Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-02-16
LOTS LAcoNIcs.
The Blizzard Giving and Receiving
-Captivated.


-Captivated.
| Early on Thursday. Feb. 2, COM
menced the greatest snowstorm of our
winter. Large flakes filled the air all
day and by their silent and gentle
work they (undisturbed by any per-
ceptible motion of air. laid an even
lcoverlet of several inches over the
roads and fields. In the evening the
wind began in low meanings, but still
the snow descended Higher rose the
weird howls and as night drew down,
they became so like the cries OF human
creatures, in excess of agony, that /
shivered with horror . In the morn
ing, drifts like hills and chains of
mountains, with here and there wind
swept gully, and still the merciless
wind roared on, tossing and whirling
the light snow everywhere.
Freezing! Cold! OH did wind and
cold snowstorm equal to that ever
chill the marrow in your bones One
solitary vehicle, beside our own, was
| astir and it contained the plucky little
Miss Mamie Byers going to her school
We turned the corner and full
blast struck us from the northwest.
The storms of many winters had
whitened my hair and furrowed my
cheek, but no blast like that had ever
before entered at the small ends of
my hair and run through every vein,
freezing as it went, escaping at last
at my toes No child could face such
weather and no horse could pull
through the drifts, so we returned.
Saturday, trains were blocked and |
roads drifted entirely shut. Some
families in country and town were I'M
prepared for this terrific storm and
their cry for bread was most gener-
ously responded to. Some few re-
ceived more than they needed for i'm
mediate use, and traded it off for some
thing TO make the spirits run riot with
common sense. One hearing of a
chance for work at shoveling snow at
IS cents an hour, made the remark:
81 don't hafto work at that price ="
although everything he had for his
destitute family to eat was given by
men who earned the money by the
sweat of their brows and generously
gave. I'd like to starve a man like
that, for think this beautiful earth
is raising crop, already too large
now, of him Still another, making
fair wages for these hard times, went
and because Charity did not discrimi-
nate loaded himself with that which
was meant for his suffering neighbor.
Still another, not satisfied with his
load of flour, meat, etc.-all he could
carry-hid it and returned for second
load, which he succeeded in getting,
while some, too modest but more de-
serving, did not get any
The winter is not yet over and
number of such calls on the public for
help may be necessary. A committee
to investigate who really are i'll want,
and to see that those who are not in
need do not impose upon honest men
is really necessary to keep men in the
humor of giving.
The Torbett Concert Company, de-
spite the excessively cold weather,
drew fair crowd, and we'll it might,
for nothing like it had ever before been
in Martinsburg The people were not
only pleased but enthusiastic over their
performances. Miss Ollie Torbett
took our hearts-every one of them
Her face is one you could not forget,
having once seen it.
Sac haxen were her ringlets,
Her eyebrows a darker hue
Bewitchingly o'erarching,
Twas cen O bonny blue"
With clear complexion, such
faultless neck and arms, and such
grace of motion, she was picture,
beautiful as poets dream. Did ever
before such dainty fingers bring from
a violin such exquisite music9 If
thew did. | never heard it.
How hard "Hermes' strikes. We
conclude from his letter that prophet
has arisen in Israel. LOT.
A young colored boy named George
-, who has been working for Mr..
inc. w. Neer for several months past,
was arraigned before Squire Harrison