Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-27
CORRESPONDENCE.
JAsEsvILIs, October.

"fhoSe tangleS OF russell ana CRIMSON
wonder if any one read that verse in
| last weeks REPUBLICAN, because, If 80,
won't that individual. read it over and SUBJ
stitute amber for crimson? was thinking
amber all the time but somehow the "rus-
| set and crimson of this autumnal scenery
would come into my head. and inadvertent-
y it slipped off from my pen. I've just con-
Guided that poetry isn't my forte Crimson
hair 1t is too absurd that [, who have &C
decided an antipathy toward brilliant locks,
should take pains to publicly laud them.
Long ago crimson headed school ma am
used to put me beside the ugliest looking
boy in school. as punishment. Later,
scarlet haired Professor at the Academy read
my valentines, ferreted out all mi5chievous
pranks and compelled me to sit opposite
him and write prosy compositions for every
misdemeanor Later still, when | had ar
rivdd at the dignity ola pedagoguess, II long
Principal with long head (and by that
don't understand that he was long headed,)
long whiskers and long hair of true verme!
tint was placed in authority over me. I'm
not afraid OF any one VITO knows more than
myself, bu. when made subject to the will
of one who knows great deal Iess, | must
confess to considerable trepidation. THIS
man was most decidedly of the latter class.
To carry out his ideas was vain attempt,
for if ever in course of his existence (he had
no GJe) he had caught sight of idea, he
stared after it so long before it occurred to
him to grasp it, thnt it was irrevocably lost.
To convince him of anything except that he
was in danger of losing his power, was i'm
possible. To manage him was a frutless
endeavor, and to refrain from thoroughly
despising him equally absurd. Still mere
recently, Rev, amply endowed with YER
million capillaries, honored me with an offer
OF his hand, at the same time apologizing
for SO dong with, ''your Christian life will
prove shipwreck unless it is guided by d
skillful pilot" Unparalleled magnanimity
How could one accept such sacrifice. But
last and worst. All my life / have been
obliged to labor indefatigably to convince
people that there are no fireworks about my
own head. Do you wonder at my objection
to crimson hair2
But to change the subject. Will not some
one get out new dict onary. I've hunted
Webster from title page to finis; I've look
ed over Worcester, ransacked the Gazetteer
aud turned the Encyclopedia topsy-turvey I;
I've consulted N. DIS, L. L. D 3 and D. DIS;
I've asked Latin Professors aud Greek Pro-
fessors to translate it; all in vain. Is it
Choctaw Is it Chinese? or is Brick Pome-
row responsible for it all 2-this new lam
guage or dialect that is flooding the land.
Expressing disapprobaton for an indi-
yidual'5 conduct, am told to "go" for him.
Ask gentleman concerning q certain lady,
and he informs me that she has "soured" on
him, while another remarks in the same
breath perhaps, that she is ''speet' on him. If
say or do something little saucy some,
one announces that | am "brick," which
by the way isn't true. Women are refined
spare-ribi 1t might do to call a man a brick
both having common dust origin. When
was yonng We used to spin around like
tops for minute. then suddenly drop,
making what we tie. med "cheese" OF our
voluminous SIX rts. Can 1t be that such
evolutioDs are expected of me ow when
am pereiuptorily commanded to ''cheese it 2
Ask civil question and some one replies
Cant most always tell when you least ex-
peet the most" Inquire after friend aud
learn that he is son bum" Endeayor to
convince person of the tenth Of a NARA
tive, and be looks wise and says: Can |
see ii, or Cant come it" Sometimes
wnen expecting simple "yes. | get AL
empnatic - You bet, That's what's the
matter" lin horn love. the left,
'Gone up, and many Others are qui'e as
common; and it seems to me that the CON-
monness of these phrases must have render
ed them vulgar, if they were not originally
SO, and tbs time cultivated people looked
into the matter with view to their ban
ishment. MARION.
Massey TALKS "PLAKrArIoN. ~ heY traid.
ed Off my Post Offs & TUX mi Pay III PLAN
rAsHux Praps yu may be supplied to heal
Nv mi relinquishin my Guv 'ment Offs with
Awi its glory in sech Caws.
Here NEE fust; then jedge Nee. 1t hap
ened thuswiseiy | wus canvassin thee
Mawmea Flats for our Bluyid Kedentry Il
the Post Offs suksechun. In tibet land Nv
pewer Delite | stuck snag
Thee Fever Ager TUX me, l. the Chils K
Shiyers skuck me--sack me like Mold zoos
button on Shaiky smoke-House doAr; til
mi fraim Nv 40 Summer, iuked like sum