Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-03-06
/ have noticed that the sword gem
orally weighs the most in fight.
Charles Dudley Warner.


In composite Nation like ours,
made up Of almost every variety Of
the human family, there should be,
as before the law, no rich, no poor.
no low, no black, no white, but one
country one citizenship, equal rights,
and q common destiny for all
Frederick Douglas.
To disagree with three-fourths Of
the British public on all points is
one of the first elements Of sanity.
Oscar Wilde.
What the lightning is to the oak,
that would be woman's vote to the
whiskey rings. Joseph Cook.
"Speak only good of the dead" is
sentimental way of advising the
living to lie--at least rs regards the
usual run ofthe dead Mark Twain.
How much time annually do you
think you waste in seeking auto
graphs which are no more valuable
than mineY James G. Blaine.
BY the street Of Bye-and-Bye we
arrive at the house Of Never.
Wendell Phillips.
knowledge, economy and labor,
are the shining virtues of civilized
man. They form the most enduring
basis ofsociety and the surest source
OF national and individual warfare.
Peter Cooper.
Liberty can never die. The gen.
erations of men may appear and
pass away, but the aspiration their
nature are immortal.
George s. Boutwell,.
1t is far better to love your wife
than to love God. You cannot help
him, but you can help her. You
can fill her life with the perfume of
perpetual joy. 1t is better to love
your child than to love Jesus. If
he is God you cannot assist him, but
you can plant flower in every foot.
step of babe. The most sacred
temple is q home, the hottest altaris
the Preside. Robert G. Ingersoll.
towards die hundred times, tho
brave can never die but once
Won Moltke, Field Marshal.
Wherever there be one high or
low that gives me place on the roll
OF kindly remembered names, to him
go the thanks and the greetings and
wishes Of Roscoe Conkling.
Remember He that made thee,
made also the brute. Henry Bergh
End is there none to the universe
Of God, and 10 also no beginning.
Richard A. Proctor.
Life is by no means what we find
it in story books; with most of MS it
is tragedy wrought out with many
tears. Elizabeth Cakes Smith.
There can be happiness without
succeNs. Gath.
like America. Theo.
Reputation is for time character
is for eternity. John Cough.
''For there's on earth "a yet auguster thing.
Weird tho 1t be, than parliament or king!'
John Bright.
o, Caroline, Caroline, child of the sun,
There are battles with fate that never can
be won.
The star-nowering banner can never be
For its blossoms Of light are the hope of the
world. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
| know not what the future hath,
or marvel or surprise,
Assured alone that life and death
His mercy underlies.
And so beside the silent sea,
wait the muflled oar;
No harm from him can come to me
On ocean or on shore.
know not where His islands lift
Their fronded palms in air;
only know cannot drift
Beyond His love and care.''
John Greenleaf Whittier.
Il have had nasal catarrh for ten
years so bad that there were great sores
in my nose, and one place was eaten
through. got Eiy's Cream Balm,
Two bottles did the work. My nose
and head is we'll / feel like another