People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1894 — He Could Stand It. [ARTICLE]

He Could Stand It.

A church organization in Maine intending to give a performance of some oratorio were a little alarmed about the cost of the thing. Accordingly the director of tne chorus suggested to tho leader of the orchestra that had been engaged: “We’ve got to keep our expenses down and I thought we might get you to leave out the trombones. You know they have only four measures in the entire oratorio, and if we leave them out we can save at least twenty-five dollars and no one would be the wiser.” The leader of the orchestra assumed a tragic attitude and answered: “That would be an insult to the composer.” Thereupon the chorus director observed: “0, never mind him; he’s dead.”—Washington Star.