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Show grandfather shabbily. My parents died when I was a child, pnd he bad cared for me as far back aa my memory ran. He bad suffered me to spend the fortune left by my father without restraint: he had expected much of me, and I had grievously disappointed him. It was his hope that I should devote myself to archltectuie, a profession for which he the greatest admiration, whereas I had insisted on I,1;fi J&T0RY house of THE hj THOUSAND A CANDLES Br MEREDITH , -- NICHOLSON THE MAJlt CHANCE" DAMEION- ,- tic. by uwrllil CHAPTER I. UMIA UuUbt-Mwrl- ZELDA (Jo. John Marshall Glenarm. letter bringing news of gnmdfather8 death found " me at John early in October. ple all Glenarm had died in June, Iving a will which gave me his prop conditionally, Pickering wrote, It was necessary for me to return It ediately to qualify as legatee. by the merest luck that the letter it to my bands at all, for it had in care ea sent to Constantinople, l instead of my the niter there, and it was not Picker-,'- i fault that the consul was a friend nine who kept track of my wander and was able to hurry the execu-- j letter after me to Italy, where iad gone to meet an English finan-- r who had, I was advised, unlimited ary to spend on African railways, un an engineer, a graduate of an itrican institution familiarly known The Tech," and as my funds were iilng low I naturally turned to my ifesslon for employment 3ut this letter changed my plans, i the following day I cabled Pick of my departure and was out ird bound on a steamer for New rt Fourteen days later I sat in ierngs office in the Alexis Build acl listened Intently while he o id id, i th much ponderous emphasis, prc Islons of my grandfather's V len he concluded I laughed, kerln; was a serious man, and I 3 glad to see that my levity pained u. I hid, for that matter, always of pn: to him, ?a s st iree of annoyance in K5 bis h k of distrust and rebuke not tro. hie me in the least :h ote reached across the table for the 1 ita ?er, and Lj gave the sealed and baraoii, nned copy of John Marshall Glenre n's will into my hands. I read it Wilt of Ickerings consul-genera- engineering I am nor . n apology for my life, and I sha iftempt to extenuate my conduct 'd going abroad at the end of my course at Tech and, making Laurance Donovans acquaintance, setting off with him on a career of adventure. I do not regret, though possibly it would be more to my credit if I did, the months spent in leisurely following the Danube east of the Iron Gate Laurance Donovan always with me, while we urged the villagers and to all manner of sedition, acquitting ourselves so well that, when we came out into the Black sea for further pleasure, Russia did us the honor to keep a spy at our heels. I should like, for my own satisfaction, at least, to set down an account of certain affairs' in which we were concerned at Belgrad, but without Larry's consent I am not at liberty to do so. Nor shall I take time here to describe our travels in Africa, though qur study of the Atlas mountain dwarfs won us honorable mention by thq British Ethnological Society. These were my yesterdays; but today I sat in Arthur Pickerlug's office in the towering Alexis Building, conscious of the muffled roar of Broadway, discussing the terms of my grandfather Glenarms will with a man whom I disliked as heartily as it is safe for one man to dislike another. Pickering had asked me a question, and I was suddenly aware that his inn-loafe- an old friend of his, Miss Evans, known s Sister Theresa. Miss Dever eux is Sister Theresa's niece." I whistled. 1 had a dim recollection that during my grandfathers long there were occasional reports that he was about to many. The name of Miss Evans had been mentioned In this connection. I bad heard it spoken of in my family, and not 1 with much kindness remembered, Later I heard of her joining a Sister hood, and opening a school somewhere in the West. And Miss Devereux, is Bhe ar elderly nun, too? "I don't know how elderly she is but she isn't a nun at present. Still shes very much alone in the world' and she and Sister Theresa are very intimate." "Pass the will again, Pickering while I make sure I grasp these divert Ing ideas. Sister Theresa Isn't the one I mustnt marry is Bhe? Its th other ecclesiastical embroidery artist the one with the "x" in her name suggesting the algebra of my vanish ing youth." 1 read aloud this paragraph: Provided, further, that in even! said John Glenarm aforesaid shall marry the Bald Marian Devereux, or in the event of any promise or contract of marriage between said persons within five years from the date of said John Glenarm's acceptance of the provisions of this will, the whole estate shall become the property absolutely of SL Agatha's School, at Wabana county, Indiana, a corporation under the laws of said HARR1MAN RAILROAD New York. Edward la a peculiar man. He state. For a touch of comedy commend me to my grandfatberl Pickering, felyou always were a low, I'll turn over to you all my right, interest and title in and to these an- s g for myself, feeling conscious inwhlle that Pickering's cool gaze i bent inquiringly upon me. These paragraphs that Interested me fun devise unto my said Glenarm, sometime a city and state of New rk, and later a vagabond of parts known, a certain property known as nirm House, with the lands and edltaments thereunto pertaining a I hereinafter more particularly de ibed, and i other y To-da- y A TEMPLE all personal effects, goods property that may be ated in the premises and on the d herein described, the said realty sg In the county of Wabana In the te of Indiana, upon this condition, Molly and honestly performed: e bit, That said John Glenarm shall re la an occupant of said Glenarm use and of my lands appurtenant reto, demeaning himself meanwhile u orderly and temperate manner, raid he fall at any time during said ir to comply with this provision, d property shall at once revert to Jt ngeneral estate, shall become, with reservation and without necessity any process of law the property, then.' lolutoly, of Marian Devereux, of the inty and state of New York." Well," he demanded, striking his ds upon the arms of his chair, ire 1( bat do you think of it!" ui P. 'or the life of roe I could not help Mng again. There was, in the place, a delicious irony In the t that I should learn through him oy grandfather's wishes with rest to myself. Pickering and I had up In the same town In Ver-it- ; 'a we had attended the same pre itory school, but there had been h boyhood a certain antagonism een us. He had always suocoeded f,r I failed, which is to say, I must nit, that be had suoceeded pretty uently, When I refused to settle a to my profession, but cbose to omethlng of the world first. Pick I gave himself seriously to the and there was, I knew from the tuning, no manner of chance that school-da- Intimates, no boyhood chums, no partisans, no epigram are quoted, no business aphorisms. All stories are that in youth he was a scrapper or that be was an amiable, colorless youth. His personality outside of business is rarely talked of. He is cold and reserved. He Is fond of hia family and it is said that he is charitable. A man close to him said when it was suggested that some friend should speak to Harrlman regarding his lack of tact: Friend? 1 dont believe that Harrlman hag a friend in the world." t Mr. Harrlman was born at Hempstead, L. I., in 1S4S. He had two sisters and three brothers. Two of the brothers have died. His father was an Episcopal clergyman and at the birth of Edward waa rector of St. Georges church at Hempstead. Harrlman went to school little and what education he received was picked up at home. Harrlman entered Wall street at the age of 16 and served as an office boy and later bought a partnership. In 1870 he bought a seat in the New York stock exchange. He waa a he "piker in those days. knows the game of speculation better than any man in America. He is small in stature and walks with a curious jauntlness, peculiar to jocktes. He talks easily, but Beldom uses figures of speech aud often Is at a loss for a precise word and accepts it when offered without comment. In fact, he never says Thank you." He 1b lacking absolutely in emotion. What he wants to know he asks about He has no pets In business, but is liberal to his emHe collects mountains as ployes. other people do china, was said of him when he was buying up Arden, his immense country place back of Tuxedo Park, N. Y. Mr. Harrlman established the Boys' club on the east side of New York. It is simply what the name implies & club for boys, where they can find healthy recreation without regard to religious beliefs or social standing. He started the club 30 years ago. He is always generous to the Institution and gave it a $250,000 building only recently. He can be found in attendance at all of its entertainments. Tbe club is the biggest of its kind and baB a membership of over 10.000, which is drawn from the most thickly settled portions of New York city. bow-legge- d 1 tndson, John :dent of the H. Harrlman has no TO SHINTOISM. Japanese Residents of Honolulu a New Place of Worihip. Honolulu, IL I. A Shinto Open temple to Iuauma waa dedicated in Honolulu recently with ceremonies extending throughout the day and ending with - r fall. not more or less than human, I remembered with Joy that once d thrashed him soundly at the P school for bullying a smaller boy, our score from school days was without tallies on his aide. He ould iQ I easily the bolter scholar I grant Ihat; and ho was shrewd and nlble. Yon never quite knew the "tit of his powers and resources, be had, I always mantalned, the 't amazing good luck, as wltnesa 'fart that John Marshall Glenarm taken a friendly interest in him. as wholly like my grandfather, 0 as a man of many whims, to bis affairs Into Pickering keep b and I could not complain, for I J missed my own chance with him. I knew readily enough, part of Punishment for having aurceodod lgnaiiy in Incurring my grand V displeasure that be had mode accessary for roe to treat with hur Pickering in thla matter of the and Pickering was enjoying the 'Atlon to the full. there was something not wholly 1 In my mirth, for my conduct rlttl the three preceding years had I bad used my reprehensible. 1 1 Well, What Do You Think of Itr eyes were fixed upon me and that hq gelle Sisters. Marry! I like the Idea! I suppose some one will try to marry awaited my answer. What do I think of it?" I repeated. me for my money. Marriage, Picker I dont know that It makes any dif- ing, is not embraced la my scheme of ference wbat I think, but I'll tell you, life!" I should hardly call you a marryif you want to know, that I call it infamous, outrageous, that a man should ing man," he observed. "Perfectly right, my friend! Sister leave a ridiculous will of that sort beTheresa was considered a possible hind him. All the old money-bag- s who pile up fortunes magnify the im- match for my grandfather la .my portance of their money. They im- youth. I'm quite out of It with her agine that every kindness, every ordi- And the other lady with the fasclna, nary courtesy shown them, Is merely ting algebraic climax to her name, I a bid for a slice of the cake. Im dis- she, too, .j Impossible; It seems that her appointed in my grandfather. He was can't get the money by marrying a splendid old man, though God knows I'd better let her take It. She's a he had his queer ways. Ill bet a thou- poor as the devil, I dare say." I Imagine not. The Evanses are s sand dollars, if I have so much money in the world, that this scheme is yours, wealthy family. In spots, and she Pickering, and not his. It smacks of ought to have some money of her own, your ancient vindictiveness, and John if her aunt doesn't coax It out of her Marshall Glenarm bad nne of that in for educational schemes." "And where on the map are thesa his blood. That stipulation about my resldonco out there is fantastic. 1 lovely croaturcs to he found?"' "Sister Theresa's school adjoins your dont have to be a lawyer to know Miss Devereux has, I think. I could break the doubt no and preserve; that; will; I've a good notion to try .t, any- Borne of your own weakness for travel. Sister Theresa is her nearest relo-tivhow." and she occasionally visits St. "To be sure. You can tie up the estate for a half dozen years If you Agathas thats the school." "I suppose they embroider altar-cloth- s like," he replied coolly. He did not togothor and otherwise labor look upon me as likely to become a formidable litigant My staying qual- valiantly to bring confusion upon ities had been proved weak long ago, satan and his cohorts. Just the people to pull the wool over the eyes of aa Pickering knew well enough. "No doubt you would like that" I my grandfather!" Pickering smiled at answered. "But I'm not going to give "You'd better give them a wide you the pleasure. I abide by the term a was they might catch you la tbolr berth; will. My of the grandfather fine old gentleman. I shan't drag his net. Sister Theresa is said to have name through the courts, not even quite a winning way. She certainly to please you, Arthur Pickering," I de- plucked youlr grandfather." "Nuns in spectacles, the gentle educlared hotly. "The sentiment Is worthy of a good cators of youth and that sort of thing, with a good naturod old man for their man, Glenarm," hs rejoined. But this woman who is to succeed prey. None of them for met" I rather thought so," remarked to my rights, I dont seem to rememPickering, nnd be pulled his watch ber her." "It Is not surprising that you never from Ills pocket and turned the atom with his heavy fingers. Ho was short, hoard of her." "Then shos not s connection of the thickset and aleck, with a square Jaw, d family, no long lost cousin whom I hair already thin and a mustache. Age, I mentally reflected, ought to remember?" No; she was a late acquaintance of was aot improving hkn. (TO UK CONTINUED.) your grandfather. He met her through e, close-clippe- Herrlman gives $2,50!) annually lor its maintenance. NexJ to his family an! money this fearless tuan Is fond of horses and is a regular visitor to the Tuxedo horse snow. Mr. Harrlman In 1870 married Miss Mary W. Averell, daughter of a Wall street dealer, and they have five children living, three daughters and two sons. Mr. Karrlman's eldest daughter, Mary, la her lather's friend, and comrade and takes doep Interest in his affairs. He is manifestly proud of her. The two boys are Bturdy youngsters and still at school. Harrlman is always hospitable in a formal way. When traveling be Is ah Mr. Litt'e Known of His Personality Outside of Business Says Present Generation Should 8trive to Make Next One Better. 1. the WAS NOTED AS A SCRAPPER. i st: I give and MAGNATE New Shinto Temple In Honolulu. a great display of fireworks In the evening. The temple is said to be the most elaborately appointed Shinto temple outside of Japan. A priest of high rank was brought here from Japan especially to have charge of these ceremonies. Connected with the dedication were many dramatic representation from simple stages erected In the temple yard and a most impressive dance by a score of Jap&neao girls In gorgpous kimonos before tbe altar in tbe temple. Shintoism, according to Prof. Clement's Handbook of Modern Japan, la not a religion, but a system of worship la which tbe deification of heroes, emperors, family ancestors and forces of nature play an important part It h&a no dogmas, no sacred book and no moral codo. It sums up Its theory of human duty la the following injunction: "Obey jrour natural Im pulses and the laws of the state." A Shinto temple la usually a simple building in front of which, at a little distance, la set an arch. There are no Idols, but strips of paper hanging from a wand are used aa emblems of Shinto. The ordinary form of worship consists of washing the face or bands, or both, with holy waler, of ringing a bell or slapping the hands, te call the god's attention; of casting In a coin as $n offering; of standing with clasped hands during a short prayer and of making a farewell bow. Efforts have been made to have Shintoism made the state religion of Japan, but these have failed. Shinto affairs have been entirely secularized since 1SGS and set apart under a bureau of shrines, this being regarded as the final step In tne disestablish-mea- t of this system of worship. NOTE!? NORTHWEST ' ; by - wigh IN YOUTH Banks In Portland are not affected, the financial disturbances In New York- - , , . Dr. F. R, Cross of Oregon, a promi- nent dentist and for many years a resident of the isthmus, committed suicide at Pnnama on October 24. Haryy W. Logan, a railway ., engineer. was shot and fatally wounded by a masked highwayman in Portland No clue to the murderer has been discovered. Two persons are known to have been killed and one seriously injured as the result of the explosion of the oil burners on the river steamer J. N. Teal, at Portland. It is announced that Tracy C. Becker, an attorney of Buffalo, will be appointed special assistant attorney general to review the Southern Pacific land fraud cases in California and Oregon. One million dollars in gold was received by the John I. Cook bank at Goldfield on Friday and Saturday last, to be used in paying off depositors who wished to withdraw their money from tbe bankB care. ( Attorney General Bonaparte has announced tbe appointment of Elmer E. Todd to be United States attorney for the western district for the Btate of Washington. Mr. Todd succeeds Potter C. Sullivan, resigned. In the arrest of C. E. McDonald and Ed Smith on a Great Northern dining sar, between lllliyard and Spokane, tbe officers believe they have captured two bandits who held up the Great Northern passenger train near Rondo, Mont., Sept. 12. Mrs. Bath S. Waterman, who married a well known Chelsea, Mass., man In Goldfield, Nev., about six weeks ago, bas arrived in Boston seeking ber husband, whom she accuses of having deserted her in Denver, taking $700 of her money with him. It is reported that . mountain lions and bears are too thick for comfort in the mountains surrounding Star They are killing Valley, Wyoming. livestock right and left and are causing & great deal of worry to the farmers and stockralsers throughout the valley. Edward H. Harrlman. Financial conditions in Montana were never better. Record prices obways accompanied by guests, but for- tain for wool and sheep, while cattle gets all about them when Borne busi- have commanded a material advance ness at band Interests him. He never over last year. Up to two months ago travels tor pleasure and la a tireless sold at unusually high prices, copper worker. His only pleasure is rest in so that on the whole the present year the vastness of his 3,000-acrestate at most prosperous in the Arden. His late hunting trip in the has been the state. of the history west was tbe first in many years. made a If by tbe court la ruling He was brought up in the Episcopal) trial of Theodore Cantelonl, church. Recently when tbe question the was put to him as to what be thought charged with the murder of Mollie it was worth while la thl8 world for a Quinn, at Butte, Is sustained by the of the state, the death man to do hl8 reply was: My idea supreme court la is that a roan Bhould try to make hia penalty Is practically abolished children better; give them larger op- Montana. The court ruled that a portunities and to do wbat be can to Juror who was opposed to the death make tbe next generation a little bet- penalty might sit on the jury. ter off than his own." J. C. Schwlck is on trial at Goldfield, Nevada, charged with having killed John R. Davey at Columbia,. FRANKLIN TRADE 8CHOOU Tune 20. Davey interfered in an altercation between Scbwick and a man Made Possible by Gift to Boston a named Busher. Schwlck is said to. Hundred Years Ago. have pulled a gun and shot Davey, killing him instantly. The defense Boston. Contracts were recently claims that tbe killing was accidentaL let for tbe erection of a splendid trade Two robbers attempted to bold up a school building in this city to be paid stage near Lewiston, Mont, but the for with the $5,000 which Benjamin driver put up auch a fight with one Franklin bequeathed to Boston at his of the robbers that the second man death. Tbe contract price la almost waa obliged to leave the horses heads $320,000, yet the trustees of tbe fund to assist his comrade in crime. While have $100,000 additional to be used the fight was in progress the team ran for equipment Franklin intended away, thus the malls and that his original 'bequest should be other matterpermitting to escape the hands ofj lent in small sums at five per cent the robbers. The driver was robbed Interest to young married mechanics and brutally beaten. who bad served their apprenticeship A dispatch from Lewistown, Mont., In Boston. He directed that at the says that T. A. Oram, employed on end of a hundred years, or In 1891, the west extension of the Chicago, $500,000 dollars of the accumulated Milwaukee ft SL Paul, has been fund should be spent by tbe trustees found foully murdered near Willow in public works which might be of Creek tunnel. His throat was slashed moat general use to tbe inhabitants. In five and there were half a ptares Tbe remaining $155,000 dollars of th stabs in his chest, whllq dozen fund be computed that it would have his headugly was badly bruiBed as if wlti amounted to $655,000 waa to be let a blunt instrument. Railroad Day, which was fixed for October 28. to celebrate the comple tlon of the Las Vegas ft Tonopah road into Goldfield, has been deferred, owing to the unsettled conditions in thq camp at present. A later date will be agreed upon as soon aa conditions are more settled. During a drunken frolic of railroad graders in one of the Billings $4 Northern construction camps, Willard Smith, a colored cook, was shot through the head and killed, the murderer shooting the negro from behind, This is the third murder at the camp within a month. John poelho, a driver for the Alien wood yard at Goldfield, fell off a wagon loaded with lumber near FRANKLIN TRADE SCHOOL. and waa run over and To Be Erected With $5,000 Left by killed. Boelho waa hauling a load of lumber to th Daisy mine. The acciBenjamin Franklin a Century Ago. dent occurred near the power comout at Interest for another hundred pany substation. years, when tbs accumulations should President Fred A. Miller, of the Lar be similarly expended. It waa not orate, Hohna Peak ft Pacific Railway found practicable to lend the money company. Is In the east making no to young mechanics, as they could not rangements for the financing of the give tbe security which tbe will de- road from Centennial, to which point manded; but the money has been kept it is operated from Laramie to Cowat Interest, and there is now, after drey, Walden and the Raich coal fields allowing for the new building and Us in North Park, Colo. Mr. Ethel Larsen shot and morequipment, a balnnnce of mors than a hundred and fifty thousand dollars, tally wounded Mlohaol Kennedy at which la to accumulate till the latter Goldfield, Nevada. At tho time of tho part of the present century.' shooting Mrs. Larsen says Kennedy a waa pursuing her husband with Not Their Mission. butcher knife. The trouble between Queer thing about women with Kennedy and Larsen was the result of , missions, remarked tho sage of Sage a neighborhood quarrel. vllle. of Treso The International "What's queer about them?" qurrlod Club. In session at Birmingham, Ala., tbe very young man. last week, elected officers and ad"They are seldom able to prepare a journed to meet next year in Reattln. meal fit to eat," explained the S. & Daniel L. Hart. Wllltesbarre. Pa., wan Chicago Dally New. elected president; Lewis G. Early, Reading. Pn.. aecretary. and Robr$ ki ola tyre, New York, treasurer. A' e . |