The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-10-20

The cashire of SOuthmayd Choate, |
though in nowise implicated in Bedelps
crime, unable to withstand the sname of
the disgraceful association with such a
miserable thief, deliberately took his life.
Expert accountants are in great demand
Every firm wants its books oYerhauled by
an outsider. / heard Of an instance last
week where bank gave an expert thous-
and dollars for ten days work.
If any one thinks we are poor in New
York he should have been In the Tax Col
ectors Office on Monday when the sam
reached was about seven or eight millions
of dollars. One check from the New York
Central X. r. amounted to four hundred
thousand dollars; one for one hundred and
seyenty-fve, and several for a hundred
thousand dollars. We spend here each
year, for public expenses and public rob
bers, over forty millions of dollars. What
service can any man render the city that
should entitle him to one hundred thous-
and dollars year? Yet that is what the
sheriff claims, and when election day comes
around he is expected to plank down his
check for twenty or twenty-five thousand
All offices seem to be framed with especial
reference to election day.
The latest robber is Jonas II. Goodman,
lawyer, who turns out to be very Bad
man. He not only Istole from his neigh
bors, but he stole from his wife and child
ren. He swindled his sisters, his cousins
and his aunts. No game was too small for
him, from child's money-bank to church
contribution box. Gambling was his bete
noir, and by hook and by crook he got
away with nearly two hundred thousand
dollars. In his capacity of trustees he
squandered the estate OF widows and or
phans and ruined them. If he is in Cana
da, can only say that Canada has big
load of sin TO answer for,
Quite a sensation was created here on
Monday night by the production in drama
tic form of Amelia Riyes novel of "The
Quick and the Dead" In regard to Miss
Rives' sensational story, which has given
her marked place in the literary world,
there seems to be all sorts of opinions.
Many professed to be shocked by it. They
think that such story written by man,
would have been bad; but by woman it is
simply shocking, and the dramatization
produced at the Fifth Avenue Theatre BY
Miss Clayton, clever actress, has by no
means reconclled the critics to the work.
1t is true that the critics are not always
safe guides as to what pleases the popular
taste, but from the rise of the curtain to
the fall, it was evident that those present,
who had read "The Quick and the Dead,''
had been disappointed in the story, and
were disgusted with the play. And now
why should encouragement be given by the
public to this class of literature. 1t is true
there are plenty of people who will read it,
but the mental appetite that enjoys IL Is
depraved. Some of the critics say that Is
but step from Rlyes' romance to Zola':
wickedness and filth; not that Miss Rive'
has actually taken that step IN ''The Quick
and Dead" but there is the constant feal
that she will. When good society was
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French bagnio thirty years ago, and ro
mantle young women went into Mysteries
over the woes of Armand and Camille, We
made fatal step in our society drama, thu
aftermath Of which was LA Tosca," ant
other plays of like character, the colder
plating of which, served to glorify the sin il
should have condemned and tramplet
under foot. 1t is to the credit of thi
community that "The Quick and tn
Dead" is not a success, ard II it shall serv
as warning to Miss Riyes and those VIII,
cnltiYate that class of literature, that tn
taste of people of the United States is no
yet sunk 10 the base level of the Mabille o
the Chateau Rouge-the lesson will no
have been in vain.
If you wanted TO see stirring lite yo
: should have dropped into the Produce Ex
; change last week. Sweet peace seldom
Z dwells there during business hours, 70
e these brokers' are a noisy set of fellows, an
y they like to hear the sound of their ow
& voices, especially when pitched at high c
S Well, they had magnificent chance o
}, Wednesday last when the cyclone struc
: the wheat pit. For months wheat ha
I, been dragging along, a drug in the markC
II that nobody dared to touch. Old Hutch
e corner on September wheat set Bulls an
;, Bears TO thinking; October opened liyel!
If Tuesday the dry bones began to shake, an
J. by Wednesday the storm broke. III
Bears were stampeded early in the day the
ie hunted their holes and climbed the tree
l- but the furious aud triumphant Bulls tosse
D. them right and left; stood yictors on han
7e fought field with not live bear in sigh
ie We are suddenly awakened from drea
le of security, and it now looks as though Il
rs price of flour might be doubled this winte
e, and if so, God help the poor. With co
I'd raised and wheat raised and other thin
as rising sympathy, what will become ofthen
p, Above the roar of the wheat pit rises Il
ne yell of the election clans The blaze
Isl torches, the rattle of drums, the bray
tn horns, remind us that ths end hath not '
KY come. The fight wakes hotter eve
es day.
to Mayor Hewitt, the man who would n
at raise the green flag of ould Erin above t
er City Hall on St. Patrick's day, has throV
as down the gauntlet of defiance to all parti'
I'D Tammany Aowls at him. The Couu
a Democracy don't want him but stand rea
nd to endorse him TO down Tammany Di
en- Croker, John Kelly's successor and I
he Grand Sachem of the Tammany, Wor
Ter rather see the devil Mayor Of New Yo
I'D than Abram Hewitt 1t now looks
ay though they would have to swallow h
ef, ST. Patrlck's flags and all, 1t is a migt
as purity foight as il stands, but it looks
iry though Hewitt win come out on top.
lrs The eYil effects of onr wild speculati
m crops ont every day in the desper'
nk suicides that tell the hnal ending Of ruin