Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-13


picture and measurement taken Of
criminal by any department belonging
| to the association will be sent at once
| To the central bureau and kept there
| for the whole association to refer to.
Scientists have long been at odds
over the question whether coral ISL
ands have the form they do because of
gradual subsidence OF their founda-
tions or whether the reefs are built
on elevations composed of the remains
of marine organisms that fall to the
ocean floor and finally approach near
enough to the surface to become the
resting place of the coral polyps The
| first theory is Darwinian, and, there
fore, there should have been more eau
ton in disputing it than has been
shown. With view to settling the
controversy, the Royal Society OF Eng
land, aided by a committee formed in
New South Wales, sent an expedition
last year to the Ellice Islands to make
deep borings. The attempt was a fall
ure, for the drills penetrated only 100
feet, while the coral builder, as has
long been known, can work at depth
of 100 feet. Last Fall another attempt
was made, wholly at the expense OF
the Australians. and the report has
come that depth of CAB feet was OBJ
tanned Through all this distance moth
ing except solid coral was found, and,
therefore, the subsistence theory can
no longer be questioned. The deposits
reached must have been secreted on
foundations not more than $50 feet
from the surface of the sea, and then
have been lowered to their present po-
sition. Thus genuine and important
contribution to human knowledge has
resulted from this investigation, and
much light is thrown on the geological
problems of the South Seas.
Captain Hug Lewis, an employee Of
the House of Representatives and
veteran soldier from Wisconsin, tells
All interesting little story to New
York Tribune correspondent, declaring
that 1t is hard fact and no sentiment.
Among the prisoners of war captured
at Island No. TO- in the Mississippi, and
taken to Madison, Wis, were 1870 men
who died of wounds and illness, and
were buried in a. cemetery in that
beautiful capital city. Living there
was a woman named Waterman, whose
husband was a native of New York
State. She herself had been born in
Baton Rouge, La, but had moved away
from the South when nine years Of age,
and, living in New York when the war
broke out, had married New Yorker.
This woman became deeply interested
in the graves of the Confederates bur-
led so far from home and friends, and
was instrumental in having neat, SIM
pie headboards and finally stone cop
ing placed there. During her life Mrs.
Waterman carefully attended to the
little plot of ground working with her
own hands to keep the weeds and
bushes, and to preserve the graves and
their headboards in good condition.
After many years this excellent woman
died. Captain Lewis and other friends
are anxious to carry on the work she
began. AS the wooden boards will de-
cay, they wish to replace them eventu-
ally with something more substantial.
1t Is believed that there are many per-
sons in the South, some of whom may
be related to the men who occupy the
graves, who would delight to assist in
doing this memorial act. The names
of nearly all the dead Southerners are
in the possession of Captain Lewis.
with the States and commands to
which they belonged.