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1 Hi I I II 4 I THE SUKT, SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 13, 180ft ' T WEYLER AND HIS TUOCHA. B I f-ljj CVUAX XEWB THAT HIE CAFTAZX- Mm w oBsettAti did .r edit. MM L i Wes-trr'a Method. iTpon III Arrival-Ill f j ' Kfil.tarndtd Pin md II u New, Dnnai H 3 - -Horn Hpwnl.li" Victories "and nalnaan. MM 81 ere-lsnck find Forth Atnu the Troehn. B S from llarir't Wttlly. K 'Hi The first tiling that Gen. Weyler did. after MM 1 I taking pottc.stoti of Ids apartments in tho H f palace at Havana, was u tell what he was H , going to do- to establish a newt bureau for tho B ji purpose of editing his own war news, and then H I Jit to surround the Insurgents on nblg rasp of Cuba B lj with little red-headed pin. Weyler at once H i 'i became the editor-in-chief of Cuban war new. H j Bo jealously did he regard thla position that MM , fl In )l first "royal" decreo ho put a check on H ! R correspondents by rescinding the passe H I tcranted them by his predecessor, and refusing H t H' Krant any new ones, nlwnja pointing to hi MM t JI nen uurenu aa tiie proper place to Ret war B i news. Weyler complained that Martinez MM H. ? )' Campos had left his armies In a terrible state H ' Jr of disorganization, and It was going to lako H all his time for the present to reorganize them. B O He told tho photographer about It, and he told MM j5, his clerks, and then ho appointed a general Bl i m meeting of all nenBpapcr corrcspniulents and Bl ' Jji told them. He appointed a certain time on a BB 1 Bit certain day of each week when theso rorre- MM $1 respondents could interview him iiil libitum, !and he would tell what he wan going to do. We) lor soon found It n difficult task to keep ahead of American nowspaper correspondents, who could remain at the Hotel Inglaterra aud turn out moro tiovvsln two hours than ho could turn out with all his clerks In'twenty , four. Aftor a short Btay at tho Hotel Ingla- t terra, I moved to moro humble quarters a Spanish lioanllng house, occupied chlotly by 1 Spanish ofllcers. Hero I lenrncil moro In ono i week Ihan I might hate learned In a month at the Inalatona. MM In my Spanish bonrdlng house tho war as- Bl ft, mimed a dllTerent phase, and when a friendly BM ft cifllcer told mu seriously that, he had only bren BJ In ono severe battle since his arrivul In Cuba, BM . S "d that the light lasted six hours, und tlmt B l during all those six lours of lighting his col- BJ 31 ,1,u" h&d "iilv two men wounded -one br fall- Bl ' I p.: lug oil his horse, and tho oihorbva sjent bul. BM j' let-and that he hadn't seen a single one of BM i the enemy, I beiran to think that such flght- BM i A I"g must bo far ahead (us an extravaganza) of Mm ) i 4 any or tliuroviilutlons 1 had ever experienced nana! . 1 j, In Central America. BM ('- t H Naturally 1 determined upon seeing some of MM I" f B this llglitlng for misel' Thero was Wey- m I' Si 'era decrto lo stcor ilcar of; but I soon made H f' a! l' discovery that m friemli, tl.u odlccrs, M r Sj eeldoni read the paiiers, and had a ery ague B I t !Si Idea of the Lontuuts of tno ilccrcoa Issued by BM " ' 8J their Cupioln-Uotieral. One inornliif, usun B I Tj experiment, I followed ono or tho llawina K "Ji streets Into tho country, and returned In tliuo m $ lor oreakfast. ultauut being moieted in any B I way, although an American at the Inglaterra Bal ( ?. j'fd been arreted for doing the Paiuo thing. ' i' lliea 1 mot a joung ntle who ogrecd to , fe accompany me outsido of tho capital, and I ir engaged his services to kvep a lookout for an LB R Jnlerostlng scone of action. He nutlfled mo J) 'f tho sacking und burning of Jaruco, and we M I Ji made an uttempt to gu there. Ve got as far Bi It u?.L'f,la, w'1,!ro ne fou d t'lat tiie engineer m M If or th train had resignoil his commission, on M ili F'e P' ,Dat neprofcrred starvation to be- M ' jt Ig biown up with dynamite. 1 used my BI i ff' camera to advantage at Hegla, and made BI ' l6 discovery that to all Intents and pur- M , . Ises it was about as good a passport tis B ' 1 K Meyler could have elven me himself. Three Bf ' f It "na lter 1 succieded In getting to .Taruco. BI i' and saw the resu.t or its "heroic defenco" B ! .K Vy P.Panisli soldiers, ns edited b Wojler BI !,'E ,',' "' "ews bulletins. Tho result of my BI ' oliservatlonH was to convince mo that al- m , is though Werlor mlglit bo considered a very Bi ; US guod new editor, ho vas a very bad his- H iS torlan. I have seen towns ctrnck by carth- Bl S iuake and not look hulf as badly ns Jaruco ;, looked after Macei .and his rebels got through ! K 'IJ It. and jet Weyler. In his history, ro- '-, ,g " 'rlstenwl It with thu elaborate title of "I.a B jig iludad do Jaruco muy herolca." There wat BI i f 18 not enough left of jomico to merit even tho Bj H' Irj ",,n at dty. Near by I visited the battlo BI h- f I il'm wh?. according to Weyler's history. Col. BI P' Ml ternaiidez y rnrrera had fought Moceo. Dur Bl K Ell H'i0,- 'ed lilui.and-I have forgotten BI & ml whether .he killed him that tlmo or not. How. BI Sk f'U W. bottlefielil was Interesting. Tho BI g ,t-v lead had not been burled. Thero was ono dead BF" " It Horse and luilf of a roasted dog. which had been 1. 'IJ unable to escape from a burning shanty. BI' i ilf ...-"J" next trip was to tho peaceful village of BI 'C ..J; t.uatao. It was reported that a ma-snere had Bj ' l. -n .commlttei there by .Spanish Mildlers. It K,i Jj1 , ""deolcd by the Spaniards, nnd I determined BJ T H' i?,I,BnU.'nc,!llnt0 lor "Oself. So ono BJ W m niornlng 1 took tho train for Matlaao, and Bi f :y 1,'".1C" sIo,",ly sauntend out upon the lotintry B r m "K1,.1,1"?, J.'nnia Hrna.whcre It was f Z.W ?ttld the battlo had bnin rouglit. On tho road B :S1 1 passccl cauutri . wnf at tho end of avonues B ! t ; beautifully shaded with tall aud stately rival I i-i palms, and there were fniinhoiiw nestling In f f, proves r.f gltstcnliiz gie-n mangrove tr-o" B I " ?Pa "W tovoru1 with tho strongt-looklng B f, 5'j Pineapple plant. Suddenly thero ramo dasli. B T U U1." y1"0"1"1 n nend In tho road u company of jK R omuiltted tho outrage whlcli I was on my B Bi & I yyal, x". '"""tlgute. A sohllor droppcl his B P N carblno from Its resting place, and In an luatant B Wt f- no thlna-wiis eyclled ntme. Tho bore looked B ' F f8."' thatnfaiannnn. una Idlrtn't know H jw. -, out mj last hour hnl (oim-. Ilowover. with f.'t V. iTiM."ie .i"n i,1."11"!1" wrel. I Miuured ana IS! L alutea tho ofllier in i ommand. us thogh I B ia either a military man mvself or ilsc had Is i known U.o onicer nil m lire. Thegunllew B a back to It nl.uc In an liisionl. K 3 ' i arrivoiiatruntallruva, and there 1 learned H. ffif ., tlml the inassacro hint occurred nonut a mile B IS- l V.8 halfnir. on a road running to the left. B S f. i 'oUow tho road till It merged Into the vll- B S f ?co pf Ouatao. Tho houses were all then' - B W i' liiSf i0'1' 51.10 Xo,r "I tho Jhonkecners, and B ' Jlestrove.1 but the lives of Innocent victims. B & ff 2.llSp i lim,1 fteltl appearance, and as I i t was gaing about me a man rodo up with. a B ft f blto cross eevvNl upon his alecve. Ho saluted B & SBn,,, l dismounted mid tleil Ills Uorao B B ff '" tl' nauB """r otl of the liouscs an old Mf 5 m "! out and talked wttn him. Ai V, J "jy01 '!!' t."ECt a ,M"tcr UB" of the Lhurch. Mf. i ''7 ,j,0i0 to ". "d Invited me within o BEE 'ft i w Klvin a neat and a cigar, and tho K f "ld,man "'?" to Leei.-used for the disorderly . ff r. tte of his house "Hut you see," said ho. "I B-. .. I ia.VBentiny family all away, and only I and WT Ui. I J?hi hY.'.' c,".n' t "tlend to a little tobacto Mf7 Mj M blrh It la now time to cut." And as ho talkc"l Ml ffi- ! he arranged an nhohol lamp and lit Itiand R. m ! l0P,g ?", tlmfl '" '"It Invitation, he brewed Mfv ftf ' JI in55?.ion. onouJl' readily to distinguish a m iFs I if ?isr'1 '"Jm n. u,n. and the man with tho M- ' J ff white cross I naturullv took for a Spaniard, as K vf t! he w In tho hosplul service. IiutlwasBoon m1' S I "t ''" this subject, for the old fX H I fy u"dth I was an American, aid B m thenheald: "Wo are Cubans. vVe are alone, B S- K fnd w.u ?Rn talk wlili frankness." Then i B; tyf 1 2Ti? tli.'J t"?,I"y t mounted soldiers B ' 1 famo dMhln Into tho quiet vlllagn and shot B p- ', the peaceful villager down where they itood- My " nd ?ot satisfied , with this amount of blZl: MS j ! 5hd,theypring from their horses and droggod Mr K rf father from their liouao and husbands fom ;v i J the arm of their wives, and cruelly shot them ', ?' 5 Jn co'd blood lmforo tho eye of their scream. .s ' - -..r.-.. . ..v.v timiiEia, nuu were firagginir S P I'.lnffKP moro to the .laughter, when their ; ft; Captain rpdo uii and ordered the massacre J atopped. Novvafl the families who had thS ' L '"?"." h,ul ntA. tnm l,' t)l-eaa though it i f ''"i1 .brn.,,'ur,,11 Ptllence. u,oue;i " Vl ' ',"" JH? old man' hospitable shelter and I wandered through the deserted vllliiestreeU , Sj J saw gathered together In one corner oftho ; ri t"" ft f0110 " women and children. The? 'i , Si urrounJed me as though thoy rwo "nlied In -t xk yif told mo Uielr aajl tales of woe-how thulr it W 83' ij'""'''. and brother, had been lagged 5 lie 18 ., h Ilffci ..J "" "edino tho pool of blood "S lV feB ?i L'in,',nl."!!f..,"B flr,ln w,ier8 this onehad i 8 IE '"lion n'l that one hal caape.1 his lait. f feB bli,fola".h2i,J3W tlmt '"le5 ' not rosponal. IS nkte ? ThISCim.r"i'i'Jmi'5lt,ed tyldubonl. i 58 i?Lj .i Bn, I'V.dld not urh crime occur , 8g u')Sr tho rul of Martlner. CampoiV la Tfu,rwS.V'l,rd?'w"w 5fi !".!iuat"'1 rlrst he Issued one of his war bul. i BJ Jt.liBj. sUtlng that the insurgent had been fctf i IS tbSS" Lfnwi,rn '."" "r,' at "ut o. thlrteenof FT gg '.' ",,,fk''lt,,31 '",a twenu.tHo taken p l"nSr": II fef liuali,Sr.?.ei,iir " n?nLu ?rtu lUten to the f fl i'., ndloss wives or father h children whu li n-?lr-"',V,ic..,0vl",, t"lace upiiI "utlng PS imiin'f .la,,.Ilr. h" ordered tho arrest ad ; irSrttoBomta't.,U, l,0mPl t0 "lv"'o 96 ''al. Vcn,"B "f the prisoners? Thev wer II fn'tfJiH ",0 Mo?ro f"r two mon hwTi m Jhelr faailllea were begg ng for broad, i after- SB ward pent thlrUwn ifays in the wine cell m. IS f,?fi5fJS -h TJ,iri, of ',"" and"fundth; 1 1 fnJ".? haa ,.,,on ,,ulr "-ompanlons dur" fS S" J' oo two inouljis and tliey told mo that ,lh ,"llatJ t-rlsoner finally mide up a pur. Vf itH.tt,r 'ntene. l$100 In Spanish gold) Hi. I uyrlt"0wthe;,.J,andffiu.Cd K.V f NVhei' wy.ler took un the rein so lnclort. Wt - m S25lyn,pTd ,Vr MortlneV cim'po0, "flomex Hi t I 'l,kd marchod all the war from th Ti-i,,;i Bfj f fK0' U,t1','andlnnVrmln"r"m; III fc C lot A"ntnh mI1 rt0,",.K n"., "! l-leuten? 1 Ir V 3 !!1' Antonio Macro, and Bent him to liiv-mi,. r f P lhVT.r!?e: . '1nr del iff". TlS narr0w". li ff of Ja''d' ut where I'lnwdTlllo1 S H .i-h. f0" Artemlsa at the houth to Uui I " 'fi i,fi;j.aL,nh",hln'-wi''tUane". I I i 8 LiL0.1. f0-' do.n mllloleiiKth" It ML t 8 J, 'no ,n,,n matter to fortify this k B .d and to keep aiacco with hi rebel, ilpwu I BJ r-v ' In Plnardel nio. Thl wa called the troeha, and when I arrived In Havana It was all tho fashion to talk about the troolia. and to tall bow Maoeo had got himself Into a trap Inlthat mall end of the island, from which no could not escape. The Bpanard did not seem to comprehend that thl. small end of the Island embraced a territory of some 8,000 square m!les-atnplo room for an army rauoh larger than the one possessed by Antonio Macco. Al though tho trocha scheme did not originate with Captain-General Weiler.be seems to have thought It a very good thing, for he put hi red-headed kin. along th lino on hi. map and demonstrated conclusively to his friends that the black.headed one. could not pass them. Thon ho put some more pins down In l'lnardel Mo to surround Maceo, and then he sent out hi. war new. announcing that Macco was hemmed In and could not esoape. But he woke up one morning to look over his latest de spatches, and dlrcovercd that Mareo wa. miss ing from thai part of tbo map where he had placed the blaclc-headod plnr. An American correspondent who called to Intori low Weyler that day found him In the greatest confusion. Evidently Ml ceo had got through where he had filled to put enough red plna. Two or three davs later Maceo was dis covered some thirty miles to tho cast of the trocha. How did hn ant throiiuh thn trncbar Spaniards never ask questions they cannot an. ewer themselves. Maceo did not get through the trocha at all he went around It. Then he circled around Havana, sacking andbnrnlngu number of town., during which time Gen. Weyler was zept busy Issuing war bulletins, In which appeared a profusion of "heroic de fences" and "the flight of rebel, before tho valor of Spanish arms." Then came the new: that Maceo had llei' Into Malanxas province, and tho Havana iwoplo drew a breath of relief, for now the war would certainly bo contlnod to the cast. Then followed two weok. of quiet. Maceo had joined Gomez, and according to Weylci's bulletins thoy were still fleeing across Matnu i! ton.nl tho cast. Gen. l'ando, military Governor In tho east, sent word that he wa. anxiously awaiting tho night of "theso rebel lious hordes" Into Ms Jurisdiction, "burning with tho delio" to exterminate thoin, or at least to drive them Into tho mountain fastness whero they could no longer do harm. Then Oon, Welter Issued his proclamation, an. nouncliig that tho rebels had nil been driven out of I'innr del Hio, with the exception of a few scattered band, of Iwudlts. On tho evening nf Saturday, March 14. I Joined tho American correspondents in the cafe of the Hotel Inglaterra. Now was coming In warm and exciting. Maceo wa. again In tho province ol' Havana. The light from burning plantation, could lie "ion a short distance fmm tho city. Data batio, to the south of Havana, was being sacked and burned. This was all under ground nr unofficial news. Our party did not break up till a late hour that night, or rather an early hour tho next morning. An enterprising correspondent, desiring to get the new. to his paper, hurriedly pre pared a lespatch and took It to the palaco to get tho censor's approval, as required be fore It could bo transmitted by cable. The censor looked veri wise, and ns he read the news of tho burning ami sacking of Hata bano his wislom turned to amrpr. Tin nc. cuscd Amnrlcou correspondent, of being liar, in general and with his red pencil crossed out the news, leaving the correspondent with but a few empty phrnsos. which ho was nt liberty to cable. Two days later Weyler's news buretu published, In a mild way, this same news, This Is what really happened: Macco hail been encamped with his commander-in-chief, Maximo Gomez, unmolested In tho province of Matanzas. Gome?, decided that Maceo should return with 10.000 mon to Plnar del Hlo. and operate In that province utitil tho Spaniards should give up the Island or he should give further orders, thus proving to the world conclus.vcly that the rebels had not been driven out, and that Weyler wa. powerless to drive them out. Maceu's army wa. called the Invading army of the west. Gomez accompanied him Irto Havana prov vlnco. and then returned. Acoirdtng to veyler's new. bureau, the Spanish column mot tho Invading army near I.os I'alos and defeated it. killing Mjvonty horses left on the field, aud, according to blood stains and old hate, must have killed a great many rebel. alo. Tho rebels had tied precipitate ly, and this was counted u victory for tlio Huanlnrds. But theso rebels. Instead of fleeing buck to Matanzas, fled forward across Havana, applying tho torch, as they lied, to plantation.!, towns, and cities. So fast did they contlnuo their precipitate flight that they left the Spanish army way behind, and only tho lurid glare of burning towns and plantations designated their whcrealmnts. On the Hth of March Maceo sacked and burned the city of IWubano. on tho loth ho crossed tho tnxha. which had betn auan doncd. and on tho 10th vvus laving slego to Cundclarln. In I'innr del Hlo. Again Wey ler's bulletins announced a victory anil Mnceo's night, as ho continued to burn and devastate the countrv about htm. And what did Uomcz do? Ho continue! his march eaatwurd Into tho pruvlnco of I-aa Villas, where Gen. l'ando had boon awaiting tho rebel hordes, "burning" with the desire to meet them. Gomez's army consisted of a few thousand mon. tho half of thorn poorly armed and a thousand with no arms nt all. Thero was but ono battle fought, and this was when two Spanish column, met near Esperazn, and each, supposing tho other to be tho command of Gomez, fought for twenty mlnu'ns before the mlstako was discovered. This battle was cited ns an cxamplo of Span ish valor' l'ando. In n rage, rode Into Santa Clara and ordered tho arrest of tvventvodd Cuban., representative, of the host families, and throw them Into Jail. Wei lor ordered him to Havnni, and thenco home to Spain. l'ando gave a farewell address to his army. In which ho told them that they ware tho hi roes who hail climbed the frigid heights of tho Andes, and had carried Spain's civilization and Christianity Into tho New World. Then ho wen' to Havana and r,uarrellcd with Weyler. and tno Captain-General agreed to a truce, nPnwlnc l'ando to resume his com mand ana then ask for a leave of abaeneo. oj lor published another chnpter of his his tory: Maximo Gomez was dead, and Antonio Maceo was entrapped on thu other sldo of the trocha. which this time was to he as lm pregnnblo us tho ancient wall of China. I rccolved a letter from the edltnrnf the 1fr.. W signifying a desire to have me Investigate thu trocha. Ilcfoni leaving Havana I tried to get all tho Information dosI1jIo concerning It. nnd was told that It was the most wonder ful military line ever Invented: nnd from tho descriptions I received I concluded It must bo. and since I have peon It I still think so. I was told that it consisted of forts built ncross the Island, at a distance of S00 yards from cadi other, all with telephonic or telegraphlo communication; that thero was a continuous ditch nine feet deep and a. manv feet vvldo; that tho whole thing was lit up at night by cluctrhiity; and then that thero were Intricate meshes of barbed wire hidden somewhere to trip up nnd dnmago the Insurgont cavalry. I ho most pro nsterou. of all theso descrip tion, wa an account of a certnln cabbage field with growing cabbages, and each cah bago loaded with a dynamite lnmli, which, bv somo cunning arrangement, was going to explode at tho parsing of the rebel. I approached thli wonderful trocha with fear and trembling. The train drew up to the station at Artcmlra, and I crawled Into u rickety carriage, Its top tumbling all over tho seat, and whlspored to tho driver to go to a hotel. It was hot and dusty, and everything was covered w Itli red earth. Tho houses wero red, tho horses wero red, and even the soldiers were reii; and there were a lot of them, too. They lay In the streets, their camp nrcs burned In the streets, and they Bweltered In ILe streets. I wuh given a room with six beds In It, and no room for ani thing but tho beda. I protested that 1 could mo but one of the beds, but mine hoBt wld there would prnlw bly be other weary traveller, by nightfall, who vyould lm glad to occn.iy tho others. Thus I made mv entry Into Artcnilwi, mid got my llrst gllmpHo of the trocha. I was very hy all tho afternoon, as I kept a careful watc.lt for tho man with tho crieen tils fori !,,,.., hlmto bo my worst persecutor In mywhoio Cuban cammlgn. I did not attempt to go anywhere until tho next morning, whon I willed out. and of course got arrested Hut my arrest, as usual, turned out to my good for tune, for I had thn pleasure of mnklng the nc oUBlntanco of Col. Candida Hernandez y Va li.cn. Of all the Spinlh officer, with whom 1 came in contact. I likcdlCol. Hernandez liest. llo was a man who as well read and knew tno history of his own country. Ho could cllscats Irving and I'rescott. ana thoujht that ppain should erect a monument to rrcscoltat lean. 1 used to call on the Colonel nearly every aftornoon. and wo would spend hour, rnjoylm tiwh other's conversation ftnd com. pa.n',.,"S WB.8 n. "oldler, patriotic, and hon est. He fought battle, did not kill hi. pris oners, or massacre Indofcnalve country people and report .uch deeds oa victories. Ho had eetn tweutl-elght yours of nervlco In Cubi. nil yet he still woro tho galloon, of a Colonel, whllo such assassins aa Melgulzo. Vicuna and other, had risen to the grade of Goneral under tho short iidminlstrotion ot Woylor. undoubtedly reaping their reward according to their activity In exterminating the Cu bans, as their ancestor, had exterminated the aborigine.. wi'.,wVr nominally iiutlor nrrett in Arlemlss, when Mr, Akera of tho London 71iiim turned up with an order from Got,. Wcilor grantl.ig him permission to Insure! toe trocha n nrlvl. lnmrrH'ch i?ollor l"'d "M't'l othor corre spondent. Hut upon his arrival In Arte '.' J1, no Ta" 1",Jried to learn that theie was "iA.me.r,"n ""'"Pondoiit tliero before him, and that that American carried no other nass tnan hi American paaspart. .'" t,'?.,13,h ' v 1 left Artemlsa for Ha lana, with my pockets full of photograph, of i.."!?.! T"S" .0n that morning there were slorlea afloat of an attack on Candelarla. fml!? i "i" wr,'tln a letter. I told of thear ... I ?r?.dai '.'"J b? lu" niarchlng of Infantry, and tho distant boom of cannon. And what ?. 'LaI1 aUutl. A column had gone out fro n Artemlsa. Near a place called Iju Man F.M ntlve guide pointed out to the command, ing otllcer a mnuiuua la wooded spot), where he wld the insurgent, camped, Then tho artll. i.vV.wa .o"1"1 u" M'd Plnttl on a small f., ,?,? 6n "Penrd upon the Innocent tHiinona. A negro living near the placo and bearing the raoket dashed out of hi house. "!!.?.' ' ou.rV a" ,llot- A battl wa reported - Insurgent h.sse. one, Spanish lo.se none. Aa I had uo: finished bj work iu I'limr del Bio, I retnrnod to Artemlsa, via Gn.najar, pon mv arrival In Gnanajay I found that t had tumbled into a very dangorou. locality and wa llaolo to be arretted again. I remained only over night, and tho next day engaged a carriage to tako ma along the trocha to Arte mlsa. Of course, I knew 1 ought to hare a pa., from the Government, but In view of the Im possibility ot obtaining one, 1 wasted no tlmo in that direction. I .Imply Invited a rhanrn a-nalntance, who was going to Artemlsa nnd hail procured n pass, to .It by my aide In the carrlago which I engaged. lie appeared Hat teredand Pleased, accepted my Invitation, and I placed him next tho carriage door. Tho driver whipped up hie horses, darhrddown the street and nut at tho entrance or the town, where I .aw a ittKird lucli it Preparing to stop us. My companion began fishing for hi. pass, nnd f threw myself back among the tapestry cover ings and flapping curtains of tho rickety old vehicle. I watched the guatd from the corner of my nearly closed eyelid, n. he tumbled with my friend', pass. As the guard handed the pa.s back he looked In ot me ns though he wa. in doubt whether to disturb me nr not, but my friend nut his mind at easo by hohllng up two flnger,.lgnlfylng, I auppose, that the ono pass covered two. So our Joliu was nl. loweJ In drlvo un, and I breathed a sigh nf re lief. Then I In. net ted the upper end of Wey ler's famous trocha. I wondered why Wejler hadn't established a similar cordon around the whole Island. He could then have declared thnt ho had all of tho Insurgent, entrapped In the Island, and that they couldn't get away. Tho road wns a splendid one. I miuposo that Is what Mr. Akcrs meant whon ho said in hi. letter to the Tlmm that "for tho purposo for which It wns constructed It wns nn excellent plese of work." The road wns being kept vcrv clean, soldier sweeping It constantly wltli bundle, of bushes. A. for rortttlcntiomi, I didn't seo an thing that resembled any. In jome plac es thero wa. a great amount of barbed wlro wasted. In other plucos log fences or stone walls, and now nnd then a palin-leaf-t hatched shanty, called by courtesy a "fort." If there wero 110,000 soldiers stationed on that lino 1 failed to see Indications of them. Once In a whl'e n fellow with n gun would straggle out from ono of the hbnntlcs, the conch Would top, and I would sink back lu my corner," hlle my friend would hand out his pass, hold up his two lingers, get hit pas back, aud wo would drlvo on. I was again in Artcmlsn. Scarcely a night passed but Insurgent bulleln were whistling ovi"- our heads, and th Mausers of the Span iards were barking back and bending their charges umnng the lenve. of the palm trees. Ono night thero was a fu-lous waste of powder nnd ball. The Insurgents pretended to nttack tho town from the south. Their bullets rained Into the plain, lodged In tho church vvnlK and even rarrL-d nvvny a Spaniard's too. Gen. Arolas swore by nn extra number of saints that ho would hold the plaza or dlo In tho at tempt. IIIh artllleri boomed utwn tho mid night air. as bl infantrymen lav behind tho breastworks, nnd Maeeo'n commission of a dozen men innrched quietly across the trocha to the north on their wav to confer with Max imo Gomez. And this Is w hut Weyler called lu his history grcnt coustcrnutlou in the Insur gent ranks. JOHN TA3ir.S'S DYNAMIC OIIOST. A etpook Hint Drives Watchmen Aunj from nn Altiburaa Hnwintll. f Wuti tl,c SI. tAtult Oloht Dcmocmt. In the bottoms of tho Tomblgbco Hlver, a few miles above It. confluence with the Alabama, I. a deep, lagoon-like lake, locally known a. Da vid's Lake. On the western shoro of the lako aro a shingle mill and a row of a halt dozen shanties. Intended ns houses for tho mill hands, all the property of tho Seaboard Lumber Com pany, at Falrford. a few mile. away. The mill has been Idle for some time and tho shanties untenanted, owing to a depression In tho market for cypress Bhlnglcs. It ha been necessary, however. In order to preserve tho validity ot certain Insurance policies, to keep a watchman constantly in charge there. Vptoa short time ago the watchman was a certain crippled negro named John Jameb. John James's Job was a negro's Ideal of a .oft Job. All the work ho had to do was to light a lantern In tho mill at dark, blow it out In tho morning, nnd never under any circumstance, to leavo tho mill unguarded. The company paid him $20 a month, furnished a dwelling, a mule, and a plough, together with Just as much land a. he might want tu cultivate. Tho lake wa. full of nth. toothsome nnd easy to catch. Therefore. John .lame, was much envied by hi. fellows. Hut on nn unlucky evening about sun down he paddled his boat out In the lako to set Bomo lines .'or ble catfish. His wlfo aw him .tart, and when she looked again a little later there was an upturned boat, but no John James. I The neighbors were hurriedly called, and In tho gathering gloom they dragged tbo bottom with grappling Irons nnd brought to the surface tho drowned body of tho watchman. How he hap pened to loso hi. balance, or why he made no outcry, will In nil probability never bo known. Of course, tho company over at Falrford re gretted the affair, paid tho widow John', back salary, at onco sent down another negro a. watchman, and things seemed to movo alonr about as before. In a few days a company oftlclal chanced to go to David's Lake, and wns surprised to And tho new watchman gone, and also the company's mulo. Tho animal was found later at a station ?.Tfr ? til" rallroaq. where the operator atated It had been nddon In early ono morning by an agitated negro, who had left on tho ilrst train. Thl. thing mystined the company, and wn vexatious, because If the mill should burn In the absence pf a watchman no insurance could be collected, and unguarded buildings have an un fortunate wny of catching anro in that rountry. Another negro was at once sent down to the lake as watchman, and Informed thnt If lie wanted at any time to mitt hi Job to give notice, so thero Would bo no Interregnum. No. L" went m nvi,v. Lake, nnd next the news came that he, too. was missing, Nelth r he nor his predecessor ever railed for salary duo them, nor has any truco of either ever been found. At this, the powers that ruled tho company held a serious conference. Something wns .car' ng the negroes away, and It must bo put an end to. botlllam rotlatch. one of the comliany'n most reliable negroes, was sent to th Rlilnglo mill with a six shooter, which he wa. Instructed to use should anvthing bother him. William returned the very next morning. Ho was the worst scared negro in the statu of Ala bama. He told n confused story, that no ono could make head or tall of. about ghost, and John James, l'hero wns no contusion In his statement that no money cou'.d over Induce him to go back again. Meanwhile stories began to float around to the B iff l!la,t ',,0,'n James's ghost was Haunting tho mill and lake. (If course, the company officials corned such an Iden. but for all lu ubsurdlty there wasaserlou. side lo tho mutter. If the Place ever gained tbo reputation ot lieing haunted no negro wonld work there and tho mill wou d have to he torn down, as negro labor I. the on y kind available nr mimI to he ,,rn. cured. I ho company determined lo lay the ghost at once and forever, and to that end sent 2??." i"i ?tb w?" 'A.'i'l'Ded with all proper material for exorcism. The party was composed of lorn Smith and Henry McTiish, whlto men of known bravery and coolness; also two necnio. whom the presence of the whiten might Induce to stand firm In tho prtM-nro of danger, vll wfdskV" n"'1 cnrrlt'd "ffl'ly of food nnd They reached the mill at David's Lake In tho aftornoon, taking possession of tho shanty next to and almost adjoining the ono formerly occu pied bv John .lames. Afler supper, when the trif,i'!1!',fW' "I i "fntor" nn'' "'' t out m the little gallerv of their quartern. There thev Kits. tied, toil lilies nrwl n,ni. ..i.i.i; '".A they were In a proper mood to defy the natural or line supernatural. After the supply of talcs had run out they took to shooting craps down on tno nutir It must have been near midnight, tn nnti U'S "W" w,praylng energetically JJ, "Jj " Powers controlling fortuno that he mLuh,t..U,f0,,va.nlne,",otH.,", thereby win tho Phf. Si. lmS,M? no: "hoo. when suddenly the door of John James', shanty opened and lint violently. Tbo players looked up at once, A plecoof a moon over In the for vvohtirave a dim light. One of the negroes exclaimed; "Lamb o' God, looky yonduh!" rrnm out of tho shadow In front nf the James hantyenmo the form of a man. walking a though lame and carrv Ing a long pole lloth the negroes at once broke for the woods' Smith ond McTusb stood their ground llko tho narvv men they were The shade neltl'e? looked to right nor left, but hobbled straight on across un open space und toward thu lake, whero severa .klNH-crumoorod. Aa, though with ono lm Jt"!0.?."!1 m"v,.'ln,!nt f"mltli and McTusb fired I'Sm"11''.1"1,1 '"' no '"orfftPParent result than If they had shot at the stars. There was only tho plunge of their bullets heard out In the f.i'iSpook "n n,, ?"o' ,,n Bln' to run that t. '.h'0!' i? ,J ""'"' aml " lotnrtod Mc lush followed him. They saw tho ghost loosen one nf the (.kllTs and paddle out Into the lake. Its motion I ad seemed to bo a slow walk, nnd yel. rutin g hard n. they could, they did not catch up with It. I hey. lu their turn, Jumped Into a skiff and Paddled lleroely after. About here jSf H James s txidy wan found tho llrst boat stopped, and Its mysterious occupant began t shove the long pole down Into the water. The pursuer, drow nearer and nearer, until there was barely a boat length between them and their object. AJL?,1 ont;0 they beard a terrible, awesome cry. ?i?L' .hn,ii!,lerf nB' .simultaneously each man rolt a .book a. though from an electric battery "Jii k Ju SV.".? aml overpowering that they pollansed and fell unconscious in tho bottom of in o ski IT It was daylight when they revived. They had floated at least two miles below the mill. They were so weak and nervous, ro numbed and dazed, that they had barely strength to paddle tn shore, nor has either one fully recovered to Now. for any one who doubt these thing., or "J"?.!. eur oil about them, here are the lake and the mil. and the S.aboard Company anx Iouh to assist nvestlgathui, Alio, the po.lttoD. of watchman It open. Who want. UJ JANET AND HIS INSECTS. irorr a ritrafon xattjrai.ist btvdixs rnnut itats. Ill C'oloalse or Aate Live la ArtlfleUI Illtl, Afnue Monada that Caa Be Haard, Carry it Comb, a.4 Do Qnter Thtase. ft-osi lli tlettm Xvmlno JYawvript. Within A few year a Frtnohman, Charles Janet, a mechanical engineer of Ueauvals, haa been conducting an exceedingly Interesting se rles of experiment with ant and allied Insect. Hi. earlier papers, half a dozen years ago, con cerned themselves with the fossil, of the north ot France, but all of hi recent work ha been In the observation of anU, bees, and wasps. One of the earlier of hi. conclusions tra that the ant could emit sounds audible to the human ear, and he spent much time In Investigation, ot tho anatomy of the Insects and tho mean whereby they could produce these sound.. It becamo very evident to him that for proper study toino form of artificial nest mutt to contrived, and to thl. end he exer cised hi. Inventlvo genius. It I. true thst Hubor nnd Lubbock contrived homes for the ants which thoy observed, but thete were adult ants, while Janet proposed to unearth other secrets with reference to the home life of the little creature, and the rearing of their families. They thrive best under condition, of partial darkness at least, and great hnmldltv, and these wero the requisites of the successful nests. To accomplish his purpose Janet mado nests of plaster or terra cotta. They were open on the top. on which a slip of Bias. wa. placed tor purposes of observation, and at one end ot the series of chambers wa. placed a little re. ceptncla for water, hollowed out of tho plaster Itself. Tho seeping of the water throagh the porous plaster caused tho nearer cell, to ba qulto damp, with other lost and less humid as tho distance from the water Increased. In homes of this kind Janet fed and tended bis ants, gathering all the while the Important do. tails of their life story. Of course, much of this It technical In Its nature, but withal th.re Is a great deal of popular Interest. For example. It is to be noted that the insect, made themtelve. quite at home In the plaster-of-Parls houses, and were loath to leave thorn. Thl. wa. shown rather romarknbly by an accident. Some ono hap pened one day to displace ono of the glass .Up., and when the aperture wat noticed a. many as a hundred of the ants had etcaped and wero dis tributed over the table. To prevent tho lots of others of them h o replaced the slip, and thought no more of tho matter. A couple of days later ho found the stray ants at home In another nest, the cover of which had been displaced by tho some original accident. Tho Invaders had takon posesslon of tho outer chamber In their new home, and had driven tho rightful possessors back Into tho Inner compartments. Four or five months ago Janet was requested to present a paper at the annual rennlon of the zoological Society of France, and for tills occa slim he selected for his subject " The Anta," giving tho best rcsumo of our knowledge of these creatures that baa been published in any language. The paper la well worth translation complete, but a few of the fact which are set forth in It mutt suffice for the present. Line Intect In general, the ant has four forms, the egg. the worm or caterpillar, the pupa, and the perfect insect Emerging from the egg, the solo object of the worm Is to eat. and without changing form to any great extent It steadily and rapidly grow, to its full .Ire. Then It .pin. ror Itself a web of silk, forming a cocoon within which It Imprisons Itself. This bablt of spinning silk Is not, however, universal, for some or the larynj become pupas without thl. ornamen tation, and both kind, may be observed In the snmo colonic Thl. Is In all probability due to tho extreme care which surrounds the raising of the Infant ants, which renders less necessary the protectlro device of tho cocoon, and from this hypothesis Janet draw, turns conclusion, about evolution, which In this Instance seem, to proceed not gradually, but In the Individuals most SUdllenlv. Tha cocoon lions nnf. hannm thinner or smaller In consequence of Its uscless ness. but disappears. The pupa takes no nour tshment, nnd does not Increase In size, butat the end of a stated period the perfect Insect emerges In n wonderfully changed condition. In the three allied families, the ants, the bees, and the wasps, there are, according to the gen eral rule, male Individual, and females. Dut the latter aro characterized by the peculiarity or developing two very different forms, the so called queens and the workers. Janet takes ex ceptions to the term "queen." for it Implies a hierarchy that does not exist. He prefer, to call them "mothers," for their purpose la to as sure tho perpotuatlon of the colony. In their larval stage they are all precisely alike, both mothers and workers, and to any one of them Is open the chanco to become a mother ant. It all depends upon the kind of food which Is supplied to the individual after a certain moment of It. exlttenco has pasted. The queen bee never works, for she Is sur rounded from tho moment of her selection by a crowd of workers whose business It Is lo look after her. All the worker wasps, however, die In the autumn, and the mother wasp most pass the winter In seclusion, waking In tho early spring to attend to the duties ot establishing a home. Day by dav and week by week hn labors on. until at last the earliest developed workers come to give her a well-merited season of rest. The anta. however, have still a differ ent custom. During the middle of tbe.ummer thoy nil remain quietly together In the paren tal home, tho old mothers, the young males, and tho young queens, until some 3no day the younger ones go away together. A few hours later the males may be round on the ground k lied by tho unpltylng workers, while sumo of the queens return to their natal nest to increase the already lnrt nnmlwr nt mnihM Other of them do not return, but And places of refuge wherever they can. pnsslng tho winter aa do the wasps, and .suing up their own homes In tbo spring and attending tn all duties until tha workers aro prod need U lake this labor lrora them. Tho lot of the mother with an estab. llnheil colony Is an easy ona, and tbey exist even aa long a. ten years, caresl for tenderly by tho workers of the nest. This Is. In brief, the story of the ant. In his garden Janet has many colonies of ants, and by giving them nice roofs of stone or tile he has had the opportunity to lift this and study the bablt. of the creature, beneath It. The earo or the young Is one of the must striking features that he has hoou able to observe, 'lhere la. It seems, a dally displacement of the eggs and young that Is very curious. Thero are certain or the workars who make this their espoolal business, as Janet has ascertained by spotting the anu with paint. The purpose of tho change is to give the eggs or cocoons the very best chance possible for development. At night they are carried clown Into the lower galleries and chambers of the nest, so as to be sheltered from the ohllly atmosphere of the night. In the morning, as soon as ihe temperature is suffi ciently raised, they are brought up again Into the higher galleries. A. tho day goes on and the conditions change and the heat beoomes stronger or the ulmusphere dryer, the pre cious burdens are carried about and depos Ited In tbpso places which are best suited to them, hvery one who haa disturbed an ants' nest hns remarked the facility with which the creatures seize coooous almost as large as them selves and carry them away: and this facility betokens the constant practice in this kind of work, the moving of the young. Eggs, cater pillars, and cocoons are all equally Important to tho preservation nf the i olnny: so all are cared ror. and aro moved about according to a regti larsystem. 1 his entails moeh vnrt n,T. borers, lhen they have to keep the nest clean, to remove from It debris of all kinds, tho cast off coats of the caterpillar., the empty cocoon., tbo dead, and the dirt; they must attend to tho engineering portion of the enterprise and exca yam new galleries and chambers, carrying out J0.-0.1,1 a RrBlQ al a time: thon they must look "fite.ri"'0 nourishment of the colony, and. last of "J ' tl,e..m,1,t Protect It from Invaders and ene mies. 1 his makes for them a busy life, nnd nn-mi-roil, ns they aro. they have all plenty to do. Occasionally the powers thnt be order a re moval or tho colony to a moro propitious loca ".'.. .i""" there are uli tbo things to carry away, the eggs and the worms and tho pupas. tho food and household belongings, and hero ILT." c,n,rae a curloui. earning of tho llvo In sec s. I here ure. It seems, som In overy nest, which, perhaps joung or tittle accustomed to ..".. iC"nnoil b? .P'rsnoded to leave tho old nest. 1 iiese Individuals It it necessary to carry. M'.'.'i.""010 wa" It l communicated to them that they must pack themselves for the pur KJmit A'tl'ougb they will not walk away, they 5Lcr."i"i ."'""Jves to be cur ed up with their feet folded against the body, nnd mako no oppo. sltlon or demonstration when seized In the rain. brV,f" Porter. The form of folding or "'"n?n,f th" nt. nml tho pmltlon In which It lut nIi hJoWi"0 "m8 ln thB Brae Ile of 5ltthipBeeliJ!l.,y VMy t0 80me "tent ln lh Janet, In hi. paper, gives attention to details of anatomy, methods of defenco, tho venom which Is secreted to make the bite effective, and dwell, ut length on the relations of the colonic, o each other. He note, the nablu of the ere, ttires. their method, of procuring food, the cu. rlous storage place within the body but not lu i.inJ,J0in'lc,l'iJD wnic" the collector, of the f..nM,yrV.nr. U 5 tbo nest, and many other fna.r.e,,,at ,0, make th ' tory of the Insects more complete and Interesting. A couple ;.?"" a? D0 lotsd much time to rinding ?,Sit0TilfiLanUo..alam" their sounds, and ZtS.iail. btn Pla t d"ver a atrldulatlug S?Da.r.aiIu.I'rher,,&r "" Portion of th body Is drawn across another part which I rigid and S.D0JJi, ? flmU 4Sl edncaUd ant t a,y.vi,hhtu.aln eomb and brush with whloh .SJ?,,."i".,b.,!r ,iolUu' and they are so un I.inn5Vim"ai?ibrcolnS " oUecl. tbr Bend fhu?!,1.'?". tlu,n th.rn.elve. and In doing blz.rr.Dpo.1Uo,ur "cdln" ""leal an5 mi;nacu?'wT.?.,,nrdfsToiDid.e?t1'tri. perfect on. still hardly to li classed aa i a? ii,;.i "f 2i,nD,,r. flat "ow ln"lV2a".n ai UtauraU a oolouy of ants, whose queen M had removed. A short time later he selected a few yonng and attractive qneens of another Bpeclcsandllberated theran.arthettone, A few weeks later he found that a third apeole had dislodged the tint and was living under their stone. Dut the next year, nt a dUtance of a dozen feet from the .tone, be found a colony of the first kind, and with them a queen of the species thnt he had liberated, Although the ants of the first spocles nre rare In hi. garden, till Janet Is not quite satisfied that the selec tion or a queen nf another aoocle. wa. not a purely natural phenomenon, although circum stances point to It. being really one of his II It erated queen. The broken link In the evldenco disturbs him. and he .tales the facts without drawing Inference.. FOUND A BIO CAVE J.V JIAIXX. Bald to lie the Moat limitative Cavern la the .Northeast. rem fat Aotfcm itrafif. That a mammoth cave wat discovered In Maine and partially explored last Jannary I. quite generally known, though llttlebeyond the bare fact of the discovery nnd exploration ha. been mado public. Mr. F. O. Oould. superin tendent of the City Hospital In Old Town, went on an exptorlng expedition through the lumber ing region In tho extreme northern part of Maine, and wa. for a short tlmo In camp on the shore, or near the shore, of Allegash Lake, some fifty mile or more north of Moosehcnd Lake, and not to very far from the north end of Cham plain Lako, Allcgath Lako I. accessible only by toto road, from Chc.tincook Lako up to Chamberlain, thence by crossing to the west ward through the woods to Tom Lawlcr'a camps on the lake shore. Mr. Gould wa. at Lawlcr's lower camp when he heard that a lumberman had discovered a Cavorn of considerable magnitude somodlstanco beyond Lawler'a most northern camp, and being curious about the matter ho decided upon In vestigating tho story for himself. The result of bis Investigation was told to tho writer, who soon after went to the lumbering region, ln search of adventure, but could not then visit the wonderful cove. It seems that In tho early part ot last January a workman who was stopping ut Lawlcr's camp, while tramping on the shore near the north western corner of Allegash Lake, three-fourths of a mile or so from tho camp, discovered a hole In the sldo ot the hill which had never before been heard of. Tho discovery carao about In rather a remarkable manner, and a hundred men might havo gono as near to the opening a. this man did and never have noticed It, Thl. workman, however, noticed the peculiar ap pearance of the bushes; about It, aud Investi gated, tlodlug the hole. Tho bushes looked as though steam or hot ulr hud been thrown upon them and then frozen. The man peered Intothe nole, and was so startled when he could not see the end of It that he tied ln fright. He told tho story, but was not believed until the following Sunday, when litteeu men went to Investigate and found It Justns he bnd said. Tho fifteen men, however, did not dare to enter tho hole. The excltumuut over the affair had not died out In tho camp when Gould came along and expressed the determination to enter the hole nnd find ont what was Inside. After consider able effort he succeeded In Inducing three men, Steve lluzzell of Old Town, one of the Lawlcrs, and a man named Howe, to go with him. though all were thoroughly convinced that Gould did not have tho courage to enter the cave. In this, however, they proved very much mistaken, for he went about the task at once unon their ar rival at the opening. When the party reached the mouth ot the cave lanterns were lighted, and a vestibule of the labyrinth wa entered. The men found It a good-sized passage, and walked ln about ton or twelve feet without the least difficulty. Then thev came to a great boulder stuck right in their path. After feeling about they found a bole on each side of the boulder, which they estimated to weigh ten or twelvo tona. through whlcli a man could crawl. After some hesita tion Mr. Gould crept through one of the hole, and found a large open space on the opposite side of the mass of rock. The other men then crept through the narrow space, and the party began a thorough Investigation of tho aurronnd ingt. which were far different from anything they bad ever before seeu. They found themselves In a narrow chamber of great height, which appeared to run off Into an apex or tunnel shape, and running down ward at an angle ot about 45 degrees. The floor was mostly ot solid rock, and was hard and smooth. After walking along fonr or Ave rods a large chamber, of a bolght bo great that the lanterns did not reveal the top. was entered. The walls wore found lo be of rough rock, and the room was a regulnr bat cage. 1 lie walls and crevices, and eveu portions ot the floor, were covered with them, and they were so dull and stupid that those within reach could easily be taken In the hands. It might easily bo Imag ined that this was the winter home of all the bats ln North America, they were so numerous Mr. Gould and his companions named this cavern tbe "Reception Hall." There was an opening ln the floor something like two and a half feet square, and irregular In shape. This opening slanted a vsry little, enough no that a person could keep a foothold, and Mr. Gould determined to Investigate tbe entire rave, at onco proceeded to climb down. After about sixteen feet of this climbing he came to a sort of bottom, running off in a narrow rock-lined passage, at n downward auglo for perhaps twenty feet or to. At the end of this tunnel the explorer was surprised to find another largo chamber. It was so large that it was not fully explored, tint Mr. Gould says that this cavern, which he named the "Drawing Hoom," Is ex tensive, and he doubts not leads to still others. Mr. Gould returned to his companions, who had not entered "Hades." as they cboso to term the lower regions or the cave, and pro ceeded to iiinUU more thorough examination of the " reception room." He discovered a second passage lending off for twenty feet, mnklng n sharp turn, then going straight ahead about a hundred feet to another large chamber which was called the "ballroom." from a fancied resemblance tn the ballroom of clvlllza. tlon. Mr. Oouli did not dart- to venture further In this direction for fenr of losing hla way and bis companions, who had not followed him. During Mr. Gould's visit to the " ballroom" one of his companions had discovered a thtnl opening from the "reception room," and had found another small apartment Just within the wall of the main room. The passage to thla room was under tbe big rock, and it was so small that only a very small man could got through The party had been In tho cave more than three hours, and. fearing that the oil in their lanterns would not last, thev did not dare to re main longer. Slnco then other men from the camps have visited the cave and havo found five or six rooms that were not discovered by Mr. Gould and hla companlons.and It la very probable that there may be still others. At all events, thl. I. by far the largest cave yet discovered In New Knglnnd or ln the northeastern part of the United Slates. A few people who have thus far visited thts wonderful cave are very enthuslastlo over lu and predict that when It becomes accessible It will be the most Interesting point ln New Kng. land to tourist nnd sportsmen. There Is talk of opening some sort of a route lo it oilier than tho very hard one now In existence. Should this bo done the discovery of the cave will prove a verv important event to tho State and the guides will reap a harvest, A party of hardy sportsmen have already de termlned lo visit the Allegash countrv- after the shooting season opens and explore this wonder fn,1.,arfi, "this Idea Is carried out additional Interesting faots lu regard to the cav e will sure ly be learned SIIEA11IT1I lSHAKt.'lt MIT.I.BTOXE8. They're from Molrmuecher'a allll.'vriiere is Hatch Church Wh Orcaalxed 1W8. To tub EniTim or The Sus-Str; The re peated mention In The Srn of certain ancient millstones, two of which aro in the vestibule of the Synagoguo Shrarlth Israel nnd others In the courtyard ln tho rear of the store at 4-t Heaver street, recalls a. fact In the early history of .Man hattan Island which may be of Interest to those of your renders to whom It Is not known. In tho year 103(5 the Hollanders resident on the Island begun to hold divine service ou the Lord's day In tho loft of a mill which wns owned by Francois Molemaecher. The stones were turned by horse power. Tho loft is recorded to havo been designed for this use when thn mill was built. The services were conducted dur tig two years by two " Krauk bezocckers " visitors of tbe sick and cateenlsts nmcersof thoKstobllshed Church of the Neth erlands. In the absence of an ordained minis. tr theso ofllcers, Sebastian Jauscn Krol a id Jan lluyck. read to the people " tomo texts "it 0,i,uf.?.,Lrl,,.lur.V1' wtbor with tin. creeds." .t.'".I.'.,-H 'J10 Jl,v.' J?naM Mlchacltus came to tho "Island pf Manhatas," and In tho same year regularly organized a church of "fully fifty communicants" n the loft of this nami horsemlll. The church then and thereof" Ized is the most ancient fully organized Fro". e.tant church on this continent. It I. now tbUWc?t" '" Colle'f,a,0 formed Church of These millstones wero dltoorered by Mr. AI. ft.11'':"' ifta "a about ,bem thVoS . ouk April -'1, 1HIU. Two were presented to the congregation of the synagogue ebovemen tloned. fourteen still lie flush iwltlitho oav2l r2i0!S2S& rV08 tlon raiutiSnld JS I Hm ex-ri,,melr Interesting re lie. of th early time. They are about thirty Inches lh diameter and about nine Inches thlekFach stone Is composed of two or three or four lions. .trongTy hooped wltn an Iron band. Cor.LM.AT. Cacncn. B&S&fa?11- CARPET TJ. STEWART, xxozxan TROvnzRa is tub baht. Embarrassmtat Orawlos, Out ot lanetlen ns to the. Armenian Ma.aaere. Lord Salisbury must be regretting In blf ternes of heart that tho Government of Iho dar did not accept tho proposition, for the dismemberment of Tnrkey thnt were made Just prior to the Crimean war by the Em poror Nicholas to Sir Hamilton 8eymour. then Drltlih Ambas.ndor at St. Petar.bnnr. It would havo liecn n mnttor of comparatively easy acrotnpllshmont at the time, ami wonld ' havo spared Kuropo tho legacy of anxiety now surrounding tho ultlmato solution of tja Ei.torn problem. Tho cherlthed dream of tha British Foreign Offlco for lone years, until It was dispelled by the discovery that there were Kuroponn power thnt would veto It, even If the Torte wero willing to grant tho concession, namely, the construction of tae Euphiftto. Valley railway, would navo long slnco been nn accomplished faot. From acimo point on the Syrian coast thero would have been a railway with Its furthermost tor minus at Calcutta, and theBrltlsli flag would havo waved over tho territory stretching frjm the Lobanon to tho Indus. Dut prudenco or policy prevailed, and a war that only le tardecl without preventing tho disintegra tion of Turkey ensued. Tliore were none of tbo power, concerned In tho Berlin Congress toward which tho Sul tan Abdul Haiiild dovolopcd a ttronger feol Ing of nntmoslty than England. Tnls was partly duo to tho failure of support during tho Husso-Tiirklsh war of 1877-TH. wlilch sup port, thero is no renson to doubt, wns prom ised him by Sir Henry I.nynnl. tho British Ambassador at Constantinople nt tie crisis of tno enmpaign. Then tnero wan tho scries of Intrigues regarding Kgpt tnat ended In tho bombardment of Alexandria and occupation of Cairo In 188:.'. The eucouragoment. moro or le:s overt, given to tboArnta of tho Hed Jaz and other parts of Arabia to revolt against the'Sultan touched him In a specially tender point, for with tho uninterrupted mnlntennnro of his sovereignty over tho holy places of Islam. Mecca and Medina 1. asso ciated his tenure, of the Khsllfatc. Tbe circumstances connected with the Brit ish acquisition of Cyprus, wrung from him ln tho moment of agony and practically under falso pretences, were also gall and bitterness for htm. It Is hardly surprising that, after tho conclusion or the Berlin treaty, he sent out Jo India a number of agents charged to stir up Issaffectlon against Euglnnd among tho Mussulmuns. The project failed for two rea sons. One wns that tbe British Government found It nut, and promptly Instructed its High Commissioner ut Constantinople. .Mr. Goschen, to call upon tho Suluin to recall his emissaries forthwith, or they would lie arrested and sent outof tbecountry. There were other meas ure, to relieve the British Government for the future of danger from similar action on hi. part. Tho Sultan tried at tint to bluff the matter, and said that tho statement of Mr. Guohenwas "tmc riiriutnine." which wa bad French and worse manner. Mr. Goschen clinched tho matter by producing tne list con taining the names ot the revolutionary emis saries; on which the Sultan, considerably als romflledthrcw down hi. hand.and telegraphed to them to return. The relation, between Knglind and tho Sultan slnco that episode have been wanting In that complete cordiality that should exist between tno "old and ancient allies," as tbo diplomatic. Jargon goes. The other reason was nearer homo, and perhaps of a more serious character. Among those to whom Abdul Harold, ln moments of confidence, was ln the habit of opening his mind, there was a personage who :ommitted somo of the most Interesting of tho conversations of hi. Imperial master to writing in a Journal. By some meaus, which wro never satisfactorily explained, a considerable portion of this Jour nal whs one day abstracted or lost, ln conrso of time it transpired that tho contents of tho lost portion of tho Journal were known at one of tho embassies ln Pern, and that they related ln part to a conversation about the Mussulman pilgrims from British India. Tho Sultan newalleil the pernicious influence they were exerclsln on bis own sub Jects who encountered them during the pil grimage, and who. when thoy returned t their homes, described the superior comfort tn which the British Indian Mussulmans trav elled, their greater well being, and, worst of ah. their contentment with the British gov ernment of their country. Tnls. to Abdul Hamld, was, according to himself, a perpetual source of worry, for. whatever might have been the result of his efforts t j foment trouble, had the mission of his emissaries not been dis covered, there Is no reason to believe that they would at that time hav bad much suctea. It Is. not quit" the same Just now. Always since the conquest of India the Mussulmans thero havo regarded England a ine most powerful country In the world, and up H.abtiH.t 1S81 they had reason for their be lief. The first shock came when the Ger mans, on taking possession of that tiart of the east coast of Africa acknowledged by the other powere aa witnln their sphere of Influ ence, proceeded without discrimination to bombard and destroy ihe towns along tho seaooard, by way of Impressing their non subjects with a due sense of their power. Among tho property destroyed ln this manner wo about $13,000,000 worUl of goods, ware houses. c. belonging to tho Banyas. as tho British Indian subjects trading along tho Kast African coast were called. They naturally looked to tne British Government to obtain for hem redress and compensation for their losses. Their astonishment waa great when Lord Salisbury explalneJ to them tnnt bo had neither the right to demand nor the power to obtain tho MiifMiinn .v.... asked for. A hen the news got about the ba zaars of India that there waa a power that Lngland could not bring to book, the first streak of doubt passed through tho minds of t e people as to tho reality of England's power, and her prost'ge suffered to a degree that could never be known. The echoes of na tive foiling that reached Kuropo from time to time showed that a ferment was going on. and the daubing of trees with some color that occurred a few yeors ago caused an unpleas ant senhAtlon among the officials, who called jo niind tho passing of tho cakew from hand to hnnil through tho country Just before the outbreak of the mut'ny of 1837. The de strucllon of the mobilization depot nt 1'e.h awur In northwestern India by fire, not very long bofore. together with other things, studi ously kept from the BrllisL. public, waa also tho caUBo of smich anxiety to the Indian Gov erument and Jn London. But It seems that the rebuffs suffered by England in her at tempted Intervention in Turkey over the Armenian matter have started li fresh fer mentation in India anong Mussulmaus and Hindoos both. Tho entire native press Is watching the de velopment of events In the southeast of Eu rope with the very keenest interest, and ln the bazaars they are discussed with all the exig geratlon of detail and clrcumsunro peculiar .jf (?r,on1 'magliinllon. Lord Salisbury's speech, in which ho give ns an excuse for in action at the moment the' massacring of tho Armenian was nt it height that Turkey had mobilized ','00.000 men. and England wall not prepared to go any furthor In coneoouepce. was a puzzle to the natives ilmv ,,-., ,n,.' solved. Toe boast of tho English press tliut hngland was nlways ready to face the world wiS' "B fl,r ". ng tlmo accepted as rea 55iiS'i" nml .P0"1,1''0- The Mussulmans es f?.C.'ttL'.y,air ff d lo L,p K?j"ly ngltated. and un less Ird Salisbury Is nblo 10 do something In Turkey that will re.tore the presUge of rfng. land, tho bu tan may flnd an opportunity uf doing now what he failed In before. ti F rnli1 ni,,on !?'. therefore, full of difficulty ""il n.1 '''" """'lent. The Europeh powers after their experience of her dealings with regard to Egypt are. trora all accounts !SUf1,.",,Urr '.kely. ," "V " : "nt to "," th,n In favor or the Armenians than to facilitate tho ro.-overv of her Influence In Turkey. There aro a good many things that are obscure in England's more recent attitude toward tho Armenian question, and they havo npoarrntlv determined the Sultan as well a. Humi" fond rT,.r,raBn,!'- "lc.l,,lin ,ls ".!' take every care that then, shall be no advantage given to .Si,n?;i,l07',r ,ma,ters may ho wttle re garding the Armenian.. As to tho Armenian. hemselves they have lost all the mmidVnc" of V, 7Jn,Tl 7,""r ,".1 ,,,e enxl r,lltl1 "r Iwi! ?Li SiV'i' Itv.niil.1 Mein. thorefnro. ns If th.rlT''JnM;Vry VreUlnB ,lrhe" in i-cept the alternative of a romp eto surrender nf .,in1.f!"i",B.pr7!,Ke' w,i "H nrrompanjing danger of trouble on a g gantlc acnle In Ind I. or the striking of n blow at tioHu .an "by , & motlnc a general rising of tbo Arvb" whVaro ntwais ready to revolt nu-aln.i the i haSJd oUKtVmen.acu't''reU'e KI"W tn CWri!"", New Took', Sept, n. ' Sliver und Gold Opinions. To the Fiiiron ok T,.E RCN-.sir; If the Artmlnls tratlon should now dismiss Col. Dell rrom the place or Nepuly Commissioner or Pensions It would beadont Ing tbe uuwlte iliey or tbe silver men themselves Col. nell, In company with den Fran. Hlrel ttumped New York ror Cleveland', reflection. Agslu in ISM, h. stumped Indian, for Cler.l.nd; y.t ,h." narrlsoa admlal.trstloa nerrr dismissed him but retained Mm throughout. ' l lu Cleveland', first term, Teller and Iiowen defeated my connrnistlon as Superintendent or the Hint at Denver, because of my opinions on stiver llw.ref.r Utter tn choose men whose opinion, areuptotundardlntb. tint pl.e. than to choos. SMtaSr.:' no,,an'1 ,heB "u, It 1. or was. aaacc.pt! policy In Colorado to d. tiroy tha business, If pa,iW.. of every gold tt.ndart eountrv M",WOnd,r "' w' " h"a' , W..m. nW 8.pt. o, , "T Wn"' J HHHHHLlHHiiLtttw M'KINLEY FLAGS ABOUND. I BOVND'XOSJZT JMItT.EXa IX OltEAX li MOVVSIO. I Oaly One J-arste Fopaerntln Itnnn.r 1Vnv If Inac Amid n Multitude of Hlnrry Dec. U titrations of Deration to Nntloanl Credit nud Honor Hundred of Mnsall llnnner. To a foreigner wondering casually about thl. city It wonld almost appear that there w as to t no contest In tho coming election of n I'rc.hloni of tbe Unitod States. On all sides ho w oil. 1 s,, tho flag. and banner of but ono pair or camll. dates, MoKlnley and Hobart, and but for one big Bryan banner hup.g out over the street iu front of the mongrel headquarters Iu tho liar- I tholdl be would hs.rdly know that thete was a I I'opocrntlo ticket In tho Held. In tome of , tldo street nnd far np town thero are a few scattered flags flaunting tho names of ltrun and Bewail, but all through tho districts w I n . Now Vork bnstness I being dono round money show Its Stars and Stripes everywhere. Nevor before ha thero been n campaign of uch enthuslnttlo display. Tho banner and tl.ig dealer have dono n rushing business, ami tlm city presents n festal appearance. It was n v-ery natural mistake that ft Frenchman, who Is stop, ping for a faw day nt one of tbo up-town houl s, i made on tho day ho got here. iSomo acqusJnt- J anccs of hla discovered him standing on n Broad. i way corner looking noxiously up nnd duw n tie street, a performance which he varied by oc casionally walking ont in the mtddlo of tho road and peering Into the distance. To iholr ln qulrlos as to what ho was doing ho replied. "I wait for ze parrado: xo prozcssJon." "What procession?" asked ono of tho New Yorkers. "I hasen't heard of any process ion." Tho Frenchman waved his bands comprehen sively. Indicating half a dozen banners that waved In tho breeze within a spaco ot two blocks. "Yon decorate, you celebrate," ho observed. "I wait for ze parrade. Kes eeunot your Day of Independence I" With much disgust, not rmmtngled with doubt, he learnod that tho bannitrs were perma nencies and not put there for nny special cele- 1 bratlon. All Broadway tea tort of continuous I celebration of patriotism Jutt at present, how. I over. Hiding up yesterday from Duane to I Twenty-third street and looking right and left S along tbo side streets, a StTN resporter counted 1 nearly fifty large McKlnloyand llobart Hags I stretched across the streets. In Duane street Just off Broadway there are two. one to the east and one to the west. Just above Reode street a monster flic hangs over Broadway, and at Worth street thore is another. In Worth street, one on either aide of Broad way, two more flags hang, and Leonard street shows two more. There I. one at 353 Broad way. one at Frankltn street and Broadway, two in White street wcetof Broadway, one ln Walk er street west of Brotvdway, and one stretch -4 across from 410 to 4111 Broadway. Across the foot of thl banner runs the Inscription: Tbe country's credit must be maintained. Canal street near Broadway shows two ban ners, and Howard street one. There are twain Grand street Just off Broadway, one In Broad way near Broome street, and two ln Broome street near Broadway. A large banner crosses Broadway at 407 and another at 610. Spring and Houston streets west of Broadway each how one flag. There la a flag at Bond and Broadway, another at 080 Broadway, a third at 707. a fourth at 722, and n fifth at 740. Thl. is getting them in pretty close when thero are added In tha same neighborhood a big banner in West Fourth street, only a few rod from Broadway, and three more ln Washington place, averley place, and Astor place respec tively. At Clinton place and Broadway there Is a flag; there Is one In Eighth street, and there are flags In front of 800, 874. 804, DIG. and 035 Broadway. Tho State Club's banner ln Twenty-second street looms up large, and then oomes the one and only Bryan and Sewall banner, swung oat from the Popocrntlo headquarters at Twenty-third street and Broadway. Just beyond it. but not hidden by It, Is the huge banner ot the Repub lican headquarters. Off from the line of New York's main thoroughfare there Is by no means such a dis play, but even in the smaller flairs and banners) the Popocrats fall signally to keet their end up. That atronghold of regular Democracy, the east side, shows a number of sound-money en signs. "Judging from the business I've been doing.' said a dealer in campaign goods yesterday, "the proportion of McKlnley decorations to Bryan decorations is a good deal better than It to 1, and at that the Bryan banners are mostly Utile ones. The sound-money people have got soun I n money to spend in showing thetx principles, and they are spending It. When you consider tha; a first-class big banner, with campaign mottoes and tho pictures of tho candidates on it cost H 5500 or JilOO. and a big flag from f 100 to S200. I yon can aee that considerable money Is being I spent In that line. Why. my men here hardly know how to paint a picture of Bryan. They 1 haven't had anv chance to learn." I o the Popocrat visitors rrom tho West the ff condition of New York's street, overhead is a matter of painful concern. ,r,?ar'.Toa 'ellows lnt making; any show at all, ' snld one of the Westerners at Popoeratio headquarters. " Why don't you get out comt nags and make a show?" They took him aside and qnoted financial re ports and the orlco of campaign goods to him, and he departed, shaking his head sadly. One of the most disgusted Popocrats that ever came from over tho hills Is a long.bearded Kansas man who was escorted around town by a "gold bur" friend, a resident of this city. Tho New orker excited the Westerner's wrath by tell. Ing him that all tbe publlo buildings wero flying sound. money banners. "That's a derned, blasphemlou. outrage." snorted the visitor. " Somethln' ought to be done about that. Show me some of 'em." So the gold man pointed out to him Old Glory " 'ng from the flagstaffs on several buildings. k.L r,01.' Be. anything abont MoKlnley on them." observod tho Westerner. ..u.JiH.1 "J'.15! there w "ch thing." re. ?.15f,'en.'1' to'4 'on they were sound money flags." ' ne'lther"1 dat an" Bonnd money on 'em, S3n''ViUer?S"eH' mr frlnd. that's the -VSe.7,ca'.1 ." The aUr mean national credit t: , 'tripes mean national honor, and If you a?. tm. ' an?.n,,ns bnt nnd money out, of that ?,lsti nd .e In Abyssinia, Go hack to that " toU your "I,rer '"n'1 f."i .?ir '? flaea and tanners, bnt also in SuXf.f1 fns. show-window designs, and small QltPIBls.IStbBMnnit.ninn.. n.,.l-(.M .. .,., m,..,.'S .n alt "'o- Instead of advertise ment the temporary fencings on many build. irS!, V000 of erection bear sound-money ST??!',"' son? o' them ln very terse and con-nt?iCnDJF.f0e5i- ""fdred of shop window, show SiVl7iariM5,J nlefr or. the trl-color pampas ffah,.lnal nJ tno "Publican Prty. Dealers !i-,??r"pil18 ,a!C "t tbero tcnxcely any hu ."i.hTA7a,n. " Pictures. Bofore ho made ii "IVi" ln Madison Square Garden there was i.J. li. "emnd. but since then his photograph. l.y.un.tBeadriy.0n m"6t' Wh" McKla- The Kxtradltlon or tbo Innocent. To ma F.DITOB of Tn Bvx-Sir: While we are yet thinking of th learned paper lately read by Ixird IlusMl at Saratoga on the subject of "Internatlonsl law. It lias cx-eurred to me that there are some phases dt our relations with foreign countries thst need chauKn and which might be corrected l.y treaty. , Our treaty with Oro.t llrltaln. for esample. eon. taint no provision that a man extradited upon a ' charge of crime, and afterward acquitted upon trial ror that crime, thai! be tent baca at the expense of the extraditing Government lo the place from w bleb he was taken. Sow It may happen that a man Is In nocent of the charge made aj.lnst Mm thst hit original Intention ofeonilinr to this country was lion. ' jMei thst ho had Intended from th. start hirsmsln ! here j that ho hail eipended all the money ho had or ' could afford In coming oere; that perhaps lm hsd ex. , pendsd all hla means on his defence, ami that lie w. i returned tluiuly by th. mistake or malice of some om- cl.lofhltnatlvocountry. Under these circumstances ' I should like to ask, Wb.t remedy has he got. If an . agslnit the Government asking for or the Govern i inent granting the extradition J It It clear thst ther- I Isnone against tho Utter. It Is said that there Is ro prluctiile of International law that i an lw invoked to ' tend him back aud none to comwI compi nsatlon I ) log granted. li It true, howaver, that 'whllo He rules by which nations have agrsed to regulate tt.rlr c conduct faterse, are alone proper!) to lei-otnl.lered t International law, these do not necessarily eihsust the ethlcsl duties of State, one to. noiher anv mot. J Indeed than municipal l.wexhausts therllilciil dullet l or man toman" (Westlake), . Tim removal rrom the United States Is In pursiianes i of law and Ire.ly. Th.extradliloii Isgmn'ea mer-ly t for the trial of the accused, but hi re llo ir-ji j "i I and makes no provision for the benrflt of 'hea. uat 1 I J fur he has shown himself Innocent of Hie "arei-s I j. j made against him, A tyrannical or cruel s- lament, B( like that of th country from whloh I llliisirsie l.aa. rl'i In tha absence of aou stipulation, too murli rpt- In Junltyferoppmtlea, Justru U Kxistk & I '