Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-14
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 .A0 AT DANCE MUSIC Als no y.sy wzLL-

D0 Vsa
 washout on the Ore
 nd rf9l. : nillionaires and Tnrni-
 shof' ll,, :. pauee and Experience
 n.......s day, 1894. five
 st n fa1. ss1Dd both to the east
 si sgh tI1,st ae.tgari Of the Oregon short
 and a15, S-a;on Pacific. were tied up
 Jd in0 s.-,v Err Ida. They had been
 '1n, sa,rsen ssl'.s TWO serious washouts,
 DN,sllo De'ssl and the other at Indian
 fea'd s dags tefore. and had to
 '9leS 15Iepps Ferry for track repairs
 '. oI, 1ine before they could proceed.
 l1s Tar-T ,l is bleak little railroad
 s.an l' berders' town of 800 or 400
 assp ssa,s situate on q sagebrush
 alan.lo alasIookiuR the unspeakably dark
 .ary Snake river.
 G Ave stalled trains carried 600
 .a,srs of as miscellaneous q oharac-
 eoujd be gotten together at
 luy selected congress of types.
 ',,g rare enigrants and millionaires;
 ~ m the move; dainty women in
 scays <. and women bound for Creede
 s-innle Greek in day coaches; min
 sso killed tine during the wait in
 4pg maqpies cireling over the
 s river: shoshone Indians travel n tbe limits of their reservation;
 behaved and quiet people. noisy tpmultuous people. But all were alike. and they made the best of it.
 nas of social demareati0n were for
 lime erased. All hands mingled yon the little station platform and e little station waiting room. The 5IY of food on the dining cars gave inc first day of the hitch, and every < vas fed, and well fed, too, in tho lion eating room. They sat down at tables in relays and patiently ited their turns.
 ,be railroad employees and their ,es were to give q dance at the little n hall on St. Patrick's s night. The iahman who had been customarily aloyed to fiddle for them had been tehed to another division. In aquan- ', the dance committee toured the ns eHti Ftstien to ascertain if any of stalled passengers happened to be Yng a violin and was capable of ucing music on it. In one of the ing cars they came across an artistic ing man, with very long hair, q )hic, oleaginous eountenanee and 3dingly baggy clothes. They were ng for a fiddler. they said. Did he ! of any on tho train? Well. be [ know Gin outrageously bad Eng ;; he played | little himself once in /. le, and had rather fair fiddle him. The long haired man accent l e fiddle" rather euriously. But ilroad mon were oyerjoyed. Would | lay for them to dance with their i anu z'rSs>s----tq2 Certainlyl Did ! ow dance musio2 We'll, some.
 of the stalled passengers were in to the dance, and they all went. d many of them could not get in. | baggily clothed fiddler turned up )d time. The pianist was waiting i'm. So was the railroad dance l ittee, one of the members of which ] d s3 in ono dollar bills into the ''s hand as payment ill advance evenings s work. It was smiling oepted The dance began. The ms wife, who played the piano, ,ed an old bethumbed violin and tune book and turned to the lan- She told the fiddler, at the end of st dance, that he did pretty we'll, le went too fast. Then there was iz. The fiddler was informed by icompanist that he was getting finely, and everybody in the room to prick up his ears at the sweet the violin music, although the were common enough and taYdry ther waltz-the Beautiful Blue e. " All of the dancers on the topped dead at the first bar, and avelers with cultivated musical owed close to the piano. The pi- ceased. She wished to listen. The music was miraculous. The play yed from side to side as he phras @ appeared to be oblivious of his ndings. He improvlsed variations 'iring tenderness. He Strauss 'auss. His violin sang, throbbed iassion. When the last note died the people in the hall appeared n q dream-all but one.
 Ysaye, said Charley Fair, the tho late United States Senator from the throng, won't ay that lively, rattling thing you 8 at the Bohemian club in San soo the other night? It's been g in my head ever since. Ysaye played Berliez's "Pizzi as he perhaps never played it b. Washington Star. The Du Maurier Woman.
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