Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-31

much to her delight and she
thanked him extravagantly. After
the concert in Portland last Monday
night, when Madame and Herr Rapp .
were waiting for the north bound .
train, little man with frayed out /
collar, pushed his way through the
crowd and timidly approached the
singer. ''You hat sing lovely to-
night he simply stated. ''Und l
hear you again tomorrow night mid
Tacoma" 1t was the same little
Dutchman of the apples, and mad
anne let go volume of German
which staggered her English
friends, but seemed to delight the
music-loving farmer from Idaho. AS
he boarded the train he carefully
protected the rose she had given
him from the crowding passengers
and looked the picture of bliss and
contcntment
Membership in a brass band as
an incentive to school attendance is
an idea developed into success by
a teacher in back country district
in central Kansas, H. D. Wilson, Of
Dickinson county. The plan has
resulted in such satisfactory results
that it is attracting much attention
from teachers of that section and is
being studied as to its permanent
effects. Mr.. Wilson was for some
time teacher of music in the
country high schol. Last winter
he applied for the school and was
employed. He found that the at
tendance was small and irregular !;
hardness was so common as to be
the rule instead of the exception.
He organized the band to interest
the thirty pupils in the work of
the school, SAT first there was
trouble getting instruments, he
explains. ''We purchased some by
subscription, the board helped us to
some, and the remainder we bor-
rowed. Then we gave entertain
ments and obi anied the whole
amount needed. BY that time the
school was becoming enthused.
made memberships in the band a
reward of merit attendance, les
sons, and department must be salts
factory. The country boys and girls
grew greatly interested and noon
and recess were given up to practice
and instruction. Luckily the
schoolhouse was Q mile from any
dwelling, SO none was disturbed.
All winter the practice went on and
during the summer the pupils met
to keep up their enjoyment. One
day they went to the county seat
and played on the streets and hun
dreds of persons crowded around
them to watch the boys and girls
make sweet music. All were sur
prised by the excellence of the time
and harmony. Every pupil in the
school has chance to belong to the
band, though of course the little
ones cannot do so yet. Every
. family in the district is represen-
ted. ''The attendance has become
remarkable for its Regularity, "
says the teacher. The deportment
is exceptionally good; hardness is
almost unknown, though many Of
the pupils live three miles away
f There has grown up comradeshiI
, between myself and the pupils tina
makes us like one contented family,
/. seems like transformation in the
f school. The band played at the
: county fair, it has received added
appropriation from the district anc
, is in demand for every entertain
ment in that part of the county
The members are saving the none,
I earned from entertainments ant
, next summer the band hopes Il
f take trip to Kansas City anc
Chicago, giving the young folk:
. their first sight of a city. -
, Topeka Capital.
At one of the towns where a mu
, steal comedy was showing, the di
4 rector was having an unusually diff
ficult time rehearsing the local or
: chestra. Most of his worry wa
over the double bass, who was
better barber than he was a must
+ clan, and ought to have been sharp
,, cning razors instead of sharpcnin,
tones that should have been flat.
. In one of the musical number
: was frequent low G-sharp, which
& the barber-double bass Away
failed to reach, and which, to tn
ear of the nearer, sounded fright
fully off the pitch. FINELY, afte
hearing it for the twentieth time