The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-23
"THE GALAXY.o

The June number of the GALAXY contains
the following contributions
'Lady Judith-a Tale of Two Continents"
chapters xii and xiii; by Justin MCCARTHY.
''Words and their Uses;" by Richard Grant
White. ''Overland;" chapters xxxvii, xxxviii,
and xxx; by j. w. DeForest. go Star of
France!" by Walt Whitman. ''The Campaigns
of Robert E. Lee;" No. 2; from the Wilder
ness to the Surrender; by A. III. Guernsey.
''To Zuleiki" translated, through the Ger
man, from the Persian; by Joel Benton.
''The Neither Side of New York;" V. Casual
Criminals; by Edward Crapsey. "Sepulture
its Ideas and Practices" by F. B. Perkins.
"Ought We to Visit Herr" chapters xvi, xvii,
xviii, and xix; by Fanny Downing. "The Old
Story" by Fanny Downing. "Gascon Stories
Bernadotte, or White Hands; Clairette, or the
Husband Hunters" by John Durand. 'Fet-
ters and lures" by Ernest Roland. ''Drift-
wood;" by Philip Quilibet. 'Guizot." ''Sci-
entifc Miscellany" Current Literature.
''The Galaxy Club Room" ''Nebule;" by the
Editor.
The following ''pome," as the gentleman
who presides over ''The Galaxy Club Room"
remarks, speaks for ITSELF
PATHETIC BALLAD.
TOUCHING A FIFTH AVENUE FAMILY OF DISTINCTION
Come all ye fair maidens and lend me an ear,
And doiorous ditty you shortly shall hear
OF a gallant so loving ana maiden so true,
And family what lived in the Fifth Avenue.
This family, you see, was a grand family,
With greenbacks and gold and a tall pedigree;
For the father Shoddy the mother was Oil,
And the brain OF them both In thimble would boil
This father so rich had one daughter so fair,
That none on the hill with her could compare;
In her short dress SO sweet and her chignon quite
new
She'd scare horses, you know on the Fifth
Avenue.
The father gave dinners, but the mother you see
Being vastly genteel, had her little sofree.
The daughter each season gave German or two,
That killed with envy the girls OF Filth Avenue.
The lovers came throngng this maiden to win;
Her beauty they loyed but they loved more her tin
There were lawyers and doctors, and parsons few,
Paid their court TO this belle in the Fifth Avenue.
There was Baron Won Kraut and Count DeVilletray
Sir Scallywag Bags and signor Bouchey,
And real live prince with his name such iam,
1t begun with sneeze and ended in d-n.
To none OF them all did this fair maid incline;
She sought with true love true love to entwine;
Brought UP on Ward Beecher, she rose above pelf,
The youth Of her heart she would love for himself
One day ier dear pa took his afternoon nap,
And opening one eye. in corner within
Saw Coachy a-kissing his daughter like sin.
The parent arose with a wipe on his pate,
Rolled into the room ike a buffer OF state,
ana tremDnng with rage, but liked as post,
Stood IKE Booth when he sees that old pump OF a
ghost
Now William was handsome as handsome could be,
And consented TO serve for a nxed salary;
TO dismiss him was ruin, but the daughter-take
Twas rough travelling tell ye, up three Nights OF
STAIR
She wasn't locked up-oh, no, that amt done
In these modern times under nbeItys sun;
But six maiden aunts and the parson, YOU see,
Jumped on to this girl OF the first family.
They talked and they talked, ana she pined and she
pined,
TIL a ihrst-class consumption was wel-nigh defined
Then the parent consulted old Doctor Fee-Je,
Who went with this father the daughter to see,
80 father" she cried, "You will soon break my
heart"
And she sighed like a bellows and wept like water
cart.
''You'i permit me to marry my William 80 true?"
But he mildly responded, I'm be id II d0.'
Then in widest despair one evening so damp,
She blew herself up with kerosene lamp.
Remorse seized the father his daughter ne cried
And drank Plantation Bitters till in anguish he died
Then william grew reckless this ruin to see,
And he went down and down I'LL he Joined Tam
many.
He committed six murders and then the great clal
Did nnish him up a. JOB alderman.