The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-10-06
DIR PHILADELPHIA LETTER.

THE BI CENTENNIAL OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ABSENCE ADRAwBACK-THE ART OF BRAU-
Trying KITCHENa-"CHET's g. MISTAKE
FRESH VICTORIES OVER THE HOSTS OF sA-
TAN.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 2, 1882.
DEAR MCPIKE-UpOn my return to the
city after an absence OF several months find
great preparations being made for the BIZ
Centennial celebration, for which there is
less than four weeks left to perfect arrange
ments. The celebration is no longer a spec
ulatiOn but a fixed fact, and the only qles-
ton that remansis, How great shall the sue
cess be? What account we are to give of
ourselves is the question, and the general
impression is that If the programme as un-
folded is carried out it will reflect lasting
credit on both the city and State. The oc-
cas,on IS worthy of our best endeavOr. Phil
adelphia is to day a city of nearly a million
or inhabitants. Wonderful has been our
progress in population When I come to
think of the extraordinary progress of the
age, lam almost aStOunded 1t almost takes
my breath away to reflect upon the fact that
recently a man and his wife gave a garden
party at which there were 3, 600 people pres
ent Just think of this At the first garden
party on recOrd-that of Eden-there were
only two people present-299S less than at
the last garden party.
1t is much to be regretted that PhppS IS
not likely TO be on hand TO take part in the
celebration ceremonies. What pity it is
house full of good things which would have
made the days of the celebration perfect
festival. Bv the way PhippS affords anoth-
er illustration of the favorite argument why
we should annex Canada. In the absence of
Major Phipps the Bi-Centennial ceIe ebratiOn
will lose its greatest attraction. One would
think Canada would not care to encourage
the scamps of the United States who seek an
asylum in her territory Phipps appears
from his many sided criminalities to have
good deal of the "mental horizon" claimed
for Dorsey by Bob Ingersoll.
We regret much TO learn that Oscar Wilde'S
8stheticism is doing more harm than good.
Oscar advises hOuSe-keepers to beautify
their kitchens, and friend of mine who is a
great admiTer of the English sunhOwer and
believes in his teachings of kitchen theory,
beautified his kitchen by placing in it beau
tiful female cook in lieu Of a hOmely male
cook. But unhappily for him, his wife, who
is not 8Sthetically inclined, objected to that
manner of beautifying the kitchen and rails
ed Cain about it, aud my aesthetic friend
nov thinks that a man had better not beau
tify his kitchen. He says Mr.. Wilde's teach
ing is very nice in theory, but that man
had better let his kitchen alone. at least not
to beautify it with beautiful cook for if he
does so 1t is apt to cause trouble in the family.
1t Is sad disappointment to Philadel-
phians and the American people in general,
that their President. while in Rhode Island
stopped at eating fOrty-four clans at one
meal The country would have been proud
a
Tonnd four dozen when he ate the forty-four
clans at single inning, but to stop at forty
four was sad disappointment. How un-
fortunate that "Chet' did not make it the
round four dozen.
! am rejoiced to learn that the Rev George
Owen Barnes, known as the Mountain
Evangelist" from Kentucky, continues win
ming fresh victories over the hosts of Satan.
/ This Kentucky Evangelist has become IA
mOus-thirty thousand Kentuckians and
others having yielded to the persuasive eIo-
quence of his OratOry. He appears to be pc
culiarly successful in snatching such brands
from the burning as that hOary-headed old
sinner, Governor Blackburn, of Kentucky
and others. How great is Gods love for
man. His love knows no tiring-iti is eternal.
Think OF Gods acceptance of such vile old
wretches as Blackburn and other old hellgri-
mites. Mans decree would be to kick
man down the steps and set the dogs on him,
who after warning against him all lis best
fighting days, and after having exhausted
all war material, would come to him and ask
favor OF him. Not so, however, with our
Heavenly Father. The man who has spent
the best energies of his life in serving the
devil. and then try to compromise and make
up with the Lord by giving to him the fag
end of his life, will be kindly received and
welcomed. Even after man has run with
and worked for the devil until he is entirely
run out of wild oats seed and patrimonv-
until his joints Stiffen-and then brings his
old feeble carcass over to the Lords side
and proposes to battle for Him on crutches
God Will in His loving mercy receive him.
The secret Is out at last. With a spirit of
enterprise for which the Washington Post
has always had an eDviabIe reputation, it
went into the search of a matter about
which there was much curiosity To get at
the very bottom facts of this great mystery
the Post, with cOmmendable dash, push and
6nesse, went to work and discovered the Sc
cIet about what the Tariff Commission does
when 1t goes into session, and the secret is,
hot NH. a.
ness IS to find out what possible excuse there
is for its existence. O. y :