. Harold had inherited few
restless Microbes from the parental
Hustler. After he had seen all the
Pictures from every Angle and had
worn cut two or three Chairs sitting
around Cafes, he began to long for the
Nasal Iwang and something to do.
The whole Kit and Tribe moved back
10 the States.
He learned that the Proper Caper
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''3. AT the north pole the land is
depressed and carries the great Arctic
ocean, the base of, the tetraede.
~. The continents and oceans are
antipodes-thatS is, each continent has
an ocean son; the other side, of the earth
just as each edge of, the tetraede Is
faced by "a surface. m
SO. The southern hemisphere Is al
most entirely covered with water, with
central mass of Land (thee point of
the tetraede) and earth projections
which radiate from sthe south pole to-
ward north (the edges of the tetraede).
''These are some of the most i'm
portant facts in the formation of the
earth whose legitimate regularity has
ever been acknowledged. and which In
a surprisingly simple manner can be
traced back to the tetraede. %
ga surprising irregularity OF the
earth Of Eruption around the earth
which created the volcanic middle seas
of the three double continents, the
Caribbean sea, the Mediterranean sea-,
and the Indian archipelago.
'"The Eastern dislocation of the three
Southern peninsulas is plainly In cas-
ual connection with this Eruption.
Even these phenomena be traced back
to the tetraede formation of the earth.
The tetraede rotates around the polar
axis. Originally the parts, moved with
equal velocity; the more, however, the
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lection of men and women passengers,
who pay 10 cents a card each game.
The pots run in the neighborhood of 81
each, and a hundred or more are played
during the course Of the day.
The wheel is somewhat prim-
tive. The numbered ellis are played
in a covered picnic basket borrowed
from the steward, and thoroughly
shaken up, then drawn out one at a
time. The keno game lasts far into
the night, that is, so far as the men
players are concerned, but IS over be-
fore craps is concluded. because the
stewards begin breakfast preparations
about o'clock in the morning, and
they need the dining room.
Between decks the recruits shoot for
cents and nickels and clothing. In
the cabins two decks below the engine
rooms the overflow of passengers play
hearts at 5 cents a heart. On the
quarter deck the junior officers of the
chip throw dimes at cracks. The fight
ing man, In his hours of ease, is the
most ardent disciple the goddess of
chance ever boosted.
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geographers have never ceased to call
attention to the regularity of the coast
lands, and plateaus. In this connec-
ton the uniformity of North and South
America and Africa, the uniform ar
arrangements Of mountains, flats, and
lowlands in the two Americas may be
mentioned. The great number of these
phenomena scarcely leaves a doubt
that there exists an entire system Of
subordinate structural lines and cry
edge directions of the tetraede."
But while all Investigations of the
principal features led to the tetraede
there is great diversity Of opinion con-
corning the subordinate surfaces.
Michal-Levy and Green trace the shape
of the earth back to the hexakis-tet-
raede. This is, as shown in figure 2,
tetraede upon the surfaces of which
sfx-sided pyramids rise, a frequent
crystal formation which, for instance
in the case. of the diamond, is even
general. If in the diamond the sur
faces are arched and the edges bent
the body approaches the globe forma-
ton very nearly.
When DR.. Ruedemann published his
theory a few days ago, scientific men
in Berlin were unanimous in ridiculing
his assertions. Now, however, several
of them have begun to do some deep
bordering over the affair, and all sorts
of discussions are being waged.
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While an army transport is going
across the pacific there is apt to be
more or less card playing and other
forms of gaming on board. Cards are
a prescription recommended to allevi-
ate the nonotony of the trip from San
Francisco to Manila.
The dose may be taken three times
q day after meals, six days to the week,
except in the week when the 180th me-
ridan is touched, when Saturday skips
to Monday, and Sunday is wiped off
the calendar. Then poker may De a
seven-day affair.
There are no cards to be bought off
the commissary storekeeper. Dice do
not figure in the merchandise list or
the ship between decks. The United
States army transport regulations for
bid gaming. Section PA Is not to be
misunderstood. And yet, the card
playing goes on.
1t Is noon when the troopship cuts
away from her San Francisco pier. 1t
is o'clock when the smoking room
fills, and card playing begins.
The four round tables in the sky
lighted rectangle are built with an eye
to the card players requirements. At
regular intervals around the green
baize surface are sunk brass bottomed
basins, circular and about five inches
Seven Mysterious Basins.
For cigars" says the ships officers,
mindful of the regulations; "for ashes,
of course" But the basins are just of
a size to accommodate the red, white,
blue and yellow chips which pass cur
rent for money in the smoking room.
When the game is over a spring touch
ed under the table releases the BASIN
which turns within its supports, and
discards its accommodations of dust,
ashes and Stumps.
There are not enough seats at the Ia
BILE to accommodate all who would
play. For on board there are hun
dred or more officers of varying rank,
insular employees going out to audit the
accounts in the Philippines, and few
civilians, and about every man is a
poker player. So, to get around the
difficulty, three games are started, and
an understanding reached as to which
men shall play in each game.
Prophets in the Game.
Each voyage brings to light it's chief
apostle of poker. A prophet Of
straights and Pushes develops the first
day out, and during the entire trip he
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assumes charge of the smoking room,
ruling who shall play, at what hours
each shall sit in, the size of the game,
and the time at which the consolation
pot shall be decided.
Usually he is frst-lieutenant. A
second lieutenant would be a .trifie i'm
mature to occupy so important post.
A captain might thinle.it not quite the
right thing to be identified so promi-
nently with the sport. So 1t is gener-
ally a first-lieutenant who leads the
army out of the port of San Francisco
into the course of draws and discards.
By the time the boom of the guns on
the Preside hills has died away the
first session Is well under way on the
transport. The first lieutenant has ar
ranged the tables to his satisfaction.
He has ruled that not more than six
persons shall sit at one table. Per-
sonally he prefers a five-handed game,
but he is willing to sink his prejudices
and play with an even half-dozen.
Also, he has given the chips their
respective values, the whites being ne
gotiable for nickels, the reds for dimes,
the blues for quarters, and the yelloWS
for half dollars. 1t is a 50-cent limit
game at the start.
Each player takes out a $40 stack. A
50-cent jackpot is contributed to by
each player. There is a pool Of So to
start with, and one may break it for
only half dollar. The game is out of
all proportions, but it is of the first
lieutenant's making, and it goes.
At the star table sits a captain of in
fantry, West Pointer, a man with a
record, square-ja wed, forceful, kind
eyed, knotty of muscle; a second lieu
tenant in the cavalry, thick armed,
heavy of movement but quick of wit,
wearing curiously shaped spectacles
that fasten beneath his ears, as the
sunbonnet of a country girl fastens I'M
der her chin; on his left cheek deep
scar from saber wound; a second
lieutenant of infantry, pasty-f faced,
widespread as to ears, characterless; a
civilian clerk to a paymaster, prema-
turely gray, polished, quiet and con-
sentative; a sprawly inquired big chap
going out in the medical service with
the rank of first lieutenant, and the
first lieutenant who banks the game.
The civilian clerk and the first lieu
tenant win, the others lose. The first
lieutenant calls the spraw1y chap
doc" or "Medico," the pasty- faced
boy File" and the cavalryman "Hom-
bre." But they all give the captain,
who is their senior by only few years,
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the respectful title indicating his rank.
However, they take his money from
him without the slightest regard for
his military standing.
When four bells announce o'clock the
game breaks UP for the time being. The
captain is the biggest loser. He has
been separated from $50, which he
thinks is too much to lose at one sitting
of a little 50-cent limit. Also, he does
some mental arithmetic, based on his
losses, and the fact that he will be on
board twenty-six days, with three
poker sessions to the day. Whereupon
he resolves to play once a day, and not
oftener.
Two Dollar Limit.
When dinner is over the smoking
room fills again. The first-lieutenant
announces that the game at his table
will be 81 limit. The captain says he
does not care to play more than once
a day. The medico Is examining the
log with the prettiest of the twelve
army nurses. There are four of the
original players at this table.
ooh. WELL" says the captain, I'll sit
in for an hour" -.
Everybody takes out $40 worth of
checks. A 50-cent jack starts the ball.
The first-lieutenant deals. The civil
ian clerk is on the left. The clerk
passes. The paSty-faced lieutenant
opens for So. The captain makes it 81.
The cavalryman pops his blinking eyes.
'Fo' dollars" he says. "Ah could buy
a pow'ful sight Of tamales fo' fo' dol
lahs."
He pauses.
"Play cards." says the first lieuten-
ant, in matter-o way. "Are you
in, Hombre?"
They have been in the island before,
and they call each other "Hembre"
whenever they remember the Spanish
pronunciation.
"Ah guess Anil make it two dolIahs
mo- to play" says the cavalryman, I'M
expectedly.
''Well, I'll play for the SIX" says the
dealer.
The civilian clerk allows that he'll
throw away Sc himself.
The File" who opened the pot,
stands the raise, and the captain care
lessly throws in four yellow chips, each
of these being now worth a dollar. At
this, the cavalryman does some deep
swearing, though he finally sees. the
advance, the first lieutenant drops out,
the civilian clerk silently drops the ex-
ira 81, and the File" after some hesi-
tation, makes good.
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"Come one, Hombre" urges the
handsome boy, clicking the bones.
"Oh, all right" assents the cavalry
man, indulgently..
The infantry chap throws a seven.
nickel with you," he calls. Shoot
you the dime"
Sure" says the other.
The propOSer of the game throws
an eleven and wins again.
"Shoot the twentyT' he asks, and
this being agreed to the pass is made.
In five minutes the big boy with the
big hat is SIS winner. The men who
have been playing poker are crowding
around the two. The first lieutenant,
having stacked up the chips in the
rack, regards the Files with amused
superiority Of air.
The quartermaster captain comes in
to the room.
I'D rather you took the money off
the table. Can't you play with chips?
Otherwise" he adds good naturedly,
It'll have to leave the room. Regula-
lions, you know"
"All right" says the bespectacled
player, Tets take out So worth of chips
apiece"
Half a dozen stacks are issued. The
tall boy throws aside his hat.
"Nevah could shoot crap dice with
a hat on he says.
After a few passes he rips off his
jacket and rolls UP the sleeve of his
right arm.
"Now, look out" he says.
The Southerner's Luck.
He shoves a big stack of chips into
the center.
Play TO- as much Of that as yo'
want" ne shrieks
Several combine to cover the stake.
The boy throws winning point
"The whole thing goes" he shouts:
that's the way All shoots craps All
can beat the niggahs, All can"
1t is covered and again he wins His
roommate is out of chips.
Gee, he growls, "evah see such
uck? He's worse than cornfield buck
at harvest time"
The infantryman keeps up contin-
uous run of talk.
"Buy chips" he yells at his room
mate, buy chips or go to bed. It's too
late fo' yo' to be up, anyhow"
Then to the ivory cubes, Attention,
dice, attention."
He has half the table covered with
! his winnings.
Does this beat pokah?" he inquiries
of no one in particular. Does it?"
witheringly.
The captain, who has played in the
poker game, coming On deck for drink
of water, turns into the smoking room,
attracted by the yellls. He stands, in
his paJamas, at the table for fifteen
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one American scientist of note, Prof.
e. D. Preston, of the United States
coast and geodetic survey. In a. Leo
ture delivered before the Philosophi-
cal society of Washington, Prof. Pres
ton stated as a result Of the latest
survey of ,archings of the earth's sur
face in America, Europe and Asia,
that the earth has greater curves than
are required for an oblate spheroid,
that is, globe flattened at the poles,
and that the theory which best ex-
plains the facts established by OBJ
servation is that the earth is not round
in the sense of a ball, but is in reality
of tetrahedral, or crystal shape.
DR.. Ruedemann proceeds with the
history and the deductions of his
theory in the following manner:
1.-The view of the crystal shape of
the earth was probably first advanced
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that the theory of the ball formation
of the earth, acknowledged only after
fierce battles with medieval supersti-
lions, has not remained undisputed by
some of the best thinkers of the mod
ern school.
AS early as the first half of the last
century some scientists. among them
the famous geologist Ellie de Beau
mont, claimed with reference to the
regular limitations of the continents
and the arrangement of mountain
chains according to certain mathemat-
ical laws that the shape of the earth
corresponds in general to the edges
of a huge crystal, or, as he calls 1T in
formidable technical expression, a
pentagondekaeder.
Like many another theory which
took the place of older and well es-
tablished precepts, Ellie de Beaumonts
claim found at first no adherents; it
was simply considered the ingenious
speculation of fantastic mind. But,
as DIR. Ruedemann expresses 1t, truth
and murder will out" and the German
scientist points to the fact that the
voices raised in defense of the crystal
shape of the earth have conspicuously
increased of late, and geological pub
LEGATIONS have taken up the question.
Upheld by an American.
The .savants Of the old world have
recently found the support OF at least
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-07

minutes and manages to lose $50 at
craps. Thereupon the fact that this
is not his day to win dawns on him and
he goes back to bed.
At o'clock the game stops, because
the attendants want TO cream up the
room. The handsome infantryman is
way winner. He sleeps till the after
noon, and then sits on the settee read
ing Samuel Smiles Thrift" interrupted
by the rattle of chips at the poker ta-
BILE. Craps is his game.
Keno in the Saloon.
Before this, the morning play has
had the use of the tables. The 50-cent
game has been played, as 1t is being
played now. The 50 game is for the
evening.
Downstairs in the saloon, after the
stewards assistants have cleared away
the tableware, a -Whiskered gov
eminent employee has started a keno
game. He has cards to the number of
a score, and several hundred buttons
for covering the numbers as they are
called. He gets together quite col
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it has the smallest volume and the
largest surface, because this process
requires the least change in the sur
face. For the latter offers the geratest
resistance to contraction. The body
which has these qualities is the tetrad.
Hence liquid ball should theoretically
be changed into a tetrad in case of
forcible contraction.
Experiments made by Prof. Fair
BARN, in reference to this theory have
in fact shown that rubber balls under
water change to tetrads. In the same
manner do soap bubbles assume tet-
rahedral shape In the air. According
to the same law cylinders become tri1-
ateral prisms."
illustrates His Theory.
At this point in exploiting his unique
theory DR.. Ruedemann illustrates his
beliefs with drawings. He says:
"The earth tetraede is so situated
that the basis is formed by the Arctic
ocean, while the point is at the south
pole. Such a tetraede is shown in
Fig. 1. The masses of the land are
at the edges of this tetraede and the
oceans upon the surfaces. This theory
explains the following facts in con-
nection with the earth's surface:
81. Most of the land is upon the
northern hemisphere and extends in
the north in eastern and western di-
rection along the degrees of latitude
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that is, along the edges of the basis
the north coast of Asia, Europe and
America. The shallow basins like the
German sea and Hudson's bay are of
very recent date, and may be consid-
cred as land in this instance.
q. All land, Is divided into three
double continents, which begin broad
in the north and become narrower to-
ward the south. These are America,
Europe-Africa, and. Asia Australia 1t
has been geographically proved that
the two Americas, Europe and Africa,
Asia and Australia belong together.
The irruptions of the sea in the mid
die Of the three double continents are
Of late origin. The transatlantic,
Indian, and Pacific-begin broad in
the south and become narrower to-
ward the north. %
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GERMAN sAVANT's THEORY on EARTH's SHAPE

three basic edges Of the tetraede in
the north began to form the more was
the protruding part held back, while
the more southernly parts rotated more
quickly. The result was a torsion or
twist Of the earth which on the one
hand caused the well-known zone OF
Eruption characterized by middle seas,
VOLCANOES, and earthquakes and on the
other hand moved the southern side
edges of the tetraede toward the east.
"The latter two phenomena are
therefore, like the f1attening Of the
poles and the prominence Of the equa-
torial zone, notifications of the tet-
raede form of the earth which must
be ascribed to the rotation of the earth.
"While the general outlines Of the
earth formation, the distribution Of
the continents and oceans, point to
the simple tetraede, biologists and
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has no fiat surfaces and straight edges,
but curved surfaces and edges, SO that
such body In fact may resemble a
ball.
"The view Of the tetrad form of the
earth is based. on the one hand. upon
the geological condition Of the earth's
surface, and on the other hand upon
the physical laws which rule for the
contraction Of spherical bodies in COOL
ing.
a ball, consisting of molten or fiery
liquid material; 1t was "a drop which
once flew off the sun. But a ball has,
as can easily be proved geometrically,
of all bodies the largest volume and
the smallest surface. 1t can also be
proved theoretically, and experiment.
ally that contracting ball assumes
easiest and quickest the form in which
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Special Correspondence.

BERLIN, Sept. CDR. A. Ruede-
mann of the Berlin university has
caused an uproar among German
scientists by announcing that he does
not believe the earth is a sphere. He
declares 1t is nearer crystal shaped
than round, and his deductions, from
observations and experiments, are, to
say the least, ingenious.
DR.. Ruedemann asks for dispassion-
ate view-of his theory on the common
ground that no sacred precepts exist,
so far as science is concerned, and
that in philosophical Investigations the
better always replaced the good and
the new takes the place of the obso-
lete. He calls attention to the fact
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His Terrible Oath.

"Who is that scientific gent in room
1872" asked the scrub lady.
81 dunno" answered the broom GENTLE
man. "But he's a funny one to swear.
You ought to hear him. When he saw
lot of mold on top Of the ink he said
'Bcillusp just that way" Chicago Trib-
une.