Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-08-27
LOCAL CORRESPONDENCE.
MOLER AVENUE.

MI joseph Airport IS able 10 walk
about.
Mrs. Maggie Martin, of Roanoke,
is visiting relatives here.
Miss Bette Light is convalescent,
which is cheering news to her many
friends.
Miss Ella Richards, lately of Moler
avenue. has gone on a visit to her
sister, who lives near Hedgesville.
Miss Forest Greenfield has returned
from the mountains, bringing as a
trophy of the chase the Royal heart
of sturdy farmer lad.
"Ralf just got into ecstacies over
the return Of Peace, How appropriate
it would be to celebrate the event.
Won't someone set the ball rolling?
The rain for which we signed all
through the weeks of June and Jaly,
comes so frequently now, that one
feels like complaining about the sur
plus.
Mrs. Dixon. who was very sick a
few weeks ago, has recovered suffi-
GENTLY to visit the neighbors who so
kindly assisted with tender sympathy
and helpful hands while she lay I'M
conscious.
Mr.. b. +. Busey, father Of Rev. B.
P. S. Busey, and former president of
Opequon Board of Education. passed
here this morning, looking as though
he had found and drank OF Ponce
DeLeon's fountain of youth. Jeffer-
son county must agree with him,
physically and financially, judging
from his splendid appearance.
There are quite number OF girls
who cannot make money enough in
the factories to pay their board and
clothe themselves properly, at pres
ent, but who steadily refuse homes
where employment awaits them at
general homework, because they
think that doing Homework is not
genteel, and that they will lower
their social standing by accepting
such positions. Any workman with
good common sense, would prefer to
choose life partner among girls who
know how to cook palatable dinner
and who have taste and skill in max
ing home look inviting, clean and
restful, rather than to trust his luck
with a factory girl, who perhaps
couldn't make loaf of bread that an
alligator could digest, even if she
could roast corn from neighbours
field and save seven cents of factory
money" OF course, all this is more
genteel than homework.
Lee" of Bedington, how happy
you made LOT" by your kind words
of appreciation. regarding the Insti-
tute report. She didn't quite deserve
all that praise, but-she was gratihed
beyond expression that one SO intelli-
gent would publicly stamp approval
on her estimate OF our instructors,
Profs. Rucker and Neill and the
charming Miss Cronan, and admit
they deserved it all. But some few
persons want to SANDER one The
lips of Divine Teacher never ut
tered truer sentiment than that
"a prophet is not without honor save
in his own country and among his
own kim" Was it because the gen
tleman, Prof. Rucker, is a typical
West Virginian, that the tongue and
pen OF detraction must sting and tar
nish?
Before me lies the Romney Times,
issued Aug. IL, 1898, in which is
cnnta5 ono ~ the ,1,oct ;,,4o 1,ac
that the World ever published mean
the very little Martinsburg World.
I'll wager "possum dinner" that
the man or woman who distorted
Prof. Fuckers words so horribly,
knows no more about the gentleman
than do about the interior of the
moon, and / never studied astronomy
nor geology. l am not afraid also to
assert that large part of those who
attended the Martinsburg Institute
appreciated Prof. Fuckers lectures
and believe him to be worthy of his
honors and position, and as / was
not ten feet from him when he uttered
the words that caused the ugly de-
tracing item, and as my hearing is
very distinct, and further, as / was
never afraid to open my lips in de-
tense of right, even if lost my Job
by it, it makes me supremacy happy
to have offered to me chance to
strike the hand whose besmirched
fingers are reaching up and straining
to pluck an honor from a noble brow.
That brow is Prof Fuckers.
We all know-who listened to this
gentleman-that tn rou hout his
whole series Of lectures here, his
highest and most beautiful tributes
were those paid the poor working man
and his children, that inspired ten
derest sympathies and responsive love
for their struggling heroes and
kings" he called them (these poor
district school hoys), with suuhurned
faces and brawny arms. But to the
point, as dear Bro. Smith warns me
ito be brief