The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-04-23

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AA MhA1t h e are the
- monuments to the
REV genius of those who
built them. But more wonderful than
any arch they ever lifted, or any tran
! sept window they ever illumined, or
any Corinthian column they ever
crowned, or any Gothic cloister they
ever elaborated, is the human ear.
Among the most skillful and assidu-
Gus psychologists of our time have
been those who have given their time
to the examination of the ear and the
study of its arches, its walls, its floor,
its canals, its aqueducts, it's galleries,
its intricates, its convolutious, its di-
vine machinery, and yet, it will take
another thousand years before the
world comes to any adequate appre-
citation OF what God did when He
planned and executed the infinite and
overmastering architecture Of the hui
man ear. The most of 1t is invisible
and the microscope breaks down in
the attempt al exploration. The
cartilage which we call the ear is only
the storm door of h great temple
clear down out of sight, next door to
the immortal soul.
Such scientists as Helmholtz and
Conte and De Blsinville and Rank and
Buck have attempted to walk the APP
plan way OF the human ear. but the
mysterious pathway has never been
fully trodden brt by two feet-the
foot OF sound and the foot of God.
Three ears ON each side the head-the
external ear, the middle ear, the in
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wonderful t~elegraphy.
The external ear in all ages adorned
by precious stones or precious metals.
The temple of Jerusalem, partly built
by the contributions of earrings, and
Homer in the Had speaks of Hera,
1.-THE three bright drops, her glitter
ing gems suspended from the ear" and
many of the adornments of modern
times were only copies of her a
Jewels found in Pompeiian museum
and Etruscnn vase. But while the
outer ear may be adorned by human
art, the middle and internal ear are
adorned and garnished only by the
hand OF the Lord Almighty. The
stroke of a key of yonder organ
sets the air vibrating, and the
external ear catches the undulating
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the bonelets of the middle q to
the internal ear, and the 5000 hbres OF
the human brain take up the vibration
and roll the sound on into h soul.
The hidden machinery of the ear by
psychologists called by h names of
things familiar to u.s.. like the hammer,
something to strike-like the anvil
something to- be smitten-like the
- a. eaIIla rvffh which xua
mount the steed-like the drum, beat
en- in the march-like the harp strings,
to be swept with music. Coiled like
q small SHE'LL" by which one of the
innermost passages of the ear is actu-
ally called-like a stairway. the sound
TO ascsnd-like a bent tube Of a heat
ing apparatus, taking that which en-
tiers round and ~round-like a laby-
rinth with wonderful passages into
which the thought enters only to be
lost In bewilderment. a muscle con-
tracing when the noise Is too loud,
inst as the pupil of the y contracts
when the light is loo glazing. The
external ear is dehfened by wax which
with its bitterness d~iscourages insec-
tile invasion. The internal ear en-
bedded in by what is far h hardest
bone of the human system, 4 very
rock of strength and defiance.
The ear is 80 strange a continuance
that by the estimate of n scientist it
can catch the sound of 1890 vibra-
tons in a second. The outer ear taxi
ing in all kinds of sound, whetheR the
crash OF an avalanche or the hum OF Q
bee. The sound passing to the inner
door of the outside ear halts until
-zNnlo-f., Aiuina naa,phan-
ism. passes it on by the bonelets of the
middle car, and coming to the inner
door of hat second ear the sound has
no power to come further until another
divine mechanism passes 1t on through
into the inner ear, and then the sound
comes TO the rail track of the brain
branchlet, and rolls on and on until it
comes to sensation. and there the cur
tain drops, and q hundfsd gates shut,
and the voice of God seems to say to
all human inspection, Titus far and
no farther"
In this vestibule of tho palace of the
soul, how many kings of thought. Of
medicine, of physiology, have dons
penance of lifelong study n got no
further than the vestibule. Myster-
ious home of reverberation n echo.
Grand Central Depot of sound. Head
quarters to which there come quick
dispatches, part the way by cartilages,
part the way by air. part the way by
bone, part the way by nsFve-the slow
dispatch plunging into the ear At the
speed of ], 900 feet a second. S~ail las
of music on which is played
all the music you ever heard, from the
grandeurs of an August thunderstorm
TO the softest breathings OF . flute.
SmarI instrument OF music, only q
quarter OF an inch OF surface and
the thinness Of one two hundred
and fftieth part of an inch,
and that thiRness divided into three
layers. In that a musical staf, lines,
spaces, bar and rest A bridge leading
from the outside natural world to the
inside spiritual world. We seeing the
abutment at this end of the bridge,
but the fog of an untitled mystery
hiding the abutment on the other end
of the bridge. Whispering gallery of
the soul. The human voice is Gods
eulogy the ear. That voice capable of
producing seventeen trillion, FIVE hun
dred and eighty six million, forty-four
thousand. foay hundred and fifteen
sounds, and all hat variety made, not
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but for the human ear.
About Is years ago, in Venice, lay
down in death one whom many on
sidered the greatest musical composer
of the century. Struggling on up from
six years of age when he was left
fatherless. Wagner rose through the
obioquy of the world, and ofttimes all
nations seemingly against him, until
he gained the favor OF a king. and won
the enthusiasm of the opera houses OF
Europe and America. Struggling all
the way on to 20 years of age, to con
ouer the worlds ear. In that same at
tempt to master the human ear and gain
supremacy over this gate of the immor-
tai soul, great battles were fought by
Mozart, Gluck and Weber, and by
Beethoven and Meyerbeer, by Rossini
and all the roll of German and Ital-
ans and French composers, some of
them in the battle leaving their blood
on the keynotes and tbs musical
scores. Great battle fought for the