Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1885-07-10
NEW YORK LETTER.

A few days ago took a little stroll in the suburbs
Of this city. 1t was away from the huge piles OF
brick that shut out the sky, and the hard stone
payements. The green fields were in sight; even
the warning note OF the seventeen-year locust
sounded like mlsic, almost equaling the song Of
the birds. Walking along l came to beautiful
place. where magnificent residences skirted the
way. None but the rich lived there. The squalOr
and wretchedness that meets you everywhere in
tile city, was nowhere TO be seen. On a Flopng
hillside a rural palace; on the building and
grounds two hundred thousand dollars had been
expended. All that art, and taste and money could
do was done to beautfy and adOu this elegant
house. He who built It and inhabited it two years
ago,is now fugitive from Justice and this SPLEEN
did mansion and grounds represent tho proceeds
Of his thefts, and for sale Il is a strange his
tory, Almost thirty years ago poor friendless
boy landed in this country from England. He
sought employment, and found it with one OF the
most enterprising firms in the city. The boy was
diligent and faithful and he rose from place to
place year after year till at the end OF twenty years
he found himself partner in the concern with an
income Of $4,000 year The poor hey had
reached the highest round OF the social ladder.
Men took of their hats a. they passed him in the
street; women pointed him out to their husbands
as a model; employers mentioned him as an ex-
ample TO their clerks, and told them that II they
only pursued the same course that he parsned, they
would be Ohe day perhaps like him.
The man himself was a study. lie held his head
high and he looked right ever the heads OF COM
mon men, forgetful Of his own meagre start; he
seldom noticed any Of the minor employees OF the
concern, and when he did, he made them feel their
inferiority. As he grew rich, he rather began to
look down on his mercantile associates, for he him
self was Of a literary turn, aud had a soul above
bObbns and thread. Years rolled on, and the firm
to which he was attached became one Of the fore
most in the city, when suddenly one morning New
York was startled with story Of thefts that shook
it to the centre. The tried and trusted partner Of
this mighty firm had been detected rObbing his
associates, and was, in fact, a common thief. The
news flew like widhre; we all thought that the
thief would be made an example of; the most ex-
trsordinary revelations were DrOmised-when all Of
q sudden everybody connected with the atfnir be-
came mum as an Oysterand after the robberies had
been fully demonstrated, a stop was at once put to
all proceedings. The cOnycted.lR iitf moved out
of his splendid home disgfaced and ruined man;
but the firm beJIId robbed did not prosecute him.
but eaS-c him money to depart for Europe where
I he now nouns over crimes which cannot be re-
called.
What was the secret OF this sudden change you
ask Well, very simple one. The firm with
which lie had been connected had been robbup
! the government for years by swearing to false in
voices and perpetratng other frauds upon the gov
ernment and this tried ard trusted partner had
been the instrument OF their perjury. When
brought face to face with his crimes he dcfed his
accuscrs while acknowledging his thefJs, and they
| finally com promised by taking his property and
letting the criminal go free.
"Ihe mills of the gods grind slowly. but they
grind exceedingly fine" and this Mr.. Buddenseik
has discovered to his cost. His buildings were
dealh-traps II there is no SheO we want to get a
chance at MT Buddenseik while he is here, and as
a punishment for his crimes make it as uncomfort-
able for him as possible. Ten years in States
Prison is not comfortable contemplation for a
| man after he has reached ify-iive. Here is man
who landed here almost beggar, glad to earn by
! honest WORK lfty cents or a dollar day. For a
few years he worked away and led an honest life,
| then he drfted into specialization to lying
then to perjury-then to stealing and lastly ia
murder, or the next thing to it, manslaughter, and
Low, on the dOwnhill of life, he lands in States
Prison. His ill-gotten wealth will do him no fur
ther good-a convct's garb and a convict's food
viii be his portion for the next ten years. No elem
ency for Buddenseik; cemency to him would be
cruelty to innocent thousands. This city and
Brooklyn are full of BuddenseIks, and our Yirtuou'
neishbor on the New Jersey side of the liver has
her share. If we would stop this kind Of murdei
there must be an example, and such an example as
will not be forgotten.
Doctor Talmage has left us to enjoy season oil
well-eamed repose on the other side OF the water
Occasionally may have indnlged in little pleas
antry at some o. the Doctors methods but never
in the spirit Of malice or dsrespect. The Doctor
has his OWE. peculiar wayand without that way he
would not be DR.. Talmage. AS a hard and earnest
worker in the cause of Christ there few in thii
land that surpass him. He is Calvinist through
and through YOu can call it Sheol, or Gehenna
or TOphet, or anything else but to the Doctor il
means a lake Of burning birthstone at the very I'm
comfortable temperature of seventeen million de
grecs with a heavy weight on top Of the safety
valve. There is no f0Olishness about the Doctor
he takes his straight and redhOt at that but aside
1 from his theology, more genial gentleman does
not live. As he intimated some time age, he has
no objection TO rollerskating-mightpO possibly take
I a spin himself and my individual opinion is that
he would be a heavy weight at base-ball,if only he
/ batted the ball as hard as he bats the devil-nO
pitcher could stand in front of him. In Brooklyn
where he is known, there are few men held higher
in public esteem, and in his promised vacation he
carries with him the love of his congregation and
the GOdspeed of the entire community. Brother
Beecher will soon HE him to his rural retreat,
where the hay feTcr cometh not Many Of the
churches are closed for the summer, and several
that femain open have the millest forms Of preach
ingg What wonder that the evil ono aided by
Levys cornet, Pat Gllmors's band, the Chinese
fireworks, the mermaid. the merry-gOroHnders, the
hobby horses, the centrifugal railways, the big COW
and the monster cephant,no not to mention the lager
pretzels,saur kraut frankfurt sausages. Bolognas,
and other temptations that enmesh the feet OF us
poor innocent sinners-what wonder, say our
shepherds being gone, that we fall ! When 1
think Of these things sometimes treiable for my
own virtue, but tighten my belt and begin to
whistle "lIold the Fart" and It great com
fort, though not altogether satisfying. B.