The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-12-13

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is worth it; every day Of it.
The only excuse for putting Miss Malt
by on the programme every time there
is d concert in ShaWneetoWn is, that her
father is worth $1,000, and owns the big
gest brewery in Lowell county.
With . voice, musical education, and
general ability about UP to the grade Of
BABY Mine" she sang her old Standby
last night, the "Spinning-wheel Song
from 'sFaust.u If Marguerite could
only have sung it as Miss Maltby sang
it, it would have saved the poor child a
world of trouble. It would have scared
Faust, Mephistopheles, and the whole
gang out of the country. There is more
music III Mr.. Maltby's bung-starters than
| there IS in his daughter. Mrch has
heretofore been said in these columns
about Miss Maitby's beauty. While the
spirit Of truth IS upon Us We are free to
ADMIT that she is pretty-in the dark.
Mr.. Bellows sang ooh, Ye Tears"
| MI. Bellows has a rich baritone voice
q wheel-barrow tone, that is. Unfortu-
nately for his effort last eyening, nobody
knew he was singing until he finished
| the butchery Of art and bowed himself
off the stage. Everybody thought he
was Just trying his voice. Il ever his
voice is tried, it will be convicted on it's
own evidence.
James II. Blowson and Ebert Hafut
sang "Larboard Watch.n It is q great
pity these young men are not aware that
their mouths We're made to catch flies
with rather than for singing. Hatut's
voice is so like d fog-horn that he may
be pardoned for . tendency to sing ma
rine songs; but aside from a plea Of natu-
raj d~epravity and fiendish misanthropy,
there is no excuse whatever for Blow
sons attempting to sing j Il public These
| misguided youth were down On the pro-
gramme for a second atrocity, but it was
| omitted at the urgent request of the au-
dience.
The piano used at this massacre was
the same jingiing old harpsichord from
the music store of Jingle, Jangle & Co.,
that has appeared for q free puff at all
| local Outrages of o musical nature for the
past twenty years. Last winter this en-
terprising house traded off the old dulci-
mer for a silver watch, but the man who
got the alleged piano brought it back,
paid 81 forfeit, and got his watch, and
WA GIrjhnnGn oil t,IfIrA anroaria in Sbau-
neetown will be haunted by this venera-
Bile nightmare until the police interfere.
Our readers will be delighted to know
that this is the last concert OF the season,
and a mar can 60 to the opera house III
safety for the next six months.
The receipts Of the pandenonium
were over $3.50, and old Harwich, pro-
prietor OF the hall, with his accustomed
rapacity, gobbled nearly o%ne-fourth OF
that sum for the use OF an old barn that
looks shabby in comparison with a sec
ond-rate market house. Six Of the
thickest-headed young men in Shawnee
town, in borrowed d~ress-coats, acted as
ushers, and acted most wretchedly at
that. Taken altogether, it was the
dreariest occasion that has bored q long
suffering community since the concert
that preceded it.
At the office Of the Tnneborec people
waited for Mr.. Stiehlpen, but he did not
come. AS the day wore away men sought
him at his lodging, but he was not there.
All that the ticket agent at the railway
station could tell was that when he pro-
cured his ticket for San Antonio, Texas,
Mr.. -tiehlpen stated that he had been
appointed United States minister to that
port, and had been ordered TO proceed
thither anu enter upon his duties at
once, and that in all Ii elihood he would
not return to this country until the Pc
ruvian troubles were settled.
They never saw him again, But long
long after he disappeared, nothing but
anonymous postal cards used to come to
the members of the "Mendelssohn Cho-
rus Society OF ShaWneetown,n asking
them to sing him something easy. And
oft as they read them the y~ocalists
choked rising sigh, and as they thought
OF the absent reporter, wished that,
wherever he was, the earth might open
and swallow him up.-BmIiny ton Hank
eye.