Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1926, Page 76

4 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 10, 1926—PART 5. The Three-Cornered Moon BY MICHAEL ARLEN. The Duke of Mall Didn’t Attempt to Hide From His Wife the Fact That He Was Bored. HE structure, economy and pol- ity of our time do not incline the meek and lowly to a par ticular regard for persons of condition. Nor is the patron age of princes and the tavor of lords solicited to any neticeable degree by the poets and f the day The most superficial of history will di that rdescension of a gentleman of ton was once regarded as of a poet’s succe man, were he never so cunt must rely for his fame of the v nen of fashion it is to be setimed, 1 ¥ scientists o surve the e the haut most an_ essential . the crafts 1 ex 1 the capric who we less g variabl vere nearly ahways in wine. In our have progr arts that mask hifhself w fashion as to be clothes which of faith in the & been cut to fit hix per once ba convicted people of a lack of ts genuine in art and cannot be altogeth nate manner nd should not, on the ably be taken for in the n yuld ltbera B ttors impertinence it Asel L bl he sha inte el selen warned g succeasful ascent of P In the face of this illibera toward the upper <ort, the pop terest in the young Duke of the more surprising. and to tleman's familiars and has for long been a so ion to observe how hich he is held b I land is rivaled only shown in the table most famous pugi extended to most belove Nor wa unheralded, omen; historians know the legend Alall, h it was byl the Restor birth of the greatest « ®olden cock on the v St ames’ Pr WO and on his death thrice. And only disbelieve the i every club servant that the There on the recent of Mall and his history will say there never w for such is th the All Wise cover the sweetest ferences referred those of breeding the lady was an Amy cago, in the State 1pt to desc hallenge Mall mt gen cndents gratifica ! prince he youns the vithe wld oy his dence es street miracle birth of rteentt ng Duke ¢ pair. visdom of on will dis The dif of _course onality, for «n out of Chi illinois. But Miss Lamb were mpt and defy the i goda upon hu- flica that she was beautiful; the quality of her color comparable only to that of a garden in tempered sunlight. the texture of her complexion the envy of silkworms, while the glory of her hair has been described by a minor poet as a cap of beaten gold and Autumn leaves. As he lady's eyes, shall a_phrase at- )t where a thousand photographs > failed duke wooed. knowable I har L was mocked: he ted, was heguiled: he pleaded provoked, he stormed, was di ssed; he worshiped. was accepted. The wedding paralyzed the traffic of | London for several hours and the| newspapers of England and America | for several days t should be noted that the wedding sent of the bride’s father to the & duke was an ocean-going vacht of gratifying tonnage. White and graceful, the vacht Camelot rode the seas like a bird. o New. alas pr your not the most kindly ob- can but_ have remarked that the recent life of the voung duke nd his duchess has been spicuous for its private color public splendor. There have been rumors. there has been chatter. But it is the austere part of the historian to deal only in facts. The facts are as follows: outh of the lands the old troubadours, between the heights of the Southern Alps and the languor of the Mediter: . lles Cannes. The year we te voutt The flower England | and Am promenading _in the sunlight of the pretty town. The waters slept profoundiy in_the full kiss of the afternoon sun.. There, as | as con- | 15 for its of & dove on a spacious lawn, rode a fair white yacht. From its stern hung a cluster of golden cherries, for such was the pretty nautical device of the young Duke of Mall. Tt must be granted by the most fas- tidious that the scene was set for en- chantment. _Yet in the yacht raged a storm; the Duke of Mail was having @ row with his lady. % 4% the moment of our intrusion my Lord Duke was saying: “By Heaven, Leonora, end tired of it! That small, lovely head, those wide, iteep, gentle eves! Yet stern Juno herself did sometimes walk the earth o these very eves. She was not more T am sick is | | an efrort | presently she said, bemused | mist. and lo! was gone | bat | than 24, this_lady, vet with what ! prond calm and disdain she could at | one glance p her husband. Not however, that it always advantaged her case. for sometimes it might be | he was too sleepy to notice or maybe | he would too busily engaged in | disdaining her, which on oceasions he could do very handsomely | _Gently said she: “You say sick and tired of ‘it ‘It my well beloved? Am I, b { understand that you mean me voung duke pointed his indiffer- ence with the application of the match to a clgar. “You may.” said he, “un tand what you like. 1 said what 1d iderness was clothed s by this lady’s voice. *'Shall 1. then.” said she, “tell you all that I understand by what you said?” The duke need not have waved a hand skyward, need not have smiled, have vawned, and said: “Am I God to stop you talking! But maybe it ry for me to add that I wish I were, if only for that purpose.’” The duchess said. “However, I will not be provoked. It is too hot. 1 will myself merely with k ing that in my considered opinion the ancient dukedom of Mall 1t present grace one with the @ boor and the habits of a stat Leonora, you go too fur'” it my dear, “it,” to yet foes hat most ¢ n pubife vou are charming: and many who know of private disagreements can't but hink the fauit is mine. since in pub lic you seem never for a moment deficient in the manners, grace and onsideration proper to a great gentle ran The duke expressed a hope that she would put that down in writing, that he could send it as a reference to any lady or ladies to whom he might paving his suit or sufts | “However i the duchess, we come to examine you in the manners are monstrous, es those 2 o that, far fron S0 when home, vour schoolboy, r vour wifs concealing wtion £ * | the rarefied vomen, ually, ng them on boar she added. oal * said the duk n't I tempt ¥ then,” said he, going ashore. duke opened or he was sleey * said he. 1stest cutte to catch the Blue train to C: n the cool of the evening, Naples. Thank you to stay od-bye.” duchess cailed You will please Eyes. It h was “her grace e town We, make HE duke closed his eyes again, for he was sleepy. The duchess stared though into the heart of the still lue Her eves darkened and “T am go- ing now. Adieu, Maximilian ‘Leonora.” he said, with closed eves “I wish vou all happiness and con- tent She said: “Max. we were very happy once. We were lovers once. So happy —once upon a time! He sighed: “How I loved s T had never loved re, as T will never love again “How I loved vou, M now!” And she said: tion is a silly quibble. might want to marry might.” “*Might, Leonora <t, can’t help outh, wealth ‘Thank you. I have often noticed that one’s friends like one best as one Is leaving them. Then, Maximilian, ou. ny any Leo- one one aximilian! A legal se Bestde: again But ara you or I ? But you will, With your beau | shall T divorce you?" “If you please, dear.” His eves were closed against beauty, else he had seen the sudden smile that touched her beauty, touched it and was going, going. lurked awhile in the depths of her eyes like a very small bird in the ferns of love-in-the- She said softly: “You are such Max! And because you are such a baby I don’t put It beyond vou to make love to my sister if you should meet her. She has always been jeal ous of me, so she would enjoy nothing so much as vour making love to her. Promise not to, Max, oh, please! She has just come over to Paris. Max, promise not to make a fool of me to own sister! he's pretty? Pretty? Are words so scarce, sir, that you must use a copper coin? ~And she my twin!” “Ah, me! Oh, dear!"” Her voice *scarce a disturbed the silence of the yach ‘Good-bye, Duke Maximilian. Our lives go different way: I do wish you success, happi- ness, health. Good-bye. As he lay, with closed eyes, his fin- gers found her hand and raised it to his lips. ““Good-bye,” said he. tarewell. She looked back from the side. lay silent. She said: ‘Courtesy, Maximillan?" A sea-bird mocked the silence. The cloud athwart the sun was now as large as half the world. The Duchess of Mali sald: “Chivalry, Maximilian?" The sea bird screamed and flew | vou are | | so fitly her | (away, and Leonora of Mall cried: “I will forgive you all things but your farewell, Maximilian. The very birds are appalled to see chivalry so low in a man that he will take his lady’s adlen lyving down." Her mald, hatted and velled for travellng, whispered to her ear: “Your gruce, he is asleep.” The time came when the young duke awoke. Now the winds of the sea were playing about him: the sun was certainly not where he had left it. “Ho!" cried the duke. ‘“‘Where s the land—the land of Fran e? Ho there, Capt. Tupper! What have you done with the fair land of France?" “Your urace, we are making for ples Your obsession to’ me singularly windy evening. Put bac 1 am for I * for Naples seems out of place on’a I detest, I deplore to Nice, Capt. Tup- et} * JTUDENTS of soclology have made | O strides in thetr alleviation of the condltions prevailing among the poor but is It not ua fuct that, as a daily paper lately asked. the study of those conditions appears attract the in of only the lighter sort of so- | people and the pens of only the ambitious novelists? And that 1 henefits of this study least to ollst mean proved wevond only ¢ day, when the cotem: | po increased fortune | by writing a tale about w miser in | slum N¢ one. on the other hand {will dany that achievements of soct. | | ologists among the poor are nothing | compared with those of students | hospitality, who, poor and unrewarded | though remain, h of late vears done veoman work In alleviating | the conditions prevafling among the rich. It is to the generous spade. work of men such these that | American hostesses { Jurope owe the | betterment of their pt, and it is by | the support of their merciful hands that i « burdened with great wealth | |are prevented from sinking down in 1ttmoxphers vhich they | have been called | Mere students }Hn\l however, been st | clety rost at are Wik il pert writer don e othe ey ve of hospitaltty had < enough Omroy | come | support the hurden of S, Pont when that lady had first {over from America at the call of cer | tuin voices thut had advised her that | her mission n European jety 1t had neede graduates of that trotherho: can with endeavor fin | alirooms and browned with the suns | the Riviera, to prevent that ample | | ludy from succumbin; the exhaus | tion of carrying her wealth through | the halls of her houses in London and Paris among guests who had failed o | catch her name on being introduced | But the good Samaritans had worked unceasingly on her behalf. and since | Omroy Pont had both great Ith and infinite insensibility she was soon in a position to give a ball at which quite half the guests knew her by sight The morning after the rival in Paris Mrs. Omroy Po was | on the telephone, savin My dear | duke, how do you do. how dp vou do?| I am giving a party tomorrow l|\;§hi You must come, ou Imus don’t say you won't, b an't | bear that And really T must say, {my aear duke, that your unfortunate inability to accept any of my invita- tions C far has seemed almost | marked, where: 4 “Really this is too much" the duke muttered, saving out aloud: “Dear | Mrs. Omroy Pont, you do me great| honor, but I am afraid that an ex- | tremely previous and decidedly prior | ‘engagement— fiss Ava Lamb, who wants to meet vou, my dear duke. She has just come over to Paris. Dinner is at & Thank vyou, thank vou.” * xow ok d ar HE duke, as he acknowledged to himself the morning after Mrs. Omroy Pont's party, had been diverted | beyond all expectation by Miss Lamb. What, of course, had instantly im- pressed him was the amazing resem- blance between the sisters: since the fact that twins are very frequently as allke, as two peas never does seem to prepare people for the likeness be- tween the twins they actually meet. Now between Miss Lamb and the | Duchess of Mall there wasn't, you dared swear, so much as a shadow of difference in grace of line and sym- metry of feature. But why, as Alva Lamb sensibly protested, why on earth should there be or need there he or could there be, since Leonora and she had been twins as punctually to the | second as was possible? A nearer view, however, discovered a deal of difference between the sis- ters: in those small gestures of voice, habits of expression, capacity for at- AS HE LAY, WITH CLOSED EYES, HIS FINGERS FOUND HER HAND AND RAISED IT TO HIS LIPS.” tention and the like, which, so the duke had warmly said, contribute far more than actual looks to mark the difference between one woman and an- other. Nor were they less dissimilar in coloring, for whereas both the duchess and Miss Lamb had those small white faces and immense biue eves generally affected by American ladies for the conquest of Europe, the duchess’ hair was of a rich and vari- ous auburn shaded here to the deep lights of Renaissance bronze and thére to the glow of Byzantine am- ber—the duchess’ hair wus,. in fact, fair,to fairish, while Miss Lamb's was as near black as is proper in any one with blue eves who is without Irish blood. The duke thought it only fair to tell Miss Lamb that he and her sister had decided, for each their sakes, to break their marriage; and he had thought it only fair to himself to point his com- fession with a sigh, | stlence | de | when women didn’t for | could not, try as he wo “You mustn’t for a moment think,” he'd added wretchedly, “that T am t ing to enlist your sympathy against your own sister, but—— “Please!” Miss Lamb had prote quite unhappily to that. And here was another and the sweetcst difference of all hetween the sisters, for Miss Lamb’s was the prettiest American cent imaginable, where as the duchess had long since and all too completely achieved the cold and fronic monotony of the mother-tongue. To be with Ava Lamb, the duke had gratefully reflec 1 at that moment, was to look on all the beauty of his wife in atmospheric conditions undis turbed by his w s sarcastic habit of mind. Miss Lamb hadn't a touch of that irony and sophistication which is 80 often mistaken by American badies for European culture; she was per- fectly that rarest of visitors to a hored continent, o and simple Ameviean lady And “Pl about her duke that one much. forced happily from h shield r pert consequences prevent him from she disapproved whol il sweet) from exploving f meant conter under “‘But cried n fresh 150 all she had said 1t the you meant st [ to, word had it had 1p . as been so un it half against Folly "« hare \inz how deep) that sister, and to stay his tongne - into that er the mis had heen so muel a understar we she quietly and! do [ you emphatically present ,him D sense of understanding. delicious talent ‘My dear”—it ¢ him like th wonderfully: were like you u just to understand:” The musfe ar the ha lone on bove the Champs Elysees Up and d tween the the cosmop wo 1t smail und Seine the | th do you nd she had let with her She had silence just slipped out naturaily, quite other women nd for has hind the tan n rrible gil e on the archange o the conquest o three-corner rea nigh (A flected or self enchar ) he lte habits. To of here was i edly familiar with be with Ava Lamb the he'd « b wife. it one's oy il his it wiser, 1d to increase older and enough to ap 10 renew wasn't he wasn’t he now w preciate enchantme: Why, oh, why wasn't his wife like this girl, why since they were both alike in so much hadn’t Leonora a little of Ava's warn attention and quick understanding And again the duke cast hack vesternight, how he had warmed to the beautiful stranger and had told her the legend of the house of Mall He said: “It tells, how the golden cock on the weathervane of St James' Tower shall crow thrice at the birth of the greatest of the Dukes of Mall. And, aithough I say it who shouldn't, this wery nuracle attended he birth of him who now stands be e you. And the legend further tells that when the golden cock again crows thrice, the greatest of the Dukes of Mall shall die. Tonight 1 find my self in fear of my fate. Iam troubled with foreboding that the second crow ing of that beastly cock s not very far distant. I've never but once be fore been vexed with this depression, and that was on the night of the day I fell in love with Leonora Lamb." So it happened that the Duke awoke one morning to recognize that he , do withe enchantment that was called Ava Lamb. Those American sisters were fated. it appeared, to ravish his imagination to the exclu- sion of the whole race of womankind. And he had all the more leisure in which to contemplate his dilemma insomuch as Miss Lamb, pleading the Importunity of friends, would some- times not see him for days at a time. Impatiently the duke in Paris await- ed the wire which would tell him that he was no longer Leonora Mall; and when delayed only long enough to instruct his valet to telephone his London flo- rists to send the ex-duchess a basket of flowers before calling on M Ava Lamb at her hotel. However, she was not at home. Her maid said she was resting before the ardours of the night journey to Cher- hourg, whence she would embark for New York. The duke scarce awaited the end of the astoundmg news. Miss Lamb was lying down. Calm and cgaf, she sald: ““What does this mean. duke? How dare you force yourself on me Itke this?"” Fair, tall, intent, the duke further dared her displeasure by raising her unwilling hand to his lips. Twilight filled the room. Outside, the motors raced across the Place Vendome. The duke said “I have dared everything on this one throw. Ava, I love you.” Her face was like a pale white flow- er. But he could not see her eyes, be- cause they were closed. The dress she wore was black. The hand that lay outstretched en her biack dress vas as soft as a temptation, and he said: “I have a ring for that hand that has not its peer in the world. I love you. Ava, will you marry me?” He could not see her eyes, because they were closed. But still the dusk lacked the courage to steal the red from her mouth, and the duke saw that her mouth was parted in a queer sad smile. “Why do you smile?” he whispered, and he sald unsteadily: “I know why. You do not believe I love you; vou do not believe L know how to love you; vou think me the shallow, vain brag- Bart that I have shown to you In the guise of myself until this moment. But I love you, Ava, more than life. I love you, Ava, with all the youthful love I had for your sister increased a thousandfold by the knowledge I now have of myself; for it is by loving that men come to know themselves, and it is by knowing themselves in all humility that men can love with the depths of their hearts. Ava, I do love you terribly! Won't You _speak? Won't you say one word? Do you disdain my love so utterly as that? Yet I can’t blame you, for I have spent my life in proving that my love is despicable. I have been proud, piti- less, impious. I am soiled. But, Ava, even a fool may come to know the depths of his folly; and I who know 8o much of desire, dearly beloved, know that I have never loved until this moment. Still you won’t speak? Ava, I did not think you so ungener- ous when in my vanity I first fell un- sister. out the one the husband of | it came he to | | 1 mean, | + beloved, | he | laughter would not | ! | laboratory off and on for a vea | welzh the earth? der your gentle enchantment. Dear, your silence is destroying all of me but my love. Won't you give me even s0 much as a queen will give a beg- gar, that, had he been anothéer man in nothe world, he might have kissed her hand?"” Now night had extinguished all but the last tapers of twilight, and in the aark sflence the maid whispered to his ear: “Your grace, she is asleep.” * x kK HE duke told his chauffeur that he would not need him again that evening. But he had not walked about a doven yards across the Place Vendome when the breathless voice of his valet detained him “This telegram.” the valet panted ume the minute after you had left this afternoon. 1 took the liberty to follow you The duke's face paled The telegram was from thy ? his club in St. an old cerned at his mas “I hope T did right “Quite right denly the yvoung duke smile hre t me this wire right moment. T can't. M. ene Meanwhile A pack. We he hall por- Jumes street int, was con- s pale your gr Martin.” The valet w but go! attempt the Miss fek man’s fac she had not the sight of her mistr I'll be,” she sig The duke smil never wus at that moment The maid said sleeps. It is wher she sleeps H maid A surprise not 1 d nh's duke’s voung et that avance. But Was S0 Stra reap heart W . Cdismissed!’ ind maybe nor h s0 so gay "My mistress she is hapy still that Does it make a mar man ed grace L He made rose, for kiss. | lips. | a man’s de the still figure ried. and she cried her mouth re burning ‘hen he sa hat is cold Now, why For sham she whispered are burning for shame th little of & man.” He laughed, his lips by “Beloved, do vou think 1 without kissing your ps? could you exp: Die”" she whispered He would have laughed again. but fancied that mavbe too muc become his situ would appear like bravado. But he would, have liked to show her he was happy and why he was huappy A vain man, he had realized that he Your odd DS Your “They t you are so would die Honestly, read. | her ear: | O 8 SAID. DESPERATELY : "LENORA, WHAT ARE Y OL SAYING? DO YOU FORGET THAT I AM GO- ING JO DIE ora. wha rget that had neve) ther u may this mocke: You new arn Ang made mt in in m Maxi u arried never sweet— u? Duke Duke the ! vou four would u | dar vears ago me. Be happ ou ever were always ng. the brilliant wealthy Du: v‘ American troubie 1 you! I h had the bother of divorein L irtled bird. He | sake. It' in peace. | ove was zo I was t up with sohbe too die onr mock bless | happs “Die him thus | tongue t ican accent, and | into her eyes he | away for shame but | still_tight about his shoulder | “You, Leonora. vo | have revenged you: She whispered }‘A‘\“ as he you! Wherea~ 1 to make me 1 t th rrying you made me love love again because you vhen the duke st had leapt up and run that her arm was few months “Oh T must love but listen!” he made to pro certainly wor she say, thous to me divinel ths, and the real en for vou. I'm 1 California ny hair iifference betw that 1 ked about kiss me. that we are enga that you'v you v these Ava s he al vou ta made tear himself » sald: “Yes. I wanted 1 I wanted you to fall - ted vou n listened away, sl to be revenged |in love with n look a fool “Then you m be very Leonora! Let me go now. now content, | Earth Is Put on the Scales of Science By D. C. Worker in Underground Room BY CARL SHOUP. N a little chamber dus earth 35 feet below the street level a scientist sits and figures. In front of him, inclosed in a glass case, is a simple-looking in- strument—so simple that it is myste- vious. It consists of a thin aluminum rod tipped at each end with a ball of gold and suspended from its middle by a tungsten filament. Outside the case and near it are two masses of teel, each weighing 140 pounds. The scientist, alone in this strange re treat, moves these lumps of steel with suitable apparatus, ~watches the slight swinging of the aluminum rod inside the case and notes the results. He figures carefully, for it is a deli- cate job that he has undertaken. He is weighing the earth. Such is the operation as it appears to any one who iIs a novice in the sport of weighing earths. For Dr Paul Heyl of the Bureau of Standarc who is the scientist referred to, there is probably nothing strange about it. He has worked in this subterranean He will probably be there, off and on, fc at least half a year more. Finding the weight of an object as large as the earth is not something that can be done in a day. The same measure- ments, the same calculations, must be repeated time after time to assure accuracy, 3ut why out of the should any one want to Outside of pure in- tellectual curlosity there would seem at first glance to be no practical rea- son for all this wark and worry. This appears especfally true when we r member that our globe has already been weighed several times—not to such an exact figure as Dr. Heyl hopes to reach, but to a figure mar- velously close, considering the diffi- culties in the way. Probably no one who reads these words will ever have occasion at any time in his life to dis- play his knowledge on how much the earth weighs. Certainly it is not a staple topic for the club or the bridge table. There ure two very important rea- sons, however, for finding how much the earth would tip a mythical pair of gigantic scales big enough to held it. Kirst, all our figures on the weight of the sun, the moon and the planets are based on the figures given for the weight of the earth. If there is an error in the latter, there is bound to be an error in the former. From the earth’s weight as a starting point astronomical ramificactions stretch out in every direction. Unless the starting point is measured accurately, all the other calculations will be wrong. But if you do not happen to be in- tensely excited over just how much Jupiter or Venus weighs, vou can still sympathize with Dr. Heyl's project, for the second important thing about the weighing of the earth s that in this way its density can be fonnd. And when the density is known more light is thrown on what the interior of the earth may be like. This brings up everything from wandering poles to earthquakes and volcanoes and makes the experiment in the little cell take on a more practical aspect. It is easy enough, then, to find good reasons for weighing the globeé on which we live. But to perform the q a litde the experiment underground such as the autom directly above t¥ ot affect its slo side > know? The a 1000.000.00¢ experiment is u ther task, and a much harder one. Suppose some one made you a bet that you could find no possible way to get the earth’s weight. Could you suggest any plan at all? Superficially the job seems impossible. ven in the wildest flights of fancy, with huge interstellar creatures handling scales of incredible size, the task would be hopeless—how, for instance, could they make the earth stand still long enough to be weighed? Scientists, however, seem to have a way of sneaking up behind a formid- | able, “impossible” problem like this | and solving it by apparently simple methods totally unlike those any one else would suggest. Dr. Heyl is weighing the earth by digeing down into it 35 feet and set- ting up, in his underground ceil, a miniature system representing the earth and some smaller external ob- | ject. He applies the results obtained | from this to the known facts about the earth’s power of gravity and its volume: then he solves a problem in relativity and proportion—and the earth is weighed! A 140-pound mass of steel is the miniature earth. A pail of gold weigh- ing one and one-half ounces represents a small external body. Dr. eyl has the little gold ball on the end of a short aluminum rod. swinging free in a glass case from which all the air has been exhausted. The steel mass is outside the case. As by the well known law of gravity all bodies at- tract each other (the more the heavier they are and the nearer each other they are), the presence of the steel mass nearby causes the gold ball to swing slighily toward it. By careful measurements, then, Dr. Heyl can find the weights of both the steel and the gold bodies. their distance from each other and the force of the attraction they exert upon each other. He finds a certain definite relation between these things. This furnishes the needed clue. we have near the earth's surface, what are the things that we know? We know th distance from the small body to center of the earth (since we alr know the earth’s size): we know power of attraction which < S 14, has for this body, as m cales: we know the small body. We know ev plying the law of the t T ships between all these things, as de termined by experiments with the miniature system, the only unkr element in the equation, the wei rth, can be found. It is not as simple as this expiana- | tion may appear to make it are the principies followed. Rr. Heyl says that the hardest part is job in measuring the fo action between the steel and tf gold bodies in the miniature system The force of gravity seems larse enough to us to be distinguishe easily. but that is because we are measuring it with reference to the huge bulk of the e h When u bring the problem down to merely a lump of steel and a tiny ball of gold the attraction becomes so small that measurement is immensely difficult Dr. Heyl has had to figure in mil lionths of a grain. A rough idea what this means can be ha can imagine splitting a silver dc into a million pieces and then ting one of these million pieces into 400 pieces. Ome of these final tin; segments would weigh about one-mil lionth of a grain. Tt is this difficulty in measurement that has led Dr. Heyl to establish his | laboratory 35 feet underground. There the delicate miniature system is not affected by the attraction of moving | bodies nearby. TIf the experiment wexe | being performed in a city building. | the parking of an automobile outside would create enough disturbance to ruln the experiment. Indeed, the presence of a person within 10 feet of the apparatus is enough to make the tons time Dr. Heyl is throug! the first four fizure. three have alread the fourth we sh: the experiments ar of 120 made y e had reach, with the best and Lond Prof. Boys, a blic the eal after vears apparatus his disposal i a lone Jesuit physics in Bohemia, whe to end his days in a mon worid his resul 1. This " nd his figures | ovs, though the i rked independently eac othe labors. But thi emarkable cc iwther advance on the the figures has been made Heyl is hed it is hoped official weight of the earth t least one less vague = ite « SPAL | yecuracy ¢ When Dr. | that th will have | cipher in it Found in Wisconsin. ST . sword, of the type by the British Army the latter part of the seventeenth century was plowed out of an Indian mound Millville, Wis. Except for a corrosion the sword was as 1seq during near ) e slight weighed some small body good as new R % DR. PAUL HEYL OF THE BUREAU OF STANDARDS WORKING IN HIS SUBTERRANEAN LABORA '“)R'}'EWITB THE APPARATUS DEVISED BY HIMSELF FOR ASCERTAINING THE WEIGHT OF THE