The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09

ances. An earthquake was felt in the early morning of September 2, at Hilo' and the following day a second shock
 also in the early morning, was felt.
 The shocks appear to have been con
 fined to one particular place, as not
 the slightest evidence of quake was
 felt at the volcano of Kilauea, which
 is about twenty-five miles from Hilo Endless Speculation.
 But the most marked evidence Of
 some seismic disturbance was found
 along the seashore. Quantities Of flsh
 were found dead and were constantly
 cast up by the sea. Over the eyes Of
 the fish was a light colored film' as
 if they had come into contact with
 scalding water and had been killed by such means Where the new crater will appear, as Dr. Bishops remarks would indi- cate such will be the case, Is uncer- tain, as is the time, but the district of Puma seems the most probable sec tion.
 The vivid picture which was given in 1902 in the Pacific islands of the many secondary processes that could | be started by a single primary erup- l tion of a volcano and of the subsi- diary activities which these secondary explodings, eroding and depositlnss inaugurated leads a mind of evolution ary tendency to the inquiry: May not the supposed primary explosion be really subsidiary to a process. started thousands of years ago over much wider area and may not the fact that these eruptions are themselves work ing over old volcanic materials be part of the evidences of their super ficlal and secondary character? Such speculation may be extended indefi- nitely.
 Do volcanoes start afresh in regions which have not known volcanism be- 1 fore? Does such beginning itself be- get volcanoes? Are the known volcan- i ic Assures along the lines of the Pacific 1 islands fundamental and original in our earth or are they secondary from oceanic processes? Why are such is land chains convex toward the great
 oceans? Is there water of profound origin involved or is it all superficial?
 These theoretical questions will one by one find an answer. But volcanic fields are as yet uneXplored. Compared with the scale of the globe the vol l canic manifestations which we know
 are those Of small, spluttering either l in the ancient rock sections nor on the | present surface, of very profound ori-
 Volcanoes of Recent Origin. It Is not difficult to construct a
 theory which readily explains the
 birth of new islands in the Pacific and the disappearance of old land marks On the American continent | volcanoes are limited to the Pacific slope, along which they may be traced ! from Cape Horn to Alaska. In South i America there are numbers of these
 mountains, of which Cotopaxi rising 10 a height of 19,50O feet in he Ecua- dorean Andes, is the most notable eX-
 ample. Central America has nearly
 100 volcanic peaks, some of which are
 extinct while others are at present quite active. In Mexico there are sev- 1 en well defined volcanic peaks, chiet among which Is PopocatapetL
 ! Two of these volcanoes actually
 cropped out at Pacific islands to which ithey gave birth. There is the volcano on the Hawaiin islands, and there is
 new volcano on the Island of SaviI, i the largest of the Samoan group, which ialso owe their origin to volcanic ac- tivity The new volcano on the Island
 of Savii is a little over year old. having made it's outburst on August | 5, 1905
 It came after series of about fifty | earthqua kcs. some of them very Vio IIent. 4 photograph of the volcano 1 taken only few weeks after it first came into view show an enormous mass of volcanic matter heaped around the crater This mass was lifted from the subterranean depths by the erup- ktive forces to a height of at least six