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MAGAZINE SECTION- WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY ESTABLISHED 18-4 PAGES I TO -4--.,6 CLARA BARTON ACTIVE, Red Cross Heroine Will Estab lish Railroad Hospital Car Service. Although, Over Eighty Years Old She Has Started In with Great Energy to Organize New Relief Work to Cope with Wrecks. Clar9 ,tarton, the famous Red Cross leader, has just given new evidence that she is one of the 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 organizing hospital corps on all railroads in order that with the aid of hospital cars speedy succor may be brought to persons in jured in wrecks. The portrait here presented is of 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 standing by her side. WORKED IN CIVIL AND FRANCO PRUSSIAN WARS. Clara Barton. who is entering with so much enthusiasm into a new mis MISS CLARA BARTON AN sionary work, was born in Oxford. Mass., in 1830. During the Civil War she did relief work on the battlefields and organized the search for missing men for which Congress appropriated the sum of $15.000. After the close of that conflict she went abroad and car ried on the Red Cross activities of the Franco-Prussian war. following which she did heroic work at the Johnstown flood, distributed relief in the Russian famine in 1892. and the Armenian mas sacre of 1896, at the request of the President of 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 has been loaded with hon ors by all nations, and her home is filled with valuable tokens of esteem. Chief among the treasures cherished by this idol of conquering armies are the jewels and decorations tendered her by the royalty of many nations, and constituting unques'tionably the great est ecollection ever bestowed upon any citizen of the United States. GIFTS FROM ALL SOVEREIGNS. Conspicuous in the glittering array are the amethyst cut in the form of a pansy, an inch and one-half square. the gift of Miss Barton's personal friend, the Grand Duchess of Baden; the Servian Red Cross decoration pre sented by Queen Natalie. the Gold Cross of Remermbrance bestowed by the Grand Duke and Duchess of Baden, a medal presented by the Queen of Italy. an English deeoration pinned on Miss Barton's dress by Queen Victoria: the Iron Cross of Germany presented by the Emperor and Empress, the decora tion of the Order of Melusine. presented by the Prince of Jerusalem. Cyprus and Armenia. and the brooch and pendant of diamonds, the gift of the people of Johnstown, in recognition of the great service rendered by Miss Barton after the famous flood. Miss Barton's father was in boyhood one of the soldiers of "Mad Anthony" Wayne. and Clarissa Harlowe Barton, as her name is inscribed in the family Bible, came to the Bay State home as a human Christmas present. Like many another New England girl Clara Bar ton, when thrown on her oirn resources, took up school teaching as a means of livelihood, and when she was obliged to abandon this because of failing eye sight, she managed to secure a position in the Patent Office at Washington, and here she continued her service until the outbreak of the Civil War disclosed to her a lifework. Her advertisements in the Massachusetts papers that she I 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 the Army of the Potomac was present at the battles of Cedar Mountain, the second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg and the Wil t derness. WA3 WITH THE VANGUARD. C In the Franco-Prussian war Miss Barton was the first person to enter Strasburg after the fall of that city, and was instrumental in organizing r the relief. She performed a similar service at Paris, which she entered with the vanguard at the conclusion of the siege. After her return to the United States she directed relief work in addi- 1 tion to the instances above mentioned C during the Mississippi flood of 1882, the c overflow of the Ohio River in 1883, the Louisiana cyclone of the same year, aad the Texas drought of 1889, ever at the fore aiding, sustaining, and sup porting by her untiring presence the failing courage of those who in their t suffering learned to depend upon her with passionate love and gratitude. Mrs. John A. Logan (Mary Simmer- 1 son Cunningham Logan) who appears with Clara Barton in this picture, is a native of Missouri, but was educated t in Kentucky and married John A. Lo- E gan in 1855. Since his death she has D MRS. JOHN A. LOGAN. engaged in literary work, and has re sided in the city of Washington, mak ing her home in a quaint old house filled with mementoes of her hero hus-I 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. COLONEL HENDERSON'S POEM. Several years ago the late Col. D. B. Henderson wrote a poem entitled "Yes or No?" which slumbered until the3 other day, when it was read in Des Moines at a meeting held in the famous Iowan's memory. The poem runs: ] Is there a mentor strong and good That always indicates the road Where we should go. That tells us with unerring voice Whih o-f the words should be our choice The Yes or No? We have the bibles of the earth, With all their holy power and worth, And yet we know The world is wild with disputation As to the "true road to salvation" The Yes or No. When seeking virtue's truest path And nil the purest gems she hath, Is there no woe? Is there no doubt in noblest mind Who in the word from heaven would find The Yes or Nor Or hearts will whisper: "This is right: Here live and love and drink delight Nor dream of woe." When renson suddlenly eries out In tones that fill the heart with doubt And thunders: "No!" And ever thus we rise and fall, 1 We hope and fear and tremble all 1 Until we u'o. Then we shall have a sweet repose. There is a light that melts our woes, Lost is the No. SQUIBS Recent events in Zion City make it ap parent that Elijah the third has gone up' almost as effectually as (lid the original. A Kansas woman was kicked by a mule,. causing her to bite off her tongue. She I realizes now it is bad business to talk back 1 to a mule. It is hard for Russell Sage to understand why people want to travel in air-ships when ERUPTION OF KRAKATOA Wolcanic Explosions in East In dies the Most Terzrific in History. rast Volumes of Ashes Blown Twenty Miles Above Earth - Detonations Heard Three Thousand Miles Dis tant. By Sir Robert Ball. The following description by Sir tobert Ball of the eruption of Kraka oa will be read with special interest t the present time. It is taken from is book, "The Earth's Beginning," re. ently published by D. Appleton & Co. Until the year 1883 few had ever eard of Krakatoa. It was not in abited, but the natives from the sur ounding shores of Sumatra and Java sed occasionally to draw their canoes p on its beach while they roamed rough the jungle in search of the ild fruits. The island seemed to owe ts existence to some frightful eruption f bygone days, but for a couple of enturies there had been no fresh out reak. In 1:83 Krakatoa suddenly sprang ato notoriety. Insignificant though it iad hitherto seemed, the little island ;as soon to compel by its tones of hunder the whole world to pay it in tant attention. It was to become the cene of a volcanic outbreak so appall ag that it is destined to be remem ered throughout the ages. At first the eruption did not threaten o be of any serious type. In fact, the ood people of Batavia, so far from be ng terrified at what was in progress n Krakatoa, thought the display was uch an attraction that they chartered steamer and went forth for a pleas nt picnic to the island. Many of us, am sure, would have been delighted o have been able to join the party vho were to witness so interesting a pectacle. With cautious steps the nore venturesome of the excursion >arty clambered up the sides of the olcano, guided by the sounds which vere issuing from its summit. There hey beheld a vast column of steam >ouring forth with terrific noise from profound opening'about thirty yards n width. As the summer of this dread year dvanced, the vigor of Krakatoa stead ly increased. The noises became more nd more vehement. These were pres ntly audible on shores ten miles dis ant. z.nd then twenty miles distant, mntil the great thunders of the vol :ano, :1ow so rapidly developing, as onished the inhabitants that dwelt >ver an area at least as large as Great 3ritain, and there were other symp oms of the approaching catastrophe. Vith each successive convulsion a juantity of fine dust was projected tLft into the clouds. The wind could ot carry this dust away as rapidly as t was hurled upward by Krakatoa, and Lordingly the atmosphere became ieavily charged with suspended parti Iles. A pall of darkness thus hung )ver the adjoining seas and islands. such was the thickness and the density >f these atmospheric volumes of rakatoa dust that for a hundred niles a.round the darkness of midnight revailed at midday. Then the awful ragedy of Krakatoa took place. Many housa:ads of the unfortunate inhab tats of the adjacent shores of Su natra and Java were destined never to >ehold the sun again. They were pres ntly swept away to destruction in an nasion of the shore by the tremen ous waves with which the seas sur ounding Krakatoa were agitated. The development of the volcanic en rgy proceeded. and gradually the ter 'or of the inhabitants of the surround ng coasts rose to a climax. July had nded before the manifestations of rakatoa had attained their full vio ence. By the middle of August the anic was widespread, for the supreme atastrophe was at hand. On the night of Sunday, August 26, 883, the blackness of the dust clouds, iow much thicker than ever in the traits of Sunda and adjacent parts of sumatra and Java, was only occasion ily illumined; by lurid flashes from he volcano. The Krakatoa thunders vere on the point of attaining their :omplete development. At the town of atavia, a hundred miles distant. there vas no quiet that night. The houses rembled with the subterranean vio ence, and the windows rattled as if ieavy artillery were being discharged n the streets, and still these efforts eemed to be only rehearsing for the upreme display. On the morning of donday, Augus:: 27. 1883, the rehears cLs were over and the performance te ;an. An overture, consisting of two r three introductory explosions, was ucceeded by a frightful convulsion hich tore away a large part of the sland of Kraka-:oa and scattered it to he winds of heaven. This supreme effort it was which roduced the mightiest noise that, so ar as we can ascertain, has ever been eard on this globe. It must have been ndeed a loud noise which could travel rm Krakatoa to Batavia and pre erve its vehemence over so great a listance: but we should form a very adequate conception of the energy f the '.ruption of Krakatoa if we ought that its sounds were heard by hose merely a hundred miles off. This vould be little indeed compared with. vhat is recor~aed, on testimony which' t is impossible to doubt. Westward from Krakatoa stretches he wide expanse of the Indian Ocean. )n the opposite side from the Straits f Sunda les the Island of Rodriguez, he distance from Krakatoa being al nost 3,000 miles. It has been proved y evidence which cannot be doubted hat the thunder of the great volcano ttracted the attention of an intelli ;ent coastguard on Rodriguez, who arefully noted the character ei the omrds anr1 the time of their ccun.i rence. He had hard them just fot hours after the actual explosion, fC Lhis is the time the sound occupied o its journey. If Vesuvius were vigorous enough t emit a roar like Krakatoa, how gre would be the consternation of th world! Such a report might be hear by King Edward, at Windsor, and t the Czar, at Moscow. It would astoi ish the German Emperor and all hi subjects. It would penetrate to the s4 clusion of the Sultan at Constantin< ple. It would have extended to th sources of the Nile, near the equato: It would have been heard by Mohan medan pilgrims at Mecca. It woul ave reached the ears of exiles in S beria. No inhabitants of Persia woul ave been beyond its range, while pai engers on half the liners crossing th Atlantic would also catch the might reverberation. Or, to take anoth( illustration, let us suppose that a sin lar earth-shaking event took place i a central position in the United State: Let us say, for example, that an explC sion occurred at Pike's Peak a resonant as that from Krakatoa. ] would certainly startle not a little th inhabitants of Colorado far and widi The ears of dwellers in the neighbol ing States would receive a considei able shock. With lessening intensit the sound would spread much farth around-indeed, it might be heard a ver the United States. The sonorot waves would roll over to the Atlant coast; they would be heard on ti shores of the Pacific. Florida woul not be too far, to the south, nor Alask too remote to the north. If, indeei we could believe that the sound woul travel as freely over the great cont nent as it did across the Indian Oceal then we may boldly assert that ever ear in North America might listen 1 the thunder from Pike's Peak, if rivaled Krakatoa. Can we doubt th, Krakatoa made the greatest noise th has ever been recorded? Among the many other inciden connected with this explosion, I me specially mention the wonderful sy tem of divergent ripples that start( in our atmosphere from the point which the eruption took place. TI initial impetus was so tremendous th, these waves spread for hundreds at thousands of miles. They diverge in fact, until they put a mighty gird round the earth, on a great circle < which Krakatoa was the pole. The a mospheric waves, with the whole earl now well in their grasp, advanced in1 the opposite hemisphere. In the progress they had necessarily to for: gradually contracting circles, until last they converged to a point in Cei tral America, at the very opposi point of the diameter of our eart 8,000 miles from Krakatoa. Thus tl waves completely embraced the eart Every part of our atmosphere hE been set into a tngle by the gre 1W Miss Otilie Guenther, who wsas recently giver, private audience by Pope Pius X. is a Chicago g and a daughter of Otto Guenther of the firm Guenther, Bradford & Co. This is not the first tu she has been honored by the head of her faith, I XIII, having granted her a special audience a ye before his death. Miss Guenther has been taking law course in the University of Berlin. She 1 done much philanthropic work among the pc Italians of Chicago and will resume this whens returns there next month. She will be graduat from Northwestern University Law School in 1907 eruption. The waves passed over o1 heads, the air in our streets, the air our houses. trembied from the volcan impulse. The very oxygen supplyii our lungs was responding also to tI supreme convulsion which took pla< 10,000 miles away. It is needless1 object that this could not have take place because we did not feel it. Sel registering barometers have enabli these waves to be followed unmista ably all over the globe. Such was the energy with whi these vibrations were initiated Krakatoa. that even when the way thus arising had ?onverged to t) point diametrical'f opposite in Sou1 America their rigor wa not yet e (Continiued on next page column 5. AWFUL BALLOON VOYAGE. 0 German Military Aeronauts Safe I Only After a Terrible Rx de perience. y War Airship Was Driven Five flun - dred Miles Over Baltic Sea and i- Dropped in Swedish Snow Bank e Barely Averted Drowning. L- The progress of balloon experiments d in the German army has just received - a severe setback by the fearful experi d ences of two members of the Aero ,- static Corps, namd Wolff and Brand, e who have returned to Berlin after hav y ing been given up for dead, following r a balloon ascension, during which they t- completely disappeared. The two men n were blown all the way from Berlin to ;. the Baltic Sea, where they were driven - by a gale clear across that body of s water, and finally landed, half dead, in t a little village in Sweden, traveling al e together more than five hundred miles. 3. The story of their flight is one of the most thrilling in the history of bal looning in Europe. y UNABLE TO MAKE DESCENT. r The two balloonists, caught in the 1 gale in the upper air, were blown at 5 terrific speed for three days, unable to e make a descent without being dashed .e to death. d As the wind seemed to slacken, Mie a balloonists opened their valve, prepar 1, ing to descend. What was their horror . upon seeing as they dropped from the ' clouds that the open sea was beneath a them. They tried to shut the valve, Y but were only partly successful. 0 When within a few hundred feet of it the water, the valve was closed by Lt Wolff, who climbed up to the cordage it surrounding the gas bag to do it. But the balloon still dropped nearer the 's sea. Finally, desperate, the balloon .y ists climbed into the balloon's rigging ;- and cut the basket from under them. d Clinging to the cordage about the Lt balloon, the two men hung between Le hope and fear for a few moments a Lt the bag seemed to hover uncertain y. .d The thought came into their minus , simultaneously that one must drop off le and lighten the weight to save his >f comrade; otherwise both must drown. t- But slowly the bag began to rise once h more. .o CLUNG TO CORDAGE FOR HOURS. After clinging for hours to the cor t dage, thousands of feet in-the 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. I They had to walk two miles,-almost exhausted, through the snow, and col lapsed just as they reached the first cabin. "Thet there tree, Mirandy, reminds me amazinly uv a jay-bird." "Look-a-here, Si, yew're gettin' dip py. Haow on airth kin a tree fallen acrost th' road put yew in mind uv a jay-bird?" "Becuz, Mirandy, It hez blew daown. Giddap, Nance." EarnAc International Cor aBox 917, tioan. wh - a Bookkeeper AderS aCt writer I Show Card write Window Trlmme: S Ornamental Desipner I inatrator Cii ervice STextile Mill sups. ie.Engineer Forma Plumbe street and No. * city SecureY< a ~ To earn more money-to sec irn cut out, fill in and mail to of Schools the above coupon. TJ yourself easily and quickly ar money in your present positic a and better paying occupation. as Mind, the sending of thi: her pay one cent. It simply givi ed proving how easy it is for yow -home without neglecting your -No risk to ruin.: 1rThe I. C. S. is an instituti n $5,000,000, and a reputation of ic taken a day laborer and qual g salary of $3000 a year. It har e him to become a building con of $200,000 annually. It has :0 establish of his own a yearly o tens of thousands of men and walk of life and in a few moni f-quadruple their salary. To li d how you can do the same, fill iSucceei THE STATE OF SEQUOL& The Name of the Originator df the Cherokee Indian Alphabet to be Honored. The decision of the convention, which recently met at Muskogee, In dian Territory, upon a name for the new state to be added to the Union brings a total of thirty-three 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 of the really great red men .of this conti nent. The Cherokee Indian alphabet was originated by George Gist, a half breed, known to the tribe as Sequoia He was a statesman and a peaceable leader among the tribe. He was an liliterate man but the idea of an alphabet for the Cherokee tribe was conceived from the brands he saw on cattle. He carved eighty-six charac ters with his hunting knife out of pine bark, then he called the wise men to gether, and explained the characters. The tribunal council adopted that, and in later years one of the tribe trans. lated the Bible into the Cherokee language, through which medium THE HALF-BREED SEQUOIA. Christianity was first taught among the Cherokees. It is to Sequoia that the Cherokee nation owes its splendid system of schools. While in search of a lost band of Cherokee Indians in 1844, Sequoia lost his life California has already honored him by naming the "Big Tree" of that state "Sequoia gigatea" after him England knows this tree as the "WellIngtonila." Thirty-two of the states of the union have adopted Indian titles, but they are usually place-names: no tate commemorates in its title aDy riginal American citizen. True we have Delaware named for Lord Do le Warr. Pennsylvania for the Quak r. William Penn. and one for George Waihington, but none to commemorate an indian. respondence Schools, CANTON, PA. further obflgation on mypart,:' leehan. Draftsman ee phoneEngin ee Steeatina. Ener CII1 Engineer' Struetural Enginee Beyorfudue-o Engneednlie e Interate_____________denc ey will show you how you can fit n your spare time to get more nor change to a more congenial coupon does not obligate you to' ti he I. C. 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