A — THE VESUVIAN TERROR. Vivid Description of Great Erup- tion Which Rivals Powm- peii’'s Destruction. The Pamous Italian Novelist, Marion Crawford, Tells of the Terrors of the Big Volcano--History of For- ymer Eruptions, The whole world looked on, awe- struck, at the recent fierce outbreak of stupendous and devastating force In the Bay of Naples. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius is believed to be the most destructive since the days of Pom peii, A. D,, 79. The whole story of the eruption of 1906 is a sorrowful tale of stricken vic- tims, devastated vineyards, ruined homes and terror-stricken, flying peo- ple, and it is hard to realize that the same scenes have been enacted there go many times before, Pliny, the noted ancient historian, described the eruption of Vesuvius in the year '79, in a series of letters to Tacitus, This letter described a dark cloud rising in a single pillar from the crater of the mountain and from this a column spread, and upon it rested a great roof, built by invisible carpen- ters. Resting ever on its single pillar, like a great mushroom, this roof shut out the sky from all those wide acres | extending sixteen milea away. The light ashes of the fire from Vesuvius descended like snow upon Pompeii, burying it to great depths. Hercu- laneum was drowned in a sea of vol canic mud. Those who have read the letters of Pliny find similarity in the description written by the noted novelist, Marion Crawford. There is probably no other i ——— A — In prehistoric days Vesuvius was probably twice as high, the top having been blown off centuries before the eruption that destroyed Pompeil. Since the year 1631 Vesuvius has never heen wholly at rest. In that year 18,000 lives were lost, The clouds of steam that came from the rush of water into the hot mass below the surface condensed and fell in a boiling rain that scorched everything with which it came in con- tact, The very sea drew back the skirts of its dark blue robe and then swept forward again far beyond its old limits, The last of the great convulsions be- fore the recent one occurred in 1872. Then, like this one, there was a great lava flow, together with throwing up of burning rock and the fall of ashes upon Destroyed by an Earthquake On the morning of December 8, 1812, all without warning, came a great catas- trophe, While the church was crowded with kneeling worshipers a shock of earthquake visited the valley and top- pled the great stone tower over upon the roof, crashing through which it buried the congregation beneath the wreckage of beams, tiles and stones, and upward of forty human beings lost thelr lives In the twinkling of an eye, This earthquake ranks in sever- ity with that of Charleston, in 1586, So great was the disaster that, although the mission continued to be conducted Te m——" ee Rn 0 Rea the surrounding country, Vesuvius is one of a group of similar mountains in the Mediterranean Sea, its comrades being Etna, Stromboli and Vultano, which last gave the name to all mountains of this kind. That, in turn, was called after Vulcan, the god who made the armor for the fighting | deities of the ancient world and forged { the very thunderbolts of Jove himself His workshop was under Mount J5tna. There the inhabitants of the hillsides heard him shaping great masses :of iron with his terrible hammer stroke while the nameless slaves of the forge, dimly imagined creatures of that: old day, blew the gigantic bellows and held great bars in place, while the master worked. The Greeks with even itheir learning, did not inquire into the scien- tific reasons for the mighty utterings of the mountain; they knew what the awful roar of those volcanic mountains | meant. And our wise men, with their figures and books, know little of what Is going ou in the fiery caverns under the earth's thin erust, po Nature soon heals her sears. Al ready, we are told in dispatches, spots of green have appeared on the black ened sides of Mount Pelee, and it will American living who is so well ac- quainted with conditions as they exist in Italy. He has taken up his per- manent abode in the Italian hills, The VESUVIUS IN life, customs and mannerisms of the, italian have been pictured by him in| stories which have made him famous, In his cabled description to the New York Times Crawford stated that the | recent eruption of Vesuvius had been grumbling for many weeks before the outbreak which did the incalculable damage. Smoke Two-Miles High. rmous volome of black sm a height of two miles. above rater.” he wrote. “Incandescent are thrown up 3. s southeasterly wind whicl An #1 we vs 10 oq it endless a here acres and there ; smoke of sul- nd a great pine by its roots and turned to bla al e alr was almost unbreathable: the heat intense. The faces of the people who crowded upon the edge of the arrested stream ex I sed terror of exhaustion from re cent panic fi tor tres n "ie up i k charcos th res Feeble Attempts of Man Useless. “When the stream of fire threatened Boscotrecase soldiers dug a wide ditch across its patch in the hope of divert ing its course, but the molten stream advanced like a colossal serpent of fire turning its head to the right and left as a snake does, but keaping its general direction toward the fated town, It was not till it reached the first house, sending up great showers of sparks, that the people finally fled for their lives “1 saw men, women and children, and infants whose mothers carried them al the breast or in their aprons. Dogs, too. and cats were on the carts, and sometimes even chickens, tied togeth- er by the legs, and piles of matiresses and pillows, all white with dust under | the lurid glare We ourselves could hardly breathe This dispateh corresponds exactly in detail to Pliny's letters, The same flaming mountain and shaking earth the same stifling smoke and ashes, the same terrifying darkness and the same helpless, distracted crowd stretching vain hands to thelr gods for succor Originally Vesuvius was in the form of a single cone. Later eruptions have broken down the southern side of the original erater, leaving the northern semi-circle, which is called Monte Somma, A smaller central cone had up within the anclent ruin, It this inner cone that had its top blown off, Before the recent eruption the height of the mountain was about 4,000 feet, " THE OLD WELL IN THE COURTYARD. for twenty-two years longer, no at- {not be very long before the olive and | the vine and the clustering villages will find their way back again to the slopes of Vesuvius. | restoration tempt seems to have been made by the padres to restore the church edifice, and it and its adjoining buildings and SO many years, back. For a few seconds Alaric King: scote stood looking after him, then, with a strangely fierce gesture, the young fellow flung off his rough tweed coat, removed the Cardigan waistcoat that covered the breadth of his chest, and turned up the sleeves of his coarse flannel shirt. At the foot of the oak lay the wood- man's huge axe that was to bo the in- strument of death, that was to cut short the growth of centuries. Alarle Kingscote swung the great weapon aloft, and the cold starlight ran along the shining steel Like some Viking warrior of old—Ilike the re-embodiment of one of his Saxon forebears, Alarie brought down the tool of destruction with a blow that gashed deep into the corrugated skin of the oak. The doom of the Kingscote Oak had been proclaimed. As he stood braced up for the second stroke, the bulging sinews of his fore- arm responding to the generous rise of chest and thigh muscles, a curious sound from behind him caused him to swing round with a faint ery. Then he lowered the axe with amazing gen- tieness, Another figure had appeared upon the scene—the figure of & woman, clad in a cloak of fur that hid the contour of her form. “Damaris."” The word fell from the young man's lips like a caress. IT. "Bo_.youve come,” he gald softly. “You soe I am as good as my word The Kingscote Oak must go. It Is the last Mok between me and the work house—for it almost comes to that” It was evident that the relationship between these two was something more binding that the ordinary ties existent between casual acquaintances of opposite sex. Each seemed to ac- copt the situation as [nevitable. Then the girl went on, hurriedly: cloisters have remained to this day an imposing and beautiful ruin. Touched | gently by Time's hand, dignified in out. { line and rich in color, {t replete with | subjects for the artist and is the ad- | of every traveler, With the of the bulldings the in tention is to create here a college for the priesthood as at Santa Barbara, i# 1iratic n 4 {and to make of San Juan Capistrano AN LA) i A 4 -d an important factor in the Roman Catholic Church Callforula, work of the in Southern THE LOVE OF ALARIC. Beneath the 1 mighty oak tree, a glant stood sentinel in that the wolds for twice years, {wo men wer ott fan or ung branches of a who had lonely dip on three hundred standing, thelr © { figures made more or less distinet by | antique pattern that the rays of a big, conical lautern of the elder of the | two carried In his gnarled and blood- stood, ERUPTION TO RENEW OLD MISSION. | San Juan Capistrano Will Live Again After Long Years of Silence. All who have heard of the pleturesque old Fran Missions of California will be i to that » most poetd “Can learn nilereste rat of all | : contrib : n Cag 1 th i u en tures, whi the foreig: Aagan BOOT religious act borers know ; {| on the fron-bound earth, San | ¢ | her for 10 be— less fingers, a figure strangely akin to the giant tree boneath which hel An aged man was Zachary Doy, his ack bent by years of hard labor such as few of the modern generation of Ia a man who had been an experienced farmhand, while the man beside him, his master, was still a puling infant. old fellow set down his lantern His quaver- ing volee stabbed the silence. “Now, do "ee harken unto me, Master Alara” he sald slowly. “I've served ‘ce faith. ful, you and your feyther afore ‘ee, for nigh on Afty year, and 1 tell master, that what ‘ee do purpose for is again all right and yore k the of ak Kingscote as all 3 + " i ae "oe do reason iS Ouk, Ty ii i tron the countryside do know a’ bin here as a land. » for longer than us wn To cut her be right well as luck will l mark and a w souls own do mean, as that Kingse ra if so Alarie King garrlity wit if King pride can rock i un : | f il ’ MAL te wd cote broke in upon his | a forced laugh could fall lower hary.” he sald bitterly, ittle fear that 1} hear roprosents that can have to slore The » two hun There's only They'l " CAS AD his hand up “Gat h 11 NOW, » far C put m y upon MN with the He laid honlder EEE TE—., « 1 | and as she did so one end fell away. HE QUADRANGLI ley, which, beginning back in the ean. yons of the coast range, winds among grassy knolls and great treeless hills | out to the Pacific, upon which it opens, | | three miles west of the mission, With {the ald of the Indians, over whom the | padres exerted both temporal and spir- { tual dominion, the Franciscans estab. { lished here the most pretentious of all { the California mission churches, In- | stead of belong constructed of the cus- tomary adobe brick of the country, it was built of stone, laid out In the form of a Latin cross, with a great, clofstarad qradrangle adjoining. Here, besides administering to the spiritual welfare of the Indians and gathering them Into the fold of the church, the fathers set them to the care and the cultivation of the land, which yielded great woalth of cattle, grapes and olives, FHE MisslON [ luck, the Kingscote Oak will be down.” The old fellow looked wistfully In to the handsome face of his young master, “Master Alarie,” he sald hoarsely “I've fiftyfive ‘pun, three shillin’ and fi'pence ‘apenny laid away In a hole in the floor omy cottage. If 50 be an that'll save the Kingseote Oak, WhY es “(io home with you Zachary.” Broke in the young man roughly, though his roughness hid an emotion almost too deep for any words-—"Go home, and God bless yon, old friend.” Zachary thrust his roughened hand across his eyes. Without another word, a strangely pathetic, bowed old figure, he turned and shambled off across the field toward the stile Into the lane that led to the ttle thatched | lamplight {of his berculean task | he paused to rest | the {i how | with the other {lI am “You'll catch cold, Alaric, dear, if you stand still without your coat in A ——— Heo never once looked | given my infant son to my younger brother James, who will bring up my son am hig own, passed over in the right of succession by the descendants of Richard, the eldest son of my younger brother James, who stands well in the eye of Cromwell tho regicide and renegade “And that thig be true, and that Nigel, supposed younger son of Jame Kingscote, of Kingscote Manor, be cote, oldest son of Alarle Kingscote, that do thereto seed hereafter him, if mo should be any, I do swear gnd protest in the witnesses To which I do set my hand and seal this sixteenth day of March, one thousand six hundred an! forty-seven, Signed: presence of Rupert Mainwaring, Knight Banneret of Mainwaring Hall, in the County of Berkshire, and Anselm Wolf, Priest.” The parchment fluttered crisply from the girls nerveless hands. “Damaris,” ecrfed Alarfe hoarsely— “Damaris!” Coherent speech he could not find, The gir] raised her head £ “Tt ts true—It 1s true!” she maid brokenly., “We, father and I, are the usurpers! Kingseote Manor is yours, and wo are-—paupers'™ “Not panpers, dearest, but partners,” answered Alarie, and fn his eyes there was that which told her how Kingscote love stood wind and weather as steadily as Kingseote Oak. »- Ld * w - and be appertain, his fathers in the little churchyard. But ere he died his de clining years were brightened by the generous forgiveness of “the undesir- able poor relation.” A young and sturdy sapling oak now this bitter cold lot me hold the lantern for you while you work.” | snatched up the light, He,! obedient to her injunction, applied his weapon with renewed vigor. The! threw a warm glow over, his weather-tanned face and muscular! ArinS, For a time he labored on, his whole being concentrated on the performance fler a space A great wound or of the ! KOowe been trenu She ¥ I n mighty sure endeavors, When be quick speech. “It seems [ncredible,” she murmor ed. “that you, a Kingseote, of the race, the same ! ourselves, | should be fore ad to toll Ike a common laborer,” The man came! quickly forward, and flung his arm around hor walst. Thelr lps met in| a kiss that could not be mistaken for! a mere cousinly salution i “Damaris Kingscote” be sald, steadily enough. "let us be frank one! That are the facts? poor reiation-the blot ly ‘sentcheon of the 1 vour father. He resents my proximity: loathos the very idea of love; therefore he has brought his batteries fo bear upon me and mine. AH that be could do to ruin me he has done, and heaven knows that he had been s®ocessful enough, The girl's eyes brimmed over with tears. Alaric was quick to note her ready sympathy and, he gripped his axe anew, the sllence vibrating once more with the ringing cadence of his rhythmic blows Presently he “Damaris.”™ hear the 1! branch some strange have been in th tl ler of th Farm? fon } JORG oak { had hig Us coased she broke L J 2 wd FE like this 9 4 the fan on the entire : 3: € our - : ha egend ested of sald ~ - f &¢ REain al 5 iat of e Mm Glebe gel King SOME UNENOWHD Way f succes hand soneht drawn apart from th nd + a r giant ut! fs yviageh pellbound, the only spectators of the end of so many hundred years of gilent, stremnous majesty And even as the mighty tree went shuddering to its tremendous fall, a erack as of a pistol shot, foreshadow- ed its overthrow. The noise came from the one rotten bough that the tree had possessed a huge limb some half-way up its stem, which now de taching first from it parent crashed down at the very feet of the wonder ing couple. Nor was that all. A metallic tinkle accompanied the crash. Damaris was the first to recognize the solution of the puzzle. It was a metal canister—a long, time-stained box of rusted tin, closed at both ends—a thing of mystery, of untold possibilities. She picked it up, The canister contained nothing but a stained yellow piece of parchment, upon which something was written in a close and crabbed caligraphy, archale, hard to decipher, the ground. “What is it, breathlessly, Slowly, laboriously, the girl read out the following amazing declaration: “Mayhap a day will come when that whieh 1, Nigel Kingscote, do set down here In writing, in the year of Grace, 1647. and do hide in the hole of the Kingseote Oak, may be sete out in the cleare light of day. And even as Esau of old did sell his birthright, so do 1. Nigel Kingscote, head of the house of Kingseote, renounce my right and the right of those who come after me to be the true and lawful possess ors of the falre lands of Kingecote Manor, “Yet not voluntarily doe I this, but for the life of him, my son. then, that I must flee the Damaris?” he asked { and contrast Make the case slip fashion, so that it) Alarie swung the lantern up from | fourishes on the spot where stood the ancient tree- a tr symbol of the lasting power of Kingseote luck and Kingscote love-—Answers. 14 ] TO RENOVATE CHAIRS. To renovate a shabby wicker chalr L cleans ng scrubbing soap and water, n be varnished, or it can be greatly proved with a coating or two en stain ww the en or a pretty greenish eretonne her cushion for the back may be ked, and: is easily made. Make it of » samo material as the seat cushion nd of bag shape, longer than wide may be fastened to the chair by means of tapes sewed at the top and hottom. 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