The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1902-08-28
MADISON \ Ra0NocRAPH rowN.
What a Jolly Drummer Heard on a RE-.
ceptgisit to this City.

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" Yes. sir; I've been Knocking around
these southern towns fof sotpe time,
fana IN my wandering I've rlin across.
sopis peculiar things but Ia. one par
ticular Madison has allthe other towns
slinneda mile. I'm MT much Of "a bet
ting man, but. m wager a liver that
there more phonographa to The square
yard right here than anywhere else 10
town Of Ike s'ze.''5 The speaker was
a Jolly drummer at one Of the hotels
and be was but calling pttention to
condition that inipresses nearly every
observsnt visitor % the city.
@You call the place" he continued,
''the OAK City, but Il you want to be
up to date and nearer the truth, as ex.
emplified by existing conditions, after
this you'll Term it the Pbonoeraph City
Why, itbeats me. | got IN here early
last night and after supper took a walk
around and thenumber of musical
selections thstwers handed to me in
the space OF few.s blocks nearly gave
me the heart failure. when l go for
music want it hike my whiskey-
straight, and not ground out by spring
and served through a brass horn. |
tried to get away, but after awhile they
began coming 80 regular that couldn't
dodge all and got back to the hotel
with my head a-buzzing over a medley
Of airs mixed up with thegr-r-r-r,gr r.r-r
characteristic of the Photograph.
AS | stepped out from hesheltering
walls Of the botef for my stroll the first
words that fell on my ear were: when
Reuben Came TO Town Maybe it wasn't
meant for me, but took IL to myself,
and began TO think WAS up against it.
But this wasn't marker, for In about
half minute, just as Reuben was dying
in slow agony, an opposition machine
across the way hit me with something
like: 81 got married this morning about
half past ten,
or started as happy as nineteen
men.
But forgot my bride.
All on account Of my absent mind
Now what's the use Of honeymoon
II you leave your wife behind9'
wasn't that awful2 1t Jared me and
/ passed on out of range Of the instrp-
ment only tohear that j loved you when
you were sweet when you were swee-e-
e-e-t Is. A little further on, one Of
those big, costly machines with high
priced record was numbering the over
ture from william Tell when the se-
lection was half finished, the operator
evidently found that it was too long
for the space he had left and there was
srasmodic break and the finish came
10 strong. why, that thing would have
made Rossini turn over IN his grave IL
he hadn't been INFERRED in a sound
proof casket. But there was worse to
come. A little 2x4 tinhorn affair was
sending forth on the night air the bu-
gle calls OF the United states army while
off IN the distance The Tale OF the
BumbIe Bee" fought for q hearing with
IN Trovatore." as played by Sonaa's
band for the signal photograph com.
pauy OF HobolSen and Harlem" There
was music IN the air for fact,
"a house or two away "Dixie" fought
it out with Yankee DOODLE and both
we're frequently interrupted by the "lta-
wings Of John Mccullough" The last
thing Iheard was a schoolboy declaimine
the '.iumortal words Of Patrick Henry y
and paraphrasing it, exclaimed lag, /
! He'd, @smash the phonopraphsy or gfe
me death Y 1
sThat night dreamed | wag with The
Light Brigade and the story of peril
ran 10 this fashlong
Phonos to the right Of them.
Phones 10 the left Of them,
Phones above them z
squawlSed and blnndered.
stormed az by song and band
NIadisouians grand
monograph murdered.
eyes, cir the drummer copelu led,
ethis is a photograph town from youi
heart
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