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PITTSBURG. SATURDAY, JAN. 31, 189L
TWO OF THE CONCLUSIONS.
While it seems impossible to fix responsi
bility 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 au error
has turned theJword "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 lires of our employes onr first and
most important business." The high stand
ard wai 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; yet not
withstanding that feeling of safety, it was in
spected on the morning of the explosion.
Unless some new facts are developed, it will
be a legitimate conclusion that everything
was doue which is contemplated by 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 unites 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 dancer should be adopted. "With
that fact in view the demands of the
miners published in yesterday's Dispatch
are worthy of careful consideration. Another
precaution to which The Dispatch has
often referred, but which, we believe, miners
are even more loth to adopt than mine
owners, should be considered.
If the use of naked lamps had been
forbidden in all mines, it is not certain
no disaster would have occurred; but
it is certain that the chances of
escape would have been immeasurably
increased. It is the clearest lesson of this
jast awful event that no precaution which
can give the miner an additional chance of
escape from the dangers thus revealed can
be too stringently required or too faithfully
applied.
CHOOSE BETTER ASSESSORS.
County valuations on real estate, furnish
ing the basis for taxes, have been so notor
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 a timely calk A false idea exists in some
minds that it is only a venial sin to escape
taxation if the assessors can be got to return
property below its market value. It is not
necessary to expose the sophistry and un
worthmessof 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 a false
vaiuatiou has to bo 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 a more conscientious lot
of assessors. As for the Commissioners,
'they will do their share in the work of re
vision, provided the voters give thctp. the
ritrht kind of assessors to get the necessary
data from.
A PLATFORM AVOWAL.
The Republican press as a rule is engaged
in an effective arraignment of the Demo
cratic disoosition to reduce the currency to
a silver basis. The Dispatch has already
given its reasons for regarding the free sil
ver coinage proposition injurious and wrong.
The same reasons command our approval of
the general attitude of the Republican
organs.
But our Republican cotemporaries should
Cifiil
not be too strenuous in claiming superior
party virtue on this subject. Their im
peachment of the Democrats for demagogy
in adopting what is supposed to be a popu
lar demand for silver, is solidly met by the
following quotation from the Republican
national platform of 1888: "We believe in
the free use of gold and silver as money,
and we denounce the present administra
tion for its hostility to silver."
In this declaration we have the highest
assurance that at that time the Republican
party was the friend of silver and the Demo
cratic administration was its enemy. If the
position of things has changed, and the
Democrats are the friends and the Republi
cans its enemies, the previous state of affairs
must mitigate the Republican statements of
the heinousness of the Democratic course.
The commentary of the present position on
the Republican platform of 1888, is that
party attempts to conciliate votes without
regard to principles are curses that come
home to roost.
THE NEW IMMIGRATION.
Immigration statistics exhibit a marked
change. It is significant that the total of
immigration last year was 491,026, against
426.712 in 1889, but the immigrants from
those countries from which, informer times,
we drew most largely, now show a marked
falling off. The immigration from Ireland
is reduced 7,500; from Scotland, 1,600; from
England and Wales, 70,000; Germany, Den
mark and France each show a Blight in
crease. But the greatest increase is from
Italy, from which country the immigration
has grown from 29,600 iu 18S9 to 62,492 in
1S90; and from Bohemia, Hungary, Austria,
Poland and Russia with an increase of
5,000 to 15,000 in each nationality.
Thus there has appeared a large addition
to our population of races, utterly foreign to
our institutions, ignorant of our language
and much more so of our laws; peculiarly
liable to the depredations of the unscrupu
lous, and consequently productive of a
greater proportion of pauperism. The race
question is considered in the South a grave
one because of the presence of the colored
people there; but to an impartial mind, the
ability of the colored people to gain a com
prehension of the duties of citizenship will
compare favorably with the same ability
among the Poles, Italians and Slavs, whom
we are now receiving by the tens of
thousands.
We need cot discredit the power of our
institutions to assimilate and utilize foreign
elements in order to recognize the necessity
of special promotive steps. It is evident
that our immigration laws are not at pres
ent aiming in the right direction. They
deal with the circumstances of immigration,
when the real criterion should be its charac
ter. Whether immigrants come here by
contract or are assisted may be of import
ance, but not so much r.as whether they are
intelligent, industrious, law-abiding and
frugal. It is typical of our national char
acter that New England, New York and
Pennsylvania were founded by assisted im
migrants; and up to the last generation some
of the most desirable elements of our popu
lation were of the class that landed in this
country with no better capital than hardi
ness, industry and intelligence. It may be
a difficult matter to establish a system that
will test such qualities in our immigration;
but, at the worst, inspection could not be a
greater farce than the present loosely drawn
law with regard to contract and assisted
immigration.
Another thought is of importance. The
great mass of the Polish, Hungarian and
Italian'immigrants, either by force of cir
cumstances or by design, go to work on
streets, railroads, and into common labor
about mines and manufactories. There they
are peculiarly liable to the depredations of
the unscrupulous and form a floating and
almost proletarian element of onr popula
tion. Yet the vast majority of these immi
grants were iu their native country an agri
cultural class. If their efforts could be
directed to agriculture here, it would be
more intelligently applied and yield better
results both to the laborers and to the com
munity. Beyond that, if our Italian and
Polish sojourners to whom the proprietor
ship ot a few acres in their own country
meant wealth, conld be made to see that our
system permits them to become land owners
and farmers, it might inspire them with
more affection for our laws.
When a large share of our Eastern acreage
is going without thorough tillage for lack
of labor, there is a good deal of pertinence
in the suggestion that measures to divert the
new class of immigration in that direction
would be well worth the trial.
CHINESE BRIGANDAGE.
The few Chinese in this section of country
are generally quiet and undemonstrative.
They rarely exhibit passion unless tor
mented by the ever-present small boy. But
advices from China show the other side of
Chinese character and demonstrate the ex
istence of a criminal class in the Celestial
empire of very vicious character. Riots,
piracy and attacks upon the Christian popula
tion are amongthe violent projects of the vil
lainous Mongolians. A recent attack made
upon a lady missionary was an example of
barbaric cruelty. The lady was traveling
quietly in a boat when she was captured by
pirates, robbed of all valuables, even to her
hair pins. What the robbers did not want
they threw into the river. And finally they
maltreated the lady.
THE DEAD SECRETARY.
The sudden death of Secretary Windom
yesterday is a profound commentary on the
uncertainties of life and the exhausting na
ture of public effort. If Mr. Windom had
confined his efforts to the less taxing and
uneventful work of private life it may be
presumed the heart trouble which caused
his death would not have been developed.
The work the Secretary did both in the Sen
ate and at the Treasury Department yielded
greater results. Life cannot be trulv meas
ured by years so much as by achievements.
Secretary Windom's place iu our public
records is especially noticeable as to finance
and business legislation. Asa Senator bis
report on inland transportation constituted
the first public! recognition of national in
terests involved in the regulation of railway
transportation. It fixed the starting point
for what has since become a national issue.
Iu his short term as Secretary of the Treas
ury under President Garfield he signalized
his services there by the arranzetuent which
he made for extending the entire amount of
Government bonds then doe and outstanding
at a low rate of interest to be redeemable at
the option of the Government the most
favorable arrangement of a Government loan
ever made up to that time. His unfinished
term of Secretary ot the Treasury has al
lowed little opportunity for such wholesale
strokes of financial policy. It has been
chiefly noted for the attempt to dispose of
the Government surplus, for the advantage
of the Treasury andwithout ton much hamp
ering the banking system. At the same
time the Secretary .had attempted to mark
oat a silver policy which -'should be-a com
promise. Both of those difficult ana intrl-
cate problems may have bad no inconsider
able effect on his health.
Secretary Windam was not of the class of
public men who force themselves on the
public attention either by the brilliant na
ture of their publio utterances or the strik
ing character of their policy. He was of
the conservative and moderate school. His
policy was of the tentative or compromise
class rather than of the bold sort which ap
peals to the public by its picturesqueness.
He was essentially a business Secretary and
Senator. In late years his course was more
favorable to the especial interests of capital
and corporate organization than in his early
career; but in a public life of twenty
years no serious or definite allegations
affecting his integrity have ever been made.
His sudden death will present to the
President a task of remarkable difficulty in
finding a competent successor. While the
late Secretary's course was open to the freest
criticism, it is very much to be doubted
whether any man just now available for his
place can deal with those complicated issues
with as near au approach to success as he
did.
MUCH SMOKE, LITTLE FIRE.
The rejection by the House at Harrisburg
yesterday of a severe resolution of censure
upon Senator Cameron shows how much
more smoke than fire there has been in the
hubbub over his vote on the elections bill.
In a general way the Republican legislators
of the State want to be considered strictly
orthodox in their partyism. They shrink
with apprehension from appearing reluctant
to follow the lead of President Harrison,
Mr. Soar and Speaker Reed upon the
Southern question, particularly where a
brilliant prospectus of benefits to the party
has been advertised. If it was a thorough
knowledge and admiration of the provisions
of the bill itself which animated them a
full conviction that it was a vital measure
and a wise one no ties of personal friend
ship or fealty to Cameron could justly with
hold them from adopting just such a resolu
tion as was offered.
The fact of the matter, however.is thattheir
attitude for the bill has been almost wholly
factitious. It proceeded merely from respect
to leaders' authority, and from belief that
almost any law aiming at correction of
abuses in the South should have support
when recommended by the heads of the ad
ministration. When Cameron was taken to
task as by yesterday's proposal for censure,
the House by voting down the proposal
practically conceded his right to take a dif
ferent view of the elections bill, and even to
express that view by opposing its progress.
The result puts Senator Cameron in no
better attitude so far as concerns his duplic
ity in greasing the Senatorial election by
permitting his friends to pledge him to a
measure he did not intend to support. But
it puts the House itself in the more de
fensible attitude of leaving a United States
Senator some freedom of judgment upon
national matters and of not assuming that
two or three men however high in the coun
cils of the party shall rule it absolutely, or
that their measure for dealing with election
abuses is necessarily the best that can be
offered, and may not under any circum
stances whatsoever be retarded, amended, or
in any ways antagonized.
Edwaed Bellamy is about to start a
daily paper. Whether it Is rnn on the plan of
Government control or not, may be an inter
esting question: bat it is a certainty that if
Bellamy wants to make his paper go he can not
do so by "Looking Backward."
Charles Bbadlaugh's death ends a
career made more prominent by becoming in
volved with a principle of public right than fo.
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 a 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 snpport of both parties,
in expunging from the record the motion ex
cluding Bradlaugb for his beliefs.
Whatever inquiries the President may
make as to whether Pennsylvania is a Repub
lican State, it is possible to answer that the
resolutions of a certain Legislature on the snb.
jectof the force bill call attention to the fact
that Indiana is not.
TnE Philadelphia Press recognizes the
advance of speculation by editorially calling
attention to tbe fact that it gives the quotation
for Calcutta exchange in its financial columns.
But on searching that column we fail to find
any quotation further than the statement that
"India Council bills were alloted at a decline of
1-32 per rupee," which is of little value to the
statesman desiring to make a tarn in silver.
Tbe esteemed Press should not give the word
of promise to tbe ear of the silver speculators
and then break it to the sense after this
fashion.
Senator Vilas, of Wisconsin, is the
latest notification to the Republican leaders
that a representative of the Cleveland adminis
tration will be ready to resume offensive parti
sanship in the Upper House of the next Con
gress. What will be taken by all people as a
good sign without regard to partisanship, is
furnished by the statement the school attend
ance in tbe South has increased from 16.4 per
cent of the population In IES0, to 18.7 per cent
in 1890. The education of therising generation,
especially when It Is so general as these figures
show, will prove eventually to be tbe only cer
tain and complete method of settling tbe polit
ical problems of that section. And it will settle
tbe race issue much more thoroughly than any
number of elections bills can.
The announcement of Jones, who pays
tbe freight, that bo is in the field for tbe Demo
cratic nomination for Governor of New York
is evidently based on tbe hope that active and
early competition will result in cut rates.
The deadly parallel is doing its fell work
rather more prominently than usual when It is
discovered that Benjamin Harrison as Senator,
in introducing tbe bill establishing tbat Alaska
court, stated practically the view which the
administration of President Harrison is op
posing to prevent tbe hearing of tbe British
case by tbe Supreme Court. Tho full effect ot
this complication may convert tbe President to
tbe support of tbe unwritten rule that Senators
had better not become Presidents. '
Ex-Senator Tabor is reported to have
made $15,000,000 ont of recent mining deals.
The ex-Senator must have felt the need of
laying in a new stock of night shirts and opera
houses.
Speaking of the political demonstration
! by which tbe Woods' Run contingent earned
notoriety, the Providence 2elegfam says: "The
disgruntled fire-eaters relieved their feelings
by burning Senator Cameron in effigy." We
have to inform our cotemporaries from abroad
that they must not commit the mistake of rank
ing the politicians of Woods' Bun among the
mere fire-eaters. They never satisfy their ap
petite in that line with anything less than mol
ten iron.
The old fashioned winter will have to
! Tint iti!f in evidence more strongly than at
j present to prove it is not one of the modern and
soft variety.
The prompt squelching ot that resolution
in the Legislature calling 'Upon Cameron to re
sign indicates t&attho members of that honor
ablo bodv are too minaf ol of tholr alleged obli-
THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH,
gations to the Senator to be permanently alien
ated by a little eccentricity like "a vote to pro
ceed with public business, or a slight matter
like a speculation in silver.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Matob Hugh J. 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 55 years old. He
is of medium height and ratber spare in figure.
His movements are easy and graceful, and his
genial manner quickly puts bis visitors at their
case.
John .Noble, the English millionaire var
nish maker, left bis son, Wilson Noble, present
member of Parliament, an annual income, with
tbe proviso tnat 10.000 a year shall be struck
off if he shall fail to be re-elected.
JUDOE Peffer, wbo succeeds Ingalls in the
Senate from Kansas, is a Mason, a Knight of
Labor and a member of tbe Episcopal Cburcb.
He wears a long, fall beard tbat gives him the
venerable appearance of a patriarch.
Rev. Iel Hicks predicts tbe coming of the
bitterest cold wave of the winter between Feb
ruary 1 and February & Tbis tallies with the
prediction of Prophet Beebe, of Connecticut,
save that tbe latter extends the limit to the
15th.
Mrs. Rider Haggard, like Mrs. Stanley,
complains that American women keep their
houses too warm. When tho thermometer
reaches 70 in a drawinc room it gives her a
headache, and even a temperature of 65 she
considers too warm for comfort.
Sir Edwin Arnold's quaint home in Japan
has become a Mecca for English tourists wbo
visit the Mikado's country on tbelr way to
America. Tho distinguished Englishman's
hospitality is becoming proverbial, for his
guests are entertained in a truly regal way.
Oscar Wilde looks more like a respectable
member of society than he used to look. His
long locks have been shorn by tbe 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 a prominent turfman and a
forward saddle in the hunting field. His wife
is a 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 a pretty' and ratber small
brunette. Her eyes are dark, and her bair,
black as ink, falls to her waist. In figure sbe is
attractive, and she dances well. She has ap
peared in many amateur theatrical perform
ances in her native city.
PE0GEEES IN AFBICA.
A Labor Saving Device Introduced by the
King of Dahomey.
Chicago Globe.1
No more gratifying symptom of the progress
ot civilization in darkest Africa has recently
been given than tbe order received tbe other
day by aprominenthardnare firm in Marseilles,
France, from His Highness the "King of
Dahomey for a new guillotine with all the
modern improvements.
Heretofore the royal autocrat of the fever
coast has slaughtered his victims in a crude
and illiterate fashion, slicing them through
the cervical vertebrae with a clumsy sword,
which soon grew dull and occasioned a good
deal of hacking and pulling and bad lan
guage, all of which was calculated to mar
the festivity. With a good working guillotine
the King of Dabomey can behead three times
as many captives as before. It is really a labor
saving device, and in neatness, thoroughness
and dispatch it is much better than could be
done by hand.
Of coarse, the ignorant executioners, who
know nothing of political economy, will stren
uously object to having tbe bread taken oat of
their mouths by tbe new machine, but it is to
be hoped tbat bis royal highness will not
hearken'to them. Tbey must learn, as the civ
ilized workingman has learned, tbat in tbe
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.
UNDEEGEOUNB WIEES.
Philadelphia Has Tried Them and Found
Them a Complete Success.
Philadelphia Inquirer,
The statement in Chief Walker's report, that
1,351 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 a sample lotT There
are now wires in the city tbat have been .buried
for years and are still doing as good service as
the day they were put down. Conduits can
now be bad which preserve the wires, give
them perfect insulation and prevent all the
troubles that afflicted the early experiments
with buried wires. This is not a declaration of
theory: it is a simple statement of fact, at
tested by the official returns of the men who
have tbe matter in cuarge,'and this being the
case, why should not tbe ordinances be en
forced and all tne wires buried forthwith.
The Last Laugh Always Best.
Toledo Commercial.
Trading in Argentine securities In order to
become Independent of tbe United States for
meat supply, has led European financiers to
consider that Sonth American competition
with North America is attended with losses not
made up from cheap cattle and hides. Hence
American meat is growing in favor among
those who prohibited its use several years ago
on sanitary grounds. American meat is much
healthier since South American securities have
become so unhealthy. Those laugh best who
laugh last.
The Print Shop Jcfler.
St. Panl Globe.
In more than one respect is William Alfred
Peffer. the choice of the Kansas Alliance for
Senator, a lucky individual. Not only has he
been chosen to fill tbe Senatorial buskins of
John J. Ingalls, bnt the erratic, epigrammatic,
poetical paragrapher is estoDped from rhyming
catch-as-catch-can upon his'name. Aside from
"heifer" and "Scheffer," the vocabulary Is
limited.
Preparation for Congressional Duties.
Butte City Miner.
The Alliance having refused to consider
Socktess Simpson as a candidate for the United
States Senate because of the fact tbat he has
already been elected to Congress, it is hoped
that he will take a bath and prepare for bis
Congressional duties by buying a pair of socks.
Of Use to Ingalls.
Washington Post. '
Judge Peffer, who has just found his way in,
is tho 'author of a book entitled "Tbe Way
Out." He should present Senator Ingalls with
a copy.
DEATHS OP A DAY.
Mrs. Harriet E. Phillips.
rFrECLU- TBLXOKAJt TO IHI nutPATCrt.
KrwARK. O.. Jan. SO. Tbe death of Mrs. Har
riet K. Phillips, nee Stevens, Is announced. Tor
13 years and one termhe was a teacher In the
schools here. Some time In 1SS9 she was -wedded
toT. W. Phillips, a leading attorney ot this city.
Humane Agent 'William Moyer.
rprXCIAt, TTLEPllAM TO TUIt DISPATCH.-
Johnstown, Jan. so. Humane Agent V Uliam
Moyer. of this place, died at a late hour this even
ing from pneumonia. As Mr. Sharrctt, tne other
scent, resigned a lew days ago, this leaves the
society wltnout a representative here.
Mrs. John B. Sheridan.
The estimable wife of ex-Councilman John B.
Sheridan, of tbe Ninth ward, died yesterday,
after a short and. as yet, unexplalnablc Illness,
bho leaves six children andmany mends to monrn
her ions.
Mrs. W. J. McKay.
lH.lAl. TKI.MSIIA11 Tll'TIIKT.Isr'ATCIJ.:
OnoE CITY, Jan. SI. Mrs. McKay, wire or
ex-Treasurer V. J. McKar. died suddenly at her
homo near town to-day, of heart disease.
Mrs. Thomas BalL
TtoaEXCE, Jan. ?0. Mrs. "Half, wife or Thomas '
Ball,' the American iculptor, died here to-dayi.
SATURDAY, JANUARY
LESSONS 0FJHE PAST.
The Fourth of the Series of the Letters to
Young Citizens Opportunities of the
Fathers Some Suggestions for the Till
ers of the Soli.
The personality of the teacher colors the les
sons he imparts: his environment affects favor
ably or unfavorably the force of bis instruc
tion. Given a young teacher of great mate
rial resources and energy of character; given
too, a wide opportunity in an unlimited field
who can measure the results to the willing stu
dent? Such a teacher is our National life;
such an environment our material domain, our
freedom and our peculiar opportunity. Two
lessons have been Impressed upon my mind
with special force one, economic one, edu
cational. First A domain, by reason of surface eleva
tions, and of the influence of oceanic currents,
of tbe greatest possible diversity of climate, a
soil unsurpassed in fertility; forests of great
variety: mines producing metals and minerals
answering every need of man; harbors welcom
ing tbe commerce of all nations; interior water
ways for easy transfer of tho products of
field, forest and mine; a people ot sturdy ances
try combining the best elements of the most in
telligent races of men. without a civil yoke,
free from social distinctions, and permitted to
make tbe most of themselves In ways of their
own choosing with sucb an environment, who
can wander at tne unexampled prosperity of
the pastT There is in it, however, a lesson of
warning.
Opportunities of the Fathers.
Tho young citizen of to-day will not find an op
portunity such as his fathers enjoyed. Fertile
land was theirs for the asking. Tbe most fer
tile lands have already been appropriated. For
ests have been stripped of much of tbe best
timber. Mines yield their products only in re
sponse to increased labor. In accumulation of
vast wealth by the few, the cream of onr re
sources has been skimmed. Tbe possession of
wealth makes its increase easy. Its possessors
assume leadership in society and in legislation.
The elevation of the few makes tho position of
the many undesirable and hard to be borne.
Sons reared in luxury can not readily bring
themselves to accept the conditions of labor
which attend tbelr setting ont in lite. By rea
son of increased density of population the stress
of competition increases. For widening desire
there is a narrowing opportunity, narrowing in
surface, but of great depth for him who is will
ing to dig.
This apparently pessimistic view will take on
an optimistic coloring, if we are wise betimes
and heed one lesson most plainly taught waste
less. Waste less energy in wide search for an
easy road to wealtb. and apply tbe energy we
retain to a better husbanding of resources we
already possess.
Lavish Use of Nature's Gratuities.
Tho competition which has made itself felt
in manufacturing and commercial industries
has compelled the learning of tbe lesson waste
no utility of whatever material is bandied. But
in agriculture, which lies at tho foundation of
all industries, tho lesson has not yet been fully
learned. Imnroved machinery has enconraged
more extensive cnltivation rather than a
more intensive nse of what is possessed. The
most lavish use of nature's gratuities has pre
vailed in our rural communities. Tbe pur
chase of adjoining land on credit, with the
burden of interest crushing out tbe possible
sweetness of a rural home and driving tbe sons
and dangbters into the excitements and dan
gers of city life, has resulted in great waste to
tbe man left alone in bis years, with f arm'im
plements exposed to the weather, crops bring
ing only the return of a credit upon a note's
interest, poor stock exposed to tbe peltings of
the storm, tbe exterior beauty of tbe home
gone with many of its former interior com
forts. Tbe leisure which farm machinery has made
possible must be nsed not in breaking and
fencing more land, but in more Intensive cult
ure of smaller areas, in better care of crops
while growing and after harvesting, in wiser
selection and better housing of stock, in sav
ing fertilizers which intelligent farming finds
profitable.
The farmer must imitate the manufacturer,
whose success he envies, in turning to account
every utility found in the soil and in Its varied
products.
The Study of Agriculture.
Where agriculture is studied as thoroughly
as other industries it becomes both attractive
and profitable. Farm areas now under cultiva
tion mav be made trebly productive by antici
pating methods of cultivation which tbe near
future will compel us to adopt.
Second Discomforts in rural life on one
hand, and glittering promises of rapid gain on
the other, have lured to manufacturing and
commercial cities a mass of immature mind
by no means fitted to succeed either in leading
or subordinate positions. For this immaturity
our defective systems of education are some
what at fault. We have planned In our schools
too much for tbe benefit of those who seek
release from tbe homlier arts and who aspire to
professional life. There is need of directive
power in tbe widely varied industries of the
land as well as in the pulpit, upon the farm,
at tho sick bed and in the halls
of legislation. The latter need not be
ignored, but shonld not supplant the
former. Through the homely (home-like) in
dustries there is needed the infusion of refining
influences, that both process and product may
be rendered more attractive. Tbis nation will
reach the height of its ambition in control of
forelgn markets for its surplus only as it pre
sents attractive ways. The aesthetic In prac
tical life needs cnltivation. The artisan must
be able to plan beautiful things and to work
after his own plan. The training of the mind
to conceive, and of the eye to perceive the
beautlful.and the training of tbe band to trans
late conception into reality will lead to the ac
quisition of directive power. Labor will be re
garded as honorable, just in proportion as one
takes delight In the product of his own labor.
A Wider Itange of Selection.
Our new education must have its foundation
in industry, its development in useful employ
ments, its inspiration in tbe worth of a virtuous
character. Every modification in onr present
system must be wrought from above. Higher
institutions must open the way for a wider
range of selection, and thus encourage
secondary schools to vary their courses of
study, which shall in turn attract tbe ele
mentary schools on the line of their possibili
ties and of the pieferences of their patrons.
Some universities and colleges have already
recognized the need and have provided the
means to meet it. Too many still cling to the
old lino of prescription and prepare only for
the "learned professions." Why not enter in
our vocabulary learned, occupations? Leaders
in educational thought may bring about such a
result If they will. If men will think more
tbey will waste less. The masses need training
more than filling with knowledge.
In every great crisis in our national history
there has. appeared from among tbe people a
leader, not with the gaudy trappings ot wealth,
but with directive power born of sound sense
and permeated with virtuous purpose. Wash
ington and Lincoln are cases in point. Like
opportuuity may never appear to the young
citizen, but some opportunity for the best that
is in him is in his future. It behooves him to
be ready at the "supreme moment."
I know of no lessons moro important than
waste less think more.
Virtuous living prevents waste. Honest labor
finds earnest tbonght profitable.
JosiAll L. Pickabd, LL D.,
President Iowa State Unlversitv.
A NATIONAL SALON.
A Plea for a Great Art Exhibit for the
United States.
New York Sta-.l
Tho art associations In this city and elscwhcro
are all doing a good work in their respective
ways. But from the very circumstances of
tbelr wholly local character their usefulness
.must always bo within restricted limits. An
enterprise tbat will take up tbe work where
these institutions stop, And that will do for the
whole country what is now being done in a
desultory manner for separate communities, is
undoubtedly needed. There is a place for It:
there is work for it to do? and without it art
interests in the United States will not make
the progress that they should.
Kelp the"Nccly.
.Boston Globe!
One hundred and ten persons killed in tbe
Pennsylvania mine disaster! Pity is cheap;
who will give It 'free coinage, Into "dollars for
the many dependent onesT
31, 1S9L
BOMAH0E OF AH J LECTION.
A Pretty Girl Sent John J. Ingalls to the
United States senate.
-Denver, Col., Jan. 3a Barney O'Driscoll,
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 a pretty girl."
After some coaxing Dnscoll was prevailed
upon to tell tbe story, which Is as follows:
"Twenty-five years ago I was a resident of
Doniphan county.Kansas, and in the fall of 1872
was chosen Representative Irom tbat district
on tbe Democratic ticket. There were two
candidates In tno 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 compara
tively unknown. Our side being hopelessly in
the minority we cut no figure in the contest,
but I went to the capital in January. 1873. with
instructions to cast the solid Democratic vot
for any good, clean man put up. and of course
I was looked upon as the keystone to the situ
ation. "Iniralls had been accused of attempting to
bribe Judge Delehay, and bis opponents were
using this against him. Just betore tbe caucus
Governor Osborne saw the daughter of Judge
Delehay. wbo was tbe belle of the State, and
fell madlv in love with her. lie raved over ber
and asked one of Ingalls' friends to introduce
him. The friend replied: 'O'Driscoll will vote
for Ingalls If this bribery business is cleared up,
and if you will do it vnu sball have the intro
duction.' The Executive agreed.
"I was sent for and received the following
explanation: Judge Delehay sometimes took
too much toddy, and while in tbat playful con
dition caused by an overdose of stimulants bad
thrown one of Ingalls' cases out of court. The
latter went to Osborne, who was a more ex
perienced lawyer, and employed him to set tbe
case reinstated. He gave Osborne $300 for
doing tbe work, but for some reason the matter
was never clearly stated and Ingalls rested un
der the cloud. I 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
Seator."
INSANITY CTJBABLE.
The New York Commission Holds It Is a
Physical Malady.
Baltimore San.
Under the act of the Legislature passed last
year New York is gradually relieving the
county almshouses of tbe care of the insane
and gathering them into State asylums, where
the patients will have a better chance
of treatment and cure. Tbis move
seems to be an advance and improve
ment on the system put in operation some
years ago, by which insane people classed 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 tbat 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
beneficent feature" is its practical denial of the
idea of the incurability which prevailed under
tbe almshouse and the original colonizlngplans.
Iu a report just made by the New York State
Commission in Lunacy, insanity Is held
to be "a physical malady and therefore cur
able." Tbe theory "that a definite period
can be set when Insanity becomes incurable"
is vigorously opposed by tbe commission. In
place of the older assumptions and practice is
substituted tbe idea that tbe most humane, in
telligent and scientific care of the insane is the
most apt to result iu cure or amelioration, and
at the same time is the most economical from
all standpoints.
BIG MONET.
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 tbe Mint Leech in tbn New
York Commercial Bulletin, is 1,624.090,215. The
amount of paper money in circulation, which
represents in round number tbe legal-tenders
outstanding less the 5100,000,000, against which
gold is held in tbe Treasury to secure them
National bank notes outstandingand silver cer
tificates Issued under tbe recent silver act is
5410,000,000. 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 28.000,000.
He further estimates that the amount of all
kinds of money in active circulation in the
world is $9,995,600,000. Of tbis amount 2.448.
000,000 is paper uncovered by bullion or coin of
any kind. Russia, of tbe leading countries,
has tbe largest amount of uncovered paper In
circulation, which is $300,000,000, while the
amonnt of her metallic money is 250;
000.000. of which but $60,000,00 is gold.
France has the largest amount of specie,
aggregating $1,600,000,000, while her paper
money is but $'JO,000.000. The circulating me
dium of India is almost wholly silver, aggregat
ing 900,000,000, with an additional amonnt of
$28,000,000 of uncovered paper.' In tbe amount
of uncovered paper money the United States
ranks second, in gold second and in silver
fourth.
THE INDIAN TB0TJBLES.
Gist of the Government Policy With the
Bed Man.
February Forum. ,
Most people are under the impression tbat we
are paying large sums of money every year out
of the Public Treasury for the support ot the
Indians. It will doubtless be a surprise to sucb
to learn that a very large part of tbe money ap
propriated by Congress for tbe Indian service
belongs to tbe Indians and is held in trust for
them; so that in fact we are, to that extent,
merely giving them their own. The regnlar
Indian bill generally appropriates about So. 000,
010. But after deducting the money which tbe
Government only holds in trust and the neces
sary expenses of transportation and distribu
tion. It will be found, by careful examination
of tbe accounts, that the Indians get from tbe
Government for their subsistence only about
$7 per capita yearly, or a fraction less than 2
cents a day. Tbe pay of the army amounts to
about $1,000 per annum for each soldier. The
principal business of these soldiers is to prevent
Indian outbreaks. We thus limit tbe Indian to
2 cents per day for food, makinghlm sufficiently
hungry and desperate to commit some depreda
tion, so tbat tbe soldier may have something to
do to earn his pay. Tbis we dignify with the
title of statesmanship; but from a common
sense, business standpoint it looks very much
like saving at the spigot and wasting at the
bung-hole.
Few to Mourn for It.
Philadelphia Ledger, Ind.
Amone tbe 12,000,000 of adult men in tbe
United States we do not believe there are 1.200.
outside of those oflicially or professionally en
gaged In party politics, who lcel any serious
disappointment or regret tbat the Federal elec
tions bill has been turned down. On tbe con
trary, there Is an overwhelming experience of
satisfaction in tbe hope tbat there is a let-up
for this session at least, and that Congress can
go to work unhindered bv tbat bill, transact
the necessary business of tbe country, and"
thU5,relieve It of the agitation and nuisance of
an extra session for politics only.
Not an Honorable Means.
Philadelphia Kccord. Dem.J
A resolution bas . been adopted in both
branches of tbe Legislature asking the Penn
sylvania Senators to use all- honorable means
tor the passage of tbe Federal elections bill.
No doubt if that corpse could be raised from
the dead: the Pennsylvania Senators would
obey instructions. But there is nothing in the
resolution to prevent them from voting against
gag rule. That is not an honorable means of
procuring the passage of political legltlation,
Su far Mr. Cameron's withers are ufiwrung.
Pittsburg's Commendable Odd M'ay.
New York Commercial Advcrtl.er.3
Pittsburg, tho home of natural gas, now
boasts of an actual airship. This particular
aeroplane has an advantage over many com
petitors in the fact that a small model of it has
been made and actually floated In tbe air
while molt of these things are floated on
"paper" or "water."
Good Horse Sense Wanted.
rndlanipollsScnUncl.1
It Is to ba huppil that Amcrlran Hore, who
is the spokesman of the delegation of 14 Indians
that goes to Washington to present Its griev
ances to the Great Father, will confine himself
to a discussion of tbe matter in hand, and not
indulge la the usual Kind of American hone-
taiic .- :
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OUR MAIL POUCH.
A Protest Against Brick Pavements.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Having an Interest in roy native city, Pitts
burg, where I spent tbe last holidays, I wish to
inaugurate, or agitate, a movement against the
most objectionable feature of your city. That
is, your horrible brick pavements.
As I was with you Uaring tbe late snow
storms, and suffered all the miseries that your
citizens experience in wintry weather, and hav
ing returned to New York City (where I have
lived for the pat 23 years) In time to be here
for the late terrible snow storm we have bad,
and when I compare our streets, now clean
three days after tbis tseat snowstorm, with
your brick pavements when I left, weeks after
your storm, I cannot resist expressing my ab
horrence for brick pavements, which absorb
and hold all .lampness, and hold It as ice
when frozen. It Is well known that a brick
will absorb its weight of vtater, and hold it
longer than any other composition. In build
ing a brick house no one wjguld think of start
ing with the bricks until the stone foundation
is raised above tbe ground. Yet your city ordi
nances allow brick pavements in ynur streets
under your feet, tbe most unhealthy f eaturevt
your city. We can stand smoke, drink Alle
gheny rirer water, but Hygiae revolts against
brick pavements. A city ordinance compelling
all new pavements to be of stone flag, or stone
cement, and all worn out or condemned pave
ments compelled to be replaced with sucb,
would be more benefit to your city than any
thing your "city fathers" can enforce. lam
not a politician, but wilL say that the Council
mau wbo will introduce such a bill can draw
on me for anything from a bottle of ink tor a
case of champagne for the benefit of old Pitts
burg. ' Elbon,
Sinclair Hotel, Nzw York, Jan. 23.
One Anxious Inquirer Answered.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
The passenger steamer Diadem was built in
the year I860, Thomas Rogers, master. Her
length was 131 feet; breadth. 33 feet; deptb,
4 8-10 feet: tonnage, 218 85-95 tons. The passen
cor steamer Emma No. 3 was bnllt In the year
18SS, L H. Maratta, master. Her length was
159 feet; breadth, "31 4-10 feet; deptb. 6 feet;
tonnage, 493.10 tons.
The above is respectfully submitted in reply
to the request made recently, and is an abstract
of tbe records of said vessels as the' same re
main in tbisomce. Jacob H. Walteb.
Pittsburg, Jan. 26. Marine Clerk.
No Gun Yet Adopted.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
In your column entitled "Gossip of the
Guards," several weeks ago, you mentioned tbe
fact that a board of officers bad met in New
York City to adopt a magazine gun for the
regular army. 'Will you kindly state what
make of gun was adopted T
Harry W. Jatcox.
McKeespobt, Jan, 28.
The Board bas bad a number of meetings,
but has not yet agreed on a gun.
Where Fltzslmmons Trained.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Will you please inform me where the place is
situated tbat Fitzsimmons practiced prior to
his fight with Dempsey? A SUBSCRIBER.
Braddock. Jan. 28.
Bay St. Louis is in Louisiana, on the Missis
sippi river.
A Correction as to Kolghley.
To tbe Editor or Tbe Dispatch:
F. C. Kelghley was not connected in any way
with the Yonngstown mines at tbe time of the
explosion. Please contradict all reports to the
contrary. One Who Knows.
Dawson, Jan. 29.
She Just Does Wear Them.
To the Editor ofTbe Dispatch.
Why don't Dr. Mary Walker practice what
sbe preaches and wear pants herself, or does
she T W. D. COOK.
West Newton, Jan. 29.
Grant Youngest in Both Cases.
To the Editor ot The Dispatch:
Who was tbe youngest President Inaugurated,
Grant or Hayes? Who was the youngest Presi
dent elected! Reader.
California, Jan. 28.
COTOTBYBOADS.
Indications That They Will Not
Be
Neglected Much Longer.
New York Star.
Tbe railroad system of the United States is
tbe largest and one of tbe most perfect in the
world. On tbe other band, our country high
ways are renowned only for their generally de
fective character. With some few honorable
exceptions in particular localities, roadmakffig
in tbe rnral portions of the country bas been,
nntil recently, an unknown art. Outside of
Spain, it would be bard to find highways in such
a deplorable condition as a great many within
a few miles of the great cities of tbis 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
roadmakmg. It is no uncommon occurrence to
learn that roads are impassable, and tbat the
business of tbe railroads, and of entire sections,
is temporarily arrested.
Within tbe past few years a change for the
better bas taken place, and real attention is be
ing paid to tbis neglected phase of our social
economy. The railroads have recognized tne
importance to their own interests, and to those
of the communities tbey serve, of good roads,
passable at all times. Certain railroad man
agements have facilitated in all ways the im
provement of tbe roads in their territory.
FLOPPED HIM 0BT.
Kansas Was Too 0.nick for Senator Ingalls
to Keep Up.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
It Ingalls conld have believed tbat tbe Alli
ance would turn out an exception to tbe rule
tbat farmer organizations in Kansas cannot es
cape being nsed by tbe disguised agents of tbe
Republican party,. he would have gone 'far
ahead of Plumb in defying his party caucus at
Washington. He wonld have taken the new
political infant under his wing and forced his
party organization in Kansas to adopt it in
stead of antagonizing It.
He once boasted that Kansas could flop and
follow the flesh-pots "with as nimble dexterity"
as was ever witnessed, and nobodyever doubted
his intention to flop with her. But she delayed
until be began to consider beran immovable
fixture In politics. Tbe result is that she got
ahead of him In the flopping busines, and he
conld not catch up. tbongb he certainly did his
best, and rather overdid it, in that last "great
speech."
A Good Man Rewarded.
New York Evening Sun.
He was a good man. He threw a sealskin
sacque 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 verily he had his reward, being
richer by $50 customs duties which his benevo
lence bad evaded. To importers of sealskin,
tbe humor of this proceeding may be distorted,
viewed through the refractive medium of per
sonal interest. The other 68,000,000 may be
permitted to pay tbe tribute of delight to a
nimblenesi of wit that accredits cirllzatlon:
For civilization bas been defined "the triumph
of man over his accidents."
Engllnh Protectionists.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Stockport is an English city of some 60,000
inhabitants, mostly engaged in the trades of
spinning and weaving cotton and in tbe manu
facture of felt hats. Like'oidham, Bury,
Bolton, Salford, Blackburn and Rochdale it is
part of the Manchester clrclo of trade and
politics. .It is one of tho cities that nursed the
free trade idea. When, therefore, Stockport
becomes skeptical of tbe Virtue of "laisscz
aire" It is safe to assume that protectionist
principles arc gaining new strength in England.
.
Queer Schemes of the Grangers.
New York Times. I
The financial wisdom of the Farmers'
Alliance was well illustrated in the three de
mands of tbe convention at Omaha for tbe free
and unlimited coinage of silver, tbe increase of
tbo currency to $50 per capita, or over $3,000,
000.008 in all, and the placing of all "paper
raonoy"n an equality with gold. The Alliance
ycenit t hvc grrat faith in the omnipotence of
g.iferiimenr.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON'S series of
letters from the South Sea begins in THE
DISPATCH to-morrow. This will be the
greatest newspaper feature of the jear.
" CUEI0US CONDENSATIONS. .'
Ninety thousand cows, it is calculated",
have to be milked twice a day to supply London
alone.
A few days ago John Bates picked from
one tree on bis place in De Soto county, Fhk,
e.W oranges.
On last Thursday, in Sumter county,
Flo.. T. D. Gamble's little son, Samuel, while
at play, ran a splinter entirely through his
foot. It was three inches long and the size of A
man's finger.
The Society of Friends oi the United
Kingdom say. in their last report, that they
bave 15,500 members, and that their annual
death rate is incomparably low about 185-10
perl.00O. 7
Advices from Zanzibar state that ti
Portuguese on that river are rigorously boyi
cottingthe British, and do not permit thenar
tlves to sell even tbe necessaries of life to s
gllsh vessels.
The colonies of Australia have asked
tbe Home Government to accord them the
privilege possessed by Canada of negotiating
commercial treaties with foreign countries
under the sanction of the Foreign Office,
The Swiss workmen's congress at Zurich
has passed a resolution affirming the necessity
of making ten hours work the limit of a regu
lar working day. The concress also resolved
tbat Swiss workmen should observe May Has
a "labor day" holiday. i
Mrs. George D. Kins, better known at
Madam Rol, pedestrian, pugilist and wood
sawyer, is to attempt to walk from New Bed
ford to Boston in 12 hours. Sbe Invites bicyclists
or others interested in the genuineness of tho
attempt to accompany her.
Major Bacon is said to have unearthed
at Atlanta, Ga., a rusty old statute, which was
enacted by the Colonial Assembly of 1763. re
quiring every minister to "read from bis pulpit,
at least fur times a year, the public laws, so
tbat the public may understand them."
The late Dnke of Bedford sat in the
House of Commons for 23 years, and in tba
House of Lords for IS years, in all a Parlia
mentary career of 43 years, witbont opening
his lips. His estate covered US acres in Lon
don, with about 3.0CO residences or shops.
It is related that in a burying ground
for coloied people near Birmingham, Ala is a
weather-stained tombstone upon which can be
deciphered this inscription: "Henryetta Em
moretta Demiretta Creamertarter Carolina
Balstlc, Daughter of Bob and Sooky Cottin."
During the course of a sermou delivered
in Brooklyn, a few nights ago. Rev. C H. St.
John said tbat in his native town in Kansas,
there was a man with a wooden leg, which, by
book or crook, he kept constantly filled with
wbisky for the benefit of himself and his
thirsty friends.
Bartholdi'g statue of Gambetta, now
being raised at Nice, represents tbe patriot
standing and holding in his band the torn flag
of France, wbich he bas just picked off the
ground. The imperial eagle, with which tbe
stnff was tipped, will be seen lying at his feet.
In front of tbe pedestal tbere will be two alle
gorical figures representing Alsace-Lorraine.
Prof. Schnitzler, in Vienna, the other
day, exhibited a patient suffering from 'tuber
culosis of the larnyx. who had been treated
with Dr. Koch's lvmpb with singular results.
Tbe patient's condition had improved under
the treatment, but shortly after improvement
was noted tubercular swellings bad developed
on bis nose, which reached an enormous size.
It is said that in Paris twice as many
crimes are committed by persons between the
ages of 15 and 20 as by those between 20 and 40.
In one year minors are credited with 30 murders,
39 manslaughters, 3 parricides, 2 poisonines, 41
infanticides, 4.212 blows and other physical in
juries, 23 cases of incendiarism, 133 of theft,
80 of immorality, 458 of attempted theft, and
H,StS2 of other misdoings.
Mercer countv, Ky., is very much
worked up over tbe ravages of dogs among
sheep. Within the past 10 days, as sb own by a
list with the names of the owners, 144 head of
fine sheep, valued at 31,330. have been Killed by
dogs. Many others, not on the list, have suf
fered, and other losses resulting from the kill
ingof the ewes at this time run the total loss
up to an enormous figure.
The new Maine Enforcement League,
he object of which is to secure a better en
forcement of the liquor law, and of which
Senator Stewart, of York, is President, i pre
paring a bill whicb will soon be introduced,
providing for tbe incorporation of tbe new body
and allowing it to hold property to tbe extent
of 100,000. Tbe object of this is to allow the
league to create a land to secure legal aid la
the prosecution of offenders.
The Henderson Belt Line P.ailroad, in
Kentucky, has outstripped all the older cor
porations in the rapidity with which it accumu
lates damage suits. The road is less than a
mile lone; and is not yet six months old. but it
Is already defendant in 22 damage suits, for
amounts varying from 500 to 3,000. Tbe Hen
derson gentleman wasanout rigbt who. in reply
to a letter from a Iriend in Webster county
complaining of hard times and asking how be
"could make some money." responded, "Coma
to Henderson and sue tbe Belt Line Railroad."
The grave of Henry Clay's daughter, at
Lebanon, O., is said to have been shamefully
desecrated by relic hunters. This daughter
died while Mr. Clay and bis family were on
their way to Washington by stage coach many
years ago. She is a girl 12 years of age, and her
loss was a sad blow to ber father, who at tbat
time was so pressed with business cares tbat he
was compelled to bury tbe body and go on to
Washington, intending some day to return and
remove it to Lexington, Ky. Bnt he never did
so. and tbe grate1 may be seen yet in the old
bnrial ground, surrounded by wire fence.
A secret service agent is after the man
who counterfeits $20 bills entirely by hand with
pen and ink. Showing one, be said recently:
"The maker of this bill issues one of them at
long intervals, so that be cannot depend on his
counterfeiting for a living. I feel sure, there
fore, that he takes so much pleasure in out
witting the Government officials that be is will
ing to spend time tbat ought to be worth several
hundred dollars to him in making one paltry
20 bill. It is as likely as not tbat be is a man
who holds a respectable place in his com
munity, and that his arrest would cause a sen
sation. A Chattanooga (Tenn.) woman claims
to be the sister of Red Cloud. Sitting Bull's
Lieutenant. She says tbat when 3 years old he
was stolen from his parents, who then resided
In Wisconsin on an Indian reservation, and all
track of him was lost for IS years, when he was
found among tbe redmen. He had forgotten
his own name, but remembered that of his
father and bis dogs, and bis identification was
complete. He remained with his family a few
weeks speaking English imperfectly, but
French fluently. But all his sympathies were
with his adopted tribe, and he rejoined tbe
Sioux.
Many Western towns Omaha, in par
ticularare filled just at present with itinerant
venders of souvenirs of the fight at Wounded
Knee, and for a moderate Investment of cash
the Eastern tenderfoot can procure any sort
of a relic, from "tbe legglns tbe Medicine Man
wore wben be tbrew up a handful of dirt and
ordered tbe red devils to fire" to a ghost-danca
shirt. A genuine article of this sort brougbt by
a Chicago newspaper man from tbe battlefield,
wbere It was stripped from the back of a dead
squaw, is made ot white cotton cloth, embroi
dered with yellow. It is covered with blood
from tbe wound tbat caused its former owner's
death, and is a most gbastly trophy.
WAIFS FROM WIT-LAND.
There are people who would a good deal
rather be the whistle or the bell on a steam ecglna
than to be one or the driving wheels. Jiam'i
Horn.
George Give me a kiss?
Luclnda-Yes, If yon will elve me what you
haven't got, never had, never will have, and yet'
can Klre.
Georse Jerusalem t "
Iiuclnda No-a husband, helloes of tne West.
"Let me fly to your bosom," the said in
mock trajric tones. ...
"1 don't want any flies on me," he protested.
"But I am only a little fly," she nrged.
'I hope not," he said critically, and she scolded
him for being so smart.- Washington Post,
Wait Now, if I understand correctly, tho
first principle or Socialism Is to divide wlthyosr
brother man.
1'ottJ Then you don't understand it correctly.
The first principle or Socialism Is to make your
brother mau divide with you. Indianapolis Jour
nal. 'In weakness tbere is strength" means
that tbe weaker the tea tbe old man takes the
stronger he'll be wben he goes home in the mora
Inz.-Vallas, Tex., Eevx,
Let tbe g. o. p. wear mourning,
While tbe bloody shirt It tears.
Vitriolic John Jeems Ingalls
Hath crawled up th golden stairs.
New Orleans Sew Dttta,
"Great soap-ladles! ic See those 'lc
snakes."
What! Are you so drunk as thatl" , si
'No, sir 'lc l'.-n not drnu lie. Those, are
'lc water snakes." Buffalo Express. -
He (looking at the clock) Ah! time' files!
She (yawnlnj)-tes, ana bow fw emnlite'the
excellent exaaiple which Time .set,--JteJor
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