Arizona republican., 1906-09-23
NATIVES OF JAPAN
 FORETELL EARTHQUAKES
Fir. HashimOto of Phoenix Describes
 the Way It Is Done.


 anese of this city. describing the man. ner in which the people of his coun- try have for a long time been able to foretell the approach of earthquakes:
 Earthquakes have invaded this peaceful land, too. One occurred in California in May. 1891, Solano county most suffering and many of the houses in the towns of Vacaville and Winters being demolished. though not a person fell its victim. Again in the same state in April last one of an unprece- dented nature took place. San Fran cisco and its vicinity were the center of the shock, entailing great destruc- ton of life and property.
 Being a native of Japan. where seismic disturbances have taken place next to Italy in frequency and sever ity, and thinking that if l write about how the oriental people foresee an earthquake and take precautions against the destructive force, the peo- pie of the occident who have been ac- customed to a peaceful living and been utterly ignorant of such foresight and precaution, may manage themselves against future calamities I will say:
 "The science of earthquakes is not so developed as others, consequently
  public against an approaching earth quake. But before the appearance of the thing there is no better way than the one the Japanese have followed. As they presaged whether it would rain or not before the barometer was invented, through the instincts of some lower beings, such as a spider whose weaving anew Its webs indi- cates fine weather. and a squirrel whose storing up acorns in its hole is a forerunner of foul weather, so do the Japanese practice a similar mode with earthquakes. This primeval day fashioned science naturally has been forged among the inhabitants of Nip pon upon whom such disasters nave befallen. There are five signs
 "The little fishes that live in a pond die, if not all, because they so dis agreeably get the water mixed with muddy stuffs produced by feeble tremblings that the actions of the gills are gradually hindered by the deposit of the uncleah things. Horses whose nature is timid neigh helpIcssly in a stall. as the hoofs resting on the ground feel the slightest motion. The weather is extremely close. since the top earth loses the faculty of cooling  that constantly rushes toward the upper layers. The moon looks larger and reddish and the stars are visible in less distance and more clearly be- cause of the heat coming to the earth from the moon and the stars, which is the very heat given by the sun, and which retracts against the excessive heat over the earth.
 "I was in California when it was visited by one earthly tremor one early morning in May, 1891, I happened to be awake at midnight and looked up at the heavenly clusters, which looked unusually distinguishable through a window near by, and a sudden impress sion came to me foreshadowing that that would be for an earthquake. It came off in reality. The time was a few minutes after o'clock. I am al ways proud that I, perhaps, alone in United States had known previously that the earthquake was coming. Ac- cording to d report from San Fran cisco at that eventful time Gin April last) one man perceived little shakes previous to the catastrophe but it was q pity that he did not get it made known.
 Years ago the Italian government is
 
 for earthquake for the people to study them and as a result the death rate has since been reduced. Since that hever-to- o-be-forgotten visitation of earthquake in Japan twelve years ago, with a death rate of over 10000 per sons. besides a strange topography made in three provinces, they have much looked over those omens.
 The discoverer of great medicine known as Morita-Hotam, which is composed of barks and peppermints. and which is a favorite of every Jap anese both at home and abroad as a iife-giver over prostration and swoon, established his shop Tn Tokio and the present proprietor is the third gener- ation. The same discoverer found out one secret by which one may foresee imminent phenomena and avoid them. It is so closely connected with the foregoing signs that I will add it. The secret is:
 Place the left thumb on the pulse of the right wrist and at the same time stick the right middle finger to the pulse a little be:ow the outward point of the lower jaw on the left hand side and examine each pulsation. and you will know one punctually ac- cords with the other, otherwise they signify danger. If one goes to a beach or mountain resort to lodge a night or sojourn for some time one will avail oneself of the great discov- cry by which the Darwin-like prede- cessor was freed. it is said, from awful occurrences. such as tidal wave, land slide and volcanic holocaust. The reason is this:
 "ElecJricity within a human body is ready to be in contact with matter without and about the time an uneX- pected phenomenon is coming on, the power reacts and the sensitive nerves are apt to rouse to affect the heart organ, which effects the different numbers of the pulsations because the nerve functions administer the rates of the sense rapidity."
 DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED by local applications. as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an infiamed con- dition of the mucous lining of the Eus- tachian Tube When this tuDe is inc