The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-03
ME w.YOR ms.


HfVt0 Otf Oaon correspondents
NEW YORK. July 8. 1859.
In spite OF the decsiomof the Philadelphia Ledger
that the 5th OF Jty is not legal holiday we intend
TO try what we fan do in New York. Every kind OF
hre-cracker hes been bubbng forth fire during the
past month, and pyrotechnic scafolds are already
up in the open spaces around the public parks.
Does not the Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty
to Animals include children in the list OF animals
II so It ought to do something in punishment Of the
teachers in private schools who, every other week.
are made to figure in our police courts on the
charge OF cruel noggngs administered to their hap
less pupils Corporal punishment is prohibited in
the public schools OF New York, but the law has not
reached the private schools yet, though some OF the
scenes transacted In the 'whipperies" OF our first
class establishments might well call in its aid. The
love OF whipping is morbid passion, which grows
by Yhafit>feeds on 'Dayid Copperfeld" says, in
his autobiography, that the schoolmaster OF his
youthful days was never so happy as when he
had chubby boy tight in his grasp, raising
wheals upon his tender flesh with the other. sup
pose there is certain piquancy In feeng the strug-
gllngs OF the victim, and in the OF power the
nagelaton creates In the breast OF the nagellaor.
Rousseau says, in his Confessions" that when he
was boy he used to enjoy being logged by his
governors and the articles lately published In English
newspapers about the "Birch and the Boudoir" go
to prove that at certain schools, in some OF the
private ones OF this and other large citles and In
certain families where Puritan severity Is the order
OF the day, castgation Is elevated into fine art and
combine the greatest pain and shame to the sufferer
with the most provoking piquancy TO the triumphant
inhictors.
The trials OF police officers occasionally develop
some curious cases. For instance, one man was yes
terday fined two days pay for sitting on lsh-stand
another was fined an equal amount or playing with
fellow-officer in private yard OF course such
tribes as clubbing man without cause and locking
him up in the staton-house "dont count" and de-
ducti0ns are omitted
hoxyo
Hammonton N. j.. and considering that it has
already supplied us with one million quarts think
that doing pretty we'll 1t is said that the raspberry
and blackberry crop will be very large In the same
quarters
why should the public be so greatly surprised at
the conduct Of Edward B. Ketchum Although
there Is nothing new under the sun, tn ings
so extremely antique to have the appearance OF
novelty and for hundreds Of years In the history of
this wicked world there have been repentant sinners
b who have proved their repentance in manner that
left doubt upon the minds of even the scofrers.
Mr. Ketchum is a high-toned criminal, and admire
high tone whether 1t occurs in saints or sinners. AS
rule, people who repent do not make good crim-
nails Their sin finds 'em out too soon, and your
criminal ceases to be interesting as soon as he
begins to whmper, unless the sinner be a
she, and not a he, and possesses the
art OF weeping without getting red nose. AS long
as young Ketchum is unwilling to escape from the
hands of the law upon technical requisltion and
don he shuts us all up, our sardonc smiles vanish,
and we have nothing to say, excepting that he
evinces moral spunk Nevertheless it must be in
teresting to notorouy sip then VIGOROUSLY repent,
and feel that the world generally will bear you no
N grudge when your prison doors are unlocked and
you walk forth to join your mates again.
Think what a load is of the breast when you once
more face the world clean man, with all your past
atoned for and life before you once again! l
don't speak OF the repentant Magdaens now The
1offo of Tho av0r ia an hat no Vpt
purified it, and the puny sin Of the woman who falls
clings to her to her last hour, while the wretch who
causes is loved and feted by virtuous
I women who "know all about him." Not to moralize,
however, 1 think Mr.. Ketchum, that notorious New
4 Yorkism, has done the right thing.
4 One OF the evening papers here has instituted
new style in seaside correspondence. 1t publishes
lafternoony short letter from some half-dozen
watering places, in which the various items are CON-
pressed each into two three lines. About twenty
Of these items are compressed into each letter,
80 that the effect OF reading them is not fatlgung
fashionable intelligence is boiled down to the most
thcandescent degree, and although people do say
hat the watering places whence they written are
lot hundred miles from the editorial rooms OF the
paper in question, but that they are manufactured at
that there is occasion for believing such scandal
wouldn't wish to be scandalous bless you what
ever else Twas.
The strike which recently took place among the
waters at the hotels here has unpleasant
reaction among the Biddes. The Bddies OF New
York were always the worst servantgas in Chris
tendom-worse than those OF Philadelphia by all
that is imaginable. They lead a more reckless and
hardening life, make more money and spend more,
and through the means supplied them by their
secret clubs, and the property they manage to
"lift" while in SERVICE live better when out OF
situation than while they are in one. The hope OF
getting good servantgirl in New York is wholly
chmerical. and some hopeful writer in a recent
number OF the Atlantic places his only faith in the
speedy importation Of the Chinese.
Quite thriving business is carried on in this city
by ladies who prepare fashion articles for news
papers and magazines. Indeed, IN some cases,
fashion literature pays better than romantic ltera-
ture does In fact all kinds Of literature begin
ming to be better remunerated. know OF one lady
who assists her husband to the amount of twenty
dollars per week, at the expenditure Of very little
toll and in these days, when marketing is not so
cheap as it was twenty years ago. and you fortu-
nate in getting cosy little house in anything like
situation for $500 or $4,000, twenty dollars per
week is not to be despsed. But then, to think how
much OF ones talk is made up of money gosslpngs
the oquacity of lucre though not disgust
ing enough to do hard work for hard cash without
talking OF 1t afterwards! ALI BABA