The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1872-11-15

Was waited DER The river.'
"Ifs Glscl fllscl that's what it is.
Johnny only had one doctor. And they
didn't try to m-move his liver, and they
didn't bl-blccd him and bl-histcr him.
/ Irs a wicked falschood, and you're a
hard-hoartod brute fffor printing III"
"liadam, shall 60 crazy if You con.
tinue," exclaimed Brimmcr. This is not
my work. II l. the work Of serpent
whom ! warmed in my bosom, and whom
| will slay with my own hand as soon rs
he comes in Madam, the miserable out
cast shall die|
Strange, strange| mu-cd OFT. "Anl
this man told me 10 combine clevating
sentiment with practical information. If
the information concerning the quill and
ipocac j. not practical, have misundcr-
stood the use Of that word. And If
young Smith didn't have four doctors it
was an outrage He ought to have had
them, and they ought TO have excited the
liver. Thus it is" thought OF, "'that
human life is sacrificed 10 carelessness."
At this iuncurc the sheriff entered,
his brow clothed in thunder lie had a
copy of The Morning Glory in his hand.
lie approached the editor, and, pointing
to a death notice, said:
Read that horrible mockcry of my
woe, and tell me the name Of the writer,
so that can chaiise him"
i The editor read a. follows:
w, have lost our li'tlc Hannah in very
painful manner,
I And we often asked. "iiow can her har.h
suheriugs Re borne?
/ When her death wa- tr-t reported Aer aunt
got up and srnrted
With th, grief that she supported, Tor h
made her feel f1r0m.
"SLo vls suat little -eaph, that her father,
] who l. .ucrid,
Roll. lpant -e,m to care il hc ne'r smiles
.H li'easliu.
/ She has gone, We hope to Heaven, It the early
ag, ot seven,
/ lfgusrI starts ua at eie'en', where shc'll
never NOR, have pain
"As a consequence of this iuiamy
withdraw all the county advertising from
your paper 4 man who could trihe in
this manner with the feelings Of a parent
Is savage aud scoundrelw
As the sheriff went out, Brimmer
placed his head upon the table and
groaned.
Really" Mr.. OFT reflected, "thnt per
son must he dcrauced ! tried, in his
case, TO put myself in his place, and 70
write as if was one Of h. family, ac-
corlins To instruction. The verses are
beautiful. The allusidn TO the grief her
aunt, particularly, seemed TO me 70 be
very happy. II expresses violent emo
tion with a felicitous combination Of
sweetness and force. The people hay,
no soul-no appreciation Of the heauti.
ful in art"
While the poet mu'od, hurried steps
were heard upon the stairs, and in mo-
ment a miidle-aged man dashed in abrupt,
", and, seizing Brimmcr', scattered hair,
bumped his prostrate head against the
table three or four times with considcra,
BILE force. Having expended the violence
of his emotion in this manner, he held
the editors head down with one hand,
shaking it occasionally by way Of ompha.
sis and with the other hand seized the
paper and said:
"You di graceful old reprobate? You
unsympathetic and disgusting vampire
You hoary-hcaded old ghoull What
d'you mean by putting such stuff as this
in your vile sheet about my deceased
son, What dyou mean by printing such
awful doggorel as this, you deprayei and
dissolute inkslingcr-you imbecilo old
quill-driver.
"Oh! bury Bartholomew out In che woods,
Ina beautiful hole in The ground,
Whcry the humb.o-hJcs buzz and the wood
pgtks s'rg,
Aud the ,illdd. s-bu-. tumble around;
SO that in Nibla- vlyn ,ic suuw and the ,lush
Have covered .s last little bed,
Ills brother AraHaas can go ont with Jane
And visit the place with bis sled
I'm teach you to talk about straddle,
I agsl I'll instruct you about slush
III enGghtcn your insane old intellect on
the subject of singing woodpecker,
What do you know Of Jane and Artemas
you wrotche3 buccanoer You despiclbl,
butcher u. the English hnguagey &c
ont in the Ial! I'll carry you out in +
he-ae before I'm done with you, you dc
ulorahle lunatic!'
At the end of every phrase, the yisit1l
gave the editors head It fresh klocl
against the table. When the oxercis'
was ended, Mr.. Brimmer explained and
apologized in the humble.t manner
promising at the same time to give hi
p assailant a chance to pummel OF.
"The tIeachery Of the man. muir
INJURED the poet, "i' dreadful Didn't h'
desire me to throw glamour Of poetr!
, over commonplace de,aisy But for tha
/ should never have thought Of alludins
N woodpeckers and bugs and other chill
dren Of nature, The man objects TO tl'
remaks about the sled Can't the idio
! know that il was me-, AIRY To have
p rhyme for 'body Can he suppose tina
, | could write poetry without rhymes
p The man is a lunaticl Tie ought not 4
, be at large~
r Hardly had the indignant and ener