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He bad beard them Just four
another New England girl Clara Bar
ton, when thrown on her own resources,
took up school teaching as a means ot
livelihood, and when she was obliged
to abandon this because of falling eye
sight, she managed to secure a position
In the Patent Office at Washington, and
rence.
hours after the actual explosion, for
this Is the time the sound occupied on
Its Journey.
If Vesuvius were vigorous enough to
emit a roar like Krakatoa, how great
would be the consternation of the
world! Such a report might be heard
by King Edward, at Windsor, and by
*■“ "— *' It would aston-
The Name of the Originator of the
Cherokee Indian Alphabet
to be Honored.
The decision of the convention,
which recently met at Jloskogee, In
dian Territory, upon a name for the
new- state to be added to tbe Union
brings a total of thlrty-tbree states
which have adopted Indian titles for
State names. The convention, after
some little discussion, decided that
the new state should be known as Se
quoia, as a tribute to the great
Cherokee leader, and is a fitting
honor which America owes to one ot
the really great red men of this conti
nent Tbe Cherokee Indian alphabet
w as originated by George Gist a balf-
breed, known to tbe tribe as Sequoia.
He was a statesman and a peaceable
leader among tbe tribe. He was an
illiterate man but tbe idea of an
alphabet for the Cherokee tribe was
conceived from the branda be saw on
cattle. He carved elghty-slx charac
ters with bis bunting knife out of pine
bark, then he cnlled the wise men to
gether, and explained the character*
The tribunal council adopted that and
In later years one of tbe tribe trans
lated tbe Bible Into tbe Cherokeo
language, through which medians
Red Cross Heroine Will Estab
lish Railroad Hospital Car
' Service. _
German Military Aeronauts Safe
Only After a Terrible Ex
perience.
Volcanic Explosions In East In
dies the Most Terrl&o In
> History.
here she continued her service until
the outbreak of the Civil War disclosed
to her a Ufework. Her advertisements
in the Massachusetts papers that she
would receive money and stores for, the
wounded soldiers and personally dis
tribute them at the front brought quick
responses, and from this small beginning
the scope of her work broadened. The
ministering angel of tbe Army of tbe
Potomac was present at tbe battles ot
Cedar Mountain, the second Bull Run,
the Czar, at Moscow.
Ish the German Emperor and all his
subjects. It would penetrate to the se
clusion of the Sultan''at Constantino
ple. It would have extended to the
sources ot the Nile, near the equator.
It would have been heard by Moham
medan pilgrims at Mecca. It would
hgvs reached the ears ot exiles In Si
beria. No inhabitants of Persia would
have' been beyond Its range, while pas
sengers on half the liners crossing the
Atlantic would also catch the mighty
reverberation. Or. to take another
illustration, let us suppose that a sim
ilar earth-shaking event took place in
a central pesltlon in the United States.
Let us say, for example, that an explo
sion occurred “ — - -—
War Airship Was Driven Five Hun
dred Miles Over Baltic Sea and
Dropped in Swedish Snow Bank—
Barely Averted Drowning.
The progress of balloon experiments
in the German army has Just received
a severe setback by the fearful experi
ences of two members of the Aero
static Corps, named Wolfl and Brand,
who have returned to Berlin after hav
ing been given np for dead, following
a balloon ascension, during which they
completely disappeared. The two men
were blown ail the way from Berlin to
the Baltic Sea, where they were driven
by a gale clear across that body of
water, and finally landed, half dead, in
a little village in Sweden, traveling al
together more than five hundred miles.
Tho story of their flight is one of the
most thrilling in the history of bal
looning In Europe.
UNABLE TO MAKE DESCENT.
The two balloonists, caught in the
gale in the upper air, were blown at
terrific speod for three days, unable to
make a descent without being dashed
to death.
As tho wind seemed to slacken, ffie
balloonists opened their valve, prepar
ing to descend. What was their horror
upon seeing aquthey dropped .from the
Although Over Eighty Years Old She
Has Started In with (MM Energy
to Organize New Relief Work to
Cope with Wreck*.
Clara Barton, the famous Red Cross
leader, has just given new evidence
that she is one of tbe most remarkable
women the world has ever known. Feel
ing that the Red Cross work has been
placed on a permanent basis and no
longer needs her close supervision, this
untiring woman, although upward of
eighty years of age, has lately returned
to her old home In Massachusetts and
opened headquarters for a great new
movement to alleviate suffering, name
ly, a project for organising hospital
corps on all railroads In ordei* that
with the ajd ot hospital cars speedy
succor may be brought to persons In
jured In wrecks. c
The portrait here presented Is ot
especial interest, Inasmuch as It is the
only likeness which Clara Barton has
Permitted to be made In many years.
The famous Red Cross worker has no
love for the camera, but her close per
sonal friend, Mrs. John A. Logan, after
much persuasion finally Induced her to
sit for this picture. Mrs. Logan Is seen
atandlng by her side.
WORKED IN CIVIL AND FRANCO-
PRUSSIAN WARS.
Clara Barton, who Is entering with
•o.much enthusiasm into a new mla-
Vost Volumes of Ashes Blown Twenty
Miles Above Earth — Detonations
Heard Three Thousand Miles Dis
tant.
By Sir Robert Ball.
The following description by Sir
Robert Ball of the eruption of Kraka
toa will be read with special interest
‘ “ 'lent time. It is taken from
‘The Earth's Beginning," re-
Antletam, Fredericksburg and the Wil
derness,
WAS WITH THE VANGUARD.
In the Frauco-Prueslan war Miss
Barton was the first person to enter
his book, „ -
cently published by D. Appleton A Co.
Until the year 1883 few had ever
heard of Krakatoa. It was not in
habited, but the natives from the sur-
Strasburg after the fall of that city,
and was Instrumental In organising
the relief. * *
rounding shoreB of Sumatra and Java
used occasionally to draw their canoes
up on Its beach while they roamed
through the Jungle in search of the
wild fruits. The Uland seemed to owe
Its existence to some frightful eruption
of bygone days, but for a couple of
Pike’s Peak as
resonant as that from Krakatoa. It
would certainly startle not a little tho
She performed a similar
service at Paris, which she entered with
the vanguard at the conclusion of the
siege. After her retufn to the United
States she directed relief work In addi
tion to the instances above mentioned
during the Mississippi flood of 1882, the
overflow ot tho Ohio River in 1883, the
Louisiana cyclone ot the same year,
and the Texas drought of 1889, ever at
tho fore siding, sustaining, and sup
porting by her untiring presence the
falling courage ot those who In their
suffering learned to depend upon her
with passionate love and gratitude.
Mrs. John A. Logan (Mary Simmer-
son Cunningham Logan) who appears
with Clara Barton in this picture, is
a native of Missouri, but was educated
in Kentucky and married John A. Lo
gan In 1855. Since his death she has
Inhabitants ot Colorado far and wide.
The ears of dwellers in the neighbor
ing States would receive a consider
able shock. With lessening intensity
the sound would spread much farthor
around—Indeed, It might be heard all
over the United States. The sonorous
Waves would roll over to the Atlantic
coast: they would be heard on the
shores of the Pacific. Florida would
not be too far to the south, nor Alaska
too remote to the north. If, indeed,
we could believe that, the sound would
travel as freely over the great conti
nent as it did across the Indian Ocean,
then we may boldly assert that every
car in North America might listen to
the thunder from Pike’s Peak, If it
‘ ‘ — ‘ " Can we doubt that
clouds that the open sea was beneath
them. They tried to shut the valve,
but were only partly successful.
When within a few hundred feet of
the water, the valve was closed by
Wolff, who climbed up to tho cordage
surrounding tho gas bag to do it. But
tho balloon still dropped nearer the
sea. Finally, desperate, the balloon
ists climbed into the balloon’s rigging
and cut the basket from under them.
At first tho eruption did not threaten
to be of any serious type. In fact, the
good people ot Batavia, so far from be
ing terrified at what was in progress
in Krakatoa, thought the display was
such an attraction’ that they chartered
a steamer and went forth for a pleas
ant picnic to tho island. Many of us,
I am sure, would have beea delighted
to have been able to join the party
who were to witness so interesting a
spectacle. With cautious stops the
more venturesome of the excursion
party clambered up the aides of tho
volcano, guided by tbe Bounds which
were Issuing from Its summit. There
rivaled Krakatoa.
Krakatoa made the greatest noise that
has ever been recorded?
Among the many other Incidents
connected with this explosion, I may
specially mention the wonderful sys
tem of divergent ripples that started
in our atmosphere from tho point at
which the eruption took place. The
initial Impetus was so tremendous that
these waves spread for hundreds and
thousands of miles. “ “ " *
Clinging to the cordage about the
balloon, “ ‘ -----
, .the two men hung between
hope and fear for a few moments as
tho bag seemed to hover uncertainly.
The thought came Into their minds
simultaneously that one must drop off
and llghteh the weight to save his
comrade; otherwise both must drown.
But slowly the bag began to rise once
more.
GLUNO TO CORDAGE FOR HOURS.
After clinging for hours to the cor
dage, thousands of. feet in tho air over
the sea, the two soldiers made out the
land. As soon as it was safe, the valve
was opened again, and the balloon was
allowed to descend slowly. The two
men landed In a snow bank within a
few miles of a little Swedish village.
They had to walk two miles, almost
exhausted, through the snow, and col
lapsed Just as they reached the flrpt
cabin.
"Thet there tree, Mlrandy, reminds
me amaziniy uv a Jay-bird.”
"Look a-here, 81, yew’re gettin’ dip
py. Haow on atrtn bln a tree fallen
acrost th’ road put yew In mind uv a
Jaybird?”
“Becuz, Mlrandy, It hez blew daown.
GIddap, Nance.”
__ They diverged,
in fact, until they put a mighty girdle
round tho earth, on a great circle of
which Krakatoa was tho pole. Tho at-
mospherio waves, with tho whole earth
now well in their grasp, advanced into
the opposite, hemisphere. In their
progress they had necessarily to form
tho Chorokces. It Is to Sequoia that
the Cherokee nation owes Its eplendlM
system of schools.
While In March of a lost band off
Cherokoo Indians In 1844, Sequoia
lost hla life
California has already honored httn
by naming tho “Big Tree” of that
slate ‘‘Sequoia gtgatsa” after him
England knows this tree aa tho
gradually .;contracting circles, until at
Fast they converged to a point In Cen
tral America, at the very opposite
point of the diameter of our earth,
8,000 miles from Krakatoa. Thus the
waves completely embraced the earth.
Every part of our atmosphere had
been set into a tingle by tbe great
Thirty-two of the states of tho
onion nave adopted Indian titles, bnt
they tie usually place-names; no
state commemorates In Its titlef any
original 1 American citizen. True wo
have Delaware named for Lord Do
le Writ, Pennsylvania for tbe Quak
er, William Penn, and one for Georgo
Washington, but none to oommotnonto
an Indian.
cntly swept away to destruction In an
Invasion ot the shore by the tremen-
Uoub waves with which the seas sur
rounding Krakatoa were agitated.
idenoa School*.
ITOS, PA.
The development of (he volcanic en
ergy proceeded, and gradually the ter
ror of the inhabitants ot the surround
ing coastB rose Jo a climax. July had
ended before tbe manifestations of
KrakHtoa bad attained thslr full vio
lence. By the middle of August the
panic was widespread, for the supreme
catastrophe was at hand.
On the night of Sunday, August 26,
1883, the blackness ot the dust clouds,
now much thicker than ever in the
Straits of Sunda and adjacent parts of
Sumatra and Java, was only occasion
ally illumined by lurid flashes from
tbe volcano. The Krakatoa thunders
were on the point of attaining their
complete development. At tbe town of
Batavia, a hundred miles distant, there
was no quiet that night. The houses
trembled with tbe subterranean vio
lence, and the windows rattled as If
heavy artillery were being discharged
in the streets, and still these efforts
seemed to b« only rehearsing for the
supreme display. On the morning ot
Monday, August 87, 1888, the rehears
als were over and the performance be
gan. An overture, consisting of two
or three Introductory explosions, was
succeeded by a frightful convulsion
which tore away a Urge psrt of the
Island of Krakatoa and scattered It to
the winds of heaven,
ThU supreme effort It'was which
produced the mightiest noise that, so
far as we can ascertain, has ever been
heard on this globe. It must have been
Indeed a loud nolse.whlch could travel
from Krakatoa to Batavia and pre
serve 1U vehemence over so great a
distance; but we should form a very
Inadequate conception of the energy
of tbe eruption of Krakatoa If we
thought that Its sounds were heard by
those merely a hundred mile* off. This
would be little Indeed oompared with
what la reoorded, on testimony which
It Is impossible to doubt
Westward from Krakatoa stretches
the wide expanse of the Indian Ooean.
On the opposite aide from the Straits
of Bonds lies the Island of Rodrigues,
MISS CLABA BARTON AND MRS. JOHN A. LOGAN.
slonaiy work, was born In Oxford,
engaged In literary work, and has re
sided in the city of Washington, mak
ing ber home In a quaint old bouse
filled wltb mementoes of her hero bus-
band. This Residence is on a most at
tractive little estate of about one-half
acre in extent, located on the brow of
a hill overlooking the nation's capitol.
■acre of 1896, at the request of the
President qf the United States carried
relief to Cuba In 1898, and conducted
the' Red Cross relief at the Galveston
flood.
America’s most interesting repre
sentative In the world’s group of grand
old women his been loaded wltb hon
ors by all nations, and ber borne Is
filled with valuable tokens of esteem.
Chief among the treasures cherished
by this idol of conquering armies are
the Jewels ancj decorations tendered her
by the royalty of many nations, and
constituting unquestionably the great
est collection ever bestowed upon any
citizen of the United States.
GIFTS FROM ALL SOVEREIGNS.
Conspicuous In the glittering array
are the amethyst cot In the form of a
pansy, an Inch and one-half square
the gift ot Miss Barton's personal
friend, the Grand Duchess of Baden;
the Servian Red Cross decoration pre
sented by Queen Natalie, the Gold
Cross of Remembrance bestowed by tbe
Grand Duke and Duchess of Baden, a
medal presented by the Queen of Italy,
an English decoration pinned on Miss
-Barton's dress by Queen Victoria; the
Iron Cross ot Germany presented by
■ ms. the deeora-
Mine presented
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sad better paying occupation.
Mind, the sending of thle coupon dose not obligate yon to
peyono met. Itttoply give, the I. C. 8. th. opportunity rf
proving hers eery il is for you to improve your condition right St
beau without neglecting your preccut work. ,
No risk to run. No books to bts».
Tho L C. 8. is an institution with an invested capital of over
88l000l00(L and a reputation of 14 years’ lucceseflil work* It has
trizm sday laborer end qualified him is an electrician with n
■alary of88060 a veer. It has taken s bricklayer sad qnliled
SSXffi OT Hi* 255
Miie Ott
prime iui
Guenther, 1 1
lienee by Pope Phn X. ie a Chicago girl
[liter of Otto Guenther ei the am of
free ford £ Co. Thieil not ike Star tune
.~.n honored by tho heed of her frith, Leo
blvinf granted her a special audience n year
i hi, death. Min Gecnther ban been taking a
on lie in the Unhreraity of Berlin. She bee
ranch philanthropic work emoag the poor
ne of Chicago end will resume this when the
ta there next month. She will be graduated
Northwestern Unirersity Law School!* Itat.
eruption. The waves passed over our
heads, ths air In our street*, the sir In
our houses, trembled from tbs volcanic
Impulse.. The very oxygen supplying
our lungs was responding also to ths
supreme convulsion which took pises
10,040 milts away. It is needles* to
object that this ooald not have taken
pises because wn did not feel It 8elf-
reglstsring barometers hors enabled
these wavs* to be followed unmistak
ably all over the globe.
Such was the energy with which
these vibrations were Initiated at
Krakatoa, that oven when th* waves
thus arising had converged to the
point diametrically opposite In South
America their vigor was not yet ex-
tionofJH
Armenia, amd the brooch and pendant
' of diamonds, tbe gift of tbe people of
I Johnstown, In recognition of tbe great
.service rendered by Mias Barton after
(the famous flood.
I Miss Barton’s father was in boyhood
(unn ot tbe soldiers of “Mad Anthony”
IWayne, srf,-Clarissa Harlows Barton,
I. . * -• rat., la fneorOiArl In Itta farndw
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