Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-04-25

and sH the time, the abolition OF treating.
A fuller exposition of lis methods aud
purposes can be had by writing to the
Secretary, NJ. Henry II. Hadley, Box,
1886, New York
Whether much good will be accomplished
depends solely upon the vigor with which
this organization is pushed forward. So
far as it works at all, society must be ben
fitted. When modern drinking business
men, and men pecunisrily interested in
the liquor trade begin to feel the necessity
of doing something to check the raYageS
Of rum. l do not want to stop singing
the long metre doxology long enough to
inquire whether they are doing precisely
what I am doing. Il used TO be said Of
General Halleck that he would rather
lose a battle,by approved methods than
win it by departing from them. Those
who in their own persons, or their loved
ones, have tasted the sharp sting of this
serpent's tooth, will be guilty of no such
folly. 1 strike glad hands with any man,
Of any creed, who will help brush one
temptation from the path of my boy, lift
one man fIom the gutter, OF lessen by a
feathers weight the deadly influence of the
dram-shop and the drinking usages of So
ciety.
CURIOUS Law SUIT.
The soap makers are in court over a
comical case, and by the way, the blind
folded Goddess smiles first on one, then
on his rival, one is led to fear her tradi-
tional bandageS are too thin.' Who does
not remember the reign of soap, and sand,
and Bristol brick, and last, though far
from least, elbow greece As the htter
commodity grew unpopular, if not scarce
Yankee wit Sharpened itself up to the
point of producing a substitute for the
whole lot, and saponaceous inventions
grew and multiplied like the excuses of a
poor debtor. About eight years ago,
photographer named Troxell, was struck
with an idea, which, like lightning, is very
APT to hit in out of the way places. He
Was using Silex, fine, smooth, sapona-
ceous but gritty substance, easily dissolved
in water, to clean and polish his glasses,
when the idea occurred to him that it
might make superior cleaner for house
hold purposes. A long series of expert
ments demonstrated its eminent fitness
for securing and polishing all metals,
paints and glass, and for cleaning silver
and britannia by simply washing in the
Suds, as well as for removing ink and
other stains from the hands. He boldly
came down from his skylight, became a
soap man, and named his invention,
pride of the Kitchen Soap" But the
course of true lather never ran smooth,
and why should it with Troxell? Another
soap man complained that his soap was
put up in tin foil with blue label around
it, and that because he was putting up
his soap hat way, his right to use tin
foil and blue was exclusive. Mr.. Troxell
died, and his brother became defendant to
a SUIT which was decided in his favor, The
blind Goddess scores one for "Pride of the
KItehen!" Another suit was brought be-
fore another Judge, and this time the
blindfolded Deity decides for the plaintiff.
The proprietors of the Windsor, St. Nicho-
las and Metropolitan Hotels, testified to
the virtues of Pride Of the Kitchen, and
several first premiums from the American
Institute and other fairs, were displayed,
but all to no purpose. 1t wasn't their
turn. 1t was the other fellows. Il
looked so like game of odd and even
that the Troxells are now appealing, con-
tident that the next turn is theirs. This
suit is still pending, and meantime the
superior quality of Pride of the Kitchen
makes it sell tremendously under a new
label, about which there is no question,
and its proprietors appear very grateful
for the gratuitous advertising these funny
suits have given them. MORLEY.
New York, April 22d, 1879.