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Show Beauty of Formoso. Since Japan, ten years ago, took over from China the business of governing Formosa, the Island has had to endure the misfortune of three considerable earthquakes. The latest fortunately. Is not tho worst. Formosa lies right on tho volcanic lino that stretches across the old submerged Malayo-Chlneso continent, so that sho may expert more than a comfortable com-fortable share of these earth palpitations. If tho island is occasionally a source of terror to her children, she does at least clothe herself in beauty that no other land can boast. Flowers that aro reared at great cost In our hothouses grow wild on tho smiling slopes of Formosa. Like Tennyson's Isle of Flowers, tho hills of that volcanic escarpment in the Eastern seas blazo with 'convolvull, lilies, azaleas, rhododendrons, and orchids. But for the earthquakes, tho Island, now under civilized civ-ilized government. Is our nearest approach to an earthly paradise. |