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The Mysteries f Science
By GARRETT P. Sk «iS9
HE fearful earthquake in
I Sicily is a reminder of one
of the most peculiar facts of
human life—the partiality of pop
ulation for volcanic and earth
quake regions. Only a few rich
river valleys and fertile plains can
compete with the neighborhoods
of great, smoking mountains and
the trembling lands where the
instability of the earth's crust is
almost constantly in evidence.
The reasons are not hard (o
find. Such regions are the beauty
spots of the planet. Nature there
practices without expense to man
an agriculture which he is unable
to match with all his skill and
science. With his plows and har
rows he can, at best, only scratch
the surface of the ground, but a
great earthquake cultivates and
enriches it from beneath, bring
ing up pregnant material, solid,
liquid and gaseous, from the
depths, and renewing its fecun
dity.
If you would understand the ef
fectiveness of an earthquake as
an agricultural agent of stupen
dous power, read this typical de
scription by Major Dutton:
“The: first (Intimation is . a
strange sound—a far-off rumble.
It grows louder. The earth be
gins to quiver; then to shake
rudely. Soon the ground begins
to heave. Tlhen it is actually seen
to be traversed by visibie waves,
something like waves at sea, but
of less height and moving much
more swiftly. The sound becomes
a roar. It is difficult to stand,
and at length becomes impossible
to do so. People fling themseives
to the ground to avoid being
dashed against it. The trees are
seen to sway violently, sometimes
touching the ground with their
branches. As the earth waves
rush past, the ground opens in
¢racks and closes again. As the
cracks close the squeezed-out air
blows out sand, gravel and some
times water, which is spurted
high in the air. Sometimes the
rolling waves are absent, and the
movement is a rude quiver, rapid
ly vibrating in every direction,
twisting, contorting, wrenching
the ground as if in a determined
effort to shake it into dust.”
Such is the thunder march of
the earihquake plow! And where
it has passed vegetation finds a
fat banquet spread for it.
The volcano enriches all its
neighborhood by showering it
with mineral ashes spouted out of
the bowels of the earth, and in
undating it with liguid rock,
which, when cooled, hardened and
subsequently disintegrated and
pulverized, becomes a soil of mar
velous fertility.
If man could do everywhere
what Nature does in such lands
as Sicily there would be nowhere
any exhaustion of the soil. Sicily
is the gift of a volcano. Mount
Ptna is its father. Standing on
the ragged rim of its hollow black
THE GEORGIAN’S NEWS BRIEFS
cone, I have seen the entire island
spread out below, and then the
volcanic birth of Sicily was as
plain as a picture story. The re
gion lying between the foot of
the huge volcano and the Gulf of
Catania, where the present earth
quake concentrated its force, is a
land of flowers, vines, honey and
song. It is the land that inspired
the idyls of Theocritus, the sweet
est voiced of all the ancient
poets, “‘the singer of Persephone,”
whose shade Oscar Wilde ad
dressed:
“0 singer of Persephone
In the dim meadows desolate,
Dost thou remember Sicily ?
Still through the ivy flits the bee
Where Amaryllis lies in state,
O singer of Persephone!”
The city of Catania, now hav
ing a population of 140,000, stands
on floors of lava, one overlying
another, which have, in times
past, flowed down as fiery rivers
from Etna, Every floor covers a
former Catania! Again and again
the city, in the course of the cen
turies, has been wholly or par
tially destroyed, either by lava or
earthquake (both the work of
Father Etna), and every time it
has risen once more, as unper
ishing as the phoenix and infinite
ly more beautiful.
As you stroll through Catania
you find some of the principal
streets climbing over the backs of
ancient lava flows that have been
solidified into long hills stretch
ing down into the sea. You walk
on lava blocks, the walls around
you are constructed of lava
blocks; churches, chapels and
villas, whose architecture is as
rich as tropical vegetation, are
built and carved of lava blocks.
The soil of the gardens, which
are buried in flowers that burst
over the walls and perfume the
streets, is a gift sent down by Et
na.
Red Tape.
When old Machonichie came in,
with his head looking like a balloon
that had come down in Epping For
est by mistake, the chemist did his
best to appear sympathetic,
After about a yard and a half of
plaster had been fixed to various
parts of his cranium, the old man
prepared to leave the shop.
“] have alwayvs taught my son,” he
murmured sadly, “to count five be
fore speaking, but 1 know now that
was a mistake.”
“Really, sir!” answered the chem
ist, “I should have thought it was
an excellent plan.”
“No; I don't think so. For in
stance, this morning I was standing
at the back door instructing him
how to dig up a flower bed. 1 saw
his attention wandering. A look of
excitement came inte his eyes. He
was going to speak, when he remem
bered the training he had received.”
“Well,” asked the chemist, as the
old man paused, “did he count five?”
“Oh, ves, he counted all right! But
before he’d finished the chimney that
he had seen coming had fallen on my
head Good morning!”
More Truth Than Poetry
By JAMES J. MONTAGUE.
= The Song of the London Suffs ant
(We regret that heretofore they have been too ladulike.)
E'VE raided the courts, and we've mobbed the Prime Minister,
W We’'ve frightened the life out of governing boards; ;
To prove that our purpose is utterly sinister
We've planned the destruction of Commons and Lords.
We've walloped old Asquith with savage ferocity,
We've made the King quail when he hears the word “suff:”
We've thought out full many a frightful atrocity,
But now have a care! For we’re going to get rough.
E'VE burned down cathedrals with cheerful vivacity,
W We've hatcheted paintings and tipped over trams,
We've fallen on statesmen with all the rapacity
Of ravening wolves on a flock of young lambs.
We've swarmed over London with baleful malignity,
We've threatened to kidnap the King and Queen;
We've offered the public no end of indignity,
But now, be on guard! We're going to get mean!
THE SAME OLD CRY.
Bailiff, page William Rocke
feller!
THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY.
A hundred and fifty convicts in
Sing Sing want to go to fight in
Mexico. Gentlemen of their pro
fession ought to do well in that
country.
NOT AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL.
Mr. Bryan says a man doesn't
always get all he earns, On this
lonesome occasion Mr. Bryan is
not talking about himself.
ONE TASK HE ESCAPES.
The ardors of Mr. Bryan's
chautauqua campaigns are never
increased by the labor of writing
free passes to the show.
TOO BAD.
Unlucky for our statecraft the
chautauqua season doesn't last
twelve months in the year.
ALL MEMBERS OF THIS
FAMILY.
“l have lived to be nearly 76
years old to find I belong to the
damfool family.”—Director Elton,
of the New Haven.
A great many stockholders re
gretfully claim Mr. Elton as a
brother,
NOT PSYCHOLOGICAL EITHER.
Nine thousand Scotchmen went
to Canada last year. Now look
out for a financial stringency
among the remainder of the pop
ulation.
T WOULD BE AN EASY WAY
OUT.
Too bad none of Huerta's sons
are getting married in Madrid.
FULL OF PROMISE.
The Japs will watch Congress
while it considers that bill freeing
the Filipinos with the same in
terest a cat would manifest in
watching a clumsy child carry a
globe of goldfish across the room.
IT'S CHEAP, ANYWAY.
One good thing about com
mencement oratory is that the
various States do not have to pay
legislators wages for delivering it
JUSTIFIABLE PEEVISHNESS.
We begin to understand why
Senator l.ewis objects to refer
ences to his whiskers. People in
‘Washington have been mistaking
him for Carranza.
CARTOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
Explorer Joseph W. Folk, for
the Interstate Commerce (Com
mission, has discovered and
charted the Dividend River in
Southern and KEastern New Eng
land. The river has been dry
for several montns and will
probably be known as a river of
doubt for some time to come.
NOT BENEFITED.
Neither Ty Cobb nor Home
Run Baker are cheered up very
much over the passage of the law
legalizing strikes. They don't
use ‘em much,
Do You Know—
A crocodile at the Frankfort Zoo
has just been fitted with an aluminum
jaw. The crocodile, which originally
came from the Ganges, fractured its
jaw on the rocks in its basin, and
every effort to get the bones to reset
proved ineffectual. Accordingly Sur
geon Major Marx decided to operate,
and succeeded in replacing the frac
tured mandible by one of aluminum.
A novel method of scaring away
birds has been adopted by an English
farmer. He has killed a number of
cats, had them stuffed, and placed
thermn in various attitudes among the
branches of the fruit trees in his or
chard.
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