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Show Outwitting a Volcano 4 MT. KLQOT, on the island of Java, has formed the very bad habit of spilling down upon the plains below from time to time some 38,000,000 tons of water-mixed with volcanic ash and other material. This happened four times during the nineteenth century, again in 1901 and 1919. During the time between eruptions a giant lake forms in the crater of this volcano and the water is blown out by the explosions in the crater furnace. Engineers are now at work trying to drain this lake against the time of another explosion. ex-plosion. The difficulties in the way of this daring feat are tremendous, to say nothing of the constant con-stant danger. Notwithstanding all this, a tunnel is being bored through the crater wall, at the level of the bottom of the crater. The work is now in progress and if it is successful, suc-cessful, Mt. . Kloot will cease to be a terror to the natives of Java. Java has some fifty volcanoes, vol-canoes, twenty of which are more or less active. These are the real rulers of the island, because everything depends upon their activities and eccentricities climate, weather, soil, crops and business of all kinds. |