The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-10-13
OUR PHILADELPHIA LETTER.

OOR EHlLADELBHIA LITTER
PRIEsTEss OF ACCESTUATED LIMBs-TwC
or TIE GOOD WHO DTDS r DIE YOUNG
BENTGHTED LONG IsLAND-THE ERRATIC
COMET MUTATIONS OF FORTUNE
MONARCH AND THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
GREATNESS VERY TRANsITORY.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct 8, 1892
DEAR MCPIKE- -Presumihg that it will be
interesting news TO the "Frostv Dauphters,'
OF Cambria, it affords me much pleasure to
INFORM them that an English gal, Miss
Ellen Terry. is preparing to enslave Amer
lea simpler Daltdities. She does not require a
Parisian man miliner TO show her of She
IS the hlgh priestess of accentuated limbs
unlike the Over-decoratiOn of American
gals, Miss Terry never over dresses. Bless
her little heart
| was fearful that you would rot notice
tne beauties of the comets narrative but
am pleased to find it so rnauDificeDtIv de-
scribed in the FREEMAN You. however
shouid nave added that Just as its mere ap-
pearance had begun to satiate the curious
lt got up new sensation by splitting into
three sections. opening a new field for spec
ulatlon as 10 the nature and habits of this
efTatic class Of celestial vovagers regard
i as very kind in the comet in these duh
days to give the people something new to
wonder at.
A living proof that the old saw that ssonIv
the good die young is a lie from the whole
eioth IS found in a Kentuekian now twenty
three years old, who never spoke a sauev
word, told lie or swore an oath in his life
Here Is a truly good man who didn't die
young, which reminds me of another GOOD
man, companion Of nv virtuous bovhood
daVs, VINO never sauced his parents never
Iolu a lie OF swoTe a wicked oath. A prO-
tane word was an abOminstion in his sight;
vet TOT extreme prOvOcatiOnS he was provi
ded with gentle litany which afforded To
his irrated mind the comfort of SWEARING
without the commission of sin. Under verv
great Drovocations this good youth would
say, "Darn it TIE word s'jarn - to his
conscientious mind was a cOmfortahIe rest
ing place-a refreshment to his accerberatad
spirit that shrunk from saving .he o-fa-
mlllar word with an m in it, So very tender
was my good companions conscience that
ne mad frequent SearchinoS of heart after
saying ''darn,' and INDUCED in floods of
penltence. AT times he would ponder over
that hard word, damn " and had desire TO
speak 1t with that awful curiosity which
gives TO an unknown sin 4 hold uDon the
imagination. Once he thouoht what vvouId
happen if he should say damn ont Ioud.-
lie said he dwelt upon that subject with an
awtul curiosity, which his good mother told
him was temptation of the devil 0Rut -
SAID he, "the temptation grew upnn me so
that once in the sanctity Of my own Drivate
apartment, with the door shut and locked
Thought | would boldly trv the experiment
OF SAVING damn ont loud and see what
would happen" He said he did IL and
looked up apprehensiveIv to see II the walls
We're going to fall on him. but they didn't
and he covered his head with he'd clothes
and felt degraded He had committed the
SIN ana got not even the excitement of a
catastrophe The Lord didn't think he
was worth His notice. Now, that good how
who never said a saucy word to his parents
VINO never told lie, and who never swore
Dut one harmless oath, and that under the
most eXtenuatlng circumstances didn't die
young. but is 10 dav live. kicking GOOD old
man, who, with the good Kentuckian. is
hVlng proof that it IS not true that ''Only the
good die Young -
Seeing in public prints almost daily noti-
ces Of the departure of Rev gentlemen. with
their wives, going to enligilten the spirit11eI
blindness of the Pacific Islanders. and seeing
the report of an intelligent home missiona-
TN, VINO states that in his researches on Long
Island, within less than one hundred miles
OF New York, he had found "one hundred
families who never had possessed a bible.
ana qnite number of individuals who mad
never heard Of Christ" l would ask if it
would not be well to have some noissionarv
work done on Long Island instead of that
which is being done amid the iungles of In.
dla, the faStneSseS of Africa or the moral
darkness of the island- of the Pacific Ocean
would II not be better, before spending the
last dollar to enliehten the spiritual blind
ness OF the Pacific Islanders, to evanpelize
the benlghted natives of Long Island .
i have daily reminder of the busy sickle
OF the worlds mighty reaper. He reaps and .
Sh1- NFtiN dii early opening Du0. and then a
mature fruit, and elsewhere a wlthered leaf
IRON tle tree OF human existence, having all
Dy IN MS great store house until the time
when the whole harvest of the earth shall be
luliN ripe. nave Just read a notice of the
uedbh or an Allegheny county gentleman in
ms eIghtieth year, named Kelly, with whom
L was intimate some fiftv- i've or sixtv wears
ago. he being a close friend and ac0uaint
ahce on nv fathers family, and who at one
time was estimated a millionaire This once
prosperous, wealthy friend, am grieved to
Ieain died IN utter poverty, destitute of all
earthly means of comfort. Wonderful are
the mutations of fortune MAY ], when /
shuttle off this mortal coil. have enough
kind, wealthy friends to sec that am re.
specially sepultured
Death puts an end 20 most spacious titles.
the most dazzling orandeurs and the mOsf de.
licl9us lie. Earth's greatest, highest mon
arch ends in, "Here he lies" A sultan.
amusing himself walking ont observed .
dervish sitting with human skull in his Ian
ana appearing to be in a very profound
- erie. His attitude and manner surprised
iII Sn9 sultan who demanded the cause Of his
oelng so deeply engaged in reflection
sire, said the dervish, ''this skull was pre-
sented to me this morning, and have from
that moment been in vain endeavoring TO
qlscoVer whether it is the skull of a power
ful monarch like you or that of poor der
wish like myself"
Worldly greatness is A very transitory and
unsatisfactory thing, Great men are great
only q little while. This city of Washington
nas AZ TINS Gay nearly if not altogether, two
hundred ceuOtaphs planted in honor of mem
6eTs who died while in Office, but they are
only suggestive of much larger number of
members and high officials departed MANY
others OF these high functionares who are
!, uuI OF tieir graves are in djsgrRce So we
all 60 The great English railway spacula-
tof, tne guinea pig" in the Emma mine af-
ialr, Baron Grant who built a house costing
nm million and a half Of dollars. is now
% %ahkrupt and Jay Gould, the type par ex-
cellence of the creator of vveaitb--EpaaIth
winch represents other mems losses-mavin in
time be Baron Grant q Y