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^^HFkinc I^W^cHONI NOVEL OF AMERICAN LIF1 by HH^ ' CHAPTER XX. . CONTINUED. 9S Mr. Vernon did not try to binder Hj*'.-; him. The whrfle thing seemed un^K'-: teal, and the old man's going had no fj significance beyond its connection < with that sense of inevitable doom which impended shapeless, vague and ? altogether terrible, somewhere in the \ oloud on Mr. Vernon's life. And so, as they went ridfng down through the solemn woods in the fine, j, gray rain that began to fall, Mr. Ver Lnon. scarcely spose or nuea m? gu?c from the ground until they came near to the bank of Bayou Bienvenu; and, even then, it was the young man who broke the sileno,e. They were side by side, a short way in advance of their little troop, and thd rain was blowing in their faces, when a man stepped into the road in front of them, not fifty paces distant. Ballanche drew up his horse, at the same time touching Mr. Vernon's BBflMBBBk arm. "Hold!" lie exclaimed, in a low fm HP voice, as he reached for his pistol. "Whom have Tve here!" jHBEffljWP The man held up his hand and made a friendly sign, "Oh, it's Peevy," said the lieuten\ ant; "one of our special scoutst The English are not far away, I >judge, I ; else he would not be here. We,will ride on and see what he is up to." Mr. Vernonwas all attention now; ? the suggestion of proximity the ; .-ri British army made him think at once * V. of his wife and daughter. The house ' was still two miles farther on. ("How now, Peevy?" called' Bal1 an oh e, as soon as they oame up to ^ ' the scount. "What do you know by 4- this time?" \ Peevy saluted awkwardly and gazed off into the woods as if, with utmost l ' V concern, chewing his quid1 meantime. . * ei% '*1 hev' seod j^aeBign o* the enemy ; sei down yar a pi( !" he said. * feiiir. "Some sif?n'r what like? V*liere?" ' 8t over , yar ' 6n the ?d mgh Outer two hunB8K9Hgfl?S^9^^^^^^^^^1ayliglit tfyis morn* n^MHBUCnHMw^, prA w ^^hit air ?> ^ HflHfiflHSB^HMHBB^nHfeey's as7 mm^ sQMjjjjj^H^HnnMDnHKX^a HHHHHH|^to n . ' w*v?. ?? . ' si? ?' 1 OF;k_ '' :Y ISLAND1 c tZJZ* 1 c 5 DURING THE WAR OF 1812. t s IfT s THOMPSON. t by Robert Bonner's Bom. s been all this time deoeiving him and j roistering in gaming-houses and other T places of iniquity at his expense, g aimolv paying him interest on the jj amounts squandered. He now saw to j. what his years of illegal operations had brought him,' and he reviewed with a sickening at heart the whole T dark, hidden life that he had bee^ r living; but what was all this to an-f other thought which since his several j interviews with old man Burns had- a shaped itself to such proportions, j that now it filled the whole vault of t consciousness as with a nebulous hor ror?' Thie Colonel Loring, this mys- J terious Pierre Rameau, this man t whom all the world of the southwest ? knew of and trembled at but had never been able to see, had suddenly become to him the embodiment of . ? c conscience ana retriouuon. And what was to be the end? Mr. y Vernon heard this qnestion echoing ] about in his inmost heart where he kept his wife and daughter shrined? What was to be the end? Would they soon know what he knew? Must his j whole past life be unmasked to them? But they? They were in danger this j moment! In danger! Had not the j scont said that they we?e carried away ] by a British detachment? He oould j not realize the situation; nothing came : to his mind with distiqotness, so blur- ( ring was the cloud of his 'distress, Ballanohe and his men followed Mr. Vernon as fast as they could ride, but ] him irill thfl T>lttnta- , UiU UUV V TViv?av MUX ?M> w?? tion was reached.- There\ they found , it justas Peevy &4d said. ,The,h6ttse ] was empty and silent. A-btfd^of the . enemy had been tfc&e, both hozse and ] foot, as they could see by the prints , in the sandy soil1, all around. Most of , the negroes wore* hiding in the swamp . or in the tall grass of the salt marsh to the eastward. V JA ilr. Vernon leaped from his hor^J? and ran into the building; but was nothing greet mm sound of his own heavy footfalj^Hj^H When Lieutenant Ballanoj^H^RS up, lie too rushed into th^|flKHBH gazed eagerly around room to room. jin old negro 1 "i a oorne^fl|RHHR39fl9HH yrJ sh*HiHBBHi >!C . jnDMnKn^Bnn|DnB^Hn vith one ha&^Brth^Kwinging Mary ; __.l ? _ At_ _ .11 i inn iree in me uiuer. A rattling volley and a chorns of ! shouts greeted them as they got well ; inder way, *nd the bullets whistled t ibout tbeir ears. Mr. Vernon's horse was the fleetest >f all, and so he at once became their , eader. He dashed upon and almost! >ver a group of three red-coats in the ' niddle of the (road1. One of them, ' ifter firing unsuccessfully at him, | leized the horse's bridle and was : Iragged down for his pains. Ballanche, encumbered with the j cout, was not so successful; Mr. Vernon looked bacik and saw him try? ng to use his sword, while his horse pas rearing and plunging. Wheeling .bout and drawing a long heayy :uife, his only weapon besides his misters. he dashed^-to the young (fficer's rescue. "Punch .'is etarnal eye out!" Peevy I vas screeching "Whack'im on the lose! , Jag 'im inter the ribs!" j One of the English, a stalwart fel- . ow,'who was unaware of Mr. Vernon's \ ipproach, turned just in time to have lis neck almost severed by a slash of^ J hat terrible Southern knife. And" ~1 ust.then the rest of the little detaoh- i nent reache4 the spot and all biroke . hrough together without the lois bt}>i man. P "Golly, mussy!" ciiod Peevy, "thitf rarV no decent way-o' fightin'J lI '' mn't do nothin' Tri* Mtfry Ann an' iol' on ter this yar kiokin'' an* callyrortin' annymil at the same , time! Blame sich eternal'foolishness] Le' 'a jo back an' try 'em aver ag'in a-fltan'n* onter the solid yfirth." , Bat Lieatena&i'BallanohjQ gave no ieed to his grumbling. He 'knosr that raokson'a army ,was moving^ ancT that iis plaoe was in. the van. His unitary experience told him that the : English detachment through which ;hey had broken was a party of reoon- \ laisance apd thajfc . the ,onemy's*. irmy was moving ^iip the b'ayoti in "Ye can't shoo^oflTn a hoss <{j low," Peevey cpnjtotiW to $8 'How kin ye sqanft; throruy^^/yn lights on er gnn b'ar'J^ ^^*^3 lymil air a hi'kin' ye >in' yer down an*^g^HE|^B&j^H jesjJn f hole ny UP SUING fffflfi | , 7~~ J I \ V I K I V / ^ ^ AcH'CAftQii: | ' 2 D i ' - < * * * iIMOiANAPOLI* J < a a* - $ 2 / .,870 -JLC.-C(1900*. * ry-'\].. .. >890 /?<'8oo T | 'fte |Jbw Bentfe J, | 8 of Population in ? I ffie [jnited gtates jj The cenBtig bureauhas declared: Columbus, Ind., the centre of population of the United States. Columbus is ih Bartholomew County^on the dast fork - of/White RJver, In tbe finest' farming-land in lndiahai' The city has 8130 inhabitants, an lipase of 13ft) since 1890. \1S90 the centre^. popSlatimittihe United States has'shifted a m?Mlthe nortbr and a Bttfe > the ffiM- :jt is still in . the . State ot InMm,;'not far from Columbus, the Bartholomew County, ha the ^^hern central part of the State. On if^otal |)ojat arises, a moholfth j - -*-? 4 ** ? +"A*>^c,ofcy4i . iollow Hp ; HMMMgW ?^.j?X1jL* HiHniK' lyj nnnw. ;-^2i] E mac* HHH^HHr dips nnHHHIHP1 Id HH'? ^HHS^MnB^Bn^^MV.':] miles bhhhk^. ^n^nsMMn * H^^BjHj^HHH^^ 4[ HBHw]^BHv *' E, OPULA540 the north, again. bad couie into tbc.Lmon. The the great West Had switched the North in ISO), and it \yas Ohio. War reduced ' South in the de v . IfF" ' ?????? ? 1BD MOVEIENT OF THE mio, n f| ItOLyM"1'? j i JCuABKSBUfiC 1 /J . r * <w . J * - rJ v A v cade between i860 and 1870, and the centre moved north near to Cincinnati, In another decade it had cleared Cincinnati in. its westward progress, and in 1870 it had settled in .central southern Indiana. Tfca noit 4on mo'FD hiii fho centre. y^stwrird- atout fivejfty . inUefl and northysrard. about seven;,' miles. There is ho reason to b lieVe- that It will not continue on its course wtthrthe son ^nd'SbUt to the north .until It settles near .Chicago, there to remain. A FAMOUS BEAUTY^ ~ Lady TTbfr U Said to Resemble The Viscdtyite^rMaltland !b .one of the, ^rtistfc';.t)^fie^of English society belonging to 'me1 ee^that include^ .the Marfchioness "of Gjttifby, Lady !PoynmU/\ rtinlrA r\t lcjl awy vuicio iruv.iua^; j.uvuud y* ; *he great artists 'and are more or lesi; ikilitiil With tbeir own brushes- and (^ors' 'Lady Mgttland is a slim, blonde yi&ng Scotch woman, the daughter of ' ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ' . j^enturfes 'It: Is. one the Mpud boasts of this accent Scotch Hmily that the heads "of, the, family Hive always married fecotcfy' women^ d that of the thirteen portraits of He countesses of Xaoderdaie which m i ' ? ' 1 ? . hkc? in Thlrlstnne castle not one but te.conspicupusly lovely. Wben the pres efct - Heir or tne eawaom cn^se miss Qffodoline Lucy Williams for, his &hojjr?8 that he was no less ejefllen^jSnlge of feminine beauty than his anceetoru. _ . The 'viscountess Is famous for her abundant suit of blonde hair, and hav-. ing been assured of her Undoubted likeness to the good Queen Eleanor, she has had her portrait painted in a gorgeous velvet gown of the twelfth century mode, and in her blonde hair a wonderful pearl diadem, sucn as Edward's faithful consort wore. Where to Be Good. It was a Payne avenue car, rather crowded, too, on last Sunday night. rIn one corner "sat two little urchins, 'tafcingNUP little room as possible. Indeed, they occupied about as much room as one adult. The boys were evidently of the class which run about the street on weekdays in bare feet. They could not, however, be included in the "bad boy" class. They were evidently not useu to sitting quieuy and orderly, and fidgeted about in real distress. Their eyes roamed from the floor to the people, and back to the floor ago in. Finally one said to the other, in a confiding whisper: "Golly, but ye have to be good in a car, don't ye?"?Cleveland Plain-Dealer. Accepted the Insult. At the close of a performance given as a benefit to John Brougham, the actor and dramatist, one of the audience threw upon the stage a purse of gold. Brougham picked it up, and, after examining it, said: "Ladles and gentlemen, circumstances ^e&rapel ine to pocket the ir lit, but (looking grim) i'sbould like to see the man who "would df.re to repeat it,"?Argonaut. ; *? >. ' ...tejjj f ' \ " " f.i ?/. . - -I" ' vPfiPOUTION'S CENTRE. ^ ??? 'A -j,?. OA LTI^oIeT/ {/' A. I fl/ ^ ' ' - I | RED BMW HAOS FkANTS BROW | ^ Flammarion's Investigation of tl*'; Influ- ? S ence of VariousKlnds of Light ' St on Vegetation. J ' ? . ' ' The experiments in regard to the Influence of the different parts1 qt . ;Uie sunlight upon the growth .of plants, have be?n carried on for several years, especially by the famous botanist Sachs, who proved that red raysof,the sunlight' especlallj'fatvored the; growth of plants, and fleers, ?kich Inty&tJgations r, h^e.^jow?boen again tak^'ujJby'M. -UamOle tflammarton, ^ ^efe^t^ J^ench afftfonomer. FJamm^ofl'^tablished, toiconnectlon with the Ob^vatory at Jurlsy, near Paris, nn Avnprfnw>nt station In the form of a small garden, afr represented In one . of the c u ts,"wberft iicr BtBd!ed the mat- ' ter'and condupted?iU#'^xperlmentfi. A report recently. published ( contains i lu i tained in fS-^^^ot-^ouaes, one {j of which Is cohered Vfth prdlnary "win- d dow glass,, and :?he othef'threie with j blue, green; and'red gfa&. Tfie gla.1, used for these houspa iffS^arefiilly ex- t( amines and only fiioae pleety taken f whose Intensity adtoltj&dVonly mon- ^ acnromauc ugni. urai hsu w uuki ^ c^iltlous are lbe isame in thie four houses. Thfe screen-like device shown. In- the other cut represents a number 'of thermometers made of colored glass ?while In the extreme right is a r&diometer^ for'the observation of the ^ intensity'jof fte'llght* -Flammarlon ^ first selected, for his first experiments - y a plant from which, through Its pe- f culiar fdrins of growth, we can judge, j g at any time, of its healthy condition. ! This was the Mimo$alpudjea, the well known sensitive plant whose leaves '' .act only upon exterior Irritations when 'the plant is in a perfectly normal condition. Young plants 'of a' trifle over an inch in height were planted on the same day and in the same manner in all of the four houses, and were cate- a fully attended to.. After three fnonths t< a notable difference was to be seen, ii Under the blue glass the plants did a not die off, but neither did they show- y any signs of growth. . In the white -p house they were well developed and y had grown to an average height of a four Inches. In the green ttouse the b plants were a .little etiolated?that is fj l.i.1 *1 ?: A A I IU .tucy ;piii/ncu uio.icau ui urc o' norma] green' color ijt yellow-white o ' "" ^ ^ |r:; , i DEMONSTRATING' THE INFLUENCE OP ^ LIGHT ON VEGETATION. color, but tlieir development had been magnificent, their height averaging six J*-?>*1 ?/-??' TUA of/iofnof rlni'/jlAnmonf hhW iUlJJCO. AUC JjivUlrtut Uti ViWj/uivuv, "V " ever, bad tatfen place in the red house, where the plants not only showed their P usual normal color, but had reached a height of seventeen inches?that is to ^ say, fifteen times the original size, and ^ were blooming splendidly. Flam- Ql marion then took two other plants and bi attained almost the same, or, at least, jE very similar results. Experiments a] carried 011 with strawberries showed tl also the same results; under the red p; light they developed marvelously. It cm will readily be understood that these si experiments, especially, with regard to 3:1 valuable, rare plants, are of the highest value.?Philadelphia Record. Owls Nest in Chnrch Organ. fo For some time past efforts to locate er a squeaking noise in the pipe organ at H Bethlehem Church, at Sheboygan, be Wis., had proved fruitless.- A few fo days ago, when the organ was over- a hauled, in one of the Large pipes a live ro owl was found, which Is now in pos- to session of the organist. % How the owl be got into' the organ js jrcfc to be ex- be plained., ff 1MB THE BOOKS. WE USED^^^E^^^B do love readin', that'* a fact: Da? nseJBBBBj ter say it took BhD l pull as strow? '? a steer's ter gip vu^K^Ht nose out of a book; H 've sot up nights till after ten ter thdsa^HEH up a tale, md see the hero married and the viHuig^m tut I dunno how 't is, I neve?Bfl| seem ter find ; lie sort of yarns I love, because they're all of a diff'rent kind: . RHfl eem's if the authors nowadays had, sorteg'^^^H gone ter seed, BHH Vhy don't they write;,some stories the kind wo used ter' read? Ay?B ' ' fer 'member them old yarns? Gee WfturfH^^Hj Say! wasn't they aomethin' prime( ?he hero was a duke or lord, yer bet every time; . Lnd he was mightly harnsome, but ginerally pore, Lnd had a thievin' uncle who was rich a*x^BH all out door. fljB| le loved a beaucheaus. damsel, nam?>ah^^fl| "Lady Eunesteen," S^H t " i ft u* ?lf ler raven toc&s ana lawn-uiceejqnn beat all was ever seen; ' le chased her through five hundred lbajj$.Hfly thick pages, one by one, Jut all the time yer felt plum-su^e bag her when 't was done. - jflH| Chen there was robbers, tew, that in caves alMined with gpld \.nd there was ^ghosts that hung arotrad I some murdered chap's remains H \.nd used ter sashay round'at howl and clank their chains. Hj fer 'member when yer read them taJe&^^HH upstairs at night, alone, low every sep'rate hair 'd' nnkink whwkft^JH them things fetched a ^roan? a Jut ghosts in these new-fangled bguflH ain't nawthin' more?why, pshaw! Zer'd jes' soon poke 'em in the rib3 and '"^N| ?he hero' nowadays don't swear b^.vfaraHH ?er have some caitiffs blood. His dnke, his name is Jones. , rhe heroine, she rides a wheal as bpJa!?>fi^B bid, drat 'em! they both talk Jin- |(H reel folks that's livin' does. v. . )h! gjve me^ back J ape, ^Auatenl^ le was die boy,?S.vlvanus wasV&pgajH^HI onsarn these modern cbaps, all their tiresome.breed! !d like to git <a novel, of the kind ter read. w ?Joe Lincoln, JUNGLES AND JESTS?$S>: ttfl ' jSlllicus?1".No man is really MM] Lntil be Is dead." Cynicus^"HjK|^?BH p? diner tomhatnne insorintk>ng:#WM ?: Effle?"Jack and I fished. fo^ ?own Topics. Patient?"Do you belie ould 1 go <h practicing Bobbg?"Mrs. Nobbs' is-"'dressed ought the outfit at it daughtfefc|^B -Baltimore Herald. An a f/\l*on af a Vm'liti/r ?*i appens to boys who; tell Hes?'.'' '^90 routh?"Yessir. .Tt^ejff .fiite. imcs, if they tells good ones."?Sj^ffl *"^81 o yon do with them "You see Clnrfence told old you because I'm his couSde^9|^^^B riend." "No: you mean be >tol<J ecause he thinks yon ai-e-lilsi combr ential friend."?Indianapolis tiir^uynic merits no Servants to stop all j'o^ because9B Lena?"I didn't think you let a>1 lss you on such short acquaintjWiSK H faude?"Well, he thoroughl^SBK 3BB inced me - that it was all mjcaMBBWi ault that I hadn't met him mart Set. : He kissed.her in the hflJl, T '. {iitgEm The clock was there,. aa vrelLA';' . You mustn't, Joe!" she cried^i B They say that time will^t^li!"^ Prizes for Faithful Servant*. . On the Austrian Emperor's fete 9H number of prizes were dlstrlfetjjpCW^M d servants who have jleen a long'tlmM B i the same situation. The prize bout $75 in each ease. First, st was a valet, aged seventy-tbi|^^^H| ,*ho. had served forty-six consecst^T^^^H ears in one family. The second Wait"' jMfi nurse, Seventy-two years old, . wiiflf^jHM ad served forty-two yeqrs in' oHe amlly; a maid-of-all-work, seventfjlffi^Wj even years old, who had served fortyy-^^J ne years in a nuforiery, came nexttSM hen an undercook, aged rho had served thirty-nine years tinnS^H oys' orphanage. There waa (L f-all-work, aged seventy-six, who haq*J^^B erved thirty-nine years in one family, kitchenmaid sixty-nine years old,,.* ;ho had been in the household of M 'rincess Clementine of Coburg foC; ixty-eight years, came one wkb;bdi9^^H| een lady's maid to Baroness Sefaej; JB or thirty-eight years- Altogetli^^HM bere were twenty-one names on the H st, and the shortest term of as thirty years?London News. , H| A Hint For Future Explorer*. Item clipped from newspaper, d&l# "Mr. FliHo McAndree, the'famous exlorer, who Las made three attempts -flH , Tin-Tv Phlnoflo pnnltnl. gnd IB J 1TUV.U cac VM.MV.MV rho penetrated seventy-five miles, ftrr? V' aer than the last Russian expedition,; -' JH :arts from Pekin on his latest attenmtl^^H ext week. He will go as far as pos8?/~ B le with wagons and then will ascend 'flfl l balloons. The hot air that continully comes from the new capital of H| ie Dowager Empress and the Em- oD ror should cause a heavy counter :rreni of cold air. which should be' jfBcient to draw his balloon into tbef idden capital." Origin of the Funny-Eone. ^ fl A lecturer ou osteology at r college r colored men in Alabama was enumv ating the different bones of the arm'J H0| e had just explained that the large )ne connecting the shoulder with the jH9 rearm was called the humerus, whe'S young negro in the rear of the s<? up. "Doctah," he 6aid,':pointing^^H| the tip of his elbow, "is d-s hyaijfl^H| me called de funny-bone 'c?us? irdahs on de humorous?" ? Collleg^^^H 'eel^Jy. f . *mU)i