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OOPVRIOHT BY AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION. IS84 Ike bad his arm raised for a blow when a figure passed him and halted beside Uncle Ben. That figure had pushed its way into the circle unheard and unseen. Everybody stared in as- "StopP' she cried. tonishment, and for half a minute not a word was said. It was Marian Percy. She was known by sight to at least hall of the gang, and the others at once iden tified her as "the gal" they had expect ed to find in the house. Let us go back a little. When Uncle Ben left the camp among the rocks, she had intended tc follow him within an hour. It had been settled that Kenton must remain where he was until a force of Federals was brought to the rescue or until it was known that he was in no peril from the Confederates. While it was hoped that Uncle Ben's mission would be suc cessful all realized the chances of its failure. Both armies were scouting and raiding up and down and across. A hamlet or crossroads or bridge held by the Federals one day would be in posses sion of the Confederates on the next, and vice versa. Uncle Ben might en counter a troop of Federal cavalry and bring them to the rescue, or he might be picked up by a Confederate troop or a gang of guerrillas and sent off some where to work on fortifications. "Mebbe the Yanks will came fust, and mebbe the Confederates, " replied Steve Brayton when appealed to for bis opinion. "It's goin to be nip and tuck, I reckon, bnt with the chances a leetle in favor of the Confederates. Kin I make bold to offer some advice?" "Why, certainly," answered Marian and Kenton in the same breath. "Then let Miss Percy head fur home to once. We can't tell what, may be happenin thar or what's goin to happen yere. She's a Percy and a good Confed erate, and nobody'll dare disturb the house. Them blamed guerrillas which follered us yesterday may open fire yere any minit, and once they do she can't git away.". The advice was full of .wisdom, and Marian prepared to start (re once. "Got any we'pins in the house?" asked Steve as she was ready. "No." ' "Kin yo' shoot a pistol?" "Of course. I have been sorry that I left mine behind us in Winchester." "Then take this revolver. It's a big un, but I guess yo' kin handle it. Bein. yo' ar' a southern gal, no southern man orter trouble yo', but yo' can't alius tell what may happen. If wuss comes to wuss, ballets will count fur mo' than words." Kenton advised her to take- it, and Brayton assisted her down to the high way and said as he left her : -; Yq' may hear some shootin up this way doorin the day, but don't be narv us about it and don't run any risks to cum and see what the trubble is." On approaching the house Marian caught sight of the horses and men and realized what had happened and was happening before she had made out the figure of the loyal old slave chained to the post. She had felt terribly anxious about her mother as she came along the road, and she had grown faint at thought of the troubles and perils surrounding her, but everything was forgotten the instant she saw that circle of men. It was no wonder every man in the gang looked at her as if spell bound .when she suddenly appeared in their v midst and cried out to stop Ike Baxter's uplifted arm. As women despise cowardice in a man, so do men admire anything ap proaching heroism in a woman. Mar ian rested one band on the naked shoul der of the old slave who had trotted her on his knee us a child a thousand times, and holding the revolver ready for in stant use in the other, her slight, form drawn up, her brown eyes flashing, her handsome face handsomer than ever be fore, she demanded: . " Who are yon, and what is the mean ing of this?" Every man instinctively fell back a step or two. Ike Baxter let his arm fall, and no one dared look the girl full in the face. For a long half minute no one spoke. Then Ike, shifting from one foot to the other and looking past her instead of at her, muttered : "We uns. cum yere to captur' that enssed Yankee and pay this nigger -9B fur eruashin ray bead last night!" "Yes, that's what we uns cum fur!" added two or three others. Marian deposited her weapon on the ground and proceeded to cast off the chain by which Uncle Ben was secured to the post. Some of the men crowded a Iittle(nearer. and some muttered and cursed, but no one interfered. When the 6lave was free, she signed to him to put cn his garments, picked up the weapon, and sweeping her eyes around the circle she said: "You speak of capturing a Yankee. Who is he where is he?" "Yo' know who we mean," replied Ike Baxter, who was recovering his as surance sooner than the others. V We uns want Kenton, that cussed Yankee spy!" "Aye, he un's the man!" growled three or four others. "And you call him a Yankee you, Ike Baxter!" she replied as she steoued forward to face him. "He enlisted when you did. He fought when you ran away. He has encountered a score of dangers to your one. ' He has done more for the cause of the south than all of - you combined. When you call him a Yankee spy, I call you a cur, and a coward, and a disgrace to the uniform you wear!" CHAPTER XXVI. The gang had gone far enough per haps toe far; The Percys were loyal southerners and people of influence, and this disgraceful raid, even though made under a reasonable pretext, might be sternly rebuked by higher authorities. Those in citizens' dress were no better than prowlers ; those in uniform had no authority beyond what Ike Baxter as sumed. : . As Marian -'stood facing the crowd, her face expressing the contempt she felt and her eyesfiahing a menace from man to man, they began to fall back toward the horses. "Dod rot my skin, but why didn't I kill that cussed nigger when I had a chance?'?"gTowlea Ike Baxter. : Ar' yo all goin to let that gal stand us off in tUis way? If bhe ub'b hi din that Yan kee, then ner's a sympathizer ana orter suffer fur it! I move we shoot the nig ger and burn the bouses!" . "We uns won't do anything of the sort," said the sergeant, now pushing forward for the first time. "We uns was sent yere to captur' Kenton and Brayton, and I reckon t'other things had better be left alone. If that gal wasn't in the house when yo' all search ed it, then wbar did she cum from?" One of the men replied that he thought he had caught sight of her up the road about five minutes before she appeared among them, but wasn't sure. Ike Bax ter said he had been following Uncle Ben up the highway when assaulted, and it was rightfully concluded that the fugitives were not a great way off. Just then they were joined by three more guerrillas, and the. entire gang headed up the road and were soon out of sight. As they moved away Uncle Ben's tears began to fall, and he whis pered: ' . . "God bressyo', Miss Sunshine, fureber an fureber fur what yo' dun did fur me, but I'ze got powerful bad news to tell yo'!" "Is mother dead?" she asked as the color wert out of her face and her lips grew white. "She was dead when I dun got yere!" "Uncle Ben," whispered the girl, choking back the wails of sorrow which sought to pass her lips, "I know you are stiff and lame and sore, but I want you to try to reach the Federal army and bring help!" "I hain't hurted much -only jest a leetle bit an I'll start right off!" he answered. "I'll go, an I'll keep gwine till I drap down in my tracks!" "God grant that you may be in time !" she prayed as she turned away to enter the house of the dead, while the old man lost not a moment in setting out on his journey down the road. ... . Let us see how things went on at the camp. Marian bad no sooner left it than Steve . Brayton still further strengthened the defenses. The ground to the south was fairly clear for a charge, .but in no other direction could a body of men make a rush. The camp was on the crest of a knoll, and no spot within. rifle shot commanded it. "I figger jest this way," said Steve as he overhauled, the ammunition and saw that both guns were ready for serv ice "that Ike Baxter was sent down to the house last night to sorter spy around fur Captain Wyle. Uncle Ben didn't smash him hard 'naff, and he un crawled back to the house, got his wife to fix him up and then skujked off. I don't reckon 'he un had fur to go. It's purty shore that some of our company will show up doorin the day, and yo' kin bet yo'r last mewl that them guer rillas hain't given up the chase I Befo' noon sunthin's bouncfto bust!" "And what would you advise?" asked Kenton, seeing that Steve was in doubt about something. "Seems to me the situation is about as toilers, " replied Steve.' "We ar' both Confederates. We've fit in several battles. We've bin captured and got away. We've put in, a heap o' time chawin up mighty pore "rations and marcbin up and down "the- kentrj1 to prove our patriotism. Co yo' toiler?" "Yes.". ' .'; "That's one side. Now the other is that a sartin gal luved yo' better'b'she did Captain Wyle, and far that- reason he un has biii tryin to git shet o' yo' by fa'r means or foul. 'He's got the whip saw on yo' and means to hold it. If he gits hold o' yo', sunthin's goin fo hap pen, and yo'U be tne one to be hurt. With that major down on yo' about the Harrisonburg font, and with Ike Baxter and half a dozen others ready to sw'ar to anything the captain wants, yo' un won't stand no mo' show than a coon cotched in a co'ncrib: Am I right?" "Yes, that's about the way of it, "but what about you? You have been my friend and comrade from the start. You have periled ' your life to save mine-.- I owe you a debt of gratitude, and I don't want you to sacrifice yourself tor my sake. They have nothing against you which will not - be overlooked. They want to get me out of the way, and there' is every chance that they will ac complish tfreii object. I would be self ish to pull you down with -me after what you have done." "And what?" queried Steve. "Give trie one of the guns, prop me up over there, and then go! I'll die right here after making the best fight I can!" ' - "Yank," said Steve as be moved over and held oat his hand, "yo' don't begin to know Steva Brayton if yo' think-he's any sich critter! I was bo'n right down thar at Winchester, and I've lived thar all my life and hated and abused Yan kees as hard as anybody.; I went into the war with a whoop, and I jest be lieved everything was plumb- right and all hands round till I saw how the cap tain and the hull company was playin dirt on yo Yo' un's Yankee bo'n, but yo's got mo' cjean sand in yo'r craw than anybody lever met up with bero l I'm goTn to stick right yere. If we uns git away, I'm goin with yo'. If them guerrillas ar' too many fur us, we'll both die right yere!" Kenton protested and argued, bat Steve, was determined. He took a tin pail which had contained food and filled it with water at a spring ndl far away. Then he carefully moved Kenton over to the south side of the camp, propped bim up at a loophole in a sitting posi tion and sat down beside him to wait. "I've figgered this out a bit," he said as he peered through his loophole for sign of danger. "If them chaps? had found yo' at the bouse, yo'd .hev bin carried off to camp. ' Bein as they'll find yo'. yere, and bein as thar'll be a font, thar won't be no carryin away if they git the better of us!" "You mean they'll kill me here and have done With it?" replied Kenton. -v "Exactly, and rue tooIThen thar won't be any charges, -witnesses or trial. They'll report that we tit -to the last, and it will be all plain sailin fur them as wants us outer the way. Thar'fore, in shootin we'd better jest shoot to kill and git all the revenge we kin. -Steady, now! I think the critters hev smelt us out!': y Half a mile up the road from Rest Haven the gang had left their horses and divided into two parties to search the hills on each side of the highway. Steve bad cangbt sight of two-or three men moving toward the camp through the scrub. "I won't shoot to kill not this.time!" he whispered as he thrust the barrel of the carbine through the opening. "I'll jest fling a bullet down thar to let 'em know that the Confederate Yankee army has had breakfast, pulled its boots on and is ready fur bizness!" His shot was followed by a yell which? announced -to the other party that the fugitives had. been discovered, aod 10 minutes later the camp was surrounded. Among the. enemy was a man who had seen Royal Kenton fall when fired upon, and it was therefore known that he was wounded. How far he was disabled, however, coald only be guessed s at. Steve Brayton was known to be with him, and Steve .was also known to be a fighter. - It was therefore decided not to open fire until other means had be,en re sorted to and failed. . , Thirty minutes after the first appearance of the enemy a flag of truce was shown among the scrub, and the bearer cautiously ad' vanced until within hailing - distance. His advance was from the south side, and both men had bim under their eyes. It was Ike Baxter, and he halted about pistol shot away and called out: "Hello, rtp thart I want to speak to yo' uns 'bout a minit I" , . '.'Waal, fire off yo'r breath!'! replied Steve. - "We uns has dun clean surrounded yo uns, and yo'd better give in!" "Yes?" "If yo' uns will give in, nobody will be hurt. If yo' uns don't- give in, we uns ar bound to wipe yo' out ! ': We uns is a hundred strong, with two cannons!" - "That yo', Ike Baxter?" called Steve, as if doubting the other's identity. "Yes." "Waal, I've got my gun pinted fur a shot right betwixt yo'r doggone eyes, and if yo' hain't back thar among yo'r gang befo' I count 10 I'll pull trigger! If yo' want vm, cum and git us!" Five minutes later fire was opened on the fort from all around the circle, and the enemy were shouting and cheering as if a victory had already been nearly won. While most of their bullets flew clear over the piled up rocks, those which were better aimed did no damage whatever. Not a shot was fired in re ply. Kenton's position caused him con siderable pain, and Steve removed the prop from his back and laid him down with the remark: "They uns will keep bustin away fur half an hour yit, and we uns kin take things easy. I reckon the firin will make the gal a bit'oneasy, but it'll also hurry up the Yankees in case they ar' on the way." . "That's what we must hope for," an swered Kenton, "bat watch oat that we are not taken by surprise." The firing attracted the attention of a party of seven or eight guerrillas who were hunting for the fguitives on their own account, and they came up and joined forces with the . larger body. The entire force then numbered, as near as could be estimated by the firing, about 23 men. All they could hope to gain by their blazing away as they did was that a stray bullet might find a tar- Ike with the flog of truce. get in one of the defenders, but this did not happen. - After expending enough cartridges to equip a whole company for a raid the firing suddenly ceased. "Now, then, Yank, they all's comin to clus quarters, and I want yo'r help!" said Steve Brayton as he proceeded to raise Kenton to a sitting position and prop him up as before. "Yo' take the shotgun. Both bar'ls ar' loaded with buckshot, and yo' orter drap about fo' of the critters and wing two or three mo'!" (To lie Continued.) "HOME, SWEET HOME." first Sana; io Public Over the Grave of en Indian. - When the boundary line between Tennessee and Georgia was establish ed, it pasesd half a mile south of the spring Tuck-a-lee-chee-chee, among the foothills 'of the Unakas, and, as it crossed- one of the principal Indian trails, It- became a place of much Im portance. There had already grown up a strong rivalry between the Ten nessee tribes, beaded by Chief Ross, and the Georgia tribes, headed by Ma jor Ridge, both half-breeds and men of extraordinary ability as leaders. The establishment of a new, boundary line fixed the limits of thejr respective ter ritories, and, to try to harmonize so tar as possible the contending factions, the Government established a trading post there. John Howard Payne ap peared upon the scene and was accused of Inciting the Indians to Insubordina tion. He was placed under arrest as an Incendiary and carried to the coun cil house. While Payne was held there, one of the first bands arrived, and among the Indians was tb chief, Oo-chee. or Rat tling Guard, a broken-hearted man. He was moody and abstracted and refused all invitations to the council house and would partake of no festive enjoy ments whatever, but spent the most of his time at the graves of his wife and child farther up the valley. One -morning he was missed. Weltering in his own blood, the body, was found be tween the little mounds that covered his squaw and papoose. In some way he had secreted a bayonet, fell upon the point of It and died on the spot where ne had often expressed a desire to be laid for his last long sleep. A grave was dug on the spot where he lay, and the chief was buried by the soldiers, one of the Moravian mis sionaries officiating. After the services w.ere over John Howard Payne, who had been a silent witness of the pa thetic scene, began singing softly to himself the song which has since been echoed throughout every land on the earth. Gen. Bishop, who had kept a close scrutiny on his actions, heard the song and called Payne to him. "Young man," said the stern old In dian fighter. "Where did you learn that song?" . . ' "I wrote that song myself' replied Payne. '., "And w here did you get that tune?" "I composed that also." ' ."Would you let me have a copy of It?" -H. -. i ' "Certaiui'y I -will." "Well, a man wjjo can sing and write like that is no Incendiary. Appear ances may be against you, but I am going to set yeu free. I shall write out your discharge immediately, and pass you anywhere you choose through the nation." : -- Payne .bad been housed at the home of ar family living, near by, and on his return there he exhibited the pass and related the circumstances. That was the first time "that "Home. 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The records of eighty-eight years show that tornadoes have a width of 10 to 10,560 feet, a length of track of S00 yards to 200 and a velocity of progression of TttfiOO miles an hour. : The percentage of the United Stafes population living in cities was 8.25 in 1790, in 1890 it was 39:30.- The pres ent urban population of France ia over PAVEMENTS AND PROGRESS. A Bare Way of Testing the Develop , ment of an American City. There is no surer way of determining the growth of an American municipal ity in respect of material development than by comparing the relation which its paved streets bear to its unpaved. The civil engineer is an Important functionary in the foundation of mu nicipal corporations in the United States, and especially in such of them as are in the region west of the Alle ghanies. But street pavements are ex pensive, and it is not until a city is opu lent enough to enjoy the luxury of a big municipal debt and a large credit that the question of modern and im proved pavements secures adequate attention.- . - In Boston, for instance, one of the old cities, there are 312 miles of paved and 140 miles of unpaved streets. In Balti more there are 306 miles of paved and only 47 miles of unpaved streets.. In Philadelphia there, are 942 miles of paved and 433 miles of unpaved streets. But in the newer cities of the country this country is reversed, and Chicago, which has 1,000 miles of paved, has 1,500 miles of unpaved .streets. In St. Louis the number of miles of paved streets is 370 and of unpaved 500. In Omaha there are 82 miles of paved streets and 450 miles of unpaved. In Minneapolis, a city which is growing rapidly in population, there are 98 miles of paved and 800 miles of unpaved streets. In Brooklyn there are 515 miles of paved and 999.5 miles of unpaved streets. The pavement of Brooklyn streets, which is now a subject of local grievance and complaint, shows a cer tain backwardness, .which, it is expect ed, the Greater New York project will do away with by making available the municipal credit necessary for the issu ance of bonds for new pavements. At the present time more than 260 miles of Brooklyn streets more than one-half of the whole length of paved streets have the primitive, unsatisfactory and unpopular cobblestones. There are 110 miles of streets paved with granite, 60 miles, especially in the neighborhood of the parks and parkways, macadam ized; 44 miles paved with Belgium blocks, 40 miles with asphalt; and 1 mile with a still more primitive meth od, practically unknown to New York, though quite familiar in Philadelphia brichLpavements. A meeting was held in the' annexed district of Brooklyn re cently for the purpose of agitating the question of the improvement of the pavements of that city, but in this re spect, as In some others, Brooklyn, for obvious reasons, is much behind New York. In this- eity there are no streets paved with brick, and there is less than one quarter of a mile of cobblestone pave ment in all. This is to be found in one of the streets of the Ninth Ward. There is a small section of town a portion of one street paved with wood, but wooden pavements have long ago been voted a failure i in practical operation In New York. The city has 185 miles of granite, 142 miles of macadamized roads and streets, 94 miles of asphalt, and 90 miles of Belgium pavement. The city of Philadelphia, much larger terri torially than New York, has 331 miles of Belgium block pavement, 172 of as phalt, 152 macadam, 76 .of vitrified brick, 11 of granolithic, 3 of slag, and nearly 200 of cobblestone. The growth of an American city is shown clearly by the number of miles of improved pavement in streets, and it is believed by public works' officials that after Jan. 1, 1898, there will be a visible improve ment' In all the pavements of "the city outside of its present boundaries. New York. Sun. . ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS. The man never lived who could take out all the dishes his wife has In the refrigerator, and find room to put half of them back in again. : An Atchison girl received a sealskin coat as a birthday present yesterday. Her prayers for cold weather are so earnest that they may result in some thing. - - Every, woman complains .that her husband pays so little attention to his children it's a wonder that he knows them when he m- ets them on the streets. . A girls christened Alargaret can suc ceed in getting all the members of her family but her brother to call her Mar guerite, and he will insist upon calling her Maggie. Before a man has been at home an hour, be -has called for something not in the house, and then complains as loudly about It as if his wife conducted a department store. ' People at twenty state a half-dozen impositions that they would never stand; at forty, they find themselves patiently bearing twice the number, and thankful they are not more. ' We don't want to come back to visit this world after we are dead. The kind remarks on our tombstone would cause us to drop dead a second time, which would cause another lot of funeral ex penses. The death of a young man on the eve of his marriage Is regarded as sadder by the women than the death of a man who leaves a family destitute. A tinge of romance acts on a woman's sym pathy like a cake of yeast in a pan of dough. - ' -: " A Gold Leaf Temple. Not in America, not even in the Klon dike, but in the far-off East, at Ran goon, the capital of Burma h, is situated the famous golden pagoda of . a Bud dhist temrle, the whole of tha exterior of whichisone mass-of shimmering gold. Thisgenerouscoatlngof the metal is the result of years and years of offerings to Buddha, for devotees from all parts of the world come to Rangoon and bring packets of gold leaf, which they place on the pagoda. During the last century the. King of Burmah gave his (literal) weight in gold to the walls of the pagoda, an offering worth 9,000 sterling. ' Cooked Him Own tiooae. Husband Did you give anything to that tramp who just left here? Wife Tramp? Why, that was nij Uncle Henry, who is so yery rich and has no children of his own. . Husband (horrified) Great heavens! And I told him that unless he got out of his neighborhood inside of five min utes I'd telephone tor a policeman: Cleveland Leader. Kxpert Criticism. "Why this sign not to touch this particular piece of statuary with canes or umbrellas?" asked a visitor at the art exhibit. ."Because," snapped a competing ai tist, -"you could not do it justice witt an ax." Detroit Free Press. Front. Scotland the reports of crops are for the most part of one uniform type. The . crops have been magnifi cent, but they were ruined by the con tiguous rains. v . ., -. The nearer the roof a man Uvea the GOWK OlIMHEBINO. One ripe summer, fresh and fair, has gone glimmering. - What with 'rain and breeze and fair sun, the harvest has left us grain enough to feed the world, and bard times are broken by a kindly Hand. But autumn changes come, and we cannot' be too self-content not to guard against what autumn brings. . It is the changeful tem perature of midday warmth and night and morning chill, from the dampness of dews or vapors cast adrift on eastern winds. I With the breath of such comes back to i very many old time physical troubles of i pains and aches, rheumatism, neuralgia, soreness and stiffness. This is a crop not spoken of in a farmer's almanac, but it must be cared for, else it will lay waste and grow misery. St. Jacobs Oil is a reaper and binder; it reaps the field' of pain and binds up and curen. There is no bodily pain it won't relieve, and to the whole group of rheumatic pains, it s a certain and specific cure. Let not the bounties that have been reaped be marred by misery and pain. St. Jacobs Oil is the helper to enjoy the better times. - . j The trap rocks of New Jersey and the dolerites of Staten Island are the' strongest stones in the United States, ' their crushing resistance being twenty -four pounds to the oubio inch, j Among the portraits recently acquir ed by tbe trustees of, the National Por trait Gallery, in London,, is that of Sir Francis Ronalds, (1788-1873), the in ventor of the first working electrio tele-' graph. . , The largest fruit farm in the world is said to be in Olden, Mo. It consists of 2,500 acres, on which are more, than 100,000 peach trees, 60,000 apple trees, 2,000 pear trees, and 40 acres of. black- : berries. - . - Chickens are much better if killed and dressed the day before using. Keep in ice r in a cool place. ' AN OPEN LETTER To mothers: WE ARK ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD " CASTORIA " AND "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," AS OUR TRADE 'MARK. I, DR. 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