Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1894, Page 20

20 “YOUVE A SUSPICIOUS HOUSE H>.RE.” THE GREAT LARAN REBELLION WRITTEN FOR THE EVENING STAR BY NYM CRINKLE. ae ieee since on the it is Jonesome and Mref iendricks is go- ing away.” Copyrighted. 1504.) CHAPTER XVI. NOUGH HAS been already told to taidicate that aricks had in his | of keeping two prtson- | ja Hen- | ployed by the secret N \ service of the NV ~ e, government, were to Hendricks the first direct inttma- @on that the forces of so Way put fa an intellis: att Whatever theory working on had trated by Hendricks prisoners. | “He bad, with his usual quickness of de-| cision, summed up the whole chain of consequences. Their mission was a secret | one, and only the secret service depart-! ment Knew of it, but their disappearance | would speedily bring about his place the whole enginee-y of the government. He ex- | Pected to be besieged im the end, but as War on a large scale had been part of his e officers had been summarily frus- | them u been taking fa calculations from the start, this did Rot | two other aud similar $odes, one of which @eter him. He calculated, as usual, with | was given over to the® amt and Cali- great shrewdness on the element of time, cot; the other, connec th Miss: La- and he felt sure that if the underground port's by a lattice Way, Was in pos- Fendezvous could be kept from the know!l- edge of the public until all his plans were matured, he would preserve an enormous | advantage, even in a fight with the govern- ment. In order to na Laren at this ti back to Miss Laport. Miss Laport w girl of twenty Great abu But im whick there wer fa f ur; @ wh occurred in the it is necessary "to go as! slender and pretty serious gray ey eautiful wav; } ive oval face, tions of strong | ul character and n ality. She ha received an excelient education when ker} father’s means we and she had, o disgrace came. } e of expectancy | ; for the release | promise, ear suffered deeply She was now and mystery, @f hér father, js made, to go and forget in some dist wrongs and} their troup ader Fenning in | 8¢ ma yo ed a valuable amanuen- and got f ‘idential busi- as carried on between the Fa-} You house az awakened | © Fennin and t, and she| Was grateful for his consideration and care | je ef her, and n he to evince a} @eeper intere him, al- |W! though akened fn her none of the| emotions to which girl of her age ts susceptible. She i undicguised th Ui er for he had shown a! Teal solicit Personal comfort and her future d had secured for | her a han lously put tor ‘ ultation en Horseback. ran Mrs. He qual and a gu @ new ar Young per. love Whe igh hi ing somet : Visit. Ww hy d : down the her heart van within h Mrs. Hendricks is com going opportunity and go with he: Laport and Mrs. Hendricks were dow the negro servant, this .nade four women ers whose presence | now In the undergrour! somavuulty erilous ¢le-| The hurly-burly of préparation and ex- | ste tence unger. |citeément of camp lice extendud ‘at, this \ = ume from the rotun‘a for at leasc two \!l grouna soelety.| miles and filied all thy echoing spaces far ji These men, em-| beyond the lake. A Iftle community was! living in comparative gpeace arena. The fragiie cofes 3 ' the space looked like j the central light, end: dried Lranches that | | Profusely ornamented & column in the cen- | ter space fretted the i outlined shadows. ety had in some | here, but man had robbed it ts tnoush together to warrant/ noxious terrors and nae down, | traces of her presence round the doorways _ So of some of the habitations. | cottage there was a stand of straa | curious crytogenous gt: both | gathered in the recess: J arranged in symmetrie tals of carbonate ¢ translucent stalactites the It w: these curiosities in his moody rambies,and it was Miss Laport’s melancholy delight to ar- range them where the electric ligut played Under the awning wai little house offered a ‘urotection from light sat Sliss Laport Al a short distance om, tne same side were sessio; @ room in Miss Laport “and tere is auting > me impress you with the ufgéncy of it.” |He says you ought to go treat and to return. “Why, I asked, ‘are you so anxious to “Tl want to s | But it | be explain “‘You are frank with ms" }up liberty and y steristie of a woman, j he natural bench of satin there arrived at the their entrance. Miss 'L.—“Are you ha: py?" Lieutenant—“No; how could I be?" Miss L.—“Whet cen te: done?” Lieutenant—“Nothing »ut wai Miss L.—“Suppose I e tne down. Lieutenant ‘Can y< Miss L.—*Yes. 1 thin? I shall prefer it. ip thing Lieutenant—“Has rounds? vo. Evervtlfing ts quiet. happened But Miss L. Lieutenant—“Do you Know where she is Miss L.—"“N Lieutenant—' jot seizé the Miss L.—“I must stay here a little loager. cannot tell you why." Two days after this conversation Miss} nin | Miss Endicott and} ne Laran, and, with om the Portal | hat cneircled | Dore picture under | ound with sharply | It’ was cternal night of Most of tts voman bai jeft the front of one plants, ywths that had been # of tue place, end al omter were crys- f Lae, symmetrical avd sind fossits dug trom Us of the distast passases. Stocking’s amusement to gather aa niastic tricks wi tthem at all hours, hk of one side of the the Lieut. Stocking. n of Aijs Hadicott having }siablisument. “Now that you have! ther, Miss Frankiin, eut Stocking, | prevent you both why do you not Mr. Calicot asked ak to you se*itusiy about it-and gm ieaving this piade ‘ge him to go at one to s] by should he be auxwus aboute it?” Ked the girl. “He has made up h sind about the re- it of the contiict, and oe fears if you de- much longer you will not be able to get y at all.” ‘And you?” sald the girl with reai sclici- ban I suppose we be liberated at some tu He seems think so, appear to admire and trust him very I wish I could get you to trust him. away at once. t Hendricks’ permission to take the old an and his daughter out if you will give ur word of honor not to betray his re- You could then put em in a beat and help them to cross the issippi.” t them out ve them," he said. > Hut you do not car to save me,’ I yb- el. ’ he said, ‘if yo! follow my plare it ave you.” hen J am not to rei “Yes, you are. You, il take you two Hay “To come back here !s net to be sav id. ‘You will ha a? rope to explain yo§r- Fes,” said the girl, ®itr Interest. “Ia . } ' No. He merely said::‘1 wish you would my advice.’ I exclaimed, ‘If you wili do as I }id you." he repliod, ‘ ything wili explain jiself, and we shall fall be released.’ | ‘Phen why mot do it?-asked Miss Laport. tecause I have to plitize rayself to give and come back to this mb and b w I would knew him said the “It is cl But I am a man—a Heutenant. pless on 3 later “ the platform in the r these two young nd got off at was Miss ot stand- a@_sud- here s and Tam going to 0 back with the je to this f tly not in it. by side through 1 they came to there was a ar, very pure and | light—and here » rotunda unt re at interva’ 3 in the ele down. king, mai “I give you ness to lose your : under pleasant treatment, too much yood sense to be over- by the magntiic of @ sophism it is put into execu . right,” that my opp ne jon. replied Cu ot. “You will sition to Hendricks © skill My con art his purpose. if I thought will enable me to | } without being a 1 would p’ nd ask ny q I was going to ask you to do * “There is only one reason why | | CHAPTE While this conversa’ as going on Sanitarium a sherift’s | posse. Among U Was the depimy vho | had escaped when the house was surround- ed. The doctor was now in charge of the | place and no mn sft ructi 3 e led vy stim srizaly is, who Lud a and he brought Tipton and e sympathy ers in Hep eced estes Wem « ganz. val pia on that ons wots, " clous, bient and y got a i sus- he -ald, tm go- tom of it, Goes to Memphis, but vr heen com- ote chat inno- iif to to settle armeni- | house, f she of tue ‘of humanity. acy is rauch deeper and |, vurs. With vou it is an im-! e it ts a cool jon. ur impulse prevents you from sdiairiag | THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MAROH 17, 1894—TWENTY PAGES. searched it thoroughly, locked the inmates in their rooms and put guards in the balls, it was thus impossible for the doctor to in- form Hendricks of what was gong on. and the next morning he was astonished to jJearn tuat four stragglers had been picked up in the woods, brought in and searched and a@ large quantity of gold taken trom their persons. They refused to give any sc- count of themselves and were shut up in an upper room and guarded until they cou.d be sent to Covington. In the course of Us day two more were brought in and i) hundred dollars in gold taken trom each them. The doctor's nervousness over these proceedings can well be imagined, expectzily as he could not communicate with Hen- dr‘cks, and the sheriff's remark, under any other circumstancs would have aad a flavor of humor. “We have struck & bo- “the woods are fall of He then sent to Coviagzon for re- inforcements and scoured the whole neigh- borhood, making his headquarters at the Laran house until he had got to the bottom of the mystery. The next day in attempt- ing to arrest two tramps one cf them w chased far down to the southwest and su Hendricks, who immediately susp : truth, and, making up a party of twenty- five mounted men, headed them himzeif and started off in the night for a recon- noiseance. They were out :wo nichts, and on the first afternoon overtook and kilied the chasing party of two that was return- ing to the Laran house. They then went north, picked up one of their own men,who had managed to escape from the sanita- rium, and learned that Clip Davis was sye- tematically bagging the returaing men and had possession of the house. As it was above all else necessary to pro- tect the return of the men of his regiment, and as the sheriff was on the point of arm- ing the country and preventing it, he deter- mined to make short work of him. It was not a difficult job with his facilities. He got to the Laran house in the night, disposed hig men in the woods so as to intercept re- inforcements, and then picked off the sher- iff’'s men as they appeared on the grounds or balcony. At the first shot, two of them rushet out and were killed on the steps. Clip Davis knew instinctively what this meant. He barred his doors and stationed Rimself at a window and succeeded in kill- ing one of Hendricks’ men and disabling another. His idea was to gain time and walt for reinforcements. The doctor, who saw from his window in the room Where he had been locked what was going on, succeeded in breaking out, and went straight to the shaft. In twenty minutes he had ten men in the house. The captives were lver- ated and a rush made upon Clip Davis, who received them with all the fire he had, and Was killed at the window. They Surrounded the House in Early Morning. Hendricks kept this work up with vigor, intending, if possible, to prevent the es- cape of a single soul who would report the discovery of the i upon the men. Be- forestwo hours were over he was master of the situation, and then waited quietly in the house for the reinforcing party. The result was a cruel and successful one. » of only six men rode up to the gate unsuspiciously and had no sooner got upon the inclosure of the lawn than they were recelved with a murderous volley from the house and another from the wood. In a moment the lawn was strewn with their bodies. Hendricks knew very well that all this meant war, and he faced it with a vigorous military energy. He converted the house into a fortress and barracks and began moving all that was valuable into the cave. As the affair was reported to the governor of Tennessee, it looked like an organization of robbers who had taken possession of the Laran house for their headquarters. He therefore appointed a new shertff and placed the Memphis Tigers (eighty men) and the Crockett Fuseliers of Paducah (sixty-four men) under his orders, with tructions to Proceed at once to Tipton county and arrest the gang. Adjt. Gen. Luscomb met part of the troops and the sheriff of Marshall and proceeded overland with them to Laran. The saniiarium stood upon a rounded knoll of about ten acres, corresponding to another and larger knoll, which Hendricks had by measurement fixed upon as the crown or roof of his rotunda. The ground sloped gradually to the road two hundred feet away, which road marked the valiey between this hill and another slight but tended excavation that began on the other side and stretched away eastward into the wilderness. To the west there was a clearing and the stables and extensive outhouses, and be- yond a heavy timber belt, that ran with oc- casional breaks almost to Marshall. It was from this direction that the troops came. They surrounded the house in the early morning, and the adjutant general, on a fine white horse, in full uniform and oid epaulettes and cocked hat and sword, rode upon the lawn and in an impressive voice called upon all the house to surrender. voice from the house replied: This is private property. If the com- manding officer will come tn, I will confer with him There was a consultation on horseback, the sheriff and the and evidently comparing views. While thus engaged Hendricks made his appearance upon the balcony. “General,” he said, “it is my desire to avoid bloodshed. If you will step 1 can probably arrenge matters. I pledge you my word that no treachery will be at- tempted. The general and the sheriff moved their horses up to the steps, and ihe generai said, with much po: sity “De you know who I am, the the outraged dignity of the sover stale of Tenness IT command you t e your- self up instantly, together witn all your nfederates and belon: Chat is the enly way to avoid bloox Hendricks smiled. an experienced an officer,” Ne said, “to be foolh , and the 3 of these men you have brought here are in your hands IL expressed a desire to uvotd Llood- ou e too old and eriff, arrest this man,” cried the gen- eral. He defies a law, and -ve ere under cover of the guns of the state truo; Hendricks took a step toward . “One moment,” he said, “before you attempt to arrest me. You and your men are covered by 400 repeating rifles. One move on your part to arrest me and your force will be annihilated. 1 mention ‘this ‘n the interest If you decline to treat with the courtesy due to a brave enein you had better retire. I will give you two minutes to rejoin your men.’ ‘The impulsive general wheeled his horse, galloped into the center of the lawn and cailed, in a loud voice, as ne drew his sword: “Capt. Hawkins, mass your men. Bring up the reserve: Prepare to storm the house.” Hendricks leaned against one of the pil- lars of the balcony. “You see,” said the sheriff, “resistance is useless. It would be b r to surrender at once, as I propose to ‘ake you now,” amd he made a motion to draw his pistol. Before he could get it fairly into his hand there was a sharp crack of a rifle at short range and he balf raised himseif in the stir- rups and fell heavily backward upon the horse’s haunches, the pistol falling the ground. Hendricks stepp-4 down picked it up, as the horse reared an? bac away—and at that moment a ccack of f arm$ was heard and he went julckly back into the house and shut the duor. As soon as he got to an openiag in the barricaded window he saw tne xeon {idly galloping up and down, flourist his sword and calling upon his men in. But many of them were past falling in Their bodies were conspicuous by : Iving where they had fallva in t grass, and the rest were huddiing co: fusedly, running indeterminacely into the trees at the foot of the slope unler a m de Sre from all parts of =he house. He could see when the al turned his head thet a stream of blood was running down his face from a cut in the temple and had dyed his white whiskers. Wounded as he was, the old general s ceeded after a while in withdrawing men across the road to the opposite clivity, where, under the shelter of rocks he reformed them and tried courage them. His con lition tressin ne. He 1 lost out at least fifty. He could not even bring all off and c 5 did no ‘Y were killed or wouaded was dead. He no hospital stretchers, for {t general leaning over | side we | r? T represent | pen | nd | than the ordinary military prescience to have calculated upon such a receptioa as this. However, he did the best ne gould, and the first act was to dispaich couriers to the nearest telegraph statiun to su:niaon | assistance and notify the goveraor, he g!v- ing up his own horse to one of the messen- | gers. What was his surprise about noon to re- ceive @ communication from the house. A man dressed like an ordinary workman | was brought into his little camp by a Picket and delivered. the followiag note with a military salute: “To the Comm OMicer: “Sir: You can sttely remove your dead wounded. If you are in ueed of Laudages, sur- gical assistance or medical stores, sad will send for them, they will be supplied uutil you receive help from the state. Kespecifully, “UFFICKR COMMANDING OPPUBING FORCES.” The audacious coviness of tis proceeding aroused the old general to an erupzive siate of indignation. He tore the message to pieces and ordered the arrest of the mes- senger. Half an hour later another arrived. | “1 am ordered,” he said, “to say to you that if you do not release tne messenger a | sufficient force will be sent to take him.” “Away with him!’ shouted tie irascible old general. “If he attempts to escape shoot him.” During the night Gen. Waterson and Fen- | ning gut in at the bayou entrance,and before morning Gen. Luscomb’s forces were talicn upon and completely routed. CHAPTER XVIIL In June of that year there appeared in several of the Indiana papers the follow- ing advertisement: “MILITARY EXCURSION. “Uniformed nuiary companies in Indiana , wish- ing to job the eacursion Lutiation to muke ® su. er Vibit to New Lork in July Will piease report to Lieut. Bidwell of Ludiauapolis. Uuusual tuduce- ments ave vliercd to orguuiged Compauies to Jolb this pleasure party, ‘tue battalion will be ‘the guest of New ork for two days.” This Vague sunouncement of a projected excursion did not fall to attract some at- tention in New York. Several of the pa- pers recerred to it in paragrapis, which briefly stated that the miliua of Indiana antended to visit the city duriag the sum- wer. Un the 6th of July the superintendent of police in New York received a furmal let- ter fom Indianapolis saying that if the arrangements could be compicted a regi- meat of Indiana militya would Visit the city on or a@bout the l2th, and asked for me usual right to parade and a jo! -guard to clear the streets. At the time of the re- ceipt of the letter every man of the regi- meat was in New York. fhe men ot the force were so widely and carefully dis- tributed that a military organization wes invisible. Each man had in nis possession @ light unitorm consisting of a biue flaunel shirt, duck trousers and velt, a thin glazed hat, a knapsack and Speacer ritle with twelve rounds of bail cartridges. ‘This uni- torm could be put on in a Lew isoments. At 5:30 on the morning of the lzth the men thus equipped came to square from all points of the ciiy. e in- Aubitants in the neighborhood looked on with the lazy interest that a military pa- cade aeerea ss the metropolis, but Le one KHEW oF ca, to iuquire Whether the regi- ment had arrived en masse by an early iain or had come tn the night before. The troop had to wait ull 9 o'el for the platoon of mounted police that was to precede them. Gen. Waterson, the cclonel commanding, Communicated with the ser- geant of the squad through nis adjutant. They had been invited, he said,wo visit Wall street and the subireasury. They were then to march to Gen. Grant’s tomb tor batialion evoluticas, dt does not appear that any suspicions up to this time were awakened in the police, Who regarded the conspicuous belts of the men as a piece of Western mil- itary nonsense, and it was not within their line of duty to question the visit of the officers to the subtreasury. li the sub- treasury did not want their western vis- itors they would shut the deors in their faces. dt was twenty minutes past when the regiment, preceded by the police, and { with the colonel and his staff, distounted, jlett the park and it was lv v’elk when it wheeled into Broadway street, making a solid and formidable app in its homely uniforms and soldie ing. Nothing occurred along the route of con- sequence to inte with its progress. The inhabitane k upon it as part of the constantly recurring show of that high Way; careless remarks were here ani ther made about the cheap set-up, but the crowds eyed it carelessly and went on their way. 1t was just fifteen minutes of 1 by the ‘Trinity clock when the armed force turned into Wail street and tive minutes later it had come to a halt in iront of the building. he regiment filled all the space on the Wail street swe and extended around into Nussau and Uread streets. lines Were quictly and quick- ly but effectually formed and the sub- reasury was, for the lime being, cut eff from interference. We have in Police Ser, account and ia Gen. Wa Sufticient data from which to form sume idea of the scene. The sergeant says: “I don’t think ten minutes had passed when I at McGuire’ ‘3071's up to the building covered with soldiers, leaving only a space of ten fect in the cen- ter, and the colonel and his sta% ftowed by another hundred men were marching up that alleyway toto the building, One of the patrolmen, who was as much as- tonished as 1 was, asked me what"the regiment was going to do in the building, and I made some careless answer. There was a black crowd of people down in Broad street looking on «and most of the office windows in the neigndorhood were crowded with people, but there was no e citement. The men on the steps looked as if they were drawn up for a show, but I calculated that it would take the whole police force of the city to dislodge them. The lirgt thing that gave me « twinge was that, after the troops, went in, noae of the people who were doing business inside came out, and the soldiers wouldn't let az.y body go up. Inspector Fairchud, who aidn't like the looks of things, turned his b out, took two men and insisted in to see what was being done. ed over half an bour and come back, but the company had gone in had come out, f. and another hundred men had been march- We wait- ed in. Word was then sent to offic That was about 12 :relo three-quarters of an hour bef: the super- dent and another imspector arrive i went at once into the building, where j they were placed under guard. We were | then ordered back, outside of lines, by one of the captains. From Gen. Wate n’s account we learn- {ed that there were about iifty people in the building and they were taken completely by surprise, but so admirably prearranged Was the plan that they had no opportunity to give alazm and were all shut up in one room and a guard placed over them, after Jand at 2 o'clock the regiment was tn pos- session of two million dollars in coin. It was ten minutes past 2 when*the column was set in motion, and at that time there was the most confused notion in_ official circles as to what was going on. The ide that an armed regiment had taken pos: sion of the United States deposits the heart of the city in the middie of the day | q at first to be 2:20 o'clock appeared to be too incredible alarming. It was, therefore, before the first attempt lice headquarters to uke summary action }and call upon the reserv The rumors spread like wildfire through Wali street and Printing House Square, and when the regiment moved, Wall street, Nassau street jand Ercadway were choked with people. But Gen. Waterson handled his men with admirable skill and the solid column was not likely to suffer any serious interrup- tion from merely angry or suspicious crowds. By the time the newspaper bul- letins got the first wave of intelligence the regiment was at the foot of Courtland street. It had marched through that usually choked thoroughfare with a tactical gdap- tation to circumstances that was amaz- ing. It marched in force through the two erry gates, took possession of two boat: put everybody of but the pilots, an? the vessels started just as the first division of the reserves marched into West street, | three blocks away. At this point the state line, which was no embarrassment to the soldiers, inte: posed an invisible barrier to the author the ery ew York stared across the river bewildered astonishment and th to the telegraph and the utterly lice boat. | Hendricks’ close calculation of time was again shown here, His agents arrived in wey City with fifteen minutes margin, that was enough to enable them to take possession of a train of ten cars on Pennsylvania road and get in motion fore the order had arrived to hold all rains. in en resorted futile po- | On the ferry boat Gen. Waterson and his encountered a number of passen- gers with large po-tmante y were there by prearrangement and brought | change of garments with th When the boat arrived at the New Jersey dock the officers were in different apparel and were protesting most bitterly a enee and ins of th the soldi are known to York on ning At least one hundred men had gone while on the wate ¥ enough accomplished, had but to take aff shirt, The Joa af cloth. general and two of his alds have got back to N boat. and Tompkin's | rtvidge | | Sat report | found the whole of the broad steps tcuding | they did pot-| of troops that as made at yo-!| | ing were weighted with their arms, tied to the empty and open knapsacks and flung ito the Hudson. On the arrival of the boat they followed the troops with the crowd and were unobserved. Half an | hour later when they were looked for they had disappeared, most of them returning | to New York by various toutes. Gen. Waterson, we know by his own ac- count, put up at an obscure down-town hotel, where he registered as John Field- ing of “Newark, and that same night reach- ed an up-town rendezvous, where he freed himself from the gold end then gave him- self with curious zest to watching the course of events and of public opinion in | the city. (fo be continued.) ———o Tom Weaver's Wooing. Badnah Proctor Clarke in Harper's Bazar. Yes, sir! the Ole North State fer me j Toh Uv’ an’ die int H ch corn an’ cottun does git skerse, An’ tines is tryin’. T've liv'd straight on—thongh as a boy | I watched folks leavin’ | By hundreds, t ‘In this ole bouse sot on the pike— The pike from Rably | Why, here, one April mawnin’ T fust saw Polly! Her folks wuz mukig’ toh the West With fitty others— Wagons un’ cattl¢, dogs an’ men, Young uns an’ mothers. It come they stopped nigh toh my place eat their suack thar; So I showed Polly “roun’ the lot, An’ thy branch down back thar. | | Her eyes wuz like the vi'lets that | The wet spray glistened, | An’ when she spoke, the thock-bira stopped His song an” listened. |The minits few; we didn't keer } What they wuz provia’; T filled her little ban’s with fowers— The train wuz movin’, “Good-by,"" she whispered; “oh, good-by. 1 Tm glad T met ye. ig FM keep the vi'lets-take one An’ don’t forgit me." Then she wuz gone. The carts creaked past, The cattle strainin’. | Ht seemed all dark about the place, Like it wuz rainia.’ The hours dragged on. I tried toh crush But somenitt seemed duro, folly, somethin’ 1u me called’ ar “Polly! Pouy!” = | The stars come out, like Polly's ¢ So soft * tender; " ee ‘There wuz a preacher tn the train— What wuz toh hender? | thought 0° the long miles she'd resi Set with danger; | tnjuns au’ cutthroats, Lord knows what, Yit~me—a stranger? } | } | | Afore I knowed, I wuz at the barn; What ef I lost her! | Edrbgged the brown mar’ out an’ flung ‘The saddle ‘crost her. We loved each other, her an’ ri Like she wuz bumaa; She "peared toh scent my trouble now, An’ like a woman She sot her bead toh help me through. z Then We-unis started! We went so fast, it seomed as The shadders parted ‘Tob let us through, then shut agin As ‘hin’ an arrer. I knowed a uigu-cut ‘crost the flelds, A fordway nerrer Over the river, *bove the bridge: But when we reached it | Lord? "peared like all the dcril’s’ guns Had stormed an’ breached it! An April ood, the shaller stream Tost tres Sh, 2O"R st torrent; ‘ost trees, Dlack whirlpools, splintered foam, Au’ thunderin® current. J pulled up—but the ole brown mar’ 2 Sue never holted- She tuck the bit betwixt her teeth An’ In she bolted! The black swirl sucked us down, like fiends Tug: at the tether, Bund, plungin’, strogglit’, lost—the bank— an’ tohgethet! An’ thar afore us, down the road, With pine-knots shinin’, A long white sarpent through tle gloom, The traiy waz twinin’, T rode the mar’ straight toh her cart— A somethin" tol’ me— Lord! with my blood ajump like that Yer couldn't hol’ nig! I twitehed the She 1 The starlight " down her cheek j Showed she'd ben weepin’. | Mussed curls, brown lashes glued with tears, Red m quiver. An’ crushed thar clost ‘The dowers I gi { I pulled back—though I'd rode so fast, | So far, tob fetch her— Td meant toh iiss ber—but I'd swar’ T couldn't tech her. k like pure | My heart ‘Sc ter: | What ef I'd staked may fe, an’ yit I shouldn't git her? | The ole mar’ must er guessed my thoughts— ‘dno fool doubt, sir! | She stuck her brown nose in the cart Au’ whinnied out, sir! Lord! ef you'd seed them blue eyes then! The look that met me? “Come bac I cain’t fergit ye: come back; Frum dream o” me tob sight o” me, "Fore thought an” doubt ‘woke, I shuck ber all er sudden so, An’ jis’ ber heart spoke. Well, well thar hain't much more toh tell. Her folks wuz willl £f they'd said “No,""—my blood wuz up— ‘Thar’d er ben some killin’! We roused the With pre cher, folks stood roun’ The wonderin’ ca vl an’ lowed, Some change devinin’, | Up toh the stars the preacher's pra’r ‘The night wind carried: Through joy an’ grief: through life till de’ An’ we wuz married. I caught her then, an’ kissed toh smiles ‘The blue eyes’ trouble, ‘The ole brown mar’ went home that night Carryin’ double. Nigh untoh fifty y Yes ‘Thar’s war sh AT AO. c's gone fust, sir. “s luld—thar War ye see | | | | The vi'lets cluster. Wel Missed it—I'd missed my heaven here, Phaps t'other heaven, Love strikes but wanst fm that-a-way— Call {t dum folly: But when it comes—leap toh yer horse | An’ ride fer Polly! os | The Milkmuan'’s Experience. | Brom the Philadelphia Record. A well-known milkman had an experience }a few days ago which has completely changed his views regarding lunatics. He had océasion to visit an uptown asylum to collect his weekly bill. Upon his departure he noticed one of the inmates abstractedly | picking up little stones around the grounds. As the milkman passed the man he made some chaffing remark, and was at once pursued by the maniac. The former, now thoroughly frightened, ran for his life. Through the spacious grounds they raced, then out along the highway toward the city. ‘The pursued man yelled lustily for help; but none came, and, at last, completely ex- hausted, he dropped on his knees to implore mercy. ‘The lunatic rushed up, and, as he reached the crouching, trembling milkman, instead of crushing him, as the latter fully expected, he only raised his hand, laid it lightly on the man’s shoulder, and cried out, “You're tt!” and ran away. It trans- pired that the lunatic’s one amusement was playing “tiger” with his keeper. | ~ see | Where a Pints a Pound. | From Puck. which the invaders had the building to } themselves. Everything’ was done with the | utmost expedition and the nicest prevision, | | Druggist—“The doctor says here that you are to take an ounce of whisky three times é ‘Gimme 4 pound uv ut!" | $2.50—they are never sold in bulk or by the /R-I-P-A-N-S TABULES A MIRACLE OF TO-DAY. A Little Girl Suffers Terrible Ageny for Years—Physicians Sald She Would Die— Cured at Last—Her Mother Says it isa Miracle. (From the Taunton, Mass., Gazette.) The following story needs no comment what- ever. Itis the town talk in Wrentham, Mass., &nd the child’s mother tells itas follows: Mrs. Fuller said: “My daughter is now eight years old. When she was four years old she had rheumatic fever, and at once she was stricken helpless; she went from bad to worse until we ell despaired of ever seeing her about again. I employed at various times physicians of Fox- boro, Franklin and Attleboro, but all to no practical benefit. I gave her all sorts of medi- cines, and this spring I buried over two bush- els of empty bottles which she had emptied from time to time. One doctor who attended her said that she bad liver complaimt aud dropsy, and that she was going todig, Thad givenup all hope myself when last March I happened to get hold of an Albany, N.Y., paper, and there I read Of the wonderful cure ofa man. up that way by a medicine known as Dr. Wil- liams’ Pink Pills, the patient having been af flicted as my dangbter was. At that time ber legs were drawn up bebind her, and her arms were almost helpless. Her bead was drawn down on her shoulder and she was a pitiful sight, I tell you, I sent and got two boxes of Pink Pills, and ‘when she had used them ap I thought I could see Justa bitofimprovement. Then I got two more and she began to lift herself in bed, and to help herseif in other ways. She kept on tak- | * ing the pills, and now she Is able to go over to the neighbors, and is brightand smart. She was a liviag skeleton; there was nothing to ber but bones, and they were all out of shape. When she was first taken sick she was out of her head, and for three years, if you will believe me, it was an utter impossibility for me to catch more than five minutes’ sleep at a time, so much care was sbe, and such constantatten- tion did she require, and I was the only one she would let wait upon her. But Iam glad I did 80, and now I am getting my reward,” and the fond, patient, faithful little woman glanced with pride and pleasure to the spot where the little girl was playing with her sister in the shade, just outside the window. “I have spent more than $500 on her, and although I never be- grudged it yet I did want to see my child im- prove faster than she did. To-day she eats more at one meal tuan Idointwo. When I | commenced to give her the Pink Pills she was ; aMicted with a skin disease which was very annoying, Now that has all gone, and I think | the pills are responsible for that, Before I | started on the Pink Pills I wrote toa specialist ™ Bufulo, and described her symptoms; he said she had blood poisoning, due to bad milk, and wanted me to bring her there for treat- ment, although he said that he didn’t believe she would ever get overt. She had beengiven up by four doctors, who were certain that they could not cure her. Why, she couldn’t open her mouth, and I actually had to force the food into it. Her mouth was all sores, and, ohdear, what a looking child she was, and such a care! Nobody but myself knows what a trial we both have beem $brough, for she was too young to realize ijt If my statement will do anybody any good I shall be glad to have it published, and if those who read it will only come to me, if they are skeptical, I can convince them in very little tinte that I know what 1 am talking about. People around here say that it was a miracle, and I believe it was.” The neighbors bore witness to the con@ition of the child previous to the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, and were enthusiastic in their praises of the splendid work which had been accomplished by them in this case. Pink Pills contain, in @ condensed form, all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are an unfailing specific forsuch @iseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St Vitus’ dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheuma- tism, nervous headache, the after effects of la grippe, palpitation of the heart, paleand sallow complexions, all forms of weakness either in maie or female, and all diseases resulting from vitiated humors in the blood, Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent post paid on receipt of price, (50 cents a box or six boxes for by addressing Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co. Sch nectady, N. Y., or Brockville, Ontario. A Nod Of Your Head Starts our shears into the carpet—loads a Wagon full of furnitare and delivers it st your house. That's how easy it is to buy of Us on credit. No notes to sign—no such thing as interest—just a little mones once a week or once a month. Our Peerless Credit System Furnishes The House From top to bottom—AND FOR LESS MON- EY THAN THE IDENTICAL ARTICLES WOULD COST IN ANY CASH FURNITURE HOUSE IN WASHINGTON. We don’t sey ‘this because it sounds BRAVE—we are ready to live up to every word of it, Credit Costs Nothing! BABY CARRIAGES. More than a hundred brand-new patterns to Select from. Prices range from $2.50 to $50. PARLOR SUITES. The largest and most elegant variety ever shown in this city. 7-plece suite, in plush or haircloth, $22.30—and on up to $200. BED ROOM SUITES. A whole floor full to choose from. Solid Gak Suite—LARGE GLASS IN DRESSER, $12—and on as high as you care to go. CARPETS, MATTINGS, &c. rd ssattings Mattings in | Brussels Carpets, 50 cents grain Carpet, 35 cents per ya all reliable grades, including the famous “Cotton Warp.” All carpet’ and matting made and laid free of cost—no charge for sraste in matching figures. Oak Extension Table, $3.50. 40-ponnd Hair Mattress, $7. Woven Wire Spring®, $1.75. re nC SSE ON eA ER a oe RAILROADS. PENNSYLVANIA Faai 80 \D. CORNER OF 6TH AND B STREETS. In J 1894, 1108 A.M.” PESSSYLVanta Tot ter.—runmam Drawitg and State iiwom, Sleeping, Dininx, Swok- ing ag = os Sk te ——— Clneinnati, —Indianapoi veland Buffet Parlor Car to Harris AM. PAST LINE —Por Pittsburg, Parlor jae Buffer Parlor Gar te artis st SS hee pee jug and Dining Care, Harrisburg to St. Loz Cioeipnath and Chicaro. 10 P.M. WESTERN EXPRESS.—Pullman Sie {9g Cars to Chicago and Hurrishurg to Clevelat lng Car to Chic a 10 P.M. SOUTHWESTERN EXVRESS.—Pollmom Sle Cur to St. Louis and Sleeping and Diniu® CR Harrisburg to Cinctunati. o . = aFIC 8. Pullman Sivep- _ lng Car to Pittsburg #80 AM. for Kaue, Canandaigua, Rochester anf ingens, Falls daily, except Sunday. a 08 aM. tor W ‘llamsport and Renove daily, ex- cept Sunday. Fur Wil éaily, 3:15 P.M. 1:10 P.M. tor Williamsport. Rochester, Bullaio. 6m Aingara Falls daily, except saturday, With Sleep- a 4 Car Washington to Rochester. P.M. for Lrie, Cancndaigua, Rochester —{ ‘ a hin week and 11 and 8:13 P.M. de For Baitinore, @-a6. 14S and 11:30 a. 00 Latiited), 4:20, 1 1 :20, 7:30, 9:00, 2:40, 21:09, 1: Bel, 2:20, 2:95, 7:20, 10% 0. 13, 1:15, 2% 40, Cid, F:20, yout 0% . wd 10205 PM. Varbingiou, 6: pe ad = of 13th street 4 Ration, Oh ant be deft for the eheck from ote ‘ for Danville and inter- Mediate stati ad ar meat tone, nat eoapecte at Lynchbarg with and at Manassas for x 1:01 am. THE GREAT sovrirer: MATL —Datiy,. gpeentes Pullman Dage wer New York and Washington over the NEW sitoiee | pect nection te a for Birmingham, Mout- cn anh ores at Be . daily, exe ‘Sunda: mn. Wasiincnos AND SOC twess composed entire! and Dining Car, nd St. Augustine, Pulluan Sleeper for 10:48. | EEN VESTIBULED LIMITED, of Pullwan Vestibuled Sleepers funs over the NEW SHORT LINE vis Columbis 1) Augusta, Savannah, Jacksonville ing car, Charlotte’ to Jacksonvil Pullman Sleever New York to New Orlegue son Atianta and Montgomery, New York to Ashevilie ¥ia Salisbury, and Waahington to Memphis and ‘Tar Di fe. Also operat Birmingvaua.” Dining “Car™ Greeubary’ to Mout= TRAINS ON WASHINGTON aN ION feave Washington at 0:10 seme gO daily, for Round Mill, aud . 3 p.m. ie ® Herndon and ‘interandiate static, Tee rive Washington §:3) a.m, 2:48 p.m, a Roa @ally exer, from Herndon oaly. ips ee trains fh day, for u Car reservations aud information ices, G11 and 1800 Penusyivania furnished at avenue, aud at Railroad, Wash W. B. GREEN, L. & BROW: Ivania Paasenger Station, Dc We. TURK, Gon, Pass c, Agt. Gen. Agt. Pass. Dept. d25 BALTIMORE AND O10 RalLMoaD. SCHEDULE IN EFFECT NOV it ts Leave — from ‘ion corner of New feisey avenue > For Cnicago and Northwest, Vest express trains 11:30 ‘or Cincinnati, Vestibuled Limited Sr Hilars apt Cevcend, exgcas uty ‘or Paitsiu eve © ‘ apes caw - express aso For jugton at unton, 11: 5 For W:fichester and Way Btations 530 For Luray, Natural Bi Chattanooga, Memphis and dually; Sleqping Cars eo Por Lira, 30 pm. dally. For Baltimore, week days, x3-05, 5 27:15 (8:00, 45 minutes), 28:05, 8-90, ay $ minutes) Om. Kiss, KID s 4 45 minutes), 3:25, 431, 5 36:20. 0:30, 5 8:15, 0:00, 29:56, xi 3 Paw. “Sundays, x3:35 (8:00, 45 talnutes), x 8:30, X¥:30 a.m., 512.00, 312205, 1-00, 46 minutes), 3:25, 4:31, x5. 59:50, 10200, 311-30, 11:35 For Aupapolis, 7:15 a Pm. Sandays, 5:30 a.m. Por Frederick, 1:80 a. p-m. For Hagerstown, !11:30 For Bord aud way points, ones m., and *7:05 p. York, Boston and the . $200 (10200 a. ex. Ban. Cur), 12:00 Dining Car), 3:00 @:00 Dim sc {2290 pam Sleeping “Car,” open ck) fet Parlor Cars on all day trains, Atlantic City, 30:00 a.m. aud 12:00 noom now, day. *Dai aExpress. t Baggage called for and checked from hotels an@ residences by inion Trausfer Co. on em cket offices. GlY aud 1351 Pa. ave. at Depot. caas. 6. SCULL, RB. CAMPBELL, = Gen. Gen. Pass, Agt. CHESAPEAKB AND OHIO RAILWAY. Schedule in effect November 30, 1893. ‘Trains leave daily from Union station (B, and P). 6th and B sis. rough the grandest scenery in America with the handsomest and most complete solid train serv- ice west fiom Wanbington, 2:00 P.M. DAILY Special”—Soila Vestibu: tric-lighted, sleeping cars Washington to Ci apolis ard St. Louls without change. D from Maysville serving breakfast, Arrives Cinciy- i? Ind! *, 11:30 a.m, and Chl- ‘These are cash prices or CREDIT prices. Help yourself either way. GROGAN’S MAMMOTH GREDIT NOUSE, 819, 821, 828 7TH ST. N.W., BET. H AND I Ts. We clos» every evening st 7. Widow Watkins Nearly Died from bilious beadacaes, She com- plained and moaned, and sn three Inonths paid a doctor ie And while she was complaining and suffering sue took medicine con- Stantly. The medicin> cost... Her beadaches were no better then than before, and to get Bo relief she. DNS RO OE Rings hen sie bought @ of, Tabuies at the drag store. The nee one cured li headacbe in fifteen minutes, and she was well in three 3 aa Sour Mtl botties of the she has four little botties of Tabules still on hand. - It will thus be seem that tt cost ber $108.10 more 10 be sick than to te well. $90.00 108.60 50 cure any linens resulting from @ disordered al- nine cases out of t Wil bring substantial relief in it ese pans Tabules are for sale by EDW. : MERZ, F and Ith sts. a.w., Washington 1, and by Gruggists generuily. fel5-3m “Dunlap Headquarters.” | We are sole D. C. agents for Dun! Men's Hats—the spring blocks have Fived—rou know | the “Dunlap —onequaled for wear—untouchable for fooks. | ‘The Ladica’ New Sp aw Sailors have arrived and y beanties-- | me & lovking” if you don't want te Willett & Ruoff, 905Pa. Av. mata Pallman si Cincinnat!, puisville, without change 30 p.m.; Lexington, ; Loulaville, 9:50 p-m.; Indianapolis, 11:20 p.nt.; Chicago. 7:30 a.m., ant St. Louls, 7:45 a.m., connecting iu Uulon depot for ail points. 10:57 A.M. DAILY —For Old Point Comfort amy Lexington and arriving at Cincinnatt Norfolk. Only rail line. 200 PA! DAILY ‘Express for GordonsviNe, Chariottesvilie, Waynesboro’, Staunton and princf- pal Virginia points; daily, except Sunday, for Rich- mond. Pullman locations and tickets nt company's of- fies, Pennsylvania ayer Jesse: H.W. FULLER, 22 l Passeneer Acent. POTOMAC RIVER BOATS NEW PALACE STEAMER HARRY RANDALL Leaves River View wharf, 7th street, Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday at 7 a.m. Landing at ail Wharves us far down ae Maddox crock, eturning oa Mondays, Wednesdays a: 3 pm. Pas senger accommodations, frst eight recedved iiing. ‘Telephone 1765. Fea. REED & Coe ins. RANDALL, ts. Alex. Prop. & Mam, GEO. 0. GARPINTER. Gen. Age, Washington, Dic. fe19-tt STEAMER MATTANO For Mattox Creek and intermediate landings from 7th street wharf every SUNDAY, TUT s DAY apd THURSDAY at 7. o'clock ain. Pao Senger and freight gates the i ~4 formation upp! 1. SHERIFF, Coul Oftiee, 825 Pa. ave. fol6-Sium WASHINGTON STEAMBOAT Co. Prom ith et. foiry Steamer Waketield on DAYS and SATURDAYS at creek, Leonurdcown and St termediate landings THUESDAYS aud a30-tt MONDAYS. WEDNES. fur ch NORFOLK AND WASHINGTON STEAMBOAT Co, DAILY LINE BETWEEN WASHING TO: FORTRESS “MOAIOK aud OLE ‘The new and powerful Iron Palace Stes WASHINGTON AND NORPFOL Leave ingtou daily at th st. arrive at Fort a.m. next day. Arrive at Nor where raliroad connections ere made for ail pou south aud southwest. NORTH P Leave Norfolk daily at 6 noe at T:10 pan. P a.m. next das UND, 0 om. Port Arrive at a 1 ton at and 1421 Penp 3NO. CALL. N, AHA’ Tom Some