Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-05-12
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u,a.s ssd attracts little astsstlon. OnE
4 4 a EIaelarslI people have alzon TOT
sosssu who Canninghsm and Earson
ara and the grimes Of vhisn me, Ass
5000 are orEr recalled 10 mind sSso
-. s.tsusisu l. directed 70 tt'en-
Va hos ts. ,,eeks hsve pssssd SIMS
~ srpsesioas IN the HSuses % va.
lance, and ia Toesr sssOsash''d 'ss
ver,d and termed the eonInsn sopas o
souvsrsaiion in every eoansry snsa p0
$500 . r.iaroaiI. Telegraph line OF .
nswspapst.
30 a /, In thsss days Of etassiisa 40
,sv,ty. R,snis tread upon oDs another :
bsels 90 rspadly that she world has
soarosly time y, be astonishsd bsiofs
lsu sstont,hmsut and the evens viaisn
oesasssusd 10 are buried ioRetass y iof-
ox,fn.nesl II Erossrstns, that fassle-
hrsI.sd son q antiquity, bad t''sa 70
these las.sr day,, be wesld hass h'sd 'he
modification of seeing bis nsEne utterly
sorsyt.su bsfoss the sEaOkina ruins Of
lbs ssmpIe Of Diana had had time 70
oool. II rvaati old DR.. johnson had
lived IN lhs hesss half Of the nine
sssush eestury he wosld have found 20
ac.xsli !, nnnbsr biz cups Of tee and
ha.,A the .oorn down 70 postssity, snisss,
sraasa. h, vsss able 10 drink Dc'e tea
than anJ prexiOus drinksE had dose
a,a sxss than his name vsSnid iaaFe
go rsleza,esl 10 the inevitable oslivi1n
!. SON a. some individual Of larger
s.rnc.ty had ..broksn the rscOFd" bS
sriuklua mora ,yaps Of tsa than ha We
have lon, since passsd from The ss's Of
beross, fiosn tbs ago when tha man OF
mere man ordinary ambitiOni or rnofs
than ordinary lsucosss died "a the iail
saznrancs, that he bad scfaslsd nia
name in sndsring letters aefoss sns
dons of Ihs universe.
We have also pasaed beyond th's la1ei
psrioa, whsn lis event Gas sveFy'nine'
Men no longer wonder ct great event
and marvel a IL, talking 4 ossf py
winter lisssidss and nnder shady trees
Of Summer svenines. They no lo'asei
d,senss III cauass and its ehscts, sarn-
inc il ever and over IN their minds zeal
after year, and year after year, until !
IL thoroashiy iliarained snso The history
az ths rn,s ard becomes a, sxpstiencs
IN tbs llfb Of sich man and tradition
in me minds 81 his ehildrsn. Onb han.
bred and thirty years ago ifty thsufand
psopls perishsi by an earthquakes 81
I.iabsa. All civilization stocd sthass,
and Tor d eentaEy people Of oil nations
talked ard wrete aud sang about ths
IAabon esrthqil be. Two yeass aslo Q
trsmendons coavulaion Of naiare 90
CURED ir the nsiehborhood OF the
Island oil Jsvs--a eonvulsion such ~
man had nsvsr seen. Kraksioa broke
OFT in death. dealing eruption. iIarsh
auakss tore grc,a chasms IN The earth
tidal wave nstpt over vast provinces
citiss sank inta The sea; all the hi'rror'
that the most gloomy imagination cs,nlt
psctare for the day Of finai doonl wer'
waited agon that devoted island. Il
seemed e. " b some act Of 0Gnipo
tsnos shs wrslohed people. withsui
death and without Judgment, had tees
tor1 frtm earth and sast into the utter
most depths Of bell. One hundres ant
thirty thoasand people persisted inissf
ably. History records no event ol
similar haror. Compared with u, Ia,
easthQuaks a iAsbon was an ordinar,
calamity. Yet We have aiasost for
gotten that Hash an event tlver was
whsn the Iistsn earthquake hofrihet
Ne world, men talked II over year aftel
year. always lsssnine new facts skou
Il. always hsdine nov horrorl Whes
The earthquake Oh the Island Of Jaw
took place. mea rsad Of Il In then
morning papsrh felt sense OF pit,
and horror ard an b Jar aftsiwars
we're discsrsins tbs ooney Island race
OF the lasl eArnsi Of baseball.
Nothine bsisea. could be fouad 70 u
lussrais ths sklnas which has esml
over hnnsnity. The era Of great evsnt
- we'll - The ere o. ersas msn has heel
rsieeated 10 ths PAST buoy, hurfyinsl
WORRYING humAsisy eafss nslther fe'
che man OF th, decd. n nv brcihsl
ksoomes afeaA Why. 20 much The leassE
for him. INT have not time % tall
Of him, 81 ioua a. my own life wsrk !
nnanished. n lie writes O great Iih,
sionsry sfld b tailed the great tthais
d Enelisil literature. ell right; Int
Do not cara hos many cups III tta, b
dxiaka. and II ans Boswell tries 10 isa
ma - opes pa him down is bns
n my great brother has . new sehsaa
Of asenes OF d liew lyssem II tarih 70
form. | viii think of him and his plisl
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thai hia sshsms xili Be adopssd DC III
sefokns miIds eileetfte. In ssich CHS
bic plans WIN i.fsci me. and 80 | an
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down isssF he lgulf viii thai Il 81
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haskst oi psoslsIona and noniidst ~
duty done Nv nsiehbes waa . lFuss
felicx. and | an sorry ahe eAsskassal
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