The evening world., 1913-12-03
BOMB |SPROOF
HIS MYSTERIOUS
ENEMY" IS ALIVE
Grocer Jacobs Has Plate Glass
Windows Shattered by an
Explosion.
FOE USED OIL ONCE.
Wet Down Stock With Trust
PrOdlct-No Real Clue
Found Yet.
FOE USED OIL ONCE.

The Mysterious Enemy OF Samuel ia
cobA grocer at No % Hamburg avenue,
Brooklyn. who bobs up now and then
and plays some diabolic trick, exploded
. bomb or a giant torpedo at the groc-
cry store early to-day. rotlsed al the
neighborhood and shattered three plate
GlAAs windows.
The identity and motive Of the Mys-
ter1ous Enemy are unfathomabae a the
ways of the Flying Dutchman." and
Samuel says he'u give 10 cents or more
to anybody who reveals uhe enemy to
him. A. far rs Samuel can reoail--and
his memory IL good-he never did a
member Of the human race Q wanton
Injury. but he would not guarantee TO
keep his temper II he caught the man
who does mean things to his grocery.
The Mysterious Enemy first came INTO
samuels life last May. One bright
morning in that month. when t1e birds
were chirping and the trees wore get
ting greener and greener. Samuel opened
up his store and sadly observed that
several articles of canned goods anA
other edlbles were gone. That WAS
bad enough. But there was worse to
come.
Over the -four. the sugar. the potatoes
and such other stock as would absorb
II kerosene oil had been poured literally
by the Mysterious Enemy. Samuel sent
for detectives.
ENEMY WAS A PATRON OF OIL
TRUST.
II can't imagine who did this," said
Samuel ruefu1ly; nobody has ever been
mad At me and nobody has ever threat
ened me; but II you will take sniH a,
that sugar barrel you will be convinced
there u at least one person In the
world who doesn't. to put II mildly. en-
tertsdn any high regard for my feel.
ings."
The detectives sniffed barrel after bar
rel and after proper and due dslSbera
don among themselves agreed that tn,
Mysterious Enemy had used oil In an
uointing Samuers stock. but that was al
far - they ever got In the slucldatio
Of the mystery.
As time went by Samuel finally go
his store so II did not smell like q
breeze from Bayonne. N. j.. and. bsins
Of an optimistic temperament. 6lmost
came to the conclusion that there wal
no Mysterious Enemy sitting up nights
to weave sinister plots against his stoch
Of provision.
Now Samuel knows that he was toe
optimistic.
Early to-day Hamburg avenue trem
bled and ratified. This time the Mysteri.
ous Enemy was not using noiseless oil
He had turned his wicked hand to dyna.
mite or something Of the kind. For two
or three blocks on either side OF Samu
els grocery heads we're thrust out Of
windows and the query ran along tb1
house fronts. What was thatf'
ALL AGREED THERE WAS An
EXPLOSION.
Many men who did not stop TO cont
their hair or tie their cravats rushet
into the street and Ralloped TO Samuel,
grocery A shrewd policeman opined
that there had been an explosion. Thl,
was also the consensus Of civilian opin
! ion.
"It 10 the Mysterious Enemy" sale
Samuel IN much the sort OF voice Icha
bod Crane might have used In referring
to the Headless Hessian liorseman.
The policeman who first arrived picket
IN a tattered fragment of newspaper
about which twine was tied. It looked
as thought that might have been tn,
\ wrapping for the bomb.
Anyway. Samuel accepted II as such
which was some comfort. for 1t wal
better to have a real bomb hurled at tn,
grocery than for the Mysterious Enemy
to be- some sort Of demon Chap. VIII.
merely crooked his finger. said "Phutr
and smashed up things with sulphur and
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