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Show Earthquake Philosophy. Poverty hns its compensations in somo matters. Thus tho Mexican peons who llvo In one-story ndobo huts suffer llttlo from earthquakes as compared with their richer neighbors who llvo In moro pretentious houses of Btono. Tho earthquake shock ro-duces ro-duces the sun-dried adobo to harmloss powdor, but It plies stono houses upon tho heads of thoso who llvo In them. "Poor and content," says tho poet, "Is rich and rich enough." It Is prohahlo, however, that tho peon would bo Willing to ex-chango ex-chango houses with tho cnballoro oven at tho risk of earthquakes. It Is tho disposition of mankind to sot smnll valuo oh thoso things wo havo and to placo a high estlmato on thoso that wo havo not, |