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Show American Volcanoes May 'Be Source of Danger I aaaaaaaaaaasaaaaaaaaaaa! Prom the National Capital (Special Letter.) before the president Kansas, populist and 61 years old, his selection of took his seat and threw his coat open, creation embelH. Clay Evans' revealing a embroidered lished with stars Representative of Kansas leaned over in silk. Mr. Allison of Iowa, the same seat In the house and day, wore a yellow waistcoat of such to Representative a brilliant hue that it would feaze ths of Indiana in a stage ordinary young man who had just whisper, that Mr. Eugene F. Ware was passed his majority. Mr. Allison is 73 years old, hut he carries his age to be made pension commissioner. Who In the mischief Is Eugene F. lightly. Senator Pettus displayed beWare? Inquired Mr. Landis, a blank neath his long frock coat a glimpse of red and blue checks on a brown backexpression upon his face. did of know ground that carried one in Imaginadont Ware; you Why, Senator you never hear of him? asked Mr. tion out to the racetrack. To acknowl- Fairbanks of Indiana, who usually preCaloerhead In surprise. edge that is to confess ignorance of sents a funereal appearance, got Into the literature of your country. Why, the swim by wearing a black silk waist coat, which was plentifully Ware is the celebrated 'Ironquill.' " with white silk. Fully Why, you dont mean to tell me of the senators wore white that Ironquill is to be made commisexsioner of pensions, do you? claimed Mr. Landis, this time an expression on bis face which indicated " that he had been familiar with since boyhood days, but was surprised to know he had been selected for the office named. After Mr. Calderhead had left, Mr. Landis remarked to Representative Hill, who was Bitting beside him: I never heard of Tronqulll,' but I didnt intend to give myself away. pale-blu- e fUST old-gol- d polka-dotte- d s two-third- "Iron-qulll- The most important scientific fact proved by the St Pierre and St Vin. cent eruptions is the underground connection between volcanoes. This is also the most Important fact to bo remembered by all who live near those treacherous destroyers of life and property. Almost all volcanoes are like manholes along a sewer. They are located in rows above long cracks or fissures In the earths surface, so that when one of the volcanoes in the row begins to throw out lava and fire the others are very liable to follow suit and become equally dangerous. The rocent explosion of naphtha at 8herldan, Pa., by wnich 25 people were instantly killed and over 200 severely burned, gives a very simple explanation of the method of explosion along a volcanic fissure. Thus, in the Caribbean Sea disasters, Mont Pelee of Martinique and tanoufrlcre of St Vincent are both maityiolcs in the same great fissure that extends In a curved line for 500 miles or more. Martinique is located almost In the exact center of this "line of weakness." The Island of Jamaica, 400 miles from Mont Polce, is located on the "firing line, and the latest dispatches report that the sulphur pits in the Jamaica mountains are beginning to smoke and boil. The air around them has also gtown very hot. The area of volcanic disturbance lias spread rapidly since the explosiwi of Mont Poll'd. A dozen or more islands have been more or less affected, all being loc&'ed along the great fissure or crack in the earth's surface whlcn is at the present time in a statu of eruption. There are a number of these cracks or fissures In the I'niled States, most of them running from north to south. As Prof. R. P. Whitfield, head curator of geology at the Muselm of Nat- the Rocky Mountains are but of yesterday, as their sharply defined peaks and Jagged sides show. Consequently, the whole course of the Rocky Mountains, and of the Andes as well, marks Senator Berry came down from the out the longest "line of weak- national capltol in a street car one alness" In the world, extending afternoon, accompanied by a constitumost from the north pole to the ent The senator paid the car fare. south pole. Senator Cockrell was on the car. He From Mount St Ellas, the leaned over to Senator Berry and giant mountain of Alaska said: feet to the volcanic region "Don't you know senator, that you of Terra del Fuego, there la shouldnt waste your money like that? Cangraiimaa Loud. line of fissures nearly 10,000 You. shouldn't pay car fare for all vests. It Is noticeable that among the miles in length. these constituents that come along. members of that body the young men A series of short fissures runs You cant afford It. men dress old and old dress the young. with the great Rocky parallel And don't you know, senator, reMountain fissures. The Cascade Senator Berry, that when a plied I suppose you are in the harness Mountains mark a volcanic belt pays another gentleman'! gentleman From Mount Hood to Lassen's car fare the other gentleman la In all right by this time, said an Iowa man to Secretary Shaw. Peak there is a line of extinct honor bound to set up the drinks? "Oh, yes, replied the secretary, I volcanoes, several of which have had In the harness all right, but the am since the epoch. glacial eruptions Reed, who Crum," said 1b 'I don't know whether to The Sierra Nevada and San Frantrouble becase a Is In Washington to argue or the collar." cisco ranges are also located along a fore the use the e straps to Represen-tivcourt, supreme line of weakness and have a numof Indiana, I underCrumpacaer were which ber of burned-ou- t craters Reed came to When are stand hammering at my you e In their day as dangerous as Mont town the other day he deserted the rules? and La Soufriere. I am uptown hotel where he usually stops, Yes, replied Crumpacker, The famous Yellowstone Park repand went to a newer and more fashthem. at hack a resents a tract of weakness rather taking said, ionable resort down town. After he the big "Crum, than a fissure. The whole region is that you had been here three days a friend met who are volcanic and In a constant state of reprovingly, with the you should trifle productions of him on Fifteenth street, carpetbag in eruption. hand, wending his way to his old modgenius? A short line of weakness" extends est quarters. through Colorado and New Mexico, A man named Johnson was a canGoing back to your old place?" containlnfg several extinct volcanoes. didate for a consulship and the Iowa queried the frlqnd. . And from Guatemala to Costa Rica Is for him the Reed. drawled Tve got Oh. were yes, backing a volcanic belt with cones from 8,000 delegation found a vacancy to. I was Invited down to the hotel finally They place. to 10,000 feet high. to which the president promised to ap- by a wealthy client of mine, and now It is quite certain that there Is a their candidate. Thereupon Mr. he's gone back to New York." subterranean connection between that point Johnson went to the state department string of islands in the Caribbean to undergo the usual examination as The pioneer linen duster of this seaSea, said Sir Henry T. Wrenfordsley, to his fitness. He had no trouble un- son has arrived In the house. It was formerly chief Justice of the Leeward til he reached the sixth question: worn by Mr. Selby of Illinois, a long, Islands. How many Hessians came to the black, comprehensive creation, which The fissures on which Mont Pelee country to fight for the English?" nearly sweeps the brilliantly carpeted and La Soufriere are located may posJohnson didnt know, but he did floor as Mr. Selby's portly form moves sibly have branches that extend to not propose to be left entirely. This from place to place. Central America, Mexico and the Is what he wrote for tne answer: Naturally Mr. Selby eliminates a United States. A great many more than ever went coat from his attire when he pulls on It may be also more than a coinhack." this long black linen duster. With it cidence that Mount Iona, 150 miles he has a glossy, velvet waistcoat, froth Omaha, Neb., Is now showing About a month ago a constituent which likewise becomes his portly Its first signs of activity for thirty of Senator Dwpcw came to him to seek figure. It might be unnecessary In the years. his Influence in getting an office. sweltering climate of Calhoun county, You write a letter telling what you but it affords him fine protection from Tired folks are quarrelsome. want, and I will forward It with my the cold of the federal capltol.. indorsement, said the senator when man's story. President Itoosevc-ltaccording to between Lewiston, on the lower river, he had heard the Yesterday the man met the sena- the latest report. Is gjing to take and the point selected by La Salle above the falls. This spot has been tor in the capltol lobby. me to write hunting trip with Harry S. New ol You remember telling well located on the Jackson Angevine Indiana, in the llig Horn Valley, out he said. a in Wyoming. This reminds Senator farm, and there the monument to his you letter.was Mr. "O yes. Depew's reply, as Warren of a memory and deeds has been erected. story. visitor by a In the campaign of 1896. when Salle remained with the men until he cordially grasped the he saw the keel laid, and then he led Wyoming- went Democratic." he said, othpr men to the mouth of the river "everj thing depended upon the vote to take advantage of the permit of the Dig Horn county. One of the candiIndians to erect a fortified warehouse. dates for the supreme court was espeTwo blockades were built, and were cially iiiixious. later destroyed by fire while La Salle 'How are you coming out?' annie was absent at Port Frontenar. one asked the judge, while we were all waiting for the returns. la Salle arrived at Niagara again in I think I am coming out the little August. 1679, only to find that his creditors and enemies had well nigh end of the Big Horn. ruined him. However, his boat, the Griffon, was ready to sail, and in the Why tha llaby lltl. proceeds of a trading voyage Iip Bought A West Philadelphia physician financial ahl. In order not to delay vouches for the anecdote of a this enterprise he abandoned everyboy of the neighborhood thing else, and it was under these conwhose parents had given him the usditions, this- inspiration of his previous ual explanation of a doctor's visit prereverses, that La Salle set sail up the ceding the arrival of a new baby. The Niagara to take Krie In the Griffon. population of the block had been inProm that time the commerce of the creased by one; and the artless lad great chain of lakes has hern tver on Harris. Senator Joyfully clapped his hands as he told It has atthe increase, until me sent You see. me mamma, "Let hand. the papa and everybody of his actained a magnitude of vast commercial rememI didn't you, and If quaintance that he had been playing Importance. When the people of the the letter s little Mrs. various cities on the lakes view the ber rightly I indorsed it strongly.wrote in the street when doctor seen never the "I man. bad he arrived said the "No. girl commerre of their ports, it may be sick." In The little a been It stranger Ive bag. letter. the bring interesting for them to know that on tarried only a few days; and, when the afternoon of May 24. the monuthere warm weather the lad asked why white crepe flutthe Since began ment to La Salle was unveiled In of brilliant tered from the door, his mother told has been a startling array the quiet country suburb of La Salic, the when in him the baby had died. the senate, waistcoats live miles eastward from the Cataract "I knew It would die, mamma I average age of the members of that of Niagara. with the knew is considered, together it! Why. the doctor had no holes body to wont are which In somber the they lmg for the baby to breathe dignity In Russia factories are usually near Mr. Harris of through!" The other sustain. day wood forests, be'ng still the chief fuel. 18,-0- ural History, said when Interviewed by a New York Sunday World re- porter: A line of fissures runs from the Aleutian Islands southward through North and South America to Terra del Fuego, and all along the course of this gigantic crevice there may be an earthquake at any time. According to the experts of the United States Geological Survey there is a fissure or line of weakness which begins at Troy, N. Y., and runs southward through Baltimore, Washington and Richmond. Va. The principal rivers of the Atlantic coast have their source near this long break In the earth's crust The chain of eruptions on each side of Mont Pclee has shown the practical importance of this discovery by the It United States Geological Survey. has made the fact known that Virginia. Maryland, District of Columbia and New York are In the same danger zone. The same connection exists between Troy, N. Y., and Rtrliraond ns that which has recently been shown to exist between Martinique, St. Vincent and Jamaica. mountains A chain of usually, though not always, marks the course of one of these fissures. In the Cats-kii- l and Adirondack mountains volcanic action has ceased, these two ranges Doing the oldest on the American continent. Compared with the Adirondacka, 00 hold-bac- k er Pe-le- . if f t , ymzrrr feivisiM ia'i iballs Hffl iff mirim i 1 Cb'C'o? Jvmw-- 1 fit .A S ; A A : jj ini' y 1 1 : awp; U sj mvrr&i i . vtiiiMevt nxStnsz If serr ' 1 ' - .ijsrr vjpir : v 1 3L $1 t--l m yf f and more the Hennepin said the first mass on this After two name and fame or Cavalier de La point of land, and It has gone down In history as being the first mass ever Salle has been honored by the erection of a monument bearing a suitable said In this territory. La Salle had tablet, on tlio site where in May, 1G79, left Port Prontenac some time after lie built lie first boat known to have La Mottc's departure, intending to go nailed the great upper lakes. This to the site of the fort lie projected at the mouth of the Niagara. However, boat was named tlm (iriffnn. It was on Nov. is. 1678, that La he narrowly escaped being shipwrecked Motte, llennepln and fourteen others and landed at the mouth of the Genesee river. He visited the chief started from Port Prontenac In a on and Seneca village, met the chiefs and obfor Niagara, brigantine December 6, they rounded the point tained their consent to the building of now known as Port Niagara, and their a vessel above the Niagara cataract, craft crept into the mouth of the and the establishment of a fortified warehouse at the mouth of the river. Niagara river. They anchored there He Immediately set to work to build beautiful "in it. the recorded as they River Niagara, which no bark bad ever the vessel. All the tools, rope, etc., yet entsred." On December 11, 1078. were carried across the neck of land 1 10-t- - nine-year-o- - to-d- ay ld |