The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-05-16
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Now break your backs
And cripple your knecs,
And plant your potatoes,
Cucuuibers and peas,
For the gluttonous slug
And the festive bug
VIII laugh at such luxurles.
Italy's noble son, the sweet harbinger
OF Spring, has come and gone; once more
the beautiful strains of Sweet Violets," :"
'Ome, Sweet Ome" and 1--WE Never
Speak as we Pass By" have filled the air
with their enchanting melody. Only last
week we were about to cry Spring, oh
Gentle Spring in our ecstacy Of Joy at
hearing the above sweet melodies, when,
suddenly, as If our thoughts had been
OWNED the sky became over-clouded
and beautiful snow" flakes filled the
air, but the organ-grinder kept on grind
ing out those sweet, tender, soul-stirring
melodies to the delight of the small boy
and his own joy at gathering the bright
shekels in. But, there is an old saying
that late Spring is significant Of a
very warm summer, how It will pan out
we will not venture to prophesy.
A QUERY?
"Jobson," correspondent, asks MS the
following question: A Is the landlord
of hotel, and lets a room in his house
to a party of gentlemen who use the
room as a gambling "den." Is the
landlord of said hotel liable to arrest
under the law for allowing such place
on his premises, or Is he not responsible
for what is done In that room after it is
rented to parties as above?
II the landlord of said hotel Is cogni-
zant of the fact that the room Is used as
a gambling place, he is most decidedly,
under the law, liable to the penalties for
maintaining gambling house. ED.
GIVE US A BOARD OF HEALTH,
SO far-we have heard of no movement
on the part of our Borough Council to-
ward the appointment of a Board of
Health. Why the council do not move
in this matter we do not understand.
They certainly know of the terrible
scourge prevailing at Plymouth and also
the breaking out of a similar epidemic
in South Bethlehem, and yet they fold
their hands and take no heed for the
preservation of the health of our people.
They could vote several hundred dollars
to dig down Lehigh street hill last year
"a work entirely unnecessary--but not
one cent for cleaning out, draining and
purifying the ''stinking ditch' and
swamp along tho Lehigh Valley railroad (!
Gentlemen, members of the council, It
is your bounden duty to appoint Board
of Health at this time, and adopt strong
sanitary measures. viii you do it?
OUR STREETS.
During the past two weeks our Super
visor has, with gang of men and boys,
been busily engaged working on our
streets. Whilst we urge and heartily
approve Of the improvement of our
thoroughafares we, with large major
ity,. object to the cleaning out of cutters
and grading the streets with the filth
taken therefrom. The filth which ac-
cumulates in the cutters, especially
along Bank street, should be carted
away by all means, and not thrown out
on to the streets, where, as the sun
strikes it, 1t sends forth a terrible ma
larial poison. Our council should not
enforce such rigid economy where the
health and interest of our people Is con-
cerned; many may feel disposed to blame
the Supervisor, but he is not the party
at fault, being appointed by the council he
must act according to their orders. Year
after year, as regular as clock work, our
streets demand thorough over-hauling,
and just from the fact that they are
never fixed up substantially. 1t would
be to the interest of every taxpayer in
this borough if our council would order
the streets to be graded and properly at
tended to, and thus do away with
the necessityof repairing every year and
the running up of large bill for expen-
ses. In conversation with one of the
largest taxpayers in town recently, he
informed US that there was mot another
town in. Carbon county where the people
paid such Immense taxes and had so few
improvements as the people of Lehigh
ton. And it is all on account of the
system of economy adopted by our coun-
Gil; If they would appropriate sufficient
amount for the purpose of substantially
grading Bank street, and then be done
with it, our taxpayers would Dissatisfied,
and there will be no necessity of attend
ing to ''the same old thing" every year.
Now act, gentlemen.