The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-02-11
FROM THE FIRST WARD.

morning left South Main street in {
dilapidated condition. OF course, thi.
is no unusual thing. 1t is the same
old thing repeated at each heavy rain
The surplus water from Franklin stree
rushes down over the hill and com
pletely mandates Main street. The
surveying which our Council had done
last Summer don't seem to remedy the
difficulty in the least. No, there was
no damage done this time, but sometime
in the near future there may be if this
defect is not attended to- Last Sum
mer considerable damage was done at
the rubber mill from one of these heavy
rains, and our city may run up against
a damage suit yet on account of this
defect.
There is movement on foot to
close the stores early and give the
clerks who find employments in these
business places an opportunity to at
least enjoy little fresh air in the
evenings. There is no more need if a
store being open or doing business
after @ o'clock in the evenings than
there would be for factory or rail
road shop to run their places after the
above time. Ten hours is long enough
for any man to toll, and when the PEG
pie once understand that they must do
their shopping in the full light of the
day they will also understand that it
will be to their advantage. Some fifty
years ago the long hours system was
in vogue, but has gradually decreased
in all lines of business and now ten
hours is actually more than the limit.
All Government clerks work eight
hours. Our trade unions have made
several efforts to have the hours re-
duced to eight per day, and several
have succeeded on the nine-hour basis.
Let me be your valentine. Valen-
tine sounds more poetical than the
common names attached to week day
lovers, but it doesn't make people love
any harder or truer or more tender or
lasting. Beside the poetical side of the
world, it is an old tradition, and tradi-
tions, like whiskey, grow better with
age. We can believe almost anything
If it is handed down to us on tradi-
tional forked -stick, and we are told
that the old masters believed the story
and would swear to its genuineness for
very small consideration However,
lovers take advantage of st. Valentines
day and send out 'feelers" to discover
the possibility of finding some one to
lay on their bosom and toy with their
ears while they tel them how awfully
bully they love them once they set
their minds, and adjust their new neck
ties, and polish their shoes, and sleek
down their HAIR, and start out to love
somebody at very low wages. Send
ing out love messages is only bluff.
Ii the bluff takes and the object assail-
ed willis into willing woman to be
wooed, it's all right, but if the bluff is
bluffed off and the assailed turns the
icy front of non-reciprocation the SEN
der pulls his towline of love and reels
ii up on the spool of his automatic
yarn, and soon sends it out again in an
attempt to lasso some other fair damsel
and lay his love at her feet.
Under our good old Republican
Administration, all the promises which
were made during the campaign arc
being fulfilled. The country was never
in more prosperous condition than
at the present time. No man need be
idle who is inclined to work. Good
men are in demand. Wages are not as
high as they should be, although there
is a movement on foot to advance them.
The high price of coal and living com
modities is of such burden upon the
laboring class that they are not enjoy
ing the prosperous times as they
should. The past Winter has been
pretty tough upon the latter class.
The average workingman never ex-
poets to make a fortune at his calling,
and all he asks is n fair compensation
for fair days work. There is no real
happiness in striving and gauging and
grinding and hagging to save up a
million of dollars. have tried it, over
and over again, but always gave up at
q few thousand. / find that dollar
that you can't share with others, or a
dinner that you can't share with hun
cry humanity, may satisfy your hun
ger and your greed, but away down in
your heart there is "A crack in your
conscience that won't heal up and grow
a scab of cheerfulness over it ABE.