Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-11-26

low ACTORS Tor the cruel he ate and the
medlclnes he took. Not dollar in the
world, and vile and seven children de-
pendent en- bIm in London.
Who has not heard OF Fox, the panto-
mmisil Who has not laughed at his
wonderful antics, his merry quips and
and quirks, and bis endless low of fun.
Poor Fox Paralysis struck him az forty
two, and he goes, with never dOllir to
leave his family. One side OF his face is
paralyZ d, his brain is softening-hard
work did it-and he goes out a mere
nothing. Another pantOmimist stands
ready to take his place-ihe play goes
on enter Mafflt, exit Fox. And some
day out Maf1t viii 20 and another will
take his place.
Young man or young woman, as the
case may be, If you have any aspi-
raiions for the stage, crush them out at
once. The life is one in which there arc
ten thousand blanks To one prize. and of
The prizes there is not one in a thousand
wOr,h having. 1t is an ugly, unsansfac-
Tory, miserable lie at the best, and q
horrible life for any one that cannot get
above decent mediOcrity. Be a shOemak-
er, tailor, farmer. blacksmith, or
the wife of one, but never be an actor or
actress. Take the advice of one who
knows, and don't.
! And while l am about it I NAV as well
say something about another class who
are popularity supposed to roll in purple
and hne linen, but who don't namely.
THE LITERARY PEOPLE.
As is the case with the theatrical pro-
iessiun, 1t IS generally supposed that the
writers get enormous pay, and the mis-
take is just as great. LOngfelloW, Low
IL, Holmes, Bret Harte and a few others
get large sums for what they produce.
but they make but little money for they
produce but little. Take q dozen or
two out of the thousands who live Ivy
their pens in the cities of New York,
Boston and Philadelphia, and it is worse
than dogs life The usual pay for
common writers for stories, newspaper
articles and matter of this class is from
81 to $S column for such papers as the
Times. The writer. work as he or she
may, cannot exceed four columns a
week, for large part of the time is con-
sumed in getting up the material for the
work And then, after il has been sent
in, il is an even chance that it will be de-
clined. or if accepted, that it will be cut
down TO a column by the managing ed
itOr, so that the two columns which the
writrr wrote, and for which $40 was ex-
peeled, will net the scribrr only s. A
good story, il it is good enough, of say
, six columns in length, is worth. to the
publisher. $25. The writer will spend
on the production of such story, a week
or two, or even more. or course, when
they get up in the world, and get so well
known that their names will bring ad-
ditional subscribers To a publication, they
get higher prices. but this IS what the
few who get employment at all are con-
PEELED 10 submit to- And let it be re-
membered that of every thousand who
submit manuscripts, not ten get line ac-
cepted. There are to-day in New York
alone, Two thousand men and women be-
siegIng editors with productions in prose
and verse, who never had line publish
ed and never will. And the few who
get work to do starve At It, for the reason
that there are a thousand, all equally
good. trying for the place of ten. I ad-
wise your young readers TO avoid the
stage, and advise them with equal fer
vency to avoid literature, that is, as 8
means of living. Write all you choose
D I IL is delightful and improving recrea-
tiOn, but don't try to live by it. If YOU
get your matter published and get a so
teh6ek tor il, thank Heaven. and spend it
on Il Reg hat. but don't depend on it as
means Of livelihood That way starVa-
tiOn lies. II is taking ten chances Ia a
hundred Of sleeping in a garret, eating
a. cheap restaurants, and dOdging tailOrs
and dress makers duriRg The term Of your
natural life.
MOODY AND sANKEY
Are ESFkIng away in BROOKLYN, with in
difereat success. 1t was q mistake 10
: go there, for. to take preaching to Brook
lyn is Carrying cOsls to Newcastle
There are 4 hundred or more of the best
preachers in the world there, and relig-
ion is so mueh AZ everyday business, that
] special forts are iiabl to be futile.
: They come to New York this winter. and
here they will do better. They will
have in addition to the enormous resid-
4 ent population, the fifty thousand stran-
: gers who are in the hotels, who would
1 naturally be attracted. Besides there are
o heavier per cent, of people here to be
converted, than in Brooklyn. 1 predict
for them a graf success IN New York.
7 They are Jealous hard workers, they be-
E lieve in their mission, and they know
how TO work.
4 WHAT TAMMANY AND ExTRATAGANCR
HAS DONE.
In addition to the enormous cost Of
: liviEg in the city. the people are pavino
$16S,OOO.OOO annually in interest and
| taxes The real estate of the CITY Il
morigaged for 81, ,6OO,OOO 200, the interest
on which, at per cent, foOts uo Si59 A..
100000. Add 10 this the enormous taxes
: that have 10 be paid. and the sum agqre-
q gates enormously. Tgmmany has done
this E2r New York. Il is the most COM
mon tAing in the world tor an imnrove
men: to he ordered that cnsts so much AZ
TO compel the owner to put a mortgage
on the property to pay it. Nine-tenths
of the cost gas into the pockets Of the
> rings who run the politics of the CITY. I
have one friend who has a lot fifteen
# feet wide, on an up-tOvn street.. who was
, compelled to pay $3.50 tor re-psying the
, street. The opposite ifieen feet was
laxed the same. mrking nearly 1880
for paving fifteen feet Ofa street. The
: actual cost of the work, was probably
$3.50, leaving the hands0ms balance OF
81 1850, 10 be divided among the thieves.
And as these parties bad the whole street.
you can not see that they made a very nice
r / ching of it. And the worst part of il, is
n i iethet the street did not need re-paving
apA that the old one Was better than the
new one. This is only one way il
$ w'sch taxes are piled up-there are a:
K many 'waEs Of swindlIng, "a there ART
, hairs on nthsswindler's hsa Is Probably
II will be- soRs better hereafter, for 'he
last election distqgbed the rings some
what, but at the best there will be enough
] / dtt. The ignorant aaS vicious vote oi
? the city is so large, thar seoundrelly
pOhtieianS have but little diacultv in
getting the power TO put their hsRdS 10
. the pockets of the people.
ANOTHER suIcIDE,
growing OOs of Illicit connections. han.
pened IN this city last week Il was the
nld story a Igealt;ly merchant was
living with beautiful girl, unmarried.
OF course. The merchant tiF.d OF her,
aad taunted her till he drove her 10 "a ld-
ness. Blind with rage she rushed into
the Rext room, and shot herself. Then
: her paFSmOur found that he really did
love her, snd he Is as nearly insane As q
man can be. There are two thousand
7 people liviRg Ia this waY on live squares
above Eighth street, and there are sueld-
- or murders among them every week.
There is but one end 60 the infringe
ment of the Seventh Cpmnan insnt
And, while am on this subject, there Il
: & lively prospect that
, TIE BEEcHER SCANDAL
4 will be opened again. Lo4d-r, who was
indicted Tor perjury in this cass. asked
for an order fO taka tha ,ast;,,o,,, ~