The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-11-14

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of war, and we give to the eighth sigI
of the zodiac the name of the scorpion
a creature which is chiefly cele bratet
for Its deadly sting. But, after all
these symbols are expressive Of the
way nation feels toward nation. Dis
cord wide AZ the continent and bridg
ing the seas.
l suppose you have noticed how
warmly In love dry goods stores are
with dry goods stores, and how highly
| grocerymen thinks of the sugars OF
the grocerymen on the same street
and in what a eulogistic way allo
pathic and homeopathic doctors speak
of each other. and how. ministers will
sometimes pit ministers on that beau.
tiful cooking instrument which the
the English call spit, and iron roller
with spikes on 1t, aud turned by a
crank, before a hot fire, and then II
the minister being roasted cries out
against it the men who are turning
him say: Hush. my brother, we are
turning this spit for the glory of God
and the good of your soul, and you
must be quiet, while we close the serv-
ice with:
'Blest he the tic that binds
Our hearts In Christian love-"
The earth is diametered and circum-
ferenced with discord, and the music
that was rendered at the laying of the
worlds cornerstone, when the morn
ing stars sang together. is not heard
now; and though here and there, from
this and that part of society, and from
this and that part of the earth, there
comes up thrilling solo of love, OF a
MARBLE of worship, or a swe ct duet of
patience, they are drowned out by a
discord that shakes the earth.
Paul says, 1.-THE whole creation
groaneth," and while the nightingale,
and the woodlark, and the canary, and
the plover, sometimes sing. so sweetly
that their notes have been written in
the cuckoo sings in the key of d, and
that the cormorant is basso in the
winged choir, yet sportsmans gun and
the autumnal blast often leave them
ruffled and bleeding or dead in meadow
Or forest Paul was right. for the
groan in nature browns out the prima
ionnas of the sky.
Tartini, the great musical composer,
dreamed one night that he made a con,
.ract with Satan, the latter to be ever
n the composers service. But one
light he handed to Satan a violin, on
which Diabolus played such sweet
music that the composer was awak-
med by the emotion, and tried to re-
produce the sounds, and therefrom
vas written Tartini's most famous |
,iece, THE DEVILS Sonata" dream |
Ingenious, but faulty, for all melody |
lescends from Heaven, and only dis |
ords ascend from hell. All hatreds, |
euds, controversies, back billings and |
evenges are the DEVILS sonata, are |
iabolic fugue, are demoniac phantasy,
re grand march of doom, are allegro /
If perdition.
But in this world things in general
re out of tune to our frail ear, how
nuch more SO to beings angelic and
eific! 1t takes skilled artist to fully |
ppreciate disagreement of sound.
lany have no capacity to detect de-
ect of musical execution. and, though
here was in one bar as many offenses
gainst harmony as could crowd in be-
ween the lower + of the bass and the
igher G of the soprano, it would
i've them no discomfort. while |
N the forehead of the educated
rtist beads of perspiration would
taud out as result Of the narrowing
issonance. While an amateur was
on piano and had just
truck the wrong chord, John Sebas-
ian Bach, the immortal composer. en-
cred the room, and the amateur rose
a EN- barrassment, and Bach rushed
asst the host, who stepped forward to
rect him, and, before the keyboard
nd stobbed vibrating, put his adroit
and upon the keys and changed the
ainful inharmony into glorious ca
ence. Then Bach turned and gave
to the host.
But the worst of all discord is moral
iscord. If society and the world are
discordant to imper feet man,
hat must they be to perfect Godl
eoplc try to define what sin is. 1t
GEMS to inc that sin is getting out of
armony with God, disagreement
nth His holiness, with His purity,
nth His love, with His COM
lands, our will I clashing with
lis will, the finite, dashinR against
he infinite, the frail against the
the created against the Gre
tor. If u thousand musicians. with
ute, and cornet-a-piston, and trumpet,
nd violoncello, and hautboy, and
rom bone, and all the wind and string
istrumcnts that ever gathered in
dusseldorf jubilee, should resolve that
hey would play out of tune, and put
oncord to the rack, and make the
Lace wild with shrieking and grating
nd rasping sounds, they could not
rake such pandemonium as that
'hich RACES in sinful soul when
cd listens to the play of it's thoughts,
ASSIGNS, and emotions-discord, life
,ng discord, maddening discord.
The world pays more Cor uiscord
han it does for consonce. High prices
ave been paid for music One man
ave 1925 to hear the Swedish song
tress il New York, and another $625