Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-06-12
cached that age where prevaricate IN

reached that age where l prevaricate In
that direction some, for cannot remem-
Der names any more, and so when this
gentleman bowed / did so, and we talked
ON pleasantly. He asked me all about
Buffalo Bill and Herbert Spencer and
Steve Brodie and President Carnot and
Marshall Wilder and Neil Vanderbilt
and all of our folks, so 1 knew that he
moved in our set Then he asked me to
excuse him, but there looked to him to
be foreign substance in among the
leaves of my salad. / paved over the
lettuce and discovered in it a new dollar
bill. l thanked the gentleman for his
kindness. and said was getting so alb
sent minded now that was liable to go
away some time and leave whole fort
une in the hotel sugar bowl. He said he
was that way too.
''Now, for instance, l left something or
other over there in that finger bowl, i
believe. VIII you be kind enough to look
in it and see." l examined the finger
bowl and found his diamond ring in the
bottom of it. When / got through my
meal / decided to go and see some sort
of show. Invent to see Hermann. When
he came ON the stage / remembered who
it was that ate dinner with me.
The performance did not run very
smoothly, owing to the orchestra, which
was local affair. In one place the per
former is quite dependent on the orches-
ira for his cue, as the whole thing moves
along with the music. 1t is part of the
programme called Black Art, wherein
various skeletons come out of their damp,
i'll ventilated graves at late hour of the
night and dance the hornpipe or remove
their skulls and blow the dust out OF
them, keeping time to the music all the
while. Hermann had endeavOred to i'm
press upon him that the members of the
orchestra must pay strict attention tt
their business, for he depended on the
music.
When it got to this part of the pro
gramme the magician discovered tha
the leader had loaded his etruscan jaw
with giant jag of tltti frutti gum ani
was keenly enjoying the show. Herr
mann motioned him to go on with tn,
music, and he spread out his wings as
IL.
CHASTITY gentleman after another got ou
of his malarial grave and shook out tn,
kinks in his skeleton, the orchestra be
gan to play more and more piano. TIL,
man who administers the clarionet t,
himself every evening swallowed tn,
first joint of his instrument, and theI
seemed to freeze with horror at the pict
OF ~, 4, al
ghost crawled out of his grave, and tax
ing out a carpet tack which had been il
the bottom of his coffin no doubt TO
years and jabbing him in the back, h
seemed to breathe sigh of relief, an'
| turning hand spring lit on the top of ;
tall monument worth $3.50.
Then the man who plays the adjust
able brass pulled the instrument out t,
| its fullest extent and forgot to put i
back again. More and more the or
chestra seemed to get interested in tn
| show and less in its music The drum
mer made a fox pass, as the French say
and then paused with an unborn not
still trembling on his lips Finally rs tn
| CHASTITY funniest went on, the orchestr1
got so diminuendo that an old blint
man, with a croupy base tuba, was TIL
only musician who seemed to be earnin.
| his salary.
Then Professor Hermann came out OF
| the stage and made few desultory re
marks to the orchestra personally. HI
began to remove gum from the jaws o
the orchestra, and some said he got eigh
pounds, but l think that is putting it too
high. Between six and seven would,
think, be big enough. At this momen
the drummer sought to reply. A littl'
discussion arose between him and tn,
professor, and when it closed the drum
mer was not there. The next day, an
told, he was found inside the base drum