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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-25

"Do you consider teaching your vocation?'
| A reporter of the Kansas City Star, supposed
| himself off duty when, in the most casual way
in the world. he put this question. The young
| woman's answer put him back in the harness
| again. She met the question with unexpected
seriousness.
II have been asked that question many
! times" said she suddenly thoughtful, land I
| have always evaded direct answer, for have
| never yet been able to settle the point to my
own satisfaction. Sometimes, when find my
class apparently hanging on my words SO to
speak, and every face sparkling with interest,
if not with intellect, l inwardly smile and
write success upon my mental tablet. An
hour so later, when l return to my sheep,
metaphor1cally, and attempt to draw out few
of the facts am so sure of having implanted,
am often almost parayzed by the results.
Imagine yourself spending period on the
| subject of coral and volcanic islands and then
having one of your brightest pupils inform you
that a volcanic island is one where the natives
carry the volcano across the land to the sea in
more territoryr What could I have said to
have produced such nightmare of thought in
that innocent mind? And, once having pro-
duced it, can ever effectually efface itf
"Then. again." continued the teacher, warm
ing to her subject, "having lab0red for weeks
| on practical hygiene, 1 am informed that the
stomach is IL feet long and made up of in
Vulnerable small bones and many large ones
that often make us feel very uncomf fort abe,'
or that the best way to stop an artery from
bleeding is to tie rag around 1t and hold it for
half an hour; if it does not then stop bleeding,
send for doctor or try some other way;' or that
all the left side of the body contains good
blood, and the right bad blood and have the
brighe pupil cite as proof the fact that the chart
is red on one side and blue on the other; that
there are two kinds Of perspiration. proper. or
invisible, and improper or vulgar, called sweatr
'Shall go on and tell you how they have
imbibed historic facts, such as Jefferson's hav-
ing bought Alaska from the Indians for s24 for
the sake of fish and ice, or that the parties to
the French and Indian war were the French
and Canadian Indians, and that they neither
won nor lost: that Great Britain helped US to
gain our independence; that the Republic on
the Western coast of Africa is the Congo Free
State discovered by Stanley as a home for des-
titute and prosecuted meu:' that our Constitu-
tion was adopted in Paris in l776;' that George
Washington married a buShing damsel named
Martha Custard:' that the three forms of gov
ernment in the United States are the Aristoc-
ratic the Democratic and the Republican,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-25
LAND TRANSFER REFORM.

There is movement in Illinois for the
appointment of a commission to investigate
the adaptability to that State of the Torrens
system for the registration of land titles,
referred to the other day as under consldera-
tion in the Massachusetts, Legislature. In
New York the effort to reform the present
cumbrous methods for the transfer and
record of real estate has gone much further
in the direction of adopting Mr.. Dwight 81.
Olmstesd's system of indexing titles by
blocks.
Both reforms have the same general pur-
pose of making it easier to determine the
title of real estate, while the present system
necessitates special and expert training
The Olmstead system is, however, no more
than single very cautious step in the form
of the block index system. Under this
system, In determining the status of any
especial piece of real estate. the searcher's
labors are very much simplifed by the tact
that ne can go at once to the index of tine block
in which it is situated, and there he will
find all the references affecting that block.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-25

comparison, that wherever in Europe one
halt of the tonnage that is awaiting the
Pittsburg and Lake Erie Canal could be seen,
a canal of equal or greater expense would be
promptly built. In France thousands of
miles of canals are In operation for heavy
ireights, and the costof maintenance instead
of being zoe per ton, as critic Of the canal
improvement has alleged, is shown by
French experience to be about one cent per
ton on the probable tonnage of the canal.
The example of France in deepening,
at a cost of s13O.0OO, 600, the canal
from the Bay of Biscay to the
Mediterranean simply to save the voyage
around the Spanish peninsula, and of Ger
many in constructing the Holsteln Canal to
save the similar voyage around Denmark,
is remarkable evidence how far behind
Europe this country is in furnishing inland
navigation when there is any hesitation
about project of tine importance and value
as the canal from the Ohio river to Lake
Erie.
With the example of Europe before us,
and the knowledge that to extend lake navi-
cation to Pittsburg will maintain Western
Pennsylvania as the iron center of the
Western hemisphere, Pittsburg should unite
all her powers in the effort OF securing the
commencement of actual work on the project
at the earliest possible period.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-25
TAXATION A LIVE TOPIC.

That the tax question is beginning to be
appreciated in all quarters as one OF
wide and tender interest just now, is shown
by the debate over the State revenue law at
Harrisburg yesterday, and particularly by
the lively and enter tanning placard CRITICS
ing the measure, which was circulated quite
freely through the Commonwealth yester-
day. This placard is supposed to issue
from the corporation interests which the new
revenue bill, under granger inspiration,
makes contribute about double as much as
hitherto for the State Treasury. 1t calls
with pathetic fervor upon every citizen to
protest against the bill because of its sin
quIsitorial character" and to try to get 1t
killed in the Senate.
Only the other day we pointed out with
what lively step the State government
was arraying itself alongside the last Con-
gress in its demands for bigger appropria-
tions. Very little less than S25, 900, 600 re-
presents the aggregate which is asked by
the State government at this session of the
Legislature. Though the operation of the
Act yesterday discussed is so little under
stood that its author, Mr.. Taggart admitted
in the House that he ''did not and would
not understand it until the Supreme Court
gets through with it" and alike mistiness as
to its effect prevails quite generally-the
fact seems to be clear at least that the
railroad corporations are to be drawn upon
heavily to make up thel appropriations
which the Legislature means to vote. The
revenue acts which preceded this were
also 'inquisitorial." and so intricate
and unequal in operation that few
of the taxpayers who were compelled to
contribute, as for instance under the famous
three mill provision, made any pretense of
understanding more about the subject than
than that 1t was necessary to pay. The
shifting of the big portion of the burden to
the corporations this year may have one
good effect. They have hitherto controlled
legislation very much in their own interests
at Harrisburg, and were relatively little
concerned for the general taxpayer. Now
that they are sharply affected, they are al
ready beginning to see that they have in
terests in common with the general tax
payer. This interest is to limit governmental
expenses to what is necessary, in place of
making the annual appropriation bill gen.
eral grab-bsg for the oficeholding class and
for the innumerable philanthropic and
eleemosynary enterprises which are spring.
ing up all over the Sta~.
The question is serious one, but it is not
isolated. There is most decided tendency
to swell all sorts of expenditures in Federal,
State and municipal governments. The
purse Of the taxpayer is regarded as sort
of Aladdin's lamp, which needs only to be
rubbed by legislative enactment to produce
any quantity of new money supplies to mul-
tiply, embellish. and make at once attractive
and profitable the functions of government
for those concerned therein.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-25
Rothschild's Maxims.

A practical and helpful gift from a parent to
a son would be the following alphabetical list
of rnaxims, printed or written as heading to a
calendar, or framed and hung upon the wall of
his room 1t is said that Baron Rothschild
had these maxims framed and hung in his
house:
Attend carefully to the details of your business.
Be prompt in all things.
Consider well and then decide positively.
Dare to do right fear to do wrong.
Endure trials patiently.
Fight life's battle bravely, manfuly.
Gonot into the society OF the vicious.
Hold integrity sacred.
Injure not another's reputation or business.
Join hands only with the virtuous.
Keen your mind from evil thoughts.
Lie not for any consideration.
Make few acquaintances.
Never try to appear what you are not.
observe good manners.
PAY your debts promptly.
Question not the veracity of a friend.
Respect the counsel of your parent.
Sacrifice money rather than principle.
Touch not, taste not, handle not, Intoxicating
drinks.
Use your leisure time for improvement.
Venture not upon the threshold of wrong.
Watch carefully over your passions.
Extend to every one a kindly salutation.
Yield not to dscouragement.
Zealously labor for right.
And success is certain.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-25
GENIUS VS.. COMMON SENSE.

A somewhat inap7opos comment on the
erratic qualities of Anna Dickinson's genius,
moves the Washington Post to break out in
indignant paragraphs at the faulty of ordi-
nary mortals who dare to criticise the ways
of genius. SIN this" it exclaims, "a note
of warning, sign post bearing this legend:
Beware of genius Poe, Byron, Keats,
life, to like reward" Which is the first
time that we ever heard that Miss Dickin-
sons ill-advised attempt to make stage
heroine of herself was equivalent to the con-
sumption of ardent spirits, absinthe and
opium which appear to be considered BY
our cotemporary as the marks of genius, in
the quartet to which it refers.
'It took several centuries to get to this:
Mediocrity lamenting talent" declares the
Post in an ecstacy of scorn. Why not as a
mere matter of reciprocity, since talent as
represented by the Post takes it upon
itself to contemn mediocrity. Moreover, in
view of the fact that common sense in the
conduct of the affairs of life is mediocrity as
compared with the distinguishing marks of
the genius in Poe, Keats, Shelley and
Byron, it may be seriously urged that such
expOnents of mediocrity as Milton, Addison,
Scott, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Longfellow
and Whittier, who lived clean and prosper
Gus lives, can well afford to lament the
qualities which prevented these whom the
Post names as its models from equaling
their own great careers.
After which it is only necessary to re-
mark that whoever supposes that when a
genius makes fool of himself. the foolish
ness is necessary part of the genius, makes
a grand display of his ignorance with regard
to both common sense and genius.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-25

THE story of new troubles with the Sioux
turns out to be caused by speeches at the coun-
Gil in which the Indian chiefs somewhat peril
nently pointed out that all they had got were
promises; that their rations were still on the
starvation basis, and that agents whose honesty
they doubt are still kept IN place. The Indians
may be unreas enable to raise row because
political promises are not kept. The civilized
portion of the community rarely thinks of
making trouble over small matter like that.
But in view of the fact that recent experience
has shown that it is far cheaper to feed the In
dians than to fight them, it should be urgently
suggested to the administration that some
steps be taken for backing up the liberal sup
ply of promises, with slight proportion of
performance.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-25
THE EXAMPLE OF EUROPE.

A comparison Of actual canal enterprises
IN Europe with the Pittsburg and Lake
Erie project is made in a communication
from an expert contributor in another part
Of this paper. 1t is shown that while ship
canals are either in operation or projected
by nearly every one of the leading Govern
ments of Europe-many of them, at far
larger cost than our proposed canal, only
one has larger tonnage awaiting it than
the Lake Erie project, and that one does not
effect anything like as great an economy in
freight charges.
The point is also made very clear by this
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-25
OUR MAIL POUCH.
Anxious About the Road Bill.
Editor of The Disnafch

Anxious About the Road Bill.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
have been waiting and reading your paper
every day in hopes to see that the SO much
talked of road bill would be passed and go into
effect as soon as possible. but have begun to
think that our Legislators are lot of old
women and the sooner they are put out the
better for the people. They are thinking about
appropriating S300000. but are in no hurry to
give and to get our country roads fixed up,
something which will benefit the whole COM
munlty and be a blessing to US all. think it IS
shame both for the country and people to
have such roads, The other day saw party
road two horses could haul that very easily. but
this man had to have eight horses. What do
you think that load of hay would cost before
thing else. All farm product is bound to be
high priced. A ROAD CRANK.
PITTSBURG, March %.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-25

z II and 40. The one coming next to re" in
number of times in use is "a" which is used
80 times while the letter in question is being
used 120 times. The poem which has caused
the above digression is entitled:
THE FATE OF NASSAU
Bold Nassau quits his caravan.
A hazy mountain grot to scan;
Climbs Jagged rocks to spy hi, way,
Doth tax his sight but far doth stray.
Not work of man nor sport of child
Finds Nassau in that may wild;
Lax grow his ,ints, limbs toll in vain;
Poor wight! why didst thou quit that plain?
Vainly for succor Nassau calls,
Known Zillah that thy Nassau falls;
But prowling wolf and fox may 10y
To quarry on thy Arab boy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-25
FUNNY FELLOWS FANCIEs.

sanso-what is going on in society, old
man?
Rodd-spring clothes chiehy.-Esr0 York Her
aid.
"Last evening I saw you with your head
on Harold Arcber,s shoulder" Her husband
was looking her squarely in the eye, and MS voice
had cold. hard ring in it,
81 have no coubt that you old' sne repned,
with affected nonchaance.
.sAnd then you took his arm and placed it about
your waist?''
''Yes,''
"WeII. ', he went on, ''you want TO stop IT.
have told you twice about It, The stage manager
saws that YOU ought to fling yourself impetuously
into his arms He doesn't like your deliberation.
II Won aren't careful you'll lose your place in the
company and then what will We do?''
That night she flung herself impetuously, as DE-
rected ana domestic peace once more dwelt In
the little household Washington Post.
ALIcE's PUZZLE.
''Mamma, here's question for you,
thas always puzzled ms.''
Said our little Alice with
Look Of deep perpIexity:
How is 1t that when I'm dressed
Wear my hat and frock and shawl,
And when poor old chckie's dressed, she
Has got nothing on at all?''
-PAiLadelphtG Times.
Millieent-Don't you think our new min
lister is just too lovely, introducing those new
high churcn ideas?
Madge-Yes; but he ght to have better taste
than to wear vestments which don't harmon1ze
with the coIors of the altar carpet.-Brooktyn
Eagle.
Editor-Grubber has been with Us
dozen years or more, but I'm afraid we shall
have to let him go.
Business Msnager-what's the matter with
GrubOer?
Editor-He has got to thinking We can't rnR
this paper without him. Chicago zrtos1<
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-25

The reports of race troubles in Oakla-
homa have foundation in the determination
of some of the Bourbon boomers to prevent
negro colonists from taking up lands in that
Territory. Last week band Of white regu-
lators made a raid on colored settlement at
Kingfsher. and further disorders are threat
ened. Fortunately there is no doubt of the
power of the United States to interfere with
such exhibitions of race hatred in Oklahoma
The administration will fall short of its prin-
ciples ifit does not use the troops to bring these
regulators to a very sharp and realizing sense
of the supremacy of the law.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-25
Mr.. GEORGE w. CABLE is alluded to

Mr.. GEORGE W. CABLE is alluded to
by the Baltimore Herald as having voluntarily
expat-Iated HIMSELF from Louisiana, and as
showing by his denunciation of the New Or.
leans lynching the qualities of renegade. As
Mr.. Gable is still citizen of the United States
the Herdld's theory of expatriation is evi-
IDENTIFY that of the ante e-belum State sovereign.
ty. In addition, as Mr.. Cables expatriation
consisted of an honest expression of his views
on the race question in the South, the effect of
the Rerdtd's sectional Bourbonism will be to
cause wish among intelligent people that the
South had more "renegades" of Mr. Cables
stamp.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-25

The new Indecrat Senator Kyle, of South
Dakota,i lis uoted as saying that trusts give more
thorough workmanship. better facilities and
cheaper product, and that therefore the farm
ers must combine to form trusts on their prod
ucts. With the exception that trusts do not
give either more thorough workmanship, bet
ter facilities or cheaper product and that the
farmers might as well try to lift themselves
over the moon by their bootstraps as TO restrict
competition in agricultural products Indecrat
Kyle is entirely right. That is, the farmers
should cooperate so as to secure for themselves
cheaper supplies, better facilities and more
economic production.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-25
England's Noted Dead.
To the Editor of The Dispatch.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
In reading Edgar L. Wakeman's article on
Lord Byron's grave, I wished he had gone fur
ther and told of the statue of Byron which was
twice refused admission to Westminster Abbey,
and is now in Trinity College library, Cam
bridge, England. 1 lately saw an article stat
ing that England was waking TO the fact that
many of her illustrious dead were buried in
Kensal Green Cemetery. l had as great a
search for 1nackeray's grave as E. L. Wake
man had for Byron's. 1 found it at last in
Kensal Green, covered with a stone slab and
overgrown with English ivy.
KATHERINE VAUGHN.
Allegheny, March 2l.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-25

to the disposal of their own share OF the re-
funded money.
The money should not be expended for the
benefit of particular place. to the total ex-
clusion of every other part of the State.
That. however, is just what the New York
ers are after, as the monument would be of
no benefit to any city but their own. 1t is
to be hoped that they will be disappointed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-25

MAYOR GLEASON, of Long Island City,
has made another stroke for fame by suppress
ing circus that did not come up to his standard
of good show. This Mayor has put himself in
evidence as decided and unconventional re-
former. in various ways; but his determination
that the circuses shall gain public patronage
simply on the promises OF the show bills will
strike an answering chord in the popular heart.
The Mayor has done SO much in the line of get
ting up lively circuses on his own account
that he does not propose to allow any compet-
ing rings to fall below the standard.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-25
Charles Chickering.

NEW YORK, March M.-Charles F.
Chickering. the we'll known piano manufacturer.
died last evening at his residence No. Fifth
avenue. An illustration of Mr.. Chickering's
business integrity is found in the case of the miser
Paine. who. while distrusting all the world, did
not hesitate TO deposit his hoardings in the care
of Mr.. Chickering, never asking for receipts
Finally Paine died. and then, to the surprise of
everyone, the veteran iano dealer announced
which had been left in his care by Paine. This
sum Mr.. Chckering turned over intact to the
m astOuiSled heirs,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-25
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Patrick Mccarthy.

Patrick Mccarthy died at his residence
at Braddock yesterday afternoon at O'Clock.
''Paddy,' ~ as he was familiarity called. was one
of the most popular conductors running out OF
P1ttsburg. On the Pennsy system there was no
better known railroader than the deceased. and
his worth was appreciated by the officials. and
he was esteemed by his associates. He was in the
employment of the Pennsylvania Railroad for
over Is years. and latterly rap on the Braddock
accomm odation. He was taken sick with the grip
a short time ago. but the disease developed into
pneumonia and he Succumbed. He was but IS
years of age and a man of fine physique. He was
native of Braddock, where he leaves a large
circle of friends,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-25
Unitarian missionary Moyement.

Rev. DIR. ]. G. Townsend, founder of the In
dependent Congregational Church of James
town, and also of the Unitarian Church of this
city; Prof. Henry Barber, of the Meadville
Theological School, and Rev. D. w. Morehouse,
of New York City, Secretary of the Middle
States Conference. propose to est ablsh Uni
and Youngstown. o. Unitarian literature is
widely circulated, and is given freely to all who
fOr
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-25
A Remarkable Poem,

The following poem of three stanzas of four
lines each has often been alluded to as one of
the most unique of literary curiosities. says
the Chicago r. tbune. Each stanza contains
every letter in the alphabet, except the letter
&C." which all printers will tell you is one of
the most indispensable OF letters, its relative
proportion of use being l20 times to j Ak 8,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-25
An Error in Figures Corrected.

To the Editor Of The Dispatch:
Through an inadvertence in the writer's
copy, in the communication on Better Build
ing" published in Saturdays issue, the annual
fire loss in this country is placed at ST. 25O, ,0OO
when what was intended was sl25OOO. 600. an
amount 100 times greater. The fact is, in one
recent year the loss amounted to S14O, 600 900.
AS to the error. while it would be Dalpable at
once to those informed on insurance matters,
and while the context might indicate it to the
cursory reader. generally our argument loses
any force it might otherwise have by such
(unintentional) misleading statement.
PITTsBURG, March q B. B.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-25
An American Joke.

"What beautiful girl that Miss Bently isl"
exclaimed Charlie Gillers. "Whenever I see
her she reminds me of the American fag."
"Why2" asked Billers.
Her lips are red. her brow is white"
"Yes: but her eyes are brown" interrupted
Billers. "Where do you find the blue?'
"In the feelings of the man WHO proposed to
her and got rejected" answered Gillers, with
the air of one who spoke from personal knowl-
edge.