Show LIFE IN NEW YORK dot beetle sherman musician gets ilia innings at a funeral N Y sun A funeral procession was amov moving rig so emaly through houston street t a few d ys ago with a straggling german band adding to tho the bof ful aspect of the tile scene by playing low and wheezy airs it w is a brass band of the order that requires gi gintic instruments kitra st and restful attitudes to obtain the beet best affect the in instruments were on hand bat but the band was coin compelled to keep moving the tile horses moved forward at a stead far greater than the regulation funeral mar li ii the last man in the band lia hal I 1 a ajesm coin of a light and giddy teril temperament pera that con constant st ant watch to prevent it I 1 from rom breaking brea kirg into rollicking music between this instrument and the po pole Is of the tile hearse that frequently struck the poor musician in the email small the tile bick back the procession assumed at times tile toe festive ap pei rance 0 a target company the musician wai was a chrt sh who lud ind devoted the great r part of his life to playing such cheerful music as its 1 I D e wacht am rhein and do IV beddle sli ahrman rm an I 1 and 11 and so seldom were th the cc lct c tint that he lie caught such a eap as playing for a funeral that he lie was totally unable to gr grapp APP the tile true tue it of tl ILI a undertaking occasionally be would succeed in gating his instrument down to the proper depth of woe woo but then the pule of the hearse wu would ld bang into him hirn and break the music music up ill in a shrill startled at other times the uneven pacing stones would woul I jostle the little square sheet of music on his instrument upside down and convert the tile air L it from a dirge dago to a dance this pu put t all tha tile o other oher her musicians out and many were the tile an alliemai heaped upon the por po ir fellow but lie had true grit and clung clang to his place in spite of all its dan dancers gersi until grand street was reached when the leider loider of the band him chii bet set him fre and lie dropped bark back behind the heime and t antl li is instrument looe A wid fd exhilda aing m melody lody struck lint danral and attracted a crowd of small boys in a minute the band in the tile lead with ith its mourn ful notes I 1 tal a I 1 no show I 1 fir the their i r mul if was d owned in the tile at shrill i rill notes of the Bili sli tay german and a bait halt wai called the funeral drew up to a curb carb and anti llie file leader of the hand strengthen nAthen d by a d zen in murn urne cis s tried to bully the tile suli solitary tary Gor gornati mati he ile brownel th their thir ir threats in music then they tried to arbitrate by mik ing promises but the solitary so Stary german getman ignored them finally he be accepted 2 and the funeral procession was again formed it moved on leaving the tile solitary german bitting st in a beer saloon with his cherished instrument in bis his arms and while he sipped his bier explaining to the proprietor alt b he a bad had been educated to attend on mirth and joyousness asness and not on 10 funerals and frielo grief Iera ons who are n t accustomed ti t pursuing cerra n well beaten paths after nightfall bae not a very good opportunity of indulging indu leing in ppe ula eions regarding the rise and fall of beggar beggars there is no die brict in town bat hat affords a more voluminous or plainer printed book upon this subject t than tha ilia streeta streets winding a about bout printing house equale a from the close of the day until the ea early hours in the and ard arri lent IT y until almost dawn these streets are arelin lind lin d with beggars this race of mendi canta embraces all ages from tha the sn lilling dirt begrimed i newsboy who lias has the earnings of the tile day in the fascinating rane peame of acra craps sll to the hoary headed beaded old sinner whose bose highest ambition ia Is to iret vet very verv drunk and keep so the import daty of these those persons is of that tenacious sort that would cert certainly ini yield I 1 C id and influence if di directed rc acty in in hig higher liar channels but till tin men nien whom they prey upon being mostly newspaper men dion and old ron are of the tile proper mettle to withstand lle tand a almost in et any attack upon their credulity the rike tire of chewe IAL gars is during that perio I 1 when their depredations dpn up in the tile public hiving unan ces fiul during the early croven oura ours of the night they become desperate as midnight approaches api roaches an I 1 their sni silt plic alic foi aid are accompanied by frantic clutches upon the tile persona of their in ended victims then they are ind cd ed the tile hoiu ideal of the begg tr at nd d tit to rink with their it ilan and spanish br brethren e tl I 1 ren they fall when misplaced sympathy like a good gool but mis misguided guidel adga fills their outstretched bands hands with coin they aie ate tile slothful diminga thal ha nature evidently intoned them for and anti their work is of hait shiftless rot coit t that m inlets mets ets with ith no nosic cea em among ordinary in mor tala the boulward ward SIM traico of those bag ars cli changes anges wih wib the sa amons tons the alti ulti ter brings with it tha the lusty train tramp P who has passed die tile summer in the country menacing tile comfort and prop pro p rity of tha tile po poor 0 r and grinding farmr farmer farm r and alvil the ummer cornea comes a horde of paupers haupers wit who 0 have ave wisely passed lie tile winter months in the workhouse and nod aiila I 1 know ft a man who ho haa hals never in all hia his life and be is now nearly nf atly 60 years old uttered a goad god word for foi anybody any mrs Y ho ile is to a well known resident of tho the I 1 I 1 1 I 1 x 1 av we I 1 P I 1 I 1 I 1 A fourth ward with a halting baiting banner manner of speech a short and dumpy figure and an exterior v h to speak in mildly I 1 id of it is far from clean 11 lie a has a faculty of gathering in a lot of unpleasant reminiscences a about ito ut people and storing them up in ili his a memory until he hears bears the persons well spoken of when he lie will re relate ate them with a gusto that can only spring from a ma rna ignant spirit A few days ago a number of gentlemen Kent lemen were discussing the virtues of a prominent man when the fourth warder varder happened it in and alter after listening in silence for a minute raid paid 1 I knew him when hla his father was arrested for stealing apples |