Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-08-14
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CHAPTER XIX.
IN WHICH J. 7. MAsToN REGRETS THAT THE
CROWD DID NOT LYNCH HIN WHEN He WAS IN
PRISON
The capitals Of two worlds, the larger
cities as well as the smaller ones, stood
waiting terror-stricken. Thanks to
the journals which had published the
news broadcast over the world, every
one knew the precise hour at which the
shooting would take place and the local
hour which corresponded with that of
Kilimanjaro, situated 35 degrees east,
allowing for the difference of longitude.
A few of the principal cities, the sun
travelling degree in four minutes, were
as follows:
At Paris, 9:40 p. N.
At st. Petersburg, 1881 p. N.
AT London, $3.50 p. u.
At Rome, 1920 p. n.
At Madrid, 9:15 p. N.
At Berlin, 1870 p. N.
At Constantinople, 1925 p. m.
At Calcutta, 3:04 a. N.
At Marking, sos a. M.
At Baltimore, it was said, twelve
hours after the passage of the sun of the
meridian of Kilimanjaro, it was SEA p
N. 1t is impossible to describe the
pangs which were produced at this mo-
ment. The most powerful of modern
pens would be helpless at the task. The
people of Baltimore stood fearing that
they would be swept off the surface of
the earth by the terrible mass of water
which would fall on their city. They
expected to see the bay of Chesapeake
empty itself upon them. Then, besides,
the city, even should the water notcome
upon it, would be terribly shaken up by
the shock which would be produced
The monuments would be destroyed; its
best quarters swallowed up at the bot
tom of the ahysses which would open
| through the surface of the ground.
These fears ran through the different
parts of the globe which were not sched-
uled for submersion by the upheaval of
the oceans
Every human being felt the marrow
In his bones creep and shake at this
fearful moment
Yes, all trembled; all save one person,
and that one was the engineer, Alcide
! Pierdeux. As he had not had time to
make known to the public the disccv-
cries which he had made by means Of
his last calculation, he drank bumper
of champagne to the health of both
worlds in the cafe of one of the best
known hotels. Just as the twenty
fourth minute after FIVE o'clock, CORE
spending with midnight at Kilimanjaro,
was reached
At Baltimore, nothing.
| At London, Paris, Constantinople,
Berlin, nothing, not the least shock.
Mr.. John Milne, standing in Ills coal
mine at Shamokin with seismometer
which he had arranged there, did not
note the least abnormal movement in
the earth's she'll in this part Of the
globe In Baltimore the heavens were
cloudy and it was impossible to note in
the apparent movement of the stars any
arrangement which would have indicat-
ed the change in the earths axis.
What night j. T. Maston passed in
his place of safety, which was unknown
to all save Mrs. Evangelina Scorbitt!
He was beside himself, this visionary
engineer. He could not rest in his place
of hiding. He seemed to have grown
old in one day and looked sharply out
to see if the daily course of the sun was
modified. This would have been a GER
tain proof of the success of his work.
This change could not be seen even on
the morning of the Esd of September, be-
cause at this date the day star invaria-
bly, rises in the east for all points of the
globe. The next day the sun travelled
over the horizon the same as it had
always done
The European delegates had assem-
bled on the platform of their hotel.
They had by their side instrun ents of
extreme precision which would enable
them to note if the sun took course in
the direction of the equator.
Well, nothing changed. A few min
utes after the rising of the sun the great
disk inclined away towards the Austria
liam hemisphere. Nothing was changed
in its apparent course.
Major Donellan and his associates sa-
luted the heavenly torch with enthusi-
astic hurrahs and gave it reception
like a favorite star in the theater. The
heavens were in superb condition, the
horizon free from the vapors of the
night, and never did the great sun-god
present more beautiful aspect in such
splendid condition before an astonished
public. And precisely at the place
marked by the law Of astronomy" said
Eric Baldenak. Eyes, by our old as
tronomy," said Boris Ksrkof, and these
fools pretended to destroy it"
We'll, they will have their expenses
to pay and ridicule TO endure BESIDES"
added Jacques Jansen, by whose voice
Holland seemed to speak all alone.
And the Arctic region will eternally
stay under the ice as they have discov-
cred, said Prof. IAN Harald.
'Hurrah for the sunr' said Major