The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1883-05-10
Our Concert.


There is one good thing about Sue, II
she is Girl; she is real charitable, and
is all the time getting people to give
money to missionaries and things. She
collected mornahundred dollars from
ever SO many people last year, and sent
it to society and her name was in all
the papers as Miss Susan Brown" /" the
young lady that gave a hundred dollars
to a noble cause, and may others 80 and
do likewise.
About motnh ago she began to getup
concert for noble object. forget
what the object was. for Sue didn't
make up her mind about it until day
or two before the concert; but what
ever it was, it didn't get much money.
Sue was to sing in the concert, and
Mr., Travers was to sing, and fatherwas
to read something, and the Sunday
school was to sing, and the brass band
was to play lots of things. MIR. Travers
was real good about it, and attended to
engaging the brass band, and getting
the tickets printed
We've got tirst-rate band. You
Just ought to hear it once. I'm going
to Join it some day and play ON the
drum; that is, if they don't find out
about the mistake l made with the
music.
When Mr.. Travers went to see the
leader of the band to settle what music
was to be played at the concert he let
me go with him. The man was awfully
polite, and he showed Mr. Travers great
stacks of music for him to select from.
After while he proposed to go and see
a man somewheres who played in the
band, and they left me to wait until
they came back.
had nothing to do, so | looked Mt
the music. The notes We're all made
with a pen and ink, and pretty bad they
were. should have been ashamed il |
had made them. just to prove that |
could have done it better than the man
who did do il, took pen ant ink and
tried it. Imade beautiful notes, and as
n great many of the pieces of music
weren't half full of notes, Just filled In
the places where there weren't any
notes. j don't know how long Mr..
Travers and the leader of the band were
gone, but was so busy that | did not
miss them, and when heard them com
ing sat up as quiet as possible, and
never said anything about what had
done, because we never should praise
ourselves and seem to be proud of oul
own work
Now | solemnly say that never
meant to do any HARM All meant Il
do was to improve the music that the
man who wrote it had been too lazy t
finish. Why, in some Of those pieces o
music there were places three or fou
inches long without single note, anC
4 you can't tell me that was right. But
sometimes think there is no use in try
ing TO help people as ! tried to help on
brass band People are never grateful
and they always manage to blame {
/ boy, no matter how good he is. shal
try, however, not to give way to thes'
feelings, but to keep on doing right nj
matter what happens.
The next night we had the concert
or at any rate we tried to have It, Th
Town-hall was full of people, and Su
said it did seem hard that so mucl
money as the people had paid to com
to the concert should all have to go {.
charity when she really needed new
seal-slin coat The performance wa
to begin with song by Sue, and tn
band was to play just like u plan
while she was singing. The song wa
all about being so weary and longing $
hard to die, and Sue was singing it lik
anything, when all of sudden thu ma
with big drum hit it most awfu
bang, and nearly frightened everybod
TO DEATH
People laughed out loud, and Su
could hardly go on with her song. Bu
she took fresh start, and got alon
pretty well till the big drum broke ou
again, and the man hammered ava
at it till the leader went and took hi
drum-stick away from him. The pee
pie Just howled and yelled, and Su
burst out crying and went right of tn
stage and longed to die in real earnes
When things got little bit quiet, an
the man who played the drum ha
made il up with the leader, the ban
began to play something on its own az
count. II began all right, but il didn
finish the way it meant to finish. Fir
one player and then another woul
blow a loud note in the wrong plac'
and the leader would hammer on h
music-stand, and the people woul
laugh themselves most sick. After
while the band came to a place whel
the trombones seemed to get crazy, an
the leader just jumped up and knocke
the trombone-player down with bi
horn that he snatched from anotht
man. Then somebody hit the lead
with cornet and knocked him into Il
big drum, and there was the awfule
fight you ever saw till somebody turne
out the gas.
There wasn't any more concert TIL
night, and the people all got the
money back, and now Mr.. Travers al
the leader of the band have offered