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touches at many points the southern
overland trail. The Santa Fe trail
runs through the Ration mountains
Southern spurs of the Rocky noun
mountains in New Mexicc), and the
engineers who built the Santa Fe rail-
road found many problems solved in
the way of mountain railway con-
struction by simply following the trail
of the Spaniards of many years ago
There are still TO be seen along this
trail Spanish houses that were built in
the time when that part of the country
was within Mexican territory while
there are also many road houses that
fifty years ago dispensed cheer and
comfort to the weary travellers who
crossed the plains and mountains for
the precious yellow metal
The Rio Grande system follows the
trails made by Gunnison in 1S53-54. The
Colorado Southern, from Fort Collins 10
Trinidad, Colo, runs along the trail
between Fort Laramie and Fort Union.
and the Oregon Short Line is built
along the Oregon trail from salt Lake
to Columbia. The Central Pacific, now
owned by the Southern Pacific, runs
from Ogden to San Francisco by a
route that many years ago was trav-
eied by Spaniards and Indians, across
the northern end of the great American
desert and through the beautiful Sierra
Nevada mountains.
From the snOw-capped summit of the
Sierra Nevada mountains to the green
fields around San Francisco is a mat
ter of eight hours by the fast overland
limited on the Southern Pacific. and
along this route may still be seen the
path or trail that. years ago. required
many days of work and danger sue
cessfully to traverse. From Denver to
Salt Lake City the Denver & Rio
GTande railroad follows old trails, and
the Grand river along which the wan
dering Mormons plodded on their way
to the hoped-for haven of rest. Both
the Rock Island and Union Pacific fol
low ancient trails. and the big Rock
Island bridge, AZ Omaha, crosses the
Missouri river from Council Bluffs at
a point where the wealth-ssekers from
the east. with their families, livestock
and prairie schOOneTs. used to ford the
muddy stream.
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WOOD FROM THE WILDERNESS
How the National Capital Gets Its
Fuel From Virginia

Passengers on the Potomac river day
boats. as they go up and down the
river from now until fall. will pass
some curious craft which are illustra-
tive of an interesting branch of COM
merce. 1t is an industry about which
the general public knows but little.
for the men engaged in it never come
nearer than the hem of the elaborate
garment of civilization which clothes
the great city.
As the steamer slips down the river
at a twelve knot-an-hour rate. there
drifts across the course a two-maSted
schooner. Her gunwhaie is almost
awash for she is loaded deep with cord
wood. Her two big mainsails flap idly,
holding just enough of the light breeze
to afford steerage way. The sails are
dirty and patched. the corddge is
ragged and knotted and she looks very
unkempt A white man. in trousers.
shirt and big straw hat lounges on top
of the poop beneath which is the tiny
cabin A barefooted negro stretched
out on deck holds the wheel, a couple
of other negroes asleep forward on the
woodpile complete the crew
The big steamer being pressed close
to the shoal water of the fats by the
impudent little craft. stops, backs and
passes on the other side There is an
exchange of a few sulphurous epithets
between the respective commander,
ending in derisive laugh from the
wood rrier and the vessels continue
on their way one the type Of steam,
progress and civilization. the other a
relic of the good old days when nobody
was in a hurry.
This is sample of the wood-carry-
ing schooners which ply between Wash
ington and the estuaries of the lower
Potomac. keeping up the supply of
cord wood and kindling wood. They
run steadily through the summer and
fall. discharging their csrgoes along the
river front. the captain going ashore
10 lay in his supplies of ham. coffee.
-four and tobacco. and the crew indulg-
ing in little gin. after their fashion
Then away for another cruise on the
lonely reaches of the lower Potomac.
II is another world. this lower Poto-
mac region. Here the river broadens
to width of FIVE miles or more. open
ing in BAYS and reaches. into which
empty deep tidewater creeks These
little waterways stretch far up into
Virginia and Maryland, narrow and
sinuous. but with the tide on the flood
afording sufficient channel for the
wood carriers. They are Overhung by
dense forests whose shade is grateful
on hot day. Deep silence broods over
the locality, broken only by the sullen
plunge of the plymouth bass as he
makes a dash for bunch Of grass min
nows- The plymouth bass attain a
weight of five TO seven pounds There
are also great yellow perch twelve
inches long and the usual run of river
fish,
When the wood schooner heads into
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so much applause arlier in tn year.
TIL Pickaways carrid off all tn
honors in tn sewer-diggin' contest yes
terdah, defeatin' tn Spadewells be five
holes to wan. TIL shovel wurruk iv
Cassidy, tn banker, was SPECIALLY no
ticeable. TIL colors iv tn Pickaways
was red flannel undhershirts an dark
brown trousers.
Raycreations iv rich men: Jawn
w Gates an J. Pierpont Morgan ARE
to have a five days shinglin' contest
at Narragansett Pier. George Gold is
thrainin' FIR tn autumn plumbin' jim
kanny- Michigan avnoo is tore up
firm Van Buren, sthreet to tn belt line
in preparation FIR tn contest in sthreet
layin' between Numbers iv tn Asso-
cyation iv More-Thin- Rich Sports
TIL sledge teams is completed, but
few good hampers an wather men is
needed
AN why not, Hinnissy? If tits fun
to wurruk, why not do some rale
wurruk? If It's sport to run an auty
mObill, why not run locymotive2 If
dhriyin' a horse in a cart is a game.
why not dhrive a delivery wagon an
carry things around? Sure, s'pose
tn raison a rich man can't undher-
stand why wages shud go higher is be-
cause tn rich can't see why anybody
shud be paid FIR anything so amusin
as wurruk. 1 bet We Higgins is won
1ferin' -at~SiIis moment why he was
paid so much FIR putin rings around d
bar'l.
NO, sir. what's a rich mans ray
creation is a poor mans wurruk. TIL
poor ARE tn On'y people that know
how to, injye- wealth. Me idee iv set
tin things straight is to have tn rich
who wurruk because they like it do tn
wurruk FIR tn poor who Wud rather
rest. I'll be happy tn day 1 see wan
iv tn Hankerbilts pushin' ye'er little
go-cart up tn platform while ye set
in tn shade iv a three an cheer him
on his way. I'm sure he'd do it if We
called it a sport an tor him tn first
man to tn dump wud be entitled to do
it over again against stronger men
mex week. Wud We give him a tin cup
that he cud put his name on2 Wud ye,
Hinnissy? I'm sure We wud."
why do they do it?" asked Mr..
Hennessy.
II dinnaw," said Mr.. Dooley, confess
IT is that tn wan great object iv ivry
mans life is to get tired enough to
sleep. Ivrything seems to be some
kind iv wurruk. Wurruk is wurruk
if we're paid to do it an it's pleasure
if We pay to be allowed to do it,
Copyright, 1902. by Robert Howard
Russell.1
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When he ambIed around after Din
ner he had his Port Eye out for a
larksome LoOloo who would pin Flow
ers on him and tease him 10 take her
to Lively Show. He began TO buy
Flowers for all who were under -.
He framed his Dresser with Carbon
Photos of Mazies and LiIians and
Madges- One of the upper Drawers
smelled like the front part of a Drug
Store and was filed with Square En-
velOpes addressed in the scraggly, dis
located Writing that looks like a Pro-
file Drawing of the Sierra Nevadas.
Eugene WAS now too Busy to think
of Matrimony. He had eight or nine
on his Books at one time and the main
JOY of his Life was TO burn up his In
come in such a way that it would give
fleeing Hour of Happiness to a dim
pied Bud weighing anywhere from IS
to lis Pounds.
The Library which he had planned in
the Cloisters of Learning consisted Of
a Date-BOOk and Volume telling how
to cook Things in a Chatting Dish
Bye and bye il came about that Eu-
gene had a thin Spot on top OF His
Head The little Ships who hoped
out of the Nursery into Sassiety every
Fall started in to call him Papa am
4Nullhg ne DG5dn 10 COUNT Ile ears
and decided that he was due to take
the High Jump.
But he did not choose any Lady who
taught in the Sunday school. Neither
did he swing on any Old Maid at the
General Delivery His Heart did not
hone and banker for any Female Emer-
son or any stately and superior Head
Waitress. Even the Society Queen
who had been worked out for a couple
of Seasons did not appeal TO Eugene.
He put his Tag on a blonde Canary
II Years of Age who spelled Sure with
an II and had from seven to nine
Thoughts every tWenty-four Hours.
But she was very Easy to Look at.
And the only call that he made on her
Intellect was to please regard him as
The Works.
Moral-The only Cinch Method of
avoiding MispIays is to wait until one
knows his Mind
Copyright, 1902, by Robert Howard
Russel-)
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- f Eugene mere =. was a.. 10y -, n-'''sa
w. shook his Sailor Collar and
began to wear Galluses in
stead OF buttoning them to the Waist.
he had his first Attack.
He went off his Feed and moaned in
his Sleep. His Mother. not suspecting
that the Divine Passion could find
room to operate in a 9O-pounder
thought he had Cholera Infantum. She
began to shoot the Pain-Killer into
him, but il failed to touch the Spot
Little Eugene had gone Mushy on
the Lady who taught his Sunday
School Class She was doing her 35th
Lap and had a Husband who led the
Choir, but these Trifies did not bother
the Kid. He had it all cribbed up to
kill the Husband in a Duel and carry
Loved One off to a lonely Island where
they could live CrusOe Fashion He
used to send Teacher an occasional
Card showing a couple of fat Pigeons
nesting under a Mess of Spinach and
also little Couplet to the Effect that
as sure as the Vine grows round the
Stump she was his little Sugar Lump
He picked her Currants for her and
wouldn't take Money for it. and he
loafed around the Kitchen when she
VS. NAMING LC4 <ARkAO o0NNNA oANAA oN
last she sent him Home with a little
Note to his Nav, advising her to put
him in heavier Flannels and make him
drink Sassafras Tea each Night.
Eugene pinned away for couple of
Days and then transferred his Polly
Wog Affections to an Old Maid who
stood at the General Delivery Window
at the Post Office. He wrote for Seed
Catalogues and Terms to Agents so as
to have an Excuse to speak to Angel.
She up and married the Station Agent.
Eugene had to go out and forget his
Sorrow in Base Ball and Pull-Away.
In due Time ne went to a Fresh
Water College and here he began to
yearn for another Kind. 1t happened
that me went oat Botanizing with a
slender COED who wore Nose Glasses
and had an Intellect that made Noise
like a Dynamo. Frequently they did
their Algebra together and he wrote
Notes to her in Latin telling her that
she was All Right
Along about this time his idea of
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Paradise came down to Earth was to
own snug little Library and sit in it
every Evening reading aloud to a tall
proved Helpmeet. He wrote several
Essays on Women and sprung them on
the Pythagorean Literary Society. He
said that every Maverick who was
cow trailing around over the Sand
Lots of this dreary Life had an Affinity
concealed somewhere in the Brush and
the Game was to hunt her up and then
stick to her like Spalding's Glue. He
allowed that the real Girline Charms
did not depend upon Frizzes and Make
Up Eugene was strong for the Beauty
of Soul which would wear for Years
and look just as we'll on one Side as
on the Other
When he graduated he was keen to
do the Liberty Act with the cogita-
tive Cold Upon searching himself
he found that his Assets consisted of
a handWorked Diploma, few Dance
Programmes and a Badge of the Gotta
BaZOota Frat He decided to cut out
the Private Reading Circle until he
could see his Way clear to get enough
to pay for the License
Having settled in the City he gave a
busy Imitation of a Bright Young Eel
low who is trying to side-step the Pot
ter's Field. At the Boarding House.
where he coaled, there was a Head
Waitress who carried a Remarka bic
Shape for one who had to be on her
Feet all day. She never had been be
yond the 3rd~ Grade in the Grammar
School, but when they had Chicken she
always slipped Gene the Second Joint
and she had his Paper propped up for
him when he came TO Breakfast. He
gave her several long Rides on the
Cars and there might have been some
thing doing if Eugene had not had
his Salary whooped. He moved into a
first-class. pruneless Family Hotel
and got into the Habit of carrying
Money in his Clothes. In the mean
time the COED was off in Minnesota
somewhere. teaching SckeOl.
Around the Hotel there were aII
Kinds and Eugene. who was now so and
had mislaid his Diploma, found that
he no longer had an uncomfortable
Desire to buckle up with those who
wore Specs and could tear the lining
out of Synthetic Philosophy.
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the mouth Of one of these little creeks
she lowers her sails, and the hands
pole her up the creek TO the wood land
ing, where she is to take on her load
For miles and miles back of the land
ing stretches a forest of pine and oak
This is a wild region since the war
left its mark of devastation upon it.
You are now on the edge of the great
Wilderness" of Virginia. All the men
who were not killed in the army and
who since could get away have gone;
the lands have grown up with pine
trees: the fields are covered with
scrub timber. A wood hauler's road
winds its way through the sandy soil;
the country is fat and monotOnous
and apparently good only for the use
to which it now is being put, TO fur
nish firewood for the cities.
1t does not take long to get a load,
even though the crew have to pause
once in a while to feed the baited lines
hung overheard as a lure to a stray
catfish. big mouth bass or '-yaller
perch" The captain knows his crew
viii be all the happier if they can al
ternate their bacon that night with
some fried feesh.'' So next day, with
the ebbing tide, the little craft is pOled
down the creek and out into the broad
water, where her sails are raised There
is not much wind in this region in the
summer, and the sail to Washington
is TO be an experience of lacking and
reaching. But it is not hard work
The air is soft and warm. the distant
Maryland and Virginia shores are
bathed ia a blue haze, the river spar
kles as the little waves lap the sides Of
the gTinny old boat; it's nice to stretch
out on the woodpile and snoOze until
the captain calls for a shift of the
boom
Then, when evening comes, they
draw off from the main channel. drop
anchor. hanging a lantern in the rig
ging to note their position. One of
the negroes fries the bacon and makes
the coffee, and soon after supper the
whole outfit is asleep to be turned out
at first crack of daX in the morning.
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a HARD TINE tn rich
90 "a have injyin' life" said
IA Mr.. Dooley.
I'D thrade with thin"
said Mr. Hennessy.
q wud not" said Mr.. Dooley. Its
too much like hard wurruk If I liver
got hold Nv a little mound iy tn money.
diyvle tn bit w hardship wud / infiict
on mesilf. I'd set on d large Turkish
sofa an have dancin' girls dancin' an
a mandolin orchesthree playin' to me.
/ wudden't move a step without bein'
carried. I'd go TO bed with tn lark an
get up with tn night Waterman. If
annywan suggested physical exercise to
ne I'd give him forty dollars to go
away. I'd hire a prize fighter to do
me fighting fr me. a pedesthreen to do
ne walkin'. a jockey to do me ridin'.
an a colledge professor to do me
thinkin. Here I'd set with a naygur
fannin' me with osterich feathers,
loOkin' ca mly out through me stained
glass windies on tn rollin' mills.
smokin me good five-cint seegar an
rejicin' TO know how bad We mus be
feelin ivry time We think iv me
h0orded wealth.
But that amt tn way it comes out,
HinnisSy Higgins. tn millyionaire,
had tn same idee as me whin he was
beginnin' to breed money with a dol
lar he owned an a dollar he took firm
some wan that wasn't there at tn
time. While he was hammerin' hoops
on a bari or dhrivin' pegs into a shoe.
he'd stop wanst in awhile to wipe tn
sweat of his brow whin tn boss
wasn't lookin', an he'd say to himsilf:
II ] liver get it, III have a man wheel
me around on a chair But as his
stable grows an he herds large dhroves
down to tn bank ivry week. he changes
his mind. an whin he's got enough to
injye life. as they say, he finds he's up
against it, His throubles has just be-
gun. l know p in his heart Higgins
ideel iv luxury is enough buCkwheat
cakes an a coy corner in a Turkish
bath. but he can't injye it. He mus
be up an doin'. An tn on'y things
annywan around him is up an dOin' is
III things he used TO get paid FIR dom
Whin he was a young man.
'Arly in tn mornin Higgins has got
70 he out eXercisin' a horse TO keep tn
horse in good health Higgins has no
business on a horse an be knows il.
He was built an idycated FIR a cooper
an III horse don't fit him. TIL mach
ral way fr Higgins to ride a horse is
u set well aft an hang onto tn ears.
But he's toll that's wrong an he's
made 10 set up straight an be good
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being shot are then lessened than If
you got up and raised the roof with
your voice. He will take the hint and
get out quick. If you happen to wake
up and find him in your room. and you
are timid. let him have your valua bleS
and you lie very still. You may re
place your valuabies. but not the life
he viii take if you are foolhardy
enough to tackle him barehanded.
sixth, don't forget that all burglars
are armed with revolverS, but that all
hOuseholders and roomers are not He
has you. therefore. practically at his
mercy at the beginning of the game.
and always at a disadvantage if you
are armed. He is prepared to shoot
with his gun in his hand. He is wide
awake. while your weapon may be just
out of reach, and as you have been
awakened out of slumber. your senses
are not as alert as the man who will
kill without a single thought.
9 g
Seventh, because you hear a noise
in the house it does not follow that it
is caused by a burglar. or if you are
roomer in a lodging house. that the in
truder who has entered your room is
one with evil intent When a man is
more or less drunk all doors look alike
10 MIN. anu nave frequently IOunu
roomers trying my door. and even in
my room. Those conditions are trying
TO the nerves. to be sure. but you can
almost instinctively feel whether man
is there by mistake or with burglarious
intent II in your own house, don't
be too hastily on the shoot if il is pos
sible for a member of your family to
have strayed into your room while in
a st of somnambulistic abstraction. or
while looking for your private bottle of
rye on the top shelf of the closet.
Eighth. in shooting a burglar. do
not feel that you are taking a human
life The burglar is a human hyena.
and. as all of the animal kingdom de-
spise the hyena. so ought The higher
intellectual animals regard the burglar
He is an outcast. an outlaw. a nameless
creature. worthy only OF execration and
death. and compared with whom the
highwayman who gives you at least a
chance 10 hand over your vaIua bles and
go, is an honest man The burglar is
the most viliainous Of Williams. and for
every one removed from earth by d
bullet or locked up behind prison bars.
lava biding citizens should give a sign
of relief and a prayer OF congratula-
ton
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should attempt to insult or interfere
with a guest of his
IF I'd a-been there when that guy
smashed your hat, Mr.. Graham" said
the bad man, "there'd a-been some
shootin done. And All reckon you
taught 'em a lesson in a better way"
Mr.. Graham. however, cherishes to
this day the belief that the gentleman
" Mr.. Thompson arranged the whole
affair for his own amusement and fell
in with the boxing proposition only be-
cause il promised some pleasant va
riety on the usual gun play.
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If necessary before you stop. Ask
questions as to his presence in your
room at that hour afterward. Have
no more conjunction about killing a
burglar than you would a mad dog;
in fact favor the dog. Always remem-
Der that he is in your house unlawful
" for two purposes-to rob you and
to kill you If necessary; therefore
whether expert or novice with gun.
never shoot to wound; plant your bull
let's thick and fast into his body.
Third. If you have revolver, do not
keep il in the bureau drawer, but un-
der your pillow. or within easy reach
by the side Of your bed so that you
can get your fingers around the trig-
ger with the least possible movement
and without getting up. If a man ever
needs a revolver under these circum-
stances he needs il right away. and he
should not have to go and hunt IT. Lie
still in bed and shoot your would-be
murderer fun of holes; If you get up
he may make a sieve of you. never
forgetting that he is about the vllest
carf.iou on earth and is never willing
to give YOU even a fighting chance Tor
volIr life II is always dead men tel
no tales with the burglar. and you
should apply the axiom obligingly TO
him.
Fourth. if you hear 'noice in the
house or your wife hears it and wants
vou To go down in the cellar with
i;qbt don't go. Don't light the gas
either TO see what the noise Is ABOUT
The darkness makes a perfect SheIter
for the burglar. while the light makes
Of Won a perfect target for his buiie'.
MANY men have been shot 10 death or
wounded because they followed the
,,rtural impulse TO get no a1i strike
Iirht Get YOUR revolver wei Srlpped.
lie stiU and await developments. whlch
ore sure TO come if the noise iS caused
nv a burglar If he comes into your
room. fire at him as soon as N2u can
discern his shafowy from. IL you WISH
10 investigate. do your exploring in the
darkness: YOU know your own house
the intruder does not You place tnS
boot on the other foot when Vcu Ioi-
low this. the unusual plan. for you are
in the dark. and If he is Nindy pack
inc mn your silverware from your am
ipS room sideboard to save the hlreu
Girl the trouble of keeping ii clean, you
IAN kill him easily, if you nave the
REQUISITE nerve. II you haven't, lock
Xol,r door, stick your head out OF the
window. call for the police, ana lre on
vour gun You viii then scare the lei
low away at least
Fifth. IL you have neither reVoiVer
nor nerve. and you hear burglar IN
| the house. or think you DO, just lie sun
| ana scream good and loud If you are q
woman and give a Comanche yen II
| Won are q man. The chances OF your
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FASHIONS Fall

Mrs. Style-I want a hat. but II must
be IN the latest style
ShoDman-Kindly take a chair, madam,
and wait q few minutes the fashion Is
lust changing.