Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-07-26
BUNKER HILL NEWS.

The whistle of the thresher is heard in neighbor.
hood.
Wheat is turning out well and the farmer smiles
now for good price.
Harry Ronemus, of Wheatand Jefferson Co., spent
Sunday with friends.
Dr. Wiley, of Gerardstown; attended services in
Presbyterian Church Sunday night.
Chas. Rdgeway, of Rest, spent short time in our
burg Sunday:
to the regret of our Gerardstown boys.
When young man takes his best girl to church and
gets there Late its amusing to see him making quick
time to find seat
Mr.. John Criswell and Arthur Gilmore, of Balto.,
spent Thursday night with Mr.. Geo. l. Pitzer.
Our farmers have commenced their fall blowing and
making preparations to sow big crop.
Messrs. Lanon and Roush of Martinsburg, took in
our village Sunday.
John Cendening received the contract for the new
school house to be built near Mr.. VIM. Boltzs store
The Presbyterian Sunday school are making prepar-
atoms to picnic soon time and place have not been de-
We were informed that Miss Lizzie Gordon will
teach the Sylvan Retreat school the coming term. Miss
Lizzie is of our best teachers and the trustees should
feel proud that they have again secured her If
the Board OF Education would Increase the teachers
salaries it would be more encouraging for them to work
the harder longer term and better pay gentlemen, will
bring better teachers.
The question of pursuit possession has been de-
cided by our FRIEND Shorty, who says there is more
pleasure by long ways in the pursuit of wife than
Mr.. Jacob Rinker of Clarke Co., is in our neighbor
hood assisting in threshing his crop of wheat
What is the closest bond of good fellowship that ex-
closest tiesthose of blood and few others that are
closer than blood Is it community of taste in living
in books? Is it like ambition? Is it dear religi-
Gus faith Nay, meme of these. These make for good
comradeshp surely but if you really want to grapple
friend to your soul it with the steel hooks of
humor. Think Off for moment, is their any friend
like much to have about you that you turn to
nstinctivey that you live of seldom the friend
with whom you have a common sense of humor. Some
time, you may have thought him lumpish sort of a
fellow at first but by and by he told good story
better still you told and he laughed it with the
of enjoyment that struck you as being like your
own. Bit by bit the fund of humorous enjoyment be-
tween you grew and before you knew it spark liking
struck out that has deepened into steady glow of
and you turn oftenest not to the friend
who comforts you not to the friend who shares your
deepest heart perhaps but to the who laughs with
you For there is of mutual understanding that
grows out of the sharing of hearty laugh that comes
with nothing else And he is likely to be good fellow
low who has your quick subtle of humor,
for did anybody ever know man with delightful
sense of humor who was rascal bigoed, severe who
was lacking in those generous qualities of mind and
heart that are most eudearng Surely not man
cannot be both bgot and drol the two traits do not
lie together in human nature. of the ludcrous
springs from certain ability for taking in at
eet of thought in several of its relations for seeing all
around it which is in itself wholly preclusive of that
and nentness of vision which is the parent
of prejudice and bigotry. One would find meat in
making study of the of humor as factor In the
civilization of the and in the Liberation of the ind
vdual from intolerance. prejudice and bgotry,
Bro, another lengthy communication this warm
weather u.s. the old ship carrying its banner
through the troubled waters and will land THE HERALD
safely in the harbor of victory - GEORGE