The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-13
Running Higher and Breaking
Out in New Places.
THE MUSICAL A NOW
All the Boys Are UP in Patriotic Airs
and Keep the Tunes in the Air-war
Declared on a Music Box That
Played Spanish Opera.

every day. First IL is the flag fad, Their
the badge fever. then the musical fel.
lows AXE a whirl at IL and sing and
play patriotic airs ana songs all the
time; then comes the speech-making
epoch. and that is the worst of all. The
musical era Is not so bad. Missoula is
just passing through that and is on
the verge of "A threatened spell OF elo-
quence. But II is music now and plen-
~ of IL. Boys who for months have
been whistling about hot times In the
city, new DULLES, and the resemblance
of one aembe of the colored race to
another. all as set forth i'm the popu-
lar ballads of the hour. no longer pipe
ne tunes of peace and happiness.
Through puckered lips the atmosphere
Is agitated into thrilling notes of war.
America" Johnny Get our Gun"
Marching Thro' Georgia. Hail CO.
lumbia." when Johnny Comes
Marching Home Again. and all of the
rest. The boys whistle from morning
till night. as do such of the girls as
can properly manipulate their lips.
They all have a good time and nobody
kicks at the whistling as used to be the
case. Everybody seems to think that
II is the proper stun and II all goes.
That the rising generation Is familiar
with all of these songs Is considered
as a good indication. The boys of
Troop ID are practicing IN the strains
of The Girl ] Left Behind Me-" and
are wondering how soon they will
have to whistle IL In earnest.
The little lads are well up, most of
them, i'm the music of this class. and
they can sing as well as whistle. There
is a venerable physician I'm his city
who is intensely patriotic. He was
taking his breakfast in a restaurant
the other morning, when two newsboys,
selling Standards, entered the room
and called out the headlines of the
mornings news. They supplied the
people of the restaurant, n as they
passed out one of them CHANGED To be
humming the air of Marching Thro'
Georgia" The notes caught the doc
tors ear and he asked the lad for
more. The two piped up their childish
voices and sang the song without "A
mistake. hat pleased the doctor and
he gave them each a quarter. Then
the boys gave him another song and
he dug up two more quarters. This
just suited the boys and they sang
like veterans. They knew more patri-
otto airs than the doctor had quarters,
and when they were getting fairly
warmed vi the doctors supply OF two
bit pieces gave out. Then the boys
gave him one more song for luck and
went on about their business.
George Mink has "a big music box i'm
his beer hall. and II Is one of the popu-
lar institutions OF the city. II Is
really a musical machine and not one
of the little dinky bovs that make a
man tired. Many lunch and beer par
ties have enjoyed its tones. and for
,,.,tLa @s,..a 4. .-aa ,,,, Il, ono - H.
favorite airs has been La Paloma."
This beautiful piece has been played
over and over again and has always
been well received. So last night when
things We're getting good George put
La Paloma' ON the machine and
turned IL loose. But he forgot that
the war is on. Som one with a criti-
cal ear caught the first strains of the
piece and called out, That's Spanish:
take IL off" The cry was taken up all
over the room. and poor George flew
to the machine to remove the unfor-
tunate sheet of zinc that had caused
all the trouble. He seized IL and put il
away i'm a dark closet. where 1t will
remain until the cruel war is over.
Then he placed another i'm position and
The Star Spangled Banner" made the
offended crowd forget its troubles
Then the music box played Yankee
Doodle" and things were brighter. Fin
ally Professor Schwabe went to the
piano and played a long medley of pa
triotic tunes. That settled IL all and
the score was even. But Herr Mink is
still shivering as he thinks what a
close call his plate glass had when the
box played l. Paloma.'
There is a quiet. pleasant place where
many of the night shift drop i'm during
the late evening and early morning to
satisfy the inner man. Here frequent
ly there are pleasant little groups of
hungry fellows who happen i'm at the
same time. They eat together and
listen to the music and sip their beer
and rest. Last night there were four
Of these fellows at a table waiting for
rudolph to come and take the lunch
orders. Rudolph knows the crowd
pretty well and he knew better than TO
make n break that would precipitate
any anti-Spanish riots. So when he
called out his two hot dishes for the
night he said: Philippine soup, a la
Dewey. and boiled beef with Cuban
sauce" He had been calling il bean
soup n Spanish sauce at the other
tables. and the boys were waiting for
him To do the same thing with them.
but he was too quick, and they set
up the sarsaparilla.
Missoula has been a little slow i'm
getting walked up on the flag business.
but the red. white and blue is appear
ing not quite numerously, and the
town looks more patriotic than IL did a
week ago. Every business house ouglN
to have some show Of bunting. just To
show that the heart is in the right
place. 1t is not that there is any sus-
picion OF Spanish sentiment. but II is a
good thing to see the Stars and Stripes.
There is no better flag in the whole
world and IL ought TO be esteemed a
pleasure 10 be able 10 fly IL.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.