Pleasantville weekly press., 1897-06-30
WEDNESDAY. JUNE 80. 1897.
THE Philadelphia papers say thai

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 80, 1897.
THE Philadelphia papers say that
4 minister was struck by light
ming in Cape May County, a week
ago Sunday evening, while quietly
sitting in his house with his family.
We do not quite understand how
such thing could happen. Wehave
been taught to believe that it was
only real naughty people who had
been fishing on Sunday that were
liable to be ''up-ended" by electricity.
THE Washington prophets are pre-
dieting that the Senate will
finish the Tariff bill to-day, and that
it will be law by July 10th. This
may prove true, but Congress is an
Uncertain body and quite as likely to
nsappoint as to fulfill public expec-
tations. We hope the Tariff bill will
become law as soon as possible SO
business in accordance with its pro-
visions Anything is better than an
uncertainty.
rs IT not time for the Borough
Council to seriously consider some
proposition for introducing electric
lights? Modern invention has cheap
ened the application OF electricity
and made it practical for many uses
the principal OF which is artificial
light. Egg Harbor City with less
population than Pleasantville has a
fine lighting plant, and has also re-
Gently put in system of water
works. With superior natural ad-
vantages Pleasantville should not be
behind other places in having electric
lights. Every dollars worth OF
Droperty in the Borough would be
meetiIth more, and it would also be
Class To of inviting capital here for in
ysment. The Council owe it to the
psSzens, one and all, to take some
lo.eeps in the direction we have indi-
Gated.
THE great college boat race at
POughkeepsie, on Friday last,
upset all the theories of the profes-
sional boating and sporting men.
According to these gentlemen the
heavier and most muscular crew
should have won, but the wiry little
fellows in the Cornell boat were two
and half lengths ahead at the finish
with plenty of wind and strength
crew, rowing the English stroke,
went all to pieces and three men
tainted in the boat when they crossed
the line. The Yale crew that was
expected to win came in all right, a
good second, but didn't row quite
fast enough to beat the Cornell men
pounds less per man. All this goes
to show that boat racing, like base
ball playing, is mighty uncertain,
and that you can't most always
Sometimes tell who is going to win
To those who are tempted to bet on
the results it would be well for them
to remember that few barrels of
potatoes and corned beef in the cellar
is better foundation to build on
than the numerous uncertainties of
boat-race.
THE "GloriOus Fourth" will come
on Sunday this year, and will be
generally celebrated throughout the
country Saturday the day previous.
AS long as the American nation en-
dures, the Fourth OF July will be
celebrated by the descendants of
those who planned and fought for
American liberty. 1t will be cele-
brated by OratOry and cannOnading,
in banquet and song, in festivals and
fireworks, in crackers and torpedoes.
In every city and village throughout
the country, upon the deck of every
ship at home or abroad, and where
ever Americans are gathered in any
settlement upon the face of the earth,
the day will be appropriately remem-
bered. 1t is well that we should not
forget the day or the deeds it COM
memOrates. They stand for the glor-
les of our earlier history, when men
made every sacrifice that men could
make for Freedom and Independence.
From their little republic has grown
our mighty nation OF, more than sew
enty million people foremost among
the nations of the earth. To forget
the sacrifices and heroism of our
Revolutionary patriots would be
base indeed. Rather let us once
more, as our great National Anniver-
sary comes around, recount their
deeds to our children and repeat the
story of their struggles to make us a
nation. On that day, of all others,
let us celebrate with it every thing
that BELTS the occasion.
Popular Girls.
"The Quest of the Golden Girl'' is
popular, but the quest of the girl with
gold is still more so.-Pick Me Up.
A Misunderstanding.