Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-25
A LOOK AROUND.

WHAT proportion of the fuel burned in
Pittsburg and around it is coulf" l asked
leading operator. GAS an of hand guess
should say that about 80 per cent OF the
| fuel used in the mills ut present was coal. 1t
Is not as much this winter as last owing to
the greater supply of gas coming from new
| fields. Besides the gas number or the
| mills are succ essfully burning petroleum.
| So lar as household consumption is con-
| cerned don't believe that more than 10 per
cent of the trade has gone back to the coal
| operators. Even with high priced gas 1t Is
| SO much cleaner and convenient with gas
| that people are willing to pay their bills
| and take out the surplus cost in growing.
| Another thing which leads to the retention
of gas in private houses is that 1t Is almost
| impossible to get good servants who are WILL
| ing to take places where coal Is burned
and whero they have to carry It up from
the cellars and then take away the ashes.
1t Is dull with US now, as lake shipments
closed this week, and We are getting ready
for the winter inaction."
CAME across a hero the other day. He
looked much the same as everyday man
kind. He did not know he was hero, nor
| did l, until he had left the party in which l
met him. Domestic heroism, that of the
| privacy OF home, with no Victoria cross or
| Congressional medal dangling before 1t rs q
| possibility, is after all perhaps the noblest
of all heroisni. Here was great strong.
| healthy and wealthy man, fond of outdoor
| sports, of travel of the activity of d busy
| commercial career-one who in his youth
| was a mans man rnther than q woman's.
Fifteen years ago he married. and in few
years there came three children into the
household. 1t had been n happy family. He
was kindly husband as husbands go, and
| she pleasant and dutiful wife. Out of the
night came paralysis to her-a new life to
| him. Since that time his career has been en-
tirely altered. His business was quickly ar
ranged so he could he frequently absent
from his Office. He was father, mother,
| nurse, teacher, companion and playmate
compressed in one domestic providence.
Never had woman more devoted attendant
nor more faithful and intelligent nurse. All
the little questions Of housekeeping and OF
the care and training of children, of their
clothing, their pleasures and their pains
fell to him, and in his hands they have been
managed with q wisdom and care absolutely
wonderful. This has been. remember, some
thing OF ten years. standing, and it has
grown instead of lessening. Outside of his
comparatively casual attention to business
his horizon is confined to the walls of his
home. To make the wife forget her burden
OF affiction and be happy woman through
it all has been his happiness and with such
spirit he could not fail. They travel about
considerably, this family, and all the details
are taken care of by him. No hired nurses
nor governesses are permitted to usurp any
of his duties, although there is one of each
there at hand as his representative in times
of enforced absence. So skillfully 10 all this
done, SO modestly is it carried out that even
the chief beneficiary does not realize what is
occurring-and that Is his reward. "They
do not build Westminster Abbeys nova
days." said friend of mine once, and I
thought of his remark when 1 heard the
story of this man. for the supply OF heroes
at this time is far below the demand.
1 WONDER who ate my Thanksgiving
turkey? Somebody suggested it would be
good scheme to buy live turkeys in the
country and keep them until they were
wanted. began the experiment with a huge
gobbler, whom 1 placed in the stable. 1
bought bushel of corn with which to feed
him and hired carpenter to stop up all the
exits OF the stable so the gobbler might
roam in safety. There was q certain grain
shoot leading down from the loft which was
overlooked by all except the gobbler. After
eating about quart of corn the morning
before his death warrant was to be read to
him he went up that shoot and out of an
upper window to the roof. 1 endeavored to
Is there any way of coaxing turkeys
off roofs? If there is will send stamp on
receipt of same. firing of the roof after
prief sojourn his gobblets sauntered up to
the top OF the highest tree in the neighDor
hood. 1t was then suggested by neigh
boris boy that 1 should get my gun and lay
the wanderer low. Happy thought, and
entire solu ion of the difficulty-except that
my gun was somewhere on the hills OF
Fayette county with the man who borrowed
it last week. just as realized this the
turkey stretched two majestic wings and
long neck and went over the East Liberty
Valley in the direction of Sharpsburg. 1
hope the man who got him had the stuffing
properly seasoned with sage and thyme and
did not use onions. 1t would be too much to
think of my lost one stuffed with onions OF
wasted with plain bread stufing!
RECENTLY had occasion to ask an East
End policeman to direct me to a certain
short street in his baliwick. He had never
heard of it. Why would it not be wise to
have geography class for our guardians of
the peace? In London the policemen are
taught the names of all streets in their dis
trict, the location of the principal buildings,
how to reach various sections by bus
rail, and they are expected to use this infor-
nation for the benefit of the public. A drill
of this kind would certainly be an addition
to the stock OF useful Information on hand
in the police department., and with the new
street signs would be bless ing to the ig-
norant pedestrian. WALTER