Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-11-14
NOTES AND CoMMENTs.

1t was noticeable fact that even
the moon refused to shed her silvery
rays on the Bryanites.
One million-dollar enterprise in
West Virginia to start on, with more
to follow, is not bad news. No, it is
musical to the INDECENT, industrious
laborer when confidence is restored.
The wheels of industry are set in mo-
ton. Prosperity will take the place
of adversely. Homes and firesides will
be made bright, CHEEKY and happy.
The people have rendered decision
and the glad tidings of great joy have
gone forth to all inhabitants, of pro-
lection to the manufacturer and me-
chanic.
Next in line is Thanksgiving Day
and the turkey sees danger lurking in
the future. 1t is day looked forward
to with pleasure to many, sadness to
others, yet Notwithstanding that
The chill November days will come,
With weather strips and CRATES;
The careful housewife hustles round,
The boys look up their skates;
And on the table In our homes,
The buckwheat's sunburnt cheek,
Reflects the joy the youthful hear.s
May know, but cannot speak.
The school boy with the calendar,
Sits counting up the days,
To see what time Thanksgiving comes,
And then goes out and plays.
The prudent Housewife counts again,
The cost of sealskin sacque,
Her husband takes his fall coat down,
And has her pad the back.
But with all
When the shades of night have fallen,
And the peaceful hours have come;
Smoke will ascend from all the mills,
And the busy spindles hum.
With the revival of business comes
extra hours of work, with extra COM
pensation, and employment for all.
Once more contented and happy
people under Republican rule.
One million majority on the popu-
lar vote for Mckinley! 1t was the
advice of a renowned orator recently,
at the Central Opera House, to, on the
morning of the election, let the votes
fall like snowfakes from the heavens
for William Mckinley and its appears
to have been done. 1t rained next
day, for a two-fold purpose. The
wheat and grass needed moisture, and
those who proposed to make pro-
longed and indefinite voyage up the
river, whose balmy and invigorating
breezes are odoriferous of salt, and
whose Bri(a)ny depths required con-
siderably more moisture to float tie
immense cargo of passengers, together
with their carload lots of campaign
literature, which will never again rise
to the surface. Among them we have
friends whom we sympathize with in
their POLITICAL bereavement, notwith-
standing the fact that in the begin
ming we tried to convert them, with
out success to all, that all is not gold
that glitters, and fifty-three cents
never made dollar. They were ioin-
ed to their idols, and now see the re-
suit.
Some OF those who made such wild
bets and promises in the heat of pas
sion and excitement, are sadly medi-
tating over the payment of the same.
We read OF one man who, on wager,
put up his wife and children. She
should trade him off for a dog, then
slaughter the dog.
Referring to the evils which flow
from unrestrained passions, when man
revolted from his Maker, his passions
rebelled against himself, and from be-
ing originally the ministers of reason
have become the tyrants of the soul,
two things may be assured as princi-
pies: First, Through the present
weakness of the understanding, pas
sions are often directed towards inn
proper objects, and next, That even
when their direction is just, and their
objects are innocent, they perpetually
tend to run into excess. They always
hurry us toward their qualification
with blind and dangerous impetu-
osity when they would carry us be-
yond the bounds Of reason. To obtain
the command of passion in anger is
one of the highest attachments of the
rational nature If there ha a.,x, fa~e:ix