The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-01-06

When one reeds e m q seme aa-
1sn and violent alteration ae
81 this planet 81 ea netiee
81 puts & down something
Wav ofa aanic oat5aE mqs
ase so Niothe
Eartb has many fashion building up
hat ilS and getli "a what
SHE red cf
One hardl wonders ha AiHn
ribes who freqnented the SHORES q
/ the Columbus river used @ Worship a
+ tha All-Devouring 0ae great eitn
near the Cascades which for many
years past has been steadily advancing
upon the river, with the eFtdent inten-
tioh Of blotting out its bed and form
ing huge lake above This viii IA
evitabl9 happen The mountain hieh
4 is 1000 feet high and eight miles long
i has been proved to be moving torWara
+ and downward az rate aE one ~ tlrse
feet year The railway track Which
4 RIMS along its base has To be constant
4 " altered The reason 81 this pcnoe
ous landslide Is that the mountain
rests on layer of soft sandstone, which
is steadily giving way. The village q
sainte Foy de Tarentaise, 80 eastern
/ France, seems sdooHed tc be epgulteo
The base Of the hill on which it stands
Is being eaten away by the rapid wa
ters Of the Isere. The houses, some OH
them, show cracks riyaling those Of cur
Cheshire Northwich Some day there
win be q short, sharp shock, and
Tarentaise win no longer exist
Islands 60 and come So constantly
that none but the admiralty keep count
81, them. Submarine volcanoes are re-
sponsible for most of these disappear
/ ances, but others are harder to account
for. Metis island, for instance, ia the
South Pacific bore no sign ofyoleanie
I action about it'll IT was charted ia 1880
+ its highest point being 150 feet. hasi
year IT had gonez vanished utterly
without leaving trace. on the site
Of another small guano island Of the
j coast Of southern California, recent
Z soundines showed SO fathoms of water
/. Tangier island. in Chesapeake Day, Wa'
fortified by our heek in the war Of 1872
s IT has sunk steadilgs i1now those Tort
{ ifieion ara under water
i THE sands great deaeF
are as hu M the pitiiess aea itssf
Many 81 he smaller eases in the
w Fm
= deadly simeon.
) Some 400 miles southeast of the oi'
4 city Of Kashgar, far out in the yellcg
s desolatiou Of the desert Of Gobi, th
great Swedish explorer, Sven Hedin
saw something projecting from th
smooth side of Ghe long dunes. If wa
the wooden roof Of a house Furthe
R Investigation showed that it was bu
one Of thousands, a teeming city Q
highly civilized Aryans had long existel
Oh this spot until the earth had tire'
Il Of il and wiped ii out.
le Until December IS, 1871, the eastern
a part of Craighead county Arkansas
s. was one OF the most beautiful and fei
e. tile stretches Of prairie Imaginable, ip
10 terspersed with tracts of lovely wood
land. Pretty rivers ran between hig
or clay banks, and the country was rapid
ID ly settling. On the morning Of Decem
e. ber 10, in place of rivers and rollinl
Al prairie, a great lake rippled in the sun
ve light In the night fhe whole regiol
tt 1870 miles long and SO Wide, bad sun
ly 20to 4OFeet, To-day the weird lakes 3
id the Arkansas sunk lands offer the mos
beautiful scenery and some Of the bes
e. sport in ma the southern states.
or Nothing is too big Of too small to el
be cape the NAV Of our hungry glob
% Ouicksapds are the traps she spread
ae for smaller fry. Probably the wor'
or and most dangerous in the world q
81 the shots" Of the Sahara. These ar
.In perhaps, the dregs of some prehistor
81, sea- Now they are covered over wit
IS thick crust of salt and sand Who
IS caravans have walked unconsciousl
into these death-traps and been quic
a ly swallowed up Reclus, the gre
n French authority. declares you q
TAI sound these quicksaHds to a depth
ey 500 feet without finding bottom. 20
ey don Mail.
he How Women stana sseaaielrnesu.
its Are women more subject to seasic
ness than men2 An Atlantic capita
el- answers Yes; but On theo other han
ot they stand it better a woman stru
us. plea up to the point Of despair again
ng the what 4 might call the impToprie
ne Of the thing She isn't So much tt
.sl. tured by the panga as she is Horri
let by the prospect Of becoming disheVel'
ley haggard and draggled. She figl
against It 70 the last, and keeps UP 3
liy pearances as long as she can hold
US her head
aeh ether she becomes maudlin and (
VA thetie she takes Sc her room end
nt. variably asks three questions Fir
my whether people die of seasicknei
then, how many miles we are fr'
% shore. and lastls when we shah .
g there. She also often asks how de
uia the water is aud e think poasi
eia- for anyone TO go seven DAYS withi