The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-03-21

uldI dRiD SlODu AMY IlLl'
"Wel !" SEE Abou.
unity Abou, hev realized all that
hoped for, and more. Everything techec
prospered with me went into stock raj
sin, and my COWS all had ms, every wuI
Of which took premiums at the State Fair
married the only child of retired physi
clan, whose sands of life had nearly run out
and he wuz accommodation enutf to die d
month thereafter; wuz elected treasurer Nv
a life insurance company; drawd Crosby
Opera House, and sold it afore the next
years taxes wuz levied, SO made suthin
by DRAWN it; spekilated in oil stox, and
bought oil lands and my wells wuz allu2
flown; wuz appointed executor NV no less
than nine large estates, the heirs nv which
being aluz female infants; | spekil ated i'll
silver, in gold, in railroads; bustid the
Chicago wheat operators, and am to day
counted the comm man In New York, but
''But wat? Attest thou not satisfied
Satisfied? Alas, no! After all, what is
wealth? Wat is stock and lands and tene-
ments? Nuthin, Ny sole yearns for suGhiu
higher"
swat woodest thou be? | have given
thee everything yoove askt for. Wat is
thy next whim ?"
Il wood be famous in literatoor. | wood
write for the newspapers and magazines
wood heV my name on the dead wall i'll big
letters, and in many colors. would hev
the populace say, There goes the author Nv
say, The Rival Plug Uglies. Wood
but 700 know wat | wood"
''Agin l crafty thee sed the compais-
ant Abou, aud he passed his wand over his
head four times-it takin one more pass t o
transform him iuto literary man than it
does for any thing else--aud he went out
from the presence in seedy black coat,
with a expansive forehead and dreamy blue
eyes and a turnover collar, smokin' nicer
schaum in abstractid manner.
Five years rolled around, and agin the
young man, wich is to say, he wusn't SO
young now ez he wuz at the beginnin by
fifteen years, appeared
"Wat!" sed Abou, goo here again? Wat
woodst thou now? Three times | have
grantid thy wishes three times hev
given thee the means to make thyself happy
ez thou supposdst, Art satisfied, or does
thy yearnin sole still yearn? Speak! or for
ever hold thy peace.
unity Abou, wood crave suthin, but [
know not wat. | have bin successful in
fteratoor. hev made myself name and
fame; | huv wun distinkshen and worn it
My PONIES are pronounst sweet My plays
are actid, and draw houses my novels IS
read from Greenland's icy mountains to
I e4i IF
Ameriky is a text book. But wat NV il?
Each step took, felt an innard dissatis
faction with wat left behind my increase
Nv knolii was ,jist sufishent to show me
wut egrejs ass he'd bin, and eli | gained
a step appreciation Nv the beautiful, they
VIZ poisoned with the thot that there were
nights Good not Cline ana depths | Good
lot sound. pinned for Immortality, aud
0unst, lnethaut, he'd attained her, and
wood cease my labors and rest onto my
azure s, and for week, quit peggln away.
fhc public forgot there bed ever bin SIGH a
person. Tie bill poster went forth, and
over the posters which he'd my name onto
'em he pasted others, aunouncln new
name, and wuz buried What thot |. is
fame, when its at the mercy Nv a bill stick
it wuz gilded misery. opened letters by
The bushel from the Lord knows who invi-
TIM me to lecture for the benefit Nv the
Lord knows wat. spent over half Nv my
lime in sendin' autographs to my admirers;
and tother half, and all my money in SEN
i'm photographs to people which hev SHOW
ed EN- out Nv their albums, to make room
for the next popler cuss wich cum after
me. And this is fame -
And the young man stampt his feet and
tore several large handsfu uy hair out Nv
mis- head, which he shoodent hev done ez
his severe labors and bad habits had made
1im already bald.
Then Abou spoke up and SEE he:
My son, knowd invariably in advance
wat wood be the result Nv all these favors,
| hev granted thee. Wealth, politikel
preferment and literary fame, is three NV
tae most unsatisfactory styles Of loonacy
ia afflicted with. He'd bin an
cry with 700 | shood bev married 700 to "a
rights Ieckturer ; but chose rath
tr too let 700 run yOnr course. Al! man
kind, my son, is onto a road witch begins
with the cradel and ends with the grave
F'littin afore us is parsel Nv butterflies,
wich, observin NV ers from the yootu end NV
the road is beautiful insex. We strive TO
ketch EN-, and do so but allars the min
it we pass EN- aud turn to look at wat we
have we are somewhat Gisgusted to 6ud
that on this side they'r Nv that dull lead
color witch farmers, in the more barbarous
parts of Pennsylvauy paint their houses.
Eff our fore. site wuZ ez good ez our hind
site, we woodn't go for EN- but it amt.
| hev lived suthin over four thousand years
OWN to nv beiu profit, and hev seen the
folly Nv SIGH things. Wealth its good
just ez fur ez 700 kin make yoose NV
it. Pollytix II never saw but one man
who ever saw any good in it He sed he
Fixed it, coz next to couuterfeiting and big
amy, two pursoots he dotted onto, there
wuz in it the greatest room for developin
the dormant raskaIity which is in every
man. And literary fame my young
friend, bottled moonshine is granite, for So
Iidity beside it. My old friend Shakspeer
wuz spozed to be entitled to permanent
place in the Dlemry Nv man, and here up
comes a woman and man, writin books
provin that twazn't Shakespeer, but some
other feller wat did his plays and things
''Agin, under this head. The fame witch
men strive after, aud yearn after amt the
satisfactory kind after 700 git it. Eff a
man, from luv Of his kind, or from de.
sire to do suthn for his associates in misery,
does big thing, the world appauds, and
that's hunky- 700 bet. That emIinent Swiss
Winkerleid, when he rushed onto the Ovs
terrain speers, and remarked, Make way fol
liberty he cried, hedut no idea that skool
children wood decIaim it ali over Moo Ger
sey, ez they heS doue ever seuce or be
woodeut hev done it probably. Wink,
wuzn't goin for posterity much: it WI,
tue Swiss Of that identicle day for whom h,
took into his bowels more speers than wa.
comfortable He'd he thot of posterity, an,
waited, before maxim his grand rush, till b,
Good decide upon approFrit last words wicl
wood sound well in histry be wood eithe
hey changed his mind or lost the opportuui
! ty. So twas with that other Swiss Wilyan
/ Tell and others witch | wood name, onIy
hewitt got fur enUf into the encvclo. sdia
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