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vs Part Three. VOIi. NO. 213. CHICAGO, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1898.

FORTY" PAGES. PAGES 5 TO 32. 11 II II If II WJr. IT SAVORS OF SPOOKS I I tj i Mysterious Attacks on the Home of Banker J. W.

JlerrilL IS PELTED WITH STONES Sally Raids Are Made Despite a Strong Police Guard. TJnueen and licionr Uiidi Break WlndsiT Paiti nd ghttter Tahle. Veteran detectives say the bombardment of Banker Jhn house In South Chicago la the most mysterious case they have ever been called upon to unravel. It Is bo weird and uncanny as to suggest close connection with the supernatural. The big potice officers have become thor- MERRILL.

oughly superstitious about the case. They i dread belnar detailed to work up the clews and put faith in clairvoyants and spiritualistic mediums than in the efficacy of a atar and club. Cay and night for a month a continual fusillade of stones, bullets and bombs has been kept up against the house. During that time sixty window panes have been smashed. A guard of from twelve to twenty policemen has been stationed about the premises, with an outer cordon of 100 citizens surrounding the place.

While every man was straining his eyes and ears, "chink," a glass would be shivered, and not a trace of a miscreant could be found. During the entire time nobody has ever seen a stone, or bomb, or bullet in the air. Nobody has been hit. But not a stone has failed of the mark. Window after window has been shattered, but not a suspicious character has been discovered in the neighborhood of the house.

I II uiisauia IV MUU1 liV HUCIC, unless they spring from the very air. Time and again detectives have been looking in the direction from which by all reasonable calculation a stone must have come without detecting it in the air. Moreover stones and bullets have crashed through windows so protected by the walla of an adjoining house that It seems no human agency could have thrown them from the outside. Parnate for the Police. The case la a mystery.

The police confess that they are baffled. Even a motive to account for the work of the assailants is utterly missing. Lieutenant Jenkins of the South Chicago station says "The case is a record-breaker. I am all at sea. I have no theory bout It." Captain Fyfe and Sergeant Moran, two able oiQcers, have exhausted their ingenuity In beating up every clew, retiring from the case In disgust.

The haunted house, as many are beginning to hint that It must be, hat nothing of the uncanny or mysterious, outside or inside. And yet an observer walking past it on a rainy day last week would have said that It is queer. It is a queer house, in fact, to look at. Noa. 2-18 and 250 Ninety-First street.

South Chicago, la the exact location of Bauker Merrill's residence. It is a two-story, double brick structure, faced with white stone. In the east half of the house Mr. Merrill's brother-in-law and family are living. In the west half Uvea Banker Merrill, with his wife and only son, a grown young man.

Along Ninety-First street In that vicinity for a couple of blocks the house are set down six feet below' the sidewalk on each side of the street. In front of the Merrill house the space between the walk and the ground la bricked up closely by a wall that runs the length of the lot at the edge of the walk and beneath It. The house has a high basement and is set back some twelve or fifteen feet from the sidewalk. A plank walk extends from the street to the house In a sort of bridge-like passageway. There Is a small area at the back of the premises, and a barn and neighboring house sixty feet In the rear.

The back yard la-fenced in by a high board Inclosnre. Merrill Honae I Riddled. To th east of the banker's house Is a frame dwelling house, and In a tall frame on the west side lives a Swedish minister and his family. The minister's house, has a high peaked roof and Is built right up to the Merrill house, with a passage between the two wide enough for a man to wslk through. The Merrill part of the double brick house.

No. 250 Ninety-First street. Is the. only portion which has been battered by the bombardment. The side In which the brother-in-law lives has not beta touched.

The place now perhaps derive Us desolate appearance from the fact that the windows and doors are boarded up partially, and there is hardly a whole pane of glass in the windows. Passers-by, townspeople, and strangers stop and gaze curiously at the place, look up and around, and at the sky In a vain effort to solve the mystery. A knock at the door brings out a timid and hesitating response, or more likely a burly detective admit the visitor. The Merrill house Is practically In a state of alege. Any attempt to replace the broken glass was given up day agn.

aa a new pane only furnishes a second tarjft for the' unseen marksman. The plate-trass door In front Is boarded Mp, blinds are icked down ever the windows, and all trassl furniture 1 moved aa nearly a possible Ait of range of the windows. The parlor has lta stripped bare of ornaments and any furniture that, might be injure readlly. The piano has been turned with Its 1 ft sharp crack from a brick when the disturbances first tcgan. Bombarded Under Detectives" Eyes.

The Merrill house la practically In the possession of detectives. They slip noiselessly In and out. up stairs and. and manage things to suit themselves. While a visitor talks with the banker he la conscious of grim and close-mouthed- officers In plain clothes who listen to every sentence while pretending to read or busy themselves about the room.

They slide up stairs like cats. If the door bell rings they are on the alert to answer it. The street la watched from up stairs and down and every nook at the rear Is under the surveillance of a pair of keen eye. The regular force of largerhanded and straight-forward police officers has given up the enigma and a force of detectives has been de-tilled' from the Hyde Park atatlon to wrestle with what appears to be an occult problem. So far their efforts have been In vain.

Rocks come crashing through. the windows under their very eyes, break glasses on the dinner table, demolish china, and set the teeth of superstitious people a-chatterlng. The assiults upon the Merrill house began Sept. 14 last. The family and the guests were seated at the dinner table between and o'clock of a 'Wednesday evening.

The three members of the family and ten visitors made just thirteen at table. The banker is a bluff and hearty man, who laughs at ghost HOUSE SCENE OF THE MYSTERIOUS BOMBARDMENT. and doesn't care a snap of his finger for the supernatural. Thirteen at table!" whispered one of the ladies In a terrified tone as she glanced around when all were seated. "Something will come of this," remarked another In a half-joking, half-serious way.

The majority, however, pooh-poohed the eug-gestlon and Inclined tothe cheerful belief that nothing more serious than a merry dinner would come of it. Story of the Mystery. When the dinner was about half over a slight "click" was heard at a window in the rear. In the kitchen. The- noise waa not loud, hardly sufficient to attract attention.

"I believe that waa a window glass," re marked Banker Merrill. Investigation later in the evening showed that a big pane of glass had been shivered, although at the time the family conjectured that it might have broken from some Haw in tne alas or Be cause it had not been properly adjusted to the aash. No importance at all was attached to the matter. Banker Merrill came to the city the next day, and when he got home in the evening he found his wife somewhat frightened and not a little mystified. A pane of glass In a front window bad been broken out.

Careful search, had been made, but no loafer or suspicious character was to be seen in the neighborhood. Whatever diabolical force were conspiring against the premises, however, they at least made use of one tangible agency. Thia time a round stone, about as big aa a walnut, was found in the room among the bits of broken glass. A careful examination showed that the glass had been broken, beyond a doubt, from the outside. The perfora tion was clean-cut oa the outside, while the inner side of tne glas was splintered.

This is an Invariable and never-falling rule. The aide of a glass which is hit directly by a missile will show the Impact by being broken straight, while on the opposite side the force of the blow 1s distributed, and the result is a splintered and jagged appearance. This peculiarity Is noticeable In all the broken glass at the Merrill houBe. Whether the miscreants are flesh and blood or merely ghost on mischief bent, they have chosen to smash all the windows apparently from the outside. This adds tenfold to the mystery, aa will be aeen by the following incident: Watch of Follccats 'Evaded.

One afternoon, soon after the South Chicago police were called into the case, the neighborhood was being watched by fifteen policemen, under the supervision of Sergeant Moran. One officer was stationed on the fiat roof of the Merrill house, one on the house of the Swedish minister, to the west, while other were secreted In every likely nook or cranny about the neighborhoods In addition to thia the neighbors, their wives, and families, were on tho alert, as usual. In fact, the whole settlement ha been doing police duty for the hut three weeks, so determined are ttey to aift the facts. The officers had looked themselves cross-eyed through fleldglasse. opera-glasses, and every artificial device for sharpening the sight.

At 3 o'clock crash went a stone through a basement window In the rear. Not a single eye in the crowd had sighted the stone or could conecture from where It might have come. Five minutes later a big hole was knocked In a lower window on the west side. This last shot fairly staggered the watchers and demolished and reasonable theory they might have formed. The lrame house on.

the west stands right up against the Merrill house, ai explained before, with a passage two feet wide between them. A missile to have struck the lower front window could only have come from the roof of the house on the west. There was an alert officer on the roof all the time; and. moreover. It 1 ia full view of the entire neighborhood.

The shots had come In such quick succession that It seems unreasonable to believe that any man or boy could have hidden himself, fired the first shot at the basement successfully, and then changed hi location immediately to the roof of the house and fired the second" that, hitting a practically Inaccessible window. Cartons Attack en Basement. Equally curious la the manner In which the basement windows in the front of the house have been smashed. These windows are protected perfectly by the high brick wall between the sidewalk and the house, and extending from the ground to the edge of the walk. Nothing could be thrown from the street and hit them.

Absolutely the only place apparently from which a missile might be thrown from the outside and strike those windows Is the sidewalk in front of the house. i And yet on afternoon as Mr. Merrill and a friend were discussing this very stand ing on the little porch in front of the house, crash went the basement window. They rushed down into the cellar to And a stone half as big as a man'a fist under the window with the broken The atone could not have come from the back, which was fastened up tight. Moreover, the glass bad evidently broken from the outside, so far as human ken might determine.

Another marvelous circumstance la the ac curacy with which the missiles have been thrown; In only a few instances have bul lets been used, small, chilled lead shot half a big a pea. The favorite weapon has been pieces of brick or stone. No ball player ever threw with the unerring skill of this unseen marksman. Out of over sixty throw it is believed that only two missed the mark. Even this is not certain.

The object might have been to vary the monotony by striking the vindow ledge Instead of the pane. One win dow pane downstairs at the front of the house and the one just over It upstairs were struck, the first five times, the second four times. In two days. It has been determined that the atones must have come from across the street at the tide of a frame house. little to the east of the Merrill residence By all calculations these nine stonea came -from exactly the same place.

They were thrown In bread daylight, under the eyes of a large force of guards. Any man or boy. to have thrown them, must have hidden him self nine times In two days at the aide of bouse In full view of the passers-by in 'the street and of the watchmen stationed in the vicinity. Table! Vlaunare la Smashed. Nobody has ever been hnrt or even struck.

One day at luncheon a glass on the dining-room table was smashed to bits by a small leaden shot that seemed to come out of the air. None of the people at the table were Injured. One stone hurled through the parlor window struck the piano In a corner of the room, damaging it slightly. Since then Mrs. Merrill has covered the Instrument up and turned It around.

-The next day a rock made mincemeat of a lamp on the center-table. One small stone tore through a screen door at the rear of the house. By sighting through the hole, after placing the door in exact position. It waa decided that the stone might have come from the porch of a bouse at the rear. Other shots, it was conjectured, might have come from a barn sixty teet back, and belonging to th house Just mentioned.

The people living in this house are a harmless working-man and his' wife. The man is away all day and the woman declare that she has never seen anybody around th premise. One morning about 6 o'clock ahe thought she heard some one slip softly from the bars, but her husband declared she must be mistaken and did not go to search. AH the disturbance, however, haa been carried, on In broad daylight, between 9 a. m.

and p. m. One day an upper window on the west side was broken. The only possible place in range of that window was the roof of a double frame building on Houston avenue, off Ninety-Second street The house and premise at that tlma were watched by twenty policemen, and Officer Graney was stationed on the roof of a three-story fiat adjoining th frame building on Houston street. I Small Ballets Arc Vsed.

The few shot which have been fired are calculated to have come from the belfry of a church angling acrois the street. One of these tiny bullets, cut a clean hole la a plate glass a quarter of an inch thick. In the front door. At that very moment a watchful officer was stationed In. the belfry of the church.

So far aa he could see, everywhere a Sabbath quiet prevailed, and not a marksman, waa In sight. The shot look more like that used in an air gun than anything else. The rest of the programme that same day consisted in smashing two upper window opening on the narrow pasageway to the west. At another time, when a side window was broken, Banker Merrill, two detective, and dozens of citizen were standing In the street In front of the house and saw the smash. They did not, however, eee the missile In the air.

A motive for such outrageous conduct on the part of anybody seems absolutely wanting. "If I were on oath," aaya Banker Merrill, "I couldn't name an enemy that I've got" The banker la a rubicund, jolly man, with a pleasant face and kind, bright eyes. He is well liked by the school children, who are treated every winter to sleigh rides In his cutter. The theory, however, that the depredations might be committed by a boy la out of the question. The family Is popular and haa the hearty sympathy of all the neighbors In its South Chicago's best-known clairvoyant was consulted by Officer McOrath.

who has believed all alone that it la not a case where an ordinary policeman has much show. The clairvoyant aald: "I see a light-haired woman. In the case. She la not throwing the atones, but she has something to do with It. I think I see her standing by the side of a illm, dark, wiry man.

She tell him what to do. An enemy of the Merrills? No, I think not I can't make out a motive. It' all dark there to me. But. at any rate, before another week goes by tha police will receive a letter from the light-haired woman which will explain a great many things." It is needless to say the letter is behind time.

-Carson's Irish Peers are. Mr. Curzon's Irish peerage 1 the twenty-fourth Iriah peerage created since the union. Of the twenty-three previous post-union Irish peerages two only have been conferred on Englishmen the peerage of Rendleeham, conferred In 1866 on Mr. Thelusson, and the ex tinct peerage of Howdon.

conferred in 1819 on Mr. Caradoc The last creation of an Irish peerage was so far back as 1868, when Mr. John McClintock of Drumcar, County Louth, was created Lord RathdonnelL No Irish peerage has been created for a generation; no Irish peerage has been conferred on an Englishman for upward of two generations. LOVE BORN OF WAR Romantic Episode in the Recent Campaign in Porto Rico. CUPID ON BATTLE-FIELD How an.

American Officer "Won a Spanish Brida Happy Cawrtshlpiof Llealessat Terrlll Kestseky anoTBeaatlfal Maxlaf Antoalns. It Is a queer romance that come out of the war with Spain, It scene laid In Porto Rico and Its denouement th marriag of an American officer to a Spanirh girl. In the early day of the Invasion of Porto Rico Lieutenant Terrill, a stalwart young Kentucklaa. was la charge of a detachment of soldiers guarding the hacienda of Captain Jesu Antonlus, near Ponce, from attack by insurgents. A little procession filed out of the woods and up the hill.

A torn handker chief waved from a branoh the bearer had cut In the woods. It waa a pitiful flag of truce, and the lieutenant ordered his men to lower their guns. the procession came nearer It could be seen, that the men bore a litter. The Kentucklaa and bis me a went to meet them. "I surrender.

Americano; It Is final, said the man on the litter, with a grim attempt at a Joke. Lieutenant Terrui moistened tne oia man ltpe from a canteen. He bad his own men relieve th tired men who carried the Utter, lie loosened the eoat that seemed too tight for the heaving chest of the Spaniard in his death agony. 'You have protected my home and my little one. Thanks! Tnanaa: And so they bad carried Captain Antonlus to his home.

had begged that they let him rest upon th veranda. I am too- tired, can go no runner," ne said. "I want to die on the beclenda, but in the sunshine. CallMazla." She had come and kissed his hands and wept as a frightened child. He bad petted and soothed her and then turned to the big man who wore the uniform of the enemy.

"You have been a generous foe. Keep this coat It will remind you of a Spaniard death wound and his thanks. Americano, the darkness and the cold are come. Kiss me, my iriead. Adios.

Reseae of Liesleasat Terrlll. Lieutenant Terrill 'was ordered to Guyama the day after the death of the Spanish captain. Careful! packed in ms meager luggage waa a coat of Spanish army pattern with an officer' badge and the rents and th blood stains made by four American bullets. Tne withered, yellow duenna had brought It to htm. She bowed and forgot te cress herself when she went wy Terrlll did something foolish for a brawny Kentucky officer.

when he packed that coat among his belongings. Ho looked upon the breast of the coat for tha stain of tear drop from the pretty Benorlta Maxla's eyes. He blushed like any girl. Hs called himself a sentimental fool. He strode about and smoked furiously.

-The yellow fiend had been let loose at Ponce, and people were dying by the score. It was foolhardy for Lieutenant "Terrlll to wander there from Guar am a. There were more dan gers than that of yellow fever threatening SENORITA MAXIA ANTON 1 AS. visitors to Ponce. It bad been abandoned by American soldiers, and Spanish sympathizers hsd resumed their tyranny.

Lieutenant Terrill could give no satisfactory reason for hi visit to Ponce. He was not apt at Inventions, and had he told them that a fancy to be nearer the lovely- seoorlta Maxia Antonlus had been the moving-cause of his journey thejn would have jeered at him for hia pre emption. They cried Spy! Spy!" And as Lieutenant Terrill was thrown Into prison. He was not allowed to tend a message to his regiment, nor to-his home. While not incomunlcado, he was ao despised and feared as a spy that no one la Ponee would be the LIEUTENANT LUKE W.

TERRILL. bearer of a word from him. -The Jailer wa Insolent, and the guards made ghastly pantomime of a blindfolded man before line of men who were aiming Manser rifles at him. And, agsln, the Keniucklan called himself a fool, and smoked- vigorously. One day there was a disturbance outalde the jail.

There were Spanish soldiers coming. They were armed with Mauser At their head walked a young, graceful figure, whose bent head was gracefully draped with a lace mantilla. The outline of the ollv eheek showed through. He had seen that cheek pressed against a bearded, dead Beside her walked a withered, yellow duenna. His jailer unlocked the door.

His manner was moat deferential. "You are free, Senor Americano. jenorlta Antonlua wa. just behind the 1 yon It Is pleasant that you are free. tenor, she etsmmered.

"You were good to my dear father," and a tear trickled through. her long, black And Capld Steps la Kentucktans are not laggards either In love or war. Lieutenant Terrill grasped the sen- orlta'a hand with both of his, even while the duenna gasped and the Bpanish soldiers looked as though ready to a Im Ms user rifles. "Pleasant to be free, senorita, but heavenly to owe it to- you." he cried, even while the olive lace turned crimson. They walked to the nearest hotel, the lieu tenant and.

the senorita and the duenna, the guard having dispersed, because no longer necccsary, Senorita Antonlus shyly told how a Epanirb eoior sera-cant who was one of her suUors. had boasted chat an American had been found Kprowllng Insanely and alone about Ponce, and that he had been Imorlsened and would. oe snot as a spy, though the color sergeant a opinion waa that be was a lunatic; how she had suspected that the lunatic was her late protector and her -father's friend; how she had been able, through the influence of her dead fatner'a name, to scour hi release: and well, how glad) she was. She looked very sweetly st him then beneath the man tilla, though the duenna frowned and mum bled. Lieutenant Terrlll.

I have aald. waa no laggard in war, and he proposed and wa ac cepted. The senorita and her duenoa returned to the hacienda that day. The lieutenant was to follow them the next but the yellow fiend forbade it Instead) of going to th hacienda he was cent horn on the Relief. Lieutenant Terrlll ia convalescing rapidly at his home in Louisville, but not half aa quickly aa he wishes.

Every letter he receives from the Porto Ricaa hacienda make him mors impatient of th lassitude of One fact I assured. On Nov. 15 there will be a wedding In the little church at Ponce. Out In the church yard there la a grave two montns on. it can seen from the altar be fore wbtcb Benorlta Maxia Antonlus and Lieutenant Luke W.

Terrill will plight their marriage vows, it Captain Jesu Antonlus knows, be la glad. It Is th wish of the bride that they shall ro to her home at Barcelona. Spain, on thvi weoaing tour, ana the devoted Kentuckian would giadjy go to the wild of the Congo with her aa companion. If the President win grant him leav of absence thev will cnnf meir noneymoon in spam, and return to the sunny naotenoa in tne coring. tteaide tne beautiful bride's 2 000 sem Ponce, and her ancestral estate in Rnain ti happy pair will have cae treasure trove.

th- Duuet-torn, blood-stained coat of a gnuiih uuicer unizorm. OUTCAST GOATS OF LOUISIANA. Port Opeai to Those expelled, from Hataaa by Blanco. The lower Louisiana quarantine station la overrun with goats as th result of the present yeiiow-fever scare In the South and the many quarantines that have come from It Never, perhaps, have goats had a more remarkable' experience than these. They have traveled several tnousand miles In the last few month, and have been rejected, repudiated, and ban- isaea at every point to which thev have roar.

until finally the entire lot was landed on the narrow spit of land where the Quarantine station is located, and where there Is scarcely wgtiauoa enoagw lor a kid, much less for goats. Aa enterprising Texan conceived the Idea some month ago that the hungry people 'of Havana, ana especially tbe reconcentrado. who, according to all accounts, bad not had meat to eat since the-war and the blockade began, would welcome goat meat, -If they could not get beef and mutton, and. goats being eneap, he bought up a shipload of them in Western Texas and sent them to New Or leans for shipment to Cuba. When the careo reached Havana on the Danish steamer Trr It waa found that there wa no provision for a duty on goata In the Hispano-Cuban tariff.

and uovernor General Blanco Invented a special duty for this importation, and piled It on to mat tne goats could not be landed la Ha vana except at a heavy loss to their owner. The entire lot therefore, after makine- tho trip to Havana and spending several days In lis yeiiow-iever bar Dor, came back to New crrieans. New Orleans, however, refused the animals. as Havana naa done, but for an entirely dif ferent reason. Yellow fever waa prevalent in the Cuban city.

It was said, and the goat mignt oring in the germs. It was tbouarbt Tney could only be admitted to the city after undergoing a tnorougn disinfection. When It came to disinfecting the animals It was found dangerous, if not Impossible. There Is no provision for disinfecting animal, for animals nave never before been Imported from yellow-fever countries, and th owner ot tbe goata objected to sulphurizing them, tearing tnat it would kill them. Accordingly, it waa deemed beat to land the animal at the quarantine station, where they could stay until an danger from tbe terms waa over.

Unfortunately since then th fever haa made lta appearance In New Orleans. Texss refuse to accept the goats on any terms. Mississippi and Alabama will receive them, but only or condition tnat they shall be disinfected ac cording to the Atlanta agreement which brings back the original difficulty that yoa cannot disinfect goats. Th consequence Is that the goats cannot be moved. There ia no place where they can go.

Havana. New Orleans, Texas, and the entire South reject tnem. and they seem destined to remain quar antine prisoners until ice Is seen and that is about Christmas time. MANILA REBELS ARE UNRULY. Kill Spanish Prisoners and Drive Awn jr American Gold Miners.

Epeclal Correspondence of Th Inter Ocean. HONOLULU. Oct The transport Penn- ylvknla arrived from Manila last night oa her way to San Francisco, where she will take on four regiments of soldier for the Philip pines. I talked with an officer oa th snip, who belong to a Montana regiment, who gave a lively account ot the present situation at Manila. There are now about 18,000 Ameri can troops In the Philippines, and 20,000 Spaniards, beside some 15.000 Spaniah prisoner.

None of the. prisoner captured there bar been tent home. They are kept In confinement, but are allowed many privi leges, aa they are more desirous of breaking into Jail than breaking out. because in prison they are fed, while outside they starve. Between starvation and the Insurgents the dons have a hard The native never lose an opportunity to kill them.

Oa one occasion a squad of Insurgents took 200 of their Spanish prisoners out la the bills, ostensibly to work, but they never came back, and the supposition Is they were all killed. Aguln-aldo has about 60,000 men la the hills, all well armed, and tha American are likely to have trouble them. They have the most Implicit faith and confidence In their youthful leader, and will follow him to the death. Gold ha been found ia th hill In the Interior of Luzon by some of our soldiers, but the natives have refused to allow any general prospecting work, mad have driven Americana out of the hill. The Pennsylvania proceeded on her voyage tonight.

Cannibalism la Rsaala. Cannibalism rife In the Russian province of and cannot be put down, according to the statement of the Bishop of Kasan at the Russian church congress at Kiew. As a rule, only persons suffering from Incurable diseases are eaten. Fixtnsr tho Date. Little Elmer Pa, when la a man really old? Professor Broadheadr Whenever he reaches he point where his ideal woman is one who la a good nurse.

Puck. OLDEST RAILWAY IN AMERICA. loath Carolina Mac First lard Horses and Sails as Motors. peci irreponaence 01 im inter ucean. CHARLESTON, 8.

Oct 20. I A. Emer son, traffic manager c4 the South Carolina and Georgia railroad, haa compiled some Interesting information about his read, which Is Ihe oldest In the United States, and. excepting a few short line built In England In the earlv Os. the" oldest' la the world.

Th South Carolina company was crganlted May 21. 1828, and during U29 six miles of the road were constructed. At the stsrt horse power onlv was Then a premium of J-00 waa awarded to the inventor of the endless-chain process, which was calculated to move passenger cars at the rate of twelve miles an hour. In 1829 and 1830 sails were substituted for tne horse power. This experiment proved I highly satisfactory, as It carried, whea the wind was right, thirteen passenger and three tone of Iron at the rate of ten mile an ht ur.

This means of locomotion, however, came to an abrupt end one day, when the wind sudden ly changed and tcck the tall, mast, tailors, and all overboard in a gale which drove the cars at fifteen miles an In March. 1830, a contract was awarded to the West Point foundry of New York to construct an enslne guaranteed to make ten mile an hour had haul three times lta weight Thia was) the first locomotive built in America, and It was called Best Friend. It was a four- wheel concern, all the wheels being drivers. These wheels had iron hubs, with wooden spoke and felloes. The belle was verti- VJWw sf i 1 -T7' 1 1 1 1 1 i SAIL MOTOR ON SOUTH CAROLINA ANT GEORGIA' cal, like an old-style porter bottle.

The machine exceeded In power the wildest hopes of both the railway men and the builders, lor it proved capable of carrying a lead ct forty and fifty people sixteen miles aa hour. On June 18. 1S31. however, a negro fire man held down the safety valve, and as a result the boiler exploded, landing the whole concern In thedMch. The accident was thought at first to be the result of fast running, as the train was at the time making close to ighteen mile an hour, and shortly afterward the fol lowing resolution was adopted by the board of directors 'No greater speed shall be made by the en gineer than fifteen miles per hour with one car of passengers, -twelve miles with two cars, and ten miles with three cars." The next engine owned by the South Caro lina road waa named the West Point and made two mile In eight minute.

The state Legis lature stepped in at thia point and declared that thia rate of speed was excessive and dan gerous to human life, and aa a consequence the company put a barrier car on each train. Thia "barrier" car was a flat car leaded with cotton bales, which was expected to act as a sort cf brake, and diminish the. force of the fall when the passenger hit the ground. These experiments, Mr. Emerson says, were among the early experience ef thia historical road.

They began with horse power and saila. and today, after a varied experience, extend ing over nearly tbree-quarters of a century, the company possesses on of the best- equipped roads in America. DEPEW BEATS A CARD SHARP. Walks Off with sjtSOOof the Xoted Ton HrCarrakaa'a Moatey. No less a man than Chauncey M.

Depew fell Into the hands of one of tbe most noted of the trans-Atlantic card sharps oa a voyage which he made to England about seven years ago. Mr. Depew smiles beatiflcally even yet when he reflect upon how he won 100 from Tom McGarrahan. who died la affluence three years ago. after having "followed the steamers" for many year.

McGarrahan waa Introduced to Mr. Depew by one of the latter' intimate chums and The latter, who as and still la one of the elderly wage cf New York, knew all about McGarrahan. and to did a lot of other friends of Mr. Depew on board. These friends of the great Chauncey.

who knew about McGarrahan and bis record. got together and made a pool that they would get the gambler and the great nominator together at a game of baccarat Some of them bet that tho thins; couldn't be done, while others laid their money the opposite way. Tho gambler. McGarrahan, wasn't Informed of the scheme, but he waa simply introduced to Mr. Depew and given an opportunity to follow his natural bent McGarrahan was a polished, middle-aged Irishman, a University of Dublin honor man.

as he took occasion to prove several times for the benefit of doubters. and he charmed the eloquent Chauncey by nis wit ana wealth, ot information In no time. McGarrahan did business with a number of gullible during the first part of the voraee. but he manifested no disposition to engage hia new friend. Depew.

In a game of cards, and tho men who had bet that he would were worried. On the third day out however, the gambler, finding business a bit dull finally Invited Mr. Depew to join him In a little game or oaccarat. Mr. uepew hesitated and con- suited wun nis conscience for a moment, but the Irishman was persuasive.

I have not hitherto played earda auite so publicly." said Mr. Depew, "but as I don't suppose I am any better thaa my neighbors wen, just a Hand or two.v The two men sat down at one of the tables. and all of Mr. Depew 'a friends who were "la" on the scheme gathered round to see how he made out Mr. Depew won S50O from the Irish gambler within two hours.

Then one of the stewards Informed him that his ward. who was making tne voyage with him. was ill in her stateroom, and Mr. Depew hastily witnarew wun nis winnings ana -was In at tendance upon the young woman for the remainder of the voyage. "Depew," said one of bis friends, who had been in the scheme to get the orator at a card table with a professional gambler, "do you know who that man was from whom tou won a nice littls bundle of five-pound notes a few qay agor- "A Mr.

McGarrahan a very clever Irish man, was the reply. Mr. Depew waa Informed who "Mr. McGar rahan" was. Bless my heart, is that toV exclaimed the voluble Chauncey 'I'll devote tbe wlnnines 1 to a fund for the purchase of poison for the I hopelessly seasick." Washington Star.

I RiVAL TO R. CRUSOE Da Rougemont's "Weird Adven-. tores Among tha Cannibals. A BAROMETER OF SNAKES Serpents Give Timely "Warning ol a Terrible Deluge. Thrilling; Experiences of the Castaway In Try! to Get Back to Civilisation.

BT LOUS DE ROrGEXOST. Part V. Seme little time after the adventure with the alligator I removed my dwelling place to th top of a headland on the other tide of the -bay. some twenty miles away, where I thought I could more easily discern any tall passing by out at sea. The blacks, who were well aware of my hopes of getting back to my cwa people, had themselves suggested that I might find this a more likely place for the purpose thaa the" low-lying coast on.

which their tribe- was then encamped. They aito pointed out to me, however, that I should find It much colder living in so exposed a pcaltion. But the hope ef-aeaiag. passing sallsdecltUd me, and one morula; 1 took. my departure, the whoie nation cf blacks coniing out la full force to lid us adieu.

I think the last thing they impressed upon me, in their peculiar native was that they would always be delighted aod honored to welcome me back amcng them. Tamba, of course, accompanUd me, as also did my dog, and we were escorted across the bay by a host of my native friends In their catamarans. I pitched upon a fine, bold spot for our dwelling place, but the blacks assured me that we would Sad it uncomfortably ccld and windy, to cay nothing about the loneliness, which I could, sot help but feel after so much Intercourse with the friendly natives. I persisted, however, and we at length pitched our encampment oa the bleak headland. 'Occasionally tome of oar black friends 'would pay us a visit, but could never induce them to locate their village near us.

Day after ay after day, I gazed wist- "BUS BTRT-CK TTTE TRITE PEVFRAI. BLOWS WITH THE TOMAHAWK." fully over the sea for hours at a time without ever seeing a sail, and at last I began to grow somewhat despondent and sighed for the companionship of my black friends once mot. Yamba was unremitting In her endeavors to make life pleasant for me and keep me well supplied with the best of food, but I could see that ahe, too, did sot living on this exposed and desolate spot So, after a few weeks experience of life there, I decided to return to my bay home. and later on make preparations for a journey "overland to a point on th Australian coast where I learned ships "frequently passed. The blacks wer delighted Jto see me on my return and I remained with them several months before attempting my next journey.

They were keenly anxious that I should join them In their fighting expeditions, but I always declined, oa th abound that I waa not a fighting man. The fact ot the matter waa that I could never hop to throw a spear with anything like the dexterity they themselves manifested, and as spears were the principal -weapons used la warfare I was afraid I would not show tip well at a critical moment. Moreover, the warriors defended themselves so dexterously with shields as to bn all but invulnerable, whereas I had not the slightest idea of how to handle a shield. And. finally, for the take of my ever-Indispensable prestige.

I could not afford to make myself ridiculous In their eyes. I always took good care to let the blrxks see me performing only those feats which I felt morally certain I could accomplish, and accomplish to their amazement My Mysterious "Flylns Spear. So far I had won laurels enough with my. mysterious arrows or "flying spears," as th natives considered them, and my prowess with the harpoon and tomahawk was sung in roany tribes. And not the least awkward thinz about my oosltion was that I dared not even attempt a little quiet practice la spear throwing- for tear the blacks should come upon me suddenly, when I would most ccr- mm.