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This money was raised, and would have been paid to the brigands, but
that the police stepped in and insisted upon their right to manage the
case.
Mr. Ross had been warned against allowing the police to interfere. The
thieves had written to him that if he did so they would kill the boy.
The Mayor of Philadelphia offered the enormous reward of twenty thousand
dollars for the recovery of the boy and the arrest of the persons who
had stolen him. Notices of this were printed in every language, and sent
all over the world; but though numbers of people were working to gain
the great reward, Charlie Ross has never been found.
* * * * *
We told you last week of the new volcano which has appeared in Mexico.
The shocks have done a great deal of damage. The town of Tehuantepec has
been completely destroyed, and the people are living in tents on the
outskirts of the place.
Tremblings of the earth still continue to be felt along the Pacific
Coast, and the people are terror-stricken.
One very severe shock was felt in San Francisco, but little damage
resulted from it. Some of the California towns have, however, suffered
severely.
Nature seems to be playing some strange tricks this year.
The French people have been treated to a cyclone.
They seemed to be really indignant over the visitation. They had always
considered that cyclones were American institutions, and never expected
that they would follow the example of American people and find their way
to Paris.
This storm was a regular Westerner, sweeping down everything in its
path, blowing houses over, and destroying things generally.
Having spent part of its rage in France, it rushed across the English
Channel, raising such a gale there that many vessels were wrecked, both
on the English and French shores.
The storm crossed England and reached the Irish Channel, where it again
played havoc with the shipping. Admiral Lord Nelson's flag-ship, the
_Foudroyant_, was anchored off Liverpool. It had been touring up and
down the coast as a show-ship. The storm put an end to its journeyings
forever. It was caught in the gale, driven ashore, and is now a total
wreck.
If such storms are repeated, we shall have to tell our European cousins
how they manage tornadoes and cyclones out West.
In the State of Kansas, tornadoes are more dreaded than fires, and the
Kansas children are taught a tornado drill as our Eastern children are
taught a fire drill.
According to the statements we receive, the citizens take to the
prairies the moment a tornado strikes a Kansas town. As the children
cannot run as fast as the grown-ups, they have often been caught and
injured by the terrible storms before they could escape.
To prevent such accidents in the future, some one decided to build
tornado caves under the schoolhouses. These caves are large enough to
shelter all the children while the blow lasts, and the scholars are
regularly drilled in the methods of reaching these caves quickly and in
good order.
The teacher sounds the alarm, and instantly the pupils stand up, and to
the music of their own singing march down the stairs and into the cave.
Then, let the tornado rage as it will, they are safe.
* * * * *
The tailors' strike is over, and has resulted in a victory for the
strikers.
The contractors have signed the new agreement, and most of the tailors
are now back at their work.
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