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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
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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-
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
FOR
STREET.
FOR
DRIVING.
FOR
DRESS.
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