The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-06-05

/ tween five and six thousand, being ruled
out. 1t is hard to believe that in city
like Brooklyn, in the year Of grace 1886,
there car exist such narrow-minded
bigots. 1t is men Of this class that have
disgraced the church in all ages. They
laughed and joked about the stake of
John Huss, and rejoiced when Servetus
was consumed in smoke and fame. The
ostracising of these innocent little ones
has begot much i'll feeling, but this mar
row bigotrv Is not shared by Mr.. Beech
er, Doctor Talmage, Doctor Storrs, nor
indeed the great body Of the evangelical
clergy in the city. The direction of the
Sunday School Union will undoubtedly
be changed in the coming year, and the
unchrlstian manag ment, which has
hitherto disgraced it, will be thing Of
the past.
The death-roll of the week has been
marked by number of distinguished
names, but by few more SO than those
of DR.. Dio Lewis and Stephen Pearl
Andrews. The life of DR.. Lewis leaves
Us impress on the time, and is to be re-
membered with gratitude and honor by
his fellow-me for years to come. The
mans whole life was devoted to the up
building and elevation Of his fellow
men, or mans better part, woman.
This practical philosopher saw at the
start, that to have healthy men and
women, We must have healthy mothers
and fathers, and he set himself to work
to show men and women the highway
to health. The blessing of God and his
fellow-man followed him wherever he
went, and now when he lies down peace
fully to sleep, fame, pure and spotless,
covers his grave with laurel, and over
his honored ashes the forget-me-nots he
loved so well shall bloom for genera
lions, for no doubt loving hands will
plant them there with each returning
spring. The death of Stephen Pearl
Andrews awakens no such recollections.
The bold stand he took in anti-slavery
days in behalf of human freedom will
scarcely weigh in the scale against his
warfare for the destruction of the very
foundation of our social and domestic
life. The man was the more dangerous
on account of his great ability, for he
had drank deep of the fountain of
know ledge, and knew not only books
but men. He was learned in the law
and had at his tongues end all the most
insidious arts of sophistry and logic.
Men were beaten down like reeds by his
gigantic force, and women yielded to
his insidioys art, powerless as potters'
clay in his hands. Weak women and
lecherous old men like himself looked
upon him as the apostle of new revel-
alton and hung on his words like those
of an oracle. He loved notoriety and
was not particular how he attained it.
The social ostracism that his advocacy
OF free love caused him, gave him not
the slightest regret OH the contrary, the
fact OF being the central figure of the
motley crew that made up the bulk of
the free love meetings, ten years ago,
seemed to give him the greatest salts
faction. Mr.. Andrews, however, was
not without his apotheosis. His ad-
mirers gathered at Masonic Temple Oh
Sunday last, and if one half of what the
leading orator said was true, Stephen
Pearl Andrews deserved a niche in the
proudest Pantheon of these latter DAYS.
The enthusiasm Of his agnostic admir-
ers will scarcely be shared by any large
portion of the American people. For.
living in the graudest age of our natio
al development, with talents such as the
Almighty vouchsafes to few, with op-
portunities such as seldom fall to the
lot of man, he lived as the fool lives and
died as the fool dies.
For number of weeks past we have
been overrun with monstrositios. II is
true New York loves Art-painting.
music, sculpture, acting, and all that
Art implies; but We like some part of
our amusenlents with a high gamcy
flavor. At one time 1t Is Lulu Hurst.
the Georgia girl who Travelled ON her
muscle-Oscar Wilde in knee breeches
and bag Wig-Dixie on the light fanlas-
tic toe-or Professor Gleason with his
man-eating horses and untameI mules.
Speaking of Gleason the horse-tamer, il
is said that he took no interest in a
horse unless he had killed two or three
men, and his test with mule who was
lit for exhibition purposes, was, one
who could kick off his four shoes in two
minutes and half. Gleason did SON e
wonderful horse tanning while he was
here, and his exhibitions took In the
CREME DE LA CREME. The Cowbow
pianist was not a success, the general
verdict being that he was astonishing
Tor cowboy, but bad as a second-class
Professor. Texas is great State for
fair cotton, second-class beef, indifTer-
ent hotels, and iirst-class outrages, but
We are not now hunting for our pianisls
on the Rio Grande or the Brazos. The
cowboy was one of the deadest failures
of the season
Very swell was the parade of the
Coaching Club, where the drags were
all driven by the nobbiest of our Nobs.
Exceeding swell were the ladies, and all
New York turns out to see them. for
then New York gets its first view of the
swell fashions, and after that ladies
know what to wear when they 60 out
riding, what kinds of parasols to carry,
&C., &c.
Weare now making up our programme
for the next amusement season. While
we have the jersey Lily booked for an
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