Show THE RUrfAL BANDIt BAND-It Performs Some Extraordinary Musical Mu-sical Feats I Tho rural band can do things that Sousas band oven cannot Jt can go on an excursion and play its three tunes one after the other from the time the excursion starts until Jt lies up at home You can never tucker a now band Later when they get to I the symphonic and soloistic and all of that they get wofully tired and play I slow tunes and take long rests and look bored when they receive an encore I I like to SIC a new band get an encore I even after It has been playing all day I I They strike right in and jam us ind with all the enthusiasm displayed by Lcwjs tons new lire whistle I Onco I saw a rural band playing In front of a country hotel A steep embankment em-bankment ran sloping from the plazxa Tho bandsmen stuck their toes In and I hummed away cheerfully at The 1 I Washington Post March and every thing was goinir handsomely But the I bass drummer forgot himself and went to wipe his heated brow To do that he was obliged to let go of his big drum The drum started rolling down the hill Drummer ran after It The pitch was so steep and his legs were so short that he Just missed reaching It with his hand but he was able to hit It with the drumstick and so kept up the regular beat all tho way down the hill Never missed a strokeand the band kept on At the foot of the incline the drum went up against an obstruction and halted so suddenly that the drummer went over It head llrsl It happened that there was a rest of a few beats for him at that place In the music and he was able to got on his feet and boost the drum on his knee In season to take up the thing here he left off And as he marched back again up the hill poundIng pound-Ing cheerfully away maybe you think he didnt get the hand Now Ill wager that Sousas bass drummer couldnt do that Tho leading man of the town had died and the village band was engaged to lead the cortege to the burial yard The Dead March as played by the band with most lugubrious tootle by all brass Instruments was especially solemn The most solemn part was when the band was entering beneath the gateway gate-way of the village cemetery It was a solemn place that cemetery gateway with Its I funereal trimmings It was a double gate where the gates were latched the foot The trombone player with his eyes intent on the solemn sol-emn music in his catch stubbed his tue against thr block As he tripped he threw out a hand to save himself and the trombone blatted so ferociously right In the midst of those solemn chordsthat every one jumped in alarm Then the trombones end struck the ground ere he could get his mouth away from the end The instrument emitted another bray that was fairly demoniacal It happened right under the noses of the horses drawing the hoarse and of course they shied and one of them stepped on the trombone That scared them In earnest and they started They ran tho band down they routed It and they tore down tho cemetery avenue with the driver hanging on for grim death He made a circle of the main drive twice ere he was able to master the terrified animals and the rest of the funeral train remained quiet and witnessed that remarkable hoss race with varying emotions There have been many things happen In hat l particular town but nothing that developed so suddenly from the deeply solemn Into the Intensely exciting ex-citing Tho trombone player had recovered his battered horn and stood there dus y and hatless watching the Impromptu chariot race When the horses were finally captured and subdued he looked at his torn I trousers then at his battered horn I then at the little block In the roadway and finally at lie horses once more And he isnt a wicked man If he were I should have to paint a rod streak aeroso lie foot of this column As It was he slowly wiped his mouth looked again at the crushed horn Wai Ill be dodbutiored to swan says he And the meek shall Inherit the carl hi lo add a bit to this day of the pie turosquo In obsequies the band rc fifiifroill the cemetery playing elueeifuhiy i Massas In do cold cold gron ud S But the trombone player wasnt In It Win horn was Jammed together so tighi iv that he couldnt get wind enough t h it Lewlston Journal |