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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-31
THE DEAD SECRETARY,

The sudden death of Secretary Window
yesterday is profound commentary on the
uncertainties of life and the exhausting na-
ture of public effort. If Mr.. Window had
confined his efforts to the less taxing and
uneventful work of private life it NAV be
presumed the heart trouble which caused
his death would not have been developed.
The work the Secretary did both in the Sem
ate and at the Treasury Department yielded
greater results. Life cannot be truly meas
ured by years so much as by achievements.
Secretary Windows place in our public
records is especially noticeable as to finance
and business legislation. As Senator his
report on inland transportation constituted
the first public recognition of national in
terests involved in the regulation of railway
transportation. 1t fixed the starting point
for what has since become a national issue.
In his short term as Secretary of the Treas
ury under President Garfield he signalized
his services there by the arrangement which
he made for extending the entire amount of
Government bonds then due and outstanding
at a low rate of interest to be redeemable at
the option of the Government-the most
favorable arrangement of Government loan
ever made up to that time. His unfinished
term of Secretary of the Treasury has al
lowed little opportunity for such wholesale
strokes of financial policy. 1t has been
chiefly noted for the attempt to dispose of
the Government surplus, for the advantage
OF the Treasury and without too much hamp-
ering the banking system. AT the same
time the Secretary had attempted to mark
out a silver policy which should be q CON-
promise. Both Of those difficult and intri-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-31
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PITTsBURG, SATURDAY. JAN. 81, lss
TWO OF THE CONCLUSIONS.

While it seems impossible to fix RESPONSE
billty for the Mammoth mine horror, the
facts brought out make certain conclusions
clear. A leading Eastern paper quotes a
statement of one of the officers, that no
safety lamps were used in the mines, and
that the flow of gas was expected, and then
proceeds to comment on the criminal care
lessness shown by that statement, which as
sumes that shape simply because an error
has turned thesword unexpected" into ex-
actly the opposite sense.
All the reports establish a practical agree
ment that the precautions used were more
than are usually adopted in coal mining.
An order of the coke company, issued after
the Hill Farm mine disaster last year, called
upon mine superintendents to make the
safety and lives of our employees our first and
most important business" The high stand
ard was set to "always do more than the law
requires" This particular mine was recog-
nized throughout the Connellsville region as
remarkably safe and free from gas; vet not
withstanding that feeling OF safety, twas in
spected on the morning of the explosion.
Unless some new facts are developed, it will
be legitimate conclusion that everything
was done which is contemplated bv the pres
ent system as necessary for the protection OF
the miners.
Yet the awful fact is attested by the wiping
out of 112 lives at a single blast that existing
precautions are not sufficient. The Hill
Farm disaster unltes with this one to show
that these subterranean industries must be
prosecuted under liability at any moment to
strike a pocket or reservoir of explosive ma
terial, which may work most terrible havoc.
While the industrial needs of humanity may
necessitate the prosecution of mining work
under these hazards, it certainly requires
that whatever means there are for lessening
this awful danger should be adopted. With
that fact in view the demands of the
miners published in yesterdays DISPATCH
are worthy of careful consideration. Another
precaution to which The DISPATCH has
often referred, but which, we believe, miners
are even more 10th to adopt than mine
owners, should be considered.
If the use of naked lamps had been
forbidden in all mines, it is not certain
nc disaster would have occurred; but
1t is certain that the chances OF
escape would have been immeasurably
increased. 1t is the clearest lesson of this
last awful event that no precaution which
can give the miner an additional chance of
escape from the dangers thus revealed can
be too striugently required or too faithfully
applied.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-31
CHOOSE BETTER ASSESSORS.

County valuations on real estate, furnish.
ing the basis for taxes, have been SO motor
iously uneven and unjust for many years
that the circular from the Commissioners
asking for the election Of men of Judgment
and integrity as assistant assessors this year
is timely call. A false idea exists in some
minds that it is only venial sin to escape
taxation if the assessors can be got to return
property below its market value. 1t is not
necessary to expose the sophistry and un-
worthlness of this view where the County
Treasurer alone is concerned, but it is worth
while to notice that every penny which one
man succeeds in shirking through false
valuation has to be laid upon the shoulders
of his neighbor who is fair enough to make
a right return. The evil can only be cor
rected by choosing more conscientious lot
of assessors. As for the Commissioners,
they Will do their share in the work of re-
vision, provided the voters give them the
right kind of assessors to get the necessary
data fror.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-31
INSANITY Durable.
The New York Commission Holds 1t Is q
Physical Malady.

Physical Malady.
Baltim ore SUM-
Under the act Of the Legislature passed last
year New York is gradually relieving the
county almshouses of the care of the insane
and gathering them into State asylums, where
the patients will have a better chance
OF treatment and cure. This move
seems to be an advance and improve
ment on the system put in operation some
years ago. by which insane people c)assed as
incurable were taken from the county poor
houses, colonized in large institutions, and
subjected to intelligent and humane treatment,
with very gratifying results in many cases.
Perhaps too, it was experience in this first
colonizing scheme and the development of its
possibilities that suggested the later system,
the basis of which is an assumption of cura-
bility. not of incurability.
AS the law of 1890 is understood, 'its great
benefcent feature" is its practical denial of the
idea of the incurability which prevailed under
the almshouse and the original colonizing plans.
In report just made by the New York State
Commission in Lunacy, insanity is held
to be "a physical maIady and therefore cur
able" The theory "that definite period
can be set when insanity becomes incurable"
is vigorously opposed by the commission. In
place of the older assumptions and practice is
substituted the idea that the most humane, in
teligent and scientific care of the insane is the
most apt to result in cure or amelioration, and
at the same time is the most economical from
all standpoints.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-31

Indications That They Will Not Be
Neglected Much Longer.
New York Star.J
The railroad system of the United States is
the largest and one of the most perfect in the
world. On the other hand, our country high
ways are renowned only for their generally de-
fectlve character. With some few honorable
exceptions in particular localities, roadmakfng
in the rural portions of the country has been,
until recently, an unknown art. Outside of
Spain. 1t would be hard to find highways in such
q deplorable condition as a great many within
q few miles of the great cities of this country.
The changeable nature of our climate, and
the destructive effects of frosts. are chargeable
in part with these results. But they are at
tributable, to a greater extent, to the generally
loose system of local supervision, and the ab-
sence of anything like scientific methods of
roadmakIng. 1t is no uncommon occurrence to
learn that roads are impossible, and that the
business of the railroads. and Of entire sections,
is temporarily arrested.
Within the past few years change for the
better has taken place. and real attention is be-
ing paid to this neglected phase of our social
economy. The railroads have recognized the
importance to their own interests, and to those
of the communities they serve, of good roads,
passable at all times. Certain railroad man
agements have facilitated in all ways the i'm
provement of the roads in their territory.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-31
THE INDIAN TROUBLES.
Gist of the Government Policy With the
Red Man.

OlSt VI INC UoFcru"cut Lo1Cy WIFI Inc
Red Man.
February Forum.1
Most people are under the impression that we
are paying large sums of money every year out
of the Public Treasury for the support of the
Indians. 1t will doubtless be surprise to such
tolearn that a very large part of the money ap-
propriated by Congress for the Indian service
belongs to the Indians and is held in trust for
them; SO that in fact we are, to that extent,
merely giving them their own. The regular
Indian bill generally appropriates about IS. .0oO-
0G0 But after deducting the money which the
Government only holds in trust and the neces-
sary expenses of transportation and distribu-
tion, it will be found. by careful examination
of the accounts. that the Indians get from the
Government for their subsistence only about
81 per capita yearly, or a fraction less than
cents a day. The pay of the army amounts to
about 81, 600 per annum for each soldier. The
principal business of these soldiers is to prevent
Indian outbreaks. We thus limit the Indian to
2cents per day for food, making him sufficiently
hungry and desperate to commit some depreda-
tion, so that the soldier may have something to
do to earn his pay. This we dignity with the
title of craftsmanship; but from common
sense, business standpoiptit it looks very much
like saving at the spigot and wasting at the
bung.hole.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-31
DON'T MISS THEFIRsT ONE.
SN WiSS ahG hhS' SN@'
T0-MORROW'S BIG DISPATCH
SHOULD BE SECURED BY ALL.

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II Is Rich and Racy.
CRAVE oRD'S GREAT STORY
1.-THE WITCH OF PRAGUE"
Is Entertaining Tens Upon Tens of Thousands
of Readers. II Grows in Interest
With Each Chapter.
OTHER GOOD THINGS TOMORROW
AND ALL THE NEWS oBTAINABLE.
Exhaustive Cable Letters,
All the Sporting Gossip,
All the Home Happenings
Science, Art, Music, Drama.
IF YOU WANT NEW HOME GAMES
READ To-MoRRoWS DISPATCH.
Some New and Novel Ones Will Be Fully
Explained and Diagramed. After
Studying Them You Can
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To-MoRRoWS BIG DISPATCH
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Order From Your Nearest News Agent,
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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-31
UNDERGROUND WIRES.
Philadelphia Has Tried Them and Found
Them Complete Success.

Philadelphia Has Tried Them and Found
Them Complete Success.
Philadelphia Inquirer
The statement in Chief Walkers report, that
1851 miles of electric wires were put under
ground last year, and that all-whether tele-
graph, telephone or electric light wires-have
worked to the utmost satisfaction, ought to be
enough to settle the question once and for all.
Some of these are private wires and some be-
long to the city, but all are doing their work
perfectly, free from the accidents that befall
overhead wires, making themselves neither a
nuisance nor a danger to the public and cost
ing nothing for repairs.
Is not this enough tor sample LOTT There
are now wires in the city that have been buried
for years and are still doing as good service as
the day they were put down. Couduits can
now be had which preserve the wires, give
them perfect insulation and prevent all the
troubles that afflicted the early experiments
with buried wires. This Is not declaration of
theory: it is a simple statement of fact, at
tested by the official returns of the men who
have the matter in charge, and this being the
case. why should not the ordinances be en-.
forced and all the wires buried forthwith.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-31
BIG MONEY.
Total Amount of Cash in Circulation
Throughout the World.

Total Amount of Cash in Circulation
Throughout the World.
The approximate amount of money in actual
circulation in the United States as estimated
by Director of the Mint Leech in the New
York Commercial Bulletin, is 81, ,624 0902l5. The
amount of paper money in circulation. which
represents in ROUND number the legal-tenders
outstan6ing-less the sl00 000, ,000 against which
gold is held in the Treasury to secure them
National bank notes outstanding and silver GER
tificates issued under the recent silver act is
$40, 100000 While the latter notes issued were
in purchase of silver bullion, they are redeem
able In either gold or silver coin, and the
amount now outstanding is $3.50 1000
He further estimates that the amount of all
kinds of money in active circulation in the
world is So 995 600, 900. OF this amount 81 49,
000, 900 is paper uncovered by bullion or coin of
any kind. Russia, of the leading countries,
has the largest amount of uncovered paper in
circulation, which is $500 00O, 600, while the
amount of her metallic money is $780,
100000, of which but S60,00000 is gold.
France has the largest amount of specie,
aggregating S1,6OO, 100000, while her paper
money is but Sy6, 100000. The circulating me-
dium of India is almost wholly silver. aggregat.
ing 5000, 00O, 900, with an additional amount of
S2S 900 of uncovered paper. In the amount
of uncovered paper money the United States
ranks second. in gold second and in silver
fourth.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-31
ROMANCE OF AN 7crIoN.
A Pretty Girl Sent John j. ingalls, to the
United States Senate.

A Pretty Girl Sent John j. Ingalls, to the
United States senate.
DENVER, COL, Jan. 3O-Barney O'DriscoIl.
a prominent mine owner from Silverton. while
discussing the Kansas situation in the Windsor
lobby last night said: John j. ingalls, would
never have been elected to the United States
Senate had it not been for pretty girl"
After some coaxing Driscoll was prevailed
upon to tell the story. which is as follows:
twenty-five years ago 1 was a resident OF
Doniphan county, Kansas, and in the fall of 1872
was chosen Representative from that district
on the Democratic ticket. There were two
candidates in the field for United States Sena-
tor-Ingalls and old Beans Pomeroy. Pome-
roy was well known and an ex-senator with a
large following. while Ingalls, was compare
lively unknown. Our side being hopelessly in
the minority we cut no figure in the contest,
but went to the capital in January 1873 with
instructions to cast the solid Democratic vote
for any good, clean man put up, and of course
was looked upon as the keystone to the situ-
alton.
"1nealls had been accused of attempting to
Dribe Judge Delehay. and his opponents we're
using this against him. Just before the caucus
Governor Osborne saw the daughter of Judge
Delehay. who was the belle of the State and
Eel! madly IN love with her. he raved over her
and asked one of Ingalls, friends to introduce
him: The friend replied: 'O'Driscol will vote
Aoi AnSdllo InlS DtlDeTy DuSlnesS Is CledIeu uI
and If You will do it you shall have the intro
duction.' The Executive agreed.
II was sent for and received the following
explanation: Judge Delehay sometimes took
too much toddy. and while in that playful con-
dition caused by an overdose of stimulants had
thrown one of ingalls, cases out of court. The
latter went to Osborne, who was more ex-
perIenced lawyer, and employed him to get the
case reinstated. He gave Osborne $500 for
doing the work, but for some reason the matter
was never clearly stated and Ingalls, rested un-
der the cloud. 1 went into the session next
day and cast the vote that elected ingalls,. Os-
borne was introduced to and one year after
ward married the pretty girl who made Ingalls,
Seatorn
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-31
PERSONAL MENTION.

MAYOR HUGH ]. GRANT, of New York, and
party have arrived at St. Augustine. Fla. They
will try the fishing and hunting in the Land of
Flowers.
SENATOR CARLISLE is now IS years old. He
is of medium height and rather spare in figure.
His movements are easy and graceful, and his
genial manner quickly puts his visitors at their
ease.
JOHN NOBLE the English millionaire var
nish maker, left his son, Wilson Noble, present
member of Parliament an annual income, with
the proviso that $4,000 year shall be struck
of if he shall fail to be reelected.
JUDGE PETER, who succeeds ingalls, in the
Senate from Kansas, is a Mason, knight of
La Dor and a member of the Episcopal Church.
He wears long. full beard that gives him the
venerable appearance of patriarch.
REV. IRL HICKS predicts the coming of the
bitterest cold wave of the winter between Feb
ruary and February 6. This tallies with the
prediction of Prophet Beebe, of Connecticut,
save that the latter extends the limit to the
18th.
MRS. RIDER HAGGARD like Mrs. Stanley,
complains that American women keep their
houses too warm. When the thermometer
reaches zoo in drawing room it gives her a
headache, and even temperature of $50 she
considers too warm for comfort.
SIR EDWIN ARNoLD's quaint home in Japan
has become Mecca for English tourists who
visit the Mikado's country on their way to
America. The distinguished Englishman's
hospitality is becoming proverbial, for his
guests are entertained in truly regal way.
OSCAR WILDE looks more like respectable
member of society than he used to look His
long locks have been shorn by the barber and
the only harmony in color he devotes his atten-
tion to nowadays is that existing between his
gray-blue trousers and his necktie of similar
hue.
LORD LONDONDERRY, the ex-Lord Lieuten-
ant of ireland, is q prominent turfman and a
forward saddle in the hunting field. His wife
is handsome and stately woman. whose prin-
cipal occupation is practical charity. into cases
of which she examines with personal care and
attention.
OLIVIA GoLIBART, the young Baltimore
society girl who is about to venture into
theatrical life is pretty and rather small
brunette. Her eyes are dark, and her hair.
black as ink falls to her waist. In figure she is
attractive, and she dances well. She has ap-
peared in many amateur theatrical perform
ances in her native city.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-31
A Good Man Rewarded.
New York Evening SUM-

New York Evening sum-
He was a good man. He threw a sealskin
sacuue over the shoulders of a fainting girl on
Niagara suspension bridge. The distraught
creature wore it on to Niagara Falls, where
this Samaritan relieved her of it and wended
his way. Aud verify he had his reward, being
richer by $50 customs duties which his benevo-
lence had evaded. To importers of sealskin,
the humor of this proceeding may be distorted.
viewed through the refractive medium of per-
sonal interest. The other sc, ,000,O 900 may be
permitted to pay the tribute of delight to a
nimbleness of wit that accredits civilization:
For civilization has been n'defined 1.-THE triumph
of man over his accidents"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-31
PROGRESS IN AFRICA.
A Labor Saving Device introduced by the
King of Dahomey.

King of Dahomey.
Chicago Globe.1
No more gratifying symptom of the progress
OF civilization in darkest Africa has recently
been given than the order received the other
day by a prominent hardware firm in Marseilles,
France. from His ~Highness the King of
Dahomey for q new guillotine with all the
modern improvements.
Heretofore the royal autocrat of the fever
coast has slaughtered his victims in crude
and illiterate fashion, slicing them through
the cervlcal vertebra with a clumsy sword,
which soon grew dull and occasioned good
deal of hacking and pulling and bad Ian
guage, all of which was calculated to mar
the festivity. With a good working guillotine
the King of Dahomey can behead three times
as many captives as before. 1t is really labor
saving device. and in neatness, thoroughness
and dispatch it is much better than could be
done by hand.
Of course. the ignorant executioners who
know nothing of political economy, will stren-
uously object to having the bread taken out of
their mouths by the new machine. but it is to
be hoped that his royal highness will not
hearken to them. They must learn as the civ
ilized workingman has learned, that in the
saving of labor by machinery all labor is
directly benefited. A few copies of John
Stuart Mills works should be sent out with
the guillotine to make this point plain.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-31

THE Philadelphia Press recognizes the
advance of speculation by editorially calling
attention to the fact that it gives the quotation
for Calcutta exchange in its financial columns.
But on searching that column we fail to fiEd
any quotation further than the statement that
.ludia Council bills were allotted at a decline of
1-32 per rupee" which is of little value to the
statesman desiring to make a turn in silver.
The esteemed Press should not give the word
of promise to the ear of the silver Spectators
and then break it to the sense after this
fashion,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-31
CHARLES BRApLAUeH's death ends 8

CHARLES BRADLAUGH's death ends a
career made more prominent by becoming in
volved with principle of public right than 70;
personal views. Merely as an infidel. Brad
laugh would never have obtained the fame
given him by becoming the exponent of the
right of constituencies to send exactly the class
of men they choose to represent them, without
reference to their beliefs. For long time this
right was denied in England; but Bradlaugh's
persistence finally triumphed. The progress of
liberality since then is shown by the action of
Parliament with the support of both parties.
in expunging from the record the motion ex-
cluding Bradlaugh for his beliefs.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-31
English Protectionists.

Chicago Inler-UCeHH.J
Stockport is an English city of some 10000
mostly engaged in the trades of
spinning and weaving cotton and in the manu-
facture Of felt hats. Like eOldham, Bury,
Bolton, Stafford. Blackburn and Roehdale it is
part of the Manchester circle of trade and
politics. 1t is one of the cities that nursed the
free trade idea. When, therefore, Stockport
becomes skeDtical of the virtue of ''laissez
faire'' 1t Is safe to assume that protectionist
principles are gaining new strength in England.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-31
Few to Mourn for It.
Ledger, Ind.

Philadelphia Ledger, Ind.J
Among the 100000 of adult men in the
United States we do not believe there are |. 200.
outside of those officially or professionally en-
gagged in party politics, who teel any serions
disappointment or regret that the Federal elec-
tiops bill has been turned down. On the con-
trary there is an overwhelming experience of
satisfaction in the hope that there is a let-up
for this session at least. and that Congress can
20 to work unhindered by that bill, transact
the necessary business of the country, and
thus relieve it of the agitation and nuisance of
an extra session for politics only.