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" Bellefonts, Pa., February 28, 1913.
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How the Housekeeper Success-
fully Engineered Love Affair.
By J. T. GREENLEAF.
“Did you get any satisfaction about
our marriage out of father this morn-
ing, Paul?” Brownie Weston asked
her lover as they were pacing the
broad piazza of the Weston home in
the April dusk.
“Yes and no,” answered the young
man. “He said: ‘When I'm in danger
of going to jail on account of my
sharp practices or some woman ropes
me into marrying her, you may have
Brownie.”
“That's father all over,” she
laughed. “How he does enjoy a war
of wits, especially with you! Let's
think about it, for I don't believe it's
a wholly idle speech. Tell me some-
thing else that has happgued today
with you.”
“Absolutely a gray blank in every
espect. We've been hauling potatoes
to the car for him io ship—but yes,
there was one little thing that was in-
teresting. Widow Aikins brought
two bushels of the tubers, and when
1 weighed the outfit again it fell
short 60 pounds, showing one bushel
only.”
“That's queer,” the girl
‘What did you do?”
“Registered it for two bushels and
gave her a credit slip accordingly.”
“Then his scales are wrong,”
Brownie cried.
“If they are, he doesn't know it.
He's the most obstinate, cantanker-
our, old—"
“Sh—sh—" the girl ordered, lay-
ng a slim, brown hand over the
farmer's mouth, “yov mustn't speak
n that derogatory way of your future
father-in-law!”
“A—a—mighty long way in the fu-
ture,” sputtered Paul, getting the ob-
struction to free sueech in his hand
as he went en; “but even then he's
honest and square.”
“I'm glad you think so, but I know
him better than you do, and there's
more in it than shows,” she pursued.
“Tomorrecw, every load you bring
to him, you weigh at home and then
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“Your—Your Scales, Mr, Weston.”
weigh back the crates on your own
scales and tell me about it when you
come over in the evening.”
“That's silly, darling,” Paul de-
clared. “If there's an inaccuracy he
doesn’t know it, and if it should turn
out that he does, you and I couldn't
catch him. I know there isn't. He's
honest.”
“You mind me, Paulsie,” the daugh-
ter of Hiram Weston ordered, “for
there's something doing, I know.”
This reminder of Weston’s own spirit
was enforced by something that
topped the young man's mouth,
The following morning a solid bit
of humanity, Hannah Arbuthnot,
queenly, even in her dark blue calico
dress said to Brownie:
“What's the matter with my
baby ?V
“Nothing new, dearie,” replied the
girl. “Just the old story—father won't
let me marry Paul. He keps jolly-
ing us along. You know what a dear,
trying mischievous old angel he is!”
“What's he done now?” asked the
housekeper, hitching her portly self
up on the broad kitchen table and
gathering Brownie in her strong
arms,
A few words told the latest devel-
opments and then Hannah solilo-
quized:
“He said that, did he? You leave
him to me. We'll see what your old-
maid foster-mother can do for her
baby. He wanted to marry me once,
you know.”
“When Weston drove in, tired, wet
and muddy, that evening, Hannah
caught a lantern and slipped out to
me barn, saying as she closed the
“You give him his supper, little
girl”
Toward the end of the satisfying
meal, Weston remarked with his eyes
taking in the beauty of the girl:
“You remind me so much of your
mother, Brownie!”
“That's a great compliment, father,
for they say she was a handsome
woman.”
“She certainly was,” he agreed;
“but what's Hannah up to, taking
care of old Kitty for me and all? She
hasn't heard of my proposition to
that slow, good boy lover of yours,
has she?
“What would she try to do if she
bad?
“She might think I'd ask her to
nsrry me, especially if you two got
your heads together to beat an old
man,” he chuckled.
“But I'll never do that twice to the
same woman!”
A light step on the porch took the
girl to the door, and Paul was ush-
erd into the parlor.
“Well, what about the weights?”
asked the little lady at once.
“Each load was about 60 pounds
short; but he don't kmow it, I'm
sure,” was the report.
“All right,” she responded, with
her eves dancing with mischief. “T'll
call him in and you tell him.”
“12 I? Tell your father! I'd
rether face a locomotive!” he ex-
claimed.
“But don't you think he ought to
know it?”
“Why—yes. He certainly—" he
stammered, as she called out through
the open door into the dining room:
“Father, Paul and 1 don't agree
about a matter and we want your ad-
vice. Hannah, you better come,
too!”
“What is it all about?” Weston
asked, going directly to Paul, who
was as white as marble, lijs and
Funds in a tremor. As the reply was
slow in coming, there was a second
demand: “Out with it!”
“Ycur—your—scales, Mr.
are wrong, but I don't—"
“My scales wrong?” the older man
burst out. “Why you young—you
yvoung—and right in my own house
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“I—I thought you ought to know
it, sir,” Paul babbled. Then he told
his story.”
“But I'm sure you didn't know it,”
he added.
“And you and Brownie aren't in-
tending to use it in response to my
proposition of yesterday?”
“Oh, no, sir. That wouldn't be fair
unless you knew it. You're honest,
sir”
“Well, sir, I did know it,” said
Weston, handing Brownie the round,
iron disk that represents 300 pounds
as a weight. “Turn it over, Kitten.
See that little wad of lead. That
made the overweight that Paul
found. 1 used it on his own outfit
and the widow's, to see how far he
was watching his own interest.”
“Then may 1 have Brownie?”
gasped Paul.
“Not much,” cried Weston, “I'm in
no danger of going to jail for sharp
practices, am I?”
“May I say a word or two?” de
murely asked Hannah.
“Sure,” assented Weston, “I'm in
the hands of the Philistines, but I'm
too much for the whole of you.”
“Please read that,” sald Hannah
passing an old letter to Brownie.
After a minute of scanning the
missive the girl said: “This is a
proposal of marriage from Hiram
Weston to Hannah Arbuthnot, dated
six years ago. Its concluding sen-
tence provides that the offer holds
good for ten years, as an evidence of
good faith.”
Looking Weston squarely in his
eves, Hannah declared: “And now I
accept!”
Gathering the regal figure in his
arms and looking at Paul and
Brownie over the shapely shoulder,
Weston cried:
“Roped! By thunder!”
(Copyright, 1912, by Associated Literary
Press.)
Weston,
NOT HIS TIME FOR REVENGE
‘Circumstances Seemed Favorable for
the Moment, but the Luck
Would Not Hold.
Aboard the great ship the silence of
despair reigned. She had struck on
an uncharted reef, and, owing to the
heavy sea, the boats had either been
stove in against the ship's side or
swamped in the attempt to lower. A
stalwart passenger stole up to the
captain's side.
“Do yoa think, sir,” he asked, “that
there is the slightest chance of our
being saved?”
“Look here,” sald the skipper, in
tones of disgust, “that’s the sixth time
you've asked me that question. Why,
you great lubberly brute, I believe
you're the biggest coward aboard!”
“S—sh! No, I'm not,” protested the
burly one. “But, look here. You see
that old duffer standing by the rail?
Well, he’s my rich uncle, and all my
life I've had to put up with his cussed
cantankerousness. But if the ship's |:
going down, and there's no hope, I'd
Jike time to give him one good, sound
kick to square the little account I
owe him!”
Just then a rescue ship appeared on
the scene and above the joyful shout
the raucous voice of the old man by
the rail was heard, commanding his
dutiful nephew to fetch his hot water
bottle from his waterlogged state.
room, :
Carnegie Institute,
The Carnegie institute, Washington,
was founded by Mr. Andrew Carnegie
January 28, 1902, when he gave the
board of trustees the sum of $10,000.
000 in registered bonds, yielding 6 per
cent. annual interest. He stated, in
general terms, that his purpose was
to “found in the city of Washington
an institution which, with the co-
operation of institutions now or here-
after established, there or elsewhere,
shall in the broadest and most liberal
manner encourage investigation, re-
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ment of mankind, afd provide such
buildings, laboratories, books and ap-
paratus as may be needed.” Mr. Car
gle added $2,000,000 to his gift in
AS TO EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE
Theory That Has Long Been Held ls
Gaining Grolind Among the Men
of Scientific Mind.
The idea that the earth's
is distributed in layers, with n
pure hydrogen at the top, has
growing in favor in the last few
and is now expanded by the
tion that a still lighter gas
the hydrogen. This hypotheti
is called “geocoronium,” as it is
least similar to the coronium forming
the sun's atmosphere beyond the hy-
drogen. Presently some of the evi-
dence, Professor Wegener, a German
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about 46 miles, but that after twilight
he has observed a bluish reflection
from a height of about 133 miles. This
elevated reflecting surface is believed
to be the boundary line between the
hydrogen and the geocoronium. Small
meteors glow at heights between 100
and 50 miles, indicating that their lu-
minosity is due to collision with the
hydrogen, and the sudden brightening
of large meteors at a certain point may
be caused by reaching a denser air lay-
er. Other observations confirm the
theory of an atmosphere of fairly defi-
nite layers. It is calculated that at
sea level the air contains 78.1 per
cent .of nitrogen, 4,939 of argon, 0.0033
of hydrogen, 8.0005 of helium, and only
0.00068 of geocoronium; at 25 miles,
88 per cent, of nitrogen and 10 of ox-
ygen; at 62 miles, 67 per cent. of hy-
drogen, 29 of geocoronium, and 4 of
helium, and at 300 miles 33 per cent.
of geocoronium and 7 of hydrogen,
SAFE WAY TO CARRY SKUNKS
John Burroughs Is Authority for This,
if Any One Cares to Try Some-
whit Rash Experiment.
“There is a saying among country
folk that a skunk can be safely car-
ried by the tail, a saying that some
naturalists deny,” says Julian Bur-
roughs, in telling of his boyhood days
with his father, John Burroughs, in
the Craftsman. “Father determined
to try the question for himself, his
courage being equal to the task.
Every time that I caught a skunk
about the house I let father have a
try at him. First, we carefully shut
up the dog, much to the latter's dis-
gust; then the skunk was gently
lifted on a pole and dropped into an
empty barrel, the trap being opened
over the edge to liberate him. In a
few minutes, or as soon as the skunk
had become used to the barrel, father
would reach in, clasp him firmly by
his plumelike tail and then raise him
aloft, always being careful not to let
the animal get his front feet on any
near object. This we repeated over
and over without any accident, prov-
ing without doubt that the skunks of
Ulster county. at least, can be safely
carried by their tails.”
Moulds of Bronze Age.
The molds of the latter bronze age
were either of clay or bronze, In cast.
ing swords and daggers of bronze the
molds must have been of clay and
been heated to dull redness at the
time when the metal was poured in—
a method of casting which is still
practiced in Japan—as by no other
means could such perfect castings of
their thin blades have been obtained.
‘The castings generally were ham:
mered at the cutting edges, and it
is to this hammering, and to it only
that the hardness of the cutting edges
of both copper and bronze weapons is
due, and not to any method of tem-
pering. Much has been written about
the so-called art of tempering bronze
supposed to have been practiced by
the men of the Bronze Age in the
‘manufacture of their weapons; the
hardness is also said to be greater
than can be given to the bronze at
the present day. William Gowland
has recently pointed out that this fe
an error, and has expressed the opin:
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