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Show But 1E Earthquakes and Nerves. SB Jpufj The San Francisco newspapers are an Inter- H9j esting study now-a-days. They are all hopeful and ' tfr strong, there is not a symptom of a disposition B to give up, and still one can tell which was most wBm ; c f; ' hurt by the calamity just by the indefinable im- EflM iffj'-i'. pression their respective words make. They are UN ikW'i liko Afferent photographs developed from the K I" 111 same negative. The different shades may not be discernable to the careless reader, but a close scrutiny reveals them. The effect upon business and the effect of the earthquake upon the nerves are both discernable. Men who have never shrunk from any danger dan-ger or hardship and have laughed at misfortunes have quailed before earthquakes, and if such men are running newspapers the tremble into which their souls were swept, finds expression through the types. The most hopeful papers of San Francisco, Fran-cisco, those most confident of the future, those who assume that misfortune must be met 'and conquered, are the ones whose proprietors happened hap-pened to be absent from California on earthquake day. The others are just as brave but there is something about them which gives the Impression that while the writers were penning the brave words with their right hands, their left hands were unconsciously stretched upward to ward off a possible falling brick. Through the writings of others covert gleams of the writers are discernable, discern-able, as if furtively watching lest the wall of the room may be falling out or in. And it is all right and all natural for earthquake earth-quake terror is of the most prostrating kind and is apt to be progressive in its effect. |