[Illustration: THE LATEST MELODRAMATIC DODGE OF A PLAYED-OUT POLITICIAN.

Simpson, however, took in the situation in a moment, and knowing that it would be impossible to escape by running our played-out mules, he adopted a bolder and much better plan.

During the movement several of our men were killed, but as night came and dense darkness prevailed, we succeeded in making good headway, and got into Fort Hays just at daylight next morning, in a very played-out condition.

They left behind them their played-out horses, and for miles we could see Indian furniture strewn along in every direction.

" He then sent to Chicago and got a ten dollar devorce, and married MARIAR LOUISER, arter which he become a played-out institootion, employin' his time walkin' in solo with his hands behind him, gazin' intently on the toes of his butes, and wonderin' if they was the same ones which had histed so many roolers off of their thrones.

That's one way in which its share of the church's benevolent offerings is used" "But you don't mean to tell us," said J.W., incredulously, "that you can drop in on a place like Delafield, make up your mind what is needed, and then dump a lot of money into a played-out church, just like that?" "Oh, it's not so informal as all that," Conover said, "The thing has to go through the official channels, of course.

His thoughts were on something that had occurred shortly before: When he passed the inn a horse dealer had asked him if he would not like to purchase a horse, and had shown him an old nag so weather-beaten that he asked the dealer if he took him for a fool, since he wished to palm off such a played-out beast on him.

" Back in New England she probably would not have married him for she was a cut or more above him socially, the played-out end of a very fine line, as her beautiful speech would have made evident to any sensitive ear.

The victims, he judged, of a lot of played-out southern ideas and traditions.

One night Cake, returning all weary and played-out from dish-washing at Maverick's, heard him speaking in this loud voice of his, pushed the door open a crack, and peeked in.

Driven, crushed, hurled back by the played-out police, the crowds had sagged back into the cross streets.

They ran along together for a year or more, selling a played-out mine now and then or a "promising claim," for a small sum.

Almost looked to Thorn as if he might have to go to work for a living, but he was a tenacious cuss, and stuck it out till one day when Jim came back to Leadville from a near-by camp, where he'd been looking at some played-out claims.

Then we worried along around to the top of thet higher bluff an' there I was so played-out I thought my day had come.

Jes' so with poets: wut they've airly read Gits kind o' worked into their heart an' head, So's 't they can't seem to write but jest on sheers With furrin countries or played-out ideers, Nor hev a feelin', ef it