Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-11-29

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dazs} that you've give up tryln' to chase
the tine up and down, in and out why
herett comes out OF the tangls. sort of out
OF b5eath, to make final courtesy; and
the performer looks as happy as stutter-
in lick STUDIOS when he's finally get out
the word that's been hangin' in his throat,
and dancin' on his tongue, and beaten
agh his teeth, till it's all out Of shape.
well, mothers faith in the Idee, and
sHime Sweet Home in particular, was
something wonderful She got that post
ed on the subject that nobody could
stind up with her in argument; and when
Charms to soothe the savage breast and
81 forth, it was generally a cliucher.
| You should have heard her argue the
| Que stion with the Young Elder, as we
| Used to call Elder Dawson, who came to
pastor US, Just fresh from the seminary
hnd chock full of learnin'. He couldn't
Ihold candle to mother, though thu way
The got away with Darwin and the rest of
\ the infidels was somethin' edifyin' to
listen to.
He took 'em so off, hand and easy like;
seemed 10 glory in givin' 'em all advan-
tages of wind and sun; and then, tyin' one
hand behind him, he'd just sail in and
settle 'em in one round. and come out
fresh and smilin'
''He was visitin' us one day and he says
to mother: Sister Barstow, don't you
think you do set too much store by music?
Amt it sort of bell1tlein' the doctrine
of keepin' grace" says he.
"'No Elder she says, I amt set
TIM it up in place of grace, but as
means of grace, and you. as a preacher,
ought to know the difference But
says he, 'ain't you settin' it as a means
Of grace, above the great means: the word
of God and prayer
"'Eider,' she says, what's the Bible
but poetry, and what's poetry but the
music of words and idees? AS far as 1
can learn the Lord never had use for a
prophet that hadn't music in him. And
as for prayer, I've q notion that you can't
get prayer out of a man when it amt
in him. Prayer is all very we'll when
you've got it in you, but to my mind
music puts that into an empty soul that
leads up to prayer aud worship She
was on her high horse now, and was
bound to ride the Elder down. Where's
prayer and the Bible in Heaven she
says. They amt there, tor they don't
need 'em. Music's all they have in
Heaven; and singin' and playin' is the
occupation Of the angels and the joy of
the saints.
~ YOU lCllin uS oWnLtC UcbCh
about Orpheus, who played his Tyre and
kept his sailors from wreck and ruin
among them cannibal Syrians, settin'
among bones and skulls. There amt an
other word to say, Elder; I've got Script
ure for the Idee, and I've got human nat
ure, and they're a powerful team when
they pull together
'It's remarkable how the Idee kept
a-growin' and spreadin' itself in mothers
mind, like the foreign tree Pve
read Of, which begins in one pleas
ant shade tree and ends in becom-
ing a whole forest. Music was the cure
for all ills of human society. What
would prevent the strikes? Music?'
What was needin' to civllize the Indi-
ans? Musicv But this country couldn't
hold her. Her mind went out to the
heather, and she naturally argued that
nothin' could elevate a people that didn't
have no more idee of music than clat-
term gongs and poundin' tom toms:
and she made move, which dida't find
second, that the Woman's Missionary So
ciety should start branch for the music
al education of the heather.
''Then she kept track OF all the new
tangled musical instruments which was
invented, and saw the prophecy Of the
millennium drawin' to fulfilment in the
Ol IuuSlC iiaCulueS.
''Of all the happy women, she was the
happiest when she got hold of an orgui-
nette, with musiclike an embroidery pat
tern, that only had to be tackled on the
machine and worked over the holes. She
hadn't perked up so much since our lone
boy Jason up and ran away from home,
following a circus.
"It's a hard thing, Elder, when your
child is torn away from you by death, and
goes away from We stretchin' out his
arms to the one that nursed him, 10th to
leave them he knows and loves, for
strangers. But how easy that seems to
losin' child when he crawls out of his
warm bed that lovin' hands had made for
him. and away from all the little COM
forts that lovin' hearts had provided
and goes away into the night with
out goodbye kiss or partin' word;
without even throwin' a look OF pity be-
hind him for them that would q laid down
Their lives Tor him; and our boy went
that wav.
'.After Jase went mother laugui shed for
q time and / thought the lice was losin'
its grip; but it WANT long befors it got to
bein' whispered around among the neigh
bors that it want nothin' elsa but the
Idee that drove Jase away from home.
.'When she heard that mother bracsd
right up; the luce TOOK new grip; ana
however she may have felt in her own
secret soul. so far as my seem went the
Idee seemed more to her than ever.
..Poor mother Not to say a word against
the Idee or her that adopted it. it did
seem as If the 10y toas a little crowded by
the lice az times. You see when ye get
down to music as a steady diet and music
for medicinal purposes, you're apt to get
to dislike it; same as q child gets to dis.
like the Bible when you give him dose
of Scripture, as II it was sulphur and
sorghum, 10 purge the meanness outen'
him
.sThats about the way it was with Jason.
,Twa'n't so bad when mother rugged up
musical attachment to the sewin' ma.
chine. but when she got one onto the
churn. it was q little wearyin'-for boy.
cit takes an old bird TO Offset the shrill
note of his mate with the patience that
huilt the nest aud warmed the eggs and
hopped aud fiuttered from sun-up to sun.
down to all the mouths that was ALWAYS
gapin,.