The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-01-15
A FIDDLER WANTED.
nc WAS FAMED AND At DANCE MUSIC
DID VERY WELL.

nc WAS FAMED AND AT DANCE MUSIC
DID VERY WELL
run and Frolie In wsshout On the Ore
ron short Line MiliionAires and Isnmi-
grants Attend . Dance and EAperisncs
Q Musical Surprise.
On ST. Patrck's day, 1894. five
through trains. bound both TO the east.
ward and westward of the Oregon Short
Line Of the Union Pacific, were tied up
at Glenns Ferry. Ida They had been
caught between two serious washouts.
one st Pocatello and the other at Indian
Greek, three days before. and had to
wait 1t Glenns Ferry for track repairs
along the line before they could proceed.
Glenps Ferry 10 . bleak little railroad
and sheep herdsrs' town Of 800 or 400
inhabitants situate on . sagebrush
blufl overlooking the unspeakably dark
aud dreary Snake river.
The Eve stalled trains carried 900
passen gers of a. miscellaneous charac-
ter ~ could b. gotten together at
carefully selected congress OF types
There were emigrants and millionaires;
soldiers on the move; dainty women in
palace cars and women bound for Creede
and Cripple Greek in day coaches; min
ers who killed time during the wait in
shooting magpies circling over the
Snake river; Shoshone Indians travel
ing to the limits Of their reservation;
well behaved and quiet people. noisy
and tumultrous people. But all were
stuck alike, and they made the best of II.
Lines Of social demarcation were for
the time erased All hands mingled
easily on the little station platform and
in the little station waiting room. The
supply Of food OH the dining cars gave
out the first day Of the hitch. and every
body was fed. and well fed. too. in the
station eating room. They sat down at
the tables in relays and patiently
awaited their turns.
Tie railroad employees and their
wives were to give a dance at the little
town hall ON St Patrick's night. The
switchman who had been customarily
employed to fiddle for them had been
switched to another division. In guam
Diary, the dance committee toured the
trains and station TO ascertain il any OF
the stalled passengers happened TO be
carry ing . violin and was capable OF
prod ucing music on it. In one OF the
sleeping cars they came across an artistic
looking man, with very long hair, a
seraphic. oleaginous countenance and
exceedingly baggy clothes. They were
looking for fiddler. they said Did he
know Of any Oh the train? Well. be
didn't know Tin outrageousiy bad Eng
lish) he played little himself once III
awhile, and had rather fair fiddle
. with him. The long haired man accent
ed the eddie" rather curiously. Blu,
the railroad men were overjoyed. Would
be play for them to dance with tbeil
wives and sweethearts? Certainly. Die
be know dance musicl Well, some.
|. All Of the stalled passengers were in
!. vited to the dance, and they all went
= A good many Of them could not get in
d The baggily clothed fiddler turned ri
!, in good time. The pianist was waitinl
for him. So was the railroad dane
committee, one of the mem bers Of which
slipped s. in one dollar bills into th
6ddler's hand as payment in advanc
for tho evenings work. IL was smiling
" accepted. The dance began Th
Hreman's wife. who played the piano
produced III old bethumbed violin ant
piano tune book and turned to the Ian
GERS. She told the fiddler. at the end o
the first dance, that be did pretty well
only be went too fast Then there wa
waltz The fiddler was informed b
his accompanist that he was gettin
U along finely, and everybody in the roor
e began TO prick up his ears ut the sweet
. ness Of the violin music. although tn
!, dances were common enough and tawdr
II enough.
e Another waltz-the Beautiful Blu
Danube" All Of the dancers on I'll
&c door stopped dead at the first bar, an
the travellers with cultivated music,
ears moved close to the piano. The p
= alist ceased. She wished to listen. tt
a violin music was miraculous. The pla,
= or swayed from eide 10 side - he phra
= I'd. BE appeared 20 be oblivious Of b
surroundings. he improvised variation
A Of inspiring tenderness. He out-Straus
u ed Strauss Bis violin sang. throbb'
with passion. When the last note di'
away, the people in the hall appear
TO be In dream-all but one.
IN. Ysaye." said Charley Fair. q
an of the late Upited States Sepat
Fair. stepping from the throng. "won
you play that lively. rafting thing ~
gave 10 ct the Bohemian club in 81
Francisco the other night? It's be
= running in my head ever since. p"
~. Ysaye played Berlioz's "Pis
cato" % he perhaps never played it
fore. darlington Star.
The Du ldosries Woman.
q. In an article which the late Mr..
Maurier wrote some years ago for I
Magazine Of Art apropos Of the typi'