The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1900-06-06
FROM HE FIRST WARD.

iuc w tSieu GApet Mill was closed
down three or four days last week ON
account of broken shaft.
These fine evenings bring ont the
Curb-Stone Club in force. and the
nominations for president, both Demo
cratic and Republican, are being dis
cussed by the assembly. OF course,
William Jennings Bryan is the favorite
candidate in the ward, but every
seiious thinking man knows Me
kinley will be elected again with a
larger majority than he had in 1896.
John Call has been detailed to test
and examine the fire hose and other
apparatus at the p. Il. Il. shops. As
Mr.. Call is a practical mechanic, no
doubt this branch coming under his
guidance will be thoroughly attended
to. He has reliable assistant. Mr..
iiaggerty
A new flag stone walk is being erect
ed i'll front of the Centennial Paper
Mill, owned and operated by the VIM.
Mann Companyof Philadelphia. This
is one of the places your correspondent
has spoken of heretofore, but there is
another place ON South Main street
that needs attention. and it would be
we'll for our street committee in conn
ell to look to it and have it attended to.
The Lamhertville Rubber Company
made stop on Decoration Day. This
IL the first day the mill has been stop
ped since Christmas. This shows
which way the industrial wind blows.
Not stopped a day in five months, and
some of the departments are running
until II o'clock ut night to keepabreast
with the orders The probabilities are
the mill will make stop for couple
OF weeks about the LIST of July. The
stop always occurs at that time, as
II is necessary To overlook the MACH.
merry and take account of stock.
Nature has wisely provided the re-
action, so that every wrong perpetrated
against the poor shall come back in an
| o'H'lhE Nhi anu hctIi ihc tuIH Vi tHt
wealthy moist with the sweat of their
INDECENT neighbours misery, and force
the roots of charity to sprout up in
their hearts, i'll spite of all their indif
ference. We talk about the tendenc,
of the race turning ever and CROWNS
towards perfection and higher plan,
| of aiy,Ii1atian hut ,vo ;ouora all Al,
little influences that prevent us from
drifting back into worse barbarism
These fearful voices mellow the harsh
ness of the boisterou laugh, and tn
world goes on singing medley c
happy and melancholy songs, like n
old cracked hand-organ grinding OF
mclodramatic airs in the middle of
dirt road in country village, wher
there is n wedding ceremony takin
place on one side of the street and
funeral Grafton on the opposite side
and dog fight and law suit and
dance in full blast further down tn
road. If You want better picture o
life, go and paint ii yourself. You vii
never know what life is until you try
to paint it.
by the blowing of long whistle o
n locomotive last Thursday morning II
11.30, n little excitement was create,
near the Hibernia engine house, as tn
boys took the signal for nm alarm q
fire, and threw open the engine hous
and were Just about to make run
when some one said it was strang
locomotive that caused the excitement
Once more we must confess that thes
whistle blowings cause confusion
amongst the fire lnddies and ther,
should be some other arrangement
made to supply this most importan
system.
Beware of new blotters. Here i
what n lady not n half mile from Bridg,
street found upon fresh blotter wheI
she dropped in at her husbands oiiic,
the other day:
'eno gnilrad nwo yM.
Having received no such communica
ton from him for period of twent,
years or more, question arose which
has not vet been satisfactorily answer
ed
wouldn't give chew Of tobacco
for the man who tries TO be like som,
other fellow. He may make a goo,
ape, but it il impossible for him to be
come man. A man must be original
must be like nobody but himself
Thousands Of common place men sin
into hopeless and helpless wod G
worthless humanity simply, becaus
they start ont in life making n vain an
brainless effort to be like some grea
statesman, or general, or preacher, @
burglar, or orator, or lawyer, whe
they are only fit to chase pillow {
drive n nail, or skin n beef, or run
wash machine, or net as travelling ageI
for Il small soap factory, or do til
dirty work for some big trust, or writ
poetry for some big firm dealing
phosphate and farming implements
And the world is full of scribblers VIII
are vainly trying to think throug
other brain, and if the reader can't boz
row some other fellow g brain and heal
and eyes, he is obliged to buy stron
microscope before he can see anythin
in the average newspaper worth remen
bering, and is obliged to go back to tn
old authors who wrote as they fel
with their own unadulterated consc
ence, and went to Jail TO pay the penalt
for their Independence.
Announcement.
To accommodate those who are partial 10 II
use of atomizers in applying liquids into III
nasal passages for cdtdtrh0t u0Dbies, the PR
prietors prepare Cream Balm in liquid form
which will be known as Ely's Liquid Crea
Balm Price including the spraying tube
, rs cts Druggists or by mail The liquid for
embodies the medicinal properties of the sol