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Apalachicola Northern Railroad §
Elegant Daily Servic* Mwm luctfoa ul Ipslas&itl.
Train« running onflow schedule (Central Time):
“Ye*, sir, that bicycle’s haunted,
and that’s all there is to it. I don’t
Jcnow a thing about spirits and
things like that, but if you ever
catch me riding that wheel after
midnight I won’t know it.”
Thus did George Springwell vehe
mently declare that the supernatural
had taken hold of his bicycle. The
tale that Springwell tells is certainly
a queer one, and one that is appar
ently vouched for by a number of
his friends. They declare that any
one riding the wheel after 12:30
o’clock on any night will wish he
wasn’t. The sensations experienced
by such a rider are described as
startling in the extreme and accom
panied by manifestations that are
of the hair raising variety.
Springwell lives in a modest little
house on Lombard street and is s
clerk in one of the large dry goods
houses. He went to Buffalo last
July from New York and just be
fore he left the metropolis he bought
a secondhand bicycle from a repu
table dealer. This he took to Buffalo
and has ridden it steadily to and
from his place of business. He is
not what would be called a bicycle
crank; using the machine merely as
a means of locomotion between his
house and the store.
It was only a few wf.!' ago that
he was aware of the ~ ^natural
oualities of the wheel,^affa this he
oiscovered in a startling manner. He
was accustomed to leave the wheel
in a small room in the rear of the
kitchen every night. One day *he
bought a cyclometer, and with the
aid of the instrument he found that
the wheel was haunted.
He took careful note of the miles
registered on the little machine and
soon began to see that there were
small discrepancies, periods of ex
actly three miles, for which he could
not account. Every night as he look
ed at the cyclometer he took careful
note of the amount registered, and
every morning ii was just three
miles more. This bothered him con
siderably, but he dir missed every
thing with the thought th at the in
strument was defective in some way
or oiher.
But a fev. weeks ago he rode out
into the oountry for the lirst time in
the evening. He took a trip to the
falls, spent the evening there and
wheeled home in company with a
friend. lie reached Tonawauda
about il o'clock and waited there
till midnight. Then lie slowly ped
aled over the brick boulevard to
ward home. He was somev.hat tired,
and Ills' friend, a man named Zeiler,
being more of a wheelman, was
about a sixteenth of a mile ahead.
Just as Springwell reached the
clump of trees on this side of Ken-
more he began to experience what,
if his story is true, is something dis
tinctly marvelous.
.L.0 uuv.lai Co iuini as he was riding
along moderately he struck a chin
blast of air. This was on an August
night and he could not account for
the extreme ecid. Then something
began to work in his throat. Before
he was aware he was a prey to a most
horrible and vague fear—horrible
because of its vagueness. Some
thing terrible, he felt, was about to
happen. He glanced from right to
left Nothing could be seen or
heard. He thought he would call to
his friend ahead, but felt powerless.
Then, as he was riding, a power
ful something seemed to suddenly
wrap itself about him. He could
feel cold hands suddenly seize his-
hands as they guided the machine,
and he could not release them from
the iron grip. He knew that he was
in the power of some supernatural
monster and that the machine had
passed from his control. He wa
vered from side to side. The wheel
described curious curves he
thought for a minute he wes going
to be thrown to the ground. All
this tijrv- he did not, Jwve anv con
trol of the wheel. He tagged, with
ail hi* force at the handle oars, but
this did not deviate the wheel from
its path a single inch.
Terrified beyond description, he
could not shout. He (eljka sicken-
•eusation sweep through him.
felt that something immeaaur-
monstrous had complete con-
of every action. Of a sadden
UTr%in;No, 8- Sooth bound.
Leave River Junction 4.20 p m
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Juniper
Guest
Hosford
Evans
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e Apalachicola
VC .Connects with all Rail and Boat
the tost lines at Apalachicola.
4.45 p m
5*00 p in
5.10 p m
5,SO p m
5.45 p m
5.55 p n>
6.10 p nr.
7.05 p m
7.35 p to
8.15 p m
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Train No. 2—Narth bound.
pedals bej
laity t
Apalachicola
Tevcrly
..Sumatra
Trump
Evans
Hosford
Guest
Juniper
Wft'psboro
Dolan
Arrive River Junction
lines at River Junction
7.30 a m
8.05 a m
S.35 a m
9.2 5 a m
9.40 a m
9 AO a m
10.20 a m
10.30 a m
10.40 a m
10.55 a m
11.30 a m
to revolve with a
ty that lie declares was noth-
short of marvelous. He flow up
the stretch that intervened between
s^ie:
him and his^Rend with inconcmT-
able rapidity, some unknown power
having its ghostly feet ©a the pedals.
r\_ v. - a His friend was passed
On he flaw,
as though he were standing still.
Ha tried to cry out as he passed
nan, but could not.
On into the gloom beyond till the
city line was reached, then on yin
over the asphalt. The long stretch
of smooth pavement flew from un
der him. He jumped car trucks,
hsrdln feeling them as he passed.
Under the white glare of the electric
Bo tool*
ths
ghostly rider behind Mm was fat
ing under the exertion. Bs would
leal a clammy breath an-the book >«f
his neck that sent terrible shiv us
through ids whole body.
Spnngwell declares with tax cx
ment of his life'. The sensation ac
companying this mad flight, he says,
he is powerless to describe. Th< re
was not only the horrible thought
that he was in the power of the su
pernatural, but other emotions that
ne says no language Can ever por
tray were concomitant. His very
soul was swayed by their intensity
and seemed to be in a shadow of
something inexpressibly terrorsome
and ghoulish.
On he flew, and he could out
a shadowy something dancing before
him, something vague of outline and
white in color. It danced now hew,
now there, and he felt rather than
saw that it was mocking him. On
in the leadership of this phantom
he flew. He crossed the Belt line
tracks with a bound, then felt he
was slowing up. But still he kept
on until the curve that Delaware
avenue takes before it reaches the
culvert where the Park road passes
over it. Ahead he could see the
white shimmer of an electric light
illuminating its dazzling circle
neatn it. He felt the icy hands that
had never relaxed their pressure
from the moment he had first felt
them loosen a bit of their grip--
He was regaining control. But
the machine seemed to be dn
something behind ft. He feTT he
could now turn and see the ghoetly
monster behind him. He craned hie
head a bit, and at that moment he
felt a terrible blow over the head.
Stunned, he dropped from his wheel
and lay on the pavement. He de
scribes the half glimpse of the thing
behind him as something too inex
pressibly monstrous to attempt to
portray.
He lay on the pavement for some
five minutes, when Zeiler came up.
He was riding like mad. Zeiler
stopped when he saw his friend and
helped him to his feet When
Springwell told his story at first
Zeiler thought he was joking, but h«
was finally convinced from the look
of abject terror in Springwell’s
face. They revisited the place next
day, Springwell unstrung and hardly
ibleto
able to wheel. From the spot whew
he first felt the power of the some
thing to where he was hit is exactly
three miles and a few rods over.
Springwell wrote to the man from
whom he bought the wheel, and he
received an answer that is certainly
queer. The dealer said that a man
brought the wheel in in good shape
and asked a very small price for it,
and that he, the dealer, thinking it
had been stolen, would not buy it.
The man swore it had not been stol
en and offered to let it remain there
until he was satisfied. He had kept
it through the winter and never a
sign of any claimant; hence he had
sold it.
Springwell is at a loss to account
for the strange occurrence. He is
utterly unable to say what could
have been the cause, save on the hy-
“ Tthcsis that some man was mur-
ired while on it and that it has
thus become haunted. However
that may be, ihe fact remains that
the cyclometer register* of its own
accord a little over three miles ev
ery night.
H« Must Have Beon Asleep.
Mrs. Hlcksm was much concerned
about her youngest son. He bad de
veloped a peculiarity of which he had
previously shown no trace — that of
walking In his sleep. la great distress
of mind she told her husband.
“Samuel," she said, “do you know
that Johnny Is a somnambulist? - ’
*A whatV
“A somnambulist. He walks in hi*
sleep."
“When did he begin to do that?”
• “I never notieed it until last night
After he luyi gone to bed and was
sound asleep he got up, dressed him
self. west out to the woodshed and
brought in an armful of klndlfffc."
“He did that In his sleep?*'
did. I watched him. He didn’t
know a thing about it this morning
either. How can you explain such a
thing?”
“H’mpbr ejaculated Mt. Hickasa. “I
can’t. But if he had gone out while
he was wide awake, Lucinda, and done
such a thing as that voluntarily It
weald have been a good deal harder to
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The Gruff Hiatorisn.
Neither at the Saturday Review din
ner) nor In the companies in which 1
have met Freeman at Wells did he of-
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His taste for snubbing amounted to a
arose. HI* tendency to contradiction
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Lord Sherbrooke, himself Freeman
wo* more agreeable to encounter in the
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piece of turf by the roadside and a
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