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Show 'Talk about earthquakes" salA Pre; fessor Sehoppman as he stood i our otllce one day last week, i trllh'ou I had 1111 cxperlonco in one nt San .Francisco .Fran-cisco some years ago that I sliouli) not like tq undergo again. I was stopping in u largo f)ve story hotel, anil was awakened onn mopdng about 4 o,.clock, by a jar so violent and sudden that I sprang right out of bed, beforoil was fairly awake. Upon trying topeno-trato topeno-trato the gloom of the room I siw to my horror that a crack hud opujicd in tho wall from celling n llodf wide enough for me to see through rfrul ou, Into tho streot. 1. Jv You better liclieye I lost no tfpjcjn starting to get out of that buikaiij' I Just grubbed my pants and iniafe for the dqor of the 100111 without rtripptng ,..v .,,,.. w ,.v mum ,iMiitu, rLHifitiii to put them on; it was no time ro'stop for trliles,so lucking the troustriuridOr jiiy arm I opened the door if ni'roqtn and ns I stinted down the h.ill ivT'h the .brlulcs and mortar from the tterliig wallsund ceiling rat t'ing down alfpptino tending greatly to increase mv nSoed.1 I' upsstoue woman as I ran, and fetr'us another was about to share tl.e ssjflq fnl.4 l caught her up nnd hurried huidown tho stnlrs, nnd utter wlmt sedluftO " great length of tlmo but in reality ,'mushava been but a few uiljtte I found myself in the street noug a number of others who U,r m slf hail-left hail-left the falling hou .0 '-..I'm, ii- jopnlug to wsifcU their fooec or . 1.1 ii "p jir, Aliout this time pcre ;mitf luaullt 0H" sldcrnblo part of the cjmp.u wore women 1 deolded thut I w olX 'ffnko. time to remove iiin tiousi. f(fejtfuji dor my arm uud put them vll3mJtlc belonged, which under the eirApj'sti"!' ues wns a task requiring no litfio ,'JhuJ, in order to avoid attracMng i lu'lb attention; but, luklng udvantaK 'Qt frlandly quake which the eartlfcnp li tho opportune moment I sli 1 lufe fjjjyfrl wltllOUt more adu, and soon wa qilUa at homo among the rest of tiieWuoSls. Itolljou eoniludcd the pioftpw've don't want no such uuili ni.ilSovn bore." "Yon bet -M- .!,, f Lm t1X devil who had s od m ttit pA&sSOl's olbow during the reel ml. fFL. |