The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-12-11

70 me tnet al tDo gas IN Nho house was
turned on at once, things got 60 bright, |
and ! hilt up my head, ready to look any
man in the face, and not afraid of nOthin.'
It was circus and brass band and a
ball all goin', on at the same time. He
lit into them keys like thousand of
brick; he give EN- no rest, day or night;
he set every Twin joint in me agoin'; and
not bein' able to stand it no longer I.
Jumped upssprang onto my seat, and jest
$50 It, my Rube'"
"EverY blamed man, woman and child
in the house riz on me and shouted, Put
him out! put him outr
"Put your grandmother's grizzly gray
greenish cat into the middle Of next
month"; says. Tech ME if ye dare! I
paid my money, and you jest come a
nigh me!
"With that some several policemen run
| up, and l had to simmer down. But I
would fit any fool that laid hands on
me, for was bound to hear Ruby out
or die.
HE had changed his tune again. He
hop-ight ladies and tip.toed fine from
eend to eend of the keyboard. He play
cd soft and solemn. heard the church.
bells over the hills. The cand les of heav-
en- was Lit, one by one. I saw the stars
rise, the great organ of eternity began to
play from the worlds end to the worlds
end, and all the angels went to prayers.
Then the music changed to. water,
full of feeling that couldn't be thought,
and began to drep-drop, drop, drip,
drop, clear and sweet, like tears Of Joy
falling into a lake of glory. It was
sweeter than that. It was as sweet as
sweetheart sWeetened with white sugar
mixed with powdered silver and seed
diamonds. 1t was two sweet. tell YOU
the audience cheered. Rubin he kinder
bowed, like he wanted to say, Much
obleeged, but I'd rather you wouldn't
interrupt me-
HE stopt moment or two to ketch
breath. Then he got mad. He run his
fingers through his hair, he showed up his
sleeves, he opened his coat leetle fur
ther, he drug up his stool, he leaned
over, and sir, he jest went for that old pi-
amer. He slapped, he boxed her jaws,
he pulled her nose, he pinched her ears,
and he scratched her cheeks, till she fair
~ yelled. He knocked her down and he
stampt on her shameful. She bleated like
calf, she howled like hound, she
squealed like pig, she shrieked like a
rat, and then he would't let her be. He
run quarter stretch down the low notes
OF the bass till he got to the lowest and you
heard thunder galloping after thunder
thro' the hollows and caves Of perdition
and then he fox-chased his right hand
with his left till he got way out Of the
treble into the clouds, whar the notes
was finer than the pints Of cambria need
les, and you couldn't hear nothin' but
the shaddcrs of 'em. And then he
wouldn't let the old planner be. He
for'ard two'd, he crost over first gentle
man; he chassade right and left, back to
your places; he all hands aroun' ladies
to the right, promenade all, in and out,
back and forth, here and there, up and
down, perpetual motion, double-twisted
and turned and tackled and tangled into
forty-cleven thousand double bow knots.
"By jlnksl 1t was mixtery. And
then he wouldn't let the old pianncr go;
he fetcht up his right wing, lie fetcht
up his left wing; he fetched up his cen
ter, he fetched up his reserves; he fired
by file, he fired by platoons, by compan-
les, by regiments, and by brigades. He
opened his cannon-slege guns down
thar, Napoleons here, twelve-pounders
yonder-big guns, little guns, middle
sized guns, round shot, shell, shrapnels,
grapes. canister, morter, mines and mag
azines, every livin' battery and bomb
and all agcin' at the same time. The
house trembled, the lights danced, the
walls shuk, the floor come up, the ceilin'
come down, the sky split, the ground
rockt-heavens and earth, creation, sweet
potatoes, Moses nineperces, glory, ten
penny nails, Sampson in Simmer tree,
lump Tompson in tumbler- cart, roodle-
dle-oodle-ruddle-u ddle. uddlc-
addle-addle.addlc-a ddlc--riddle-id dlc-
1ddle- iddle-reedle-ec eedle-eedle-
p-r-r-lank! Bang! Lang! perlang !-p-r-r-
r-r-r! Bang!
"With that bang he lifted hlsself bod
lily into the ar, and he come down with
his knees, his ten fingers, his ten toes, his
elbows and his nose; striking every sim
gle key on the piannsr at the same time
The thing busted and went off into sew.
entecn hundred and ffty-seve thousand
and forty-two- NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
and know no mo-.
"When come two, were under
ground about twenty foot, in a place
they call Oyster Bay, treatin' a Yankee
that never laid eyes on before, and new
er expect to see again. Day was break
in by the time got to the St. Nicholas
Hotel, and I pledge you my word I did
not know my name. The man asked
me the number of my room, and told
him, 'Hot music on the half shelf fol
two!'
A Ragpicker Princess.