The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-03-15

h will have a snug balance to his credit.
Will he come back 10 this country2 OF
course he will. There is too much solid
meat and substance in this land, populated
with people always willing to run after
celebrities, and willing to pay them lor
having fame and notoriety. Mr.. Arnold
has not made many ffiends during bis so
journ in this country. AT literary clubs his
puggshness has rather repelled than at
tracted. In society, his unconscious as.
sumption of superiority has frequently Of
Tended, and with good cause.
From the domain OF philosophy to the
prize ring is big jump, but somehow Mr..
Arnold reminds me Of the fact, greatly to
Z be rejoiced over, that the craze Of pugilism
is in measure dying out. Within the last
few weeks there have been several enter
tainments, and few of them of very high
order,yiewed from the purely sporting point
which have practically fallen dead. Now
and then an encounter with bare fists is
arranged but the combatants are always
fourth or fifth rate stars, the stakes small,
the attendance purely PROFESSIONAL" and
the betting infntessimal. | asked one OF
Harry Hill's lieutenants about the cause Of
this the other day and he said with a touch
Of sadness in his voice that the newspapers
were solely responsible for this. "When
ever there is nice, genteel entertainment
with plenty Of science and no slugging they
call it a farce, thimblerigging affair got
ten up to swindle the public. When you
give them an up and up fight they call 1t a
brutal encounter and call the vengeance of
heaven and the police on the heads of the
combatants and the managers. The result
is that the public which always follows the
newspa pers gives us the cold shoulder, and
many a good man who might win fame in
the ring has TO go back to work as a COM
mon laborer, and then he speedily loses all
his good qualities"
The representatives, Of the Chinese Govern
ment in this section the country are at last
awakening to the fact that something must
be done TO save their honest and hard work.
ing countrymen from the depradations of
the sharpers in their midst. mo one, not
a Mongolian, ,"said an attache Of the Chinese
consulate, "has an idea to what an extent
opium smoking and gambling prevails IN
Mott and Mulberry Streets, which is the
nucleus of the Chinese colony in this city.
And this place is infested with sharpers of
the worst and most dangerous description
Poor fellows who arrive from country dis.
tricts, where 10y dnt o. hard work they
haYe accumulated little money are at
once taken IN hand by swindlers and yilli-
ans OF their own nationality and robbed un-
hesitatingly. | know one poor fellow who
came on hero from Bellevlle, N. j., some
weeks ago, and who had saved q little over
$1,000, by several years washing. lie want
ed TO go in business here. He was taken in
hand by pretended friend who made much
Of him around ostenslbly to show him op
portunities for investment, then persuaded
him to smoke a pipe Of opium, and finally
steered him to den where Fan.Tan, the
Chinese faro is played. In few hours the
poor fellow had lost every dollar he owned
and found himself in the street. He came
here, but we could DO nothing for him, as
he was unable to identify the place or the
parties to whom he had lost his money. We
are now striving to put an end to this
wholesale robbery, by issuing thousands of
circulars, printed in the Chinese language.
which we distribute wherever Cinnamon
are located, warning them against the
gambling deyices of New York, and urging
them to form society, whose members
bind themselves not TO yield to the tempta
tion OF gambling. The society has just been
formed here, and is of a benevolent nature,
lis fund assisting members in distress or
sickness and procuring employment for
them when ou. of work. A member who
is found guilty of gambling shall be fined
thirty dollars,ten dollars goes to the inform
er. With these fines we will form relief
fund, and the magnitude OF the fine will
cause n man to think twice before he will
sit down to gambling table, particularly
as he can be almost sure that some one will
inform against him."
A noteworthy event in the journa listic
world is the sale Of the Commercial AdUer-
tiser TO Mr.. Parke Goodwin, for many years
identified with the EUeninq Post. The pur-
chase was no doubt made by MIR. Goodwin
on account Of his two sons, both Of whom
are engaged In newspaper work, one as an
art critic. the other in the literary line.