The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1902-03-26
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| farming III tne spring ana Will remove
from our city about April lst The
| farm which he will occupy is owned
by Captain Shields of Pennington,
and is located in the neighborhood of
Ringoes, in this county. Mr., Pid-
cock was raised upon farm and
thoroughly knows the business. The
farm is represented rs good one and
well stocked and equipped for bust
ness, which Mr.. Pidcock will push to
its fullest extent.
We spoke upon the pay of the
election board some time ago, having
reference to the extra work which
they had to perform in our city under
the Meeker Act, and that the board
should be compensated for this extra
work. Now here is a decision handed
down by Chief Justice Gummere in
the case of Harry Bells against the
board of freeholders of Atlantic
county. The election officers who
served in cities last fall he decides,
were entitled to receive separate COM
pensation for the general and NUM-
eipal elections, even though they
were held at the same time. The
Meeker Act had failed to repeal the
law under which the election officers
are paid. This decision affects each
and every election board in the State
xvIt al
dated.
We paid the Hibernia boys visit
few evenings ago and passed a
couple of hours in conversation on
general topics of the day. We also
witnessed some interesting games of
checkers. Some of the boys have be-
come very proficient in this ancient
game. will name few of the pro-
| fessors: Councilman Leary, Patrick
Morgan, Esquire Purtell, and James
Sheriden. Then they have expert
euchre players with whom Mississip-
pi boatman would have no chance of
winning game. But then your cor
respondent rather enjoys their com
pany because l am interested and
like the Irishmen because | have al
ways been in sympathy with them in
their struggle for liberty and political
freedom; and sympathy always begets
love. The Irishmen are success in
every land, except their own. In his
own native land he must bow to the
yoke of English oppression or leave
the island. Perhaps this was the
ultimatum laid down to the toads and
snakes, and they unanimously decided
to emigrate to America. History
says st. Patrick banished them from
the island through some supefnatura
influence, but very few intelligen
Irishmen believe this to be LITERAL,
true. We have Irish linen, and Irisl
whisky, and Irish heroes, and Irisl
bulls, and Irish potatoes, and Iris
martyrs, and Irish gentlemen-bu
nature draws the Irish line on toad
and snakes Now if this toad ant
snake business was worked by
miraculous hand, the people would b,
pleased to try it in our politics. Phi
ladelphia needs political miracle
worker worse than she needs saliva
ton, for salvation is free, while poll
tical jobbery costs millions every
year. The heeler is worse species Of
vermin than either snakes or toads
Why n toad is gentleman along side
of repeater or ballot-box suffer
or the poor "critter" who is willing to
sell his vote for pint of bad whisky.
Before writing this sketch / inter-
viewed my Irish neighbor on the sub
iect of the toads being banished from
Ireland, and i asked him what evil
dence they had to prove that there
ever were toads on the island
"Shoore," he replied, "and hahn t
there toad sthools till this blissed day.
And phwat would the toad sthools be
there for, if there never wor any toads
to sit on emp 'But why were the
poor little things banished? What
harm could they do to men?" /
asked. "And did You niyer hear the
ould tradition about the toad havin'
an evil eye?" he inquired. oval,
tradition seq the toad has get the evil
eye, and the man that is overcome
wild the evil influence ov that baleful
eye can't quit the world whin he dies,
but his spirit is forced to come back
and enter the body ov toad and must
stay there until the reptile is sprinkled
wild holy waiter, whin his power to do
evil is overcome" ''But how is it in
America, II asked. We have the toad
and the Irishman both here-how does
he escape the evil eye of the toad in
this country" "Ahal bedad it's
different in this country. Begob, the
Irishman has got too much Of po-
litical pull to be overcome by the evil
eye ov toad in America. And it's
tother way in pollyties anyhow, be-
dad. The Orishman is obliged TIC
swoller the toad
The English Society for the Pre-
vention of Consumption presided
over by the Prince of Wales, was
recently addressed by Sir William
Broadbent, who stated that it was def