The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-05-03
THINGS in GENERAL.

So hard are the Socialists hunted down
| by the police of Berlin, that in despair of
being allowed to meet in any room, they
| gathered on the roof of one of the double-
decked street-cars ON recent Sunday, end
there had their talk undisturbed.
A drosky driver, of st. Petersburg, asked
his customer, who appeared to be a noble
man, what the Nihlists were. "Nihil
means nothing" was the reply, "and people
who have nothing in their pockets, nothing
in the way of land, nothing the shape Of
property, and nothing of the nature OF title
are called Nihilists." "Yes, yes" said the
drosky driver, "then Russia is full of Mill
lists, and even | also ain Nihilist."
Women are still numerous among tho
pedestrians. In St. Louis match Anna
Berger walked 100 miles in twenty-four
hours. One of the women in o Westfeld
(Mass.) contest seized her competitor by the
hair, and the struggle became one of hands
instead Of feet. Mrs. Anderson's latest at
tempt is to walk n mile and a half every
hour for twenty-five days in Cincinnati.
Six days walks by women are advertised in
several Western cities. May Tanning faint
ed on the track in Milwaukee, and lay two
days in stupor. Two girls of fourteen are
taken from place to place in New England
to exhibit their remarkable speed in ten-
mile races.
The April returns of the Department Of
Agriculture show that the average of win
ter wheatis about II per cent. greater than
last year. This increase is due mostly to
the transfer of spring sowing to fall sowings
in the West and Northwest. Unless the
spring sowings increase beyond present ex-
pectations, there will be a reduced aggregate
of wheat acreage in 1870. The wheat in the
ground, taken as a whole, is about 2 per
cent below average. The crop in some Sec
tions was untavoraby affected by fall
drought and in others the absence OF snow
during the extreme winter cold. With av-
erage growing conditions, however, it will
make very large crop of winter wheat.
Rye has fallen ofi'about per cent. below
average. 1t follows the general analogies Of
the wheat crop.
DR., Traill Green replies to Dr. Willard Par
kers view that fermented liquors are com
paratively harmless and often fbenefcial
He claims that all the drunkenness des-
cribed and condemned in the Bible was
caused by vinous beverages, and discerns no
less evil in them than in distilled liquors.
Alcohol is alcohol wherever you find it.
"There is no OCCASION" he says, "lor any
discussion about the products of stills or fer
mented wines, when we cannot discover any
difference as to the drunkenness which both
produce. II some are disposed to condemn
the use of distilled liquors it is very well but
they need not praise the harmless nature of
wine, when for centuries it was the only
drink that produced drunkenness, and it can
be shown that it is no less intoxicating now
than it was before distilled liquors We're pre-
pared. No harm can be done from abstain
ing from both, but great evil has followed
their use.''
Not long ago in Calcutta, two tigers escar-
cd from their cage in the menagerie. One
of them was instantly killed, but the other
swan the river, sprang into thu Botanic
Garden, and killed one Of the guards, upon
which the spectators were panic-strckGn and
fled. The tiger roamed around all day, lord
of the garden, and as he grew hungry killed
first one OK, then another. An armed ma
tive who tried to approach the wild beas-
was at once torn to pieces. At last several
rl1emen were employed to destroy the des-
troyer. They tied an OK to tree at tho
garden gate, and took their station on tho
roof of an adjacent house. The tiger rushed
upon the OK, and a volley from the riaemen
ended his career.
An Englshman writes TO a local English
paper that having spent about year and a
half in Missouri aud Kansas, he pronounces
the opinion that English folks thinking of
establishing themselves in those States had
far better remain at home, unless they pos
sess frames of iromand constitutions incapa-
pable of being injured by climatic influences.
The rapid changes of temperature and the
prevalence of miasma are very trying to the
ordinary Englishman, while the worst of it
is that he does not receive reward proper
tonate to his sulierings. Bad as the times
are in England lately, the writer declares
that the English working classes "doR't
know the full meaning of bad times until
they 60 to America" He himself was fully
prepared To meet any reasonable difficulties,
and 20 have uphill work for some wears,
But what with constant illness of his family
and the paralzed condition of trade in ey-
cry branch, his trials proved insuperable,
and he accordingly returned home sadder
and wiser man.
Henry Ward Beecher discoursed TO his
flock about Kindness" taking his text from
a verse in St.James's Epstle which SAYS that
he who has never offended by single word
is perfect man. lie did not suppose that
st. James meant to say that a deaf and
dumb man would necessarily be a perfect
man, but rather one who had the power of
speech and knew exactly how to bride it
on all occasions when necessary. People
had no right to speak evil of any of their
fellows. But the law of kindness, which
was the law Of God, requires them not only
TO speak kindly aud act kindly but to think
kindly as well. Every body ought to 10
kind to everybody else. Every man had
his faults. There WAS not perfect man TO
be found on the whole earth. Indeed there
was not, he thought, man on the whole
earth who had ever been perfect for one day
at stretch in his whole life. The course
left behind 10y man each day Of his life was
bent and crooked and It seemed impossible
for any man 10 follow straight line for one
day at a stretch. Ii was no credit TO man
10 be kind on occasion upon hearing good
news, being surrounded by pleasant compa-
Gy or after good dinner. He must be kind
at all times aud in all places. When he sees
evil he must keep his mouth shut and look
in upon his own imperiectons. There were
some people who never could be kind. They
didn't want 10 be pleased aud wouldn't be-.
They look at the piml 5 on a man aud
never Thought Of looking for any healthy
spots They hankered for something to find
fault with. But there was one class towards
whom Mr.. Beecher himself could not speak
or think kindly. That was the scandal
"Woe TO them" he said He
drew a picture of lover OF scandal setting
whole community upside down by whisper
lug in the ears OF few friends "thut il had
been said that the Rev. Mr.. so-and SO had
been to a party and drank 50 much cham
pagne that ou gong home he didn't know
whether he was un font or ON horseback"
Tne whole world was one fdm3iy, ANA when
a man publishes tine faults oi another no
vas revealing the secrets d the family.