The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1901-10-16
FROM THE FIRST WARD.

IT man can do any one thing better
than he can do anything else, in the
name of common sense and political
economy, start him i'll his particular
line of work and encourage him to
stick TO it like II national debt to n
nation of gulliblc patriots. Don't
compel poet to become butcher or
"A lawyer to earn his livelihood Mt nm
honest trade. There is no poetry in
calts liver, and no chieanery in
swinging ien-pound maui. A poet is
so constructed that he is happiest
| while sweating his brain and LAWYER
IL happiest while sweating his clients.
IT circumstances oblige these men to
persplre at any other part of their an
atomy and open pores that object to
sweating, the poor fellows are liable
toscatch cold
Some of our First Ward politicians
haVe commenced their annual election
drunk, and may he seen in eonsulta-
ton with their chums, making up the
slate and figuring out the majorities of
the different candidates. A new
leader has been selected, or rather
self appointed, and great things may
be now looked for at the coming
election.
This summer Martha and | couldn't
agree on the change we hungered for,
for she had bought whole lot of new
clothes with the money she won with
her poetieal pen md her corrugated
wash board, and she wanted to go of
somewhere with the fashionable
crowd and feel TINT she was envied
and talked about, while all | desired
WIS to 90 off into the woods with n
couple Of cheerful companions and
forget the world and its hunger and
the daily papers full Of scandal ant
political humbug. So we divided up
she taking the baby and going off Il
the senshore with Mrs. Serapp ant
the Dinsle girls, while took my do.
and the Sourland Mountain Rookie
News man, and Sawdust Dan, and Ten
pounds of bacon and Jug, ant
| drifted up into the rocky mountain
| district IN green cnrryall and n sui
Of old clothes and II hopeful frame o
mind, to breathe the pure mir he
doozled with the fragrants of cedar
and sweet birch. | had sent apecia
dispatch to the News man to go alone
and play the cheerful man Of tn,
crowd, and he came with that resolu
ton deeply rooted in his soul. But
alas this cheerful man had n semi
fatal attack of toothache the very first
night we spent in the woods, and the
next morning his sweet blue face waf
all swollen up and his checks were in.
hnted like II toy balloon and ns he
walked around the interior Of the old
camp with the gloom Of n musty Egypt
| ian tomb depicted on his enlarged
countonance and his toes turned il
like bench-legged dog following
behind gypsy caravan, he would
only give us do'esul look of storage
battery woe, and M the News man
was solicited upon this occasion for &
special purpose, his mishap caused
me to change my plans. decided
to break camp Mt once, the News
man taking the old stage route foi
Sourland Mountain, looking the very
picture of despair, while myself anc
Sawdust Dan returned home over thu
same route we had so cheerful!
passed the day before, thus putting NJ
abrupt end 10 my summer vacation
out amongst the rocks and cedars
Perhaps my next vacation will b
spent at some fashionable resort il
company with Martha and tn
children.