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had lived Clodius and down this street
had fled Glaucus bearing in his arms
the beautiful form of his beloved lone
But from st, Pierre no human soul es.
capped and the novelist OF the future,
who attempts to narrate and describe
the horrors which befell st. Pierre on
that Hateful morning Of May 9Th. must
II he be truthful, bring a ,,r different
ending to his book thgn Lord Lytton
gives to his famous work. The silent
evidences given by the dead bodies
scattered throughout the ruined city
show conclusively that some Of the
people, at least, saw the whlrlwind OF
black cloud, flashing lightning, bum
ing gases and boiling mod coming
toward st'Pfemafror' the burning hole
on the summit Of Pelee, but not one
escaped.-New York Independent.
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clouds OF now white and now black
smoke and ynpor. 1t seems as If some
giant hand. controlled by a supernat-
ural power, has, with one scoop, dug
out near the mountains base an inn
mense hole with an opening only to-
ward the sea and Mt. Pelee. In this
hole there once thriyed one of the most
prosperous cities in all the West In
dies-it was the site of st. Pierre.
Now II is hard, from the distance of a
mile, for ore to discern that there re-
mains anything which bears re-
semblance to the works OF man. A lit
tie nearer in the land seemed simply
roughened, and il was not until we
had come very near TO the shore that
1t was possible to distinguish between
the place where the city had once
been and the works Of nature in the
rear toward the mountain.
But let us enter the town. 1t hardly
seems possible to tell in which direc-
ton and where the streets had former
~ run. Houses were toppled in and
scattered themselves to such an extent
that 1t appeared as il the same giant
hand which had once formed the site
for st. Pierre had now swept Itself
over the entire city, knocking down
buildings with the ease that ten pins
fall when struck by the rolling ball
There must have been n wind with the
fury of a terrible cyclone, for iron
bars as large as mans wrist were
bent and twisted and huge trees have
been literally torn from the earth and
cast In every direction Where there
were no ruins to be seen il was due
to the fact that they had been buried
far below.-the rivers Of mud, which
mad flowed down Pelee's side through
thls naturaLgateway INTO the city. But
most surprising Of all, there was no
lava.
Looking to the north, to the east
and to the south there was one CON
tlnued stretch of desolate ruin. At
no place in the city was there to be
seen house with a roof, and, indeed.
there was not one house with walls
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very difficult to determine just where
this street ran. What had once been
shops, banks and opera house and a
city hall was now but gray waste. on
which dust and ashes had drifted In
large piles covering heaps Of stones
that had formerly been reared In mag
nifcent edifices, The ruins OF the
Hotel de vllle, the City Hall Of st.
Pierre, are shown in the photograph.
This building stood In great square,
where once had also been fountains,
gardens and statues.
In what was known as the central
section OF the city there is perhaps
slightly lees devastation than any
where else. But even there II is next
to impossible to distinguish one house
from another. In one Of the ruins,
however, found little crevice filled
with clay pipes, not one of which had
been broken in all of this ruin. Walls
had tumbled and toppled around them,
and the blasts of superheated gases
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Runs or rAE hoTrL Pc NlLLr.

had killed and destroyed all life for
miles around, and yet these little
fragile pipes had remained intacr. In
another place we found nest Of china
ware, with only few pieces cracked
by the intense heat Here, also, i'm
mense rocks had fallen, but in such a
way as to protect the ware.
Walking over and along where once
was the Rue Victor Hugo down into
Anse one is most forclbly reminded OF
Lord Lytton's last days Of Pompeii.
There, where those smolderng ruins
are now seen once stood the palatial
residence of Dlomed. A little beyond
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five minutes ST. Pierre was changed
from a place of life, Joy and happiness
to this desolation? From an eye-wh-
ness-a priest-who lived abou; dve
ldlometcrs inland from St. Pierre and
partly around the mountain just out
side Of the blast OF Pelee's breath. we
obtained what is probably The hest
description Of the destruction Of the
city that has yet been given.
AT about half past Z IN the morning
Of May Sth Il dense black mass Of
smoke rising rapidly, rolling, twirlng
and twisting upward to a prodlglous
height, was seen coming from Pelce's
crater. Suddenly the upper portion d.
lated like n huge sunhower on its stalk,
and the lower part became wrapped
In snow-white wreath Of vapor,
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which encircled the column aud then
intermingled with 1t and appeared as
black cloud and silvery masses.
Through the pitchy awning aboye
lightning played necessarily and below
on the side of the mountain monster
jets started upward until the whole
mountain appeared to be submerged,
smoking, burning mass. There was
binding FASH and IL appeared as If
some keen-edged knife had cut the
stalk. of the flower, and with loud
report, like. the guns Of the navies of
the world simultaneously exploding,
the black cloud swept down'the noun
tain upon the little city. Lightning
dashed and cracked, and the surround
Ing world became as dark as the dark
est night As the cloud reached the
city there was another binding fash
and loud report. and from north to
south st. Pierre burst into flames.
The only fire from the volcano was
that Of lightning, Flames do not come
from the crater.
Only a short distance from where
the quays of St. Pierre were formerly
situated stands the ruins Of the beau
tiful cathedral. Only a small section
OF the front and rear walls are now
standing, and between them are huge
stones-the wrecknge Of the towers,
the immense bell and the broken and
desolated altar. The fow Of mud has
buried nearly everything. Here, in
this wreckage, were found many bod
les, and II Is very probable that at the
time Of the eruption the church was
filed with people praying to the AL
mighty for deliverance from the vol
canO. These people, be It known, had
been given not less Than twelve days
warning OF the subsequent catastrophe.
The first eruption, on May Sth, left
standing q large part OF the cathedral,
but the second eruption, on Nay 10th,
left II in the condition shown by the
photograph. Formerly. standing upon
the apex OF the roof between the tow
ers Of the cathedral. There was a large
metal figure Of the Christ When the
bot blast burned Itself across the city
.0a,f1 hrist zen and now buried many
M Ilf,lt
lfe principal Slitsl ef 81. Pierre. was
Nllcda Isue Victor hugo AZ IL now.
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higher than what had been It's fIrst
story. Dust and ashes were piled hleh
against the Sides of''thes6 4 n
walls, and hiiee.rocks SON 0|6 ll'N|
ro'eane ana some gbiela HaNea|
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BY WILLIAM MASON

ton southwark Of the zone Of influence
OF Mt. Pelee First is Case Navlre,
and then, little further up, is Case
Pllote.
Only little further along the coast
and st Pierre is before us. Now the
mountain in all its terrifying glory is
clearly visible. only short distance
ahead. For over 1000 feet it rises
from the sea and throws forth for
many thousand feet higher massive
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land comes down to the sea in alter
mating scalops and tiny valleys. Hid
ing from the people of Fort de France
the monster head OF Mt. Pelee. the
two-headed Carbet rears It's giant form
over 5000 feet above the level OF the
ocean, In some ages OF the past the
mud flowing down Carbets peaks
formed the scallops which now end
abruptly with the ocean. Dotted here
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vt THEN we landed at Fort de
NM France, just two weeks af-
NV ter the fearful catastrophe
n n which in one blow laid low
the most prosperous city not only OF
Martinique, but In, all the Lesser An
titles 1t was difficult to realize that
only sixteen miles away lay the worlds
greatest picture Of ruin and death.
Between Fort de France and The
spot where once was St. Pierre the
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Grinding Grain in Japan.

Japan and the Japanese are progress
sive, but hand labor is so cheap that
progress in some directions viii be nee
essarily slow. There are now hundreds
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parts Of buildings-had been thrown
here, there and everywhere. And in
and among this monotony Of wreck
and ruin were the decomposing bodies
Of the former people OF ST. Pierre.
How did this city meet its doom?
How was It possible that in less than
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1902-08-14

Of water, steam and electric power es.
Establishments in Japan, but the hand
mill is sim exclusively used all over
the agricultural districts Of the Mi.
kado's Empire The cut shown here.
with, executed in Japanese stylA
shows the process
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four months, when my husband hoo....
impatient because | grew worse insts,s
of better, and in speaking to the Srss
gist he advised him TO get lydia y
Pinkham's Vegetable ComponrS
and Sanative Wash. How MANI
had taken that at first It wou,d hs,.
saved me weeks Of suffering. n to%
three long months TO restore me NJ,
1t is a happy relief, and we ara VA
most grateful to you. Your Commons
has brought Joy TO our home Sss
health TO me. - MBs. PAULINE .Il,osn ~
AZ Hoyt Street, Broollyn, n W
$4,000 Forfeit n abOUe testimonial is not cssdu
1t would seem by this statAl
ment that women would Saw
time and much sickness b INV
would get Lydia T.. Pinkhanit
Vegetable Compound az once
and also write to Mrs. Pinkbam
at Lynn, Mass, for special al.
rtces it lis free and always helps
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WHERE DOCTORS Nm
To Cure WOman's Ills. Tva,. :
Rinkham's Vegetable 'U ~ =
pound Succeeds. Mrs. p.v.IU,nl'
Judson Writes: -"lln'

"DEAR Mrs, PrNKHAM. --soor !.
my marriage two years ago OF ivy, sils!
myself In constant pain, fl,a loan
said my womb was turned, ana SO. "
caused the pain with considers1iS,. IN
aammatlon. -Hc prescribed for rS =. N
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1902-08-14

and there between these mud banks
covered with delightful veplpre arc
N'N&uled houses surrounde&by waving
Fields OF sugar cane. on the topmost
Eoint of each ridge there now stands
. huge cross aga guard from the
s'ry Of AIN, peieH Butreyen so, none
hf-a few Of the most hardy have re-
mained in their homes outside Of Fort
de Franco sine .he day Of the de-
structiYe eruption Of Pelee-that noun
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-19

he would be in the bosom of his family"
1t is told of the late Senator Matt Car
pentcr that one day while chatting with
friends in a committee room the converse
tion turned on the relative merits of re-
ligious sects. Nearly every member of the
party belonged to some church and there
lad been an animated discussion, Senator
Carpenter pacing up and down, listening
%intently enough, but saying not a word,
What church do you belong to, Carpen-
ter?" asked one.
81 don't belong to any,"
why don't you join one?"
II don't want to. None exactly suits my
views"
What one would you join if you were
to feel forced to a choice?'
The Catholic, by all means"
And why the Catholic ?"
Because they have "A purgatory, and
that's a motion for a new trial"
General Botha, the Boer leader, has a
comfortable homestead thirty-hve miles
from Vryheid, but may leave it as a pro
test against British annexation of that
place. The homestead is laid out on plans
generally adopted by English squircs and
compares favorably with the finest farm
homesteads in England. The house is sur
rounded by large avenues of trees of the
generals own planting. The buildings are
substantial and modern, for entering the
house one could easily fancy oneself in a
superior middleclass English home. The
style of the furnishing is thoroughly In
harmony with the exterior appearance.
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to be akin for lave to go home. But | must.
sorr. | have a wife an two wee Childcr
back in Chicago, and me wife is low with
the consumption, sorr. The childer will
starve without their father to work for
them, sorr. Molly-that's the wife-has
written me Il letter askin' me to get ne
discharge and hurry home. l am willin' to
die for me country, sOrr, but I'd like to
kape me family from dyin' first. That's all,
soIr.'
"'Weil, Morrisey,' | replied, 1 am sorry
that | must refuse you a discharge. But
last Saturday |, too, had a letter from your
wife, in which she said that if you tried to
get out of the arm she hoped | would pre-
vent it. She said that she had never known
a moments peace since she married you
until you enlisted. And she earnestly de-
clared that if you were to show up in Chi
cagO inside of two years she would imme-
diately get a divorce. So | guess you will
have to go along with the flag
"Morrisey backed toward the door, look
ing pretty sheepish. Suddenly, however, he
looked up, and said gravely:
Colonel, will be put in the guard
house If | say what is on the tip o. me
tongue?'
Il told him he would not.
"'Well,' he exclaimed, the two biggest
liars in the world are in this tent, sorr. !
amt got NJ wife,
And now" concluded Judge Kavanagh
with a twinkle in his eyes, Il will simply
say that if the honorable chairman Wonder
were walking down the street with Private
Morrisey and Ananias and Sapphire and me
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-19

~ IENNA'S famous Fool Tower
is to be razed. That means the
- removal of one of the last re-
IkSSSsSI naming monuments to the cruel
and ignorant treatment of the in
sane that obtained in Europe even as late as
the beginning Of the last century. There are
many Nicnneso living today who can re
member hearing the terrible shrieks ami
yells issuing from this Fool Tower. There
are physicians living who remember the
time when, in that great building, men and
women lay chained hand and foot, with
none to go near them. These physicians
of today remember discussions as to the
utility of various instruments of torture,
such as the English coffin" and the
Fools wheel"
Yet the Vienna Fool Tower was built by
an enlightened and exceptionally kindly
monarch, Joseph H., whose love of man
kird guided all his life. Its construction
and the treatment given to its inmates,
barbaric as they seem now, were triumphs
of philanthropy at the time.
When it was built, in 1888, the insane
were treated as worse than criminals.
They were kept in cells in prisons and
avoided by all as if they had loathsome,
contagious diseases.
Emperor Joseph went as far as medi-
cal science enabled him to go at the time.
There was no thought in the mind of any
one in authority that insanity could be
cured or ameliorated. Thus, with all his
humanity, the emperor could not and did
not make of his building anything different
from a prison for the insane.
The immense tower that rises males
tically from the crown of a hill command
ing the medical quarter of Vienna, con-
tains five stories, each with twenty-eight
tiny cells. These cells are lighted s~parsely
with small windows, scarcely greater than
loop holes, barred heavily.
Sometimes two lunatics, or fools, as they
were called then, were imprisoned in one
cell. Walls and floors are still studded
with rings and bolts to which these un-
fortunate creatures were chained with
enormous iron letters.
Very quiet lunatics were taken for oc-
casional walks through the corridors, and
sometimes, even in the garden paths. The
emperor often visited the tower to assure
himself that his regulations were being
observed faithfully. He had written them
out in his own hand, and the most minute
and trivial details had been provided for
by him.
But his efforts were without scientific
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Gleanings From the Story Tellers' Pack

laundryman, in dumb show, that | wanted
several collars turned inside out.
He seemed to understand, but as he
handed me the check he inquired:
You no Mclean man? You no speak
Enylis?'
And he seemed quite sorry for me-"
Representative Champ Clark tells one on
General Joe Wheeler: when the Spanish
war was brewing General Wheeler was anX-
ious to get into the fight, if there was to
be one. An ex-confederate met him on the
avenue and said: General, why are you so
anxious for a scrap with Spain?' Sir, re
piled the general, it's my trade-my trade
His daughter said to the general that
surely he had had enough of fighting to
satisfy any reasonable man from 1861 to
1865, and he should stay at home and let
the young men do the fighting. Now, daugh-
ter, said the general, If a fish had been out
of water thirty odd years and came in sight
of a nice looking lake he would wiggle a
little, at any rate, wouldn't he?' And the
old warrior did wiggle into the thickest of
the fight"
Raymond Hitchcock relates in the New
York Commercial that while he was lying
in a Philadelphia hospital three or four
weeks ago, convalescing from an operation
for appendicitis, one of those fool friends
who always say the wrong thing in the
wrong place called on him and told him
the following story to cheer him up:
Philadelphia's most famous appendicitis
expert has a dog of which he thinks a great
deal, which had a lop-sided walk, A friend
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Vienna's Famous Fool Tower to Be Raced

fastened down. The only opening in 1t
was one just large enough to expose the
face Of the patient.
Another utcusil was the Fools wheel
which was to all iutcnts and In design
nothing except a magniicd squirrel cage
with the familiar wheel. The raving
luuatic was imprisoned in this wheel and
left there until it stopped revolving, which
fact was accepted as indication that the
mania had worked itself out.
Still more brutal were the iron masks
that were used as late as 1851. Some of
these were uuearthod recently from the
cellar of the insane asylum in Audornach.
Germany, and preserved 10y the present
director Of the institution. Two of them
look exactly like the wire fcnccrs' masks
worn when using the foils. The third is
far more massive, and made entirely of
extremely heavy sheet tin. The latter
mask has two holes pierced for the eyes
and one tiny aperture for the mouth. To
give the wearcr air there are a few very
small holes in the top of the helmet.
These appliances were used for patients
that had the habit of biting or splitting.
The offenders had to wear them constantly.
The wire masks were taken of only at
meal times, and then clappcd right on
again. The still more violent patients who
had to wear the tin helmet often were not
relieved of it, even to eat, but were fed
through the hole that served for a mouth
piece. The front of this grucsome head
covering was SO arranged that it could be
opened like a visor.
The old times Of frank. unreasoning bru-
tality, when l~unatiCs were treated as de-
spicable aud hateful things, had passed
away Icing before it struck anyone that the
use of these helmets and similar instru-
ments was vicious and harmful. 1t was a
regular part of the treatment of the in
sane until 1867, when a royal decree for
babe it.
DR.. Johannes Bresler, in IA recent review
of the primitive and cruel methods used
well into the nineteenth century, remarks
that his study of the appliances used in
insane asylums in the last generation has
convinced him that they all date back di-
roctly to the tortuTes used in the prisons
of the period when the insane person was
confined as "A matter of course with crimi-
nails and punished for being demented just
as the criminals were punished for being
wicked. The implements of punishment
were adopted apparently as a matter Of
course when the lunatics were transferred
to asylums.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-19

EY@UDGE W.. H. Simmons of San Fran
III cisco has an enviable talent as a
AA story teller, and has never been
E&&StM known to relate a Chestnut" un-
SASS less by request. One of his yarns
is of a citizen who died, leaving a somewhat
unenviable name. The preacher who was
called in to oficiate at the funeral deemed
it his duty to eulogize the deceased. He had
proceeded some distance with his laudatory
remarks when an astonished friend of the
dead man leaned over to an acquaintance
and whispered: Say, Billy, are there two
funerals here today?"
One of Senator Billy Mason's stories is
about two of his brothers., Ed and Jim, who
dealt lin wool at their home in Iowa. Vim
went to a revival meeting (unthinkingly,
the senator says), and got religion" In
his first burst of enthusiasm he told his
brother of how much better he felt since
his conversion and urged Ed to come into
the fold. The latter pondered gravely for a
time and then said: "Ain't any doubt but
what religions a good thing and I'm glad
you've got it, Jim. But l guess you better
let ne alone just now" he continued, re-
flectively. You see, Jim, one of us has got
to weigh the wool"
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw, at the
Fifth Avenue hotel the other evening, in
cident to a discussion of the Chinese ques-
ton, told a story on himself. reports the
New York Times.
Some years ago." he said, when had
to make a frayed collar do service as long
as possible, I undertook to show a Chinese
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-19

and violent were thrown into cells that
were entirely dark, and if that did not
quell them, they were put under cold
shower baths and douches until they were
exhausted.
Chains and cold douches and dark cells
were used until near the middle of the
last century, and it was as late as 1863
before the violent insane were removed
regularly to asylums that were really
adapted for the purpose according to mod
ern ideas.
This Vienna Fool Tower, even in its worst
days, was a haven of rest compared with
many of the other prisons for ~lunatics that
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-19

aids, and as a result the inmates were
treated as dangerous and disgusting crea-
lures. The cells containing the violent
ones were not opened oftener than twice
a month, when powerful men would enter,
seize the prisoners and drag them out to
wash them. At this time the cells were
ClCaned-the only time when that was
done. The feeding was done by means Of
a tin u~tensil, triangular in shape, the
pointed end of which was inserted in a
crevice in the door of the cell. AS the
food was entirely liquid, the prisoner was
expected to take the nourishment direct.
Lunatics who were exceptionally noisy
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-19


Judge Kavanagh of Chicago, colonel Of
the Seventh Illinois regiment during the
late war with Spain, was introduced by the
chairman at a recent meeting in honor of
the Irish ENJOYS as the next mayor Of
Chicago relates the Saturday Evening
Post. He blushed a deep crimson before
the cheering that greeted this anticipative
title, and, when he could make himself
heard, told the following story:
Il don't want to cast any aspersions upon
the prophetical v~eracity of the honorable
chairman" said he, but when he called
me the next mayor of Chicago / was in
stantly reminded of something that oc-
Cured while l was with my regiment at
Camp Alger.
w had been waiting there a long while
for orders that would take us to the front.
One day the orders came. Everybody, off
GERS and men alike, was j~ubiIant. The only
exception was a soldier whom we will call
Morrisey, because that wasn't his name.
MCrrisey appeared at the entrance of my
tent soon after the boys had heard the good
news, and mournfully asked to speak with
me alone.
Colonel said Morrisey, 'shure an |
hate to be comm to ye on this glorious day
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asked the doctor on one occasion the cause
of this.
why" was the reply, hes got appendi-
citis."
Then why don't you operate on him? p"
queried the caller.
What, operate on that dog! Why, that
dogs worth $780,"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-19

JUDGE W. II. Simmons of San Fran
cisco has an enviable talent as a
story teller, and has never been
known to relate a Chestnut" UNI
Lose hv rnnmnst One of his Yarns