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THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1898-24 PAGES. BUSINESS OPENINGS. Se Opportunities Which Porto Rico Offers to Americans. THERE ARE NOW NO FACTORIES island is Way Behind in the Mat- ter of Transportation. > 80,008 last ye land with Now “Porto Rico today is full who have m them browsi land, looking able s ulativ now all the sent aw: into kees seem in problem of th Rico. At pre on the islanc co, and it is Said Gener. The Islan as it ever w roads and su bpport nities AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIE money. Und | gives promi : ee jit may yet Newport of ernational Literary and ly and Miles troops open—wide open capital,” said recently. “The will soon have and we shall be in parts of the island. best prospects for island are offered by supplying a very not-| facilities nities of portation to be fi ads 1 saw 1 no mant tures that d the lack of them | opening for American | lideas. They make Panama hats . and particu- and, but that can- idustry of much im- has been | » of it is apt to} inspiration of Yan- the raising of | co, all of which are } uantities by the fer- | ym this coun- growing great there ot neral for Amer- ey are ready to | Already capitalists fr KO in there and ar ng all sorts oncessions. They are buying up hot sp: which on | jobbery sort of rich inct raid Col. vish batt E “In Porto coal, no tramwa. acts as to There are the wire: afford but hemes to go thele, if you industrial idea. which mos mency of a northern climate. opportuni there are no tele LANDING - PIACE oF! AMERICAN TRoops, Port oF Fon 74 4) pounds of coffee were exported ar from Porto Rico.” Said Colonel Allen, who was on the is- eneral Miles recent! is the Time. of Americans il nd them. One finds rg about over most of the is- and for profit- Now is the time going with any spec- A few days from Spanish troops will have been ‘Transportation is the busine: of the enterprising Yan- clined to go. It represents the immediate future of Pe psent there is only one rail 1, running from Ponce to Y in French hands.” 21 Gilmore: dof Perto Rico is as open now ill be. 1 should say that rail- r growing afforded the best for Americans and American r the new regime Porto Rico fa substantial future, and nized as the winter try—the favored re- people who desire to avoid the ms be for concessior = to promote John E le flag bac! who brought a from Porto Rico: Ilent Suggestions. Rico there are n factories, no Those suggestions Americans. and no lumber. fairly adequate open to telegraphs all over the island, principal points being connected hones. by There used to be a tramway between Ponce and the Py 0% distance of done the gossip I rect. It isa owned the every time whene-er th put Was enabled pany got tire iness. away with for a v road panish government | obliged to pay a certain sum to the latter obstructions T port of the town, covering a about three miles, but it was. ry queer cause, if heard on the subject 1s cor- Neged that the company which had a contract with the by which it was a car ran off the track. So, e government got hard up, it on the track, and thus to collect. At last the com- ed of this and went out of bus- Around the Island. “There was a plan, which no: be carried ou road all for its Fren¢ v at the be t aro’ con: Bove y far. Th ndoned, t name of t this acti no kno have that, as things st of the projec the tsland. I to the westw miles of too, ne ot conn WML, Ys ul which com- Aix les Bains ghtful sy to nyoly veys were m: t from § is sure to Wt before long, to build a rail- und the island. The contract struction was given to the Thment, but it never advanced ne money gave out, and it was he enterprise earning for itself the ‘Petit Panama.’ It may name was avplied because of lal or suspected, but of this I wiedge. The fact is, however, nd at present. fragments ted road are scattered all over t has been carried fifteen miles ard of Ponce, and twenty-five San Juan. There r Managuez, but these parts ted. It seems tht the ed ade S underestimated. for the whole route. Sur- Agricultural Industries. “Ma Rico these are and sugar. chinery of t plows being invite a most promis other hand, cs in the culture of: ing ts first r T to me particularly be- I : offee, and the Porto | beh: Rican be $ of wonderfully fine flavor. | matters f coffee considered in Paris | except some which bring the best ropolis of gourmets, ar astonishing to is the fact, that | yor agricultural 1 the growing « nd the age In most I saw no factories in Porto Rico dustries in Porto attention. Among coffee, tobacco There is no agricultural me- he modern kind, old-fashioned still used in the fields. On the the machinery for sugar mak- ate and of the most improved American | Kind, just as it is in Cuba, which is so far oth r mechanical that were engaged in the pro- duction of matches and of chocolate. There country | are about 800,000 people on the island, who } doubtless require many things which has to supply iding te with a It 1s proposed to 1 hamlet in the nt, using ubs ment for Pree Libraries. | The State Federation of Women’s Liter- | r tubs. has undertaken the laudable { | | libraries, town ry ty 3 local | ment t respond with &nd alaerity to such a worthy cause as the fr Se y movement Intelli- the op- ining doubtless ral ele on the d th shhorhued, how 1 that Mrs. I ver small. dward Ro- s Club of rit in the tributing ri from free libraries can scarcely be esti- mated. They will not only be an extension of the public school system, carrying on for life the their influence, slow, steady and trresistible, will elevate and judgment. formed and ever: town to e' work begun in youth, but by re the popular taste ‘The habit of reading once supply of books accessible in person in the town, we and may look forward to a diminution of vice and idle friy ment.” volity as a means of entertain- —+e- Never Too Late to Mend(t) From Punch. President t f State Univers His ce ‘ at asked by the women’s federatio: freely He our cities. The wor u y even while planning; and woman's action here, as well 1s elsewhere, is shown to be as speedy as w nan’s thought. The blessings to Texas “Which “Corsets.” department, please, madam?” JESSE JAMES’ GANG Some New Stories About Those Once Famous Outlaws, SS WHAT ONE SMALL BOY SAW OF THEM - They Cut in on His Trail a Number of Times. EXCITING EXPERIENCES Written for The Evening Star. S INCE THE INDICT- Z ment of Jesse James the younger for prov- ing himself,as the in- dictment alleges, the son of his father—for figuring, that is to say, in a hold-up of an express train near Kansas City not long ago,” said a western man who has held an important depart- mental position in Washington for a number of years past, “I've been swept by a wave of memory touching the numerous occasions on which my boyish trail was cut by various members of the famous, or infamous, James gang. I lived in Leaven- worth, Kan., during the last seven years of the seventies. While Leavenworth was al- ready, with a population of about 15,000, the metropolis of Kansas, it was neverthe- less » bad town at that time. It preserved its frontier-hke character for many years after other towns in the same approximate longitude took on the manners and methods of civilization. It was a wide-open town, not far removed to the east and north of what used to be the great cattle trail, and the place was always filled with hard char- acters—genuine bad men of the type that has practically passed; packers, freighter mule-whackers, refugees from the rough law of the far west, who regarded Leaven- worth as the extreme east, and who consid- not unjustifiably, that when they got within the limits of Leavenworth they nad a pretty fair cinch that the law would not overtake them. The town was fre- quently visited by members of the James The gang never committed any out- rages in Leavenworth, and for that reason its members were pretty safe there. Sided With the Gang. “As a matter of fact, queer as it may scem, the sentiment of the town up to and after the death of Jesse James at the hand of Bob Ford, a trusted member of his gang, was always more or jess en the side of the band of robbers. Desperado as he vas, the people of Leavenworth surely r: d Jesse James as the real thing—not ly because of the immunity which the town enjoyed at his hands, but because the populace of the place was of a sort to be impressed by the utter, dare-devilish reckle of many of the exploits of James and his gang. The people of the place were inclined rather to dwell upo the negative virtues of the James boys than to dilate upon their numerous mani- festations of complete fiendishness. a story was told around Leavenworth those days of the generous aid Jesse Jam had extended to this or that old woman, the distress among pocr families in Mi sourt and Kansas which he had relieved the would-be emulative lads he had vised te cling to the right, and so on, until, in th» eyes of the rising generation out there, the star robber of this age possessed all of the gallantry and generosity of a ern Robin Hood or Dick Turpin, “The James gang never, to my knowleage, visited Leavenworth in a body. They cam> in separately, or in pairs, when there wasn't much doing tn the way af hig bberies, or when the gang, as a concrete was ‘laying low.’ as the phase ru: and they hung around the town, not, of cours», putting themselves particularly in evidence. until called away by their chiefs, the James boys, to engage in their reck- less occupation of robbery. In much the same way members of the gang u that time, to hang around Wir Lawrence, Atchison, sshopper and other places in eastern Kansas, arious Missouri towns—Sedalia, dence, Jefferson City, where Jesse James met his death. haps Leavenworth was safer for them any of those places. them was ever molested sions. even when It was tacitly known, throughout the place, that stich-and-such a member or members of the James gang temporarily inhabited the town, and i spite of the fact that the rewards piace upon the heads of the robbers aggregated many thousands of dollars. Meeting With Jesse James. ow. as to the various occasions on which I, a barefooted urchin, got into the James gang picture, simply by reason of my being a snub-nosed, freckled young in- habitant of one of the towns th, cccastonally made a headquarters by m bers of that bad bunch of men. “Jesse James I only saw once, and I didn't know it when I was sizing the robber chief up, or L would probably hav been scared most to death and chased hore blubbering. Oddly enough, Jesse James, the chief, was the last man of th gang I ever saw. A block from wh) folks lived, on Pawnee street, there was a corner grocery kept by a man named Jefi runstetter, a man who had had a record with his gun in Missouri a long while b fore he settled down in Leavenworth, and an ex-member of — Quantrell’s gang of guerrillas. He had been a playmate of Jesse James’ when the two were V small boys in Missourf, as he used to tell me, a big-eyed, wondering boy, that hung around his store during the school vaca- tions in summer. One drowsy afternoon in the menth cf August, 1879, I was lying on a couple of sacks of bran in the back part of Brunstetter's grocery, picking slivers cut of my bare feet, when a rather tall, thick-set, well-built man, with very broad shoulders, a full beard, raven-black in color. a bronzed ruddy complexion where his beard did not grow and wearing a linen duster that reached almost to his heels, and a wide white sombrero, walked Into the store. Brunstetter was back cf t salt meat counter, cutting some ham, when the man came in. He looked up, and I saw the two men exchange quick glances of recognition. “Hello, Jeff,’ said the man in the long duster. in a deep, rather musteal bars. ‘How're you cutting {t? Haven't seen you tor flve years now, have 1? “ ‘Howdy, pal,’ replied Brunstetter. ‘Yes, I guess it’s about five years—winter of ‘74, I belleve—since I saw you. I've been fol- lowing yeur route, though, podner. Pad route—bad game. Almost time you knocked off. How's your brother?” Turned Superstitious. “The two men walked to the extreme back end of the store, and when the man in the duster passed by where I was spread out on the bran sacks he gave me a keen look, which I returned, and I had a good, square gaze into his cold, bright, steely blue eyes. The two men talked together in a low tone tn the after part of the store for ten or fifteen minutes. I watched them fdly while they talked. Finally the stranger stretched his arms, yawned, and sald he'd be moving on. Brunstetter said something to him, and then I saw the stranger unbutton one of the buttons of his duster near the waist lne, reach in and pull from his belt a big ball cartridge. He handed it to Brunstetter, wno put it in his pocket. Then se stranger shook hands with Jeff and walked out. “Three days later I happened to be in the store again when a friend of Brunstet- ter’s from another part of town came in. ““Jesse was in to see me a few days ago,’ said Brunstetter to his friend. ‘He's turned superstitious and thinks his finish fs nigh. Got {t into his head that some member of his outfit’ll put it onto him. Handed me a cartridge out of his belt as a kind o’ keepsake, and was in a softer mood than I ever saw him,’ and Brunstet- ter pulled out of his pocket the ball car- tridge that I had seen Jesse James band to him three days before. “A number of years before this my younger brother and I—both of us smail tads—were taking off our scanty summer in nan At any rate, none of on these oc: was -m- clothing on the Kansas bank of the Mis- sourt, up near Fort Leavenworth, for a swim, when a couple of roughslooking men came along. ‘1..e men stopped and watch- ed our preparations for the swim. Small as we were, both my brothen and I were good swimmers, and we struck out into swift-fowing current of the Big Muddy to show off Betore the two ‘hard-looking strangers. When we came in'again to the shore the two men were ‘unfastening from its moorings an old skiff that had been tied up for a long time. They ripfed off of an old tumble-down shed “on the shore a couple of boards, whic they split and roughly whittled into oars, and then they {pushed the skiff off. i Hite’s Idea of Fun. ‘ant to take a row,’sons?* one of the men, who had an eyil fate anti a fiery red beard, asked us, and, grabbing our clothes, my brother and I hopped into the skiff With the two men. They pulled and sculled the boat out into the middle of the Big Muddy, which is about a mile wide at Fort Leavenworth, and then the man with the red beard deliberately picked us two kids up, one under each arm, and threw us over- board into the dangerous eddies of the Missouri. He roared with delight when our two heads bobbed to the surface, and he seemed to be immenscly tickled to note our ineffectual efforts to reach the skiff again—ineffectual on account of tne tre- mendous swiftness of the current. The other man was apparently more humane, for he said to our tormentor, the fellow vith the red beard: “Better let ‘em in again, Hite. gettin’ weak.’ “The red-bearded man sculled downstream a bit after us, and permitted us to climb into the stern sheets of the skiff, weak and exhausted. Then he rowed us back to the beach. He had taken off his coat and roll- ed up the sleeves of his hickory shirt. A big blue and red snake was tattooed in numerous coils around his right forearm, and beneath the snake, in big red letter: was tattooed the name ‘Wood Hite. We lost no time in dressing and getting away from the two men, once we got on shore. The red-bearded man was Wood Hite, one of the most desperate and crue! members of the James gang. A Leavenworth pape published a picture of Hite a few months later, in an illustrated story recounting in rather admiring terms the robberies of the gang, and my small brother and I surely did do some shivering when we looked at the picture and recalled how we had beer at his mercy in the middle of the Big Mud- dy a few months before. “In the early spring of 1875 a man named Daniel Askew, who Hved near Kearney, Mo., the home of the James boys’ mother, and who was in mortal dread of the gang, because he had given shelter to the detec- tives who, in the preceding January, had thrown a bomb into the home of Mrs. Sam- uels (the name of the mother of the des- peradoes), resulting in the tearing off of one of her arms, came to Fort Leaven- Worth in a fruitless effort to get the com- manding officer of the post to send a squad of regular army soldiers to protect him in his Kearney home from the vengeance of the gang. Askew took dinner at our house on one of the days he was in Leavenworth on this errand. ‘Three days after his re- turn to Kearney he was shot dead on his own doorstep. An Exciting Runaway. “One mid-summer afternoon tn 1876 my mother, who was at that time a young and handsome woman, and nervy besides, as tted-the wife of an army officer, was driving alone in a side-bar buggy on a very wild road, called Sheridan's drive, back of Fort Leavenworth. At a sudden turn of the road the horse, a scary, nervous ani- mal, came smack into a prairie vulture that was feeding upon a dead blacksnake lying veross the road. The vulture flew into the uir with a tremendous flapping of wings, and the crazy horse took fright, bolted and, with his barrel almost touching the ground, They're started on a dead run, bound for almost any old place. The road was narrow and circuitous, with heavy trees lining It on both sides, but, as I say, my mother was a dezd-game young woman. She stood up- right, braced her feet agaifist the foot rests close to the dashboard, wrapped the reins arevnd her strong arms @ couple of times and just began to saw on that frenzied The sawing didn’t do any and she admitted afterward that, r the brut? had raced for two miles ithout a sign of letting down, she began to get nervous, especially as there were a lot of high bluff§ overlooking Salt Creck valley not far ahead. The horse wes still jumping along, lick»tty-split, at a 1.60 gait, when, at another sudden turn in the road, where my mother was absolutely certain that she would be dumped, a man sujdenly shot out of the woods only ten feet ahead of the flying horse. H> waved his arms and yelled and the horse eased up s1dden- ly, but when the man attempted to grab the horse by the bridle close to the bit he rzar- ed and plunged and severely bruised the chap who had turned up just in th? nick horse's mouth, gocd, af of time. The man’s shins were so badly mavied that h2 could barely walk, and my after petting the horse anc thus. jown, invited the stranger, haired yet young looking, to step into the buggy with her and drive to her physician's office in the city, where he could have his bruises treated. Th? man, a quiet, gentlemanly chap, thinked her and accepted her offer, and she drove him to a Dr. Van Dyne’s' office in down- town Leavenworth, where she gave him in- to the keeping of the doctor's assistant. A few days later Dr. Van Dyne passed by our house fn his buggy and dropped in. My father and mother received him. “Say, Fred,’ said the doctor te my father, ‘how long hav2 you been perm tting your wife to drive around with merabers of the James gang?’ “My father looked puzzled as the doctor regarded him blandly. “Then the doctor told them that the man who had stopped the runaway horse and whe had bzenr driven to his office a few days before by my mother was no ther man in this world than Clell Miller, one of the brainiest and most desperate inem- hers of the gang of Jesse and Frank Jim! Not two months later Clell Miller was Kill- ed In the streets of Northfield, Minr., in the attempt the James gang made tc rob the bank at that place. Experience With Charlie Pitts, “Not long after that I was sneakiig a horseback ride on a vicious riding horse of my father’s that had been in a cavalry outfit and had been condemned out of that service for a lack of steadiress. The Lorse was a born bolter, shier and runaway, and my father only rode him once in a while. He was a bit afraid of the beast, in fact. Ils boys, of course, were absolutely for- bidden to go near the horse, but we used to sneak rides on him occasicnally, all the same. We couldn’t get at saddles or bri- les because my father locked them up when he was away, but I used to snakc the Lrute out of the barn and ride him witaout saddle or bridle, and nothing but a halter to hang on to. When he'd bolt, I'd take @ couple of twists in his mane, as I had often seen the boys of the Nez Perce tribe of Indians do with their fractious Indian pories, »nd hang on like grim death. The herse never succeeded in dumping me up to the time my father got rid of him, On this occasion 1 was riding with the halter alone, a barefooted boy, and letting the horse take his own ecurse, as I had to, in fact, without means of guiding him. ‘The horse made for the head of the Jim Lane read—so-called because United States Ben- ator James Lane blew his brains out on that road when the war was going on—and I was satisfied. The horse was just walking along, walting for something to happen to give him an excuse to jump for it and try to ditch me, when I saw a man with a short whip in his hand about 100 feet ahead of me. Now, this ex-cavalry brute couldn't even bear the sight of a whip. The man put the whip behind him (for which I thanked him inwardly), but just as the horse was passing by him he raised the whip and struck the animal with all his might across the flark. It was a bit of pure devilishness. The horse’ bolted and ran five miles on a cleat road before he was winded, and I had to Hang on like grim death to save myself from a bad fall. The man who did this mean bit of work haé only recertly come to Leaven- worth. His name was Charlle Pitts, and he was engaged in the business of break- ing horses to harress. He disappeared for seven or eight mcnths scon after, and the next time he showed up in Leaven- worth it was quietly known around that he was a member of the James gang, ani high in favor with Jesse on account of his utter devilishness. “In view of all of which, now that stories of the doings of the James gang are going around on account of the approaching trial of Jesse James II, I feel as if I've got a kind of a look-in with these things that happened when I was a yearling, so to speak, in the now sedate town of Leay- enworth, Kan. oe Cheap Publicity. For fifteen cents you can let every one in Washington know by a Star want ad. that you want a situation or want a cook. AS TOLD BY HIMSELF M. De Rougemont’s Story Does Not Meet With Entire Credence. LIVELY CONTROVERSY NOW GOING ON At Best His Remarkable Tale is Only True in Part. CONCLUDING NARRATIVE —_+ Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. LONDON, October 21, 1898. For two months the great controversial question in England has been, “Is the man who calls himself Louis De Rougemont, and who claims to have lived for something like thirty years among the cannibal blacks of Australia, a great traveler or a great impostor?” The Daily Chronicl2 asked this quéstion early in September, and since that time has kept up-a continuous fire of de- nial, criticism and ridicule against the “modern Crusoe.” But De Rougemont has not been without warm supporters, and the public , hus seemed disposed to listen with interest to his story and to believe tt until {t should be proved untrue. The world at large has watched this pap2r war with interest, too, for the account of De Rouge- mont, or at least such part of it as he has related thus far, has been repeated in every quarter of th> globe, and it certainly has fulfilled the claim of the Frenchman's back- ers as being “the most marvelous story man ever lived to tell.” When Louis De Rougemont, or Louis Grin, as his name is now reported to b>, applied to the Hon. Hunneker Heaton somo months ago for an introduction to some London editor, it is doubtful of he looked upon himself as in any way a wonderful man. He had recently work>d his way from New Zealand to London on a trading vessel and was out of money. He mode: explained that he had been a pearl fisher, had lived among th> Australian blacks and had had some adventures which he belie ed might make an interesting story. Until he became stranded in London, he claimed, it may be truthfully, hz had had no thought of writing about his experienc In the Guise of Trath. Through Mr. Heaton, who is interested in all affairs Australasian, the trav introduced to Mr. W. G. Fitzgerald of Sir Gecrge Newnes’ Wid2 World Magazine. His story must have impressed the man- agers of that publication, for they shortly anrounced that they had a Robinson Crusoe,” whos ences were even’ more ose of Defoe'’s imagina his own account of his tures would begin publication in the August number of their magazine. Public curiosity, which had been mildly stimulated by the advertisements of the new prodigye received a genuine surpri when the first installment of De Rouge- ment’s story uppeared in print. It is put- ting it mildly to say that his adventures were the most remarkable ever related under the guise of truth. The £50,000 car- 0 of pearls, the giant octopus, the wreck on the lonely sand spit, the’ turtle-back rides. and the other wenders which formed the inception of De Rougemont's tale, are familiar to the reacing public. They proved a large dose to swallow at one gulp, and it is not surprising that they were received with astonishment and incredulity. But Crusoe and his publishers were not hed. It was announced that the geoz- raphy of the story had heen examined and Hugh prt Mill of the Royal Geographical So- and that they believed it true. The t incredible incident of the first portion of the story was that in which the narra- tor told how he had beguiled the weary hours on the sand spit by riding on the backs of immense turtles, keeping them at the surface by leaning far back on the shell and guiding them by poking his toes in their eyes. But Admiral Markeley. who had had tong expericnce among the South Pacific Islands, came forward and sail that he had krown of this feat being accom- plished by natives there, and that it was by no means impossible. Made a Big Hit. Then De Rougemont enjoyed a genuine triumph. He was invited to address Bristol congress of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He read two papers before this dignified body on * geographical and anthropological observa- tions among the Australian natives. More than this, he was the Hon of the hour, and his papers were the great feature of the meeting. The worthy and distinguished gentlemen who compose the British assu- ciation are ncw greatly pained and scan- alized to think of their enthusiasm over the men who, according to recent revela- tions. was in service as a footman and ccurier during a considerable portion of the time when he was supposed to be lord- ing tt over a tribe of fierce cannibals. Under this august patronage De Rouge- mont became a popular hero. He was in- vited to fashionable clubs and spoke at dinners in company with the most eminent men of the country. But presently he again fell under suspicion, and some parts of his story proved to be impossible of ver!- fication. De Rovgemont said that he was born in Parls, but it was impossible to find any record of the event or of his family there. Moreover, it was found that De pugemont or his double was born in Neu- chatel, Switzerland, was christened there under the name Henri Louis Grin, and that he had revisited his native town in August of this year. It was also said that he was well known in Sydney under the name of Green, or Grien, that he had lived there for a number of years, and had a wife and family still residing there. Clung to His Narrative. Under these circumstances, De Rouge- mont bore himself admirably. He submit- ted to examinations and re-examinations, still clinging to his narrative in the main, though admitting that he might be mis- taken in many of the details. His appear- ance told in his favor. The extreme bronze of his face and arms lent credence to his account of long exposure to the weather; the deep lines and wrinkles of his face and his wearied, diffident air were those of 3 man who had endured great suffering, and had been long unused to civilization. There were many inconsistencies, however, In his account of his early life, and he finally re- lapsed into silence, refusing to answer any more questions. The enemies of De Rougemont acknowl edgo that there may be a considerable sub- stratum of truth tn his stories. It is known that he was at one time engaged in the pearl industry, and it is believed that Peter Jensen. who figures in the narrative as his partner in this enterprise, is still ving in New Guinea. It is acknowledged, too, that he may have lived for some years among the blacks, as no record of his doings from about 1875 to 188 has been found. With important modifications, it is likely that his story will be proved to have a basis in fact. At any rate, in spite of the damag- ing revelations that have been made re- gerding his credibility, De Rougemont still sticks to his story. Apparently, his pub- Ushers have not lost their confidence in him, for they announce that they will con- tinue his narrative, adding merely the words “as tcld by himself.” The story, whether fact or fiction, is stirring enough: Giving only the main events, from tho point where the last installment of his published narrative ends, it runs as fol- lows: According to De Rougemont. In making his first attempt to regain civ- ization, it was necessary for De Rouge- mont to proceed entirely at random, as he was totally unfamiliar with the geography of the country. It was his impression, how- ever, that by traveling overland to the northwest he would be most likely to fall in with white men or with natives who could tell where they were to be found. Therefore he set out in this direction, ac- companied by hts native wife, After journeying for hundreds of miles over the barren lands of that region, suf- fering agonies of thirst in the desert and running many risks,-he at length reached a large river, which he afterward learned must have been the Roper. Here he built a rude raft and upon it started to float down the stream. The rainy season had ler was covered a “new » actual exp2ri- remarkable than hero, and that wonderful adve: checked by Dr. Scott Keltie and Dr. Rob the Just begun, and, as hg went on, the river rose and the current became more swift until finally he was swept along at a tre- mendous rate by the rushing current, which carried him cut to sea. Some distance from the mouth of the river De Rougemont and his wife landed on a large island inhabited by a number of natives, who gave him a dugout canoe to take the place of his raft. Thence he pro- ceeded along the coast in the direction in which he believed Cape York to lie At length they fell in with a small vessel carrying a Malay beche de mer expedition. The ermen received them hospitab! and offered to carry them back to Kopang in the Dutch Islands. At this point, how- ever, De Rougemont's black wife refused to accompany the party through fear of the Malays, and rather than desert her De Rougemont gave up this opportunity of . This was about the year 186s Back Where He Started. Captain Davis, the commander of the Malay vessel, informed De Rougemont that he would be likely to find white men at Port Darwin, between 300 and 400 miles away. De Rougemont accordingly set out in his canoe to reach Port Darwin. After traveling forward for two weeks, end when he believed that he must be close to Port Darwin, a terrific storm arose, which swept the canoe out of sight of land and nearly cost the lives of its occupants. In the course of the storm they were evidently swept past Port Derwin, for, after sailing on for many days more, they came ina sight of familiar land and found them- selves once more on the shores of Cam- bridge gulf, the identical point from which they had started. The natives welcomed them back with every sign of delight and De Rougemont was careful not to explain to them that his return was involuntary. For a long time after this bitter disappointment he re- mained among his Cambridge gulf frends, always keeping a sharp lookout for visit- ing ships and making several short explor- ing expeditions along the coast, but not attempting another trip across the conti- nent. On one occasion, while the whole tribe were in camp some distance from their reg- ular home, a ship was Sighted some three or four miles off shore. De Rougemont and his followers made frantic signals to her, and when these received no answer they set out in their canoes and rafts to reach her. When within hailing distance a volley fired from the ship's side wounded De Rougemont and overturned his canoe, the crew of the vessel evidently believing that they were being attacked by hostile nati Before the canoe was ship made all sail to get away. Striking for Civilization. Some months afterward, when he had re- covered from his wound, De Rougemont determined to make another strike for civilization and set off due south, not knowing t this direction would take him directly into the unexplored heart of the continent. On this trip many wonders were encountered, including a rain storm which brought down live fish, a countless horde of rats which devastated all the country it passed over, and a cave full of immense snakes. There were also many narrow escapes from death at the hands of hostile*natives. On one occasion, believing that a native chief meditated treachery, De Rougemont and his wife left the camp which they had righted the constructed and slept in the bush, In the morning they found a number of spears sticking through the bark sides of the camp in the place where slept ordinarily. Month after month the journey was con- tinued southerly direction. It imp. to travel due south, but they followed a zigzag co from water holé they would have was to water hole, after the manner of the natives. Fired Upon by Whites. When he was some seven months out, and while traveling in company with a small party of blacks, De Rougemont came sud- denly upon four white men. At this time he was naked, like the savages, and so tanned and browned by exposure to the Weather that in appearance he was much like them. Forgetting this in his excite- ment, however, he rushed toward the white men, who promptly fired upon his party and then retreated. For this affair De Rougemont assumes the entire blame, say- ing that he would doubtless have done the same thing under like circumstances. Two or three weeks after this encounter De Rougemont and his wife came across ancther white man, who had lost his rea- son and was wandering aimlessly about in the desert. This man lived with them for some two years, recovering his mind finally, just before his death, sufficiently to inform De Rougemont fiat his name was Gibson and that he had been a mem- ber of the Giles expedition, King of the Blacks. After the death of Gibson, finding that there was apparently no hope of reaching civilization by following an overland route, De Rougemont determined to settle down among the friendly blacks, and, if necessa- ry, end his days there. To this decision, he says, he was moved largely by the plead- ings ‘of his native wife, for whom he had come to entertain a most sincere affection. Me therefore settled down in the mountain. us region near the center of the continent, and ultimately became king or ruler over @ number of large tribes. In this manner he lived out the next twenty years of his tre, and would probably have ended his days there had not an epidemic of influenza swept over the continent and carried away his wife and children, Being thus left alone, De Rougemont de- cided to make one more attempt to reach civilization, and, leaving his | mountain home, set out toward the southwest. In this, as in previous journeys, he was un- able to follow a direct line, but had to go hither and thither with the tribes that he met in his journey. After a time he came across a tree marked “Forrest, ’ evi ic nuy the name of an explorer who had passed that way. Turning south from this point, he at length, several days’ journey north of Mount Marga, learned that a party of white prospectors were near by. aught by his previous experience, be decided to get some of the natives to procure clothes for him before he presented himself to the white men. New Robinson Crusoe. When he Joined the prospecting party and informed them that he had been journeying from the interior for nine or ten months, they looked upon him as a person of weak intellect, and when he asked the question, What year is this?” they were convinced that he was crazy. However, they permit- ted him to accompany them back to Mount Marga, which was the nearest camp. Thence, by slow stages, he worked his way to Melbourne, reaching’ there early in 1895. For over two years he supported himself by various more or less menial occupations, gradually becoming accustomed to civiliza- tion and learning of the events that had taken place during the time when he was lost to the world. Early in the present year, he worked his passage to London on a trading vessel, and soon afterward all the world heard of him under the title of “the new Robinson Crusoe. ees UNIVERSITY Georgetown. The students of the university are in retreat for three days this week. Doonan, former president, retreat. A course of biology lectures is being given by Prof. Judd of the medical de- partment. The next Jecture will be de- lvered Tuesday evening in Gaston Hall. The tootball team will meet the team of the University of Virginia on the home grounds, elther on the Sth or the 8th ot November. The officials will be chosen from Princetcn and University of Penn- sylvania. The friends of the teun ure confident of a victcry for the blue and gray. The team representing the College of Physicians and Surgeors of Baltimore was defeated by the Georgetown team, th. score being 40 to 0. The game was a very one-sided affair, Georgetowns superiority showing at every down. ‘he features of the game were Kenna’s and Berrie’s !ong runs. each for touchdowns. The Debating Society of the Law School ras elected the following officers for this term: President, Martin T. Conboy, New York; vice president, B. M. Connelly. New York: secretary, C. Hugh Duffy, District of Columbia; treasurer, Jas. J. Cooney, Penn- sylvania: sergeant-at-arms, Chas. M. Cant- well Doran, Virginia. Columbian. The board of trustees has appointed Mr. George Irving Raybold an assistant in the office of the registrar to fill the vacancy made by the resignation of Mr. Alfonso A. Hobson. In the school of graduate studies Dr. Harvey W, Wiley, professor of agricultural chemistry, has announced that he will be- NOTES Father is giving the gin @ course cf lectures about Decem 1, covering the manufacture of commer- cial fertilizers, the manufacture of sugar. starch and starch products, and tanning and leather products. The Havniltonion Debating Society of the law school has issued a pamphlet plementary to tts constitution and by-law making an appeal to the students to sup port the society in its efforts to maintata interest in oratory and debate. The Hamiltonian Debating Society wilt meet Saturday evening at 6:43 in P. G Hall. The question for debate will be: “Re solved, That trial by jury be abolished The affirmative will be supported by Messrs, Edwards and Crist; negative, Messrs. Handy and Westcott The Columbian Corcoran Society will hol evening its first G. meeting Saturday Hall at 8 o'clock. The election of off class took place Tuesday The met in the lecture hall and elected the fr lowing officers: President. Edward E. Dev Pr. nison of Hlinois; vice president, Josep Milans of the District of Columbia, secre tary, Paul Cooksey of Kentucky, trens- urer, James B. McClure: executive n= mitteemen, Joseph W. Butto, Harry A Pierce, both of the District « slumbia ; Lawrence Hufty of Virginia, Thomas C. Ridgeway of Mlinois and William M. Hal- lam of Kentucky. The foot ball team will meet the Univer- sity of Virginia next Saturday at Char- lottesville, Va. Catholic, A high mass of requiem for the repose of the soul of the late Joseph Banigan of Providence, R. I., decensed trustee of tha university, was celebrated Saturday morn- ing in the chapel of Caldwell Hall of Di- vinity, by the Rt. Rev. Thomas J. ¢ D.D., J.C.D., in the presence of the stu and faculty referred the Mr. fi of board of aii The faculty of the Marist College has been increased by one over the three of last year, and the students have inereased by pur over twenty. Two vacancies w in the teaching staff at the bezi this term, through the departure John M. Le Grand, S. M., professor of liturgy, who ts Mow of the Anne Arundel and Calvert county (Md.) missions, and of Rev. John E. Gunn, S. M., D. D., view president and professor of moral theology, who has become pastor of the Church of the Sacred At- lanta, Ga. Rev. Francis J. & SM, D.D., professor of dogmatic theology, and Vice president, Is the only instructor of last year’s faculty remaining, the new ders belng Rev. J. B. Desereux. S.M ident and professor of liturgy: Rev. A Moussy, S.M., professor of moral thee and Rev. R. Butin, §.M., instruc Beside continuing bis course « pilosophy for lay students atid o- the Shakespeare Caldwell chair of theology, Vacated by Dr. Schroer January, Rev. Edmurd T. Shan D. Dd. D.. J L., has arr: a course of twenty-five lectu tian Philosophy” in the regular « philosophy at the University of vania this term. Howard. S.C. E. gave Hall, on the evening of Oc vas a in every particuiar. following Members of the social committee naty, fents The committee to whom was filling of the vacancy left by as elected Mr. Michael ¥ ML, as his successor the tors, “ud on ng « Rev an charge of superior mem Ph to give “Chris- nged Penn The Y. P. a soci contributed to the successful event: D. 0. Holmes, chairman; Joseph Allen, Misses arah J. Bly, Florence Dung Adele D. Seymour and Ia Wright The Alpha Phi Society met Friday ey A paper on “Imperialism” was ret ed by Mr. Holmes, The foot ball team will play the team ¢ the Whalen Seminary and College Thanks- giving day on the Howard campus. Much interest is being manifested in the game, as both teams are very stron and a hard tussle will be seen. The sity” will line up against the Preps this afterne ERS CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTES The Christian Endeavor topic for tomor- row is “H ” and on this topic the Rev. J. J. Summerfell, D. D., editor of the Herald of Gospel Liberty, The ‘helps’ named by the apostle are those which exercise the greatest helpfulness to others and the gift of the tly different from that of the er’ The ‘help’ suppresses himself more than the ‘helper.’ The ‘help’ almost loses his iden- tity in his helping; seems almost to be- come something, rather than some 7 one whom he helps gets the glory “Many a preacher is made successful by says ‘help’ is sti shel his ‘help,’ some deacon. Many a general crowned with victory from t aid of some member of his staff, who ts hardly a ‘helper,’ only a ‘help,’ and who receives no credit for the work which he had “helpe his nominal leader to accomplish “In religion, helpfulness of the finest Kind comes from the genuine ‘helps,’ who give their money, who collect of others who assist as to the singin; vt who some- times pray, all unknown by the assembl for the Spirit to come. “ Helps’ are not the most prominent ones in the church, but are an aby alute neces- sity. The church can do without a but It cannot stand without a foun stone. The river must receive the tribu of the helping brooks. “One might almost say that ‘helps’ were more needed by Christianity than apostles or prophets, for Christianity 1s useful. in proportion to its helpfulness to humanity For helpfulness the ‘helps’ are indispenss ble. Christianity can exist without orators, but not without the helpful work of its ‘helps.’ The world can exist without Alex- anders or Gladstones, but not without plough boys. “In order to be truly helpful, 1 think I hav omewhere heard that the ‘helps’ must cultivate and exercise holiness, enthusiasm, love, prayer, sacrifice. “An ounce of helpfulness is worth a ton of advice.” Following are the officers and committes chairmen of the Y. P. 8. C. E. at Howar University, lately installed: President, G Murray; vice president, Miss 1. M. Wrig recording secretary, Miss E. E. Ragland; corresponding secretary, W. C. MeNe'l!, 3 treasurer, Miss M. D. Johnson; librarian, Chas. Oliver. Committee chairmen—took- out, J. B. Brown: prayer meeting, Thos. Frazier; mtsstonary, P. VY. Walton: relief, Hayes Burnett; good literature, W. L! Smith; temperance and good citizensh M. R. Powell; soctal, D. O. W. Holmes music, Miss F. M. Dungee. Letters from Bible women in Japan and India were 1eatures of the Christian En- deavor meeting at Union M. Church last Sunday evening. Mrs. S. M. Hart- sock, secretary of the Washington branch of the W. F. M.S. gave a very earnest missionary address at the church services the same evening. A Sunday school rally and social was held October 21, at which a pleasing program was rendered, including an address on the work of the school, by its superintendent, Mr. E. 8. Westcott A special song service will be conducted. at 7:30 tomorrow evening by the Y. P. 8. C. E. of Plymouth Congregational Church, 1ith and P streets northwest. Among the soloists will be Madam Lena Branaugh, Miss Georgia smith and Mr. T. N. Dix Another feature will be a silver offering at the door. The Intermemate Christian Endeavor So- ciety of Calvary Baptist Church has elect- ed the following officers for the term be+ ginning November 1: President, Sackett Duryea; vice president, Madge Guard: sec- retary, Maggie Mohler; treasurer, Charles Hateh; corresponding secretary, Fern Ho- akins; delegate to C. E. Union, Dana Hol land. ‘The Y. P. 8. C. E. of Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church South 1s supporting two na- tive teachers, or helpers. to Rev. W. P. Turner, a missionary in Japan. Secretary Baer this week reports Tenth Legion enroument as 11,585; Comrades of the Quiet Hour, as 10,913. Indla—Christian Endeavor societies tn 7, 59; members, 1,500. In 1898, 104 socl- 2,423 members; a healthy growth. —>—_—_ All Washington an Audience. The Star’s “Wanted Help and Situations" columns are carefully read by thousands daily. Fifteen cents pays for fifteen words. "esas we ntnned (Copyright, 1898, Life Publishing Company.) “Say, how does yer mudder know don't wash yer face?” ~ wen ye