HPVWIA03PiHEJV9Si WWJ?. .r WST'WT Tiyy'g TITX. J ' THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1891. 12 If mS5L III! 1 Pi IP iSWJzJS- X "T..H V".' HV . S . I tf-Jf - -AdVlSS lit. Jliebt had f&Uen on the banks of the Chip- paloga, and the fipht -was over. Ithad been hot and fierce -while it lasted, and the bat tered remnant of Southern troops, though at last they had been forced to flight, leaving one-third their force on the field, had thinned the number of their conquerors. Though the smallest of the episodes of a war whose issue settled the future of the American continent and affected the history of all mankind, the battle had brought the peace of death to many a valiant heart, its bitterness to many a woman and child, -who, all unaware, were praying, safe in distant cities, for the husbands and fathers whose lips would never more meet theirs. Over head, the stars sparkled keenly in the frosty sky, but from the horizon a ridje of inky cloud spread upward to the zenith, threat ening not only to quench their feeble fire, but to dampen the crisp powdery snow in which the landscape was smothered. The river ran like a long black snake between its whitened banks. To Roland Pearse. monotonously tramp ing on sentry dutv along the track worn by his own feet in the snow at a tantalizing distance from the nearest of the small watch-fires which gleamei around the central ons, where the officers were sunk in sleep, it seemed as if the dawn would never come. A year's hard campaigning had toughened him to all the accidents of war, and the coldest and warmest night's watch after the hardest day's fighting or marching came to him, as a rule, naturally enough. But he had been wounded in the fiht, though not seriously, yet painfully, and between the consequent Joss of blood and the bitter cold was w eary well nigh to death. In the dead stillness of the night the monotonous chant of the river near at hand combined with weakness and weari- HE WA9 nes to stupefy his senses, and for minutes together he shuflledalong the track he had worn in the snow with a quite unconscious persistence, auatening at the end of his beat with a nerve-shatterine start, ana fall ing asleep again ere he had well turned to retrace his steps. At last a deeper doze was terminated by his falling at full length in the snow. He gathered his stiff, cold limbs together, and limped along shivering, swearing at the snow which had penetrated different loopholes of his ragged uniform, and, slowly melted by contact with his scarce warmer skin, Eerved at last to keep him awake. He drew from his pocket a flask containing a modicum of whisky. It was littleenough he could gratefully have drunk twice the amount; but, with a self denial taught by manv bitter experiences, he took only a mouthful, and reserved the Test for future needs. It warmed his starven blood, and helped the melting snow, now trickling down his back in a steady stream, to keep him awake. "With a vague idea that a new beat would somewhat relieve the monotony of his watch, he struck into another track, and trudged resolutely at right angles with his former course, the two lines of foot steps, making a gigantic cross upon the enow. His former lassitude was aain be ginning to conquer him, when it was sud denly dissipated by a voice, which rang out on the stillness with startling suddenness, instinct with angnish. "If you have the heart of-a man in your breast, for God's sake, help me!" Twenty feet from where he stood. Roland beheld the figure of a man raised feebly on one elbow above the level of the snow. There was only just light enough to distin guish it. He approached him cautiously, with his rifle advanced, and shooting rapid glances from the prostrate figure to every clump of snow-covered herbage or inequality of ground which might afford shelter for an ambuscade. "I am alone," the man said. He spoke each word upon a separate sob of pain and weakness. He wore the South ern uniform, and Roland saw that one arm and one leg dragged from his body, helpless and distorted. An old saber cut traversed his face from the check bone to the temple. He looked the very genius of defeat. "I am dying!" he panted at Roland. The young man pulled his beard as he looked down at him, and shrugged his shoulders with a scarce perceptible gesture. "I know," said the Southerner; "I don't growl at that. I've let daylizht into a few of your fellows in my time, and would again, if I got the chance. Now it's my turn, and I'm going to take it quiet. But I want to say something to write something to my wife" in Charleston. Will you do that for me? It isn't much for one man to ask of another. I don't want to die and rot in this cursed wilderness without saying goodby to her." "Yon must looksharp, then, "said Roland, kneeling beside him, "for I shalbbe called into camp in a few minutes." He too"k an old letter from his pocket, and with numbed fingers began to write, at the wounded man's dictation, on its blank side. "My darling Rose," he began. Roland started as if stung by a snake, and bent on a sudden look of questioning anger on his companion's face. The Southerner looked back at him for a moment with a look of surprise. Then his face changed. "Jim Vickers!" said Roland. "Roland Pearse!" cried the other; and for a moment there was silence between them. "Last time your name passed my lips," said Roland, slowly, "I swore to put a bul let into you on sight." "I guess you needn't," said Vickers; "I've got two already. If ot that I'm par- x ticular to a" bullet or so, only vou might finish the letter first, anyhow. ?or God's sake, Pearse," he contined, sudden emotion conquering his dare-devil cynicism, "write the letter! It's for Hose. She won't have a cent in the world if I can't send her the news I want you to write, and she and the child will starve. I got her by a tridc, I know, and a nasty trick, too; but I'd have done murder to get her. She was the only woman I ever cared a straw for, really. And she loves me, too. Shoot me, if you like; but, for God's sake, write the letter!" Roland bent his head o er the scrap of paper again. "Go on," he said hoarsely and Tickers went on, panting out the words with an eacerness which proved the sincerity ofhis afiection. The latter had regard to the disposition of certain sums of money for which the vouoher had been destroyed by fire during the siege of Philipville two days previously. It was scarcely ended when a bugle sounded from the camp. "That'dthe sentinel's recall," said Roland, "Irou6t get in. I'll iorward the letter the first chance I get." He rose; Vickers, with a dumb agony of grateful entrcaty.in his face, feebly held up his left hand the right arm was shattered. Aft-T a moment's hesitation Roland bent and took it. "Here," he said, "takethis." Hedropped his flask beside him. "Keep your heart up, perhaps you ain't as bad as you think. I'll see if I can get help for you." Tears started to the wounded wretch's eyes. "Rose had better- have taken yon, I guess," he said. Roland turned sharply away. "I'll be back as quickly as I can," he said, and ploughed his way back into camp without a single backward glance. Coming to a large icci, tuo uuiy uue in - DEAD. the camp, roughly run up as a tem porary hospital, he passed between two rows of prostrate figures, sunk in the sleep of exhaustion or tossing in agony, to where a man in the uniform of an army sur geon was bending, pipe in mouth, over the body of a patient "I want to speak to you when you've fin ished, Ned." The surgeon nodded without raising his eyes, completed his task, ran his blood stained fingers wearily through his hair, and turned to Roland with a yawn and a shiver. "Thafs-the last of em," he slid; "I've been at it since nightfall, and I'm dead beat. Cut it short, old man; we start in an hour, and I meant to get a wink of sleep." "I'm afraid you'll have to do without it." said Roland. "Do you remember Jim Vickers?" "Jim Vickers?" repeated the surgeon. "Oh, yesl The man who married Rose Bishop." Roland winced, and nodded. "He's out here, shot In the arm and leg. Says he'sMying. He didn't know me, and asked me to write'a word for him to Rose to hi wife. I want you to come and have a look at him." The surgeon shrugged, with a half yawn. "He's a Reb, I s'pose? Haven't seen him in our crowd." "Yes," said Roland, "but one man is pretty much the same to you as another, I reckon, and you know Rose. You might .gave him." Ned shrugged again, tossed some lint and other necessaries into a bag on the table,and they, set out together. They found Vickers asleep, with the empty whisky flask lying the snow beside him. "He didn't recognize me," whispered Roland, "and I don't want him to." The surgeon nodded. There was a ruined shed at a hundred yards distance, to which they carried the wounded man, who woke and groaned as he was raised. Arrived under shelter, Ned silently betook himself to examining Vickers' wounds. Arm and leg were both shattered, and three of his ribs were broken by a horse's hoof. Roland watched his friend's face, but it wore the aspect of even gravity common to the faces of men of his profession engaged at their work, and noth ing was to be learned from it His task fin ished, he patted his patient's shoulder, col lected his tools and left the shed. Roland followed him to the door. "What do you think? Can he pull through r "He would with proper nursing and good food, not without." "Can we take him with us?" "No, the Colonel wouldn't hear of it. We have to join Meade at Petersburg in two days, and we can't afford to be bothered with lame prisoners. Leave him some bis cuit and a bottle of whisky, and let him take his chance. We've done all we could." "I can't leave him," said Roland. "You've got mighty fond of him all of a sudden," said Ned, with something of a sneer. "I'm as fond of him as I always was," answered Roland. "It's Rose." "Well, said the other, after a moment's silence, and with the air he might have worn had he found himself forced to apply the knife to the flesh of his own child, "if you want my opinion, you shall have it. You'lldoalongsight better business for Rose it you let the fellow die. And, besides, you can't save him. He'd take months to heal up in hospital, with every care and atten tion." "Somebody might come along and give me a hand to get him to the nearest town," said Roland vaguely, but tenaciously. 'The nearest town is 30 miles away. How would you et him there? It's impos sible. Besides, look at this." He pointed to the sky, an even blank of thick gray cloud. "That'll be falling in another hour. You'd be mowed up. And then hang it 11, man, I must be as mad as you are to discuss the thing at all. Yon don't suppose you're going to get leave of absence to nurse a Johnny Reb." "I might take it," said Roland. "And be shot for desertion?" "That's as may be. The chances are I shouldn't be missed till you were too far away to send back for me. I must go and answer to my name, and then see if I can't drop behind." Ned held his head in his hands as if it would else burst with the folly of his friend's idea. "I can't stay here all day talking d- nonsense," he said, angrily. "I'm off into camp." He strode away, and Roland kept pace with him. He did not need his friend's as surance of the folly of the act he meditated. He quite recognized that, but it was only in the background of his thoughts, which were filled with fhe memory of a woman's face. How oonld he leave the man Rose loved, to die, while any possible effort of his might suffice to save him? The first flakes of the coming snowstorm fell as the detachment started. It marched in very loose order, for the road was rough, the snow deep, most of the men more or less broken with wounds and fatigue, aud it was known that no enemy was within GO miles. Roland fell, little by little to the rear, where the clumsy country waggons lumbered along, full of the wounded, under Ned's charge. "You'll take care of the letter," he whis pered, and thrust it into his friend's hand. "Good-bye; I shall fall in with the next de tachment if I pull throngh long enough. If not " He nodded, and at a sudden turn of the road, here thickly surrounded by maple and hemlock, darted among the trees, and listened, with his heart in his ears, to he jingle and clatter of arms as his comrades marched on. It died away on the snow laden air, and he retraced his steps to the shed with an armful of dry leaves and twigs, with which, by "the sacrifice of oneof his few remaining cartridges, he speedily made a blazing fire. Vickers lay quiet, watching him through half-shut lids. "Say, Rolaid." he said presently, "what sort of game is this?" "I'm going to see if I can pull you through," said Roland, with an affectation of cheerfulness. "You can't," said Vickers. "I heard what Ned said just now. I'm booked for the journey through, I know it. Don't you be a fool. Follow the boys, and leave me here. I'm beyond any man's help. You won't? Well, you always were a nutmeg headed sort of creature. I never knew you to have more than one idea at a time, and that one wasn t worth much, as a general thing. But this is madness, sheer, stark madness! Look at the snow! Another hour or two, and we shall be snowed up. It's just chuck ing a good life after a bad one. I know you ain't doing it tor me.. It's for Rose. Well, if it was any use, I wouldn't say no. But it isn't. I shall be a dead man in 21 hours at most. Nothing can save me." "I'm jnst goine to the wood," said Roland, taking up his gun, and speaking in a quite casual tone. "If there's any game about, this weather will drive it under cover. I'll be back presently, anyhow." He flung some of the broken timber of the shed upon the fire, and went out. He had not taken six paces throngh the blinding flakes, when Vickera voice rang out with startling loudness and suddenness, "Goodby, Roland," and a loud report seemed to shake the crazy old hut to its foundation. Roland ran back. Vickers was lying dead, with the firelight playing brightly on the barrel of a revolver clinched in his left hand. Ten minutes later he was lying in a deep snow drift, and Roland was tramping through the snow on the track of hiB de tachment. Henry Murray in Strand Maga- A AVVOOhKMfllOORKEE. Avonmore, The leading new manufacturing town on line of West Penn R. R., near Pittsburg. Already nearly 100 houses are up and in course bf erection. An extensive bottle and prescription ware company has secured seven acres and will build works at once. A large glass house now in full running order. An excellent machine shop and foundry, almost completed, and will be in operation in a few days. A fine brick works, planing mill and lumber yard now on the grounds. 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Owing to a fall of our plate shelves in our warehouse a great many of our new and choice plates were broken. We offer for a few days only the broken dozens at half regular prices. These goods are all fresh, new goods of this year s importation, and comprise plates for any course in Coalport, Crown Derby,RoyalWorcester,Doulton,and in fact, any of the well known fine goods, such as we carry in stock. The sale com mences Friday morning, November 27, and will last only a few days owing to the holi days. Early buyers will get choice bar gams at Reizenstein's, 162, 154, 156 Federal street, Allegheny. To tbe Saloon and Private Trade. As the season is now at hand for ale and porter, the Straub Brewing Company take pleasure in announcing to the saloon and private trade that they are prepared to fill all orders promptly. We also claim that our celebrated brands of "Pilsener" and "Munich" lager beer cannot be excelled by any brewers of the States. 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Our factory being in the same building, the gems can be set while you wait Henry Terheyden, Manufacturing Jeweler, 530 Smithfield street ' wa GIPSIES IS ENGLAND. Blooming Lasses With the Winsome Unrest of Girlhood. TRADITIONS OP THE BOMANY. An Idyllic Porm of life Among British Non-Gipsy Vagabonds. THEY ARE BEDOUINS OP CIVILIZATION London-, 'Esq., Nov. 16. Having wan dered among Gipsies in America for more than a quarter of a century, and for the past five years having given muoh time and attention to a study of the Gipsies as I have found them in different parts of Ire land, Scotland and England, I feel that something like a survey of these British nomads, with a few points of contrast be tween them and their Amerioan brethren, would have interest to many American readers. At the outset I am forced to confess that my good friend, George Smith, of Coalville, is interested in Gipsies in a vastly broader, nobler and more evangelical way than my self. He seeks them out and'finds them at their worst, and the worst of them, unearth ing the horrors of their lives is and near large cities; and then, burning with desire and determination that they shall be made good citizens, rouses all England with his rugged eloquence, insisting that the very world stand still until law? are passed for their complete sanitation and civilization. I am not worthy to live in the same oen tury with this hero philanthropist, when motive and labor for Gipsies are measured. I am theirs and they are mine in America, because with them I have found such rest andpeace as the world has elsewhere never given. Because-with them the warm heart beat of nature has come tenderly near. Courteous Treatment of Their Guests. I am theirs and they are mine in this land, because rough and unoouth men have reoeived me everywhere as a brother and an honored guest; haggish spao-wives, with heads awry, as if to catch every syllable ut tered, have listened with kindling eyes to the werd I have brought them from kindred aoross the sea; great hulking youths, hear ing with open-eyed wonder, have been nerved with nope for a better land and life; blooming Gipsy lasses, with arms aorosa their mothers shoulders, and yet with ever winsome restlessness of girlhood, have stolen glances at the stranger, seeming to look beyond him with yearning eyes to his fair, far country, where Gipies ride in wagons like palaces and eat from plates of silver; while trustful Gipsy children, tugging at my knees, have searched my scant pockets, climbed into my arms and fallen asleep their instinct as to the Btranger proving, after oil, the truest sesame to the Gipsies' hearts at homes. It is always in this self ish, unevangelioal way that I have known in all lands the outcast Romany race, and because of it I have not overmuch evil to record of them. There are not all told and this includes skulking city Romany, unknown in their town vocations as members of the Gipsy race upward of 5,000 Gipsies iu Ireland, of whom barely 1,000 follow tbe precarious but romantic lite of the road. Irish Catho lics, and particularly the lowliest of the peasantry, without exception hold them in something like a terrible detestation. Countryside Iiore and Superstition. Scottish traditions and literature, espe cially the ballad poetry of Scotland, are full of Gipsy countryside lore and supersti tions which have been the outgrowth of a very genial and close relation between Gip sies and Scottish peasantry. Gipsy blood is known to course in the veins of many ot the Scottish nobility. Thcso people actu ally secured the countenance, if not the favor, of James IV. James V. entered into a league with "John Faw, Lord and Earl of Little Eeypt," in 1640, directing all in au thority in his realm to oompel the return to Paw's submission all those Egyptians who had rebelled against him, and that all of ficers should assist in detaining and punish ing those people "iu conformity with his laws," so that, as the ediot read, "the said John have no cause of complaint in time coming." This Faw, whose shrewdness stamped the genuine Gipsy upon his character, was" the progenitor of the many tribes of Faws, Faas or Falls, who, with the Balllies, have been the most noted and numerous of Scot tish Gipsies, whose descendants I have found In respectable numbers and condition throughout the United States. The environs of Edinburgh and Glasgow are full of Gipsies who are superior in physique to their English brethren Lon don, Birmingham, Manchester and Liver pool. In Tweeddale, Anandale and Niths dale are many families of Gipsies, whose re spectability and individual means, althongh they lead a roving life, would compare favorably with those of the small farmers of the same regions. Good Fortune Visits tho Nomads. With a few years such good fortune, from a pecuniary standpoint, has come to Scot tish Gipsies through the vast increase of summer visitors, American as well as En glish, to the highlands and islands of Scot land. They resort to the vicinity of Oban, Rothesay, Inverary, even cross to the outer Hebrides, and are found in every romantlo glen in the Trossaehs and along the high land lakes. These are gradually abandon ing the life of the road for the greater and quicker profits of "show" Gipsies in sum mer, and during the winter seek lowly quarters in cities. The smallest and the largest collection of Gipsies I ever found in Scotland were, re spectively, in the far North and at tbe very southern boundary. The first was discov ered one early morning in July. I was coming with an eminent Northern Presby terian divine from grand Strathglass over the bleak moors, down through fairy Glen TTrquhart to Drumnadrocb.it Dy Loch Ness side On one of the fern spread braes of a little loch stood a solitary Gipsy tent the tiny woolen hood of the true Romany. Its flaps were skewered close. The inmates were asleep. It was the tiniest, snuggest home human eyes ever beheld. 'I could not but repeat aloud to my reverend companion some Gipsy sayings, perhaps 6,000 years old, such as: "Firm as a rounded hill are the tents of our people." "ify love's breasts are as hillocks of amber; as bright tents burnished by the sun," "Oar tents are firm against the sand-wind." Scottish Rovers Are Scarce. The largest aggregation ot Scottish Gip sies, now sadly dwindled, is at the border Teviotdale town of Yetholm. These might be called house Gipsies, as they occupy thatched cabins in Kirk Yetholm, the prop erty of the Marquis of Tweeddale, held un der the curious tenure of "nineteen times nineteen years" at a nominal rent But a few families remain. Nearlv all the old stock has died off or emigrated to America, though no longer ago than 1817 they mus Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report gx&sm ABSOLUTELY PURE tered from round about over 500 souls and 300 asses to escort the remains of their old King, canny "Wull (Will) Faa" from Coldstream to the burying ground at Kirk Yetholm. It was here, too, that my late friend, the brightest, the wittiest and most sensible Gipsy woman that ever lived, Queen Esther Faa, reigned so long, so wise ly and so well. These Yetholm, as well as all other Scott ish drom or road Gipsies, chiefly subsist by hawking earthen, tin and white ironware, horn spoons, "scrubbers" and "besoms," the latter a sort of willow broom, about the country, They travel as far into England as.Neweastle and Staffordshire for the earth enware, buying faulty pottery cheaply, and selling the same at a good profit. The re mainder of their ware they make in a rude way among themselves, the women being quite as adept as the men. Seme drive asses before their little carts, but more possess the hardy "Sheltie" or Shetland pony. For their own shelter at night their carts are "whummel'd" or "whomel'd," that is, turned upside down. England's Lowly Folk Prosper. Generally speaking, the Gipsies of En gland are comfortable Gipsies in proportion to the distance they make their hauntB from the great centers of population. The same is measurably true of all other English lowly folk. The Gipsy class, -Which also includes all manner of traveling and tramp ing non-Gipsy vagabonds, the radical im provement of whose condition has become the heroio work of George Smith, of Coal ville, never pilgrim far from London, Bris tol, Birmingham, Manchester and Liver pool Their members sally out from these cities and forage around them in well defined circles, going and coming as they are prompted by impulse or scourged by necessity. They are Bedouins of civili zation, indeed, and their reformation or ex tirpation would prove a publio good. Mr own observation and experiences have been almost wholly among another and a better class,and the latter are more like our Ameri oan Gipsies than any of the Romany in all io reign lands. Probably the most idylllo form of Gipsy life yet remaining in England may be found in Wales and the English lake dis trict of Northern Lancashire, Westmore land and Cumberland. I have been much among the "statesmen," or land-owning peasantry of the latter region, as well as with the Gipsies there. Perhaps I have questioned 500 small farmers and others as to the Gipsies' status among them. I have never secured an answer unfavorable to the nomads. On the contrary, much as is the case in remote countryside districts in America, the GiDsiea' annual eomin? is looked iorward to with eagerness and de light; while the summer market day and the little village fair would be shorn of much of their attractiveness were the Gipsy folk absent. Nor could I learn in all this romantic region of a single act of downright dishonesty on the part of any Gipsy within the memory of man. They Travel In Defined Routes. Again, in Yorkshire, away from its man ufacturing towns, the Gipsies have well defined routes of travel, and are never scourged or chased by the constabulary as they ore in tne midland shires, where they have chiefly oome under Mr. Smith's observation. In Wharfedale, in the vicin ity of Xlkley, are many families of respect able Gipsies. Up about Northallerton they are the only oountryside peddlers aud "tinkers, and do much in the way of buying and selling horses and other live stock. In Lincolnshire and Nottingham shire, from Grimsbj to Trent, and particu larly about Nottingham and Hucknall-Tor-kard, nro very manv prosperous Gipsies, whose families can be traced nearly as far baok as some of the nobility, and often with quito as favorable results. In all the west and southwest of England the Gipsies are welcomed and treated most generously. In Cornwall they are gen erally called "vagrom men," as the sturdy Cornish folk class all persons, even to com mercial travelers, literary tramps and tour sts, who for any reason wander from place to place; whilo in Wales a simpler, more unsophisticated, kinder hearted people do not live than the Gipsies. All Welsh peo ple love them. Thoy never leave Wales, and they are as much an integral part of the concrete social structure as are the Welsh peasantry themselves. Evolution From Ignorance to Opulence. The difference between British Gipsies and American Gipsies is astounding. But af(er all it is only a difference of condition. The evolution of our Gipsies from ignorance and degradation to opulence, intelligence and some considerable educational acumen, is simply the result of liberation from a hard and often grinding life here, which anywhere fosters the worst of human traits; precisely as British lowly, transplanted from a life battle formere existence, shortly become with us men and women often of competence and frequently of culture. The British lowly are hard to get along with anywhere in Ireland, Scotland and England, because they suffer sorely from grinding labor and an, tons, almost incon ceivable poverty. British Gipsies, like their Gorgio brethren, are degraded and bestial just in proportion to their degree of poverty. The same family which Philan thropist Smith finds shivering under a rot ten sheet by the English hedge, with per haps not even skinny hedgehog for the Sun day dinner, transferred to America, never more is found among lawbreakers, and in ten years' time becomes one of the vast army of ever welcomed middlemen between American larmers and metropolitan live stock markets, riding from hamlet to ham let in wagons like palaces and literally eat ing their ample foo'd from plates of bum-" ished silver. Edgar L. Wakemait. WILDEB'S stories In THE DISPATCH to-morrow. The f nnny llttlo fellow's humor Is clean and laueh-prodaclne;. CAUGHTBYACOLD. How a Blast From the North Often Causes the Worst Disasters. A cold wind blows and you feel chilled; the air may he raw and you continue to feel chilly. Perhaps you are riding, possibly walking and the chilly feeling continues. The first thine yon know it becomes a cold. What is a cold? It is a chilling of the blood, so that it becomes thick and clotted. Cold always makes the blood this way. It gets clotted, wben It does not circulate fast enough. Tills Is all very simple and plain, Is It not? And does It not clearly show what must be done, wben the blood gets chilled and clotted? It must be warmed and Its thick, clotted condition removed. Can tills be done by heat? Sometimes and partially; but heat Irom a Are or furnace only warms the outside of the body and most of the blood ii away from the surface and can only be reached Internally. It requires a good, healthful stimulant to reach it and wnrm It. This stimulant should always be pare whiskey, but unfortunately few whiskies have any medicinal properties. There is but one whiskey in America that possesses real medical power, combined with purity and that is Duffy's Pure Malt. That ft does poseB8 these qualities Is proven by the analysis ot chemists and the testimonials and endorsements of thousands of phy sicians and the fact that It is the most popular whiskey in the world to-day and has stood the test of years. This lact, perhaps, is not fully realized as It should bo, and there are many unscrupulous dealers who try to sell a obeap and inferior whiskey when Duffy's Is called for. That they deceive and Impose upon tne people, In such statements? is easily understood oy the fact that tbey can make more money on cheap and in jurious goods, than on the pure and meri torious. Do not bo deceived by them. Baking Powder CALIFORNIA, The Country of Delightful Winter California is the most attractive and de lightful section of the United States, if not of the world, and its many beautiful resorts will be crowded with the best families ot the East during the entire winter. It offers to the investor the best open opportunity for safe and large returns from its fruit lands. It offers the kindest climate in the world to the feeble and debilitated; and it is reached in the most comfortable manner over the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. Pullman vestibule sleeping cars leave Chicago by this line every day m the year and go without change or transler through to San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. This is a feature not offered by any other line. Write to Charles T. Apple by, Traveling Passenger Agent, Room 303, Bank of Commerce Building, Pittsburg, Pa., if you desire any fnrther information as to the country and the accommodations for reaching it Great Fall of Plates. The plate shelves in our plate waTerooms have broken down. Most of our fine plates were more or less broken and we offer the balance at half regular prices for a few days only. Broken dozens in all the finest -goods, from all the finest potteries, at great bargains. Sale commences Friday, November 27. ' C. REiziarsTEnr, No. 152, 151 and 156 Federal street, Alle gheny, Pa. Join the Crowd And go to the P. C. C. O. big overcoat sale to-day genuine custom-made overcoats for $12, $14 and 515, worth double the money. Everybody expected to call. There is money to be saved. P. C. C. C, Pittsburg Combination Clothing Company, corner Grant and Diamond streets. Bargains in Long- Wraps. Cloth Newmarkets 5, were 1 12. Cloth Newmarkets 16, were 515. Cloth Newmarkets 57 50, were 518. Cloth Newmarkets 9, were 520. Cape Newmarkets 510 to 518. Every one a bargain at .Rosenbaum & Co.'s. Ths 66 Babies Had Their Pictures Taken yesterday at Aufrecht'snew'and only gallery, 77 Fifth avenue. Good work and low prices tell a tale. Baboaiss in military cape newmarkets, 510, 512 and up, at Rosenbaum & Co.'s. FREE TREATMENT AT THE CATABBH AND DYSPEPSIA IN STITUTE, 333 PENN AVENUE. To laboring Men, Widows, Servant Girls and Others In Moderate Circumstances More Permanent Cures During the Past Tear Than All Other Catarrh Doctors Combined Skill and Superior Methods of Treatment Bring lasting EejulU In disputable Evidence From Signed Testi monials. The phvslcians or tbe Catarrh and Dyspep sia Institute treat laboring men, widows, servant girls and other worthy people of moderate ciroumstances free of obarge, ex cept a moderate price for medicine. Those unable to pay for medicine wlll-recelvo both treatment and medicine free. These physicians and specialists have un questionably made more permanent cures of catarrh in Pittsburg during the past year than all other catarrh doctors-combined. LOCAL TREATMENTS-NEVEK CUBE catarrh, never did amd never will. They only sire temporary relief, and orten do harm by driving the disease wbloh la con stitutional and not local to the lungs, pro ducing bronohitls or conmmptlon. To effect a permanent cure one that Is lasting requires not only skill on tbe part of the physloian, and superior methods of treat ment, but years of practical experience. Such la the reputation of the physlolans of the Catarrh and Dyspepsia Institute for making permanent cures that their prac tice has extended into almost every State in the Union. Their skillful methods of treatment, fidel ity to their work, frank, open opinions ex pressed to their patients, and unequaled success in making oures, has been testified to in the Pittsburg papers by hundreds of well-known citizens. Their rates and prices for treatment are always-reasonable and that all can afford. TEN-TEAKS OF SUFFERING From Catarrh and Dyrpepsla-Caredfi'flne Months Ago Thankful for What Ha Been Done. Among the permanentcuresis that of Mrs. S. A. Gladden, who lives at McDonald, Washington oounty, Pennsylvania. Her husband is a prominent farmer. She had an almost constant pain all over her head: had nasal discharge, hawk ing and spitting. She could leel the mucus dropping Into her throat.She had pain and sore ness In her chest, with, at times, a smothered feeling; had pain across tbs small of her baok, and her limbs would ache In the night; had poor appetite, belching of eas. and a sick. nauseous feeling after eating, and at times bloating; waswakeiuinignts and could get but little refreshing sleep. Mrs. 8. A. Gladden. She says: "I had been afflicted with catarrh and dyspepsia for ten vears. It is now nine months since I became cured by the physi cians of the Catarrh and Dyspepsia Insti tute. I feel very thankful for what has been done for me. I can recommend them as skillful physicians in curing catarrh and dyspepsia. (Signed) Mai S. A. Gladdxw." IN THE FAM. HE Will DIE," Said Mr. Beer's Neljhbori Catarrh of a lifetime Developing Bronchitis and Rheumatism Confined In Bed Six Weeks fhyslclam Failed to Cure Him The Catarrh and Dyspepsia Institute Physicians Come to His Rescue Now Well and Working Hard. Mr. Tred Heer, 303 Louden street, East End, a 'stone cutter by occupation, had ca tarrh since childhood, and had been getting worse for the past 15 years. At the trme he applied to the Institute for treatment he had been unable to work for some time, and for six weeks he was confined to bed with bronchitis and chills and rheumatism. The tough phlegm in his throat was difficult to raisehis throat sore and dry with a raw feeling. He could not swallow without pain. He had ringing sounds in his ears, no appe tite, coated tongue, dry, feverish skin, cough,, pulse 110 and irregular. He could get no refreshing-sleep. Ho had pains across the small of his back, torpid liver and veiy sallow complexion. The following ig bis signed testimonial further describing his case: M t "I took treatment from different doctors, but found no one who could permanently cure me. I grew worse, and at times was unable to work, and became very weak. My neighbors said that this fall when the leaves go I would die. I took thiee months' treat ment from the specialists at 323 Penn ave nue, and became cured, and instead of dying I feel as well as ever in my life and am working hard every day. I live at 303 Lou den street, East End, and I shall always recommend these doctors for what they have done forme, for I did not think I could be cured. Signed "Fred Heib." They treat successfully catarrh, dyspepsia, rheumatism and diseases of women. CONSULTATION FBEE. Office hours. 10 A. x. to i r. M., and 6 to 8 p. Jt. Sundays, 1 to 1 T. it. Patients treated successfully at borne by correspondence. Send two 2-oent stamps for question blank. Kemember the name and place, and address all letters to the GIT1BHB UNO DYSPEPSIA INSTITUTE, 323 Penn Avenue, Kttsburg,Pa. uo26-to WW NEW ADVEKTISE3EENTS. MEN'S LINDERWEA x We are every day closing out odds and ends at very low prices. We are constantly replacing the broken lines with new goods, but ive don't buy anything unless it's under value. In either case we SAVE YOU MONEY. Gents' Heavy Winter Weight Balbriggan, good for those who Q"i PA can't wear wool 1 OU Heavy Natural Wool Underwear, shirt has ribbed skirt, per QOC garment .-. vO Odds and Ends of broken lines "rU Men's Natural Wool Shirts, all sizes (no drawers) reduced from I. fQ Men's White Merino Shirts and Drawers, never sold under Q QC Sc, at 0 tj Men's Fine White Merino Shirts and Drawers, reduced from P QQ i.oo to U V Men's Extra White Cashmere Shirts and Drawers, reduced QQC from $1.25 to 0 v Men's Imported French Ribbed Shirts and Drawers, something C I iQ very new and elegant, reduced from $2 to 4)L 1 O Men's All-Wool Ribbed Shirts and Drawers, in dark tan and fl Trt ecru; sold all over the two cities at $2 to $2.50, at 4liUU Men's Camel's Hair Shirts (no drawers) extra heavy, extra - warm and extra fine; our price has-been,2.5o, but, on ac count of our assortment of sizes being broken, we reduce (J Pft them to 4)1 ,QU Men's Fine White Cashmere Shirts and -Drawers, reduced from fil Pft MEN'S HEAVY HUM GLOVES. GLOVES OF KID (Fleece Lined). OF KID (Lamb Lined). OF DOGSKIN (Fleece Lined). OF DOGSKIN (Lamb Lined). OF SCOTCH WOOL (Warm, Neat). ALL KIDS, ALL MAKES, ALL SIZES, ALL PBIGES AND ALL HIP. 25c TO $3.00 A PAIR. n no lunmonn rmavfl auu.i ERASTUS Snail datdar gobbler. Ise done gone a?i' fed him up on cornfd morn free weeks, an' j'es' now he's clar out ob sight. Mout be he'd fetch up down at LAIRD'S "SHOO" SALE. "" "?- fep" J5" LAIRD'STHANKSGIVING BARGAIN SHO Special this week. Grand opening of new goods. Extraor dinary bargains in every department Prices 20 per Cent Un der all others. LAIRD'S SHOES ARE THE BEST! LAIRD'S STYLES ARE THE LATEST! LAIRD'S STOCK IS THE LARGEST! LAIRD D.OESTHE LEADING BUSINESS! LAIRD WARRANTS EVERY PAIR! LAIRD'S SHOE STORES, 406, 408,4101 WM. J433 Wood St. maiAGlOl. ) lrirLJ. I BotfaStores. IRON AND STEEL BUILDINGS, ROOF TRUSSES, COLUMNS MB GIRDERS PITTSBURG BRIDGE COMPANY, Thirty-Eighth St noU-tTB- GLOVES FOR COACHMEN. FOR CABMEN. FOR GKLPMEK FOR TEAMSTERS. 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