Show A MONUMENT BUILT BY NATURE Nature herself has erected the grandest grand-est monument In the world over the lead city of St Pierre Martinique and the dead within the compass of its desolation deso-lation This monument Is In the form of an immense obelisk formed of solid lava and pushed up by the enormous power of the volcanic forces below It projects from the crater a distance of eight hundred feet above the rim and is three hundred feel thick at the base It is still rising too for Professor Angelo An-gelo Heilprin who describes it says 1J 1 rose twentyone feet during his slay of four days while observing it The ac tlon Is he says as If a cork were he ng pushed out from Inside a bottle Its base is fiery red from molten lava and a light cloud of steam at the very top shows that there must be a channel or rift from the base to the summit It Is the most remarkable natural phenomenon phe-nomenon that has ever been observed in any volcano and It might humanly speaking be regarded as an effort of nature na-ture In mourning for the awful dcvas ntlon by the volcano lust year to set up a mournful token In memory of the hor ron of that occasion a monument to all he world that nature herself is grieved it Its own terrible work and 11el the how In the sky Is resolved to set up a testimony that it will never visit such in allllction again upon the sons and daughters of men |