Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-07-10
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Real summer weather.

$500 NNANANAs
Politics is at stand still now.
The best bites some of our fisher
men get are those received from
mosquitoes.
Footpads are diminishing in NUM-
bers-a good sign that wave OF pros
perity is coming, which will be APP
preciated.
Hay making and harvesting is
holding the farmer down. The gold
en- grain is lovely to behold
Your correspondent, for several
days. has been wrestling with farm
work. and can say from personal
knowledge and experience that it
produces an appetiteand healthiulness
superior to that of lounging about
public watering places, or travel, be-
sides, it strengthens the muscles and
the scorching rays of Old Sol gives
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penetrable and does not wash off.
We have read the numerous COM
meuts of the press, on the proposed
change of superintendent of the
High School and as one deeply inter-
ested in the management and welfare
of our public schools would say the
change was no surprise to many of
the patrons of the school, who de-
manded it three months before school
closed, yet there are others who were
IN the reverse, who opposed change.
Then and to its close, there has been
trouble in the school Everyone who
is interested knows, and the teacher
! Though he be an angel who expects
to instruct without trouble will pe
disappointed. Notwithstanding this,
Mr.. Carman has done good work and
much OF it, for which, lie has justly
earned the reputation Of a good teach
err, but it is said the peoples WIN IS
the law and they desire a change,
Every patron is interested. Several
years past change of superiuten-
dents was demanded, it was made and
there was not any loss incurred by it
we claim not. Why will not the
introduction of thoroughly coinpe-
tent teacher do the same now, as it
did then2 When the lamented Lin
coin and Garfield were assassinated
aud disease removed the great soldier
Grant with numerous others, did the
world stand still and its inhabitants
wonder who or where their substitute
would come froms Nay, verify, time
went on, the people prospered, the
! places made vacant were filled with
talent equal If not superior to that
lost. So it will be in this instance,
and there will be no lowering of the
standard. No, it must be raised.
The Board OF Education in the future,
as we'll as in the past, will not secure
the services OF anyone who would in
any way retard the progress of pupils.
They look with pleasure and pride on
their numerous cultured teachers and
their elegant and costly school build
ings which will stand as monuments
when this generation is silently sleep
ing.
After a busy week of farm work,
your correspondent, his family an
some friends made preparation to
spend Saturday, the third, in the
country in shady grove, where
beautiful spring pours out its pure,
cool. sparkling water.
In fact. one OF the little group re-
marked that this crystal fountain was
as pure as the water that flowed from
the rock which Moses smote. Now
as there is plenty of "snaiks" in the
country and we never were possessed
of desire to write about persons be-
ing bitten by them. and there being
only one remedy for snake bites, por-
ton was taken along. Fire water
was substituted in place of FIRE crack
ers. The table was filled with every
thing to please the appetite. A very
pleasant day was spent, with one ex-
ception. One OF our little relatives
was running and came in contact
with barbed wire fence which LAGER
ated his face severely. The blood
flowed freely and for time sadness,
gloom and sorrow reigned supreme.
A physician was called, who applied
remedies and in an hour the little SUIT
ferer was as playful as any Of them.
So the Fourth of July was spent one
day before it arrived, but it is not
as it used to be- The time was when