The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-06-02

married her, and after living with her In
sort Of surreptitious, shiftless way for some
time, abandoned her on the plea that his
father would cut him of If he continued TO
live with her, and as his uncle, the Com
modore, had only left him 81, 900 year, he
could not exist on that meagre sum, and
therefore would starye to death as he did
not knowing how to work. The poor girl
sought out her hard-hearted father-ln-low,
old Jake, but he drove her away; her heart
was broken, and at last, almost on the
verge of starvation, she appealed to the
courts and they have compelled the mean
scamp to support her. In his answer TO
her complaint he admits that she was al
ways loyal, affectionate and true. He was
unable to make any defense, except that
he was afraid of his father. Considering
that he is forty-two years of age we must
come to the conclusion that he is very
good little boy to be so dutiful to the old
man, but Mrs. Vanderbilt will accept our
congratulations that she has got well rid of
her worthless bargain.
While on the subject of divorces, 1 see
that old dramatic reprobate, Dion Bouci-
cault, is playing in Brooklyn. How the
public can patronize such man is a mys-
terry, though l think he is beginning to rea-
lie by this time that there is God In
Isr@l. 1t is about thirty-fiYe years ago
since he landed in Boston in company with
n I,oo,tif,,l ,orco EnoIi.b ,,;,i thar Lv,, mn,
as Agnes Robertson. She was one of the
most winsome soubrettes ever seen on the
stage. and all Boston went wild over her.
She was the standing toast at all the clubs
and her pictures adorned all the shop win
dows; the dudes of the Hub were all in loye
with her, and it was not till the close of
her long engagement that it was whispered
that the lovely actress was the wife of the
little monkey-faced man who figured as
her manager. Boston was shocked at her
bad taste, very much shocked; but then
there was ne help for It, 1t was the old
story of the beauty and the beast, so they
had to let her go. 1t then transpired that
Miss Robertson had been raised by Charles
Kean and was regarded as daughter by
Mr.. and Mrs, Kean. Boucicault, who was
acting as sort of stage manager for the
Keans, got the confidence of the Young and
innocent girl and induced her to leave her
protectors and fly with him. For over a
quarter of century she lived with him as
his acknowledged wife. A large family of
children were raised who are now men and
women, all occupying honorable stations.
Between two and three years ago this old
reprobate went to Australia, and while
there found girl young enough to be his
granddaughter and induced her to marry
him, alleging that he had never been
married TO Agnes Robertson who was the
mother Of the children. The old sinner is
now going on eighty, yet for the sake of
getting young wife he is willing to cast
off the wife of his youth and to place the
brand of shame on his cildren The SYM
pathies of the entire community are with
Mrs. Boucicault who is now making a
brave fight for her own honor and the
honor of her children. The unfortunate
girl who has been induced to sacrifice her.
self to this disreputable fellow will yet have
occasion to repent it; she has paid terrible
price for her silks and her diamonds, but
her punishment is sure to come. AS for
Dion Boucicault himself he has lost caste
with the respectable members of the pro-
fession; who despise the man and execrate
his conduct to his suffering wife and child
ren.
The Methodist Conference is oyer and
the delegates have all gone home. On the
outside all appeared peace and harmony
but on the inside there were disappoint-
ments and hearts scalds out of number.
Many clergymen, eminent in the church,
came up to New York confidently expect
ing to be bishops. Well, they are not
bishops,and many of them will not be
bishops for years to come, If eyer. "Why,
Brother b." said an old and influential
Methodist to me, 81 never saw such cleo
tioneering and wiring pulling In my life.
Would you believe 1t, every morning while
prayers were going on, dozens of clergy
men stood out in the lobby making combi-
HobAOhS ahu hAihS bhihBSt Iui bIOIhCI
Buckley got up and entered his protest
against it, and the Moderator called the at
tention of the Conference to 1t, but on the
next morning 1t was just exactly the same"
Then the women delegates feel that they
: were treated very shabbily, and many ex-
: cellent Methodsts think it was very mar.
| row, bigoted policy to keep them out. Be.
sides this, many ministers came there with
, eloquent speeches in their pockets, and
they never got a chance to fire them off
and, in fact, there weIe a thousand anC
\ one things that marred The perfect har
e mony of the meeting. All the minister
D who have big salaries and fine churches
E dislike itinerary, and the clergy
e meE with cheap congregations and poo
e churches think it most excellent thing
Still, after all, to say they were not per
fectly harmonious is only TO say they wer
. not human. 1t was representative bod,
of which any church might well feel proud
. and when the disappointments incident b
> the meeting shall have passed away, tn
. Conference held during the past thre
weeks will be regarded as one of the mos
r memorable and satisfactory ever held b
the Methodist church on the America
continent.
Shocking, indeed, was the death of Fred
| Marsden the dramatist inst no ha ho