The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-04-10


It has a pleasant financial side withal.
Within the past year Mr.. Jack Demp-
sey, of Brooklyn, has bagged the neat
sum of forty thousand dollars by pound
ing his fellow men. OF course he got
some pounding himself, but then fell
low could stand considerable punish
ment for $4,000. Few lawyers have
earned so much. 1t is almost eeuaf 10
the -salary-ef the President of the United
States, and is sufficient to pay one half
of your Supreme Court judges. Mr..
/ Dempsey after his recent battle with the
Marine appeared in the streets of his
native city Brooklyn, he was on his way
to the tailors to order new suit OF
clothes. The crowd commenced gath.
ering and cheering him, and eventually
/ the street became Obstructed; cars were
| stopped, carts, carriages and wheelbar-
rows weIe tumbled together in one con-
fused mass; at last the police were tele-
| graphed for, the captain called out the
reserves. and after desperate struggle
the street was cleared. Mr.. Dempsey
shook hands with his preservers and
was escorted home by the police. Hap
py Dempsey Worthy Dempseyl Veal
thy Dempsey! l have lived here many
years and always paid my taxes when |
had them, but the police never escorted
me home. No, they would have pulled
me in If they had only half chance,
but then l never knocked any fellow
out.
Women's Clubs, with a single excep-
ton, have not been success in New
York and that exception is the Sorosis.
IL was fortunate at the start in having
in its direction women of commanding
talent and eminent ability. There was
disposition at first with the unwashed
and disreputable Bohemians who swarm
in New York to belittle their members
and deride their meetings, simply be-
cause the ladies, meeting for quiet, social
enjoyment, religiously kept reporters
from their presence. But they kept on
in their quiet, ladylike, dignified way.
till at last they compelled the respect so
charity given at first. The stupid DON
key who represented the Sorosis at first
as set of strong-minded, short-haired
women, full of all sorts of cranks and
sms, would not be good enough for a
door mat to these women to wipe their
shoes on. 1t is entirely safe to say that
at an ordinary meeting of the Sorosis
| you will see more tiFst-class talent, hear
better music and better speaking in one
hour than you can hear or see at any
other New York club in month. Ar
lists, poets, painters, sculptors. writers
on every conceivable subject, and wo-
men brim full of talent whose names
are never known to the public or the
press, are to be found in the parlors of
the Sorosis. There is no gambling, no
drinking, no smoking, no boozing, and
| though you may not believe it, no
scandal. Everything about the Sorosis
| is clean, decent and elevating They
have the best of everything; ask no odds
on anything that wears pantaloons, and
are entirely able to hoe their own row
and paddle their own canoe.
Sunday was the thirty-eighth anniver-
sary of the introduction of spiritualisnl
into the United States, when the world
was astounded with the revelations OF
the Fox sisters, and the whole land was
shaken by the Rochester rappings.
Madness seemed to seize upon all classes
and the new revelations received the
endorsement of the greatest political
economist of his time-Robert Dale
| Owen, as eminent a jurist as Judge
| Edmunds, and even the great explorer
Kane, after escaping the perils of the
Arctic seas, saw visions and held COM
munications with unseen spirits, and al
last died in the arms of the prophecies
of the new revelation. There was q
| great convocatior of the faithful, "black
spirits and white, red spirits and gray"
There were testimonies of fact and reve.
| lations most astounding which could not
be rejected in any court of justice unless
| you impeached the witness or rejected
| him as insane. | saw an old gentleman
| who had an interview with his wife in
| New Hampshire, after she had been
twenty years under the sod; she looked
so kinder good that the old chap thought
he'd like to marry her again, and she
told him she would meet him in the
Terra Haute, and there just as sure as
preaching he saw his spirit wife again.
She told him she would marry him but
she would want bridal dress, and the
old man ponied up 1916. One hundred
and fifty people were invited and in their
presence the old man was remarked to
his wife twenty years after he had laid
her away in the place where the yiolets
blow. Immediately after the ceremony
she stepped into the cabinet and de-
parted for the spirit land, taking along
the bridal trousseau and the balance OF
the old mans S276.
We have been thoroughly shaken by
the labor strikes out West, for while
the freight trains may be stopped and
st. Louis be conYulsed with riot the
index finger points to Wall street, every
pulsation of which is felt in all the
financial centres of the world. The
cries of starving workmen along the
line of the Missouri Pacific are worth
millions to the little iuggler who controls
the great arteries of travel. Rumors of
riots and strikes along all the Gould
roads-down goes Missouri Pacific from
ITO to 100. Father Jay doesn't buy
now, he is out of the market. but son
George is handy. he buys 100, 900 shares.
Next day there is an interview with Mr..
Powderly and everything is settled. the
market booms-up goes Missouri Pacific
to LOG l-2, the 100000 shares are soil.
S6OO,OO is bagged, and then the little
joker bobs up again, and down she goes,
for Mr.. Gould misunderstood Mr.,
Powderly or Mr.. Powderly misunder-
| stood Mr.. Gould, and Mr.. Gould will
keep on misunderstanding, till he has
squeezed the market. When will these
blind giants now struggling for their
rights, fighting for their lives and the
lives of their families. see that they are
merely used as puppets and pawns 10
add to this mans millions? II is safe
to say that this labor disturbance will
be worth twenty millions to Jay Gould
he always thrives when ruin is abroad.
! When no more can be squeezed out of
it the strike will be ended.
BROADBRIM.