Lincoln County leader., January 13, 1899, Image 2

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IT was the proud boast of Mrs. Malt
worth, widow of the late Captain
Robert Maltworth, of the th
Cavalry, proprietress of the Esmeralda
llotel, Seabreeze, that In each of the
twelve years during which she had
owned and managed the establishment
on the shore at Seabreeze she had suc
cessfully brought two young people
Into relations with one another that
had resulted In matrimony. To tell the
truth, Mrs. Maltworth was a born
matchmaker, as many a young lieuten
ant could have witnessed.
Mrs. Maltworth was one of those rare
Individuals who can sink their own dis
comforts and smile on the pleasures of
others. It was largely due to this fact
that the Esmeralda had prospered, and
during the season Its rooms were flood
ed with young people bubbling over
with holiday spirits, who Joked and
laughed together as If the oflice and the
counter were nothing more than mere
Imaginings which would not reappear
at the expiration of a brief fortnight.
But Mrs. Maltworth and her two
fiaughters were growing desperate. The
season was rapidly growing to a closa,
and ns yet no two younc people had
been attracted to each other. To be
eure, there had been one or two mild
flirtations which had excited consider
able expectation, but they had not "de
veloped" and had expired before the
participants left Seabreeze.
"Here's a letter from a Major Rum
Bey, my dears," Bald the widow one
morning. "He wants to come next
Monday with his son and daughter to
stay why, he doesn't say how long he
will stay?"
"Who is he?" Inquired the elder of
the Misses Maltworth, a prim young
lady of 25, whose living interest was
centered aud elreumfereneed In the cut
ting down of expenses at the Esmer
alda. . The widow passed the letter to her.
"lie wlites from Shoreham, you see,
and that Is very select. We shall have
to put him aud the sou In the second
floor front aud his girl In the room oppo
site ours."
Theyoungerdaughter nodded approv
al. She was a pretty girl, who had all
her mother's amiability aud tenderness,
mixed with her father's soldierly pride.
Major Rumsey duly arrived with bis
son and daughter, lie was a middle
aged gentleman whose hair was gener
ously sprinkled with gray, labeled mili
tary from head to foot, and possessed
of a bluff, hearty voice that Instantly
.won the widow's heart.
"I always feel thoroughly at home
with army gentlemen," she confessed
to him ere he had been lu the house half
a dozen hours. "You see, I'm a soldier's
daughter and married a man who car
ried a commission.
"Madam," replied the Major, "you
surprise and honor me."
"Yes, my poor husband. Captain Malt
worth, of the th Cavalry "
"What!" roared the Major, springing
from his chair. "Your husband old
Bob Maltworth of the th?"
"The same, sir."
! "My den? Mrs. Maltworth, this Is ln
ded a pleasure. I and old Bob er
Captain Maltworth. were mates togeth
er before Have you never heard him
speak of his old friend Uumsey?
"Bless my soul, my dear lady," con
tinued the excited Major, walking to
the window. "Fancy coming across the
widow of my old friend. The world Is,
fter all, quite a little place; now, Isn't
It?"
The opening of the door and the en
trance of Mabel caused him to turn
round.
"Mabel, my dear, this la Major Uum
sey and and he Is an old friend of
jour poor papa's."
The Major bowed to the fair young
girl before him, while she blushed and
murmured, "How d'y' do" lu so pretty
a manner that the Major was on the In
stant charmed and captivated.
That evening there was a merry par
ty In the widow's little drawing-room,
which excited considerable curiosity
among the other boarders. There was
much laughter and Just a few tears on
the part of the hostess, and that night
young Harold Uumsey dreamed of a
Mushing blue-eyed girl who had called
him "Mr. Uumsey" no end of times, al
though he would have given auy thing
to have boeu called Harold.
The visit of Major Uumsey, Mr. Har
old Uumsey mul Miss Eleanor Uumsey
(to quote the Seabreeze News) was de
cidedly a time of uuqualllled enjoy
ment. The happiness of the three suf
fused through the whole of the Esmer
alda Hotel, and the proprietress was
beard to remark that uever lu all her
life had she seen so Jolly a company
as her boarders nt this period. The visit
lengthened from a fortnight to three
weeks, then to n mouth, aud still the
liappy trio said uothlng of leaving,
"It does my lionrt good to see these
young people living so happily," said
Mrs. Maltworth. "It makes me feel
young myself, I confess."
The Major was standlug at the case
incut, looking away over the sea. Out
ilde the promenade was almost desert
ed, for the days were growing cold and
sunless, but at the end of the thin line
of beach, where It was cut off by the
cliff that jutted out, he could see a
woman and a man seated. Her hand
was clasped In both of his, and as the
old soldier watched he saw her head
droop lower lower.
"Mrs. Maltworth," he said, scarcely
above a whisper, "come here. You Bee
those two young people away there?
They are our young people."
Together they watched the two, who,
all unconscious that they were observ
ed, were telling one another the sweet
est story In the world.
The widow was the first to speak.
"I felt sure It would come," she cried.
"Fancy, this Is the thirteenth year with
out a break!'
"The thirteenth year!" thundered the
Major. "Do you mean to tell me that
the girl has for thirteen years "
"Major Uumsey!" Interrupted the lit
tle woman. And then she explained,
and explained so well, that her listener
became as enthusiastic ns herself, and
swore with a characteristic military
oath that he could have desired no bet
ter rrtnto frr his 1st!.
Suddenly the widow started up.
"O, dear!" she cried In dismay. "It
mustn't be. I was forgetting It's the
13th, and that would be unlucky. It
was on the 13th that my poor Rob
ert "
"Nonsense, my dear madam," growl
ed fc listener. "Surely you don't be
lieve In that old woman's tale!"
"But Uobert on the 13th "
" Uobert," the Major thundered,
and Immediately apologized. "I forgot
& feu
'YOU 6URPKISE AND 1IOHOB ME," SAID
TUB MAJOIt.
myself. What I wanted to say Is this:
Why should we risk the happiness of
our boy aud girl?"
"Why, Indeed?" murmured the lady.
"Suppose, for Instance, two other peo
ple found they could join forces with
advantage and advance on the enemy's
line better together than singly. Sup
pose, I say Mrs. Maltworth Helen
what do you say to taking me?" and
here the Major flopped down on his
knees In most unmllltnry style "me
an old half-pay officer without a friend
In the world. Now, what shall we say?"
And like the soldier's dnughter and
the soldier's widow that she was, the
blushing proprietress of the Esmeralda
answered "Yes" with precision.
This Is how It is that the Esmeralda
Is "under entirely new management.
and the young people who congregute
there In the summer speak regretfully
of the old days the days that are no
more. Buffalo News.
Tried as a Venture.
Owls have a mission to perform In
Chicago. One sent to a commission
merchant proved so successful in rid
ding the warehouse of rats aiid mice
having been freed nt night with the
Idea of making an experiment In this
direction that other commission men
began to look for owls, and from the
commission firms the Idea gradually
spread to the grocers, butchers and
market keepers generally of the city.
Now a largo percentage of these men
keep an owl down In the cellar during
the daylight and bring It up to the store
when darkness falls. It Is said that the
expense and care of maintaining owls
are more than repaid by their services
In vanquishing the rats and mice. The
owners and Janitors of the large apart
ment houses In the city are also begin
nlng to realize the value of possessing
an owl when rats, mice, cockroaches
and vermin generally are to be exter
minated.
A Cheerful Convalescent.
Frayed Feeny Wot's Sauntering
Sweeny doln' dls winter?
Happy Hosklns Takin do "rest
cure."
"Wot for?"
"Dat Urcd feelluV'-New York Jour
nal.
In tho I hurche.
In one of the churches of Cincinnati
the women now remove their hats dur
ing tho service, the Innovation being
regarded with general favor.
Tho wise man gets a lot of free In
structlon from fools.
Tho canal-boat mule would never get
along If he didn't Lave a pull.
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: (i 'io' - Jf''5r
IN THE race against time the Uni
ted States beat out the sun by two
minutes. In other words the sun
never sets on the territory of this land.
Before it can set in one extreme Its
face peeps above the ocean at the
other, and on the longest day of the
ear the flag beats the sun and has two
minutes to spare. Sixteen minutes are
added ns the extreme limit to any day
u the equation of time; the flag has
lghteen over the half of the twenty-
four hours. It Is a narrow margin, but
it will do, as the following demonstra
tion will show.
It was not necessary for the United
States navy to take the Canaries lu
order to extend the territory enstward.
The taking of Torto Blco put the ex
treme eastern borders Just ninety min
utes of longitude farther east and six
minutes of time In the same direction.
Enstport, Me., which for all the life of
the nation before the Spanish war, held
the honor, must now yield the palm to
Porto Rico. But the difference Is com
paratively trifling. Forto UIco com
mencesjust out of the Saragossa sea
In longitude C3 degrees 30 minutes
west. Enstport Is within half n mile of
G7 degrees west. This makes the dif
ference ninety minutes of longitude In
favor of Forto UIco. Fifteen minutes
of longitude equal one minute of time,
60 the Island wins by six minutes In
time.
With Torto Rico for the extreme
eastern starting point, the flag runs
with the sun to the Philippines. Tak
ing Manila as the western point al
though it Is not the extreme point
and these United States extend over
184 degrees 32 minutes and '4 seconds
of longitude. That Is nearly five de
grees more than half the circumfer
ence of the earth. The difference In
time between Torto Rico's eastern '
r rt f n n 1 tli a nn t liurl to 1 In t n n 1 i la I
twelve hours and eighteen minutes. In
other words, when It was 5 a. m. In
Porto UIco Saturday morning It was
4:42 p. m. Friday In Manila. This Is,
of course, reckoning all from east to
west. Of course out somewhere In the
mighty Pacific they play fantastic
tricks and take their time from Tokio,
Singapore or some other oriental city
and lose a day, but that Is another
story.
But the sun pays no attention to the
fantasies of man; he Just goes on anil
shows his face as the earth revolves on
its axis. So It will be seen with this
wide variation of time coverlug thou
sands of miles, the sun will not set lu
Manila on Friday before It has made
the Atlantic ruby red in the vicinity of
the eastern coast of the western conti
nent. In Porto Rico It will have lifted
its disc above the tumbling waves for
several minutes lu the summer and not
be far away In the dead of winter. So
the flag Is never wholly In the dark
these days, as the sun flashes on Its
ensign and stripes somewhere lu the
earth every minutes of the day.
These United States did not need to
go beyond their original limits that is,
their transcontinental limits to be
larger than any other land on enrth.
The United States on this continent,
excluding Alaska and measuring In de
grees of longitude only continuous ter
ritory, covers 55 degrees. This limit Is
taking San Francisco ns the western
abjective, although the California city
Is not ns far west ns some others far
ther north. The difference In time be
tween the extreme eastern coast nt
Enstport and San Francisco Is three
hours and forty minutes, quite an ex
tent of territory. I roin the sent of
government the time difference Is just
three hours.
Westward the star of empire, etc.,
has been exemplified lu nearly all that
the Uulted States have done. Most
people would believe that when Hawaii
and the rest of the Sandwich group
were taken In by treaty that the west
ward limits were extended, yet this Is
far from being true. Honolulu Is 10
degrees In longitude, or forty minutes
in time, east of Dawson City, Alaska,
and over nn hour enst of the extreme
western limits of the uortheru terri
tory. But a big Jump was made to the
west uutll longitude began to rend cast
w hen Dewey licked Moutejo lu Manila
bay.
Incidentally these United States
cover a large amount of distance In lat
itude. They run from the arctic circle
to within hailing distance of the equa
tor. If nn enormous flag were spread
out so that It would take In everything
over which it now floats the accurate
measurements' would just about bring
all within Its borders. Tho Philippines
run down to within five degrees north
of the equator; the. northern cape of
Alaska goes well up to 72 or 73 de
grees north latitude. So It will be seen
limt u man must do a power of Bailing
north, south, east and west to get away
from parallels of latitude and longi
tude from which the flag of America Is
absent.
Climatically the country now runs
the entire gamut of the earth. It has
possessions in tho torrid climes very
near the central belt; It runs for de
grees into the frigid nt the top of the
scale. It takes In every phase of at
mospheric manifestation and disturb
ance from a typhoon to a blizzard. It
ranges from climes where ice is never
absent to those where Is Is never
known. In some of the new posses-
FAVORITE OF A HAREM.
neantlful Brooklyn Girl the Wife of
a Pasha in Morocco.
For two years past a lovely Brooklyn
girl has been the favorite wife of a rich
Moor living at Tangier. She claims to
be perfectly happy, and declares tliat
not on any account would she leave her
present home. Some facts regarding
this rcuaZirkublo youii uu have
just been biought to this country by
Mrs. Haider, a member of the law clasj
of New York University. She and her
husband have returned from an extend
ed wedding tour, in tile course of wulch
they visited Tangier. While there Mr.
Haider secured for his-wife permission
to visit the harem of a enormously
wealthy pasha living In that quaint oil
place. In one splendid apartment of the
palace Mrs. Haider found the most
lovely woman she had ever seen. A
guide In a whisper Informed the visitor
that this was the reigning favorite. The
beautiful creature did not look like an
Oriental, and Mrs. Haider asked her 8
question in French. The favorite smil
ingly replied In English, snylug that
was her native tongue. The acceut sug
gested American education, and Ma
Haider hinted as much. Thereupon the
BROOKLYN GIRL IN A TURKISH HAREM.
slons Ice could scarcely be maintained beauty said she was a native of Brook
with ammonia process, while In some lyn. The visitor expressed a desire to
parts of Alaska It would scarcely yield rescue her from degrading slavery and
to electricity
This Is the chart which the nation
offers In its rnce with the sun. Starting
with the eastern limits of Torto Rico
in longitude 05 degrees 30 minutes
west, with the time fixed nt 5 a. m
the territorial limits, longitude and
time of day follow this schedule:
New York, longitude 70 degrees west,
time 4:15 a. in.
Chicago, longitude 88 degrees west, time
3:15 a. in.
San Francisco, longitude 122 degrees
west, time 1:15 a. m.
Honolulu, longitude 155 degrees west,
time 10:41 p. in.
Dawson City, longitude 105 degrees
west, time 10:21 p. in.
Carolines, longitude 155 degrees east,
time 7:42 p. in.
Lndrones, longitude 145 degrees east,
time 7:02 p. in.
Manila, longitude 122 degrees 58 min
utes enst, time 4:42 p. m.
In the majority of these cases the
was astonished to hear the girl say as
she nestled more luxuriously among
her cushions;
"Why, my dear ,1 wouldn't eW
my position for that of any other wom
an In the world. I am perfectly happy
ns happy as a queen."
"But," said Mrs. Haider, "how did
you ever get here? Were you stolen by
the pasha's people?"
"Oh, dear, no," was the reply. "I
the daughter of a Brooklyn merchant.
My father was a widower and wasH
the habit of making a yearly European
trip. I accompanied him twice. The
second tiin we came to the far east
While we were in Morocco-and quite
accidentally-the pashn saw nie
and
(here she hesitated aud smilecD-wett
fell in love with me. I cannot tell yon
how I became aware of the honor lie
showed me, but I deliberately chose m;
life here ns his wife. I have been the
favorite of the harem ever since I
u u t m 011 K,m,,nmi,nt I t"l It. more than two years ng,
h T,'J 1 t 7S nim uiall(l' I would not be anything else forte
but so nearly that exact measurements WorM Do.t Uy he American wife
of the grand pasha. It's a mere wasi
of sentiment"
win not snow substantial variation. It
will be seen, therefore, with the exact
west longitude of Porto Rico set down
against nn equally exact east long!-; ... ,,
loitnedinte points outs do of the com I- . . ., . , ,ir,,i nmlboiJ
ncntal limits are estimated fromXir 0 Z cS An
location on the charts nnd may vary ?ie JIts "to a m lion voting men A
ho nwoftuSU!,ot m tgm'H- T),K nd theSn half a eentj
liocr, would not make more than:J, t'bu. r,i nnm. the great
eigut minutes lu time variation.
AVhat London Funeral Cost.
London fuuerals cost over a million
pounds annually.
Nearly every man thinks It a great
Joke to claim to be poorer than he real
ly U.
will take its place among the great i
tlous of Europe."
Vegetarian Restaurant. '
Boston is to hnve o restaurant
in only vegetable productions wl"
cooked and scrred.
. j
Any woman who is genuinely 1
by her husband, ia a 6" wowa