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Jromorous ? epartmmt.
Anticipated.?He was full of zeal for
the temperance cause, and was holding
a series of lectures In a workman's
hall, says Tit-Bits. But the audience
were very unkind, and kept interrupting.
So much so that at last he hired
an ex-prize fighter to keep order. That
night the orator contrasted the contents
of home-life with the squalor of
drunkenness.
"What is it we want when we return
home from our daily toil?" he asked.
"What do we want to ease our burden
to gladden our hearts, to bring
smiles to our faces and joyous songs to
our lips?"
He paused for effect, and in the silence
could be heard the voice of the
keeper of the peace.
"Mind," he said, "the first bloke that
says 'beer' out he goes with a bang."
Good Advice.?Andrew Carnegie, who
it is well known, attributes a great
deal of his success to his wife's influence
^nd advice, congratulated a young
man In Pittsburg on nis approacmng
marriage.
"It is wise to marry early," said Mr.
Carnegie. "Tour wife will help you to
succeed. Consult her in all the important
details of your business, and be
sure to take her advice as often as possible."
Mr. Carnegie's eyes twinkled.
"For you'll find," he said, "as we
all have found, that the most aggravating
thing that can happen to a man
is to go contrary to his wife's wishes
and then fail."?New Orleans States.
Original Definition.?For half an
hour the teacher had been busily sowing
the seeds of knowledge, and realised
that the time had come at last for
her to reap the harvest.
"Now, boys," she asked, "who can
tell me what an oyster is?"
For a while silence filled the classroom.
On all sides little brows were
puckered in strained effort at remem
uianw.
Then a look of knowledge begun to
shine in little Tommy's eyes. Eagerly
he raised his hand, and?
"1 know," he cried. "It's a fish built
' like a nut!"
Level Ground for Him.?Once upon
a time, says the Lincoln County News,
two Irishmen came over from the "Old
Country" and started on a hiking tour
looking for a job. Neither had seen a
train. They started out on the journey
and used the railroad track for a sidewalk.
A train came along. One Biddy
took to the woods in flight and the
other started out for a sprint in front
of the locomotive and was overtaken
by the train and knocked into the ditch
and considerably bruised. His pal appeared
on the scene later and asked
why he did not run to the bushes also,
and Pat said to Mike, "I couldn't outrun
the thing on level ground; and
how the divil could you expect me to
do so through the bushes."
Up-to-Date Farm Talk.?"What are
you giving your cows now in the way
of galacagogues?" asked the university
professor of the milkman.
"Oh," said the milkman, wno nas
just been graduated from the state agricultural
college and was not to be
stumped by any oollege pedagogue,
"their sustenance is wholly of vegetable
origin; rich in chlorophyl and opulent
in butyraceous qualities.
"A pint, if you please," said the professor.
"Git up." said the milkman.?Indianapolis
News.
Matter of Counting.?"Yes," he remarked,
stretching himself lazily in the
one really comfortable chair in the
commercial room. "I'm the youngest
child of a big family."
"How many of you were there?" asked
a fellow knight of the road.
"Well," replied the lazy one, "three
of my brothers are dead, but there
were ten of us boys, and each of us
had a sister."
"What!" gasped his questioner. "Do
you mean to say that there were 20 of
you?"
"Dear, dear?no only 11."
in rtrrl*ra Jim's hoss sent
him up on the roof to paint. That was
early in the morning. Toward nightfall
the obss clambered up the ladder to
see where his workman was.
"Jim. you lazy piece, what have you
been doing?"
"Nuffln."
"Didn't I send you up here to paint
the root?"
"Yassir."
"Why didn't you come down if you
had finished?"
" 'Deed, boss, you jes' said paint de
roof. You nevah said nuffin' 'bout
comin' down."?Washington Star.
What's in a Name.?Chairman (at
concert)?Ladies and gentlemen. Miss
Brown will sing "Only Once More."
Sarcastic Critic.?Thank goodness
for that!
Chairman (coming forward again) ?
Ladies and gentlemen, instead of singing
"Only Once More," Miss Brown
will sing "Forever and Ever."?New
Orleans States.
Fixing the Limit.?"Which do you
prefer?" asked the Old Fogy, a "preacher
who is an orator or a preacher who
reads his sermons?"
"Give me the preacher who reads his
sermons," replied the Grouch.
"Why?" asked the Old Fogy.
"He can tell when he gets to the
end," replied the Grouch.?Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Environment.?"Do you think that
people are influenced by environment?'
"Unquestionably," replied Dr. Hibrow.
"And we change in habits and appearance
according to our surroundings?"
"No doubt of It." "Great Scott, doc!
Don't tell me that posterity is going to
grow up to look like the people in the
comic supplements."?The Washington
Star.
The Mulctary.?The Mexican refugee
approached the negro driver of a commissary
wagon. "Are you connected
with the United States military establishment?"
he asked politely. "No,
sah," replied the driver. "Dis heali
outfit am a paht ob de United States
muletary establishmen'."?Buffalo Express.
Revival Notice.?During revival
meetings in a western city, placards
giving notices of the various meetings,
subjects, etc., were posted in conspicuous
places. One day the following was
displayed:
"Subject?'Hell: Its Location and
Its Absolute Certainty.' Thomas Jones,
barrytone, will sing, 'Tell Mother I'll be
There.' "?Ladies' Home Journal.
pisffllanrous ^tcadinp.
BULGARIAN ATROCITIES
Greeks Defend Themselves Against
Charges of Inhumanity.
To those who have read these articles
in succession, it will be needless to
recapitulate the indictment against
Bulgaria. But we will briefly sum up
the nature of the evidence as follows:
1?Corroboration of the accusations
of Greece against Bulgaria by eye witnesses
of the atrocities. Those who indorse
the assertions of Bulgaria admit
that they were not in or near the
seat of war.
2?Those who exposed the Bulgarian
atrocities were present either at the
time, or immediately after the acts
which called forth their protests. They
were personal witnesses who saw the
smoking ruins of the pillaged towns
and the thousands upon thousands of
mutilated corpses. It was not until
peace had been declared that any
charges were preferred against the
Greek army.
3?Bulgaria uttered no denunciation
of the Greeks until after peace was declared.
Greece, it will be remembered,
called the attention of the whole world
to the Bulgarian atrocities at the very
outset of the war, and invited the foreign
correspondents to come at once
to the front and witness the horrors
perpetrated by her barabrous enemy.
4?Bulgaria offers an excuse for her
singular silence concerning the atrocities
at the very outset of the claims
they were committed. According to her
present statement she was cut off
from all communication with the other
world during the war, and consequently
was unable to register her protests
against Greece. This is obviously a lie.
for it is the lncentestible fact that during
the whole war, Mr. Bourchler the
official press bureau, and the notorious
Lieutenant Wagner, of the Vienna
Reichpost. were exceedingly busy
sending out war news, though they
managed to color it to suit their desires,
and to minimize the facts of rout
and defeat. There was nothing whatever
to prevent Bulgaria from protesting
or for calling for disinterested witnesses
to any "Greek atrocity" had
any Greek atrocity occurred.
5?The foreign eye-witnesses who
described the Bulgarian horrors, committed
during the second war, number
more than thirty with the Greek army
and over twenty with the Servian
troops. Bulgaria's indictment, brought
after the close of the war, was signed
by two journalists who never left Sofia.
Among those who formerly denounced
the Bulgarian atrocities were
two foreign consuls, two vice consuls,
nine war correspondents, representing
almost every nation of Europe; a
French diplomat, an officer of the British
Royal Navy, the heads of five foreign
missions and many residents and
travelers of all nationalities, including
American.
6?Bulgaria's savage bloodthirstiness
was demonstrated and authenticated
Fefore the outbreak of the war with
Greece. Of the 75 foreign correspondents
attached to the various armies
embroiled in the war with Turkey, 71
united in accusing the Bulgarians of
wholesale slaughter of Mohammedan
noncombatants and the torture and
massacre of Turkish prisoners of war.
These charges were officially confirmed
in the house of commons by the British
minister of foreign affairs. Sir Edward
Grey, on the strength of the evidence
submitted to him through consular
channels. Nowhere is there mention
of the slightest stain upon the
honor of the Greek army. The journalistic
supporters of Bulgaria, the
only four who did not bring charges
against her, were Lieutenant Wagner,
Bourchier, Wallis and Marsh.
7?Tens of thousands of Greeks
Turks, Jews and even Bulgarians fled
from the districts where the Bulgarian
army was operating, seeking refuge
from their depredations, while not a
single refugee during the second war
sought Bulgarian protection. They
knew better than to trust such fiends.
8?The ruins of Serres, Doxato and
Nigrita and dozens of other Greek villages,
burned and looted by the Bulgarians,
are still standing?a ghastly
monument to Bulgarian vandalism and
undeniable proof of her guilt.
9?On learning that their districts
had been allotted to Bulgaria by the
treaty of peace, the inhabitants of Melenico
and Strumitza burned their
towns behind them and sought Greek
territory. They were not only the
Greeks of the province, for 8,000 Bulgarians
emigrated with them. Greek.
Turk, Jew and Bulgarian, they all
knew the terrors of Bulgarian occupation
and fled from it as from the
plague.
10?The Greeks and Caucasians, they
belong, de facto, to the European
group of nations. They have behind
them a glorious past and before them
an ideal of nobility and honor. The
Bulgarians are Mongolian Tartars, as
uncivilized at heart and as grossly ignorant
as their ancestors, the predatory
nomads, and inclined by nature to
atrocious and barabrous acts.
We will now consider the so-called
evidence offered by Bulgaria in proof
of her allegations against the Greeks,
and contained in a number of pamphlets,
which have been sent broadcast
over the whole world by the Royal
Printing Office of Sofia.
First in order of importance is a collection
of letters purported to have
been- written by Greek soldiers to their
families at home, describing the hideous
tool of revenge they had exacted
from the Bulgarians who fell into their
hands. The letter bag of the Nineteenth
regiment, Seventh division, was
supposed to have been captured by the
Bulgarians.
The facts are these?Bulgaria found
herself at the close of the war, overwhelmed
with dishonor and confronted
by a mountain of proof of her inhuman
savairerv. In the lust and fury of
slaughter she had forgotten what the
results might be and must find a way
out of a difficult and embarrassing position.
To distract public attention
from her crimes, and by a campaign of
libel to confuse the public mind was
her crafty solution of the difficulty. It
was an easy method, a method entirely
in keeping with Bulgarian duplicity.
It was also a well tried plan with
which she had the advantage of being
thoroughly familiar. She had used it
on several occasions, notably during
the years from 1900 to 1903, when Bulgaria
terrorized the Greek inhabitants
of Macedonia by means of bands of
Comnitadjis, organized and equipped
by Bulgarian authority. Macedonia
was held by Turkey, but these raids
were invariably directed against the
Greeks, thousands of whom were killed.
Bulgarian reports styled this terrorization
"revolution," and when at
last the exasperated peasants arose
and offered armed resistance, driving
out the marauders, Bulgaria cried aloud
that she was persecuted. With the assistance
of Mr. Bourchier and Mr.
Brailsford, author of "Macedonia and
Its Race," and one of the founders of
the Balkan committee of London, Professor
Milukoff and a number of other
professional defenders of Bulgaria, she
managed to place a great number of
the English speaking peoples under the
impression that the Bulgarians had
been wronged by Greeks, who were
busily decimating the innocent inhabitants
of Macedonia, all of whom, from
merchant to farmer were present, purest
Bulgarian! Macedonia, they cried,
"had two tyrants, the Turks and the
Greeks!"
Again we see the same tactical move
Bulgaria treacherously attacked the
Greek and Servian armies at Gevgeli,
Pangaion and Itsip, and being defeated 1
and her treachery exposed she promptly
accused Greece and Servia of attacking
her, "waging war against
their faithful ally and precipitating a
fratricidal struggle by treacherously
attacking their comrades in arms."
Bulgarian policy has always been
one of craft and deceit and she did not
hesitate to use her favorite weapons to
defend herself. The minister of foreign
affairs. Mr. Genadieff, and Mr.
Bourchier spent a night in the office of
the former, and the "letters from Greek
soldiers" were the result of that collaboration.
To Mr. Bourchier must be
given the credit of the idea, the execution
of which was the work of Mr.
Genadieff. The task was easy for the
minister, he being a renegade Greek,
born in Macedonia, and educated at
the University of Athens, where he
matriculated under the name of Genadios.
The characteristic termination
of "eff" he assumed when, being offered
a government position, he decided
to throw in his lot with the Bulgaiians.
He is a mercenary, belonging to no
country and gypsy-like, offering his
services and allegiance to the highest
bidder. The letters once written. Mr.
Bourchier went directly from xhe foreign
office to the palace, where for two
Vinnrc he remained closeted with the
king. The royal audience over, Mr.
Bourchier, accompanied by two American
missionaries, took the Oriental express
to Paris, in order to begin the
agitation for the revision of the
Treaty of Bucharest.?Atlantis.
ABOUT BOY SCOUTS
Sermon that Explains the Purpose of
the Organization.
The Rev. Kirkman G. Finlay preached
a special sermon at Trinity church
Sunday morning to the Boy Scouts of
Columbia, and about Boy Scouts in
general.
A large number of Boy Scouts of the
city were present; they came In uniform
and presented an inspiring spectacle
as they marched In and took
their seats in a body near the altar.
Mr. Finlay took this occasion to explain
just what the Boy Scout movement
Is. He stressed particularly the
branch of the work which gives to the
city bred boy the opportunities of cultivating
the efficiency of his hands
which the country boy gets in his
home training. Also thoughtfulness and
a spirit of alertness, ever on the look
out for a chance to be useful ana Kind,
not only to people, but to dumb animals
as well. Then, patriotism?to
honor the country's flag, and the memories
of those who have worked and
fought for it, and respect for law and
authority.
"We older people," said the speaker,
"are greatly interested in you, boys;
and mostly, because you will have to
take our places in the race of life some
day. It is a hard race and a long one,
and it will take every bit of the
strength, courage and efficiency which
you can cultivate. There are many
things which you must not do, and a
great many which you must do, if you
expect to win.
After commenting upon the fact that
the Boy Scouts of Columiba are a part
of a mighty body of 300,000 men and
boys in America with a corresponding
organization "across the water," Mr.
Finlay read, from an article by Jacob
A. Riis, a scout's report of his work, in
his own words. It is as follows:
"A man had a horse and it was
young and it would not stand for him,
so he asked me if I would please get
him his mail, so I did.
"A man was on his motor cicle and
he lost his glove and I picked it up and
gave it to him.
"There were two men and they wanted
to know where a lady lived, and
told him.
"There was a boy and he had to get
out of a team to take the bars down, it
was raining hard so I took them down
for him.
"There were some men in an automobil
and they wanted to know the
way to Groton school and I told them
"I get a man's paper for him every
morning.
"There was a man and his tire on
his bicycle was flat and I asked him if
he wanted to take my pump, so I let
him take it.
"1 gave an axe to a neighbor who's
was broke.
"I filled my mother's wood box for
it was baking day.
"I buttoned Mary's dress because
mamma was busy.
"I shut up the hens, so my father
would not have to.
"I gave a man his crutches.
"I done up* a finger for a friend.
"I wiped the dishes for my mother.
"My grandmother lost her glasses
and I found them.
"I separated some roosters from the
pullets.
"I fed the calf at night.
"I led a blind man to his house.
"I straightened a screw driver for
Mrs. Boynton.
"There was a cat in a steel trap and
I went and let him out.
"I picked up a little bird under a
tree and climbed up and put it in its
nest.
"I done an errand for an old lady.
"1 saw a dog that was hungry and
fed him."
The music of the service was appropriate
and beautiful.?Columbia State.
GEMS OF LIQUID COAL
German Scientist's Discovery May
Lead to Manufacture.
Has Prof. Otto Lummer, of Breslau,
opened the way for the manufacture
of genuine diamonds, diamonds made
exactly as they were made by nature,
through the cooling and crystallization
of molten carbon? asks Berlin correspondence
to the Washington Post. It
is yet too early to express an opinion
as to the possibility of his discovery of
a process of rendering coal fluid, but
scientists admit that one of these possibilities
is the nmrhietinn nf diamonds.
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If coal can be melted, modern science
should be able to make it cool and
crystallize under high pressure, and
that is precisely how diamonds were
formed.
Prof. Lummer, who is a director of
the physical institute of the University
of Breslau, is well known to the
American scientific world. In 1833 he
went to Chicago as a delegate of the
German empire to the International
Electrical congress,, and in 1907 delivered
a series of lectures before Columbia
University. His researches have
for years dealt with problems of lighting
and light rays. He has believed
that carbon could be melted, provided
a sufficiently high temperature, which
he estimated at 4,000 degrees centigrade.
could be attained.
Carbon, however, turns directly into
vapor at such high temperatures, passing
through the intermediate fluid
stage if air with its oxygen is present.
Prof. Lummer inclosed a large arc
lamp in a glass container and exhausted
the air. Then, using a powerful
electric current, he was able to render
the carbon so fluid that drops formed
at the ends of the carbon pencils.
Prof. Lummer now plans to conduct
further experiments in which the carbon
shall be subjected to high tension
currents under a pressure of some 300
atmospheres, but in a gaseous medium
which contains no oxygen.
INFERNO OF VE3UVJUS
American Telia of Hit Thrilling Experience
in the Crater of the Volcano.
News dispatches a few weeks ago
told how Frederick Burlingham, an
American newspaper man. had braved
the very heart of Vesuvius auid penetrated
to the floor of the crater.
No man before had ever been so
deep as he, though Prof. Malladra, of
the Vesuvian observatory, made two
descents, one in May. 1912, to a depth
of nearly 1,000 feet, and one in September,
1913, to a depth of almost
1,200 feet. A few other venturesome
experts have reached the crust of the
crater's bottom, which is from 900
to 1,000 feet below the top, but the
interpid Burlingham, with his three
Italian aids and his moving picture
machine, did not stop there.
They made their perilous way
through dense smoke and the deadly
fumes of hydrochloric acid down Into
the bowels of the blazing cauldron
and to the very brink of the pit,
where they could actually see and
hear Vesuvius boil. At the extreme
depth of 1,212 feet they stopped, and
then only because to go further would
have meant being burned to death.
"It is the most dangerous trip ever
attempted," said Prof. Malladra,
when he saw Burlingham's photographic
proof of his thrilling descent.
Mr. Burlingham is a well known
traveler, mountain climber and writer.
He has toured Europe on foot and
climbed the giant Matterhorn for
moving pictures. In Parl3 he is regarded
as one of the most interesting
of the many literary men who make
their home in the Latin Quarter.
Following is his own story of his
feat, written especially for this magazine:
"When it was reported last autumn
that the floor of the crater of Vesuvius
had caved in, that a new mouth had
appeared and that Prof. Malladra, of
the Vesuvian Observatory, with two
German professors, had descended Into
the bowels of the active volcano, an
intense curiosity came over me to go
down also and see what was going on.
"Within the shortest possible time I
was speeding to Naples with the determination
to do what had never been
done before?to descend with a cinematograph
machine as deep into the
volcano's crater as it was humanly
possible to go.
"I have just succeeded in doing the
hitherto impossible, what Prof. Malladra
told me afterward was t\e most
perilous feat Imaginable, and 1 have
returned with a moving picture film
which in sensation exceeds my wildest
hopes.
"I feel I have done something toward
unveiling one more of the mysteries
of nature, and, although the
film is distinctly popular of its kind,
it may be of ser ice to scientists who
are interested in predicting in time
the destructive eruptions which have
cost the lives of so many thousands of
human beings.
"Arriving at Naples. I immediately
went up Vesuvius to confer with the
observatory authorities. The director
of the observatory, Prof. Giuseppe
Merc alii, and his assistant, Prof. Malladra,
were intensely Interested in
what I proposed to do. but they both
counseled me not to descend.
"I was not discouraged, though I
founl that I could get no assistance
whatever from the observatory, probably
because neither of the me:s wanted
to be officially responsible for any
such hazardous undertaking, as, In
case of disaster, it might lead to unpleasant
complications with the Italian
government. Dr. Mercalli said he would
recommend me to the prefect of Naples,
wh ) alone could authorize the
descent, but, knowing something of
official Italian red tape, which is generally
ridiculous, I prepared to descend
on my own responsibility.
"In attempting this I was extremely
fortunate in getting the assistance
of an Italian, crystal hunter, Alfonso
Sanriino, of RResina, who for the descent
brought with him two more
men, Liberato Formisano an! Vincenzo
Gaudino. All were fearless and
wonderfully familiar with tins moods
of the volcano.
"Five nights I slept on the mountain,
while I studied the crate:.* by day
from all sides. It is like a cauldron,
full of infernal vapors. Its sides are
nearly perpendicular and gradually
flatten out like the inside of a cup to
a depth of 1,000 feet, forming what is
known as the crater's floor. On the
southeast of this floor is a funnel, like
a holl<^ reversed cone, form jd when
part o"e floor disappeared last July,
and at the bottom of this steep cone,
200 feet below the floor level, or 1,200
feet into the crater, is the new mouth,
which is increasingly active, and has
already thrown out lava.
"leaning over the crater rim, 1,200
feet directly above it, placing my
hands so as not to burn them in the
innumerable steaqj fumuroles, I remained
gazing down into the roaring
hell-pit, which, Director Mercalli says,
probably descends two miles. Fascinated,
1 wondered and studied how we
wer? to set down there with cameras
and a cinematograph outfit weighing
6T? pounds.
"Nothing similar had ever been taken
down before, not even important scientific
instruments by experts. Yet fear
never Hashed through my brain, and
my American blood made more determined
than ever to get there.
"The first necessity was ropes with
which to get down to the crater floor.
As I could not obtain that used by
Prof. Malladra in his descent, I sent
Sannino to Resina for what was necessary.
For four days we waited a
change of wind, for the north wind
blew tne poisonous fumes directly
across the Via Malladra, as the route
discovered by the professor and only
one at present practicable, is called.
"The morning of December 21,
there was little or no wind, and the
smoke, being heated, rose in a magnificent
dense column straight up above
the volcano, where it spread out like
an umbrella, forming one of the most
wonderful spectacles imaginable.
"I called for the rope and was
amazed wnen tvinnino produced, n<n
first-claws stock, which, he said, would
ha\e cost $25. but a lot of odds and
ends which he probably borrowed. He
had about eight pieces altogether of
what I took to be clothes line, scarcely
150 feet In length.
As the distance down is 1,200 feet
we were considerably short.
"Thinking from what Sannino had
told me that the prefect of Naples
might intervene?as he himself had
been warned not to descend?I ignored
the Himsy appearance of the rope
for fear of frightening my men out of
going. Making the best of things. I
fastened the rope to some firm lava
about 50 feet down, threw the end
over the precipice and began the descent.
"Here is where my Matterhorn experience
came In useful. Without
waiting for the men, I descended with
Sannino another 100 feet, without
baggage, to reconnoiter and estimate
the danger. I considered the risk a
fair one, ar.d, returning, we got our
loads ready. As there was some hesitancy
I myself shouldered the heaviest
load, and the others, not wishing
to be outdone, joined me in the same
spirit.
In going down we threw everything
possible ahead so that it should not
come down after us?on our heads
To an Alpine climber the precipices
were moderate and, without much
difficulty we got down about half way
to a point Just above the greatest of
the myriades of sulphur fumaroles.
Then suddenly the wind shifted, driving
all the sulphur smoke as well as
the hydrochloric acid fumes of the
main mouth directly across our path.
We saw the hot whirling masses
swirling more and more in our direction
and we had one fine moment of
supreme excitement.
"We hurriedly adjusted several
thicknesses of cloth over our mouths
and noses and, lying down, we remained
motionless, so as to breathe as little
as possible. We could see nothing
but dense yellow mist. For some 20
minutes we were marooned on a
precipice and slowly asphyxiating. As
we had left the 150 feet of rope
dangling above in order to back up
the sheer crater wall, we were without
rope in this strangest of predicaments.
"There was a suggestion of retreat
and it had been arranged beforehand
that in case of peril we were to abandon
the cameras and flee. I was convinced.
however, that If only we could
mm.n oii-av from ohovp th<* aillnhur
fumarloe and descend further, we
should find the main column of smoke
Intact, owing to Its great heat and the
consequently smaller diffusion of
smoke.
"The Italians accepted this theory,
and, groping our way. we went down
Instead of up to safety. My conclusions
were right, for as we declined
down we found free air holes, and, by
descending a steep slope between two
fiercely smoking pits, we successfully
reached the floor of the crater, 1,000
feet down, and were In momentary
safety.
"I was vibrating with excitement.
Here we were in an infernal pit walled
in on every side by precipices a
thousand feet high, with a dense
column of corrosive hydrochloric acid
fumes sweeping the only path to safety.
Our lives depended on a change of
wind.
"Suddenly there was a noise as of
an explosion above. Looking up
through the smoke, I saw an avalanche
of loose lava, scoriae and volcanic acid
dust precipitated toward us. Rooted
to the spot with wonder, we saw It
ran snon 10 me xouin, some ui n iCmaining
near the cone and the rest
plunging out of the crater's mouth.
"Landslides are one of the greatest
dangers In Vesuvius, for the slightest
earth tremor may upset tons of debris,
and arguing theoretically, any one at
the bottom of a hollow cone is bound
to receive anything falling from any
side. Not so very long ago 30 persons
had just left the terminal station
of Cook's Funicular railroad to the
summit, when an earthquake recipitated
so much of the rim that Vesuvius
lost 200 feet in height and the station
crashed down into the crater.
The dust resulting was so great that
newspaper men i'ar away in Naples
thought :he mountain was in eruption
and photographed the error by telegraph
aj: over the world.
"Prof. Perret, the famous American
vuleanologist, who came to see me after
my descent, said that these avelanches
often gave rise to false .rumors,
and he himself had more than
once explained to alarmed people just
what hai happened. 1 understood
that it wan Prof. Perret who predicted
the Messina earthquake in advance.
But down here inside Vesuvius we
were extremely nervous. There might
be an explosion from inside, or, what
was more likely, according to Prof,
nf.. II(Vioro mlcht he a second
cave-in of the crater floor, for the activity
below was becoming too great
for the size of its present opening,
which if. about 50 feet in diameter.
It was small wonder, therefore, that
Sannino hesitated when I asked him
to continue with me 200 feet further
down into this cone.
"Unless I reached the utmost bottom,
however, I felt it was a failure,
and Anally Sannino and Formisano?
Candino had been left at the precipice
above with the rope to give an
alarm if necessary?bravely consented
to go with me when I began the final
perilous descent. We scrambled down
to the I: rink of the pit whence the
smoke and gas belch forth.
"The rearing of the boiling lava
below the mouth was terrific, and the
sight the most awe-inspiring I have
ever beheld. The column of smoke
changed color as in a kaleidoscope,
accordirg to the mineral gas that was
ascendir.g, but, although no flames
were see n, the main body of the smoke
was an neandescent pink.
"Then tin extraordinary thing happended.
Braving the intense heat,
estimated by Prof. Malladra at 600
degrees, centigrade, down in the
mouth Sannino went to the actual
edge, ar.d with his two hands scraped
up some volcanic dust and cinders to
take back to the observatory.
"Each time the incandescent chasm
belched out its pink cotton-looking
smoke a little more furious than before
it might have been the last of
us. As proof of this Sannino found
h nutoi.lo Ihu r>nn? inrlifjifine
that lava explosions are already taking
place and the volcano getting
ready for another and perhaps terrible
awakening.
"We were four hours inside the
crater, while my wife with an extra 1
guide, watched the operations from
the rim 1,200 feet above.
"One curious observation is especially
worth recording. On the Riviera1
I had git an attack of bronchitis, but
five days on and inside Vesuvius quite
lured me, and and the sulphur fumse
gave a healthy pink flush to my
cheeks.?New York World.
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the period I am discussing, Englisn
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of humane English judges, were playing
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excuses by which humanity
might triumph over barbarism. Here
is a man indicted for stealing a sheep
?penalty, death. The proof was that
he stole a ewe, but the statute used the
word "ewe" as well as "sheep," and the
prisoner escaped. He had not stolen a
sheep.
In 1827, an indictment read that the
jurors "on their oath," Instead of "on
their oaths," charged a man with a
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100 Acres?Known as the Dorster
place, about 1 1-2 miles from Philadelphia
church and school. If sold
during February, I will take the small
sum of $20.00 an acre for it.
409 Acres?Near Lowryvllle, $25.00
per acre.
I have some very desirable farm
land near the town of Clover, that can
be bought right.
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neighborhood.
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to sell, come in to see me.
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Neil place and others, am willing to
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that is fascinating.
I also want a tenant for a farm,
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The residence of the late Dr. J. B. *
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The property of Dr. Mack White on
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property of Qulnn Wallace, et al,
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Farms in Tork county, and they are
very cheap at the price; to wit:
The John Black?Henry Massey
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410 Acres?Of the S. M. Jones-Ware J
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341 Acres?Known as the John A. "
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R. M. Anderson ad others:
has a beautiful 8 room residence; .
good bottom land; fine farm. Will
divide this into small tracts, and If
bought as a whole for quick sale,
will take $30.00 Per Acre.
Two Good Housee?On King's
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249 Acres?Joins Prank Riddle and
D. M. Hall; 2 good houses, 2 barns; '
near King's Mt. Chapel. Price $52J(0
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