The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-03-30

Alma Sssddenly looked up WIN q lille
blush and a smile. Her eyes seemed to
say to him:
II heard you callP What is its''
He nodded pleasantly, and said, would
you like to see some of my trapsfp
ooh, yes. Do open one of your
trunks
Mr. Franklin took out bunch of keys
and went to one Of the trunks. As he did
so he said to himself:
"Deuced bright girl She learned
my call in flash. | must teach her the
whole alphabet, and then will have some
tall fun and circufnvent that fool of q
clerk ii
This remark was applied to Mr.. Bel
ford, and was eminent for its touching
truth.
While the young people were opening
the trunk, Mr.. Denny and Mr.. Belford
were engaged in examining the business
eral minutes they paid no attention to
things done and said almost under their
eyes.
Such q very strange trunk. Instead Of
clothing it contained the most singular
assortment Of scientific instruments. Each
was carefully secured so TINT no rude
handling would harm it, and all shining
and glistening brilliantly as If kept with
the most exquisite care Mr., Franklin
unfastened a small brass telescope,
mounted upon stand, with q compass,
levels, plumb line and weight attached.
ssThat's my theodolite. There's a. tri-
pod in one of my boxes III get ittand
mount it, and Wen have. = shot at the
chimney.
'sWhat do you meanfn
.sOh, nothing I'm going to measure
it. Wouldn't you like to help meg''
s'With all my heart Tell me what to
do.
Presently. Watt till I'VE screwed
things together; then III tell you what to
do. Obi by the way,I must tell you an
amusing episode that happened at the rail-
road station while / was waiting for my
luggage. There was a young man send
ing off a message at the little telegraph
station, and overheard the message and
the comments of the operator.
Alma didn't appear to enjoy this incl
dent.
1t was the telegraph heard, not the peo-
plen
Alma felt better.
IL Was all Dy lutIp cOliuS, ttlu ~ 1911
this way; The old fool is here
orator, mean. TO Isaac Abrams. GOT
Barclay street, New York. have secured
the will. Foreclose the mortgage and re-
alize at once Get two etaterooms for the
25th.--L. b. That was the message. and
it was SO very strange wrote it out in
my OH beg pardon, Miss Denny.
Are you ill?''
Alma's face had assumed sudden pail
ease.
"'Tis nothing really nothing. shall
be better presently
Then, as If anxious to change the con-
versation, she began TO ask rapid ques-
tions about the theodolite and its uses.
Mr.. Franklin was too well bred to
notice anything, but he confessed TO him
self that he had said something awkward,
and for the life of him he could not imagine
what it might be. He replied briefly, and
then went on with his preparations for
some time in silence, Alma meanwhile
looking on with the greatest interest The
theodolite having been put together, Mr..
Franklin opened another box and took
ont wooden tripod, such as is used
took out fine steel ribbon or measuring
tape, neatly wound up on reel
You shall carry that, Miss Denny, and
I'll shoulder the theodolite.
wait till / get my hat and the sun
umbrella
ITO be sure; it viii be warm in the
fields .
Alma was soon arrayed in a dainty chip.
A 81 n rs ln1 n, f.1ti tl,. .e,-
torian can do naught but repeat her Ian
guage. Besides this, it was not bigger
than chip, and it looked very pretty tied
under her chin. Over her head she car
ried its real protection, an immense Japan
csc paper umbrella, light, airy and gem
erous.
Where are you going, Almas" said
Mr. Denny.
"Oh, only to the fields for little walk.
Well be back presently
The confidential clerk Thought it
strange that the daughter of the house
should be so free with the stranger. But
the young people were distant cousins,
and it wouldn't have been polite in him
to have objected to the little walk.
So the two, under the friendly shade of
the big paper umbrella, went out to see
ttlC ItW Willie MI. JtuIlY ana
the confidential clerk staid behind to talk
business.
The new chimney stood at the south
east corner of the great four story mill
and close beside the little brick engine
house. Alma led the youthful son of sci
ence out of the gate, down the road few
rods, and they passed stile, and took the
winding path that struggled over the pas
lures to the mill
OF course they talked volubly This
being the stern and prosy record of APP
Piled science, it becomes us not to report
the gatherings of these two till they
reached the base of the vast brick Chin
ney, towering nearly eighty feet into the
air above them. Its long shadow lay like
a stiffened snake upon the fields, and Ell
mer, observing it, said:
Good We can use the shadow, too,
and have double proofn
"HowYn said the bright one, in a beau
tiful spirit of inquiry.
''If an upright stick, q foot long, casts
shadow three feet long, the shadow of
another stick beside it, at the same tine,
is proportionally long,
81 knew that before. That isn't very
high science"
"Why did you say 'how?'''
because | didn't think Because / was
q goose
"Such terms are not choice and are de-
void of truth. Here, stern duty calls. Do
you hold one end of the tape at the foot Of