Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-04-03

Did you see the Ice last week
Did you hunt up your winter
wraps
Didn't the coal dealer smile2
What does the peach crop story
teller say
We are getting many new neigh
bors.
1t looks as though some people
delight in moving.
An old saying has it that Three
moves are equal to fire. We can
not vouch for the truth of the asser-
ton. not having had the experience
of either.
The progress of garden making
has been retarded on account OF cold
weather.
In attending public sales, we notice
there has been a considerable improve
ment in the prices of stock of all
kinds.
Never at this season of the yeat
was there better outlook for boun-
tifu crop of wheat and grass.
Mrs. A. T. Russler has returned
home after spending several days very
pleasantly with her daughter, at Will
Transport. Maryland.
For one or two extremes our streets
are in advance of all others. If we
have a slight rainfall, there are lakes
of mud, then, should the sun shine a
few hours there are clouds of dust,
which must be produced from pulver-
lied limestone rock. If the amount
of money expended on the principal
streets for the past ten years had been
invested in brick and the streets paved
with them, as we have seen in Park
ersburg and Huntington. mud and
dust would have long since been num-
bered with the past and the stone
crusher would have been relegated to
the rear, before useless expenditure
of money had been lavished upon it
and those raised brick crossings would
not have been needed. Referring to
crossings, amt that one near the b.
& o. railroad, on North Queen street,
daisy" It's often QUITO sight.
Pedestrians in fishing for it very fire.
quently miss it.
How are we going to celebrate the
Fourth OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Day
In the same old, quiet, sleepy way?
Our city has grown wonderfully, is
still spreading its wings wider every
month, increasing its buildings, fac
tories and population, and certainly
must be increasing in wealth. We
should have demonstration on this
day, that our citizens could boast of
display which would be creditable
to men in all kinds oflegitimate bust
ness. To make a successful display
would it not be wise to be planning il
now. The American Eagle should
grow stronger, fly higher, aud scream
louder ever year.
Protected by that hand whose law
The threatening storms obey,
Intrepid virtue smiles secure
As in the blaze of day.
1t appears natural for some persons
to mourn over their condition in life.
To hear their expressions one would
suppose their life was composed prin-
cipally of troubles, while again they
are continually seeking after wealth
and complain of poverty, until the
disease becomes chronic with them.
Happy would the poor man think
himself, if he could enter on all the
treasures of the rich, and happy for a
short time he might be, but before he
had long contemplated and admired
his state, his possessions would seem
to lessen, and his cares would grow.
To human lips it is not given to taste
the cup of pure joy. When external
circumstances show fairest to the
world, the envied man groans in pri-
vate under his own burden, some vex
alton disgusts, some passion corrodes
him; distress, either felt or feared,
gnaws like worm the root of his
felicity, for worldly happiness ev-r
tends to destroy itself by corrupting
the heart. 1t fastens the loose and
the violent passions, it engenderes
noxious habits, and taints the mind
with false delicacy, which makes it
feel thousand unreal evils. Thus it
is that in many instances poverty is
said to be blessing in disguise,
although by many it is abhorred and
despised. After all we are just what
we make ourselves, often working ont
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