Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-04-11
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

zens are predicting a cold and stormy
April How agreeabIy surprised most
OF our people would be if such would
not be the case.
It was currently reported recently
that some OF our contractors were
searching for laborers. and were not
successful in securing the required
amount needed. Is not this stranger
You can see men unemployed daily.
in and around the city. In the west
ern suburb, there has been camp Of
idle men, who are daily soliciting
food from those who work, and have
burned tons OF coal not their own.
They. from appearance, are physically
able to work, and have an opportun-
ity to show disposition to make an
honorable living. But like many
others, they prefer idleness, not
withstanding it is the beginning of
evil; it is the direct road to poverty
and ruin it is the progenitor Of crime /:
in fact it is everything that tends to
make mankind miserable and degra-
ded, and contains nothing to make
man the honorable being which
God intended him to be.
The first of this month would have
been the proper time to build air
castles, owing to the bountiful supply
of the former furnished us.
The passengers rushing into the
B. & 0. hotel for their breakfast, from
delayed train No. last Sabbath
morning, reminded us Of the time
when Col. A. P. Shut was proprietor,
and received numerous visitors as
we'll as transient boarders.
Buffalo Bills advertising car of his
Wild West Show passed through this
city Sunday morning on train No. AZ
enroute to Cumberland. Md.
The different religious denomina-
tons are holding very useful and in
teresting services during Easter. We
earnestly hope they may be produc-
tive of much good, and the means Of
saving souls. Possibly the reason.
why some people never get religion
is because they do not want to get
enough to spoil them for the world
But remember, the devil has a claim
on every mans heart who is willing
for any sin to remain in it.
1t is too common with young per-
sons, even when they resolve to tread
the path of virtue and honor, to set
out with presumptuous confidence in
themselves, trusting their own ability
for carrying them successfully through
life They are careless of applying
to God, or Of deriving any assistance
from what they are apt to reckon the
gloomy discipline of religion. Alas!
how little do they know the many
dangers, seen and unseen, which
await them? Neither human wisdom
nor human virtue, unsupported by
religion is equal to the trying sit
uations which often occur in life.
A ripple of excitement occurred on
last Sunday, on the arrival Of passen-
ger train No. S, caused by lion that
had been chained in one end of the
baggage car getting loose. For a
time it was monarch of all it surveyed,
and its right no one appeared to dis,
pute Finally one of the inmates Of
the car, by rough usage. succeeded
in getting the monster to its quarters.
and securely chained it. If it had
succeeded in securing its freedom
there would have been a stampede o
people, quick and without invitation
A colored man was found on Sun
day morning lying on the cinder bank
east of the B & o. round house. dead
The supposition by some is tina
while partially intoxicated he wan
dered to this place and sat down, anG
became overcome by gas escaping
from the burning coal beneath ths
cinders. 1t was learned that hi
home was near Rippon. w. Va. H
came here to engage in work in thu
Baker stoue quarry near the CITY.
As the municipal election is nea'
at hand, it would be we'll for all pat
ties to put forward their best men, al
the city has entered into new era 0
Of business, and is making such rapit
strides ofprogress Wewant progress
sive, perceiving, enterprising city Of
ficials. Give us not so much of poll
tics. But we will stand oceans 0
prosperity and never murmur. AND
we are not scarce of good material
the city is lined with it. Men wh'
will do good service, who believe il
and labor for the development Of thu
Queen city of the Shenandoah val
ley. No drones needed. Don't ar
ply. This is the year we need good
working citizens. RALF.
Spring Requires
That the impurities which have &C
cumulated in your blood during th'
urinter shall be rarnnntlv and thor