'takes me to tell it a man jumped through It must 'a' bin an awtul strain on him After the Storm. most any time, and a*k for more. The The brocaded materials are gradually the door ot the liistin' woris an' caught thet last pullbut he nevir owned it, amount of this drink necjessary is an As men's cheeks faded reviving the stomacher, and a short hold of the chains. His coat an' bat was an' bimeby up comes Joe, bravest man in On shores invaded, ordinary water pailful at a time* morning, time one need not be surprised to see the When shorewatd waCed gone, an' he looked like an angelalmost the camp I reckon, barrin' Dandy noon, and night. waits of dresses as short as in the days of The lords of fight as he swung over the shaft in his white Ferguson, 'cause you see he wouldn one's grandmothers. When churl and craven frilled shirt an' his long yeller hair. It tech the rope till they'd all been hauled A pretty novelty is what is called "a Saw hard on haveu Sabbath Morn in the Country. was dandy Ferguson. He didn't wait for up he tied every man on except the The white-wiuged raven set ot flowers," that are sold together. How still the morn of the hallowed day? nobody, but jamed a b-g scantlin' thet coward Miller an' then came through the At mainmast height One little bunch is for the hajr,' one for Mute is the voice of rural labor, hushed When monks affrighted two men couldn't ahfted, down over the blazin' shaft himself, watchin' the little the belt, another for the throat, and still The plowboy's whistle and the milkmaid's The windward sighted shaft. Then he yelkd for a rope, an' tongues o' fire shoot out from the sides song, another to hang from the chatlaine. The birds full flighted toid some one near the door to fetch him ev'ry once in a while, as if they'd lick the And the wish is general that they might stav Of swift sea-kings The newest short dresses have three hushed. the ol' wiu'lass thet was lvin' outside lite-thvad in two. So earth turns paler kilt-pleated flounces crossing the back near the dummy. You never saw man When Storm the sailor and covering the back breadths from belt "As Joe grabbed the upper chains the 8teers in witn a roar in the race of his wings. work like they did as soon as ther was a The scythe lies glittering in the dewy wreath shaft lit up wich a hiss an' a roar, as it to foot. In front there is an apron Of tedded grass, with faded flowers, head. The rope an' the win'lass was the fire was mad at losin' its prey. Joe O, strong sen sailor, wrinkled across and one wide knifepleated That yestennorn bloomed waving in the brought into the works on the jump an' Whose cheeks turn paler got out and Ferguson staggered aw-iy flounce at the foot. bieeze fastened to the scantlin'. Down went the For wind or hail or And when the old man comes along from the windiass, but his luck went Widow's dresses have their own dsitinctive For fear of thee? rope and Ferguson shouting after it. 'I \nd finds itthere he will startle the quiet back on him at the last minute. He fashions, as, when the expense O, far sea-farer, Of the hallowed day with shouts and roars here, boys, an' I stay till I roast.' Then stumbled and fell jast as he came to the 0, thunder-bearer, can be afforded, they are covered in every And takings on of one kind and another he grabbed the crank, an' spun the rope Thy songs are rarer tramway at the door, an'the whole side of visible part with crape. The silk lining That will make a hired man sink into his round the bar laster'n it ever was rolled Thau soft songs be. the buildin'came down on him with a boots. of the basque may be merely covered O, fieet-foot stranger, before. He used one hand first, an' when crash. A hundred men forgot danger an* with English crape in the summer, but 0, north-sea ranger, she tightened ne laid the other on. death, rn' rushed into the flames, but ta winter the wool fabric is also laid on Sounds of the most faint attract the earthe Through days of danger Si Holaen wanted to help him but he sneakin1 Miller, the man that played it so turn and then covered with crape. And ways of fear, wouldn't hev no interference. 'Time Of early bee looking for some one to stinar, Blow thy horn here for us, mean down in the shaft got to him first A brunette of swarthy complexion looks Blow the sky clear for us, The trickling of the (mountain) dew, glug, .nough,' says Ferguson, 'when I drop.' and dragged him out. Everybody thought well in brilliant yellow or splendid red Send us the song of the sea to hear Slug, It wasn't Ion* before a half-naked body he was deal, an' the crowd earned him but a delicate, pale brunette must not Swinburne Glug, gluirgerty, gluggerty, glug, erlug! came up. They got the rope off as quick and Millerwho dropped insensible after wear striking colors on the contra~y, soft The distant bleating, midway up the hill, as they could, draggin' Harry Miller out he got Ferguson outto the camp. But Of the heart-broken goat when he first discovers hues should be employed, especially pale DANDY FJSKGUSOiX. ot the works more aeaa'n alive, tremblm' Dandy Ferguson lived through it, though blue. It is the same with blondes. If That he can not climb a tree! like a leaf. They thought at the time for weeks he lay between life an' daatb, THE HERO OP THE CHAPARAL SHAFT. the hair of a blonde be golden or red, it thet he was scared at the danger he'd an' fur months he didn't stii out of a I do not believe thft Quasimodo was a ought to be accompanied by its complimentary To him that wanders o'er the upland leas, been in an didn't notice how much exhausted dark room. But there was no lack o' more pitiably deformed creature, or Quilp colordark violet. Green of a With his shot-gun on his shoulder, he was, but they found out afterwards hslp an' prayer's an' faithful nurses to a more hideously unnatural looking objectthan The black-birds note comes mellower from medium intensity likewise suits all shades thet he'd played "it down in thet the dale, bring him round. No, sir an' there was Dandy Ferguson when I of red ha And sweeter iiom the sky the gladsome lark shaft as mean a3 one man can play it on wasn't a man, woman or child withia a saw him for the first time, that calm A stylish new paletot, for wear over Warbles his heav'n-tuned song the lulling another at sioh a time. You see there hundred miles o' the Uhaparal mine thet flummer afternoon, laughing and joking every elegant long light dresses, is made brook was five of 'em in the lower drift, an' wouldn't a crawled on their hauds an" with a crowd of boon companions in the Murmurs more gentlyj "down the deep-worn of Surah, very light in shade, and when the burnin' timbers of the upper kree3 to watch one hour at his bedside, glen, cool shada ot an awning at Quaitz Mountain. trimn'ed with deep Valenciennes lace a works began to drop down they all made While from yon roof whose curling smoke an' thought it one o' the brightest kind His face was seemed and distorted dbot ot the lace ornaments the front, and O'eimouuts the mist, is heard, at intervals, a rush for the main shaft. Toe cage was o' honorsyou can bet yer life on thet by peculiarjy glossy scarsthe ineradicable large lac-) pockets, ornamented with lace The voice of psalms, the simple song of on an' they couldn't get out till a rope evidence of close and long contact Yes, sir, Dandy Ferguson is a king in bows, are trimmed upon the back. It is praise, came down. They could see a flicker of with that shriveling element, fire. His And the hired girl swearing at the cook stove' this yer country. He can hev anything very effective fcr summer races or afternoon light up above, an' yelled till they was body was bent, and he walked with a Oil Oxtq Da-rick. or do anything he likes. We'd send him riding at Newport and Saratoga. It hoarse watchin' thet glimmer growin' sidling movement. He was a sickening to Congress ef he'd go, but he won't. has no sleeves, but there are epaulets of brighter ev'ry minute, an' kuowin' thet STYLES. spectacle at first sight, suggesting fearful We've got him here, though, an' I guees the lace, set in full on the top of the arm the shattin' timber'd blaze mighty soon suffering in the past, and my curiosity in he'll never leave. I wish I was one o' holes, and mounted with ribbon loops. POP ilie I.asi- to Bead. an' cut off all hope of their ever gittin' regard to him was thoroughly aroused. thim poetry writers I'd write the bull Buveis, or other managers, find the Ragged-sailor is a flower much in fivor out. It was a tenible thought an' you "Whi is that man?" I asked, accosting lest poem about Dandy Ferguson you new Bonaa embroidery a great convenience just now. can't blame Bill Slocum fur ^rabbin' the a tall, blue-shirted minsr who was standing ever read, you hear me? Yes, he's marlied. in the work of renovation, as the Silver jewelry now takes on the massive rope as soon as it dropped down to 'cm. in front of the post-office. Got married after he came out. manufacturers will supply it in every Harry Miller jumped long side of him, form. Talk about weddin's! That was a weddin' "Dofi't you know him?' answered the shade, and of every comoination, at nearly yellin' All the stilish dresses for fall are to be every body got an Jnvite, an' ev'rybody man: ''why, that's Dandy Ferguson. the same price as it is asked for in the cut short. 'Let go, darn ye, let go! ley can't piled in to see the gamest man -n thought ev'rybody knew Dandy Fergu- bhops. Most of the blended embroideries litt two of us.' 'Let go yerself,' shouts Old-fashioned red is the fashionable the State tied to the gamest woman on son.'" on lace arp also excellent garnitures, Slocum, turnin' round on him like a tiger. coloi now. God's footstool. Who was she? Why, "Why do you call him Dandy Fegusou?" tow hich the perplexed economist may Maggie Hildreth, of course. Who else Linen ulsters are finished with the resort when a shade that is not at the '"My old mother's up there,' yelled it bu, I'd like to know? What becama "iJecause well, because he used to be triple collars. moment a leading tint of tshionr is to Slocum, pointin' up the shaft. of Harry Miller? Well, thet's purty a dandya regular out-an' out sport. be piovided with a match or a coutras Very small jet buttons will be used in good. Miller, ye see., came out all right When Dandy Ferguson first came to this '"My wife's waitiu' fur me,' howls of color. dress trimming an' voul Slocuni'didn't bet he lest tilleavin'beg- he'd camp he was a gilt-edged gentleman, an' Millei. Bil parde fur him The desre for shaggy goods still continues Old Age. ge*1 no mistake. He wore a plug, an' flashed "Ac, with thet he knocks Slocum unabated. in the shaft as he did but Bill wouldn't a spark in his biled shirt-front as big as down in the drift an' goes up the lope Growing old gracefully is an art la The most fashionable ribbons are of have it said thet Miller'd balanced accounts a peanut. He put on more airs'n a mine hand over hand befoie ihe others could which few study to acquire perfeclion, velvet, satin lined. by savin' the life o* Dandy Ferguson, superintendent, an' most all the boys stop himthey'd killed him on the spot and yet how beautiful is age with the the man thet saved him. But was down on him from the start. That Slides, buckles and fancy ornaments in ef he hedn't climbed the rope as he did. grace and tendern^s that oroperiy belong gold will be much worn. thet's played. You want to know what's was about ihiee years ago, an' he came Served him right? Kencct, mister, to the autumn and winter of life. There become of him. Wellsay, look here, up here from the, Bay to git a whiff o' It is not uncommon for Spanish ladies they'd sarved him mighty weil right an' is a poetry that should linger about and mister. I don't like to own it, but I'm resb air, an' make nature an' the pines to possess a hundred fans. no mistake, but he beat thet game. He'd crown it with respect, reverence and admiration. the cussI'm Harry Miller. Interdooce -give him back what he'd lost spreein' jist strength enough to tie the slack For the house this season dress skirts The lattei days should hs set ye to Dandy Feiguson? Ot course I 'round with them stock sharps and young 'round his waist w'en he give way all at will be longer and wider. to quick, pleasant music, aud only soft, will, an' you'll never get an interduction Woods o' 'Frisco. No, he don't look like once an' hung to the end of the lope like Cutaway coats, simply trimmed, will sweet notes should ripple from the heart, to a gamr man, or one it's more honorable he was more'n hall human,'} that's a fact a dead wight, an' Dandy Ferguson a be much worn as fall wraps. where it is yet spring-time with all its to know. An' mister, ef ye ever but I'd rather have them scars o' his then haulm' him out o' death. Down went cheiishpd association^. A favorite pastime with the ladies now tell about the Chafiparal shaft, an how wear the clothes of the richest man in the rope again, an' Slocum was tied on is crocheting silk purses. Old people deserve a sunny niche in Dandy Ferguson stood by thet win'lass Califomythat is ef'Id gone through an' hauled up, Ferguson workin' the the household their loving faces should Polonaises of colored goods are no the red hot hisin' works, jest throw in what he has an' suffered wl.at he did. win'lass like a giant. The cords stood be framed in the memory, dearer and longer worn over black skirts. in somewhere thet he's better'n four Proud of 'em! Mister, thar a'n't a man in out on his neck like black-snake whips, cleaier than the gems that come from the New chatelaines consist of pieces of kings in this campit'l top off the story this yer countryno, sir, nor in this yer an' the sweet pou ed off of him like a artist's Brush which called for our admiration. ivory bound and linked with silver. fust rate, an" besides, you bet it's no Stateas is prouder'n Dandy Ferguson sluice stream. Two Cornishmen stood Their deeds of mercy and loving an1 more'n the solid truth." of what other men might grieve over Young ladies now wear caps like those by him tryin' to make him let them roll kindness, of patience and endurance sigh about, an' no man's got a better worn by Roman peasant women. up the rope while he rested, but he cussed thiough trials, of thoughtfulness for right to be proud, either. When he fust Etruscan-gold buttons, engraved like 'em and told 'em to dry up he said Ancient Timepieces. others and sympathy in the hour of need, came to Qaartz Mountain he used to par pure gold, will be used on plaid dresses. he was at the wheel, an' he'd stay there shoula be printed on the heait in characters ade the streets with his nose cocked up Bowls were used to measure time, Persian colors and designs are brought ef he died fur it. W'en Slocum came up, that will never grow illegible. I so he'd hydraulic himselt with patchouly from which water, drop by drop, was the fire was all around an' over the win'lass, out in the new brocaded silks for fall. their hearts have been full of kind humanity an' smell-water till you couldn't git within discharged thiough a small aperture. an' the two Comishmen grabbed and sweet friendliness and generous A new style of handkerchiel is the a mile of him. Such bowls were called water-clocks. BUI an' carried him outthey couldn't acts, then the coming night should plain hemstitch, with polka dot centers. It was then observed how much water stan' the heat, Ferguson sent down the "He was a delieate-looking cuss, an' his be gemmed with the stars ofaffection and Very handsome inlaid buttons are being frcm such a bowel or cask, tiom sunrise rope agin, an' up come Sam Hildreth, hands were as soft as a barber's. The devotion. Would they drift back with imported in colors to match costumes. till the shortest shadow, trick'ed down with jist stredgth to make for the door. boys used to bet that if big Bridget Sullivanour the tide, we often ask? Perhaps, if they uTbe roof over the biler and the pitch into another bowl p'aced beneath and washerwomrnwas to take it could only redeem the errors of youth, White velvet brocades on satin grouds this time, being ha^t'of the whole solar into her head to jump him, she'd knodk could only stem the breakers more courageously on the door-posts was smokin'. Jest as day, was divided into six hours. Consequently will be the winter style for wedding spots out o' him in short order. That was and nobly, and make of life a the rope went down fur the fourth time, they took a sixth of the water drtsses. our opinion ot him when he played his richer poem. If their lives all the way an' we loafin' round on the outside which had trickled down, poured it into small cards in this yer camp but he Black figured velvets will be much through have been set to the music of watchin' Dandy Ferguson standin' there the upper bowl, and this discharged one showed down both bowers and the ace before worn for carriage and ful'-dress toilets. thoughts, noble aspirations and brave liky a man at the stake, expectin' every hour had expired. But afterward a more he qui" the game, you bet yer life. deeds, then the blossoms of admiration minute to sec him drop, an' not a man of The latest carriage parasols are made convenient arrangement was made they D'ye see that quartz mill over thar on the and honor should be laid daily at their us with gumption enough to think what of Cardinal satin and edged off observed how hi^h the water at eacli side hill? Thet's the Chaparal Mine, ye eet by kindly hands. was wanted, a woman rushes into the fiery with deep white lace. hour rose in the "ower bowl, marking know, an' it's thar thet Dandy Fergurson furnace an' slings a wet blanket over the To the old, the rush of early memories The new style of velvet imported for these points, and counting them, thus showed us what sand was. One night, bravest, gamest man in the State o' Califomy. comes back like the lost notes of a song bonnets and their trimmirgs is called the finding out how many hours were till about a month after Fergurson got here, they once loved. Thev delight to live Medicis. sunrise. somebody out there yelled 'Fire 1' an' the over the past for them the meadow daisies "Thet's the ticket,' shouts Ferguson. The short walking dress will be camp turned out. The h'istin' works was With the Chinese, the water-clock or & row again, the yellow dandelions are 'You're a trump, whoever you are, my brought out in more graceful designs this in a light blaze, an' the flames shootin' e'epsydra are very Id. They used a plucked with fearless fingers, the running gill, an' I won't furget ye, live or die.' winter than ever. high up in the dark. We all lushed to round vessel filled with water, with a hole brook murmurs no music sweeter than An' he didn't. It was Sam Hildreth's The newest thing in an engagement the spot like a pack o' mad animalsyou in the bottom, which was placed upon another that they once knew in their hearts, and sister Maggie, an' w'en she came out of ring is a tiny thread of gold supporting a know how afire stirs men up an' excites vessel. When the water in the upper the fragrant clover blossom breathes only the smoke ?n' flame with her dress in a solitaire diamond. 'em. Of course, nobody knowed what to vessel passes down into the lower vessel the perfume of a vanished June. They blaze, she calls out sharp to the men. do, an' for a minute we all stood round it subsided by degrees, announcing The belts to the plaid shcrt walking carry with them always the poetry and ''Keep thet blanket wet. There's lookin' at the fire creepin' long the eaves, thereby the part of time elapsed. Tne costumes will be wide and fastened by sweetness of rememberance. water in the tank. I'll marry the fust an' the burning shingles droppin' down Babylonians aie said to have used such squaie gilt buckles. About those wno grow old gracefully, man thet throws a bucket of water over the ahaft. Purty soon some one says: instruments from them the Greeks wt New imported fans are of sv/an down' there lingers forever the freshness and Dandy FergusonI'll marry him ef he's 'What!' kinder sharp an' fierce like. Asia Minor got them, at the time ot King mounted on pearl sticss and ornamented tenderness of youth. The silver hair a Chinamen.' Then there was a little movement in the Cyrus, about the year 550 before Christ. with tiny ribbon bows. wears '"Time's gathered snows.". The "Them's her identical words, mister. crowd, an'a man with a lace as pale as The Romans did not get the first waterclock In the selection of color in dress, ladies foolish, baffled hopes of mere worldly The men didn't need no further orders, death sprang away from the mouth of the before Christ. Bu% though the should be guided by what suits ambition fade tway before the infinite 'cause Maggie Hildreth was the handsomest shaft yellin'frantic: 'WaterI Water! For aours of the clepsydras did not vary in their hair and complexion. longing for things higher and holier, and girl \A the country, an' the best, love o' God, turn on the waterthe night length, they still counted from the morning. to those upon whom they depend there an' hed ev'ry young buck fur miles aroun' White satin, brocaded with a small shifts in the lowor drift:. There was an' When the clock with us strikes come verses which never can be written, close at her heels all the time, handicappin' figure in colors, will be a handsome style her awful agony in thet man's voice he had seven, the ancients counted one, when the But- of sympathy with sorrow, resignation in each other for miles. for evening dresses. jist remembered thet his brother was clock with us strikes twelve the ancients affliction, cheerfulness in disappointment, brother Sam saved her from A beautiful material of rich Oriental down there an' thet, the fire under the count six, and so forth. This method of and the sweet faith that helped to overcome them galoots- saved her for a better coloring, used for trimming hats and bonnets, biler of the engine was banked, thet the counting the hour was, according to the all obstacles. We ofttimes smile man, by wetting the blanket himself. is called '-Nabob gauze." cage was too heavy to work by hand, an' New Testament, also customary in Pales, at their odd fancies, and wonder why they About this time the heat was terrible, Ostrich feathers will be mose used this the timbers in the shaft, pitch pine an' tine at the time of Christ. The waterclocks cling so closely to little keepsakes and one man in the drift an' another half-way winter than they have been for years dry as bone with great sparks droppin' had the advantage that they could treasures of the past they may be but up, crawlin' fast enough in ordinary circumstances, past. They are low priced just now. down like flakes in a snow storm. You've be used at night, and the Romans used links on the chain of Time, that carry but hardly fast enough with The earliest importations ot fall wraps beard how fast a man thinks in time of them to divide their night watches, which them back to a more gollen dawn. death racin' down on his avior at a twofortyegait.t show Jacques, or coats, for plain garments danger. Jim Slocum thought of his were relieved four times, both summer W'estoo JackaHarmonecame out Ok? age is full of study. It has battled th shaf he minut on the for general wear, and mantles for brother, the dry timbers, the engine, the and winter. Conformably to these four o1 with life so long, and grown weary so often driving wraps. cage, an' water, all in a second, but that night watches were counted, not only in scantlin' swawin' back an' forth like a over its broken amoitions, its repeated India cashmere and camel's hair cloths was all. He didn't hev time to think of Rome, but wherever a Roman garrison drunken man, blinded by smoke, an' bewildered, failures, its vain hopes. They often will be chosen ror all mantles black the fact thet thar wasn't a bar'l of water was stationed consequently also in Palestine an' ef Ferguson hedn't caught forget the world once held for them so steel yray and dark blue will be the within a mile of the mine. Somebody after she had become a Ronum him he'd gone back agin. Two more of many aspirations as they diift silently -1 popular shades. rushed to the tankther was about a tubful us hed got in with buckets of water toward that unknown shore the rapture of province. there. The fire was playin' round Reversible shawls, different on each 'bout all ther was in the tank but it that "strange, beautiful song" of youth the biler, an' the engineer had turned the 8ide,are new and will be popular, striped seemed to dry off as fast as we ponred it seems only a dim reality, half forgotten. Row to Hake Cotvt give BtilK. safety cocks to let thet out. We all shawls with richly shaded borders are on, fur the blanket was smokin'. Wen The sunset hours of old ace are filled If you desire to get a large yield ot 'rushed ev'ry which way yellin' for ropes, also a new style. the rope went down fur the last time, to with gleams of fading pictures, tinted rich milk, give your cow every day water ladders, anythingas ef ladder could uaul up Joe Harper, the scantlin' was with roseate clouds or shadowed with Some of the new French slippers worn slightly warm and slightly salted in reach down about two hundred feet to burnin an' the upper limbers was beginnin' tears but if it be a season of contentment, with morning costumes have straps which bran has been stirred at the rate where the men was. They were clean to blaze. The whirlin' smoke hid restful and cheerful, it always around the ankle, like children's shoes, of one quart to two gallons ot water. gone with excitement, an' dicln know Ferguson from us, but we knowed thet ef wears a gracious coloring, the dew of its and ribbons to tie the ends of the straps You will find if you have not tried this what to do, an' the fire roarin' and cracklin' he didn't come out soon the whole shebang influence rests upon our hearts^ and we together. daily practice that your cow will give like the devil's own blaze. 'd give way an* bury him the sides insensibly yield admiration, reverence A novelty for morning wrappers is a twenty-five per cent, more milk immediately was in a light blaze, an' the place where and love to the unoonscioui cbarm of fine quality of flannel's v/nich is called under the effects ot it, and she will S rushed one way an' some the win'las? stood was the only spot peace, repose and serenity that crowns camel's hair flannel. It comes in dark become so attached to the diet as to re another, while some of them stood starm' where even Dandy Ferguson could 'a' beautiful old age, and gives it a poetry colors,^ such as garnet, k,blue, grayer fuse to drink clear water unless very into the hot'lack smoke and yeller fire, worked. grand and tender sweet. black/ thirsty. But this mess she will drink al- dazed, scared, helpless.jjjQuicker'n it fc**^*.*** w**yy. V*t-*u .sii^E ouHdlttibiu ,rf, j,,A..i^aMteiA,