St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-07
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TEEE COW.OX PIANES
Ready TO Play for Money, Chalk or
Tsarhi-E

A man of medium stature, attired in dark
colored business suit and wearing an i'm
meuse white sombrero was promen aiding in
the Office of the International hotel yesterday.
As he walked to aud fro twisting a piratieal
mustscle aud shaking his amhroSial locks,
be looked like very savage parsonage.
That's the CONVOY pianist, said a spec
tatOr to a GLOBE reporter hes goin' 10 play
al the museum next week and they sar he
dandy" An Introduction followed and upon
the Invitation OF the cowboy. he led the way
TO the parlOr, where ne played a number uf
selections in admirable 81 e, bearing out the
statements of the various criticisms that nave
been written about him.
Il understand" sad the cowboy, THAT
some one has said that l ID trained must
clan. I'll offer any man 81 00U if he can
prove that ever received a musical educa-
ton. | can't read a note, but just remember
all that hear. I'm now IS aud never touched
a piano until was Il. This is now IL hap
pened: j was brought up on ranch, said
he mot far from the edge Of the Indian Ter
ritory. My mother IS Il Castilian and my
father German. They knew nothinG what
ever OF music. But when | was about Is
years old the old man bought al old CHECKER
ing piano of party of emi-rants. He gave
t. Give bushels o. corn for II, lie 'ause ne
said. it would make good ironing table for
the Old woman. 1t was put in corner Of the
one room, and she used TO use it to cut our
clothes on. When il was not used it
was generally covered with harness and
potatoes. / never saw ii opened. One
day when / was about q. | started down
with lot OF the boys TO go to roundup.
We had to ride sixty miles. and we stopped at
an Old man about half way and all got full.
You know what the BOYS are out there. About
3 in the morning started with my pard to 20
on. But was 50 full my pony threw me.
lie got his foot in II gopher hole. fell or
and broke my arm in two places. They had
to take me back and then go up 10 Fort Sill,
sixty miles, for u surgeon to set my arm.
was laid up for six months. One day had
shock didn't know what il was then. But
! know now, for l had hold of them electric
notes in Philadelphia, and that's what il was.
/ was scared. Then | got crazy notion that
! wanted to play that pianner. | couldn't
help ii no more than | could help breathing.
Oh, don't know nything about what il was.
| just took the stuff of that panner and got
il round and pried it open. The keys We're
green. put my hands on it and a kind of
happiness went through me that made me
boiler ! began 10 play. / looked at my
hands and they were going it. l couldn't
stop 'em. The old woman came in and she
let out scream She thought was mad.
They coudn get me away from the pianner.
I kept al il night aud day. The old man said
had the tremens. Well, must have acted
so, when think of 1t. Now. that all there
is to it IL ever took lesson | hope may
drop dead here. Folks said il was spritualism.
but bats too thin. I'm no derned spiritual
ist, and don't you forget it"
81 pa. at the museum for a week, then go
to Chicago and from there to New YORK.
Come down and see me-"