The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-09-29

theft It was terrible secret that he
carried In his bosom all these years-feeling |
that he was sitting on top Of volcano
that was ready TO burst upon him at any
moment. His wife was one of the proudest
women in Brooklyn, and his children were
taught by their mother to hold their heads
very high. Il is on them that the bitterest
humiliation falls. The Oldest boy was
attending one of the most aristocratic
schools in the cisy, and he told his teacher
that he could no longer attend school on
account of his fathers disgrace. Verify,
the sins of the father are visited upon the
children.
Notwithstanding all our preaching and
teaching, all our churches and police,
prize fighting flourishes as it meyer did be-
fore. It seems to have becomes passion
not simply among the brutal class that
cultiyates it-but so-called gentlemen
abandon their homes and suffer all sorts Of
priyatons and stake enormous sums OF
money on these brutal encounters. Our
laws for the suppression of this form OF
vice are dead letter on the statute books,
and our police are so committed to the
sport that their greatest pleasure is to be
appointed to keep the peace where scalp
ping match is going on. All of our swell
athletic clubs have teachers of boxing
engaged at salaries greater than those OF
the most eminent college professors, and
there are few first-class clerygmen that
fare as well. Not satisfied with the per-
formances of their own members, four OF
five times every winter, fifteen or twenty
professional prize-fghters are engaged to
hammer each other for the delectation ol
these fine gentlemen. AT these exhibitions
all classes of prize-ring ruffins are represent
ed, heavy. weights, middle-weights, light
weights, feather-weghts, &C., &c. The
feather-weights are mere boys under one
hundred pounds and it is exceedingly
complimentary to our high American
civilization to see thousand fashionably
dressed gentlemen, most of them il
swallow tails and white chokers, and man!
|
Ward McAllister's select four hundred
which represents New York's creme de L
creme, shouting and clapping their hand
in the widest manner as one of the poo
little brutes is borne off bleeding and sense
less from the ring. What can you expec
from the roughs and the toughs when fin
gentlemen give this horrld sport their en-
dorsement?
n The death of Professor Richard A. Proc
tor in this city last week from yellow feve
was dreadful shock to the entire con
q munity, by whom he was much beloved
q No man Of the present generation has mad
/. interesting. In the field of popula
q astronomy he has hardly had rival, if W
expcept Professor Mitchell of Cincinnati
Here Professor Proctor was loved an
honored, and his death at this time may
> looked upon as public calamity.
Professor Proctor arrived here on Monda
!, morning, and while not feeling exactl
well, did not regard himself as sick. B
q Tuesday, however, that fatal diseas
= yellow fever had developed, and on IVet
nesday ;.e was dead. To save the peopl
= in the hotel where he was stopping, it bC
q came necessary to remove him at midnight
q The removal was made by trained muse
4 of the hospital corps, and he was taken t
J.. a place provided for such cases on th
river side. In few hours he was deat
and then the body of the most popula
astronomer was laid in the morgue, wheI
= wretched suicides and the human debris
. the rivers are laid out.
;. The night was stormy and blusterin
e when they removed him from the hote
If AS the litter crossed the sidewalk to til
- ambulance which stood near the door,
?; looked up at the sky which was draped
i black and starless. 1t was his last look {
d the heavens, over which his loving eye
IS had roamed for hundreds Of nights, an
IS whose innermost glories in a few houl
:. were to be the reward of a splendid an
d useful life.
% Astronomical science losses one of il
# most faithful students, and the people {
II England and America one of the mos
"a popular Interpreters of Gods wonders
It the heaYens that the present century ha
,s known.
g BROADBRIM.