| Show at a I NOTHING LEFT TO LIVE FOR I on th With Broken Fiddle Went Ait Joy of Tb Musicians Life genii Nat Wills who has put aside tho his r Broadhurst ambitions that ho become It sb a high priced star and taken Tho no h 1 Duke of Duluth back to tho popular as circuit that likes him tells a story marl of a German cellist with whom he pas once came In sudden contact and Ito bass violin player relates Into Nathaniel was stopping at the samo sour hovel and we were both In the office blrt when a small boy thrust his head In pent I the door nnd shouted The opery to 1 11 house Is on fire ThiF Mine Gott shrieked tho musician that music-ian a short fat and excitable Ger and man wino fiddle I and ho rushed get madly for the theater Reaching a ql thero he hurried through the stago door and Into the orchestra pit Tho hr theater was a mass of flames in tho win rigging loft but tho beloved fiddle dref was still safe Its owner seized It and an started to make his escape the way noU ho came Too late the stage Itself I fir was now a roaring furnace I The Gorman thCl Gor-man staggered to a window that open wed w-ed on the street and raised it I was standing with the crowd J Quick Nat ho gasped take de fiddle and ho thrust the neck through A tho window The body of the violin eXI1 was too largo and it stuck fast A IIhl dozen willing hands seized It thero ha was a sound of splintering wood a roo wall from the derman Mine Gott the dont break Ill and we all fell backwards abl back-wards with only the neck In our 1 1 grasp Wo were forced to reach In In and drag that crazy German away pal from the remainder of his beloved Instrument cbl In-strument and with tho broken neck No clasped In his arms and the tears a blistered cheeks he no rcJIng down his lie turned to mo and demanded 1m Is dot do way to save a mans fiddleFiddle bt Fiddle bo hanged I Youro lucky to escape with your life In In Yah but vots do use m |
