The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, July 07, 1900, Page 9, Image 9
THE COURIER. i-y x ? u r K- r K -w: m I '? --. trains in unimportant stations like G rover. My writing bad been rubbed out by a moist band, for I could see the linger marks clearly, and in place ot it was written in blue chalk simply: C. B. k Q., 2G387. "I sat there drinking brandy and muttering to myself before that black board until those blue letters danced up and down, like majic lantern pictures when you jiggle the slides. 1 drank until the sweat poured ofT me like rain and my tooth chattered, and I turned sick at the stomach. At last nn idea Hashed upon me. I snatched the way bill off the hook. Thocarof wool. that bad left Grorer for Boston the night before was numbered 2G337. "I must have got through the rest of the night somehow, for when the sun came up red and angry over the white plains, the section boss found me sitting by the stove, the lamp burning full blaze, the brandy bottle empty beside me, and with but one idea in my head, that box car 26337 must be stopped and opened as soon as possible, and that somehow it would explain. "I figured that we could easily catch it in Omaha, and wired the freight agent there to go through it carefully and report anything unusual. That night I got a wiro from the agent stat ing that the body of a man had been found under a woolsack at one end of the car with a fan and an invitation to the inaugural ball at Cheyenne in the pocket of his dress coat. I wired him not to disturb the body until I arrived, and started for Omaha. Before I left Grover the Cheyenne office wired me that Freymark had left the town, going W2st over the Union Pacific. The com pany detectives never found him. "The matter was clear enough then. Being a railroad man, be bad hidden the body and sealed up the car and billed it out, leaving a note for the con ductor. Since he was of a race without conscience or sensibilities, and since his past was more infamous than his birth, be had boarded the extra and bad gone to the ball and danced with Mis3 Mas terson with blood undried upon his bands. "When I saw Larry O'Toole again, he was lying stiff and stark in the under taker's rooms in Omaha. He was clad in his dress clothes, with black stocks ings upon bis feet, as I had seen him forty-eight hours before. Helen Mas terson's fan was in bis pocket. His mouth was wide open and stuffed full of whito cotton. "He had been shot in the mouth, the bullet lodging between the third and fourth vertebrae. The hemorrhage had been very slight and had been checked by the cotton. The quarrel had taken place about five in the afternoon. After supper Larry had dressed, all but his shoes, and had lain down to snatch a wink of sleep, trusting to the whistle of the extra to waken him. Freymark had gone back and shot him while he was asleep, afterward placing his body in the wool car, which, but for my tele gram, would not have been opened for weeks. That's the whole story. There is nothing more to tell except one detail that I did not mention to the superin tendent. When I said goodbye to the boy before the undertaker took charge of tho body, I lifted his right hand to take off a ring that Miss Masterson had given him and the ends of the Angers were covered with blue chalk." "Can you tell me what time it is, my boy?" said a gentleman to aj urchin he mot on a country lane. 'Twelve o'clock, sir." "H'ro," said the stranger, "I should have thought it was more than that." "It never is nioro than that here, Bir," replied tho child. "It always begins agaiu at unci" rHE HORRORS OFST. DOMINGO. It Wan Juat a Ilnniire.1 Years Ago That They Occurred. An hundred years ago tho islund of St. Domingo was tho fairest and rich est in tho western hemisphere, Buys the Hartford Courant. For fifty years it had been growing in production and wealth more rapidly thun any other European colony in America. It was the emporium of the western world. It filled the coffers of Europo from tho exuberant fertility of its soil and well arnod its title of "La Heine d's An tilles." Tho French portion one third only was the most productive, and tho Talue of its prouuets was estimated at 175,000.000 francs an increase of 100.000,000 francs in a quarter or a lentury a sum which represented the "neaaure of toil exacted bj human jlavery. The population of the colo ay was 570. 000. Of this number 40. D00 were whites of all classes, 30.000 rere mulattoes or free people of col ors, 500,000 were negro slave-. Among jhe white was a class of vagabonds icatterd throughout tho colony, a worthless set on which the mulattoes oestowed tho epithet of "les petits blancs." The African slave trade was jt its height at this period. More ;han 300 vessels left the coast of Africa !aden with their human freight in :hains; l.",000 annually perished on Jie passage; 20,000 yearly found thei vay into the slave marts of Saint Do ningo. The revolution in France created political disturbancej and differences imong the whites in the colony. The people of color claimed equal rights with tho whites; their claims wero re jected, their leaders wore arrested, tried, did put to death. They turned ) the negroes fornid. These had been juiet witnesses of this war of caste. Fhey w ero now wakened by a sensa of '.heir own condition. They joined with he people of color, and insurrection aegan on the night of Aug. 21, 1791. Incendiary fires broke out in several plantations in the plains of the north, riie negroes, under the lead of one of ;heir number, a fearless giant named Boukinan, now commenced to plunder .nd bun; indiscriminately. By tho JtJth one-third of the plantations in he great plain wei'o in ashes. In a reek the whole plain tas swept by 5re. The desolation and ruin was ilmost complete from the sea to the nountains. The coil ran with tho jlood of tho unhappy planters and Jieir families. Thus began that series )f events and disasters known in his (Ory as tho "Horrors of Saint Domin go," events and disasters which re nilted in tho loss lo Franco of her 4chest colony and tho establishment i 1804 of tho free black government tf Hayti. Do you get your Courier regularly ? Please compare address. 11 incorrect, please send right address to Courier office. Do this this week. The Rock Island playing cards are the slickest you ever handled. One pack will be Bent by mail on receipt ot 15 cents in stamps. 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