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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-15

DEATH penalties for heresy are part of
the history of religion in the dark ages. But
even in this enlightened era a man is liable
to be suspended for SO serious a "crime."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-15

THE DISPATCH ,son sale at LEADING HOTELS
throughout the United States, and at Brentano's,
5Inion Square, New York, and !! Avenue de
J Opera. Paris. France.
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The size of the Cooley family is in itself
enough to account for the number of crimes
with which it is collectively and individ-
uallv charged.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-15
TWELVE PAGES

PITTsBURG. THURSDAY. DEC. Is. 1892.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-01-14

raised her head, opened her eyes ana
looked In a moment the vague sense
Of terrible catastrophe averted came
somehow over her. She flung her arms
around his neck, "Oh, Ughtred, you've
come back!" she cried in q torrent of
emotion
eyes, darling" Ughtred answered,
his voice half choked with tears, eve
come back to you now forever and
ever"
He lifted her in his arms and carried
her some little way off up the left hand
path. His heart was very full. Twas
terrible moment. For as yet he hard
ly knew what harm he might have done
by his fatal act. He only knew he had
tried his best to undo the wrong he had
shalf unconsciously wrought; and if the
worst came he would give himself up
now like a man to offended Justice.
But the worst did not come. Blind
fate had been merciful. Next day the
papers were full of the accident to the
Great Southern express; equally divided
between denunciation of the miscreans
who had placed the obstruction in the
way Of the train, and admiration for the
heroic but unrecognizable stranger who
had rescued from death so many helpless
passengers at SO imminent risk to his
own life or safety. Only Ughtred knew
that the two were one and the same per-
son. And when Ughtred found out how
little harm had been done by his infatu-
ated act-an act he felt he could never
possibly explain in its true light to any
other person-he thought it wisest on
the whole to lay no claim to either the
praise or the censure. The world could
never be made to understand the terrible
dilemma in which he was placed-the
one sided way in which the problem at
first presented itself to him-the deadly
struggle through which he had passed
before he could make up his mind, at
the risk of Netta's life, to remove the
obstacle. Only Netts understood, and
even Meta herself knew no more than
this-that Ughtred had risked his own
life to save her.-Strand Magazine.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-01-14

And yet he must face it and act or re-
main passive, one way or the other.
With desperate effort he made up his
mind at last just as the train burst upon
him, and all was over.
He made up his mind and acted &C.
cordingly.
AS the engine turned the corner the
driver looking ahead in the clear even
ing light saw something in front that
made him start with sudden horror and
alarm. A telegraph pole lay stretched
at full length, and a man, unknown,
stood agonized by it's side, stopping
down, as he thought, to catch and move
it. There was no time left to stop her
now; no time to avert the threatened
catastrophe. All the driver could do in
his haste was to put the brake on hard
and endeavor to lessen the force of the
inevitable concussion. But even as he
looked and wondered at the sight, put
ting on the brake meanwhile with all
his might and main, he saw the man in
front perform, to his surprise, an heroic
action. Rushing full upon the line,
straight before the very lights of the ad-
vancing train, the man unknown lifted
up the pole by main force, and brandish-
ing its end, as it were, wildly in the
drivers face, hurled the huge bulk back
with terrible effort to the side of the
railway. 1t fell with crash, and the
man fell with it. There was a seconds
pause, while the drivers heart stood still
with terror. Then jar--a thud-a
deep scratch into the soil. A wheel was
off the line. They had met with an ac-
cident.
For moment or two the driver only
knew that he was shaken and hurt, but
not severely. The engine had left the
track and the carriages lay behind
slightly shattered. He could see how it
happened. Part of the pole in falling
had rebounded on to the line, The base
Of the great timber had struck the near
side wheel and sent it off the track in q
vain effort to surmount it, But the
brake had already slackened the pace
and broken the force of the shock, SO the
visible damage was very inconsiderable.
They must look along the carriages and
find out who was hurt. And, above all
things, what had become of the man
who had SO nobly rescued themP For
the very last thing the engine driver had
seen of Ughtred as the train stopped
short was that the man who flung the
pole from the track before the advancing
engine was knocked down by its ap-
proach, while the train to all appearance
passed bodily over him. For good or
evil, Ughtred had made his decision at
last at the risk of his own life. AS the
train dashed on with its living freight
aboard his native instinct Of preserving
life got the better Of him in spite of him
self. He couldn't let those innocent sonls
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-01-14
ODDS AND ENDS.

Aluminium air ships are predicted.
Women practice now in Colorado courts.
Berlin's railroad depot will cost "a, ,0O0.-
OOO
More than $4,000, ,OOOwill be spent on the
Indians this year.
The shah of Persia has tobacco pipa
which Is worth 100000
In southern Europe $500 oranges have
been picked from one tree
The best wines are found to be produced
from grapes grown upon volcanic soils.
A man has been discovered in Cincinnati
who is the father of sixteen children by one
wife.
France possesses 1,100 mineral springs.
Of which over 1000 are made use Of in
France.
At the time of birth the octopus, the re-
nowned devilish, is not larger than conn
mon flea
Sunfiowers grow to such an immense sire
in Kansas that it is claimed the stalks cam
be used as fuel.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-01-14

in great clammy drops at that dread di-
lemma. 1t was an awful question for
any man to solve. Heshrank aghast be-
fore that deadly decision.
They were innocent, to be sure, the
people in that train. They were un-
known men, women and children. They
had the same right to their lives as Ne
Ia herself. 1t was crime, sheer crime
thus to seek to destroy them. But still
what would you have? Netta lay there
all helpless on the hne-his own dear
Meta. And she had parted from him
In anger but half an hour since. Could
he leave her to be destroyed by that
hideous, snorting, putting thing? Has
not any man the right to try and save
the lives he loves best, no matter at
what risk or peril to othersY He asked
himself this question, too, vaguely, in.
stinctively, with the rapid haste of a
life and death struggle; asked himself
with horror, for he had no strength left
now to do one thing or the other-to
remove the obstacle from the place where
he had laid it or to warn the driver.
One second alone remained and then all
would be over. On it came, roaring,
haring, glaring, with its great bullseye
now peering red around the corner-a
terrible, fiery dragon, resistless, uncon-
scious, bearing down in mad glee upon
the pole-or Netta.
Which of the two should it be--the
pole or Netta2
And still he waited, and still he tenn.
porized. What-what could he do? Oh
heavenl be mercifull Even as the engine
swept, snorting and putting steam
around the corner, he doubted yet--he
doubted and temporized. He reasoned
with his own conscience in the quicl
shorthand of thought. So far as intent
was concerned he was guiltless. Il
wouldn't - a murder of malice pre-
pense. Wien he laid that log there in
the way of the train he never believed
nay, never even knew-it was a train
with u living freight of men and wom
en- he was trying to ilnperil. He felt il
to be merely as mad engine unattached
He realized only Netta's pressing danger
Was he bound now to undo what he haG
innocently done-and leave Netta to per
lsh? Must he take away the post and bt
Netta's murderer
It was cruel dilemma for any maj
to have to face, Ii he had half an houl
to debate and decide, now, he might per
haps have seen his way little clearer
But with chat hldeous thing actually
rushing, red and wrathful, on his sigh
-why-he clapPad his hands to his ears
It was too much for him-too much foI
him.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-01-14

die by his own act-tnougn II ne removed
the pole and Netta was killed he didn't
know himself how he could ever out
live it.
He prayed with all his heart that the
train might kill him.
The guard and the driver ran hastily
along the train. Nobody was hurt,
though many were shaken or slightly
bruised. Even the carriages had es.
capped with few small cracks. This
Holmbury smash was nothing very seri-
Gus.
But the man with the pole? Their
preserver, their friend. Where was he
all this time? What on earth had be-
come of him?
They looked along the line. They
searched the track in vain. He had dis
appeared as if by magic. Not trace
could be found of him?
After looking long and uselessly, again
and again, the guard and the driver
both gave it up. They had seen the man
distinctly-not a doubt about that-and
30 had several of the passengers as we'll.
But no sign Of blood was to be discov-
cred along the track. The mysterious
being who, as they all believed, risked
his own life to save theirs had vanished
as he had come, one might almost say
by miracle
And indeed, as a matter of fact, when
Ughtred Carnegie fell on the track be-
fore the advancing engine he thought
for moment it was all up with him.
He was glad of that, too, for he had muir
dered Meta. He had saved that train,
but he had murdered Netta. 1t would
dash on now unresisted and crush his
darling to death. 1t was better he should
die, having murdered Netta. SO he
closed his eyes tight and waited for it to
kill him.
But train passed on, jarring and scrap
ing, partly with the action of the brake,
though partly, too, with the wheel dig
ging into the ground at the side; it
passed on and went over him altogether,
coming as it did SO to a sudden stand
still. AS it stopped fierce joy rose up
permost in Ughtred's soul. Thank heav-
en-, all was well. He breathed once more
easily. He had fallen on his back across
the sleepers in the middle of the track.
It was not really the train that had
knocked him down at all, but the recoil
of the telegraph post. The engine and
carriages had gone over him safely. He
wasn't seriously hurt. He was only
bruised and sprained and Jared and
shaken.
Rising up behind the train as it slack
ened, he ran hastily along the off side
toward where Netta lay still and uncon.
scious on the line in front of it. Nc
body saw him run past, and no wonder,
either, for every eye was turned toward
the near side and the obstruction. A per-
son running fast by the opposite windows
was very little likely to attract attention
ct such moment. Every step panied
him, to be sure, for he was bruised and
stiff, but he ran on none the less till he
came up at last to where Netta lay.
There ha bent over her eagerly. Meta
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-01-14
"A STORY
'Tis Said, "Never Loses by
Repetition"

We seldom find anything
less true than the above we'll
seasoned aphorism that has
been travelling about this little
earth of ours for general ap-
plication. by successive gener-
ations--so MANY, it would be
difficult for one with an ordi-
nary, everyday head to trace
It's origin. AS commonly
wrought into play, the adage
refers to gossip, which, like a
SNOWFALL, as the youngster
rolls it through the snow, in
creases in volume with each
revolution.
But while many stories are
increased by continued hand
ling!by INSCRIPTIONS workmen,
with no material save that
from a store-house of imagi-
nation "plethoric to fullness
thereof, it does not signify
that many tales are not justly
augmented by an addition OF
facts to each recital.
For instance, readers OF
this column have often been
told of the complete stock and
rarest of bargains at the
wholesale and retail house of
Saur 4 .Balsley. Readers
have noticed that the brief de
script n of this stock has in
no way been in a decline since
It's inception, for the simple
+. and comprehensive fact that
their stock has always been on
the increase while prices are
correspondingly decreasing
Then cannot we see that, al
though the saying: GA story
never loses by repetition;" is
applicable here, though not in
the sense and meaning gener-
allv meant to be convened by
the quotation ?
Their stock comes under 4
departments, viz:
l Drugs and medicines.
2. Books and stationery.
8. Paints and oils.
4. Wall paper and window
shades
Each of these departments
have facilities unequalled.
Saur & Balsley's drug and
patent medicines do not need
an elaborate introduction to
make them acquainted. They
have been tried and are uni
versally indorsed as pure in the
one, and the genuine article in
the other,
Although this firms book
sale during the holidays was
something of immense proper
tions they still have on hand a
large and varied stock of the
latest novels and classical works
albums, picture books, ETC., at
prices that astonish.
Then, as spring opens up
and thoughts Of repairs to your
home present themselves, it will
be a great saving to you to
call and examine the other de-
partments, "Paints and Oils,
and "Wall Paper and Window
Shades 1t matters not what
may be your taste or the size
of your pocket-book, Saur &
Balsley can supply you and
send you away satisfied.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-02-12
Their Chance Of Marriage,

AT the far end of Naples lies the church
of Santa Maria Anunciata, which, once a
year. on the day of Our Lady, wakes
into brief life and excitement. In a
silent row before the high altar kneel 80
girls, all in black garments, with folded
hands and eyes fixed on the picture of
the Madonna before them. These are
orphans from the neighboring founding
asylum, and once year all those who
have reached the age of IS are brought
here to the church and may be chosen
in marriage by any honest man whose
papers are in order and whose character
is good.
AT the door leading to the sacristy leans
a gray haired priest, tile head of the asy-
lum. By and by man makes his way
from the back of the church and hands
him little package of papers. These
the priest reads carefully, and being evil
IDENTIFY satisfied he gives back the papers
and leads the applicant toward the row
of girls.
All eyes are fixed more steadfastly than
ever on the altar, all their hands are
clasped tighter together, their faces turn
a shade paler, their hearts beat quicker
as the young man walks slowly along the
-ow. AT last it stops. His choice is
made. He stretches out his hand with
little smile. The girl rises, puts her hand
into that of the stranger, and together
they disappear into the sacristy. The ice
being thus broken, other suitors come
forward. Massachusetts Ploughman.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-02-12
savsge,s Ordeal at a chr,.t.n,np

DR. David Morton tells good war
story on DR.. Savage, of the American
Bible Society, who was a strong Union
man.
Just after the battle of Perryville, ii,
October, 1862, DIR. Savage was at one of
his appointments to baptize some chill
dren. There was large crowd, and q
sturdy Southern matron brought her four
children to the altar. "Name this child,
said the Union preacher, laying his hand
on the boys head. "Simon Boliver
Buckner, F" was the reply, which caused
a smile to come over the congregation,
but the brave preacher went on with his
duty. "Name this child," taking the
next in order Pierre Gustave Toutant
Beauregard, y and the smile grew into a
snigger, while DIR. Savage became red in
the face. He baptized the young name
sake of the great engineer-soldier and
went on with the ceremony. "Name
this child, he gasped, reaching for the
third. "Albert Sidney Johnston" came
the answer. The smile became audible
and the preacher apoplectic. Heaving
sigh of relief he took the fourth child,
little girl, whose gender he fondly sup
posed would preclude continuation of
heroic reproduction, and said: "Name
this child" MARY Stonewall Jackson
Lee, came response that set the con-
gregation in roar, while the Union par
son thought he had held in his arms the
whole Southern Confederacy.
Courier-Journal.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-02-12
coon STORIES WELL TOLD.
In One of which a Great Mans Cent?
for Method Il EIiMted Mt.

Tn One OF Which a Great Mans Genius
for Method Is TIinted Mt.
The parents of young soldier who
was a private in Prussian cavalry regi-
ment during the Franco Prussian war
became terribly anxious about him.
Several battles had been fought, and they
had received no news of their boy. After
some hesitation the father went to see
General Won Moltke, who was understood
to receive visitors at certain hour in the
early morning.
Strange to say, the father was admitted
to see the great field marshal.
what is your business?" said Moltke.
Use as few words as possible.
The visitor explained that he wished
to learn the fate of his son, private in a
certain regiment. Moltke smiled, but
not unkindly, and drew from his pocket
a square of cardboard covered with dots,
lines, and crosses of various colors.
"This line," he said, Indicates the
line of march of your sons regiment
The dots seen here mark the dis
tances of each forced march. To.
morrow morning at Z O'clock the regi.
ment must be at this point here. Take
note of the situation.
He said no more. and the interview
ended Long before the appointed time
The father was at the point indicated on
che map. just before Z o'clock tho
truntpets of the advance guard were
heard in the distance, and precisely at
the hour the father saw his son.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-02-12
Shadows or Venus,

Purkinja discovered very simple and
highly entertaining experiment by means
of which the retina, with all its veins and
blood vessels standing out in relief
against it, can be thrown into the air be-
fore ones eyes. 1t is called the arbores
cent figure, from its likeness to MANY
branched tree, and is produced in the
following manner:
In dark room at night move a candle
backward and forward before the eyes
these being firmly fixed on the wall be.
yond. After few seconds the air will.
assume reddish appearance, and run
ming over it in all directions may be seen
the veins and blood vessels in bold relief
while toward the center of the figure
there rises up dark trunk, from which
the veins branch out on all sides.
The trunk is visible where the optic
nerve enters the eye, and this expert
ment is chiefly interesting to the student
as proving that the parts of the retina
which actually receive and produce the
sensation of light must lie behind the
blood vessels, since these cast their shadow
onto it, and we are enabled to see them
as we see any other object, externally
Chambers's Journal.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-02-12
Whit the parl.lan plns. On.

The following is the agreeable menu OF
Partisan dinner;
AS operative, vermouth, which is rem.
dered agreeable by the addition of sui
phuric acid.
The diner then attacks his potage of
tapioca-made of potato starch to which
copper has been added.
The butter is made of calls fat colored
with lead.
His roast, of inferior quality, has been
improved with saltpeter; he discovers a
few truffies made of pressed clay.
The vinegar of the salad is seasoned
with vitriol.
The peas-a little too green-taste of
the copper which has given them their
color.
Dessert: A chocolate cream; the choc-
olate is made of glucose, red oxide of
mercury, and red ocher
For coffee he is given a mixture of
horseliver roasted in the oven, black wal
nut sawdust, and caramel.
His small glass of kirshwasser, which
terminates the dinner, contains as high
as % centigrammes of prussic acid to the
liter.
After such meal the Partisan has a
terrible thirst; he wishes to drink beer,
and he drinks it, 1t is a decoction of
poppy heads, elder, belladonna, datura,
stramonium, soda, tanbark, and piric
acid.-Le Cosmos.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-02-12
gunshimy Husbands.

We read so much about the obligation
laid upon the wife to be perpetual SUM-
beam in the house, that word to hus.
bands on this topic may not be amiss.
Husbands ought always to wear a smil-
ing and happy countenance. Should the
care of providing the raw material to
make home weigh you down, never
mind, always 60 home with a smile.
Husbands have often lost the affection
of their wives by looking careworn. Be
careful about your personal appearance
much depends upon that. Be sure that
your hair is smoothly arranged and your
collar spotless before presenting yourself
at the breakfast table. 1t is by attention
to such little things that you may be
able to retain the affection of your wife.
Don't complain if You are sick. A com.
planning husband often drives a woman
to seek more congenial society. If you
have a toothache-smile. The wife may
find it necessary to absent herself from
home every evening and decorate herself
with ribbons of various hues if you COM
plain. Keep up with the times. Your
wife, having the care of the education of
the children, naturally reads more than
you. Don't let her. After you have
worked l2 or IA hours day, devote the
remainder to keeping your mind in good
trim, SO that your wife may not find a
more congenial spirit elsewhere. Pay
etrict attention TO these rules and your
marriage VIII not be failure.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-02-12
A Cry ofpesnnir.

Some time ago, says Missouri man,
"a powerful poor family came to our
town. There was widow and threo
daughters, two of them about grown.
They took up their quarters in an old,
deserted house, and it wasn't long until
we heard that they hadn't anything to
eat.
We'll, lot of us went out to the old
house, and, sure enough, there they were,
mighty nigh starved to death. Right
there, strive raised SIS, and told the widow
we'd see that she didn't go hungry. The
grateful woman gave the money to her
daughter, and said: Lou, you and the
children run right away down town and
get something with this money
"Well, off the girl put, and we waited to
enjoy the pleasure of seeing them satisfy
their hunger, They came back after a
while, and now, what do you reckon
they had bought?"
II have no idea."
well, sir, they bought four finger
rings and quart of molasses
"The miserable fools. The poor mother
must have been indignant.
"You bet she was"
And what did she say ?"
why, she said: Lou, I'd like to know
what in common sense made you get SC
many of these here blamed molasses. ~
New York Tribune.