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The Daily soliphone., 1902-04-28
ABSENCE OF CRAY HEADS.
Visitor in the House of Representa- lives Notes the Predominance of
 Young Members.

"I visited the house of representa- tives the other day" remarked a stranger, relates the Washington Star, and I was impressed by one or two facts which interested me.
 ''In this, one of the two great legis- iative bodies of the United States, I expected to see q great many, the ma jority, in fact, of the members of ven- erable aspect. I could not but observe of the gray heads among the repre- sentatives. In short, men of vener- able aspect wer so largely in the mi nority that l was at once struck with the fact. Most of the members ap- peared to be young men, and men in or under the age of middle life. Ipointed out many gentlemen on the floor of youthful appearance, and asked the doorkeeper if they were really mem bers of the house. He replied in all instances that they were members, and seemed surprised that I should ask the question. I consider this fact a striking illustration of the possi- bilities for the young man in American political life. As am foreigner and used to seeing gray boards in high legislative and executive positions on the continent, the contrast was the more noticeable. I was also informed that the bill under debate had been be- fore the house for several days, was bitterly contested, and that much feel ing existed on either side. The feel ing the doorkeeper referred to was not observable to me- If Americans consider the debates in their lower house to be animated they should see what really animated debate amounts to in the French chamber of deputies. They would experience a change of mind.
 ''I could also but remark upon the limited space in the galleries allotted to the general public, and I was in- formed that this space had been even more curtailed during a reconstruc- tion of the interior of the chamber last summer. l supposed, of course, that the best part of the galleries would in this country be given over to the pub lie. At every door but two l was re- fused admission except upon the pro duction of card or personal identi- fication that l was member of the diplomatic corps or one ot the official government family. In the space all loted to the public there were not over 100 seats, if that number. Of course, the seating capacity of the galleries is not great, but the reserved space must take up over 90 per cent, while thought the opposite rule would be found to be true"
The Daily soliphone., 1902-04-28
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Thirty-eight firms, the number in- cIuding nearly every importnt pulp fishing house in the states, are now members of the American Publishers association.
 In John Burroughs later essays he makes frequent mention of some con- genial neighbors who live at "Slab- sides,'' on the west bank of the Hud- son, near Kingston. The neighbors writer, his wife and their dog.
 For a number of years MT. Chamber lain, the English statesman, was never seen without an orchid in his button hole, but now he has stopped wearing them. It is hinted that he made the change because of this clever line in Watson's Spontaneous Tribute:" "You shall know him by the orchid in the coat that he has turned.'
 Ernest Thompson Seton was intro duced in an Iowa town, in one of his recent lectures, by the leading citizen as follows: "It took a Roman to tell the Greeks that they had a Homer; LOOK d OcTIIldu UO UGH ieiild Oheio she had Shakespeare, and now 1t takes an English1nan to tell us that we have wild animals. ."-N. Y. Times Review.
 Thomas Bailey Aldrich once received . pathetic letter in feminine hand announcing the death of little daughter and asking if he would not send in his own handwriting verse or two from ''Baby Bell' to assuage the grief of the household. Moved to sympathetic pity, MT. Aldrich sent the whole poem-and not long afterward saw it displayed in the shop of an autograph dealer with a good round price attached to it.
 The library of the late Dr. William A. Hammond, surgeon general of the United States. and author of several novels which had considerable vogue in their day, was sold at auction in February. The highest price of the sale was the $71.40 given for col lection of 10 articles from various periodicals on the nerves, nervous dis eases, insanity, etc., largely in French and German and bound in 34 vol umes. The most important book in the library was Boccaccio's Decam- eron, edition of 1757, in five volumes, bound in crimson leather, which sold for $70.
The Daily soliphone., 1902-04-28
ssIt,s n Poor Rule," Etc.

Don't bother your father tonight, ' advised the mother. "He is tired and cross."
 The little one looked surprised.
 "Must I let him alone?" she asked. "Yes."
 "He doesn't let me alone when I'm cross"
 "Well, that's different" explained her mother.
 "I should think it was different" ;" retorted the little one, "but l don't see why it should be. get spank ing when I'm cross" Chicago Post.
The Daily soliphone., 1902-04-28
Nnfhinr Seriona.

An insurance agent had made sew eral calls on one of his neighbors, and finally last week persuaded the citizen to make application for policy. Among the questions on the document were those seeking the usual family history.
 sHow old was your father when he
The Daily soliphone., 1902-04-28

aied?'' was one of the points on which information was wanted
 sSeventy-six, was the answer.
 s.What was the cause of death?''
 "Oh, some little thing like cold, l believe. Nothing serious, I'm sure," was the minimizing reply.-Philadel- phia Times.
The Daily soliphone., 1902-04-28
.Iuxf tIe Trouble.

Newspaper Artist-Officer. this is outrageous! You know l was only sketching that parade.
 Policeman-That's what Oi'm ar ristin' yez fer, young feller-fer arawin' a crowd.-Judge.
The Daily soliphone., 1902-04-28

Neuralgia pains, rheumatism, l0fs1n- go and sciactic pains, yield to the pe1aa- trating influence of Ballard's Ss,ow Linenent. Price 25 and 50 centss R. c. Grizzard.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-16

analysis; they were too simple, too
West Indian for that. Sufficient that
the rumble had gone.
st. Pierre was gay that night of May
1. The municipal band played music
in the plaza, as was its wont Thurs
day evening. This band night was
the one when youths and maidens
might mingle in public, and the young
gallants and mademoiselles, prone
nading around the square under the
watchful eyes of fathers and mothers
and duennas. talked lightly of Pelee
and that whitening fall.
Up near Morne Rouge, abode of ST.
Pierre's well-to-do, there was
lawn party that evening, which car
ried its gayety far into the night
zitzas tinkling in the tropic air, and
mantilla-draped girls dancing in the
moonlight to the click of castanets.
Friday, day of the evil omen, dawn
ed over st. Pierre. 1t was made
sombre by a thunderstorm, which
brooded over the mountains and from
whose dark clouds came intermittent
flashes of lightning. The nervous
started at every thunderclap and anx-
iously asked one another If that was
not Mont Pelee. while others sought
to trace the nlinding flashes to their
source, to see if they were really the
mere play of lightning or volcanic
blazes from the time-worn crater,
which many believed, and all hoped,
was long ago extinct. Then a heavy
mist settled over the city and its sur
roundings, and under its depressing
influence the day wore itself to
close.
Saturday, May 3, Just five days
to the obliteration, to death, utterly.
wholesale. sudden and tragic! And
yet ST. Pierre went forth that day to
carnival doings. local celebration IN
honor of something or somebody.
Facts are measer as to that one day
and those following. for it must be
remembered that nobody survived the
horror that was SO soon to come. But
there were some who had spent days
in the city just previous to the trag-
edy-some who had left it only a
scant half-hour before the holocaust
Grieving for their own lost dead and
with nerves unStrung by the narrow
ness of their own escape. it may be
that their overwrouaht minds are
coming visions now, but these tell ear
nestly of a column of smoke which
arose, black as pail, from Pelee's
white shroud to rear it's pillows of
Grape into the form OF a great up
ended coffin. However that may be-
there is evidence that all festival gay
ETY. went when showers of pebbles be-
gan to rattle over the city, with now
and then a shower of sand, of grains
hot to the touch. despite their long
flight through the air
ST. Pierre, it is now said, was in a
more sober humor that evening than
it has been within the memory of those
who tell dfsjointedly the tale of the
| days that ushered in it's doom. And
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to say whether there was danger there
or not. Then, too. the governor was
coming, and, moreover, his family was
coming with him. Could there posi-
bly, be any danger where so eminent
and so important personages as these
Were? Also a company of soldiers
from Fort de France We're coming,
and while the ST. PierranS were talk
ing of their arrival the company APP
peared.
1t seems singular that the presence
of this small band of soldiery should
have inspired a misplaced confidence.
but it was So though none seems to
have asked what good tne soldiers
could have done. or even the might
est army have effected against vol
canic Pelee.
The governor came. and with him
his family arrived from Fort de France
on the little steamboat Topaz. With
the governor came the biologists. the
wise men who were to sit in judg-
ment and to SO fatuouSly miSjudge.
They pondered long. and then gave
fatal assurance that all was well. The
people read the assurances which the
papers printed, drew long breath of
relief and then turned their attention
to other things, to affairs of business
and pleasure and all that goes to
make up the iRdolent, happy life of
the pleasure loving natives of this
isle. And that night-the night of
May THE wise men fastened back
to Fort de France.
The governor and his family We're
to have followed the next day, the
French cruiser Suchet having been di-
rected to leave her anchorage at Fort
| de France at Z O'Clock for the purpose
! of bringing home the governor and his
| party.
That plan. if carried out, would
| have brought the cruiser to her doom,
! and her crew will never cease to
| thank their saints and bless the blum
! dering mechanic who broke something
| in the engine-room as the vessel was
about getting under way. which acct
! dent delayed her departure and proba-
! bly, saved the lives of all on board.
| Wednesday night--eve of horror,
There are none left alive to tell
what the city was like that night, but
! just around a little promontory at
! its southern edge nestles the little vii
| lage of Carbet, pretty town of some
six or seven hundred people. And
not one of them was hurt, the town
! having been screened by the high
ridge which lay between it and st.
! Pierre and runs sheer to the sea.
| Its northern wall was precipitous
| and built close up to it was the south
| ern section of ST Pierre. a thickly
| populated district whose houses left
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-16
Population Refused Believe There
Was Danger, Though Warming Was Ample

strange quiet of the racked earth.
Thomas T. Prentiss, United States
consul at ST. Pierre, was sitting on
the veranda at his home in the early
hours of the following morning. A
friend came driving by in buggy.
You had better get out of this"
he called to the consul. Il am getting
out. and getting out as fast as | can"
"Oa. you are just merely Il little
scared" Mr.. Prentiss replied. There
is no need of anyone going away.
1T is better to be safe than sorry,
retortcd the citizen as he whipped up
his team and FASTENED on.
1t is from this man. who witnessed
the disaster a short time later from
a neigh boring elevation. with few
who survived the wreckage in the Of
fing, and the few who looked on the
cataclysm from distant points. that
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-16
NO CLEAN MONEY IN OIL self
silver Coins Turned Black by Fumes
from Texas Wells.

silver Coins Turned Black by HuAss
from Texas Wells.
Money is curiousfy colored in the
oil region, said gentleman from
Beaumont, land during my recent ex.
perience in the Texas city l could not
really tell whether / was Getting good
money or bad half the time. The APP
pearance of the silver in circulation,
in and around Beaumont, was q revel.
alton to me, but, OF course, men who
have been in oil regions before, whers
the very air is filed with gas, knew
just why it was. Shiny dollars are
really very rare now in the Te1as
oil belt. The black oxidized dollar Ia
the rule. The dimes, quarters and
halves are black. 1t is marvellous how
quickly the silver will become oxi-
died.
Il was talking to one of the men
who was actively engaged in working
at one of the wells. and just for my
benefit he made little experiment
He searched around until he got new
looking dollar. one that had just ar
rived and had not had time to be az
fected by the oil and gas of the place.
He put the dollar in his pocket and
went to work at one of the manboles
He did not remain there a great
while
When he returned he pulled out
the dollar and handed it to me for in
spection. 1t was black enough and it
had not got out of his pocket until he
gave it back to me. The gas simply
permeated the mans clothes, got into
his pocket. and when it struck the
silver the necessary chemical proc
esses were set in motion to leave the
dollar colored. All the silver which
has been at Beaumont for any length
of time is in this condition, and the
man who would draw the color line
on the dollars in the Texas oil belt
would simply be unable to do bust
ness
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-16

Mr.. Bernard Shaw will have the
sympathy of writers-and we should
think of compositors--in his protest
against the use of the apostrophe. He
has himself dropped it out of "aint,"
don't" and 'shouldnt"-but not out
of 'he'll'-before he wrote his protest
In THE Author" But why all these
inverted commas, the silly trick of
peppering pages with these uncouth
bacilli"? You will find none of these
bacilli in the Bible. Take this pas
sage, chosen at random: Now Jesus
knew that they were DESTROYS to ask
Him, and said unto them, Do We in
quire among yourselves of that / said,
A little while, and ye shall not see
me; and again, a little while, and We
shall see me? The modern compos-
itor would set that passage between
two brackets of inverted commas, for
it is a quote within a quote. But it
is beautifully clear az it stands. And
among all Biblical misunderstand-
ings, no one we think has been misled
by the absence of an inverted comma.
London Chronicle.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-16

color-red tiled roofs cutting sharp
lines on walls of creamy white, yellow
and orange and bird's-eye blue, min
gled with the green Of tropic verdure.
Built on a long undulation, which slop-
ed to the sea, where it clustered in
riot of color near the shore, its sub
urban spots could be picked out here
and there along the thanking spurs
and foothills which roll from Pelee's
base, that great volcanic bulk whose
crest is ever shrouded in a veil Of
clouds.
Over the doomed city the morning
of May 1 broke in miracle sp1endor,
skies bright and blue, and foliage
washed to a tresher green by a hard
rain which had swept over the island
the preceding night. But it was the
last fair day that st. Pierre was to
know
The market place the first section
of the city to show life when West
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barely enough room for streets, the
buildings budding close to the steep
and wooded activity, as if seeking to
escape on the other side of the ridge.
The intervening distance was short.
By the broad. finely graded, bridge.
and tunneled highway which connect
ed city with village, one would Judge
that a five minutes brisk walk would
from the other.
But none sought safety by that
road-at least none escaped by it.
The heart-breaking pity of it all is that
safety was so near-at the end of
ones fingers almost. For just over
the ridge the grass and palms are
everywhere as green as any in the
tropics today, while up to the very
crest of it's northern slope are the in
effaceabIe marks Of ruin and disaster
as if some sea of flame had brimmed
to the very crest of the ridge to suck
back again before overlooking on the
other side.
So it is the the village folks of Car
bet that one must turn for the last
act in this horrible tragedy.
Night fell, the villagers say, with
an unnatural, unearthly quiet. Not a
breath of air to stir the palms firing
ing on the shores; not a ripple to
break the mirror-like clearness of
still waters. 1t was as if the hush of
death lay everywhere. True earth
quake weather, more than one of the
villagers observed as they noted the
oppressive stiffness of the air and the
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-16
SOLDIER WAS JUSTLY INDIGNANT
Veteran of Civil War Referred as
Battle Scared" Genera.

Battle Scared" Genera.
Prof VIM. F. King president of Cor
nell College. of Iowa, believes that
newspaper reputation is somewhat
precarious. At the dinner given in
honor of Leslie NJ. Shaw. secretary of
the treasury. at the St Denis hotel
recently President King told of the
experience of a famous general of the
civil war, who was described In the
leading newspaper of the town where
he lived as battle scared general"
The general" continued President
King, was tustifiabIy indignant, and
expressed himself to the editor of the
paper in no uncertain language. He
demanded that correction be made
in the following issue, and to his
great dismay on picking up the paper
on the following day found himself
described as bottle SCARED gen.
erai"
There is no fear" said President
King in conclusion. that any of the
guests here tonight will go home
bottle Scared. / notice that tuas-
much as the menu contains no wines,
the guests have been INDUCING freely
in plain water. However, the edibles
have been luscious enough to make
the mouth of the Hudson water
New York Tribune.
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throes of death. One moment and
church bells were ringing Joyous
chimes in the ears of st. Pierre's 30
000-the next the flame-clogged bells
were sobbing a requiem for 80. 900
dead. One watt of morning breeze
flowed over cathedral spires and
domes, over facadcs and arches and
roofs and angles of populous and
liGht-hearted city-the next swept a
lone mass of white-hot ruins The
sun gliStened one moment on spark
ling fountains, green parks and frond-
ed ponds-its next ray shone on fusing
metal, blistered. name-wrecked squares
and charred Stumps of trees One
day and the city was all light and
color, all gayety and grace-the next
its ruins looked as though they had
been crusted over with twenty cen
turtles of solitude and silence
Prof. Robert r. Hill. United States
government geotogist and head of tle
expedition sent out by the National
Geographical society, has Just come
in from daring and prolonged in
vestigation of the volcanic activity in
Martinique.
Prof. Hill chartered steamer and
carefully examined the coast as far
north as Port de Macouba, at the ex-
IRENE edge of the island making fire.
quent landings. After landing at lie
Precheur, five miles north of ST.
Pierre, he walked through an area of
active volcanism to the latter place
and made a minute examination of
the various phenomena disclosed
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-16

Fopianna Caravallo met Luegui Con-
gillio and, discussing the late election.
Luegui asked Fopi:
Hello. Fopi; you vota?"
Yes; you vota too?'
Sure"
Vat you vota?"
oh. l vota for Davva da Ruiz. Billa
da Murf givva me two dol for da
vota."
'Ha. You tella me Billa da Murf
givva you two dol for da vota. MALTA
delta Santa Madonna. He only givva
me onea dol and nah vota just as
naglia IriShaman. will havva his
blood. | swear da vendett. l joina da
Malta, two doll for da Vota? Vat he
TAXA me for, a rotta bannan. mouldy
lem, chipa skat. | telia you. Fopi, /
lika Davva da Ruz He wide open
man. He talka lika MICA man to aa
dago. He givea Milwauk da bridge.
He putta da town ona da map. We
maka him of America da king, viva
Davva da RuZ. But Billa da Murf, oh
tristissma. | gtva him da stillett, ona
He coma to my house. he shaka da
hand wit ma brud, ma cousino and
ALA my frienda. He kissa my kidda.
He ffatter ma VITA, but he only givvs
me onea dol for da vota. All"
And Luegui went off pushing his
banana cart and mutterius maladic-
tions on "Billa da Murf."-Miwaukee
Sentinel.
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Fopianna Caravallo met Luegui Con-
gillio, and, discussing the late election.
Luegui asked Fopi:
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Eruption.)
Indian town awakes, was filling with
vendors and purchasers. when the
first murmur of Pelee, the sleeping
giant, was heard-a deep-toned, Jared
growl, which instantly blanched the
faces of all who heard, for those bred
in the shadow of the volcano had long
since learned to dread it's wrath, and,
growing up, these in turn had taught
other generations of the malevolenc
CT that giant bulk. Startled eyes Were
turned to the gloomy mountain,
and were treasured to see it still quiet
so far as vision went, for it's top was
hidden in white mist. and there was
no sign of boiling lava and no fall
of hurting rocks.
Those who by chance were in the
city that 'lorning, and who by far
luckier hazard were out of it before its
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fall, tell of how shortlived the fright
was and how quickly the mercurial
population regained it's buoyant spir-
it's Some there were who looked
grave when ashes, white and fine as
powdered magnesia, began to sift
from the great cloud which hung over
Pelee's crest, but it seems that none
thought to connect these myriads of
floating particles with the deep, muf-
fed rumble which had just been
heard; none to trace the one to the
other-the effect to the cause. Their
minds We're not grooved to such
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The special correspondent of the
New York Herald, writing from st.
Pierre, Martinique, says:
1t is not SO very long ago that I Wis
tied this poor ST. Pierre-this now
city of the dead. 1t had. am told,
undergone but few changes until the
coming of that frightful day which
changed it sc utterly.
Where all is now aching desolation
a chaos Of ruined walls, blackened
stumps of trees and sickening stencil,
there basked in summer sunshine a
little city splashed through with vivid
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Loss of Life rom the Eruption of
Mont Pe1ee.)
the only eyewitness versions can be
had.
The hour of the disaster is placed
at about s o'clock. A clerk in Fort
de France called up another in St.
Pierre and was talking with him at
1855 by Fort de France time, when
he heard a sudden, awful shrek, and
then could hear no more.
The little that actually happened
then can be briefly. very briefly tod.
1t is known that at one minute there
lay a city smiling III the summer
morning; that in another it was a
mass of swirling flames, with every
soul of its 10000 writing in tue
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-09-28
RecAlvad Sad News.

Mrs. Laura James yesterday after
noon received telegram announc-
ing the death Of her nephew. Charles
Canty. at Newport, ~ j.. yesterday
about 10 o'clock. Deceased was 10
years of age and had only Joined the
navy some six weeks agJ nc Colum.
bus, Ohio At the time of his death
the young man was serving as an ap
prentice in the United states Train
ing School Death was Ct used from
pneumonia Young Canty formerly
lived in this city and has many friends
| here.