The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-06-22


of which nature already had been so lavish
and so bountiful. As look along the tables
l find dresses we'll remembered, that illus
trate the whole range of the OBera Bouffe,
ola Marjalain," "La Petit Due" ola
File de Madam Angot," LA Brigand,"
LA Grand Duchess" LA Belle Helene"
"Gerohe Gerofa," and many others equal
ly famous. Every one was triumph, and
every one was the talk of the town for
months after its production. The tunes
became infectious. They were heard every
where. Hand organs ground them out un-
der our windows at night, and refused to
move on till they were subsidized; old
men hummed them as they footed up their
ledgers BROKERS whistled them as they
looked at the ticker for rise in stocks ;
grave old deacons heard the magic Strains
running in their ears as they showed coun-
try visitors to the free pews ON Sunday; and
the fashionable church organlst followed
the pastors most brilliant sermon with
sweet gems from "The Petit Due" or
"Gero1e Gero1a," while the wondering
congregation listened in rapture and de-
clared that it beat coronation all hollow,
and was better than "Moody & Sankey."
1t is quite a number of years since this
syren appeared among us, and from the
first hour she set foot upon our stage, till
she left us to 90 home TO die, she was fol-
lowed by a worshipping multitude. Wealth
flowed in upon her in golden stream; out
she never knew the value of money, and
she scattered 1t like chaff to the winds.
Then for several years she left us, to reign
a popular idol in her own beloved Paris.
When she returned the bloom had faded
from her cheek. The rich tones of her
voice we're gone; her fast life was rapid,
weakening her; her step was no longer as
lightsome and as buoyaDt as of old; and at
last completely prostrated, she returned to
her loYed Paris TO die. Strange paradox |
life had been to her like one long summer
dream, yet when brought face to face with
death che faltered not but with light jest
upon her lips she yielded. up the ghost. Nor
we're loving friends wanting in ber extrem-
ity to smooth her perilous path through the
dark valley. A priest of the Holy Catholic
Church knelt at her bedside and offered It's
erring child les most sacred and hopeful
consolation. A sweet Sister of Charity
pressed the crucifix in her hand and the
holy priest crossed the sacred chrism with
benediction on her forehead, and with a
look of radiant hope, trustful, unfaltering
and fearless, she crossed in an instant the
narrow bound that divides eternity from
time, there TO rest safe and serene in the
keeping of Him who said to the erring wo-
man of Samaria, "Neither do l condemn
thee. Go and sin ne more"
1t is useless to moralize on these lives.
know men and women by scores who have
piled up wealth by the million, who have
been the pillars of churches. who have
heyered about Sunday Schools, who were
the Boanerges of PRAYER meetings, and who
never tasted a mouthful of food without
grace before meal, and yet in all their lives
they never gave as much happiness to any
human being as this young creature con-
ferred upon thousands in a single hour.
Frail, if you please; but there was nothing
of evil in her heart; and the thousands of
pilgrims who for years to come, will hang
chaplets on the tomb which marks her last
resting place in the "Pere la Chaise," will
remember her as one of the dearest, bright
est, sunniest little women that has ever
trod the stage of Europe or America.
Misfortunes never come singly. The
dread cry of despair from the Valley of the
Connemaugh has reached every home in
the State OF New York. New York and
Brooklyn which are virtually one. raised a
half million of dollars in few days, and
will raise million more if necessary.
Away from the Pacific comes a sorrowful
wall, tor the beautiful city of Seattle is
wiped from the face of the earth Over
fifty millions of dollars swallowed BIZ food
and fire. In the midsto of this terrible
calamity it is gratifying thine 10 see the
manner in which all classes have come to
the aid of the sufferers. Little school
nickles from their savings bank and carried
them to their schools to help swell the
general fund. Policemen have gone frem
house to house, and in Brooklyn, in two
days collected thirty thousand dollars by
this method alone. Many ladies have
purchased whole pieces of cotton and
flannel, and sitting down to their sewing
machines have made them into garments
for the little sufferers. All the churches
are doing their duty in truly christian
spirit, and the Grand Lodge of Masons
which met here this week, expressed its
| sympathy in check for two thousand do!-
lars. If l have not devoted greater space
in these letters to the terrible and over
whelming calamities of the last two weeks.
1t has been through no lack of sympathy
or interest, but because every local and
metropolitan newspaper In the land has
contained little else fol several days, and
the public was fully informed in every
particular with regard to this unparalleled
sorrow. The dead are beyond our reach
or help, bat the living, mained, houseless
and helpless, still are with us; till such
time as they can sustain themselves thew
are the nations wards, and l have no fear
but the nation will do its duty By them.
Early in he week, Wall street was in
state of paralysis on account of tickers that
gave the stock quotations. There are two
companies; one of which, controlled by
Jay Gould, was supposed TO be in favor of
regular traders, aud the other gave the
quotations to the Consolidated Exchange
and all the curbstone brokers. Mr. Gould.
with the aid of the Board of Managers,
tried to get rid of his rivals so 10 mono
police the business himself, but the Sup
RENE Court decided that they must give the
quotations 10 both or none The Board of
Managers got their backs up and bundled
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