The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-05-30

good gentlemen that her health and her
morals would suffer that they wanted to
take the child from the care Of its moth
er, Have they no word for these miser-
able waits who sell the Telegram, the
Herald, the Neps, and other morning
and evening papers. Often, as l bend
my step homeward in the small hours
flor your city newspaper man is q night
hawk hear those children crying theiT
papers down by the ferries, or opposite
the Bridge, for they dare not go home
till the last paper is sold. This wild
street life is bad enough for boys, the
temptation to crime is stronger than one
can conceive; but, If bad for them, what
mi 8, it be for little girls cast at six and
seven years of age on the wicked streets
of this great city. Here is field fol
missionary endeavor, and harvest ripe
for the sickle. Special missions are
open in different parts Of the city, de-
voted to particular ends; one looks out
for the convict just released from prison
walls and tries to give him chance TO
make an honest living; another labors
among fallen women, and seeks to win
back from life of shame those whom
the priest and the Levite pass by. Who
will look after these children? They are
entirely OF foreign parentage, their faith
ers and mothers have placed them on
the road to ruin, and the State must be
their father and mother.
1t is wonderful, the different ways re-
sorted to to get living without labor,
have known one old woman on Fulton
street, for sixteen years. She Just wants
one cent to cross the ferry; she has a
dying child on the other side, she has
one cent and only wants one more. She
has been trying to raise that cent to my
personal knowledge for sixteen years,
and personally, in the meantime, have
given her enough to pay her passage to
China; but she has never got to the 9TH
er side of the ferry yet. One old colored
woman made good living for many
years, taking up collections for ''our
church," she was not particular about
subscriptions-all was fish that came to
her net, from yard of calico to boiled
ham. On one occasion / met the old
lady in wholesale liquor store-What
was doing there? well, IL was trying
to get the proprietor to abandon his
business and join the Sons of Temper
ance. The old lady was somewhat ex-
hausted after hard days work, and the
proprietor asked her if she would take
some refreshment, and she said that she
did not mind trying little as medicine.
After putting herself on the outside of a
wholesome reviver, she presented her
subscription book for the upbuilding of
Zion's African NJ. L, Church. The pro-
prietor gravely and carefully scanned
the list, and said, "Auntie, have not
got any money, but I'll give you bottle
of whisky" "Lor' bress you honey"
the old lady replied, 'dat'll do jes as
well, "nd suah as yer BON I'll glib it to
de minister" A favorite racket is, on
a stormy night for woman with little
baby in her arms, to ring the bell and
say that she has been put out of her
home for non-payment of rent, and she
has no shelter for herself or her baby
from the storm. 1t is not in flesh and
blood to withstand such an appeal as
that and 1t is not till the same woman
with the same baby appears for the sew
enteenth time on the same kind of a
stormy night that it suddenly occurs to
you that there is colored gentleman in
the woodpile.
A nice little bit of romance was
brought to head this week, in Brook
lyn. One night, about four weeks ago,
the passengers In street car were
startled by seeing an old gentleman sud-
denly jump at a young man who sat be-
side very beautiful young lady, and
rain shower of blows on his devoted
head. The young man dashed for the
door and ran like frightened deer or
ten-mile racer; the young woman went
after him making excellent time consid-
ering that she was not in racing costume,
and the old gentleman who stepped on
a banana peel was disgracefully dis
tanced. He picked himself up however,
and after getting scraped, took fresh
start for the Broadway ferry. In the
ferry-house he overlook the fugitives
and pitched in again. A second time
the young man started off, followed by
the young woman, crying police! police!
policeV A policeman who happened to
be accidentally on his beat, saw the fly
ing fugitive, put out his foot, tripped
him up and carried him off to the police
office; the young woman declared she
was only hallooing for fun, and the
young man was discharged with broken
nose. Tho old gent told the people in
the ferry-house that the lady was his
daughter, add that she had been led from
the straight and narrow path by the
scoundrel whom he had just knocked
out, who was the proprietor of fashion
able shoe store, and worse still, mar
ried man.
Chapter the second. A poor woman
in Brooklyn, who had been living alone
for seventeen years in the most wretched
poverty, read the account in the next
mornings paper, and putting that and
that together, she thought the old gent
who had figured in the boxing match of
the night before might possibly be an
acquaintance of hers. She hunted him
up the next day and found him living in
clover, with good-looking wife to whom
he had been married for over twelve
years. The old lady went down into the
pocket of her ulster and pulled out
marriage certificate, twenty-five years
old, which no court has ever annulled.
She at once instituted a suit for bigamy,
and this week she was visited by her
daughter, the girl who ran after the fel-
low in the railroad car, and it now ap-
pears the father stole her from her
mother seventeen years ago, he then told
her mamma was dead and he brought
hera brand new mamma. The daughter
begged very hard of her mother to let up
on the old man, but wife No. was firm
as a rock, she could not forget her seven
teen years of misery, and she swears she
viii send the old villain to Sing Sing if
it is the last act of her life. Meantime,
the old man got up and busted, and for
the present, at least, is safe from sheriffs'
warrants and court process. Moral,
never allow your name TO get into the
papers, unless it is in connection with
church concert or Sunday school pic
mic, and even then be careful that YOU
have not two wives.
The death of the wFetched fool who
lost his life in attempting to leap from
the Brooklyn Bridge, removes one more
from the list of cranks with which this
unfortunate city is afflicted. l have no
pity for him; It was a burning desire 10
be talked about that urged him on; and
he hoped to make money fast as he grew
notorious. OF the same class is Paul
Boynton. 1t is great pity, when he
went TO aftix his bogus torpedo on the
English war-vessel the other night, that
the sentry ON guard did not shoot him
and rid the city of him.