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1 .rKSanauwic J THE I -walked with one whose child hnd Intel' died. Wo passed the little folk i' the street at play, When suddenly a clear voice "Father!' cried; The man turned quick nnd glnd; sighed; moved away. I spoke not, but 'twas given me to discern The love that watches through th' eternal yeara; God surely so must start nnd quickly turn Whene'er the cry of "Father!" strikes his ears. Good Words. An Hmot lo Vswirtr TIIlfcBI UBfc I St 01 t 15 lUUBIl) vtrt OU refuse to marry her!" ox y claimed Sir Charles Waldegruve, stopping In his walk to face his rebellious son. "What do you want? Eva Grantholm Is beautiful. Ilor face and figure nre perfect. That she Is wealthy should be no disadvantage in the eyes of your father's son. Egad, Harvey," lie added somewhat more mildly, "when you havo come to my years, the age of discretion for a Wal degrave, you will understand that n substantial bank balance is not the least asset in many a fair lady's claim to beauty." "Not in my eyes," retorted Harvey Waldegruve. "When 1 choose a wife I shall certainly not consult her bunk er before I allow my heart to throb for her." Sir Charles curled his lips super ciliously, but his voice betrayed his anxiety as lie replied: "Am I to un 'derstand from your remark that your heart Is already in the throbbing state; ,that the lady is alrendy found? If so, I warn you that in this matter 1 have Itnudc my stand. Either you marry Eva or I need not put the thrent In words. I have no wisli to quarrel Avlth you, Harvey," ho added somewhat sad ly, "but 1 love the homo that 1 was born in and It has pleased me to see my sentiments shared by you. It would kill me to see the place In strangers' hands, to know that you would not be its master. That is 'what your refusal means to me to you. That my extravagances have brought our fortunes to this pass does not help to make the matter less bitter to me." Harvey's handsome face softened. "The very reason you have given, dad, is the one which impels me to pursue the course which L have cho sen. Practically penniless, possessed of nothing but an honorable name, I shall not stoop to sully it by bartering it for money. With regard to your other question, although I do not think you put it seriously, so far I have seen no girl with whom I would wisli to share that name." His words appeared to afford ills father satisfaction, for laying his hand upon his son's arm he suid pleasantly "Until then the throat I made just now Is held in reservation, nnd per haps before that time the discretion I poke of may have come." "You condemn me to n long couuse of celibacy, dad," laughed Harvey, "If I have to wait till your age." ".My ago! You speak as If 1 were a rival to .Methuselah. I was -It) last March, and do not feel a day ,.o!der than when I was the age you will be lext month. Egad, boy, if you dare to tease me about my age I may enter myself for the matrimojilnl stakes against you and back myself to carry off the prize." "So far ns 1 am concerned," retort ed Harvey, ills eyes twinkling with merriment, "you would have no cause to fear, but even supposing we were both to run, who knows what the lady might have to say? Her feelings would havo to be consulted. Jtcauty and money, the combination, as you say, is peerless. She may know her value and not let herself be won." Sir Charles gazed amusedly at his handsome son. "Upon my word, Harvey, were I to close my eyes I might wonder If you were my son. When I was your age every girl was to bo won." "I challenge you to win her," an swered Harvey smiling. He believed that Sir Charles was jesting, and was well pleased to Hnd the conversation which had begun so ominously brought to an end so pleasantly. "At my ago undoubtedly It will be u fincrlllce, but with an undutiful son who absolutely refuses to aid me I shall havo to make It and pursue the matter to an end. What that end may be thirty days will prove; but come, Harvey, it is time to dress for dinner. The thought of what I havo embarked upon will make it a pleasure to mo. Old as I am, I will let you see that I havo not forgotten how to woo. The lesson may bo useful to you." Tho dinner gong hnd sounded. Tm Tintlontly Sir Charles fretted about tho room, for young ns ho considered him self ho had reached an age when din ner becomes an Important event In' the li. y round of life. CALL. "Sec If Miss Grnntholm Is coming, Mary," ho began querulously, when the door wns thrown open and Eva was ushered in. His sentenco ended abruptly in u scarcely restrained ex clamation of admiration. "1 am afraid I am late," she said with a smile to Sir Churles, which in stantly caused any recollection of his lute Impatience to disappear, "but If you will fo.glve me 1 Hhall make amends in future." lie drew her arm through his, and as Harvey followed with his sister ho failed to catch his father's answer; evidently it pleased her, for Bho laugh ed merrily, but pleasant as tho laugh was It Jarred on Harvey. Somewhat discontentedly he took ids place opposite her at the square table, but sullenness was not a natur al attribute of his, and throwing It off he endeavored to talk on topics likely to Interest her; but although Evu un swered frankly, she mnde no effort to pursue the subjects, but turned at once to Sir Charles and listened with sparkling eyes to his discursive stories of the days when he was in tho guards. A quite unusual frown marred Har vey's face as dinner ended. Sir Charles, with old-fashioned gallantry, opened the door for Miss Grantholm, and laying his hand on his heart bow ed deeply as he did so. Sir Charles' face was beaming as ho resumed his chair. Filling his glass he held it in the air. "Miss Grantholm, Harvey. A I'ou trance, my boy," he added merrily, as he placed the empty glass upon the table. "A 1'outrancc," cried Ilarvey mock ingly. "You mean to enter for the prize," cried Sir Chnrles, but his voice showed no enthusiasm. "I did not say so," retorted Ilarvey coldly, though ids pulse was running at twenty over normal rate. "In tho meantime you have the advantage, and " "I moan to keep It," said Sir Charles dryly, as, the sound of music reaching them, ho left the room. Ilarvey lingered over his wine. "The mere fact that I am practic ally penniless debars Nie from wooing her," he .muttered gloomilj. Sir Charles had left the door ajar and the pure rich tones of a rich con tralto voice were borne Into the room. An anient lover of music, Harvey list ened' entranced; then, unable to keep away, ho in ids turn entered the draw lug room to Hud his father hanging ovur Miss Grantholm a'nd urging her to sing again. Day after day passed and Sir Charles was constantly at Eva's side, while Har.vey studiously tried to avoid her company, but without avail. Her laugh in the garden, her voice in the hall, Irresistibly drew him to her side. He knew he loved hop, that no other woman could occupy tho place she had taken In his affections, but ho feared his love was hopeless and steeled him self to regard hoc as his future step mother. The thought made his blood curdle, but a word, a smile, from her was sufllclent to make hope rise within him, .and for the time being he would forget his father's more successful wooing. With such a word and smile she greeted him one afternoon when he found her seated In tho garden. She made room for him by her side, but somehow conversation seemed to fall them. "1 hope you have enjoyed your visit," he said lamely, for she was leaving on tho morrow. "We shall miss you." "I am glad of that," she answered hesitatingly, "for your father has ask ed me to " She paused abruptly and n dainty blush rose to her cheeks; but Harvey's face had suddenly be come white and strained. "Has asked you to ?" he repeat eu, nis voice tremuiing. "To come back again," she said, with n little nervous laugh, "nnd I havo promised to come; that is, if you and Mary will be glad to have me." Her eyes were fastened on tho ground, but sho stole a hasty glance at him nnd saw tho mHery upon his face. "My father has askrd you to re turn: docs that mean" -ho hesitated to a -J; the question uhU-h was life or death to him 'that somo one here haa gained your love?" It was not the question sho had cx nected him to ask. and her face was almost as pnlo as his as sho forced j her Hps to answer. The word came nnd it was "Yes." He had been holding his stick with both hands across his bent knee, and although tho strong wood broko Lu half his face showed no sign of the pain which cut his heart "It Is far too cold for sitting out of doors," sounded Sir Charles' volco from twenty yards away. Before Evn could stop him Harvey hnd leaped to his feet and Joined his father. "So you havo gained tho prize," he said hoarsely. "Allow me to congratu late you. Beauty and money, youth and love, a prize worth winning." Sir Charles stared at him with un disguised astonishment 'What does this pleasantry mean?" he whispered angrily, looking to where Eva sat. Then, placing his arm through Harvey's he led him out of earshot. "You conceal your Joy admirably," continued Harvey sncerlngly. "What Joy?" asked Sir Charles, fear ing his son's reuson had been sudden ly affected. 'You need not conceal it; MLss Gran tholm has Just told me that sho has accepted you." 'The deuce sho lias!" exclaimed Sir Charles, blushing under the tan of ac tive service. "An hour ago she told me no, decidedly." "She refused you I" cried Ilnrvey, hardly believing that he heard aright, "yet she Is coming back." "Miss Grantholm has the good senso not to allow my mistimed proposnl to stand between her and your sister's friendship; sho knows I am a gentle man and will not presume again." "But she said that you that sorao one here had won her love," stammer ed Ilarvey. "Are you sure you havo not misunderstood her?" Sir Charles smiled grimly. "She mado it very clear." Then his Hps relaxed Into a well-pleased smile. "You love her, Ilarvey. Lovo makes one cowardly, but were I in your shoes I should require no incentive from my father to send me to the woman who" has confessed her love for me." Without u word Ilnrvey left his fa ther's side, and ten seconds later ho had found Eva still seated where he had left her. "My father hns sent nie buck to you," he said gently, and as he spoke he took her hand In his. She mnde no effort to withdraw it, and his courage rose. 'You told me some one had won your heart, the heart which I would give my life to win. My fears told mo that all hope of happiness for me was dead, but now I have cone back to ask you If you spoke tho truth to tell you that I love you. Darling, I have loved you from the moment I saw you." "Yet you said you would not stoop to wo me, that jur name should not be sullied by sharing It with me," she said, but there was no nnger in her tone. "What nonsense is this, Evu? Who hns dared to credit me with such an insult to you?" She laughed merrily. "It Is useless to deny It. I heard you and your father talking; I heard you say the words you now so indig- nnntly deny." In an instant' came back to him. "I forgot," lie said wtdly, "but If you heard yon know my reason. My lovt has made me forgo lack of fortune, had no right to speak." "It Is no lack in my eyes," she whis pered tenderly. Forgetting all else save that she loved him his urni passed round her and he pressed his lips to hers. "I meant to teach you both n lesson, she whispered ten minutes later, "but you have taught the teacher what It Is to love." The Tattler. Vast Travel in London. There are 0,000 miles of railway in creator London, and it is estimated that something like 000,000,000 sop a rate Journeys are mado by passengers annually. The number of Journeys on an average week day Is over 1,000, 000. An Idea of the vehicular trafllc In tho streets may be gathered from tho statement that in twelve hours 10,051 vehicles of all kinds passed n particular spot In Piccadilly, and a fill service of 090 busses pass the Ban! of England every hour. Tho number of passengers cnrrled by tho London trams In a year is over .'100.000,000. census tnken of the number of pedes trlans who crossed over tho London bridge on a certain day showed that they totaled 110,002, nnd in nineteen nnd n half hours during a day in Apr! last year 21S,01.r people crossed tho roadways at the bank. At tlio Bargain Counter. "Miss Long, at tho laco counter, says she's only 22," remarked tho first salseVidy. "Well," replied the other, "every thing's been marked down at that counter, you know." Philadelphia Hoc ord. Bostnurunts nnd butcher shops lose n good deal of their attractiveness in summer. A highly finished "sun chariot," late ly found In a moor of Sceland In Den mark Is thought to bo at least three thousand years old. Tho most prized of the singing In sects of Japan is a black beetle culled 'susumushl," or "bisect bell." Its singing resembles the dainty sound of a sweet-toned silver bell. During the past year It has been discovered that the chalk pits ut Ghls elhurst, England, nre ancient British cnvcMlwelllngs, dating back some 2,- 000 years. Tho Inhabitants evidently let themselves down through narrow shafts, somo of which arc 85 feet deep. A labyrinth of passages and chambers exists, and In the midst of them Is n nrge clrculnr apartment supposed to havo been n druldicnl temple. In the celling of one of the passages the leg of a huge Ichthyosaurus Is to be seen, partly uncovered. The body of the monster Is embedded In the chalk rock. Mariners have been unable to deter mine latitude and longitude when tho horizon was hidden, even though sun, moon or stars might be shining. Com mander Campbell Hepworth, C B., has now mnde It ensy to obtain the alti tude of any heavenly hotly without seeing tho natural horizon. He at taches to the sextant an artificial hori zon, which consists essentially of a contnet maker operated by a plummet and so adjusted that the circuit will bo closed and a bell rung when a silt of tho horizon glass Is In alignment with tho observer's eye nnd tho sensible horizon. Experiments nre under way at the agricultural-bacteriological station ut Vienna, Austria, to increnso the quan tity of iron carried in certain plants, with a view to the effect on the human system when those plants are used as food. Artificially prepared foods con taining Iron do not ulwnys produce the desired effect, becuuso tho Iron is not completely assimilated. This difficul ty, it is thought, may be avoided by causing plants to take up an Increased quantity of Iron during their natural growth. By nddlng hydrato of iron to tho soil In which it wns growing, the experimenters have succeeded lu pro ducing spinach containing a percent age of iron seven limes ns grout ns that found in ordinary spinach. It Is bclloved that tho process will provo successful with other ferruginous plants. A clear statement of tho relntlon of wave length to the production of elec tric, heat light and photographic ef fects Is made by Prof. A. A. Atkinson of the Ohio University. Electromag netic waves, oomparablo in magnitude with the air waves Uiat cause sound, are used In wireless telegraphy. When they are much shorter, approaching in length the infru-rod waves of the solar spectrum, they becin to nroduee heat The shorter they becomo the greater their heating effect, until they enter the region of the visible spectrum, nnd then they produce light As they con tinue to shorten, the color of the light runs through red, orange, yellow, groon, blue nnd Indigo to violet, The bent effect decreases, and the nctfHlc, or photographic, effect Increases, nnd when tWe waves pass out Into the in visible ultraviolet region the chemical effect reaches Its maximum. Yet more shortening, and the waves begin to ex hibit tho properties of the X-rays. THE PATAGON I ANS. Not of the T.ofty Stature that Was An cribvd to Them of Old. Concerning the reputed giant race of TIerra del Fuego, u writer in the Deseret News says: It should bo remembered that there are several distinct nations of Putu- gonlnns, not Including the Aruucnulnus on the north, nor the Fuegonns on tho south, and that each nation has dlstln gulshlng characteristics. The Indians that we see slouching about Punta Arenas and the country between there und Santu Cruz are the southern Te- liueleclies. The "glnnts," if there ever were any Patagonlans deserving tho name, were found among tills tribe, who are much taller and more slender than any of their neighbors, and have a different complexion, being red, llko the North American Indians, rather than muddy brown, llko the South Americans. They are excessively dirty, lazy and treacherous, fond of personal adornment made out of bones, shells, beads and silver (gold, strange ly enough, they do not like), and they tir.e ready at any time to barter all their earthly possessions wives, horses, even tho few garments Unit cover their nakedness for a little 'firewater." Tho Lampas Patgonos, so called bo cause Uiey inhabit the vast pampas, or plains, to tho north, nro subdivided into four tribes, known, respectively, as Puelches, or "eastern peoplo" tho word puel meaning oast and cho pco pie; tlio Plcuntenchos, plcun mean lug north; tlio Pechtonches, or "peo plo .of the pines," pochtcn meaning pine. trees, and the Itanquolos, or those who dwell among tho thistle bet's, from ranquel, a thistle. Though not quito so degraded as their southern brothers, perhaps because farther re moved from civilization, they ar treacherous, cowardly and quarrelsome to u degree. But they are not beggars, bartering nil to unscrupulous white traders for rum nnd trinkets. Then there uro the Ghennn Pnta gonca, who Inhabit the higher alti tudes, nnd who differ both In lunguugo nnd physical aspect from tho othc tribes, nre less lnzy nnd erratic. They are sometimes called Manzcneros, be cause their headquarters are at a plact called Las Munzunns (the apples), where the Jesuits formerly hnd a mis sion und planted a great many apple trees. The Indians own sheep, cuttle nnd horses in the sheltered valleys of the Cordilleras and make very good cider from the fruit of the trees that the old friars planted. Of courso the term "Patagonia" I entirely unknown among the Indium. Their true name, collectively and In dividually, Is Tsonecas, and by It all the tribes call themselves. Tho wonl patn-goncs, meaning "duck-footed men," refers to their peculiar foot gear. The lower limbs nre encased In boots without soles, or long galterM made of guanaco skins, with the beau tiful yellowish fur turned outward. riio leg Is covered all around front be- ow the knee, tho fur passing over the top of the foot and around the heel, leaving the toes sticking out. Thle trifling circumstance obtained the op- pellntlon by which a vast territory und all tho people who Inhabit it are known; to the civilized worm. Tito "uppers," or gaiters, extending loosely across the top of the feet, exaggerated In breadth by the long hair on the edges, give the wenrer the appearance of having paws or "patas." When Magellan's men first saw these Indians they were unablo to account for the peculiar appearance of their feet, and tho bright yellow fur upon their legs, and called them "duck- footed." BUDDHIST HOUSE OF WORSHIP. Templo Krcctotl lit the Unlvcrnlty of 1'eniiHyl vanlu. The Sonimorvillo Buddhist temple In, the University of Pennsylvania mu seum comprises the most complete and elaborate reprfisentatlon of a Buddhist house of worship ever set up outside off the countries where Buddhism Is the prevailing religion, says the Booklov ers' Magazine. Buddhists frequently visit tho tomple and spend hours there. Threo images lu the temple, those of. Fudo, Kongara and Sellaka, were pro cured by Prof. Somnicrvllle from tho famous Koyasau temple In Ki.shti, Japan. Tho most artistic piece in th templo Is a vase of bronze flowers, which came from u templo at Kioto nnd Is nearly four centuries old. in this curious temple Japanese rest dents In Philadelphia, and chance pil grims in the city, gather at times to. pray for victory for th( arms of Iho Mlkado. They find tlicmsdlves In an atmosphere so like that of the land' of the lotus that they can easily lm- aglno themselves transported to their island home, worshiping at tho famil iar shrine of earlier days. Not a single artlclo necessary to sup port this Illusion Is missing. Buddha of various sizes smile benevolently and eternally at the visitors to the templo lotus plants, symbolical of the life that springs from a lowly beginning to u. splendid llowerlng, give color to the scene around tho altar; gods litMc and big, and of various stations in the hlgrarehy of Japanese deities, rest on their pedestals within the rail und sinllo or threaten according to their mission. At the outer gateway of the tomple are soon two life-size figures of semi mendicant fruit sellers, constructed with the wonderful fidelity to naturo for which Japanese artists are noted. At the Inner gates two gigantic statues stand, with great muscular arms up lifted lu an attitude suggestive of ven geance should any visitor misbehave. These are the Gods of Silence found at the entrance to Buddhist temples. Their threatening attitude Is to com mand nil Intending worshipers to leave levity behind when they cross tho sacred portals. Within the gates Is a cistern and towel rack, where tho wor shipers pauso to cleanse their feet and hands and rinse out the mouth, whllo behind this is to bo found the temple proper. Kunuk Tliloves in Cliurohcu. An old sexton was discussing the; amount of stealing that is done In, churches. "Scarcely a day passes," ho saitl, "when the church Is open, with out some distracted woman coming to me, bowed down with grief becausof somebody has stolen her purse. There are certain contemptible thieves who prey on unsuspecting women who pray so hard Unit they forget to look after their pocket books. Tlio thief watches until tho woman Is deep In prayer und then lenns over, grasps tho purso and sneuks out." Philadelphia Record. Tlio .Siipromo Test. Willis A fellow never knows whut ho can do until ah or Wallace Until what? "Until ho tries to undo sotnothlns ho has already douo." Town Topics. Why don't these rising peoplo get to the t'-p? i b c f B r n 11 Is, 3Clt led It 5D3 hlB the 5 Of Dity rbc uph lum lity. Mr. Oder ex ows. pre- nlll muls -five ( the ,rged rdict igloy (tDOI i few lliry, ivina ileal- y cx- tlne Point ch be untrj I oter ts and b de- everj nonth