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Show LOST THE BASS DRUM. Absolute Proof That Such a Thing It Possible. The. man who lost tho bass drum has boon found. Nowspnper paragraphers havo mado merry with tho nbsont-mlnded man, and iio lias been accused of all sorts of deeds of omission and commission Therefore somo of tho stories told at his expense havo been taken In m Pickwickian sense. Tho talo that a mnu said ho was so absent-minded that nt one time he lost n bass drum has always been considered 11 mero Joke. Origlnnlly this story may havo boon a fable, but now It Is true. A man has actually lost a bass drum, nml nil the members of an Iowa band will hour witness to tho fact. It happened near Davenport n fow Sundays ago. There was n celebration celebra-tion nt Davenport and nn up country band had arranged to take part In the festivities. Tho train stopped ut tho station Just a moment, and tho members mem-bers of tho band piled Into tho smoker with their Instruments nnd their regalia. re-galia. Just as the train was moving away a fat, red-nosed man grasped tho rail and swung nbonrd. Then ho turned pain and gasped. "Where's my drum?" he cried, as his eyes bulged and his knees shook. "I saw It on the depot platform," snld the trombono plnyer. "Suffering curnhusks! I forgot It!" When the baud began IuirIiichh 11 1 Davenport It labored under a handicap, handi-cap, and the bnss drummer wns not a populnr member of the aggregation. |