The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1881-11-09
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look after his remains and see that n
rude hand disturbs them.
TO deal in little biography, I mus
commence by saying that lie was ono
Il baby, and even then resemblel Gaze
sar in this-that he was ambitious
His mother first laid him on a sheep
skin, but he raised such a racket tina
she tried him on swinging rawhide
bnt that was ono good" and finally, i,
despair, his father sent to, Honduras
aud had a cradle hewed out of soIit
mahogany. With characteristic wis
dom he concluded he could not IL
much better aud quit paving the al,
with his juvenile heels. When he
commenced teethins, nothing less thar
q piece of ivory from the tusk Of one
Of the sacred white elephants Of Siam
would do him.
When it came to a rattle, they frs.
tried him with gourd, but chat wonld
not do; they then gave him tin rat
tie and that would not answer, hut
Wien they gave him one of ivory he
quieted down, aud there was a hi.
saving Of carminative. In those DAYS
he was young and had uot INDUCED
much in history, else he would have
known that corn shuck was the pro-
per thing, and would have ratified sucb
music from it as would have been
amazing.
Nor has he lost that passion of his
babyhood. Sometime ago, when he
returned from the pinew"ods, with the
worth of Whole hog of tue razor back
breed i'll his pocket, the editor could
not announce his return as that of =
common mortal, but put up in farins
characters, "Once more his foot (yo.
~ is on his native heath" and his
name Is Jack Horner-no, Jack Oregon
no, dern it, Undergraduates It, Il
believe; my memory is so bad. IL
would seem from late cor, espon-
lence that this modern McGregor had
lot been ovei the borde. COW stealiny.
'ut had been engaged in tho safer and
more lucrative business Of getting pigs
nto his pocket by means Of what the
I'D woman who raised ':Paul Clifford"
alled insiniration.
am firm believer that lie is uot
lead be has shown bis metal on more
Ilaa one OCCASION, and / am sure thai
these writer's don't stop putting
oals on his back he'll crawl out The
rst thing they know and he will
wang his Lutte to less loving air than
lat OF Romeo in the streets of Verona.
nder Juliet's window. I am glad
'me one is stirring hIm mp. A race.
zerc'sins around tie track by himseI;;
ont make much show; put auo.her
orse with him, use tue whip and ibep
." Will see running. Byrop with bis
Hours of ldleness" was :'small pota.
es," but when The reviewers slapped
e spurs to him and drew blood: then
became steed Of tl,e air, si,od witt.
gut, and Went scamperins over .he
Ouds with an onsburst of speed thai
1rtled sleeping world.
The measure of Tobias ambition is
It yet Tiled, aud he will not always
simple Tobias. He will lie Consta-
3, OF Hon., or Governor, or handle,l {
some other way. If he don't, ii will :
owing to that unfortunate stalt O., i
with the wrong kind of a rattle
'vateIy betwixt you and me, Mr.. d
itor, | have heard that Tobias is {
ns his best to make amends, and
It on every sly occasion he gets be-
I'd bis crib and practices With \ corn
lex rattle. -
hope that these private devotiops
w proper repentance, and that
Genius of History will not deal II
Silly with him for mistaken start "
week or so since / was reading
DEMOCRAT, and read every thing y
1t, including the advertisements, Is
ept one piece headed "IIumility.''
heading scared me, and when IL
the signature, "Senex, = l had an Ia
or scare. Having nothing else 10 ID
!, in despair tackled it. Altbo'
mo needs them more than l do, / 4
t like serious subjects, homilics.
etc. There is little hui
ty in this world and little respect IL
to It. When found it is put down !,
owardice and trampled upon. r
spurns the worm. but pauses ere he Is
wake -
slumberlng venom of the folded &
snake" II
is the homeliest of all the chris h
Virtues and the least attractive to
about, but it fairly glowed uu-
The pen of "Senex."
Is magic hand touched the Groop-
rosebud and it flushed into the
blown rose; it drew Cinderella 4.,,
the ashes, clothed her as a May G
ID and sent her forth in sesplep- a sms
beauty, Christian Goddess; il ayr ar.
up what mi ght have seemed to 8.
piece OF common coal, and it psrs
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