Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-17

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is municipal election in April.
Now the thing to do is TO look
around and find out who the aspir-
ing candidates are, and whether
they are men vino believe that the
band is a good thing for the town,
and are willing to use their influ-
ence in its favor. Il takes money
organization such as Mountain
Home now boasts, and to expect in
idviduals to buy their own instru-
n1ents, pay for private lessons, help
buy music and pay for an instruct
or, and give the public the bene- |
fit of their cash outlay, time and |
practice free of charge seems hardly
fair, and to be forever circulating
subscription papers and begging IA
vors of individual business men and |
citizens is not the most desirable |
task in the world. If there is no
ordinance at present permitting the
expenditure of municipal funds for
musical purposes, let us try to get
men on the council who have enough
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republicans or democrats, to make
certain. the passage of such a law
There can surely be nothing wrong
in paying a few paltry dollars out
of the general treasury for some
thing that benefits the entire popu-
lation. Other and Mess favored
communities find it no burden to
g.. c. 1C
Certs during the year. Why not
Mountain Home? We are not ask
ing for something and offering
nothing in return. The sooner the
town gets over the idea that the
band is charity affair, a sort of a
necessary evil, the better. Wake
up, boys; get busy; demand of the
men who desire aldermanic honors
that they declare themselves in
favor of appropriating sum out
of the public funds, monthly or
yearly, sufficient to at least pay a
fair share of the cost of mainte-
nance.
To a mother there is perhaps
more music in the innocent prattle
and toddiing step of her little one
than in the grandcst symphony that
WIS ever written.
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We do not like that song BE
loved, 1t is Morn,' for fall we'd
.dings. 1t causes the hearers to
wonder which one at the altar will
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fires, vulgar, commonplace
thought which has no business
amid the flowers and ribbons and
poetry attendant upon a wedding.
Ii is all right in the spring, when
getting up first is pastime. =
Atchinson Globe.
IN East Africa no one ever lifts
his finger for even the smallest
service. To move chair, to pick
up a card, to open a door, to lift
a book, boy is called-in fact, is
generally close at hand. Most of
these servants were born savages in
the grass huts of a people that
hunted with bows and arrows and
occasionally enjoyed a little can
nioalistic feast. The Germans have
trained their natives wonderfully
those that they have adapted to
their civic and domestic usages.
The first morning after our arrival
we were serenaded by the native
band of about twenty-five or thirty
pieces. There they stood outside
our windows, clad in regimentals
-siff khaki helmets, neat coats
and knee brccchcS of the same, and
shiny bare black lcgs-around their
leader, German in full uniform.
The music was excellent, given
with spirit and precision. The
German, with the indomitsblc per-
severance of his race, had trained
them, though he spoke not one
word of their language, they not
one word of his. Each man had to
be separately taught his instrument
Probably none of them could read
any written language, yet each
could read his little sheet of music,
tune his instrument and play in &C
cord with his fellows. 1t was a
sight worth seeing and a serenade
worth listening to, there in the
shade of those thick, black trees,
with the foreground of dazzling
white coral sand road, the intense
blue sky above and the sentries who
walked up and down a few feet
from our windows all day and all
night.