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Show How Earthquakes Feel Writer Tells of the Carribean Islands and the Great Quakes They Have There. To us the lauds and countries about the Caribbean Sea arc of the greatest Interest and Importance. Our people will be locating there with more and Increasing frequency, and all the while the ties of International cooperation co-operation will become stronger. That eruptive and seismic disasters have afflicted places In those legions will not deter us very much, for one has abundant faith that It is not going to happen to him, and a good many of our people are locating dhectly in range of the volcanoes happy and prospering along with the natives. The region is not so very far away. A few days on the steamer and ono is In the tropics. That bit of yellow seaweed picked up at the shore last summer because It was different from the others was probably brought by the Gulf Stream from the Caribbean regions and carried to our shores by a southeily wind. Suiciy it is not a faraway far-away country that we are considering, and it is very beautiful, sunshine and (lowers; green savannas and towering mountains; torrential rivers; clear splashing brooks and deep blue seas. Why should one think of earthquakes? My own experiences with them have happily been frco from death: yet the coming of an earthquake Is so sudden, so wildly terrible, that the stoutest hearts must quail. Even wild animals ani-mals shrink with fear, and one is always al-ways tilled with dread bordering on terror. It Is all so sudden. A sense of some unknown fear pervades all nature, as If the spirit of the world had caught Its breath and held all life an Instant In suspense, while sounds seem to beset one's nerves rather than to assault the cats. Then comes a reeling, sickening, staggering motion, and fear, and human crylngs out, and then quivering silence for the space of a breath, followed perhaps per-haps by crushing destruction, or, It may be, bv a sound like a great sighing, sigh-ing, and the earth settles back, that the pulsations or nature may begin again in harmony. Then excited people peo-ple tlnd their voices, bewildered faces gleam with Intelligence, and every ono is talking, comparing experiences, wondering what Is was, where It had come from, and how It hpd gone away. Such have been my experiences with earthquakes In the Caribbean regions. From "Volcanoes and Earthquakes In tlio Caribbean Heglons," by Francis C. Nicholas, Ph. D., In the American Monthly Review of Reviews for April. |