Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1889 — Page 6

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 185&

THEY CAPTURED THE TRAIN

THREE TRAIN ROBBERS' BOLD WORK. A Mobil & Ohio Vassenger Train Field Up and the Mall and Express Cars Robbed Thooght To Be the "Work of Hube IS arrows and III Gang. Mobile, Ala., Sept. 23. The Mobile cc Ohio eouth-bound mail and paspenger train was held np at 3:10 o'clock this morning by train robbers at Buckatunna, Miss., a station seventy miles north of Mobile. The train was due here at G a. to. Just before the train left Pmckatunna two men mounted behind the tender of the train, and, climbing over, covered Engineer Jack Thorrel and Fireman Thomas Jlust with their revolvers. The robbers were disguised with red bandana handkerchiefs over the lower part of their faces. The leaders ordered the engineer to pull out ami utop at the bridge, twent3'five miles below, Iluckatunc i, and place the train so that the express and mail car should bo on the further side of the bridge from the rest of tlie train, the bridge being a trestle over a deep creek. "You obey instructions or it's death," he said. The engineer looked down Jtho barrel of the pistol and slowly pulled tho lever. The tram ran rapidly down to the spot indicated, and tho engineer put the train just where the man with the pistol wanted it. Then there appeared a third robber disguised like the other two. These three made the engineer and fireman come with them to the express car, and the engineer had to call out to Expressman J. W. Dunning to open the door of the car. The wooden door was already open, but the iron-barred door was closed and locked. Dunning was feated with his back to the door, and w hen he turned around he looked down the muzzles of three revolvers. The command was piven. and Dunnin2 opened the barred door, and in the chief robber jumped, the other two remaining out?iJe to guard the engineer and fireman. The leader made th'j messenger dump the contents of the pafe into a canvas pack, but noticing that he was not closely watched, Dunninsr shoved some of the money abide so that about a thousand dollars va hidden, the robters setting S-.70O. Ail this money belonged to tho Mobile Ohio railroad company. Alongside the express car door was a pile of 70.000 of government money en route to Florida which the robbers failed to notice. Then the robbers made the expressman get out of the car nnd go with them to tho mail car. W. C. Hell, the mail agent, had cuspected that robbery was going on and tried to get into the baggairo car with a number of rci.t red package of mail. Just as he tdopped to the end door of the car he saw through a, class that the robbershad intercepted him. The leader faced him, pistol in hand, and finding Hell' Arms full of package, said : "Pump thoe here on my ieft arm." There were twen-tv-four packages in all, and Hell dumped them ns requeHted. The robber made ll hand him then a registered pouch and ordered tb agent to open it, but Hell had no key. so the robber carried the pouch ofF with him. The pouch was made up at Meridian and the contents and value aro unknown. Just then Hilly Scholen, the conductor, who had been trying to find out the trouble, and had armed himself with a Winchester, came out of the rear of the train, waved his lantern and shouted: "What's the matter?" The robbers tired two shots at him, crying out: "t'on.e up here and you'll bee what's the matter. The engineer told tho robber to letup on the shooting, as the train hands would open fire, shooting their own men. There was no more shooting and the (rain was ordered to pull out at once, which it did, the robbers disappearing in tie undergrowth on the went side of the track. Tho train pulled down to C'itronello and swapped time with the accommodation train, and the accommodation train engino and car was sent back to the scene of the robrry with detectives and an armed posse. The leader of the robbers is a man she feet high, of about 17' pounds wei.ht, dressed in common clothing and a slouch bat. His assistants wore common clothing with nothing to distinguish them. When the handkerchief slipped down a little IF the lea '.es face the expressman aid he saw he had a black mustache and thinks he had a beard. The leader of the robbers is believed to bo Hube Burrows, a noted desperado, the man whom a search for created so much excitement in the northern part of the state a few months ago. At that time it was believed he was organizing a gang to hold up some train and the Mobile te Ohio company, anticipating an attack, armed all its train hands with Winchester rifles. This was made public and wa3 doubtless what the robber referred to this morning, aa he said during the progress of robbing the mail car: "The Mobile it Ohio dared me to hold up a train and I wanted to show them I could do it. The Mobile & Ohio road offers $1,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of the robbers. THE JURY DISAGREED. Verdict Oiren tu the Iren Ca Ire liemantled to the Tomb. New York, Sept. 25. The jury in the Ives case disagreed and has been discharged. At 11:4") o'clock this morning a communication was received from the jury room. Ives, who was in tiie sheriff's olFice, was Rent for. When lie reached the court the jury was pollel and tho recorder stated that the communication which he had just received from the jury room was to the eiieet that it was the unanimous opinion of the jury that they could not find a verdict. Tho court then ordered the discharge of the jurymen. The jury etood ten for conviction and two for acquittal. Ives was remanded to the tombs. When the recorder discharge the jury there was a rush of Ives' friends to shake bis band. Tho young financier looked pooling all around tho court room. lie was a little taken back, however, when ho beard the order of the court given that ho e taken to the torn fr. It is generally believed that John C. Anderson, the fourth juror, and Manuel William, the idxth juror, were the two who stood out for aciuittat, The first ballot, it va. learneu, flood eight for conviction and four for acquittal. Col. Fellows paid after tho ca,-o had been disposed of that Ives would be placed on trial again as soon a the district attorney's otlice could make arrangements for it. There would, Col. Fellows thought, 1 a motion argued before lierordrr Stnytho to-morrow which would lecble the place of abode of the young financier until his next trial. His conn-rt-l, it isntated, will make every ellort to have him placed in Ludlow-aL jail in f n-) he can lift get him out on bail, Kmhlfma of the Trade. (Tims.) SiiIIItoti "!-'fly, Murphy, phwat th' dml do th' thrse ballt man over the pam nbroker'e dnnrir Murphy "Ol toiijdit ivry lotiiligrnt mon knew tiiiy matte fait', hope and chanty." ,

"TODDLES."

CHAPTER I. "Sot know Toddles? Why he is the best fellow in our regiment. Must introduce him to you. There he is, ornamenting the doorway. Excuse me for one moment, Nan, and I will fetch hinv' The girl's eyes wander after her cousin, as he flashes across the polished floor of the ball-room to where a tall, handsome man is standing. That "tall, handsome man" is Toddles. lie starts v hen Capt. Hardress touches his arm, as though his thoughts had been of an absorbing nature. However, he fcems quite willing to relinquish them for the present to follow Capt. Hardress whithersoever he may lead him. "You see, Nan, I have robbed the doorway of its novel ornamentation !" exclaims the latter airily as he reaches his cousin's side. "Toddles Miss Hardress," introducing them. "Now, Toddles, I will I leave you in ciiarge of my cousin while I sacrifice mvself on the altar of a stern duty, and take some of thes hungry dowagers to taste of the supper their kouIs love." Toddles steals a jrlance at his new charge, and durinur that clanee his heart passes out of his keeping. Toddies falls in love at fir.t fiiht. 'Cool of my cousin, is it not?" inquires Nan, smiling gently at the burly young giant. ToldIe smiled, too. "Just like Hardress." Then, after a short pause, he adds: "He is always doing me some good turn or other." "Is that your notion of it? I call it fliiiting his responsibilities on to another person's shoulders," Nancy declares, with a frankness peculiar to herself. "Ah! I guess my shoulders would be broad enough to carry such a feather's weight of a responsibility the rest of the journey." Miss Hardress looks dubiously at him, as though not quite assured of his meaning. Toddles begins to fear lest he may have "put his foot into it." "There, don't mind anything that I Fay; nobody ever does. Just say to yourself when you feel inclined to be shocked or vexed, 'it's only Toddies, so I won't mind.' Promise." He has a habit of stringing together a number of short sentences, and pausing between each, as though to w atch its eficct upo.i his listener. Mis; Hardress is much amused bv him. "I promise, then, Mr. Toddles." Toddles goes otT into a shout of laughter; the girl half turns away from him, then, hesitating, says aloud: "It is only 'Toddles, so 1 won t mind." He Htares at her. "Taken me at my word That's right. Tell vou what I was laughing about, shall 17" "1 should like to know," nho admits. "It Bounded so funny to have you affix 'Mr.' bef.iro Toddles, you know," and once more Ins face grows a mirthful scarlet. "I do not understand. You could hardly expect mo to call vou by vour surname onlv." " "That is just it. My surname is Chcsncv, but everybody call too Toddles." "Why?"' inquires the girl, smoothing a refractory curl. The young giant looks nuzzled. "Ton my soul, 1 don't know, and, what is more. I don't believe that anybody else is wiser." "But there must be pome reason," persists Nan, "else there would bo no eensu in it." "Fxactlv; you see it is not seuse, but nonsense.'' Then they both laugh. An hour later Capt. Hardress, having immolated himself on tho alt'ir of duty, goes in search of his cousin and Chesney. He linds them at length in a remote corner of the conservatory, seated on a crimson velvet settee, with bends bent near together, the girl's fair, touzled curls touching Chesney's close, military crop. "Mine is even more absurd than somo of yours have been," Nan cries, with a burst of laughter, and nourishing a narrow hlip of paper before her companion's eyes. "Just listen :" "My life Is lote, Atel lor mjr lifo; ' ) dl h tliAll I hi ynuM, It you'll be to y wife." "Sounds morn like a nursery rhyme than a motto," suggests Toddles. "Ilather too advanced for tho nursery, sure'y ;" exclaims Capt. Hardress, w ho has been standing within earshot for the past two minutes. "Jack !" cries Nan, springing from her seat to her cousin's side, "w hat an ago you have been! I finished my supper long ago; we brought out all tho mottoes wo could lind, and have been reading them here. Such nonsense! I wonder who could have written them?" Toddles feels conscious of a keen Fense of disappointment at her words. For him the hour had tlown. "You iittle coquette!" laughs Hardress, "I can see you have been far too happy to miss me." "Well, Mr. er-Toddles-I mean Chesney has taken great caro of me and has kept me amused." admits Miss Hardress. "He has ventured beyond the regimental stock phrases, then?" laughs the captain. Nan shakes her email, fair head. "I do not know them?" the Fays inquiring! v. "Shall I tell you the story?" smiling at the thought of it. " ell, my dear Nan, you must know, to commence with, that on the return of our regiment from for eign service, w hen we had, for the best part of ten years, endured social isolation, we discovered that we 'hung fire' when conversing with ladies. For the life of us we couldn't think. of anything interesting to Fav to them. In one month we earned for ourselves the reputation of being the slowest regiment on record. The ladies, in their turn, began to 'hang fire,' and wo found ourselves forming a bhadowy background at all the , balls and " enter tainments. At last a brilliant idea struck us, why not draw up a regular code ot stock ptirases and remarks w ith which to keep tho ball of conversation rolling, each member of Ours contributing Ina item. .No sooner thought than acted upon. In less than a month we had reinstated ourselves in tlie graces of the fair sex, and have since become the Mont popular regiment in tho service eh, Toddles?" Mr. Chesney throws back his head and fairly roars with laughter at tho recollec tion of this their last campaign. "I'.v Jove, Miss Ilirdrem. you should h.ivu heard some of our fellows' brilliant remarks. One was, 'Will you havo a cako or a Tangerine orange? another, 'Can von tell me the wav to tho skating rink? 'und so on, until tho first coating of ico was broken, when it was permissible to say, in tones of the deepest interestI'leaso tell nw more of yourself. Nan's laugh awakens the echoen In the large conservatory, startling ono or two sentimental sleepy couple in their cor ner. "How absurd ! I cannot imagine cither of you nt a loa for conversation !" " We may confratulato ourselves then, Il.ir.ln-M "Now I must tako you back to Mrs. Wimpole, Nan; she is dying to getaway from this festive scene," declares Jack. "t iood-night," Nan says, turning to Tm1dli a with an outstretched harwl. "1 am going to remain in thin neighborhood lor

a week, so I daro say we shall meet again." "To be sure you w ill," puts in her cousin warmly; "come up to my quarters tomorrow, old fellow. I am going to have what Corney Grain calls a 'quiet tea p-arty.' " A party of four, two ladies and two men, are crossing the barrack-yard equare, where Sergt.-Maj. Jeffs is superintending the drilling of somo raw recruits. "Poor fellows! they look hot and fagged," exclaims the j-ounger lady to her escort, who is no other than Toddles. "Poor fellows, indeed ! We call them 'Jeffs lambs,' " laughs Mr. Chesnev. "Why?" "Jeffs is idie sergeant ; he is the great fat iellow to the right; the men hate him, for he is what is termed a martinet deuced particular about drill, order, etc. I could tell you some 'killing' stories about him." "Do," says Nan cordially, throwing a backward glance over her shoulder to see if her cousin, Capt. Hardress, and Mrs. Wimpole are following them. "Jefls has a nasty knack w hen drilling the men of calling out, 'Stand at Then, as his Fharp eyes detect some of the men forestalling Iiis command and standing at ease, he finishes up, 'Vhat!' Awful sell for the men. It is the greatest joke in the world to see Jeffs shaking his head from 6ide to side aH he reviews hia re-

cruits. 'Oh! you pretty lambs,' he Fays, 'yon are like cucumbers, you want forcing, and I'll force you.'" "Nasty old fellow! I suppose you all encourage him?" Nan exclaims indignantlv. "He doos not require any, I assure you. j He 'hacts on principle.' On one occasion a private was hauled up in the orderly room by Jefls (nearly every day he has some complaint to make.) 'Well, Jetls, what is it to-day?' asked the chief. " 'Kf yer please, eir, private 10,081 does exactly wot he likes. He goes out when he likes, comes in when he likes, gets drunk when he likes; in fact, sir, he behaves himself just as though he were a hotlicer.' " "I should not teil that story too often," declares Nan, when she had recovered her gravity sufficiently for speech. "You know it does not give you a very good character.' " "Here we are, Toddles," calls Hardress. "What have you two found to laugh at so heartily?" "Mr. Chesney has been telling me the most delightful stories. There are a great manv stairs for you to mount, Mrs. Wimpole."" "I shall manage, mv dear," that ladv as sures the girl, somewhat rashly. "You all go on and leave me to take my time. "Ii'emember, it is the first door to the left," calls Capt. Hardress over the balustrade. Considerable taste had been displayed in the arrangement of Capt. Hardress' sitting-room. There is a plentitude ot easy chairs and lounges covered w ith pretty blue cretonne; silk scarfs of a sago green, serving in lieu of antimaccassars; curtains of the same shad'-, looped with blue. A piano in one corner, draped in blue nnd F.'igo green; exquisite- hothouse flowers blooming their short, sweet lives away in tho vases, which are p'aced on littlo threocornered Chippendale tables, l'hotographs, framed in ivory, plush and gold, are strewn about. A few water-color sketches and regimental caricatures furnish the walls. "What a sweet room!" exclaims Nan. "I had an idea that 'quarters' wero tho barest, most comfortless places, while here vou have every luxury." Toddles smiles. "Kvery luxury," ho repeats after her. "Hardress is the luckiest mrn in tho service; didn't you know that?" "I am elnd you aro pleased, Nan," Jnck chimes in w ith the gently indulgent air he always assumes toward his cousin. "I think I had better go out nnd look after Mrs. Wimpole. Sho is almost certain to take the wrong turning unless I do. Fxcuse me for one moment." And Nancy and Toddles aro alone. She looks at him with a soft smile, w hich sets the foolish fellow's heart beating madly. "I hope you are lucky, too," she says. An expression half sad, half expectant, creeps into Toddles' blue eyes. "I hopo so that remains to be shown." Nancy turns away to examine the ornaments and photographs in their pretty frames. "What lovely faces! Hoes Jack know them all?" "I suppose so," indifferently, for he is thinking how infinitely more lovely is her living face, with its delicate coloring of cheek and lip, and the deep gentian blue of her eyes, than aro any of thoso pictured faces she admires. "Mr. Chesney, who is this?" cries Nan, pausing before a life-sized portrait of a young and handsome woman, leaning in a nonchalant attitude against a carven door, with an ostrich feather fan clasped in one drooping hand. Toddles grows hot and cold. How can he explain her identity to this sweet cousin of Jack's? "Oh, nobodv; a friend of Jack's," he murmurs incoherently, and then he sends up a voiceless psalm of thanksgiving for the arrival of Capt. Hardress with Mrs. Wimpole and three other ladies at this critical juncture. Then tea is commenced, and more people drop in ; between them all Nan is made much of, Toddles always hovering in her vicinity like a gigantic guardian angel. Capt. Hardress watches and smiles at his "chum's" infatuation for the girl. "What impressionable natures these Irishmen have!" is his reflection. He does not dream that Toddles is in reality, "hard hit" this time, "Mr. Chesney, have you ever been in love?" This question haunts Toddles, uttered in Nan s soft, sw eet voice, with her big eyes fastened eagerly on his telltale face. Waking or sleeping, the scene recurs to him, causing his heart to beat wildly and his brain to reel with a sense of suffocation. How he curses his folly for not having told her then and there that he loved her to distraction ; that she was tho dearest, sweetest girl in Christendom ; that unless she took pity upon him and loved him a little in return he was undone, his life a blank, his future a desert waste. Ah! why did he not pluck heart of grace to tell her this and more? Now the opportunity has passed from him and Nan is gone. Toddles groans and buries his face on his iiriiis. "Uooddjye, Mr. Chesney Toddles, I mean." Nan's voice again, her smiling, hnppy fnco thrust out of tho carriage window. Would she havo looked so cheerful at the prospect of leaving him if he had been dear to her? Ah, no his love is unrequited, and himself tho most miserable man on the face of Cod's beautiful earth. How lovelr sh alwavs looked! How sweetlv she spoke! What a chinning disposition hers was: so affectionate, yielding und pliable. Recollections of her haunt Toddles, until in sheer desperation ho calls for tho most unmanageable hent in his stables and rides him into objection. "Toddles will break his neck some day," prophe.de A brother otiircr who had watched him :art from tho mess-room w indow. "I hopo not. ' What would tho regiment bo like without 'our Toddles'?" laugh Capt. Hal dress. Purin; .ho next few months It becomes obvious to everybody that Ulbert Chesney, generally "known as "Toddles," is (trarjgoly altered; the tl merry, irrepres

sible Toddles has vanished, leaving instead a restless, perturbed, irritable Toddles. Capt. Hardress alone possesses the clew to this extraordinary metamorphosis of the sunniest and most genial spirit in tho world. "Poor old chap! ho has got the fever badly this time. I believe be is eating his heart out for the sake of a girl who seldom thinks of him (judging from the letters I get from her.) I must give him a chance of making some running with the littlo coquette, or he will become positively illtempered." Jack Hardress, having once arrived at this decision, does not lose much time in carrying his plan into eflect. "Hey, Toddles, what engagements havo you on next week?" he inquires, in the cheerful tones Chesney has begun to loathe. "None at least, I am riding three of 'DustyV horses in the steeplechases at Drayton." "Ah! Perhaps you don't feel inclined to put up at Drayton Hall, (Lady Lawrence's place, you know.) I am going down there and have carte blanche to bring a friend. Nan is staying there;" adding this quite as an after-thought. Toddles turns away to hide the great wave of pleasure that has 6wept over him at the near prospect of meeting the girl he worships so madlv again.

"I I think I should like to go with you after all," he says. "All rieht, old chap," returns Jack, smiling at the success of his ruse. J hat evening Toddles is himself again, and the life and soul of the mess. CIIAIIER II. Toddles big, happy, and handsome, with a smile on his face and a flower in his buttonhole lie is the first object on which Nan's eyes rest as she enters the drawing-room, where everybody is assembled and waiting dinner. "You here!" she exclaims, stretching a welcoming hand toward him. "Delightful isn't it ? For me, I mean," says Toddles, in his usual jerking fashion. "Jack did not tell me that he was bringing you. lie said a friend," pulling thoughtfully at a curl of her hair. "I hope "he considers me that," Mr. Chesney observes, with an air of modesty. "Oh, yes, of course! It was funny of him never mentioningyour name, though, for you are a friend of mine, too." There is a mel'ing tenderness in Toddles' Irish blue eyes as they meet hers. "I hope I shall always bo that and more." A small smilo is lurking round the corners of Nan's mouth ; she looks tip at him darkly, sweetly, then dron her eyelids as though to veil her secret thoughts. Toddle's heart stands still ami trembles. Oh! if they two had been alone in this hour of their meeting, ho might have summoned courage to tell her of his love cast tho hazard of his die and been rendered either happy or miserable forever. Toddles is an Irishman and prone to exaggeration; but that he is earnest for once in his lifo there can bo no doubt. Nan moves away to ppeak to Jack, who has been watching her coquetry with amusement, and just a particle of vexation. Ho does not wish Oilbett Chesney to be made a fool of by his cousin ; ho is too pood for that. Dinner is a long nlfair, and half tho length of the table separates Mr. Chesney from Nan. His parter, finding him "heavy on hand," abandons tho tak of entertaining him, and contents heiself w it li stolen glances every now and then at his straight and pensivo profile. Toddles ents little, drinks little, and is apparently ht in thought. "( iot sorm-thing on his mind," reflects his disappointed partner. "I shall ask Dusty about him." "Dusty" is Captain Roberts, and her cousin. His account of (iilbert Chesney, delivered later on, at her especial request, is an unsatisfactory one. "Toddles? aw yes. Know him, of course. Awfully good sort, but deuced uncertain, doing to ride threo of my horses on Thursday. Splendid jockeyhandicapped by weight. ' Men view their sex from stich a curious level standpoint, and women find this disappointing sometimes. "What was tho matter with you during dinner?" Nan asked Mr. Chesney, when they aro seated sida by sido in the drawing-room later on. "Nothing." "You looked so cross." "Did I ? What a brute I am," with sudden compunction. "I was vexed because some other fellow had tho pleasure of taking vou to linner." "Was that all? Didn't you liko Miss IJobarts, then?" with an air of bewildering innocence. Toddles laughs. "I am afraid that I didn't pay any attention toher," ho admits frankly. "Oh! but you should havo done. She is a prime favorite with everybody here." "Keally?" "Yes, nodding her fair head emphatically. "Perhaps you had better go and talk to her now to make up for lost time. Will you?" "No, I won't," replies Toddles, with a flash' of obstinate humor, "unless you want to get rid of me. Do you ?" A devilish spirit of mischief enters the girl; she turns her head away from him, saying in a low voice: "Even if I did, I should hardly like to tell you so." Then, receiving no answer to this speech she looks round to find the seat beside her vacated and Toddles gone. He does not approach her again during the evening, but stands aloof, looking the picture of dignified misery. Nancy's heart makes merry over this new conquest of hers. Like many very young women Fhe is cruel in the affairs of love. The sufferings of an animal in iain would, at any time, wring tears from her lovely eyes, while a lover's despair affords her only a cruel pleasure. It is the last remnant of the savage lingering in woman's breast, and not all the refinements ot civilization have proved ellicient as yet to abolish it. Capt. Hardres-, who is indulging in a desultory flirtation with tho youngest and loveliest married woman in the room, a Mrs. Helfrie by name, has yet found leisure to observe the progress of his friend's courtship, his sharp eyes detecting tho "littlo rift within tho lute" almost as quickly as they are aware of it themselves. "I say, Mrs. Helfrie, can you tell mo why it "is that vour sx so dearly loves to play with edged tools 7" he inquires apro pos of nothing apparently. She laughs. "Is it because our vanity blinds us to the edgo?'' For threo davs Toddles alternates be tween hopo and despair. Surely, if the girl loved him she would be kinder; and then, just as ho has madn up his mind that his suit is a hopeless one, some littlo ortion or gesture of hr. s restores peace and confidence within his breast. This morning n riding' prty hnd been arranged; and Miss Hardress, Toddles, and a few others aro lingering in the great IiAll, awaiting th arrival of their ' gvvn. "You will permit me to bo your escort this morning, won't vo tV" Toddles whis pers hurriedly, fc.one; !rt some cruel chanci! should wp ' i . rill from him at tho last moment. Sho looked up with a mischievous smile. "What I when thcro aro two men to every lady?" Toddled' faco falls. "To-morrow is my last day hero. 1'lcnso

be kind to me," he urges; and in the after days Nancy often recalls him as he appeared that" morning with terrible earnestness in his bright, handsome face, pleading for his favor. "I wiil be kind to you to-morrow," she says. Toddles' smile is tinged with an almost prophetic sadness. "Why are you not kind to-day? There is no time like the present, Nan," he declares. "My motto is, 'there will be another day to-morrow,'" laughs Mis3 Hardress. "Not fcr all of us," is the rejoinder.

"Capt Iiobarts," calls the girl, "come here, I want to look at somebody lively. Mr. Chesney is in a gloomy frame of mind." Capt. Robarts is not slow to respond to this invitation ; and, when the riding party starts, ho retains the advantage thus gained, and his place is beside her. Nancy's heart misgives her ; what demon possesses her to spoil the morning for them both? Poor, handsome Toddles, he is a lover of whom any girl might feel proud ! She will be kinder to him. Alas! how easily are such resolutions formed and broken. Before evening falls she has succeeded in making Mr. Chesney ten times more miserable than he ever felt before. "Remember that you have promised to be kind to me to-morrow," Toddles reminds her, lightinj: resolutely with tho despair her conduct has inspired him with. "Yes. I don't suppose I shall see much of you to-morrow, for you will be riding in three races. "Three out of eight. Not manv." is his reply. 1 cm are going to win them all, I hope " she cries sharply ; "I should never forgive you if you did not." lou want me to win? he ex claims, with a curious catch in his voice. Of course I do; you are riding Capt. Eobart's horses!" "Thank you for telling me your reason. I might otherwise have been vain enough to imagine that you were interested in my personal success. (jhbert Chesney laughs wildly. But he is deeply hurt, and the girl knows it. Later on, when thev are all bidding one another "good night" in the vestibule, Nancy ms a small hand on his coat sleeve. If vou win, Todd!- s, I'll give you vour pick of my program at the dance in the evening!" If I win for Robarts. Thank you, he savs. 9 ' 4. The heavens are kind to-day and 6hed a broad smiie of sunshine over the Drayton race-course. There coaches, carnages, and "regimental drags" are drawn up in a close line; well-dressed women are promenading the course; others remain seated in their carriages, while everywhere men disport themselves, full of eager surmises and certainty with regard to tho probable winners of the coming races. Capt. Uobarts' horses seem to be favorites, and, if carefully ridden, are reported as "likely winners!" "Is steeplechasing really dangerous?'' inquires the soft voice of an ignorant fair one. "There is a certain amount of danger to be apprehended, of course, but, considering the risk incurred, thero are comparatively few accidents." "Oh! I hope nobody will bo hurt today!" exclaims the soft voice again. Mr. Chesney, with a light covert-coat thrown over the gaudv colors ho is wearing, turns to speak to the girl. "Capt. 1,'oharfs is not riding, do not bn alarmed," he whispers, bending so close to her ear that tho long fair ends of Iiis mustache brush her pale cheek. . "Toddles oh, 'Toddles I wish yon wero not riding!" she cries, ignoring tho subject of his remark. His face softens. "Dear little Nan. I'll bo very careful." As tho day wearn on, Nan is reassured. Toddles has won two races for Capt. Boharts, and all goes merrily as a marriage bell. "I say, oil fellow, you must win this last race for me. I've backed Courtier for a couple of thou," exclaimed Bobarts, who li elated with success and champagne. "I'll do my best," Chesney promises him. "How I wish it were all over!" cries Nan. waxing nervous again. "Why, littlo woman, you aro quito pale!" Capt. Hardress declares. "I feel pale." "Ciood-bve, Nan. I must go now," saye Toddles. Sho clings to his parting hand and glanco with an agony of apprehension. "( h good-bye." There is not a second to lose; he must leave her. But in that second the girl's secret, so carefully, jealously guarded, passes into Toddle's safekeeping. Some minstrels, with blackened faces and rolling white eyeballs, strike up an accompaniment to an American song; then a voice, exquisitely tender and sympathetic, takes up the strain: She's the only pirl I love, Slio'i tho only irl I jrlzo. She's tho dnrling ol my lioart. My pretty little dark blue ere.". "Have they started?" inquires Nan, plucking at her cousin's coat sleeve. "No, this is only a preliminary canter." hat a tall, strong horse ho is rid ing IV Capt. Hardress smiles at the revelation contained in that, poor little pronoun. "Toddles is all right," he responds cheerily. Blue and primrose are his colors, the girl cannot help thinking how well they become him as he dashes past the spot where their coach is drawn up. "Toddles is ahead ho is winning easily," Capt. Hardress assures the anxious gill, craning his neck and straining his vision in his endeavor to follow tho fortunes of the race. Yes; he is winning easily; and then of a sudden, his horse is swerving at tho water jump, he is unseated and throw n. It is nothing; ho has never let the reins out of his hands, and now ho is mounted again and still far ahead of the others. lie has reached the goal at last, and then dismounts. "For Clod's sake, man, ride into the paddock or my horse will bo disqualified!" cries an excited voice, and "Dusty," breaking from out the ring, seizes the bridle of the tall bright bay! Toddles mounts stiffly, slowly; bis faco is desperately pale and wearing a curious, awful smile. lie raises ono hand to his head in a dazed fashion, and Nancy's horrified eyes detect traces of blood oozing through his white breeches and trickling down his riding boots. "He is hurt," she said, in a low, trcm bling voice. "I w ill go and see," replies Jack Hardress. "Co back, Bobarts, and tell Lady Iiwrcnee to tako the party homo quietly, and, for Cod's sake, don't alarm any of them!' Capt. Hardress says. "Is ho very bad," questions Dusty, anxiously. "He is dead," is tho reply. Yes, Toddles is dead. "Jack, I mean to do a lot of things when I get homo. I want to go home now; I am tired of visiting. I should liko to seo mother nnd dad. They tell mo that tho new litter of fox terrier puns is even better than tho last. I expect Bruno has missed me. Ho is a wonderfully allectionato dog. I am suro ho makes himself perfectly isiserablo when I am away. I txv, Jack, you aro not very communicative

to-night. I wish you would talk to me," Nan breaks olf, fretfully, "I was listening. Two people can't talk at the sane time, you know, Nan." "I monopolize the conversation, don't I?" "Yes, you are a chatterbox," he assents. "There, this is the sixth handkerchief I have torn into shreds to-day. I wonder what makes me do it?" Capt. Hard ress seats himself beside his cousin, imprisoning her restless hands in a firm but gentle clasp. "My poor girl," he exclaims, with a crave tenderness in his tones that sends the blood rushing to her pale cheeks. "Don't say that!" sharply. "Can't you see that I am trying not to think? I want to remember all sorts of amusing anecdotes, to make plans for the future." Jack! Jack!' And everything ends in "Toddles is dead!" A SUBURBAN TRAIN WRECKED.

F1t People Inttantlj- Killed In an Accident nt Englewood, 111. Chicago, Sept. 24. A frightful accident to a suburban passenger train occurred tonight in the southern outskirts of the" city. The Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific train No. 57, which left the main depot at 5:3-5 p. ni. for Blue Island, was crashed into by a freight train at the Lake Shore and Pan-handle crossings, near Eighty-eeventh-st., Kntrlewooil. The pa.ssenper train was at a standstill, one coach projecting over the crossing. Into this coach, containing about sixty persons, pluntfd the freight train, traveling rapidly at ri jht angles to the Kock Wand tracks. The wreck of the passenger coach was instant and complete. How many persons were killed and injured it was impossible at the moment to learn. The first estimates made durinz the confusion that followed the collision put the number of dead at twelve to fourteen. Half an hour afterward four dead bodies had been taken out of the debris, and the number of victims was still a mutter of puess work. Most of the people in the ill-starred coach w ere, it is known, residents of the suburban towns of Washington Heights and Morgan Park. When a thorough search had been completed, it was found that three ladies and two pentlemeu had been killed outripht. A third man was in a dyins condition. Six other persons were seriously injured. The latter six unfortunates were hurriedly conveyed to their homes near at hand, w hile the dying man was taken to the institute of sisters of mercy. The rive dead were conveved to the Englewood morgue. The hlo the killed is as follows: MIL. KI'f.LY. .1. M'KINZIi:. YV.V.D IU'EBXER. Mils. IHIOWN. An unknown woman. All were of Wanhiogton Ileitrhti. , The most M'i iously injured are: tit's Mr loamy, Seventy-sixth and Wallaceetc. fatally hurt. Miss A.'K. sti-:j:i.k. Anton Smiiukc;. I'akkkr Hakokn. The last two live in 'Wachineton Heights. Tbc ethers hurt sustained but slight injuries. JOHNSTOWN'S NEW DIRECTORY. The Nunilipr of l'frtniii Drowned Placed nt Tlilr j-Irlv lltinlrl. Johnstow n, l'a., Sept. 1. The new directory of Johnstown has ju-1 been published by C. T. Clarke of Altoona. At tho time of the Hood tho whole edition, which was in a book bindery here, was lost, from tho proof sheets, however, the names wero obtained, and aro now printed a they w ere beforo the Hood, as well as the special record of those that were Iot. Tlie number of drowned is put at :!,", and that is considered a close estimate, it being impossible to obtain tho exact figures. The directory has been carefully compiled, and contains many statistics of interest relating to the Hood. The body of another child was taken out today, but it was in a horrible condition, only tho bones Ix-ing found. TRYING TO BURN THE TOWN. Inceiidlsrlss at Work In Charleston, W. Vo. Murti Property Destroyed. Cuahi.kston, W. Va., Sept. 2.". This city is in a stato of terror through tho evident determination of unknown incendiaries to destroy the place. Yesterday morning the lirst attempt was made nnd by noon the department had been called out four diü'erent times. Acain at : o'clock four fires were started at once, all under such circumstances as to leave no doubt of incendiarism. Property valued at over sixty thousand dollars was destrovod. A number of men aro patrolling the streets with Winchester rifles and every suspicious character is made to give an account of himself. So far no one has been arrested but if an incendiary is captured there is no doubt he w ill bo lynched. NEGRO MAXIMS. Whaffe yo' (why do you) chuck up rock? Mebbe he fall down on yo' own skull. Tare an ox behinio, (behind) a mule befo, but a raskil nowhars; he don't got no safe si Je. You talk all day; dnt no cook tater. Black man ekoot fru de bresh. Mebbe he chKe snake, mebbe snake cba.se nieder. Ef yo' got no shoe, don't troraple in de bram-bil-Don't yo' nebber let loose de wildcat to chate away de house kitten. Fat nicxer, warm blanket. Dem's fa.t friends. Yo' better look sharp when de dog no make bark. When yo' 6ings don't yo' never shct yo' mouf. Hetter set in de mud dan fall in de crick. Fool around in de canebrake and mebbe you find pipestem. You call nigger black and you no mo w hite yourself. 'Case yo' chimbly done ouit smoke in summer time, no pull her down; biuie-by winter come. No ue bancin' de lame mule. , See here, 'case yo' daddy was inions, yo' mammy peppe r, dat no reanon why yo' is j am. When ue old man chop wood, look out lor splinters. Yo jees follow buzzard and yo' boun' fin dead hoss. Nu good tief what no know hide. Who my boss?" ax de CorperheaJ, and dc li?htwool chunk he say, "I i." brer bar, he done Rot cotched by him foot, Mi'tcr Man It Lira toncrnc. Dut pi he say : "1 belongs to two niggers, 'cn.e 1 m so misbrul." Yo' hear tukkey in do wood, nnd he say "gobble, pobble," dat nice. Yo' hear tukkey in do skillet, and he say, "sizxle, siz.le," dat nicer. When yo waits for yo' dinner, brcis de Lord if vou pet urn cold. Yo no kin boss yo' belly. lie don't take Dutlin on bus'. Iiit doir 'sleep. WhafTo yo' pull him tail? lie stone blind, and he n.xy he eye doctor. lind mouf, no say sweet, when he ting, " 'laM'. 'lasses." Miss Hen she flew in pa'dise, but she cackle all same, anil done los' her i-jrs. Itok out for folks that takes de home track after caiiip-ineetin. Ie bii: crab not allers rood meat. Itt-catise yo' eat eirK Monday, whaftb yo' hanker for hen on Tue-day? Vo' buy shout on trust, he squeal ad de time. When pot Idle, no l!y dar. Fox h plsy, and fool rblrken. Fox he sleep. He dream chicken, and so fox alien hate belly full. forwardext pi? make de first rhf r. Miiility hii(li-inlDJcl cat. le milk Jug war empty. A linn ho ain't no wuss for a rope bridle. I.ir iiin'l no tire in borrowed mule. SVhen de sky rain meal, yo' ain't got no use for bnif. Yo' iret holt of de handle of de frjln' pan, den s-s yo', "Ii yi-ro bacon's got to de done Jc Sk. I pleases." Wh'nyo's cookln', and dos ii round, keep n eye en de rosat, t'other on d doc. le rich msu's pl never break, throneh bo itlUCCS. KltllOkH

STOLE HOUSES FOR FUN.

A YOUNG GtRL'S PECULIAR CONDUCT. eTenteen-lar-OId Etta Iloblnson on Trial at larkerburg, XT. Va., Charged With Ilort Stealing tier Love of Kxritemeot. pARKERSBtTt;, "W. Ya., Sept. 24. There is now in progress here a trial, be;run yesterday, of a seventeen-year-old girl named l'.tta Kobinson, whose life has, for tho p.i3t Eix months, been full of sensations. Th' charce against her is horse-sta'.in?, and the circumstances attending the committing of the crime are very romantic. Six months aero I'.tta was visiting her brother, who resides in the adjoining county of Putnam, and is encased as a farm hand by Thomas Ilandiy, a wealthy real estate owner. One morning Ktta was missine, and also a fine horse belonging to Nathan McCoy. Afk-r a search of tome lays throughout the neighborhood, including some of the roughest of Weft Virginia's hills ami thickest ravines, the horse was found in the pirl's possession near the Ohio river. While her pursuers wens debating what to do with her Ktta dashed into the Ohio, still on horseback, and endeavored to swim across. he was captured and while being returned to jail told how she had traveled fifty miles alone through a strange country after night. She was placed in jail but broke out and returned to her brother, when McCoy, from whom she had stolen the horse, took pity on her youth and refused to prosecute her. A short time after a horse belonging to a farmer nrmed mith 'as missing just at the time when the low country in the Kanawha valley was all flooded. The horse was tracked to the cdjre of the water and later found on the other side. The next day both Ktta and the hor.-e were found in a holiow. The girl had swam the stream, a mile wide, on horseback. She slept out at night, living on what she could steal. For the second time her youth protected her and she was not prosecuted. Six weeks later she stole a horse from Iewis Losley. She was pursued across the Ohio, captured and brought back to the Putnam county jail. She was contined there several weeks, in which time her winning ways won her nn entrance into the confidence of the jailer, who allowed her many privileges. Two weeks ago he awoke to lmd the fair maid hai gone, having cleverly made her escape by cutting through an old wall. It was afterward found that she had stolen a suit of men's clothes, and, taking the stable key, had stolen a fine horse, temporarily in tho jailer's possession, and tied the country. For ten days Alf Durnett, the detective, and a posse scoured the country in vain. She was finally captured, with the horso (till in her possession, near her old home. 1 Miring her escapades hlie had live ! on berries, corn, or anything she could find. and alone wandered through tho wildest and most dangerous territory. This young adventuress lxs not steal from any other motive than simply tho love of excitement nnd adventure. Her face glows uith youth and apparent innocence, and her every l.k and action deny that her peculiar conduct i.t from evil niotics. Physically she is beautiful, alwayi full of life and a general favorite. Her education and manners have not ben neglected, neither is she other than neat and comely in her attire. Her youth, beauty and general excellence in many wayhave created a vast deal of sympathy in her favor, and wnno of the most prominent citizens of Putnam crtintv are interesting themselves in securing her releane. Tho trial will probably last a week. MARYLAND DEMOCRATS. Their Stat Convention in Sevslon la Ualtlniore The riatform Adopie.1. IUl.TlMOiiK, Sept. IS. The democrat state convention was called to order at 12:1j p. rn. by the Hon. Stevenion Archer, chairniaa of the state central committee. James Hodges, ex-mayor of Daltiniore, was chosen tempi rary chairman. In Iiis speech, Mr. Hodges criticised severely the independent democrats of I'.ultimore, and designated them assistant republicans. The usual committees were then appointed, and the temporary organization imide permanent. The committee on resolutions made its report, and it was adopted. The resolutions realiirmthe platform adopted by the national democratic convention of lvi at St. Iiouis. They condemn trusts (is having influenced serious injury upon the peop'e and which, unless arrested, will create great distress by limiting the supply and ruinously enhancing the price of many articles of prime necessity at the mere pleaure of the manacers of illegal combinations. '1 hey declare for a new as-S'-Mruentof property in order that the burden of t:xnt'"' may be equally distributed. The platfcrm f j o 1 "a judicious adjus-iinent of hcenKts to sell hi, tier with the superadded restrictive features which experience elsewliero has prored to be salutary and effectual; such lecislation should he made to subserve the doulde purpose of redurinz the tax rate on property and of removing hirgely from our taidt the vice of intemperance." The party pledges itelf to a careful review of the registration of voters and the elective franchise, so that at the coming legislature, stringent provisions may be adopted to preserve tiie purity of the ballot-box, and declares its sincere and earnest purpose to reeojniz! and enforce all the civil and political riehts of the colored people, but insist that the schools for the white and colored children shall be kept separate and distinct. Col. Päse then nominated L. Victor Bauchman of Frederick county for comptroller, and he was nominated by acclamation. THE DEMOCRATIC VETERANS. The National nnd St-e Camps .Meet and Klect Officers. The rational and state camps of the democratic soldiers' and sailors' organization held conventions in this city Thursday and elected olücers for the ensuing year. In the national camp the following were elected: President, Gen. (ieorge W. Koontz of Indiana; Vi?e pres. ident, I S. Shepherd of Illinois; secretary ('apt. W. C Tnrkin'ton of Indiana; treasurer, t'apt. M. H. Daniels of Indian. National Kxccutive Hoard Charles W Iiridgos, V. I. Ihpley, Isaac N. Uradwdl, A. T Wilson, Prank Wilson, M. II. Daniels, A. I Newland, W. V. Tarkincton, und (ien. (ieerjje W. Koontz, of Indiana, Oilicers were fleeted fcr the stnt enCHin proent a follow : I'rni lent, .lohn I. Hale, Decatur; vice-president, LimIit I. Hiker, Portland; secretary, brine . llr.tdw 11, Indintinpolis: treasurer, John Kiley. In the evening tiie visiting members met with- Hea V. (iray ramp of this city to w itness the initiat.on of pew members and join hi a general iii-uMon ct questions of interest to tin' orcan i;at ion. (iood speeches were nmde x John I. lisle of the state camp. (en. Kooulr., Col. Thompson, Capt. Kaker, Col. Miepherd of Pekiu, HI., sud others. A general ?od time was had, and all went home w iih a ieterniination to work with renewed vigor for the cause of this joun orpuiiatiun. IIa Woul.1 I rtl Kaffr. ITims 1 Knnrkle "How tnneh U that tombstone for inr wile's mother snini; to wrl-h?' A pent ''One thousund pounds." "I hat ain't enough. I pu j on had better piske it a ton, and (anxious! y)Kt it up as soon as possible." A 1 law In tlia Law. Client (In ChieaeoV-"! w.int a divorce." lawyer "On whut promelsT' ''My wife cannot make good coffee." "1 am sorry, but the law 1 tmt broad enough for a man to get a UVcrre on nitro eoLce