Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1914 — Page 2

ONLY ACTIVE VOLCANO IN U.S.

i » ' I f H ? HMI jU S Lassen peak to eruption is the most unique natural feature in tile United StatMT today. Ita present outburst constitutes the only volcanic activity ever seen by the eyes of white folks within the borders 'of the United States outside of A I»aka It gives this country the last physical phenomenon needed to make It possible to say that everything that, can be seen anywhere in the world can be seen here, writes Frederick Faulkner to the Ban Francieco Chronicle. Lassen was the one place in the United States where such an outburst might reasonably have been expected. Geologically it is the youngest and latest qf all the great series of volcanoes Which in days gone by poured out their lavas over the plains and valleys of the West. Shasta was long dead ami cold when Lassen was born, and the enormous lava fields of eastern Oregon and Washington had long since been cut down by the streams. More than that, the Lassen region has poured out glowing lavas within the century. There was no one to aee it at the time, but from the Cinder Cone, ten miles northeast of Lassen peak, there flowed a field of lava two miles long and four miles wide so recently that the burned trees still stick out of the edges of the flow. The lava Kes there as new as though ft was poured out of the bowels Of the earth yesterday. Neither tree nor shrub has yet had time to find a footing on IL Fires Still Smolder. Then all over the south side of Lassen are numerous evidences of the lingering fires. Pungent sulphur

smoke strikes the nostrils everywhere. Steam vents and boiling springs keep the ground bare in the midst of 15-foot snowbanks. Solid sulphur bolls out of the springs. One ancient crater Is full of solfataras and fumaroles of the type common on Vesuvius and Aetna. So with all these evidences that the old fire mountain was not entirely dead, it is not at all remarkable that Lassen peak or some one of the many craters around It should burst Into oruptlon. I find. In my notes of a trip to the Lassen region 14 years ago, written at the time, the following sentence: “Tew of those who shudder at the convulsions In the West Indian world hate ever dreamed that California holds a mountain which has within the lifetime of man, and may again, parallel the titanic forces of the Caribbean volcanoes.” Up to a very late day In geological history, the sea occupied what is now the Lassen region and extended far into Oregon. About the close of what is known'as the lone epoch that territory wad uplifted, and there began a long period of volcanic activity extending dowp to the present day. From a multitude of vents lava was poured oat upon the earth. fThe more liquid SX .*’* “ to fora The thicker lava accumulated around the vente and built up the great volcanic mountains, Lassen peak, Burney butta, Prospect peak. Mount Harfcaess, Mugee peak, and hundreds of WheA 1 stands 10,4*7 feet above the sea, Its snowcapped peak conspicuous from the

railroad 60 miles away. Three peaks in a rough circle on the summit mark the broken-down walls of the ancient crater. Between them is a hollow 500 feet deep, the filled-up mouth of the subterranean passage to the fires below. Until this summer this hollow has always been filled with snow, but the reopening of the crater near the lowest point of the depression and the violent eruptions of steam have melted away this healing covering over the ancient scar. Geysers Fill Old Crater. /" <>Lassen peak may be approached from any one of three sides, from Manzanita lake on the northwest, from the head of King’s creek on the east, and from Battle creek meadows on the south. The best of all the routes Is from the south because that way leads through the remarkable collection of active volcanic phenomena spread over the entire south slope of the mountain. Beside the geysers of Iceland and the Yellowstone it would be idle to place the steam vents and boiling lakes es Bumpass* hell, but as an example of present-day volcanic activity in California, and a spectacle not only of wonder, but of beauty, the place is one of the most interesting on the Pacific coast. High on the southwest flank of the old fire mountain it lies, a steaming bowl of geysers, smoking sulphur vents, and bizarre lakes of many colored boiling waters, the whole sunk 500 feet deep in the mountain side and a third of a mile acrosa From the evidences which surround the place, the masses of distorted lava and the

Mr Lassen in Eruption

courses of the . former volcanic streams, the hell was once a crater of the old volcano and Its smoke of today is from the smoldering embers of its bygone fires. When*l first visited the place I had just dragged my pack horses around the old trappers* trail on the face of the cliff at the head of Mill Greek canyon, where the melting snow water tumbles over from Lake Helen above, and had camped in a clump of snowbanked hemlocks a tew hundred feet below the top of the eastern ridge. I was unaware of the close proximity of Bumpass' hell until, bent on exploring the way, I climbed the remaining snowbanks to the pass, and suddenly, so suddenly that I stepped back instinctively to avoid plunging into the boiling pit below, the hell appeared below me. „ A dull roar rose from the crater, a sulphurous' steam stung my nostrils. I looked out from the snowbank on which I stood and saw a deep bowl in the mountain, a third of a mile across, ringed with twisted and broken lava rock. Hemlock clung to the crags and in their shade lay mocking snowbanks. The bottom and walls of the great bowl were stained a dirty yellow with sulphur. Steam rose everywhere. The growling of the crater rose, it grumbled hoarsely, hissed and screamed. % When I saw the new crater on Lassen on June 4 and 6 the vent, by an epgiaaeris tape, measured 275 feet long. Since then it has grown in slse until it is 450 feet long and IM feet wide.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

IN ROBES AND SACKS

DAINTIEST OF NEGLIGEES FOR THE HOT WEATHER. Most of the Models Easy to 09Ry by the Woman Who Sews —Loose i < t Robe Should Be of Soft, Supple Material. (By MARY DEAN.) Dainty negligee robes and sacks are desirable possessions at any season, but the average woman feels the need of them more in summer than in winter and buys them more lavishly for the hot weather than for any other season. For the woman who sews, the possession of attractive summer negligees

Flowered Voile.

dotted swiss. The edges are outlined with lace and insertion, and lace insertion is set in at the upper part of the negligee, crossing over and forming bodice effect. One Roman stripe effect which is shown in silks and cotton, is also shown in the washable crepes, and effective kimonos are made of this material. Often there is a plain trimming color of the same tone as the predominating shade in the stripe. The loose robe is at its best in soft supple material, such as crepe de chine, silk, chis- _—. i

son and shadow lace, which are for those who can afford to pay extravagant prices. One was of apric o t charmeuse with an overskirt and tunic of pale cream shadow lace. There was a broad girdle of pale blue satin edged with tiny pale tinted roses. A chiffon coat completed the robe. At the front closing there was a cluster of small pink roses. , Still more elaborate and costly was a gown of pale pink crepe draped in shadow lace and chiffon. Thsre was a short bolero jacket of chiffon, bordered at the bottom with

shadow lace running up on the bolero in deep points. There was a long tunic falling in a deep point at the back.

SLOUCH IS MOST INJURIOUS

For Physical Reasons It Is to Be Avoided, No Matter What Fashion May Decree. Slouching is a habit which many of our women and girls have contracted. In some instances it is affected for the purpose of attaining a certain poise of the body—a poise which has been decreed by recent fashion authorities with little regard for hygiene. The consequence is, in many cases, misplaced organs and inability to withstand physical exertion; these eventually lead to premature decay. While slouching, from the fashion standpoint, is but a passing mode, it is a dangerous fancy to indulge in, for when the time comes, which it is bound to do, for an upright pose, some of the organs may have become weakened to such a degree that they will not respond to the call. As a means of attaining* an upright pose and, to assist nature in regaining its normM condition I would suggest the following exercise: Standing erect; feet slightly separated, arms at side, begin by raising up the shoulders and throwing them back; repeat this movement eight or ten times. Now raise the shoulders and with the muscles cause them to rotate; two minutes should be consumed in rotating. ’ ' Next join the hands at back —and raise the shoulders high; while holding this pose the hands —still clasped—are slowly moved up the back as far as. one possibly can, held so for a few seconds and then lowered. This movement should be repeated eight or ten times. — Kansas City Star.

is a simple and inexpensive matter. Good patterns for such garments abound, and particularly late in the season it is easy to pick up pretty summer materials and trimmings at absurdly low prices. Among the dainty models shown in the shops, simple of line, are many which may be easily copied. One, for instance, is of plain white voile, made with short waisted bodice shirred onto a full skirt by- two cords. There are cuffs and a deep cape collar of flowered net inset and edged with lace and insertion. Another negligee' is of white

White Voile, Flowered Net.

Another attractive Snodel was a sash and petticoat combination of pale I blue crepe trimmed with plaited £4llß of shadow lace. The sash was outlined with the plaitor iffladWr üBF frills. fjL The shirt had a long tunic of taffeta with an underskirt of plaited shadow ‘ lace. : 7: ;

GOOD METHODS of cleaning

Gin and Water forßlack Satin or SUlk —To Kelp Light Woolen Dresses in Best Condition. O f TIHKrlr I. 1 Among the methods ofcleaning black satin of silk is a curious old process known as the gin and water cure. A sponge dipped in a mixture of gin and wafer is used to remove the shine and clean it thoroughly, the silk being ironed while still wet In order to keep light woolen dresses and skirts in good condition and free them from dust every woman should keep a cat o’ nine tails with which to flagellate the gowns used for street wear. This instrument is made of a short stick, to the end of which parrow strips of leather are attached. With It skirts can be thoroughly cleaned every day. An old-fashioned method of cleaning white kid gloves consists in rubbing them with white castile soap. The soap is merely dipped in water and then rubbed over the finger tips, the gloves first having been drawn over the hands. The soap is then rubbed off with a piece of soft flannel, the result being sufficiently satisfactory to enable the glpves to be worn once more ■ without undergoing cleaning with benzine. A way of cleaning white cloth or serge that most people overlook is to rub spots with French chalk, then cover the garment with the chalk and lay It away for several days. When taken out It needs only to be shaken to be quite clean and ready for wear.

PLAIN AND SENSIBLE SHOES

Childish Footwear in Contrast With the Elaborate Finery of Their Costumes. If you look at the best-dressed fchildren in the parks or on the avenues of the big cities, you will see that they all wear sensibly shaped shoes —■ shoes that take a good coat of blacking and stand heavy wear, too. Eyen the white shoes for afternoon wear or for all-the-time wear—as some children wear them —have round, bulging toes. The pumps for house wear are never pointed, either. This is "hot because the children of today dress simply; not at ail, for never were the little frocks shown for children more expensively wrought with hand embroidery, lace rosettea and ruffles. .... And their shoes certainly cannot be patterned on the shoes of their elders, as many of their frocks are, for the shoes of their elders are anything but sensible. For some reason, no matter how much finery the small girl of the day wears, the shoes that go with it are sensible.

The Tennis Girl.

Every summer girl plays tenfiis —» that is if she is an outdoor girl, and the summer girl of 1914 is a lover of the great outdoors. In the morning, when she first gets up, she puts on ter tennis togs, simple linen clothes male with an eye to comfort as well as style. The tennis skirt must be short, and it must be full to allow of a free stride, and this season, when plaits are so much in vogue, a plaited skirt either of white serge or linen is just the thing to wear on the court. The blouse to accompany this skirt must be made to fit loosely, so that the arms may have full swing. Sometimes the tennis outfit takes the form of a onepiece gown made in linen or thin crepe.

CHIC HAT FROM PARIS

Model of white satin covered completely with feather fancies.

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NEW EXPERIENCE FOR BARBER

First Time Fie Had Shaved Man . Whose Face Had an Unequal Growth of Hair. Capt. W. V. Lucas, who was an officer in the Fourteenth lowa regiment, tells an amusing story of an incident that occurred during General Price’s raiq Into Missouri In the last year of the Civil war. The story appears In "Pilot Knob,” by Messrs. C. A. Peterson and J. M. Hanson. "On arriving at Pilot Knob the afternoon before the engagement of the Twenty-seventh, I went Into a barber shop to be shaved. Suddenly, when the barber had shaved only one-half of my face, the long roll was beaten. I left my chair instantly, and reached my company, half a block away, with one side of my face shaved smooth, whereas the other displayed a two weeks’ growth of beard. I did not complete the shave until six days afterward, when a colored barber did the job at Rolla, 75 miles Away. While working the dirt and sand out of the long side,*'the fellow’s curiosity was excited, until he could no longer refrain from comments. " *1 nevah see a face befo*, sah,* said he, ‘dat one side was richer dan de odder; but yo’s Is, suah!' "My explanation seemed to afford him great relief."—Youth’s , Companion.

Reprieve Angers a Murderer.

An unusual scene was enacted at Versailles (France) jail recently, when the public prosecutor went to inform two murderers that their death' sentence had been commuted to penal servitude for life. One, Joseph Brugen, received the news joyfully, but the other, Louis Louis, exclaimed: “What, you asked the jury for my head, and now you tome to tourture me by a reprieve? I do not want it; I must have liberty or the guillotine. I won’t go to the galleys at any price.” So saying he rushed upon the public prosecutor, seized him by the throat and endeavored to strangle him. The keeper had great difficulty in releasing the official and putting the convict in a strait jacket

The Dear Girls.

"He seems determined to kiss me,” emarked thb girl who was fishing f6r a compliment "I wonder why?” “Hard to tell,” said the other girl. “This is the season for freak bets.*'

THINK of the millions that have been relieved in the past 75 years by Wright’s Indian Vegetable Pills and decide whether they are not worth a trial. They regulate the bowels, stimulate the liver and purify the blood. Adv. , To Make Mucilage. A. mucilage which holds with surprising tenacity can be made by. boiling a* Spanish onion for a short time and then pressing the juice from it Insufficient sleep and late hours are some of the causes which retard growth and health of children.

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Fastidious Pet.

The members of an automobile touring party from Washington to Baltimore stopped for the night at a certain caravansary at Hagerstown, in Maryland. Since the food supplied them was exercrable and since their kit furnished the necessary implements, aside from the raw material, they determined to have,a Welsh rabbit. Accordingly two were deputed to proceed to a corner grocery, there to obtain the cheese and crackers. When the old chap that kept the place came forward one of the two said: "We want a couple 'of pounds of cheese and some large, square crackers for a Welsh rabbit." The old man seemed doubtful. “I got the cheese, all right,” said he, "but I ain’t got no large, square crackers. Won’t your rabbit eat the small ones?’* —-Harper’s Magazine. _

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