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Show OLD VOLCANO IS DISCOVERED Exploring Party In the Philippine Iclands Adds Another Spouter to the Maps. Tho Philippine Islands still nro unexplored un-explored land ,to the whlto man. On n march some tlmo ago, n lieutenant of (he constabulary found n lava flow and other evidences of volcanic nctlv-Ity nctlv-Ity at the base of tho Ragang mountains. moun-tains. Recently nn exploring party climbed tho mountains and now another an-other volcano Is being added to tho maps. Tho volcano which tho party found consists of three peaks between which J extends the crater, now quiet. A fourth peak Is thought once to havo stood at one corner of tho crater, for there Is evidence that n great explosion explo-sion shattered it. Vegetntlon In tho form of htckle- berry bushes, scrubby trees, small tufts of short grass nnd Cntmdlnn thistle extends to nenr tho top of tho : peaks. Covering tho peaks is n thin crust of hardened lnvn which Is ens- j lly kicked up by tho shoe, and tho rock underneath Is soft, spongy and warm. ' At innumernblo vents nn odorless steam was Issuing. There was no bubbling lnvn or signs of n recent lnvn flow, although on ono sldo thero np-peured np-peured to have been n recent blast of hot gases. Tho trees thero were scorched nnd burned, while tho lenves were still hanging to tho dead branches. Kansas City Times. |