The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15
The Narrow Gauge Is Coming


We knew there was poet somewhere
in our county, and we kept drumming
around until we found him. Here is u
specimen of his composition, which, we
are sure, will be found entirely original
and peculiarly his own:
Lo hear the shrilI shriek Of the narrow
gauge whistle,
AS borne on the breeze, ike the down Of
a thistle;
It's ominous warning ike spasmodic thun-
der
ProcIaims "clear the track or you'll sure
ly 90 under!
" harm not the friends who live close
on my borders
They're o. K, and free from all mental
disorders.
They know my great worth have
made them all big rich
Who happily dwell Lear my rail and
my bed-dirch.
" For ten miles or more l give to their
broad lands
" Additional value. To work of their
strong hands
(t Diversified, varied however it may be.)
" Quick sales and high prices. IT'S plain
you may thus see
" I fr for az time (cone, o white man
believe ne
" The fate of the peoples who shun me
or greet me.
~ stereotype, concrete, and stamp them
forever
As foolish, or wise-heads of brains or
of leather
Believe me or not: here's the jist CT
my story,
give Paradise or bequeath Purgatory /
The wealth of my blessings to those who
embrace me,
And poverty life long to those who out
face me-
And, curm udgeon like, thrust deep
down IN their groin
Their idolized treasurers, their last
greenback and coin.
FOrego decent comfort5--live far out in
the cold,
And to mill tote TIE same rock as
dad did of old;
"IgnOre education, all improvement and
wealth
Feed the mind with the almanac-bui3d
up good health:
With tangled foot whisky, and iHguns
and cabbage
| Il rum tue udyS u GtClt } Ou[li u muse
of their dotage."
/ Yea, the Marrow Gauge speaks The
foOlkiiers coming
| Awake; oh awake Double quick and
no funning.
" I'm hunting the SAP heads, the soft heads
the soSe heads,
| g To shun them, condemn them and
write IN their foreheads
/ % LTFDbr.iy, illpai tn bIa idols y and
/ 'ichabod weighed ! 7
"Such stubborn old lightweights should
be all of them hayed ;
" Self-c condemned, self-decreed; their fat
seIf>lOcased;
" Prosperity Stunned and all progress
negated.
"In thick outer darkness go 'cavort
gnash and grOwl
" Where the lovers of Progress ma,
ne'er hear you howl.
Where your grief and keen anguish 70
all you have lost
May not mar the conteutment-thei
happiness cross.
My blessings here give, and with then
my thanks,
To the lev'llers Of hills and the builder
Of tanks II
Make way for the steam horse he's an
xiOus to serve
His friends, with his strength, with hi
souI-every nerve.
Make way for the steam horse for hi
'innerds" is hot
As the 'colards that ste am in the hi
iron pot.
Quick Give him cold water. Hear til;
agonized screamI
They are treating his chOlic with doses
steam.
Clap fire to his belly in his head site
aight.
With snort and q plunge, he will TIL
through the night.
He's ailing-stOmach aching; very ba
case;
But we challenge the world for a thou,
, and mile race.
\ Yes, a wager his hackers are ready to Ia
That he'll beat the sun round to Il
> breaking Of the day"
Out ran Captain Jack, Ellen's man, {
t that scamp,
- The Wandering Jew, who as some &
E the long tramp.
> Conc, trot out your fast nags.-Ti
= winds only can wage
4 trial of speed with the fleet Mario
Gauge.
Our faith is unbounded; now say who
take the bct2
, He'll distance the fold-wilI our Ia
row gauge Petl
G Wen bet our small pile, and our head
= in no addle,
: When we say It's big as a common pac
saddle
8 The Bolivar B-bullet-in, or bullet OF
2 VIII hold all the stakes Come, stuff e
= in-sa8tch EN- out
p In bet, race or fight, Moses head IS
level,
In making State or in fighting t
B., devil
?, D. D.