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The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-02
PAREPA-ROSA AND THE CHICAGO
ORPHANS.
From tho Cleveland Leader.

From, tho Cleveland Leader.
The Chicago papers seem quite out of hu-
NOR with Madame Parepa-Rosa because that
lady recently declined to sing in opera for
the benefit of an orphan asylum in that city.
MIR. Hess, her agent, explained, upon convey
ing the refusal, that Madame Rosa was hoarse
and overworked, and that though she felt
very kindly toward Chicago, she was at pre-
sent compelled to decline At this the papers
have very ill-naturedly reminded Parepa of
the fine audiences which Chicago has always
turned out to listen to her, and suggests that
gratitude for such earnest appreciation
should have taught the great cantatrice to
have yielded to SO slight request. None
of these malcontents seem to remember
that if Parepa has enjoyed large audiences
everywhere, she has given more as
has ever heard. The Garden City is not given
to investing its currency lavishly without
tolerably certain prospects of profitable re-
turn, and this principle obtains in music as
well as benk stock and real estate. While,
therefore, it would have been a gracious act
for Madame Rosa to have sung for the or
phans, it was matter in which she was fully
entitled to act her own pleasure without being
abused for it. Chicago has no better right to
blackmail singer or an actor than Republi'
can election committees have to demand OF
their local newspapers unlimited free printing
and advertising on the ground that Republ
cans are the leading subscribers to those
papers. just as every good newspaper gives
to its subscriber his moneys worth, SO Parept
gives full equivalent to the audiences who
buy seats at her entertainment. If the news
paper sees fit to advertise, or the cdntGtr5c
to sing, for charitable purposes, that is thei
own affair. In either case, it is free gif
which no one has right to abuse them TO
giving or not giving.
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WANTED-A POLICY.
Baltimore American.

From the Baltimore American.
With Andrew johnson expired the policy
of modern Democracy. That humble
individual" had one, but it failed to secure
from loss those who took lien upon it-but
it is hardly generous to revive such recollec-
tions At present our good Democratic
brethren are sorely posed. They want some-
thing to insure them, and risk on the life
of the party is what no company, not even
one of the buckrsm, curbstone new ones,
who will do almost anything for the sake of
business, will take. As for one against five,
there is a conviction that too much whiskey
lies around loose for risk and an accidental
is out of the question. AS for a marine
policy, none is ever taken on Salt river
craft.
Seriously, it is to-day the most woe-begone
specimen of party that has ever stood be-
fore the public. 1t is muddled about finance.
Its leaders would like to write ''repudiation, "
but dare not, for they know the temper of
the meh who must furnish the money for
their next campaign vii not endure that.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-02
SCANDALIZING RELIGION.

From the n. Y Commercial Advertiser.
We submit that it is about time for the
New York Independent to throw off the garb
surrounding it, and show its true colors. To
speak plainly, it has played the religious
dodge" long enough. Here is a journal
which, claiming to be religious guide to
point sinners to the straight and narrow road,
disseminates the most pernicious doctrines and
scandalizes the cause of Christ Under the
disguise of piety, this sheet openly advocates
the abrogation of the marriage ties, and the
union of ''affinities, inserts advertisements
which would be refused by a respectable secu-
lar paper, INDUCES in disgusting wood-cuts,
encourages ''free thinking" in the worst ac-
ceptation of the term, and in various other
ways seeks to break down the barriers of reli-
gion and morality, and to hasten the coming
of an era of unbridled license. 1t is emphati-
cally religious paper" with religion left
out, grasping the horns of the altar with one
hand and stretching forth the other to the
temple of the money changers What kind
of men are associated in the conduct of this
sheet may be inferred from the following let
ter, written by one of them to Mrs. McFar-
land, and read in court last Friday
'TKDEPENDENT OFFICE, NEW YORK, Aug. 29, 1866
My Dear Mrs. and:-Pardon me have been
at home for more than week, and my promise to
ed yoY se w nd IN e Sees
envelope with this note. and trust they will be
blessed to your spiritual comfort and edihcation.
They have been the means OF converting a great
many sinners, Of whom you are the chief among ten
thousand and the one altogether lovely and OF such
is the Kingdom OF Heaven"
We here have the managing editor of a
self-proclaimed religious paper indulging in
the most blasphemous language, and apply
ing to woman who was heartless, if nothing
more, Che scriptural term applied to Christ.
We having nothing to do with the religious
tenets of any one. We protest, however,
against men who boldly disavow their belief
in the holy writ claiming to edit religious
journals, and, under this guise, corrupting
the foundations of morality and religion. We
protest against men planting themselves upon
the watch-towers of Zion to make themselves
conspicuous, and not Him whom yeindeed do
not worship. We protest against men setting
themselves up before the public as teachers
and trainers whe privately ridicule religion
and amuse infidel social gatherings by deliv-
ering mock prayers upon the bended knee.
The Independent can say whatever seemeth
best to it, and resort to all manner of clap
trap for increasing its revenues. That is its
own business. When, however, the H1de-
pendent claims patronage and support as re-
hgious journal, it obtains money under false
pretenses, and deserves public condemnation
for SO doing
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SHALL WOMEN ATTEND CLINICS?

From the N. Y. Tribune.
We are all the more concerned for the
result of the election at the Pennsylvania
Hospital to-day, in which the right of
women students of medicine to be present
at the clinical lectures of that institution is
to be determined, since there is just reason
for serious fear that their banishment from
the clinics there will be followed by their ex-
clusion from Bellevue and other hospitals
throughout the country. This would be
deplorable result in every aspect in which we
may view it. The issue is of importance not
merely to the young ladies who demand the
right to the most comprehensive instruction
in the profession they have chosen, but to
society, whose security in large degree de-
pends on the thoroughness of the medical
education which is sought. There is cause
TO be glad, for this latter reason, that society
and not the medical fraternity will be called
upon to decide the question at the Philadel-
pbia election. AS we are informed, the con-
tIibutors to the Pennsylvania Hospital who
are to vote on the issne are largely mothers
and their children. ANY person contributing
the sum of thirty dollars to the hospital is en-
titled to vote for life in the election of its
managers and the decision of questions like
the one in ISSUE Many parents have made
contributions in the names of children still
minors, but these, we are told are entitled to
vote, and We hope will vote in the interests
of society for the admission of women to
clinics. The lady contributors have never
heretofore voted at all, but for the sake of
themselves and their struggling sisters. We
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accidents which would arise from the largely
increased traffic. This, in time, would lead
to the multiplication of tracks, so that rapid
express and numbering freight and cattle
trains might go safely and securely over the
same road, neither interfering with the bust
ness or the safety of the other.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-02
SPECIAL NOTICES.

negn AT THE PILGRIM YOU CAN BUY
Pilgrims Progress" 10 cents also, 'The Golden
Stairs" and my Bud in Heaven" sung by Mr. and
Mrs Hayes 4293t
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STEAMBOAT LINES.

FOR CHESTER, HOOK, AND
aU&tt% WILMINGTON.--Th steamer g. M. FELL
- TON leaves OHEsNuT sTRKET W HARE
at 10 A, NJ and 3 so P ID; leaves WILMINGTON at 6&
A, M and l250 p. M. Fare TO Wilmington 20 cents
Ohsstsr 9E H9Qk 70 ssnts sIlm
The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1870-03-25
The Inventor of Steel Pens.

Nobody who has to pay for his own
stationery now thinks of using the goose
quill for writing purposes. The feather,
classical and cmblematic, only retains its
hold in public offices, where the State, or
some other reckless spender of other pco-
Piles money, provides the furniture.
New members of the legislature, on max
ing the acquaintance of the State House,
generally indulge. for traditions sake,
in few awkward attempts at writing
with the quills that are still provided ut
that ancient hostelry, but as soon rs they
get over their reverence for the common
wealth, they return to the handler steel
pens and carve into toothpicks the reject
ed weapons. The steel pen is now so uni
versal tool 1t is difficult to contemplate
1t rs among the things that had to be in
vented. Nevertheless, II has fought its
way up with the other labor-saving ma
chimes Of civilization, and has rs complete
history rs the steam-engine or the tele-
graph. James Perry, an English school,
mister. who druged at whittling his ur-
chins' quills, made the first steel pen, and
was so good a business man that he sue
cccdcd In introducing it rs the Perrian
pen. In 1925 he had fifty men engaged
in the business of making pens, but 1t
was LEFT for jeremiah Masonic make the
pen popular; the same man, by the way,
who few months since became second
Peabody by establishing an orphan-asylum
endowed with 81. 100000. Mason was n
Kidderminster carpct-wcavcr, went to Bir-
mingham and manufactured pins, needles,
shoestrings, and other iniinitesimal essen
tials. Here he saw in shop-window n
steel pen, priced alta sixpence. He bought
three. made better and lighter ones at n
cost of one penny and quarter apiece,
and sent specimens to Perry. The In
tcrcourse,. so honorably commenced. end
ell in partnership and mutual wealth.
Perry has since died. and Mason Is now
the sole proprietor ofthe Perrian pen.
The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1870-03-25
Aarifnltnral.

Now Is the time to get ready for the
spring campaign. Get the plows. har-
rows and cultivators,, ready to do their
work well. If:you have them, see that
they are all in repair; q new coat of
paint will do them good and 1t can be
given them any Of these rainy days. See
that they all have sharp teeth, so as to
cut tho soil well and throughly. The
thorough preparation Of the soil is half
the battle toward raising big crop;
without IL you can't raise n good crop.
Get your harnesses, teams, double trees,
single trees, and everything you will
need, ready, so that, at the first opening
Of spring, you can take time by the fore
lock and lead him and not let him lead
you. Get your seed ready and Of the
choicest and best; be sure to get clover
seed II any Of your lands need reno
waiting. 1t makes good pastures and 1t
makes good hay, II cured with care, and
1t feeds the land so richly. Get ready,
lay the plans OF the coming spring and
summer campaigns, and work right up
10 those plans
The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1870-03-25

We heard n good story on certain rail-
road the other day. On this road the
train was frequently delayed by cattle
upon the track. This had happened sew
eral times, but hnally the locomotive en-
tered upon clear sailing. and for ten or
fifteen miles the train ratified along at
lively Jog. All of q sudden, however. tho
engine began u lively blowing, showing
that trouble had como again.> AT this,
one individual, who had been watching
tho trees fly past tho windows, and had
Just persuaded himself into the belief that
no was riding into glory mt tho rato OF n
league Mt n breath, jumped up with sur
prise, and calculated: "Well. I'll DO ctiss.
ed n we haven't caught up with those
darn cattle again !"
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NUMBER IA.

to chop into Il. He has . sarcastic look
while you are doing It. Yes, It Is rotten
enough. How did he knowi "Conk In
tho bark" ho says, pointing to slight
impcrfection in the tree.
BY and by, ho rejects another tree. You
ask the reason. Rotten" he says again.
You look tho tree all over. Tho bark
seems sound and the foliage Is green to tho
tip top. You try It aun 1t Is unsound at
tho heart. How did ho know it' "By
the sound" You would no moro catch
him cutting rotten tree. than you would
find q squirrel laying open an unsound
nut. ma
Hc selects ship timber. and II hc cannot
find great branch that comes out at right
angles, Of which to form knee, no digs
up the root of great yellow birch. lie
knows where tho great crooked root Is.
It has only ono great root aud that Is on
the northwest side. 'cA'most Nil our high
winds arc from tho northwest" "wcll.
don't sec why that should make such
tremendous root on tho northwest" IIo
continues "If you usc Your arm well.
1t becomes strong. Tho strong wind
blows the trco and moves the northwest
root most; that loosens It and throws out
any amount Of little fibrcs, and after lit
tle It grows fastest and Is strongest Of all"
eyes, SEQ It." "Your right arm. that
serves you more is tho stronger; and the
root tha. serves The tree most Is strongest
and largest"
Tho old logger Is skilled workman.
and I will not dispuo even his theories
about the trees.
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To sror PorAroEs RorrNG. An ex-
pcricncod aSriculturist informs US that
about four years ago he applied lime 10
potatoes that had commenced to rot, and
that 1t Immediately arrested the decay.
Since then he has made IL common
practice to apply Stacked lime to his po-
tatocs as he takes them up. He puts a
thin hyer Of lime upon the floor where
the potatoes are to be laid, and sprinkles
some Of il over them about every ten
inches, rs they are put down. He con-
siders this as perfectly protecting them
from rottinS rs he has never had rotten
potato since he has 'practiced Ii. apd he
believes also that, potatoes thus used are
rendered better by the action Of lime.
The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1870-03-25
Slate Pencils.

Twenty years ago all the slate pencils
used werc manufactured in Germany. In
1850 there was young man living in West
Rutland. VT, eighteen years Of ago, who
fortunately discovered supply Of stone
for making first class article ofslate PEN
cils. He began by whiting out the pen
cils and selling them to school children.
Being better article than fhas Tor salo In
the stores, he found sale for all hc could
white out.
He argued that II they would sell thus
readily at home they would sell readily
everywhere. He became possessed OF the
idea that there was fortune In the busi-
ness, and his dream has boon realized.
This quarry Of slate pencil stone Is situat-
cd in large ravinc, four miles north OF
Castlcton. VT, near Bomosecn Lake. The
land on which. It was situated was for sale
ut ono hundred dollars. He purchased 1t,
and began operations by saving out the
Pencils and whiting them round.
Tho business of making them grew
immensely on his hands. so It was impos-
sibls''to keep clean order book.
Machinery was invented to facilitate the
process, which has reached some thing
like perfection, and enormously increases
tho production of pencils. At'prcsent the
quarry and mills are owned by joint
stock company. They arc valued at three
hundred thousand dollars. From filty to
one hundred thousand pencils arc turned
out daily. and upwards Of n hundred
hands are employed in the quarry and in
the mill. Z.
After the stone Is quaried Il passes
through four processes before 1t Is made
into pencils. 1t is sawn into rectangular
blocks FIVE inches by seven. and split by
hand into slabs of the same length and
bacadth, through machine which shaves
them all to the uniform thickness OF q
quarter of an inch, when they are ready
for the final process.
Tho machinery for reducing these slabs
to pencils consists Of iron plates fitted to
receive them, fastened to an endless chain
which passes over rollers at either end
IrOsS doc. . a-ll flsssf ..-.---.s..... -
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Fall in the Price Of Dry Goods.

No article of commerce is more affect
cd by tho fluctuations In gold than dry
goods. The recent decline in tho precious
metal has of course carried the prico of
dry goods down to low figures. A. Il.
Stewart & Co. are said to have lead of in
tho reduction, and the following arc given
as the present in contrast with the past
rates for staple articles:
Fancy silks which sold last spring Mt
$3.50 per yard. and which have been sell
ing during the past three months for s2,
have been reduced to Sl.75. Plain silks
of the first manufacture, which sold In
1869 for 81, and since January for $3.50,
and SO, are now quoted at $3.50.
The reduction on domcstics, goods
which were already low in price. Is from
8 to 1-2 per cent.
The reduction on lace goods of every
kind is from 10 to 20 per cent, and so in
kinds of mado-up goods, ladies' walking
suits, lingerie, etc.
Irish Poplins-Pim's the finest manu-
fsctnred-arc now selling Mt S2 per yard.
The Prico of these goods has not been so
low since 1860.
). Bombazines are now selling from 81 to
81 per yard, which in 1869 were sold
from 81. 80 TO- IS.
Velyets-iinest, 90 inch-sold In 1865
at sl7 per yard-are now marked down
to Sl4.
Dress goods of every kind. in fact, from
the simplest to the most costly material
here indicated, have been reduced In q
corresponding fashion. The prices OF
mourning goods arc even lower in proper
ton, as the demand for these Is happily
not so great rs 1t has bccn."
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miscellaneous
An Express Messengers Story.
Br srLvANUs coBB, JR.

In the summer of 1868 was serving
rs Messenger on the British and American
(now called the "Canadian'O Express.
NY route lay between Portland and South
Paris. though my Office was in Norway, a
mile and n half distant from the latter
station. between which two points trav-
eled with my cwn team. AS three, and
sometimes four. lines Of stages connected
with the Grand Trunk Road Mt South
Paris, through all of which our express
did business, my route was an important
and responsible one.
1t was on Saturday, August 90. / ate
my dinner, and then went into the Port
land Office to get my freight and my or
ders for the country. After the porters
had taken. out the various parcels con-
signed to my care, Mr.. Prindlc, our agent,
called me To his desk, and exhibited to me
package directed to party in South
Paris. containing three thousand dollars.
edo you know that mane' he asked me
pointing to the supcrscription.
"Yss." said /.
DO you know where he lives"
.Yes."
slow far from your depot ?"
"a mile and a half. should think, on
the old Run,ford road"
.Wcll," hc pursued. "I don't care TO
The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1870-03-25
VOLUME XVI.
2nftrp.
For the Onion and Journal.

ls Re~oIssiss t~ Knifti~g asd sp.nsi'so
As sat by my nreside musing,
missed the click OF the steel,
2or no woman sat nigh with her knitting
And missed the old spinning wheel.
"Ai.s," sighed I, cor thoes old days
Whom the yarn at the areside was knit,
And 'twas spun TOO, at home, and made music
by the hreside where used 70 sit"
Hut those old days arc gone and these new ones
Have brought In new style of thing,
Instead of the wheel and the needles
My wife with my daughter now sings.
Though every old man iIhes the old ways
And the style Of things done long ago,
Yet when asked II mourn not these changes
Isns-er, '"rss better, they're 80"
The music In my o,den cottage
Was only mere lallahy,
But refining. ennobling 3 the singing
And the past u not worthy sigh.
1 believe not that God designed woman
To Continually, slavishly, toll,
With the powers of her mind lying dormant
And no seed 10 grow up in such sOa.
Farewell 10 the click Of the needles
Welcome mu-iesveeter than birds,
Farewell 10 the hum Of the spinning
For the sake o( intelligent words.
Days of serfiom for woman near ended;
A bright day is dswniRs for her,
And against this grand change for the better
II Is not FOR mo 10 demur.
Let m~ehinss do the kaitting and sewing.
Their nsne and the work we'll agree;
Let woman relieved fsom such labor
Rise 10 be q companion with me.
U. NJ CoUsENs.
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How They Log.

Acorrcspondcnt Of tho Worcester, Mass.
Gazette, tells how they log in Oxford
county. rs follows, which will be inter.
csting especially to our boys and girls
1T Is dinner time, In largo crowds It Is
customary to have hired cook; but here,
the man who can best be spared for the
time gets dinner, or tho mon take turns.
The dinner Of fried pork and potatoes,
or 1t may be pork and beans and brown
bread. or yet again bccf.steak and pota-
toes, is soon prepared. While tho men
are coming, the cook pro tcmporc almost
invariably, in this camp, plans for steam
cd bread. In this cold weather the bread
Is frozen. and tho potatoes are only saved
from liko fate by literally putting them
to bed. They are sometimes preserved
for days, from Jack frost's inroads by be-
ing wrapped in blankets. But was
speaking Of steamins bread. The potato
kettle is rinscd, half pint Of water pour
cd In, n small plate inverted over tho wa
ter, bread placed upon this plate, and the
whole closely covered and set upon the
stove. This simple cxpcdicnt adds won-
derfully to the logger's comfort.
The men como in all aglow with excr-
cisa in tho sharp, pure air. I really be-
licved that some of these logscrs were
whisky-drinkers when saw them first;
but am sure Of my mistake now.
The men sit down with kcencst appc-
titcs. There Is no tablc-cloth. no milk.
and no ceremony. Nearly every article
potatoes, pork, tea, brc,d, or whatever
we have, is rs hot rs It can be. Every
one drinks tea Mt every meal. Twas new
or with people before where the food was
uniformly so comfortable rs among the
loggers. Before the close Of tho meal,
the bread kettle Is produced, and we have
the stcaming bread with syrup or butter
rs ono prefers, followed with pie and
daughnuts, brought from home. The
days are short and the men soon hurry
of to work again; for here the men are
working by the job.
The table Is LEFT Just rs the men rise
from II, covered with mounds OF potato
skins and unwashcd plates. Uncle Jeems
told his wife that housework naturally
does itself" And probably We carry out
this idea; for It Is rulo among loggcrs
that the plates may not be washed 50 long
rs the individual logger can tell by In
spection what was eaten by him last from
tho plate. Oftcn, however. there Is u
general dish-washing after supper. but
never Mt any other time. Tho house,
work comes near doing itself "natnlly."
Logging Is u great trade and tho out
slider ,nnst be sharp indeed who will beat
nm old hand on his own ground. The old
logger knows n thousand things wonder
full to the newcomer. Ho may know /
next to nothing Of books, but tho trees
l,avo revealed their secrets to him. which
are locked from the rest Of us. Ho seems
10 find the pure nuggets Of spruce gum
by instinct. You sec him pass BY n noble
spruce t'ce. and ask why he does not cut
L. "Rotten,s hc says. You look tho
lrce NIL over. 1t appears thrifty. and the
foliage Is rs green As any you can see.
You secretly doubt Its being rotten, and
propose, for fun. only for fun you know.