Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1885-12-05
JEEMS HAXBY.
Extracts should be properly redited.
MUSIC, AND THE 1NrlDEL

MUSIC, AND THE INFlDEL
Shaksper SEE 1.-THE man without
musick in hiz soul liz fit for Treason
and the spoils." We agre with Will
liam. The wurl il full NV melody.
The Gait sings its musickal lay to
the mune, and what il SO inspiring
az to hear the wall of an infant just
cuttin teeth, and darkness al over the
wurl. Natur il a big harp, and the
wind vibrates each string. Their IL
a sad strain in the wild seas betting
against rock-bound shor, and the
Ginning church bells sing Nv wurl
beyond the skies. AL musick IL not
plesent, however. In the balmy
spring, when the grashopers invade
the growing wheat and the chrickets
chirp beneth the stons, cum the
wandering organ grinder and mum
ky. Every house IL beseged, and
they haunt the naborhud so long
that at mite the citizens hear in their
drems: "See that Mi Grave il Kept
Creme" and "Yanke Dudul Cum to
Town." The organ grinder and hiz
munky are remnants NV the pas, and
the sooner they pas away the better.
, Following little later, Gums that
conglomerated nusanse-the bag
'epype. The Scottish airs.poses no
harmony to the American people
: when plaid on that instrument. The
bag-pype luks lik a pilow-case stuff
] fed full NV unions and il just az dis
/. agreabnl. The blower knos only l
piece and plas away at it until you
could hit him with club or turn the
!. doggs luse on him. If you liv next
dore to man who haz IA dorters
taking musick Lessons, you had bet
ter lux up cumfortabul room in an
INSANE asylum. Should other NV
thoze dorters hav DO fond NV vocal
musick, make your will and prepare
to shuttle off your mortal coils at
any moment
The bras band IL anuther meme
way NV producing musick. Sum
people think they are making butt
full musick when they bio and bette
and bette and bio in the bras band
but they'r only wasting their SWEET
mes on the desert air.
Mise musick IL 8 good medisine
for al kinds NV disease. 1t cheers
the lonely, banishs the blus and sof-
tens sorrow. 1t il a Mise thing to
carry with you.
THE INFIDEL.
Pity the man who knos no God
Pity hiz lonlines! pity hiz dark and
cherries futur "The fule hath sed
in hiz hart ther IL no God" He
shuts hiz eys to the Duties NV the
erth and sky, and skofs at the creds
and solemnities NV religion. Pity
him, pity him Their IL a God Sun,
mune and stars sing Hiz praises day
and mite; the shutting gras, the bud
ding tire, the buzzing insect, are
the creation NV Hiz hadiwork. Who
givs the robin hiz coat NV red? who
guides the stars in their courses
who regulates the wurks NV Natur?
Who fills the human brest with luv
Who sends the welcum rain and the
bountiful harvest? Silent STAINS the
infidel in the presence NV thes ques-
tions. He plucks in the MIDLAND dell
the lst Spring violet. What tiny
thing! How delicate its formashun;
how perfect its symmetry. Their
the blue NV heven blends with the
white NV the angels. How butiful
He scans it. He smells its rich wild
perfume, and bears IT away to hiz
home, wherhe puzzles hiz brain over
the MYSTERY nv its origin. Poor fitle.
Will he studys, it Wits and fades
away. He does not see in its decay
the hand NV God, who says SIN the
midst NV life we ar in deth." Phil
osophy and Silence are hiz gods. AL
the sense hiz Creatur haz blessed
him with, is used to hiz detriment.
He trases the heavenly wurls in their
revolushuns, and attributs the exac-
mes Of their movements to gravita-
shun. The return NV each scion il
but the natural consequence NV laws,
Interchangeable and born NV themsel-
YES. Becaus NV hiz learning he at
tempts to defy God. How he glo-
RES in hiz knowledge The sweeping
wind and the rising tide are foretold
by hiz invenshuns he catches the
thunder bolt and robs it NV its forse;
the erth vi Ids up her metals and the
ocean unfold hiz MYSTERIES at mans
command. Thouts flash round the
wurl in the twinkling NV an ey, and
the forses NV Natur bow befor him.
A kind God aliows al this, and givs
him power to understand and con-
troll But deth he cannot comma.