The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-12-04

surface on this frosty holiday time. To the
raggcl waits who swarm on our streets
selling papers and backing boots, the name
of Astsr is that Of an angel of mercy. Mrs
J. j. Astor never forgets the newsboys and
bootblacks on any holiday in the year. If
the newsboys and Bootbacks can help her
she will have a much easier time getting
past St. than camel would have in getting
through the eve of needle. And the
vanderbilts one and all bear the poor in
kindly remembrance; great wealth has not
stifed humanity in their hearts, and there
are thousands in this winter holiday time
who have reason to bless their abundant
fortune. An angel of light whose pathway
through life is one long benediction, is the
widow of the dead merchant prince Horace
b. Cla6in. When the Lambs Book OF
Life is unfolded many a page will be found
filed with the blessed charities Of this
gracious lady. And in addition to those
there are thousands OF unnamed saints
whose lives are long unbroken blessings to
the poor. In the general benson IL is q
satisfaction to know that few, If any, are
forgotten. Even the thief and the harlot
fretting behind prison walls find human
sympathy has not abandoned them, and on
| this November holiday rejoice in the general
bounty, for this thanksgiving and praise.
Among the many offences perpstrated
here by the daily press there is nothing that
will compare with the superlative villainy,
OF its illustrations. With bold impudence
they will make the same cut answer for
Stonewell jackson and Henry George,
James G. Blaine or President Cleveland
| One of the most fragrant libels OF this kind
disgraced the pages of the World this week
Its portrait of President Arthur was sim
ply atrocious. In his prime the ex-Presi-
dent was as handsome and manly a locking
man as one would meet in a days walk. 1t
is fortunate for that enterPrising sheet that
dead mans heirs cannot sue for this sort
of scandalous libel, for If exemplary dam
ages we're given a million of dollars would
scarcely condone the offence.
II was a terrible fall when the verltable
Roger Tichborne, he whose ancestors came
over with the Conquerer, We know, let him
self out to dime museum on the Bowery.
There the noble Baronet exhibits himself
at ten cents head, sandwiched in between
the Fat Boy, the Circassian Girl and the
" hat is 1t. Better this than starve.
Though as the old chap remarks in "Pink
Dominos'-'Its not exactly what l ex-
pected." Still three or four weeks OF dime
exhibition will give him enough to get back
to Halbion's Hile by Christmas.
This letter closes with No. 400. The first
of this series was begun after my return
from the Paris Exposition Of 1878. What
scenes have been described in these 400
letters. Since they we're begun the great
Brooklyn Bridge has been completed, and
while 1 write the magnificent torch Of
Liberty Enlightening the World is flashing
over the dark waters of the bay. Garfield
and Arthur who were then such potent
factors in the nations fate, and who were
full of life and hope when the first Of these
400 letters were penned, are now returned
10 the dust and the Hero of Appomatox
keeps them ghostly company. Hancock
and Mcclellan, both candidates for the
Presidency, have joined the great majority
on the other side. viii be permitted to
complete another hundred letters, / dare
hardly hope to write another 400 like those
with which this number closes, but while
this hand can guide pen il shall be devot-
| Il VI, <T 81 hn IL
all these years have followed me SO patiently
and so long, to whom now return all love
and thanks. BRoADBRIM.