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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-04
AFAcTITIoUs DESTRUCTION.

Some time ago THE DISPATCH remarked
that the opponents Of the trolley system
exaggerated its dangers while its support
ers went as far in the other direction. A
striking example of the former class is
presented in the newspapers of Philadel-
phia, where hot debate over the use of
the trolley in the streets has been going
on.
The example is that of list of acci-
dents, published first by Boston paper,
attributed to the trolley system of Boston
from December to March 20, inclusive.
This list, headed s'The Deadly Trolley, Z"
and comprising 20 accidents ranging from
the fatal to the slight, looks on the face of
it rather serious, and is presented as
proof of the danger of adopting that sys-
TEN. But when the character of the list
is closely examined very different COM
plexion is put upon it by the fact that of
the whole % only four are in any way at
tributable to electricity. The other %
were collisions and knock-downs such as
would attend carelessness in the use of
any power to accelerate the speed of any
surface cars.
no Wiz 10 ull CCbCu dSdluSu buC
trolley wires, it is well to examine into its
exact character. Of the four accidents
attributable to electricity, not one was
fatal to human life. Two consist of cars
taking fire from imperfect insulation, and
one consists of shock to patrolman,
both of which could have occurred if the
cars had been propelled by storage bat
teries or underground wires. So that the
long list of destruction by "the deadly
trolley" in Boston SINNERS down to ex-
actly one case in which trolley wire fell
and killed horse.
One such case, however, is enough to
show that the trolley wire is not all that
could be wished. But it is long way off
from the portrayal of horror indicated by
the presentation of the full list as an ex-
ample of the deadly work of the trolley
system
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-04
PATHS GREAT GRIEF.
her Hairless Dog Dies While Nicolini Sings
at Her Request.

Her Hairless Dog Dies While Nicolini Sings
at Her Request.
New York Herald Of sanday.l
"Sing to him, yicolini; am too tired"
Nine Adelina Patti, who has expended
$4,000 worth of melody and song on her
Mexican hairless dog ''Ricct'' during the
last three years. sighed rs she turned from
the cradle In which the unhappy animal lay
dying on Friday night
The charming singer. her husband and the
valet were in a parlor of the Windsor Hotel,
and there was sort of 81 pain full expectancy
brooding over the scene-as they say In
dime novels.
The hairless dor, wrapped in blankets.
had been placed near the fire. Chicken
soup and porterhouse steak had been offered
him during the day to tempt his appetite.
but he turned from them with a look that
plainly said he was not long for this world.
La Diva had sung TO him softly and she
was weary Of her long vigil when she turned
to Signor Nicolini alphabetically and said:
"Sing TO him. Nicoiini: am too tired"
The tender-hearted husband of the singer
had been party TO the vigil, and he, too.
to obey tile request to see If the hair iess dog
could NOT be soothed into restful sleep.
The hairless dog lay helpless and depend
ent on his friends for everything. He could
not move muscle. If the hotel had caught
fire he could not have escaped.
The rich voice OF Nicolini broke the still
ness OF the death chamber. He was singing.
As he raised himself in song the hairless
dog cast q reproachfnl look at his fair owner.
glanced at the door. uttered low cry OF
pain and shivered. He lay still after that,
Tor he was a dead dog.
Nine. Patti burst into tears. Signor Nico-
Hni looked n little guilty, but in her grief
the songstress had no blame for him. She
had asked him herself to sing.
Patti was thoroughly inconsolable and md
apartments for the rest of the day.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-04
AGAINST THE PURE FooD R1II

The Paddock pure food bill, which has
passed the Senate and has been reported
favorably to the House, receives broad
side from numerous esteemed cotempora-
ries who, after the two years in which the
bill has been before Congress, have come
to the conclusion that it is bad thing.
One of our exchanges calls it ga fraud
food bill, which, as its purpose is to pre-
vent fraud in food staples, is correct
name in another sense than was intended
The great ground of objection to the
bill is stated to be that it creates a food
section in the chemical division of the
Agricultural Department, and, says CO.
temporary, ''every article of food and
every drug prepared for shipment to an
other State must be tested by the agents
of the section" If this statement is accu-
rate, the bill deserves defeat; but before
accepting that conclusion as final, it may
be well to examine the text of the meas
ure. 1t might appear that the require
ment applied only to food and drug prep
arations like oleomargarine or Smiths
elixir, in which there is an opportunity
for deception as to the ingredients.
The looseness of statement indulged in
by those who are attacking the bill, war
rants some doubt as to the opposition be-
ing well-founded. Thus Philadelphia
cotemporary says, in asserting that State
laws are sufficient to regulate the subject
of food: 'tIn this State there are certain
laws about food. 1t is obligatory, for in
stance, to stamp oleomargarine for just
what it is and not sell it for butter" Now
it happens to be the fact that the State
law ON oleomargarine makes no such pro-
vision as that asserted. The provision re-
ferred to is the much abused Federal
stamp tax The State law utterly pro-
hibfts the manufacture and sale of oleo-
margarine, and a complete dead letter it
is at that In addition, those of our CO.
temporaries who assert the sufficiency of
State regulation should remember that
the precious court-made constitutional
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-04
PRESERVING THE FORESTS
A Measure That Will Bo of Great Benefit If
1t Is Carried Into Effect.

1t Is Carried Into EHeCt.
San Francisco Chronicle.1
A bill has been presented to the Congress
sional Joint subcommittee on Agriculture
and Forestry and Public Lands which will
probably be adopted unanimously by the
committee. The bill is for the protection
and preservation OF the public fol ests of the
United States, and relates to all lands which
have been or may be set aside as forest res
ervations. 1t provides for the establish
ment in the Interior Department of a Com
missioner of Forests, who shall be given as
sistants enough to enable him to preserve
the forests against depredations of every
kind. In order that the spare wood and
timber may be utilized prozision is made for
cutting under licenses to be issued to proper
persons at fixed rates, all work to be carried
on under the supervision of the Commits
sioner of Forests and his employees, and full
power being given to enforce the law in all
its bearings.
Such measure as this will be of incalcu-
liable value if its provisions be carried out in
good faith. 1t is not only sure to preserve
the forests, bnt it prevents the acquisition
OF timber rights by corporations and rich
men TO the exclusion Oh men of moderate
means. The only weak spot about the bill is
that the Commissioner OF Forests will have
to rely almost entirely upon the vigilance
and integrity of his assistants: but this is no
more than the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue has to do, and the affairs of that
department are conducted extremely well,
as q rule. 1t is quite time that the United
States took care of the forest reservations.
and the bill under consideration should
pass without dissenting vote Heretofore
the forests have been public property in the
broadest sense, the consequence being that
the wanton waste and destruction of timber
has been enormous. The Government owes
to preserve at least the remnants of Goods
first temples"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-04
NOTES ABOUT NOTA BLES.

UNITED STATES CONSUL BUICK, with
his family. has arrived at sonneburg and has
assumed charge of the office.
SUPERINTENDENT BLOOD, of the Cam
den and Atlantic Railroad system, was 90
years ago a water boy on the Long Island
road.
EX-SENATOR BOOTH, of California, who
shocked his friends not long ago by marry
ing his housekeeper, Is now dying of cancer
Of the tongue.
PROF. FELIX ADLER, of New York, is in
Berlin. His visit is made for the purpose of
studying the system of manual training in
use in the German schools
THE Queen of Portugal is the most dressy
lady in Europe. She buys costumes, bon
nets and hats wholesale. Her pale complex
ion and auburn hair permit of any kind of
headgear.
BoURKE COCHRAN is said to have a
habit of jingling bunch of keys SO loudly.
while some other Congressman is deluging
the House with rhetoric, that they rattle
like castanets.
Mrs. CHAPMAN COLEMAN, wife of the
American Charge d'AfAtres, has left Ger
many for England She will sail from
Southampton on the 18th inst. Her destina-
tion is Kentucky.
MEssRs. W. c. EDGAR and E. j. Phelps.
of Minneapolis, have gone to Libau to at
tend to the distribution OF the supplies for
Russian famine sufferers sent from the
United States on the steamship Missouri.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-04
THE GAS QUESTION.

The future of the gas supply OF Pltts-
burg forms the subject of an interesting
local interview in this issue. The gist OF
the interview, after correcting the state
ment that artificial gas is now being mixed
with the natural gas supply, is that the
day of artificial gas is likelyto come in the
future, but when it does it will cost more
than the natural fuel If that is so the
use of gas will decrease, as it will be put
clearly and Enthusiastically on the basis of
luxury. At present prices Pittsburg coal
burned in our Old economic CRATES is
cheaper fuel for steady fires than natural
gas in the most approved stoves. If the
difference is increased the great mass OF
the people will return to coal, as large
share of them did during the past winter,
and the gas fuel business will be CORE
spondingly decreased
But when this view is supported by the
assertion that manufactured gas costs 81
per thousand there is room for question
ing the conclusion. Manufactured gas
costs 9Oc(6s1 90 to consumers who use it in
small quantities. 1t is well known that
the cost of manufacture is very much less.
How much less it is will be most definitely
determined wher it becomes a question
whether the companies shall sell tin large
quantities at low price or let their plant
in pipes stand idle. But some indication
is given on the point by the fact that manu-
factured gas companies in Pittsburg have
already offered to furnish gas for fuel
purposes at fifty cents per thousand
which is practically prohibitory price.
The gas fuel problem for the future will
present itself in this form: Coal burned
in CRATES wastes large percentage of its
heat The same coal converted into gas,
with by-product of coke, can be burned
so as to utilize nearly all the heat. Com
panies already possessing the pipes for
distribution ought to be able to make this
saving produce them good dividend at
prices which will make gas as cheap as
coal and give the consumer the advantage
of freedom from dirt We expect conf
IDENTIFY to see this done if the day should
ccme when there is final and conclusive
inadequacy of the natural gas supply.
At present, however, that day is not in
sight. The developments of new terri
tory convey the promise that for years to
come there will be enough gas to supply
the demand for domestic purposes at
present prices
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-04
4 pIsCREDITED CENSUS.

The disclosures with regard to the in
duStrial census of Philadelphia are calcu-
lated to give the finishing blow to the rem
nauts of public faith in the unfortunate
census Of 1890. The assertions that the
census of New York City's population
was totally inadequate were received with
cold diSfavor by the administration on ac-
count Of New York's bad political charac-
Ter. When it is demonstrated that the
manufacturing census of Philadelphia was
SO hopeiessly padded that the best author
ities of that city discredited and exposed
il. the Census Bureau had little to do but
come down and make arrangements for
correction.
Yet this confession leaves slight founda-
ton for faith I'm the reliability of the CEN
sys work. If the machinery of the Bureau
cannot provide an industrial census that
will stand examination, what reason
Is there for faith in its figures
on population? The latter work is
4 hundred fold more eXacting in
its requirements of thoroughness
and care to make accuracy reasonably GER
tain. THE DISPATCH has in the past re-
ferred to the deductions from the vital
statistics and the immigration returns
which render the census total of 1890 an
absurdity. Those deductions, with ex-
posure of incompeteney in the Philadel-
phia case and the charges of inadequacy
in New York. remove the foundation for
general faith in that enumeration.
There has been reason for believing that
-ba total of ego OOO 11orulation for Pitts
burg fell some 10000 below the real total.
With similar doubts affecting the census
all over the country, there is some founda.
ton for establishing permanent census
bureau and letting it take a new census.
But a proviso should be attached that the
permanent bureau should have entirely
another management than the present
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-04
TOO HIGH-PRICED CONDITIONS.

The revival of the annexation agitation
in Canada is indicated by the fact that a
candidate for the Ontario Parliament is
standing in Toronto on the annexa ton
platform. This certainly carries the an
nexation movement to more positive
length than ever before. But the scheme
Of annexation presented by Mr.. Macdon-
aid. the anneXationist candidate, contains
one provision which may arouse some dis
sent on this side of the border. The con-
ditions which he proposes are:
!. The assumption by the Union of all pub
lie debts, Dominion, provincial and munich
pal.
). The deepening and widening of the St.
Lawrence, WelIand and other canals so as to
admit any or all ocean vessels to all the
principal lake ports and the construction of
the Lake Huron and Ontario Ship Canal
with Il like object.
>. The admission and recognition of each
province as a sovereign State of the Union.
The admission Of the provinces as States
would seem to be matter of course, eX-
cept that the question might arise with
reference to Quebec whether the United
States can admit a State with a church
supported by its governments PROPOSE
ton utterly opposed to our system, but to
which the French of that province are
pasSionately pledged. The deepening Of
the Welland and St Lawrence canals
would be matter of course, but the
United States might be allowed little
discretion as to whether the Hennepin,
the Ohio River and Lake Erie, or the New
York canal projects do not come first in
importance. But when it comes to the
assertion that the United States must
assume all public debts, whether Domin-
ion, provincial or municipal, it seems
time to interpOse an exception.
There would be justice in assuming the
Dominion debt, inasmuch as under the
Union the Canadians would have to help
pay our national debt. But the far greater
proportion of the Canadian debt to popu-
lation and wealth would make this de-
cldedly long price to pay. But to assume
the provincial and municipal debts of
Canada is something for which there is no
more reason than for the Federal Govern
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-04
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE,
Ephraim Burlington, Kittapnins.

Ephraim Burlington, one of the oldest
members of the Armstrong County Bar. died Sat
urday evening last at his home in Kittanning. For
several months past he had been suffering from
stomach trouble and for more than two weeks he
unable TO retain any nourishing food For
tunately lie suffered no great pain. Ephralm Buff
fngton was born about 20 years ago near Sharps-
burg. in Pine Creek township, Allegheny county.
where his grandfather, Quaker, who came from
Chester county, had settled about 1872. John Buff
fngton. his father. died when he quite young
and he went to KittannIng to live with his uncle
Joseph, the late Judge. After taking course of
study at jefferson College. Canaonsburg. he read
law with his uncle and subsequently was associated
with him IN the practice of the law. He married
Margaret daughter of Chambers Orr, a we'll
known resident of Kittanning. They had six chill
dren, two of them boys-Joseph, now Judge of the
United States District Court of this district and
Orr, young member Of the Armstrong County
an ''od line Whig'' and later an Abolition
ist''-a Republican, being member OF the great
convention which was held in Lafayette Hall,
where the Republican party got its greatest boom.
the stump and through the press he assisted In
fighting the early battles of freedom With equal
force during the war he sustained the adinnistra-
tion of Lincoln. For time he was Provost Mar
nected with the Internal Revenue Department
Some ten more years ago he retired from active
practice of the law. Always fond of rural life
and of outdoor exercise he took personal charge
lveliest interest in all agricultural affairs and Wis
fted his ndsdaly; in time his became one of the
best managed farms in Western PENNSYLVANIA.
Ephraim Bufrngton's word was as good as his bond.
he did he won and held the respect Of his neigh
bors and friends.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-04

ment to assume all the State and city debts
of the present nation. If that were done
for the purpose of giving all States and
cities a fair start there would still be a
decided inequality. PENNSYLVANIA, for in
stance, has practically no State debt nowi
yet Pennsylvania would have to pay about
one-ffteenth of the taxation required to
discharge the other State debts that would
be assumed under this arrangement. 1t
would not be wise to burden annexation
on this side of the border with condition
so palpably inequitable.
Our Canadian friends should under
stand that we do not yearn for Canada so
hungrily that we are willing to load our
selves up with debt and taxes for the
Canadian benefit. Annexation must come
on terms of equality to both countries, or
NOT az all
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-04
THE CLAN IN LITTLE RHODY.

IN the Rhode Island fight all depends on
?rovidence.-SomersetN Ne,os.
POLITICIANS are working little Rhody now
for all she is worth.-Bostor Traveller.
THE news from Rhode. Island indicates
standing room only down there-Boston
Herald.
RHODE ISLAND IS filled with Democratic
orators and the odor of distilled corn juice.
-Crifcdgo Tribune.
IF Little Rhody" sleeps between now and
Wednesday night it will be in despite of Wig
orous punching from both sides.-Cevetand
Plain Dealer.
If too much campaign oratory is crowded
into Rhode Island there is some danger that
the little State may swell up and burst
Washington Post.
If the tariff reformers succeed in carrying
Rhode Island what a shout of triumph will
go up from the manufacturing barons Of
Great Brftafn.-Ne,o York Recorder.
GROVER CLEVELAND has taken the stump in
Rhode Island. That tidy settlement has
some thoughts OF going Democratic just for
fun at the election next week.-Cnicago
Nescs.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-04
AN EXCELLENT ROAD LAW.
How New Jersey Has Provided for the
Construction of Highways.

now New Jersey has Hfov1ded 1or tno
Construction of Highways.
Philadelphia Record.l
The Governor of New Jersey has signed
the Davidson Road bill. which puts it in the
power Of County Boards of Freeholders to
contract, under certain specific regulations,
for the construction or macada mized roads.
Provision is made for thorough supervision
and for substantial work. But no more is to
be done in any single year than may be paid
for by q tax Of one-half of one per cent. on
the taxable property in each county. One
third of the costs of roads sc constructed is
to be paid each year by the state, not to ex-
ceed the sum of $4,000: If one.third OF the
cost shall exceed that amount the excess is
to be apportioned among the counties in
proportion TO the amount OF work done. On
petition of two-thirds of the real estate own
ers fronting on any public road, setting forth
their willingness to nay 10 per cent of the
cost of macadamfZed roadways of not less
than mile in extent, the rreeholders are
compelled to provide for the construction
asked for.
Good results are anticipated from the
operation of this law giving the initial We OF
expenditure to the people mosS actively in
terested, and securing for the work a certain
fixed sum from county and State funds on
the principle that the first petitioners shall
be first served. and that outlay in any single
year shall not be so excessive as to be oner-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-04
BUDDHISM DOES NOT BUD.
Not Enough Occult speculators Turn Up to
Form a Society.

Not Enough Occult speculators Turn UP TO
Form Society.
NEW YORK, April 3-For the past three or
four months there has been more or less
talk of the establishment of a Buddhist tenn
pie in this city, but 1t now turns out that all
this talk was based upon Misrepresentation
of the object sought by group of people
destrous of studying the peculiar doctrines
of Buddhism in a purely scientific and in
vestigating spirit To this end they en-
deavored to form a society, and DR.. Rod
rigues O'Holengui, the prime mover in the
matter, was delegated to send out
circulars inviting seekers after truth
to become members The motto Of
the organization was to be, "Shun
falsehood. however 9littering and edify1ng.
and seek the sober truth" "This was at the
beginning of last December" said DR..
O'Holengui the other day, "and I was sur
prfsed to have 80 many people writing to
me under the misrepresentation that was
seeking to establish Buddhist church. Our
plans had not gone nearly 80 far as that. All
we proposed wFs society for the discussion
of Buddhism. In the correspondence, too, L
was generally referred to as Buddhist,
which am not. To be member OF Bud
dhfst society does not mean that am Bud
dhist, any more than it follows that must
be poet because l belong to Shakespeare
society.
'It is quite surprising the number OF peo-
had large number of letters from Boston.
Philadelphia and all the large cities. and
many from smaller places In the west
Most of them were ready to contribute to
the establishment of society such as that
proposed. It just happened, however, that
was too busy at the time to give proper at
tention to the matter. and no one else came
forward to take it up. The weak point in
the undertaking was the few replies obtained
to our circular from people of this city.
This decided us to give the matter up--at
society will be formed, and l shall be
pleased to be a member of it, for as q study
and q subject for the Interchange of thought
no subject is SO engrossingly Interesting as
Buddhism
"Then yon did not succeed in forming
your society,""
"No because so few New Workers evinced
an interest in it, and presume this is partly
accounted for I'm the fact that the Theosoph-
ical Society gathers in most OF the fnquirfn9
minds who have bent in the direction of
it would have been one of simple inquiry.
Buddhism. which Max Muller, the great
German author. declares to be the religion
of 450 900, 900 people. would first have been
stripped of the philosophical and ethical
teachings of Siddhartha Gautarna and the
mysticism which has gathered about it at
different times and different countries, and
been examined in its early purity 1t is ac-
knowledged by the whole civilized werld
that this religion was originally simple,
ethical and rational and. indeed, opposed to
all mythology, scholasticism. ceremonies
and priestcraft. Its leading doctrine is that
opens: that salvation is obtafna BILE by purity
of conduct.