Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-02-26

SN~S
member with gratitude-would know
better than to attempt to legislate upon
the subject under the constitution as it
is. II he has introduced such q bill it
will never get beyond the committee
room. If he has proposed such an
amendment he has undertaken some
thing that he knows he cannot accomp-
lish, and, if I was not afraid of hurting
Zezula's feelings I would say he did it
purely for political buncombe. Before
any proposed amendment can get into
the constitution it must be. ratified by
the legislatures of two thirds Of the
states, and does any intelligent person
suppose that the legislatures of thirty
states OF this union will say that con
gress is more competent to legislate up
on the internal affairs of the state than
the state legislature? That is expecting
too much of selfish but egotistical hu-
mar nature. Relief will never come in
that way. But in my humble judgment
relief may be had through the states
themselves-not in one year, o in five,
but in a reasonable time-the subject
must be discussed by the intelligent men
and nm of the several states. Con-
ventions must be held and representa-
tives from all the states induced to at
tend. Views must be exchanged, mea-
sures matured and their passage urged
upon the legislatures of their respective
states. Thus, gradually, and in time we
may reach uniformity in our marriage
and divorce laws, and the evils which
Zezula SO graphically portrays, will dis
appear.
Now, MIR Editor, l have done what [
desired-expressed my views as to the
manner in which this reform must be
accomplished and 1 bid you and Zezula
good by. XANr1ppE.
Incompatabilitv of Temper.
EDITOR TRIBUNE: Why do "Zezula''
and "Xantippe" appeal to the constitu-
ton and Senator Kyle, when Rev. T.
Dewitt Talmage is much better au-
thority and has already rendered the
herewith opinion? "Let us have
peace" VALENTINE.
Rev. T. Dewitt 1almage: A dog and
cat were once married. But they had
lived in wedlock only a little while when
they began to scratch and bite each other
until all the dogs and cats of the neighbour
hood felt ~scandalized. The cat was ad-
vised by some of her friends, convened, we
might say, on the roof of a neighboring
WOodhOuSe, to sue for a divorce in the law
courts.
Ihree dogs were on the judges bench-a
Newfoundland, a shepherd dog and a rat
terrier, but the Newfoundland presided.
The case was called up. The galleries
were crowded. 1t seemed that family diff
ticulty arose about what is the chief ann of
life; the dog thought the hunting of foxes,
and the cat the hunting of rats.
While the trial was going on all the dogs
and cats of the community neglected their
work, and the foxes destroyed the chick
ems, and the rats %despoiled the partries.
"A large amount of correspondence be-
tween the W litigants was produced and
read. Private matters became public
property, The daily papers had extra sale.
Inc whole town laughed, and was demora-
llzed: Both cat and dog were ruined in
reputation.
The jury, made up of six dogs and six
cats who had not expressed any opinion
on the subject previous to the trial, were
charged by the great Newfoundland that
If they found the dog guilty, they must
bring in a verdict for the cat; but if, OH the
other hand, they found the cat guilty, they
must bring in a verdict for the dog. After
being IN q room together, in which the
jury fought like cats and dogs, they
brought in a verdict that because of dis
parity in temper and incompatability of
disposition, cats and dogs ought never to
be married.