St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-21

weary even unto the point of going home.
People get the worth OF their money In short
order when the singing society keeps pound
ing away on the same piece. A full grown
singing society-one that has sumfhered and
wintered and still exists-wlll change its
tunes. There are things on top of this ter
restial globe that are more exhilarating, more
lasting in their pleasure, than a singing So
ciety.
So
A practice night in the hall is when a sing
ing society come nearer being subject for the
national board of health than anything save
the cholera. A practice night is worse in the
summer time than it is during the winter
carnival season of mid-winter. Persons liv-
ing near by singing soclety's hail, would
prefer, If they could have their way, to have
below zero weather every time that singing
society is gathered unto itself for singing pur-
poses. Nights when singing societies have
business meetings are generally encOred.
They cannot have too many of them TO please
the people who live Within a block or so of
the hall. In the winter time the singers are
more or less clogged up with colds, and the
windows of the practice hall are closed down
tight. With the coming of the spring time
the vocalists open up and the hall windows
are likewise thrown open on practice nights.
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A man who lives, or has his place of bust
ness next door to the headquarters OF sing
ing society, will be agreeably surprised when,
if ever, he has occasion TO visit the lower
region. His satanic majesty cannot create
anything that will get away with singing
society for genuine uupleasantness. Deaf
ness is a desirable thing when the night is
warm, the windows of the hall are open and
the practice largely attended. Neigh
bors are saddest those evenings. i
would sooner bury promising
young MANN fact I would sooner
follow the whole family to the city of the
dead-than see him join singing society. 1t
will knock an amateur fiddler or cornet
player all 10 pieces. They become ashamed
once in a while and give their forced auditors
holiday, but singing society, like the old
guard, never gives up learning a tune. and
will not surrender its lease, no matter how
large the bonus. A singing society and a
livery stable can injure adjacent property by
locating on any particular spot. Experienced
people say they would sooner have chills and
fever than to endure a seige of singing So
ciety. They claim the latter is more demon
alizing.
lived near the headquarters of vocal
cyclone once. When got through with it, 1
was as weak as a cat. The society moved. I
attended church the next Sunday. They sing
once or twice week, at least that Is the term
they applied TO it. They appear best when
they tackle new song. First the man at the
piano gives it a whirl. then the first and Sec
ond tenors yell il TO pieces. the auditors get
the tune. If there is any doubt about IL, the
first bass humble through their score and are
followed by the second bass. On the sixth
round they all go it together, and they keep
at it until the song gives up and anybody can
sing it. A singing society and a hand organ
can do a great deal TO make a song unpopu-
lar. When one thinks of the many singing
| societies about the land, can he wonder at the
horrible increase of crime?
49,
It was o'clock in the morning in the COM
posing-room of the Pioneer Press when Night
Editor Foote and the foreman were disc u ssing
the makeup" of the paper.
"Here are the cuts that arrived from Miles
City to-day of the noted cattlemen IL session
there" exclaimed Mr.. Foote.
Lets see" exclaimed the foreman; 'sthey
are w. II. Taylor, the New Mexican cattle
king, Granville Stewart and T. 1. Bryan"
swell. run them in the dispatch about the
stockmen's meeting" said Night Editor
Foote.
The paper came out the next day and the
article from Miles City was duly illustrated
1t contained pictures of the three prominent
cattlemen of the Northwest First, as the
most prominent, was the face of w. II. H.
Taylor. Mr.. Taylor is the efficient state libra
rian at the capitol and has resided in st. Paul
for years. He is devoted TO books aud owns
not COW; in fact, he knows just as much
about cattle as Minneapolis managing edi-
| tor knows about news.
A mistake was doubtless made at the Nile:
City end of the wire, as in some unaccounta
bic way the Miles City artist slketched the pic
ture of the st. Paul Taylor for the New Mex
leo oattleman, as it is not probable that Nigh
Editor Foote would attempt TO run OF a cut
of w. H. II. Taylor for every man of thai
name in the Northwest. He would not trihe
with the foreman, much less the reading pub
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