Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1889-09-14

idg, tailoring, authorship, teaching,
cleIking or nun sing, and she finds no
odium attached to her business, She
is a lady, If she is gentle and kind,
and symratheSic, and self-sac-ifcing,
swift 20 hear and slow to speak, as
both sexes should be, everywhere.
All sensible people now think highly
of such busy, honorable women.
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Have not the theories of political
economy been directing us from the
central object, rasher than to it We
have been directed to acealth and not
to man. Mans highest being here is
its tire object. Our practice in our
dealings, in great and little things,
bas been on the principle of proving
that "God's laws are right in theory,
but the DEVILS laws are the only prac-
tical ones In buiness." So it is with
us, every fellow for himself, and we
are fearfully slow to learn that an es-
sent:al help to our highest end in this
life is, to consider and know the
needs, rights and privileges of our
brother man. When shall we open
our eyes to our own fearfnlly self
distructing selfishness
So *s* e.
Perhaps we may help to the pro-
duction Of true and noble character,
by having, and exemplyfying, the
Shakespearean ideal of man for lib
erality, transparency and WISDOM
"His heat and hand both open and
both full, For what he has he gives,
what he thinks he shows; yet gives
he not till judgment guides his
bounty" Would not this last max
i'm. well practiced by us all help the
town colncil to rid us of the tramp
nuisance And perhaps the town
council has not done it's duty, or
even tried earnestly to do its best
for the town and tramps. We sug-
gest that henceforth each member OF
the town council do his duty or re-
sign. We want no partisan politics
in our town council. But acise liber-
atty and true economy.
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The New York Times and the
Philadelphia Enquirer, dwelling on
the execution of the four murderers
in New York, on the "a Of August,
favor not only capital punishment
as the death penalty for murderers,
but the penalty being paid in less
time after the murder is committed.
The former says, "If the law is to
have terrors for criminally disposed
men aud women, it mrst be executed
swiftly and surely" The latter says,
every murder case should be tried
on its merits, and as quickly as con-
sistant with justice, and the sentence
once given, should be carried out
without delay" We have long be-
lieved that the failure to execute the
law with severe penalty, speedily on
tue criminal, has given license to
crime, made prosperity aud life less
safe, aud created demand for po
lice force, jails and gallows. Meu
who do not fear God should have
something to fear. If civil law will
travel with the speed Of the light
ming express we should soon find
that the days of lynch law wiz have
passed, and as people we shall be
redeemed from our shame, and life
here VII be as safe as in London,
England, where, with over 100000
people, they have but one murder
year on an average.
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Example is tetter than precept.
Character, good or bad, in sbe indi-
viduals around us, is largely the re-
sul5 of the surroundings, and we are
q part of those surrounding. LAS
we are, and az we do, so we teach
o5Ae's to be and TO do, though we
utter no word of instruction or adj
vice" UNIs.