The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-09-03
From The County Seat.

TRYTNo AND DpHEARTENno.
To be in debt and unable to pay.
To be hungry and nothing to eat.
To be scorned by your interiors.
To be betrayed by your friends.
To be punished for anothefs guilt.
TO be blamed for others mistakes.
TO be slighted by those you love.
To be forced 10 live with those you
hate.
TO pass by merit and applaud pros
perity.
To be too late for the cars when in o
hurry.
To be suspected when you Are inno-
cent
TO have unreasonable and ungrate-
full parents.
To ignore character and stoop to
wealth.
To neglect family by reckless iude-
fence.
TO be grumbled at for trying to do
right.
TO be condemned when you are not
guilty,
To be uohstred wheh sut need sym
pathy.
To have needless and disobedient
children.
TO be compelled TO labor when you
are old.
To endorse note for o friend and
have to pay it.
To spend for liquor what is needed
in the family.
TO have your house burn down and
no insurance.
TO be expected to sing when you
don't know the tune.
TO be compelled to submit to willful
stubborness.
To be in Strengthened circumstances
and none to help.
To be sold by the Sheriff with thou
fands on your books.
TO be considered dishonest when you
are unfortunate.
To be compelled to submit to what
you know to be wrong.
1t is reported that Rev. E. II; Hoff-
man, pastor of the st. Paul's NJ. E;
church, of this place designs soon to re-
tire from the ministry in consequence of
poor health.
Quite number of our town people
have returned home from the sea shore.
To numerous to mention.
Rev. Mr.. Callan, pastor of the NJ.
L. church, of Packerton, preached an
able and interesting sermon in st. Paul's
NJ. e. chtirch here on lust Sunday eve-
ming.
In keeping with the purpose and in
structions of the school directors all the |
schools in the borough commenced on
Thursday, Sept lst, to the regret of most
of the children who think that there
should be general vacation until the
weather gets cool.
An excursion numbering about 500
persons from New York and New Jersey
visited this place on Wednesday, they
visited Glen Onoko and took a ride
around the SNitch-Back and returned
home the sams day.
-Rumor says there will be an excnr-
sion to this place every day during this
month.
The old frame building situate on
Quarry and Race streets, which was used
by the borough as lookup, has been
torn down for the purpose of putting up
n building for the Hook & Ladder Co.
There Las nothing extraordinary
transpired here during the week. There
has nobody been hung no suicides, no
elHpt ments, no arrests. no marriages, no
accidents and no deaths, excepting COW
that was killed on the Switch Back rail-
road, on Wednesday last by the return
train. Matters and things are moving
along as usual and rather monotonous.
Seemingly the people are so much affect
ed by the continual pressure of extreme
hot aud dry weathe that they have all
become indifferent and don't care wheth-
school keeps or not, excepting some of
our young "bloods" who, notwitbstand-
ing the extreme warm weather manage to
get up social dance occasionally at the
expense of their nicely starched linen and
for the benefit of the washerwoman.