The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-09-15
Editorial Mention.

gun, he certainly intends to finish the
"sreat Republican party"
Now that twelve "good men and true"
Of Missouri have acquitted Frank James,
il is suggested that they should swap
'gems" with the twelve who found Dukes
''not guilty." After the performance of
that ceremony each of the twenty-four
should be tied to cows tail and
tnaddled to DEATH"
BAsT Sunday was the 95th day of the
extra session of the Legislature, at $40 a
day for each member, absent or present,
living or dead, and total cost to the
people of $685. For such price,
when we do get them, we ought to have
the handsomest and best-fenced
electoral districts in the whole world.
THIS is very far from being thorough
ly tree country, after all the brag that
has been made ebout it. At least that
is what Johann Gottleib Jaskosky thinks.
He took Sc 600 from the till of his en-
ployer in Moscow and fled to America.
When arrested in New York last Satur-
day, he simply said, with shrug of his
shoulders. rs not America fret7"
A MAN who buys ''pig in bag" does
not necessarily fud q bonanza. But a
Boston druggist has accomplished that
feat. Last week Stephen S. Mitchell
dropped in at an auction of unclaimed
freight and purchased box, not know
ing anything about its contents. When
opened be found himself the happy pro-
prietor of 1000 manuscript sermons
formerly the property of M-thodist
clergyman.
AFFAIRS in France are pretty mixed.
She has had to bear up against insults
from Bismarck, to apologize to England
and TO witness the defeat of her soldiers
ny Chinese troops. All this within the
past month. 1t is now authoritatively
stated that she is anxious to come to
terms with China and that beth China
and France haYe agreed to submit their
difficulties to the arbitration of America
England used to be Judge,
MARY ANDERSON thinks that the critics
have been too hard upon Oscar Wilde
The poet having at last found one with
soiDe belief in his dramatic ability wrote
play for the fair Mary. She read,
laughed at, and returned it. TT didn't
suit her; it was too full of crimes and
hefrors." Whereupon Oscar might have
aided in the words of a brother poet
at is all very we'll to dissemble your loye,
But why did you kick me down stairs?"
The officers of Ben Buffers staff are
moi all very familiar with the early his
tory of their country. When Lord Cole
ridge requested the other day that he
might be shown the wharf in Boston
where the tea was thrown overheard, an
officer, detailed for the purpose, led him
ID the at" wharf, so called because it re.
sembles the capital letter of that name.
It would be interesting to know if this
gallant officer eyer heard of little
hatchet and a certain cherry tree.
THE Lord Chief Justice of England is
at present the guest of Ben Butler.
Among the distinguished people invited
tosmeet his lordship are the wife and
daughter of Stonewall jackson. Those
ladies are at present staying at Governor
Bntler's residence. Bon. with his one
eye. can see as far az another into a pine
plank. and perhaps no better method
could be adopted of making friends In
the South than by paying attention to
the family of a man who was the true
hero of the Confederacy.
WHEN jay Gould was examined before
the Labor and Education Commission
last week the intelligent foreigner might
have imagined that Sunday School di-
rector was giving evidence. One day
when Jay was refused dinner "he went
into the woods and prayed" This
marked new epoch in his life. The
food OF spiritual wealth vouchsafed to
him then has been transmitted into gold
and he has continued "preying" ever
since. Jay Gould has been charged with
many crime, but, until last week, no
one ever thought that he had committed
prayer
HENRY WARD BEEcHRR is making
noise in California by some silver
toDgued utteranees on behalf of the Chi |
nese. If Henry, by his advocacy can
only do as much good for the Chinese as
he has dene for the Christian religion, |
the pig tailed gentry should present him |
with stick and SIX him to 'cut it" from |
the Pacific Coast. Without denying his
intellectual force or his wonderful gift |
of speech, the public generally are be-
coming, alive to the fact that Beecher's |
life has done more to depreciate religion |
and true holiness than the teachings Of |
any other man in America.
THE gross misuse of the gospel by two
alaskan rogues may furnish another
moral for missionaries. This graceless
pair. being put in Jail at Juneau with a
third oomrade. diverted their keepers
attention by bringing him New Testa-
ment text to explain, shot him while he
was examining it, and SO Effected their
escape. Two, Of these inquiring theol-
ogians being Hsaptured, were hanged |
by mob. There is no objection to
utilizing this story for showing the per-
lis OF perverting the Scriptures from
their proper use, provided that u moral
is also drawn regarding the crime of
lynching.
Miss KATE FIELD, who is always SEN
sible and generally knows what she is
talking about, strongly recommends hot
water as drink. she says that she
fnds in il all the siimulant that one re-