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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-05-01
AN iNSlDlOUS VICE.
Stumbling Ia Worse Than Drunkenness to
business Integrity.

Stumbling Ia Worse Than Drunkenness to
Business Integrity.
Gambling is the skulking poison
bus foe to business integrity" paid an
experienced business man. ''You can
see the signs of drunkenness, he said,
land guard against being damaged by
drinking partner or employee, but
more often than not you know nothing
of the gamblers downward progress
until your losses tell the tale. have
seldom seen q case in which the habit
of gambling did not have the oompan-
ion habit of lying. The lying gets worse
as the gambling becomes confirmed.
Your gambling associate comes along
with such cheerful mask Of falsehood
that you are indignant whom somebody
intimates that he is treading the dan
gerous path of dalliance with cards or
horses.
''Some years ago had little expe-
rience which I've no doubt many mer-
chants can duplicate. was manag-
ing partner in branch of one of the
most extensive houses in st. Louis. We
had salesman whom we valued high
ly. 1t came to our knowledge that no
was falling in love with poker. i said
that he must be warned. The other
partner thought he was all right, but
consented to the warning. In few
months tho man collected bill and
lost the money at poker. l then insisted
on reporting discharge to the main
firm, but my partner stuck to his faith
in the mans promises. Finally we COM
promised by retaining the delinquent
on condition that my partner notify the
firm that he would DO personally re-
sponsible for losses caused by repeti-
ton of the occurrence. We also sent to
every customer notice that all bills
should BIO paid directly to our head
quarters.
Before six months had passed the
salesman managed to collect bill OF
81, 500 and lost every dollar
"My partner took the money out o.
his pocket and reimbursed the firm. 1t
is not necessary to tell anybody who
knows gamblers that he never received
q cent from the man he had befriended.
1.-THE preacher and the lawmaker
may grade other vices as moro heinous,
but the merchant and the banker who
know what is good for them are more
afraid of gamblers than of anything
else st. Louis Globo-Democrat.
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LoNeFELLow's FIRST POETRY.
He Was More Than Thirty When His FRS
Volume Was Published.

He Was Moro Than Thirty When His First
volume Was Published.
Toward the end of 1886 he took up
his abode in Cambridge, where he was
to reside for the rest Of his life--for 40
years. He was made to feel at home in
the society of the scholars who cluster
ed about Harvard, then almost the sole
center of culture in the country. His
work for the college was not so exact
ing that he had not time for literature.
The impulse to write poetry returned,
yet the next book he published was the
prose Hyperion, which appeared in
1889, and which, though it has little
plot or action, may be called romance.
The youthful and poetic hero, passion
ate pilgrim in Europe, was, more or
less, reflection of Longfellow himself.
A few months later in the same year
he published his first volume of poetry
--"Voices of the Night"--in which he
reprinted certain of his earlier verses,
most of them written while no was at
Bowdoin. Some of these boyish verses
show the influence of Bryant, and 9TH
ers reveal to us that tho young poet had
not yet looked at life for himself, but
still saw it through the stained glass
windows of European tradition. The
same volume contained also some moro
recent poems 1.-The Beleaguered City"
and 1.-The Reaper and the Flowers" and
the psalm of Life perhaps the first
of his poems to win swift and abiding
popularity. These lyrics testified that
Longfellow was beginning to have q
style Of his own. As Hawthorne wrote
to him, Nothing equal to them was
ever written in this world-this west
ern world, mean. "
Certainly no American author had
yet written any poem of the kind SC
good as the best of those in Longfel-
lows volume of Ballads" printed
two years later. Better than any other
American poet Longfellow had master.
ed the difficulties of tho story in song.
and he knew how to combine the swift
ness and the pieturesqueness the ballad
requires His ballads have moro of the
old time magic, more of the early sim.
plicity, than those of any other modern
English author. OF its kind there Is
nothing better in the language than
"The Skeleton In Armor," with its
splendid lyric swing, and 1.-THE Village
Blacksmith" and "The Wreck of the
Hesperusr are almost as good in their
humber sphere. Excelsior, in the
same volume, voices the noble aspira
lions of youth and has been taken tC
heart by thousands of boys and girls. =
Professor Brander Matthews in st.
| Nicholas
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-05-01
THE PLAINS IN WINTER.
A Journey Across the Continent In March
Is Like a Voyage.

Is Like voyage.
The journey across the continent from
west to east in midwinter is very much
like q voyage. When one lands at St.
Paul from the overland train, it is with
all the sensations of making port after
having passed over the icebound sea of
the plains.
The uniform dazzle Of miles Of mo-
notonous snow, broken only where it
sinks to indigo shadow or swells to
crests of intolerable light, has for days
given to the world outside the pane a
sentiment of immensely rarely matched
by the moving sea.
There is majesty in the limitless
sweep of level earth, SO slightly over
arohed by the level sky, but majesty
that becomes desolation when seen in
intimate relation to human life.
A furry team Of horses struggling
across the plains, drawing a meager
sledge load of tirewood along narrow
house, alternating through the long
winter months for the resurrection Of a
few fierce weeks of summer sunshine a
little schoolhouse Of unplaned boards
perched ON a swell of tho vast silent
landscape; a farmhouse backed by barn
and corral, with tiny yard in front
encircled by tawdry frill of white
washed paling, showing yellow above
the snowfall these, with miles of snow
between, pierce one with keener sense
of loneliness than could any personal
experience.
The human element is SO inadequate
that one passes these scattered evidences
of struggle for life as in sound ship
one might pass frail craft at sea.
There are eagle minds upon which
this solemn hostility of unconquered
| nature acts as q challenge; one sees this
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wnore tho Rest Horse. Arc round.

The best driving and carriage horses
come. think, from Maine and Yer
mont, being tougher, as rule, than the
Kentuoky horses and no less intelligent.
High steppers for the most part are ma
tives of Maine or of Canada Western
horses, especially those from Indiana.
Iowa and Ohio, ore corn fed and soft,
and they often lack that Equality"
which tho kentucky horses derive from
the thoroughbred strain in their blood.
The best hunters, perhaps the best COM
bination saddle and harness horses.
como from tho Genesee valley, where
there is great deal of good blood. and
where real fox hunting is pursued
Century
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-05-01
PronarIng For n Gaming.


Kit Alexander had been warned sew
eral times for breaches of school disci-
pline and was at length reported to the
head master, who gave him final
warning. One night not long after Kit
was again caught in mischief, and he
felt that this time he was Gin for it. y
A flogqing by the doctor was no joke,
and Kit determined to make what prep
aration he could that the wind might
be tempered to tho shorn lamb.
On rising tho next morning he put
on first his undershirt, then layer of
stiff brown paper, then his jerseys, upon
these q sweater and over all a clean
white shirt, borrowed from his chum,
whose clothing was two sizes larger
than his own. Lastly he put on his coat
and vest.
1t was a very hot day in June, and at
morning intermission Kit whispered to
friend: "I'm nearly stified. l hope
he'll give it to mo now"
But the doctor said nothing, and Kit
went ON stewing until dinner time. He
felt half inclined to dispense at least
with tho sweater before AFTERNOON school,
but fear of the DOCTORS cane deferred
him.
All through the afternoon he suffered
untold misery, hopping his face until
his handkerchief would mop no more.
But at length, just before dismissal,
came messenger. "The doctor would
like to SEQ Alexander in his study"
On entering the study the boy saw
the supple, snakelike cane lying on the
| table,
"Well, Alexander" said the doctor
~ can go ON warning you no longer
You have brought this upon yourself
But as it is your first visit here for sucf
purpose shall make your punish
ment somewhat milder. Hold out your
hand; four on eachP'-Youth's Com
panion.
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THE RETIRED BURGLAR.
One Of the Most Remarkable Incidents In
His Variegnted Career.


One of the Most Remarkable Incidents In
His variegnted Career.
AFTER I had gathered III what l
could find In the dining room, said the
retired burglar, telling Of his experience
in house in western Massachusetts,,
II started for the parlor. This parlor
was just i'll front Of the dining room,
and there were heavy curtains between.
pushed these curtains one side and
went In carefully, so as not to mar the
furniture by kicking it, feeling along
for the table which knew must BIO in
the center. / came to it presently and
found 1t very solid feeling, with sort
Of molding or carving along the edge.
/ had struck it on a side apparently,
and SO / felt toward tho dining room
until came to a corner of the table,
and then felt along the end for the
next corner to get the Dimensions OF it.
/ struck the other corner SO quick that it
made my hair raise right up. / knew
there was only one thing they build of
such shape, and that's coffin.
az turned my light on it, and it was
q big oak casket, one of the kind they
make nowadays, square and solid, and
1t had three silver handles OH each side.
I didn't dare look in, but l felt as
though / ought to have them handles.
The head was toward tho front of the
house and the foot toward tho dining
room. set my lamp down and got my
screwdriver out of my bag and began
ON one of tho handles nearest the foot.
I suppose I must have felt little easier
after I'd got that one off and into the
bag know went around the end and
then up the other side pretty prompt,
getting 'em off smooth as could be, and
around the head and started down the
other side where I'd begun. ! got the
handle off by the head on that side, and
then went at the last handle, the one
In the middle. In turning the last
screw out OF the handle / dropped my
screwdriver.
1t seemed to me as though it made
more noise than an iron telegraph pole
dropping inside of an empty iron oil
tank. I just lay down and waited.
didn't dare run. l expected million
people would come pouring down the
stairs and from all around. and l just
waited. lying on the floor, but there
didn't anybody come. You know, the
fact was that dropping that screwdriyer
hadn't made noise enough to wake up a
mouse, but 1t seemed to me like the
greatest racket you ever heard, and 1t
scared me most to death. But when no.
body came picked up tho screwdriver
and set it in the notch Of thesc again,
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-05-01
Mr.. yaux DID panoe with Her.

The story often told that the late
Hon. Richard Vaux had danced with
Queen Victoria has been denied quito
frequently since his death, but as o
matter of fact he did dance with the
queen. He was not her partner, 1t is
true, but danced in what was known as
tho queen s cotillon at the ball given
In her honor in 1887, when he was Sec
rotary of the United States legation.
Mr.. Vaux was selected by the queen her
self as one of the seven persons to join
with her in the dance, very great
honor. In the course of the evolutions
in the cotillon he danced with the
queen. This statement was made by
Mr.. Vaux to we'll known Pennsylva-
MAN who served with him in the Fifty.
first congress. Philadelphia Record.
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His First visit.

''It seems very swampy along here, "
observed tho New Yorker, looking Ian
guidly out Of the Car window. How
much farther is ii to Chioago?"
you've been In Chicago half an
hour" said the conductor majestically.
Good graoiousl 1 don't see any resi-
dences
"You must be nearsighted, sir. can
see tho dwelling of one of the Oldest
families in Chicago not half a mile
away"
"I-I can t see it at all. What It's their
name?"
"Muskrat. "
"Bless my Chicago Tribune.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-05-01
nIackIe and tho Magician.

Many years ago "the Wizard of tho
North" gave some performances in Ed
inburgh, and Professor Blackie was ono
Of tho crowd who went to see them. AS
he was making his way in he felt some-
thing at his ooattail, and putting his
hand into his pocket he found an egg.
This he took out and most adroitly
transferred it to the pocket of young
man just in front of him, a person as
unlike himself as can we'll be imagined.
Arrived in tho hall, he remarked where
this young man placed himself and
chose his own seat in corner as remote
as possible. When tho time came for
Wizard" Anderson to "trouble" him
for the egg, he arose and explained that
he had nothing of the sort in his pocket.
but that he believed that gentleman
could produce 1t, pointing to the aston
ished young man, whose surprise, how
ever, by no means equaled that of the
wizard. M. A. in London News.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-05-01
Held to the Habit.

81 can't let you have any money,
that's fiat" said she new woman.
"Why?'' asked the husband, tears
gathering in his limpid blue eyes.
because, confessed the breadwin-
ner shamefaoedly, "there is q bargain
sale down at Cuttem's, and they are
selling the loyeliest spring trousers ever
seen for So. 98. thought ] had got over
the bargain counter habit, but this Is
something / cannot resist. Indian
arolis Journal
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-05-01
WHOLE NO. LIZA

in the voice and step and eye of men
who have built Dakota and Montana
towns. Sturdy and unawed, they have
fought their way and wrested for them
selves a foothold on the great inhospi-
table plains.
The level iridesoent blaze of cloud
less winter days, the treeless prairies
aflame with color materialized in a
thousand wild flowers, the dreary swells
of autumn brown, lifted here and there
into sharp buttes of threatening stone
each in its own way impresses the
imagination, but repels the nesting in
stinot of home seeking man.-Atlantio
Monthly.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-05-01
Pay the Debt.

Forgiveness cannot make a sinner
be or feel as if he had never sinned.
There must be, in addition to forgive
ness, an atonement for his sin, paying
Of the debt, before he can feel that the
burden of his guilt is removed. Hence
tho necessity of the atonement made by
Christ not to appease the wrath of God,
but to bring relief to tho soul of the
penitent sinner. "Jesus paid 1t all, all
tho debt owed, are the tidings that he
must hear and believe before he can
stand uncondemned and self justified be-
fore God. Religious Telescope.
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A Sweet Temper Makes a Clean Heart.

Losing the temper takes all the
sweet pure feeling out of life. You may
get up in the morning with q clean
heart, full of song. and start out as
happy as bird, and the moment you
are crossed and you give way to your
temper the clean feeling vanishes. and
load as heavy as lead is rolled upon
the heart. and you go through the rest
of the day feeling like culprit. And
any one who has experienced this feeling
knows that it cannot be shaken off, but
must be prayed off.-Presbyterian Ban
upT
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-05-01
SEPARATION.

Life in dull and chill allegiance stands
Beloved, when thou art gone.
Frozen beneath the winters bands,
watch the days creep on.
Today, among the willows, cold and curled,
A bird sang of the spring
Come, for my heart waits, too, as all tho
world,
Breathlesss its blossoming.
.-Dorothea I.ummis in Kate Fields Washing
ton.
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How to po womanIy.

Mile Newgirl-I know my eye is
black, mamma, but you ought to see
Maud Nouveau 's--both closed, and her
cheek is all pulled. Besides. she hit me
first.
Mrs. Newgirl-Neyer slug except in
self defense, darling. Remember this
rule always, and you will grow up
true, womanly woman. - New York
Herald.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-05-01

Saxony was SO called because 1t was
inhabited by the Saxons, who took their
name from the saa AK, o small battleax
or knife which they bore in their CIR
ales
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-05-01

In 1878 the complete success Of water
gas as an illuminant was made apparent
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-05-01
THE HARDWARE DEALER,

MAGAZINE brim fun Of practical ideas from
hardware men. The cream of 600 brains ZIG
pages. Only 81 90 year. Sample copy FREE.
d. II. MALLETT. Pub, rs Reade St., New York.
April IL 4w.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-17
Cold Stones From the Sky.

The prodigious speed with which aero
lites are travelling at the time when they
come in contact with that portion of cur
atmosphere heavy enough To give friction
TO the flying body is beyond human COM
prehension and the power of the mathema-
tician to calculate. 1t only takes them a
few seconds to pass through the thicker
portion (say, the last 30 miles, of the air
stratum which surrounds our globe, but
even that short space of time is sufficient
in most instances to fuse the surface of the
stone and leave well defined waves of the
melted mineral distributed over the aero
lite, besides many pits and holes where
softer constituents have burned out entire
~ or been torn away by the resisting
medium.
There are instances on record, however,
which appear to set all laws of the effect of
resistance and friction at defiance-cases
where the stone seems to have instantly
passed from the cold outer regions of space
to the warm surface of this earth. This
was the case with the celebrated "cold
aerolite" which fell at Dhrumsala, India,
July IA, 1860, which had temperature
lower than any known degree of artificial
cold, and which was three or four days
warming up sufficient to admit of being
touched with bare hands. Another of this
class Is reported by priest as having
fallen in Mexico in 1909, and third of
the same cold variety, fell at Ulgald,
Sweden, in 1652-St. Louis Republic
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-17
ghe aaihta Daily eagle: Thursday zlorno, aanary 1885


But, said the to the executors, II
never received this money, and it is not
fair TO deduct it from my portion OF the
estate. don't care to contest the will, but
think there must be some mistake about
it. / recollect the check among my we'd
ding presents, but / never saw it after
ward. l supposed my husband took it,
and if he did it was all right, but have
no proof of it either way. -
The executors were In quandary, and
in some way the news of the missing
check became known in the village Then
a surprising thing happened One OF the
most respectable citizens of the town, a
prominent member of the church, came
forward, and after good deal Of hesita-
ton drew from his pocket faded slip of
paper.
See what my wife found in an old suit
of Clothes" said he. s'II-I-don't
know how it came there, but thought it
might be Of come service to you"
1t was the $40. 900 check. Whether in
jest or with the intention of stealing it,
the respectable citizen had put it in his
pocket. Having it once in his possession,
he found it an awkward instrument He
was equally afraid TO use it or mention
the fact of his having it until 80 years later
when the discussion regarding the will
made it possible.-New York Herald.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-17

a japanese contributor in The Popular
Science Monthly says: when L was n
young boy, the custom OF eating beef be-
gan to spread. As blood was regarded as
unclean, and also as Japan had been .
strong agricultural country, there was q
deep rooted disinclination to eat beef. In
this, OF course, one has also 20 recognize
the influence of the vegetarian principle Of
Buddhism, but to anybody who had ever
tasted beef it was so delicious that he could
hardly control his natural appetite by his
religious scruple. Ny father was one OF
those who knew its taste, and so now and
then we used to treat ourselves to beef.
But where did we eat it? We did not eat
it inside of the house. We cooked IL and
ate it in the open air, and in cooking and
in eating We did not use the ordinary uten-
sis, but used the special ones kept for the
purpose. Why all these thingss Because
beef was unclean, and we did not Ike 70
spread its uncleanliEess into our house
wherein the gods shelf IS kept and into
our ordinary utensils, which might Is
used in making offerings 70 The gods- Ths
day when we ate beef my father did not
offer lights to the gods nor say evening
prayers TO them, IS he did usually, for be
knew be was unelean and could not APP
proaeh the gods. ("
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-17

less people to terrify the Socialists and
prevent attacks on the score Of conven-
tons. thus breeding a spirit Of violence
that eliminated in Carrots murder,
Raynal is a co-relibiunist of Captain
Dreyfus, who was recently sentenced
to life Imprisonment for betraying mil
itary secrets to foreign governments.
He comes from Bordeaux, where the
presidents mother, a semi-Jewess, was
brought up.
Casimir-Perier's choice of Rayrlal for
minister Of the interior was generally
thought astounding but was consider
ed to have been due to the liability of
the former to be hoodwinked. 1t is a
colossal blunder for the president to
take up the cudgels for Raynal, who
being very clever cannot be credited
with having made an oversight. He
is therefore stamped as the author of
a colossal act of knavery.
Brisson has apparently best chance
of being elected president because he is
a puritan and is wanted for the plan,
but he will not have majority in the
senate.
Houbet, who was prime minister
when the Panama scandals were I'm
furled, but who was not implicated in
them, is also mentioned in connection
with the Office. Dupuy also has fair
chance. Felix Faure, minister of ma
Iine, is also spoken of. (Signed)
EMILY CRAWFORD.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-17
A Story of Lowell.

As James Russell Lowell was leaving
his house one morning his wife said to
him: Now, James, I beg of you not to
bring any one home to dinner today. We
are too much distracted with houseclean-
ing to cook, and the prospect is that there
will be little for us to eat
Mr.. Lowell, promised to heed her re-
quest, but he met during the day the old
est son of an English family with whom
he had been on terms of friendship while
minister to the court of ST. James He
now forgot his wife's admonition and in
sisted upon the young Englishman going
home with him to dinner. The meal con-
sisted of picked fish, and potatoes. The
guest was evidently puzzled Hehad never
eaten picked fish" before Mrs. Lowell
meantime was haunted by thoughts of
the apple pie that was to finish the re.
past. Her sensations may be imagined
when the ,Englishman, after playing
daintily with the contents of his plate, re-
marked in tbemost courteous manner, ST
know that Mrs. Lowell win pardon me If
omit the fish course.,'-San Francisco
roouant