The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1901-07-03
FROM THE FIRST WARD.

was uppefmOSt III thelf MINDS? Inc
question IL easily answered. Thirteen
dollars per month was the pay, with
one hundred dollars bounty at the
expiration of the three years term of
enlistment. The inducements were
not very ilattering, but the experience
realized was beyond description. Oh,
well, never mind Al some future
time hope to devote more time and
patience to the deserving veterans of
the war.
Over fifty of the rubber ball making
girls in the Lambertyille Rubber
Works are now having their vacation
for couple of weeks, and we can
imagine they will enjoy their vacation.
as they have been very steadily en-
ployed for the past year, and this
little rest will be appreciated. The
boot and shoe makers are also taking
their annual rest, and may be seen
around the corners in little groups,
Some are visiting friends in different
parts of the country; others spend an
occasional day ut Willow Grove.
Did you ever notice the different
kind of stills upon which the people
are mounted. Some men get away up
and call the worlds attention to their
high moral position. These stilt-
walkers pick out the hard and smooth
ground to walk on and take long
majestic strides through n world of
immoralities. Then there are others
on political stills, and still others
on industrial stills, and still others
perched on religious stills, and thus
the cake walk of life goes on. | sup
n ssly S,.Se r, ~ ~
reason why | don't climb mp high
enough to be recognized all over the
world il on account of my stills being
too short in the legs, and my desire to
walk in the newly plowed fields of
truth, instead of marching in the hard
dirt road of political and industrial
ing whooping crowd.
John Crowley arrived home from
Ohio Tuesday of last week, where he
has been drumming up trade i'll the
capacity of agent for the "Snag Proof
Boot" This is Johns second year in
the West, and his sales exceed those
of last year,
The Lambertvile Rubber Company
shut down last Saturday for two
weeks, to take account of stock and
make some repairs and M the warm
weather is now here, the men will, no
doubt, welcome this short stop, which
| will also give them a chance to visit
some of the summer resorts. This
and few days about Christmas time,
is about all the vacation the men re-
ceive during the year, and they
generally put in their time to the best
advantage and in way to get the
most enjoyment out of it.
Our town il becoming well supplied
with dudes. The demand for dudes is
always below the supply. The only
use the world can make of genuine
dude is to uso him for street corner
ornament sort of wart on the face of
municipality lump of waste in the
plan of creation yaricose VEIN ON
the lame leg of time. Besides all this,
the world is already too full of halffed
lawyers and preachers and dry good
clerks and quack doctors and life in
surance agents and newspaper cores
pondents, who go about in starched
collars and patent heather shoes and
tan -colored gloves, and gaudy neck
ties, seeking for some sucker to de-
your. The world is looking ont in the
field where the young man with
twist of natural leaf tobacco III his
pocket, is hoeing potatoes or digging
turnips and dreaming of the day when
he shall master several branches of
science and later ON be called upon to
so to the Legislature and get ut least
$50 every time he casts his legislative
vote on some bill that il dear to the
heart and solidarity of organized
capital, Thousands and thousands
have been called from the farm and
factory and mines to fill important
positions, who as boys were obliged to
back up against the fence when the
goddess of liberty went by SO as to
hide the blue drilling in the gable end
of their early struggle to wear trousers
and pant for immortal glory. Ii | do
say so in referring to myself.