The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 28, 1901, Page 2

t in reali s one of the members of party, which scaled mirage has been a sub- last ex- durd It w * Willou rnia i s vessel to the ars the lat- » have nd to hav &~ the South Paclfic, has played hide X from e bed aves. W alizing re n charts by native it has belied ken of the puz- en missing sincn 1 mor cteristic of amily of pec n the fact on wi interesting phases of the 1d sea. cean land hz sixteenth comf ners of and se uries and the loci- tion of n hed islands have piace of thg maps of those P s As late as the vear 1700 an English ship 2 Newfoundland, near lati- rth, discovered an isl- nown, which not only but was covered with but, hindered by a vio- Jent surf, the boat's crew fafled to secure landir So convinced were the cap- of the reality of their chips were chartered In to explore the island, but the was fruitless—the fugitive ~land in vanished. Like Falcon Fsland, have been a volcanic upheaval, ported, perhaps by the ex- ne agitation of the surrounding water ble coincidence that, since as the ninth century, there is a 1 record of the discovery of d by Irish and Danish fishermen the =same place, midway between sts of Ireland and Newfoundland. period to the fourteenth cen- tly seen by the Eng- ench fishermen and mariners, all their attempts to lani it was the sea serpent of those centuries. In Erse it lath Innis, or the Noble Isl- lo-Saxens, Icockane, or the waw and by the was known nda. or the Island But so confident were the aphers of the sixteenth and seven- ies of the presence of land partjcular spot of the Atlantic that markéd on the maps of the period. have been a volcanic part of e ocean bed, whose active period cov- ered those e ries till the seven- teenth, when we have the latest circum- stantial record of its anpearance, or it may have been a Faia Morgana, such as t described by Commodore Byron in s voyage round the world, where he tells of a phantom island in high Southern e with capes and mountains that ved his most experienced mariners, Jut to come closer to °ts, we find that among the most familiar wonders in phe- nomenal islands are those buovant lands that rise to the water surface, or sink to bottom by means cf some hidden grees T eircumst an isla; s fre and evolution of matural luw. One of tha or young Willoughby and he 1 ng the Fraser River, Cariboo and Cassiar mining cam then over o Southern Alaska s in 1887 that Willcughby created a ation and gave newspapers a good ry by exhibiting a picture which he 1ed to have taken of a mirage. The ch Willoughb: told in- Juneau was substantially as follows: One morning while asleep in his tent a tive called to him excitedly to “'get up.” Looking to the north he saw a strange- looking object hanging over the sides of ntain and following the direction ream or glow of light, which seemed the to radiate from the range sguarely down )n the glaciers at the head of the bay. adually it became more distinet and 1ssumed the appearance of a city of e proportions, stretching out stance until its farthermost were lost to v R il AND SEEK- most important of th is the floating island of the berutiful Lake of Derwentwater. It is situated in | the southeast corner of the lake, almost in the sound of the Falls of Lodore rever changes its location, but dives to the bottom or rises 10 the’sur: cording to the dictates ot the mysterious that moves it. connection with island there is a supplemen tary phenomenon called ‘‘the bottom wind,” a local subagucous agitation that e, ac- at curiou ru in that particular part cf the lake. The periods of the rising of the island have | been irregular and bncertain; it has com: to the surface in two successive years: seven or eight vears, and then made its appearance at the end of an exceptional- ly warm, dry season. Its figure and ex- tent are variable; it sometimes comprises | an acre, entirely covered with a sort of peat moss vegetation It appeared In | the first year of the century. and then sank for eight years, when it rose to the surface for three months, and then van- | ished until 1813, when It again pald a six weeks’ visit and returned to its bed untll 1815; then experiments proved that it was charged with a mi gas or nitrogen, carburetted hydrogen, and carbonic acid, hence it was su c1 that the formaticn of this gas In greater or lesser quantity determined the gravity or buoyancy of this curfous island. Phenomena of this kind are famillar objects in Cumber- land, for In Esthwaite Lake a natural floating island has desn used as a ferry capable of holding fifteen persons.—Even- ing Standard. Although roe is usually served simply fried, as it is, it is also good in the shape of croquettes, and these are especially to be commended when shad has been in market long enough to be consldered an every-day matter. The roe is first sim- mered in boiling salted water for fifteen minutes and then thrown into cold water. The skin is removed and the roe mashed. A cup of scalded cream is mixed with the yoiks of two eggs and thickened with flour and butter, cooked together, and the roe added, with seasoning. When the mix- ture is cold it 's formed into croquettes or cutlets breaded. fried in a wire basket in deep fat and served with sauce tartare.— Harper's Bazar. o iéLANDs THAT aquatic wonders | | were distinctly ruffies the water at certain times | THE SUNDAY CALL Building ox massive dimengions extend- ed in solid blocks as far as the eye could reach. Stately cathedrals rose almost to the skies and his imagination created music that fleated through the exquisite stained windows. The entire limits of the city were confined within a halo of light, se, yet transparent; pouring its soft glow upon roof and wall and window in gl s transfo m. /To the right and left a range cf mountains, covered with the garb of winter, formed the back- ground Within the whole length and breadth of this boundless city not one soul could be eeen Nct even a shadow darkened the light for an inst ANl w the grave, when suddenly the v gan to move away. With an irr fmpulse Willoughby started forward. But as he hastened the city seemed to recede with even pace. Gradually, though he quickened his steps to. get within the silent tals before it was too’late, it was lost te view. Willos neys to ssive jour- lace in a canoe with natives, cach time photcgraphing the phenomeno But the piate exposed the third y Willoughby claimed. proved upon develop- t the only cne that contained a of the city. t the city al- ways appea ended*in the air, just in front of the Fairweather range of mounta: The at nhere was so clear that the peaks many miles to the north S0 Mr. Bruc o has written icles on Alaska mines, ent six weeks with Wil- loughby in exploring Glacier One day they ascen; ide of a mountain to a level s g a glorious view of the whole b: Willoughby led the way to a pile of recks, lald carefuily one upon sther to a height of about five feet. Slowly need to throw off rock after rock until an opening was made in the center and, inserting his arm, he drew out w! appeared to be a scroll or book he comm | made from several leaves of birch bark. at other times it" nas peen in hiding for | It was badly mildewed and upon unrolling it a pencil fell to the ground. The half i | dozen pages looked bright, however, and | contained a record stating that the ob- > e to this locality In secure a photo- which, as It ap- pina Glaeier, assumed ge shapes which we were Ject of three trips m vroached the Ma graph of the Bruce further me hat Willoughb; atfons the popular pleture is a " and adds that he himself is unden prospector that he couid hardly confess the truth, even If he had any doub Whatever doubt may attach to the gen- of the picture, the rest of Wil- longer able erwent changes before our very forms of spires, narets and architectural outlines of fantastic ; ed and disappeared, to be suc- buildings of lesser height, roved to be the mirage known as ‘The Silent City,’ o which th assuming the such obligatio wide ice sur- th the burning The marvelous spec- threughout without hesitation, because there is plenty of corroborative imony of great Independent S lns e sands of. the de; the Duke of in 1897 and subsequent of the Italian Dr. Filippi’s hook cont tation of the “Silent City full of other photographs of Alaskan scen- 3 was too unsteady for a ins no represen- although it is to Mount St. paniors had expeditions reached ‘the summit The image part of the them. They er returning day camera to register. would have to Le refiected at too great a looks like the ¢ perfection and uns in the long Practically all the writers on the theory | of the mirage hold that while the images presented to the distorted and have a certaln They are representatic NTOUCHED throughout the ‘long things. | centuries by the verent hand of t is at last (accurate or inaccurate) Napoleon’s army crc lower Egypt, saw remote villages, the horizon, At sea it is not uncommon to detect ships that are yet too far away to be seen Indeed, there are multiple im- the other, and some of them upside down perhaps. of their eccentricities there is a real ship involved in the phenomenon. In some mirages there is great magnl- fication of the objects seen vertical direction. allied to the appar above its true position or whi For instarce, a mirage once which | but only in a This effect /\/ i TReAnDIKE~ showed people at Hastings. England, the French ccast near Boulogne, forty o miles away. The curvature of the e is here sufficient to hide one city from the other under ordinary conditions, Professor J. D. Everett of Belfa land, in a lecture delf ter of a century ago, dwelt at len the false ideas of nearness and th tortion of form that resuits from looming. “This vertical magnification is shown cliffs and icebergs at sea,” produces an effect of pinnacles, spire: columns and basaltic ciiffs. The m nificent columns which constitute a part of the Fata Morgana (a mirage) mn the Strait of Messina are in like manner to be attributed to vertical magnificatic An appearance of the same as the ‘Merry Dancers, is ofte boatmen off the Giant's Cau: Spectacles of this same ki frequently seen on the coast Hummocks of ice assu |@ Seafoogente foofertod g | | - THE PRESENT DAY.- . Copyright, 1901, by the Christian Herald modern pre vielding up its ancient forms usages before the march of We | provement. Already railroads and tel s thread the v a plains of Palestine, and modern hotels have sprung up in some of the oldest and most ven- erated place sacred history. Across the anci ttleflelds, where once the hosts of Israeli with “thefr chariots and their horsemen,” contended with their enemies, the iron steedof civili- zation now goes puffing and snorting, with its car loads of passengers, to the dismay of these natives who are not yet q accustomed to the new order of things. From Damascus to Jerusalem is no longer a tedlous caravan journey, for one can go comfortably by rail in a few hours. So apidly is the network of shining rails extending. that scon the Holy Land will be a comparatively simple problem for the | tourist in comparison with the days when the awkward camelback was the popular style of travel. | Even Nazareth. the beautiful little vil- | 1age in the hill country, “where Jesus was | brought up.” has not escaped the modern | invasion. Nazareth has no telegraph | office, where an Armenian operator, i | ordinary European dress, keeps the vil lage community in touch with the great | world. When the proprictor of the Chris- | tlan Herald visited Nazareth, during his | tour of the Ho nded to the | operator the fi | there for transmission to the United | States. The operator hesitated, and de- | clined to recelve it. After telegraphing to | Beyrout; however, to ascertain the rate, | he sent the message, which speeding from the little curtained office in Nazareth, | clicked its way to its destination in New York. | Dr. N. K. Jamel.4a native of Palestine, | now in this country, but | revisited his own land. h. | the Christian~ Herald this interesting | description of Nazareth as it is to-d | “As the town is approached from the south, it presents a very pretty sight, nes tled along the brow and slope of a hill, | facing directly east. , the E es: and ho has lately furnished t> potless white Ire- ered over a quar- gth on said he, “and of the photograph ent C *and the world can credit any result ¢ a fon. s expe there will be counting na- emain at apleted n of the mir- Mr. Thompson s or fi photography e a photo- s of possi- al photograph will do more of the reflection i uld possibly af- ford yne of the members of the ex- pedition’ will be an artist who will en- deaver to make his pencils accomplish what the camera to catch. Should the “Silent City” appear even for one en- 1 for the Duke of artist ought to have *hing a counterteit t City.” T every hope that this Vancouver expedition will bring back valuable data about the mirage, if not an actual photo- graph of the * t City." tire a Abruzzi party, t little diffic nent of th prese il @ e VYLLAGE or NRAZARETH OF ng stock in the notiom 0 Eut not until then. t, odd-looking dwellings with at roofs are here and there Inter- spersed with red-tfled slanting roofed buildings—the tiles om the fac- ies of Marsel As Orlental remarkably clean all who visit the oud in their praises on that and health town are “During harvest time, between June and August, the first sight L’l’ meets the eyes of whoever enters the town from the south s a great threshing floor. This fs a perfe y 1 1 .twenty-acre plece of . where the newly reaped crops of wheat, barley and lentils are gathered in eaves and plled in separate heaps, each being of larger or smaller proportions ac- cording as it represents an individual farmer’ st returns for the season. As the heaps stand thus, they are ready £ process Is performed off the borders of the pile tc f one foot and a width of five to six feet. Then horses, asses or mules ace n or ridden, singly or in pairs, round and round the heap, grinding and tramp- ling underfoot the grain out of the ears r th ng. and the stal o chaff until the heap is thoroughly threshed. It is then gath- ered up and removed separately, and an- other part of ap is leveled off for is kept up the new- fit for winnowing. This ry tedious, as in fact are all the rtme; of fleld labor In Pal- r the farmers are destitute of by more for- the threshing facilities for being sect 5y the sur- ons. Anybody hardships of wind and storm will ap- conspleuous building In Naza- ish Orph: which was pices of the Female ngland in 1875 rciety until 1399, reth is t erected u Educational and conduct, when it was tu ment o This school provides for the education of poor orphan girls from Nazareth and its vieinity, and affords a home for them. These eighty to one hundred girls are i 'd Arabie, . arithmetic, geogra- housekeeping, sewing and fine need rk. The staff of teachers includes five English ladies and six na tive assistants. “The common bellef, In other lands, s t snow never falls in the Holy I s, howe is not the case. The win- ters are occasionally q ‘e In Pal- estine, and heavy snow storms are noth- ing un 1 In the elevated parts of the country. The brow of the hill on which stands the Nazareth Orphanage fs nearly 1700 feet above sea level.” —_— e A financier Is a man who collects all the money due him and stands off every bill collector that calls on him. ammar.