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loveliest when done up in soft. fluffy furs,
and this winters fashion dictator has been
so kind in producing wonderfully beautiful
conceits In the fur line that Pittsburg
maiuens should feel called upon to give
thanks to him in one voice. Fur, of all
kinds and conditions, plays an important
part in toilettes, for house rs well as street,
this season. 1t is considered taste to use
two kinds of fur in one garment, but the fur
generally corresponds in some degree with
the color of the stuff il is to ornament
Light brown lynx is Used for fawn materi-
ais Black and brown bear make beauti-
full trimming on blue cloth. The favorites
in Pittsburg this winter will most likely be
French sable and beaver, light and dark fox
and blue and silver fox. The dark brown
peltry will be used great deal, because it
adapts itself SO well to the mantle stuffs in
vogue 1t may be true that really good
furs never wear out, but it is likewise true
that they have q habit of becoming very
shabby after lying in camphor chest all
summer Therefore, few hints on how
your treasures can be renovated and made
to appear almost ''as good as new" are not
untimely.
Seslskin and ermine are best cleansed
with q soft flannel, rubbed delicately against
the grain. When the fur has been thor
oughly lifted and reversed, as it were, dip
the flannel into common -four and rub
lightly any spots that look dark or dirty.
When you have done all this, shake your
fur well and rub it with dry flannel until
the -four is removed. Sable, chinchilla.
monkey and squirrel may be very nicely
cleansed with hot bran, rubbed stifiy into
the fur and then shaken briskly. Mink
may be freshened in the same manner with
warm cornmeal. All this may seem trouble
some, but surely not to the woman who
values spotless gloves, to say nothing of her
neck, for she knows only too well what
soiled fur collars are responsible for in that
direction in smoky Pittsburg
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WELL BRED, SOON WE'D" GIRLS WHO USE
SAPOLIO
HOUSE-CLEANING.

out just now. Was it on business you
! wanted to see him?''
| "Well, twas partly on a matter of lit
| tie business" replied the stranger. who
| spoke with the slow trainante intonation Of
the South and West, and had rather low,
mellow, pleasing voice.
eff it's anything you want to send, he's
going to Yucca City to-morrow-express
parcels to be sent before o'clock. But
perhaps you want to see him-to talk to
him?"
"Well, I did want few words with him"
he admitted slowly and refectively.
won't you come in and waltz" she re-
Joined Hospitality. 81 don't think he'll be
so very long before he's in"
The stranger looked at her and smiled,
but seemed to hesitate, for he was silent for
few minutes, smiling still, with q halt
amused, half-doubtful expression before he
answered, well, As you're so kind, madam,
think will step in awhile"
He stepped in accordingly, and Lucy in
vited him to occupy her husbands rocking
chair, while she seated herself in the other
one. Bonnie Boy, whom she had set down
while showing the stranger in, climbed
upon her lap, clutching her dress in his
sturdy fists; Birdie leaned against her knee,
keeping an intent gaze of critical inspection
fixed with large-sized solemnity upon the
visitor.
'You have everything very prettily fixed
here, Mrs. Granger" he observed politely,
glancing round the parlor, which was, In
deed, q very presentable one for Blue Lead
Bar. Nothing could we'll have been SIM
pier than the furniture and its arrange
ment; and the bare wooden walls were
innocent of paint or paper; but everything
was clean Is a new pin; the chairs were COW
cred with pretty bright chintz; few pict-
ures, mostly framed chromos and engrav-
ings, hung on the walls; ferns and flowers
stood about in vases on the table and on the
mantelpiece, over which there was good:
sized mirror; last, not least, the Grangers
parlor boasted the luxury of lace curtains
at the windows The room, although as neat
as it could be kept without banishing every
little, CHEEKY sign of the all-pervading
presence CT the children, had none OF the
dreary, unused look of parlor reserved for
the best Lucy's work basket stood open
by the hearth, and Brides doll lay Imply
under the table.
Everything real pretty" the visitor re-
marked, his eyes taking everything In with
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tai, he thought he would keep up his newly
whitewashed character for awhile. Per
haps he remembered that "revenge can be
eaten cold" and its SAVIOR be none the less
sweet
Anyhow, the i'll boding shadow of Cap
tain Phil had not fallen on Dan Granger g
path for years.
While Dan rode on his way to Scudder's,
with his bag of 'dust"-otherwise gold
dust-Lucy Granger finished her domestic
duties, and then sat down in rocking
chair and swayed restfully to and fro, with
her boy on her lap, her little girl playing
with doll by her side.
The entrance door, as usual, stood hospit-
ably open; and presently they heard foot
step on the bare boards of the little hall,
and the sound of someone trying the han
die of the Office door, which opened out of
the hall on one side. Dan had locked up
his Office, as he had pile of gold dust and
nuggets in his strong box there. Lucy got
up and opened the parlor door, which was
nearly opposite the Office, and looked out
into the hall, Bonnie Boy still in her arms,
Birdie trotting by her side holding on to
her skirts.
The gentleman who was seeking entrance
to the Office turned at the slight sound of
the creak of the parlor door, and immedi-
knowledgment of her presence.
He was gentleman, Lucy decided at the
first glance. No rough miner, this! His
sombrero hat and jackboots added touch
OF pioneer picturesqueness to his appear
ance. Had it not been for them, she
thought, he looked as il he might have come
from the civilization of the outer world that
seemed to lie so far beyond them there. He
was talr, tall, good-looking man, with
rather delicate, olear-cut, aquiline features,
neatly trimmed, golden-tawny beard and
piercing, deep, blue eyes--eyes which
rested pleasantly, with touch OF inquiring
surprise, fainter touch of admiration, on
Luoy's face. Lucy was a very pretty young
woman, tall and we'll built, with all the
grace of strength and bloom Of health, with
nut brown curls, and great brown eyes that
looked at all the world with the clear and
limped trustfulness OF child's gaze at q
friend
''Did you wish to see my husband?" she
asked, with her sweet, frank smile.
81 wished to see Mr. Granger"
''Yes, that's my husband" she rejoined,
With shade Of possessive pride sizes
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and Granger swung himself on to his old
piebald horse-One-eyed Bill, who, as Dan
always said; could see as much with his one
eve as any common horse could with two,
and could find his way and bring his master
safe home on pitch-dark night when even
Granger's practiced eye could not dis
tinguish the trail.
Dan looked back, and smiled and waved
his hand to his wife-as cheerIly as if he
had not heard the ominons news of Phil
Darrell, better known as Captain Phil"
and old One-eye trotted briskly off.
The 'Melina business to which Mullins
had alluded as something for which Captain
Phil had it in his mind to ''pay" Dan
Granger, was story OF some years ago be-
fore Granger came to Blue Lead Bar. He
had been the prime mover in the arrest of
Captain Phil as the secret head of q gang of
"road agents." whose depredations were
many and daring, but who had somehow
always successfully managed to elude detec-
tion and capture. Dan had acted on sus-
picion amounting to conviction. That 1t
was he who had first taken action in the
matter was as well-known to Captain Phil
as to the rest Of the world-that little world
of which Dan Granger fondly thought he
deserved well by his course in this business.
Captain Phil, however, was a powerful
man, and his way not unpopular. More men
feared him than would acknowledge their
fear; not few women admired him,
who were not ashamed to own their
admiration; and fear and admira-
tion are among the most contagious
of feelings. Once before Captain Phil had
stood his trial for killing man and had got
off on the ground OF "self-defense''-a plea
Western jury is always ready to consider
favorably. The upshot of the Melina case
was that . string of witnesses had gIibly
sworn to alibis which completely exoner-
ated Captain Phi from all completely in
the crimes with which he stood charged.
He was triumphantly acquitted and es-
corted home BY a torohlight procession.
Granger and others more than suspected
that the witnesses were periured and the
jury packed, but could not prove it. So
Captain Phil went on in his conquering
way again-and went considerably to every
ones establishment, without putting a
bullet through Dan Granger, against whom
he was known to have vowed vengeancej
and that was the kind of VOW Captain Phil
had never yet been known 10 break. Per-
hsps II was that, thus frssh from his scquit-
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their slow. searching gaze.

! their slow, searching gaze.
cts very plain" said Lucy, with modest
| depreciation that thinly veilsd her simple
| pride in her home. "But we've such beau
| tiful view outside that say to my husband
it don't matter if things are plain and
simple inside"
''There's pretty things to look at inside,
mother to the children, with the unsmiling
but not ungentle gravity we SO often find in
these "Men from the West"
Birdie, who had apparently now arrived
at satisfactory conclusions with regard to
the strangers manners and morals, was
sliding toward him, shyly smiling, with
her finger in her mouth, looking up side
WAYS from under the tangle Of her golden
curls.
"will you come to me, little lady7" he
asked.
Birdie nodded, and promptly trotted
across to him, laid tiny hand upon his
knee, and after contemplating him for
moment, as If to ascertain whether he would
bear inspection at close range, observed,
tentatively.
"Unker Jack takes me on his lap"
Sand will you come on miner"
"Yes," said Birdie, readily, and i'm
mediately climbed up and settled herself
comfortably on the desired eminence swing
shins.
"And what's your name, little one?'' he
inquired.
"Birdie."
"Tell the gentleman your full name, /" said
the young mother proudly.
"Lucilla Dranger Dan Dranger's itta
daughter" replied the mite, rolling of the
string of syllables without a comma
"Birdie is her pet name, " exclaimed Lucy.
I dare say you don't see the derivation Of
Birdie from Lucilla"
81 own don't"
'No, because there isn't any to see,"
laughed Lucy. ''She's Birdie for no reason
but just that we got to calling her 50. And
this is Bonnie Bov-otherwise Daniel Wash
ington Granger"
'Dan1 Wossin'ton Dranger," repeated
Birdie delightedly, with jump on the yisi-
tors knee and vigorous kick of her small
feet which nearly overset her balance.
"Bo-o-ful watch, (" she added with clutch
at his thick, gold cable chain. "Me hear IL
60 tick-tick."
ITO b oonttnusd to-norroU1
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Dan Granger's place W as q lonely one
and the times we're wild and the life was
rough at Blue Lead Bar when he brought
his young wife there. 1t took a brave
woman and strong one to face that life;
but Lucy Granger had perfect health and
sanguine spirits and love aud courage
enough to be the blessing of whatever man. 9
path she elected to share and to shed the
sunshine of her presence on it, whether it
lay among rocks or roses. She had chosen
her lot and cheerfully set hand and heart
TO her appointed work, and there was not a
home for miles around so well-ordered and
comfortable as Dan Granger's.
In the course of his checkered life Dan
had been little of everything. He had
made his pile in the mines, lost it, and was
now in q fair way to making it again. At
present his chief occupation-an important
one it was, too-was carrying the express
from Blue Bead Bar to Yucca City, making
the journey sometimes alone, sometimes
with his partner, Steven Brock.
Lucy was never quite so happy when her
Dan was running the risk of "road agents"
and other less alarming and less probable
accidents, alone. She got used to it, and ac-
cspted it as a natural part of her life; but
familiarity never bred contempt of the haz-
ards her husband ran in his long, lonely
rides, often charged with valuables and
money; for every man in or near Blue Lead
Bar committed his property to Dan Grang-
er's care in perfect faith that he would
take it through safe if any man couldr'
The Grangers' home was beautiful one
as far as its surroundings went-although
Its situation was more solitary than many
a woman would have liked, left as often
alone as Lucy was. with only her little
children. Dan could have afforded, and
would gladly have got help, service and
companionship for his wife If IL. had been
procursble, but help in those regions was
simply not to be procured. Servants there
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Gold Chains With Pearls.

The long fine gold chains set with pearls
that the fashionable Parisiennes last spring
hung around their dainty throats and that
CLEANED in the sunlight as they lifted their
lorgnettes to inspect each others toilets,
have appeared on this side.
OF course they are expensive, but if
mademoiselle is not too particular she can
provide herself with one of French gilt
that the shopkeeper assures me will last
longer than the style itself With pearls
these chains cost s. 80; without, 81 80 and
81 80. They are strong and pretty and.
true to the proverb, glitter without being
gold, which, by the way. no one would
know if you did not tell them.
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the doorway and looked across to the shim-
mering mists of amber and amethyst hues
in which the distant hills we're lost like q
dream. She was getting on we'll with her
mornings work, and had time to stand still
awhile. Perhaps one secret of Lucy Gran
gers doing her work so we'll and so thor
oughIy was that she was never hustled nor
furried. She went on through it all
smoothly and easilv-like a machine in
good order. She would not have smiled SO
contentedly On the fair landscape, however,
now, if she could have heard what Dick
Mullins-better known in the neighbor-
hood as ''Ginger Dick saying to her
husband in the seclusion of the Office.
81 didn't say anything before Mrs
Granger, Dan-it's no use alarming her; but
Captain Phil and his gang are about here
reported up at Gopher Flat. They're on
your track and swear they'll pay you out
tor that Melina business. There's no doubt
of tit was one of the Captains pigeons
let it out came up to give you word Of
warning"
Dye know when they mean to try it
on?" rejoined Dan as coolly as if 1t had not
been Q matter OF life and death; for if
Captain Phil had, or conceived he had, q
debt to pay, that debt would be paid in
grim earnest-or Captain Phil's reputation
belied him.
Mullins shook his head.
''Only know just what I've told you.
Phil Darrell ana his boys are round and
they have it in for you"
Dan nodded.
"Well, don't mention it before Mrs
Granger. The women folk are apt to get
skeered. It's bit awkward, certainly, just
now, when Steve Brooks away in Sacra-
mento. and 60 my rounds alone"
",'Tis so," Ginger Dick asserted. ',Mind
you're hesledp'
'T'm always heeled on my rounds, " said
Dan, further convincing his friend Of the
fact by pulling . heavy navy revolver out
of one pocket and Q neat little derringer
out OF another. He looked to these treas
ures carefully, handling them as if he
loved them, and assuring himself that they
were in perfect and deadly working order.
'sTime for me to be off now" he added.
'No, I'm not bound for Yucca City to-day
only TO Scudder'a I'm going to take q
bag of dust for old Engleby."
"Wsll for you that Captain Phil dont
knowr' observed the other. Five minutes
lstsr Dick Mullsns had taken his leave,
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LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

--Diphtheria has closed two public schools
In Indianapolis.
All traces OF the latest revolutionary
plot in Chile have been wiped out.
The Confederate Veterans Of Atlanta
will march under the stars and stripes here
after.
Tho test of the tempered copper gun, in
vented by Blacksmith Allard, of Quebec,
was success.
Price & Mas, wholesale grocers Of
Macon, Ca, have assigned. Liabilities nnd
assets each $50, 900.
The newly-eleoted President Of the
American Hereford Breeders ASSOCIATION,
is j. s. Carlisle, of Chicago.
-Riverton, KY, claims q woman whose
bones bresk with report like pistol shot
while she is in perfect repose.
Viola May, well-known variety singer
and dancer, shot and killed Carrie Rogers at
Calaspiel, Mont, the other day.
The Governments Town Site Board in
Oklahoma has decided that no one is barred
from taking up town-site claims.
Wealthy Chinese firms in San Francisco,
alarmed at exclusion legislation, contem.
plate Withdrawing from the country.
The Spanish Cortes will be asked for an
exhibit, as we'll as the Columbus archives.
The Isle of Man jury which rendered a
verdict OF manslaughter in the Cooper wife
murder case, were mobbed on leaving court.
"A false rumor caused a heavy run on the
Peoples Savings Bank in West Bay City,
Mich, yesterday, which was safely wealth
cred.
The commission which will investigate
the Panama canal scandal will consist of %
Republicans, Conservatives and Bou-
langist.
james Pres!ey's family at Brightwood,
Ind, has been my steriously poisoned. Mrs.
Presley is dead, and her husband may not
survive.
A Gulf, Colorado and Snnta Fe train was
fired upon by an unknown person near
Paris. Tex, ana one passenger was
wounded.
The Seattle Board of Local Marine In
spectors hold Captain John A; OBrien
guilty of negligence in stranding the whale
back steamer Wetmore.
AT Plaquemine, La, Captain Harry Ward
has been acquitted of u murder charge that
has been pending two years. Captain ward
Is a veteran steamboat man.
The city OF New Orleans has won vic
tory in the Myra Clark Gaines case. The
question was on q rule to tax the MarshaPs
commission of ~ per cent on the amount OF
the Gaines Judgment against the city.
Last Friday a party of musicians started
from Everett, Wash, for Marysy1lle IN
yacht Sunday morning tile steamer Mabel
picked up q capsized boat, and reed organ
afterward drifted ashore. Nothing has
been seen OF the party.
Two shop-lifters were arrested in Chi
cago yesterday, who had new oev1ce-a
regular portable "fence" 1t is q paste
board box, ten inches square at the top
OF which is arranged q lid with spring. a
very small weight on the lid would cause it
to GO down, allowing anything placed on
top of it to fall into the DOx. 1t would then
be forced back by the spring.
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The Season of Furs.

prepare TO shiverr' That's what. the
weather man, who dwells at tine top of that
very tall building within stones throw of
the old postoffice, tells us to do. Your
warning is superhuous, Mr.. Weather
Prophet. We are prepared. We are COW
cred with fur from top to toe, and you will
have to confess that we look very pretty
when you condescend to take a peep at US
as we stroll up and down Fifth avenu e
shopping, or on our way to and from the
matinee. You may tell u.s. in your cheerful
manner, that we are to have a genuine
Canadian winter. but it will not frighten
US On the contrary it will be pleasant
news
The girls all know that they look their
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Massachusetts, Heard From.

Having used Hills Pile Pomade while in
New York, and its use having resulted in q
cure of blind piles of seven years standing,
1 deem it my duty to do all 1 can to have
others try it. A. H BARBER, Three Rivers,
Mass. Every package contains bona fide
guarantee. Price 81, six for $6. BY mail.
For sale by Jos. Fleming & Son, Az Mar
ket street, W
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mel (shrunken goods), worth 40c, at only 25c
per yard. kAUFMANNs'
New Drygoods Department.
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In Olden Times

People overlooked the importance of per
manently beneficial effects and we're salts
fed with transient action, but now that 1t is
generally known that Syrup Of Figs will
permanently cure habitual constipation,
well-in formed people will not buy other
laxatives, which act for q time, but finally
jure the system.
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They Do saw

That T. G. Evans & Co., corner Third avenue
and Market street, carry the greatest va
riety OF china, glassware and lamps Of any
house in the city, and at the reduced prices
at which they are now Offering their goods it
is just your opportunity to get bargains for
the home and Christmas presents. They are
direct importers.
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After Thanksgiving, Christmas

Prepare your homes FOR both occasions
Our forced" and true bargain" sale a mu-
tual helper. p. c. SoHoENEcK & SoN,
I'll Liberty street, Opposite Wood.
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CAN'T be equaled-25o pairs heavy wool
blankets, large size. at only 81 So per pair.
KAUFMANNS
New Drygoods Department..
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THEY'RE going rapidly - Those 2+inch
black gros grain silks at 9S cents per yard;
only ten yards required for a dress.
kAUFMANNs
New Drygoods Department..
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SPECIAL bargain-Elegant all wool i'm
ported black dress goods; would be cheap at
ST so; will be sold for 70 cents per yard.
KAUsMANNs
New Drygoods Department
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A sTARTLER! LOO Italian blankets in new
combinations displayed OH center table), at
only 99c. kAUFMANNs'
New Drygoods Department..
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WILL amaze you: Our immense display of
Elder lannels-a special lot at only 49c per
yard. KAUFMANNs'
New Drygoods Department..
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Portraits for the Holidays.

Cabinet photos 81 so per doz. Panel pict-
ure given with every dog. better grade.
Crayons from 81 80 up. Large assortment
of frames. Lies Portrait Studio, 10 and IL
sixth street.
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GREAT FLANNEL BARGArNl 20 pieces fig
ured fannelettes at flannel counter; full
value zoe; all to go at l0c per yard.
KAUFMANNs'
New Drygoods Department.
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Mosr remarkable! 100 pieces heavy shirt
ing flannel in plaids and stripes, never sold
ior less than 35c, now only 26c per yard.
kAUFMANNS'
New Drygoods Department.
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DE Wits Little Early Risers. Best pill
for biliousness, sick headache, malaria.
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A RUSH for these very handsome black
broche India silks in new effects and most
excellent patterns, "a inches wide, sold ut
75c per yard. KAUFMANNs'
New Drygoods Department..
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HAVE your photograph taken by Dabbs
for q Christmas present.
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BURGUNDY wines are in order with Thanks
giving turkey. Max Klein can supply you.
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THE PITTsBURG FILTER COMPANY,

No. 80 sandusky Street, Allegheny, Pa,
Manufactures the Davis Filter.
Its use insures an undiminished supply of
clear, pure, wholesome water at all times
Send postal for catalogue and price list.
Branch Office Room 400 Hamilton building,
Pittsburg, Pa.
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A wINNRRl 1000 comfortab1es, heavy,
warm and well filled, at only 81 10.
KAUFMANNs'
New Drygoods Department.