The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-07-25

OF weak principles and no
conscience, be was just the tool for the
ring thieves to use. He was vain as q
peacock and loved to be looked at and
talked about, One Saint Patrick's day.
about thirteen years ago, he had a bright,
green swallow-tailcd coat made, and
with an enormous bouttonier of sham,
rocks in the lapel Of his coat, stood on
the City Han steps to review the Irish,
societies that paraded OH that day. His,
appearance in his green coat called forth,
the widest cheers, but that exhibition
was his political death-blow, and soonl
after he went down in the ruins of the
Tweed ring. For time he practicedI
law, but his clientage had gone from
him, and one morning New York was
startled by the sudden disappearance of
,Oakey Hail. He had left his home and
family without a moments notice; his
desk was open in his office, and the
books in his library were undisturbed /;
even his overcoat lay on the back of a
chair where he had thrown it down
when he came into the office. For a
moment New York forgot his sins land
they were many and the papers teemed
with obituary notices, for we all came
to the conclusion that, frightened at the
fate of his friends Tweed, Connolly,
Sweeney, Ingersoll and Garvey, he had
taken the shortest road across the Styx.
Weeks passed on and the ubiquitous re-
lporters located him up in bye street in
London, living nobody knew how.
,Then, mere wreck and shadow, he
ldrifted back to New York and turned
smomtebank. which among all of his
failures was the worst. A natural Bo-
lhemian, he drifted into newspaper work,
Ia hack and drudge on one of our great
scity journals. The man through whose
shands millions of dollars had passed and
flor whom hundreds of thousands had
sroared themselves hoarse, was glad TO
zget his breakfast with the meagre salary
Sof a reporter. As the New York World
: rose in opulence and power, it sent Mr..
Hall abroad with sort of rowing COM
Emission, and the foreign jeuiiletons that
sappcar in that paper are mostly from
this pen. Talented, witty, good-natured
sand brilliant, with good principles he
smight have been great; lacking that, he
flies stranded among the political wrecks
sof his evil associates-a warning to the
5young men who are seeking political
sdistinction, that "the way of the trans
sgressor is hard"
y The. heat of the past week has sent
speople flying out OF town, and business
4 is sensibly affected by their absence
EThe heat has been intense, and we fee
it more because it has come upon us 81
Nsuddenly. l Inever approach this seasor
Swithout blessing the good angels whC
Hook after the poor children in this
Sfevered time. There are thousands o,
%children in this city whose lives arr
Hmiserable enough at any time and undel
athe most favorable circumstances, .bu
Ain the hot summer days and nights il
sthese close burning streets life is intol
Herable. The Tribune for years past hai
Chad a special fund devoted to summe
AeXcursions for poor children, and it
4pathway is strewn with the blessings o
sSthousands of happy little ones. st
sJohn's Guild helps thousands moro
agiving them short excursions down b,
;sthe sea. Others maintain cottages il
Sthe country or down by the beach, wher
s5they take for week poor woman ant
Sher little children. 1t may seem like
Issmall thing to q casual looker-on, but t,
4 sthe poor wretches who are packed il
Stenement houses it is asrevelation.
Stocks are quiet, business Is quiet
a 1severything is quiet but the politicians
mthey are lively as crickets. Mr. Hedden
Eour new collector, is gradually shapin
9things satisfactorily. The great diff
Eculty is that there are forty applicant
3 flor every otiice-one happy and thirty
Snine disappointed. BROADBRlM.