The record-union., 1895-02-12
THE MONTANA WAY
1t Is q Persuasive One Which the Mu-
sician Was Impressed With.

IL - d L efSuaSlYe one Which the NJ u
sicfan Was Impressed With.
They have such persuasive way
with them out in Montana" remark ed
a travelling man at a Detroit hotel a
day or two since, that | should sort
of hate to get into an argument in any
OF those mining towns. l have Just been
through that country, and L heard about
an argument poor little pianist from
Baltimore had out in q Montana town.
How he drifted out there / didn't learn,
but he played piano al an entertain
ment in the only hall in the place one
evening, and the audience sort Of took
to him. They encored him six times,
and then he stopped and left the hall
Ten minutes later a delegation of three
leading citizens filed into his room at the
hotel.
1--WE kinder hated to intrude into your
room in this STYLE" said the spokesman,
apologetically, but the fact is, things is
serious at the hail.
Has anything happened?' inquired
the little musician from Baltimore.
1t amt exactly what's happened.
explained the spokesman, it's what aim t
happened. We was goin' to foller you
with ventriloquist, and blamed if he
amt too full to talk and still drinkin'
and them scrappln' monkeys we was 90
ing to close up the show with is froze in
down at Yellow Forks, so the audience
Is still In the hall, and they're terrible
restless
"'They are that assented one of the
other visitors soIemnIy.
And we thought continued the
spokesman, seein' the crowd took a
likin' to you, that mebbe you'd come
back and ring in another tune or two
from Chopping or Moses Hart
The little musician waited moment
to eaten the sense of his VISITORS re-
mark, and then, in a rather frigid way,
| he declined to play any more.
The delegation didn't seem disposed
to move, and there was an awkward
pause. AL length the member of the
! committee VINO hadn't spoken took a
| hand at the subject. He was a stout,
| cross-eyed man with red whisk ers.
Ihere's no use beatin' around this
matter he said emphatically; YOU'RE
wanted over ter the hall, and Pm kinder
worried to think every one of them, ex.
cept Crazy Charley, has got an iron in his
pocket, fer I'd hate to have ANYBODY
from Baltimore dead around town
'Iaint pleasant he continued, 'to refer
to the serious side of human natur'. but
| as friend of yours I'd advise you tc
hurry back to that hall and bang the
| planner as long as any gentTsays music
and bang it like Sam Hill, too
|. "Ihey told me-" continued the travel.
ing man, that the effect of that argu.
ment was wonderful. The little musi.
clan walked up, and said he always pro.
posed to stand by his friends, and sug.
gested that they go right over to the hall
SO they did, and the spokesman got ur
on the platform and said he:
! Ladies and gents: | am authorized
! to say that the perfesser only went ON
fer drink. He feels better now. and
asks permission to play the pianner fel
| an hour
| And he did; but when they let hin
| stop be walked eleven miles TO the mex
town without even waiting to get his
satchel, though that" added the travel.
ing man, rehectively, doesn't affect the
| value Of Montana persuasion. .r-DetroiI il
! Free Press.