Mount Hood

-Mount HoocT, one of tho higbest mountains in the vorld,has, after a silence of tiearly half a century, ro-opened her tremenduu voloaDÏe batteries. A nquad of soldiers, doing pioket duty t Fort Viwjcouvcr, oue beautiftil starlight night not loug since, were looking tovvard ihe lotty summit of the mountain, ;ind a graud conflagration secined to bf in progrese. The very heavens were ablnze, and tbc start paled th?ir fires bcfore tiie huge flaraes that leapcri up ioto the ciouds above the mountain.