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Show WARNING OF GODS IN VOLCANIC SMOKE Eruptions From Popocatepetl Popocate-petl Alarm Natives Mexico City. Popocatepetl, Mexico's Mexi-co's great volcano, and known ns "the smoking mountain," has begun to erupt, causing alarm to the little villages vil-lages on Its slopes and even to the City of Mexico, which, accustomed to see a white peak towering above the clouds, now notes a black, steady stream of smoke forming curious figures fig-ures In the sky. The Inhabitants of the village of Tlnmacas are reported to have deserted their homes through fear. The Indian witchmen in the village of Ameca-meca, which lies betweeq the volcano and its twin I.taccihuatl, the latter known as the "sleeping slater," sla-ter," are endeavoring to read In the figures made by the column of fire, the warning of the gods, for Ameca-meca Ameca-meca has been destroyed four times by the god of the smeklng mountain, and there Is a prophecy that a savior chief Is to be born oT Popocatepetl and Iztacclhuatl. Scientific observers, however, say " that continuous explosions occurring In Popocatepetl, at the rate of about a dozen a minute, do not result In dis- J nstrous eruptions. Explorers just re- ! turned from far up the slopes of the j mountain say they were unable to 5 ascend beyond the snow line. Smoke Spreads Over 100 Miles. j The smoke arising In a huge col- 5 umn from the crater has spread 100 5 miles from Its source. Powderlike f ashes are falling about the mountuln, j Indicating only sulphur deposits are 5 burning. f One of Mexico's leading artists, Doe- tor Alt, is Interpreting the movements "I of the columns of smoke and tire, 1" which he styles "the anguish of my i brother Popo." liut he Insists that the residents of Mexico have nothing j! to fear from the volcano's convulsions, nnd that greater dangers exist for them In their midst, such ns politics, f camions and the "right to direct ac- tlon." Doctor Alt spent three years living 0 hermit's life on the edge of the crater, cra-ter, with snow and Ice on one side. ? and fire and hivn on the other. II? j; says the mountain is omj of the pas- ', slons of Ills life. : Recently, at the first sign of trouble within the volcano. Doctor Alt was off ' from Mexico City with his pack. In an endeavor to see the activity of the . volcano. m Indians Practice Witchcraft. For some weeks the press of Mexico City has been occupied with the activities ac-tivities of Popocatepetl. The country around the slopes of the volcano, anil even villages some kilometers distant, have been covered with a fine yellow ash, but the old-time Indians took ne notice of this, being accusionie.l to such a slight Inconvenience, but when the recent subterranean rumblin.s he ;an to become prominent, even these ild warriors became frighten. i ami low ere practicing all their wltchrrafi 7'1 n order to appease the god and so al tave the country from the destruction ! hey believe Is imminent, |