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Show v vheel of the judges buggy and fell writhing and struggling with a broken ' leg. THREE WISHES Instantly Tinsley .was himself once more. Igncrlng the gleaming weapon of the judge pointed at him, with its owners savage gaze glancing along the polished barrel, he raised his own weapon. There was a fiat, crashing report, a scream from the girl, and the horse fell limply with a heavy bullet through its tossing head. exclaimed the Goddlemighty! judge, dropping his pistol 'into the Mr. Tinsley, youre a man a road. roan damn you! Do you understand? Another halt second and Id have plugged you, and you knew it I should have done it myself. Here, you. Will, take this rig and go on? Dont stand about like a fool with your mouth open! When I see a man I guess I know it Clear out. The crunch of wheels and the rapid thud of hoofs died away and the judge blew his nose with explosive violence. Mr. Tinsley," he Said, I ask your pardon. I was wrong. Shall we lev em go? Will you shake hands? Thats right. And, say, the judge looked up and down the road, do you ever ? Tinsley did, occasionally. pain-madden- h t K r the depletion of her scanty wardrobe that she did not contemplate a speedy return. BY H. B. MARRINER. Something in Tinsleys head seemed fCopyiMght, 1902, by Daily 8tory Pub. Co.) to break. He was no longer a slouche shiftless Tinsley, the tollgate keeper, leaned ing Bis long frame heavily upon the top keeper, but a. man whose child Tall of the worm fence and watched was in danger. His shoulders straightened, his face the efforts of a young man In the bottom .pasture across the road to cap- hardened into lines of resolution, and ture a large sorrel colt which did not the top of his throat closed with a court capture. vicious jerk. The young man, Tinsley noted with Snatching his long, black revolver an Inward chuckle, had about reached fiom the mantel shelf, he burst that stage of desperation wherein man through the kitchen, leaving the door meditates the capture of a horse with ajar and the children wailing in afsome convenient brick. fright. Throwing a saddle upon the huge Tinsley did not like the young man who desired the horse. On general roan horse in the box stall, he whirled principles he disliked every young the excited animal into the pike and man who owned a horse, and it might be further stated that his dislike extended to every young man in the vicinity of the tollgate, whether he possessed a horse or not, though from the nature of his profession Tinsley was more familiar with the former class. It wasnt Nettie Tinsleys fault exactly, this attitude of her parents, although ever since his advent into Kentucky, Tinsley had watched with growing concern and perplexity the development of his eldest daughter from a East Tennessee, child into a young woman of undeniable beauty, who sat on the porch of the tollhouse in the evenings and played softly upon an old guitar left in the stable by some unknown possessor. The number of saddle horses at his bitching rack had grown steadily through the summer, and Tinsley was more than ever involved in the difficult solution of the problem. He wished even more fervently than he "And, say, Tinsley, do you ever-had ever wished that his wife had lived to see her eldest daughter grow disappeared over the hill with a flur' ry of gray dust and a crackling of into a woman. hoofs. Incivility to the visitors was, of Meanwhile the buggy course. In a Tennesseean, absolutely behind a big sorrel colt was whirling cut of the question. several miles ahead, bearing a Argument with Nettie, Tinsley felt, along square-jaweyoung man in a slouch with a world of bitter experience to hack his view, would be worse than hat and a frightened girl, whose glorious hair, broken loose from its fasuseless, and might, probably would, streamed behind her like a tenings, precipitate what he feared most. burst of flame. Altogether Tinsley was in what he Oh, Will, she exclaimed, clinging termed a fix. to his arm,. "Im so afraid. Suppose The row of norses which ordinarily father sees us. What will he fought and pawed about the old hitch- your any? rack had less in gradually grown ing Hell say a good deal, he replied, number as the year progressed, and He always does. But dont with the first frosts which sweetened grimly. The wild grapes and crowded the bit- be worried, Nettie girl. Well get to Dr. Williams before they ever dream terness from the soft persimmons there was but one horse of looking for us and then He bent over and kissed her cold, which spent much of its time at the -white cheek. Tack a big sorrel colt, which Tinsley Just at this around a sharp moment, lad begun to look upon with hatred. This change did not, however, im- bend in the road, appeared a vision calculated to make even a stout heart press Tinsley with especial joy. He did not look upon it as indicative of quail, and Will Dexters face grew white as that of the girl beside him. - growing unpopularity of his daughter. Swiftly approaching was the judge was. He wished it himself. The broad Panama hat, and Tinsley greeted Will Dexter on the Toad much as he might anyone else. the fringe of gray whiskers behind the He staid away from home as much as bobbing ears of the famous Criterion mare were unmistakable. possible and despised himself for it "Where are you going? ciemanded When Judge Dexter passed in his bugthe judge, blocking the road squarely d and gy driving the Criterion mare, which was his by reining his buggy diagonally across And who the devil may this be especial favorite, Tinsley would reflect it v with you?" . social conditions, and Utterly upon Dexter arm his Young about placed would momentarily resolve to break the shrinking girl. the between up dangerous friendship be careful of your language, lis daughter and the son of the sir,"Please he said, eying his father steadily, judge, even If he had to kill somebody. This is the girl I am to marry. We The weeks and months drifted on, on the way now. are In one eventful day until September, The face of the judge turned from when Tinsley, sore in body and wearied in mind, lumbered into the crimson to an apoplectic purple. "The devil you are! he sputtered ' stable yard ofl his rattling pole wagTurn that horse around furiously. on, there was no one on duty at the and ' go home! gate. will "I out Get not of the road! . were The three children playing The judge came near dying. Was this his son who was speaking to him? Did you hear me? he demanded with a look his son had never before seen. Turn that horse around or On the Turnpike. . toll-gat- red-heade- sun-tanrie-d d d pink-brow- n , much-covete- long-legge- HEARTH ANDBOUDOIK SOME, FASHIONABLE Early Fall Coat That Will Soon be a Necessary Garment Some Hints on the Collar A Paris Novelty For Goo I September Days. Swagger Collar. The collar is a paramount essential in early fall costumes. Of course, the stock, or throat dressing of any sort, is always an Important matter in the treatment of a womans temperament and her gowns, so the term collar as a perfectly nestjldea, applies to something recently sprung by fashion builders. This something in latest Importations is an exorbitant, berthalike affair cut lew fn the neck and worn round the shoulders. In the front it shows ta. relationship with revers and fichus You can easiy , ging at his heart "Thes done dwlvln wlf Mlthter Dexter, papa, replied the largest infant "The told me to tell you thed ;done to town an to tell you dood-by- .Dont you wanth to buy thomethin, papa? But Tinsley was tearing open the It drawers in his daughters room. What was plain that she had gon& Ihe had feared for so long had come to (pass. Nettie had run away with young Dexter, and it was plain from je is the "afternoon 'surprise. member of a certain set makes fa her business to know when a certain other member will b. at home on an Then arrangements are This sur- made for the "surprise." prise is made up from six to twelve all friends of the prospective surprised hostess, a tea given by the the guests, and a gift to the lady-o- f house by those who entertain her and themselves on her premises. Little surprises of any jolly social sort may be Introduced as varieties. , 1 behind a sheet drawn across the and let the doll perform a la w "H and Judy. old 8wlmmIn9 Hole, dear haye bath. ,n the warm. healed hia 1 Ura whera tne Indian Patn; We have plunged in glee to the I emoy ever takes u. back, with longing in our eoui, To Jump once more as In the day oryore In our boyhoods swimmingBut, , An Early Fall Cost The Directolre Eton, front, arranged to be worn open or closed as the exigencies of Dame Fashion and our equally capricious climate demand. Is a special feature of many of the coats of the season, whether long or short This natty little coat Is an exception- - How Kill Wonderful sagacity is shown bird of Southern California known Road-Runne- I 1 w the "road-runne- As these r. a' w can outrun the Swifest hone aJ usually choose to escape punitL hole! r their speed. The Twas Just below the high trestle, and ever, has one mortal enemy, as the trains passed near tlesnake. This reptile Is fond ? We waved., wild hands from the warm vouring the egg, lust, sharssands gathema I ever It . comes , across a nest igTi cheer. sagebrush.. But the birds often Happy young rascal were we then, playneve? us there For Whenever they cojne.acrpsg g at the dear old swimming hole! himself lng rattlesnake suiting The big boys dived from the trestle, warm rock they- - Immediately some ten feet high or more, a trap for his destruction, While the young ones dropped, feet Ahe springeld from pears abound in those region. (0 or hopped first, board on shore; generally a pair, at And O, the thrill tf that- moment when begin picking up the spiny-coour first high dive was made t leaves of this plant and piling From the trestl higM. in the envious were in the snake about who sleeping a Sight of the Others When thetr work is completedclrJ afraid! their enemy a few pecks to How welt we had noted the danger the give en him, and then retire to watch tt, spot where the barbed wire lay; n The place, and the Jagged result face of the rock where the big In vain the rattlesnake tries to "crabs stay! ' First i The ring of prickly leaves hj Over there is the sunken log; and here s cape. . - Ha.r At him a prisoner. every lies; where the TLweeds makes the spines prick him, until a On, the other bank, wnera the grow "rank, were the snakes last la despair he turns, bites Mnuq ipublicatio ,! stinging files. i and dies. of most pi Travelers often come across tisj run has But O, .we would love these dangers could we only meet them today! circles of dried leaves, with the writs are If we could cheer when the trains passed snake in the center. At first no wbitj Sigh and way! the boyhood near and shout in lites to s In spite of the great' green ocean theres man would believe the Indian tales! mending of this strange method the road-rsa longing In our soul The big To dive once more as In the days of ner employed In killing their morn iven P yore In the dear old swimming-hole- ! have since but been they enemy, oh Jden repri Colorado Springs Gazette. served In the act by several emin jtions are Adigm naturalists, who have corroborate Miniature Borer. kyterian Who can bore a bole through a pin the stories told by tne Indians. G. Smi The male bird Is not larger than by blowing at it? It is impossible, (publicly t common and t rooster, to barnyard It do will you declare; everybody rfwnilyar need a sharp instrument or a boring feathers are as gayly colored as thost (remedies of the peacock. The hen Is of a fa) lev. Smi brown sagebrush color. Mschurc road-runne- road-runne- , fcaldch ,1 glass-strew- John W. Mackay Modestly Gave Honor to Another. Of the late John W. Mackays characteristics none was more continually conspicuous than the unaffected modesty of the man. Anything approachOne ing flattery was an affliction. evening, seated with a group of men of affairs and good friends, something was disclosed of one of his current accomplishments, some extraordinary progress made in telegraph and cable enterprise, the consequence of which challenged Col. Tom Ochiltree (the genuineness of whose admiration was never questionable) into the enthusiastic ejaculation: By the Aboriginal! John, you are the eighth wonder of the world. anOh, no, not so bad as that, swered Mackay, showing amusement; only the ninth, only the ninth. The eighth wonder Is bigger than any other thing this continent will ever see. And what is that? demanded the Texan. What the devil is the eighth wonder, then? The man with the jaw, quoth Mackay. Durned if I see the point, vowed Col. Ochiltree. At least that is what he said he said, for at the moment the Ochiltree voice had been drowned in a merry shout that filled the big, broad corridor. blood-suck- er 1 Conundrums. Who is the oldest lunatic on record Time out of mind. On which side of a pitcher Is th handle? On the outside. Why is the camel the most IrasclbU animal in the world? Because he always has his backs) What bar is that which often opes but never abuts? bonfire-complexione- d ball-bearin- g LIFES HARVEST. They are mowing the meadows, now, and the whispering, sighing Song of the scythe breathes sweet on mine idle ear Song of old summer dead, and of this one dying Roses on roses fallen, and year on year. Softly as swathes that sink while the long scythe, swinging, Passes and pauses and sweeps through the deep green grass; Strange how this song of the scythe sets the old days singing Echoes of seasons gone, and of these that pass. Fair ghost of Youth from your orchard closes Called by the voice of the scythe as It sighs and swings Tell me now as you toss me your phantom roses, What was the dream you dreamed through those vagrant SpringsT nt What that forgotten air when the heart .went maying What was the perfume blowing afar, anear? Youth Youth "Youth the Scythe keeps sighing and saying The rose you saw not the tune that -- you could not hear. Rosamond Marriott Watson in Har- pers. A Hospitable Heathen. It was high noon, and Monday Worse yet, it was the thirteenth day of the month. A knock was heard at the kitchen door of the Burns mansion. The Chinese servant opened the door. A tramp of long and varied experience accosted him. "Ive been traveling, and have played in mighty hard luck, observed the I lost all of my money in an tramp. attempt to corner oats, and now Im hungry; very, very hungry. Cant ytu please give me a little bite of something to eat? The Chinaman comprehended the situation at once. A benevolent, placid smile spread itself over his entire countenance. You likee flish? he asked of the tramp. Yes, I like fish first rate. That will do as well as anything. Come Fliday, said the hospitauie heathen. New York Times. Tea and house gowns of the showrooms are on the most elaborate order, In all manner of handsome materials from the heavy to the transparent. Most of them reflect empire styles, though there are a few models tight fitting at the waist, these usually in cashmere or henrietta cloth. Moire in black, 'white and delicate shades is a new material for these gowns, and, whatever its shade, is beautifully trimmed. Lace, all kinds of embroid ery, cording, braid, rose ruchings, chiffon, mousseline de sole and insertions appear among the trimmings. Ribbon also enters largely into their make-up- , and some are alternate bands of satin ribbon and insertion, while in other gowns the ribbon is velvet. Three different shades of chiffon are Thus a used for some tea gowns. foundation is white, a middle chiffon is delicate green and the outside one is rose pink. Fluffy ruffles trim the bottom of such a dress very prettily. understand that this new collar gives a chance for original voluminousness. A deep type of collar In yellow silk batiste is embroidered in black and cream silk and has insets of ecru lace edged with yellow silk. It adds distinction to a gown of tobac brown peau de sole. Another collar is of black silk mousseline over black taffeta. It is embroidered in white silk and spangled with tiniest cut jet. The edges are finished with black silk lace an inch and a half wide loosely ruffled at the joining, ' ally happv examole of this design. It is made of satin finished doth of a brilliant dark blue color, all the edges being finished with a strap of tan broadcloth, stitched with CorticelH spool silk in self tolor. The coat collar Is bordered by a similar strap, but Paris Novelty. One of the taking Paris novelties ts a pyramid braid, either In one color or iu black and white. Two or three fine silk cords outline the pyramid, and many dressmakers In Paris are putting the braid tn double widths upon the material, thus forming squares. Another braidls a heavy, wide basket weave in brilliant silk, and still another is a scallop which has deep points in its upper edge and is bordered on the scallop with a cord and braid. This comes in fourteen styles and colors, and in sizes varying from of an Inch to an inch. Scytce bi aid in five sizes, with corded effects, is another popular braid for tall, and button effects in braids, together with all the flat braids of irregular and pointed outlines promise to hold their own the coming season. A flat-toppe- d one-fourt- For Cool September Cays. Miss matched effects are not very popular this season with wo notable exceptions. One Is the covert coat, to be worn with skirts of dark blue or black mohair or serge, and the other la the skirt of shepard a checked Cheviot to be worn with close fitting body coats of dark blue or black matching the check. In this costume the coloring is black and white, the Fashionable Frills. novel effects are shown white linen braids. White moussellne is banishing the green veil from the smart hat In fall suitings Is a sleek and silky shot stuff with a nap like velvet The size of the seasons hat renders a parasol a mere accessory of dress. An imported gown distinctly presages the return of short gown and Many petticoat Pique is less modish than linens and crashes. The lace and embroidery vogue makes a yoke almost a necessity of the modish pov-p-. - its tim tru My li ,en suf jUrrb of hac bottles o ;rely di iady I (edies .. upon1he Vi1?? lay, it IM51U JS f it-- i, visa ihedtfo wey? t E rrmwrmipmvTTismm Yet when yo The Mesmerized Hat. v.iol the Provide yourself with an old fiat and an ordinary black pin beat in the shape of the letter C. Put the hat on. member how ttr a table, crown upward, and secrete the pin In your right hand. You will borrow the hat from somebody in the audience. On receiving it, take it in Cew jfiadmujic your left hand, and while walking to the table place the right hand Inside doth j))nng and quickly push' the point of the pin From hep up through the crown and stand the hat on the table. You make a few intern passes over the hat as if you were mesmerizing it Lay your left hand flat in the hat.' Slip your second finger in the hook and slowly lift the hat Doll From Martinique. from the table. After this bring the An interesting relic of the hat to the table, remove the hand, and town of Saint Pierre an oil in returning the hat you can easily fashioned Martinique doll has bees withdraw the pin. installed at the Musee Pedagogiqw. where there are dolls' representlif The Singing Doll. many French reigns and nearly aU the The experiment shown in the illus- French colonies. The doll from Ksr tration is bound to find favor with Unique left the Island a few days be' grown-u- p people as well as with young fore the great eruption. This by folks. All you have to do is to paint is a survival of the time two eyes, and underneath them a nose thing black slaves wore certain stuffs on the knuckles of your index, and Into Martinique by the N third finger, aa shown In the lower mans, who A originally colonized 1L part of the - Illustration. The thumb did the planters wives of former tlw pressed against the index finger and and aa do the negresses of the pi moved up and down will represent a ent wears a red and yellof she day, toothless month. The knuckle of the Ued round her baA Index finger forms the nose, above it handkerchief with the ends rising up above b are the eyes. By draping the face forehead, and a gown oft coarse eta mine or canvas cloth, so called b cause it preceded the hair sieve si strainer, and a cambric apron of atsf that in the early days of the last t tury the children of the Saint Pic Orphanage used to weave. The F1 and apron are much longer thas J rudimentary legs. The head is lO and the body stuffed, with bran, k doll waa found with other toya ta press after the decease of a very f lady, who received it, when grown up, as a relic of her tftJf mothers childhood. The fashtoa which it is dressed prevailed from ft time the island was first colonUad XJ with a towel we have the feature of i Normans, in the plantations, almotf ( an old woman, especially effective I present day. London News I when the light Is not very bright telegram. After a little practice yoa will succeed Rooster Mothers Chlcka In moving the thumb (representing A Hallowell, Me., rooater la moiL? the lower lip and chin) up and down, a flock of little chickens, fc while you sing a aong In a nasal voice ing to this story comes the dental or carry on a eonversaUoa with the of a tragedy of previous occurred audience In the voice of an old wom- when the mother hen met death bt an. To make the audience laugh neath the wheels of an electric heartily let the old woman cough and The head of the flock cares for fit neeze and open her mouth wide while little chickens with apparently af-he U laughing. To make the decepreallzaUon of the duUea Incumb: tion complete It is advisable to stand upon him. t, Importance of Linen Chests. The linen chest is once more assuming importance In American homes. Housewives have always bad their household linen, but the linen chest as an Institution means more than that. In Europe It has always kept Its prestige, but in modern days the linen of the American bride has been bought In wholesale fashion at the same time with trousseia. Per baps it has been because the modern girl le less prode than her greatgrandmother was to consider matrimony and a home of her own aa the great essential things toward which all girl life moves. It may be that the linen chest was elbowed aside with many other traditions, in the emancipation of the young woman, and that higher educae tion rooted out the feminine taste for hoarding fine linen against a If ail that is day of home-makintrue, then the new fad for linen chests may be . a harbinger of a welcome reaction. The day of a golden feminine mean may be at hand. Havir me doth sit furmiu g. being brail in radiating tacks, each of which shows a tiny piping of black cloth, and is slltcaed with black CorticelH silk to within about twelve inches of the edge, where it Is freed to give the flare. The little close fitting Eton coat ts made of) the black cloth and shows the favorite velvet faced coat collar. The revers are faced with white moire, , TUNEFUL CA T. the cat thitf the facing of revers is .of white moire antique. The buttons are very handsome examples of baroque. ian chi THE jtmg'j verc tVtej. old-tim- material machine. Very well! We will make a boring machine by following the law3 of gravity and equilibrium. We need, only a few things, a sewing needle, a cork, two pocketknives of equal weight and a bottle closed with a cork. We insert the pin In one of the corks and the eye end of the sewing needle in the cork, closing f,e bottle. Then we open the two pocket-knive- s and insert them in the free piece of cork, as shown in the illustration. Now we have to balance the two knives on the pin. For that purpose we place the pin on the tip of one finger and have somebody else move the knives to and fro until the balance is reached. Then we place the whole apparatus on the point of the needle, as shown in illustration. The balance is easily reached by slightly moving the pin one way or the other. When the balance is finally reached we set the knives and cork with the pin in motion by blowing at it As the sewing needle is of hard steel, the pin of softer metal, the turning motion of the needle will bore a hole in the pin like a boring machine. fRev.E. A crowbar. Why is a good resolution like a Isij fainting in a ballroom? Because it ought to be carried out What is that which the more jot put in a barrel the lighter it Is? Bungholes. If you throw a stone Into aster what does it become? Wet. . hew loop-edge- d low-live- d d A new social fad for the fall season ONLY THE NINTH WONDER. New Type of Steamship. Consul J. C. Freeman writes from A company has been Copenhagen: formed in this city for the construction of a trial steamship of a new type. With a spasm of pain, yet with rigid The inventor is Capt. F. C. Ishoy, Spartan determination the judge drew who i has taken out , patents in the from his pocket a gleaming revolver. principal countries. In this new form Turn that horse back of steamer the screw is placed under Will Dexter leaped from the buggy, the bottom Instead of aft The hull his eyes ablaze, his bands closing and is in form, being changed materially opening in fury. flatter, and the ships draft thereby There was the sound of galloping lessened. It is claimed considerably hoofs, the snort and foam of a fren- that a in the consumption of saving zied horse and Tinsley, alert, straight, coal of about 20 per cent will be savage and determined, leaped to the effected. The inventor believes that ground before his horse stopped run- with the same amount of fuel the ning and alighted in the center of disspeed will be greatly Increased, and turbance, pistol in hand. Turn about!, he commanded, in' finally that this form of craft will be much steadier and more seaworthy. dicating the Way with his vicious-apearing weapon. And move fast" Made a Hit With Him. ,.The judge's presence was completeI saw Miss Rushmore last "Yes, , . ly ignored. The judge almost exploded with evening, and she struck me as , "Oh, . yes, as being more beautiful amazement and wrath. "Who are you speaking to? he de- than ever? No. She struck me as I was trymanded. "Did I understand you to order my son, my son, to go back? ing to cross Fifth avenue in front of "I did," responded the now infuri- that big tonneaued car she scorches ated Tinsley, If that cur is around in, but I cant say that it was a son of yours. her beauty that made the most ImThe judge lashed his' mare to one pression on me when we met side. Business Is like a clock. It Is Drive on there. Will, he exclaimed furiously.. "My son takes orders from wound up alter it runs down. And no one but me. When you are married it isnt like a clock, for after It is come home. Go! wound up it stops. . - Young Dexter leaped into the buggy I dont believe much In luck, ylt and sl.shed the colt with his whip, The animal leaped forward, threw one I dont mind takln whatever luck of Its fore feet through a cums nsy way if its good. wide-sprea- a single row road-runner- p Leaned upon the top rail of the worn fence. "store in the kitchen, and his eldest slaughter was nowhere to be seen. "Wheres your sister? he demanded of the busy children, a great fear tug- wltL. Quite Informal. FANCIES AND FASHION FRILLS. . and ornamented of fancy braid. a-i- '" C w i |