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born of a madness which prevents the mental

born of madness which prevents the mental
vision.
On the Monday she took back her work
and received payment. She refused further
commissions, though in the overstocked
market to do so was perilous. She said she
had other work to do now.
On her way back she passed pawnbrok-
er's shop. Something cleaning in the win
dow attracted her attention. She went in
and bought it, though it took all her recent
earnings. The man looked ar the purchaser
suspiciously. She had no thought OF sub
terfuge because she had no fear of conse-
quences. Her ideas and her plan of life
ended at one point.
She turned into her street; it was past
nooon. A crowd of ragged children were
playing in the road; one came running out
of the house where Bdncey dwelt. She
caught him by the arm
s'Tell me, honev,' she said, (which
room it is that Mr.. Mr. Boncey lives in?'
The boy ducked to escape her, bat she
had him firmly. Desiring freedom he
thought he would attain it quickest by an
swering her.
"Bim with the pretty wife?" he in
quired.
Dinah's eyes flashed, and she shook her
head in the affirmative.
w PesAA coOh- lhStC . hohNAS w e-S
door,
Evidently door with handle was
phenomenal in his experience
SIS he in, do you know"
"Dunno. Here, let so, will yer? You're
nipping."
Dinah thought minute. Then she went
on home. The window in her room was
small and seldom opened. She never had
time to sit at it, and there was nothing edi-
flying to see by looking down into the street.
Now, however, she went to it, with diff
Guilty drew it up and put her head out.
There was no fresh air to be had, but fresh
air was not what she sought. She remained
there like a latter-day "Sister Ann" to
watch. straining her eyes to one spot.
After while she saw Tom. Boncey 60
into his house. Still she did not move; it
was not his homecoming but his outgoing
that she wanted to witness
Some hours passed and she never stirred.
Then he re-emergsd and went away in the
opposite direction, evidently in haste.
Thereupon, with great sigh of relief
Dinah changed her position. She rose,
glanced as If in farewell at her little room.
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They were Lying then quite close to her,

They were Lying then quite close to her,
not 20 yards distant
Dinah stumbled on. Two children were
curled up in the doorway of her house,
half asleep; she knew them by sight, and
their mother was drunkard. Eighteen
months ago she would have taken them in,
now she pushed them angrily on one side,
and made her way up the dark, rick ETY.
stairs into her own unlighted room, and
flung herself in her damp clothes on the
bed. 1t was as if all that was barbarous in
her had asserted itself, killing that reserve
which was partially the result of training.
All that was hard and cold melted beneath
the heat OF passion, the torment of such
hatred as she felt was worse than any tor
ment of love. She was at that moment, a
wild being, and it was merely impotence
to effect the evil which kept her from
wreaking ON her enemies the fury which
possessed her She writhed like one in
physical pain, and in the blind rage of
dumb creature she tore into shreds the
sheet she was clutching, tore 1t with her
teeth and her hands.
1t was an unlovely sight, and it was well
there was none to see her.
But the paroxysm passed. Then she sat
up muttering. 1t was some time before she
could find articulate words When she
spoke, her utterance was something be-
tween curse and a prayer, and there were
long pauses between her sentences. In re-
atty she was thinking aloud; trying to
make clear to herself what was in her mind.
ssCan't he suffer? Make him, God, make
him. SAILS dead. and he killed her, yes, he
killed her. Yet he is happy. Happy! He
can laugh. Laugh and love. And Sal is
deadl And II 1 can't care for nothing. 1
can't care for no one. Care! hate them
all: and him the most And her! hate
her."
She was once more what perhaps her
grandmother might have been; an untamed
creature with strong natural passions. Ed
ucation had been little more than superb
cial. and her surroundings had never been
of the most humanizing; lapse was easy.
Even generations of culture have done lit
tie for some of us, and Withdrawn from So
cial life and its restraint we are not much
better for all our boasted civilization. Prick
off the veneer, and the man beneath is little
changed from his ancestors. Dinah's months
of solitary brooding had not been good
preparation for thst nights discovery.
srhere ain't no justice" she moaned. be-
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ginning now to pace the narrow room. mo
one Furnishes him, it's only me as is
wretched! There amt no justice. Mona
He's killed Sal And that woman Loves
him. 1 saw her eyes She loves him." She
flung up her arms. sThem as hungers and
thirsts have no one to love 'em. Them as is
able to love has everything taken. But
them as only cares for themselves, them as
spreads ruin and misery are rewarded.
There ain't no justice and no one to make
things fair.
The realization of the cruelty of life, the
apparently unfair distribution of its gifts,
the prosperity of the wrong doers as con-
trasted with the adversity of the righteous
came to her ignorant mind. 1t was no less
discovery to her that wise men of all
countries had troubled their heads about it
for thousands of years II came to her with
the shock of a revelation.
The moon looking forth from the stormy
sky lightened the little garret, its rays fell
upon the black upturned face with the
cleaning eyes in which shone the passion
tor vengeance, born of the desire tor justice
mgr aimed in every spirit.
She took VOW which to her perverted
mind as to that of every fanatic seemed to
consecrate herself to martyrdom. For the
sake of her sister, for the sake of her race,
it appeared her duty to avenge evil. To
her untutored spirit there could be but one
way of doing so; to bring upon him a sorrow
like that which he had brought to Others.
With her resolve came something akin to
peace. Like the Nihilist who determines
to take vengeance upon a tyrant, she re-
solved 20 bide her time, to wait, and be pre-
pared.
Evil became her good.
All the next day, although it was Sun
day, she worked her machine, and as before
its sound was the accompaniment to her
thoughts, it seemed to suit her present mood
as well as it suited any other All that day
she worked and half the night and early
the next morning, SO that she finished the
task she had to do, and all the time she
never tasted food. The madness in her
blood seemed to pourish her, the fever
warmed her, the crowding thoughts in her
brain made rest impossible.
She was a woman, aud she had been
good woman. She was training herself to
become demon. She had dwelt upon one
topic till it had become disproportiohate to
its value. Half the crimes which are COM
mitted are the result of solitude; they are
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and went, with firm, unfaltering, yet speedy
steps down. the stairs and out into the
street. He lips were compressed. and one
hand grasped something which was half
hidden in the folds of her dress
The street door in Boncey's abode, as was
usual in that neighborhood when there was
street door, was wide open. Women were
gossiping in the passage. They paid no at
tention to Dinah, for they were apparently
absorbed in their own conversation. Peo-
pie were wont to come and go promiscu-
ously
She went up past halfopen doors from
whence came sounds of life and from whence
came sounds of life and from whence she
could catch glimpses of human beings. To
a stranger the various noises would have
been coz fusing, to her they were not SO.
She came to the door with the handle. 1t
was closed. She caught her breath, laid
her disengaged hand for an instant on her
heart, the beating of which was audible, and
without knocking turned the handle and
went in No one greeted her. There was
neither voice or movement.
A rumbling was in her ears and deafen-
ing her; mist was before her eyes; she
could not see. A sudden trembling took
her, and she feared that her senses would
desert her and she be unable to do that for
which she had come. That for which she
had comel And the woman she sought was
not there! In her unreasoning rush to the
end this contingency had not even occurred
to her.
She reeled against the bed, resting her
hand upon it to steady herself Against
her hand she felt touch, soft and gentle as
a falling snowflake.
She had seemed to be losing conscious
ness. Was there electricity in this touch
to bring back her forces?
The mist cleared from before her eyes,
and now it seemed to her the room was full
of light And she was not alone!
Was she in dream, or was it a reality,
that there. before her, in the bed, lay SAILS
baby, the little child whom she had held
against her bosom, the little child she had
seen carried to the grave?
The eyes were the eyes she had closed;
surely she knew that look of iniantile hall
consciousness Inyoluntarily she put out
her finger and laid il against the tiny
hand; the baby fingers closed around it an
held it.
To the superstitious, ignorant, bewildered
mind it seemed for moment as IL miracle
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-07
BEER FOR THE BOARDERs
urs. Harvey Acquitted of Charge of HE
gal Liquor Selling.

elrs. Harvey Acquitted of Charge of He
gal Liquor Selling.
With the opening of Criminal Court No.
2 this morning the case of Mary Haney, of
McKeesport, charged with selling liquor
without license and on Sunday, was
called before Judge Kennedy. The defend
ant keeps boarding house in McKeesport
and was once before charged with this offence
and acquitted.
The evidence yesterday disclosed the fact
that she keeps boarders who work at
the mills; that they must have
their beer and that they do
have it. They naturally invite their friends
in to drink. Occasionally they drink copi-
ously and to the extent that excites the sus-
pecions of the guardians of the public peace.
An investigation was deemed necessary,
but only proved that Mrs. Haney was not
guilty of anything more than indiscreetly
allowing the impression to get out that she
was violating the law. The jury found her
not guilty, but assessed her for the cost of
prosection.
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NO DATE FOR BERKMAR's TRIAL,

The Little Anarchist May Stay in Jail An
other Month.
The rumor that Alexander Berkman,
against whom true bill was found Monday
for attempting to Assassinate Chairman H.
G. Frick, of the Carnegie Steel Company,
would be called before Judge Kennedy
this morning, filled that courtroom
at an early hour with a throng
of anxious and interested observers.
When the crowd ascertained that the
rumor was false, and that the little cigarette
smoker would have yet several days to
mediate on the speech he anticipates max
ing before the jury in his own defense, they
slowly filed out.
There is no definite time fixed for the
trial of Berkman. District Attorney Bur
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-07
ALLEGHENY POLICEMEN DISCHARGED,

Patrolmen Weber and Rermuth Found
Guilty of Getting Drunk on Labor Day.
Superintendent Muth released two ALLIE
gheny blue-coats yesterday for drunkenness.
One was Patrolman Joseph Weber, whose
superior officer reported him as having been
drunk at the ball at which the cutting scrape
occurred Monday night 1t is said that
Weber had hold of Saline, who did the
cutting, but on account OF his condition
was unable to hold on to bis prisoner, who
on the force two years
Frank Hermuth was discharged for being
drunk at the Labor Day athletic games,
where he had been detailed. He has been
in service over year. Both of the men
have been suspended for drukenness before.
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Court Cuttings.


A CHARTER was granted Yesterday ior sne
KiIbuctx Odd Fellows Association.
PATRICK CoNNELLY was convlcted OF as
sault and battery on his wife Margaret Con.
nelly. He was sent to the workhouse for
three months.
TODAY John McKirdy, one of the former
auditors of Allegheny, will be placed on
trial for misdemeanor. He is accused of
selling goods to the city while serving as
councilman.
H. ROBINSON was convicted OF tne larceny
of three rings from A. Carlson. q jeweler of
coreen Of and recommended to the mercy
of the Court. He was sent to the workhouse
for two years.
ATTORNEY R. II. DOUGLASS yesterday filed a
statement-in a suit-for damages brought
by I. R. Provost, treasurer of the Empire
Isundry Company, Limited, against the
German Savings Deposit Bank, of Birming-
ham.
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A Bird in the Hand Worth Two in the Bush.

Two burglars escaped from, Police Officer
Cole yesterday morning through his stupid
ity. They were at work on the door of
Thomas Clark's saloon, Penn avenue and
Twenty-sixth street, when the officer saw
them. One man finally crawled in over the
transom. The other then noticed the officer,
who had been watching and waiting, and
ran down Twenty-sixth street. Cole fol-
lowed the fugitive to the river, shooting as
he ran, but his man escaped. The man who
had entered the saloon took advantage of
such good opportunity to escape also.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-07
SUITS TO BE FILED.
Claimants Against John McKeown's Estate
Ready to Proceed.


Ready to Proceed.
Attorney A. V. D. Watterson, the law
yer for the claimants of the late John Nc
Keown's millions, expects to file suits in
ejectment in a short time The claimants
are the alleged brothers, Arthur, of ireland,
and Michael, of Utica Mr.. Waiter
son has in his possession a number
of affidavits TO show that John McKeown
deserted his first wife and was never di-
vorced so far as can be discovered. Several
persons swear that they saw the first Mrs.
McKeown in New York in 1885. This
woman can't be found now, and Mr. Wat
terson thinks she married again, and this
accounts TOR her silence. One Pitts
burger afirms that when he asked
the wife where her husband was she put up
her finger; indicating to him to keep silent.
Afterwsrd he saw John McKeown, whom
he knew in Ireland, and when he questioned
him about his wife he declined to talk.
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TEACHERS MUST BE UP IN MEDICINE.


A Board Clerk Creates q Sensation In Gin
cinnati School "A Fairs.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 6.-Every school
teacher In this city, and there are 700, will
be shocked by an order issued by the assist
ant clerk of the School Board. and 800 of
them will have financial interest in the
official statement.
1t appears in taking up legal question
under law passed by the Legislature, it
was discovered that the state made 1t man.
ditory for teachers to pass examinations in
hygiene, physiology and the nature and eff
feet upon the human system of alcoholic
drinks This law has been ignored, over
looked or forgotten by fully six-sevenths of
the teachers. The salaries Illegally drawn
in the three years aggregate fully $500, 900.
The clerk to-day notified the teachers that
he would refuse to honor orders for salary
in future, unless proper certificates are Sc
cured.
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eigh says it may be month before it i.
To-Day's Trial Last

Criminal Court--Commonwealth VS. John
McKirdy. J. H. Thomas ~. Simon Davis.
Simon Kehl, James Murphy t2), Patrick But
Ter fa,, Charles Gordon, Henry Palmer, Hugh
Moran (a), George Peterson, Thomas A. Wen;
del (al. A. Krnwezky, William Hearter Razor
Delaney, Charles Habers "a. John baylor,
Rnnn. isabella Cramer. Yon Kofsky, Andrew
RipRey, Pauline Detport Jacob McMartin,
Mary Barker. i,
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The True Laxative Principle

OF the plants used in manufacturing the
pleasant remedy, Syrup of Figs, has a per-
manently beneficial effect on the human
system. while the cheap vegetable extracts
andmineral solutions, usually sold as 1nedi-
cines, are permanently injurious. Being
well-informed, you will use the true remedy
only. Manufactured by the California Fig
Syrup Co.
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Procure 1. Before Leaving Home.

Three years ago, while I was visiting
relatives at Higginsville, Mo-, was sud-
denly taken with collie and severe pains in
the stomach. My relatives sent to the doc
tor for medicine. and he sent me bottle Of
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhea
Remedy, telling the bearer that if that
medicine did not cure me he could not pre-
scribe anything that would. 1 used it and
was Immediately relieved.-HENRY A.
THoFERN.
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Executions Issued Yesterday.

Executions Issued Yesterday.
The following executions were issued yes
terday: Margaret A. Gordon VS. Thomas S.
Gordon, s1,O51; Daniel Rutter VS. Jane
Fallow, 1896 %; j. W. Martin, treasurer,
vs. John A. Johnston, 1863 "a; Lena
Schmidt, committee of John Schmidt, a
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-07

lunatic, VS. Branch "A Emerald Beneficial
Association. 5000; Oil Well Supply Com
pany VS. G. L. Armor ana j. j. Rhinelan-
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An Enormous Stock OF New Dress Goods
95 cents, 50 cents, and up to 81 30 per yard.
Each style new and a bargain. Come and see.
Jos. HORNE & Co.,
Penn ave.
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The Leslie shoe.

You like your feet to be well dressed; you
always have them so II you wear the Leslie
shoe. No. "a Fifth avenue.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-07

HORsFoRDs ACID PHOSPHATE
For the Tired Brain
From over-exertion. Try it.
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ssShe will not speakl'' murmured Mr..
Dimmesdale, who, leaning over the bal-
cony with his hand upon his heart, had
awaited the result of his appeal He
now drew back with long respiration
"Wondrous strength and generosity of a
woman's hearth She win not speakw
Discerning the impracticable state of
the poor culprits mind the elder clergy
man, who had carefully prepared himself
for the occasion, addressed to the multi
tude discourse on sin in allits branches.
but with continual reference to the igno-
minious letter. So forcibly did he dwell
upon this symbol for the hour or more
during which his periods were rolling
over the peoples heads that it assumed
new terrors in their imagination, and
seemed to derive its scarlet hue from the
flames of the internal pit.
Hester Prynne, meanwhile, kept her
place upon the pedestal of shame, with
glazed eyes and an air of weary indiffer-
ence. She had borne that morning all
that nature could endure, and as her
temperament was not of the order that
escapes from too intense suffering by
swoon, her spirit could only shelter itself
beneath stony crust of insensibility.
while the faculties of animal life re-
manned entire. IN this state the voice Of
the preacher numbered remorselessly.
but unayailingly, upon her ears. The
infant, during the latter portion of her
ordeal, pierced the air with its wailings
and screams; she strove to hush it, me-
chanically, but seemed scarcely to sym
pathize with its trouble. With the same
hard demeanor, she was led back to
prison, and vanished from the public
gaze within its iron clamped portal. 1t
was whispered by those who peered after
her that the scarlet letter threw lurid
CLEAN along the dark passageway of the
interior.
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l have been a great sufferer from
,.atarrh for over ten years; bad it
very bad, could hardly breathe
Some nights | could not sleep and
had to walk the floor. | purchased
bottle of Ely's Cream Balm and
am using it freely and it is working
cure surely. / have advised sew
eral iriends to use it and with hap
pt results in every case. 1t is the
medicine above all others for catarrb
and it is worth its weight in gold. i
thank God that I have found rem
edy that l car use with safety and
that does all that is claimed for it.
1t is curing my deatness.-B. W.
Sperry, Hartford, Conn.
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goehy
LITTLE BOY Blue.


The little toy dog is covered with dust
But sturdy and staunch be stands.
And the little toy soldier is red with rust
And his musket moulds in his hands.
Time was when the little toy dog was new,
And the soldier was passing fair,
And that was the time when our Little
Boy Blue
Kissed them and Iut them there.
ssNow don't you go till come, !" he said,
ssNow don't you make any nolse.o
So t0ddling off to Ills trundle bed
lie dreamed OF his pretty toys,
And, as he was dreaming, an angel song
Awakened our Little Boy Blue
All, the years are many, the years are long
But the little toy friends are true.
Aye, faithful to Little Boy Blue they stand
Each in the same old place,
Awaiting the touch OF a little hand,
The smile of a little face.
And they wonder, as waiting these long
years through
LII the dust of that little chair.
Whit has become u cur Little Boz Blue,
Suce he kisse them and put them there
Il Eugene Field.
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Roger Ciniiiingwo.1i., IS ne was hereaf-
ter to be namsl, II leave thee alone
alone with thy infant and the scarlet
letter, How is it. Hester? Doth thy
seatsnae bind thee to wear the token in
iny sleep2 Art thou not afraid of night
mares and hideous ireams.
ssWhy dost thou smile SO at meS' in
quired Hester, troubled at the expression
of his eyes. aArt thou like the Black
Man that haunts the forest round about
uss Hast thou enticed me into bond
that will prove the ruin of my SOUL"
Not thy SOUL" he answered, with
another smile. s.No, not timer
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An Inquiring Mind.

Father-Everything / say to you
goes in at one ear and out at the
other.
Little Son ehtfully)-Is that
what little boys have two years for
apa2-Good Neacs.
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"a country paprr speaks of a man
who died acithout the aid of ply
stefan"
This reminds us Of what DR.. Oil.
yer Wendall Holmes, when asked
how long he expected to live, is said
to have answered: " Until I fall an
to the hands Of The Doctors"
Nevertheless, when sick we con-
suit the doctor.
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Death Of Thomas H. wysone.

SHEpHERDsrowN, W. Va, April
lS.--Thos. II. Wysong, a well-known
and highly esteemed citizen residing
near town, to-day, after weeks ILL
ness, at the age of sixty-fvs. He
was looked upon as one of the most
practical farmers in the county, and
was one of the vestrymen Of Trinity
Church. position he held for many
years. He was cousin of the late
William Wysong, of Baltimore. His
widow survives him, with three sons
and FIVE daughters, all grown.
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