re HIS BADCOLORED WHISKERS. THE BIG RED WAGON HAS VAN ISHED FROM COUNTRY ROADS. Rural Trolley Lines Have Changed Conditions of Trading——Barterers Who Were Picturesque Figures in the Life of the Countryside, “Mary,” said the gray haired visit. or, lI haven't seen any carpet razs 'n the cellar, Don't you expert the tin peddler this summer?” Auntie,” said the trim young housewife. “The tin peddler is a thing of the past.” Just then there came a rattle anil a roar and a furious clanging. A big blue electric trolley car whizzed by the farmhouse door. “There goes his housewife. “He has of the running.” old lady with the sighed and shook her knew that the country changed. “No, the out said driven rival,” been The gray hair head: had figure in the life of the country side in his day. Early in the winter advent. Every little rag of cloth, of varn, rubber, and back- number magazine and paper went into the capacious mouti: of discarded the already full, in the cellar to gather dampness and exhale that strange, acrid ancient smell of stored-up rags. ance generally in the latter June or the early days of July. was on his up trip. Two later he would return and second bartering, if by chance his multifarious stock was left. newsboys, each had his route followed it faithfully and with pulous care not to overstep into the stop any of Like and territory of some other brother of the burlap bag. In cases these routes were marked t the nopolist who controlled the peddlers for toward the end of their this valuable form of trade fell the hands of two or three shrewd peddlers in their selves, who understood every most mo- magnates time them foot of not be fooled by t¢ most peddlier who ever “tinkered” with his spring weight. In one today there is a man who lives in expensive house, rides in an 8 automobile and smokes pensive cigar while so ho { up-State an an wagon. He dollars. the box of a red worth half a million for great excitement Up rose a cloud of dust, could be seen the dusky red of the wagon's body. was coming sticks that the peddler man Visions of peppermint before their youthful Imaginations allowed and appeared staggering un- der an immense series of clumsy bags whose maws were stuffed all sorts and conditions of rags and papers and similar waste truck of months’ careful collecting By this time. the peddler had driven up. He did not have to blow his horn, for he was an old friend. Greetings were passed, and tne probabilities of rain and the corn crop were carefully con- Then assemblage gets down to business The ed three granite iron haps a rags for a straw hat, for his old one So the peddier opened gidered the mistress need. and teapot, if enough Also Jenny should have calico Perhaps John needed a pow. kettles per. there were dress looked erful shiftless. his A quaint store on wheels creation it Shaped more than anything else a crouching rabbit wi back, the head being the seat driver; it was invariab { Few persons saw painted, it must have been a gor: geous sight. The architectural plan- ning was a marvel of compactness A ship's cabin was nothing to it Every conceivable commodity from pins, through groceries, tinware, knives, dry goods clothes, plain and ornate hats to hrooms could be discovered tucked away somewhere in that compact box of surpris Lit. tie doors opened by white porcelain knobs, opened with magic swiftness and dexterity by the cunning peddler, showed caves and avenues stuffed full of strange matters, [If little Henry needed a palr of “knee pants” the peddler touched a button, and as plaided a pair as ever were torn on a barbed wire fence spread themselves out, all wool if not a yard wide. Hats just the style which was then af. fected in France delighted Susannah. A pair of gorgeous red “galluses” at. tracted the roving eye of Hiram, and two new celluloid collars for John fittea his size to perfection The bartering was carried en with keennesg and watchful attention. The rags were weighed on a huge spring hook scales, which was fastened to the side of the wagon. dumped into the weighing bag be. longing to the peddier, too lke laid for the red newly was, ears nted ever but anita of oq the watchful farmer's wife. But to pound, and sometimes fiftcsn, huge burlap bags. When the peldler Their capacity was infinite. As his progress continued through the ceun- by little these huge receptacles bulged and tightened like a bladdes with a small boy and a plpestem oa the other end. When the peddlsr re- turned they were stuffed so tight that the wonder they did not explode and geatter the rags and papers over the landscape struck every beholder. And the poor little horse, patient panion of his master's lot, lowered his willing head and hauled up hill and held back down hill until the smok2 of the city smudged the horizon and his journey's end was in sight, Now the country roads those red wagons no longer. Perhaps in the Middle West and in the mountain lands of New England they may vet met with, wandering from to house on their bartering journey but in New York State their end come As the young the trolley car rival. In the old days when the ne est city was a days’ and the trip was taken a year, the ( and a wel calle: Now, the means of transportation pass farmer's very YY 3 minutes, and the fare {3 almost noth ing, what is the use of waiting fo: peddler? Besi ie th l hangs in the hallway are needed in a hurry, a moment's ti man in the town wanted, and in an hour or livery wagon | darky cars pated 'mancipated Times. com- sep be house housewi’e has been thelr Journey away i peddier was a ome . door me to > nearest what is two his d=. The 1 when he rw th rolley door. said “De good muiss.’ Lor the So electrictly h PICTURESQUE RASCALS. Cartouche, Petit ard Other Famous Rogues in France. Readers of 8 famill spy, Glengary, noble family on his loubtful and being by tt Jacobi Nowadays, says cause, as and and even In spectability lucratiy heen relegate Such noble ru! quard and the dandy C who had his coat of arms on prison cap, have appeared. Petit, his - att i8 well the renowned who was a man fined and gentlemanly exterior his rakish existence in cheerful alte: nation and the most modish lay. in his intervals of was acknowledged “smart” polish of between the baque salons of the freedom leader of on of But refinement a sect] beneath cheat forger concealed a monstrous society : this and merciless spirit, revealed itself finally in the act of his gaoler with a small pair sors Petit was, in ist of Francols infamous, nature Robert graphically which murdering of scis fact, a feehle plagia- Jacques Villon, wh erratic and most intricate Louis yg portrayed him from possible obli notoriety among It would be master mind a character dash the interesting norfar a perform a unique in ~ Carton ) terror of s« France was th n of gentle 16 he Dominic rental authority and take to the The garb and demeanor of an artless country maiden was one favorite disguises The made all efforts in vain outlaw who had heart of this clever younster's authorities to catch an of a great city There is gan by ste : pin,” wt quoted to this day in France ten fancy, in a spirit of and example than in one of admiring emulation Daring rogues have frequently darkr as a means lity of the su A notorious quack of this kind was Des, the mystic astrolo- ger of Mortlake, who raise the dead, and Is have accomplished by aid of fearsome incantations, held, it was rumored, familiar course with the devil Men and women come from all quar: ters to read in Lis magic mirror the deeds and thoughts of their friends in distant lands. Th: mirror, a plece of pink glass, is in the British Mu. seum, but it seems to have lost its properties. [It appears that the cele. brated wizard knew more of the art of hypnotism than the apirit.-raprers and planchette.workers the two tieth century, the to back him at a pinch “Cartouche jega of we warning used the powers of fr of ing on the cred perstitious wor Dr professed to reported to the and inter. wonders of Magnalium. Magnalium is au alioy of aluminum and magnesium. It containg mag. nesium in varying proportions up to thirty per cent. It is of a sliver considerably lighter than aluminum. It Is much cheaper than copper by weight, but costs about the game Yulk for bulk, it is highly sultabl® for surveying and photographic instru. ments, and may to some extent re. place aluminum in the manufacture of tollet articles. It's hard to get a job on the repu. tations of your ancestors. New York City.—Yoke walsts of all won and are made exceedingly at- ractive with trimming and contrasting material of various kinds, This stylish May Mant Tepe de ine with yoke and trimmin = held by in pale pink iB 2lOown nade of 1 Is « pink slik inls silk and light cotton yoke, omitted where » Chosen fitted 1 backs are ar of a ning yn which the fronts and ranged, The joined to the Both Irawn down = yoke Iz separate and waist at its lower edge backs are but the fran v front and upper portions, backs nme moothly, while the front blouses slightly over the belt TUCKED lar. It feels particularly oppressive under the chin, and it discomfort that a collar of a new pat tern has been devised. This is as high as usual at the back, hut the front slopes away beneath the chin It is really stylish, and the drooping curve in front proves generally becoming to is colinr meas back, but those who try it on. Th ures two inches high in the in front Is only one inch h beneath chin. This Is ju i i ’ weather, the warm The Bottom Flare, well-cut “runabout” is when i hands It however short, and nes from the right tatlor's # graceful and by no means resemui This ix because of tl inl The bre I it adths a flare toward the fitting fmprove 4 Tufted Veliings. lings are in the market tfuily fo view ligh they are | to posses In favn-col banana wash The tufted much finished + ginooth and alpacas etamines of the mohair type. Mole Colinr Walst, escapes the stole col pe Nothing inst resort it begins pearance on fancy silk BLOUSE, Hungarian style stug fitting upper full The upper portions of these are tucked for a few r that point they fall in soft fold cuffs, y “3 suggest the 1 wks 14} mace with to which the sleeves are inches and is, the wrists are straight is four yards twenty- and inches * 5 hy three one-fourth twenty-seven wide, two yards thirty-two and hes ’ ind one-half one seven-eighth yards g#0oven wide or wide, with Hustrat material forty-four In¢ yards of banding to make as wl, or five-eighth yards of sigh lar. Woman's Toeked Wala, Fucks of all widths and il possible Ways are greatly in vogne ind are most effective in the soft fash. ionable materials, The May Manton Hlustrated in large drawing, them n pointed groups and combined with a feeply pointed yoke that is exceedingly The original is pongee stitched with with a yoke of cream wools, cottons and wa ist, shows wooming, made of white «ilk, lace, silk, appropriate to the design. The walst consists of n Yoke, iinens are all fitted lining, front, backs and The centre and blouses slightly belt. The backs are drawn down snug. ly nt the walst line, and are tucked on horizontal The yoke is separate and arranged over the whole, When desired the lining can om tted in both walst and sleeves, The sleeves are made with the upper which are tucked at the lower edge, and the full parts that are gathered at both upper and lover edge: and are finished with straight cuffs at the wrigta, At the neck Is a regulativa stock. The quantity of material required for the medinm size is four yards twenty. one inches wide, three and one-half yards twenty-seven inches wide, three yards thirty-two inches wide, or two and one-fourth yards forty-four Inches wide, with three-fourth yards of all over Jace, over ines Tw AW rm Weather Collar, an close, not weather it Is a decided the throat iu a stiff, high, starched col. waists Csed in this maa ghown to much adra orem ars Fast Bul is proioany 1 rye ™ Rigt iii i val “ crepe Chine made stole of ecru guipurn ollar The sleeves umed with insertion an extremely § ing waist nkes Daisy and Wild Hose. “he pretty design of a pin for the back of a enameled daisy and a wild stems. Tie tinted, of the daisy are thre amd a fasten fancy collar is ar rose flowers ing are centre small diamonds the and in the realistically large one in rose, single Woman's Shirred Skirt, that fall in full and fokls draping the figure gracefully are muck Nkirts fashion. one is made of flowered bhatiste and is Knees, axhionable and tory effect while the lines produced bj their fulness way desir give a most satisfac fire in every The skirt consists of one portion circular, and the The shirrings are made on indicated lines and are drawn up to fit bands which cut in the exact length required elt are BHIRRED BKINT, 0 A Os 3 SANSA 1: AI A Ot HA The back is finished In habit style and the closing made invisibly, The quantity of material required for the medium size is ten yards twenty: one inches wide, seven and three fourth yards thirty-two Inches wide, or five yards forty-fonr inches wida = Out the Wrong Man, “A little joke happened at the turn said the stage driver as the highway made the west “What sort of o man on the geat beside him. “Wall, among the passengers to mawnin’' was f red-whiszlered man who wa3 zrect on the joke?” eike He sald he'd almost to have the stage stopped biow, road agents rolled into one, “This gave the boys an idea, was put up that Joe Harper should at that turn and purtend to hoid us up and see red whiskers go down and {it “And did it come off?” “It did. When we reached the turn | slowed up a leetle and Joe jumped ut and yelled fur hands up. 1 pulled 1p the hosses and fur the passengers to git down, Lord, how Joe hollered! You could have heard iim two miles away. Everybody got lown and the passengers in the joke ourtended to be half-skeert to death.” “But about red-whiskers?” “Fur about a minit or two he ’pear ad to but then he pulled himself together ard it was bad fur poor Joe Harper. He had 3 gun in both hands and he opened and kill. “l don’t know how many bullets shot into Joe, but it wasn't less'n six and then he put in half an hour to see if ary more robbers was on hand.” “Then the joke was not a “Not skassly, sah~-not skassly. Harper is lyin’ in his grave thar, while the red-whiskered was so mad about the put up that he driv all the passengers out of the stage and made them walk fifteen miles” “I'm a great hand fur a joke, sah but I ain't jokin’ no more—not with red-whiskered men. hey may be great hands to brag, but they als- is loaded fur Var.” he hollered how be ready to collapse, fire shot to he success”? The Careless Little Thing. “These men are the of doing some funny things, aren't they?” asked the dear little thin "What's up, now?” queried gray-eyed girl “Oh, nothing's exactly wrong. plied the dear little thing. *1 nly thiokisg of the absurd break | made yesterday at the joweler's and all because | happened to have Tom on my mind. I dropped in to buy some silver plate for mother. Buying plate, | suppose, set me to thinking in a fugitive sort of way about the time when Tom and I shall be doing our own stunt in the house furnishing line Something of the kind must bave been in mind when I made out my chock. | handed it to the clerk, that dear, venerable look ing old chapyou know, He glanced at t, looked a trifle puzzied: then smi} and returned it with the remark he feared there was some mis Cause our re was od that take “Mistake? asked smount correct? “Quite 80,” he replied. ‘But have a look at the signature.’ “1 did ‘have a jook’ at it, and what on earth do you suppose | had writ ten?” “I'm sure I'd never guess.” sald she of the gray eyes. “What bad you done?” “Well, my dear, | had written Your own sweetheart, Eloise.'”™ “Isn't the just B80 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE Traoe Manus Desicns CorvmiauTs &C. Anvone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an atentabla. Communion tions strict ly confdential. Handbook on Patents sent free. 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