Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-04-02
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Easter is near.
March, in like lamb. how is its
EXIT
Many persons are changing resi-
dences.
There are yet some good houses for
rent.
House cleaning may bring about
cleanliness, but it has no tendency to
superinduce feeling of Goodness.
Wash-outs and heavy freshets did
our city no harm, rendered no one
homeless, frightened the grass and
wheat crop prospect. While we read
of terrible suffering all around us,
caused by the incessant fall of rain,
what happy people we ought to be?
Miss Mollie Wolfe, one OF Opequon
districts efficient and pretty school
marms, spent Saturday eve and Sun
day with Miss Lille Russler, at her
home on Liberty street.
Never boast of your genealogy.
Even If you succeed in tracing it back
to Adam and Eve in the Garden Of
Eden, you might fail to find any record
of their marriage; but perhaps at that
time marriage was a failure Now
the state Of matrimony is one of the
United States though it isn't on the
map. See?
If there is one thing above another
to revive the dropping spirits, after a
long and dreary winter, it is the
glorious sunshine, the beautiful car
pet of green verdure covering mother
earth, the foliage and bloom, together
with the fragrance from forests and
orchards. Early in the morning the
pleasing and familiar song OF the
robin can be heard distinctly and far
above the songs of other birds. The
prospect for a beautiful wheat and
grass crop was never brighter at this
season of the year than at the present
time. A general revival of business
in every department is what we should
have. Then the hard times of the
past would not remain in memory
The future, with its rise and progress,
or its decline, is undeveloped. What
is in store is a mystery and the dark
est hour is said to be just before dawn.
The blowing up of the battle ship
Maine has caused a revolution in all
parts of these United States. 1t is a
beginning, the same as the John
Brown raid, at Harpers Ferry, was
the beginning of the great civil war;
but at present there is no divinity of
opinion. All favor the liberation of
Cuba from tyrannical methods prac-
ticed by Spaniards; but what about
the hundreds of human lives cast into
eternity without a moments warn
ing? No ransom, no indemnity,
neither gold nor silver can restore to
the loved ones those who have been
slaughtered. There appears to be
one course of redress that many peo-
pie are urging, viz: Warfare. Pos
sibly this is the last resort. If it
should be necessary, the character
and credit of Uncle Sans family will
not grow less. Let us hope such I'M
pleasantness, always attended with
some sad calamities, may be averted.
There is a sadness and gloomy fore
bodings in many households during a
warfare. Relatives, friends and
neighbors are separated. The laurels
of the warrior must at all times be
dyed in blood and believed with the
tears of the widow and the orphan.
To many brave men, to many heroes,
renowned III history, we look up to
with wonder and admiration, yet
something more is wanted than the
conquering arm and the intrepid
mind-peace, prosperity and happi-
ness. RALF.
THE WONDERS OF SCIENCE.