Show THE 1 those were rather startling reports which the telegraph brought us yes w AW maw half of the whole country atone at one time no part martof of the united stales states it is a volcanic country or much subject to earthquakes but those disturbances tur bancea bances of nature which baye baya tinted visited this country in tho the jagape of earthquakes have been usually confined to isolated localities and only instances ha has much much or any damage been done the late earthquake so far as we have yet learned only destroyed one city in the union but from all parts of the country country ait east ef of the mississippi come reports that almost everywhere tall buildings were shaken until they nearly toppled and in many instances people were stricken with terror by the strange enon if the shock had been only blittle attle more severe what frightful catastrophes it would have occasion occasioned ne q how easily and swiftly such an extensive earthquake wrought into a amore more terrible degree of demon strati etra tive vei force might bo be made the instrument in the hand of providence to scourge the great wicked cities of the world we have recently cenal T een seen the effects of an art upheaval he val of the elements in in new zealand which w would have swept millions of people out of existence had it occurred in a thickly copus lafed region prom that catastrophe we may conceive a whole como omo reaped for the act action pf the eie elements ments and feel our 0 on W n feeble nets and helplessness the times seem to bo be bullof full of ominous portents earthquakes anarchy and big wan ward threat on the earth and woe woo bo be to the man who is not prepared to face the wont worst |