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About Wayne County news. (Jesup, Ga.) 1896-???? | View Entire Issue (July 25, 1906)
REMARKS FROM THE PUP. She’s taught me that I mustn’t bark At little noises after dark. But just refrain from any fuss Until I’m sure they're dangerous. Inis would be easier, I’ve felt, It noises could be seen or smelt. She’s very wise, I have no doubt, And plans ahead what she’s about, Yet after eating, every day She throws her nicest bones away. If she were really less obtuse She'd bury them for future use. But that which makes me doubt the most Those higher powers that humans boast, Is not so much a fault like that, Nor yet her fondess for the cat, But on our, pleasant country strolls Her dull Indifference to holes! O if I once had time to spend To reach a hole’s extremest end, I’d grab it fast, without a doubt, And promptly pull It inside out; Then drag it home with all my power To chew on it in a leisure hour. Of all the mistresses there are, . Mine is the lovliest by far,— Fain would I wag myself apart If I could thus reveal my heart. But on some things, I must con¬ clude, Mine Is the saner attitude. —Burges Johnson, In Harper's Mag¬ azine. fm e DEMON OF • • • « THE BED HORROR (Adapted From the Portuguese.) v. By WILLIAM S. BIRGE. I sat down In the desert with Ab¬ derah, the Arab, and the Arab told his tale. An illusive mirage had lured the twain, Abderah and myself, Into tho very Valley of the Dry Bones, an arid and sandy gorge south of Arabia Deserta. Our throats were dry as vellum with thirst, and. Ab derah’s voice had a husky rattle “It is exactly a year to-day,” began ’Adberah, the prince of his clan, “since Zara, the Beautiful, gave up the ghost, and at every anniversary thereof, 1 must tell my story or die. I could givo no reason,” he went on huskily, "no reason, on tho cath of a Saracen, why I married the low¬ born Zara of the desert, of whose parentage 1 knew nothing, except that she was called Zara, tho Beauti¬ ful—no reason in the world why I, the prince Abderah, only son of the king, and heir to the kingly domain, should have married the low-born Zara, of whom and whose antece¬ dents nobody knew anything whatso¬ ever, except that she was gifted with strange gifts and had dropped in upon the domain suddenly, as if from another world. “I did not love her; of that fact I am certain. 1 did not even respect her; of that fact I am equally cer¬ tain. I hated her with an unaccount¬ able perversity of hatred; of this third ract I am just as certain as of the two preceding. Three very good reasons why I should not have done what I did. Nevertheless, I did it— did indeed wed her after the manner of my fathers, installing her, devil as she w’as, in the ancestral paiRce of an ancient and honorable race of Saracenic kings. “True she was beautiful—strange¬ ly beautiful, In her w’ay; but that was no reason why I should have married an adventuress. It was ex¬ actly because she was beautiful in her W’ay that 1 hated her. There is a beauty of heaven: it pursues, haunts, breaks like a weird music in all prescient dreams. I have con¬ jured up its phantoms with hasb heesh, in opium drow-se, through slumbrous nights of calm, opening my eyes again upon earth with a wild wish to die. There is a beauty of earth it is like unto fagots under the caldron of passion, like red wine in the cup, like fitful fever In the blood. It is a glittering and sudden tiger, that fever, that springs upon its prey vehemently, feeding thereupon In the jungle of home. There is a beauty of hell, and it stings while it fascin¬ ates—stings scorpion like, fascinat¬ ing, serpent like, with sinuous, loathsome, devilish fascination. This last was the beauty of Zara, the Beautiful; and it stung me. fascin¬ ated me—fascinated me though I hated, stung me though I loathed. “Now I think of it, 1 fancy the creature’s fascination was in that devilish eye of hers. It was—I recol¬ lect it distinctly—it was small, scin t'.llant, and shot sudden, furtive rays at its victim; lurid, without v/hite, and all a single round, devilish pupil; bulbously prominent with livid lids, and almost lashless edges; oddly beautiful, strangely fascinat¬ ing. intoxicating as the eve of an Houri. "This was Zara's eye, and it fas¬ cinated me with an unnatural fascin¬ ation. I saw it day and night; and the fever of its sting I mistook for passion, though pasison it was not. It was the ain rab that I pursued to an evil destiny. "There is an imp of the perverse,” Abderah went on, his words rattling like dry leaves in his parched throat’ “an imp of the perverse, which has more hand in human, affairs than hu¬ manity in general would be willing to acknowledge. “It is the logical basis of all trag¬ edy. the prompter of all suicide, the demon of an that is terribly inex¬ plicable, as well as of all that is ab¬ surdly comical In human action. In its play it is comedy, and you langh; ino its serious moods it is tragedy, often so original, so motiveless, so apparently put of mere whim, that you stare haggard with horror, yet fascinated as you stare. It is either a Puck or a Mephistopheles latent in in every human heart—either danc¬ ing baboon or omnivorous hyena, as may suit the whim of the hour. “Have you ever been tempted to swallow poison simply because you knew it would kill you, and for no other reason? Have you never been taken with an almost uncontrollable Impulse to hurl yourself from a prec¬ ipice simply because you must not, and because you must not, therefore, you would? Have you never done this or that, done it suddenly, mo tivelessly, involuntarialy, simply be¬ cause you did not wish and would not have done it for all the world? Have you never pursued a pet pro¬ ject, toiled ceaselessly day and night unto an end, only to spurn it with your foot at the instant of realiza toln, simply because so to spurn it was to spite yourself utterly? Have you never ascended to dizzy heights and kicked away the ladder at the last moment just because it might prevent all human succor, because, in a word, for that very reason you did it? If you have not you are more or less than human. And tills imp of the perverse the presence of some people seems to enra K e even to demoniac desperation, while. ln presence of others, it slumbers, at least comparatively. “in this lies the secret of my es pousal of Zara of the desert. I did not love her; did not even respect her; wedded her, nevertheless, not because I willed to wed her involun tarily, but because, with an uncon trollable perversity, I was impelled to wed her against my will. A paia dox, to be sure but then man is a paradox, the one wing of which Is human, and the other devil. So par adox let it be. She stung the imp of the perverse, the latent devil in me, into horrible activity; and, for the time, quite against, my will, 1 did, with seeming deliberation, exactly what I would not have done tor my soul - “There was one other peculiarity about Zara, the Beautiful, which has had some hand In convincing me a certain non-humanity on her part. There is about every person, human¬ ly considered, a certain atmospheric something, a personal aroma, so to speak, which is inseparable from the notion of presence; and if your sense of odor is acute, you will be able to detect a certain individuality of something akin to perfume, a sort of odorless perfume of violets to the oppressive, oozy atmosphere of the upas, are just as indicative of per¬ sonal idiosyncrasies as appearance and manner may be supposed to be. “About the creature that I wedded there was nothing of this kind. Cool, aromaless, bloodlessly cadav¬ erous, the secret of her fascination was located in something akin to metallic glitter of presence—akin to the writhing, glittering crawl of the adder, akin to the hacking Inhumani¬ ty of the laughter of a parrot. “A mask of a woman, merely,” Abderah continued, the words rat¬ tling from his throat with accurately pointed and terrible vehemence; “a mask of a woman, merely a devilish domino. I wedded the low-born Zara of the desert, who came and went at whim, ns one having no home upon the earth; and for a brief year only she queened it, the gayest of the gay, the merriest of the merry, the profanest of the profane. It was a- ghastly day, the day that I led her to the palace of my race, a day ominous of pestilence and of sudden and epidemic death. Lurid and terrible wonders were in the heavens, like those which have lured our feet into the Valley of the Dry Bones; and stifling and hyena-like siroccos pursued the travellers of the desert with devilish instinct, throt¬ tling them while caravans together. Even from the day thereof died my people in ghastly scores, and on the forehead «fc>every one that died was branded a livid blot In the exact shape of a human heart. My father died suddenly, and first of all, the red horror of the brand from temple temple to temple. Zara had no grief at the old man’s death. The epidem¬ ic, swift-footed and terrible, went abroad among my people. Zara was oppressively merry; and still as fast¬ er they died, merrier and merrier yet became the laughter of the queen, until I was likely at last to reign over a vast necropolis. She absented herself for days from the palace, and night unto night I was startled from horrible dreams of the red brand, to find her absent from the camera diletto. And still the ep¬ idemic death baffled all skill, and the red brand crawled suddenly upon all foreheads, and was the horror of all hearts. “I too, became weak, but Zara only laughed mockingly, and ab¬ sented herself the more from the palace, waxing the more horribly merry the ghastlier I became. “I dreamed fitfully, and in the horror of my dream the loathsome brand of the red heart, the hideous seal of the epidemic death, was upon my forehead. I awoke, and the queen was not at my side. I heard a gnashing of horrible teeth. 1 sprang up. I struck a light. I was too quick for her. Great God. She was feeding upon a human heart. “It has been a year to a day, and still the same lurid and ghastly won¬ ders were in the heavens. “ ‘Thou has outwitted me, for I would have queened over it a me¬ tropolis of the dead. Thou hast, in¬ deed, triumphed in life,’ said Zara, dynig, ’but in death would I have gnawed thy heart.’ “So, she died, and the demon of the re4 horror and the imp of the epidemic death slumbered, and the livid blot in the heavens went out with the closing of her devilish eye.” —Waverley Magazine. TS> uTt £ p Aj> The Best Calf Food. Separated milk as a food for calves, when fed direct from the ma¬ chine, makes a model milk food. Careful experiments snow that prac¬ tically as good calves can bo raised on separated milk, direct from the machine, as can be raised or. whole milk, provided the butter fat lost in the removal of the cream, is replaced by linseed meal, corn meal, or flour or molasses. Special Crop for Profit. It Is not a bad plan for any farmer to have some specialty aside from his regular crops, if he Is too short of help. Among the things to be suggested a small area in some kind of fruit would be within the reach of fill. This would afford a profit in the majority of seasons, and every now and then comes a year when a T ruit crop is worth a handsome sum. Tho Poultry Industry, The hen hag come lo the front wlt - a extraordinary strides in our do meslic and commercial economy, tjj 0 j eman( j f or f res h eggs and choice table poultry is increasing f a8 t er than the supply. The ben [g a money maker. The com merc j a i poultry people who buy their j eedj B till find in them a good profit, ^he f arra poi] ]t ry raiser has vast ad vaatages if he wlu adopt the im p rdved breeds, so easily done, and provide good poultry houses. He can g[ ve them range, which is es ggnttal to health and good growth, j.j e can ra j ge them with tho mini mum use of any commercial com modity. The run on the farm and orchard is an actual benefit rather than an expense. They destroy in s g R t 3 and weed seeds and make their living with a little extra corn or summer feed. A market Is always -eady. Sharpening Hen’s Teeth. As all who raise poultry know the portion of the hen’s anatomy an¬ swering to teeth is the gizzard, it is therefore important that material be provided which will enable the giz¬ zard to do its duty fully. One veter¬ an poultryman says he would as soon think of trying to raise fowls without grain as without grit, and he is very near right. While all sorts of things are recommended for grit, we believe that there should be considerable mix'ture here as well as in the food. A neighboring florist willingly gives us all of the broken flower pots we will cart away, and these are broken In still smaller pieces and mixed with short bits of stone and irregular pieces of gravel, broken china, and with the hard portions of clam and oyster shells. All of this mass is placed In a box protected from soil as much as pos¬ sible and situated where tho fowls can get It at any time they please. We go to considerable trouble to keep It clean and free from dirt so that the fowls can pick out the pieces they want as they please.—Indian¬ apolis News. Seed Corn From Growing Grain. The experiment station of Ohio furnishes valuable Information In a bulletin on the selection of corn for seed, the selection being made dur¬ ing the growing of the plant in the field, twfilch ought to have the care¬ ful attention of growers of corn everywhere. Taking Dent corn for the purpose, it is scored as follows: Vigor of plants, twenty points; po¬ sition of ear, 5 points; weight of ear, 60 points; length of ear, five points; uniformity of plant and ear, 10 points, and shape of kernel and size of germ, ten points. Very Im¬ portant is the note which gives the disqualifications, as plants growing under less than normal stand; plants lying upon the ground or badly brok¬ en; plants diseased; plants maturing too late or too early. To select the seed corn from such plants is fatal to the following crop. The vigor of the plant is indicated by- the circum¬ ference of the stalk below rive ear; by its upward growth and by its leaf development and freedom from dis¬ ease. The ideal position of the ear is suoh.that it does not pull too heav¬ ily upon the plant. The weight of the ear is to be determined by scales when the ear is thoroughly dry. The plan of uniformity of plant and ear is based on the habit of growth and vigor of plant as well as size, shape, color and indentation of ear. Corn growers everywhere should profit by these points, which will mean • de¬ cidedly improved crops.—Indianapo¬ lis News. Orchard Cultivation. Referring to the fact that many trees die while yet in their prime, a writer asserts that it is simply a matter of starvation—soil exhaus¬ tion. The land has produced the trees,, also foliage and fruit, year after year, for a period of ten- twen¬ ty, thirty, forty or fifty years, often called upon to produce a cereal crop as well, and in many'cases with lit¬ tle or no return of fertilizing ele¬ ments to the soil aside from those which nature supplies. What won¬ der that the soil has become poverty stridken. and is no longer able to bear the strain? No reasonable man should expect the soil to pro¬ duce one crop, year after yepr, for a generation, and in regard to cereal crops there are a few who do, yet many seem to expect to gather fruit from generation to generation with¬ out making any return to the soil. If we cultivate the land during the summer to retain the moisture the use of the trees, and in August or early Septembeffftow some cov^ crop, ’ like oats or r>y@p«to foliate protect the soil during the winter, and be turned under to supply humus, we should see dif ferent results. A good application of I wood ashes would also be profitable where they can be secured at reason able rates. It is also probable that certain grades of commercial fertil izers would yield good returns in dollars and cents. In some manner the soil of our orchards must be fed, and through It food supplied to the trees, or they must cease to produce profitable fruit and indeed soon cease to exist at all. It is with the orchard as with other parts of the farm, it must be fed or the husbandman must soon cease to partake of the fruit thereof. The Way to liaise Colts. Rearing a filly which is just as good as she looks, can scarce ly be done except by a genuine lover of horseflesh. Stella, the subject of the article, was foaled April 4. 1905, and was a large colt at birth. Her sire is a well bred and well built Percheron, whose colts are greatly in request at good prices, and his sire was an imported horse, whose colts were remakable for stability and en¬ durance. The colt's dam is young, not pure bred, but a good road horse of pleasant disposition and good size, and she proved a good mother, Stella being her first colt. youngster had no serious setbacks and never ceased to grow' as long as I owned her. She was like a baby to the whole family, petted and ca¬ ressed and fed salt and sugar from our hands, yet she never contracted a vicious habit, nor had tricks which were annoying. If her future train¬ ing is as kind as that which she re¬ ceived while I owned her she will make the much quoted “kind family horse.” I sold her at seven months old. She began taking a nibble from her mother’s grain box when she was very young. Later she had a little box of her oyvn, where she found a light ration of bran and oats. Salt was always within easy reach, and water when she cared for it. The work horses made a pet of h’er and she ran in pasture with them in perfect safety, or, when all the horses were working, she went to pasture with my hornless dairy cows, and neither she nor they suf fered from the association. Colt rais ing Is a little rfcky and could not be included in a woman’s farm unless there was a man who could bo trust ed fully; but with good fences and patient, painstaking care it yields a rather better profit thau cattle raising, except where one has regis¬ tered stock; and the chances of real ly good sales of pure bred cattle are small unless one shows them at the great exhibitions, which is very ex¬ pensive advertising for women farm ers. Young horses of good size, com mand good prices and ate always in demand. Breeding from vicious par ents will rarely give the sort of horses which the majority like, Breeding from trotting stock will hot produce the sort of horses which farmers and others, who need real work from their teams, want. Study the sort of horse you can sell and when the colts arrive take good care of them.—Sara A. Little, Clyde, N. Y. 1 Farm anjl Garden Notes. I Every farmer shoold have a few sheep. Sunlight in the cow stable is worth money. Mutton is growing in favor with meat eaters. Roots for breeding ewes are al¬ most a necessity. Just as likely as likely as not the pig pen is unclean. See to it * Hog killing is a trying time for the women folks. There are too few good horses and too many poor ones. For mating the pullet should be a year younger than the cock. This will conduce to the strength and good health of the offsprings. Strong constitutions are the means firm"course in the steady upbuilding of a fine family ‘ of stock. Dr “ ns ' ease ® 8 ® , ep . . Q bl;tz . . . drinking , , , , vessels . in ,_____ many cases. Move .. th the brood coops nffon often. tRp The ground becomes filthy if the coops are allowed to remain in one place very long, Remove them at least once a week. Apple and pear trees usually bear only every other year, but with prop¬ er .culture and by thinning the fruit when the heavy crops are borne the trees may' be made to produce abun¬ dant crops each season. This is an important item in fruit culture. Colts which are to be exhibited in the show ring should be trained to be led by the ^ide or driven ahead of a pony. A second-class colt, well educated .and well shown, will beat a first-class one every time that is poorly shown before the judges when competing in the ring. Put up the fences or invite your stock to jump over them. If they ac¬ cept the invitation and get a taste of your growing corn it will take two boards to keep them out while one may do it mow. A-breechy animal on the farm generally has a commission given By the negligence of the owner. According to a recent report from Tokio, there are 17S6 wholesale and 235.414 retail tobacce aaalexs in Japan. FISH. FOUGHT TWO HOURS. Land Lacked Salmon Weighing 14 Pounds 13 Ounces—Seat a I Maine Record. The' taking of a record breaking fourteen pound thirteen ounce land locked salmon by Eawara Hyde, of Me., was the feature of a week of excellent fishing, writes the Kineo (Me.) correspondent of the New York g un j ‘ The flgll ^. as cot on ] y a largest record j breaker for the lake, but the e7er tkken in nort h e rn Maine inland waterg Range Ws best is a fourteen d taken about 1S97> and a t hir , teen p der> secured two years lat i J er. I Mr. Hyde started out at 4 a. m. to do a little trolling and to whet his appetite for the, breakfast_ ....... which . he . catch. He paddled off op j proposed to posite his private camp alone in a I canoe. He had barely got the trolling I line out its length when the strike came, and it was not many seconds before it was apparent that there was i a big fish at the other end. A few minutes later the big fish ; went into the air, fifty yards away, and for a full hour from that time Mr. Hyde simply held on. Time and again the salmon left the water In savage, ; determined leaps, but the tackle held f as t and a taut line kept the fish mov ing. Then the pace began to tell and twenty minutes later the salmon w'as brought near enough to the canoe to give the angler heart palpitation. He wag pr0Dare d to see a big fish, but ’ not the monster that was fighting thirty feet away, Ten minutes more of battle and the task of landing him began. At first Mr. Hyde thought of the landing net, but he soon saw that this would be useless. Then the possibill ty of shooting the fish presented it self but was discarded, and finally, a3 a last resort, Mr. Hyde tired the fish by forcing rushes and then made for the sloping, sandy shore, grasped the 1!ne dropped the lod, dragged the - fish into the shallow water of the beach and fell upon It bodily. Two hours had elapsed since the strike, and the final victory and the struggle had also called for about all the strength the angler possessed. The salmon was 34 Inches long and was seen by a number of visitors as it hung in state on the cabin door, where unfortunately, it was allowed to re main too long before steps were tak en for its permanent preservation, Another big salmon was taken by Henry Capon of Augusta, an eight p0U nder. Of excellent strings the week furnished many, several of them exceptional, and both bait and Qy have pr0V ed effective, Chinese Treatment of Animals. They never punish; henco a mule that in the hands of a foreigner would be useless or dangerous to those about it becomes in the pos¬ session of a Chinaman as a lamR We never beheld a runaway, a jibing or a vicious mule or pony in a China raan’s employment, but found the same rattling, cheerful pace main tained over heavy or light roads, by means of a tur-r or cluck-k, the beast turning to the right or left, and stopping with but a hint from the reins. This treatment is extended to all the animals they press Into the service. Often have I admired the tact exhibited in getting a large drove of sheep through narrow, crowded streets and alleys, by mere¬ ly having a little boy lead one of the quietest of the flack in front; the others steadily followed. Cattle, pigs and birds are equally well cared for. We met In Paris, in 1869, Mr. Burlingame, who was then our Min¬ ister to China. We asked him wheth¬ er a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals ought not to be formed in China. His reply was that there was no such thing in China as cruelty to animals; the Chinese were about the kindest peo¬ ple in the world in their treatment of them.-—Geo. T. Angell, in Oui Dumb Animals. Exp(ajns ^ Mj(ky Way _ Professor Barnard’s recent photo f ^ f e star clouds of the Milky made am!d the clear air on the summit of Mount Wilson, must rank among the most notable achievements *«■»«•>» -«• These photographs v show with ex QutsHe . . beauty and perfection . .. of , de- , ^ the intricate construction 0 f the vast annulus of stars composing the galaxy, and exceed almost everything that even Professor Barnard has pre viously effected with his photographic telescopes. They may be said to re¬ veal the very “architecture" of the heavens in their richest regions where the starry multitudes are disposed, nd in a grand disorder, but with evi deuces cf a most complicated and wonderful design. Every one of these photographs affords hours of the most absorbingly interesting study to the astronomer—study which they enable him to perform seated at his desk and freed from the discomforts of long night watches in the observatory. —Prof. Garrett P. Serviss. Aluminium Books. A new use has been found for alum inium in the making of books for the blind—books which are read by pass ( ng thp fingers over the embossed letters printed upon the pages. It j s sa j d that these books are much easier to read than the best paper books, especially by those who have become blind late in life and whojs fingers are not Tsry sensitive.— Chambers’ Journal ATLANTIC COAST UNfi* PASSENGER SCHEDULES. j Arrivals and Departures at Jesup, G&* l In Effect May 27th, 19C6. j Departures. j j g aTa nnah and points North and jjagt | Train No. 68 leaves . 7:40am Train No. 82 leaves 11:25am Train No. 80 leaves 11:20pm | For Waycross and South, west. No. 89 leaves 5:00am No. 85 leaves .. .. . ..11:30am No. 21 leaves .„ .. , .. .. 4:45am No. 5, , leaves .. .. 8:35pm ' For Jficxsonville and points south via Short Line. No. 85 leaves 11:30am ( For Fo'kston via Short Line. * No. 27 leaves 5:05am Arrivals. From Savannah and North and East. No. 89 arrives 4:55am No. 85 arrives 11 : 15 am No. 21 arrives 4:40,pm No. 57 arrives 8:30pm From Jacksonville and points South via Short Line. No. 82 arrives 11 : 20 am From Waycross and points South and West, via Waycross. No. 58 arrives .. ..7:35am No. 82 arrives .. .. . ..11:05am No. 80 arrives .. .. . ..ll:15pin No. 22 arrives .. ,, .... 7:45pm -— From Folkston via Short Line. 28 arrives 7:30pm 26 and 27 daily except Sunday, : A11 other trains dally. , Connections made at Port T Tampa with United States mail steamship of peninsular and Occidental Steamships p ne o7 Key west and Havana, leaving p or t Tampa Sundays, Tuesdays and j Thursdays at 11:40 p. m. p or ( Ur (j)er Information, through <erv iee, trains making local stops and schedules to other points, apply j TICKET AGENT. Jesup, Ga. THOS. E. MYERS, Traveling Pas¬ senger Agent, Savannah. T. C. WHITE, Division Passenger j A »® nt ’ a “’ ! w - J - CRAIG. Passenger QMntroT . Wilmington. N. C. QUAKES CAUSING TERROR. Thousands cf People “Skidoo” from Large Section of New Mexico Be¬ cause of Earthquakes. Albuquerque, New Mexico, says: Reiugees in large , num bers are arriving in the city from Eocorro, where great damage has been wrought by a succession of destruc tive earthquakes since July 2. In that ^i nie no t hour has passed without one or more The center of dislurbanco j| a toue 30 m iies long by about 10 miles wide, running from the Ladrone mountains southeast through Socorro, San Antonio and Gan Marciai. This side of the belt the shocks have been hardly felt. Each one is preceded by a loud rumb ling like heavy thunder, which can be heard aproaching from the north west before it reaches Socorro. People are ] etiv ing Socorro on every train, and those who cannot leave on trains are leaving by wagons. About two thousand people are camping out in tents, and no one dares to go in doors. Practically every residence and business block in the town has been irreparably damaged. There has been much distress among the people who are camping in the open, as heavy rains have fallen in the last two days, one being the heaviest for fifty years . Most of the people are going to El Paso, although many are going to Al buquerque and Santa Fe. The shocks generally occur as short, sharp jerks, the ground seeming co ■>*> >• «* - adjustment of rock strata in the rug ged Ladro-nes , Magdalena and moun tains is the cause of the continued shocks. Provisions are growing scarce, and real distress is feared among the ref¬ ugees. ■‘The noise and the quakes are ^tful, said .j,, Mrs. J. » J. T Leeson, a re - u § ee £rom Socorro. “I have expe¬ rienced earthtauakes in Los Angeles an( * ® an Francisco, but never anything as terrible as these prolonged jerk ings of the earth at Soccoro. Water placed in a bowl will shew contin¬ uous vibrations between the greater shocks, showing that the earth is nev¬ er still. Not a house in town is safe to enter, and chimneys and walls topple with each recurring tremor.” A careful search of the lava fields to the southwest of the city, hare failed to reveal any new hot springs or evidence of volcanic action report¬ ed Thursday. The entire property damage at Socorro will not exceed 85.000, as only the old adobe houses have suffered. In surrounding towns the property damage is also slight, owing to the cheap character of the buildings affected and the absence of costly structures.
