Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-23

The Cincinnati Enquirer of February 18th con-
tanned the following paragraph:
"a note from two or three constant readers
requests us to repub.ish the poem entitled
Beautiful Snow We have no recollection of
ever having published such a poem, and we
doubt whether there is one in existence hearing
that title. There must be a mistake. IL anv
| person now living can put us on the track of
Beautiful Snow we will be Obliged to them for
so doing"
The next day the Enquirer contained the fol-
lowing:
"There is a poem entitled Beautiful Snow
We have reason 10 know it now if we never had
before. We remember reading 1t some ten years
ago. That must have been shortly after Messrs.
Faxon, Watson, Major Sgourney, Prof Ven
able, Enos Reed, Dora Shaw and one or two
other unfortunate persons, whose names we
can't recall now, turned it out upon the public
We always admired it, bur, considering the
number of people engaged in its construction,
it isn't such a remarkable production. How
ever, in Difference 10 public opinion, we have re-
ligiOusly published that poem every winter.
from that time TO the present. In our editorial
capacity we have incurred an expense of not
less than one hundred dollars for composition
on that one piece of poetry Alone and that
is a great deal more than il cost TO compose il
originally. Having, as we thought supplied
the demand, and placed at least half
dozen copies CT that intensely popn-
lar vers6cation in every household we
concluded to lay off this winter But
day before yesterday we received a request 10
publish 1t. 1t was the same old request
couched in the same old, familiar language.
We were little eXaspelated, because great
many newspapers keep the poem standing at
the head of the first column en- the title page
and we knew that there could be no extraordi
nary demand for it, In order to escape we aG-
fccted Ignorance, We asserted in paragraph
on the following morning that we didn't believe
there gupb buUdiQ pf in
istence. Alas, that bit Of simulated skepucsm
has cost us dearly! Early yesterday morning
copies Of Beautiful Snow began arriving at the
counungroom. A number of young ladies
called and left their scrap-books. The first mail
Drought "a basketiul of letters, all enclosing
copies Of the Old iayOrite. Some were discolored
Wy aye; others were worn ami thnmbed with
us2e; others were fresh copies in manuscript
mar accompanied with request to return it
- u st9o 1 am astoni, he'd saws one gentle
,, my S9n never came across this beautiful
poeu' da not think saws anotber that
lrnY or spani vt,9r living so stupid as to not
KNOW oil Beautiful Snow" Atfrst we thon%It
y good lOKe, aud were highly delirhtod To
the Beautiful Snow kent e}2i, uensnIeu, put
lfain Of Tue letters began TO he hr,da, ~
Mhen business men began TO diop in tS,
bringing copies of old magazines amnno I'LL,
dusky pages lurked the fugitive poem. and ho2
| Eau 70 express their lack of confidence =, W
newspaper that had never heard of 'BpautieSS
onVM, y became apparent that we had Inflicted
great injury upon the Enquirer. 1t was no use
tiying 70 make jest OF the thing, and so we
apologized to all who called ~ Wv
The fall of Beautiful Snow continued io,o
INTO the evening. It dlled our waste.baslet
oIlited upon our table, insnuated Itself INTO the
gra.e, and piled up in our private drawer until
Wy peEah 70 despair Of ever being able to get out
enough Of u to blockade the Pacific railroad
and al y o'clock the Office boy appeared viii
another armlul Of the generous contributions
and we inconunently Kicked him down stairs.
This was the condition Of things at O'clock
this morning, and not more than half the wards
in the city had been heard from. Then there's
the entire state to hear from yet, and we know
what we will have TO endure for the next forty.
eight hours. We acknowledge that we have the
worst Of II, and are anxious 10 compromise.
sunday next we will publish Beautiful Snow in
| w us pristine funess. We are determined that
tuls craving for the poem SO dear to the popular
peuit shall be stopped"