The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-17

From Our OiSn Correspondent


Go to Central Park of Sunday night IL you
wish to zee happy love in lowly life. When you
lose sight of the hundred lights of the Garden
Concert, you might easily imagine yourself
fifty miles away from everywhere, rambling
through a moonlit Arcadia dedicated to the
working people. At such an hour Central Park
is the poor mans paradise. 1t abounds in green
secluded alcoves where fragrant leaves embower,
aud balmy waters roll, and bashfulness becomes
eloquent and poetic, and the emotion between
sweetheart dlover fndsa rhyme for itself in the
beauty and silence of the hour. There is not
solitary nook which is not thus divlnely niched
with Kate and Thomas, or Biddy and Patrick.
Let us hope there are few Juans and Julias
among these humble lovers. OF all the
nights in the week, Sunday night at Cen
trail Park is a heavenly time for spoons"
You see them beneath the trees, along
the bridges, in the boats, beside the lake,
down the alleys above the rocks, and all over.
Every other class unites at other times in usurp-
ing those precincts but on Sunday evening the
park is understood TO be set apart for the occu-
patton of lovers of low degree. To sing their
praises Alright newspaper Boccaccio would be
required. You hear the car-bells of the various
avenues tinkling family in the distance, but
poetic fancy transmutes them into the sound of
cattle-bells. The lights and music from the
garden concert come in sweeps and iushes,
but they seem like fairy unrealities disasso-
ciated from lager-bier and refreshment in gene
raj. The world seems made for love. and our
hewers of wood and drawers of water seem to
have the best right to it.
Insanity n Crime-Coverer.
Insanity covers more sins than even charity
did. The insanity ascribed to criminals is the
charity of the nineteenth century. Not to refer
to q recent case that will be in every ones mind
witness that of suicide which took place q
day or two ago at Long Island, where the self
murderer tied his legs together and managed
somehow to fetter his arms, and then flung him
self into wheel-race. And cases as bad as this
are occurring around us every day. But when
the insane man, instead of taking his own life
takes that of another, there is some show of
reason in the petition that has been got up by
number of women in this city praying Governor
Hoffman that one Mcfarland may be impri-
soned in lunatic asylum, in order that citizens
may be protected from him. OF course, these
women are the gritty-natured Amazons, the
wemen of the sterner sex who have already
done so much gabbling and so little good. But
if they succeed in con6ning this fellow, many
will be the women of the softer sex who will
rise up and call them blessed.
Lamp-post Law.
In this city 1t is not theft to appropriate news
papers one finds on the outside of lamp-post
boxes. A case of this kind, where Chinaman
helped himself to some newspapers that were
thus lying loose, has just been decided by court
in this city. Not being inside the boxes, they
were not considered to be in the custody of the
United States. The general public appears to
labor under the delusion that long as news
papers and letters touch a lamp-post box they
are as good as delivered, and have been much
edited and interested in observing the sweet and
lambent confidence which old ladies sometimes
evince in human nature by depositng outside
the box unstamped letters, accompanied by
three pennies to defray the postage.
MIR. Stockton's PLAY.
Mr. j. D. Stockton's delightful comedy of
For vs. Goose was presented last evening for
the first time at Mr.. Booths Theatre Mr.. Clarke
taking the part of "Jack Goslng." The
comedy. as Philadephians have reason to know,
Is written in Mr.. Stockton's most spirited and
sparkling vein, and furnished the genius of Mr..
Clarke with the opportunity for displaying
itself in the rarest and most genial phases OF
humor 1t was attended by one of the largest
and most cultured audiences of the season, who
were evidently attracted by that important
event. the production by genuine American
actor of genuine American play, written ex-
pressly for him by genuine American author
Very soon Mrs. Waller, who is to next season
fill the position now occupied by Miss Morant
some characters Mrs. Waller is an effective and
beautiful actress but when she rants, as she too
often does her voice is painfully ragged. 1t
sounds as though it had been hung a clothes
line in a hail-storm and the pegs had blown
away.
The Rev. Charles B. Smythe had no weeping
eyes to wipe when he bade farewell on Sunday
to his congregation in the Eleventh Street Pres
byterian Church. Although there was more
sorrow than anger in his look, he did not melt,
but sternly reminded his parishioners that they
would remember what they had done and be
sorry for it when ID was too late. l have no
disposition to join with those narrow-mnded
cynics who gloat over the failings of ministers
of the Gospel; but there is a ludicrous well as
sorrowful side to the subject and Mr..
Smythes cheek in defending his conduct de-
priyes him of all the sympathy which would
otherwise be held in reserve for him. Now that
he is relieved from clerical duties, there is no
reason why he should not prepare new libretto
for The Black Crook, which they say is to be
revived. Like "Mawworm," he "likes to be
despised."
Sunday Reading -Ro0ms.
The question whether the reading-room of
the Mercantile Library shall be opened on Sun
day is beginning to be agitated again, and
meeting will be held tonight for the purpose
of deciding it. Is it any worse for poor man
or woman 10 sit and read in public place on
the Sabbath than for rich man to sit and read
in his own library After all, the question
tapers down to that. Among the directors of
M A.. g.. l. a.