MYSTERIOUS EARTH NOISES.

Northland Age, Volume VIII, Issue 25, 9 February 1912, Page 8

MYSTERIOUS EARTH NOISES.

The mysterious underground noises of many parts of the world—various- 1 ly known as barisal guns, mist-poeuf- j feurs, marinas, etc.—have attracted j the notice of the Filipinos. The Rev. M. Saderra Maso finds that in the Phillippines the sounds are heard on enclosed bays or inter-island seas, and rarely on the open coast, and occur most often between twilight 1 and dawn, and especially during the hot periods of March, April and May ( though in the Pangasian province . they are chiefly confined to the rainy j season. They almost always seem to come from the mountains inland. They are usually low rumblings, not , unlike thunder, and the natives com- j monly believe that they are due to , •waves breaking on beaches or in caverns and are connected with ap- \ proaching typlu .ns or other weather changes. This explanation is thought to be reasonable. The typhoons are often heralded days in advance by very heavy swells, a nd special atmospheric conditions may carry the sounds far, their, apparent inland origin being.due to reflection. If the man who represented the ma- i jority of men were asked what he j liked most in women, his answer ; would be, "Give me beauty, all beau- | ty, to walk dnd to frivol with ; sym- 1 pathy, all sympathy, to talk and to live with !”—L. Godfrey Turner