The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-10-05


two or three months Protestant may go
to his grave without any religious rites,
while Catholic laborer falling from
scaffold or crushed beneath the ruins of a
falling building can receive alta moments
notice all the consultations that his church
can give; and SO l say once more, thank
God, that the churches are open. The
ministers are once more back at their posts
looking brown as berries, and ready for
work. The lawn tennis shoes are laid
aside, the flannel shirt is hung up in the
library closet where it is looked at affec-
tionately from time to time as it awakens
remembrance of the pleasant summer holi-
day. The blazer coat is hid away with the
disreputable looking hat which was very
comfortable, but very unclerical, and al
most ugly enough to destroy a mans self
respect as he looked in the glass. But
that is all past now Once more the seem
~ coat is donned, the straight cut vest and
the white cTavat; the hat no longer excites
amazement, and our minister appears once
more in a Christian garb, clothed, and in
his right mind. 1t is a season of pleasant
reunions and delightful remembrances TO
the younger female members of the con-
less met their fates in this pleasant sum
mer outing; nor have the young male
members entirely escaped, and many one
has met his affinity among the valleys and
hills, though perchance some other fellow
may be destined to run away with her.
| Now then, for few months let us put the
vain and frivolous season of summer out
ing behind us and settle down to the seri-
Gus business of life.
Just at the present time we head over
heels in the Worlds Fair. An enterpris-
ing inquirer from Spodunk wants to know
if the New York World is going to get it
up on its own account, or if anv of the rest
of the United States are going to have a
hand in it, The New York World is con-
siderable of an institution; but when the
Worlds Fair is held here in 1892, as it will
be, ID will occupy pleasant space on news
paper Row, that is all. The great bone OF
contention is the site. There is likely to
be bitter fight against using any portion
of Central Park, the upper end of which
has been selected by the committee as a
portion of the Exposition grounds. Not
only the committee, but the entire COM
munity is divided on this question. There
is not place on Manhattan Island so cas-
lily got at and so near the centre of popula-
tion that is now available, but there are
various owners. of property on the outside
who would like to haYe the Exposition
located opposite their front doors, so that
they could get up a land speculation; and
while the committee are squabbling here
about the site of the Exposition buildings,
Chicago is rolling up her millions in antic-
ipation of seeing the great Fair on the
shores of Lake Michigan, and the profits
of the venture absorbed by the people OF
Illinois. 1t is a serious matter and there
is millions in il. The committee who
haye the financial matter in charge could
put their hands in their pockets and foot
all the bills without the slightest incon.
venience to themselves or any visible dis.
turbance of their bank accounts. As YET
they have shown no sign, though the site
once fixed on, there will not be any diff
Guilty about raising the cash.
Whils-r uImUer of scientific numbskull:
have been puzzling their brains as tc
whether electricity will execute a criminal
two men have been executed here by Grim
inal negligence this week, if not through
criminal process. One poor apple vendei
was roasted to death by coming in contact
with hanging wire, and another man
was killed by falling wire which line.
man had cut, and as il fell and struck him,
to save himself from falling he reached oui
for post near by from which another
wire hung suspended and fell dead Sew
eral other persons we're severely shocked at
the time, escaping death but receiving
serious injury. Within the past foul
months four men have been killed in New
York by electrical wires hanging in the
streets, two lnemen have been fatally in.
jured, and four OF five horses have been
killed in the same was. This would seem
to settle 1.-The question concusively as to
the efficacy of electricity in reducing our
criminal population. And this suggests a
chance for enterprising inventive Ameri-
can genius. When bank or mercantile
house is being closed at night why not
run series of wiies about, and haye other
connections to make a complete circuit on
every portion of the floor; then when the
burglars came in at nights, if they reached
out their hands to examine the safe, the
chances would be very good for a nice crop
of dead burglars in the morning. l ask no
premium on the patents to be procured on
this wonderful invention, but if the Elec-
trical Congress now in session in Paris,
with Edison at their head, will only take
the matter in hands as / said of our own
Worlds Fair above, there's millions in it.
Extensive preparations have been made
in all the theatres for the season that is
now upon us, and portion of the Madison
Square Company is busy rehearsing for the
coming Of the great Italian tragedian Sal
vini. 1t will be a sort of polyglott enter,
taiEment, Signor Salyini will play in
Italian, and all the rest of the company in
English. Signor Salvini's rehearsals are
superntended by his son who has long
been member of the Madison Square
Company, and has developed into a very
promising actor. We shall have no lack
of amusements. Booth and Barret come
! together here for the last time, then Booth
goes with Modjesca, and Barret takes his
own company. Further on in the season
we see jefferson, Billy Florence and that
sterling actress Mrs. Drew. Two entire
companies from England, Richard Mans
fields production of Richard the Third,
which was one of the great sensations of
| IOndon early this wear Whila on tba