The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-12-13

Atlanta C0nstitatson.
q The piano and violin and flute are all
blending theirs sweet harmonies together
in our parlof tonight, and I am sitting
by the cheerful Ere in sweet dream Of
peace, and thanking the. good Lord for
Hia Blessings. One poet writes beautiful
thoughts about the music of the spheres,
as though the planets in coursing around
the sun made harmony for angels and for
God. Another says thai music is the
only thing that Is common to angels and
to man ,as'thoughst Creator said.
will leaYe him one attribute of my; ;divin.
ity, one emotion that is as pure and limos
cent as heaven. will give it to saint
and sinner, to the poor and the rich, the
bond and the free. It shall not fade
and die withithe flowers, nor grow weary
with. age" Many years ago smart
scholar wrote book to prove that a
negro had nosoul, ,bntstus mysopinion:hiss
passion for mup:c isGarg1ment= enough to
give him an equal schance for heaven.
Blind Tom is almost an idiot, but when
his clouded and untutored mind is nlled
with music that Is beyond my ken. I feel
humbled in his presence. Blind and
childiuh and ignorant, he seems at-times
al-lost among the angels in his rhapso.
dies. When Haydn was old and feeble
he was carried to the great hallin Vienna
to hear Beethoven and other great com.
posers perform the "Creation," which
was ahis own greatest; work and as the
vast audience arose to cheer the grand
finale the old man waved his handkerchief
toward heaven and exclaimed; ut came
from there-it came from ,therep He:
then spread out his hands and blessed thes
audience, and this was bis farewell to
the world. The next week he died.
Mozart com posed his own requiem on
his death. bed, and his great.soul escaped
to heaven sonsa strain of music that no
one heard but him. Deaf as poss, he
.conld. still write music that has outlived
century and .aill continue to live
through thesagssdo come.
How dear to US all was the simple
music of our childhood ! The whistle, the
the split goose:quill, the little
harmonicon, the; fife and: eadrnm, and
akyenffhe cornstock fiddle, had its charms;
WhensI sWas q ,hoy=my, moth herstaught:tnet
how to make an molean harp in the win.
dow. Il have stretched the silken cords
sbetween the sash and listened with delight
to the harmony of sweet sounds that zthe
|Sgenfle wind dsbreathed upon tSem2and /
|sWasshappy.; What 8, strange, Eoodgiftit
is to our fallen humanity. How is it that
the preachers can't 'tgpreach without it; !;
soldiers can't fight without it; lovers
can't court without it. Italike becomes
the wedding and the funeral, the; church
and Che thaater, the banquet han and the
cottage .freside. How the great poets
loved to honor it with their best deyo.
tions. Shakespeare says that "the man
that; has mo music in himself Is ct for
l,treason-let no such man be trusted"
Byron says "there is music in all things
Itif men had. .eafs.n = Collins; calls music a
heavenly maid," and Longfellow says
sthe night shall be filled with music"
was ruminating about these things
because there was a. new piano In the
house and my wife was caressing the
beautiful Keys with the exquisite touch of
|3her: girlhood. She played some Of the
same old tunes that used to charm me
when I knelt at her shrine aud verify be.
llievedsthat both the song and the singer
lFcame from at ge, and j, toe; was little
nearer heaven tnanI had ever been before.
She won't trust her. full voice now for
fear it will split or get away without q
bride, but she lets it wsrble along low
and sweetso eas to smingle and hide with
the i6usic. Ever and anon;1 catch theten.
der pathos of ssThe Emiprnnt's Lanent -
:or. aWhen Youz and 'tsWere Yonnp,
/ Mapoie y or aThn f|Id T,ou Gahin in tbs H,
.Lans u! gomat;mes Il ;s fhe .aMaet;np
Of the Waters ~ or. aSweet Nav .Day 3
or. aaFdenboro Town:D or. aComing
j.Throuph the Rye.D Our girls are good
performers, but they have not got the
soft, sweet, angelic touch of their moth
er. When she is playing can tell it
away out in the backward.
s Before the war we had q piano. Before
Rome fall and our unwi ling fight from
the eternal .citv wa sbinned 'fhat niano To
Madison far safatys and sit arrived there
mat in time for Stoneman's raiders to burn
Il in the denot r have often wondered
how mnch relipion woman mnst have
to Get oyer ths like Of that-how mnch
more grace and charity to- forgive, those
traveIing ;ncandiaries from tfsstonnf.Ier
heart Snon after tha war Tiaanaosd tn
oat another and for more thansfwantv
Years Il has, stood the wear and ;teSr of
| i2O fingers of orr household andfaiI sorta
of miseellaneous banging from tie bows
so,d arro "a, ~ 90 49,.