The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-19

actually talk, under the touch of the
W. NJ. it stirred up such emotions in
his soul as he had never experienced
before. Consequently he often in
wardly thanked the good fairy for
the precious gift, old Stone for hav-
ing discovered its merits, and the
W. NJ. for bringing out it's superior
qualities.
Another week had elapsed and the
musicians had again assembled in
the music hall for rehearsal. The
W. M. is the theme for conversation,
but he has not yet arrived. Some
uneasiness has been felt on this ac-
count, particularly on Jake's part,
who expected to arrange a brilliant
programme for the next evening,
and he had put down the W. NJ. to
play DeBeriot's first concerto
More waiting and some grumbling,
and still the W. M. had not put in an
appearance.
''This is too bad," said Jake.
Old Scraper gave Jake peculiar
look but said nothing.
This state of affairs was destined
to be of short duration, for in few
moments a gentleman entered the
room, saying, II have big news and
bad news for you, jake"
"What's that?" all inquired at
once.
"The wonderful musician, you
know"
"Well, what about him?" uneasily
asked Jake.
"Gone up the spout! drunk as a
lord! Resisted the police! Put him
in the lookup" said newcomer,
nearly out of breath. 1--WE pause to
explain that the entire "police force"
of the village consisted Of three, and
if the whole body had combined on
the unlucky musician there could
not have been much of struggle. J
ooh! my fiddle said poor Jake at
this unexpected announcement.
"Good.byc, boots" said Siege
lctti.
ga pinch of snuff for my shirt"
said John Fallen.
"My pants are gone said Merry
Hitler.
"And what about my dress coat?'
said Ronny bedford.
This bad news was but too true.
The wonderful musician had been
enchanted by the bad fairy, and
while under spell he played the very
cold Harry generally. The wicked
enchanter first took away his senses
and so wound his tolls around him
that he was found in the gutter of
one of the streets of the village, but
had sufficiently recovered when the
police force (?) discovered him to
show fight. The combat was short
and decisive, but it brought out the
whole force to convey him to the
lookup.
We are compelled to skip a good
deal here, but suffice tito say, the
sentence against him was "ten dol.
lars fine and six monthsin jail, with
labor" which latter meant in the
chain. gang. And the form of the
awful justice of the peace seemed to
swell up to twice it's natural size as
he felt that the violated sanctity of
the law had been indicated. And
again the "force'' was required to
convey the prisoner to the common
Jail.
In the mean time the news had
flown through the village of these
events, and of course caused many
comments to be made. Some of the
young ladies thought it was "real
cruel in the mean old policeman to
treat him in that way some peo-
pie shrugged their shoulders and
said nothing; and old Scraper said it
was no more than what he anticipa-
ted.
Jake was terribly worried by the
turn affairs had now taken. He had
already arranged the programme for
the next evening and the stranger
had been put down to play an impor-
tant part. He was worried, too, to
know how he would be received if he
could be even temporarily Olsen.
chanted. While lie was in this di
lemma a good.hearted old gourd
scraper interviewed the awful jus
tice and obtained his release on pay
ment of the fine and a promise on
the part of the offender not to allow
himself to be caught in such a trap