Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-12-19
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
3eautiful moonlight nights.


an ovefestimated lot ofstale and quacS
advertisements. A continuation Of
them becomes so common that it is an
insult TO injury, yet we are we'll
aware that an Editor who tries to
please every patron, would be prose-
cuted to the extreme extent of law.
Our advice is, in all cases of doubt
for the Editor to take the side of safe
ty.
Sisters playing on the organ,
Mama's riding on her wheel,
Papa's out in the kitchen,
Cooking for all square meal.
The cows are grazing on the hill top,
The pigs are in the valley below,
Mamas gone to the Xmas hop,
While sister entertains her beau.
Papa will don the apron,
And ! will wear the gown,
He will act as matron,
And the cooking's done up brown.
Much has been said in reference to
the deplorable condition of some of the
sidewalks in different portions of the
city, but the City ''dadds'' overlook
it all. Some of them can easily see a
few drops of water escaping from a
neighbours hydrant, and rise up in
holy horror about too much waste of
water, while their own leaky hydrant
has been known to escape stream of
water for weeks and months, and their
stock running on the innocent public
the year through. How blind some
persons are of their own evils, and
yet how quick they are to discern
others?
We listened attentively to the little
tilt in the County Court between
Bros. Janney and Pitzer. Both sides
were endeavoring to uphold their own
and they did we'll. The demand to
decrease the pay of the salaried officers
!
of the county would affect the taxes
SO little that it would sink into insig-
nihcance. Would it not be better to
reduce appraisement of real and per-
sonal property? The latter has been
reduced considerably, but the two
gentlemen who placed values on our
city realty several years past must
have been looking through free silver
glasses or formed an idea of their own,
that every house was inlaid with gold.
They may have intended in this way
to start up boom. but it proved TO
be boomerang; it struck back. No,
it would not be wise to reduce salaries
that are already too low. Good wages
Eeget good work and Pitzer knows
how to do the work. Berkeley justly
feels proud of her Prosecuting attor-
ney Flattery cuts no figure with
Grant.
Riches are exactly what every in
dustrious and economical person is
looking for. Some become satisfied
with a reasonable proportion, while
others would scoop in the earth # in
their power so to do. The seeds of
alteration are everywhere sown, and
the sunshine of prosperity commonly
accelerates their growth. If our en-
ioyments are numerous, we lie more
open on different sides to be wounded.
If we have possessed them long, we
have greater cause to dread an APP
preaching change. By slow degrees
prosperity rises, but rapid is the
progress OF evil; it requires no prep
aration to bring it forward. The ed
ifice which it cost much time and la
Dor to erect, one ipauspicious event,
one sudden blow, can level with the
dust. Even supposing the accidents
Of life to leave us, untouched, human
bliss must still be transitory, for man
changes of himself No course of en-
joyment can delight us long. What
amused us in youth loses its charm
in maturer age. AS years advance.
powers are blunted, affection and pain
increase, pleasures are constantly h-
minishing. After all the successful
grasping for wealth, have we spent
happy life? Will the life which is to
come be happy one? We leave the
question with you. RALF.
what is worth doing at all, is