The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1883-10-27
WHITE PINE NEWS
sATURDAY..... OCTOBER 81, 1873
The Earth In It's vIgOr.

in Java and Ischia the London Times
says : The noon is dead. It has not
life enough to ooze the tiniest mud
volcano or squirt out the feeblest gey.
ser. No throe ever reaches its sur
face, and not the faintest rumble is
ever echoed from it jagged mountain
sides. No earthquake wave can eve
sweep its inland shores, for earth
quakes there are things of the infinite
past, and the last drop of water quilted
the surface of our neighboring planet
aeons ago. It's very atmosphere has
deserted 1t, and il, indeed, there were
= imam In the moon," he could never
bear the sound Of his wv voice. But
IL by some mean this mythical man
could have Witnessed the 'Ischia dis
aster'' or the ssJava catastrophe"
hew he would have longed for any
such manifestations of life were pos
sible en his lifeless planet. That &C.
like these referred to are
calamities every one must admit, and
some might maintain that a mans
arrival in his earthly home has been
premature, and that s.~Providence"
would have acted more wisely and
humanity had he postponed mans
advent on the scene until the %'':nter-
nal fres' had exhausted themselves.
But when that happens, biologists
tell US, we may look upon it as the
beginning of the end. Not even the
600 degrees OF the sun which beats
upon every part OF the moon for a
fortnight at q time is able to
within it's bosom the faintest sign Of
life. There is evidence to show that
NJ period its volcanic activity
must have been Of the most stu PEN
dous kind, far exceeding anything
cver witnessed on it mo.her earth.
But that has gone with its water and
its atmosphere, and taken with it all
possibility Of life. We are told that
our existing volcanoes and geysers
and mud -holes are but the dying re-
mains OF what ut the time must have
been q volcanic activity almost uni
versal. Instead Of spasmodic erup-
tion at q few isolated spots, we have
had . constant outpour Of volcanic
matter from wide assures extending
across the sarth's surface for many
miles.
That the earth has not, however,
entirely lost its vigor Is evident from
the Java outburst, which is the most
~stupendous phenomenon Of the kind
on record. So long as the old earth
Is equal to efforts Of this kind we need
not mind its latter end. When the
blood leaves the cold extremities and
che heart has not vigor enough to
send 1t to the surface, the end is not
laI Jill 8nu WuCn NOAC1biO va C0ASh
quake manifestations cease from off
the face of the earth, the end may be
Within almost measurable distance.
Much OF its ocean water will have
been absorbed by the underlying
rocks, and the atmosphere may be
rarer and less life-giving than 1t is
now; by-and-by, with the last ray of
internal heat, and the last drop OF va
ter and last particle of air, all life will
have vanished, and a dead earth will
shine upon a dead noon. So long,
then, - the mother of us all has any
vigor left, we must expect it to mani
fest 1t occasionally, as she has done
recently 1T Ischia and Java; so that
Iamsntable and regrettable as has
been the loss of life at these places,
the 'catasthrophes are no entirely
without their bright side. Only when
the earth is as dead as the moon will
such catastrophes become impossible.