Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-03-17
SNAP SHOTS.

Numbers of persons took advantage
of the beautiful summer-like days last
week to change their residences; il
was an elegant time for moving.
j. II. Weddel is still confined TO his
room by very severe and extremely
protracted illness, It's sad to be afflict-
ed.
4 The only child of T.. H. Lankkam-
mer residing on Liberty street has been
seriously i'll with pneumonia. We
/ hope, however, he may be restored to
health early in the future, for surely
he is the sunshine at thatabode, in the
hearts of his parents.
We did not know, "Lot, that you
had political aspirations. but there is
nothing like success; it always sue
ceeds; practice makes perfect. Your
lines are admired very much, or as
the girls would say, they are real
, nice, y and a good portrayal of blustery
March.
The course pursued by some of the
inhabitants of this city is not conf
mendable-that of moving household
goods from this into another State un-
der cover of darkness; the injunction
of men loving darkness rather than
light, because of the evilness Of their
deeds, is in too many instances the
case, while, if such is their nature and
disposition, city is very fortunate
without them, and their new acquaint-
ances will not be long in finding who
and what they are. The character of
a person goes with him, very fire.
quently in advance; honesty and in
tegrity should predominant. It will
will not take much to delineate the
character ola man of integrity, as by
nature it is plain one and easily
understood; he is one who makes it
his constant rule to follow the road of
duty, accor ling as the Word of God
and the voice of his conscience point
it out to him. He is not merely guild
ed by affection, which may sometime
give the color of virtue to a loose and
unstable character He assumes no
borrowed appearance, he seeks no
mark to cover him, for he acts no
studied part, but he is indeed what he
appears to be, full Of truth, candor and
humanity, in all his pursuits, he knows
none but the fair and direct one, and
would much rather fail of success, than
attain it by reproachful means; he
never shows us smiling counte-
nance. While he nieditates evil
against us in his heart, he never
praises us among our friends, and then
joins in traducing us among our enc
mics. We shall never find one part of
his character at variance with the
other; in his manners he is simple and
unaffected, in all his proceedings open
and consistent, but to reverse this
where honor and integrity is trampled
in the dust, these restraints weaken,
and the power of habit grows ;one vice
brings in another to its aid. BY sort
of natural affinity, they connect and
entwine themselves together till their
roots come to be spread wide and deep
all over the soul, then in the decline
of life, in the evening of their days
what sadness must be produced, what
misery must be. experienced by the
eternal lashing of conscience, Of life
ill-spent, advantage taken of fellow
men who were once your friends, and
were by you deceived aud abused
for no purpose only to accomplish
your desires and when the dissolution
OF the soul from the body comes it is
then, that if you were in possession of
it, you would give millions for an inch
of time, to partially repair the past;
but the die is cast, the time has ar
rived, and the reapers will not with.
hold the sickle. Thus, many go down
to their last resting place unhonored
and unsung. DETECTIVE.