Re DR rt YR PR TRB AER KROSS 3} SARANN SY EE RR 1 is the tn ns does of there trig O05 to tery : Square mile, He i It is nother a to substitate i tune isda TE ne ind 1 the Polish immigrane he Gaiveston Nirws remarks that ry farm is a factory in which ns is the boss. The sol! and seed are aterials and the farmer Is the These workmen should be | d in thelr trade ns is the ma- , the printer or the stecimaker. | | ftis come to pass that farming must = ¢lal experiments on s shows that during 1901 | & pert srforsind 11.645 experi In Ireland ten Heonsors per og experiments, nd 1a only five miles off now. Boe yonder, | | those bare mesquites on that Mesa? : That's Mexico” = | and, striking his Jaded bromeho with ] | the spurs, said: “If he don’t get 8 fresh fhm In lese'n two hours He's down % | to a fox trot now.” Jim. I think he'll stop there. How i fetch Bim.” And they floundered over the bot dun hill and down into the : sqant, red village of adobws : | Eariy's heart wasn't exactly “in” this i man hunt. He knew Bd Tibury-— “And four far me. That ought to But with all his hard riding Captain and bin rangers crossed the Ris after | garded as stealing, even in Ler Cruces, int Bi Hickey. popper opinion sided The report | § s of fifty: four folio pages, Fives io N t the Jectneer; and to quote } : Medical Journal, “8 mono. d of hw the state may sctener and bow jealously the b : of parliaments protects guines pigs to the detrl | the overabundant taxpayer.” a, the Tant pltce in fo = one ‘would expect io ; _ money was ffs ¢ change his name rose to change. The ago, and the sin: | # foped him clean across the panhandle” yard duck. outiaw, sixty miles toward freedom. Buf be saw them and was ap In 8 second. his rifle swinging down at them as he ross In his stirrups and the game horse plunging forward as with final des peration. : “He must have ammunition to burn.” grunted Jim as 4 bullet whirsed ‘through his pony's mane. but Early had fired twice and missed before they came alongaide the startled stranger. “Have you got a Borse?' the sheriff was yelling. The stranger jooked vp and said, quite slowls 5: “Yeu, sir. 'I'hat ix, 1 did bave one, but 1 sold It to the «to the man you are shooting at. Bee here's the money.” And the young fellow showed a wad of bills in his hand. Jim grinned a minute withont t3King hig svey off tha vanishing mur. ders, who wae hinndering out arross the sand toward the Sewmth but the therill swore 8s he roared: “Foted out Your borse, quick. You've sold it to an Fm Sherl® Early and Dee got a warrant for that fellow, Quick, tha horge™ But the stranger, whe looked itke a boy, though Bix face wie brown ‘with Tan and freckies ran round Into the sheep corral and in another msient, mosnted on 8 bald-going buckskin hare, hls Wineheostor ready In ita scab bard, enme charging after the fugitive. “NOW'S HIS CHANCE FOR A SHOT.” { with Tilbury and most of the boys | i | Esrpeated to avoid posse duty. But it was different with Captain Early | and his two deputies. Two Loyrs after | Tilbury hit the trail for the border | they were bot after him with fifteen { ronnds apiece, good mounis, and Bo dea beyond the inevitable necessity Z| of bringing back the “murderer” dead | or alive, : i But Tilbury had one of those Cana dian River horses, as fast as a coyote ir the sand and a demon for rough ! going. Bd rode him in the spring from | Wichita to Oklahoma City, and “yal- | then to the Pecos Valley and across { the range hills to Las Cruces. Bo the | | tugitive's horse was seasoned. But Early and his men changed ponles at | Pouliney's ranch. roping out thelr own | ve | stock because the outfit was away on the drive, and ran TiUbury to cover | before dark in a dugout by the iron | | spring. They got the worst of this, i however, for the rascal winged Jim's * | horse and eut a streak across Early's that sent the beast as lame ag 8 barn | ‘As for Thoroughman's pony, it died at the first shot, and the deputy walked back to Porliney's as mad as a rattlesnake, But Early and Jim clung to the trail, and now. us they rode int) Ojo Cali ente, a cluster of weather-beaten hove els of mud. they saw Ed Tilbury st a stranger, and in th shadows | : a | . “He's for getting the reward bim- sof shouted Jim, “Walt! Waht™ bellowed Early. But the fastriding yonngster, an shegining his ritle, looked back with a grin and eried: “I'H get Bim, cap! Fil get Rim?” “Purty game for a kid” said Jim. Bat Bheriff Early was furious, “Fm an ass for teiling him. He'll kill Bd or ger himself Killed As they struggled aver the bowlhler strewn trall and slipped haunchwise down into the valley far off on the op- posite hill, they could see Tibury, still | looking back, his rifle ready. and be | tween him and the Rio Grande only a wile of knee-deep sand. Then the stating sands of the dried river bed and Hberty! But between them and | the outlaw rode the boy on the buck skin borse. Each stroke of the nimble hoofs sent a fountain of dust inte the alr, ench stride brought him pesrer to Tihary and the back pointed Win. | chester, “Now's his chanee for a shot” said Jims, watching the murderer fominder- | ing up onto the erest of the final Lilt | “He e¢vulda’'t mise him now “He's juss loading bis gun." ried ‘ Rarly. “See him? He's out of the | dust. Hear nt” : Amd they saw the white puff of smoke, spd theo, echoing sharp and quick, from wall to wall of the slate teer's weapon, “Got him, by Jove!” laughed Jim. “pi seen his cayuse arop, cap!” : the capture. But the youth on the horse went gamely forward, faster and fuster, tll be, ton, topped the ridge dismount outlaw, pinted Early. wwered Jim apd. with dnset smeared sweat, they grined the outlay, simmer river they saw the bhaekikin “We're done, ain't we, cap” Done? We're skinned, stuffed and bristed] by a blamed kid! That's what We aye” Jim stooped over the dead Canadian ~THbury’s worthless hostage to the law. ~and sald: “Wonder why the kid killed it cap?” “Jost a Winff, Jim. Connie’ of him, wasn't tr : corpse and rolled a cigarette, watching Tilbury and bis pal disappear into the chaparral which lined the hazedimmoed shore of the “iand of manana” They did't say minch as they walked back witary and defeated, to Ojo Caliente, but when they came to the red, warped rallrond station and talked to the squint-eyed agent he told them that the stranger, the curly-haired. broven- theeked boy, had come to town hut an hour or two ago. “He didn't seem to know nobody,” *xplained the agent. “and the on’y thing I know is I hearn Sim boss. tridin' with that there chap Your was thasin’, inst 5 faw minutes "fore you all rid up and begun shootin’ Hheri® Early and his deputy loafed about the station ti hel? 4n Boor be. {ore the east-hound local cane along, and then the azent danded him & small yellow envelope. with: "Either o' you men ‘Captain Early'?™ And the sheriff read: YThbury's wife on buekskin horse short cut to Callente. Men's clothes Frank Hickey." “From Ris brother” sald Early handing the dispatch to Jin, "Bhe's 8 brick™ grinned the deputy. ~fohn H. Raftery. In the Ohicago Record Herald Flowers of the Swamp. What a wealth of rarely beautifal wild dowers there are 3 the SWanips and meadows sven In July says Codin. try Life in Amerien-the vivid beans fol cardinal, the false sunflower, or ox. eye, the lanceleaved or fragrant golden. roel, the thimblowesd, tha buib-bearing { locsestrite, hardback, the early purple aster or codash, the fron-weed or flat. Wop the arrow-leaved tearthomb, the spearming, native wild mint and pep- periming the Maryland fSgwort or lies pant, the pron ladwlia ar Shee cardinal Hoover, the zraveful brook label! a, ihe all, feathery, tall meadow rus the poleaious water hepdock, the blood Xs raonnd lene Bi phate the wiked stravgleweed or commanded der, the gorgeuuas Tark's edp Miy, the Auer saake-bead ar tarde head. the fragrant bitter Gloom or rose.pink, the atlractive meadow beanty or deer THAR, (he sex or marsh plok, the mars milkwort, the marsh Bt Jabnswaret, the white alder ar sweet pepperitapch, i the boweset or thoroughwort the elinh. 1 ing noneset or hempweed, the jewsl wand, the pale touch anenot, the Liant St. Jobmswort and two exquisite orchids the yellow. fringed arehidg and the white-fringed orchids. The lowest aml the highest, the showy and the soter, all await to surprise him who AUR Pee, os Age sud Appetite, ¥ir Henry Thompson deprecates In creased eating as a means of Keeping 8p the sires sth of those who are ad. ralcing in years, and particularly ob. jedts to the repeated and general use af concentrated forms of animal nogr- shinent for the aged. Over-oonrish. ment in old age is apt to lead fo pains amd aches due to the hnpalrment of of overfeeding of gout. Even artificial teeth are not 10 be conzidersd an unmixed blessiag, for by a provision of nature the tenth 8011, Is mostly not a disease, har an ad. wmonition. “It is the language of the stomach, and is mostly an unknown mune which is so 0 the individual” Baltimers Sun Exganses of the White House. Huunse 'a repair, it costs the Govern. {IER any about $65.000 to operate the “lnbibepnent. OF this amount £41.000 is experaled in the salaries of the thirty {men of the executive payroll, says the | Wirld'y Work, These range from a Secretary to the President, with a sal ary of $60 a year, down to messen | gers gud doorkeepers whose pay Is in | sotte iastances perhaps one-tenth that anime This remaining $15.000 defrarys all the other expenses the replacing | “of wogn-eut office furnitare, typewriter Crepadis, stationery and feed for the ball dozen horses m the White House stables. OF course the executive office : Bits the benefit of many scouomivs he | the far end of the single street, stand- | fronted mesas, the crack of the volun- yond the reach of the thrifty merchant fog b {For instance, all oficial mail is | ranked, saving appropriately $20 a ‘day. Special telegraph nod cable rates athe Mw the fugitie's vay deop | axe Slao seeped and disappeared In the wake of i. “It'd be murder to kil him now, . “It's him or the kid I guess” an. foes and bodies muddy with sand apd ; on Far down below them, just breast. {ing the shallow pool of the dwindled | horse bearing two riders toward the I Mexican shore, | ‘Abd the sheriff sat down on the Wane nothing te ‘Riley! muuling that geared, black, hale TE exiretion, aml a Jong protracted course | will end in an attack begin to decay and become useless just wien the aysatem begins to thrive with ! sult much aximal food of coarse fibre | Indigestion, says Bir Henry Thomp. nhieu to those wha are addressed.™ 1 ft means that the lodividual has sot | vet found his appropriate diet. “There | i no food whatever which is whale sone im itvel?, that food only is wholes | Aside from the President's salary : and the pxpense of Keeping he White | weapons, er op the steep an for He Punched the Ber. HE overland tratn we oaiaght | \retetpe, and let if pass after the mans ner of his magnanimous kind. “Cond doggle™ aid the boy, re i leantryr one grityy a from the oh dle Jette enough ro pat fhe head of the ~ breathless little dog, who greeted thin ackoowiedutment of hin serviocs with . estate wageings of his sly stomp Buy there was a sequel. It chanced i Hat thin particular cur had sete time eines teen bereft of one eve: and now, wt Wiorences, anya “The Ward's Work ” wis 810 with yacu way from Boston tu Denver. mest of them: on their wiy to is ln trosaed the avenue, the onroming CHP Was mt irs bling’ shile and the “1 averbusy) wiped out all surface sounds. tioti seckers ploked up all the Boy and buodle were half the width of the styest behing him who x Swerve Califorala, | though one Hunter of ble chme with who wis (alked had cote 0p from New Orleans to go into the Hehe Mountains from Missonls, awhitions to KHL a grivily. A whels pasty were year's camn, which was tof quite true, hecanss {hat spot we found later many miles from Meeker, whither he was beaded. He went on; hardly half a of the motor man's hand gave the car . # healing plunge. The fender wis font from the ohran | #elnar dog when his master, gniek as a flash, dropping bis Joad with one | #pring selred the dog rwowd his lank exnltingly going back ro thelp inst | body nnd bounded on the fonder, oling: | ing like a crab to the sapring sicel “Finest spa in the world.” said ase tmrds Then, as the ear slowed up | with i soréech and a grow! from the : brakes, master and doe descended and | raced back for the bundle avain. “No mosquitoes; airs too thin for ‘em! Plenty of elbow room! a million eitpes In these mountains, near the raliroad: ladies, kids an’ all that. Nice enough; they have a bully | There's Neither seemed to regard the ilpeb dent sa anything anosaai: it was sip in the day's work of ontwitiine a fate that kept both at thelr wits’ ond to | stand off starvation and other shapes i thee But wea Hike room! Trost! An’ deer! An'-sny, ‘Billy! tell ‘em about | the hear.” TRULY waaldn't fle blashed. Amid the anchivcked laughter that PARR: to um Mier in trouble. through the smoking room, he eonld | fot save his face, We wers monnting | the Continental Divide to the Tennes. #oe Pass. Ouigide the Arkansas boiled | over ite jageed bed, and all the won. | ders of red and orange and purple saw A fawn lying In a clump of bushes. cliffs made & foreground for wists dissciving as we rounded curve of | mountain dekind mountain sloping gently skywhird or soaring in sheer perpendionlir lines ta the clonde. Fast wonnded fawn Name with Bim and doe to the Atlante the Arkansas hurried: | besond the watershed fen thoes feet high. toward which we clined wy should burst from the Jong tune to run beslide the Eagle and the Cand whoss waters reach the Pacifie, CUBIY foand an Indian's trail. didn't you “Bly? gocd ase itpedly jeerod the one (hey called “Perk “You see, be thought it was in In dias, a barefooted Indian's” wid he expansively to the room in general, of death. Troed by sa Buel. Olen Bowles, of Costello, Pa. wil never stab aguin to be Good Samaritin He works for the big tannery come pany there. He was in the woods one day Inst week Jooking over a hark ventrred, Passing along an old woods road he As the fawn Jd pot move he walked ui ta it and found that It wan Blosd- Clog frean dn inlnre in its shaker With the intention of taking the toring ir. Bowles wax stoaping to Hire I un in hie armies when the frightened “itis anime! began Menting piteonsiy, At had mearesly attered lis fiver ory when Bowles heard a compotion ln the Mush, sad looking gp saw two deer. #4 Bin buek and a doe, bounding tevweardl him “But ft wax a Dears®-he slid it “hearr’s.” being a ative of Wheon. cane 4 savREe Tunas from his horns sin. “CBily' was diath on hears. He! . used fo tell ne how his uncle Kiled oa wood, The buck, however stayed grizzly out Oregons way with a les g . BRE? Sot BIE teak 2 neenaad and sorted sronnd it at every | move Rowles made. Revping him there ponciloel, Winchester an’ went bear busting. "Fare be got us to help be chassd his me gov R0X weak © think, if wai” "Thres days” sald “Billy © “At last” Want ott together wad beat gp 3 peek af Wists whore RH iy wall 4 Bat fen psd ig hf owae a i ) with fourteen rattles. "Billy Nigel? sat walling it the apper cmd And we 1 The haek had on no Seren front the heistle on hin peek standing erect snd Iie sree hissing with fury. Bowles Bastiy climbed a tree. He got ont of range of the buck fast In thoe to ss They took the fawn away inte he right at the fost of the tree and anti bang after dark Invisible, but trembling, alinriyedon | When he thoneht the Boek had gone TWHY Howies slipped down out of the 8 #h1 start the bess. We canehe a, glimpes of Mim now and then