The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1890-05-03

DrOtnofb 70 see bnab bue makes no bJep
backward. A finer or brighter looking
body Of woman, has never been assembled
in the Metropolitan Opera House.
Coming out from the meeting Of the
Working Girls, passed q Hall where
about eight hundred striking carpenters
and masons we're holding meeting; they
had quit work on several buildings, not for
any grievance Of their own, but because a
responsible firm in Brooklyn would not let
Walking Delegate run their business.
The saloon on the corner had been well
patronized and the bad whiskey and beer
had told on the strikers; many Of them
we're foreigners who could not speak our
language-they were chattering and gesti-
culatlng like so many madmen. Il was
a soddened drunken looking beery crowd,
and said to myself, is this kind OF politi-
cal timber that decides our elections and
makes onr lawsP Then thought Of the
decent, sober, orderly convention that
left behind me and could not help feeling
that the fate of our beloved country would
be safer In the hands of such women as
composed the Working Girls Convention,
than with ali the strikers between Maine
and San Francisco.
All the electric miracles with which
Edison the Electric Wizard astonished the
frog eaters Of Paris and millions of foreign
visitors besides, we have now IN full blast
at the Lennox Lyceum on Madison avenue
in aid of the Women's Exchange. another
Of the wOmen's helpful institutions. The
miracles of electricity are everywhere, one
of the wonders Of the exhibition being the
long distance telephone between here and
Boston. What the possibilities of this
wonderful instrument are as yet unfath-
omed, but from the rapid development of
long distance telephoning, 1t is not impossi-
BILE that with the next decade, By means Of
the ocean cable, we may be able to converse
with our cousins N London, Vienna, Paris,
or Berlin, and when the electric circuit is
completed whip a message around the
globe in less time than it would take To
say Jack much less Robinson. Electricity
not only sends the newsstand allows us To
whisper something confidential in the eal
of the girl we love two hundred miles
away, but it lights the house, carries you
up in the elevator, whips you along on
Third avenue road, and when you are tired
and need recreation, 1t gives you Wagner,
Bellini, Rossini, Strauss OF Sullivan, and
when, in addition to this, you can get the
sweetest operatlc gems by Patti, and the
magnificent high G of Termagno all fol
nothing, there is nothing left for you but
to die Of extacy and climb up the Golden
Stairs. In fact there is no necessity to dc
even that, for they can send you up free oi
cost on an electric elevator. Then there
are talking dolls that can hold spirited
conversation with their mistresses. Just
imagine Susie seated down in the corner
with all of her plaYthings around her and
little dolls crying out, "Hnrry up with the
Ice cream, mamma" or, Mamma, Jimmy
is sticking pin in me-" Wonderful
wonderful wonderful And then there Ii
the lovely electric column which they light
up several times In the course of the eve
ming. Who can describe IL? can't. Sucl
visions of beauty are hardly realized here
they are only seen in dreams. Just two
such lovely columns as these, might guaT(
| the everlasting portals of the blessed. ThI
place is crowded and the Foman's Ex
change will undoubtedly profit thereby.
Whatever complaint the poor and worr
Methodist minister may haYe about hi
chnrch's neglect when his term of servic,
. is over, our Reverend Brethren of tn,
: Congregational and Presbyterian churches
} appear TO have little or nothing to com
plain of. Last week the Rev. Theodort
Cuyler, Pastor of the Lafayette AYenul
Presbyterian Church, retired after thirtI
: years of service, and the church presented
him with a check for thirty Thousand
} dollars. About thee years ago the ReY
: Richard s. StorFs, on the completion of hi
fortieth year was presented by his parish
/ toner's with purse Of forty thousand dol
; lars, at the same time his salary was tel
thousand year. Doctor Talmage's con
gregatlon gave him house worth at leas
twenty-five thousand dollars, and IL mis-
take not, furnished it from bottom TO tOl
I at cost Of thousands more, his salary a
the time being fifteen thousand; income
/ from his sermons fiYe thousand, lecture
3 ten thousand, salary as editor FIVE thou
7 sand, with the interest say at FIVE per cent
I of his two hundred thousand cash, whicl
he has invested in mortgages and othe
D securities, making in all nearly sixty thou
D sand dollars per annum; he is not likely Il
] call on the county for aid for some tim
q to come.
But the above exhibit shows that Brook
, lyn is not bad place for ministers, thougl
/, our Episcopal brethern, in one instance a
least, have caused their faithful shepher
, to get out in the cold. It is not necessar
5 to mention names, but the reverend gentle
g man In question believed in doing things a
e they were done in the time of Henry III
n Eighth of blessed memory. Then they ha
s Vestmenis and croziers and crosses an
' candles and incense, and lots Of things ths
n we don't haYe now. Then II was said tha
Q he did believe in Holy Water, and he di
}. not believe in Sunday schools, and In shOI
+ that he was more Of q Roman Catholic tina
y Protestant, ami the reportoriAl liar fc
n one of the morning papers, had heard hir
+ say in the presence of several witnesses
d "That there was no such a thing as
e Protestant" This was the last featht
y that broke the Episcopal camers back, {
It the faithful servant was bounced.
it Another Episcopal minister the Re-
1t Doctor Rylance of st. Marks was not
Y easily knocked out. Doctor Rylance wei
- TO Europe last year, and while there r
le celVed a letter from his friend N
a. QuaekenbOsS telling that all Of his evil prai
q tices had been found out, and that he ia