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Show VOX.. Xli.--KN- O 220-r-WE5T- Faille Fnacilse ! DUCK cue:: CLACX QUBAH at OS cents. Gros Grain Silks Ores Grain Silks Our AT Cloths ELACH AT 4B CENTS, REDUCED PR05I 60 CENTS. j was 2 60 .:!:' J was 91.75. $t.40. - ' " 'j '': ' j 42 cents. ' N- cents, cents. at $1.23, COLORED SERGE at 62 Reduced from' , WEAN ENV Dress Patterns Dress Patterns at 80 cents cents OO for ALL .WOOL umit LADIES AT (doable heel and toe) at 25; cents. CE2STTS, SI. 23 LADIES' ' BLACX PZiAZXr Beautiful lfne Of Embroidered. Chiffon Hand kerchiefs at 65c and 75c. Greatest bargains ever offered in this line. CASHMERE HCSS at 33 1 .2 eta Reduced from 60c LADIES NEW STYLES, BEST QUALITY "fcXTRA WO AT of Silk3 and Velvets being-bfar the Largestas well as the Finest, in! the City, ws commenca thus early, after a most successful seasdn, to reduce it for January lstiinventory, and are offering unusual attractions in Fine Goods. cents. FULL SIZE HBAVT f 7hite Crotchet UR STOCKS y - at! OS cents. In this i a EXTRA QUALITY K lb. Crotchet Bedspreads at 91.2s. Wrappers inssorted polors at $1.40. Some Special Priees in Fancy Stripes, Faney and Plain Flannels. Cashmere Wrappers at $5.50, $6.00J $7.00 and upwards. Black )S :., i Usual price $1.65 Yv This Weak the Ltn e Vs. Offered is Better W all-wo- at 40 cents, well worth 65 ots. l LADIES 'i Colored and Black Fleeoe Lined COTTON HOSE at 2S cents. in white iff colors; at reduced trom sorted ol $2.50, $3.75. V f ! WE OFFER THE PEST 50 CENT V V AT m II i in the land, in BUck bite, la js te and Drab. xV Vv! ff 39. . LADIES' ; BSACK rLrsca Cotton Hose W , LAPIE3 or; CLosiNO otrr a CklMns's Kesrlet Leak's' WmI Va!rar. Prices 3fo to 85o. according to sizes. Just half price, CHILUKN'S NATURAL WOOL UNDERWEAR, llzei 10 to Si, from 35 to 175 cents each. lot ! -& Will be closed ou t at 7 centsi reduced from. i$1.85 and $1.50. - ; Jrp School ildren's CENTSv- - ' Would be Good Value at 30 Cents. A AT 17H worth IO04 25 ci LADIES' BX.ACX CHANTJXt.T 'at SI. (',23 SI. Floraelng at 91.10, SJl.&Sand 91.79, reduced from $1.65, 62.00 and 62.50. and SI. 7 jl-Pi loss quoted are 83 Ji" a reduction of ' j per cent. 2. ' narte. All rights re- - - t .. SI. 25 60C, 7Go and f - it sho template her neat little off fore with admiring abstraction. Hut as sooi as I had mounted she set off abruptly across the rocky canyon, apparentl sighted the patch of ' buckeyes of heJ own volition and without the slightest hesitation found t ho trail to the right and in half an hour stood before th I shanty. It was a log cabin with an addition "lean-to- " of the same materials roofe' with bark, and on the other sido a large: and more? ambitions "extension bull of rough, in planed, and un pain ted redp wood boards, slightly shingled. The "lean-to- " vras evidently used as a kitchen, and the central cabin as a living room. The barking of a dog as I approached called four children of different sizes to the open ioor, where already art enterprising baby, was feebly essaying to crawl over a bar of wool laid across the thresh-ol- d -' L to restrain it. "Is thN Johnson's house?" if f My remark was really addressed to the eldest, a-- toy apparently 9 or 10J but I felt that my attention was unduly fas- . pT A. at-ever- wM: 1 y : well-know- . " -- 1- . : ! es , . ' ; at $18. Great Bargain. ' .size, thiolr :12i soft as a bed of Hen's ! and; reduced from $15 to $11. '. AT at'Ot eenta 54ICE offer two numbers of Gents' CLOTH SUITINGS, English and Scotch Effects, 'ZS CENTS PEU YAKD, AT Handsomely made up and are a great bargain. I HAVE BEEN SOLD A.T Sl.SS AND S1.50. at 50o and 75o each. ' X i "What's the matter with this trail? Ye ain't expecting a race course or a shell road over the foot hills, are yo?" No. Is there anyihotel where I can t ' gtop?" v "Nary." Nor any house?" ' : Good) night- - He had already parsed on, when he halted aain and turiied In his saddle. Look yer. Just a spell over yon canyon o buckeyes; turn to the ye'll find a patch see a trail. That'll take and ye'll right ye to a shanty. You ask if it's Johnson's." . "Who's Johnson?" ain't lookin for Vander-- ' "I am.CI : You J Alni-;ht;H or up here, are you? a htrX to me will you! : 7 vrvizn to give you f oli ovvn . ..al: souiewhar to-- r - n nt you, 1 iio " Ion-?.- t ' ccpt cr llIrull lie". rro--- 5 j V f L LtXID XTjEECE and . v, DEEP CAPES St $10.00. KID MITTENS 40 cents. 65 NOTTINGHAM 75 Blankets Gray ' 1 $15.00. haps more actively curious, but .equally unresponsive: To my various questions he simply returned a smile of exasperook his ating vacuity. But he tnever ager eyes from me, and I was satisfied that not a detail of my appearance escaped him. Leading the way behind the house to a little 'wood, whose only "clearing" had been effected by decay or storm, he stood silently apart, while I picketed Chu Chu, neither offering to assist me nor opposing any interruptidn to my survey, of the locality. There was no trace of human cultivation in the the wildersurroundings of the cabin; ness still trod sharply on the heels of the pioneer's fresh footprints, and even seemed to obliterate them. For a few yards around the actual jdwelling there was an tnusavory fringe of civilization in the shape of cast-of- f clothes, empty bottles iand tin cans, and- the adjacent thorn and elder bushes'! blossomed with bits of torn white paper and bleaching dishcloths. "This hideous circle never widened; nature always appeared to roll back the intruding debris; no bird nor beast carried! it away; no animal ever forced the unremained cleanly barrier; civilization firmly trenched in its own exnvia.. The old terrifjing girdle of fire around the hunters' camp was not more deterring to curious fera natura than the coarse and accidental outwork. When I regained the cabin I found! it empty, the doors of the lean-t- o and extension closed, but there was a stool set before a' rude table, upon which 'smoked a tin cup of coffee, a tin dish of hot biscuit, and a plate of fried beef.. There was something odd and depressing in this silent exclusion of my presence. . Had Johnson's fold woman" from some dark post of observation taken a dislike to my appearance, or was this churlish withdrawal a peculiarity lot Slerran hospitality? Or was Mrs. Johnson young and pretty, and hidden under the restricting ban of Johnson's jealousy, oif was she s deformed cripple, or even & bed ridden crone? From the extension at times came a murmur of voices, but never the accents of adult womanhood. The gathering darkness, relieved only by a dull glow from the smouldering Ions In the adobe chimney, added to my loneliness. In the circumstances! I knew I ought to have put aslie the repast and given mysslf np ito gloomy 13and pEssirjistic rejection, but nature often inconsistent, and In that keen mountr-i- a tfr, 1 grlsve to Siy, ny physics.1 and moral condition W13 not in that perfect record always idictsd by, I rorinccrs. I had ta THOtTOHT I D MEET XOtT SOStE riME. cinated by the baby, who at that mo ment had toppled over the bar ajnd was calmly eyeing me upside dowd, while silently and heroically suffocating in its petticoats; The boy disappeared without replying, but presently returned with a taller girl of 14 or is. I was struck with the way that, as sho reached the door, she passed her hands rapidly over the beads of the others as if counting them, i picked up the baby, reversed shook but its clothes,' and returned it it, to the insdo without even looking at it. The act was evidently automatic and j . habitual. I repeated tay question iizaidly. Yes, it was Johnson's, but he had just gone to tllng's Mills. I replied hurriedly that I knew it that I had met him beyond the canyon. As I had lost my way and coulia't rst to Eeiaora he hid been ccci enough to say that I r:;f .It st;y t' era until uorniaj. tcr tha )j i:'.:zl Ily vcico ?lz CI a' 44 benefit of lir. Jcl cU woman," 3 who, I h: 1 rod-- 1 Lt, inspsciticj tae r. f urtiv. !y if I c I t, T: i r.lrt i ay;y, lo-nijr- ht, -- . -- : o-ir t- -. c: ": t j : i . '1 1 - 1 - - t lr!' :;ly, : w - BOYS' Dog Skin Fleece 93.00. Night Shirts, OYERSHIRTS at OS cents. at SO cents. 'CHILDREN'S Splendid Quality Black and Oxford Mixed , WOOL HOSE - at 25 cents.. ;.': qttit fooling. amusement' of children over their elders is not accepted as philosophically by; Its an object as when it proceeds fromwhen! equal. We fcmdly believe that Jones or Brown laughs at us it is from malice, Ignorance, or a desire to show his superiority; but there is always a minds that haunting suspicion in our these little critics really see something In us to laugh at. I, however, smiled affably in return ignoring any possible grotesqueness in my mannerof eating In heavy bulk of the opposite mountain, and beyond it a superior crest defined by a red line of forest fire, which, however, cast no reflection on the surrounding earth or sky. Faint woodland currents of air, still warm from the afternoon sun, stirred the leaves around mo with aromatic breaths. - But these in time gave way to the steady Slerran night wind sweeping down from the higher. summits. and rocking the tops of the tallest pines, yet leaving 'the the dark lower aisles untranquility ofwas shaken. It very quiet: there was no cry nor call of beast or bird in the darkness; the long rustle of the tree off tops sounded as. faint as the far rewash of distant seas. Nor did, the semblance cease there; the close-sfiles of the pines and cedars, stretching in illimitable rank to the horizon, were filled with the Immeasurable loneliness; of an ocean shore. .In this vast silence; I began to think I understood the tacisolitary turnity oi the dwellers in the cabin. When I returned, however, I was to find the tallest girl standing by As I approached she retreated the door. before-me- , and pointing to a corner where a common cat bed had been eviYe can turn dently just put cp. said: in thar, only ye'll her to rouse out early when 'Dolphus does the chores," and was toward the extension aain, turnicT wt-eI stepped leer ElniciS rpealingly. " C.-.-3 tiorneat, r lzzz3. Cca I see ycur teotLcr?" Cha slr;-- J s.nJ loolrrd at-t- i a with long-draw- t n ' .1 -- 1 her-shoulde- ar j' t Il "7 ' . ta ' sur-pzis- ed -- -r tin-r-i- 3 "ca r- -- " : " 1 '. - " 7 - - e;, 7 c L :; family. ; . at2Scto7So each. 2 B cents. ! i ? . ' . 1 well-know- ; bt - 1 1.::.. ?!.-.l o 1 r I "; i: . I - ' ' - : . . But not to sleep. Perhaps the responsibility toward these solitary children, which Johnson had so lightly shaken off, devolved upon me as I lay there, for I found myself imagining a dozen .emergencies of teir unprotected state, which the elder girl could scarcely grapple. There, was little to fear from depredatory man or beast; desperadoes iq the mountain trail never stooped to ignoble burglary, bear or panther seldom approached a cabin; but there was 'the chance of sudden Illness, fire, the accidents that beset childhood, to say nothing of the narrowing moral and mental effect of their isolation at that tender age. It was scandalous for Johnson to leave them alone. "v In the silence I found I ould hear qnlte distinctly the sound of their voices in the extension, and it was evident that Carolina was putting them to bed. Suddenly a voice was uplifted her own! She began to sing and the others to join her. it was tho repetition of a single n verse of a lugubrious negro melody. ..All the world am sad and head dreary," wailed Caroline in a high dark-ieth," note, "'everywhere Iroam." "O, lisped the younger f girl in response, "how my heart growth weary, far from the old folkth at This was repeated two or three times before the others seemed to get the full swing of It, and then the lines rose and fell sadly and monotonously in the darkness. I don't know why, I at once got the Impression that those motherless little creatures were under a vague belief that their performance was devotional and was really filling the place of an evening hymn. A brief and Indistinct kind of recitation, followed by a dead silence broken only by the slow of new timber, as if the house creaking were stretching itself to sleep too, confirmed my Impression. . Then all became - "4 ... quiet again. v' But I was more wide awake than before. Finally I rose, dressed myself, and, dragging my stool to the re, tcok a book from ray. knapsack, and by tha 1 gat of a sputtering candle, vhich I discovered In a bottle In the corcer cf the hearth, began to red. Fre.-ntly- l fell Into ..a doze- - How lonj I slit I could not tell, for it seemed to 1: a f :i a dreamy consciousness of a dej L r' i; at lsst forced itself upon ma Z3 tt; 1; that I awoke. ,Tbe Lrklz." cp; ! coeae froni tcliind the ti, t' direction cf tha clearlnr: ;:c: I tethered Cha Chu. I c : e ' t hurrir Ily, tz a rcac 1 V.'j ,e the ! o!!j,7, t ' 'Then you didn't tell Billy 'to go and be dead in the ground with mar,' as he 'lows you did?" she said, half suspiciously, yet trembling on the edge of a smile. No, I had not, but I admitted that to go to his mother my asking him ' open to thls dlstnal might have been construction by a sensitive infant mind. Ghe seemed uolliCed, and ala turned to fro. "Good n!;ht. Ill;'; you know your father didn't tell tea your re.1 nrae," I feJJ. :r;:rlir,e!" cf t! by tL3 luik 1 r- - -, , i - n -- - et ; -- . do." "Dad ain't here days running, and then on'y to sleep." " And you take the entire charge of the house ? " "Yes, and the log tallies.'? ' "The log tallies?" "Yes; keep count and measure the logs that go by the slide." It flashed upon me that I had passed the slide, or declivity on the hillside, where logs were slipped down , into the valley, and. I inferred that Johnson's business, was cutting timber for. the mill. "But you're rather young for all this work," I suggested. "I'm goin' on 16," she said gravely. Indeed, for the matter of that, she might have been any age. Her face, on which sunburn took the place of complexion, was already hard and. set. But on a nearer view I was struck with the fact that her eyes, .which were not large, were almost Indistinguishable from the presence of the most singular- eyelashes I had ever seen. Intensely- black, intensely thick, and even tangled In their profusion, they bristled rather than fringed her eyelids, obliterating everypupils bething but the shining black certain were which like lnstrous neath, was berries. mountain this It hairy woodland suggestion that seemed to uncannily connect her with the locality. I went on playfully: That's not very old but tell me! does your father, or did your father, ever speak of you as 'his old woman?' " She nodded. 'Then you thought I was mar?" she said, smiling. It was such a relief to see her worn face relax its expression of pathetic gravity although this operation, quite buried her eyes in their black, thick-se- t hedge! asraln that I contluued cheerfully. "It wasn't much of a mistake, considering all you do for the hoose aud . -- - L ? private. ,4Come"here, Johnny. I said blandly. The two elder ones, a girl and a boy, disappeared Instantly as if the crowning was too much for joke of this remark them:" From a scraping and kicking against the log wall Itojudged that they the ground oat-sid-e. had quickly dropped The younger one, xhe glggler, remained fascinated, but ready to fly at a moment's warning. Come here, Johnny, boy,? I repeated you to go to your gently. "I want mother, please, and tell her-- " But here the child, who had been working its face convulsively, suddenly uttered a lugubrious howl and disappeared also. I ran to the front door and looked out in time to see the tallest girl, who had received me, walking away with It under her arm, pushing the boy ahead of her and looking back over not unlike a youthful she-beconducting her cubs from danger. Ghe dislppeared at the end of th9 extension, whera there w&s evidently another door. It wa3 It wl3 very extraordinary. that I turned tc'--r to tla a notstrtr'3 eiprce" mzttlZc :Lica slxr- iy: cabin T7ita a cli rrin rrfi.tir.cd it; dyspersla tnd tilic.il re- - wLlc'i fcr a to at -Is kcoer. fu;l est ttrtiin CL s 7X3 t.:rr.ii. ec tic. .s xlt cocae liter. Itti t ,3 tLa 111f Hi A of cf t:. t l.aCiur-J s 1 ru t :;ra I. , ' duel jULIr-rss,l:rctu3 tL'It cheerfully, : v 1 . taa Iro.:a la Kit. rr.clititlvely CnLililnj uy co. iut l' i. 2,1 fer nj t 3 1J I 1 ! . . a Cf tLj ...Ifrc.j guiIi. ::jt," j - ' 1 i ttt.-- t. t I - j L:y itt - j. 'si T I of ur r t! 5 o v c j . " f "n(!r jif : . - u i ... 1 . LINEN APRONS (size S to 14) AT j CniLJJREN'S ' White. Nainsook and India 5 ?" r ely ll-- Tana and Modes at IS cents. " 1 - 't zsr ""IYourself and your father eh ? two . ti.-t.i;- at SO cents. children ; i Handsomely Trimmed, Camel's Hair Socks COTTOIi SOCKS , "No." entered tho cabin, closed i.tne door and "Then who takes care of you and the went to bed. ; ; HEATT GLOVES J MEN'S MEN'S BOYS' FLANNEL Lined AT i MEN'S i Chenille Curtains " AT Marked down from cents. Lace Curtains at cents. - stk B VOOtH08E r IMCY ITight Shirts SJi Scarfs .1 r at 75 cents. "We - vXBi Crsf 111 S 1KB DRAWERS 25 and 50 cents. ..! ' at $1.00. SPLENDID LINE down, sal-erat- us - Why not? 44 It's a matter of eighteen miles, and most of It a blind trail through the woods after you take the valley." Is It worse than this?" 1 : CALIFORNIA ; 1 . . ts irernia WMte Bleniels, Bsstj ribpl Men's Sanitary Natural Reduced from $2.00. I i CHILDREN'S at 50 cents each. ack and Colored I SUPERIOR QUALITY it Fur Trimmed AT ' was growing dark, fLI,, Jjand the Sonora trail becoming more t'slnip'was i' 111, iDUisiiucii ll.il unturs 1110 stept The difficulty had' increased over ; sthe grassy slope, where the overflow from .some smaller water- ;ourse above had worn a numoer or as, to diverging gullies o like the trail be undljtingtiishable from it Unable to determine which was the right one, I threw, the rensjover the mule's neck and resolved to trust to that superior animal's sagacityi of which I had heard so much. But I had not taken Into acweak-nessn count the equally of sex and species, and Chu Chu had already shown uncontrollable signs of wanting her own way. Without a moment's hesitation, feeling the relaxed bridle, she laid down and rolled over. In this perplexity the sound of liorso's hoofs ringing out of the rocky canyon beyond was a relief even if momentarAn instant afterward ily embarrassing a horse and rider appeared cantering round the hill, on what was evidently the lost trail, and; pulled up as I succeeded' In forcing Chti Chu to her legs again. "Is that the! trail' , from Sonora?" I asked. " Yes;' but with a critical glance at the mule, ''I reckon you ain't going thar j ,..w. - BOYS' AT J cents; By Bret Ilarte. "No." 'I'f"Thank you. $1.25.- Cashmere Gloies IMitteria 28, OS, 40 and SO JOIIHSOII'S VOLO VOMAII." ICopyrtght, 1891,by B" Silk h' 7 AT ,. i j:v. LADIES LADIES' Cashmere Hittens Lace . I ; B Scotch Shirts a 4 Drawers L DSAPERIE& j " I . Astracban rimmed. at Q7.50. ; AT j j fi 8 :S I at lO oents a pair. MEN'S ,' JERSEY VAISTS i at $2.00. at $30. Seal riush, Scotch Chariot Jackets - SILTER GRAY BLiXIETsi ladIes 1 .. KID . GLOVES WQ0L..C1IITE1IS Good value OO.OO. LADIES' BOYS'; FLEECE LINED V IN THE LEADING CdtORS." " T , ; and $1.40. t." C CAL1ELS HAIR DRESS GOODS, BLACK LACE! to-nigh- nts. j OS and T8 cents. Marked down 8S, $4.00, worth 40 cents. CG ' at $2.00. at $15. WOOL HOSE j White Blankets ... heefehMackets A AT Af SO JIANDSOMK $1 Scold GMlot Jacicts ' HANDKERCHIEFS AT LADIES' CHILDREN'S ID 10H . LXCIE-ScaiVluab- j ;'i Fnr effect Dress Patterns, latest, at $4 per pattern. rery French pattern dresses at half price. Dress patterns containing 8 yds. Scotch Tweed,, ample for a dr6s. at $3.25 per pattern: worth double. lS0TiEXT OF liDIES' irftOIS at 25 and 50 cents apiece. INFANTS BIBBED VESTS, in white and natural, at 15 cents. SCOTCH GLOVES ASTRACHl i GLOVES Chlffea Emfcreldertt at EfSCUL BOYS' LADIES' i A 'Very Attractive ; in out sizes, : at SO cents. AN ODD LOT ' , Cotton Hose 116 AND 118 MAIN STREET, 91.00. Lot of eents. BLlCKj FLEECED Featbared Fans or I ; 40 and eo HANDSOME LOT F-A-N- ' : and drab, at $1.50, reduced from $2.00. No. 263, in wiiite, black, blue and pinlc at $1.50, reduced f rom$2.50 and $2.75. C. P. Venus, in as- ROBES, TEA GOWNS, WRAPPERS. ; ( --H TOWELS if-- ) P. Mascot, bbt HOUSE HOSS - .'.." r BEDSPREADS Best value We oifer our entire line of tne celebrated CQ. Corsets at a great reduction. C. ' HEATT WOOL BLACK INDIGO PR NTS S. , BUCK riSBIEBB DRESS GOODS, BLACK . CLOTH cents. OO ITSW WEAVE -- WAS .jy 62-IN- pattern. pattern. one-ha- , BEDFORD CORD 20 cents. at $3 50, 4.50 and $5.00. what these lf Prices qupted are not goods cost! to manufacture. .f V FANCY. SERGE at EESRIETTAS at B5 cents. was 75 cents. ADIES'j NEWMARKETS T 61.23. TV AS - OLD AT LESS TIIAI1 COST TO MAKE. c, COLORED TRICOT COLORED was $1.03.. $8.00. FRENCH l-2- 40-IN- FRENCH ALL WOOL ALL WOOL bRESS:;G0ODS ';:"' 40-IN- 40-IN- ELACK ALPACA cents. 1-- 3 Y 8EPENTNE 1 ;' 54-IN- . AT 43 ! clagsserce j : L AT Etc. h These are Manufac board and Tray Covers, turers' samples; ana ALL-WOO- I TWEKTT PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS NOVEMBER 22, 1891. MOitNTSTGr, 42 INCH LIIIEN ARTICLES, FANCY STJISTDAY PLUSHES such ,as Plain sand Stamped Linen Dresser, Side. Suitings 1-- well worth i ALL WOOL at 82 SII1 TELCUTIIE at 91.20. at 90 center , H ClotH Rhadame COLCHED - again offer extraordinary Bargains in E BEDFORD G0RDS..- - - Gray and Brown Mixtures: , at 8S cents. 36-INC- worth 81.00. FAXTC1T 63-IN- cucx- at B7 cents. Good ralus at $1.25. 1 at OS cents, Regular tl.00 Quality. 65 CENTS. Ladles' SAIiT LAKE CITX. UTAH, PAGES. Y. t.' I cit -- c-- T -- 1 h,;r!' it'..: a c? t" I c.'jl. tf :. '' ( ' j - n v - : ' ' . ::: |