The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-01-19

sometimes in the mornings and afternoons,
he, too fed and returned no more. She
wac not inconsolable. for she was Sonng
and good-lookng, not yet being quite eigh
teen. She returned TO her mothers home
in Brooklyn, and soon met number three.
She frankly told him of her unfortunate
ventures, but he said If she would skip
over to Jersey he'd take her foI better or
worse. So to Jersey the repaired, and for
the third time she changed her name.
months, when he, too, succumbed to fate.
And now comes the wonderful part Of the
story. This girl, born and brought up in
Brooklyn, reaching the age of eighteen
ears, never knew or thought there was
anything wrong In taking as many hus-
bands as she pleased. She could neither
read nor write; she did not know = letter
In the alphabet, or a number in the
calendar. From her childhood she had
been forced on the streets by dissolute
parents. and she grew to womanhood,
scarcely ever hearing the name of God ex-
cept it were uttered profainely. What
chance had she in life9 what wonder that
she fSll2 Only the other cay we sent of
twelve missionaries to the Congo; why not
saye our benighted heather here? Fortu-
nately for he,she has committed no offence
against our laws here, for she only married
one husband in New York; and she COM
mitted no breach of the law in New Jerse, :,
for she only married one husband there,
and the same IL Connecticut, Queer case,
isn't itp Eighteen, three husbandsl all o.
K.--nuff sed.
Doctor Mcdonald. one of the best-knowr
physician in New York, who for the past
| twenty years has been in charge of the in
sane asylum on Wards Island, has been de-
clared insane himself, and is now under
the care of his folu,c: sssistauts In that in
stitution. No sadder case of intellectual
luin have l had to record for many day
DIR. Mcdonald was considered one OF the
foremost experts in insanity in the United
States. On the Gultau trial he was one OF
the experts on behalf of the United States
who gave an opinion as to the prisoner
prisoners sanity. Ii is no sudden calami-
y. 1t has been coming on for years, and
it is with grief unspeakable that his numer.
GUS friends have noted for years his gradual
decay, till at last he is confined In the
asJ lum of which for twenty years he wa,
the supreme director.
This week Paul Bauer died at the Bloom.
ingdale Asylum, who was the proprietor Of
the great Casino at Coney Island. Arriy.
ing in.this countr, some years ago penni
less, he became waiter in a low saloon
AT the outbreak of the war he entered the
army and served in the dragons. The
war being ended he again became waiter,
and eventually started a cheap restaurant
Of his own. He tried venture in low con.
cert halls and made monev. At last be
reached Coney Island just as that summer
resort of the millions was blossoming into
its new life; wealth rolled in upon him,
and in addition to his other ventures he
became partner in race-course and a
gambling house, He was warned TO stop
gambling on his premises but he was rich,
he had strong political pull and defied the
law. To his great surprise he was arrested
one day in his magnificent hotel, dragged
into Court. tried by men who had hob
nobbed with him at his bar, and was
sentenced to the penitentiary by judge
who had drank his lager and champagne,
4 aI 10 rfn nl So L.
Frankfurt sausages and Switzer Kase
They took him to prison, cropped bis head,
| dressed him in bed ticking and set him 10
sweeping out the prison yard. The strain
and shortly after his counsel secured an
appeal and he came out of prison on bail.
| He was new again tried, but his mind
was gone. He possessed at the time of his
dollars. In less Than six months he had
got rid of hundred thousand, then at u G
request of his friends the Courts intervened
and he was placed in the Bloomingdale
was brought to a dark and sorrowfu
close.
He was fair example of the possibiliti, 1
IF our country; coming here in poverty, he
rose TO affluence and power bevond his
widest dream, but instead of being CRATE.
full to the land which had helped him from
his low estate he became persistent vio.
later of the law, and trusted to his money
10 secure him immunity from punishment.
He counted without his host, he mistoor
the institutions and the people among whom
he was living; in seeking to evade the Law
he effected his own ruin, and at an age
when most men are enjo ing the success q
life, he perishes miserabl' in a mad house
The victim of his own ill-directed ambition
and folly
The beautiful weather of the past ter
days has been phenomenal, but remembe .
ing the March blizzard of last year, we ar,
now la"ing in extra stocks of fuel and pro.
visions, and are getting our snow-shoes
ready. Truly yours,
BROADBRIM.