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Show jew s harp, that Is. And If there 111 any call for it, 1 reckon 1 could have I'layed it. too. 4'K HAD KOIlTt UK. "Whn 1 was with the Thomas. I saved money. I had plenty laid by. As much as I20,fio. And my own home and two horses and rvanti Tlfn tbr fire came along and 1 was wiped out. I could've gone to the infirmary, but 1 didn't want to Ve up. It's lik I Mie Ui song 1 wrol-. 'Only In the I Way.' I didn't want to t like that. 1 so I went out In the world again. I "It's been a funny life for me at thai. I went through the Mexican I war with Scott, and fought w ith t h-Sixth h-Sixth Massarhusetm from the ttme we wre stoned by the mob in Maltimore through Sbiloh. ;ettyturg and Antie-tam. Antie-tam. Never a scratch. And then one day I went out to ('imp (rant to soe the boys cut loose with t hee nw rifles they have. And a stray shot hit me in the leg. I got over that, ihonah. j "Sifie then I've just been sort of sleeping round. I had mv old musket, a cornt-t and a cat. I lost t he musket mus-ket somewhere and the cornet, too. The cat just kind of went away. That t the way with cat. They stay with vnu as long as you feed them and no longer. 'iast place f wss seping was In the bassrnent of St. Mary's church over on Wabash avenue, f decided to move over there and then couldn't move after 1 got hre Couldn't move I after 1 moved. That's a good one, I heyV And Carl Raymond, one time first violin for the Theodora Thomas or-I or-I cheat ra. greatest ore hen Ira of the Mid- !nle W-( In its day, and writer of popular songs, went bark to nap again. WRITER OP SONGS I ISSTARVING AT87; Author of "Only in the Way" in Sore Straits riUCAOO. Feb. S. At th, prime of him career a mulrtan and writer of popular aonca. "arl Ilarrnond wrote a aon ent1l. "only In the Way." Thw who are oll enough will re. member that it waa about an old man who had outlived hi u. fulness. Ita mond lull- thouKht then that the aotiK foretold what has happened to him m his old axe. Now !. years old he waa found recently h the police po-lice after havinK been without food for three days. Ilia fortune Kone. and even deserlcd by a stray rat that he bad adopted, ho now waits for the '"I'l'e waa a violinist In the Theodore Thomas orchestra years ano. and was the author of another popular -aoiiK. Just 'ne Girl." that la aure to l.e r. rneinbered by some of the older folks because It swept the country In in day ju.t aa Mara-ie' and tiardanella hae in the preaent day. Just one Birl. only Just one (rlrl; There mav be others I know, but they're not my pearl; Fun or rain, she Is Just the same 111 be happy forever with just one irl." That's tha war It went. Nothlna; very deep, but perhaps it will bnnic more clear to th" memory of older people who Kaymond ls H. t. aio a veteran of the Mexican and Civil wars. At the atatlon. .reatly heartened hy the meal that the kindly policeman had provided for bim, b told bis "lKverybo!y'B been darn fine to me." he said. "1 talwavs thought there waa no place In the world for an old man. but these policemen hsvo shown me the world's hesrt la open. 'One tlmo thlnas were different. When I was with the Thomas. I could play any instrument from the bella tol the French bora. All cxceptias the |