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$ Win STEINHARDTS NEMESIS
BY I. HACLAREN COBBAN.
CHATTER XII.- J
I ... -t .k..,w t ,t.i I .l, ,
moment neither stir
nor speak, while
new feeling, a feeling ol shame, arose
ia me for appearing in that woman'
pretence as steinhardt' representative.
After her outburst of surprise the
looked at the letter again, and at me.
I rote, uncertain.
"Franlein," I aaid, "I do not know
what to car. I did not seek to come
this journey myself ; Herr Steinhardt
asked me to undertake it. He thought,
and I thought, too, that your adver
tisement, in which, of course, you could
not use many words, signified that you
ware very ill. and alone perhaps, and
that you needed a "(I did not quite
know how to put it; I added hurriedly)
"a friendly hand."
"He did not think that I could wish
to tee him for his own take, I mean
for the rake ot his own peace?"
Her German was becoming too rapid
for me. to follow without an effort; I
was not Hire I understood her.
"He has business," I said, "which
prevented him from coming himself."
"I suppose," aaid she, with some
touch of bitterness, I thought, "he is
till alwaya very busy making more and
more money in your rich England."
"It ia now," I answered, "a lawsuit
that keeps him in England."
"A lawsuit? A trial?" she ex
claimed, with a strange anxiety. "Is
he in danger?"
"Indeed, Franlein, I do not know.
The other party to the trial thinks him
self in danger from HerrSteinhardt; he
accuses Herr Steinhardt of using, and
making much money by using, his
patent for chemical dves."
"I think," aaid she, simply, "yon
are not Emmanuel's friend."
To this I had nothing to say for a
moment. I took refuge in an evasion.
"Herr Steinhardt." I said, "has
sent me to act as his representative.
But it appears there is nothing for me
to do." (I was standing uncertain,
but ready to go.) "What shall I say
to him when I return.'?'
"I wonder," said she, more than
half to herself, "if yon are the person I
have seen lately?"
I was startled; I stared in blank be
wilderment. Was the woman a mani
ac? The pupils of her keen eyes
seemed to rapidly dilate and contract.
while the rased into vacancy, and at
the same time kept a referring glance
on me.
"A man," she continued, "who goes
about and about, and evidently causes
Emmanuel great anxiety about some
thing." Conceive the sudden turmoil of
thought and feeling, of imagination
and hope into which I was thus
thrown! -The Lacriox mystery was
until then almost absent from my
mind; I seemed to have left it in Eng
land, and though I certainly thought of
it sometimes, it was as of something
waiting in the distance for my return.
Now here was I presented with an allu
sion of it a vague and uncertain allu
sion, perbapa, hut still unmistakably
for me an allusion here in an attic of
an old house in Basel! What strange
coincidence was this? Who was this
woman that brought it before me again?
I was afraid to speak or to stir, lest I
abould break or dispel that filmy some
thing her fancy or her vision had got
touch of.
' "You are, a pastor," she continued,
looking at me with more natural eyes;
"Emmanuel calls you 'Reverend Mr.
TJnwin.' It is surely, sir, a pastor's
duty to wring repentance and forgive
ness and peace to the hearts of men,
and not pride, and (ear, and condemna
tion!" "You say very strange things, Frau
lein," I answered; 'I think I hope I
understand what you mean. Perhaps I
deserve your rebuke. But are you sure
you altogether know the terrible
mystery?"
"Ach!" she cried. "There is then
mystery and part of the burden of it
iswithmel Ach! mem Gott! mein
Gott!"
' "If you know" I Impulsively be
gan, in ill-suppressed excitement.
"I do not know anything!" she cried
suddenly interrupting me, and spring.
ing to her feet. She paced nervously
up and down the room, her fingers
wildly playing with each other, or
about her arms and her head. She
stopped and looked at me, trembling
in every limb and nerve, "lou must
go away, sir!"
I lingerd uncertainly.
"Please go ar.ay, sir!" she urged. I
cannot bear more now. Come again
tomorrow. It may be that my God has
sent you to me!"
I withdrew without a word, some'
what awed by the emotion of the
strange woman. As I closed the door I
caught a glimpse of her with hands
clasped and face raised, as if in en
treaty or thankfulness.
After leaving the house I walked for
a long time, without knowing w hither
I went, about the streets of Basel am:
along the Rhine bank.
In spit of my excitement I slept
well that night. I spent the next day
until evening wandering about the
town, examining the windows of its
sleepy shops, wondering at the content
ed, bi-Hngual shopkeepers, and gazing
at the glorious Swiss mountains which
I was so pear, yet which I must not
think, of visiting.
..was again at the old house with the
watchful, but heavy eyes soon after
five o'clock. Poor Fraulein Haas
: seemed to have passed both a sleepless
night and a weary day. 8he was evi
dently ill at ease and anxious, and I
pitieJ her.
"I fear, Fraulein," I said, "the
thought of me and my . presence gives
you pain. What you may have to say
to ma I do not know, I am not able to
guess, but It seems saying it will give
you great pain."
" We must not care if we give our
selves pain t do right, must we, Herr
Pastor?" mid she with a smile of sing
ular sweetness.
"No,"! answered; "but I would
wish to lighten your pain, Fraulein, if I
tan."
"I thank you," she said ; "it may
b that you can. But first I must say
this oh thing: Emmanuel Steinhardt
of Hrisach was very much to m many
J-" ?- ." t England,
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I have never forgotten hiiii. For the
first time I knew he was in verv great
danger and anxiety about a year and a
naif ago;" (lam almost ted from
my seat; that was the very time of
Ioroix's disappearance!) "I learned
it in a dream, indeed, dreams, which
the Almighty God sends oftener and
clearer to his chosen ones than to other
persons." (She was then a PietUt, if
not a maniac.) "His danger and anx
iety then, I suppose pass! away, for
soon I jaw no more of tnem. But now
for many weeks I see him and feel him
more and more anxious than before,
and I am made to feel there is always
now- another man near him making him
anxious and afraid, and the other man
seems to be you, I think, Herr I'astor."
I sat silently marvelling.
"I tell yon all this plainly,, Herr
Fastor," she added, "because you are
not one of those who laugh at dreams;
for you know that the Sacred Scripture
says that the great God reveals to thot
who are ready to see, many strange
things in dreams and visions of the
night."
"You have, indeed," I said, "seen
strange thnigs."
"Will you now," she continued, "be
plain with me? Tell me, if you know,
exactly what is the thing, the tenons
matter. he is anxious and afraid
about."
"I can tell you, Fraulein," I said,
"a very serious matter, about the dis
covery of whii h I suspect he is very
anxious. A little more than a year and
a half ago Herr Steinhardt' pattner in
business went to London from I-itnoa-shire,
and it was thought he never re
turned; no trace of him could be found.
So his fate remamined altogether a
mystery for a year, until I went to be
cure in the village. Why the mystery
should have been left so long, I cannot
say, because it wag no great cleverness
in me that after that made it less of a
mystery; perhaps the Almighty left it
so long to give Emmanuel Steinhardt
time to repent. Soon after I came to
the village certain things made me pus-1
pect that Herr Steinhardt s partner did
not stay in London, but came home
and then disappeared. I now know,
from evidence tba: I have got, that he
did; but what became of him I cannot
tell. 1 suspect that Herr Steinhardt
put him out of the way, but I do not
yet know that he did. I am sure, how
ever, that the Divine Vengeance, which
has thus far revealed it to me hit by
bit, will yet make clear the whole hor
rible crime."
She beard me throngh in silence,
gazing intently at me the while; but
when I came to the end, she drew back
and looked at me in anger and aston
ishment.
"Bnt," said she, "who are you, Herr
Pastor, to make yourself the minister of
Divine Vengeance?
I was dumb for a moment under this
warm rebuke.
I think, Fraulein," I said a length,
"you mistake me. I do not put myself
forward as the agent of Divine Venge
ance. I first began to look into the
mystery at the request of the missing
man's orphan daughter, who longs to
know what has become of her father;
since then all 1 have learned concern
tng bis fate has been revealed to me
with little or no effort on mv part."
"Ach! Mein Gott! she exclaimed.
"The poor man has left a daughter!"
"Yes," I replied; "and Herr Stein
hardt. who is her guardian, uses her
very cruelly. If it were not for that, I
think I should let the whole matter
rest, and take no more part at all in
bringing therime home to the guilty
man. But so long sssbe is in danger
I must do what I can, I must let the
Divine Power use me. God has sent
me to you, Fraulein; if you then have
had anything more revealed to you
than I yet know, I beg you will tell it
me.
"Ach, Herr Pastor!" she cried, "you
know not what you ask! You ask me
to condemn Emmanuel Steinhardt!
me to condemn him! Ach! Gott!
mein Gott! why hast thou laid this on
me!" She clasped her hands in her
lap, and looked fixedly before her.
"Fraulein, I ventured to urge, "I
only wish to hinder Steinhardt from
going on his cruel, unscrupulous way."
"What you may wish, Herr Pastor,"
she said, with her look still fixed on
va'-ancy, "will not matter very-much.
The great God, I know, is a God of
justice as well as a God of mercy,' and
he will work his own will with both
S 1 t T I J T
you ftnu. met j. nave pray eu ior am
manuel, as a mother might ior her only
son! Surely my God will hear me! If
he only had time and warning to re
pent! Oh, was not that why I wished
him to come!
"What can I say, Fraulein, to les
sen your pain?
"You can sav nothing, Herr Pastor.
Leave me for tonight leave me, if you
please! I cannot speak to you more
now!"
Hers was such distress and emotion
as could only be calmed by her being
let alone alone, or only with that In
seen Presence in whom she was doubt
less wont to seek strength and peace.
I therefore sent away without another
word, and accompanied for a time by
the painful doubt whether it were well
to pursue my inquiry, since it caused
her such pain; whether there was not
even something vindictive in following
up evidence which would lead to the
incrimination of even such a villain as
Steinhardt.
But all doubt was dispelled by a let
ter I received next morning from Bir
ley. 'Thou must come back, my lad, at
once," he wrote. "I was mistaken in
my notion that Manuel would bring
you know who, back home. Frank
came home the same day you left; and
his father went off to London next
morning. I managed to get to see
Frank. He is in very low spirits, poor
lad. His father has almost scared him
into marrying the girl; but I don't
quite think he can bring that about
without asking me, at any rate. I
shall not be at all surprised if he does
ask me one of these days, for he has
not yet come down near so bard on me
von know what I mean as I expect-
I fancv he wants to reserve ti e
chance for a last big squeeze. Wut
don't thou be afraid, Ud; I'll stand by
the lass and thee. Well, t prevailed
' on Frauk to tell me the Blackp-sd ad-
dress, though I had to promi.- notch
S I his father shouldn't get to know he had
fiUoldme. I went straight awav, and
found her; and she was main glad to
see me, poor thing, t told her hat I
had come fu ; and the end of it was
she packed up her little traps, and
came back with me and here she is
with me now. But I've not tome to
the den yet. 'Manuel has only gone to
London for the week, I find, lis will
be home on Saturday ; and then i ex
pect be will waut me to square up with
him. So I say you had better come
back at once."
Here, surely, was matter for the
gravest anxiety and appreheusion,
though it did not appear what there
was to fear exactly, except that Stem- j
hardt might somehow reclaim Louise 1
from Birley's charge, and again hide
her away. But the fact is, my dread j
and suspicion of Steinhardt were such :
that I was prepared for his committing ';
the greatest and vaguest enormities, i
It was now Friday morning, and there
was only another day during which I!
could think of Louise as at rest in Bir-'
ley's house. I could leave Basel that;
night by the mail train, and probably
reach Timperley Isteon Saturday night. (
Greater speed could not be made. But
was I, alter all, going to leave without
knowing what was that damning some
thing lomerning Steiuhanlt which!
Fraulein Haas's "dream, or dreams," j
might reveal or suggest? I mu.-t en- j
deavor to win it from her.
I called that morning, hut was told, :
as on the first occasion, she 'nonld not
be home till five o'clock iu the after-
noon. I got everything ready at my
hotel for a prompt departure, and :
called again soon alter the hour named, i
"So you have e-mie again," she said, ;
wearily, when she saw me. i
"Yes, Franlein," I answered, "and ,
I have come in haste.
to urv"e me, 1 know, lint why is
it necessary? It is a terrible law that;
quick death should be brought upon
ne man because he brought quick
death on another! a terrible law. I
am not sure it is God's law. Think
yon it is, Herr Pastor?"
"Fraulein!" I exclaimed, alarmed at
her continued disposition to consider
too enriosly andcbstrnsely, "I am sorry
I cannot linger to discuss such things
with you. 1 must trtvel back to Eng
land in a very few hours, on most anx
ious business, and I entreat you to re
solve to tell me what you say has been
revealed to you concerning this crime.
I have said it already, Franlehi, and
I say it again: what the great liml may
have in store for Herr Steinhardt for
all his wickedness. 1 cannot judge, and
I do not seek to put out my hand to
force; I say I do nut deire to bring
punishment on him, 1 i nly wish to be
able to make him withdraw his hand
from the nerpetration of more cruelty!
and oppression."
"Is he to wicked, then?" she cried'
in an accent of the keenest pain.
(To b continue-!)
, MusXttt Tea Ftct Long.
Gen. F. C. Aintworth, chief of the
record and pension division of the
army, is In rtceipt of several interest
ing relics from friends in the Philip
pines snd China, comprising a collec
tion of arms of different varieties, mod
ern and archaic, med by the Chines).
In the collection are two jinjala, which
look a gcod deal like overcrow n mus
kets. They are too heavy f ir soldiers
to carry about the field, and are iii-ually
rested upon a parapet. One ol these
weapons is more than 10 feet long, w itli
an iron barrel of one inch caliber.
Both guns are in good working nrder,
and Gen. Aintworth has had them
burnished and added to the ornaments
of his office io the war department.
A Versatile Geniut.
A Laredo, Texas, business man lias
issued a circular in the form of a type
written letter which shows him to be
a versatile man and a humorist. He
advertises himself as proprietor of a
"hotel, annex, sample-room, restaur
ant, fish hatchery, gas plant, chhken
farm, saloon, lunch room, billiard
hall," etc. At the head of the sheet
appears the line, "Me-an'-the-Old-Woman,
Sole Proprietors." On either
side of this line are pictures; under
one is printed, "This is Me," and un
der the other, '"This is the Old
Woman."
Making Artificial DiamonJi.
TheChemikerZeitting describes some
experiment! in tl-i making of artificial
diamonds. Carbon was heated in an
atmosphere of inert gas in an iron flask
raised to a high temperature by the elec
tric arc. Bits the size of a pea were
obtained having the hardness and crys
talline form of a diamond. The crys
tals have a gray tint that makes them
worthless for jewelry, but their use in
drills seems promising. A French
chemist has made minute diamonds by
heating pure catbon under pressure.
English Princeiici Lick Beauty.
All the English princesses !avor Vic
toria's side of thti house and show uni
form lack of good looks, though Queen
Alexandra was a remarkahlv attractive
woman in her youth and is even now
quite good looking. Princess Victoria,
the only unmarried daughter of King
Edward, is undostood to love w here sho
may not wed, and will therefore prob
ably end her days in spineterhood.
Incrtaic of Cancer,
German imperial council of
has issued tables referring to
They show that the num
cases has materially increased
The
health
cancer,
her of
since 1892, the proportion of increase
surpassing that of the population.
The age of the subjects averages younger
than in former years. Women are
more frequently affected than men but
do not succumb 'to the cancer in hs
large a proportion. .
Scrmoni ts Order.
A pa-tor . in central Pennsylvania
sends out a slip to his parishioners ask
ing them to name any subject or text
upon which a sermon would be special
ly helpful to them, and deposit It in a
box prepared for the purpose. He
hopes iu this way "to be of more terv
ice to his congregation, whose confi
dence in this matter will give him sin
cere pleasure."
MT. PELEE, THE DEATH
wi Hii jii mmn hum i i
U.CT
ml ti S V
ISLAND OF MARTINIQUE,
Desolated by Plave War, Earthquake
and Volcanic Kraptlona,
The Island of Martinique, the sceue
of one of the most awful catastrophes
known In huuinn annals, was discov
ered by Columbus on his fourth voy
sije. In 1502. nud still hears the name,
slightly mod i tied, which Its ('nril na
tives then called It. In I'iS'i the French
began to colonize It ami Hie auine year
the city of St Pierre wn fouuded. Its
curly growth was rnpld. for In BBT we
Had that It bad a populntluu of 5,000,
exclusive of the aborigines. Early In
the 18th century slave hi bar was intro
duced on the coffee and mignr planta
tions and by 1730 there were Tioix) lie
groea on the Islund. On four different
occasions during the war between En
gland snd France the Island was seized
by the British, being finally restored to
France by the treaty of l'arls In 1M4.
In WSZ and again In 1S&S ami 1N the
Island was distracted by uprisings
among the negro slaves; but the uIhjII
tlon of slavery. In 1S4H, forever put an
end to these disturbances.
The negroes rapidly increased and at
the time of the last census they num
bered 150,000 out of a total poptilntlou
of 175.000. Of the remainder 15.000
were Asiatics nud 10,000 pure whiles.
Martinique, which tins an area of &S0
square miles, Is a beautiful Island. It
has, however, Its drawbacks, Among
the latter are the deadly snake, the fer-de-lance,
the spider, the nut, the trop
ical plagues, the hurricane, the earth
quake and volcano So active have
been the earthquake and volcano In un
dent times that the very Islund Is com
posed almost entirely of volcanic ma
terial. In modern times seismic dis
turbances have been numerous. In 1727
the Island was shaken by an earth
quake and In 1707 another seismic con
vulsion Is said to have caused the
deuths of 16,000 people. In 1772 the
Island's fortifications were thrown
down by an earthquake.
The most serious volcanic eruptions
recorded in Martinique's history oc
curred In 1813. 1817, 183, 183(1 and
1851. Iu the latter year Mont Pelee
, belched forth huge volumes of smoke
and nshps and the city of St. Pierre
and the surrounding country were cov
ered with a deep layer of ashes. Vege
i tntlon. wherever )hese hot sshes fell,
: was destroyed. New hot springs
gushed out of the side's of the moun
' tain and the nir was heavy with sul
MAP SHOWING
From New York to Martinique,,,.,
From New. York to St. Thomas.,,.
From Now York to Havaua
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- DEALING VOLCANO.
- fir
phur fumes. The agitation ceased,
however, without preelpltattug a trag
edy.
Of the chief cities of Marllnqiie St.
Pierre was the largest and wealthiest,
Its population exceeding 25.000, while
the population of Fort de France, the
capital. Is less than 20,(100.
SCARRED BYVOLCANOE8.
I.lun I of Ht, Vincent Hear Kvldcnc
of l'o.t Convulilona.
The Island of St. Vincent, which lies
to the south of Martinique, In the
Windward group, bears all over Its
face the evidence of the volcaulc erup
tions which marked Its history In past
centuries. It has two volcanoes.
Morne Garou audj.a Sotifrlere, the tal
ler of w hich Is now In active and dl
astruits eruption snd lite former of
which manifested Its energy with ter
rible desti-ucttveuess Iu 1812. From
these valentine, extend great "dry riv
ers," us they are called, being the beds
of luva streams which at different
time spread over the Island.
Iu 1718 I. a Suufrlere was Iu a state
of eruption nud covered the whole
island with ashes. The whole upper
part of the cone was blown away.
Years afterward the crater tilled up
and became a lake.
In 1812 the volcano of M ime Gnrou
exploded With terrific uolse ntid eti'rrgy.
At the same time an eiirthquake, prob
ably In sympathetic relation, ot jarred
at Caracas, Venezuela, aud Marled 10,
000 people The volcaun bclclied forth
torrent of mud and cinders nud the
surrounding country was covered with
a deposit under 'which h II vcgotntlon
perished. For three days, so deep wiu
the darkness, the sun appeared to he iu
a total eclipse. At the end of the third
day flumes sprang pyrainldlially from
the crater, nccompanicd by terrific
thunder and llglitulng. Eruptive .mut
ter poured dow n the sides of the crater,
destroying plantations and , houses,
while shower of cludeis nm wiones at
time bombarded the earth, killing ne
grocs and Carlb natives.
St. Vincent Is a small but very fertile
Island, Its area being 131 square miles.
Its present population exceeds 50,000,
very few of whom are white. Original
ly the Island belonged to Fiance, but
In 1703 It was ceded to England. In
1778 there began a ten years' war with
the fierce Caiibs, ending with the ban-
PROXIMITY OF WINDWARD
' , Miles.
1,820
, 1,428
1,227
Ishment of nearly all the aborigines to
the Inland ot Itoatan on the Honduras
const.
The planters became vvry wealthy
growing sugar with slave labor, but
after the emancipation their wraith
was lost, and now most of the owuers
of the soil are the descendant of the
old slave, who, with little patches f
laud, live a happy, contented life.
Sugar, rum, cocoa and spices are pro
duced, but the chief product la arrow
root, which has finer qualities and
more exquisite flavor here than any.
w here els.
A LEISURE-LOVING PEOPLE.
Buck Were th Inhabitant of Ik Cltjr
of 81, IM.rr.
. The Inhabitant of 8L Pierre took
life easy. lit the hurrtcans month.
Juue, July, August and September,
they left the hot and low lying city
and made their abode ou Mout I'elve,
where cool breeze made life tolerable.
French manners aud custom domi
nated. Th mornlug breakfast laatlug
three hour aud attended by men aud
womru wearing full dns, wiy on of
th features ot th living of the rich
and well to-do.
The Uardeu of Plants, a pars of Im
mense alxe, afforded all clasav a abady
and beautiful retreat from to
sun' biasing rays, while It also con
tained au element of danger-- the Iron
la ace, a name glveu to a venomous
wrpent, whose bit was fatal uules
prompt measure were resorted to. Iu
8t. Plsrre about 1.000 persona were at
tacked yearly, of whom 100 lost their
Uvea. Those reptile sought shady
spot In the park aud ou lawn, and
any ou sitting la th grass waa liable
to be bitten. All over th Island of
Martinique the Iron lance waa in evi
dence and dreaded.
The color line silsts In Martinique,
though It la not drawn with (he tight
ness that It Is In th I'nlted mate.
Th blacka prevail la th ratio of nine
to one, and many of It men aud wom
en ar cultured and good looking. Th
laland has been noted for thirty years
for It excellent school system, Per
bapa one In ten of th whites, nearly
all French, marry net rentes. It la ex
tremely rare, however, for a whit
woman to tak a colored husband.
Where one o acta, there ar a hun
dred whit men who marry colored
women.
MAY BURN FOR AGES.
Llk Yeanvlu. Ml. IIm Mt Con
tlnn to Rlck Forth Fir.
Some people art ot the opluloo that
Mont Pelee will cool off rapidly and
again become quiescent, but tb best
Judges bellev that It will go on throw
ing off Ore and lav for a long time.
While the vloleuce of th first eruption
will. It Is thought, sulmlde, the mount
ain from a spectacular polut of view
la stated aa likely to continue la active
eruption for months, possibly for cen
turies. Vesuvius ws regarded a ex
tinct, until It suddenly broke out and
destroyed potupell In A. D. 70, blow
lug It top oft a was dons by Mont Pe
lee, aud yet It has continued tn more
or lew active eruption ever since.
Sometimes It subsides until nothing
but a thin cloud of smoke surrounds
the summit, but with the exception of
a period of 131 years, between 1500
and 1031, It has never been quite dead
since the destruction of Pompeii,
which was the first eruption of the
mountain of which there Is any au
thentic record. Its periods of notable
activity hav been extended over
natives or H.iHTINiqrC.
weeks and months. The great erup
tion of 1808 attracted visitors from all
over. Kuiom, and excursion wero
made tip of large partTes In England,
who traveled to Naples to witness the
sight,, which was one of surpassing
grandeur and magnificence.
. Rllnllarly, It Is believed by some sci
entists that now that a new volcano
has opened up with a great tragedy, It
may become one of the sights of the
world, attracting visitors and scientist
from New York and from Europe. Sels
;ml! experts and geologists, with col
lege professors and naturalists, would
be naturally attracted to such a place
from the very beginning, to study on
the spot and place on record their ob
servations of an event that will go
down In the history of the world'i
ISLANDS TO CUBA AND
From New Orleans to Havana., '.
From Porto Itlco to Martinique..
From New York to Panama... t
GREAT PISASURS IN HISTORY.
I.ltet l.oit.
Kvb. 81, TB-Pom nelt de-trojl-J
by eruption of
Mount VmuIu UO.OOO
mT-Catsnla, ia Sicily, ovrr
turuvd b) esrtbquak .....
12uH-Clllela destro)d bj
LVOtsi
arthquak ,
00.000
40,000
iSO.OUO
Dec. 6. H5tl-Kribuusk at
Nul
Fvb. X loSl-tUrthquak at
Lisbon ,..
8ritiuhpr, 1(103 -Ksrthquak
In HU-lly burled nfty fur
cities and town sad thsi
vllltgri; of Cslsnla aud Its
1S.IWU Itih'uliltauU not s
trace remained 100,000
Feb. 2. nuiJ-JoJdu, Japs,
destroyed 200.000
Nov. 30, !73l-tCartbquak at
IVkl 1U0.UIM
Oct. 28, mu-l.lui snd
Csllso dcititilliueil
BeptruiWr, ITM-Ursud Cslre
IS.OOd
deal nijrrd . .
0,000
Jims 7, 1T55-Kicbm, Per
sia, swallowed up
0,)0
Nov. I. 17.U-Orst enrlb
anaks In Kuala and I'urtu
si; In eight minutes 0O.OU0
Inhabltauls of Lisbon prr
lihsd; cities of Colutbra,
Oporto, Brag snd HI. L'br
wholly evtrturned. In Spain
Mslf reduced to rulti.
Ont-bslf of Fes. Morocco, de
stroyed, mar tbss 12.000
Arabs killrd. 3.000 nnu.M
la Island ot Msdorls de
stroyed 100.000
Feb. 4, ITttT-Wools coun
try bslwtvn Bsnt F suit
I'aasins destroyrd, Including
fltl of gulio 40.000
Aug. 10. 1822-AIpt J
stroirsd 80,1100
tust
3,s
Itsy 20, ISW-Csiituo, Culwa,
hake
Msy T, 1812 -Ci llsytlr
destroyed
Msrch 1 I85tl-Krthu.tikt
In Molucca l(UmU
Dee, 1 0. ISAT-Oslabls.
Naples, dettmred
3.000
IO.isJ
I, lM
July 2, IWia-F-srihqusk
partly drttnired Msnlls....
Aug. 31, IHtW-Ksrtbqtuk
la Pern snd Retailor "A000
greatest catastrophic. Tb spectacu
lar aspects of th volcanic eruptlous In
the Antilles will bring about a rush
of visitor to Msrtlulque and Ht. Vln
ceut
KRAKATOA.
Tb UrsnUat Volcanic Kanlnalon la
tbi Hl.torr of th World.
Th greatest volcanic exploalon In
the history of th world, so fsr as
energy Is concerned, and one of Hi
moat destructive of human life wss
that ot Krakatoa, on"kn Island In the
strait of Hundn, between Java and Hu
mstrs. During the month of May,
188,1, th volcano of Krakatoa burst
Into activity, hut th great eiplosbm
did not come until Aug. 20. Then
flame, which were visible at a d
tanes of forty mil, shot from the
crater. Th crashing explosion whleit
followed these flames et In motion
air waves that traveled around tlm
earth four times one way and three
times the other. Krery self recording
barometer In the world was disturbed
seven times by that blow up. These
wave traveled at the rate of 700 mile
an hour.
At Borneo, 1,110 miles distant, the
noise of this eruption was heard. The
shock wss felt" In llurmah, 1.478 miles
distant, ami at Perth, West Australia,
1.902 miles distant. The Krakatoa ex
plosion was beard over a sound touo
covering one llilrleentb of the earth's
surface.
Sea waves were created by the est
piston which destroyed two I'.glithotues
Iu the strait of Hundn, all the towns
and villages on the shore of Java aud
Sumatra bordering the strait, all ves
sels and shipping there, and ihl.'lHO
Uvea In that vicinity. The explosion
raised a tidal wave at Mernk 135 feet
high; covered Soo.ooo square mile of
ocean with lava dust several Inches
thick; submerged an Island all mile
square aud 7oo feet high In a depth of
water of 150 fathoms aud created two
new Islands.
Prodigious Force of t'yolonn.
Careful estimate of the force of a
cyclone and the energy required to keep
the full hVdged hurricane In active ope
ration reveal the presence of a power
that makes the mightiest efforts of mail
spepsr as nothing Iu comparison. A
force fully equal to over 400.000,000
horse power was estimated as devel
oped Iu a West Indian cyclone. This
Is about fifteen time the power that
can be developed by all the mean with
in the range of man's capabilities dur
ing the same time.
A Doubtrul tsompllmrnt.
Old lady, describing a cycling nccb,
dent: " 'K 'elped me hup an' brushed
the dust orf on me an' put five shlllln'
Iu iny 'and, an' so I says, 'Well, sir, I'm
sure you're hactln' like a gentleman,'
I says, 'though I don't suppose you ar
oue,' I say."-Punch.
Kncllsh Novels.
One thousand five hundred ami thir
teen novel wore published In Kugtand
last year.
Great opportunities come to those
wbo make good use of small ones, "
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