The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-11-12

OF the zodiac the name OF the scorpion,
a creature hich is chiefly cele brated
for its deadly sting. But, after all,
these symbols are expressive Of the
way nation feels toward nation. Dis
cord wide as 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 eulogistic way allo
pathic and home opathic 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 it, and turned by a
crank, before q hot fire, and then if
the minister being roasted cries out
against it the men who are turning
him say: FLUSH, 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:
Best be the tie 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, or a
MARBLE of worship, or n sweet duet of
| patience, they are drowned out by a
discord that shakes the earth.
Paul SAYS, The whole creation
| groaneth, and while the nj ghtingale,
and the woodlarl, and the canary. and
| the plover, sometimes sing SO swcctly
| that their notes have been written in
musical notation. and it is found that
the cuckoo sings in the key of d, and
| that the c0rmorant is a bassO in the
winged choir, yet sportsman's gun and
the autumnal blast often leave them
rutfied and bleeding or dead in meadow
or forest. Paul was right. for the
groan in nature browns out the prima
| donnas of the sky.
Tartini, the great musical composer,
| dreamed one night that he made a con-
| tract with Satan, the latter to be ever
| in the composers service. But one
night he handed to Satan a violin, on
which Diabolus played such sweet
music that the composer was awak.
ened by the emotion, and tried to re-
| produce the sounds, and therefrom
was written Tartini's most famous
| piece, The Devils Sonata" dream
ingenious, but faulty, for all melody
| descends from Heaven, and only dis
| cords ascend from hell. AL hatreds,
| feuds, controversies, backbitings and
| revenges are the devils sonata, are
dia bolic fugne, are demoniac phantasy
are grand march of doom, are allegro
| of perdition.
But in this world things in general
are out Of tune to our frail ear, how
much more SO to beings angelic and
deific! 1t takes a skilled artist to fully
| appreciate disagreement of sound
Many have no capacity to detect a de
feet of musical execution, and, though
there was in one bar as many offenses
against harmony as could crowd in be
tween the lower of the bass and the
higher G of the soprano, it would
give them no discomfort, while
on the forehead of the educated
artist beads Of perspiration would
stand out as a result of the narrowing
di>sonance. While an amateur was
performing on a piano and had jus
| & rl,n oh "a h,c
tian Bach, the immortal composer, en-
tered the room, and the amateur rost
in EN- barrassment, and Bach rushed
past the host, who stepped forward t,
greet him, and, before the key boarc
had stobbed vibrating, put his adroi
hand upon the keys and changed thu
painful inharmony into glorious ca
dence. Then Bach turned and CAV,
salutatiOn to the host
But the worst Of all discori is mora
discord. If society and the world are
painfully discordaEt to imperfect man
what must they be to a perfect God
People try to define what sin is.
seems to me that sin is getting out O
harmony with God, /; disagreement
with HIS holiness, with His purity
with His love, with His com
mands, our will clashing will
His WILL the finite dashing agains
the infinite, the frail against tn,
puissant, the created against the ere
ator. If a thousand musicians, will
flute, and cornet-a- piston. and trumpet
and violoncello, and hautboy, ant
from bone, and all the wind and string
instruments that ever gathered in
Dusseldorf jubilee, should resolve tina
they would play out of tune, and pu
concord to the rack, and make TIN
. place wild with shrieking and gratin.
and rasping sounds, they could no
make such a pandemonium as tina
which RACES in a sinful soul whel
God listens to the play Of its thoughts
, passions, and emotions-discord life
long discord, maddening discard.
} The world pays more for discor,
, than it does for consoncc. High price
have been paid for music. One MAJ
gave $225 to hear the Swedish song
stress in New York, and another S62
to hear her in Boston, and anothe
$3.50 to hear her in Providence Fabu
! Ions r,.iroS h.ro l,na, g.,