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Show DECOME USED TO EARTHQUAKES, Dwellers In the Tropics Pay Little Heed to the Shocks. To tho nverage resident of the temperate tem-perate zones an carthqua'.co Is a rare and terrlblo event, creating moro rrrn-stomatton rrrn-stomatton than any other visitation ot nature. In tho tropics, however, particularly par-ticularly In Central America. It Is wonderful how easy tho residents bo-coii'o bo-coii'o accustomed to theso shocks, which do not como, howover, wholly without warning. You are sitting on n platn, of a hot afternoon, chatting with your friends, when suddenly tho sky soems to grow hazy, tho crows stop cawing and the buzzards quit fighting In the strcot. Thoro Is a general rush, and, though you may not know whnt Is tho matter, you cannot help feeling uneasy, The old natives say: "Wo aro going go-ing to havo a Uttlo shake," and then the house begins to rock, the tumblors fait of tho table, you feel deadly sick at the stomach, nnd tho thing Is all over. Tho sky clears, tho crows bogin their noisy screams, and tho buzzards resume their quarrel over .the street offal. There Is something Inexpressibly terrifying, however, about tho trembling trem-bling of tho earth. The slightest oscillation os-cillation will awaken tho population of the whole town, but unless Bomo considerable damage Is dono, everybody every-body goes to sleep again as a matter ot course. |