The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-07-04

VI AAlANA iliA0N tiiNA BNoAiF e't tNA AhN ltAF''
few weeks it has been going rough-shod
for Jake Sharp and his Broadway rail-
road, which nevertheless has gone
through quicker than any public work
ever undertaken In New York. Seventy
or eighty numbering stages crowded that
thoroughfare throughout the day. You
could seat ten people in one of them by
uncomfortable crowding: every passen-
ger was his own conductor, but we clung |
to these old arks as if they had been
blessing. ...
have no word to say about the meth
DDS by which Mr. Sharp got his fran
chise. 1t is quite immaterial whether
he gave Duffy and REILLY and Driscoli
and McShane twenty thousand dollars
each for their votes or not; he got them
and the bill went through according to
law. The Supreme Court so decided in
his favor, and under the terms of his
charter Mr.. Sharp KEGS Broadway in
order, and If his income holds as 1t has
begun, be will pay the city from S75, 900
to 100000 year for its use. The city
has good bargain, and the cars are
positive blessing, Inever hoped TO see
a surface railroad on Broadway, and l
confess that l had all of an old New
Workers. prejudice against it; but now
the cars are running l own up'that l
was mistaken, and in thirty days from
this time if anybody should attempt TO
move the cars from Broadway believe
it would lead to riot. The Worlds
bitter opposition is senseless and stupid,
and not at all in keeping with its enter
prise in other directions. Mr.. Sharp
and his associates may have made good
thing, but the city will realize more by
the bargain than she ever received for
all the privileges she has given since her
incorporation.
Doctor Talmage has left us to enjoy a
season of well-earned repose on the 9TH
er side of the water. Occasionally l
may have INDUCED in little pleasantly
at some Of the Doctors methods, but
never in the spirit of malice or disre-
: spect. The Doctor has his own pecu-
liar way, and without that way he would
not be Doctor Talmage. As hard and
earnest worker in the cause of Christ,
there are few in this land that surpasS
him. He is a Calvinist through and
Eand through. You can call it Sheol OF
Gehenna or Tophet, or anything else.
but to the Doctor it means lake OF
burning birthstone at the very uncom-
Portable temperature of seventeen mil
lion degrees with heavy weight on tor
of the safety-valve. There is no fool
ishness about the Doctor; he takes his
straight and red-hot at that; but aside
from his theology, more genial gentle
man does not live. As he intimated
some time ago he has no objection tc
roller-skating-might possibly take O
spin himself; and my individual opinion
|. is that he would be heavy weight al
baseball. if he only batted the ball a:
hard as he bats the devil; no pitcher
could stand in front of him. In Brook
lyn where he is known, there are few
men held higher in public esteem, ant
in his promised vacation he carries will
him the love of his congregation and tht
Godspeed of the entire community
' Brother Beecher will soon HE him TO hi
: rural retreat, where the hay fever com
eth not. Many of the churches ar
closed for the sumner, and several tha
remain open have the mildest forms o
{ preaching. What wcnder that the evi
Il one, aided by Leyy's cornet, Pat Gil
/ more's band, the Chinese fireworks, tn
! mermaid, the merry go-rounders, tn
5 hobby horses, the centrifugal railways
d the big COW and the monster elephant
/ not to mention the lager, pretzels, sau
II kraut, Frankfurt sausages, Bolognas
d and other temptations that enmesh tn
IS feet of us poor innocent sinners, ,-wha
y wonder, say, our shepherds being gone
le that we fall! When i think of thes
II things / sometimes tremble for my ow,
J. virtue; but tighten my belt, and begi
n to whistle, "Hold the Fort" l find
'e great comfort, though not altogethe
n satisfying. BROADBRIM.