The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-07-03

to let the world know that he, beyond
all his sex woman hater, was really
one of the most ardent of lovers. The
SHOWS of seventy winters had not cooled
the fires which are supposed to glow in
younger hearts. My DEAR my ducky,
my sweet little Millie and other endear-
ing adjectives attest the strength OF this
ancient lovers devotion. There is not
a line in any letter TO the object Of his
affections that is anything to his dis
credit; it only shows that he was human
like the rest of us, and had the usual
share Of all of our little weaknesses, es-
pecally when there is a woman in the
case. But the professor paid the debt
we all must pay sooner or later, and the
woman whom he expected to make his
wife was left the sole heir to all of his
earthly possessions. The man was
scarcely laid in his grave when a wife
appeared and claimed him as her hus-
band, though she had not seen him since
he was committed to States Prison many
years ago. An ancient German was so
sure that Mrs. Darling was Professor
Darling's widow that he backed her up
with all CT his spare cash, taking post
obit on the Widows expected fortune.
There was some lively swearing, as
there always is in such cases. The
widow was shone photograph of the
dead professor and she identified it at
once as her dear departed, whom she
had left quai ter Of century before at
the gates of Sing Sing Prison, for an in
decent assault on his own daughter; the
daughter was a witness and swore that
the professors photo was that OF her
father. Matters began to look rather
cloudy for the legatee, when some one
hunted up the prison records and it was
then discovered that the Darling who
went to Sing Sing could not write, but
signed his name with a cross. The
widow was staggered but not conquered
just as the case was again becoming
complicated the sister-in-law of the con-
vict appeared and her testimony settled
the widows hash. 1t was remarked by
the officers that when she got outside
the precincts of the court, she accom-
plished some of the tallest swearing that
was heard during the trial. For bare
faced, bold impudence, the claim put
forth by this person has never been sur
passed. Professor Darling's life was
open as the sunlight for fifty years; his
associates were always among the most
eminent and respectable people in the
land, and TO attempt to substitute an
ignorant beastial brute, who could not
write his own name, for such man, is
crime which should send every person
connected with the conspiracy to States
Prison.
The week has been marked by an un
usual outbreak of crime, commencing
with two murders on Sunday and sup
plemented by deeds of violence every
day this week, which will doubtless con-
sign the perpetrators to long terms of
imprisonment, Saddest of all sad sights
was to see two boys consigned to States
Prison for seven years for the murder
of another boy in the street; all were
drunk; all were the children of respect
able parents, but rum has blasted their
lives and when they come out of prison
the chances are nine in ten that the
curse will follow them to their graves.
While there is no question that our
thrifty aldermen made good thing out
Of the sale of the Broadway franchise,
yet after all it was no such bad thing
for the city. This week the city received
$4,000 solid cash as its share Of tho
plunder; I don't hear anybody howIing
about that. 1t is more than is paid the
city by all the railroads put together,
and after all the row and all the bribing
there Is not man or a woman who
would have the cars taken oil Broadway
and the clumsy old stages put back.
Jake Sharp may not be an angel, but
he is not so black as he is painted. The
reporters all make fun of him because
he carries a bottle of milk; if it was
rum they would not say word about it.
BROADBRIM.