The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-11-20

Over half million Of dollars had been used
up on the statue and pedestal, and the Presi-
dent Of the United States received II free
gratis from the hands Of its generous don
ors. It did not cost him a cent but as the
father Of his people the President accepted
the gift. Only a week has passed and poor
Liberty is a fatherless and motherless or,
phan; she is nobody's child and now It is
doubtful II she ever had father, nobody
appears to own her. The old committee
say that their mission ended with the COM
pletion Of the pedestal. There stands the
torch hundreds of feet in the air. but minus
the electric light which was to guide the
belated mariner returning from foreign
shores 1t is a fearful and disgraceful
mudde II the United States does not own
it, and the municipality of New York has
no interest in it, / shall propose that the
whole thing be turned over to Joseph Pull
itzer, and that the name be changed from
Liberty Enlightening the World to the
World Enlightening Liberty. Put a sheet
OF that enterprising newspaper in the hand
of the gigantic statue instead of torch,
and let it pass to posterity as the most tre-
mendous advertising medium of ancient or
modern time.
The return of Brother Beecher from his
European trip has made Brooklyn supreme.
ly happy. There has been some tall lying
somewhere. As respectable a paper as The
y I'll l,s
mission was a failure, and said that on one
particular occasion the house was hardly
half full. Major Pond, who has managed
Mr.. Bcecher's lectures for many years, says
the trip was a continual ovation, and that
the Plymouth Pastor returns to his native
heath, his pocket roundly stuffed with ten
pound notes. But whether England re.
ceived him well or i'll there can be no doubt
about his welcome in Brooklyn. Inside or
outside of Plymouth church it is all the
same-Catholic and Protestant, jew and
Gentle, rich and poor, white or black, all
seem to have a soft place in their hearts for
him somewhere. His utter disbelief in the
tortures of Sheol has not shaken the fealty
of Andover; and his wavering faith OH the
thirtY-nine articles has not alienated Harry
ard or Yale. Ills first Sunday was a crush
Every available inch of room was occupied,
and the polteness of the ushers was put to
the severest tests. Mr.. Beecher was at his
best, and at the close of the service. as the
crowd pressed forward to grasp his hand it
was evident that neither time nor space had
weakened the affection with which Plym-
outh church regards its pastor. He went
abroad to repair his shattered fortunes. Of
late years he has not been doing well finan-
cially. For the past ten years his income
must have fallen as low as forty or fifty
thousand dollars year. Mrs. Beecher is a
thrifty, careful housewife as can be found
in the land 80 somehow they have contrived
to get along. 1t makes no difference To
Plymouth; present or absent, the good pas
tors salary goes on. 1t is safe to say that
out Of the fifty-two weeks in year, Mr.,
Beecher is absent from his pulpit at least
twenty-six, so that Plymouth church paws
him for the time he actually breaches about
a thousand dollars week and as magazines,
lectures and literary articles furnish at least
twenty-five thousand dollars more, there Is
no immediate fear that Brooklyn's favorite
preacher will become county charge. A
public reception is rendered him by the
citizens without distinction of party or Ic.
ligion, and the offer has been accepted by
Mr.. Beeeher.
We are more fortunate than our Englisf
cousins; they had only one Sir Roger Itch
borne, we have two, and strange as it may
seem both of them appear to be coached in
exactly the same way. Sir Roger No. / Is
here stranded Some one persuaded hin
that the Americans were particularly gull
BILE about curlos from England, and all he
had to do was to show himself and the
Yankees would willingly pay dollar head
for the sgnt. He came and he brought
with him pretty little secretary. He is a
great fat, flabby sort of looking person, ant
the pretty little secretary looked as if SHE
might be his granddaughter, without any
great stretch of imagination. After time
people began to ask what he wanted will
a secretary; he had no correspondence anC
no money, and why then did he want sec
retary. Things looked little queer. Hote
keepers and clearinghouse people seemed
to think that everything was not exactly
o. X, but finally the noble Knight set mat
ters at rest by acknowledging her as Iii
wife. They were not well matched: h,
: tipped the scale at 2S5, she balanced tn,
steelyards at 81 "a. Still they were one il
the eye of the law, so that their unite,
weight was 372 3-4 with one-half CREDITED
to each, He tried lecturing but the peopl
did not come, and if they had the nobl
, At last in this great city, the man who KEEP
all England in a state OF the widest excite
! ment for years, the man on whose tria
nearly million of dollars was expended
every dollar of which, on the claimant
/ part, was raised by popular subscription
sank into hopeless poverty and might hav
/ died Of starvation if it had not been for tn
, st. Georges Society, for impostor. swindle
! and criminal as he was, still an Englishmai
and they acknowledged his claim. He /
here now and sick, hoping daily that som
, aid may reach him that will enable him L
, see Albion's Isle once more. The othe
! Sir Roger started from the city of Brook
t lyn during the war and was never heard o
, by his relations here till he turned up II
Southern California as a Tichborne clai
= mant So clever was the story this swindle
, told that he completely deceived two of tll
D most eminent lawyers ia the State, and on
D fof them backed up his faith in the claim
I Of the bogus Knight by advancing him
5 thousand dollars. 1t now appears that h