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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-08
PITTsBURG. SUNDAY. MAR. S, 1891
HOW TO GET UNIFORMITY.

a bill has passed the lower branch of the
Legislature 10 create a commission for the
promotion OF uni ,ormitv in State legislation.
1t gives thGproposed commission III widest
scope of investigation, and contempiates that
il snail set in harmony with similar provl-
sions pending in the New York and Massa-
chusetts Legislatures. The matter is well
worth investigation, to show the need of
uniformity IN certain matters OF legislation
now hopelessly confused by the diversity OF
State enactments. But when that need Is
made plain, il viii be worth while for the
legislators as well as public to recognize
that the quickest and the only way to secure
the needed uniformity is that suggested by
the organization of our national Govern
ment.
First as pointing 10 that conclusion is the
fact that the task Of getting all the State
Legislatures in the Union to pass a uniform
law on any given subject is hopeless one.
Suppose that Massachusetts,, New York and
Pennsylvania should agree upon a uni form
divorce law, would not Rhode Island and
Delaware continue to hold out inducements
TO those desirous of escaping the marital
yoke? If The same States should agree
upon q uniform marriage law would New
jersey, as was done only the other day,
cling to the profits rom iugacious mar
riages? With A. different State Legislatures
comprising 81 different bodies, it is nonsense
TO talk OF getting the same bill on any OF
the subjects where uniformity is needed
passed by all.
The proper course is further indicated bv
the theory OF our Government that the sub
jects Of legislation, which it Is necessary to
have uniform for the whole country, shall
belong to the National Government, while
those that are merely local in their effect,
on which uniformity is not necessary, shall
belong 10 the State Governments. At the
formation of the Government certain sub
jects were ranked as local, which have since,
by the facilitation OF inter communication,
become national in scope. 1t was not
deemed possible then that the divorce laws
of one State could interfere with those of
the other; nor could the ramifcations of
business interests over the whole country
have been conceived which now make the
laws for the collection OF debts and the set
tlement Of bankruptcies in Minnesota a
matter Of concern to people in Massachu-
setts. But the theory was, very clearly, that
the division of powers should assign those
subjects on which uniformity is necessary to
the National Government, leaving to the
States those on which there is no such neces-
sitv.
This makes the proper course plain
enough. Let it be decided on what subjects
uniformity is needed, whether marriage,
divorce. business or corporate legislation.
When that conclusion is reached, agitate for
an amendment to the Constitution of the
United States, putting the power to legislate
in the hands OF Congress.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-08
BAD SORT OF PROMINENCE.

The murderous affray at Wheeling yester-
day, in which one prominent" citizen shot
and killed another prominent" citizen,
comes in time to reinforce the lesson of the
recent savagery at Columbus, o. Bad tenn
per, bad manners and malignant disposi-
tion-all Of which the better civilization of
the community should have repressed long
before the explosion camn-were the moving
causes of the trouble at both places. There
Is always the mitigating thought that those
who suffer IN such breaches OF the peace are
OF a class whose numerousness NAV be abaued
without much loss or grief to the world at
large. Still il is anything but fattering to
the country, or even to the century, that
these disgraceful deeds of violence take
place. Ia the cities of the East, and in the
older communities Of Europe, such perform
ances are seldom If ever heard OF. The
"prominence" which is won by quarrel
some disposition is Of very low order, and
communities furnish indication Of their own
need for improvement in tone il they are not
able to keep It 50 lar in check that 1t does
not reach the stage Of killing on the streets.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-08
1Az1SEss VERSUS OPPORTUNITY

Bostoa's claim to the proud title, cath
ems of America" is in serious danger.
Brooklyn, hitherto known to the world rs
an overgrown suburb of New York, comes
to the front with a society for the develop
ment OF genius. Many and prominent are
the names giving out as belonging to the
new society; but the peculiar thing that
strikes one on reading an account of the
first meeting is the fact that three-iourths Of
these names are prefxed with either Miss or
Mrs. This peculisrity may not have any
deleterious influence on the fortunes of the
new organization. In fact it may be the
very reason Of success. Men have never
given much time to systematic develop
ment of latent genius. each individual look
ing out for himself alone. aud caring little
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-08
He Got Speaker Reeds Dose.

Nor was his own party unit in his support.
The session was marred by discords. and when
the usual complimentary resolutions came up
on adjournment the Speaker had an experience
like unto that of Mr.. Reed. of Maine. The ir-
repressible "Parson" Plummer, Of Crawford
then a Democrat, since Greenbacker, and
now leading Republican light in the Dakotas,
opposed them bitterly, character1zing the luck
less Speaker as having 'the vaulting ambition
of Napoleon and the intellect of a Blind
Tom"
Henry VI. Long. Speaker in 1879. was a most
efficient officer. He is now prominent busi-
ness man of Pittsburg. James l.. Graham,
Speaker in 1850 and in this, as in the two pre-
ceding sessions, the able Chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee, has the honorable dis
tinction of being on9 of four men who in the
past 100 years have presided over both branches
of the Legislature. The others were William
Bingham, the first Speaker: John Todd, Speaker
of the House in 1872 and of the Senate in 1916
and Butler b. Strang, already mentioned. Mr.
Graham was Speaker of the Senate in 1868, and
is the only one of the four who presided in the
higher body first the others having gone from
the House to the Senate.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-08
a LADY's GRATITUDE.
She Tells of Trying Position and Gives
Thanks for Help.

She Tells of a Trying Position and Gives
Thanks for Help.
There are some lovely men in the world, even
if they are scarce"
1t was a pretty girl who was thus philosoph-
ically minglIng optimism and pessimism in her
view of the less assuming half of humanity,
says the New York Herald She proceeded to
illustrate her position as follows:
THE other dag had to go downtown by my
self. 1 am not so very used to going down
town, and there is q preponderance OF mascu-
Unity down there that always scares me little.
This time went on the elevated road and got
off at Rector street. 1t was about IL o'clock in
the morning. and the train and the station were
black with men. There was not woman,
sister woman to be seen when the lace of my
petticoat caught in something Just as was
leaving the car, and with loud, triumphant
z-Zig ripped off 20 the extent Of about two
yards There was all this white stuff hanging,
and had to get rid of it some way.
81 stepped to one side and began to tear
the lace across, but the lace was as strong as
the sewing had proved weak; not thread OF 1t
would give. Every one of the stream of men
passing turned his head to look at me struggle
and could feel my face crimson with exertion
and modification. That kind of a situation
has hasheesh effect, and though it seemed
like hours / suppose it was only minute. till
gentleman, busily talking to a companion,
passed close to me, and, hardly turning his
eyes my way held out an open pocket knife;
LIlen ne Wdlkeu on very SlOWIy anu
absorbed in conversation. 1t was the work of
a second to sever that lace, roll it up in my
muff and return him his knife. My gratitude
was too deep to express in what the PLAYS call
the smooth, hollow phrases of society,". 1 am
not sure that opened my lips, but am sure 1
looked things unutterabie.
"He took the knife with just the slightest
bow. and touching his hat returned to his NUT
tons with his friend.
ut was little thing, you may say, but it was
Just the kind of little things that tests mans
breeding eqxuisitely."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-08
HELPS TO HILARITY.

An honored name-Jay Gould's on
CHECK Washington Star.
81 always get reduced rates on the rail-
roads tor my Indians, - remarked the travelling
Snowman.
How do you manage tIats'
Il yet them scalper'5 tickets. Puck.
Pompous Author Ito veteran editor)-
What would You advise man to do whose ideas
are in advance Of the tlmes!''
Veteran Editor (prOmptly)-I would advise him
TO sit quietly and wait for the times to catch
up--Drdks s Magazine.
Pastor-And what are you going to be
when you grow up, Rufus?
Mr. Tfcker-Rutus has expressed a determine
tion 10 join the clergy.
PastOr-Ah, you have chosen wisely nv boy,
1t Is noble calling to do good to the poor and to
spread the gospel. That. 1 suppose, is the reason
why YOU want to become Minister
Rufus-No. 'tain't that; it's because papa says
It's eOnfounded good Dusiness.--Smith and
GrdD'S Weekly.
"UghP' said the Indian, in disgust.
whats the matter, SwallOw-tail?'' asked the
agent.
''Blg Injun chase white man four mile. Want
scalp. Catch white man. Ughl white man
bald. ''-HdrPer's Bazar.
ooNTAGIoN AND CURRENCY.
'Tis said that paper currency
The RISKS of life enhances:
Yet mortals always seem 10 be
Prepared to take their chances.
-sse Ierk CsRsiasnt,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-08
PITHY PERSONALITIES.

PRINCE HENRY, the German Emperor
brother, is an expert acrobat.
DIR. JENNIE NJ. LozIER has been unanf-
mously elected President of the Sorosis So
ciety
REV. DR.. MCVICAR, who oticiated at the
Astor- Willing wedding, is said to have received
$4,000 fee. He is also said to have rece1ved
considerably less.
SENATOR EDMUNDs is very fond OF
horticulture. and finds pleasant summer recrea-
tion in working among the fruit trees at his
home in Burlington, VT.
QUEEN MARGUERITE. OF Italy, owing
to the great distress now existing in Rome, has
ordered that 200 soup tickets be daily distributed
to the poor in her name.
MARQUIS RUDINI, Italy's new Premier,
was Mayor of Palermo at the time when Presi-
dent Lincoln was assassinated, and had one of
the streets of the city named after the great
martyr.
Mr.. BLAINE is out for constitutional"
every fine afternoon. His favorite walk is one
OF the many roadways intersecting the reserva-
tion back of the White House, and frequently
It's extended around the monument.
COUNT HERBERT BISMARCK has invited
Signor Crispi, Italy's ex-Premier. to visit his
to go to Germany as soon as he has got his own
affairs in order, and then the two old statesmen
will have good talk over past times
GENERAL JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON, the
devoted friend of General Sherman ever since
he surrendered to him during the war. and one
of the pall-bearers at the funeral, is a striking
figure at Washington, where he holds Gov
ernment position. Although over 80 years old,
he is alert and erect, and, like his departed
friend, he is a welcome guest in social circles.
GENERAL JEAN LOUIS DE NICoLAI,
who died last month at the Grand hartreuse,
France. was a remarkable character. Twenty
years ago Baron Nicolal was Governor of the
Caucasus. After the capitulation of Shamyl
he went to the South of France to recover from
his wounds He there made the acquaintance Of
Monsgnor Dupanloup, entered the Carthusian
novitiate and became a monk. Now the great
Russian commander and ex-aid-de-camp Of
Gar Alexander IL lies in the tranquil sanctu-
airy which, like the knights of old, he chose in
he midst of a turbulent and brilliant career.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-08
HOME HEATHESISSI.

This Is generally supposed to be Christ
ian country. It's church organizations are
rich and powerful, and its mission funds are
numerous. 1t is, also, a country which
proudly boasts of universal education, and
school houses are provided tor by taxation in
every ward and district. Yet the other day
4 very striking proof was presented that the
educational and outstanding influences Of
the land do not penetrate throughout all
ranks of society.
A girl was put in the witness box at a
trial in Camden, New Jersey. the other daV-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-08
Was Speaker of Both Houses,

Butler B. Strang, of Tioga, was Speaker in
1870 afterward served in the Senate. ana was
the last Speaker of that body. the office being
abolished by the Constitution of 1874. and that
of President pro tenn. substituted. In many re-
spects be was one of the ablest men in the Leg
islature for years. He was subsequently sp-
pointed to territorial Office in the West, and
died under painful circumstances.
Since 1873 Allegheny county has had four
Speakers, the first being w. Fl. Mccormick, in
1874. He was afterward United States District
Attorney. A lawyer of brilliant attainments,
his death, few years ago. was generally
lamented. In 1915, s. f. Patterson. of
Allegheny, served as Speaker The
tidal wave'' spoken of before
gave the Democrats control of the House. and
Mr.. Patterson, who he'd no previous legislative
experience. was placed in the chair. 1t proved
a seat full of thorns. The Republican min ority,
led by the fiery Charles s. Wolfe, of Union, and
John L Mitchell, of Tioga. since United States
Senator and now Judge. did much to make Mr..
Patterson's life a burden.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-08
SOME FAMOUS HARPS.
Instruments That Have Been Tuned to
Songs of Love and War.

Instruments That Have Been Tuned to
Songs of Love and War.
Harper's Bazar.1
For years controversy was rife concerning
the age of a celebrated harp now in Trinity
College, Dublin. The result of much specula-
ton and correspondence places its date in the
fourteenth century, with margin of a few
loose years before after; all of which is quite
satisfactory to people in general. There is a
cast of this antique instrument in the South
Kensington Museum.
Next on the list of honorable years given to
sweet and tender service may be seen in the
highlands of Scotland, the Clarsach Lumanach,
also called Lamont's Clarshoe. This venerable
harp was included in the belongings of a lady
of the Lamont family, who took it from Ar
gyleshire about the middle of the fifteenth GEN.
tury on her marriage into the old Perthshire
family of Robertson of Lnde.
This Lamont Clarshoe is described as having
80 strings, tuned singly, ''but the scale was
sometimes doubled in pairs of unisons," like
lutes and other instruments popular at that
time
The Dalway harp in Ireland inscribed Ego
sum Regina Cithararum," and dated 1921 is
said to have had pairs of strings in the center
only. These were of brass wire, and were
played with pointed finger nails. The
Italian contemporary "arpa doppia" was en-
tirely upon the duplex principle but with gut
strings, and was played by the feshy ends of
the fingers
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-08
A SAD and maIign fate attends the effort,

A SAD and malign fate attends the efforts
of the Philadelphia Congressman toward states
manship. For several months the Times has
been attacking them on the lofty ground that
they did not get enough of the divide from the
appropriations for the benefit of Philadelphia.
1t headed its article with the standing query:
What Have They Done?' The other day an
incautious organ of the Republican Congress
men exultantly declared that it would be seen
what they had done when the new mint bill
was received. But now it comes out that while
they got the mint authorized they forgot to get
an appropriation for it. The renewal of the in
quiry, What have they done?" shows the rocky
road of statesnanship in search of appropria-
tious.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-08
ALONG DE sOTGS ROAD.
The Route Disclosed by Various Interesting
Discoveries.


Birmingham, Ala, Age-Herald.1
l have letter from H. s. Halber of Mis-
sissippi, an admirable scholar and gentleman,
descriptive of the roadway which De Soto
opened and used in the lOwlands of the Tom
bigDee below Columbus, Miss. Trees stand in
the old road 300 years old. 1t has two track
ways parallel with one another for De Soto's
cannon carI age wheels. Indians travelled
single-6le, making paths. Roads were made
only by white men using wagons that made
parallel ruts or tracks. Such was the old road
in the native forests through which Mr.. Hal
bert traced De Soto. In this same road at
Yorkville. in PIckens county. Ala. a chestnut
tree was blown down on Sunday in 1S4S at
South Carolina" Baptist Church. The
tree was certainly 300 years old. ApOthecary
scales were found beneath its roots on which
were inscribed the date. "l531," and names
Ferdinand and Isabella" Five miles further
toward Tuscaloosa a nest of Spanish horse
shoes was fouGd-unearthed oD the farm of
William Richardson and in the same old high
way. These finds were all in the same
double-tracked road in which Mr.. Halbert
noted the great old trees of 800 years ago. We
do not know that De Soto was at Tuscaloosa
(Carthage), where there 80 great mounds
within SQUARE mile. Here was fought the
terrible battle of Cabusto. and this should be
the name of Carthage, was intended by
those whites who named the place originally.
have the photograph of stone on which are
engraved the words
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-08
THE BOYS WHO DO THE WORK.
A Story Illustrating the Enterprise of tn
Modern Reporter.

An ex-city editor of a New York Paper says:
I believe the average reporter has got more
natural pluck than any other class of workers
in the world When Father McGlynn was ex-
communicated some years ago. OF course the
thing was to get Archbishop Corrigan to talk,
ami that was what he would not do One day
/ said to a reporter known in the office as "Old
SIeuth," why don't you interview Archbishop
Corripan?' He mnsed few minutes and said
he would try. Iknew he had a plan but did
not ask him what it was preferring not to ham.
per MIN with suggestions. This is what he did
as he informed me afterWard. The Archbishop
was hearing confessions at certain day and
honr AZ the Cathedral. Waiting among those
who wished to confess and have their sins alb
solved was the reporter. When his turn came
he marched briskly to the confessional, where
the Archbishops face was partly visible
through a small aperture. and said: "Arch-
bishop. 1 am q reporter on the Daily Blank.
What have you to say about the MoGlynn ex-
communication?" The Archbishop drew back
and requested the reporter to withdraw, but the
latter handed in his card and told the prelate
that only an interview could induce him TO
move. Two or three priests helped the re-
norter to leave. That reporter is wealthy now.
owing to a few daring speculations he made
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-08
What q Baby Is Good for.

One of the newest tricks is the baby trick.
Now the baby trick is worked by a bevy of la
dies who desire to secure seats in a car and do
not feel like trusting to the ordinary gallantry
of the opposite sex. 1t has been noticed by the
shrewd woman of the times that men invariably
give seats to women with children in arms,
whereas they only sometimes yield resting
place to members of the weaker sex.
AS the result of this three or four women can
work car quite successfully If they have but
one baby between them. The woman with the
child as soon as she has been accommodated
with seat passes the infant to one of the
ISLANDERS, and as as she is provided for
those who are left take the baby and the men
do the rest.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-08
New Yorkers Don't Investigate Their Town.

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The casual visitor to New York will see more
of the great city in few hours or few DAYS
than the typical New Yorker sees during life
time, 1t is only when your New Yorker is
showing his country cousin around, that he
really does the town. As for going sightseeing
on his own hook it is something the resident
of the metropolis never does. 1t is curious
fact that there are large classes OF people re-
siding in particular sections of the city who
rarely or never go outside of their own baili-
wick on any pretext whatever. The clannish-
ness of our foreign population accounts for
this to a considerable degree. although it IS not
confined to those who speak foreign languages
Habit is the real cause. This habit is so
strong that the man who lives in Harlem; that
is, who does business there also. will not come
down in New York more than once OF twice a
wear although it costs but cents and is but a
few minutes ride. There are residents of the
East Side who lave never been west of Broad
way. There are thousands of families residing
in the attics on fac water fronts of New York
who have never been dozen blocks from their
own neighborhood. On the other hand not one
lady or gentleman resident of the fashionable
West Side, or of Fifth or Madison avenues out
of a thousand, has ever been seen in those
localities where these other hermits live Your
fypical man about town eXhauStS his imagina-
tion when he has done the theaters or clubs
and wound up at a cafe, popular restaurant or
chophouse You may find him and his kind in
their little narrow circle of places almost any
night during the week, or, in fact, during the
year His life is never more varied than that
of the dwelers of the attic or Chinese, Italian
and French New York. This ignorance of the
CITY in which man lives and in which he was
born strikes you very cOnIically at first, but
when you come to think OF it, it is set aside as
n matter OF course.
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Knows Charley WoIfe,s steel.

E. Reed Myer, Speaker in 1877. of Brad
ford. lives at his old home IN Towanda.
B. L. Hewitt, of Blair, Speaker in 1851,
an able lawyer and good legislator had a
term not altogether pleasant Charley
Wolfe was again in the House. and the en-
counters between him and the Speaker were
more noted for ygor than decorum. MIR.
Hewitt was a candidate for the Senatorial
nomination in 1888 but when "Y our Uncle John
Lemon" is a candidate in Blair county some
one is hound to get left, and that year it was
Mr.. Hewitt.
John E. Faunce, of Philadelphia. who pre-
sided over the House with eminent fairness
during the regular and extra sessions of 1888
and who was for years the leader of the Demo-
cratic side. is practicng law in his native city.
Mr.. Boyer is the only Speaker ever elected
State Treasurer. What the future has in store
for him and his genial successor Speaker
Thompson, time will tell. 1t is enough to say
that both are gentlemen worthy the confidence
of the people and the suhrages of their party.
HENRY HALL.
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Much Truth in This.

North American Revlew.1
great deal of the insanity of the day is the
result of defective education, by which smat-
tering of knowledge in regard to many things
is acquired. while nothing is thoroughly
learned. A feeling of gravity. therefore. which
is inherent in all mankind, is developed to an
inordinare degree, and every child is taught to
regard himself as somebody, when, in fact, he
is nobody.