Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-02
THE SOCIAL PROBLEM
Mr.. Bellamy'S Ideas Are Attracting q
Great Deal of Attention, -
THE EQUIVALENT OF AEARCHISM.
SslVini Took His Famous Death Act From
sScens in Hospital.
STORIES OF THE LATE RUFUS CHOATE
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE D1sPArcH1

STORlES OF The LATE RUFUS CHOAfE
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE D1sPArcH1
BOSTON, January S1.-The Nationalist
movement, so-called, has of late been re-
eeiving good deal of attention here, which
is justified, it is to be supposed, by the fact
that it seems to have gathered in 90 many
discontented men and women, who are more
or less consciously inclined to accept the
proposition whatever is, is wrong" and
who seize pom any scheme which is offered
with the promise of bringing about a diff
ierent state Of things. In the current At
tantlc Monthly not only has General Francis
a. Walker, who to the country at large is
generally known in connection with his work
IN the Census Bureau, taken up the restate-
ment OF old dreams which now goes by
the name OF "Mr. Bellamy's theory" and
with all seriousness shown how utterly fal-
lacIous is the whole scheme from the point
of view of practical common sense; but in
an inimitable bit Of satire DR.. Holmes, too,
has fling at the impossible and tedious
perfectiOns Of Mr.. Bellamy's social paradise
in picture of state in Saturn where
equality in all things prevailed to such
degree that to have a pocket would have
been looked upon as conclusive proof of an
intent to steal, since except for the purpose
of secreting i'll gotten gains no one could
have use for such thing.
On Sunday last Mr.. Edward Atkinson
took up the ball in an address before the
Free Religious Association upon 1.-THE In
terdependence of Man" in which he very
justly elassed the Nationalists with the An
arehists as tar as the logical outcome Of
their position goes. Both infame the poor
against the rich; both are totally at Vari-
ance with existing conditions and encour-
age discomfort; both teach that the indiVid-
ual is nothing. the State all; and
both are in their intentions thor
oughly dangerous to the State az it
at present exists. OF course it is to be
allowed that in the case Of the Nationalists
the intention is less consciously destructive
than in that Of the Anarchists, but this,
after all, only lets the former out on the
moral count at the expense of the intellec-
tual. The Nationalist pretend to be de-
lighted with the attention they are reeeiV-
ing, but the novelty is already wearing of,
and there will not be much more notice
taken Of them until they are able to prove
by some decided movement that they really
possess power and stability.
STORIES OF RUFUS CHoATE.
There are in circulation among the law
yers here good many stories of the late
Rufus Choate which are said not to have
been in print On one occasion in court,
when Mr.. Choate had no particular case, and
was manifestly talking with a single intent
to conceal that fact, Chief Justice Shaw, be-
fore whom he was pleading, at length lost
patience with the flow Of words, and inter-
ruPted.
not mean so and so?'
eyes, your Honor"
"Then why don't you say so?''
'1 should, Your Honor, "repl1ed Choate,
with his inimitable manner, ''if had Your
Honor's power OF expression"
On another occasion the Chief Justice was
for some reason still more annoyed at some
thing Mr.. Choate did or said, and admins
tered snub which was delivered with an
emphasis which the irritation of the moment
made rather more emphatic than was wholly
warrantable. Mr.. ChOate sat down i'm
mediately, murmuEing soto Yoce:
His Honor is perfect gentleman, but
he knows no law" a comment to which
Judge ShaW's singular eminence as a LAWYER
lent point.
sALvINI'S DEATH SCENE,
Now that Salvini has published his fare
we'll to America it seems to come home to
those who are fond of him that we have
really lost him. We know so well that we
shall never see his like, and that we are now
embarked upon that elderly course of say
ing to younger generation that they were
born too late, since they have missed him:
that we would fain disbelieve still that this
is indeed mis- last tour in America. When
he was in Boston, earlier in the season, a
friend, physician, said to him that he
could net in the least comprehend how an
actor could understand the physical aspects,
OF death so we'll as it was shown in the.
powerful death scene in ''La Morte CiYile'"
that Salvini did.
81 studied that death in the hospital" /"
the actor answered. 81 happened to see an
old man die there. He was an old priest
whose niece had left him to make a runa-
way marriage with man of whom he dis
approved. The grief which he felt broke him
down, and when they found at the hospital
where he was, that ne could not live, they
sent for the young couple to come and beg
his forgiveness before he died. was there
when they came. The old man caught sight
of them, raised himself up in bed, and for
an instant all his fire and force seemed to
come back; then it went out like the flicker
Of candle. That was where I learned the
death in La Morte Civile.'" "
THE GREAT ACToR's FINANCES.
SaIVini has of late years been ambitious
first for his art, which he loves in a way
which seems almost to belong to bYgone
age, SO single and intense is it, and after
that for his family. He has saved for the
sake of leaving them Independent, and il is
probable that his efforts in this direction
have been successful. He is, while in this
country, beset with all sorts of beggars,
whom he is too gOod-natured to deny; and
one of the droll incidents Of his last visit to
Boston was the call of an impudent youth
who insisted upon his buying tickets to a
drygoods clerks ball. In the evening of
that day saw him play "Ssmson," and the
absurdity Of his having two tickets to the
drygoods clerks ball came over me lust as
he was about to enter for the first time, so
that expected the play to be spoiled for mes
Fortunately he carries one away in spite Of
incongruous thoughts. ARLo BATES.