The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1890-01-11
BROADDRIM'S N. Y. LETTER

The New Year should open auSpiciously;
We don't care for cold ice and snow would
not be unwelcome visitors. The frost upon
the window pane and the music of the
sleigh bells are the adosnment Of this holi-
day. But while write heavy calamity
weighs down all the land and Broadbrim
has not escaped, the fever burns me up,
and an oppressive cloudlneSs Of the brain
makes it almost impossible to write. /
haYe tried to battle against it, but 1t seems
as If the will power fails and there is moth
ing to do but give up and lie down till the
crisis passes or endS. But 1t is New Years,
and as there has been no failure in the
BroAdbrim letters for decade, feel that
must 60 on.
Sadly enough cit among the ruins Of
Christmas. From my windo look out
on what was once my garden and there
tossed in one corner is all that remains Of
the Christmas tree, around which were
gathered score of happy children less
than a week ago. How gay 1t looked with
its festoonS of Gllttering streamers,its beau
tiful colored pendants and balls, ami what
treasures hung hidden among its branches
for all good little boys and girls. All gone
now. The tree Is cast aside like an old
shoe, and the toys, where are theyp Mabel's
beautiful doll has loss an eye and she is
not lovely to look upon. Tommy tried TO
explore the innermost receSses of his kali
eidescope TO see what made those wonder
ful figures; q few liJtle specs of glass
tumbled out upon the floor and the fairy
vision had vanished forever, Here is =
camera that cost five dollars all smashed tn
pieces, aud printing press on which be
was going to print all his New Years Wis
lting cards, covered all over with ink and
useless. All, mel All, mel perhaps IL
won't be long before we are as useless as
that printing pressl But what's the use of
mourning over what can't be helpedP Let
II 60 aud drift on, drift on.
The sugar trust of which spoke a week
or two ago, has been having lively Shak-
ing up. and as usua! it was the lambs who
were bled. II Is not long since that sugar
certificates sold at 128. The heavy holders
in the trust unloaded at that, and now they
expect 10 get them all back at so. Just
think OF It. A man unloads 1000 shares in
a morning and pockets S75. 200 clear by the
r nssction, No wonder these speculators
nix themselves smart and all the rest Of
ao world fools. AfeW weeks ago James
Brsne was the strongest bull ON the market
for sugar certificates. He gave his bosom
friends the tip-"Buy 'em, me boy; buy
'em. We've got the market: We make all
the sugar thAtis made in the United States
we've got all the plants, they can't get =
pound unless they buy from Us. There's
millions In IL; millions In itF The pros
pect of enormous dividends, heeced by that
rObber band from the poor people, un-
locked many a strong box. and now they
are mourning IS Rachel mourned for her
children, and refuse TO be eomforted be-
cause their ducats are not. In the sugar
deal somebody has lost = good deal Of
money.
It Is quite astonishing how an old pOiit-
icAl hght has developed which bodies III to
all the parties concerned. 1t has been an
open secret for the past three years that
the relations between Governor David p.
Hnl and eI-Presldent Cleveland have bees
on the north aide Of friendly. The fact
that the Governor got 1900 votes more
than the President In the last Presidential
election was, to put IL In the mlldest iOiT,
= little remarkable, since In the Sight tina
Governor was triumphantly elected while
the President, who considered bic election
sure, got badly left. Governor Hill thought
when he had RIYen the DemOcrAcyA mAth-
ematlcal demonstration Of who was the
n,gongsF u lhs i've, that thAs would so,tls