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TANGLED in a maze of law. u ,„ >ol*o 111 '** *•' wrUTH 4 1 CI*S NWS4U. riaim* .tod * ,n (.*♦(*■*(••*. ( *' nl H/.•-! Harr Hrr ••JumiM'.l" „,l H•orrled l" Uln nJ j, \„n II Will Taltr n Vrur' H .irl. Hrl 'lallrrr lralhlrnril ~„r _ irif f aiartailaa, 1.- mill lllaraar In >nmr \rr , lt ., _ ihnuanmla Hara Tnrn-il lu ,. k Hiikaul lla Ini F.vra Had „ |ipn riul*y Turn l> n la4r ,„i ,ii lilrl—l*rrrn* C'onillilonn I v it' Town. . i<vvi. tov I* Armalron* ) • v\ „<*h •< ’ 3 -tlonaailoin*) m . 0 ’.Mon and arrnrral rxmtiia - have re.ntly t , ,nt airi priiiinl In Iha nwnmpri* ■ try Moot of thorn hair hr. n , nf mrr who do not nn.lnramnrl , ■ hi •..tlrton, thrrr Having onr , iv sin the rxpr iat lon of picking un , . |tkr riam shrlla on fhn . ran.l . t tha mrtil Into diiß*[winit aa i , .*r* .t rwrr|*> iluai from n floor, thry , mn rd iftrr a abort and impronta , „ at Nomr. {trsa.mKia and .ilarm , Tbay arr near saving tha Momr is Acene In ft r ige hoax, that there In no cold thore. T • r tall wiki tale# of lawlessness. dim >• ar.d mar vat ion. According to them. Noov ja h hII on earth. and every man aio w* able l. leaving or making ready to ear* Th*e* report* are not true Nocro s t moat orderly mining camp In exist - • • There have been but two d.<tha I violent** in tie Matorr Death* from •",y n?hr c*u*e are rare No epidemic Iftft ever fr ttnel on the city. The gan- v ;*h of e community la wonder f.i Ugh. Iw. t*r* have to tk* up other .u.es of t>uftinn>9 us side issue# n -Vr • support chemM'lvce. and the few u "Weaker* el? all diy twirling their * r and trying to devise method* of or ipf lu*tnon* Ah for 'timmott, t er enough f<*d lr Nome now to last \ for three ye,we Moreover, there t -v ry reason to oelieve that there in r. r h gold In Nome as the original l e," 'lorn supposed Yat, in spite of r *1 ouditlons, In spite of it golden " v> waiting to lx* brought to light. N # pover y **trl-lie. With the pre < • n metal uixb r It* very feet it rtaiela bourd and helpless. One word is ♦x- I- *’.>r\ of the whole thing, a word M'ft cause* t e Nome resident to rise > and trse Itixtirttinih -i.titan* Too >luoli l.w la Uliat la I roulillnu Anmr. ’fad of being I iwlea*. Nome is suffer ing from n surfeit of liw There I* a ’angle In the recording office that may be ivelsd in a >• r ot may never be tin- One of the Few ('Utlms Still tloitig. * tvelM. jt v f . niH highly probably from • pi-ccm ott'look that byfure eome of *' ‘ luptitia ir t*ott!#►*! the bone* of th* ■I 'M.tnt* will t:< chircoitl. At the b**M, "111 hat h* jHC-.-lblc to g-t n floor tit!** ’ •< hum In tie Notno ilt-trl* *t for a year tam this writing. This condition of af ’llr - i> due to a process of lathi grabbing, < peatej and r* prated attain. unprcce 1 h gol*l ftml* ware rcp.*r*tvl from Nome t * 't* tiurr|.**l in over the Ice last winter. '** i Pol Inc th* rueli and wishing to get * hr-t Th* se .* ttly * omers staked the en ' ■ltgtri, t whatever they thought there * po- llilllty of gold being found 1 fr *m *he beach f*r four miles In t th>* . <K er prtifp* **tors staked, often they didn’t have time to get to the it i ■* they * : ik' and out the snow One f o etak.d out ■■ | mil. supposing that the t"w l* tenth his feet reeled on solid l ind it stead of frozen water. The law I oly cilia that. In order to locate a ' m. a man moat have mails a bona fide •a tverv of golf It Is simple enough • ml • r to - that he has discovered 1 It! 1 I. until SIKH, and by no means ' mple to prove shot he hasn't Then " th' • iris comer went merrily ahend g out mil recording until the reonrd ■ik Sint track lo civilization for eye * * es arsl hair restoratives. 1 Inline .lontpcit at Wholesale. ' th" time the first lot of claim Makers *'s , l their ilalms comfortably res.'ord *** mg tame a seror: 1 Installnant Now. m ist bei four slakes to a claim, phic "* the proper relative porllbHi* When nieyt.nl and shlftel the makes " down or toppled ovsr or wera car r 1 The.reu|ton tho newcomer* joy- Jumped the claims of their prede r,r* and appalled the worn rgcordltig errlts with anew iwtrh of recorda. In *es. It Is alk-ged. Ihc later com **r •stentatloutly removed such stakes ' * r “ fotiiai still rigidly upholding their tnti stihstitut*d their own The * |* that every square yard of earth f* ■ tmlered with .'’onflii'ilng clalnr* Men , alth py k and shovels went forth w ’* ami encounter**! one another ifa-i There wa- a tine flfosfwct tf •■'•'ty dvcrvaaa in Uw sr.al population, larul the undertakers begot. to Chirp tip tmfce *ome interest In affairs, wjj. t* ,hcov f moot with Its soldi* i stepped I In and Ml<l: This shall all he MltliTl in due time rtfiii hv Ki vs Meantime yon disputant e will Lave t> mall, i_k> down to the tw-ach i and catch fish.’ Early in Nome'# career th**rc was moe ?n be don* on the beach than to catch fl*h Gold was to be found tber* It wa> th** "free be*# li” upon which my man might hum the pro* Unm and g.titering particle* rut a liiwvtr put an end to all th.tt. Ho picked out vs hat h* .•onddered ttn r 1 best spot on the* l*w- h. *tak*l It •>fT find recorded tt Thsre am- a general protect Th* lawyer argued that ho had tha came right to tho ties* h a* h** would hnvo to th-* ll of am reek that ho had staked out Nohodv *au*d to hoar the *nl of hi* aruununt People didn't want lo take a i banco that ho might ho wrong Thrs rtlfhod *o th* b*a*h and a*.iked with ouch enthuatarm that presently thoro vsa-n t a finvt in five mtioa that waon’t • ’•.rw*l Moat of tho claltna vsero rocord c-d ty mor‘ than nno porwon. ►m* by half a doson. Th* povornnianl ato|pod In again and ordor*.| .. I work utopprd on ciaima in •Hap uta Thon it wa *irno to go flanlnK Homo claim w*ro put Into the hand.s ol a rsotvc*r who took ml tho iwitput until ouch tint** ao th* lltigatiixi should lo do cldad. thus pormtttmg tho claim to ho productive* ir> tho lntorlm. Nlrnngo him I I •i*|o Oroan l>rrdsra Many I’ranko chlnary purporting to ho drodvoa wore brought to Nome by pooplo In a hurry to dir up wealth from the ocean's bottom Horn** never worked at all, and still stand on the beach, melancholy monumen’s of failure other* c .countered one storm and ( rumple I up Into wi lesprewd wreckage Tie r* wu one dredge, fashioned parti* u liirly for working the beach tin* distance , untlrr water It stood on four legs, fitted with toller#, which the lnv**n(or assumed would make R as egsv to handle ns a push a*-# He had formuten the w* ight, how ever, for when Its endless chain of fhov -1 el-i \v.(- pel up together with the machin ery m could rot be moved. Thai dredge represented a Wvm of Vs'.ftf© to Its owner In all hundred* of thousands of dollars’ In ** is represented by the various dredges which li# on the beach, wrecked or high. 1 iry and useless Some of them were found to h*- impmctkmble from the first: others could not stand the stress of the heating ten# Should these he rebuilt or ; reconstructed tn practl- aide shape it Is doubtful whether the harvest they could reap from the sandy bottom of the oce#n would he rich enough to pay for the #x pense of working them Nothing In Home for (he bate looters. To thl town tangled in litigation, and to the he .ch covered with wreckage, tan gible and impl <*d. came the fortune seek ers (r m ilie* realm# of civilian*lon, full of fantastic expectations The effort noon them was dlshem tenirg When they found everything within twenty-five miles stak fd out and no chance even to make an attempt nt gold getting, they said. "Oh ’ or "Ah.'’ or "By Jove!’’ or ‘ Fancy, now ” ar Just plain "iMimi," according t. their various nationalities and tastes, nod look til alKiut for n place lo settle. Fv*n that was hard to find Many of thi-m returned to the steomer without even untaick ng Ihch things. Some few plucklly took th-ir ln*xp*iT nee ..ut Into other dlstrb ts and w. ie rewarded by finds * f gold of some value Thore that returned took bark a' counts of a fiat fill condition of affair* Whleth existed only In their disappointed imaginations. For one class of arrivals thera was work to f*o. and these were the lawyers The legal gentlemen alone have thus far found Nome an Kl liorado When litiga tion ligan It Is - till that thete w. rc only two liwyers tn the place NaturaUy.thei was a grand tush for ttitan. They took all cares that came tn and reached for more. When they had time to do a little re *k .-ning. wach of th m found that In about half the nun tie hid been retained on l*o*ti si l*t Then they got together and "swopped ofr.” There are mote lawyers now but they are all laisy twelve bouts a day. F.tpert l.egal Rnstnrea. It I* retlmulrd that about WMJflfl people lushnl Into the Nome dimri't In the months of June. July and August So lur alout JO.UO have return*.! poorer thin they came, and it is estimated that twist of the others will come tail before th* close of navigation The departing u**. have left behind them greit quant itle* of t• Mid. mostly cannisl. Nohotly P going *o starve m Nome this winter, whether he has any money or no I’rlcss for all kinds of supplies have fallen and will drop *llll lower. Here Is list -howtos the restaurant prl*e of June uwl Septem ber: la Plain aleak #' w * *' Porterhouse steak ♦ Top sirloin ateak 5 **> lilb slrfoln slsak * fln 1 ™ Million hop* 1 Pork chops I W Ham and eggs 1 ‘t Three vk* 1 n liacon am) * 1 <® Hot oakes „ fake S ftnughniits ® Pork and beaus *° .Ji ** THE JUOHNING NEWS. SUNDAY. OCTOBER 7. 1900. Hwoh i <w fa ># .**%#>• \ tXI >* Hamburger atowk \ oo ***+ *- Coflff 2f* t'offo** ii'.< iuild with all ordoro. MfMn’imo, buMUioaa tr> Noma i dull, ox •♦ ja for the laws ora Tlu* population amuaoii 11 Me | f hxihnu or attondinir the variety thovs* aid gurn; sing dona hXen th** rnllroal between Nemo and Anvil, where th** llmt otr.ko ak rn d\ dooa % M'w bulnoao It* ti by It-foot rara. w of which maakc up a (*a *eng r tiaitt. to 1# rowdexl with traveler*, Vho ffialh paid |1 fnro for the pix milo ril* , iiwr half a d"tofv paßßengor* w.- ill be re giirded *a r *•! qtaotM The principal otr**eta of NV>me are d*-ep In mil mativ of tro hoUBt-B are t*>aerted. the dark win r*r IB on and the nev fow months w iU not l>s happv ore* for the re:*len*j. the h inds, pin ks gold l urv*r* wno l*e|love in the |*b e and It* n he will k here, on*l w h**n tho claim are **i >•l and f bo re sl l work begin.** thes ntanl to wiu a rich reward p Arma rong AK>: t ( I in TIIK. *T %It f. Mwny Earopeaw Hulera %re Wholly (riven Over to (apetatltlom. From the Cincinnati Enquirer When the newspaper* lately rooor.lc I thut the khrdlvr of F'gspt would a*!irt at t>n e from hla dotninione holklav-making, hla chief astrologer having dec id ad that th*s planet* were At last favorable they .wily reported what t. in the case of quite a dozen rulers, a commorvfd.ice fact. Not only ha* the khodive oß'etialMy a young nun. aliirs' and on the mot modern ' • * •.. f \ - .. ** : .. , r-r' - *4* . • '■ fri&i-. ■• 1 ' r v■ ’M Passenger Train to Anvil. principles and one wlm affwets the verv latest Ixmdon and Parisian fad** and fash ion#—been watting fill HD chief astrologer said he might trax'el without anything go ing wrong as a foregone conclusion, but alm*ot in the sam** 1 senes of the newsiap ers that recorded the fa t ft ie learn*d how that Hgtu of the universe, th*- Sr h of F’er-la. has been compelled o iuvak hla Journey to the hone# of the western loirharlans because his council of slur reader# decided that the planet*- Im peratively demanded *M4a As for the khdtve hie per sent planet ruler, one Yusuf. hae only lately been peri|> reme.t <1 in offfc* When the young culer som* time ago, if>ei u review of troo|h aol British off|crs, ventured to ##y mat ot * Kitchener, the sirdar, wan a mer* dunce- at moving sold iers, he was sh#rpl\ <xl.ed lo ac -mini, and then h(s apology look the f-rm of a aiatement that Yusuf had piomp?*d him and that If was ih* s*arK and the astrolo ger that declared against Kitchener. M>st of th* gr*r eastern laincee. the of Afghanistan. King Menelek of Abyssinia, the Hultan* of Morocco and Zanslbgr. the Dowager Krnpre*ka of China, rhe ’ sultan" *>f th* Malay state ar i even King Nicholas of Moire*;--gro all have offi* l aetrlogerH. who are called upon ■ , V C'i An Enuged ldrelge. almoat dally for propluw-lea. The Emperor Naimleon 111 was a frank believer In signs and omt-tut of all kind* Th* hitg" aucceea of a certain Amerl an adventurer and stdrltualtHf In extiacting money in Knglund and e|*"Wh*re a i*r,i< tlra that ultlmaiely brought him lo the |jolicc * otirt dock -arose In Ihe flret Inel anes from this man having been o firmly tieltevsd In by the snip* 101 Home rem*lkoble stories ate laid by the late laird Odo rtu.se 11 os to the Influence this Amerl* nn trickster gained both over Ixiula Napitlcon end over ihc <‘xar Nl hu ll* of ItuSsta A* to ihe former he actua lly existeeil himself from withdrawing tmutts out of Mexico by saying that Ihe American, ala **an-*, had displayed to him a whole |>ani>ram of glory, of which th- Auetratn grand duke was Ihe central figure The I z.r NiohOl ts would po- p* ne Imp T tant appointments with the r**i.ts-nu 11ves of ih<* mlglillest litiise. **! tht w. rl I ttecaiise ths American hd decided that the stars for that day were unfavorable, tine of the cleverest diplomats that Ktigl and ever had waa declared not t*i Ire ac ceptable at the I’xar's court, be ause the Kus-lan ruler had been a-urt.l hy the American, os It became known-lbat (be dlpltan.il |k>-* sed the "evil .>< An* Ih er < x *r, the father of lh* present tin- , areepied ihe wlaib- mumltojumlto of at rit.tsgv, sorcery an*l so on. and after lit* occasion not many y.tie ago. when hi* train was wreck* and by nihilists, he sent hU chief tourt star redder, a Tartar, to Si beria for the man had d* larcd that iha day In question wap ihe beat In tho whole calendar for traveling _ fty tale King Humlaut of Italy believed, hefore all thing- else in the h.-z*>ar sluue that ward oft the evil eye Th- hex.tr .tone is a Very rare growth, obtained from certain mountain anlma s. and h- wots Hires such stones, that "change color wtta the stars." in his welded. Irremovable bra , Her When he wished lo confer unusual honor on anvone he gave them a b*.ar Since a present that .net him from |lu The poor murdered Kmpress of Austria. ,s, present K 1 ng of the lit Igtans and ex tauren lsaheila of fr*iln. who lives In Paris, are the .enlrt of hundteds of stor ies of superstition, and th< last namt*l h*s lwav - kept hy her a dumb monk of trvs ulsnf .pp .ran* e, who prepares * hart* (ft the data lor h! mis-res* nd her (rlenda. HURRICANES AND STORMS. %\ IvlIT.Hr 11'I.IA OF THE W*tHOIA TION AXII KUKBP OK THICM. ■ ■■—■ linn IA rattier ( liangea Ire Xwfed and Itormt Knllowed ty Ihr rtb ■ i rver~Hir l.nhetfnn lllvoter I yrtonea on the Other Stile of live %\ or Id . Wtllfta E Moore. Chief of the Weather Bureau, in <‘ol let's Weekly The Oslvaton stoim agatvi call* atten tion to th.se terrlb e atmospheric vialta ttona font the trop b which on •• ('oust of their lews di.ime er of rotation anl rhelr much greater velocity of gyration, we dvrlgn.it- a* burr ines lnataad of rydsNiea. Al storm# eaccpt thunder storms, are - yrlonlc In chars ter. that la to rat, th s gyrate about a vartlcal axis In ntiinnt r slmll ir t the action of an iUsly that I- irrled along by a run ning at roan/ fyclones are usually one thousand ot m *♦* mites in *ll.*meter They ere not re • artly dodrti'tlve Hurrl c.*nes whi h. lit’itl the Spanish• Amen an war. were about the only visitors frvwn the West li .ilea at w. ever saw have a tliami er . f only from on*’ hundred to flv'e hundr *1 nn ik and the vcloclt) with which the whit log air gyrates about the stoim - ent* r ftfit• reuses In the sam*- ialio as the and atirter of the whirling mass d* ■ tMses 'l* >rt . lo*-e ar* nly ln cldents rf -prirp cy**lcne and nearly alwavs occur In the soo’heaat quadrants of cyclones and within regions three hundred to fl\e hundred miles southeast from th* center They ate storms of only about <-t-e hundred to one thousand feet In tii.itii* t > It is dfl - u!t for (n*‘ tc get a clear Idea of th( illffer* nee between the rate with whi h a storm 1 translated from on# place f.. another and the velocity with \vhl h It whirl- about Ms <wrn center. If one will picture In hi* mind the sol#r svs l m. with ad of It* planet* and tb*lr -at-lilt. r>,tilarl\ performing their r* sprciivc orbits, and turning about their own axes as moving through space with out Chang*- in th-- relation of satellite to planet and i an* t to the sun. they may be in ..m illl n to eofnir*hotrt the various phase> of th* tnnslatlon *-f a cyclon.c I system mu.i the • • .ju* n* In which the ! for**#* an.) dire turn of the wind will I change; bow the wind, no matter what uim\ ho the direction In which th** storm i- moving, inu-t blow into the front of the storm it a direction contrary to th* movement f the storm centre and into the re.*r f the stoim is It recede# from th*. <bs r\* r bow th** wind Increases in vein. Ity as i k rates ut*>ut the < entr# and appruuche- newrtr and neater thF whrrf It munt ; how fupn; fr-rrn in throwing the high liyrn of Hir nwy it m th#* up a r k* of high pr**pure about tho outer prl|>h#ry of %%hlrl that foroo*# tho Nurfa#o air to flow InweM while tho upj er <Mirront ar*- moving outward Thl* whole nip * x pyatem of motion move* fora.irtl the #amo aa our solar ayatPtn d°e. JhMt !ia tho current of wa*er flowing d**wi; tf ln*lln#*<i piano it- ve b city In accordance with th#* Inclination of tha -urf.i'p an*! the rough neap of th region over whk h It flow*. *o r)o-a the %p|e Ity of th#* wind, mn it move* inward toward th#* < enter f th#* whirling atorm fl pond U|*on both the tO|e>grapny of the region an! the #Jiffpren<e between the prcuiwr* of the air at the center and at the outer rim of the etorm eddy The low*r th#- tiaromcter at the center the greater the kvrating velocity *n<l the more destructive the atorm The hturna Tlmt lefr#*yed (•■lira ton. The storm that destroyed OaiveMon moved a r<>e# the C'arihhe#in Rea at the rate of only eight or ten mil#* an hour !? e.Jghtlv Increneed it. rate ne i pro gre* -. | n#*rthu ar*t and le t ween FTorlda ml the *|v*n #oawt I* tnov#-d at the rate of only ten ot fifteen tnlle# jer hour Do not ('Cfttfound the ••• of movement with the velocity of rotation It. la the motion that < auee# all the deatrweftion The ve4o. ty of rofatWm waa e# ar.#l Ihe speed >f tran-tatlon e#> wl#w that 1m man ae waves were pr#{iagated out wani from th#* renter #>f the atorm farrer than rhe etorin Ita If wan traveling Th#ne wave#, nr awo9l#, renhe*d the Tega# cm-t early Friday avening. About #ixte'n hours haforw the atorm Iteeif reached fSalveston la the storm moved northward through Texas. Kauea*. Ne hraska ad lowa, its velocity of trans lation increased to about maty mile# per hour when It crossed the region, which was ainwwt equal to 19a velocity of rotation There were wind veiocttle# of over seventy miles per hour at geveral locke stations It la proper to sav here that In the I*ake region, as well as in the Oulf of Meg I co. the warnings of the government weather aervl-e w#re •*.# thoroughly lls tfibuted In .*!’ once , f the storm that there was no disaster upon the open wa ter*. It 1* • remarkable teatinwmtal to ioa foreaight of ua prvacut Sacratary of Agriculture Hon James Wt’anr that . ‘he metC'MOiogw'al service inaugurated by him din*ig the Spantah American war IB • plute. fton to the Amertt on fleet was. by the law '’unfr**# i**rtnarently adopted os part f otir National Wrath e* Bureau, on account **f It* beneficent application to the peaceful ways of tea b* un.| commerce Wltrrout the rep>rting s*a(kaia of trie new s>ervi**e the Weather Hi tree it w-.uM hav> been unahle to and i t't the in rpt ion >f the (Salveston hur rlcer • when |t was mtu> a h.rnlees trm j oid when II re* hed * • nin h||) of a ! hurricane to ireue tltnaly warning# in I <dvan a of its coming 4 lien* of f|*- \% rather Vtnrean. The press disp.it -bes f,Ate that Pr !aa< M ('line, the chief **fl| • r of the Wrath* r bureau m Tc**s whi one of (he icrok spirits nf tht awful hour, th l under Instructions from \\ ushlngton he ho;ted the danger signals on Frtdiiv, and that tn addition to wartilng the people bv twlegraph and telephone, he went pereon ally among I hose on the beach on Hotur •I t' morning and lot g before th* w.iter* rolled over (be .*!!> was driving the people from their housaa to higher around in the -enter <-f the place that when th* last moan* of rommuni< atton with th*- outer tvorid had f<uln.| Instead >f f.Uwing the advV e of friends ar*l going t. the relief <>f bis own family, he braved the wind and raging ww4rr wvto reache*! a- . r *ln tele phone station t Ui* end of . bridge )ust before tl’t .(Ms parted. He mic. . eded m sending out from th- dtwuned * tv the last that w,s transmttfd for se\ eral da vs In this message he indicated ttie gre.Ht reed for relief, that the city was rapid!’ going u,*i-r wate , nikl that grcit •l -trie Hon to life must ensue. After performing this hern'- servlc* for the l*ett*'fK of the wh*l penpl* he retitrnd to hie own h*tne t* find It deetrny***l and hie wife *n*l *ai* child l**st Huch ho- rift hi devotion to th* w * Hare of others Is seldom equalled on tn- battlefield The disaster t< dalvtston prompts the inquiry us to whether or not the city Is ng .lti liable t* such * visitation Between July and October. Inclusive, there are an nually alHuit ten trop! al Mnmts that touch aome portion of our Ail*ntl- >r (Julf coast* On mm average, less than on*' per annum Is severely destructive Mott of th*m are of such .■ nature that If timely warnings be Issued little damage result* As to the frequency With which the*e e*>rm visit the Oulf. it may be sa‘d that u Hat of ssorm- * irefully pre pared by tie bite Ir fm rease A I.ap ham of Wisconsin, and usel hv him •* *we of. the arguments for th** Inauguration of a government storm warning service more than thirty years g<*. shows that from Its*'’ to lt*o ten hurrl* ne* reached srme portion *f th* tiulf r.at with mu In tensity *-o marked as t* have authenlh rsconl* In the lonl (finals of the region This Is an average of *me in seven years H nre th* mg < daation of ih* Nafbnial Weather gervb *• In lijuth# aver ig- of *ne severe storm In tbl region in seven years has ben maintained, but n<* **ther s’orm has left sik h an appalling record as the one of Hept ft. and It Is not probable that we will again see Its counterpart on the Texaa roast in many centurlaa hrrMt Itisasters nf Hie Past. The tracks of West Indian hurricanes nearly always form a |*araho!a. with the recurve between latHudeg Jk and Ha, alid generally east of the Oulf Hut th**re are • iceptions to this rule, and o< valonalfy tropical storm** do not recurv# until they reach the West tstiff roast, when they mov* northward and eastward through the interior of our country. In l*y* great loss of life was caused In the e*-a Islands ofr the const of fbatth Carolina by the at* prnarh of a hurricane that Instead re curving and passing n the Northeast, moved inland to Bake Erie and hen pass ed down the Ht Euwrenea valley. This *tnrtn was very destructive to marine Property on the laike# Again, in the **sm* vear. a form passed into th** Gulf ii. l entered our states .it the mouth of the Mississippi river drowning over 2.Wf peopl*- on the low lying Island* of I Louis iana Again, on Hept 29. IW. a tropical hurricane pwaeed northward w - lth the r*>n t**r of its vortical eddy w*st of Washing ton It will be remembered that over ,anti trees were fe||*-d In the District nf Polumbt* by this storm, and much dam age resulted to buildings I have 1 *en frequently asked What are the possibll ties f our Atlantic coast re sorts leing submerged** In answer to thl I will say that It Is more than a poewlbll Ity that grewt disaster may come to pop ll lous centers lH'a*al directly on the At lantic , >ast that Mrr unprotected hv break waters and that have flimsy building foundations placed almost at sea level Tt* le sure, li would be necessar • fur a West Indian hurricane, with w baromeigr r**A<V trig over one Inch below' th** average at th*- center of gyration, to deflect a little from Its • iff ti • k m oi 11 l mi• t• \ ofTjh*re, and pass inland directly over Me of iheor cities, or else to move up from the south w ith the enter of the Itisucklng eddy about fifty tnlhs inland. In order to raise the water to n dangerous high! at any plsce In this connection the fact should not he lost sight of that In Gal veston there was probably llftl** loss of life In strongly constructed buildings with heavy fourvisttons I am of the opinion that every popular summer resort of the Atlantic coast would be amply protected from possibility of material loss of life If proper regulation* were made requiring stability in the construction of founda tion* to a bight of ten feet above sea level I am further of the opinion that the po* •thlltfy of the loss of life Is sufficient to Itutfy tin * afar Inf of rigid rtfftalatlona in the construction of places of habitation ft il | •insular IWltwrolOflfll OOtOi dence that the West I miles hear the some storm relation to the I’nlted States that the I’hdlpplnes do to <*htnu With our new possessions In the Fhllipplneff It will he possible to organlxe a storm warning serv ice (hot shall he as valuable all om merce plying the waterofeonttguou* ti the f’hlnn asf as the recently established service In the West Indies Is to the I’nlted Htates Rev Father Joseph Algue. ft J di re- tor of (tie Manila Observa'ory, has. under the direction of the Philippine* rpmmission. l**en In consultation with the Weather Bureau Of the Department of Agriculture for several months past, with a view of organising storm-warning service In the Philippine* similar to that existing in the Bolted B’ntes fltandard apparatus was recently purchased under the supervision of the Weather Bureau, and Is now on Ms way to the Islands i yrlnnea tn flir Plilllpplnes. The hurrlfhnes thit 0.-cur In the Phil ippine Islands ar* of Ilk*- origin to those that form In the West Indies and of n. r 4 y the sam** degree of Intensity Ikke the West Indian storms, they occur main ly during four months of the ye*r. Rav Tather Vine*. who pr**tably gave more Intelligent study and inveet Meal ion to tropbaf storms than any other scien tist. says that It must *•• Imltted that tropkal cyclone# d** not form a.t any point within the trit al gnnes, hut that they sing.*• out for their formation and development deffinlte region# in these tones The following geographic’ condi tk>ns distinguish the sycionlo regions within th*- tropic from the regions In which storms are not liable to occur— namely continents lie to the west whose const* run more or leas northward and southward, with aliens!vs **eas to the east, overspread **mmonly with nu merous Island** Huch. at any rat*, are th** geographic features that omor to form the cyc.oni* region* of the Philip pine Islands. *>f th#* t’htna sea. of th* seas of India and also of the Rout hern Hem isphere In the region situate*! east of Af rica. In the vicinity of the Islanda of Mad agnecir. Mourltlut. Reunion. Rodrlque*. etc put of all the cyclonic regions the one that more perfectly com bine s all these ondMlone is the great ’‘Ray of North America.** With He Wide Atlantic ocean, extending o the mb’ a-* far a* the roast of 4% md to the r*orthewt a* far as the era of K irope and the Northern sea* The wonderful wweep of these cy r lon In tracks Is Illustrated bv th# state men# that storms of Auguet and Septem ber may lortn in tho vicinity of lha Cnpo de Varda Islands near the roast of Af rtea. eroaa the Atlantic and recurve either on tin- Mouth Atlantic .-oast f the I‘tilted Htates or in th* Gulf ot Mrxico If the center of the paial*oltr trn k Is tn th* Gulf the strm max ¥<>•• the ridled Hfates to the Mhldk Atlantic *a*t (r New Bigland. an*t again w *-• j* a ru*- II * A taint h to the mt**i >.r of Furop* or l loat In the north wes Our storm* *#*em to be like everything else in America on a gigantic ac*> Authorllies agree that nowhere else on the fai’e of the g|ot>e is thri*’ tin reglor whare storms are mei with that **wn com l*are with those of the West Indies, or those wihtch uitsr our territory througt that gateway The Fury of the Tropical Hsrrlrass That West Indian st>rms come onß on our continent in the late summer or eir v fill and reach their greatest IntensMv and frequence in has gl**n rise to the iheor>' that he autumnal e. j allien e alwavs bring severe wind and rain storms Agwtn. In or her portion-- * t tti** .ountrx remote frm the ti. k of West Indian hum an#** th< tr;nMt.n fr*m summer to winter usually r* -u*t In lost (tour*- of rain that -um-iin.- l ist several *la>- This fa* • still furil * i • urn.# in the minds of the pe §ie the t*eli*f that ttiere are *qillnsirtlai ttms- ‘1 *. re seem* lo l>- n* ObJeMlotl to then calling Ibex storms “equinutul*! ept tt;.t nv date In September wll! probably *-how great a storm frequent v s' either the 2!at nr ?-*d The only relation ha• he • qinnoxe** bear lo ihe-** storm- ir* that hc storms are the result of e*t(*• al hinfe and the equinoxes mark the middie time I*-tod between summer and winter. An Ingenious theory of many people in 11lak* hkiiui and he uia’**' Mleeis*ii: ‘ Valley is that the dlrctkm of the wind for five days pi reeding Hie fall equinox • licatee th* chars- ts r of (he * ••mine Wic tei that is to sav. if th** wind be from th* south th** winter will h** • mild one and a cold one will follow If th* \vini • Iw frm the north Investlgwtoai f th * theory show’s that It lias im foundation In fa* t Further In regard to the magnitude of our storms. II mav be aibl that th* Am* r b an cold wave has no <iunl*i|wrl, tb i nowhere el * unless M be tn the steppes of Russia *fne* the temp* ratuie sh**w au< h <mn iHatton# In such abort p--Hod* <*f urn** nor do tha Icy h a*t* sweep over such a broad ares llut this Is nd i all t > 4ijr dlaadxatitage I an* of th** op.nlon that the American cold wave h nfe of th most beneficent gift# of twiltirr For Is Hear cold Mr gives us mms oiv(**n will. • a-*h Inspiration of tho lungs and the ah normally high electric potent la I ihu *'• wavs accompanies hitch air Invlgiora '#* man ar*l all other animal life The - obi. north wind. If H ho dry and l! usually is hrlngx phvsl al energy and menial bu*v grey in its mighty breath la*i no one disparage th** American cold wa\c. f t much of Hie physical and intellectual *n rgy that ha* ma*W* this c*un'rv *'ea that ha* caused I* to take th** leading pta u among the great nation# nf th* world, that has cau#rd It# pepl lo r *‘” l In the art# manufacdurrs and commar* •* was horn in the activity and energy of the t-old, north wind If we will follo* * Hue of thought a llltl** further M will nc - ur t us that the north branches of t>,r Aryan ra •• h#ve alwwvs migrated igam*' ihs prevailing winds, and In the teeth of rhe watery currents, have always thrived upon resimance. and have r**wn #(roncer .in*l more resourceful aga nst **H oppo*l don It s a ne*-worthv la-1 that a h.gh i \ tPz.itton has not physically deplete I ‘o< German, the gcandlnavlan. the Ai*gl” Awxon and other people of the northern port of tire temperate gone, that the vll ixaMon of the middle l#(Hdes a* ordlng to the historians, have ******** • ikluring as they have r**arhed hUher and higher stages or dovHopmeiH. have caused the pe*g>le under their In fluence to form mot* inaniqp-neous and strongly knit political Institutions "bli the civilisation of *>**•• wmihmly lt. mdea have re**med to reach high degrees of development only t bring <*n physical enervation and political dlalntsgi at lon * Forrtelllwa’’ *•••’ (*alve.t.e atorw. Now n word in regard to the .aim that M long-range fore, aster accurately fore .old the Galveston storm a year in ad V T notice in his published prediction *h. statement that. ”ons of the de Fled etorm pvrUeie for H*i*t*mber will fl about h. ith to tlth "‘l be Wise for dwellers on Ih* floutl M*as. M"df. ami (O hl th- f VVr* in h.i.rtii. ,1 DU, lm- - I ~v •*.( 11. i- n*v -hi* f-rn.MI >h. , uni ii kof thn l.urrU ..if tht h H<- Ida swept the Routh* rn Oulf coo** nd passed inland at <tlveston The Weath -I Burrau irnl-ly r-*aUI thn I“ r * 1 *" „t Ihn . .MR'-hnn Ihi I WOUhl hr in,l t.y Ihn <llVM.ia*f R.orm, Whlln Ihl ton* Tttv urn.inr, wlxnr w.uk '-onnkl •T t.. to, nothin* ton (hr mnront rhrl, urn in. nuihn, u *rn.ml ••l-mniit > Ihn that. mov to, npn'l'n Mlwut Ihla tlinr for hr aouth M Mini, and roaataThr aouth m.u. Il .irwto and roM.. ov*l n rr. lar*. r than Ihr nrnlrr t'nltol Rtalfr an ar* , rht rutriwl* aotlthwar.i lo Hourh Amn lea atol l.rhra In till Of thr lahinrt* of Ihr W>af In>llr an 4 th •■oar.a.nr of Ihr rro thr llulf ol Mrahiin-l moahwar.t lo llallrros Whai nonrrn-.' to MV fhal rn.-h n prcdt4ton • ■ ur n<-.>- forrto. 1 Inr romln* of Ihr rrrni hurrl ,-nnr Evrry onr krwiwa that durln* Ihw l*-rtod atorma ar. lrriiirni in Itir ,4 ihr Writ Irrillr*. Thla ton*-ran* a irolonrr ihroar* out hla >lraa-nri aivl .laline evrrjlhln* that fall* UMn an arr* rwo ihouraivl mllr* In rflimrtrr I havr prraonally |nvrint*t.v* thr thr orto of many lon*.ran*r forT.a,tln* humbuga, aiwl I have yrt to find a rln*lr ln*lanr whrrr o hlfthrr rlrgrro nf ami. nr), war ohtnlnrrt limn onr .txiM m.ik-. by rl<*l,i* hi* rjrrr an.l alahbhi* with hla l>rnr|| at Ih* calrrwtar. rarln*. "Airri. thrrr will hr norm#,'* I havr nrvrr fouial of thrrr forrrartrrr aim* f>r< ■ltotion* wrrr t.arr.l upon anv .trftnttr Idri. or upon any *r-|.nttflr prinrlplr I ..rn aattrfl'Vl that 4hr majorttv of thrm know thrmorlvr* to hr rn*n*r<l In thr prrprtritton of frainl an 4 that thr rr. maliialrr arr rlthrr l*noranr or arr thrm arlvrw rlr. rlvr.l hv * <’Mrnt*l in*ni-l4rnr* Iratwem their prrdioltona ut.*l tho rtorma that orrur. Howrvrr. I <V> not <l.-r [io:r that wk day It will hr pomthlr to forrtrli tho arrather tmiMha In *rtvanrr, hut thr man nrr In which wo hurt approach thl* im imriant problrm (annot hr trr,t*.f with in th* limit* of thl* paprr HuHlcr It to rav that If thrrr wrro any knoWlM*.- l4*y tn thr |*m*rmton of man that wmilrl rnahlr ton*-ran*r for*, aria to hr m air ihr Kovrrnmrnt aurriy would makr Ur of It. f ANGORA THAT KIM/. toffee, Aug a r and Pine l.nmhrr Are Breaded. From the <'tn**innatl Enquirer • You don’t know how much you can de test the snvll of coffee until you have been on board a cargo-ateainer laden with th# green berry.” said th** Captain of a trading vessel the other day "For a week or ten days it Isn’t bad-ln fact. It’s rather a pleasant smell that of the gr'en berry; but after that It hegitiß to worry you. In 'lamp weather. If It’s a long voyflge. M’s something terrible I’ve m n a whole ships crew nearly crasy. and unable to touch any food, slAiply he cause of the coffee, which seems to Im pregnate everything on hoard "Home other cargoes are Juet as had Hugar, for Instance. Didn’t suppose there wras any smell If) sugar, (h* Well you take M in a howl, and there lanV But take a cargo of it. "nd let It te*m In a tempera tu e of fn m to 110. and It’s worse than roff**e. I’ve felt sometimes as If 1 could drink gallon of Vinegar flavored with lemnn-jutre. just to taka th# tweet taste out uf toy mouth. Kcmovcd to 24 Liberty St., west ■ Mil i ■tt Hill Since our removal lo our pre** nt quar ters we equipped an |i -?Mut n suh evrrx m*dern pp.*n • (*r Hie 11 ***•'ment of chrsMn arsl long stsndlr g iMseascfl (.real w i- r • jr* furlllliee ai.l b# air iregtmeivi ’he Vi hi Hi. ‘ urstud. Kts slnv‘r • i rrs’ > h tr* -. modified, group | iui.ii r •* i.mi bv itw- Aliu method For m#n> years thuusan I of penpl# from **ur out i- nave snismlly ##’♦• io I nr*l*e t, ik * mrwe of lentlfl • fitb* ,r rn** ■ i the famous res*)rts. *>*l t* our in i. \nx-i ihii itilnci.il gnd bo’ spring# 11 th** oure *.f various allrtw-i.ls It hso * -i n*d la t f t* H* wppHcw !Sj: of rtf.Mnarv and esp* ‘ally mineral w.u (•> tti- 'i.mifiii Innlv with sdentlll* K iiidnif • p.'omptiv relieve fn my d'sease# ivlien itr iki h#ve g ferly fal!*al At er* i *xi*ens*- artifb iil Isiths o€ ih** •!*>.• rotfl spring •bd f *ir sldl |f( • l iturt h#xc l**-*K •**!* *d Into this i ut the A> -o Inetlt'i* This en terpnsw will efiablo . mull It' i# *>f flc* Ji* w .. <b (*| >t • unto.l art,*l.l to go ,ihrs*l •** s re the henefl of te great w c* r i* (.ttn nt In th* r own twin trv Ifi* Abb-* hr*i air inetft*a*l meet* 14 th** rvNj iifmisnis in kiwi and ektn Use.- nil dk kU *t * .r ••xa*- ” wri* i it *• umuiatlofi of fgi .‘1 . . i th* -br.it*-I ht springs of out i.wn oun*r% Am**ng th*- (nmiceoufl ate given at this institution, n v I*** nti.(.*-n*d m*' Kiwinjpsn bath. .m-wlifi.*!i tn#- Vichl bath (twWlell, the S|n iuith irtM-littedi. the Am •** ini*nslh A d th* rvno-eb tn bath, fig nervous #n# - lixis <•(•! pifalyvl# Th Ichlyn Thvnwd bath f*e sepdcwc mt i mid mull tide ill* urn* ions, •(*.. Mii'S igf ami electrb Itv nr** brought o their * rfi* len. v tn this tmtHuftan Gull and w u •‘. itmr!tann free Abho ln stMuti . -‘4 Liberty e*ft west. •’But pine lumlkcr I the worst I re memb*r * lie naap . when we had a -Swigo .f pl.e. and l* b re w - had been nut of port many days the r*i from the w(K*d •seined to have gol Into everything We could tms-e It In the watei. a al tt was al most Imp ssiblf tu <lr Tik M -it all. an | urii- iu| par hed with ihUs-f Three of lie runt died • f fever, aid *** t\ w* got lido port again we were the w tsi look ing set of m- n xoii ever s-1 * v#* upon It w<s months before I could g* rl-l of th# effect# myself MU 111 A \ I >1 I BtHIIW. That is. \o( Exactly Xrw, llwt \ewly I>(■*% * rrl. From the lauvlon Hutnaml irian. New stsirs are comparatively rare In as tronomlcal history About fifteen gemilns nov nr h\c !<••* n (lts < 'Over-**l In the lai ( 4*lo year?* Among the>e was (he new star In Aiirtgo which was first seen early In I'dC. winning much attention. Another new star was found this time by w Udv. Mrs. F>nmtiita laic In I*SI7 or early in lFt Ko faint was Hr light that on a photographic plate which showed star to th** fifteenth magnitude. H had failed to impress its (mag* Htill. tty i e the f • bl- little elar was. Anew \ariat*i‘. to©, has l*dt ft*-in*l lately, in the ('ohm 1*11(1100 4*ygrei one af the Algol typ* Th> discovery wis mods by means of photography It* l variations in light were first remarked in two siie i esslv*- photograph* t.ikeri at M• *c-'OW, wn*i again in others M Harvard foibge Ob servatory. The a n.mges run their cotira# In rather nsuf limn four -i-iy* and a half, the differed*** between Ms extreme# of brlghnes# and dimness Im-.uk very con ■ui-r.tide. Within tlm (*oiittn* , a of our s(lai system three new heavenly bodies — not counting astrold#— have b**-n dl*ov **red during the lost ten yeare Early In the f*n year#, and Indeed so long ago that w* hove almoct ceased to think of (he stranger as "new Jupiter's ilfth moon was found by Prof Barnard of ths kick Observatory. Ho quick*y •! fresh scientific objects drop Into the Imc kgrotind of established fads Hut Saturn aleo list lately gained*# new satellite or, rather, w** tiav* had to admit another Into our concepti*hi of Saturn’s system. A faint object haa leen detected on photogr*pl!o plates, In (he i* ighborhoo*! of Hat urn. changing Itf* position WllH such rapidity . r ' ** H must I** another ‘‘moon.'’ Wnen noted It seemed to Ih journeying In the di re* • lon Ha I urn him-elf. though not so fast us th* great planet. If not a satellite. It can hardly be aught else than a further off planet, hut th satellite explanation Is reckoned the more probable. This small body. If observed by human ey*ai from Saturn, would look much the same In point of brightness as a sixth-magnitude star ol (served from earth Its diameter has been roughly calculated nr. perhaps, ••omewhere about 3ft® miles. Not of much servlc# to Haturn as a moon, on# would Imagine, supposing (hot any etc h "service” Were there required. The name of ’ Phoebe” W’* proposed for this moon let by Prof. Pickering—"after*’ a slater of Haturn. Another recent discovery deserves espe ial mention Not because of the milk or brilliancy of th* >ody. hut from other factors (n the question whs h make It of importance On Aug 13. l*W a Get man astronomer t work In Berlin caught # glimpe of :• certain small wanderer, n* ver before seetn, arsl th* fact became s t M *>hly known. The site of th** stranger as * *an pgr*’*! with our moon Is as a (my A aiilnent Avery minute world Indeed |xerhsj>s only **• seventeen miles, and at most probably not more rh#n iwcnty-flve ii)i(*s In diameter —eo that nto #n hardly f*e| surprise at its having so long elude*| the attention of eetronomere. And yet |t has a peculiar intereat for inhabttarMs of our earth. Hundred# among (h* astcroWls would, each singly, far outw* tgh this little body; *bd most of th** known hu tell lies are gigantic by comparison. But among all th<* -tero4da un* l all th** satellites of the solar sys tem not orvs can he found o vie in at traction with the latest found planet. The asteroid# belong one to another. Journeying In company through the vast s|*a- e which lies between the orbits of Jupiter and M'ars We think of them as a whole as • system a# the poaihh remnants, cording to one theory, of --one great planet In the long past. And lb. satellites all belong to their prlma riew We do nor picture them to oureelve# a# planets apart But the new small planet, Kroe. is different. Erne stand# alone. K*m belongs to no horde of tiny neigh bors. Eros Is controlled by no great pri mary Eros travel*, so far ae we can tali, in solitary state: not between Jupi ter and Mars, but between Mars and tha earth It ha* always been asserted that, after the morm. no single body In all the neavens— putilng aside the thought of meteorite#--ever approached nearer to earth than Venus on the one side and Mars on the other That can he said no longer Eros t* almost half as rear again a Venus and only about one-third as far off as Mars. The nearest point to which the moon ever coma# lw about 2JMO3 miles awav. The nearest point of .Mars Is over JlJUftOfth miles, and that of V'ei ne over mile# a pay But tha .Mile planet Rr*>e la. or #oo will he. within miles of us iSo the find ing of Eros tiny though (hat plane, be. may be looked upon as an tfioch in iba history of tu# solar system. 21