The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-10-16

because wanted to love somebody, didn't
know who, better than the men with gui-
tars did. Then the sun went down, it got
dark, the wind moaned and wept like lost
child for its dead mother, and l could a
got up there and then and preached a bet
ter sermon than any | ever listened to.
There wasn'ta single thing in the world
left to live for, not single thing, and yet |
didn't want the music to stop one bit. 1t
was happier to be miserable than to be
happy without being miserable. Icouldnt
understand it.
eI hung my head and pulled out my
handkerchief, and blowed my nose to keep
from cryin' My eyes is weak, anyway;
l din't want anybody to be gazing at me a
sniveIlin', and it's none of nobodys busi-
ness what do with my nose. It's mine.
But several glared at me as mad as Tucker.
Then all of sudden old Rubin changed
his tune. He rip'd and he rar'd, and he
trip'd and he tar'd, and he charged like
the grand entry at circus. 'Peared
to me that all the gas in the house was
turned on at once, things got so bright
and 1 held up my head ready to look at
any man in the face, and not afear'd d OF
nothin'. 1t was circus, and brass band
and big hall, all going on at the same
time. He lit into them keys like a thou
sand of bricks, he gave 'em no rest, day mol
night; he set every living jointin me agoin'
and not bein able to stand it no longer,
jumpt up, sprang onto my seat, and jus'
hollered:
''Go it, Rube'
"Every man, woman and child in the
house riz on me, and shouted, Put hin
out put him out
"Put your -grandmother's grizzly
gray greenish cat into the middle of next
month, 1 says 'Tetch me if you dare
1 paid my money, and you just come
nigh me!'
With that several policemen ran up, ant
had to simmer down. But would a fl
any fool that laid hands on me, for wa
bound to hear Rube out or die.
'He had changed his tune again. HI
hopt like ladies and tip toad fine from ent
to end of the key board. He played soft
and low, and solemn. l heard the church
bells over the hills. The candles in HEAVIER
were lit one by one; saw the stars rise
The great organ of eternity began to pla.
from the worlds end to the worlds end
and the angels went to prayers, Then th'
music changed to water full of feeling tina
could mt be thought, and began to drop
drip, drop, drip, drop-clear and sweet
like tears of joy fallin' into lake of glory
1t was as sweet as sweetheart sweetn
with white sugar, mixed with powdered
silver and seed diamonds, Itwas too sweet
| tell you, the audience cheered. Rubil
he kinder bowed, like he wanted to say
"Much obliged, but I'd rather you wouldn'
interrupt me"
"He stopped minute or two to fetcl
his breath Then he got mad. He rum
his fingers through his hair, he showed "
his sleeves, he opened up his coat tails
little further, he drug up his stool, h
leaned over, and sir, he just went for tina
old pianner. He slapt her face, he boxe'
her face, he pulled her nose, he pinchec
her ears, and he scratched her cheeks unit
she fairly yelled. He knock't her down
and he stamped on her shameful. Sh
beloved like bull, she bleated like a calf
she shrieked like rat, and then he wouldn'
let her up, He ran quarter stretcl
down the low grounds of the bass, till h
got clean into the bowels of the earth
and you heard thunder galloping afte
thunder, thro' the hollows and caves ofper
dition; and then he fox chased his righ
hand with his left till he got away out o
the treble into the clouds whar the note
was finer than cambric needles, and yo
couldn't hear but the shadders of EN-
He for r'ard and two'd, he crosst over frs
gentleman, he cross't over first lady, h
balanced two pards, he chased right ant
left back to your places, he all hands
aroun, ladies to the right, promenade all
in and out, here and there, back and forth
up and down, perpetual motion, double
and twisted and turned and tackled an
tangled into forty 'leven thousand doubl
bow knots,
at was mystery. And then h
wouldn't let the old pianner go. He fetch
up his right wing, he fecht up his lef
wing, he fetched up his centre, he fetche
up his reserves. He fired by file, he fire
by platooDs, by companies, by regiments
by brigades. He opened his cannon, sieg
guns down thar, Napoleons here, II poup
ders yonder, big guns, little guns, middl
size guns, round shot, shells, shrapnels
grape, canister, mortars, mines and maga
zines, every livin' battery and bomb goir
at the same time,
"The house trembled, the lights danced
and the walls shuk, the floor came up
the ceiling came down, the sky split, tn
ground rock 't-heaven and earth, creation
sweet potatoes, Moses, ninepences, glory
ten penny nails, my Mary Ann, Hallelujat
Samson in 'simmon tree, Jerusalem
lump Thompson in a tumbler cart, roodlc
oodle-oodle- -roodle-oodle -ruddle ruddle- nc
dle-raddle-addle-a dle-addle-riddle-iddle- iddle-id
dle-reetle-eetle-eetle-p-r-r-r-langl per lang
p-r-r-r-r-r-long Bang
"With that bang he lifted himself bodil
into the air, and he came down with hi
knees, his ten fingers, his ten toes, his eI
bows and his nose, striking every singl
solitary key on the pianner at the sam
time. The thing busted and went off int
seventeen hundred and fifty-seven thousan
five hundred and forty 1.-two hemi-demi-sen
quavers, and know'd no more"
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