Worcester Daily Press, 1873-04-01

JOHN, THE DISCIPLE OF CONFUCIUS. Hit Characteristics and Peculiarities in His Transplanted State. Our people of the Eastern States have seen but little of that remarkable branch of the Mongolian race which boasts of the highest and most ancient type of Oriental civiliza civilization, - tion, civilization, and know still less of their manners and customs. Their migratory propensities are just beginning to be developed, and they are now rapidly finding their way to, and spreading themselves out over the fairest portions of tire Pacific coast of this Conti Continent. - nent. Continent. In this new home they find all the conditions favorable for their industrial predilections and specialties. Yet, bringing with them, as they do, their Asiatic traditions, and their peculiarities of social life and religion, they do not mingle readily with the European races with which they are brought in contact, but remain isolated in distinct colonies, with apparently no political aspirations on the score of Amer American - ican American citizenship. But their mission, in the subordinate departments of industry, on tlie whole, has thus far fawn a useful one; and as this despised and persecuted pagan element of our immigrant population is evidently destined to play an important part in the future development of our national resources, w'e presume the following racy description (from Lippincott's Magazine) of life and character, as seen in the "Heathen Chinee" quarters of San Francisco, will be of interest to the roaders of the Press : NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS. John is a sort of museum in his character and lipbits. His new year comes In February. For the Chinaman of limited means it lasts for the wealthy it may endure _thfee. His con consumption - sumption consumption of flre-crftCkers during that period is immense. He burns strings a yard in length sus suspended - pended suspended from poles over his balconies. The uproar and sputtering consequent on this festivity in the Chinese quarter at San Francisco is tremendous. The city authorities limit this Celestial pandemo pandemonium - nium pandemonium to one week. He does not fursake the amusement of kite-flying even when arrived at maturity. His artistic imitations of birds and dragons float over our housetops. To these are often affixed contrivances for producing hollow, buzzing sounds, mystifying whole neighborhoods. His game of shuttle-cock is to keep a cork, one end being stuck with feathers, flying in the air as long as jsissible, the inqielling member being the foot, the players standing in a circle, and number numbering - ing numbering from four to twenty. Some show great <le»- terity in kicking with the heel. His vocal music to oiir ears seems a monotonous caterwaul. His violin has but one string; his execution is merely a modified species of saw filing. AMUSEMENTS AND RELIGION. He loves to gamble, and especially in lotteries. He is a diligent student of his own comfort. Travelling on foot (luring a hot day, he protects himself with an umbrella and refreshes himself with a fan. lu place of prosaic signs on his store storefronts, - fronts, storefronts, he often inscribes quotations from his favorite authors. He is a lover of flowers. His balconies and window sills are often packed with shrubs and creepers in pots. He is not a speedy and taciturn eater. His tea-table talks are full of noisy jollity, and are oiten prolonged far into the night. He is a lover of the drama. A single play sometimes requires months for representation, being like a serial story, "continued" night after night. He never dances. There is no melody in the Mongolian foot. Dancing he regards as a species of Caucasian insanity. To make an oath binding fie must swear by the head of a cock cut off before him in Open court, Chinese testimony is not admissible in American courts. It is a 'legal California axiom that a Chinaman cannot speak the truth. But eases have occurred wherein, he being an eye-witness, the desire to hear what he might tell as to what he had seen has proved stronger than the preju prejudice - dice prejudice against him; Mid the more effectually to clinch the chances of his telling the truth, the above, his national form of oath, has been resorted to. He has among us some secret government of his own. Before his secret tribunals more than one Mongolian has been hurried in star-chamber fashion, and never seen afterwards. The nature of the offences thus visited by secret and bloody Kunishments is scarcely known to Americans. He as two chief dieties - a god and a devil. His god, he says, being good and well disposed, it is not necessary to propitiate him. But his devil is Ugly, and must be won over by offering and peti petition. - tion. petition. Once a year, wherever collected in any number, he builds a flimsy sort of temple, deco decorates - rates decorates it with ornaments ^f tinsel, lays piles of fruit, meats, and sugared delicacies on an altar, keeps up night and day a steady crash of gongs, and installs therein some great, uncouth wooden idols. When this period of worship is over, the "josh-house" disappears, and the idols are uncer unceremoniously - emoniously unceremoniously stowed away among other useless lumber. TONBORIAL AND AGRICULTURAL. He shaves with an instrument resembling a bhtclier's cleaver in miniature. Natnre gen generally - erally generally denies him beard, so he shaves what a sailor would term the fore and after part of his head. He reaps his hirsute crop drj, using no lather. His cue is pieced out by silken braid, so interwoyen as gradually to taper into a slim tassel something like a Missouri mule-driver's "black snake" whip-lash, To lose this cue is to lose caste and standing among his fellows. No misfortune can l>e greater. Coarse cow-hide boots are the only articles of American wear that he favors. He inclines to buy the largest sizes, thinking he thereby gets the most for his money, anil when his No. 7 feet wobble and chafe in No. 12 boots he coinplains that they "fit to He cultivates the vegetables of his native land in California. They are curiosities like himself. One resembles our stringbean, but is circular iu shape and from two to three feet in length. It is not Id the leant stringy, breaks off start and crisp, boils tender very quickly and affords ex excellent - cellent excellent eating. He is a very careful cultivator, and will spend hours picking off dead leaves and insects from the young plants. When he finds a dead cat, rat, dog or chicken, throws it into a small vat of water, allows it to decompose, and sprnikles the liquid fertilizer thus obtained over his plantation. Watermelon and pumpkin seeds are Tor him dessert delicacies. He consumes his garden products about half cooked in an Ameri American - can American culinary point of view, merely wilting them by an immersion in boiling w'ater. PIGEON ENGLISH AND POSTHUMOUS GRATITUDE. There are about fifteen English words to be learned by a Chinaman on arriving iu California, and no more. With these he expresses all his wants, and with this limited stock you may learn to convey all that is needful to^iim. The practice thus forced upon one in employing a Chinese servant is useful in preventing a circumlocutory habit of speech, Many of our letters the Mongo Mongolian - lian Mongolian moutii has no capacity for sounding. Rhe invariably sounds like 1, so that the word he pronounces "lice" - a bit of information that may prevent an unpleasant apprehension when yo.u come to employ a Chinese cook. He rejects the English personal pronoun I, and uses the possessive in its place; thus, go in place of go When he buries a countryman he throws from the hearse into the air handfuls of brown tissue paper slips, punc punctured - tured punctured with Chinese characters. Sometimes, at his burial processions, he gives a small piece of money to even' person met on the road. Over the grave he beats gongs and sets off fire-crackers. On it he leaves cooked meats, drink, delicacies, and lighted wax tapers. Eventually the tones are disinterred and shipped to his native land. In the remotest mining districts of California are found Chinese graves thus opened and emptied of their inmates. I bavu in one instance seen him, so far as he was permitted, render some of these funeral honors to an American, The de deceased - ceased deceased had gained this honor by treating the Chinese as though they were partners in our common humanity. Toin," as he was termed by them, they kfiew they could trust. He acquired' among them a reputation as the one righteous American in their California Gomorrah. Chinamen would come to him from distant local localities, - ities, localities, that he might overlook their bills of sale and other documents used iu business intercourse with the white man. The need of such an honest adviser was great. The descendants of the Fil Filgrim - grim Filgrim fathers often took advantage of their igno ignorance - rance ignorance of the Englsh language, whether written or spoken. Tom' r suddenly died. I had occasion to visit his farm a few days after his death, and on the. first night of my stay there saw the array of meats, fruit, wine and burning tapers on a table in front of the house, which his Chinese friends told me was intended as an offer offering - ing offering to spirit. CHINESE LAUNDRIES. We will dive for a moment into a Chinese wash washcellar. - cellar. washcellar. John '' does three-fourths of the wash washing - ing washing of California. His lavatories are on every street. " Hip Tee, M ashing and says the sign, evidently the first production of an ama amateur - teur amateur in lettering. Two doors above is the estab establishment - lishment establishment of Tong M'ash - two below, that of Hi Sing. Hip Tee and five assistants are busy iron ironing. - ing. ironing. The odor is a trinity of steam, damp clothes, and opium. More Mongolian tongues are heard from smoky recesses in the rear. As we enter, Hip Tee is blowing a shower of moisture from his mouth very like a This is bls meth method - od method of dampening the linen preparatory to ironing. It is a skilful performance. The fluid leaves his lips as fine m mist. If we are on business we leave our bundles, and in return receive a ticket covered with hieroglyphics. These indicate the kind and nnmber of the garments left to be cleans cleansed, - ed, cleansed, and some distinguishing mark (supposing this to be our first patronage of Hip Tee) by which we may again be identified. It may be by a pug nose, a hare lip, red. hair, no hair, or squint eyes. They never ask one's name, for they can neither pronounce nor write when given. The ticket is an unintelligible tracery of lines, curves, dots and dashes, made by a brush dipped in India ink on a shred of flimsy Chinese paper. It may teem with abuse and ridienle, but you pocket al) that, and produce it on calling again, or your shirts go through the Chinese circumlocution wash-house office, it is very difficult getting one's clothes back if the ticket be lost - very. Hip Tee now dabs a dnpUcßte of your ft »^|d «pi is aVe» t 4WKWARD MISTAKES. You will call on Saturday night for your linen. You do so. There is apparently the same cellar] thp same smell of sti sin, damp clothes and opi opium - um opium ; the same sputter of sprinkling water, and apparently the same Hip Tee and assistants with brown shaven foreheads and long cues hanging straight down behind, or coiled in snakediks fashion about their craniums. You present your ticket. Hip Tee examines it, and shakes his bead, «No good - uder he says, and points up the street, You are perplexed and somewhat alarmed, You say John I want my clothes, I left them here last Monday. You gave me that ticket.'' replies Hip Tee,very decidedly, man;" and again he waves hit armup armupwawto. - wawto. armupwawto. Then you are wroth. You abuse, and wu

who ire careful not to endanger their im immaculate - maculate immaculate broadcloth by contact with squalid tenants. The business of letting rooms and of collecting rents Is left wholly to agents, a hard-hearted, hard-fisted Mass, who receive generous commissions for acting as buffer between the aristocratic landlord and the miserable occupant of his yet more misera miserable - ble miserable house, and, in addition, squeeze every (MMslble cent out of these forlorn families. To keep in favor with the owners, and thus retain their places, it Is the aim of these agents to make to their principals the largest returns possible, the result being that needed repairs are left undone, and that everything goes to ruin in the most reckless way. It is well for the good name of Boston that these buildings are to be taken in hand, and the occupants ordered out of those which, through accumulated tilth, lack of ventila ventilation. - tion. ventilation. or want of sunlight, are pronounced unfit for human habitations. If, besides publishing, as they do every year, descrip descriptions - tions descriptions of these disgraceful buildings, the daily and Sunday papers would also give the names and residences of those who own them, there would be a public sentiment cre created - ated created which could not but materially aid the work of the health officers. AMUSEMENTS. A word about amusements, of which w'e are to have a surfeit the coming week. To Tomorrow - morrow Tomorrow evening M'lle Aimee and her French troupe begin a short season at the Globe, and the sale of tickets lias thus far been very satisfactory. Offenbach's music is every everywhere - where everywhere popular, and although his operas some sometimes, - times, sometimes, and in fact generally, contain some something - thing something hardly up to the orthodox standard, the people will flock to hear them, especially when rendered by such favorite artists as Aimee and her troupe. At the Boston Theatre, Mr. Edwin Adams is to play Enoch Arden, and in the hotels, saloons, and music-store windows, are plac placards - ards placards representing him in character, watching for the long-expected ship. The Boston Theatre has been well patronized of late, Maggie Mitchell having just closed a most successful engagement. There is no "star" at the Museum just now, but the regular company appears night nightly - ly nightly in the comedy entitled " A Christmas Sup Supper," - per," Supper," and fpr Fast night a glorious bill, in including - cluding including "Follies of a Night" and "Breach of Promise," is announced. Not to be outdone by the rest, Mr. Stetson of the Howard brings out to-night the latest sensation, called "Bijou and Babii," a spec spectacular - tacular spectacular piece of the "Black Crook" and "White Fawn*' order, which is said to far surpass those well know productions. Whether it is to surpass these in indelicacy, as well as in grandeur of scenery and stage effects, will not lie known until this letter is well on its way to the "Heart of the Com Commonwealth." - monwealth." Commonwealth." Easter is coming, and with it comes many things that interest your lady readers, such as new dresses, new bonnets, new fashions, and fresh gossip. But of this next week. This is a rambling sort of a letter, made up of odds and ends, strung together in no ven' connected way. But what can you ex expect - pect expect from one who signs himself Will Wander? People that We Hate. - There are son.^subjects on which we feel more deeply than we have ever "given out" in editorial or on the platform, - some people toward whom we harbor the most bitter intentions, although we have never Wore publicly de denounced - nounced denounced them. There is the man who makes furniture and bed casters, and "heads down" the little axles so poorly that after trundling about for a brief season, the little wheels run off and the stumps snag the car carpet. - pet. carpet. We hate him. There are all the men who ever had anything to do with devising the fastenings to car windows. We hate them jointly and generally, and we should like ever so much to head a party which would never vote for them. We hate sub subscription-book - scription-book subscription-book agents. We hate inventors of yeast powders. We hate the inventor of the shirt button, and should like to kick him out of the west end of the depot with a locomotive, clear round the world, and in at the east end again. We hate the fellow who is "perfectly candid," the other one who "means it all for your good" and the other one who is going to speak "only just a min minute," - ute," minute," and "make just one other point." We know it Is heathen, but we are satisfied that we are hopelessly incorrigible in these deep deepseated - seated deepseated enmities. - Springfield Rep. Like our friend we have some of old Adam's blood, but we show it in a different way; for instance, we like the man tliat makes furniture, and bed casters that roll on axles so poorly as to break and snag the carpet, for it makes us mail and gives us a good opportunity to make some whole wholesome - some wholesome remarks in an emphatic manner when the general run of things don't go to suit. We feel better for it. The man who invented car window fastenings is a bene benefactor - factor benefactor ; we like him, for it very often affords us the pleasure es being gallant and the winner of smiles. Neither do we hate book agents, but are favorably disposed to like them especially if they are ladies and pre prepossessing - possessing prepossessing in their appearance. The yeast powder factor is not to be despised, for poor afflicted Jobs will find incorruptible virtue in his "proprietary" that will forego the bitterness of quinine; while the inventor of shirt buttons is the prince of good fellows, and we wish we hail to double the number on our shirt bosoms, for we should delight to remove them for the sake of having gentle fingers attach them again. All these hate hateful - ful hateful persons and commodities we like; for thorny stings bring blessed balm and peace offerings at the hands of angelic Samaritans. Life is a gravelly walk, but some of the pebbles are gems. We hate as well as like; but w'e keep like uppermost. [Communicated.] Rare Musical Entertainment. The Choral Union announce an entertainment for the evening of Fast. Day, Thursday, April 3d, which will be very interesting to all lovers of good music. The principal work to be performed is a new cantata, by William Carter, of London, entitled, "Placida: the Christian The story is generally so well known that the slightest sketch will suffice to remind the reader of those portions specially alluded to in this cantata. The scenes are laid in and near Rome, and the period is in the reign of the Emperor Nero. The persons represented are Nero, Emperor of Rome; Metellus, a Patrician; Rufus, his friend; Fabian, a Chris Christian - tian Christian Priest; Placida, Metellus'daughter; Bertha, her slave; with quartettes and choruses of an angels, - gels, angels, Roman citizens, Christians and slaves. Placida has been awakened to the light of Chris* trinity by observing the devotion of her slave, and especially by hearing her sing a She accompanies Bertha to the catacombs, where she is baptised by Fabian: and while she and her fellow-Cnristians are singing chorals of joy, the soldiers enter and make them prisoners. Rufus communicates to Metellus the fact that his daugh daughter - ter daughter is among the number of the captured, and he hastens to her and, flrat in love, and then in anger, calls upon her to abjure her adopted religion. Placida refuses, and is visited by her father s malediction. She is then brought with Fabian and the other converts before the Imperial Tribu Tribunal, - nal, Tribunal, and again refusing to recant, is condemned with the rest to death. On her way to the place of execution or torture, an attempt is made by Metellus' slaves to rescue her, and in the midst of the tumult she faints and dies. Metellus. moved by the Might of her lifeless form, and dreading lest qualnted with the .Uire wi'f reuiembif the WrHtine picture (beautifully represented by Pau| Ilelaroche) of Placida'. tody, floating onthe stream, the oMartyr'a enclrrlingher brow, The muric is highly dramatic, and will be ably rendered by thefulUor.aof Ao Solely in the choruses, and by Mias Nellie Piake,l|r, A. Munroe, Sir. S, Richards, Mr, W, £ DauleM, Mr, B. F. Hammond and Mr. Wuu»m Thompson.in the solos. The beautiful cantata, by Mendelssohn, My which so favorably ceived at th*« flrot concert, will also, bv special request, be given at the Concert, in Which Mr, J. Stewart Brown will sustain the sourgno solo, No one should lose this opportunity of hearing the finest musical entertainment of the season, Tickets may be found at the music store of Rich Richards, - ards, Richards, Metcalf & Co.

ffuilg ^ress. TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 1, 1873. UNBATIBFIED. Oh, heart of mine! you're a willful thing, And a trouble to me at best; I have taught you long, and tutored you well, But still you are never at rest. What is it you want, you greedy gnome, That you moan like a child in pain ? If I crowned you monarch of rolling spheres, I believe it would be in vain. I have wrought in the midnight's starry hours, And on till the morning gray; I have toiled in the sultry tropic's heat, Till the cease of the weary day; My pen has brought you a measure of fame Heaped up to the very brim, - A name that shall live when centuries roll Back into the ages dim. I have gathered you wealth that might dower a I have throned you In regal state; [queen; For you I wrestled with many a foe, Conquering even fate. I have knelt at your shrine like the veriest slave, With trophies from every land: Gems from the sea, and gold from the mine, Have been scattered with lavish hand. And honor unstained - oh, heart of mine, What is it you ask for more ? Knowledge is thine; 1 have sought it out From the pages of ancient lore. Love! love! my heart, that I taught so loug? My heart, that I crushed with a will ? How dare you stir 'neath your silken robes, Moaning and fretting still ? How dare you ask for impossible things, Oh! viper that I have fed? W'hy do you madden me, day by day, Till I wish I might see you dead? Love! never, never, my traitor heart! So comfort yourself with pride, - Fold it royally over your sharpest pain, - For you there is naught beside. CORRESPONDENCE. Boston Correspondence of the Daily Press. Boston, March 31, 1873. Dear Press: - The mild weather and warm rains of the past two or three days have had a surprising effect in removing the wintry look which our streets and public squares, as well as the suburbs, have worn for months back. Except in out of the way corners which the sun cannot reach, the snow' is gone, and on the Common, save where the snow' carted from the streets has subsided into little hillocks of Iceland notably in front of the State House^Jie grass shows the first uncertain tinge of Q t | ie \ On Bea Beacon - con Beacon street, where the suw^,.^ all day, the venturesome snow- - *?<ocuses, amply protected by th ^^^^gß of snow, are showing their he^^S^nng promise of the wealth of foliage and flowers that is now preparing to burst forth. Its winter gar garment - ment garment has been so ample that the earth has been well protected, and the long and tedi tedious - ous tedious process of getting the frost out of the ground, which, here as elsewhere, means days and weeks of mud, will hardly be ne necessary - cessary necessary this season. But enough of the weather. It is a good subject upon which to begin conversation w ith a new acquaint acquaintance, - ance, acquaintance, and is admirably suited to be a starting point for this, my first chat with the readers of the Presw. It has served its purpose, therefore, pass on. a re. l estate operation. Your re^; A doubtless remember the para paragraphs - graphs paragraphs tl< went the rounds of the papers last S» rng concerning the enormous price paid by a prominent banking firm for a cor corner - ner corner lot, covering only a few hundred square feet, which stood in the very midst of the stamping ground of the bulls and bears of Gotham, and possession of which was ab absolutely - solutely absolutely necessary to enable the firm in question to carry out their proposal building operations. Eli Perkins, the genial contrib contributor - utor contributor to the N. Y. Commercial, devoted a column or two to the subject, and gave the family history of the three old ladies who owned the land from the time of the old Dutch rule in Manhattan dow n to the pre present - sent present degenerate days. For once, financial experts were cornered by unsophisticated "outsiders," and there was a general chuckle all around. We have just now a somewhat similar case here, although there has been no sharp practice, and it is believed that the buyers have paid no more than it is really worth to them, and, on the principle that a thing is worth what it will bring, no more than was just to the sellers. Your readers remember the locality of course, although the firm from whom it took its name moved away some years since. It stands next door to what was the splendid rescript building. As yon know, that went down in the great fire, and the comer building, without any earthly reason, was "gutted out" on that fatal night by the explosion of a number of kegs of powder in the basement. Who ordered this I do not know'; but I saw the whole transaction, and a more senseless thing I never saw done. Well, our city fathers have determined to widen Washington street, taking off ten feet from the front of this comer lot, and to do the same on Milk street, reducing its width by some five or six feet. The remainder is hardly large enough to be used separately for business purposes, although, considering the location, a tenant could probably be found for a small store built upon the lot, who would lie willing to pay a handsome rent. But the Transcript folks wanted it, knowing that its possession woni I enhance the value of every foot they already own. Overtures were therefore made to the owners, but for a long time it seemed as though no agreement would be reached. At last the Messrs. Dut Dutton, - ton, Dutton, the Transcript proprietors, offered to submit the question of price to three disin disinterested - terested disinterested parties, chosen in the usual way, and to pay SIO,OOO over and above whatever their award might be. But this offer was declined, and it was only on Saturday, after no end of dickering, that the .owners finally agreed to accept a round hundred thousand for all their right, title and interest in the lot, and the mins that stand upon it. Now that this is settled, active operations will begin forthwith, and before many months the new Transcript building, complete in every detail, and provided with every con convenience - venience convenience that can possibly be used in the publication of a daily paper, will stand on this prominent comer, a monument to the enterprise and success of its owners, a worthy peer of the many firm structures which are soon to rise from the ashes of the burnt dis district. - trict. district. TENEMENT HOUSES. Having successfully grappled with the small pox, and got it so under control that now', instead of holding the first place, It stands well down on the list of the ordinary diseases that figure in our weekly lists of mortality, our new Board of Health is about to tackle the tenement house nulaancs, a more fruitful source of disease even tlian Uie epidemic aforesaid - one which scatters its seeds broadcast, and which is mainly respon responsible - sible responsible for the fearful sum total of deaths which every returning summer brings. These buildings are mere shells, often out by neighboring structures from the ligMt and heat of the sun, dark and damp. Ui which are huddled together the poor, tab ignorant and the depraved. Many of t'A«n» are owned by persons residing in the most fashionable quarters of the c ßyi men who wove in the highest circles;

Now that Mr. Grant has set himself to the "construction of ctyeap routes of transit through throughout - out throughout the land, to the end that the productions of all section* may find a market, and leave living remuneration to the produce, it is safe to con conclude - clude conclude that the whele Republican press will come out flat-footed for the "three National trunk from the to the sea, and the direct control of the railroads by the National Govern Government. - ment. Government. Either of these plans offers advantages to the Rrdical mind. Three yailroads to the sea- Iward constructed by Government would afford chances for Credit Mobilier speculations number numberless - less numberless and gigantic, while, at the same time, the Western rural Republicans would be conciliated and kept in the harness. A suggestion that Congress should lay a paternal hand, after th© European manner, on the mane of the iron horse and enact Procrustean traffics, applying impar impartially - tially impartially to the New York and New llaven line and Northern Pacific road, is not wholly without ad advantages, - vantages, advantages, inasmuch as it would be an invitation to Tom Scott and Vanderbilt to imitate the con conduct - duct conduct of Zaccheus In the palm tree (Luke xix., 5), and "make haste and come down," so that the Republicans are taking an interest in the honest farmer. ^g- So are the Democrats, and having good legal cause for doing so, are strengthening the fanners and predisposing them in favor of the Demo Democratic - cratic Democratic party. Oov. Palmer's address to the Sangamon County Convention of Agriculturists was both able and adroit. The .vested rights which the railroads claimed to possess he likened to divine rights of kings - a superstition of the past, now exploded :>ua worn out. As people bad done away with the divine right, so they must now learn to class with it the vested rights of corporations, and become accustomed to the idea that the people should have a voice as well as the carrier in saying what percentage of the producer's crop, should be taken by the carrier. With nothing less than this should they be satisfied. He wanted the ownership of the roads separated from the transportation over them, so that any individual or association could run cars or trains over the lines ou paying a cer certain - tain certain tariff. * When the through freight lines and p dace-car companies could do this, what was to ninder individuals from doing it? The fanners are organizing as zealously as ever. lowa takes the lead, as it has hitherto.* There the farmers not only form clubs to buy implements at whole wholesale, - sale, wholesale, thus saving the middle-man's profits, but are getting up co-operative stores and banks. Persevered in it will be seen that the movement would be of a most formidable character. Per contra, the railroads are carrying the war into Africa. The Chicago, Alton and St. Louis Company have brought three suits for heavy damages against the farmers of Champaign county who inaugurated the three-cent war. This war has made travel in the State of Illinois exciting. The rule has been tacitly set and ac accepted - cepted accepted that might is right. When the railroad hands are in the majority the passengers pay full fare; when the passengers are the stronger the conductor takes the tendered money. The pas passengers - sengers passengers all carry revolvers, and the trains are heavily manned and the brakemen furnished with axe-handles and other persuaders. Iu the case complained of, the passengers were so many that the train had to be backed into a siding for two hours till the railroad company could get up re reenforcements. - enforcements. reenforcements. For this the company brings suit, as already mentioned, under the provisions of the Ku Klux'act. A prominent physician and surgeon re recently - cently recently addressed a communication to the Hartford Courant on the subject of the mode of inflicting capital punishment, his object being to show the least painful method. As the opinion of a surgeon, from a professional point of view, his communi communication - cation communication is interesting; but as a matter of so social - cial social science and policy it conveys erroneous impressions. Too many of our humani humanitarians - tarians humanitarians appear to be morbidly sensitive to the sufferings of those who defy all laws, human and divine, which observed, dimin diminished - ished diminished pain and increase comfort. Why par particular - ticular particular efforts should be made to reduce the legitimate painful results of wrong doing it is not easy to understand. To be sure, un unnecessary - necessary unnecessary cruelty is revolting to every mind not entirely debased, and the execution of a criminal should not be made tlie occasion for the display of the "law's retributive ven vengeance - geance vengeance ;" but there does not seem to be any particular demand for seeking a peculiarly soothing or entirely painless method of dis disposing - posing disposing of condemned criminals. Dr. Ells Ellsworth - worth Ellsworth recommends the instantaneous de destruction - struction destruction of the organs of sensibility by blow blowing - ing blowing the criminal's head to pieces by the ex-\ plosion of a cannon. So far as the criminal is concerned, the proposed change might be an improvement; but as punishment for crime is what the term denotes, and not alone a defence for the community, the opinio* or feelings of the criminal are not z of value in tlie consideration, of the question. If all the gentlenfien appointed as associate commissioners to the Vienna Exposition by Governor Washbum are like Hamilton A. Hill, the able Secretary of the Boston Board of Trade, he has made a good selection. Hartford used less xrater last year than for any of tlie previous ten years. We dare say it is true, for a good many Maine and Mas Massachusetts - sachusetts Massachusetts men pass through there on their way to New York. More than 11,500 conversions were report reported - ed reported in the New York Independent of last week as the fruits of revivals in the various denominations. We congratulate our con contemporary - temporary contemporary on this striking proof of th* suc success - cess success ofj its religions mission, though we fear it is not doing equally well in the field of political regeneration. Next June will witness troubled waters ia; Springfield by a rowing match between Blg Blglin - lin Blglin and Ellis Ward. The kind of that Foster swak lowed still maintains its popularity at IS cents a poison. - New York Commercial Ad Adeertiser. - eertiser. Adeertiser. A Western editor who doesn't like to hang murderers suggests death by the electric shock, after the manner in which hogs am now killed in Cincinnati, President Grant h* given

EDCCATION AND FEMININE DEPRAVITY. The young Chinese, especially in San Francisco, are anxious to acquire an English education. They may not attend the public schoole. A few yearn sinve certain Chinese mission schools were established by joint efforts of several religious denominations. Young ladies and gentlemen volunteered their services on Sunday to teach these Chinese children to read, They make eager, apt and docile pupils. Great is their pride on mastering a few lines of English text. They be become - come become much attached to their teachers, ana it is possible, if the vote of the latter were taken, it would evidence more liking for their yellow, long longcued - cued longcued pupils tlian for any class of white children. But while so assiduous to learn, it is rather doubtful whether much real religious impression is made upon them. It Is possible that their home training negatives that. We have spoken en entirely - tirely entirely of the Chinaman. What of the China Chinawoman - woman Chinawoman in America? In California the word is synonymous with what is most vile and disgusting. Few, very few of a respectable class are in the State, The slums of London and New Y«rk ore respectable thor- QUghfaius compared with the rows of in the heart of San Francisco. These can hardly be termed They have no sense of virtue, propriety or decency to abandon. They are ignorant of the disgrace of their calling; if the term may be allowed, they pursue it innocently. Many are scarcely more than children. They are mere commodities, being by their own couutrymen bought iu China, shipped and t-unsigned to factors in California, and there sold for a term of years. AMERICAN PREJUDICES. The Chinaman has bitter enemies in San Fran Francisco - cisco Francisco i they thirst to annihilate him. He is ac accustomed - customed accustomed to blows and brickbats; he is legiti legitimate - mate legitimate game for rowdies, both grown and juven juvenile - ile juvenile ; and childr» n supposed to be better trained can scarce resist the temptation at snatching at his pig tail as he passes through their groups in front of the public schools. Even on Sunday, nice little boys coining from Sabbath-school, with their catechisms tucked under their jackets, texts enjoining mercy and gentleness, fresh upon their lips, will sometimes salute the benighted heathen as he passes ly with a volley of stones. If he turns upou his small assailants he is apt to meet larger ones. Mtn arc Lot wanting, ready and panting, to take up the quarrel thus wan wantonly - tonly wantonly commenced by Uie Offspring of the - perior There are hundreds of families who came over the sea to seek in America the comfort and prosperity denied them in the land of their birth, whose children from earliest in infancy - fancy infancy are inculcated with the sentiment that the Chinaman is a dog, a pest and a curse. On. the occasion of Wm. H. Seward's visit to a San Fran Francisco - cisco Francisco theatre, two Chinese merchants were hissed and hooted by the gallery mob from a box which they had ventured to occupy. This assumption of style and exclusiveness proved very offensive to the shirt-sleeved, upper tier representatives of the "superior who had assembled in large numbers to catch a glimpse of one of the black man's great champions. Ethiopia could have sat in tbatnox in perfect safety, but China in such a place was the red rag rousing the ire of the Dem Democratic - ocratic Democratic bull, John has a story of his own to carry back home from a Christian land. LAROR COMPETITION VS. CHRISTIANITY. For this prejudice and hostility there are pro provocative - vocative provocative causes, although they may not be urged in extenuation. The Chinaman is a dangerous competitor for the white laborer; and when the latter, with other and smaller mouths to feed, once gets the idea implanted in his mind that the bread is being taken from them by what he deems a semi-human heathen, whose beliefs, habits, ap appearance - pearance appearance and customs are distateful to him, then there are all the conditions ready for a state of mind toward the almond-eyed Oriental which leans far away frpm brotherly love. Brotherly love sometimes depends on circumstances. "Am I not a man and cries John from his native shore. we respond. Pass round the hat - let us take up a contribution for the conversion of the poor neathen. The coins clink thickly in the bottom of the charitable chapeau. We return home feeling ourselves raised an Inch higher heavenward. "Am I not a man and a cries John in our midst, digging our gold, setting up opposition laundries and wheeling sand at half a dollar per day less wages. Get out, ye long-tailed baste! An' wad ye put me on a level wid that - that baboon Pass round the hat. The coins mass themselves more thickly than ever. For what? To buy muskets, powder and ball. W'herefore? Wait! More than once has the demagogue cried, "Drive them into the sea!"

J . H. CLARK & CO. would liirlu the attention ol their customer, and the public to their large Block ol NEW DRY GOODS w - FOR TIIK - SPRING TRADE. ATTENTION is SPECIALLY INVITED to our Superior Stock of Black Silis. have all grades from 81.25 (for the cheapest silk in this city; and upwards, that for real value cannot be surpassed in this city, Boston or New York. STRIPE SILKS are much cheaper this spring. We have a large stock in WHITE GBOUNDS, with hair lines and fancy stripes. Black Grounds, with white stripes, GREY GROUNDS, with black stripes, and many other styles and colors, at from 12^ to 25 cents a yard less than last season's prices. Black Brillantines, Black Mohaira, Black Alpacas. W'e have the same superior makes in these giMMls that have given perfect satisfaction to our customers for two years. Selling a| satis satisfactory - factory satisfactory prices. 10 Ps. Black Cashmere and Hen Henrietta - rietta Henrietta Cloths, JUST RECEIVED. New Goods Opening Daily. OUR STOCK OF WOOLLENS, LINEN GOODS AND DOMESTICS LARGE AND FULL, AND PRICES WILL BE FOUND LOW. J. H. CLARKE & CO., a 2 5t 353 Main St. AT CHAMPION'S KITCHEN STORE, No. 13 Pleasant Street, (North Side,) You can find a great variety of the most useful goods, consisting in part of Clothes and Reels, Wringers, Baskets, Lines, Wash Tubs, Clothes Frames, Wash Benches, Rolling Pins and Molding Boards, Chopping Trays, Pails, Tin Ware, Ac., Ac. Call and see for yourselves. Goods at low PRICES. R. CHAMPION. a! eodlw ESTABLISHED A. D. 1850. R. McALEER Successor to D. Brown, Manufacturer of Fine Harness AND DEALER IN FIRST CLASS Stable and Carriage Goods, 228 Main St. al dtf BATCHES!! Mv life work has been the manufacture, sale and* repair of Watches. If this experience, to together - gether together with a large and carefully selected STOCK OF WATCHES Bought, not on Credit, but for Cash, my intimate connection with the largest Manufacturing and Importing Houses in the country, and my very small store expenses, are of any advantage to me, 1 am abundantly able to make it so to my patrons. My unexpected success in my new enterprise has encouraged me to fill my store with a com complete - plete complete stock of Genuine Waltham Watches, And to resume the sale of Celebrated Chas. E. Jacot (Swiss) Watches, (Having introduced them into Worcester when at the old stand), and a fine stock of LADIES AND GENTS' GOLD CHAINS, RINGS, STUDS, BUT BUTTONS, - TONS, BUTTONS, SETS, LOCKETS, &c., &c. This stock will bear inspection as to price and quality. I solicit fine and difficult Watch Work, and shall take no more than I find time to do with my own hands. IRA G. BLAKE, Formerly Superintendent of Watchmakers' De Department - partment Department at Waltham Factory, and Manager of the Watch Department in the late firm of Blake & Robinson. 480 MAIN STREET, opposite the Common. al OEO RG E R. SPURR, DEALER IX DRUGB, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, PERFUMERY, Soaps, Brushes, Patent Medicines, Pure Wines and Liquors for Mctlleinal Pur Purposes. - poses. Purposes. Agents for the Great United States Tea Company. 337 Main St., Worcester, Mass. Physicians Prescriptions Carefully Compounded alts at all hours. 0O M S TOO K & EVERETT, Wholesale Dealers in Pork, Lard and Hams, Poultry, Sausages and Dressed Hogs. Prices as low as any house in New England. No. 21 Southbridge Street. JAMES K. COMSTOCK, EDWARD S. EVERETT. Vorcestcr, April 1, 1X73. M_ <l&w4w EG(Fs I bIFy THE BEST I The best Eggs to hatch are from Healthy Thoroughbred FOWLS, whether they are awarded Brst premiums or not. I claim to have the largest and iiest collection of Thoroughbred Brown Leghorn Fowls of any man in the world; legs free from disease, and the fowls pefectly healthy. Circulars on application. FRANK J. KINNEY, No. 3 Olean st., Worcester, Mass. al dTnTSlm&wtt (Tatnuck.) Avery davis, 413 Main street, Worcester. The public are invited to my spring opening of piece goods for CUSTOM GARMENTS, Fine Furnishing Goods and Ready Made Cloth Clothing, - ing, Clothing, which is complete in all the latest styles and novelties. FINE SHIRTS mand to measure and warranted. Patterns cut. Cloths sold by the yard and cut to measure ii desired. p O R SALE, Clothing, Hats, Caps, Furnishing Goods, Boots and Shoes, &c., &c. The subscriber wishes to sell his entire stock at once. Terms reasonable. A good chance. Rent I OW . R. MONTAGUE, Northboro', March 25,1873. D H. WHITTEMORE'S MEAT - CUTTER will cut two pounds of Pie Meat in one minute and Hash for the Family in one and a half minutes. Works extremely easy. Sells for $3. May be taken on trial at 570 Main st. al 3m

postulate, entreat, and talk a great deal of Eng English, - lish, English, and some of it very strong English, which Hip Tee does not understand; and Hip Tee talks a great deal of Chinese, and perhaps strong Chi Chinese, - nese, Chinese, which you do not understand. Yon com commence - mence commence sentences In broken Chinese, and termi terminates - nates terminates them in unbroken English. Hip Tee com commences - mences commences sentences in broken English and termi terminate - nate terminate them In pure Chinese, from a like inability to express the indignation in a foreign tongue. for you no go Oder man ? No my ticket tickettung - tung tickettung sing lung, ya hip kce-ping.'" he cries, and all this time the amis;ants are industriously iron ironing, - ing, ironing, and spouting mist, and leisurely making re remarks - marks remarks tn their sing-song, untelliglblllty which you feel have uncomplimcntaiy reference to your yourself. - self. yourself. Suddenly a light breaks own you. That Is not Hip Tee's cellar, th ii Is not Hld Tee. It is the es establishment - tablishment establishment of Hi Sing. This is Hi Sing him himself, - self, himself, who for the last ha;f hour has been endeav endeavoring - oring endeavoring with his stock of fifieeu English words to make you understand that you arc in the wrong house. But these Chinese, as to faces and their wash-houses, and all the paraphernalia of their wash-houses, are so much alike that is an easy mistake to make. You find the lavatory of Hip Tee, who pronounces the hieroglyphics all cor correct, - rect, correct, and delivers you your lost ana found shirts, clean, with half the buttons broken, and the bos bosoms - oms bosoms pounded, scrubbed and frayed into an Ir Irregular - regular Irregular sort of embrodiery. JOHN AS A SKILLED LABORER AND DOMESTIC. can only dig, cook and said the American miner contemptuously, years ago; can't work To work rock, in mining par parlance, - lance, parlance, is to lie skilful in boring earth's stony husk after mineral. It Is to be proficient iu sledging, drilling and blasting. The Chinaman seemed to have no aptitude for this labor. He was content to use his pick and shovel in the gravel-banks; metallic veins of gold, silver or copper he left en entirely - tirely entirely to the white man. Yet it was a great mistake to suppose he could not or do anything else required of him. John is a most apt and intelligent labor labormachine. - machine. labormachine. Show him once your tactics in any operation, and ever after he imitates them as ac accurately - curately accurately as does the parrot its memorized sen sentences. - tences. sentences. So when the Pacific railroad was being bored through the hard granite of the Sierras, it was John wno handled the drill and sledge ns well as the white laborer. He was hurled by thousands on that immense work, and it was the tawny hand of China that hewed out hundreds of miles for the transcontinental path-way. Nor is this all. He is crowding into one avenue of em employment - ployment employment after another in California. He fills our woollen and silk mills; he makes slippers and binds shoes; he is skilled in the use of the sewing machine: cellar after cellar in San Francisco is filled with these Celestial brownies rolling cigars; his fish-nets are in every bay and inlet; ne is em emp%yed - p%yed emp%yed in scores of thejesser establishments for preserving fruit, grinding salt; making matches, etc. He would quickly lump into the places the carpenter, mason and blacksmith were he aK Ja for there are numbers of them whose knowledge of these and other trades is sufficient at least to render them useful as assistants. He is handy on shiplioard: the Panama steamers cany Chinese foremast hands. He Is preferred as house-ser house-servant; - vant; house-servant; the Chinese boy of fourteen or sixteen learns quickly to cook and wash in American fashion. He is neat in person, can be easily ruled, does not set up an independent sovereignty in the kiteken, has no followers, will not outshine his mistress in attire, and although not perfect, yet affords a refreshing change from our Milesian tyrants of the roast and wash-tub. But when you catch this celestial domestic treasure, be sure that the first culinary operations perfarmed for his instruction are correctly manipulated, for his imitativeness is of a cast-iron rigidity. Once in the mould, it can only with great difficulty be altered. Burn your toast or your pudding and he is apt to regard the accident as the rule.

New AdvertlHementH. JUST OPENEDI OUR HFHINO ABHORTMKNT OF CLOTHS VOB OCR CUSTOM DEPARTMENT, In the choicMt vMictle. ol Foreign .nil DomesUe manufacture. The reputation of our house for fine garments ia well known, and all desiring to leave their or orders - ders orders will do well to call early before the rush com commences. - mences. commences. D. H. EAMES & CO., One Price Clothier*, CORNER MAIN AND FRONT STREETS, al WORCESTER, MASS. dly_ SPR I N G OVER COATS, NOW READY, A good assortment of the anost approved styles. Prices from B 7 to *2O. Spring' Suits FOB GENTS AND BOYS In all varieties and prices, now in stock, at D. H. EAMES & CO.'S Owe Price Clothing House, CORNER MAIN AND FRONT STREETS, al WORCESTER, MASS. _ dly OFFER TO-DAY, 465 PAIRS ALL WOOL CASSIMERE PANTS AT ONLY $5.00 A PAIR, FORMER PRICES FROM SIX TO EIGHT DOLLARS. THIS IS LESS THAN THE CLOTH IS WORTH. WE BOUGHT THESE IN A JOB LOT, AND GIVE OCR CUSTOMERS THE ADVANTAGE OF IT. WE ALSO OFFER TWO HUNDRED COATS AND ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY VESTS, AT EQUALLY LOW PRICES. D. H. EAMES & CO. al illy j^NOWLTON BROTHERS, NO. 282 MAIN STREET, WE ABE RECEIVING Spring Importation* of CROCKERY, FRENCH CHINA, FINE CRYSTAL GOODS, BRONZES, CLOCKS, &c., direct from Manufacturers, thereby enabling us to sell our Goods as low as any house in the country. Our stock of SOLID SILVER AND PLATED WARES, CUTLERY. Lamp Goods and Gas Fixtures IS COMPLETE IN EACH DEPARTMENT, And will Bear Close Inspection. Orders from country trade promptly attended to. Knowlton Brothers, 282 MAIN STREET, alts Opposite Bay State House. E W ENGLAND Concrete and Roofing Co. CONCRETE Walks, driveways, ground floors, &c., by a com combination - bination combination of the important features of the most approved methods. Scrimshaw's, Ford & Moor's, Snow & Davis' and the Latham patents have been purchased by this company, and no expense or pains have been spared to qualify them to pro produce - duce produce the most perfect bituminous concrete gthat can be made. GRAVEL ROOFING, Of best material, and applied with superior skill. Ready Roofing, Widely and Favorably Known. SHINGLE PAINT. Shingle paint is great economy. If taken in time no money for repairs is so judiciously expended. ROOF PAINTING IN OIL OF ANY COLOR, Ornamental or plain. Painting confined exclu exclusively - sively exclusively to roofs. By making roof painting a speci specialty - alty specialty we can do it 20 per cent, cheaper than any other parties. Shingle Paint for Tin has no rival. Concrete and Roofing Materials for sale, In quantities not less than 40 gallons at manu manufacturers' - facturers' manufacturers' prices. Raw and Distilled Tar, Black Varnish, Asphalt, Pitch, Dead Oils, Napthas, and every form of Bitumen. OFFICES - 36O Southbridge St., 26 Pleasant St., at Knowlton & Bacon's Paper Store. P. O. BOX 285, WORCESTER, MASS. T. C. Rice. - - Lorin Foskit. Concrete. Having disposed of my interest in the Concrete Bussiness to Messrs RICE & FOSKIT, of this city, I take ple:isure in recommending them to tha patronage of my old customers and the public generally. al dim J. J. RANDALL. GO. HILDRETH - Would respectfully inform the citizens of Worcester and vicinity that he is still engaged in the business of undertaking, as heretofore, although entirely disconnected from Mr. H. C. Willson, his former partner. His present place of business is at No. 15 Waldo street, first door north of Waldo House. Orders left at No. 7 Waldo street. Residence No. 32 Oread street. al d3m (JHICKERING & SONS' CELEBRATED PIANOS, FROM tsn UPWARDS. The Best in. the Market. - AT - S. B. LELAND A CO.'S. JJALLETT, DAyiS & CO., HAYNES BROS., HALLETT * CUMSTON, And Other Noted Pianos, .at prices that defy competition, at S. R. LELAND A CO.'S. VEW ' ROSEWOOD 7-OCTAVE PIANOS, From S3OO Upwards, - AT - AT-8. 8. AT-8. R. LELAND & CO.'S. MASON & HAMLIN, BURDETT XU ORGAN CO., Smith American Organ, And Other Organs, from *75.00 Upwards - AT - - AT-8. 8. - AT-8. R. LELAND A CO.'S. AND ORGANS SOLD ON A EASY MONTHLY PAYMENTS, . - AT - 8. R. LELAND A CO.'S. THANOS TUNED, REPAIRED. A POLISHED AND MOVED. Work Guaranteed. - AT - ,1 ly 8. B. LELAN^I A CO.'S.