The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-05-19

are out indifferent recommendations Tor
first-class clergyman. Judge Daily asserts
on his honor, that he has seen materializa.
tions, and that they have approached him
and he touched them, and then that they
vanished into thin air. There are many oil
us who do not and cannot believe all this
but this man says he saw it, not once bui
often, and his word would be taken In any
court Of justice just as soon as Doctor Tai.
IMAGES, or that Of any clergyman in New
York OF Brooklyn. Some allowance must
be made the Rev. Doctor on account of the
experience OF the past few weeks, brought
out in the trial Of the bogus Editha Moutez
alias Madam Diss Debar. This notorious
creature, tripped up in effectiDg the ruin OF
old Luther Marsh, appears in court with
another woman's husband, and the old
wretch Diss Debar gets up in open court
and acknowledges that he has wife and
children in Philadelphia, whom he calls bis
financial wife, and turning lovingly TO the
brazen harlot at his side with the eyes OF
Judge, Jury and thousand people Fixed up.
on him, tells the court without blush that
.'ths is my spiritual wife" Snch moral
degradation has seldom been witnessed in
a court of Justice before. No wonder that
the Doctors blood grew hot when he read
1t, and he felt like his Master when ne
selzed whip and drove the money chang.
ers from the court of the Temple.
Whether it legitimately belongs to it OF
not, spiritualism has had deal Of free love
tackled on to IL; and all through this Diss
Debar trial tho court room has been full OF
men and women acknowledged spiritual
lists, who have applauded Diss Debar when
ever he declared his intention to stick by
the woman he called his spiritual wife.
Now, the Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Children has taken care of her
son and daughter, Luther Marsh hayisg
turned them out of doors, and just in the
midst of our spiritual excitement, Kate
Fox, one of the great Fox sisters, turns up
in Harlem police court as poor drunk
ard unfit to take care of her children, two
boys, who have been brought up in gross
ignorance, she seldom having sent them to
school. What fatel Here is the woman
that startled the ball of spirtualism rolling
till It circled the great globe, millions OF
people have sat entranced in her presence,
and Notwithstanding the closest investiga-
tion, she has never been detected in her
tricks. She has made and spent a dozen
fortunes. She married German Baron
and lived in a castle with retinues of SER
wants, horses, carriages and gold and
jewels galore; but they are all gone now,
and the wretched old woman, a slave TO
drink, finds no spirits to come to her aid
row that she needs them as woman seldom
needed them before. Her sister married
Captain Kane, the Arctic explorer. In
view of these palpable results a charitable
margin of allowance must be made for
Doctor Talmage's righteous indignation,
though it would have been more satisfac-
tory to the great body of his admirers if,
instead of shooting at long range, be had
tackled Judge Daily at close quarters, and
as far as such question can be settled, had
knocked him out on the first round.
at is the very error of the moon that
comes more near the earth than she was
wont and makes men mad" Three suicides
last week startled the City of Churches,
for they were all rich Brooklyn men, though
doing business in the city of New York.
Mr.. De Baum, the cashier of the Park
Bank, did not blow his brains out or hang
himself, but he committed moral suicide,
nevertheless, when he robbed the bank
that trusted him for twenty years, of $780,
900 and fed. He sat high in the sanhedrim
of the elect of Brooklyn, for the reason
that he was the honored representative of
one of the staunchest and richest banks in
the United States. In a few years, in
the due line of succession, he might hope
to rise to the presidency. As it was he was
just on the eve of promotion to a place
with salary of S12, 900 per year. The shock
at this mans crime can scarcely be inn
agined, for he was loyed and honored and
trusted by all who knew him, and no living
man suspected him of being thief till he
fed.
His friend William t. Phippard took a
different method of balancing his books; he
did it with 80 caliber pistol, and that was
the end of him. He was once rich broker
hut ftad III, 1.
friends; he could not face poverty, hard
work and old age, so he blew his brains
out.
James III. Hunting, another stock broker,
friend of Phippard and De Baum, blew
his brains out at the door of Cyrus Field
office.
Do you want to know what brought about
all these tragedies? A very simple cause
indeed-Gamblingl Not altogether in
stocks, though they all lost money that
way, but in quiet little gentlemanly game
of poker. Night after night they tried it
for years; the losses at first did rot seem
large, sometimes not more than ten or fif-
teen dollars, and again getting up from
the table at three or four o'clock in the
morning, loss couple Of hundred. Hun
dreds were swept away Tin this manner,
then thousands; then they took chances to
make their losses good. They'd soon be
all right, and they went on, on, onl 1t is
the same old story told Thousand times,
ending In shame, misery and death. There
are few such thieves of honor and honesty
as that same gentlemanly game of poker,
which has ruined and killed more decent
men than all the faro games or monte
games in the land.
La Tosca Is tired of her husband and
now applies for divorce from him. Mrs.
Price, nee Fanny Davenport, does not like
the idea Of her husband going off with
Miss Margaret Mather as her agent, and
Mr.. Price does not like Mr.. Mulbourn
Mcdowell as his wife's leading man in La
Tosca. Miss Davenport says that Mr..
Price has been. very naughty, and the pro-
voking part of the business Is that Mr..
Price don't deny it, and says, What are
you going TO do about it? AS there is but
one cause on which absolute divorces are
granted in New York, and as Mr.. Price
virtually acknowledges that he has given
her that cause, she will get her divorce
with small delay, and as Mr.. McDowull has
got rid OF his troublesome rib, perhaps we
shall see what We shall see before the snow
flies.
The Methodist Conference that has been
in session this week at the Metropolitan
Opera House, has been one of the most
notable gatherings of theyear. A bitter
and acrimonious fight has been made by
the woman delegate question, and both
parties are religiously convinced that they
are right In a committee of sixteen,
eleven reported against the admission of
women, and among them, to my astonish-
ment, l saw the name of Warner Miller.
1t Is reported that Mr.. Miller has had the
Presidential bee family buzzlng In his
bonnet, III the daY ever does cona whan
he makes start for the White House,
he'll have reason in the hour of defeat TO
repent of the vote he cast against women
on the third day of May, 1888, while a
delegate to the Methodist Conference. To
my thinking the women delegates who
were locked out were by far the brightest,
handsomest and most intelligent slooking
portion of :he Conference, and If they had
given US outsiders chance to vote the
women wo1ld have gone in with rush.
But patience, ladies, there's a good time
coming; these hide-bound old fogies can't
live forever, there will be lots of smart
women left after they are al. dead, and