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

not even Vu0 6Uu Va u PAVpoSSs
am considerably encouraged aud much
more hopeful in that respect tor t,
1ToLD rot so!
was afraid that that gum was 60
ing to deprive US of the pleasure OF
letter from yout fair friend last week
and the event proved the correctness
of nv conclusions. l beg her in the
future not to chew but to escbew sweet
gum, for DEMOCRAT without a letter
from Chatty, now that we have learn
ed to look so eagerly for them, is like
quaker camp meeting, or worse SUM-
one of Hayes cold water State am
ners insuferably 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 l find that that, too,
is as I said, humbug. He gives a
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.
SARAH!
Ibid not know thatI 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 ] give you the
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 a 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 tho place and fill the space,
Of a rhyme for Sarah!
Let her not despair of name 30 rare,
MOI uniustly berate an unkind fate,
; Since 'tls better sure, SO have a name 80
p1lre,
Aud with content to endure, mishap so
Than to suffer the filings, that another
name brings,
In the passing ease With which scribblers
|. tease,
By making pun. and having their fun;
/ But they pun not upon Sarah!
r And then if she choose, rather than lose,
The aesthetic pleasure of graceful mea,
sure,
The rhythm is the same if she change bel
, name,
jSad gain her aim by remaining the same
. LOG stately It's true, and less homage il
40 pam oai,s ut it rhymes with valley
{ ANU sal sal,p in trust must, let her TAXI
For want Of rhyme fos'-ro,,,
e But then am afraid twill be as -,.;a
IF That some lead pencil Knight, will tau
delight,
'r In spelling the effect of the name cleo
le And take into his head to reject, the pal
select,
ID That releems "Sally' from the reproac
If Of "Sal."
am sure it's best. to let the matter rel
y Where parents voice gave the choice,
q, To the rhymeless name Sarah!
ID 'Tis so fair a name, there should be l
.. Since she who first it bore in scriptu1
lore,
T. Was maiden so fair, wife so rare,
That perhaps mothers prayer, her vi
tues to share
Gave her the name Of the Hebre
maiden
Ills worthy Of higher, holer though
than the idle vantage sought,
; Is this name that of yore our mothers wor
= This pure and chaste name Sarah
70 A SENSATIONAL STORY.
or At your request I write you reg,
- lar blood and thunder story-one
~ the hanging the-eye- brows sort.
= ~ So here goes for Chap. l of
~ THE WILD FLfGH OF THE LOVERS
wv Or
a. TERRIBLE TEST OF TRUE LOVE!
lg She was maiden fair and frail ar
&c Gully sixteen. Her name was Arahs.
e. Araminta Smith. He was forty, po
TO and ambitious. Ills name was Alge
non Sylvester Jones. They met al
s. loved. They would wed, but Ar
q bella's cruel father who was wor
~ seven billions and who had no 9th
- heir swore that she should not mari
u Algernon. He imprisoned Arabella
III the topmost room of his nineteen stol
e. marble palace and seventeen Nubis
10. lions guarded all its approaches. B
I'd "love laughs at locksmiths.' A kin
of hearted, but bald-headed eagle, ca
se ried notes between them. They d
,e termined to elope. But howl All.
No balloon!! The thunder rolls, Il
~ lightning flashes, but they embar
We and he swears that they will hitch {
a. to the tail of the comet and that
re-. will carry her beyond the reach of b
h. angry par-i-ent. The storm has Dor
Dr. them a thousand miles upward VIII
at bark the balloon is on fire! fire
W. fire!!!
ia (To BE CoNTINUED.)
lis How I am ever going to get the
he down don't know-but Of that mo
NO. anon. A truce to such folly! Let
~ be serious again. ~
'ly ro'h"tf
ca My sermon this Sunday morni
shall have for it's purpose to tea
y that poverty is word of comparati
-. ~ significance. Not all those who 8
~ wealthy are really rich and not all "
n ua' are poor in worldly goods are subj,
?e' to tho reproach of poverty. As tn
To- per expresses it
MANY beggar at the cross way, or gr
to haired shepherd on the plain,
ne. Hath more of the end Of all wealth, til
mt hundreds who multiply the mean
~ In his old fashioned way he tai