The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1851-01-30
TRYING THE OTHER END OF THE
- ROD.


Everybody knows NJ -, clerk Of the
DR.. franklin No. 2; and one Of the severest
practical okers that ever ran upon the river,
or that ever ran VS. upon greenhorns. The
past season, as one Of his Instruments of was-
gerry, he took along n couple OF reeds, (Indi-
an flutes one Of which was charged with
-four SO that when the flute was blown n
| peslect cloud Of -four was discharged INFO The
lace and eyes--ot-ihe- person blowing it,
! Whenever NJ found any passenger,
priest or lay1nan, il was all ihe same TO him,
who manifested AN interest IN these Indian
curositics. he would produce the two flutes
and retaining the one that was not loaded
with flour. would hand over the other 10 the
tver,la M, enquirer ;-and would then commence
Having that plaintive, monotoDous Dakota
fuue. with a variation OF two notes, which Is
so familiar to the ears oil every resident OF
8, PnnI. Thus decoyed. the posscssor of
Tie other flute was certain TO follow Ms
example and at the very first foot. 10 blow n
,louJ of -four into his own face. from the bar
rel of the flute. which is pl Eyed like "A cario-
net; and titus produce IN the crowd around
an ou,hurst of merriment. at his own expense
On The last trip OF the Franklin, bat short
time since. NJ had his Indian flutes
along. as usual and one OF the passengers,
who was up 10 snuff: determined 10 'ufn the
laugh for once upon the old way himself; so
he took Ms decoy flute away 10 me
cooks room, and charged 1t well WIN hne'y
rulverised charcoal and returned II, wahout
Ms knowledge: TO its place in the OIL
fec with th. other flute, and after dinner
said IN Ms hearing, that 1t would be
pIeasanf 10 have some music"
ceramic. SAYS Nj; did you ever
~. ha h,fn
err, play uponF 81 nov., dJ
Do tell me. If Trey have flutes !"
Th;s was enough Tor NJ. HIS lace,
lIuminous as the SUI behind IL crlmsoiied cloud,
GAS radiant with anticipated iun, as ne
Ihrourbt ont the two flutes. and handed 10 the
puo,Iirer. the one loaded with IL 'ur.
4 whole crowd. the most Of whom under
s,o M the flour trick. several of them by being
themselves victimized, gathered arouaa 10
ala, men' qnoih the enquirer. 81 shouldn't
I--wby I hav'ni the least idea-wly how 90
YOU i,rying to finger the hoies) blow Tie
darned thing, any way s! u
..Oh simple. very SIMPLE" replied NJ -,
a,bis instrument is used by the Indian lover,
:, serenadinr his dusky sweetheart. All he
lat,rnpts. Is pi,inivc, melancholy: pataet-
ic air. TO touch the heart oil ms MISTRESS
Tn. no,es are very simple" (Here he went
; into a lengthy disposition OH Indian mhsc,
Gust ms aud habils.) 1.-The ar Is SIMPLY tlS'
. blows aad fills his own eyes aud begrims
his whole face with powdered charcoal, IL
whole crowd laughing AMI roaring and ia'r'
lv ,umbI.ny down. with excessive mirth.)
M-siood Tor a moment, beSrIned Us
an ETHIOPIAN, ifen dropping the ilute uPoi
, the A ,or exclaimed, caught in my own trap
After then, they had plenty oil music oil
the franklin; for that, NJ riH have
: tnt no more Indian flu cs = MIN. Pioneer
Good We are glad that old heather
Capt. Monfort, is caught mt last. Last sam
/. mer he victimiZed Us with that same game =
We attempted TO blow beautiful strain OF
he n ,ur instrument, and after great strain
had only left by way Of reward DIM PerceP
ton of seeing through cloud Of white duS
the Captain holding his sides, while we STOOD
u wondering why every body had not beer
blown up by an explosion which had sur
rounded us with such an impenetrable body
ofslenm. What made the matter worse. va
the fact that three or tour years previous W.
Il hid assisted Capt. NJ. III vict'mlz'ng greer
e 'uns at the same game.