Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume XXIX, Number 16, 19 April 1890 — Our English Column. [ARTICLE]

Our English Column.

"/* Yo*th Prcfsirt frr Manh9o4S

UNCLE PHILS DESK. How manT of thc yoong foiks *tand ing aroond thi* d«k, have fett an orth ioake ? You who lire oo H* waii havc fe!t many mcre than you 1iv€ oa Kauai, or Oahu» or Maui. But yoo havc not felt an> very hard %hcck*. Hcre is the stcry t f a rtxy hajd eartb quake «hieh Um le Phil and msuiy others felt onee. It was in the aftcrnoon of a vcry hot day in Ajri1, i?6S. Undc Phil had gone home from hool, »nd was resting, when he hcard a ruirih!ing sound whieh he knew rame before an earthquake Thcn thc bcgan to «hake and < rcak like a ct*thcs basktt when it is moved It *hcok hardcr and hardcr,- and creakcd lotdcr ind louder, until it shook so hard that I could not stand up stra'ght wthout holding on to something. I hcld oo by the sidc of the door, and out I saw the ground in tri»nt of th< housc rise up and go dcwn like the wavcs of thc sea. The stone wal!s wcrc tumb)ir>g down. Thc cows, oxen and horses wcre staggerirg around just like drunken men. Kvery lwdy in lown was badly frigl icncd. Mat y folks >lei>t out of docrs that night b«cJ»tsc thcy wcre afr#id their houscs roight be shaken down. But the housts wtre made of wocd and did not fall d( wn. I hcy were badly shaken. and dishes and lamps were shaken on to thc tl<>or and broken This same earth<iuake was fclt vcry heavily all over Hawaii. In Kau, betwccn Kapapala and Keaiwa, the earthquake burst off the sidc of a grcat mounlain. It made a deep flow of n»ud. whieh buricd a small village placed right undcr the mountain, and dcstroyed about 30 ofits inhabit•nts. Thc carth<juakc was fcH undcr thc sca, tuo; for thc sea rose up in a great wavc and rushed inovcr thecoast of Kau, swccping e f rrany houses, and drowning the people who lived in them.

The coast of Puna sank under the watcrs of the sea for several feet. The governnient road, in some places, was bst in the sea. That same earthquake made the carth open at Kahuku, Kau, and a great stream ot lava burst out f like a fountain of water, *&nd flowed very swiftly to thc sea ten miles away. Some years ago there was a dreadful earthquake in Charieston, the chief city of what state, girls ? Here is a letter written by a litt!e gir), telling about it : Charlcstcn, Sept. 6, 1886. I want to tell yo\i something about the earthc|uake. (irand mother has lived eighty six >\ars and shc says it is the most terrible thing she has passed through. Light naneP bubbled up in our > jrd, and āll around. I send you a little to se«. It is different from aU the earth around. We havc heen sleeping out of doors at nlgbt, and we could hear the colored people singing and praying all night. It was strar.ge to lie down ir the open air just under the sky. The father of one cf our little friends *s 1 minister, and he prayed for us in t,.<. middle of the mght We do not undress now to go to bcd. H'e keepon our clothes, and shocs, and al), dav and night We have no ehimniea either on the house t or the kitchen; and we are trying to have the hoies stopped up, so ihe rtin can't pour down on ua» We have shocks all the time, and we don't know when it will be over. We were afraid at first, but now we are so used to it we do not make a fuss. We are going to try to sleep in thc house, on the first floor now;ahd if the ceiling begms to fall we will creep under ihe dining table. Our prett/ room, were Nonie and l s!ept, is all torn to pieeea» but we are thankful our lives were spared. U was awful to have to run into the street that night, and the fires bttraing. We were more comfurtable in the tent tban m the stable, and I took a bad co)d CAKRIE I here, gula. don't you think "eame** had a hard tirae ? I ihink she must nave Uved tn a stone, or brick houae. That kind of a house ts not safe to Uve in as a wooden house io a land where there are many eartbquakes. Now, Unclt Phil wtshes you to write a sbort story about an earthquake whieh you havefek, or read abouC, or heard of He will put the beat wntten story ioto htt dksk, and let other B#OYs and girU rtad »t Here h a funny atory of a Uttle boy

learamg to read. Many cf vou bor> and girb have had tbe ui>c trooble »ith «hat are callcd *Mouhle knen" that th» ttttle boy had.

He «as tearatng to spril and read at the same time ftom the M Fmt Reader." Hh great troable vas a Utur. When he eame to the >rord • 4 feei, b imtead of spelling it **f-doaWe-e-l feeT he «ouid say "f-e-e-l feeL" It took week» to teach him tosay "double" «hene*er he found two of the same kind of lettcrs together. One day, near the end of the racatioo, when he had fcrgotten a great deal *4 what he had leameii, be was out before a company of ladies and gentlemen to read any pirce they might choose for him from the M First Reader/' A young lady chose a poem whieh began with this Ime. t4 t*p, up, Locy, the son »in the skyThe little boy took his plaee in the middle of the parlor floor, made hw bow, and read the first line thos : "EhuhU */, Lucy, the sun is in the sky." Tbis made the company laugh so mueh that the little boy did not read any more of the poem to them. Now, Unele Phil thinks the little boy was right If it is right to say "double «," when to escome together, wby is it not right to say ,4 double up, n when two ufs eome togetbtr ? But the English language is ahard language to learn any «ay.