New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-09-27
Topography.
Nobody Can AFFORD TO Use n Bad Pen

How many IL splendid tiain Of ideas has been in
tenurted tnd lost forever by The tripping Of bad
penl How many Nh editor, when the current of biz
,nvective was flowing freely, and be was fattering
himself that thar article would do the work for "tbe
Last Of Newspaper Generals" OF The " Military Die.
taorship' or the Great RecoDstructer Of Cab
meis" has eucdtny found bic page bespattered with
ink, HE speech with very hard words aud his hap
pest yen' ruined Tor that day-all because of bad
pen.
How ma1y a merchant has lost profitable bar
gain because in the correspondence that leading
70 it, willie wiring the decisive letter, he lost bis
temper from asiug bad pen
How many Ill accountant has ruined balance
sheet tie labor of weeks, by the unlucky sput,er-
ing Of bad pen
How mach Of suocets in every pursuit of life above
that Of hod-cTrier, depends upon having good pen.
OF lie millions of men in the civilized world who
use pen for two or three or more hours day, to
nearly every one TIE possession Of good pen lie
worth in salary, or in extra quality or amount Of
labor accomplished, from one bundles toone hundred
thousand dollars year, while it is cOniuciye
than any o'ber material subFan.e Of the size,
wsch the witof nan hos invented, to tbeexercse
of tie Christian virtues as all will admit who have
witnessed he profanity, silent or spoken, which 10
provoked ty An unlucxy ZEN
Nobody Can Afford to Use a Quill
Who has any regard to the amount Of work which
hive man ought to DO in this world in case be can
Md an equally good pen, which saves the enormous
expense Of time required to make quill pens. In
one year, there have been rent from St. Petersburg
to London q coo, 900 Of qnills No wonder that the
EDgiish people ire SLOW" compared With Amer-
csns' "her. would the universal Yankee Nation
be IN TIC 'cAle VI material progress, where would
have been s monitors and 2J-inch guns If il had u
white mp u 100000 OF quilts everv vear1
Notody Can Afford 90 Use stee, pc,.
They are unequal, rarely good and costly in
every way, and yet nine-enths Of the worla's
wiring il douc With steel pens. single bop.e IN
Birmingham, located near the Birmingham Ido
Faaory, tufDs out 90, COG, $50 of toern every
year. A Horrible waste Of valuable metal For No
man can write well with steel pen, and even il be
does fad one tba, suits lis hand, after writing az
hour with IT, the action VI the acid 10 the lux upon
It, ana its positive wear, Will change It's pont an
temper aud elasticity utterly, that II il no longer
TIE pen. ana there not ten pens in groe-,
which viii ,u, any man who bas even fair degree
Of deicacy Of touch in writing They cost IN acIus,
outlay FAR more Than the beet gold pens they cost
u The interior quality Of work produced with them,
hundred unes tleir cost ia money.
Nobody Can Afford 10 Use Anything but n
Gold Pen.
pen, to be good gen, must not only be good
while Is If new, but 1t mast be permaBently good
seei peo may be accidentally good, but il is ouly
be accident Of IN hour. To perpetuate the good
assiass % a ssD. u puss " made Of . substance