The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-02-18
FROM THE FIRST WARD.

rains Is still heaped upon South Mali
street at the intersection of Main ant
Feeder streets. The yellow mud ane
clay which was deposited upon thu
flag walk has about disappeared, wipeo
off by the traffic and the gentle breeze
An effort has been made by the
Pennsylvania Legislature, or some o.
its members, to have statue OF Bot
Lee erected on the battlefield of Get
tysburg. 1t would be more proper
for this Legislature to erect monu'
ment on the famous battlefield in hon
or of the brave Pennsylvania soldiers
who so nobly defended the State
against the rebel leader. The Vir-
ginia Legislature wants the statue OF
Lee erected at our National Capital.
The next of these Confederates, we
presume, will be Jefferson Davis that
we will be asked to honor. Queer
country this, eh ?
"A great many years ago, when /
first started out to win literary fame,
l wrote an article on Liars" 1t was
quite success. 1t hit every liar i'll
Hunterdon county and even extended
to New Hope They all denied it like
little men. Liars are bashful set, in
some respects, and seldom acknowl-
edge their weakness for whoppers. y
They may lie without blushing, but
when it comes to owning up to false
hood or fathering lie their bushes
are profuse. If man Is too sick tC
stand up or sit down, he may lie with
out committing sin, but to stand NJ
or lie sitting or to lie languishing. oil
even lie while lying at your ease, OF
to lie while in politics or in Jail OF
with one foot in the grave and the
other in bear-trap set to catch bur.
glars, is more than good citizen
should do between revival meetings.
| hit all these liars in that article
years ago, but they lived through the
obsequies, married aud remarked and
intermarried, and raised families with
this one peculiar trait developed in
the offspring in concentrated form,
and the weakness of the parents is now
a chronic disease in the children or,
at any rate, we don't have to import
liars from anywhere. We could ex-
port several million prevaricators and
| still have enough left for home con
sumption and to fill Congress aud all
the State Legislatures snd all the
prisons and pulpits and public Offices,
and feal estate dealers and insurance
agents, etc. etc. The disease of lying
is worldwide, including nearly every
one, perhaps myself. Lying comes as
natural to most of us as eating, only Al
little more natural. three meals a
day will satisfy most of us, but l will
son who can do business ON three
square lies day. Three little hop
pers would hardly serve for dessert
with majority of our leading citizens.
Why, / am personally acquainted with
lots of good, nice people, with a pray
ing reputation, who would starve to
death ON only three lies day, unless
they were big fat ones and were con-
nected with political scheme that
was actually dripping Doodle like a
farmers nose in mid Winter.
"A long. long time ago there WAS a
fable sheep that grew fleece of gold
Each strand of wool was thread oil
gold Even its tail was ornamented
with golden yarn, and when the poll.
ticians took this fleece and Haunted il
before the eyes of the common people,
and assured them that when their par
ty came into power they would raise
no other kind of sheep, it originated
that old phrase of Pulling the wool
over the eyes of the people" Again,
people refer to time away back in the
smoky past, when people were simple
and honest and gentle, as the Golden
Age" Now, the truth is, in those
happy old days they did not measure
anything according to the gold stand
ard of value, and the people had less
gold boarded away than at any age
since men snapped honesty for greed
and principles for cold cash. In those
days they carried chicken to the
country store and snapped for tea or
coffee or smoking tobacco, and ex-
changed eggs for cheese and oyster
crackers and snuff. In fact, during
this so-called golden age the people
didn't see any gold outside of golden
sunset and the golden rod that grew
down in the meadow, and dandelion
blossom down in the pasture field, and
the festive little yellow jackets that
built their house on the rail fence and
defended their American rights at the
point of their hottest end. OF course,
there are great many shiny, sheeny,
shimmering, glittering CABS of glitter
ing, golden CLEANS and galvanized
glory made out of cheap tinware, even
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and build up a fortune, while some
shrewder skinfint gathers in the
shekels by simply selling lager beer
over the bar at cents per glass. And
then again we find in our Sunday
school leaflets such phrases and titles
as "The Golden Text" Now the gol
den text of the universe is of fnan
cial character, and all the colder
stories tell ps of how men made Their
gold and what they are doing with it,
l want to keep religion, and especially
my religion, as free from gold as il
should be free from theft and robbery
and perjury, and fraud, and deception.
and old party politics, and village
scandal, and humbug, and war, and
rot-gut whiskey, and unjust taxation,
and superstition, and corroding lies oil
a presidential campaign, and real eststf