Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1899-12-09
Ship, and for The good they have le-
ceived, let The Colonel and the sx-
Senator recipsoeate, BY voting for
him.
Notes and Comments.
Christmas is near at band.

Christmas is near ut hand.
The pleasures and SORROWS of 1899
will soon be oytr.
The poultry thief is oa the alert,
and some Of the people have lost
many chickens.
Jonny yet your gun and see how
much little activity ia connection
with powder ard lead will benefit
sou.
The American system Of checking
baggage 10 excellent. Now; il some
genius would perfect plan to check
the American baggage smasher, the
public would bless him.
Weddings are booming again.
Well every man intends to have his
o way in everything when lie
marries, but; sometimes. his wife re.
lieves his mind of false impression.
1t is better TO have loved and
lost, than never to have loved at
all; 1t is better for The jeweler,
florist, minister and messenger boy,
and sometimes the lawyers. To be in
love mus produce singular feeling,
but it needs DO definition. Men and
womensloved long before dictionaries
were discovered and its progress
continues.
In our visit to East Lynn, we
learned an old time Methodist re-
vivs1 was in progress, and bad been
kept up fer several weeks. Well,
there is wicked people there as we'll
as here. and if those ministers sue
coed in outstanding the people,
which we hope they may, it will add
laurels to their crown of righteous
ness in the world to come, but we
immagine it will take some sledge
hammer blows to drive the devil and
the illicit distiller. from the con-
fines of some OF the mountains, whose
peaks are so high, they penetrate
the clouds, and when the law. as
laid down by Hatfield and Mccoy,
is about as hard to change as it
would be to make the country level.
Education and christianity work
wonders though, and in time we ex.
pect to see the extension OF improv-
ments and development in that part
of w. Va, make it an important
and interesting portion of the State.
Here, there is hidden, mountains of
wealth unperceived, which in time
will be utilized. The timber is fast
disappearing, mines are being open.
ed and fine quality of bituminous
coal is found apparently in inexhaus-
table quantities; these together with
the bright prospects for oil and nat
ural gas will be blessing to the ar
dent, honest toi!ers, who have braved
the troubles incident to pioneer life
in remote place.
We were accorded the privilege
in our western trip recently of Wis
iting the Blue Sulphur Springs,
supposed to be summer resort,
Situated IA miles south east of
Huntington W. Va, and in close
proximity to the G. & 0. railroad.
Here there is three story wooden
structure badly in decay, located on
the south side of Mud river; who
ever christened this stream, surely
dill not mistake the name, as there
is more mud and debris in the chan
nelSthan water. The surroundings
adjacent to main building are unin-
viting and very crude, while the little
spring of pure chrytal sulphur
water is one-fourth mile distant and
less than two feet elevation from
bed of river. Judging from the
surrounding tributaries an ordinary
gust of rain would submerge this
little neglected, unprotected spring.
The surrounding country is sparce-
ly populated, with persons living in
miserable cabins with poverty and
misery very perceptiblc. Owing to
the impoverished condition of the
numerous hills, visit to this place
by persons from the lovely, beauti-
full and fertile Shenandoah valley,
would at sight produce a genuine
case Of blues. Without partaking
of one drop of the blue sulphur
water, this place was selected by a
few persons as a suitable home for
aged and INDECENT odd fellows but
1913 out of 1873 thought if the good
old odd-felIow(and they are all
good) must have home TO rest his
weary limbs in the decline Of life,
it must be where the mellow rays of
the sun at morn and eve are not hid
den and where the wind sends gen.
tie zephers through the grain and
grassfelds, and not in a country
which would not sprout frogs and
grasshoppers enough 10 furnish bait
on fishing trip. All Odd-fellows
know good thing when they see
it, they know poor one just the
same.
We are not inclined TO do any
injustice to the proprietor of this
resort, but our object is to give at
least an ordinary picture of the 10
cation and its surroundings, and it
has not been overdrawn. This place
is near the border of w. Va. and if
home for the aged and INDECENT
should be procured, it should be
near the centre Of the State, and
easy of access to those interested,
for when
Life's race is we'll run,
Life's work we'll done,
Lilies crown well won,
Then should come rest.