The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-03-27

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AN humble evangelist it is true-not
heard of as often as the Moodys. the
Sankey's, the Talmages, or the Beech
ers; but an evangelist whose name will
without doubt be found engraven on
one of the brightest pages of the lamb 5
book Of life Doctor Kenyon has cast
his lot among the flotsam and jetsam of
the sluns. Twice a week this humble
follower of Christ gathers around him
his unsavory congregation. They are
just such as the Priest and the Levi c
would pass by. They are unkempt an |
ragged, foul and ill-mannered: lust such
material however as needs salvation, if
ever it was needed by mortal man.
Brother Kenyon understands that a
hungry sinner is rather poor material
to translate into a spotlesS saint. So he
makes an insiduous attack upon Satan
by filling the unrepentant sinner with
bread, coffee and beef, and then when
his stomach is comfortably filled, he
makes a lively flank movement on the
devil and knocks him out. 1t is one of
the sights of the town TO see the good
shepherd feeding his flock-he not only
supplies their immediate needs with
good solid chunks of bread and meat
and CopiOus draughtS of coffee which is
no libel on its name, but he fills their
baskets and bags with potatoes and tur-
nips, cabbage, flour, cornmeal, oatmeal,
sugar, salt and other things which are
more potent with his audience than all
the sermons that were preached or all
the hymns that were ever sung. 1t is
no uncommon thing for this evangelist
OF the streets to give away a barrel of
sugar, three or four barrels Of flour, a
half dozen barrels of potatoes, box of
tea, a sack of coffee, two or three hun
dred cabbages and five or six boxes of
soap. He impresses on bis congregation
tEao cleanliness Is he q to goodness, ;
and in order to be Cleanly they must use
soap. Is this not the kind of christian
ltv that made His name immortal, WhO
wandered among the hills and by the
sea OF Galillce nearly nineteen hundred
years ago. But there be sinners here
that no gospel ever reaches, and to
whom regeneration seems almost an I'M
possibility; of this character is the av-
e:age New York Aldermen. The great
body of them graduate from the slums.
The keeper of a whisky-mill is a more
potent factor in our politics than the
president of a bank or the pastor Of a
chW ch. The fact of man having
served term in the Teri'entiary seems
t. be no ar TO his pei cal advance
ment, and therefore Nov York is not
appalled, when she discovers that one of
her late council was receiver of stolen
goods.
Convenient to all of our great thor
oughfares, along in the side streets, NAV
be seen little shops garnished with the
SIGN "oll gold and silver bought and
sold.' In tray or two in the windows
are th" movements of watches from
which the es have been stripped, and
AZ marks Inv which they could be iden-
titled CAREFUL removed. Here very Of
zen may Oe seen quaint old pieces of sill
yer, but the great body OF the swag goes
INTO the crucible as soCu as it is received.
These are receivers OF stolen goods. 4
Mrs. Williams house was robbed of a
large qLantity of valuable plate, and
aided by some smart detectives she
raced her property to the shop of AL
derman Jaehne, whose business was
buying OLD GOLD AND SILVER. The
Alderman like Ikey Solomons did not
- NAAN e5i'So s-AO" ltlutI HIS ltti dlIpl
The swaG came into his possession.
What did lie do with it? wv, pops II
into dc crucible, my dear" Spoons.
ladies, coffee pots, teapots, trays and
sugar tCngs all went into the crucible,
anl'whcn the detective cot there all eX-
cept some few pieces had disappeared
and were melted into good solid bars.
At first the Alderman was defiant, then
he tried to bribc the officer, and finally
as the meShes of the law closed in upon
him he onprom sed with the lady by
paying her 81, 100 the value of her stolen
plate, and thus escaped States prison
as a receiver of stolen goods. Nice
timber this for a city father. Excellent
material for a political boss. This
worthy was an Alderman when the
franchise of the Broadway railroad was
before the Common Council. His sal
airy as an Alderman was 81 1000. Yet.
living like fighting cock at the rate Of
sl0,OOO per annrum, by hook or by crook
he conirived in couple of years to save
nearly $4,000. This might be called
political economy with a vengeance, but
as said, nobody was surprised. Ifyou
look in the gutter for your rulers Won
cannot expect them to be immaculate.
The unkempt constituents of Jimmy
oliver and Fatty Walsh who hold their
nightly orgies at Paradise Park former.
ly the Five Points,, are not Civil Service
retormers; large numbers of them have
Gone the State service in some of he,
pQDllc institutions. The highest types
OF humanity in the Old Sixth Ward
are the keepers of the whiSky-mills and
the sluggers. In view of the revelations
of the past few weeks thinking men are
seriously asking themselves, is popula.
government failure?
one OF the most instructive features
OF the week was the issuance of an extra
with full account of the fight between
Jack Demsey and lie blanche the
Marine. To have gone into any of The
public places or hotels for several day,
before the fight, ,one would have thought
that some great national affair was
pending, which was to decide the fate
OF an entire people. Sporting men
watched and reporters were on the alert
Brokers slipped of of change. Bank.
efs got excused by the finance commit.
Tee business. Many merchants had sud
den calls to the % lnlry, and not a few
chRich .prlteSsprS were anxious. The
original subscription of - go was made
up by thirty gentlemen subscribers.
Zach paying SO for the privilege of see
ln5 the fun. They sat up two nights.
They were chased BY the officers ont of
two States, and on the night of the mill
they were ont most of the night i'm a
miserable little tug boat OH the Sound.
and then in the cold grey of a winter
morning they were landed on barren
Island; and under an old shed they saw
the two brutes pound each other out of
al human shape for nearly an hour,
Glorious amusement! happy country,
fortunate PEOPLE o possess such re-
doubiablc champions! 1t is no usa try
ing 10 deny it. Brooklyn, the eiry OF
churches, felt as proud as a peacock of
The performance of her distinguish d
son. have no doubt but if Jack Dcmp-
sey had been put up for an AL lerman
Wlthln twenty-four hours after The
night, he could have been triumphantly
elected In one half the wards of the civ
a pleasant young gentleman is now
IN tie hands OF thclaw, and it promises
to be some time before he gets out. He
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