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Show itiiaSES DOWN " CAPJlIQUAliES jtliis nc.iiSpends AH His ; Tinie; .followino Up : Seismic Troubles. I. t - "The queerest and the longest quest I J (ever beard of was the quest 'of Prof. I John' Milne after earthquakes ln Japan, .which lasted twenty years," -says Arthur Ar-thur f.torrla, formerly stationed in Ja-:'pan Ja-:'pan Jhe buyer for a San Francisco ;imr ..ulrhouse.; Mr.;. Morris is going to N Tork. f "I fmet. Prof. Milne In Japan about j fifteen years ago and he seemed to be ; having more sport out of his quest than anyone could imagine. He had earthquakes earth-quakes for -breakfast, luncheon and dinner,, din-ner,, and managed to work in a vfew during the nights . He lived with them, i studied all their movements and learned much from the . Japanese, who know more about the temblors than any other - ' race. ' "Prof. Milne told me that his profession profes-sion of chasing earthquakes was consld-. consld-. ered so extra hazardous that he could , find no life insurance company willing to take a risk. on bis life at any pre-rnlum. pre-rnlum. He traveled over Japan and knows the formation and topography of ' that country better than any other white man. He perfected his seismo-" seismo-" graphs in Japan and then after marry-f marry-f lug a pretty Japanese woman took her fend bis accumulated knowledge to an old-fashioned' home on the Isle of ."Wight, Off the English coast.'. - |