The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-12-03

world would be much happier. Some time he will 90 away from home and sing, and the judge viii give him sixty days for 1t. Still this would not be ex- trsvagan,. His singing Is worth 1t : every day ofit.
 The onk excuse for putting Miss Maltby on the programme every time there IS a concert in Shawneetown. is that her father Is worth SS.ooo and owns the biggest brewery in Lowell county. With a 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 Faust" If Marguerite could have sung i, as Miss Mai,hy sang 1t. i, would have saved the poor child world of trouble. It would have scared Faust. Mephissopheles. and the whole gang of them ou, ofthe country. There Is more music in MI. Maltby's bung-startegs than there IS in his daughter. Much has heretofore been said in these columns about Miss Maltby's beauty While the splrlt of truth IS upoI us we are free to admit that she IS pret,y-in the dark.
 Mir. Bellows sang "Oh. ye Tears" Mr. Bellows has a rich baritone voice wheelbarro~ tone. iha, is. Unfortunately for his effor, las, evening nobody knew he was singing until he finished the butchery of ar, and bowed himself oil the stage. Every body thought he was jus, trying his voice. If ever his voice is tried, 1t will be convicted on its own evidence.
 James H, Blowson and Ebert hafut sang Larboard Watch" IL Is d great pity these young men are not aware tha, their mouths were made to catch flies with rather than for singing. Hafut's voice is so like foghorn tha. he may he pardoned for tendency 10 sing marine songs bu, aside from plea of natural dcpravity and tiendish misanthropy there IS no excuse whatever for Blowson's at tempting to sing in public. These mis- guided young men were down on the programme for second atrocity. but Il was omitted d, the urgent request oi the audience.
 The piano used at this massacre was the same Jingling old harpslehord from the music store of Jingle. Jangle & Com pany, that has appeared tor a free puff al i all local outrages of a musical nature for the pas, twenty years. Las, winter this enterprisins house traded of the old dulcimer for silver watch but the man who got the alleged piano brought il back, paid S7 forfeit. and got his watch. and we suppose all future concerts in Shawnee town will be haunted by this venerable nightmare until the police interfere
 Our readers will be delighted to learn that this Is the last concert of the season. and man can go 10 the opera house in safety for the next siN months.
 The receipts of the pandemouium were over SfSo. and Hsrdwich. proprietor of the hall. with lis accustomed rapacity, gobbled nearly one-iourth of tha, sum for the use of an old barn ,ha, looks shabby m comparison with q second-ra;e market house SlN of the thickest- headed young men Tn Shaw neetown. in borrowed dress coats. acted as ushers. and acted most wreic ichedly d; that. Taken altogether. it was the dreariest occasion tha, has bored a iong suffering community since the concert that preceded 1t.
 
 4, the office of the 7dmbeyee people waited for MT. Stiehlpen. but he did not come. As the day wore away men sought him at his lodging. but he was no, there. All that the ticket agent at the railway station could tell was that when he bought his ticket for San Antonio, Texas, Mir. Stiehlpen stated that he had been ap- pointed snited States minister -te-, that port. and had been ordered to proceed thisher and enter upon his duties at once, and that in all likelihood he would not q l. ,.rt,I hn troubles were all settled.
 They never saw him again. But long, long af,er he disappeared, mocking but, anonymous postal cards used to come to the members of the "Mendelsshon Chorus Society of Shawnee,own, asking them to sing him something easy. And of, as they read them the vocalists ehoked a rising sigh, and as they thought of the absent reporter. wished that. wherever he was, the earth nigh, open and swallow him