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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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