The New York herald., 1862-04-12
PENOGRAPHY.

How many splendid train OF ideas has been in
terrupted and lost forever by the tripping Of bad
pen! How many an editor, when the current OF
his inyective was flowing freely and he fatter-
ing himself that that article would do the work for
that horrible monster over the way, or the I'm
beetle Secretary or the "Great Reviewer of the
Potomac, y has suddenly found his page bespatter-
ed with ink, his speech with very hard words and
his "happiest vein' ruined for that day-all be-.
cause Of a bad pen.
How many merchant has lost q profitable bar
gain because in the correspondence that was lead.
ing to it, while writing the decisive letter he lost
his temper from using bad pen!
How many an accountant has ruined balance
sheet, the labor of weeks, by the unlucky sputter
ing ofa bad pen?
How much Of success in every pursuit Of life
above that of a hod carrier depends upon having
good pen, OF the millions Of men in the civil
lied world who use pen for two or three or more
hours day, to nearly every cne the possession
Of good pen is worth in salary.or in extra qua
ity or amount Of labcr accomplished, from one
hundred to one ed thousand dollars year;
while II is more conducive than any other mate
rial substance of the same size, which the wit OF
man has yet invented, to the exercise Of the
Christian virtues, as all will admit who have wit
provoked by an unlucky pen.
NOBODY CAN AFFORD TO USE QUILL
Who has any regard TO the amount of work
which live man ought to do in this world in case
he can find an equally good pen, which saves the
enormous expense Of time required to make QUILL
pens. In one year there have been sent from st.
Petersburg TO London n 600 600 of quilts No
wonder that the English people are Slow COM
pared with Americans. Where would the unvcr.
sal Yankee nation be in the scale of material pro-
gress if il had to white up 270000o0 Of qaills
every year?
NOBODY CAN AFFORD TO USE STEEL PENS
They are unequal, rarely good, and costly in
every way and yet nne-tenths OF the worlds writ
ing is done with steel pens. A single house in
birmingham located near the Birmingham Idol
Factory, turns out 1000 600 Of them every
year. horrible waste Of valuable metal. For
no man can write well with a steel pen and even
If he does find one that suits his hand after writ
ing an hour with it the action Of the acid in the ink
upon it, and its positive wear, will change its point
and temper and elasticity so utterly that it Is no
longer the same pen; and there are not ten pens
IN gross which viii suit any man who has even
lair degree OF delicacy of touch in writing. They
cost in actual outlay far more than the best Gold
Pens; they cost the inferior quality of work
produced with them hundred times their cost in
money.
NOBODY CAN AFFORD TO USE ANYTHING Brrr A cor n
Pen, TO be good Pen, must not only be good
while II ls new, but IL must be permanently good.
A steel Pen may be accidentally good but II is
only the accident Of an hour. To perpetuate the
good qualities Of Pen, IL must be made of a sub.
stance which will not be corroded by the acids OF
the ink, nor affected by the wear Of writing Cold
will resist these acids, and the iridosmin with
which all good gold pens are pointed, will wear for
generations.
NOBODY CAN AFFoED TO Use HANDMADE GOLD PEN
Because handmade Cold Pens are unequal in
hardness and spring and temper. II one side is
rolled or hammered a little harder than the other
ae must be the with all Pens made by hand
u win show it in some way by the point on that
tIA nfAl.t. H.
too, by the uncertainty with which the Pen
moves-the disobedience which it shows to
the will of the writer, sometimes slipping
over the paper SO easily as TO go far beyond where
IL 10 meant TO go, ard sometimes dragging 40
heavily rs to fall short of the intended mark or
making straight line when IL should make
curve. Besides, the hand processes require that
the metal should be worked in a state in which
u IS impossible TO bring out the elasticity of which
the metal is capable. None of these faults are
found in machine made Gold Pens
NOBODY CAN AFFORD TO USE A GOLD ZEN WITH TEE
POINT soLDERED ON.
The points Of gold pens are small particles of
uidosnium, which by all the minor manufacturers
are soldeTed 50 the gold. This solder = slowly
corroded by the acids Of ink and consequently the
points are sure to come Off sooner or later. When
pens are repointed the points are always soldered
on consequently IL is bad economy 70 rcpoint pold
pens. Exchange old gold pens for new ones the
points OF which have been Embedded In the melted
gold. so as TO become part OF u; they will never
come of.
NOBODY CAN AFFORD To Uss ANY GOLD yxy srr
NoRT0Ns,
Because Morton makes his pens by machinorv
most of which is patented and cannot be uecd -,
any other penmaker. He has $50 900 worth of ma
chinery employed in the production Of gold pcns
by The use of this machinery 81 worth OF labor
rolls out and hammers as many pens In bis factory
~ $50 worth OF labor in any other, and while an
-pene rolled out by rolls, the adjustments Of which
sre continually changed, arc variable ia density
ard sprng, and their variations are increased by
bano haminerng. Mortoas pens are rolled ont by
maChnery, which, In the most unskilful Lands
cannot produce anything but the best and most
cquahlc and uniform work, and are hammered
by . hammer which gives each pen the samc
number ol blows Of precisely the same force,
way. SO great importance does Mr. Morton
attach 70 the securing Of perfect control
gycr the elasticity ai the pen ihat he has ex-
pended more than "a ,0'o for Chat purpose, on tlo