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-—<had
i #at in with bim at Rilver City, Ranta
! Fe and El Paso, served In the same
posse With him the time Capiain Crews
| the rostlers, bot murder was murder.
and it was “up to” Barly to ‘bring TH
bury in. Bix aces in one dork was re
and when Ed goieaded his forty five
What freedom for my soul,
wit $ upht for BE
rger views, ining goa
On moorlands, waste and a, 8
What won wonder that | breathed at inst
Thaokegiving when the hour wis pat
®
A beiet but wanny day,
The day of song and tail,
Was it some angel came my way,
And touched with holy oil
My eyes that could no more look aut
Lipots the barren wastes of doubt?
The threads run to and fro,
The wheel of labor torn,
But in their throbbing mist aglow
A light effulgent burss.
Faith trims the lamp and bids me view
Horirons that | never knew. :
Boston Transcript,
of Ojo Cail 1
ents, Ti ard the sherif,
lirting his fagged pony with a
swing of his bridle, “the line
Jim looked down at the Boor-prints.
horse at Ojo Caliente, cap, we'll catoh |
“There Isn't a borse In Caliente
matiy shots have you got, Jim ®
“Seven, CHD. >
“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<Hke &
black pig scattering through the binsh |
He shot out of the Unshes into resets weld the buek was a terror of
BUly's' apen like a wailddll ne Ky
racket, and, not seeing ‘Billy. he sit
up to look back. But ‘Billy! His BY ek
bulged out like marbles
I tell son :
gentlemen, hy hale rose so fast Hiv hat
went ap Hie a clay pigeons from « trap,
He dronped Bis gun, and in twa stithies
he waded inte thar bese dead te ft foe
Ritiger,
puttiched: Le kicked again. His ube
hare handed
bear foond the will tea hth wae
pire and started fo put bebdnd him
Want on the story, wen
Gm three miles thet ny between that
crest ahd Batya gr antelly ae his Jeps
wand he shin Tho lanela'y mann My
ig Tas Yann ahi beleop tha fing “3% WH
a¥oer him Dod yaw from tres 16 free
Bowles made bis way along until
man jhswered his ores for help. Then
tHe Bel abandoned the ohare
The settler who went ta Bowles"
taat aeighborhiood snd koown to the
Bnutors gs Old Golden, «Son,
Hiravele With » Mushallonge,
Chailey Dunlap one day had a strike
from 3 twenty-ponnd muskallonge. He
Chad a Bead Une. Early in the struggle
Excited? He kiskoil he
the fash adopted as its taetics 8 per.
Csistent dashing ib a clrele that teak it
with the lead peal and the grizly
around the boat, Os purpose evidently
Cbeing to get wn biteh of the Hine on the
| boat wo that It might tear itself loose.
enh. It wasn't ten seconds Before the
na prize fghter-and while ‘Pilly §
chimed him mito the woods, rolling’
bhi with everyihiog Ye could mend,
wi rolled on the gronsd sod Invighed
When we came up to Bills" he wan
had pleked it ap. And crying”
“Most of that's a Me said “Ib ly.” »
“but I guess 1 did forge: the gun
and, heightening a Witte, “I landed him
a couple of good anos though.” And
wo all joined the mighry laugh that
win an.
Two Heroes,
A story of 8 dog's loyalty and a boy's
love that makes life seem richer, finer
The peculiar tactics of this muskal
onge kept Dunlap twisting and (urge
Hg pound and round in his boat to pres
vest the Ssh from foullng the line
|The lnke was rongh under 8 stil wind,
and the frsil canoe threatened to caps
size bafore Dunlap could conquer the
sitting on the grass With bis logs stuck
out in front, looking at the rifte—he
nuskis lange
At cach ciresit the muskallonge
» made, Duninp succeeded In getting the
| Gish nearer, and then be suddenly dis
another turn himself
soversd (hat he was onabile to make
tdancing down
At his fer he discovers that in Ms
rapid twistings and turnings he bad
wound the Hue round and round his
sulilew and he was piniaped by it there,
This was an added dauger, for if by
and indnitely wore worth while was
recently told m the New York Cotpmier. |
ein Advertiser
A small boy, very ragued and far
from clean, was meandering along
1UMh street. near Bighth avenue, the |
other evening, whistlivg throngh his
{ Bugers from tine to time to a dl NEY
f little cur that nosed about the slean
ways fur some dainty droppings from
the morning's garbage can. The Bay
“ie galucky move the boat should
capsize Nis fate was certain,
If the muskalionge had made one
mare Turn around the boat it would
fohably Lave aceamplished lis design
ard gen away. Fortunately for Dan.
Yap. the fAxh at that eritieal moment
frziged ite pretios, and stirted straight
ant toward the middle of the lake.
+ Bunda let it go, and, kitting down in
carried a huge parcel of old clotlilng, |
and did uot ook as IF the pleking nf a
bhoge or two on Lis own account would
BO amiss,
Eyery sow and then the dog would
trat back to his small master long
enough to suilf his bare legs remssur
the Bait, quickly relessed the hampers
iw
Wg Hee from bis legs, and engaged
the muskallonge ayain
The rest of the Huht was brief, for
tie odde against the fish were too
reat, and, exhausted, but still offering
Hs dend welght in opposition to the
angler, it was hauled up to the ng
: and lmided. ~~ New York Sun.
gly in acknowledgment of the perl
odical whistling,
Presently a great mastiff, wild with |
5 Id. with Vaptaba Bingett, arrived at Boston the
the thought of an hour's fresdon,
bounded down the teps of an apart.
ment Bouse and eame into violent enol:
lslon with small boy and bundie
into the gutter.
Quick as a fash the hungry ttle cur
hardly halt the sige of the mastitis
bead. but for ten seconds be did battle
hot unworthy his big enemy, patting
big swordtish,
trew, Bad a thrilling experience with
ad
koocking one fat and roiling the ether
A
Swordfish Pleroed the Bost
The fishing schooner Forest Maid,
oiler day from George's with forty-one
A. Beott, one of the
4 fish which weighed 300 pounds. It
cwas speared from the bowsprit and
~Scoft was sent off in a dory to bring
wus at the great dog's throat. He wis |
{w
it alongside the vessel. Although mers
tally wounded, the igh showed fight,
and as Scott approached plunged Nw
sword through the bottom of the boat.
811 the love and loyalty of his homaless The dory had to be hoisted to the deck
little heart into this attack upon the
| miamt bay tag Sanaiieg his atte,
Cin ordir to reiease the fish, which in
the meantime bad. died.
LR a