The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1890-01-25

matter shall be annihilated, and mind
shall be supreme, and God shall be all
In ell"
rose stunned and daaed and walked
away. was Of the earth. earthly evidently,
for 1 had the jumping toothache. sharp
pain In my back, sciatica 10 my left leg,
and this with an ugly turn Of the grip aud
few minor Ills, rerved me with unmis-
taxable notice that am still several miles
this side Of Paradise, with every prospect
vt remaing there for some time to come.
know IL is only Imagination, but Il feels
just as bad as II It was real. suppose It
/ is all right. can only say that matter has
got the better Of me, Il is true that my
mind At tho present time is not In first
class condition, but my matter is Infinitely
worse of than ny mind, and my matter
succeeds In making nv mind exceedingly
uncomfortable. l know II ought not 10 le
so, but II Is 60. and what are YOU going o
do about itP I'm out two dollars and =
hslf-a martyr TO Christian science. Per
haps II may come back to me in the In
1nitesimsl affinity Of Infnitude, or per-
maps II is disso we'd in the indissouble mole
cuar molecules. I'm going to wait and
see. Now you know just ~ much about
Christian science as do, at much less
cost; be grateful aud await for tie develop
IIent.
Brother Elbridge Gerry, the president Of
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty o
Children, is again on the war-path, and
has laid All EN- Fargo on the appearance Z
lot of little children in the spectacular
opera of Biuebeard, Junr. The specially
Of the children is the scene Of the old
woman who lived in the shoe. They sing
a NURSERY song, and dance a little dance,
and enjoy the fun as much 40 the audience.
Their act does not take fifteen minutes.
They are we'll ted, well clad, and well
cared for, and 80 well behaved ss any
children in the city; while in the theatre
they are better cared for and their morals
are more carefully supervised thar when
they are al school,. and all children playing
parts in theatres are remarkable for their
good manners and behavior, but Mr.. Gerry
fears that their morals might be affected
by the associations of the theatre and so
prevents them from getting an honest
living.
Night after night cross the great Brook
lyn Bridge. The streets are wet and sloppy
the air is miserably cold around the en-
frances to the bridge in New York and
Brooklyn; children swarm there; little
boys and girls, six, seven and eight years
Of age-thev sell papers, some are well clad
and well shod, others have no shoes and
their clothes are in tatterS. Why does not
Brother Gerry look out for these little
waits ? He took Joseph Hoffman from the
stage Of the Metropolitan Opera House
when he was earning thousand dollars a
week playing on the piano. He was quar-
tered in the finest suit Of rooms in the
best hotel ID New York, with his father
mother. nurse, valet, and q special ply
sician to look after him, and Gerry sent
him back to Germany, involving Henry
Abbev, HOffman's manager, in q loss Oi
over fifty Thousand dollars, for fear his
health would suffer. If the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty TO Children WanIs
work, mercy knows there is plenty of 1t iI
: New York aud Brooklyn. Last week
took stroll trough Little Italy, which is
a section Uf Mulberry street, running from
the five points to Canal street. There ii
no other street scene like it in America
Within Iifle-shot Of the BoWery and Cana
street. two Of the greatest thorOughfares
in New York, is section Of the town al
most as unknown to the great body OF New
. Workers as the shores of The Congo or Fam.
besta. In five minutes after leaving the
BOwery you feel that you have passed. into
another land and are among another peo
pie. Beetle-broWed ruffiians from Sicily
u and Corsica, murderous looking bandit
from Calabria and tho Pyrenees, lazarOn
u from Naples, wharf-rats from Genoa, n1nR
! ers en- from Venice, Pisa, Palermo snC
Rome crowd the rlckety tum0ledoWn tene
u mentS on either side, Every patOis from
i Rome to Malta can be heard and bad type
l Of every ROmiSh province can be found
Low drinking shops abound, the streets arr
u filled with hucksters' carts and are DtrewI
&c with refuse and decayed vegetables. Tn,
!, rules that apply TO the streets Of New Yorl
u are completely Ignored here. for Padd.
'e Diver or Fatty Walsh. who divide the p,
liIical honorS Of this bailiWick, would hav
the policeman broke who attempted to en-
'e force them.
ie Children nnkemPt, ragged and dirt
u swarm in the streets like the locusts o
Egypt peace iS unknown, violence Ia tn
rule, and little gaminS and wild stree
% Arabs of eight and ten carry their StileIo
ie ALWAYS ready for use In case OF brawl
Is Here is work for Brother Gerr. Heather
nj darker than AfricA's night fAlloW RToun,
for mission effort aud the Christian plOughs
10 The Rev. NJ. Rylance, of st. Mark
b. Episcopal Church, whose character va
4 assailed by one Of the members of his con
= q glegation, and who was compelled TO re
D. sign, has been fully ViIidicated. Tn
Il, conspiracy TO rum him was exposed and Il
ne has been received back with open arms b.
his congregation.
III Brooklyn Is making great preparation
a. for public reception of DR.. Tslmags o
Id his return from the Hoy Land No doub
y il will be bumper, for the Rev. Doctor /
= faVOrite in Brooklyn.
III The weather has been some dAys lik
or summer and others like winter, but th
n. grip still holds on.
II am yours, truly,
F." BROADBRIM.
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