OCR Text |
Show I URTHER DETAILS OF MARTINIQUE HORROR t Capfain of the Steamer Roddam Describes the Terrible Scenes Through Which He Passed Tale Perhaps Never Had a Parallel in Stories of the Sea Flrat ;of all the ship that passed through, the shower of ashes of Mont Pelee and reached the American main landtojuell about It, the British Etona, boTfto New York from Montevideo rSt, Lucia, has arrived at New fork Per captain, John Cantell, and her passengers brought with them a thrilUpg story, not only of their own experience in the second eruption of Mirttnique's destroyer, but of the Roddam and her heroic captain, whom they xisited in the St Lucia hospital. The Etona reached St Lucia on the evening of May 10, expecting to coal watch I found that we had been about an hour reaching daylight. Our decks were coveied two Inches with 'this matter," and the captain exhibited a box of volcanic dust, which You had been eaved by his crew. can see the marks of it yet about the masts and our polished woodwork, and I dont think my passengers are yet over their fright. No curiosity would ever take us again near that terrible place. Before leaving St Lucia, Capt Cantell said, we visited the wreck of the Roddam, which escaped from Lucia, the brave man refused all medical treatment until the others were cared for. He will live, the doctors tell me." EEAUTIFUL ISLE OF ST. VINCENT ao Earth y Fuillw B.for. the Rerent Awful Diesa'er. St Vincent, which has suffered from the eruption of its own souflriere volcano is one of the most beautiful and picturesque islands in the British West Indian group. It has an area of 131 square miles and has been described as one of the flashing jewels to everybody to stand clear. An infilled with flame and falling batches of fire. The shp was immediately ablaze from end to end, and the crew and laborers aboa: 1 began to rush about, frantic with pain. Capt. Freeman ran Into the chart-roobut was driven out again by flames that came in at the port hole. Then he rushed to the engine room telephone and signaled the engineer to put on full steam. Some one responded and the ship began to move, but the steering gear was jammed and would not work. He kept the engines going stant later the air was panic-stricke- VJEW. OF PART OF THE WEST INDIES SHOWING SCENES OF VOLCANIC DISTURBANCE BIRDS-EY- team s ' MA k Danish GtmmlAUYtiEN Gwu not Ctr WITHIN J NILES OflrPiEKE. hUolrn ihttuujK ' ttaAieit. Wjixcera. cliw J Sr Twog ctiiMM rxmiuMiinnHHSwawirBHvnmMaaf.,t.ttV!E7ggisgiBHHKVH!aiaiMaglwmTiVBS!XtsneMg'.Tra-iiiiitagV.g8WS'Nigl- uid leave die same night. In the harbor news was received of the St Terre disaster, and, lying at anchor, 'jss all that was left of the Roddam. jf All St Lucia was in mourning and .people were so distracted by the Kwa from the neighboring Island that not until May 11 that Capt .'an tell could obtain coal and pass on Ur Journey. 8t Pierre was passed a distance of abbut four miles and ' 11 on board studied the land with V .lasses. The weather was clear and we had fine view," said the captain, but lines of St Pierre were not ynlsable. IGrsViblog was a mass formation of I '.lie seemed to have Vn wd were about eight I cT-thnorthern end of the Pelee began to belch a 1 time. , Clouds ' of smoke and t lntethe airland spread over Ark-jkh.sA X: Our fn-ut- es 1 ta-- C were cov-- " tknce that looked like .hi which smelled like a lf lavThe J V uc. mess came upon us, 1 ever,. , on board the ship was After the stories rtlly frlctjed. we had hews and the sights we had en at St Lucia I we did not know ourselves were to be .ht that --1 udder red hot lava or engulfed by aother tidal urave, though we were -- , r ti hen ten ' frpm shore. . steam,' 1 whistled to J ,Crowd 'ief-FngiFahrish, and he need- vl no uriUg Slowly we drew away ; through a Suffocating atmosphere, loot by fort, yard by yard, and at last tTt' the sun J began shining. We had I- 1 passed' outside the hailstorm of dust sand. When t looked at my .and ,J miles . - D r . '' . ' ISLAND 2s - The watchman was ahead and astern alternately, hoping that lie like a necklace around the Pierre engaged In gathering up fragments of to free the paddles, and In so doing Caribbean sea. The last British cenhuman bodies and putting them away nearly struck the Quebec Line steamer sus credited It with a population of In the locker. He discontinued the Roraima, from which clouds of steam BO, 000, of whom a large majority are work to show us around. and flame were rising. negroes engaged in the cultivation of The Roddam presented an awful Men on the Roraima were wringsugar cane, which Is the principal about crop. Two hundred years ago it was spectacle. She looked as if she had ing their hands and rushing been thrust Into soft, clinging mud frantically. Some of them jumped in- the home of the Carib Indians, who and pulled out again. The mud stuck to the sea, where they must have died were induced by the French to join to her like cement and was two feet Instantly, Capt. Freeman said, for the in a revolution against England. They deep on her decks. Awnings, stanchions and boat covers had been burned or swept away. Tarpaulins, rails, stays, hatch covers and even her smokestacks were gone. When the watchman dug Into the lava he found here and there fragments of human remains. All that was left of the ship was her hull, and that, being Iron, had escaped destruction. Hearing that Capt. Freeman was at the Hotel Felite, we called on him. I wanted to get from his own lips ihe story of his escape. 1 was unprepared for the terrible sight which greeted my eyes when I entered the room. Capt. Freemans face was burned to the color of teak wood and large patches of skin and flesh were burned from his bones, here and there. Both his hands were swathed In bandages. His hair and mustache were gone, his eyes were tied open and he was in great pain. When I told him who I was he talked a great deal, to relieve himself, he said, of his suffering. He said the Roddam had been in St. Pierre only an hour when the eruption occurred. He was talking to an agent In a boat alongside when a big black squall approached the ship from the Island. It was like a black accomwall, traveled fast and was panied by a tidal wave and a deafening roar. The sun disappeared Immediately. Capt. Freeman said that he shouted St. May 8. OF ST. VINCENT. water was boiling like a caldron. It was like a mass of boiling mud. Many of the Roddams crew had disappeared, probably swept overboard, and the rest went one by one until only six were left. Every one of them must have died a terrible death. After a time the captain got the steering gear working, the ship answered her helm and he headed her out to sea. Slowly the sky cleared, and it was possible for him to see about him. Men In the red hot lava lay dying all along his track. He himself, though he stayed at the wheel, was unable to lift his burned arms. Blood from his forehead kept running Into his eyes, obscuring his vision. He likened his escape to the passage from hell Into heaven. At last he reached the open sea, and with the help of two sailors, two engineers and the boatswain, succeeded In taking his boat ti culminates In the vast crater of Morne y Garou, which in 1812 was the scene of a tremendous eruption. Billions of tons of rock and earth were hurled high Into the air part, as molten lava, flowed down into the sea; part, shivered into thin dust, was carried high up into the clouds. For three days the awful convulsions of nature continued. The dust from the crater so obscured the rays of the sun and brought on a darkness so terrifying that the few survivors believed that the world had come to an end. The Impalpable dust was carried by the trade winds to the islands of Barbados and St. Lucia and turned day into n night. The Inhabitants became with fear and abandoned their ordinary vocations and devoted themselves to prayer and fasting. This was the closing period of a which series of volcanic eruptions had lasted two years, and the direction of the seismic wave was not unlike that which devastated Martinique. The disturbance in 1812 seemed to pass under the bed of the ocean to Venezuela, Caracas, the capital of that country, was partly destroyed by an earthquake and 10,000 persons perished. With the exception of the great Lisbon earthquake, the eruption of the mighty mountain was the most frightful cataclysm known to the world up to that time. The whole of the island wai configuration changed. The eastern end sank into the sea, and where it stood there is now a great depth of water. The volcanic forces remained quiescent until 1882, and then the warning rumble was heard again; but it was a false alarm, and the terrible scenes of the early part of the century were not repeated. The island of St. Vincent lies 100 miles west of Barbados and between St. Lucia and the Grenadines. From north to south stretcher a ridge of high, wooded hills, extending to the were crushed and thousands were transported. Hundreds, rather than into the submit, threw themselves sea. A few descendants of these original owners of the Island still exist on lands granted to them by the British government. St. Vincent, like all the Islands In the group, is of volcanic origin and RECHARTED riAv ha Crlbl)n the cables forces proceeds jberolcanic recognised that !5arlbbean sea must be re- -' French cable repairing, v lard at work night and l time to time the by Us soundings In cttom of the Carlb-suc- h an extent as of repairing pry where found levels are . ' date center oxtend as far is evea end of the island has slid into the sea, leaving a wide Inlet in place of the former flourishing estate of Walibou. Vessels that have endeavored to approach SL Vincent toward the north say that it is impossible to get nearer than eight miles to the scene of the catastrophe and that at that distance the ocean is seriously perturbed as from a submarine volcano, boiling and hissing continually. The theory has been advanced that the St. Vincent volcano. La Soufriere, has found an outlet beneath the waves. It Is feared here that scientists are right when they say that the worst Is not over and that further outbreaks may occur at any moment Involving those Islands which have hitherto es- on board the Roraima, is recovering and strong hopes are also entertained of the ultimate recovery of a Canadian lady who was a passenger on the same ship. The Roddam is being repaired at St. Lucia. HOW Editor HE PAID HIS SUBSCRIPTION Had Hla F.ath.rs and Adami It Square Called I used to be In the newspaper business myself, in a sort of way, said Col. Moses Taylor of Atlanta, Ga., as he puffed a big black cigar in the Continental hotel lobby. It was a good many year's ago, though; shortly after the war. The natives of tne little tow n w here I was running the Weekly Guide, didnt alcaped. It has now been ascertained that at together appreciate my efforts, probleast thirty Americans perished in the. ably because I had some Union ideas called my office, locked the door and started to clean up. It was slow work, and after about three hours had passed an old cracker named Adams came along and began to pound on the door. I stuck my head out of the window and asked him his business. Mistah Taylah,' he said, I owe you 32 suh, foh a yeahs subscription to yo papah. All right; Ill be right down, I said. Hoi on, suh, he continued, with a grin. I have reason to believe, suh, that the gentlemen that gave you a dose of tar and feathers this mawnin took a mattress from my clothesline. I value that mattress at mo than 32, suh, but since you already have the 1 feathers, am willing to call it square suh.' 'Shortly after that, concluded the th PMladelP sea on either side. The Soufriere, which is now in eruption, is in the northwest It towers 3,000 feet above the sea. Its crater is three miles in circumference and 600 feet deep. From the summit the view on all sides was superb. Borrowers must not be choosers. ed States bureau of navigation, the product being 717 vessels of 154,073 tons, against 568 vessels of 179,229 tons in the latter half of 1900. These include 78,860 tons of wooden vessels and 78,213 tons of steam vessels. The building on the Atlantic and gulf seaboard was 84,347 tons, while the great lakes built 45,855 tons and the Pacific coast built 18,211 tons. The total thirty-eigh- t vessels of over 1,000 tons each. Four per cent of sailing vessels and 3 per cent of steamships are lost in a year. California Farm Machinery, In no locality has modern steam farming machinery been applied with fic ware will be such effectiveness as upon the grain bed 4 the pecan ranches in southern California. On disaster and twenty-tw- o in that didnt stiike them favorably. J;ls plying be- - St Pierre of one ranch the engine used to draw the 4 About St. Vincent. The bodies oclock one the island iiartinique. St. machinery is of fifty horse power, and Mr. Prentis, the Amerof masked mob ouTTngave me the routed family of if tide are finding has drive wheels eight feet high. It have been identified. The the lead while ican consul, consumes tweie barrels of oil every body of Capt. Mcggo of the British day, and its operation requires the sermuch was r cable-reps- .' washed tar as Grappler ship but I was feathers, in a Htlplnilld ns In Amrrtca L.fc Irar. actions are govices of seven men in plowing, flrty-flv- e and has been buried Margaret pretty bad mess at that. I made my of St. Vincent, ashore Shipbuilding in the latter half of y furrows are turned over at one seve-slso was who back tc the shack that by burned ay Stokes, 1201 was north courtesy of the active, according to the Unit time, covering a breadth of forty feet sV ; r? ji Jr.ThatL(' REVOLVES I Easily HE WAS B( LINCOLNS I Pinkhi I pound. DEATHBED Lyman Beeclirr Todd, Who DU. Recently. Hid Eventful HUtery. Dr. Lyman Beecher Todd, who dlM at Lexington, Ky., recently, was man of varied experiences both as physician and a citizen. Dr. Todd u in attendance on President Llncol Uik Hprtylnf Fro It Tree. Apples at 33.50 to 35 a barrel last fall and twice that this spring are apt to make folks interested In fruit trees. The first requisite is a good spray pump with the necessary rigging. The outfit can be bought of the manufacturer or of the implement dealers, and will cost anywhere from 310 to $200. A first-claoutfit costs 315 to 335. Just at this time of the year the spraying needed by the fruit trees Is chiefly for the prevention of fungous diseases. For this purpose a plain solution of copper sulphate, one pound in 10 to 20 gallons of water may be used. Bordeaux mixture is equally as good, but it Is more bother to make. The first spraying should be given at once, before the blossoms open. A little later. Just after the blooms fall, another spraying should be given. This should be Bordeaux mixture in every case. Bordeaux mixture may be made of varying proportions and strengths. The standard mixture consists of one and one-ha- lf pounds copper sulphate, one pound stone lime, ten gallons water (six pounds sulphate, four pounds lime, one barrel water). Dissolve the sulphate and slack the lime In separate vessels, dilute each with about half of the total water to be used and then pour the sulphate solution Into the lime water while stirring vigorously. Continue the stirring for a minute to Insure perfect mixture. It deteriorates on standing and should be used soon after made. Keep the mixture clean to avoid clogging of pump and nozzles. Strain the solutions and have a strainer on suction tube of pump. A quick, convenient way to dissolve copper sulphate is to suspend it In a cheesecloth or similar bag Just A below the surface of the water. third spraying two weeks later, with Bordeaux mixture, will be a paying investment. Even a fourth and fifth spraying at Intervals of two weeks, will sometimes pay handsome dividends. In all Bprayiugs, except the first, some parts green should be used. Add one pound of parts green to 200 gallons of water, or four ounces to the barreL If there is danger of bud moth the parts green might better be used in the first spraying also. ss Aiparavo Ptsntinff. The old methods of planting aspara- gus would hardly apply at this day when that delicacy is raised In Immense quantities in large fields. Just imagine trenching a field of several acres extentl It used to be thought that the only way to raise this plant was to dig trenches three and four feet deep and fill them with alternate layers of manure and turf mixed with solL These trenches were sometimes not only three feet deep, but each on Practically all was three feet wide. the manure burled at such a depth was wasted. The asparagus is a plant that feeds near the surface. It r quires a good deal of water, but It does not draw Its food from the water. It will not feed below the water table In the soiL Today fields are well prepared and enriched, and the planting of the asparagus roots proceeds about as rapidly as does the planting of potatoes. The roots are placed at a depth of a foot or less, sometimes not more than a fourth of that. It is better to place the plants at a depth of six Inches or more. This Is especially the case when the plantation covers a large field, as It Is necessary to cultivate over the plants to keep down the weeds. Shallow planting may give an early yield for the first year or two, but the plants will not be so satisfactory in years to come. Another old fallacy was that of close planting. Fifty years ago the plantations of asparagus were mostly on small areas. It was no unusual thing to find the plants set in rows a foot apart and six inches apart in the row. This in a few years gave a perfect network of roots in the soil, and the asparagus stalks were hardly larger than lead pencils. Now the plants when set on large areas are generally at least three feet apart, and sometimes the rows are four feet apart, with plants three feet apart in the rows. Exterminate Jlmflnn Wxi The plant that we Illustrate on this page Is a good one to exterminate, es- - t Dear j Iscourac ired so lo Jher com uch mec tgan to t Life hat is lif f be well. f t I I I t II Lie Ooi I well, jit you I bottle h you J I jjkaohe to r had le llth wa I light Jrs. L I fatal wound by John Wilkes Bootk and at his bedside when death came. The aged people of his city ani county have been looked after by him for many years, he forming what he termed the Century Club, and on all persons over ninety years old he called weekly and sent flowers and delicacies. At one time there were at many as fifteen of these persons at Lexington and he was very proud of his club. Ver Chic (mould NOT HAS planted have been elm, soft maple, black locust and box elder. The elm grows slowly at first and Is attacked by borers, but is the best shade tree in the list and should he included in every planting for shade. The soft maple is easily broken by the wind and suffers from drouth and the attacks of borers, but It grows rapidly from the start and makes a pretty tree. The limbs of the catalpa tree are easily broken by the winds, but it grows rap-idlmakes a fair shade and is valuable timber for posts. The black locust is not generally regarded as a first-clas- s shade tree and its tendency to sprout from the roots makes it somewhat objectionable on lawns. But it is the fastest grower in the list, will stand more neglect than the others, and the wood is very durable for posts. The box elder is a moderate grower and is not adapted to poor upland soil, though it does well in favored locations. The ash and sycamore are good trees, but thlrd natural aim. are not adapted to as wide a range of peclally if there are young children soils as the others. to play In its vicinity. It Is poisonous, and the life of more than one child i iMchinf Flortlcnltort has been sacrificed to It. Children are While at the Kansas Agricultural poisoned by playing with the leaf In College lately the writer had the pleas- the mouth, and after the seeds ripen ure of talking with Mr. Baxter, who by eating them. They are also danhas charge of the greenhouses there. gerous to cattle. These weeds are genMr. Baxter is perhaps the only man in erally found on vacant lots. Mow the the country who occupies the double weeds and scatter grass seed in theit position of manager of greenhouses place. and instructor in floriculture. At the college are 400 young ladies, most of Experiment in Steer Feeding. whom are taking the domestic science A experiment In steer course. Several times a week classes feeding is being carried on under the go to the greenhouses and are there indirection of Professor H. W. Mumford structed in the science of cultivating of the University of Illinois at the and caring for flowers. The future farm of E. D. Funk, Shirley, Illinois. homes of these girls will show the ef- The object of the experiment is to defects of this teaching. Where there termine whether shock corn or ensiare greenhouses under the charge of lage is the best ration for beef making. competent floriculturists the latter Fifty calves, each eight months old, might be used as instructors not only were divided into two lots, one of them in our colleges, but also in many of our getting a ration largely of shock com common schools. Probably all advanced with a minimum amount of whole educational institutions have green- oats and clover hay. The other lot houses connected with them, and this gets exactly the same amount of oats opens up a large field for demonstra- and clover hay, but the calves In this tion in this art lot get their corn and corn stover in the form of silage. Equal acreage of silage and shock corn were set aside Honest Packing. From Farmers Review: Would ad- for this work so that at the end of the vise all growers of small fruit to put experiment Professor Mumford will be their fruit up In new cases and able to determine whether more pounds of beef can be made from an be honest in their packing; to that is, have fruit run uniform acre of shock corn. Careful records in quality and give good meas- are also available showing the relative cost of harvesting and feeding the The trade here discriminure. silage and shock corn to be used in ates against the use of second-han- d packages and against short measure. this experiment The calves will be If an article is number one the best turned to grass about the middle of trade is always in the market to buy. May and gains through the summer We would further suggest that If season observed. The animals used in grower intends to remain In the busi- this experiment will be finished on siness it will be to his advantage to use lage and shock com next fall and winsome particular brand for his number ter. one fruit Buyers, after finding that Tobaeoo No tot. some particular line of fruit gives satFrom the reports of the weather buisfaction to their trade will lu the mareau we compile the following jority of cases leave standing orders relative to the present confor same, the price under the circumdition of the tobacco crop: stances being of secondary consideraKentucky The plants generally are tion. An attractive package always small and thin in beds but aprather helps to sell the fruit M. George, pear to be In good condition other(Commission Merchant). Chicago. wise. New England Tobacco bedB in good CattM In Porto Rico. condition. There is no spot on the globe where New York Tobacco beds made. North Carolina Tobacco beds are they raise better milch cows and beef cattle than in Porto Rico. It still thin, but the plants have made may not be generally known that Lord good growth. Transplanting began Durham took with him to Europe in last week in several eastern counties the eighteenth century a number of but rain is needed to enable this work Porto Rico cows and bred them to to be carried on extensively; on acHolstein stock, thus producing the fa- count of the email size of the plants a mous Shorthorn Durham, but such Is, little delay will not be harmful Ohio Tobacco plants are doing fair nevertheless, the case. . . , Feed and water are most plentiful, the cat- ly well. tle need no housing nor qare whatsoSouth Carolina Much tobacco has ever and there is plenty of shade for been transplanted and stands sethem In most parts of the island a cured. Plante continue good plentiful The combination of conditions that foreacreage devoted to tobacco will be shadows a bright future for the cattle larger than ever before. Tennessee Tobacco raising industry In Porto Rico. Porto are ready Rtco Agricultural Journal, to Bet. Insects have plants Injured younn plants In some localities. Gossips are people who go around Virginia Tobacco plants contlnu stabbing reputations in the hack. backward." ... 1 I you ft f unusu 1, or if i f he mos kham, advised jlkhaii r I cured ye of I t s s PAUNCEFOTE in Lydia RESIGNED British Ambassador at Washington 8101 In Charge of Affairs. Sir Julian Pauncefote, who was correctly reported as having resigned from the British embassy, has been severely ill for some time, and it Is believed that his recent change for the worse started the story in London. Lord Pauncefote is now in the tenth f Frem pverei Jnteri 1 quin. V V t- i fI f , ,apo t ? f I.! Size su s Seasy Bg fe i 'Trial ns. AUe ' ifowl station says: The trees most generally LAKE IV (KATER THAT HAS DISAFPEARED. 1 AGRICULTURE Tree for Shade. A communication from the Oklahoma St. Lucia. During the run out of the harbor the chief engineer died a horrible death. He escaped the first shock, started the engines and, not finding his men below, went on deck to look for them. As he thrust his head out of the hatch a mass of lava fell upon him, burning one side of his face completely off. "Capt. Freemans performance perhaps never had a parallel in stories of the sea, continued Capt. Cantell. When the Roddam arrived at St AS THE WORLD 'ie toi t r I t Bcotli libra I Mr 4 k I i ear of his service as ambassador to Washington and has served a total of thirteen years continuously as a rep resentatlve of the British government in the American capital. In 1893 the mission was raised to an embassy and Lord Pauncefote became ambassador. Although in his seventy-fiftyear he was until very lately possessed of a mind of exceptional strength and clearness, and he will always be regarded as one of the great masters of diplomacy of the nineteenth century. I h HAS INTRODUCED NEW i FASHION of Former Mortoa Originates m Fad Miss Alice Morton, who has just created a mild sensation by introducing Kite Vice-Presid- tI r 1 I I f nc f w IE f into Chicago the new feminine fashion of carrying a cane, is the niece of Levi P. Morton, who was formerly of the United States. This cane, or stick, to use the proper term, has a crooked head, around which a silver snake with emerald eyes gently twines itself 1 M Vice-Preside- nt A Homan Mirror. f i The Roman f mir- ror or speculum, as shown in the hi ilaccompanying lustration, was not altogether unlike the ordinary "looking glass of the present day. Instead of . glass, however, the ancients used round or oval ahd some- tit '4 4 times Square plates of polished metal. Claim of Vegetarians. Vegetarians hold that meat is poisonous, and condemn it severely in every possible way. Water forms 75 per cent of its composition, they claim, and what gives it its flavor is the principle of active poison in it Venous blood, they say, is admitted to be poisonous, and it is this blood in meat that causes it to taste pleasantly. To prove their claim they state that meat, washed clean of its ve- nous blood, has no taste whatever and no ons would eat it. - r . |