The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1902-11-26
FROM THE FIRST WARD.

was plainly indicated at Hi Henry's
great minstrel performance couple of
weeks ago.
The wear and tear on South Main
street is beginning to tell upon the
surface and is pretty badly in need of
repairs. This street does not get the
! attention which it should. Even the
stone tagging needs resetting, rs on
each heavy rain the stones become iu-
undated and the pedestrians are put to
considerable inconvenience. The traf-
fic is very great upon this thorough
fare, owing to the numerous mills,
factories and railroad shops. Our
Street Committee of Council should
look into these defects.
| Work is plentiful and scarcely an
idle man can be found around our city.
Good, sturdy laboring men arc in de-
mand. The only fault now seems to
be the high price of all living commod-
tiles and fuel. Unfortunately, the la
boring men do not receive the compen-
sation for their labor which the neces-
sites of life demand, but the wage
increase has of late been considered
by some of the leading railroads, and
no doubt factories and shops will be
forced to fall into line ere long, as the
demand for an increase was never
more justifiable than at the present
time
There are lots of people full of am
bition but have no voice to put it on
the market. There are thousands of
philosophers who have not sufficient
vocabulary to express their philosoph-
ical ideas; thousands of good noyelists
who lack the ability to put down on
paper the visions that drift through
their heads, and thousands of people
who would like to have pocketful of
money, but their voices fail to produce
the effect on the cashier of the bank.
No worse calamity can befall profess
sional singer than to lose her voice,
and yet the world is full of people who
have music in their souls but no voice
to clip it out. i am one of these unfor-
tunate people myself. Still do SYM
pathize with the man who once had
tuneful voice and soul full of music
and lost his voice. for he Is a melan-
choly specimen of humanity to meet on
the bridle-path that leads out through
the sage brush and dead-ripe burdock
that lines the downward trail on the
rocky side of existence.
Once more We feel justified in speak
ing upon the pension question. The
Philadelphia Record of Nov. 90, makes
mention of the South Carolina Con-
federate system, and makes an effort
to couple our Government policy upon
the same basis. The Philadelphia Re-
cord knows very well why our Govern
ment pays these old veterans their pen
sions, and had ii not been for these
old soldiers there would not be any
United States Government. The
South Carolina soldiers may deserve
all the pension they receive from their
State, but the u. s. soldiers will mover
be put upon n level with them. The
old veterans look for no favors, all
they ask is fair dealing The maximum
rate is twelve dollars per month, the
minimum six dollars, and we will ven
ture to say there is none of them be-
coming mllionaires from this liberali
ty shown by the Government they so
nobly preserved ! do not feel as If
! am doing the old Veterans justice by
writing this short sketch, but time and
space will not permit of going into
details
Once more we are called upon to
offer thanks to Almighty God for be-
slowing his blessings upon us. True
and sincere thanks are never loud and
voeiferons. A feeling of thankfulness
has mellowing influence over both
body and mind; at any rate, noise is
not thanks, neither is display of any
kind a substitute for thankfulness.
Thankfulness is feeling away down
at the mental bottom of our conscious
ness, and the evidence can only be
seen in our eyes and in our actions.
The light that shines through our eyes
is never false, whether it be the light
of love or the baleful light of misery orr
anger, or the glad light of Joy and
thankfulness. We can always trust the
eye to tell the truth when once we have
studied the human eye and know all
it peculiarities; but the tongue is de-
ceitful, unreliable, classifying, prevari-
eating. boasting, exaggerating, lying
organ. The tongue may loudly pro-
calm thanks when the heart and the
eye are heavy with pain and distress.
Some people let their tongues do all
their business while their finer feelings
lie dormant at the bottom of their CON
seriousness and buried deep under a
waterproof blanket of ambition and
an elastic sense of honor. These are
the loud, open-mouthed, vociferous
people. Their patriotism is two-t thirds
noise and the balance is several varie-
ties of wind; their thanks burst out
through their mouths and go off before
they are properly loaded. They are
simply making grand stand play
from the cradle to the grave, and al
ways in hopes Of getting reward in
proportion to the noise they make dur
ing the grand stand exhibition.
. -
One Minute Cough Cure.
Is the only harmless cough cure that