The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-01
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NEW YORK, sept ~, 1871
Buckwheat Cakes and Hydrophobia.
am fond of buakwheat cakes.
They are greasy, you will say.
Granted.
Still, there has to me always been something
wonderfully seductive in the spectacle of
market woman selling vegetables with one hand,
and with the other dipping into q cup of smok
ing coffee fragrant sausage, rolled up in a
well-buttered buckwheat cake. 1t is q perfec
picture of vulgar happiness.
IL has recently been discovered that in New
York an improvement has been attempted on
the sausage. An investigation among the fat
rendering establishments of Jersey City has re-
vealed the fact that dogs and horses have been
literally used in the manufacture of sausage
meat. 1t has been proved that there are men
who make a business of buying up diseased
meat and manufacturing it into sausages. Dis
eased hogs have thus been bought. Perhaps
IL at accounts for the ''cured' hams.
have little expectation that these discoveries
will lead TO REIMBURSEMENT of the sausage.
We cling to our sausages through good report
and evil report and though dogs become scarce
and sausage-meat abundant about the same
time, we never dream of coupling the two cir
cumstances Who knows that this piece of ca
ninel delicacy that l eat with my buckwheat
cake is not tainted with hydrophobia? This
but madness chopped fine and fried. Well,
what is to be will be. How satisfactory that is
New York must have her sausages, even if she
goes without her dogs SO let us buy hydro
phoba by the pound.
Dr. Bellows.
1t is now many years since this excellent man
and able Unitarian minister published a pam
phlet, the general tendency of which was to de-
fend the stage. / believe that that pamphlet
embodied the substance of a sermon or lecture,
and l know that Immediately after it had been
given to the world delegation of actors, at the
head of whom was John Brougham, called upon
DIR. Bellows, and begged his acceptance of
very handsome service of silver plate which
they offered as token of their appreciation of
his eloquent defense of them. DR.. Bellows de-
clined peremptorily receiving the plate, but
offered to compromise the matter by delivering
another lecture at the Academy of Music. The
entire corps of actors worked hard in securing
vast attendance and the proceeds
OF the lecture were, at the lecturers
instigation, given to the Dramatic Fund. Since
that day the ma ority of such New York actors
as take any interest whatever in religious mat
ters have looked up to Dr. Bellows as to
friend. AS he himself says, ne has buried almost
every actor who has died since that time.
Actors who would go to no other church go to
at the theatre were it not that, being public
man, his appearance there would provoke such
staring and comment rs are scarcely agreeable
to man of truly gentlemanly instincts. He
has baen elected honorary member of number
less dramatic societies at home and
abroad, and when he recently visited
Europe he noticed that extracts from
his lecture were printed, in various
languages, on the act-drops or prosceuium
arches of the different theatres. Al the time at
which that lecture was delivered and that
pamphlet was printed, the stand which DR..
Bellows took was indeed bold one for any
minister to occupy. 1t brought down upon
him the curses almost of the Protestant
churches known as orthodox, and it left him
almost alone as the clerical friend and defender
of a profession that has been aud is very much
misunderstood but which is slowly and surely
growing purer and healthier.
But, apart from his relations towards the
drama, the religious ground which DR.. Bellows
holds is extremely interesting both to those who
agree with and those who dissent from him.
So far as am able to judge, not alone by hear
ing him in the pulpit but also by the advantage
of hearing him in his own study and in the
freedom of conversation, his charity extends to
all forms of religious belief Although the
friend of Theodore Parker he is not an ex-
tremlSt as 1heodore farker was, and he never
induges in that strenuous sarcasm which, occa-
sionally, when employed by the great New
England pioneer bears some resemblance to
abuse. But DR.. Bellows liberalism is quite wide
enough to brig down upon him the maledc-
tion of the orthodox churches. He does not
believe, for instance, that any one will be pun
ished merely for entertaining certain set of
opinions, provided the life of such person
be lgood and noble. Neither does he believe
that any man will be punished forever, unless
the man deliberately chooses to go on SHINING
forever. The punishment, he believes, is the
direct and inevitable result of the sin, and there
never is, in eternity, point at which repent
ance and absolute restoration are impossible. He
occupies q middle ground between the extreme
views of Theodore Parker (who, he believes
was great and good man, holding high place
in the spiritual world) and the narrow minded
ness of the orthodox churches. He is not
anxious to make converts, but apparently is of
the opinion that it does not so much matter
what man believes as what he is and does.
His religion is hopeful and happy one, and
even those who do not agree with him some-
times envy him his steadfast trust.
ALI BABA.