The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-05-31

Q adjoining room In that room dwell
agenl'ls-a musical genius.
4 He was a well:regnlated young mar
--otherwise than being a mnsira
blockhead. lie kept very good hours
> pbetter than | conid have wished.
Ills vehicle ofexpmssion was an nc
: corieon. . 1t was a large aceorleon
also lond one.
This young maR's name was XVIII
bsy. He wasaa strong voting man,
and the way he did work the below.
was a caution toreels. Also to nerve,
with ears attached to them.
This young aspirant for fame knew
overy tune that WAS ever written.
What time he was not eating, sleen.
Ing or engaged in playing his aceor-
deon, he was whistling these tunes.
He could whistle them better than
he could play them. and he wasn't
much ofa whistler, either.
/ have considerable christian for
! bearance, even for an accorleonist. |
went to bed with cotton in my ears
regularly for Xix months, without
growing, hoping all the while that he
would either learn to play, or that
some accident would happen him.
lie burst the bellows of his internal
machine one night, and | managed to
get to sleep at midnight. hoped it
would take at least a month to repair
the thing, but III be hanged If he
tlid't get another to practice on while
his was being mcnded, and it was
worse than his own.
The original melody returned at the
end of a week, and that glad genius
held high carnival tllereat. He
made night hideous, he felt so GOOD.
Patience, for accident or the devel-
opment Of that musical bud, ceased to
be a virtue. Those who would be free
themselves must strike the blow; |
resolved 10 strike.
The door of his room was always
open, and person could enter during
the day and inspect that musical tor
ment if he wanted to. / wanted to-.
procured an ounce of powder.
took out the musical stop Of that ac-
cortleon, and | emptied the article into
the bowels thereof. arranged d pre-
cllssion cap under the wind-yalye of
that instrument, in such q manner as
to explode things ii he went to pat
ronizing that tlapper with the snap
and vim that he usually bent himself
to.
Night came and waited the result
with tiendish delight. | didn't wish to
murder that man right put and ont,
but if could permanently disable that
instrument of his, even if he escaped
with six weeks in the hospital. |
thought | should be doing good |
thing for science and the community !
generally.
That night he attended q free con-
cert. He went to pick up some new
tunes. lie had picked up hundreds
III this way, and then returned home |,
to pick them out on his accordion.
1t was about 10 O'Clock that night, |
heard him coming up stairs whistling
"The DEVILS Sonata" aud | knew
that he had picked that up and was
Whistling 1t as he came along, to keep
Il in his head.
He rushed into his room. lie did I
not even step to light the gas. lie
owed to rhapsodise in the dark. So l
10 cats. lie seized the ACCORDION. t
He ran his agile digits over the keys c
everal times. as much as to say:
''IIe worked carefully over the Son.
lta for few minutes, until he had G
,icked his way through 1t after fash 5
on, and then he began to swing it out Il
The ACCORDION groaned, squealed, e'
fhined and wheezed. lie was getting Sc
rarmed up to his work. lie played 81
lster and faster. The ordinary move Of
lent Of the bellows did not supply m
lind enough to give expression to his di
,elings. He resorted to the wind st
alive. OF
He rcsorted to it once too often. at
There was sharp snap, followed pc
an exaggerated, explosive grunt. pr
here was yell. There was also ty
lttling of crockery ware and furni- of
Ire. Also wild shaking of win ha
,ws, flash and rush for the door. Of
| heard that musical genius bump tht
e several extremities OF his anatomy an
! the floor and up against the parti- rel
IN. | heard him shout sire I" and del
nurder!" | rushed to his rescue. voi
There was every evidence Of thor col
gh work. We lit the gas and jus
lgllt for an explanation. Every the
ing in the room was overturned. str
mt musical genius was paralyzed the
tn fear. lie stood trembling In the par
'ner, and he hesitatingly asked me are
the house was struck by lightning. er's
There wasn't enough of that accor- the
IN left to make respectable tooth are
k Of. | turned to look at the geni- 1t Il
He certainly looked as though he if
been struck by lightning or some thr(
NJ quite as effective. Ills nous Uni
Iie was gone; also his eyelaslles Fed
eyebrows. His hair was shorter but
n II was and his whole ,nake-up dict
Sed sadly out of joint. The
he persecuted boarlers gathered IN Eng
room. They voted il i musical to Il
'tery. The lantllady said 1t served trieC
right for playing the Deri3's Som else
while the Others concluded that II
oil owing to his throwing 50 much III
Ing INTO ms execution. ii qHeI
tOld nim ! thonght IL was the work In ST
Y spirit ofthe deldcomp0seF, who the ;
= stand the torture no longeK and ted
bis the genius appeared 70 coin exut
GprIhe has abandoned music and IIbnrn
Ow h,lsllv ,dnRaoed In ea,ltivatino,I tinn