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Show Host Visits Hall of Girl Students THRILLING ADVENTURE OF THE PONY RIDER holder at was first seen by Sergt, shocked by temer. n$Ton will, ITyOF UNEARTHLY SPIRIT. I APPARITION SEE '.peara Before' Belated Residents of Aristocratic Suburb- Police Trying to Solve the Mystery. Chicago's rite refusing to fiddle to Englewood, has a first-clasunalloyed Jeveloped a fastidious one at that. and W, for the last five nights the police jepartment has been trying to solve and after the last perfsle mystery ormance, In which the ghost had the around Willard (Jrontery to circle nil, the home of 300 girl students of to Chicago. jy second Evanston, D, Ghost Terrifies Belated bllists. I The Automo-- ! j I .forth western university, four times, the minions of the law are more deter- I mined than ever to lay low the of- I (ending spirit I j j ; apparition in white, fleet as a I hare and Imbued with the astonishing habit of appearing and disappearing before the wondering eyes of the be The Jamison between the hours of twelve and one oclock In Sheridan road, near Main street. South Evanston. Ten minutes later Patrolman McArdle, stationed in North Evanston, saw the same Identical shade floating along Sheridan road toward Wilmette. Every night since then, with prodigious speed even for a ghost, the apparition has made its appearance in different parts of Evanston and Wilmette around the hour of midulght. Automobile parties returning home late have seen it for a moment in the glare of their searchlights and then lost sight of it, only to have it appear the second time two or three miles farther along their route. Belated pedestrians have been terrified by having It appear running along beside them for a moment and then disappearing in the ddrkness. When Assistant Ch!nf Sliaeffer first had the matter brought to his attention he ridiculed the idea that It could be a ghost and offered as a solution of the affair the theory that some health maniac was doing a running stunt Therefore, Sergt. Jamison seated himself at the telephone desk and after monopolizing the wires for two hours announced that Evanstons 53 physicians had not recommended night air as beneficial to any of their patients. The other day all the men students of the university and academy were approached by their professors. Why, we would rather sleep than eat, let alone roaming Evanston's streets at midnight, was the tenor of the answers the professors received. The police department, baffled, gave up the problem in despair and as the ghost was doing no apparent harm would have let the matter drop If the shadb had kept to the road. The visit to Willard hall, however, was too much for a police department to Ignore. "Just think of it! Patrolman Newel Did you ever see such exclaimed. nerve In all your life? Why, a live man, let alone a shade, would not dare approach Willard hail after nine o'clock at night. Its simply shocking. Something must be done to stop it or the girls will decamp for other parts. Accordingly the reserve force of special policemen will be called upon and the offender, ghost or maniac, will be given a run for his money." One of the distinctive characters of western Jit a few years back was the "pony-rider,- " or who wus the ouly meaus of public communication between one settlement and another. Their routes were over sections of country where stage roada had not been opened, sometimes extending for many miles, and sometimes serving only as connecting links between lines already established. Some of these riders were young men for such a responsible duty, you might think, but they had been brought up In the country, had taken part In Its adventures, dangers and trials, aud at eighteen or twenty years of age were aa manly, courageous and saga-cfou- s on the trail as you would expect men of forty to be. The lives of these were fall of adventure. The country through which they rode waa wild and unsettled, and encounters with Indians, wild beasts and desperado highwaymen were frequent. One of the pluckiest riders was little Sam Dudley. He was only eighteen years old, and nls build was almost an alight as a woman's, but the strongest man couldn't aland fatigue any better than Sam. He seemed to be made up of steel and steam. Sam bad a route that was particularly dangerous, as It lay In a region where bands of Shoshone Indians were always prowling about. Warthey robbed and path or no war-patbutchered white men whenever they found them at a disadvantage, and when pursued by parties sent out to avenge the outrage they hid them- mall-carrie- mail-carrie- each other, the Indiaus stopped, tbeti guns in their hands. Sam stopped also and unslung hia rifle. Perhaps at this distance he might prove to be the better shot and pick off one or two of them if their bullets missed him. Anyway, he much preferred to fight with 200 yards between them and he resolved to move no farther, but Watt for developments. Meanwhile the lndlaus conferred with each other for a few minutes and one of them signed for him to come on. He promptly signed that he wouldn't do It At this the redskins started toward him, holding up their hands in token of friendship. But Sam was too shrewd to be caught in such a trap he knew them too well. His reply was a shot from his rifle, and one of the Indians tumbled off his horse. The other two Immediately fired at him, their bails whistling harmlessly by him, but, nevertheless. Sam fell from his pony to the ground, and lay still In the long grass. The pony stood like a rook, for Sam bad thrown the reins over bis bead. All this time hla enemies were galloping rapidly toward him. Another shot from them would no doubt have finished him he dared not risk It he must deceive them by a ruse. Would it succeed? It was a des perate chance, and aa he lay there thinking about it, and listening to the tramp of the approaching horses, who will think It strange If he trembled a little, brave as he was? But he needed all his nerve, and he pulled himself well together, got his rifle ready, and raising his head and Red ' Revenge. Ta-T- Thor win a young maid from afar. Who ran like the deuce for a carl To her seal she was martyr, "So you spurn meh!" he cried, la wrathful woe. "But I shall have my revenge!" "Ha! ha!" laughs the heartless For snap went her shoestring Too embarrassod for more so Puck. maiden. "You may laugh now, but wait! In the four years I have known you, you of have given me six photographs yourself. Each one of them I shall have enlarged by the cheap crayon process, and presented to your various friends and relatives! Leaving the frightened girl In a swoon, the cruel swain departs with the melodramatic tread of one who will stop at nothing. Judge. POSSIBLE CHICKEN Ta-T- st PROBLEM. Moderation. It was a question of diet "Mr. Doddlngton! she asked, turning to appeal to the little man who at drinking with her husband. "Dont you think that a little meat from time to time Is really necessary to everyone? The little man paused. "In my opinion, Mrs. Gollghtly, said he, a little food of any kind now and then dees no particular harm. DIVORCE EXPLAINED. O! Alfred, wouldnt It be awful If they lost their mother, and we had - to bring them up on the bottle?Brooklyn Life. Not a Cigarette Smoker. rurn ULtVCn Short j HEN ORGAN-GRINDE- J DIPYDnPYET rlUNrlMtl of Leg and Long at Nsek, It Won Many a Penny from Polka I I Then it would navigate back to the crowd and look for more. The long was npc odvantage, for, by standing on the toes of its long Dropping From Hit Horse to the Ground He opened Fire on the Indians.. j Up-Stat- J McKeever, N. Y. A hen with a neck like a turkey and one leg an inch shorter than the other attracted attention here a few days ago and caused as much merriment as a one-ring circus. The fowl, which was said to be two years old, was the property of an who carried It on top of his organ instead of a monkey, lie had taught it to do several tricks, and tt Is safe to say that It collected more pennies than the average simian. struck the When the organ-grinde- r village the hen was perched on the top of one shoulder emitting sounds between a crow and a squeal. This naturally attracted attention and soon As a small crowd was assembled. soon as enough had arrived the hen dropped to the ground and began to navigate In a series of circles toward possible donators of coin. Owing to the fact that one leg was shorter than the other it could not proceed In a straight line, and Its efforts to pick up pennies tossed on the ground were extremely ludicrous. Once It had a coin In Its beak the hen would flutter and squawk and circle back to the grinder and place the treasure In his breeches pocket. organ- -grinder, The Queer of the Or- flukoH or grain, with occasionally half u cup of skimmed milk. It la further ulleged that she slept on the coldest nights In an old shed, through which wind and rain swept, und that her bed waa a pile or straw or a few shovelfuls of sawdust. The young woman claimed thia to be the Public School Teachers Become Insane at Holy Ghostera Two Former Camp. Me. Mr. Alice Phelps, City, hna consulted attorneys In an effort to have the law remove her daughter from the Holy Ghost and Us sect of worshipers at Shiloh. Rev. Frank Sand ford Is the head of the colony mud styles hlmselt Ita "Elijah." Six years ago May and Bessie Phelps, aged 32 and 33, respectively, wore respected young women of Kansas City. They mere considered Intellectual and were teachers In the They had made a public schools. special study of Biblical literature, and rell easy victims to the argumenta of nne of Sandfords missionaries. Then they came to Shiloh. The methods of the strange sect undermined the reason of the younger girl, Bessie, and she became Insane. Her mother had her removed to the itato asylum. There she has remained Coin-Collect- gan Grinder. could search vest pockets for it leg, petiuies. In this way several were added to the collection. The hen. In fact, was as good a pickpocket as wus ever found operating at the county fair. GIRLS CRAZED BY NEW 6ECT. Portland, trite of Kansas life. Mrs. Phelps ; says she saw many la the some plight. Small children were ao emaciated that their cheek bonea almost protruded from the flesh and their ees were glaring and sunken. Sandford la on a cruise In hla palatial yacht tn the Mediterranean, and has practically ult the funds of the colony In hla possession. As the daughter of Mrs. Phelpa la of ago attorneys says she cannot be compelled to leave. Girl Sesks to Man Engine. Albuuy, N. Y. Statlomnnster Itela of the New York Central nearly ool-- I lapsed when a pretty young woman with blond hulr walked Into hla office at the I'tilun station and asked If she could get a position as engineer or lircuinn on the road. Sho gave her In a semiconscious, cataleptic slate, name a Miss K. H. Snyder and said she waa a graduate of a mechanical despite all physicians ran do. Recently the mother heard the school. Mr. Rela said he could not do elder daughter was also likely to be- anything for her and she went to Dicome Insane. Mr. Phelps went to vision Superintendent Harrington ofthe Shiloh colony, hut could not In- fice. but that official waa out. She duce the young woman to leave. The then said she waa going to the car Ctrl seemed thoroughly Imbued with shop In West Albany and apply there fanatical Idea. for a Job. Sho was clad In only a calico wrapper, and wan shivering. It U said her Baby Born With Tasth, food allow sure for that day whh one Marysville, O. A baby born to Mr. toacupful of parched grain, and that and Mra. John Rogers, on Delaware many day a the was allotted even a avenue, wna discovered to have twe mailer proportion of cither oatmeal largo, fill grown tipper teeth. ! A good old gentleman, who was strongly opposed to tobacco smoking and alcoholic liquor drinking, met a lady friend In a street car recently, and their conversation was as follows: selves among the rocks and lay quiet until It waa safe to conie out again. This was down in Nevada, near the Toquima mountains. Sam rode front Austin to San Juan, a distance of fifty miles, his course running most of the way along the Reese river. Sam was due in San Juan one afternoon about three oclock, but that hour passed, and then four oclock, and be bad not arrived. The mall agent seemed to be a trifle uneasy as be talked about the delay. lie said Sain Dudley, the rider, was as brave a fellow as ever straddled a pouch, but there were bands of Indians all along bis route and he thought it was only a question of time a hen they would sing him. He had already had adventures with them, in which his escaes had been little less than marvelous, and It was a hi le be was telling me about one of them that we heard shouts outside his cabin, followed by the sound of a borne's feet at a rapid gallop. Every one hurried out and saw a sight that a as by no means uncommon In such a country. A young fellow, apparently a mere boy in years, was riding toward the staliim on a dark-hamustang. Ills buckskin dollies were soiled and bloody, and Ilia left arm hung limp and useless at hla side. His right hand grasp'd the long black hair of an Indlun'a scalp, which be swung round and round above his head. The reins lay iion the Muys neck, but the beast knew his stopping place and needed no guiding. In a minute more he had halted and all anxiously approached the rider. It was Sam Dudley, the young pale aud weak from wounds and loss of blood. He waa hctcd off the pnny'a back, but fainted before he got into the agent's cabin. The mail pouch waa safe, however. Sam was not long coining to him-aei- r again. Hia left arm waa broken above the elbow by a rifle ball and another ball bad eutered Ills cheat near the left shoulder. Neither wound was dangerous. About five miles from San Juan, aa he waa Jogging along at an easy pace over a stretch of tableland, he aw three mounted Indiana some distance ahead of him. They were coming from an easterly direction and their course would Intersect his almost at right angles. They evidently saw him and he had no doubt they would attack hint; that waa what they were there for. Big what could he do? To turn back was no safer than to go forward, for they would pursue and overtake him. Then, even If they had no hostile Intentions, hla running from them would be sure to bring tbem after him. So he determined to go ahead and trust to hla usuul good luck either to outrun nr outwit them. Without slackening speed he rode on toward them, lie was armed, of course. A repeating rifle was slung across hla buck and a revolver and a ktilfa war stuck In hla belt When they were within 200 yards of y mail-carrie- r, shoulders, took deliberate aim at the foremost Indian not 200 feet away, and fired. The savage fell; aud another riderless horse went bounding over the plain. Quick as lightning Sam fired again, this time at hla last remaining foe, and horse and Indian both dropped. Exulting In hla easy victory, the gallant young fellow leaped to hla feet to see the third Indian not dead, as he thought, but running toward him, gun at the ready. His horse had been shot, but he was unhurt. Sam was astounded. He was not a victor after all; on the contrary, ho now faced hia greatest peril. This flashed upon him as the Indian stopiied, raised his gun and fired. A sharp, quick spasm of pain shot through Sam's left arm, and it fell helpless to bis side the ball had shattered it. This made him drop his rifle to the ground, but his coolness apd courage did not Jeave him. The gun had not fairly touched the grass before he had drawn his revolver and taken aim at the savage, but the latter was equally quick with hla gun. The two reports rang out aa one, and both men fell. Dudley was siot In the chest near the left shoulder, and the ahock dropp'd him. He did not lose consciousness, however, and soon rose to hia feet ready to renew the fight But this was not necessary. Ilia last shot had tKen fired from a distance of twenty puces, and It had gone straight home. The third and last foe was dead. Forgetting hla wounds thinking only of bis triumph over hla would-bmurderers, he whipped out hla knife and look the aralp of the Indian he had Just killed. Then mounting hla pony, he dashed off toward San Juan. Chicago Dolly News. . Janas Answer. Have you any children, madam? "Yes, sir, a son." Does he smoke?" Ah, Indeed! "No, sir; he has never so much a cigarette. "So much the better, madam; tha use of tobacco Is a poisonous habit Does he frequent the clubs? "He haa never put his foot In one. "Allow me to congratulate you. Does he come home late? He goes to bed directly "Never. after dinner." A model young man, madam a model young man. How old Is be? Two months!" The good old gentleman bade the lady good morning and left tbe car without a smile. Winks Most divorces are caused by a common mistake. Jinks What Is it? Winks Many a man In love only with a dimple or a curl makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. Cincinnati Enquirer. SAVING Just the Thing, a time. In Brazil, Attacked by a violent chill, Once on A big alligator Climbed on tbe Equator And enjoyed a comforting grill. Appropriate Reply. Mildred Is it true that you have broken your engagement with young Smiley? Florence Yes. He was under the Influence of liquor when he called the other evening, hut he had the audacity to call me up by telephone the next morning and try to apologize. Mildred What did you answer? Florence Ring off! Chicago Dally News. His Dimensions. the Hon. Thomas Rott so angry about? "How did you make your wife's so "Why, the Weekly Palladium and Farmer's Vindicator published a qualutance?' "1 ran over her with my automo-bile- . cut of him and referred to it Tbo court decreed that I should a a 'life size' portrait." Puck. pay her 33,000 damages, and I For Her. thought It was better to marry her I'" "What I want, pants the comic-oper- a Fllegende Blaetter. star who had acquired a superConfused Emotions. abundance of flesh, "what I want Is "How Is your boy doing at college? a vehicle for the proper display of my I don't want any ordi"Well, answered Farmer Corntos-ae- l, personality. "I don't exactly know whether to nary" "No, Miss Fatyette," Interposes the compliment him or to make a fuss. playwright. "You dou't want any or- He came out first in hla class but be dinary vehicle. How would an auto- was lBRt In a font raw." Washington mobile truck do, In these days of auto- Star. What Is one-colum-n drama? His Contribution. g Mias Prattles Do you ever do for other people? Mr. Rattles Umhuh. I sometime shut up and give them s chance to talk. Detroit Free Press. The Other Way. Downaon Do you think opportunity makes the man? Upps No. Man makes the opportunity. Detroit Free Press. any-thin- Reslitm. "Do you believe that realism Is a benefit to the drama? "Decidedly," answered Mr, Storm-IngtoBat aes. "I cannot express myself too strongly In favor of the practice which lias grown up In recent years of paying actors with real Washington Star. money. n With umbrella and rubbers to koap oft tha rain, On a very moist morning I mat littli Jana. "Ok na, "Are you well? I Inquired. can't you sea I'm dreadfully under tha weather said li. C F, -- Lester, tn 8t NirboUs MONEY. About the Same Thing. Little Elmer (who has an Inquiring mind) Papa, what l meant by "honor among thieves"? Oh, Just Professor Itroadliead about the same aa "senatorial courtesy, mjf son. Puck. Too Bad. me to the dust at your feet! Tbe Beloved Dust? Oh, dost, and Mrs. Nurlch We've got a "baby told the maid to lm very careful I Have house. our at you? graiid about a but No. we've sweeping tbls room Plain got Mrs. Cleveland Leader. grand baby. Dot roll Free Press. The Lot er See Better Still. to-da- |