Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-04-05
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Babies-Harper's Ferry Ahead !

Mister men ,chO prints The Spirit of Jefer-
son, nrutch grceten, Aye, 8 greeteus:
Haven notused in yoor paper Nv march the
18th instent, a artikul on babies, and bein
sumwhat interested in that ar kind o. stok,-
don't meen to sa that i am the nobul ansis>
ter w an nunlurus progeny, or Nv anybodys
baby, fur ain't,- but no who is, and ther-
four rite this epistol, hopen these few lines
ma be excepted. Babies is very strange
kritters; they hav, spechully. very odd
falen-a baby don't set thur s on "this
worlds vane stores" befour they ar trien the
strenkth of ther lungs. Sum babies has
stronger lungs then sum uther babies, and
therfour ther voyces is stronger; but there's
emusic in the are" with all Nv em-inutch.
A baby is very essenchul institooshun, it
ar mutch perpiexen to mi mind, when think
that can't think wher we would bin, if
we hadn't bin babies-that ar a Uerota
qucstto, fur the benefit of them who don't
understand the ded languages, wood sa, a
rered question:. That question ought to be
settled by the koorts, as soon as a kase kin be
made. if not suner. tber is but 2 kases on
record Nv persons who weren't babies, an tha
didn't do eny big things fur ther kountry-
one Nv 'em, the she, let the surpent deceive
her, an the tother koodent stan ''bewichen
lis; tlIcrfour, it ar crate source Nv kon.
sullashun, that we was once babies; as we ar
ipsO fncf0 (agane, to the unedikated, by,the
.fIct) free frum the tcmtashuns that our gra-
test grandparents was lieabe toe We be.
leeve that Moses wer baby, fur he was two
CRATE an brave man to hide in the bull
rushes, from faro au-an them that plaed
he'd rushed out if he hadent bin a baby
He did rush out enyhow when he got big
enuff, au he rushed all the israelites out with
m hn Oen rya Ioh
look at Harriet Beecher Stowe, an-an
Lucretia Borgia,
But now, to the pint, if you hav a observer
mind, you will hav notused that "cummiu'
events kast ther shaders befour" To Illustrate
this pint, you no that CRATE sines was to be
seen, akkordin' to profesy, befour tho fall Nv
Jerusalem. And then yu no what big sines
Josephus sez was seen, gust bcfour Jerusalem
skerdumixed. Kummn' events kast ther
shaders befour. Now a event, yes events,
has transrired in our town, an it wer not
without its shadcrs, cxkoose mo if am gcttcn
too fgcrativ, begin TO fcal eloquent. My
subject are big one an 'worthy NV yoor
steal" For about week past the boys in
town has bin gettin nifty musika, i knowcd
that sumthen was gOiu' to happen, bekause
they all got musk in thcr hcds at the samo
time, knowed that somethin was operatin
on en-, more than ordinary they all pla the
same kind o instruments, each feller makes
his own sometimes they pla solows and some
times oritoryOur0s | kant drskribe the music,
but its very ieelin !; its that kind Nv musk
that goes to. the sole, that pcuetratith where
the simpathys sumberith, and throws cold
water when the covers off; it makes "each
particular hare stand on end y makes yoor
flesh feel like its crawln off yoor bones, an
puts yoor teeth on edge. Its very feelin. The
mekinism Nv the instruments are thusly: take
a tin mustard box, punch hole in the bottum
Nv it, place string therin, rosum the string
well, and also, yoor hand hold the box in
ono hand and draw the string. throoh the
tother, the dulsct notes will attrackt yoor year
as very feelin. l was satisfied that these
muskal preperashuns, by the boys, was to
usher in sun, CRATE event. l was indulgen
in no fond illushun, the event have arrived
we have a mother in Harpers Ferry who,
when she talks to baby, she spekcs to Nv
enI, twins and J, inkarnate trinity. e Ph-
ri6uS LnUnl, (once more to the vulgar, ono
composed of naany.l all gals two. Hoora fur
Henry W. p! If L had the namen Nv
them gals, at this partikelar time, ide name
'em fathe, hope an charity i'll tell you viii
we're exercisen a konsiderabul amount Nv
fathe & hope about this time, on the future
prospects of this town an we have showed a
good cal of charity, by sayin nothin to certin
newspaper individuals an snobs, who rite un-
becomin an lien peeces about our place. For
the present, we'el let EN- alone in ther glory,
an show the manhood an prosperity Nv our
town by works. When tina kan beet trio,
weel knodesend.
fcelcnly yoors,
a observer
Harper's Ferry, march the 26, Is