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Show -By WILLIAM ROBERTSON NEA Service Writer. NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 11. Hla pa rente gave him another name, but he doea down la hlatory aa "Klddlefoot." Black aa a fly la a bowl of milk, ha made hla profeeelonal etart aa a acraper of catgut at New Orleana' kwelleet Senagamblan danree. Then came a dearth of allphorn playera. "Plddlefoot" became be-came a tromboniaL For yeare. even aa loader, the trombone remained hla medium of mualcal expreealon. Then all at once, ha caat aalda tha allphorn and bloaaomed out aa a wlelder of the bull fiddle bow. All Dark, towa wondered. . e e It ao happened that among Tld-dlefoot'a" Tld-dlefoot'a" acquaintance waa ona George, porter at a butcher atall In tba French market and aa expert ex-pert at aaaembling alcohol, glycerin, gly-cerin, water and Juniper all la tha proper proportlona. Thither, at i o'clock ona morning, morn-ing, repaired "Fiddlefoot" aad hla band, refreahment bent. eat hla alarm clock for I a. m. had proved "Fiddlefoot'a" undoing. . The paat week has witneseed the paaelng of ona of New Orleana' beat known eharactera a rich man. aetf-made and poaaeeked of a ahrewleh wife with a wonderful faculty for keeping him by hla own fireelde. But about ten yeara ago the hueband. whom we'll call Mr. Jonee. hit on a ptaa by which ha got about aa much liberty aa tha next individual.. Aware that hla wife had a horror of attending wakaa. Jonea auddenly developed a mania for reading funeral notlcea. It waa atirprlklng how the mortality rata among pereone ha had known Jumped Immediately Im-mediately thereafter. Every time he read of a frlend'a paaelng, Jonaa Inalkted that tha "raleate" accompany accom-pany him to tha wake, and Juat aa often Mra. Jonea replied that he'd have to go alone. There were folk I unkind enough to doubt, had Jonea Inadvertently found hlmaelf at a wake. If he'd hava known how to conduct hlmaelf. All- went merry for about an hour and then there broke lonee, beneath tha green cloth carerlng "Fiddlefoot'a" baaa viol, a moat unearthly ringing and clanging. At tha aame Inataat George, glanclhg toward tha mantelpiece, noted tha abaenca of a little alarm clock, atudded with briillanta. A free for all followed, ending k.n the adminlatraUon of a aleeplng potion to "Klddlefoot" and an examination ex-amination of the bull fidlde. In the Inatrument'e back waa a little door. - Behind this door the mlaalng clock waa diecovered. AIM other artlelea which. It waa learned later, had vanlahed from the house where the band recently, had played. The fact that George worked In a butcher's atall and waa forced to |