Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-27

''regret" on my part, that am unable to be
with YOU, and all the other jolly "scribes, al
your meeting on the Goth inst. 1t is
regularly sad circumstance, assure you; for,
however poignant may be the pangs feel, on
mn otrn account, they are as thin air, when
compared with my grief at the thought OF so
noble lot of Gods statuary being assembled
together around table, aud the Poet left
Out. The cold turkey; the salads; the cake;
the dough-nuts; the desert, and the bottled
der, will all miss me. Poets are proverbial
for being men Of bread views, so far as their
stomachs are concerned, and that is rhg l
always felt convicted, from The very hrst,
whenever accused of being poet.
But, seriously, my dear sir, il was not until
some one called my attention TO your an
n0uncement in the daily papers, that knew
confer. Your esteemed letter of prior
date must have been misunderstood by the
undersigned; for, did not suppose you 10 DC sc,
riouS in the soft Impeachment therein limited
at. Consequently, | avail myself of the priv
ilege claimed by al the leading poets OF the
present and past ages, when invited 10 prouuce
something in their line fora set OCCASION.
G., pIentp Of time In order to be an honor 10
80 diguified a gathering as meeting OF the
Minnesota editors, the poem should be not less
than about four hundred verses III length, and
of considerable breadth, AS well. Now, you can
pher il ont Yourself. We leading poets-who
have a reputation at stake-yery seldom man
ufacture above three verses per day, with the
alternate DAYS "oh." Even then. the machln-
cry must be in the most buoyant and elastic
condition, in order to guard against hot-boxts
o. loose belts. J. being one of the most impct
)us of'our class of our literary men, have
Uttered many severe sprains, during my eX-
periencc, in trying to 90 too much in given
time. The readers of some of my most famous
rooms little dream of the cost BY which they
were produced. For instance, my "Raid on
Uncle Tins Melon PATCH" was followed by
ten DAYS severe Illness, during which time
bright light Of the present generation came
very nearly taking passage for the New Jeru-
shem, via the Cramp-colic Line. Oyerwork
sometimes affects me in that way. My lode
to Spring" being an entirely fresh topic
played havoc with my constitution, leaving
The Joints badly sprung, and all the more SEN
sitive bearings almost rutnously cut" II
consisted of 4 string of thirty-Seven verses.
and took twenty-six working days, aside from
the moral In the face of these brief facts,
sir, ii would seem almost, ifnot wholly, super
fluous for me to assure you that the notice
YOU gave me was entirely too limited in its
''preYisusuess, that is, for good job. or
course, might have ground out some very
fair ''middlings," or cheap filllng, out lor
a good class of "uppers' there wasn't time
enough given, by half | am painfully aware
thit my good and much-loved brethren of the
Minnesota press, will "come hungering" and
Ego away athirst' because OF my failure TO re-
spond; but, my advice is, that they go to their
respective homes aud go through their last
springs waste basket, again. This often has
a most salutary effect upon persons, and par
ticularly editors, who get hun
cry for poetry. The reason cannot
even he present. unloaded, is that my time is
wholly occupied in laudable endeavor to
convert my worthy senior of the Duluth Tri-
bUne, and in explaining to my foreign-born
fellow citizens-in twenty-eight different Ian
cuages-all about how they cannot hold
Homestead and presumption at one and the
same time, in the land office Also, in taking
testimony IN reference to the kind of roof and
floor, and the number OF doors and windows
they think they lave in and around their
houses when they attempt 10 prove that they
are entitled 10 their broad acres. Also, in re-
csiviUg The fees and commissions for the same.
The latter part Of my official duties is ex-
tremely distasteful 10 poet, rs their natural
inclnatioas run exclusively To iealing in
"sunbeams.n ''misty CASTLES" 'fancics
painted and that sort of ''truck.
All In all feel sure that the brethren will
pardon the aching void" occasioncd by my
absence, and eat tcete deeper into the dough
nuts in my behalf, POLITICALLY thine, In the
bonds, NJ. C. RUSSELL.
DUITTU MIMI Jan o. 1881.