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below upward. There it is that the
fractures take place.
Regions of Earthquakes.
g. AS the earths crust grows thicker
the inclined planes between the faces
and the ridges have a marked ten
dency to dislocation. These regions
are gradually reioining the depths of
a sort Of slow but constant downward
movement There also we expect to
find the regions of earthquakes, and
we shall see that experience confirms
this view. In the course of geological
times other very important wrinkles
have been produced here and there
These generally tend to a direction
perpendicular to the primitive frac-
lures
AS for the parts of the crust which
lie in the inclined planes in the neigh
borhood of volcanic regions, they will
always, because of their tendency to
slip down among the parts that have
already fallen, be subject to falling
movement, and will be specially fla
vored in the way of earthquakes.
It is thus that my theory has the
advantage of explaining the double
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inches apart. A frame is made of 1H
inch by l inch as shown in illustra
ton.
Very fair coops may be made from
old packing boxes by taking off the
front and bottom and substituting
Stats in their places. During warm
weather these crates may be placee
out of doors They may be protected
from the rain by boards laid on top
In cold weather the crates should b,
placed in house or shed where they
are protected from the raw cold winds
There is small V-shaped trough ar
ranged in front of the coop for feeding
and watering the chickens. This
trough is usually made three inches
deep of half-inch lumber. 1t is hung
in front of crate by wire. Before the
birds are placed in the crates they
should be well busted with sulphur.
After the birds are placed in the
crates they should be starved for 20
hours and fed very sparingiy for n
few days till they get accustomed to
the change of feed. Overlooking on
the start often has Injurious effect Oh
the digestive system.
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THE ROMANCE OF THE CHEST
Article of Furniture Often Mentioned
in Old Books and Manuscripts.

The term Golfer is rightly applied
these boxes, when they had but sin.
gle panel and were bound with iron
or made of great strength. Such ar
ticles as these are called in old books
and manuscripts trusting chests" or
standards" Hutch" was another
term applied to these standing chests,
and they were so important that you
cannot read any of those valuable old
records like THE Pastor Letters or
Howell's letters nor the records of our
own early settlers without finding
many references to the chest, begin.
ming with that small kind known as
Bible box" and running through all
the varieties which could be brought
or made here. Although the chest
grew into the chest of drawers, the
simple boX-like form remained in use
till about 1910, for still find them re-
corded in inventories and wills till
about that date.
Italian chests or "cassoni" were al.
ways gems of art. On them not only
the artist artisan, like the carver and
inlayer displayed his best handiwork,
but the artist himself painted on them
loves and cupidones. masks and must
cal instruments, flowers and festoons,
letting his fancy have full play when
1t was applied to a marriage chest or
one of those elegant little Golfers in
which some noble lady kept her store
of create peaTles," her girdles and
rings, her chains filed with jewels of
brilliant color and great worth. Such
chests had ponderous locks concealed
to some extent amid the ornament or
within the chest itself.
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OF volcano and earth
quake by the process of the contrac-
ton of the earth. And we shall see
how experience absolutely confirms
this theory.
Let us take up the terrestrial globe
on which we marked the ridges and
the apexes of our pyramid. Around
these resisting points the continents
have been formed and the lines Of dis
location will be easy to recognize. Vol
canoes, old or new. are all grouped
around just those points that mark
the limits OF the broken parts. AS this
Is on Mercator's projection, the sphere
spread out into plane, the three
ridges of the pyramid have become.
like the meridians. parallel lines.
Alongside the great American ridge
an uninterrupted volcanic line is seen.
Around the second are grouped the
volcanic districts OF Iceland and Jan
Mayen, the extinct volcanoes of Au
vergne tin France). the volcanic re-
gions of Sicily and eastern Africa. A
third line, which joins the first by
way of the Aleutian islands, surrounds
the third ridge, and this is made up Of
the volcanic regions OF the Kurile
islands, Japan, the East Indies and
New Zealand
Unite at South Pole.
All these files of fire unite at the
south pole around the fourth apex,
which is the Antarctic continent, the
borders of which show us also signs of
the same kind, with the volcanoes Ere
bus and Terror.
But this is not all. You may have
noticed that the three great ridges of
the pyramid tend toward the east.
This is due to well-known law of me-
chanics which provides that every
planet which diminishes in volume in
creases its speed of rotation. The
three great apexes or SUBMITS of the
northern hemisphere arose very early,
and as they were further away from
the center of the earth than regions
further to the south they, for this
reason, dragged behind; and SO all the
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from the water. But the line which
ridge, beginning in Hudson bay and
extending through the West Indies and
South America to the south pole, is.
roughly speaking, the backbone of the
continent and follows the general line
of the Appalachian chain. This part
OF the country is destined to rise even
higher, while the central plateau, from
the great lakes to the Gulf of Mexico,
forming as II does one of the areas of
least resistance, will be submerged.
New Works Probable Fate.
And what of New York? The geol-
ogists tell us that the city lies on the
edge of an enormous fault, the Pali-
sadesof the Hudson having been thrown
up by some giant organism Of nature
while the land to the east of them
dropped. the actual line of breakage
being the bed of the Hudson. Any
further shock at this point would in
tensify this life of the Palisades and
this drop of the land to the east Of
them. so the prospect is that some day
the harbor and the Hudson river will
rise and engulf the city.
The Rocky mountains, while com
paratively distinct from the principal
ridge OF the continent, are, in sense.
duplication of 1t. They were thrown
up by fearful cataclysm, which left
the depths of the Pacific in the hollow
beyond them. Many of them are evil
IDENTIFY volcanoes, quiet now, so far as
those in the United States are con-
cerned, but still active in Mexico, Cen
trail America and Alaska. A shock Of
vast extent would lift them even high
er, and all the prairies would sink into
the gulf between them and the Allie
ghanies.
Thus will the union be disrupted
by an ocean separating the Pacific
states from what is left of the At.
lantic states
Shall we live to see It? Who can tell ?
These cataclysms come without warn
| ing, but it is reasuring to remember
that they come at intervals of tens OF
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GROWING TOMATOES
FOR THE MARKET
Next the Potato II Stands Head
In Commercial Importance.

In recent bulletin of the West vir-
ginia station, w. M. Munson says.
Next to the potato. the tomato
stands. perhaps. at the head of the
list Of garden vegetables in CONNER
cial importance. In Maryland, New
Jersey. Delaware, Ohia. Indiana. and
TO rapidly increasing extent in West
Virginia, the crop is of special impor-
lance. while the greenhouses of New
York and New England and the newly
developed truck fields of Florida en-
deavor to supply the demand for this
fruit in winter.
BY far the larger portion of the area
devoted to this crop is employed in
supplying fruit for the canning fac
tories. and 1t is the demand of the
canneries which more than any other
has given the great impetus to tomato
culture.
The opinion is expressed that las a
simple business proposition, however,
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~SN'''S "'SN"SN ~ 'y''S 800
Cluster.
tomato growing offers excellent oppor-
tunities at this time"
Prof. Munson summarizes his 20
years experience in the culture of to-
matoes in the field and in the green
house substantially as follows:
Field Culture-One of the most i'm
portant problems in tomato culture is
that of earliness. AS a rule, plants
purchased of the local dealers are
drawn and ''leggy," being crowded to-
gether in small boxes When set in
the field where too often the soil is
hard and dry, the shock is such that
several weeks are required for the
plants to recover and no fruit sets I'M
til late in the season. In general,
these weak drawn plants are not worth
setting
Frequent transplantifig before set
ting in the field is the best method of
securing strong, stocky, well-developed
plants. The practice usually followed
by the writer has been to SOW the
seeds in hotbeds, or in shallow boxes
in the greenhouses, about April l.
When the first true leaves have we'll
started, or as soon as the plants begin
to crowd, transfer to two-inch pots
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ing cities and spreading desolation
over extensive districts, our uneasy
minds interrogate science and demand
of 1t the solution of problem that has
been mooted for many centuries. Let
violent earthquake be felt and i'm
mediately powers and states in burst
of spontaneous, instructive brotherhood
feel, as 1t were, the necessity for COM
ing closer to each other; discussions
will give place to anxiety over the
common peril, and we all worry about
this life of ours that Is periodically
threatened by the instability of that
element which we dignity with the
pretentious name of terra firma!
Since December % biologists and
astronomers have submitted to many
an interview. The explanations given
by the former have often seemed in
sufficient, while the latter have gen
orally avoided the subject. 1t may
seem presumption on the part of an
astronomer to go to work in territory
reserved for biologists, but to what
science should we have recourse for
the story of the earth's past. Has not
the astronomer always before his eyes
thousands of suns at all periods of
their life? Does he not know that
after having shone for second on the
clock of time our sun itself will be-
come extinct and will roll on through
space like the dead suns of the Milky
Way? Better than geology, then, as
tronomy Is the science which projects
the light of present times upon the
mysteries of the past.
Millions of years ago our humble
little earth shone with its own light.
a blazing star; it also warmed its
satellite, just as the sun to-day dis
penses to us its light and its heat I;
but in its dizzy course around the sun,
in its intersidereal voyage among the
consultations of heaven, like the sun,
it never repasses the same place, and
its original heat has quickly been dis
sipated by contact with the cold OF
space, which modern science estimates
at 273 degrees Centrigrade below zero
Birth of Life on Earth.
Little by little 1t became enveloped
in thick mantle of clouds, just like
Jupiter at the present time. Then came
the final moment: Upon its surface
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HEN violent shocks
like those that have
been felt in the last
few weeks come to
menace some point
on our planet, ruin
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Will This Roaly
be the Fate
OF the Earth?

The Famous French Priest-Astronomer, Able
Moreux, Says That the Earth, Which Once Bldzed
Like the Sun, Is Slowly Contracting and Losing
Its Shape, That 1t Is Doomed to Go Through
Terrific Commissions" and. That Much of the
Present Land Surface Will Sink Into the Sea
Before the Sea Itself Dries Up.
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lTH>E0 N EZ<FN2eM5 RRSDlC7IDRD HURHl/f.

thousands of years, and that the earth
has not yet cooled to a point at which
living persons need lie awake worry
ing in dread of the giant spasm that
will mean the death agony of this old
earth of ours.
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southern part of the globe accelerated
its rotary movement in respect to the
northern part; hence, dislocation
which caused what geographers call
the mediterranean depression,I that
immense depression which, from the
Antilles to the Pacific, passing by
way of the Mediterranean sea, the
Persian gulf and the East Indies,
forms one of the zones of least resis-
lance on the crust of the earth. There
is also found along this one of the
most sharply accentuated of volcanic
lines.
AS for the earthquakes, the area
that they cover is, as the theory
would lead us to expect, much vaster
in extent. In fact, they occupy those
regions that may be compared to in
clined planes. They are, to certain
extent, independent of the volcanoes,
and intimately related to the steep in
clines of the earth's surface. This
explains the fact that the centers of
shaking are in general localized in
the marine abysses along the lines of
high relief
To Be Answered by Time.
When the crust of the earth shall
have become too thick to bend before
these periodical oscillations what will
become of our globe? When the pres
sure upon the internal core shall be
felt perpetually, how will those gases
behave which are compressed in that
immense reservoir from which we are
separated by such an insignificant
crust? Terrific commissions will then
menace our miserable planet.
Ask an astronomer to show you the
tormented and shattered face of our
satellite; the surface of the moon
shows us, very probably, the desolate
aspect of world in which volcanic
action, in the spasms of frightful
agony, has put an end to all planetary
life.
Cataclysms will transform our earth,
and at that time the volcanoes of the
central plateau will warn mankind that
the stability of the earth is a vain
word Everything passes, everything
changes, nothing is stable, except He
who created the world and who gives
to men when It pleases him such
grand and terrible lessons.
The Able Moreux in his article goes
into details of what these changes that
he describes are likely to do to Eu-
rope. American readers will find II
Tore interesting TO consider what will
be their effect upon North America.
Applying the abbe's reasoning, It is
possible to make forecast. Physical
geographers tell us. that the great
chains of mountains which stretch
from Canada TO South Carolina were
thrown up at very early periods,
though separated by relatively wide
intervals. The Oldest rocks on the
continent are those OF the Laurenuan
mountains, in Quebec The Adiron.
dacks were an island before the Cat.
skills or the Alleghanies had risen
New-York tribune., 1909-09-19
1 NorARLE ASTRONOMICAL EEA1.

AS Halleys comet has been photographed at
both the Lick and Yerkes observatories, insti-
tutions Of the highest Tepute, there can be no
further question as TO its return after an alb
sence OF seventy-four years-an event 10 which
astronomers all over the globe have been eagerly
looking forward Since DR.. Wolff, Of Heidel-
berg, who first reported the comet is said to
have relied entirely on his camera in making
the discovery, il Is likely that no visual obser-
walton was made before that Of S. W. Burn
ham, mentioned in yesterdays dispatches.
This astronomer, who was long connected
with the Lick observatory, but has Of late been
a member OF the Yerkes observatory staff, is
famous for the keenness OF his eyesight 1t has
enabled him 10 separate twin points Of light
where other star gazers could perceive only one
He has discovered more double stars than any
other man in America, and he probably is with
out an equal elsewhere in the special class of
work 10 which he has devoted himself. Both be
and his country are 10 be congratulated upon
feat Of exceptional difficulty. When Haley's
comet last reappeared it was seen 1O2 days be-
fore fits closest approach 10 the sun. On this
occasion it was picked up" seven or eight
months in advance Of the computed time OF its
"perihellOn passage"
Mr.. Burnham had at his disposal the most
powerful refracting telescope In the world. In
the last three-quarters Of a century there have
been wonderful gains In the equipment Of as
Economical observatories. When Halleys comet
disappeared, in 1896 no one could have foreseen
what improvements in optical apparatus would
be effected by Alvan Clark & Sons. With any
thing having smaller light gathering capacity
than the 40inch glass constructed by that cele-
brated firm Mr.. Burnham might have been
obliged 20 wait little longer for his latest
triumph
New-York tribune., 1909-09-19
"EyTERTAIgINGr MR.. TAFT.

Public sympathy is already with the Presi
dent in the ordeal of hospitality he is about to
undergo at the hands of reception committees
throughout the length of his thirteen thousand
mile trip but it is probable that there are few
who realize the full measure OF compassion
which should be felt for the Chief Executive
Some light may be thrown on the character of
the trials in store for him. however. by the news
from St Louis that committee Of Nlissourians
and Arkansans is planning for the entertain
ment of the President "a Joy ride on a swamp"
When. last autumn, Mr.. Taft reached Fargo,
\. D., he found prepared for his entertainment
3 gigantic barbecue, with half a hundred half
cooked oxen smoking over the embers. When he
was required 10 pose in the act of taking 8 pro-
diglous bite out of huge sandwich from which
the almost raw beef hung pendulously on either
side, while. to the glare of a dozen flashlights.
as many cameras were focused on him, he
thought that the limit Of Western hospitality
and entertainment had been reached But he
counted without his host The worst was yet
10 come. and now, in the language of the Ar
kansans 1T has came
There is need of drainage in the St Francis
Valley of Arkansas. The residents Of the val
ley have grown weary of their annual crops OF
mosquitoes and malaria. They are anxious to
accept Uncle Jimmie Wilson's advice and
go in for diversified farming" Incidentally,
they want Uncle Sam 10 pay the drainage bill.
Therefore they have planned the ''jOy ride"
The Arkansas version of the Missouri motto
"Show me-" reads, "Show him." and they desire
to show the President. to exhibit 70 him all the
natural beauties of Blytheville and Big Greek.
of Marked Tree and Paragould, in all six mill
ion as fertile acres. they declare as ever lay
under water. 1t will cost S6,OO0,OOO to drain
the water of. and the residents of the valley
believe the proposed 10y ride" over the swamp
will prove all sufficient to convince the Pres-
dent that II should he drained at any cost.
Probably II will
New-York tribune., 1909-09-19
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT.
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Newport Sept 1s-Tvo social aHairS II hozcr
CT the German naval officers Who are here with tbs
cruiser squadron which Is to represent Germany
az the HudsOn-Fulton Gslsbration in New York
were the chief features OF the day rscsPton
was given b. Dir. ard Mrs J. HIitchsu Clark this
afternoon AZ Gray Craig. a. which there a
representative gathering os German o1hcsrs, Crluad
States army and navy ofTicsEs and sumner resi-
dents. The other AFFAIR was a dinner azd danes
given By Mrs. CIsrmoEL Z. Bss- and her daughter.
and this vas also attended BY large sat1s-lnS
On the whole. there considerable entertain
ing to-day. There vas a largs luncheon party az
the Gooseberry Island Fishing Club entertained b.
Major Edmund ]. Curlsy n honor OF George &
De Forest Mrs. Joseph r DlwcrIh gave her
farewell dinner tonight Sfrs r 7 Gamn.sI. Z.
c. knight. jr-. Mrs Charles T Holman. Hrs :.
". DoIan. Mrs. 'PelSroSs Jones Ms Herbert =.
Hartman and Mrs. James P EernochaE a-so sava
dinners. Ths Clanbaks Club gave ore OF rs regu-
lar bakes to-day. and r. Y Natriscn. J. cel@-
brated his biEtaday THIS svaniHg By gIvias et1-
ner az EUshy Park. the home q his parents
Norman Whitshouss and Austen Gray havs -
turned from visits in New York
Nfr and Mrs. Gaorss : Scocr have decided 70
remain n Newport urtu November. Thsy are 70
sail for Europe on December S.
Mrs. E W. Roy Of New York. Is the srss- e
ha- sister. Mrs. J. Mitchell Clark. az Gray craig
The governors OF the Newport Casino held a
meeting this morning and elected the 1ollovSag
ohlce-s. President. George Peabody Wsrr.o-e; vce-
president George R Fearing; secretary. GsCrgs
7. Rives: treasurer William Warts Sherman: act-
ing treasurer. Frank K. Sturgis, executive con-
Inittes. EsertOa L Wtnthrop. =. \ 9. Tavlcv ard
u. Mex Twombly.
Registered at the Caslno to-day were . Ls RcT
Dresser. Coulte G do Ganaey. Of Paris, Douglass
Gibbons. Frederick y. Allen, Who is a guest -
Mrs. John r, prexel. and Charles z Sands ara
John H. McCaherty. Of Nav York. who a-e guests
OF Mr- and Mrs II Q. Eav srnsys- "
Mrs william Payne Thompson Is the crest cs
her father, Atherton Blight
Orue Wilson IS a guest OF r T. Wilson Lady
Herbert returned this evening
New-York tribune., 1909-09-19

and Mrs Richard Mortimer have reeI-nss -
abroad and opened their large house.
Other late cottage arrivals are Mr. ard NJ
Vivian Spencer. Morgan @. BarnwelI Mr. ana No
Hoffman Miller. Nlr. and Mrs Macdonald Nraso-
Mt and Mrs Cornelius S. Lee. the Rev ana ~
William Fitzsiraon. Mr.. and Mrs. L NJ Ogden "a
the Row Dr. and Mrs. George William Douglass
Mr. and Mrs Clermont CIarzson are spending -.
autumn IN the Stokes cottage and Mr. and 1r-s
Newell Ttton are in the small Loonnis cottage
At the clubhouse for the autumn are Mr. A..
Mrs Willard s Brown Mr.. and Mrs. W. r Rse.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gardner Brown Mr. and Mrs % =
Green. Mr.. and Mrs George II. Huh. Mr. and ~,
E. A ingalls,. and Mr. and Mrs II. Leroy Emn,st
Other arrivals this week were 9Ir. and Mrs Aps-,
r Baldwin, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul D. Cravath NJ
and Mrs Robert z Brooke. Carlisle Norwood. =
w Gay, Alexander Forbes. Miss Forbes G. WYus+,
Vannest. John Rutherturd. Mrs T. J. Oakley Rhin.
lander, Mrs Drayton. C. R. Scott ]. " IspsIsv
and D. j. Brand.
New-York tribune., 1909-09-19
STATISTICS OF THE FOURTH.

Despite the effective efforts for safe and
sane" celebration which were made In some
communities. the slaughter roll OF the Fourth
Of July this year was longer than ever before.
According 20 1.-The Journal of the American
Medical Association" 215 persons were killed
by fireworks or firearms or other explosions, an
increase OF % over 1908 and 81 over 1907. Of
these 81 We're literally burned TO death, while
l2o less fortunate, perished 10 the agonles
or tetanus. More than so per cent OF these
deaths from tetanus were due TO blank car
uldges, chiefly In toy pistols. In the seven
years In which the association has compiled
these CHASTITY statistics 794 deaths from teta-
nus have occurred from the use of those mis-
chieyous devices. Next in the production of
tetanus comes the giant firecracker.
We have referred 20 the efforts of some places
TO stop this internal work. Three cities thus
made themselves notable Washington had
q prohbitoTy ordinance, and suffered no casual
ues whatever. Cleveland also tried prohibition,
and had only four slight injuries Chicago had
a merely restrictive law, which reduced the
usual number Of casualties by more than one
half. But the rest Of the State of Illinois. hay
ing no check on explosives, surpassed all other
states IN the number of grave disasters. The
example Of these three cities affords a raw of
nope amid The general gloom of the years rec
ord II shows that it Is quite feasible to nut an
end to this yearly torture and slaughter in the
abused name of patriotism and that it is best
done by absolute prohibition OF such devices