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i The Mysterious Notes When the landlady knocked, Godfrey Leate was sitting moodily in an armchair, staring at the well- worn hearthrug which matched the thabby room. He was thinking that he had very little interest in life, that he ~7as not succeeding as he hoped t tlo. "It v cs someone to see you, sir." The land'r.dy held a card in her hand. 'She wanted you to remem- ber to call to-morrow, and said her father had meant to write. This is the address in case you'd forgot- ten it, the young lady told me." "But there's some mistake. 'Philip W. Bromwieh, 17, Chalfont Avenue.' I don't know anyone of that name. Why didn't you ask her to wait?" "She wouldn't disturb you, sir. 'Does Mr. Leate live here V she said. 'Then I'll just leave a mes- sage.' ' "Queer!" He stared at the card again. "How long ago " "She's only this minute gone." Leate snatched up his hat, and, brushing past her, clattered down the stairs to the street. In the dis- tance he saw a feminine figure, and began to run. The girl glanced round. "You've just been to number three, where i live," he panted. "Couldn't quite understand. I'm sorry " The suspicion of a smile hover- ed on Miss Bromwich's lips. "So am I." Then she stammer- ed: "I mean, because you've been put to this trouble. I pronounced the name quite distinctly." "Leate?" he responded jerkily. "Yes But that that's me, you know. L-e-a-t-e Godfrey Leate. I'm positive !" She laughed outright. "Of course you are. This is too absurd ! Are we iu Porson Gar- dens?" "Porson Street. Porson Gardens is that new road they've just open- ed the first turning on the right there." "I'm very much obliged. Would you believe, now, there's a Mr. George Leete double V staying at. number three? Isn't it a won- derful coincidence? Unfortunate, though." She stopped assuming a dignified air. "Good-afternoon! Thank you for running out." Godfrey Leate did not, of course, turn to look after her. He seemed, nevertheless, to be still regarding her charmingly flushed face. He drew himself up as he walked back along Porson Street to No. 3. The encounter had affected him strange- ly. "If only she'd been right if I'd been invited there!" Then he shrugged his -shoulders. "H'ni! A likely thing ! 'Chalfont Avenue' -they're big houses. Her family's well-off. Best thing to do's to for- get her, once and for all." It was aggravating, however, to find that the girl frequently occu- pied his thoughts. A day or two later, on the railway-station plat- i form, he mentioned the affair to a friead. "Why, I know old Bromwieh well ! Often catches this train up. There he is, by Jove!" Godfrey Leate clutched his arm, and whispered an excited query. "Yes, I suppose so. Yes, yes ; he fives there. Introduce you?" Next moment the elderly gentlc- Oian was smiling affably. "Ah, Mr. Leate, you're the one who spells it 'e-a' ! Ha, ha! Porson Street, not Gardens eh? My daughter told me about you." Leate often met him after that, sometimes near home, with his daughter. At last, at the begin- ning of the summer, he was invited to Chalfont Avenue for a tennis- party. * * "I thought I wasn't mistaken!" remarked the- prosperous-looking young man, shaking hands warmly. "How queer, meeting you again!" . Godfrey Leate smiled. "I recognized you directly, Car- shott." "I can't have altered much. You haven't seen me since that last prize-giving dav, just before we left." They began to discuss old days and schoolfellows. "I'm on the Stock Exchange now. Just started on my own," Car- shott observed presently. "Doing well, too." "I wish I could say the same.'' "Still at what was the name of the firm?" "Grandison's yes." "We ought to see something of one another." Carshott hesitated awkwardly. "I say, if you want a tip I can give you one. There's a chance of making a bit. Keep it quiet, though. Buy Wataki Gold Mines. They're dirt cheap. You'll never regret it if you risk a hun- dred pounds." "Gently, man!" Leate laughed ruefully. "I haven't so much in the world." "Fifty, then. They'll boom, I tell you! Come, now, let mo buy you two hundred.'* "I I'll let you know. Thanks awfully, all the same." "By to-morrow, or Thursday morning at the latest. Here's my 'phone number." They parted at the next corner. Godfrey Leate stood pondering a moment. Fifty pounds! It seem- ed a bagatelle, no idoubt, to the flourishing broker. If Carshott only knew that he was in debt ! "Gamble with fifty pounds me!" he muttered sardonically, on his homeward journey. His room had never looked BO cheerless as when he lit the gas. Everyone seemed to prosper ; he was left behind in the race. The letter on the side-table failed to attract his attention at first. It bore no address, and had evidently been delivered by h.ind. Another dunning note, doubtless. At last he tore it open pettishly. "What what ' Stupidly he stared down at the banknotes. Mechanically he count- ed them. Sixty-five pounds in all ! "Why, where on earth did they come from ? Not a word of expla- nation, either!" he cried. "No- body'd send money to me. Nobody'd have any reason to. Nobody " His voice dropped. He frowned disgustedly. The solution was obvious. Slowly he turned the envelope over. " 'G. Leate, Esq.' Or 'Leete'? H'm ! Yes, it's as much 'double e, as 'e-a.' Tha*- chap in the 'Gar- dens' again !" He fingered the notes enviously. "If only they were mine ! I'd write to Carshott ' A footstep sounded on the land- ing. He looked out, and called to the landlady. "Who left it, sir? A man a ser- vant, he looked like." "He said nothing?" "Only asked if this was the right place." Leate closed the door again. "I'll soon know. Let him come round if he wants the money. I'm not going to wait on him." At night he stayed indoors. There was no news from Leete of the Gardens. In the morning he took the notes with him to town. "I'll call on my way home," he reflected. "Leate, you're wanted on the 'phone." Just before noon the summons came. He walked across, and re- cognized Carshott' s voice. "Look here. You've never decid- ed about those Watakis. Are yo'.J going to take my advice?" "Yes," he heard himself answer- ing. "Buy me two hundred. Thanks very much." "Just in time," Carshott grumb- led. "All right. Good-bye! Ter- ribly busy." Godfrey Leake moved back to his desk, staring into vacancy. He hardly realized yet what he had done. When consciousness came to him, he drew a sharp breath. "Hallo!" A fellow clerk step- ped up. "Anything wrong?" But Leake onlv stared at him blankly. * t * "Yes, Watakis have fallen," Car- shott admitted. Leake had burst into his office, pale and excited. "From five shillings to four, then gradually to three. I confess I can't understand it. Don't you worry, though. Hold on to them. I'll get the latest price." He turned from the speaking-tube. "Half-a- crown ! Phew!" "Here's the money." "Oh, you needn't pay for them yet awhile !" "Here's the money!" Leate re- peated. He hurried home that night, with nerves on edge. His conscience gave him no rest. What would the outcome be ? Exposure disgrace ? George Leete had apparently dis- covered nothing as yet; but the fact brought small consolation. He could not exult, either, on the following morning, when an unpre- cedented boom in Watakis com- menced. A rich vein of gold was discovered on the property, and the shares rose by leaps and bounds. Grandison's senior partner sum- moned him. "I hear" he coughed "I hear, Leate, that you have made a con- siderable sum on the Stock Ex- change, in Wataki Gold Mines." "I bought at five shillings, sir, and was able to sell at twenty -sev- en-and-sixpence." Leato waited for the expected reproof on the subject of gambling. "H'm! Ah! You've shown con- siderable perspicuity." "It was all due, sir, to a friend "Remarkable business acumen," the senior partner persisted, "which deserves our notice. Mr. Peterson is leaving. You will take his place. Provided you give sat- isfaction, your present salary will rise in proportion. That's all. You may go." Congratulations ahowered upon him. He winced as he received them. What a difference between his present position and that of a week ago ' And yet hie thoughts were bitter. That evening, crossing the com- mon near her house, he met Evelyn LATEST PICTURE OF THE EMPEROR AND TIIE EMPRESS OF GERMANY The Empress is one of the most charming royal European royalty. matrons among Bromwieh. Before he realized it. he found himself declaring his love. Her low-voiced answer set his heart beating wildly. He looked down at her upturned face. Then sudden- ly, with a, groan, he released her. "What have I said I I'd no right The girl stretched out her hand timidly. "No, no ; don't touch me! For- give, and try to forget. I'm I I've stolen money!" She gave a little cry as he turned and left her, stumbling blindly along the path through the trees. * * * Her note reached him in the morn- ingjust a few lines : "I don't understand. Won't you come and see me! It's cruel to explain. I can't believe what you said.-E." Godfrey Leate shook his head de- spairingly. He had scarcely slept that night. "I was mad to speak," he reflect- ed dully, throughout the long, wearisome day of office routine. "There's a young lady waiting to see you," announced Mrs. Cou- sins, when he reached Porson Street. "The same one. And this letter's come." Evelyn, you don't realize what I'm ANCIENT TIMEPIECES. The Water-Clock Was Made in VariouM Forms. It is difficult to tell precisely when an instrument at all resem- bling the modern clock first appear- ed. In 1288, says the London Globe, a clock-tower and clock were set up in Westminster at the expense of Chief Justice, de Hengham, as a punishment for falsifying the record of a. fine; and weight-clocks are' known to have been used in Euro-' pean monastic houses as early as ' the tenth century. It is doubtful, ! however, if these clocks had a dial ! face and hands. Probably they, merely sounded a bell at stated in-] tervals. Sand-glasses boast an antiquity of more than two thousand years, and although now enjoying an, honorable retirement or merely presiding in | old-fashioned kitchens over the { i boiling of the breakfast egg. they I formerly had a place in almost; every parish church, where they served to keep the. sermon within reasonable bounds. At one time the hour-glawea of superior quality contained not sand but egg-shells. which, when finely powdered and kiln-dried, were less likely to ab- sorb moisture from the atmosphere. Of even greater antiquity is the clepsydra, or water-clock, which was made in several forms. One of the simplest was the Hindu's cop- per basin, pierced with a small hole in the bottom, which, when placed in a vessel of water, filled and sank after a certain established interval. More elaborate forms were known in Europe and Egypt. Although varying somewhat in construction, all used a "float." The fl .at was pJaced either in. a full cylinder from which the water gra- dually escaped by a hole in the bot- tom, usually bored through a pearl on account of its resistance to erosion by the constant flow, or in an empty vessel to which water was admitted frum above. In both vari- eties the float, falling or rising as the case might be, pointed to the scale of hours marked on the side of the vessel. The float sometimes took the form jf an miniature boat, in which an out-stretched oar \\a.s the pointer. Clepsydrae such as these were us."d in the Athenian courts of law. and were put in charge of a special officer. One "water'' apiece was ' allowed t'j plaintiff, defendant and 5 f > > S Casual Comment on Women's "Activities and Interests. * saying. I thought I was stealing judge. During the reading of any thought so all the time. It was : document that bore upon the case just as bad as if " the flow <.f water was stopped. A But the money was really your clepsydra, which in its action and appearance foreshadowed the mod- ern clock, carried upon its float an upright rod that acted on a toothed own. That makes no difference, I say !' "Not if I if I love you? Not even if I should have loved you al- ways anyway?" "It's not possible !" But she bent down to him as she stood by his side. London swers. wheel, which in turn moved a hand upon a dial. Sl'ORT AND THE GAME. An Interesting Trait of the Ger- man Character. An Englishman or an American finds it hard to conceive of "sport" except as embodied in some "game." But the German, says Ida A. R. Wylic. in her book on Ger- many, gets his sport without find- ing it necessary to pJay any game at all. Exercise that brings him But the precursor both of the. sand-glass and the clepsydra was without doubt the gnomon of the An- ! sun-dial ; a simple rod which, stand- ing upright in a sunny place, mea- sured the passage of time by the moving shadow that it cast upon the ground. The earliest time-teller at all con- veniently portable was the dial- ring. Within its broad-banded cir- cle the hours were engraved ; a ray of sunlight falling through a small in the upper side of the ring when held erect gave the time ap- The dial-ring held its place until comparatively recent times, since watches, although well-known, were still too expensive for general use. into close relation' with nature is! * more to his taste. The man that sees no pleasure in tiring himself .CHAMPION HARD-LUCK STORY j out on a tennis-court or a football- ' He was glad to have an excuse fiejd t] u k , $250t(H)0 T;(kon Out of a n . lim *^aJ3!ftL<tej!fite the forests, skates every free Abandoned as Worthier. ute of his day, and in the heat of the summer gees on long tours among the mountains. At his own particular sports the German is Murray Potts of Vancouver, B.C., an old Klondike*, says that the champion hard-luck story happened to a friend of his who staked claims room. He dreaded the thought of facing his visitor.. The American stamp on the en- velope puzzled him. He pulled out the inclosure, and glanced over it 'dazedly. At the signature, "Frank I Cobbold," he gave a start. "Of course, you remember me, vour companion at No. 3 five vears I ~.-wv W* t-.. ... .1. > ^i"~ t c, , jiinm-1 3 . N i, ! <* 'v -i h*> ti> i I in witf h i Nnniiv ago. Mv httle patent for tvpe- writ- an d walkers and nrofiVent in win - ' ano. waiKxrs, ano ] in win- gnjith gang, was relieved of most machines promised to pav YOU ' ter snorts It s onlv when von not c i.- i 1 1. T> li ?. ,1 5 J ' La : ll l ' a - sk of his monev and proceeded to Daw- a first-class man, and on Sulphur Creek during the . Klon- ' even therGerman woman reveals an dikc rush . The son of a pow j cr manufacturer of Hamilton, Ont., : he started north with $10.000. At energy that is simply astonishing. All German girls can skate well, most of them are good swimmers | Skagway he 'felT'in wVth The" Soapy" per cent, of the proceeds, if them to play games that they fall. ; He crosscut e.verv twelve feet __. i i * ' *"-' 11 *- v- * * vi??v, i* v -\-i v ^. i u " - i \ ivvt This dislike, of games reveals an an j SUI ,k holes to bedrock for a interesting trait in the German j m ji e on Sulphur Creek. This took ing ten ever I sold the idea, in return for the help you gave me. Really apologize ! You'-re wondering who sent that 65? First I meant to 8UCCC , 8 the only value of whieh lies ; Re was fc d ^. h write ; then I knew I d be over | ln the deteat of ^^ one dse . In , an< , ppont thrco monthg in a ^ tal. Then he returned to Hamil- ton, thoroughly disgusted. Later a Scandinavian secured one of his character, namely, indifference'to a a year, and he never got a color from Paris for a day, and hoped > sehool a German boy works hard, to call. Next I found that time j n<) t f or a prize, not because he pressed, and I put the money in an wants to do better than a comrade, j OBIMMilI . viau WIMW vuv ut eiu-elope-forgot to enelose my let- but because he sees a distinct per- claims on Sulphur Creek. Mr. ter of explanation told my servant S0 nal value in knowledge. His at- to deliver it which I didn't dis- cover till I was on the New York boat. Always was a happy-go- lucky chap eh?" At his shaky, high-pitched laugh, Evelyn Bromwieh looked out into the hall. "Stole from myself!" he cried, half hysterically. "Thought the money must belong to the other Leete your friend. It was mine after all !' She led him to a chair. Pressing a hand to his forehead, he showed Frank Cobbold 's letter, and told her everything. "I am glad I came," she said gently. "Oh, you don't think the worse of me for coining here ? I couldn't wait, you see. But now it's all right." Leate covered his face. "You always meant to iv|M\ "I used the balance for my debts. titude in sports is quite in keeping. "And suppose I do run myself Potts's friend had failed to go to I bedrock in o:ie place, mica sist be- in* mistaken for the real article, i hot and tired over a ridiculous j The Scandinavian went through the ; palch of ground after a ridiculous ball, and suppose. I do win a game, what good will it do me?" "You will have had splendid ex- ercise, 1 ' says the Englishman. "Yes; but if I wanted exercise I would rather go for a walk through the forest or make a bicycling tour. Then I should perhaps learn some- thing at the same time. At any rate, I should be enjoying nature." "But then there would be no gom-e!" retorts the Englishman. "No game? What is the good of a game I Am I wiser or better if I beat you at tennis?" "No, but the fun of it "I don't see any fun in beating somebody at something which has no value. That is childish, ;ir<l a waste of time." mica to actual bedrock, took out $250.000 the first year and a similar amount for several seasons after that. The claim was lower 39 on Sulphur, one of the richest in the Klondike. WHICH. "A good appetite is a great ad- vantage," said the physician. "To whom'"' asked Mr. Growch- er; "mo or thc grocer?" Miss Agnes W r eston, founder of the Royal Sailors' Rest at Ports- mouth and Davenport, has received a cheque for 30 guineas from Ad- miral von Tirpitz, German Minister of Marine, for founding a cabin at the Portsmouth Sailors' Rest. The letter accompanying the cheque, ex- plains that it is sent with the ap- proval of the Emperor in recogni- tion of Miss Weston s kind hospi- tality in entertaining me-i of the battleship Von der Tann during the stay of the. Coronation fleet at Spit- head. From CaJifornia comes news oJ more importance than some would gather from the account. Miss Ada \.'iu % *. f Rockland, Illinois. be<r!n.. ning with the indispensable requi- site of. long; study and experii^n-*'. has now started in a large apart- ment house in Oakland, a dt .> :rt- ment of child culture too long ig- nored. A large sunny room ajid part of the roof garden are cleared for th? children, and there) they find the companionship which no private family can give, and a far more com- petent supervision than is possible to the average mother. As an iin- medial" advantage to the children of *h.' well-to-do, and as an excel- lent profession for women, this car- ries conviction on its face, but the underlying meaning is even more impressive. It shows the slow but growing recognition of the needs of pruvL-ion for our young citizens be- yond that of home and school, and furthermore, of the value of highly trained specialists to meet the nerd. Th T:- are still plenty of persons who can imagine nothing possible for babies save the alternatives of a h< me or a:i orphan asylum ; but in a few more years even these dullest minds will wake up to the fact that the child's world, too, does move. To the President of the National Council. Mme. Momd. in Paris, France, a unique, honor has been accorded in creating her the first woman Chevalier de la Legion d Honour in France, for services rendered to the career cf education. This distinction is a much coveted one and has hitherto only been ac- corded t'j men who have rendered distinguished services, either in the field <jf battle or in civil or other social service. We injure our children's eyes foi life bv fixing the.m on thc printed P'ge for long cont nuous hours. We injure our own eyesight habitually by never looking an inch before our noses. It is lack of capacity that limits us : eyes arc meant for long- distance work as well ss short. It is lack of exercise. We live with our noses to the grindstone, and our eyes either fixed steadily on the grinding process, or shut on account o f dirt. It would do our eyes good, and all the rest of us, to look else- where awhile. The hous.".vife the dust on her parlor table, but she does not see the smoke and cinder that blackens her city. She sees that littie Willy is looking tired. She does not see that all the school children are overcrowded and over- worked. She sees her daughter's health has broken d 'wn after mar- riage. She does not see that all girls should know the chances and dangers of marriage bofore it is too late. The nvM-chnnt. sees his profit ,-md his loss in selling eggs. Ho <' n I see the injury to a thousand diges- tions from the eggs he sells. He sees that if John X. is elected it will be to his business advantage. He does n<jt see that said election will injure the whole town. He sees that a certain indulgence will be a plea ure and a re-lie' to him. He does not see that i ! w!l: p"ison thre? generations. \<>w .'i'l these limitations and blindness are not for lack of eyes, but merely f, r lack of looking. You can't see anything unless you look at it. We need more and more power to see our common interests, our coU Icctive interests. That power is ours if we will use it- Let us lift our eyes from our noses.. Then we can lift our noses the grindstone. Mr. Binks, looking up from his paper: "Here's a firm advertising all sorts of patent Tiiedicines at half price." Mrs. Jiiriks. Just our luck ! There isn't anything the matter with any of u* ,'" TRUE CHARITY. It is the sweetest and most at- tractive of qualities. It smoothes away the angles, and rubs off the roughne B s, and diminishes the fric- tion of life. It adds grace to daily courtesies. and makes burdens easier to be borne. The generous hand is the hand to cling lo when the path is difficult. There is room for the exercise of charity every- wheie in business, in society, and in the church ; but first is the need for it at home, where it is the salt" which ke; j ps all things sweet, the anvina- which makes every hour chnnuingi. and the divine light) which shines starlike through all gkom and depression.