The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-02-26
AN EXPOSURE.

did new Saturday journal recently es
tablished at Minneapolis, of which G.
II. Dubois is editor and publisher and
James G.. Clark is corresponding editor
This article ''gives us~away" complete
~. MIR. Clark has "exposed" us, and
since he has done so, we may as well
''confess, "own up,"a promise new
er-(well, hardly ever, ito do so again
We therefore make clean breast OF
| it and throw ourself upon the mercy OF
our readers. We confess that we did
write a poem of some five hundred lines
and struck off few copies for circula-
ton among our friends.
In reply, we have number Of let
ters ''rebuklng" us for our offence.-
We might have kept all this to ourself,
letting ''concealment, like worm, feed
on" us, 1--WE believe that is from Shak-
speare) but Mr.. Clark has laid US bare
to the public, and the rest Of it may as
well be known.
Mr.. Clark also "rebuked' US in a pri-
vate letter written at Blue Earth City
some time ago, In which he SAID:
read your powerful poem to appre-
ciative souls occasionally and it never
fails to take bold of them. It is always
new. The pictures fasten upon the
mind wonderfully. A few days since 1
was i'll the newspaper Office ut --,
and the editor, 4 young man, handed
me a little pamphlet poem sent him.
Portions of it are in the same vein rs
your discourse on MATURE" 1t is well
and carefully written, but lacks fire and
originality. lie wanted my opinion of
the poem as he thought it far better than
ordinary newspaper effort in that line.
read page Of it aloud to him and then
mentioned yours; and took it from my
wallet, and read him your words on the
same theme. 1t fairly took him off his
feet. When had finished, there were
tears in his eyes, and he said:
'Well. l believe / don't know any.
thing. Slch poetry as that makes me
discouraged about being anybody or
anything but commonplace"
We also sent copy to Miss Fanny
Driscoll, the Milwaukee poetess, who
has written a number of charming
poems for the ADVANCE, and she ire
bukcd" us by saying:
What shall Say Of your strong, per-
feet poem? have read it great many
times. catch myself often repeating
"FIies in tho cob-wob of relentless F;.te.'
Each soul u Tantalus, and over each
Forever hlngs the Bliss it cannot rcach''
God met HE on the hills and walked with me- ~
"And sweet as wom,n's love and fresh asdew."
BE thou Poet rather than King"
''Sink where we my, we sink into the Skies"
And dozens of other dainty sentences.
hardly dare say what think of your
poem, 1t is so fine and strong, so tender
and beautiful.
One of the editors of the New York
Tribune, to whom We sent copy, said:
l have read your poem with deep i'll
terest and sincere pleasure. I am no
poet, nor competent critic of poetry,
but it seems to me very fine.
Well, what did he do? lie went and
told on us, told his good wife, and she,
seeing that we had got into difficulty,
wrote us letter and said:
must tell you how much I enjoyed
your beautiful poem. I thank you for
the real feast it was to me. There are
some as fine passages in it as l ever
read anywhere. Some things in it re-
mind me Of my dear old favorite, Whit
tier. Your poem has done me good
1t stirred the very deeps of my heart,
especially the passage where you rep
resent the little child trying with hands
and knees to open the door. There can
be no better theology than that. shall
carry that with me for strength and
comfort. | am not asllamo ed to say that
read it all with tears in my eyes.
We might give much more, but this
is sufficient to enforce the ''exposure''
and to be a warning to others. OF
course there are people who may say it
is foolish to ''confess' this much, but
they probably do not know what it is
to have an ''awakened conscience" and
to be suddenly published to the world.
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CITY RAILROAD.
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