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, ‘ 5' a. e. we, {new .s. ..,y I n ‘ is : ' v'. ,. < text'- THE KBIKATUA ERUPTIU . VIVID DESCRIPTION OF A MOST TERRIFIC DISASTER. â€"- count by an xyewuneu. 'Ihe vicissitudes of my life have been such that not until now have I had the leizure or the disposition to describe the most terrific disaster known in the history of civilized man,of which I was an unwilling witness. I left Paris, where I studied my profession of civil engineer after the Franco Prussian war, and going to Java for the Dutch government, I surveyed Borneo (except Sarawak), Lombok, 'where there has so lately been fighting, and New Guinea,that land of almost virgin mystery. To those familiar with the remote corners of the world, there is food for thought in the statement that 1 ran a line, in 1874, from Fly River, at the south end of Papua, to Gelvink bay,on the north,the first white man to traverse much of the interior of that great unknown island. The spring of 1883 found me pursuing my profession in Batavia, the chief city of Java. Since I had first seen the island in 1871, I had been back to Europe several times, and had traversed a good portion of South Africa. I from time to time famil- iarized myself with the Java archipelago. As a student of history, I had made myself acquainted with those terrible casualties which are marked by funeral monuments along the progress of mankind. It has come in my way in the past several years to learn much that was interesting about the great storm which drowned hundreds along the coasts of Great Britain in Novem- ber, in 1893, and about the tremendous explosion of dynamite in the harbor of Santa'nder, by which, at the beginning of the same month, hundreds of Spaniards were stricken dead and many thousands Were wounded, I havo heard from eye- witnesses reports of the sudden flood in the Yang-tse-Kiang, at Han-Yang, in May, 1594, by which a thousand men, women,and children were sWept to death out of their boats. The bursting of the dam at Chark~ kuprs, in India,in thesame month,dismayed the world with the tidings of hundreds drowned or whelmed beneath a land slide. The plague which carried off scores of thousands of Chinese the same spring was reckoned an international peril. But none of those things moved me, for I had been an eye-witness of the most stupendous calamity to the human race since the deluge the cataclysm of Krakatoa. I lived to tell the tale, and if there was any other civilized spectator on the spot, of those dreadful scenes, I have not yet heard or read his story. Captain Bartlett, of the ship Ice King, which sailed through the Straits of Sunda shortly after the upheaval, reported many interesting observations,and a committee appointed by the British Royal Society investigated and made an elaborate report. I saw what I shall describe. About eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, the 13th of May, 1893, the trouble began in the island of Java. All Java. Sumatra, and Borneo were convulsed. It was as though war had been declared underground. The surface of the earth rocked, HOUSES TUMBLED DO\VN, and big trees fell out of the earth, as if it had ejected their roots. I saw a tree fully five feet in diameter crash up into the air and fall supine. This was near the govern. inent buildings, on Waterloo plain, where the barracks, near the parade-ground,were severely shaken. The sun shone bright,the morning was still unclcuded, and when we telegraphed over to the other islands and learned that their inhabitants were safe, we felt reassured at Batavia. The same phenom -na were in progress throughout the group of islands, but nothing worse than an earthquake was expected, and an earthquake was no rarity in those days in that part of the world, nor is it yet. But this particular earthquake showed no sign of cessation. Day and night the subterranean convulsions continued. The earth quivered constantly, from its depths there seemed to rise strange cries and hollow explosions, with that all-pervasive agne,wliich now began to shake my nerves. Thursday there came a telegraph from the city of Anjer, ninety miles away, on the nortliwcstcoast of Java, that a volcano had broken out on the island of Krakatoa, about thirty miles west of Anjer, in Sunda straiz. The two cone-shaped peaks of Krskatoa were familiar landmarks to all voyagch in those waters. They were clothed with luxurious vegetation, and could be seen for miles in any direction. I was requested by the Dutch government, through the vice-admiral then at Batavia, to be off to the scene of action. At four o'clock that afternoon, I started with a party on a special steamer from Batavia,to take scientific observations. About mid- night, we cleared St. Nicholas l’oxnt,which is the extreme northerly extension of the island of Java, next to the strails. As we rounded ii.wc saw ascending from Krakatoa about fifty miles away to the southwest, an immense column of fire and what appeared to be smoke. The sky was yet clear, for the most part, but we could see no apex to this column. whose composition changed as We watched it, steaming all the while toward the island. First it lacked like ilauic,atid then ii would appear to be steam and again take the semblance of A PILLAB OF FIRE inside ofa column of white, fleecy wool. In anoiherinsiaut these trailing, whirling mas~ sea of wool would hang from the very empy- reau itself. All the while we heard the sullen thunderous roar which had been a fearful feature of the situation ever since Sunday morning, and was now becoming louder. The terrifyrng character of the scene of which we were new in view can be imagined With difficulty. The ocean was as smooth n a mirror and our steamer moved ahead , o’clock. with case, at slow in intensity northerly wrapped in and now entwining the furious commingling torrent of volcanic dust and smoke which I have described as looking The diameter of The M.“ MINING!“ Cellini" ‘0 file that column I should put down at one and Human Race Since Ike Delugeâ€"Two Hundred Thousand Lives Supposed to Have Been Lootâ€"an Interesting Ae- like wreaths of wool. a half miles. “’0 had remained on deck all night, as usual in that country, and,without a word. watched, fascinated. The din was gradually increasing, until we could with difficulty hear each others’ voices. From time to time. immense fragments of incandescent stone would be hurled up from the crater, three or four hundred feet into the air, when they would burst with a loud explo- sion. The hours passed quickly and dawn approached, The sun rises in those latitudes at six As its rays fell on the shores of Krakatoa, we saw them reflected from the surface of what we thought was a river,aud was the illumination spread from this lurid column, rolling from the peak straight up to the sky, beyond the limits of human vision, flecked now and then with dark masses, constantly 'scene was a perfect one. Across the roofs of the native houses,I could see the fishing- smacks lying in the bays: anchor, the fishermen themselves being on shore at rest. as they did not work that day. The birds were singing in the grove at my back and a moment before I had heard onetf the servants moving around in the cottage. As my gaze rested on the masts of the little boats, of which there were several score in sight. I became suddenly aware of the fact that they were all moving in one direction. In an instant, to my intense surprise, they all disappeared. ‘ I ran out of the house, back, up higher, to where I could command a better view, Isnd looked out far into sea. Instantly a [great glare of fire right in the midst of the lwater caught my eyes, and all the way across the bay and the strait, and in a straight line of flame to the very island of Krakatoa itself, the bottom of the sea seemed to have cracked open so that the subterranean fires were belching forth. On either side of this wall of flames. down into . But our growing the veranda of my house smoking a cigar miles away it was necessary to burn lamps and taking my morning cup of tea. The all day, and in the cities of Batavia, Sama- rang, and Soorabaya, the carriage lamps pore needed out of doors, and gas indoors, for some time. My investigations showed that there was one hundred feet of water where the city of Anjer had been, so short a distance from my villa, and that the coastline was just one and one-half miles further inland. It is there that the city of New Anjer has been built,and where all vessels for ChinmJapsn, and Australia report to the regular tele- graph station. Part of Prince island, about lone-third of it, I should say, was obliterat- ed, and the entire northwest coast of Java, including the fishing villages, was gone as far as St. Vicholas Point. It seemed to me to be a very moderate estimate, that one hundred thousand lives were lost in Java, and one hundred thousand more in Lombok bay, on the coast of Sumatra, just opposite. Several entire towns were washed away there. In Lombok bay the pumice- stone floared so thick upon the water that- lit reached a height of thirty-feet, and steamers could not penetrate it; so that it we resolved to steam into its month if this subaqueoua chasm. the waters of the Was some time before the news of destruc- poseible, with a view to disembarking. When we had approached to within three- quarters of a mile of that shore,we sudden- ly discovered that what we supposed was a river, was a torrent of molten sulphur. The smell almost overpowered us; we steamed away and made for the other side of the island, turning our bow to the windward. The lower of the two peaks on Krakatoa, had a crater, or cavity,for there were no real craters there, which as long ago as a century since had been reported in active eruption by a German vessel passing throng which was now emitting the VAST COLUMN OF FLAME and pulverized pumice and steam which seemed likely to burn away the heavens themselves. The fires had already eaten into the edges of this peak so that it was now the lower of the two. In 1880, there had been earthquakes all along the shores of the straits, but Krakatoa showed no signsof awakening. All the craters in that part of the world were, it is my belief, openings into a common submarine storehouse of volcanic energy. Krakatoa had been quiet until now for a hundred years, as far as I could learn. This island, which will live in history with associations as lasting as those of St. Helena or Elba,was eight or ten miles long and four miles wide. A few fishermen lived on it, and on its mountain, slopes remarkably fine rosewood and mahogany trees were found in abundance. Some of strait were pouring with a tremendousl hissing sound, which seemed at every momentasif the flames would be extin- guished; but they were not. There were , twin cataracts, and betWeen the two cat- aracts rose a great crackling wall of fire hemmed in by clouds of steam of the same cottony appearance which I have spoken of before. It was in this abyss that the fishing boats were disappearing even as I looked, whirling down the hissing precipice. the roar of which was already calling out excited crowds in the city of Anjer at my h the straits. It was the higherpeak l feet. The sight was such an extraordinary one that it took away the power of reason,and without attempting in any way to explain to myself what it was, I turned and beck- oned to some one, any human being, to a servant we will say, to come and see it. Then in a moment, while my eyes were turned, came AN IM MENSE DEAFENING EXPOSIOS which was greater than any we had heard It stunned me, and it was a minute or two before I realized that when once more I turned my eyes toward the bay,I could see nothing. Darkness had instantly shrouded the world. Through this darkness, which was punctuated by distant cries and groans, the falling of heavy bodies,and the creaking disruption of masses of brick and timber, most of all, the roaring and crashing of breakers on the ocean, were audible. The city of Anjer, with all its sixty thousand people in and aboutit, had been blotted tiou along the Sumatra shores was received in Batavia. The Brooklyn, on American man-of-war, came steaming iute Aujer two days after, to report that from her decks thousands of broken bamboo houses, car~ bonized bodies, and floating masses of pumice-stone had been observed. At that time, the northwest coast of Java was buried under six or seven feet of ashes. A year later, an immense lump of pumice- stone, undoubtedly cast up by this explos- ion, was found floating in the Mediterran- ean, covered with barnacles. Pulv‘erized pumice and ashes are known to have been carried many thousand miles, and to have been held in suspension in the atmosphere for years. The atmosphere over the Ameri- can continent was filled with minute particles, which for weeks floated in the air. It would be fully to say that human intelli- gence will ever arrive at the accurate solution of the causes of this dread event,or even form a fair idea of its tremendous circumstances.â€"Jssu Theodore van Gestel, in the Cosmopolitan. Gown with Double Skirt. The neat little figure is wearing a hand- some camel’s-hair gown with a double skirt as. AN‘D m Bowsssr "I wish,” said Mrs. Bow-oer as she helped Mr. Bowser on with his overcoat the other’ morning, "I wish you would (Imp this poe- tal card in the box on the corner as you go out.” “Uni!” replied Mr. Boneras he received it. “ Who is Mrs. White of I72 Larkins Avenue T" “I want her to help me clean house for three or four days.” "Clem house, eh 2 How many times do you clean house in a year 2” “ In the Spring and Fall. What's the matter 2” Mr. Bowser removed his hat and gloves and overcoat in a very deliberate way and then replied :â€" “ We don’t want Mrs. White of 172 Lark’ins Avenue to assist in house clean. in Y.’ E:‘But Iâ€"Iâ€"wantâ€"” “And we are not goingto have this house turned wrong side out for a couple of weeks. Not being very busy at the office, I’ll do all the work for you this forenoon.” "Why, no one can clean house in half a da ." I)lCan’t eh 2 We‘ll see about that. I'll get my old clothes on and show you a trick or two about housecleauiug. This idea of fooling around for a week or two isle nonsense.” "Mr. Bowscr, please listen to me,” she pleaded. "All the furniture must be rub- bed over, the pictures taken down, the woodwork wiped, the carpets swept with salt and the Ceilings brushed. It will take two womenâ€"" "It Will take two women two weeks,” be interrupted, “while a man can do the same amount of work in two hours. It's all in knowing how to go at it. Even my mother, whose spirit is now in Heaven, had no method in house-cleaning." “Iâ€"I think we'll let it go till Fall," stammered Mrs. BOWser. " No, We won’t. I’ll be with you in five minutes, and if we don’t have this house shining like a new dollar from top to bottom before noon I’m no hustler.” “ Butâ€"" “ That will do, Mrs. Bowser ; that will do,” he said as he turned on her. “ I own this house. I run this house. I am the head of this family. I was helping to clean house before you had cut your first tooth. I’ll be down in five minutes and begin on the parlor.” . ' When he came down, after getting into his old suit, the cook informed him that Mrs. Bowser had run across the street to . t M... ,W-W~*, awn..-“ mu... ._.,.__-._..._ -........_._..,, , o . rwworâ€"vmqâ€"uâ€"wnâ€"M - 4: I In yet proceeding from Krakatoa. 1 them were eight or ten feet in diameter,tco big to cut. When we landed on the coast opposite to that along which the river of sulphur was discharging, we saw no signs out, and if any living being save myself remained, I did not find it out then. One of those deafening explosions followed _ . another, as some new submerged area was of those inhabitants. The waves were suddenly heaved up by me volcamc fire Wfifihlng the Band)’ BhOI‘eS- Four 01‘ 5V8 below, and the sea admitted to the hollow feet from the water-line resea straight depths where that, fire had ragedin vain bank of powdered pumice-stone which was for centuries. rained down constantly from the clouds that surrounded the column of fire. Every- “13:8 :‘Zflléhmlzgnedgaigf "gaggle? mice”? Wing human’ everything Datum” every' I feared I would be engulfed. Mechanically, thing suggestive of life or growth had been i I ran back u - - , . . . p the mountain aide. My “D’h’k’md from What had been 9‘ bemmful l subsequent observations convinced me that landscape. A hideous mask of burning i . . . at the first ex losion the ocean had burst a stone and steaming ashes hadbeendeposited new crater unset Kmkama. At the second over all. Trees three feet thick, and which - . -- . . 7 must have_been fifty feet high,were already I giglgxsg 3i: li’l’lgtiiwsi’ 31:225. get: 321%; “el‘fly bunfid' the" branches “We’ve mches l separated what were 'the two halves. The thick sticking out here and there. Several : island of Legundi’ northwest of Krakatoa' 0f “5 lauded’ and I pagan Walking ’q’e‘n‘l' , disappeared at the same time, and all the We Bunk knge'deep 1" the 10°33 pmmce; It west coast of Java, for fifteen or twenty was the consistency of snow and hot. Our miles, was wrencth loose. Many new fee” Sega“ "0 131mm“ . . islands were formed in that throe, which . I 011mb.“ pl’mfuuy “I” walkmg ’Pla‘nd afterwards disappeared. A map which I m the d’recuon 0f the cmwr’ Who” I made not long afterward shows the change see a sick neighbor, but that he could go right- ahead with his work. She brought him up the stepladdsr, and as he stood it in the middle of the parlor and spat on his hands and looked around he chuckled :-. “I’ll say thirty minutes to clean this room spick and span and give the old lady a surprise party l" . I He seized the sofa and rushed it into the back parlor, followed by the chairs and stands, and in seven or eight minutes the floor was clear. Then he placed the step. ladder to take down the first picture. He had just lifted the wire oil" the hook when the ladder slipped, and there was a crash, and a smash, and a jingle which brought the cook up stairs to find Mr. Bowser lying in a heap on the floor and to exâ€" claim:â€" “ Goodness to mercy, but I thought the whole house had fallen into the cellar! How did it happen, Mr. Bowser.” He slowly got up, looked frcni the step- ladder to the floor and felt the back of his head and firmly replied:â€" desired to measure with my sextant. At the third observation 'I made, I saw some- thing trickling across the mirror of the sextant and discovered that the quicksilver had melted and run away. I was more than half a mile now from the edge of the crater. My skin was roasting and cracking. The roar of the flames was so loud as to drown any other imaginable noise, save the .detonations, now and then, of the bursting stones which would fly into fragments far up over our heads, it seemed, and sift their burning dust upon us. For the first three hundred feet from the edge of the crater,the ascend- ing column was ONE UNIFORM WHITE-HOT MASS of clear flame of dazzling brightness,of such scorching energy as to blast us into a cinder did we dare nearer a preach. This column of flame \vas,as I have said, about one and a half miles in diameter. I turned to retrace my footsteps and seek safety on the water. As I started to put my feet mechanically back into the prints they had made goingup,l shuddered. The bottom of each footprint was red,aglow with fire from beneath. Here and there on the surface, I saw the tracks of a pig’s feet, the creature evidently panic-stricken in its race for life. Every human being, i l I felt my way along it in the darkness. of the configuration of that part of the world. I waded an inland in a dazed condition, which seemed to last for hours. The high road'from Anjer to the city of Serang was white, and smooth, and easy to follow,and Soon after I began this singular journey, I met the native postman coming down the mountain toward Anjer with his two- wheeled mail-cart. This carrier‘s vehicle was an iron box on an axle, running on two wheels, pulled by four ponies. I told the l man what had happened and tried to get ' him to turn back, but he would not. I reached the city of Serang about four or five o’clock that afternoon, after having made one stop at a house on the way. i This residence loomed up on the side of the road, offering me, apparently, A WELCOME REFUGE. I rushed in thinking to find a relief from the intense heat under the shelter of its roof, but through the tiles of the flooring, little blue flames were flickering as I enter- ed, and the house itself seemed like a furnace. The subterranean fires were at work even there, on the side of the moun- tain. Under the mass of flooring or masonry, I could not distinguish which, I and accentuatlons of velvet ribbon exceed_ ineg becoming.â€"Toronto Ladies’ Journal. ~â€"â€"â€".â€"â€"â€"_â€". ‘ Intelligent Fish. Fish have many times been taught to perform tricks and it would appear as if they had much more intelligence than is attributed to them. A gentleman we know once had two brook trout in a small equa- rinm in his private residence that would jump out of the water and take flies held between the forefinger and thumb, and would also ring a little bell when they required food. They would also leap over little bars of wood placed about two inches It was a very simple matter to teach the fish these tricks. At first a little tower, containing a tiny, sweet-toned silver hell, i was fastened to the ironwork of the equa- attached to the tongue of the bell extending into the water where the trout were. On the loose end of the string an insect or other tempt- ing morsel was placed, which the fish would at once seize. and pulling the cord, “ Istepped off. Bring me salt, and a broom and a rag.” _ By the exercise of duecaution he got the other pictures down without accident. The girl brought the things and stopped for a moment to say_:â€" “ Nobody would iver suspect that ye knew how to clanc house so beautifully. Don’t them winder curtains come down before you swaps and dust, and shan’t I hold the ladder while ye climb up ‘2” Mr. Bowzer said he could manage alone, and the cook retired to her kitchen. Mrs. Bowser had said the carpets must be swept with salt. The cook had broughtapail holding six quarts.aud he sowedit all on to the last ounce to make a good job of it. She had said the furniture must be rubbed. Hehuntedaroundandfonnd abottle of sew- ing machine oil,thinned itdown with Witch bake] and went over every pieceof furniture in six minutes. All the window curtains needed was a little dealing, and getting a firm grip on the broom handle he proceeded to pound and whack until satisfied that they were thoroughly cleaned. The cook came up with a feather duster, and Mr. llowser decided to begin his dust- ing on the mantle cabinet. lie placed the stepladder and climbed up and lifted the ornaments with one hand and worked the duster with the other. He had mentally saw the bodyof a woman in native garments. I rushed out horrified frbm this burning tomb. It was the residence, I learned afterward, of Controller Frankel, an officer of the government ranking immediately after the governor himself. I staggered blindly on my way. When {I reached Serang, I was taken into to] the bell in the tower would naturally tinkle. After this had been repeated several days the fish were left without fend for some little time until they made , the discovery that they could obtain it by pulling at the string to which the delica- cies had been attached. This they did every animal, every bird on the island of Krakatoa must have perished by that time, and if we had not increased our speed, the ' same fate might have been ours. At last we got aboard again,aud from the steamsr’s deck I photographed that awful scene, the fire pump playing all around me the while, l above the surface of the water. I decided to finish with the cabinet in just one minute, devoie two minutes to the ceiling, two more to sweeping the carpet and 30 seconds to running in the furniture, when he lost consciousness. He had a faint. recollection of seeing the parlor floor suddenly jump up six or eight feet, andcf Iriui, with a piece of string wettin down the ri in v kec in the . ever afterward when the were huii'vr ' . . , . douhlogawnmgs moiu‘iidf’ggfimging the. garrison and nursed for two days. I was and M that, was nearly allythe time but: feeling that he had been hit, but he .vasn t side of the ship; it was the only my supposed to be a lunatic. I started up in little he” was constantly anklqu a; me i ready sure of anything; lllllll he heard the jmy sleepa half-dozen times in the first night, uttering cries of terror. I was soothed by drugs and enabled on the third day to go to Batavia. Even then the extent of the calamity was not known in At Batavia I trick the steamer for It l voice of the cook saying 1â€" H "Ii m’t blame me, ma’am. lhe Doctor \vis not at home, and I had to wait 15 minutes." Then he heard Mrs. Bowscr inquiring:-â€"- “Doctor, do you think he Will be a crip- fish were continually pulling the cord. was quite a pretty and novel sight. i. keep her from taking fire. That had been necessary since daylight. The steamer returned to Batavia, the roar from the great flamo sounding contin~ ually in our ears, the glare from its fires gradually dimming in the distance. That â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€".â€"â€"__ Scrang. Enamelling Process for Boilers. . S.ngapore. . . . ple for lie '1" fiffifusul’lafhiilh‘ifiafifggfeniflglgzy “Edi On my return, some time afterward, m T“0 P’°P°3°l Plan Of P'e‘el‘img "‘0 “" “gift l...i.l to say,” italillcll the Doctor. “,2, {mm (“mph-0d had 0“,“ uséd t: the scene of this frightful experience, I "H" “Fuck 0,, his Mud and 9mm, down V ) y S we learned further Ill-"Hie"lam 0‘ the force of a certain euamelling process has for some with his, legs bent up under him, and the it and nobody spoke of it any more. supposed Krekatoa would burn itself out after awhile and rest again, perhaps for another hundred years. In the meantime, I had taken up my residence in the city of Anjer, on the Straitfof Sunda, west of Batavia. It had;; With its surroundings from Merak Point to E B-idjcnegoro, about sixty thousand inhabi-l spine may have been badly injured. What on earth was he prancing around on top of a sicpla'l'lcr for '3" “He was doing in; Hocleuning. Your man I i can't lay it 1', against fiiih that he's nearly ruined my 'Ii’luilis, broke a . . chainsinaehel the cabincipiostmyed nearly “Doom “Mk fim 0" enamcli 8mm“ m a“ all the breakable ornaiimnts and has givcn 9109"" (18903” Lhle euough ‘0 PTO’CCL me a \v-«dr’s work to clown the furniiiire the metal underneath from corrosion, and Mid carpets." so thin that the boiler loses none of its “In this the ll'iwscrl readof in the new:- steam generating power; the application is! pawn, «5" entirely simple, the material employed fie-j “Yes, my," lug injected lW-O the bone“ through 3- COClH “Always b’a'ning his wife and threaten- of liibrisator pattern a: such times es «lo. 5 mg :0 "cl, a divide: z" sired, the surface below the Water level: “Yell.” thus becoming coated with the enamel. Itl “Wt”, I'll do all I can for him. but- he's is claimed for this process,among its Various i l)an served just right 1 Keep him as quiet advantages, that the ensmelis impenetrable a: possible. If he says anything about his and crumbled to the touch. Every leaf by acids, protects the boiler from the, iaWyer seemgyour lawyer,alimony,eo Hod). of the explosion. 0n Merak Point where the government had been blasting rock, were an engine and several boilers used for compressed air. All of these containing ’ compressing air, had been hurled against the walls of the quarry, and absolutely flattened out like sheets of paper. In Lombok,on the southeast coast 0: Sumatra, time engaged the attention of engineers, and favorable results are said to have attended its use. According to the account given of this method, the interior surfaces are coated with a deposit in the form of a crustntitn or corrosion of boilers by means} tents. I lived in a villa, a mile back 0 in women man 0f WM belonging m a Dumb City lay along the margin of the sea, thel had been throw" (me all one story high. Along the coast, at fisherman! hum and their album boas by v immediately followed the explosion. For 1 ' . from shore. Over the low roofs of the city rm: GROL‘SD was nor was belching out his . . ., , . d. . . . , . . . . and bit of vegetation had been consumed, corrosiie agents con.aine in almost if not of the chud, {hit up jO’J to kill him oh, eie., . . . , . ' t and mm barks of two or h _ A ‘ .Gm ernmen , l 8 em“ "p we muummn Hope [he ‘ three hundred tons each, one of them . - a loaded with salt .. j » V v . houses, of brick and bani >00, being nearly : humhed and fifty feet up the moumam , . , ' ' ’ ‘ . ; i w . . P each Side of the City. “watered groups 0! 2 sure into the trees by the In al A“: ah LII . idsys thereafter there was a thick coat of we "we lav M "Chm a Short d’smn‘e white ashes all over the island of Java. I Could see far out over the strait to where the lxrakatoa monster, thirty miles away, AWFUL AND Sl‘v'ER-BSDISG nai'r'rios'. i and every creeping thing and'living eyes. all waters, prevents incrustationpdoes not pay no attention to him, as be Will not be It was Sunday mornin . I was sittin on " ture blasted and burned u Six hundred hit?!“ the Mile". and 15 but 0‘ Ill ’1‘ C03in In his ri ht mind if" the He“ ten 'l‘l‘i 1" g g l; .7