The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-05-11
The Disappointed Ambition of q
ViOlinist.

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done lam a moos;c;ap. and have
zis ambition II monsieur will have 20
k;ndnoss IA ncrmit. ~ with n no,ite how
and , winning sm;le.
"Ob. certainly. sir. II that is what
Won are at.n said the conductor of the
coce uAl, vou,ve Got IN do ;s IN bano
fast IN this ,ere cross.bar and look on,
that Won don't get your old fiddle
smashed
uTbapk vou. sare. T sail have obop.
damon of c,re for mvso,f and for NV in.
strumont.n was the replv of the French.
man.
The conductor raised his head. goye
the engineer a nod. and down droroe
the cage-down. down into the midnight
of the shatt-down it went, Frenchman,
fiddle and all.
sn,, a,r,oa ,bo ooro,,,u ,La bo,
,on, ~ ,ho shof, u,a rnooLod 5oo Gao,
haIa,,Ln III, - H. 49,,
h,,,o, ,ho Erorobuor aud b;o oounon
ions-there beinr two or three visitor,
besides the musical Gaul-found befor,
them n long, broad, well-lighted room
containing stores of various kinds, wa
ter-cocks. ropes. and whole trains o,
ore.cars moving to and fro, and the,
wer 70 told that this WA, the ~ustation.i
The Fro nchman found a convenient
shelf in the station On which to deposit
his violin, AID under proper guidanc,
set ont To view the wonders of the bic
bonanza.
He was taken out to and shown
through the California mine, theme,
was guided through the labyrinths o
the Consolidated Virginia, where h,
saw the men AZ work in the slopes
breastiEG out the glittering ore-sav
all the air engines hosting timbers int
the chambers above, the blowers send
ms currents Vt froSh ain to painting
miners in heated drifts, and finally wa
turned on the homeward road to TIT
station. -.
Hugh Lamb, foreman of the Consoli
dated Virginia mine, is an accomplished
yiolinist. All Of his family are natura
musicians. His children are all chip
OF the old block, and both little boy
and girls take to the violin, or any othe
instrument that falls in their way, a
naturally as young ducks take to TIT
water, rafting off the tunes of the da,
rs glibly as though they were profcs
sional musicians.
Now it so happened that while tn,
Frenchman was off on his tour of oh
servation among the streets and alleys
and chambers and slopes of the mines
Mr.. Lamb came into the station at tn,
1,500-foot level. The violin case sool
caught his eye, and great was his as
constituent at seeing such a thing there
down 1900 feet below the surface of tn,
earth. He asked some of the GARNER
about it, but all they could tell him wa
that the violin had been left there b,
some ..furrin pentlemann who had oon,
awovto examine the mine
Mr. Lamb tbouobt ,bore would no ~,
h.rr 1, b;s ,or;nG Lob ~ tho fo,o;r,
ror,l,r,, :, faa,o. co ho ,ooL q IN, .
tho cosa II w,s , hoortv-nerba,s
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