The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-01-14

But there are other works Of great excell-
ence, which deserve especial attention, and
which at any other time would be great
centers Of attraction. A French revolution
ary piece by Julian Story, depicting the
capture Of Monsieur de Sombreal, whose
devoted daughter saved his life by drinking
the blood Of a roylist, covers the wall op-
posite Hans Markhart's Diana, and is an
Admirable piece of work. The upper
galleries are rich in good things, and IL Il
were not for want of space, should be
pleased to notice them in detail. A collec-
tion of such general excellence should not
be missed by lovers of art.
"What fools these mortals bep' We
scarcely get one swindler Gagged when an
other steps into her shoes, aud practices the
same old game.
The press labors week after week to Law
these matters bare before the public; a
whole army ofreporters, sharp as lightning,
are after them every day, but it does little
or no good, fresh crop of fools turns up
every twenty-four hours, and they seem
like the cells to get used TO skinning. and
like it. This week it is Madam La Touche.
That is not exactly the name that is found
on the books of the State Prison and a
half-dozen penitentiaries, but It will do
just think of it, ladies? Hundreds of
foolish women running after convict and
begging her to take their money, which
they were unable to care for themselves.
because she offered them thirty per cent, a
monbhl Had they neither eyes nor sense
nor reasonP Here are 1-2 per cent, bonds
selling at $125, and vet these foolish wo-
men believed this swindler and thief when
she told them that she could pay them
thirty per cent, month. So they crowded
her Office and poured their money in her
lap. With the stolen money she fitted up
elegant offices and bought magnificent
dresses and diamonds, and lived on the fat
of the land. She had male stool pigeon.
convict and swindler like herself, and be-
tween this precious pair they did flourish
ing business. This week brought them to
grief. The stock brokers' Offices are closed
and divvies of thirty per cent, will not be
paid on January 1st. Moral-Look out
for female brokers, and when found mark
them N. G..
We imported preacher from England
few weeks ago and his case is now under
consideration of the Government as com
ing under the head of the Contraband
Labor Act, which forbids any person COM
ipo hara tindar oontraot 10 Iobo. III. n
Walpole Warren had hardly got warmed
in his American nest when he succeeded in
creating sensation which may give him
his mittimus without the aid of the Govern
ment.
At meeting of the Young Peoples
Association at the Church of the Holy
Trinity he pitched into IrYing's Faust and
gave him Hail Columbia, then he went for
dancing and church fairs, and in his raph-
sody he slid off into Sunday visiting and
Sunday night courting, He might have cut
the tail from our glorious Eagle and have
busted the Declaration of independence;
he might have declared George Washington
a myth and his little hatchet fable: these
things we could haye stood with Christian
fortitude, consoling ourselves like Coriola-
nus with the thought that, 'There is
world elsewhere" but we warn this i'm
ported minister that he must not trench
upon the dearest privilege of an American
citizen-to court his girl on Sunday night.
1t may not be the prevailing fashion in
England, but here on the Island of Man
haitian it has been the universal custom
from the days of Peter Stuyvesant and
Anneke Jahns; we have all been there and
our fathers and mothers before US, and
we know it is good, and we are not going
to have our faith shaken In q national
institution, honored and revered, by an i'm
ported minister who may possibly be sent
back home as contraband laborer. When
the minister asked a show of hands at the
close of his speech for those who agreed
with him in sentiment, only six rose out of
a large congregation, and the preacher
felt as though he was Wrapt in a wet
blanket.
We have had decided sensation this
week in musical circles in the shape of a
whistling woman. We have had singers
and players, and dancers and artists by the
dozen, but this is the only whistler, and
she can whistle. 1 tell you. The other
night at Mrs. Ogden Goelets, she nearly
took the roof off of the house. The canary
birds all stopped whistling to listen to her,
and 1t was reported that Mrs. Goelet's
favorite mocking bird Daisy, died of 8
broken heart next day. Be that as it may,
she has whistled herself into favor with
the Vanderbilts, the Astors, and all of our
creme de la creme, and has more engage
ments on her hands than she can fill.
She has had thirty-seYen offers of marriage
in the last week, but as there is a legal
mortgage on the property in the shape of
very healthy looking husband, she can't
accept without violating the law, and her
husband Is as much delighted with her
whistle as anybody else. The neral of cur
recent experience is-if you have a son
whom you wish to get on in the world teach
him to box-then like the Right Honorable |
John L. Sullivan, he may hob-nob with H. |
r. H. The Prince of Wales, and lake a
dejunier q Ia Jorchette with the Coldstream |
Guards. If you have daughter whom you
love, teach her to whistle-then the Astors, |
the Vandsrbilts and Goelets may take her
up, and her pathway through life will be
strewn with roses.
The people who picture to themselves |
HerrMost as An ugly Gorgon whom nobody
loves, should have seen his reception at the !
Freheit Office, when he got out on bail,
after being sentenced to the penitentiary.
1 admit, that Most is nothancsome, nor does
he smell like attur of roses ;but as he entered
his office, as pretty girl as you ever laid
vour avaa on ran nm =, hin, tbrauv her n, ,.,,,s