Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-05-09


other gifts, and plenty Of regrets, good
wishes, and promise, 70 write The depart
ing vuyagers generally 60 off feeling that
they are people uf importance The attention
shown them incr, ASS their self-COntidencs
and makes their entire sea travel happy
EBBoN OLIVER
iODERN SCHOOL OF FRENCH OPERA
An Illustration of the Idea the Inspired
Tremchmrn are Driving at.
Once upon time, long time ago,
writer for a flash weekly wrote a nov el
called The unit Sin -er An old miner
i'll the Sierra, who had not char. ed his name
when he came TO tai urnia, Who kept up
his correspondence with hIs family long
after he had left home who clung to the
mines long after they Were abandoned, who
lived in a ahin long after other people had
begun to live in sIllas. and who did various
other things not found in Bret Harte or the
annals of Callfornia, introduced me TO this
most eccentric person The Dumb Singer.
At the same time | made the ac, ,uaintance
of The Woman in Whit Our miner had
paperrd his wa Is with the pictorIa.s which
came to him in patches from hi, home 1t
was his custom to open the paper fairly,
5 luarely. ami honestly, without any regard
to the sequence of pag $, and paste it on the
wall, so that to this day | know but one
side of the umo Singer.
| was one Il little group Of children who
usei to 90 hunting pine nuts Like many
"A Nimrod and fisherman of gool reputation,
we knew Just where to find them in quantity.
We loved to stroll lazily through the big
pines, TO hear the crisp crunch Of the pine
II Il,
balsamic, whol, some breath of the pine in
the air, to string the perfect nes on our
ords, to play with the CLINT Of the sun
through the long tress led branches; but
when 1t rame TO downright hard pine mutt
ing. We always went to Dams cabin He
always kept a bagful for the children,
which he in turn got from the Indians for
your pine,nut. like your loSemite trout, Is
a little shy of anything but Indians
When Dan was not at home. waited
for him these desultOry miners never work
long and read The Woman in White and
The umb Singer, to pass the time away.
The l'umb Singer, a beautiful, dark
haired creature-in the picture she looked
ike Pendenniss Miss Fotheringay- q
nervous affection which had entire possess
ion of her vocal Ch Jrds, 50 that in the most
critical moments of life this curious young
woman used to peal out her emotions in
rich, high soprano and never came TO her
speaking voice I'LL tn. last chapters As
these were on the pasted side of the wall, we
never had the pleasure Of reading them
But We took the keeuest delight in as much
of the novel as We could get at BY one of
the inSCrutable processes of childhood ;
reasoning we determined that 1t was an
opera, and used 10 set the bufno singer
Vo al outbreaks 10 music ot our own com
losing. Our faEorlte morceiu was selected
from peculiarly tragic episode.
The young lady father being ruined
with that expedition In rum peculiar 10
novels, he took ad' antaSe OF the occasion TO
tall IN ali apopletic mt III Dumb singer
thereuI on arose ana burst Iorth into tood
"f melody to the simple words, "liun Tor the
doctor run for the do'tor.
Perhaps 1t was their simplicity which re-
commented them TO us Perhaps delr
adaptablHty To the rounded OF whi n We
were very fond At ali events when
we SAID TO each other IL our inspired
moments, Let make al opera, this beln-
the modest manner III which We always eX-
pressed ourselves 1t was our hrst impulse to
hmber our VOC ; with Kun Tor the doctor.
am quite ''rtAlh now that we were at
the root OF the modern school ot French
opera There were no dhShing' brilliant
en1rosslhg solos III our opera but We used 10
take the most Iaudahle PRIZE IN lnVentlng
pretty tunes ior snort ami uhlEhPortant
sentences, ana that sec ms 10 he eNhctly the
fiea 'heSe IlNl'lrei rem hheh are urlNlhS
at LeISy D. Ill he ArEohauI
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