The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1890-03-15

canonizatlon, and this Columbian College
conferred on their dead saint this week by
placing in their library the memorial win
dow which shall record the story Of her
virtue and fame to generations yet unborn.
II is hopeful sign for women everywhere,
that one after another the barriers are be-
ing broken down which ignorance and pre-
judice for ages have reared against her
advancement. The battle has been bitter
and long, but the right Is sure TO win at
last, and let us hope that the day is not far
distant when we shall have confidence
enough in mothers, our sisters, our daugh-
ters, and our wives to trust them with that
inestimable jewel the franchise, which we
now give freely to native rascals who
barter it for rum or pelf, or to the refuse
holdes Of foreign nations who would sell
their blrthright for a mess of potage.
How do you like Chicago for.the Worlds
FairP expect you are all dying To ask.
Well, my friend, If must tell the truth,
we are not going into extacies over It.
Chicago is a very nice place. A very nice
place, but it is thousand miles from New
York. 1t will be the first time In the his
tory of Worlds Fairs, Philadelphia alone
excepted, that a Worlds Fair has been
held anywhere except at the metropolis of
the nation. do not say the capital, but
the metropolis which New York is. In
the case of Philadelphia the exhibition was
exceptional, The Congress that proclaimed
our independence was convened there, and
there was the old hall where the Congress
sat. There was the old bell that proclaimed
liberty through all the land and TO all the
inhabitants thereof, and then it was only
one hour and forty minutes from New
York. However, II the thing is fived ire
vocably New York will do her share. It
may not be quite as grand as it would have
been If the fair had been held here, but
there will be enough to make people re-
member that there is only one New York.
Lent is or ought to be season of spirit
ual purgation and repentance, but from
the signs, as general thing, regret TO
say, that the Gospel seed has not fallen on
fallow ground. The theatres are filed to
overflow; they are marrying and being
given in marriage. Balls, dances and con-
certs are crowded every night. Afternoon
teas and literary matlnees all tend to BAN
ish from our thoughts the season Of sack
cloth and ashes. AS an exception TO this
general carnival Of sin, am happy in be-
Ing able to state there has been such a
rattling among the dry bones Of Wall
street as hath not been seen In this gener-
alton. Wall street is not prolific Of saints,
but sinners do much abound, ane the crop
Is great. Che nearest the Gospel ever got
to Wall street was John street, and that is
several blocks away. There was church
once on the corner of Pine and Nassau
streets, but the Government took 1t many
years ago for post office, and now 1t Is
covered by the splendid palaces of the
New York Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany. Only one church has been able to
hold its own among the bulls and the bears
old orthodox Trinity, the Vatican of the
Episcopal Church In America. AS It is
one of the Oldest Episcopal churches in the
land, so 1t Is by far the wealthiest. What
It's revenues are is known only TO the
Board OF Trustees, and to this day no Off
oial or political plummet has ever been able
to sound them. 1t stands in stately mag
nificence at the head Of Wall, and looks
down In solemn grandeur on the money
changers All the week The Stock Board
and the banks haYe been in a ferment-
trembling as reed shaken by the wind at
the voice Of new Evangelist; not new to
the church, nor new to the religious world I;
but entirely new TO Wall street. For Bos-
ton knows him as we'll as the Old South
spire. Phillips Brooks has been calling
sinners 10 repentance all the week, and If
we may judge by the way they haYe crowd
ed old Trinity day after day, the Gospel
seed which he has sown has not been blown
from the rocks nor devoured bv the fowls
of the air. Grave old bankers, chipper
clerks, blase brokers, who arc oftener seen
at dog fight or a scrapping match than
prayer meeting, haYe for the time dropped
all kinds of business to listen to the words
Of this Rraet preacher. So might Paul
have reused the multitude at the foot of
Mars Hill, or John have stirred to frenzy
the seekers after truth, by the waters Of the
| Jordan. Time alone can tell what will be
the spiritual aftermath bat for time at
least Brother Brooks has done great good.
did not see MIR. Gould, nor Russell Sage,
nor Addison Commack, nor even as ortho-
dox christian as Cyrus Field, among the
crowd. Mr.. Brooks gave the public to
understand that the services were for sim
ners, and that was possibly the reason that
this plutocratic quartette kept away
they wanted to give the sinrefs chance.
Notwithstanding their absence, there we're
thousands there who will see the camel
pass through the needles eyes before they
get by st. Peter at the gate. 1t is a
wicked thought, know, but sometimes
wish was one Of those fellows, for whom
st. Peter is constantly keeping his weather
eye open.
News has come to us from across the
sea that ScoVllle, the tenor, who married
Puggy Roosevelt, has developed into q
plungsr at Monte Carlo, and has busted all
the banks, some say for sixty thousand
dollars and others for quarter of a mil
lion. remember Scoville several years
ago as the faVorite tenor of fashionable
uptown Episcopal church, at which the
late Judge Roosevelt was a regular attend
ant, and, If mistake not, one Of the vest.
rY. His only daughter, Puggy, as she was
afectionately called. was not blessed with
what the world calls beauty, but she had
many lacs of rupees which more than com.
peuaated for the absence Of feminine at.
fractions. SeoYille was one of those church