Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-06-04

proposed to astonish the natives.
Mr.. Windemere artfully stimulated
the popular enthusiasm. For more
than six months past he had been col
lecting telling sentences OF patriotic
eloquence. His habit was to write
upon the backs of unused Office cards
such pregnant political epigrams as oc-
CURED to his mind. He now had
enough on hand, bound with a rubber
elastic, in a pigeon-hole Of his desk,
to sprinkle an hours oration literally,
and he longed to fire them at the pub
lie. Among them were such telling
touches as these
The American people have the
courage of their convictions; they
ought to have the military and naval
force Of their convictions. Law is
the harness with which Liberty drags
the car of civilization. Irresistible
force is an obligation to make the world
better "Whenever Reason and Ealor
are wedded, their first offspring is Free
dom. 1--WE are our brothers keepers;
great wrong anywhere insults the
world.
These preparations did not satisfy
the boys of Patriot. Wally Clincher
expressed their opinion to squad
gathered under the CHncher sawmill.
"It's well enough for the old folks to
get up a celebration and talk big he
said. but what Patriot needs is to do
something
"What'n thunder could she do if she
tried?" said Ike Stringfsher Patriot
haint no graves to decorate.
We'll she oughter decorate some
thing, persisted Wally.
.Tboras old Miss Nargery Quick
stoin mt in Nazareth Dillman. grim
n;rc oSbe' e . war relic And wouldn't
she look lovely decorated ?"
Strangely, none of the boys laughed
At This sorry wjttjeism, but two or three
looked at each other as if struck with
90 ;doo
avor r,r,ro bit i+r, cried Warv.
.tyss s;rrea, We ,cU decorate Miss
,r.r,,.,,, Sow fellows lots rs boys
ao. %, tLo iobi I'm ba . t,rmn Won
Io+r5
Tboncofortb for @ wool, there were
l.;l.. ;l...o,.,,1t.t,o,,s ,njor tbo soym;II
a,1 a,.;o,,s 1,ds noo,Iv ran tbei,. Iags
,ar,,,,,.o...;,,o a., r;I,aoo The scbome
nrove5 nonnIar and Nazzv grew an
!.L .,Ii,, With +La tbonoLt that ba
Lad sncr.s+oJi+ tbonob rnwittinoIv
7, ,.,...,.;I,, s.++Iod how Miss Mar
oo,,. sborld be decorated She was
o. ,oorIo ,roro shocked when in.
,,;,.,. I,,,,.,1 l,o,,. ,oor sbo vo. +
y, IN. a., ,,.,,,,,
oonlJ b.va lived nnon her little earn
mo. Doctor stronobodv told the la
dies tbot sbo was half starved He
s.;d
.sb. u.orl,s OF d.v and is too tired
- .ooI, b.s;dos sba ,onst save fneI
,,,,,,,I,. ..t. oo1l or,.+ broad
a.J hnt+or ond COOS - boJ hungry.
7 doubt if she tastes butcher meat
once a week. except when she some
times goes out to sew and dimes with
the family. It's simply abominable,
with every bow in the county killing
came and fish to throw awav , And
she isn't halGdressed. if she does al
,yovs lool, 50 neat What that woman
needs is warm food. warm clothing and
warm house. Its criminal the way
worI,womep commit slow suicide"
He scolded as though poor women
starvS and freeze lust to spite the COM
mupitv. Everybody contributed some
thing. Patriotism stimulated gener-
osjtv, Settlers wives ransacked their
family stores 70 find what tbev copId
snare Merchants and mill-owners
cave freely. Patriot did berselfcredit.
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