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find lateral compresslons OF the crust,
which tend to cause movements from
below upward. There it is that the
fractures take place.
Regions Of Earthquakes.
8. AS the earth's crust grows thicker
the inclined planes between the faces
and the ridges have marked ten
dency to dislocation. These regions
are gradually rejoining the depths of
q 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 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 haye
already fallen, be subject to a falling
movement, and will be specially IA
vored in the way of earthquakes.
1t is thus that my theory has the
advantage of explaining the double
phenomenon 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 a 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.
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Around the second are grouped the
volcanic districts of Iceland and Jan
Mayen, the extinct volcanoes of Au-
vergne Tin Franco, the volcanic re-
giOns of Sicily and eastern Africa. A
third line, which joins the fret 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 al 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
bug 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 a wellknown 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
y,
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
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 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 a certain
extent, Independent of the volcanoes,
and intimately related to the steep in
clines of the earths 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
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on our planet, ruin
ing cities and spreading desolation
over extensive districts, our uneasy
minds interrogate science and demand
of it the solution of a problem that has
been mooted for many centuries. Let
a violent earthquake be felt and i'm
mediately powers and states in burst
Of spontaneous, instructive brotherhood
feel, as it 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 earths 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 a 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 it's
satellite, just as the sun to-day dis
renses to us it's light and it's heat;
but in it's dizzy course around the sun,
in it's 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 it became enveloped
in a thick mantle of clouds, just like
Jupiter at the present time. Then came
the final moment: Upon its surface
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THE MIDDLE-AGED MAN.
Why He Thinks 1t IS rheumatism That
Is Bothering Him and Not Govt.

Can anybody tell me" said the
middle-aged man, "the difference be-
tween rheumatism and govt? Now,
not being very we'll versed in medical
science. knowing very little in fact
about osteology or therapeutics or an
atomy, materia medica or pharma-
copoea. l wouldn't undertake, myself,
offhand to say; but in general way
I would say that govt is an ailment
that attacks the rich and rheumatism
the poor; and, being not what you
would call rich man, suppose what
I've got is rheumatism.
Il have read in novels and seen pic
lures of portly gentlemen of middle
age or rather more who sat in great
easy chairs and with one foot all
swathed up in bandages stretched odt
in front of them supported on foot
rest. This is the old gentleman, living
in a fine old manor house or in a
splendid mansion in town, who is de-
scribed in the novel as being testy and
choleria -choleric. as l understand it,
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out law. 1t had always been believed
that the ups and downs of the sur
face were formed rather by chance
until Lowthian Green, about 40 years
ago, suggested the general process by
which the continents were formed,
writes the Able Moreux, curator of
the observatory at Bruges, Belgium, in
the New York World. At first treated
with derision, Green's theory at last
came under the high patronage of M
de Lapparent in France. From the
point of view of the astronomer, many
points remained to be cleared up. This
is the work which |, in collaboration
with my friend Col du Ligondes, have
succeeded in accomplishing in these
last few years. In 1902 / indicated
just what might be drawn from the
sketch made by Green to explain the
theory of volcanoes and earthquakes
A few lines will suffice to make the
reader understand the hypothesis.
The earth is round, of that there is
no doubt; it's rotary movement has
swollen it at the equator and flattened
it at the poles. Such is the general
formula which has now become clas-
sic. But it's volume diminishing from
the effects of cooling, the earth has
reached the condition of q balloon
from which the gas is escaping little
by little. 1t is tending toward the
shape of a pyramid with four faces
and four apexes.
The Terrestrial Globe
Examine a terrestrial globe Three
of the faces are represented by de-
pressions-the hollow of the Pacific,
the Atlantic ocean and the Indian
ocean. To these depths correspond
over the siXtieth parallel north three
of the apexes of our pyramid, which
became prominent very early, as the
vast layers of primeval rocks bear wit
ness. These are the Canadian height,
that of the Baltic and that of Siberia
the center of which is found not far
from Irkutsk. From these three apeXes
radiate, like continental backbones,
branches which, with more or less in
terruption, continue to the South Pole.
Since the voyage of Nansen we have
known that the fourth face of the
pyramid scan be placed in the great
Arctic basin, while the Antarctic con-
tfhent forms the fourth apex of our
pyramid.
apexes, which have remained stable
throughout the great geological peri
DDS and have formed. SO to speak, the
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these periodical oscillations what will
become of our globe? When the pres
sure mon the internal core shall be
felt nerpetually, 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 a world in which volcanic
action, in the spasms of frightful
agony, has put an end to all planetary
life.
Cataclvsms will transform our earth.
ana 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 it
more 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 Laurentian
mountains, in Quebec. The Adiron.
dacks were an island before the Cat.
skiJls or the Alleghanies had risen
from the water. But the line which
Father Moreux calls the American
ridge, beginning in Hudson bay and
extending through the West Indies and
South America to the south pole, is
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No Temneramenr.

"One of your daughters married an
artist, did she not?"
Eyes, and he beats her dreadfully."
"The artistic temperament. Who did
her sister marry?"
"a coal HEAVIER, and he loves her de-
votedly and never gives her a cross
word"
How uneventful life must seem
with an unthinking clod like that
Houston Post.
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Grain Elevator for Mexico City.

The Mexican Herald announces that
a movement is on foot for the erection
present the only one in the republic
is the small elevator on the Coatza-
coalcos river, near Santa LIcretia, in
Vera Cruz.
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there formed a crust, which impris-
oned within it a core, gaseous. liquid,
and at a high temperature. The geo.
logical periods began, life appeared
in the warm waters, while the cold,
ever at work, was necessarily causing
the internal mass to contract, soon the
shell became too large for the liquid
mass inside, and it was then that the
wrinkles appeared in the bark-those
ridges which later were to give birth
to our ranges of mountains.
But nothing in nature is made with
90 90
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Will This Deau>
be the Fate
Of the Earth?

The Famous French Priesf-Astronomer Able
Moreux, Says That the Earth, Which Once Blazed
Like the Sun, Is Slowly Contracting and Losing
It's Shape, That 1t Is Doomed to Go Through
"Terrifc Commissions" and. That Much of the
Present Land Surface Will Sink Into the Sea
Before the Sea Itself Dries Up.
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meaning not that he has cholera, or
anything of that sort but an uneven
temper, and this old gentleman with
foot thus done up in bandages and
supported on a foot rest has govt.
But several of my symptoms are
different. l don't live in an old manor
house, nor in a mansion in town; and,
however disposed l might be to be
testy and choleric, have to keep my
temper, and | don't swath my foot in
bandages and recline it on foot rest.
have to keep more or less on the
move.
so | suppose that in the absence of
the familiar govt symptoms we might
safely diagnose my case as one of just
plain rheumatism; but l guess my
rheumatism hurts me about as much
as the govt of our testy and choleric
old friend hurts him."
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A Mad Rush.

Mexican-Big earthquake today.
American Tourist-Was there One?
I didn't notice it.
Mexican-Not you see zee people
rush out from churches?
Tourist-Oh, yes, saw that; but
1 thought maybe the contribution box
was going 'round.-New York Weekly
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Pneumonia and Consumption are al
ways preceded by an ordinary cold Ham
Inns Wizard Oil rubbed into the chest
draws out the inflammation, breaks up
the cold and prevents all serious trouble.
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only One of Many.

That's queerly cut dinner jacket
you have on"
"This is not a dinner jacket, it's q
meal sack"
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Throat Trouble may follow a Cough, or
HoarSeness. Browns Bronchial Troches''
give relief. rs cents box. Samples free.
John /. Brown & Son, Boston, Mass.
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When people begin to take the
trouble to tell other people that the
value of your work is overestimated
it is a sign that you are succeeding
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If you are acquainted with happi-
ness, introduce him to your neighbor.
Bishop Brooks.
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Opportunities fall in the way OF
every man who is resolved to take ad-
vantage OF them.-Samuel Smiles.
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No life can be pure in it's purpose
and strong in its strife, and all lie
not be purer and stronger thereby.
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WE BUY CREAM-WRITE FOR PRICE
Miller g. Holmes ST. Paul, MINI.
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We buy cream Write desk No. 3 for prices.
CRESCENT CREAMERY CO, ST. PAUL
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Things past may be repented but
not recalled.-Livy.
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The most certain sign Of wisdom is
a continual cheerfulness.-Mont
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WE PAY Toilets. FOR cow HIDES
and high price for furs. Sell traps cheap
N. w. Hide & Fur Co., Minneapolis Mimi.
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Suspect the meaning and regard not
speeches.-Socrates.
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1t Cures While You Walk
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Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup.
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And sometimes a poet fools people
by wearing his hair short.
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MILTON DAIRY CO., ST. PAUL, MINI.
Are heavy cream buyers. Get their prices.
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HEN violent shocks
like those that have
been felt in the last
few weeks come to
menace some point
IN orr nlanet. ruin
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REZIEF MAp az ElIPOIQE N6W/6

skeleton of the dry land, that what
may be called the slow revolutions of
the globe will continue to take place.
All the general phenomena of the sur
face of the earth can be explained by
three species of movements:
l. Each face of the pyramid in it's
center follows the core in it's con-
traction. Thus, it is a sinking move
ment which has formed the great de-
pressions of the oceans.
2. At the edges of the faces, that
is to say, round about the ridges, we
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An unbridled tongue is the worst of
diseases.
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Gee whiz Syrup has butter-scotch flavor.
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