The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-08-25
HE CAME PREPARED.
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Chicago Tribune.
 "You don't know what love is, Mr. Swackhammer," protested the beauti- full girl, with smile of incredulity on her face; "the sentiment you enter tain for ne Is sonly a passing fancy. When it has had its brief day and you look at it in the cold light of reason you will be surprised that you ever mistook so palpable delusion for the genuine thing 1t assumes to represent.
 "But hear me, Miss GarliDghouse,n 2 exclaimed the young man, calmly, yet earnestly, tam I not old enough to know my own"
 "lt is not question of age, MT. Swackhammer," interposed Miss Gar linghouse, still smiling incredulously, "but of scientific demonstration. As you are probably aware, I have de- voted myself for the last two or three years to 8 severe course of scientific study, and I have acquired the habit, perhaps unconsciously, of accepting nothing as true that is not demonstra- ble by the memorable rules of mathe- matics or the soupdest process of log ical induction. Science has become with me the touchstone of all things asserted, claimed or proposed, and -"
 "But how do you apply the rules of science to matters of the heart2" in- quired the young man. "How can you subject my love to the test of a mathematical or scientific demonstra- tion?"
 "In this way, Mir. Swackhammer. The action of the passion or emotion of love upon the very sympathetic ganglia of the human organism causes certain we'll established and clearly defined phenomena. When you speak to me of love I look for the appear ance of those phenomena. From scientific point of view they are not satisfactory. The tremor in your voice is not sufficiently pronounced. Your articulation is not thick and husky. The color in your face is hardly shade paler than its normal hue, and you have no nervous move- ments of the hands. Do you think mere assertion can disprove the evil dence-"
 "Alvira Garlipghouse," came im- petulously from the lips of the young man, as he rose to his feet, "there are facts in mental as we'll as physical sci- ence that are not wholly beneath your notice. Some men are gifted with marvellous faculty of self-control, so far as external manifestations are con. cerned. Beneath the apparently un- moved exterior that you have sub- jected to scientific test, there rages volcano of passion. Do you doubt it2 l will demonstrate it to a mathemat- ical certainty. I foresaw the scepti- cism with which you would receive my avowal and came prepared. Listen to the beating of my heart"
 And with 8 quick movement he drew from beneath his waistcoat the flexible tube of stethoscope and placed it against her ear.
 "Count the pulsations l" he con- tinVed. "They will run nearly one hundred to the minute. Normal heart beat, seventy pulsations. Note the revelation of deathless love con- veyed by this respirometer And he produced another flexible tube. "Res- pirations per minute, twenty eight Twenty eight, Alvira-count them twenty -eightl Normal respirations per minute, from fourteen to twenty in adults. Observe the mathematical certainty of tempestuous passion dem- onstrated by my temperature And opening his tightly-closed left hand, he showed her small thermometer. Temperature, Alvira, one hundred and twelve degrees! Normal temper ature, about one hundred degrees Fahrenheit Have I proved my love?"
 "Alpheus," murmured the lovely girl, as she placed her head on his shoulder, with her lips at an accessi- ble angle, "you have"