Show e CYCLONE One Rare the Other a Uri ers i Storm Much Abused The ordinary land cyclone is usually qUite harmless and it is only by a mig taken use o of the term that It has be become become come associated with those thos terrifying storms peculiar to our country known liS as tornadoes says St Nicholas CY Cyclones clones cJones have hae a bud reputation because becam e they are commonly associated d with other more storms Instead of at beIng dangerous and d they are the chief source of rain In spring and autumn and supply the snow which adds so much to o the pleasure of cf our northern winter The They cover COer u a large extent ot of territory at one time and on an average follow one another across the country from west to east at intervals of about three days A tornado often does gre great t damage It Is known by its ts cloud I which bounds and bounces along now high h in the air and touching the gro ground nd Where it skIms along the ground the havoc Js is greatest Here the mightiest of man are crushed in an instant before time the ava ata avalanches lanches of wind let loose from every dI direction The air seems to have hae an ex cx explosive plosive force buildings falling outward Instead or of inward as one might think In such a no pI place ace Is sate safe but the southwest corner or of a cellar af affords affords fords the best Ott protection obtainable e If III the open lie flat fiat on th the ground Dur During big ing n a tornado which lasts but rt a few I minutes the sky is covered by clouds of ink Inky blackn blacknESs ss which here and aud th re retake take on a livid greenish hue Time The surface winds rush spirally up upward upward ward Into the funnel shaped cloud car with them many articles which are afterward dropped some distance beyond Time The danger zone Is co confined 1 ned to toa a path le less s than It a half mile in width mind and miles mUes in length These stormS cecur Our only on land The true hurricane is ig On the high seas ot of the tropiCs It marshals it us fortes fores of wInd anti and I which the thC stoutest ship Is helpless ana amid the fairest Islands are In laid Id waste aRte Even the sturdy mainland trembles under ff Its awfuL Thes Thea ocean storms last much longer than tornadoes cover Coer 1 cause more lnore damage The hurricane which I veston eston destroyed s eral thousands or of ori lives hes and millions or of dollars worth of I i property The West Vest i islands are 1 frequently scourged by these awful via I amid uHl our own Atlantic coast sometimes re feels s th the lash or of these thes dl storms out the hurricane and tornado are arc rare The formet seldom extends far inland and usual usually occurs In time Ule tate late summer HummeL or oi tail fall Tornados are prod products products or of the south and amid W wt t am and ate arc mostly confined to the spring and earlY summer mer months The cyclone is a uni universal versal ersal which travels over lau land and amid sea In season and out of season in spring or In raIl full In s summer miner or fn mi It is an old friend but one much abused |