Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-11-23

nectar. And, TO sur, itt up, If she rHs
not the rose. she had lived with the
rose. One day we married, and here
we are. a long life, a happy life, and Z
have never regretted the day In it that
| made her my wife. After all, one can
not marry among the angels clay must
mate with clay. What do you say? Not
love her, my child? You never were
more mistaken. I love her tenderly,
absorbingly, she is a perfect woman
she has been a perfect wife. She ha made
me calmly and completely happy. If
once in while the old hope. the old
dream of q passion arises and sweeps
before me in its bloom and light, it is
because it means youth to me-that
youth which we do not know till we are
old=-is itself the ideal that it holds up
for worship. Yet as perfect as my wife
is, fifty years Of this smooth life with her
wear something Of the common place,
and If across their dead level of same
of Alicia's face, it is not in any disloyal-
ty to her. I often wonder what became
of the lovely creature. Once could
not have spoken to her. At seldom
times, when sit alone at the fire. she
comes and sits beside me, and CLEANS of
light and shadow make face with her
sweetness, her beauty, her pensive and
ETHEREAL grace. Dear girl! I suppose
she sleeps in her grave by this, but she
is shaft of the light of heaven in my
memoryP'
And Mr.. Fernalde rose, walking to
the window, just as the screen began to
tremble, and smothered cough, and
then an undlsgulsed one, betrayed to
me, if not to him, that Mrs. Fernadle
had heard the chief part of the mono.
logue.
tons more than once BEFORE" she after
ward told me-, with her pleasant smile.
I know it means nothing-that he is jus
as wholly mine as I am his-that our
love is the imperishable. sort-that we
are welded into one by fifty years to-
gether. And perhaps it was ignoble of
mo to break the pretty bubble, to take
away his little ideal. with which he has
found comfort whenever I would have
my own way too much. Yet thought
it was about time"
But she said nothing of this at all as
she came bustling round the corner of
the screen that morning.
"There is such a gale blowing outside"
she said, "that the dust really rises in
the house fit to choke one."
"You haven't caught cold, Rosalie?"
said her husband, turning IN concern.
"Not the least, but [ shall if the hall
door is open another moment, There
she comes now. Make haste, and bid
Alicia goodbye, my love. She is just
"Who?" he cried, suddenly opening
his eyes like lamps in their deep set
ngs.
f'Alicia-Mrs. Talliafero-dear. She
married again, you know. Oh, it has
been fine jest" she cried with her loud
laugh, Ito think that you should not
have recognized Alicia in all these weeks
and months!"
Mr.. Fernalde was silent for few mo-
meuts, looking at the sweet little lady
before him, with her color like the half
furnished rose, with the soft brilliancy
of her placid smile. Then he crossed
over the hearth before me, and he took
her hands and bent down and kissed her
mouth.
"MyRosalis." said he Twill =, you not
yourself! Tell her-tell her that l have
gone to the funeral of an old frie nd"
Innovations in Church Music.
In an article on modern innovations
in church music, correspondent of the
Newark, IN. J. Advertiser writes: 1t
is fact not to be ignored that the mu-
sic OF the sanctuary.in some casesis iden-
tical with that of the opera house. One
need only shut his eyes during singing
of opening pieces in some churches, so
far as the voca]ization is concerned, to
imagine himself in the concert hall ratl,.
er than in the house of God. If brass in
struments, sackbuts, cymbals, timbrels,
dulcimers, and all the orchestral accom-
paniments Of King Davld's and our own
times combined, tend TO increase wor~
ship and reverence toward God. then let
them pray their loudest! if, howevar,
hey simply satisfy the aesthetic OF
purely musical taste, then there exists
in some churches an unwarranted it1tru-'
sion of secu]arities into religious ceremo
malls. But what if the cultured musica!
taste demands lofty strains to aid its de
votions? Then there may be appropri,
,ted the soul-inspiriug and sacred COM
'ositions Of Rossini, Haydn, Handel
and others, whose music was written to
accompany the most sacred and holy
ideas and conceptions which the Roman
md Established churches use in their
solemn ceremonials, and which, we are
pleased to Say, are sometimes heard in
other churches"