The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-12-21

10 the present time DIR. Talmage has made
no appeal to his own congregation, one Of
In the city, nor has he yet indl-
Gated that he was going to do anything
himself out Of his own abundant means.
A local paper made brief schedule of his
In sight, and 1t foots up the COM
Portable sum of nearly quarter Of
million, and as he came TO Brooklyn with
out dollar fifteen years ago. it represents
the very comfortable saying Of sixteen
thousand year, In addition TO his living |
Not bad that. know a number OF coun-
try ministers that live on much less, for
Mr.. Talmage's living expenses do not fall
much below ten thousand year. He has
eighty thousand dollars In mortgages In the
city OF Brooklyn and vicinity, and other
plums slowed away. His salary Is twelve
housand dollars, his income from his SER
mons nets him a large sum, this is paid TO
h.n 1y a syndicate which negotiates with
,he parers for their publication. His
salary as editor is not less than five thous
and, his revenue from marriages will give
Mrs. Talmage all the pin money she re-
qlres, and leading member Of his con
gregation informed me that just before bis
departure for Europe he refused fifteen
hundred dollars for thlee lectures. Sup
posing that he has twenty such offers in
year which he accepts, this represents ten
thousand dollars more, making In the
aggregate, with income OH mortgage bonds,
&C.. an income of at least forty thousand
dollars per annum. 1t Is not strange,
therefore, that Doctor Talmage's appeal
for outside aid should provoke the un-
friendly criticism that 1t has, for the
Tabernacle pastor and his congregation
evidently forgot the good adage, "The
Lord helps those who help themselves. !"
With wealthy pastor and rich congrega-
tion they might well leave the world s
charity to those weak and struggling con-
gregations who arc crying like the apostle
on the angry sea, Lord save me, or
sink.
Patti Is back with US to take her fourth
or fifth farewell. To the horror of her old
admirers, she who left little over yeal
ago as black as a rock, comes back to us
with head of London variety actress Of
the Lydia Thompson type. 1t is hlnted
that the Diva, while sojourning at bel
castle In Wales, discovered several gra,
hairs in her capillary adornment which
gave her such shock that she took Il
her bed for fortnight, and on her partia
recovery the doctors Immediately prescribed
low diet and a change of air to save he
reason. A distinguished French physician
took in the case at glance and prescribed
champagne externally applied, with th
happiest results, as far as the lady her
self is concerned, but to the dreadful dis
appointment of her admirers and friends
She has come back to us full fedget
blonde, and we don't like it. 1t was in
tended to give us a season of Italian opera
|, but there is no house disengaged laig
enough to make 1t pay. The metropolitan
Opera House is given over to Wagner AM
the Germans. The old Academy of Music
the scene of her former triumps, is nov
packed nightly to see Denman Thompson
in the Old Homestead. and there is n,
other place at present available that will
, hold money enough to pay. There is nj
such furor to hear her as there was whel
she was here last. There were thousand
of people then who believed her when sh
was here before, and said that it was lie
farewell engagement. They borrowed an
4 begged five and ten dollars for seats, an
came away cursing their folly; they wi
! not be caught again. But don't thin
E Mr. Abbey expected to make much none
! in New Yorb he cleared nearly hund
+ red thousand dollars on her last engage
] ment, but the bulk of It was made i
HaYanna, Mexico, and South America.
: scarcely think she will repeat her forme
. lriumphs, but time will tell.
Ulder the plea of religious tolerance "
now confronted with very gray
by the faith curists. This pecuis
y forp. u belief is not confined to American,
Is There are congregations in New York an
Brooklyn composed almost exclusively
Danes, Norweglans and Swedes. Thes
people do not believe in doctors. A fe
> weeks ago gave an account of the deaf
of Marie Olsen, swedish girl, who died
the house of a countryman of hers of ii
v same name, but no relation. When 81
y was dying Olsen refused to call docto
= and the girl herself did not want one, bl
- some charitable neighbors sent one il
He prescribed for the girl, but Olsen d
not send for the prescription, and if /
!, had done so the dying girl would not ha,
taken the medicine. for she believed thi
she was in the hands of the Lord, and
He wanted 10 save her He would do s.
and If He did not want her to live she WI
quite willing to die. Argument and eI
= treaty were entirely useless, so the next ds
;, she died. Olsen was arrested, but was di
= charged with an admonition from Il
!, magistrate. This week the children of OIL
= Jansen were taken down with scarlet feve
n the family and several boarders lived
I. the Jansen rooms, and In the tenemel
| AiSJ PocpiSs bO O6uStuS uONt
p among them every day. The infect,
- people rode in street cars and everywhe
# else, and on Sunday went 10 their churc
n which is q wretched hall in Brookly
/. where there were assembled about fiji
a faith curis.s and nearly thirty childre
e. During the services the church was raid,
" by the police, Jansen and several othe
I. were taken to the station, and the childrt
ID were taken to the hospital by the office
ID of the Society for the Prevention of Cruel
(. 10 Children. There is statute in tn
r, State which makes 1t . penal offence for
y parent or guardian to deny = sick chi
is medical attendance. To comply with tn
E. law Jansen sent for doctor, but when
A car1a in ha fhouohf he had counnltad nm;