The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1881-08-31
ToRIAs CoNrINUEsTo DISCOURSE

not even the "eOn OF propnets Ous
am considerably encouraged and much
more hopeful in that respect for
TOLD rot SO!
Twas afraid that that gum was 60
ing to deprive us of the pleasure of a
letter from your fair friend last week
and the event proved the correctness
of my conclusions. beg her IN tue
future not to chew but to eschew sweet
gum, for DEMOCRAT without a letter
from Chatty, now that we have learn
ed to look go eagerly for them, is ike
quaker camp meeting, or worse sti'',
one of Hayes cold water State din
ners insnfferably dull. And then
again a friend, seeing my last letter,
had the kindness to courteously tender
me the use of his copy of Jack Abbott
on Jack Pot, and I find that that, too,
is as l said, humbug. He gives
few simple rules that every tyro at the
game knows by heart, and nothing
more. I am ready now to forswear
Jack Pot forever--or until the next
time.
Ibid not know that was poet up-
til tried my hand at 1t the other day,
and l have even yet faint suspicion
that Shakespeare and Byron are in no
danger of losing their laurels by my
poetic scribblings, but l give you tho
result of my effort for what it's worth:
SARAH!
| BY AN IMPROvIsED POET.
Chatty bemoans her fate, because too late,
She has discovered the fact that the
thoughtleSs ACT,
Of her parents in giving her name, de-
prives her of fame,
Disbars her from poetry's theme, and con-
dennis her to prose too tame.
The burden of her plant is that her name
is so quaint,
That no other word, of which twas ever
heard,
Will fit the place and fill the space,
Of rhyme for Sarah!
Let her not despair of a name 80 rare,
Nor uniustly berate an unkind tate,
Since it's better sure, so have q name so
pnre,
And with content to endure, a mishap so
easy to cure,
Than to suffer the filings, that another
name brings,
In the passing ease with which scribblers
l. tease,
BY making pun, and having their fun;
i But they pun not upon Sarah
And then if she choose, rather than lose.
The aesthetic pleasure of graceful mea-
sure,
The rhythm is the same if she change her
name,
Ind gain her aim by remaining the same.
uee ~tately tits true, and less homage is
A. Al P s;ncs . nr.t it rhymes with valley,
Sally in trust, o0v' -''
For want Of rhyme fos~->,ob,
e But then 1 am afraid twill be as .;d
r That some lead pencil Knight, will tan
delight,
+ In spelling the effect Of the name elect
e And take into his head to reject, the par
select,
n That redeema "sally' from the reproac
4 Of "Sal."
l am sure tbs best. to let the matter res
J Where parents voice gave the choice,
}, To the rhymeless name Sarah!
d It's so fair name, there should be Il
r. blame,
Since she who first it bore in Scriptur
lore,
Was a maiden so fair, wife so rare,
That perhaps a mothers prayer, her VII
tues to share
= Gave her the name Of the Hebre'
maiden.
Ills worthy Of higher, holier though
than tie idle vantage sought.
Is this name that of yore our mothers wor
This pure and chaste name Sarah
q A SENSATIONAL STORY.
,r At your request I write you regu
- lar blood and thunder story-one {
. the hanging by the EYE. brows Sort
- So here goes for Chap. / Of
a THE WILD FLIGH OF THE LOVERS
a. TERRIBLE TEST OF TRUE LOVE!,
g She was maiden fair and frail an
c ouly sixteen. Her name was AraheE
e. Araminta Smith. He was forty, poo
10 and ambitious. Ills name was Alge1
non Sylvester Jones. They met an
s. loved. They would wed, but Are
. bella's cruel father who was wort
i, seven billions and who had no. 0the
. heir swore that she should not MARI
:. Algernon. He imprisoned Arabella
III the topmost room of his nineteen stor
g. marble palace apd seventeen Nubia
8. lions guarded all it's approaches. B,
ID "love laughs at locksmiths. A kline
Of hearted, but bald-heaGed eagle, cal
,e ried notes between them. They d.
70 termined to elope. But howl Aha
No a balloon!! The thunder rolls, til
~, 20 lightning flashes, but they embarl
W and he swears that they will hitch o
D. to the tail of the comet and that i
e. will carry her beyond the reach of b,
4 angry par-i-ent. The storm has borl
r them thousand miles upward whe
at bark the balloon is on fire.! fire
". FIRE J.!
ia (TO BE CONTINUED.
ia How l am ever going to get the
IL down don't know-but Of that mo
a. anon. A truce to such folly! Let
~ be serious again. -
Is My sermon this Sunday mornil
shall have for its purpose to tea'
,e that poverty is a word Of comparati'
~ significance. Not all those who q
~ wealthy are really rich and not all wi
10 are poor in worldly goods are subje
e' to the reproach of poverty. As To
10 per expresses it
Many a beggar at the cross-way, or ora
to haired shepherd on the plain,
,e. Hath more of the end Of all wealth, tn
nt hundreds who multiply the mean,
10 In his old fashioned way he tax