The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-09-30
FROM the FIRST WARD.

! presented Mt the Interstate Fair in
Trenton this week.
Edward Rittenhouse, superinten-
dent of the Lambertyille Rubber Co,
Is spending week down in Maryland.
John Nuten Canine paid us friend
ly visit last week. Mr.. Canine was n
former resident of Lambertville and
musician of no little note. He now
resides in Camden, n. j.
Our fire laddies are preparing to
show of to their best advantage next
week at the Allentown's big parade.
They are all well equipped and each
company will be represented with
| band.
The Hibernia boys are making great
preparation for the Bordentown parade
which takes place October Is. Their
engine has been thoroughly overhaul
ed and dressed with new cont of gilt
and gold for the occasion. The com
pany expects to fill every uniform and
step to the music of the Liberty Band.
Men measure Ii o sacredness of
things according to their money value,
but the great creator recognizes no
cash value. A gold watch is thirty
eight dollars more sacred to man than
a splint broom or mouse trap, and
a dwelling house may be two thousand
dollars more sacred to man than an
almanac or wheelbarrow, but to the
creator of all life louise is Just ns
sacred as bear, and Hottental baby
boy as sacred as one of our United
States senators.
While the pension roll of veterans of
the civil war is becoming thinned by
death, that of soldiers widows are
naturally increasing. = Philadelphia
Record, Saturday, Sept. Is. The Re-
cord should see to it and have law
passed, prohibiting the veterans of the
civil war from marrying or disfranchise
them from the pension roll. II they
do marry, at last something should be
/ v.
Over 1000 were dropped from the
rolls, last year mostly nm account of
death. We hardly believe these widows
claim to reach one-fifth of this amount
and the Philadelphia Record needs
loose no sleep over the widows pen
sion, as the Government is in good
financial condition.
A young lady in the First Ward nc
cldentally ran across package of love
letters, written to her mother by her
father, before they were married. And
she concluded to have bit of fun with
them, so she took the letters to the
parlor and called her mother in and
commenced reading them, but sub
stituted her own name instead of her
mothers and picked very nice young
man whom she substituted for her
father. After reading several of them
her mother became quite angry and
declared her daughter should have no
thing to do with any man who would
write such stuff to young lady. Then
the young lady handed her mother the
package, and when she saw the truth
OF the Joke, things quoted down 40
much that you could actually hear the
grass growing out in the back yard.
Men, like log chain or n yard of
bologna sausage, may have strong links
n a. -
estimated by the merits of their
weakest points. A log chain, with
IA doughnut link in the center,
would have only the strength of n
donghnut chain and n cast iron con
gresham with mush and milk brain
can aspire to no higher position in the
estimation of their people than n corn
dodser statesman. Take pillar of
village society for instance who, per-
haps, is president of the school board.
secretary OF the cemetery company, adj
ministrator of seven large estates, and
executor of nine last wills and tesla
ments OF as many old maids who gave
half Of their estate to the church and
the other half to founding hospital
He may also have all the other virtues
OF village pillar OF country society to
his honor. And yet, with all these
virtues stacked up to his credit if he
has weakness for fast society, wine
woman and song, when he goes to
the big city, his home virtues counts
as nothing. When he is brought up be-
fore the police Judge and charged with
dancing n cotillion on the public street
with female companions whose breath
smells of lnger beer and limberger
cheese with sandwiches Mt o'clock in
the morning, the law simply attaches
itself to the weakest points Of that
good mans character. And the law
yers and police Judge get n cinch on
the last pocket full Of money that was
overlooked by his Jolly lady friends
and their city cousins. To have u
weak point is human, to keep it con
cealed from the eyes of your neighbors
is divine. Some people are all weak
ness morally and mentally while others
are abnormally strong on every point,
but the one they keep diyinely from
the eyes Of the prying public. Now,
] wish to advise THE RECORD readers
right here that when they run across
people so abnormally divine as to pres
ent none but the strongest points Of
their moral character to the eyes Of the
world, don't take any stock in these
people until you learn what their weak
points are. For when people are alb
normally strong on the surface, there
is more room for moral weakness in
ternally. ABE.
A Purgative Pleasure.
If you ever took DeWitt's Little
| E'arIu Riuaru for lii on