The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-01-30
JIM. Clute E. Go.
KILL HIM!
This Was the Unanimous Wish of
Some Passengers Bored by
Man with an ACCORDION.

The other day there Mss man and mis-
wife on Conductor Arnoid's train Who,
fsom their general appearance, We're from
the rural districts.
The man was endeavoriDg all the way
from ST. Louis, 70 twist and squeeze some
music our Of whsezy aceordeon.
A, Jefferson City representative vi The
BAZoo boarded the tain and the couple
was pointed cut TO him.
The BAzOo man sat clown in near prux-
unity to them and took survey.
The man MAS forty wears oi age. at least.
The woman WIS peaKesi faced nose one.
sided ard cross eyed. Her hair hung In
struggling strings, looking as il they had
not been very close together tor two wes ks
1t is TACT, her face was dirty. She, loo,
had at least seen forty winters, and they
had been hard ones 20 her, goose bone. or
no goose bone
Scarcely had our friends taken seat
when the accordeon, accompanied u the
locomotive blowing of steam. commenced.
The man was At the bellows.
He PUMPED sway vigorously, working
his arms like Shsnghi rooster works his
wings when he is about TO fly upon his
roost. He got red in the face and bumped
himself up in heap, rasping out the
most iidecus music listened to since tina,
man Of Biblical iame 'gnawed file AMI
made the spirits Ot Just men perfect
The train boy, with a basket III igs In
his arms, cried out in accents wild:
Give ns rest, old sscOzer Do YOU
want To drive all the passengers insaner'
The hero Of the occasion did not notice
the boy, but kept on with the iiejein,ed
music
A lady In the train, with a green patch
over her LETT eye, dressed in fashionable at
tire. approached the nan, and endeavcred
to bny the Instrument Of torture.
He positively refused To sell.
And the the music proceeded, and the
train, too, which msde matters little
mere easy, rs the noise Of the train more
or less drowned the noise from the instr,-
ment.
Music hath charms to soothe the savage
breast" said an old commercial traveller,
rs be edged his way along past where the
man sat, "bu, blast my grips, if that would
soothe anything-it might awaken the
sleeping energies of an Egyptian mummy"
The music stopped, and the man turned
around. and, as he eyed the speaker, said
Il have JUS, come from Egypt-Clay
county, ILLINOIS,. WHAT 10 yOo Know
about that county ~
"Nothirg." abruptly said the man, who
sells hats and caps for St. Louis iirm.
The representative Of the press then APP
preached the musical fend while there was
cessation OF wind going through the nc
cordeon and learned he was from Eldera-
do, Kansas, and that he had been back To
Illinois to visit his wlfe's people and that
i'm coming back he had purchased an ac-
Gordon To take home To the Young 'uns.
Where did you laarn to play ?" he was
interregated.
II never PLAYED on this kind Of an in
s,rument before, bat thought | would
amuse the passengers a little while travel
Ing" said the Kansas man.
"Amuse them" iairly howled man III
front OF him, with a shiny silk hat ON.
"Ycu will get lynched il Won keep that in
iernaI machine winded mp until We get to
Sedalia. am tired Ut il and 50 are the
passe myers" and he grabbed his overcoat
and went into u car forward.
The Kansas mau was pale with fear
IL did not know that my music was So,
bad as that" said the man, iii put it
right up," he continued.
He grabbed the instrument with both
hands TO put it il a box and in so doing it
made Noise similar to that OF dying.
cali, which made AN old lady with glasses
Old, just two seats behind him, jump and
look around hearing a terribly frightened
appearance.
Alter the ACCORDION was put away the
passengers settled down TO their wonted
,ompOsure and Conductor Arnold was all
smiles from that time until Sedalia was,
reached. when they left his train, going
south. carving his ACCORDION with them.