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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-14
THE BALLOT BILL BUTCHERY.

| SCRANTON Republican: The Republican ma
| jority in the Legislature cannot afford to
| perpetrate any foolishness on the subject of
ballot reform; if they persist in the foolish
and shortsighted policy of the Senate Com
mittee on Elections the Republican party
will have to pay very serious penalty.
| DU BoIs Courier: The Republican party has
| nothing to fear from honest and sincere
| ballot reform, but it will have a great deal
| to fear if the Republican Legislature should
pass the deformed bill prepared by the SEN
| ate Committee, and undertake to call it q
fulfillment of the party pledge on the SUBJ
jeet.
ALTOONA tribune: Senator Mylin, of Ian
caster county, who is said to be slated for
Auditor General, is a member of the Senate
Committee which has destroyed the Baker
ballot reform bill. Unless he can show that
he is an honest, earnest friend of ballot re-
form he had better not run for State office
this year. The fate of Delamater would be
nothing to his
READING World: 1t is not at all surprising
that ballot reform is in danger of being eff
fectively killed so far as the present session
OF the Legislature is concerned. The people
have been foolish enough to send lot of
politicians there whose interest lies in STAY
ing OF the day when free and secret ballot
will put an end to the nefarious political
trickery that for so long has had q grip upon
the State.
CHAMBERsBURG Valley Spirit: The fine Ital-
ian hand of the bosses is apparent in the
amended Baker ballot reform which was re-
ported from the Senate Committee Its en-
tire features are so changed-since its intro
duction in the House-that it would puzzle
the gentleman from Delaware county to rec
ni1n II
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-14
A LEGISLATIVE MISCARRIAGE.

The Commonwealths of New York and
Pennsylvania have companionship in
misery as regards their legislation, with
some unimportant variations of detail
| New York got ballot reform law that was
not the genuine article, and did not succeed
in getting road law at ALL Pennsylvania
has its ballot reform measure turned into
something exactly the opposite of reform,
and succeeded in getting road law passed
which had so little of the promise of road
making that the Governors veto of it yes
terday was received with tolerable salts
faction by supporter: of the original bill
The grounds of the veto, given else
where. are such as are permitted by the
weakness of the bill; but if the measure
had not been juggled they would
have been inadmissible. 1t may be correct
to consider bill which would turn over
State funds, to be spent according to the
old method, as an appropriation for be-
nevolent or local purpose But if the bill
had provided full guarantees for building
adequate and permanent State highways
not even Robert E. PattiSon could have
afforded to go on record as calling that a
local purpose. The criticism that the bill
attempts to repeal some hundred laws
without naming them, as required by the
Constitution, is a sufficient commentary
on the slovenly manner in which our leg
islative work is done. On the other hand
it is necessary to remark that the reference
to the fact that the bill passed the House
by bare majority is something outside
the province of the Governor.
Commenting upon the defeat of the road
bill at Albany the New York JotrnDI OF
Commerce argues that the proposed appro
pTiation would be ''the best possible in
vestmeQt the people of this Commonwealth
could make;;" and it adds that "a county
that should lay out large sum of money
under impartial and judicious supervision
in the construction and maintenance of
improved highways would furnish the best
boom possible to speculation in real estate" "
This is exactly the position which The
DISPATCH has held throughout its agita-
ton for road improvement. 1t started the
movement, and has kept it up on that |
principle. But it is vital that the expendi- |
ture of the State shall be 'under impartial |
and judicious supervision for securing per- |
manent and durable highways. The fatal |
facility the Legislature has for spelling |
it takes hold of is exemplified by |
the way in which it wiped out from the |
bill whatever guarantees there were that |
the State funds should secure good roads. |
Under these circumstances the support
ers of real road reform can hardly blame
so miserably fails to meet the purposes
which inspired it. The actual realization
of the reform must await the time when
the people of Pennsylvania get sufficiently
in earnest to elect legislators with capacity
to pass needed legislation without turning
it into q mockery.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-14
CHARITABLE LOG-ROLLING STOPPED

The Governors veto AK is evidently
ground to such an effective edge that the
authors sofill-considered or shady legislation
may well tremble for the fate of their off
spring at the Governors hands, Besides
beheading the maltreated road law, Gov
ernor Pattison served notice in the shape
of a veto message yesterday thath he will in
flict the same crusher on all appropriations
for charitable institutions in excess of the
amounts recommended by the State Board
of Charities This reduces to futility the
efforts of members to log-roll for their pet
institutions and enlarge their appropria-
tions by skillful trading. Hereafter all
efforts in that line will have to be confined
to the Board of Charities. Fortunately,
as the Governor says, the fault of that
body is not in the line of making appro-
priations too small, but it is rather in the
other direction. Under the new rule the
Governor has established it is probable
that the funds will be more equitably dis
tributed than under the rule of legislative
fayoritism.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-14
SUCCESS FoR THE FESTIVAL

The opening of the May Festival has
already demonstrated the hold first-class
musical renditions have upon the people of
Pittsburg 4 very large attendance at both
concerts shows that the public has lost
none of the interest, in sustaining such
events, that has marked nearly all festivals
held in this city for the past ten years.
There is as usual some talk heard among
what Mr.. Arnold termed the PhiliStine ele-
ment that the programmes are too heavy.
1t is undoubtedly the case that many
of the renditions contain a musical quality
somewhat abstruse; but a comparison of
these programmes with those of the earlier
musical festivals will show that the public
accepts and enjoys grade OF classical
music of far severer rank than they did
a decade ago. Itmight have besn possible
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-14
MANAGERS OF CHARITIES MEET.
President McCulloch Pays Pennsylvania q
Tribute as to Its Insane.

Il
Tribute as to Its Insane.
INDIANAPOLIS, May l3.-The Eighteenth
National Conference of Charities and Cor
rection began its sessions in this city to-day.
Governor Hovey, Mayor Sullivan and others
delivered addresses of welcome to which
Governor Campbell and others of the Con-
ference suitably responded. James Whit
comb Riley gave a character study in the
form of q unique poem.
The leading feature of to-day's proceedings
was the address by o. C. McCulloch, of In
dianapolis, on State and National registra-
tion of the dependent, the defective and the
delinquent classes. AS to the insane, he
said: Massachusetts receives weekly re-
ports from all lunatic hospitals, and has a
detailed notice in case of death by violence.
In New York the State Commissioner of
Lunacy registers all insane, with such
changes as may occur. Minnesota keeps no
central record of the insane. Michigan re-
ceives quarterly reports from asylums and
yearly reports from the insane in county
poor houses and elsewhere. New jersey
keeps only the usual hospital records. Wis
consin receives no special reports and keeps
no registration. Pennsylvania has very
careful system of registration of its insane,
in the office of the Commissioner of Lunacy,
dating from 1888; receives also reports of DIS
charges, paroles and deaths. Illinois keeps
lists of It's insane, but not very thoroughly.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-14
PEOPLE PARAGRAPHED.

MACMAHoN and Bismarck are the only
prominent actors in the Franco-Prussian
wa" remaining alive.
TENNYsoN, poes and masculine milk
maid, declares that one-third milk and two
thirds water is the proper mixture.
MISS FLORENCE SPEED, who was married
in Louisville to Mr.. Josiah McRoberts re-
Gently, is greatniece Of the poet Keats.
CHAUNcEY M. DEPEw is the latest vic
tim of the New York Stu,. That journal calls
the genial talker a Yankeebritannogerman
ohibernamerican.
MARSHALL HALsTEAD, D, of the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette, it is said, will soon wed
Miss Glenn, the charming daughter of Presi-
dent Glenn, of the Commercial Gazette Com
pany.
GUY DE MAUPASsANT, the French au-
thor, is man of 40, a cynic and q hypochon-
driac. In manner he is eccentric and brusque
even toward women. In his literary work
he is a prodigy of industry.
Mrs. KATE PIER, of Milwaukee, is a
lawyer and court commissioner; her husband
is n lawyer, and one of her daughters has
been already admitted to the bar and two
more are studying with the same end in view.
Miss EDITH BOYD, who is about to marry
Gustave Coquelin, a brother of the. two
Coquelins, is not an American lady, as has
been stated, but the daughter of Captain
Arthur Boyd, who was lately retired from
the British Life Guards.
REV. C. H. WooLsToN, of Philadelphia,
says he had for years preached about life
and people from the standpoint of mere the
ory, but a newspaper reporter gave him a
hint four years ago, and he dropped theor-
izing and became practical.
GEORGE M. PULLMAN has given to the
st. Luke's Hospital, Chicago, what is prob
ably the most complete hospital ward in the
world. He gave orders that it should be the
best and the most beautiful place in the
world forsick and crippled children. The
ward consists of two rooms, and has accom-
modation for % little ones.
GENERAL VLANGALLY, the newly-ap-
pointed Russian Ambassador at the Quirinal,
is most experienced diplomatist. The
General isnot a military officer, but is ac-
corded the rank of General in compliance
with the regulations of Peter the Great, by
which officers of the civil service in Russia
hold corresponding military rank to that of
their military conferes in the Tchinn, for gen.
eral service under the State,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-14
WITH WILD WITS.

A certain queen of Hanover once upon
time, when travelling. stopped at an inn called
''The Golden Goose.r She remained two days to
rest herself and retinue, and received ruch ENTER
tainment as was needed, and for the same was
charged 800 thalers. On her departure the landlord
besought her with obsequious Difference to favor
him with her patronage on her return.
IF you desire that, mein lieber mann, - replied
her majesty, 'you must not again take me for your
sign. ''-ArOondn
AT a big shooting party in England,
Gerard Start, now Lord Arlington, was one of the
guests. One of the party who had not succeeded in
making himself popular, said to him ON the MORN
ing of their departure: ''Would you mind telling
me, Start, what you generally give these Fellows in
the way of tips?'' Certainly: III tell you with
pleasure. / give the gamekeeper so much, and the
butler so much, etc.. but ~ he added, IF you viii
allow me to give you piece of advice, If were in
your place, wouldn't give them anything at all.
You'll never be asked here again! What's the
usc?''-Ti1tth.
He started in with many chip,
or whtes-a dollar-reds or twos.
Alas! From him each one did slip,
And now he has ease of blues.-Lqe.
Dunder-What chilly May!
Head with thoughts looking backward)-Chi
1 should say She promised 10 be my sister last
night.-Chtcu0o Times.
The Elderly Bachelor-Emma, 1 look
upon you with the fondest of feelings. Ny heart is
yours; viii you be my wife?
Emnia-Have you asked my mother yet?
ITO be sure-2o years ago-but how did you hap
pen to know itg''-F1ie0ende BIatter.
He is very discreet man who never says
either too much or too little.
At q business meeting the chairman announced.
Brother Skinner submits his resignation as q
member yof this society. What action shall be
taken upon it?''
~ move you. sir, - said one of the paramenta-
ria1s present. that the resignation be accepted,
and that a vote Of thanks be rendered to Brother
skinner. .'i-Loloeu Citizen
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-14
Obituary Notes.

WILLIS D. WARD, leading citizen and Repub-
lican of Madison, Ind, is dead
LLOYD BARBOUR, Member of Parliament for
Paisley, Scotland, died yesterday.
j. B. TOMBSTONE, the English dramatist and
provincial actor, is dead at the age of IS.
WILLIAM A. KELLY, well-known morocco
manufacturer, of Lynn, died Monday. aged II.
REV DIR. j. d. WICKHAM, class of 1915, Yale's
Oldest living graduate, died Tuesday, at Man
chester, VT, aged "a.
CYRUS WHITE died Monday at Rockville, Conn.,,
of congestion of the brain. He was q well-known
envelope manufacturer.
> MARIO PRoTH celebrated French author editor
of the Mort d. OrJe and founder of the Revue Inter-
rationale COsnaO1'otfte. Is dead in Paris.
ALBERT F. CARTER, one of the best known
scientific agrculturists in Northern New York,
died at Watertown Friday, aged so years.
ROBERT E. EsTEY, retired actor, died in Chica-
CO. Friday, of pneumonia. He was a years old,
and formerly acted in Boston and other cities.
JOHN ROACH, City Controller of st. Paul since
1864 dropped dead on car as he was EN- route 10 q
railway station to meet his wife. He was go years
old.
ID. SPERANzA, a physician of note throughout
the West died recently in San Francisco, of heart
disease He was horn In Italy 20 years ago, and
had written many ballads and several operas.
REV. c. V. SPEAR, of fOberlin, o. died at Constan-
tinople Sunday. For many years he was principal
of WaDlewOod Seminary, mt Pittsfeld, Mass He
was the founder of ''Spear Library at Obern.
PROF. ALEXANDRA EDMUND BECQUEREL
physician and author, died Tuesday in Paris. Prof.
Beequerel was born in Paris on March a. 1890. He
was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences
in July, 1863.
EBENEzER HINDs, WHO died in Randolph, Me-,
Sunday was the Oldest resident of that town. being
92 years of age. He was one of the leading ship
builders of the State and 1t Is estimated that he
constructed more than 20 vessels.
PAUL. MORA, who died In London recently, was
an Italian by birth, and of late years had conducted
the music at the South London Palace. He travelled
I'm this country years ago with Adelina Patti, his
father, Joseph P. Nora having brought the Patti
family to AInerica.
JUDGE De WITT C. QUIAIBY died at his home in
Parsippany N. j., Tuesday afternoon of pneu-
monia, after an illness of three weeks. He was 60
wears of age. He was commssIOned Lay Judge by
ex-Governor Green four years ago. Previous to
his appointment he had never occupied county
Office but had had several local offices.
CORPORAL SHERMAN WooDHULL, OF Company
E of Mt. Pleasant died of acute spinal meningitis
ut $40 O'Clock yesterday evening. He had been
suffering from grip for some time, and sunday
evening became Unconscious and remained so untn
morning. From that until the time of
bis death he was In semi-conscious condition
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-14
PITTsBUEG, THURSDAY, MAY IA, 1891
THE RICH SCHOOL EXPLOSION.

The sudden tempest which has broken
into the calm that has prevailed over the
Central Board of Education draws atten-
ton to two matters. One is of little
moment The other is so important to the
conduct Of the highest department of the
public schools as to call for decided action,
though the step taken by the board in
diSciplining its faculty was of rather too
sweeping character.
The first point brought out by the affair
is the persistent survival among the youth
OF the High School that wit and personali-
ties are closely allied. The existence of
the idea may perhaps be excused among
the young people by the opportunities they
have for observing outbreaks of the same
delusion in much older people. The effect
of education ought to be TO correct the
error that it is funny to speak of ''fellow-
students. members Of the faculty and fish
mongerS, - or to hold ont the promise of "a
chrome of the faculty. as a consideration.
But the methods taken to restrain these
antique attempts at humOr show an utter
failure on the part of instructors to learn
how to guide the young idea into more
genuine and original realms of humorous
fancy. 1t is certainly not in the line of
liberal education for an instructor to break
out into q rage with the pupil, and to de-
wise a cumulative system of humiliation
for her to revenge that lapse into thread
bare humOr.
1t is clear, unless the facts have been
IL,
the High School faculty involved in this case
can be of little value the real work of in
structiOn. Whether this makes it neces-
sary to discharge the whole faculty is a
more doubtful question.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-14

and Mobile Register are favorable specimens
of the Democratic organs with independ-
ence enough to disapprove the unfair and
partisan act of the Democrntic Legislature
in Michigan for the election of Presidential
electors by Congressional districts. There
is no doubt that this legislation was passed
to gain partisan advantage, just as was the
case with the force BILL Such legislation is
always unfair and the organ which ex-
poses the unfairness of its own party is q
public benefactor. The example ought to
inspire some of the Republican organs that
are praising these outspoken Democratic
papers to show similar frankness with re-
gard to the Republican policy of creating
pocket borough States simply to manufact-
ure Republican electoral votes.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-14
AN ITALIANS OFFER CLAIM

Signor Corte, the italian Consul at New
Orleans, who is going home, but who has
not yet gone, makes good use of his oppor-
tunity to draw some attention to himself.
But he can be forgiven for this, as he is
not the first man who has done the same
thing since the lynching startled the world.
Nor would his remarks be worthy of no
tice were it not for his reference to Mayor
Shakespeare and the leaders of the mob.
His statement that he saved the lives of
these gentlemen, however has a
most peculiar sound, and the aver
age reader will say that the Signor
is a stranger to the truth, or that
any law yet remaining in Louisiana should
be applied to his disaffected countrymen
who happen to be subject to it. The
lynching should not have occurred, but
killing the Mayor and the mob leaders
would not make bad thing better. Two
wrongs do not make right, and Sicilian
vendettas are not popular in this country.
1t is hoped, for the good name of his
countrymen, that the Consul's insAuations
are but promoted either by desire for
notoriety or by indiscreet potations of
grape nectar from his native land
Tur Puffola na,f,s,, RraotIx-a Eo<.Js
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-14
THE gain of seats in the Cortes by the

Spanish Republicans from over forty
leading towns, including Madrid, shows a
steady progress in the work of that element
in Spain. The Republicans of to-day are
very different from the Republicans who
held the control of the Government after the
downfall of Isabella, just as the Government
of the Queen Regent is q very different one
from that of the dissolute grandmother of
the present King. Instead of resorting to
revolution the supporters of popular govern
ment have been content to accept the repre-
sentative institutions of a constitutional
monarchy and to trust to education to do
the rest. Recent success shows their wis
dom and promises well for q steady and
peaceful revolution in Spain.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-14

SIR GEORGE NJ. PULLMAN has had the
courts go back on him, both by a decision
against his vestibule patent claim and by
that of the Supreme Court supporting the
Pennsylvania tax on his business. Conse-
quently Pullman has no more use for Judges;
but he captures the administration by
paying the expenses of the Presidential trip
and counts himself even.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-14
THE svmpathetic strike" has been a

THE sympathetic strike " has been
phenomenon of trades unionism which is
sharply disapproved of by the press at
large. But when the eighty firms composing
the New York Lumber Dealers Association
lock out all their men at once in order to
force the end of strike affecting only one
of their number, in what material respect
does it differ from the sympathetic strike?
Some of the combinations of employers
seem to be very successful in demonstrating
that they are ready to take steps as bad in
principle and mischievous in practice as the
most wanton strikes and Doycotts.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-14
WORD comes from Vienna that Primo

WORD comes from Vienna that Prince
Karl Lechinstein has been arrested for
swindling his servants, but that he pleads
for release with the promise that if let off he
will "emigrate to America" There might
be objections on our part to this infraction of
our immigration laws, if it were not for the
extreme eligibility of the titled swindler to
confer the title of princess on some am
bilious American heiress. That would be
the most successful swindle of his career;
but it is to be feared that he would find
many willing victims.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-14
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Rev. DIR. w. W. Newell.

Rev. DR.. William w. Newell, one of the
most successful Presbyterian clergymen in his
State died Monday in Andover, Mass, aged SO
years. His chief pastorates, previous to his going
to New York. were in Brighton, Mass, in Boston
and in Syracuse, but his most important work was
done in the Allen Street Presbyterian Church, in
New York. DIR. Newell had been Moderator of
Synod. Vice President of the National Temperance
Society, and prominent supporter of the Evange.-
ical Alliance and other organizations of similar
character. Dr. Newell often contributed to relig-
ious periodicals. and also wrote several books which
met with public favor-among them Continental
Peace, 50 ''The Rescue '.The Christian Mer-
chant,'' sketch of the late William E. Dodge,
License or No License' and ''Revivals-HOw
and Wheu.'f.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-14
Mr.. ARKELL's declaration that he is

the wicked partner in those anti-Blaine edi-
torials leads contemporary to remark that
Mr.. Arllell appreciates the value of q good
Some people do consider it
q good advertisement to exhibit oneself in
the character of a donkey with bray of
national extent. Past experience renders it
no injustice to suppose that Mr.. Arkell's
idea of advertising is of that sort.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-14
WHILE we have not succeeded in getti

WHILE we have not succeeded in getting
a road law that will do any good, it is a com
fort to know that rural communities with
the necessary enterprise to create good roads
for themselves are able to do it. Some por-
tions of Delaware county, this State, are
already moving in that direction, while Pas
sale county, n. j., has let contracts for build
ing 100 miles of macadamized highways. The
rural section that creates good roads for it
self will gain an impetus in prosperity that
will very shortly repay the cost.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-14
Jeremiah G. Harris.

Jeremiah G. Harris, who in 1883 edited
President Jackson's personal organ, the Nashville
Union, died in Nashville last week. In 1913 Mr..
Harris was commissioned by Daniel Webster to
visit Europe US commercial agent. When Mr.. Polk
became President he appointed Mr.. Harris dis
bursting officer of the navy which Office he filled until
his death. He served with Commodore Perry in
the Mexican war and was with him again as pay
master of the United States feet in Japan.