Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-12-02
A STIRRING APPEAL.
The Duty of the Hour-LocaI
Laconics.

The Duty of the Hour-LocaI
Laconics.
The one thing needfu1 to make the
Herald satisfy the demands of the
most exacting has been added, and we
offer our sincere thanks to the gener-
Gus editor for Talmage's sermons.
We are not giving ''taffy" when we
say (for It's the sentiment of many
old, staunch friends of the Herald) that
it now is the best paper published in
the State, and we sincerely hope that
it will increase its circulation to such
an extent that it will be something
more to the editor and proprietor
than labor of love.
/ would like to whistle into every
Republicans ear who has not added
his name to the list of subscribers.
Wake up and read what your duty
is to your party. Do you call your
self loyal Republican when you have
never appropriated copper toward
circulating the worthy organ wherein
is explained and exemplitied the prin-
ciples which you claim have saved our
Union, and made our country the
grandest and happiest on the globe?
Wake up out of that Rip-Van Wrinkle
lethargy and feel down into your
greasy pants pocket and consecrate
that 81. so to the spreading of Repub
lican truths. Read the Herald; you
need it; your family needs it, next to
bread, and we all need it to watch the
signs of the times, and an opportunity
to do the right thing at the right
time"
But for the treachery of some, and
the inactivity of others, We would
not now be suffering the dominance of
a party who never has been. it is safe
to say, able to manage the ship of
state. Has it not been plainly illus
trated that this hydra headed, many
tongued animal, the Democratic party
swallowed and holds in its capacious
stomach the mills that ground bread
for the millions? Has it not offered
to the soldier and his starving prog
eny, stones instead of food7 Is it
not now pushing the grand old ship
of state upon the rocks of Free Trade?
Save our homes and workshops by
Weakening up every sleepy Republican
like you to help work for the only
party fit to rule.
Mrs. Phoebe Shrimp is lying very i'll
at her sisters, Mrs. Taylor's; Mr. B.
Phillip, on the Williamsport pike, is
also in a dangerous condition; the
the family needs assistance. If there
were more angel missionaries, who,
unable to reach Hongkong, would
display like spirit toward the needy
at home, much restitution and suffer
ing could be relieved and just as
much reward we think, would be
given by Him who notes the sparrow
in its fall.
Sweeping things clean-November
winds and the Dunkards on the ave-
nue..
Sad-the last wall of Thanksgiving
turkey, the squeal of the porker in
his faint tones declaring ~ don't
want to be stuffed. Sadder-the
man whose one cook is sick, and |
whose other is off on frolic, and who
turns the fapjack himself /
Saddest-that SO many human beings
are saving their strength and keeping
theft hands white, so God will think |
they belong to the upper class in So
ciety, and give them higher seat in
heaven than he gives their poor strug-
Cling sisters who with toll stained |
and hardened palms, whose lot is
made doubly hard because some will
shirk and be dependent. Strange,
is Mt it, that many do dodge the conf
mon curse, "By the sweat of thy brow
shalt thou earn bread.
County Superintendent c. c. Tab
Ter is on his round visiting schools.
He is doing faithful work and puts
the schools through rigid course of
sprouts, it's said. LOT.