The Russellville Democrat., 1883-02-15
TABITHA TOPP.

Miss Tabitha Topp a young lady in town,
 Possessed great passion
 To lead in the fashion; She put on the airs to take everything dowi, And patronized art, in order to gain
 Perfection and grace
 In figure and face, In A way that will not attempt to explain
 Hut will only say,
 In shorter way, She made up her beauty by handsomely dress As nature had been rather spare of that bless
 ing Of maids and dressmakcrs she had full
 score, With Nootman behind and with coachInan be-
 Was it wonderful, then.
 That the 'Acallow young men Should think her an angel" a ''charming Exquisite" in figure and stunning" in feat She had crushed the hearts of dozen or
 more. Her paw he was wealthy, her "beaux' they As foppish and foolish as she could desire, They swallowed her .sfnaw's" murdered gram And laughed at the wit and stale jokes of
 her sire. When Topp was an humble retailer Of oeer' By close calculation, by constantly savlDR, By wild speculation, by pinching and shay He prospered at last in his worldly affairs, And rose from the foot to the top of the
 stairs. Of all of the beaux with which Tabbie was
 blest, His pink and white features, his exquisite
 airs, His mustache of semi-invisible hairs, His diamonds. his rings and his snowy attire' Were all that her frivolous heart could desirc: He talked of fast horses, of ''betting' and He laughed at the motion" of working or While Mrs Topp gave him the best of her And talked great deal 70 that dawtah O
 mine. Q woman fair siren, men can not withstand The cup of destruction that turks in your
 hand, How oft have the noblest been led and be- To taste the bright poison because you have
 smiled? Men y.eld to your beauty and subtle control; They drink and they die wrecked in tody and
 soul. So Tsbitbs married Augustus Fitz Noodle, And started away with her husband and poo
 die; So she was as happy as money could make
 her. They crossed the Atlantic, they landed in They tarred at absolute Paris awhile, They saw the whole city, you know, at And greatly enjoyed all it's ''splcndah an
 style. They visited Sicily, Naples and Rome, "a ,,,n, They gazed at .'San Petah's' magnificent
 dome: They went to the Vatican, saw Plus Ix., An lots O old martyrs an saints ve7y me; 1tflssx sa1 fha fal lrs 1 S.afa !
 the Rhine,
 Viewed ali the old castles ani notable They thought the old ruins tho striking ana Would have looked very well If they wasn't Went over to England, attended the races, Then, greatly dsgusted with foreign af- They crossed the wild waves and came home
 for repairs. Time gldsd away, with great deal of cJan0;,. How many fond lovers few years estrange :! Poor .Tabbie" grew older and thinner and Forgot how to smile and soon learned how to
 sputter. Because Ter Augustus ''woul lie in the gut
 ter."
 In short, h.s attentions had ceased to de-
 light her. ne drank and he gambled, he lived very fast, He d'ed. one dark night, with the "tremons,
 at lat. "Misfortune,' tis said, "never travels
 alone, And riches have wings" for they often have
 flown. The wealth f the Topps, being deeply in-
 volved In wild speculations one dark day dissolved. The sherin "eame down like the wolf on the
 fold. Their house and rich furniture had to be sold Now those who had loudly professed to ad-
 mire The Topps. when they dressed in their showy
 attire. Pronounced them "sxccedinsiy vulgar and The fashionable brethren all drowned with dis
 dain: They heard of the change in their worldly af-
 fairs, And ceased to remember the Topps in their Forsaken by friends and avoided by all, Even those they despised now rejoiecd in
 their fall. There is sorrow and shame, there is want and
 Il stress. There is grief that no language can speak or
 express That viii come to a man with no will to ab- From us triiing thing as a glass of cham And the ones on whom Nature has deigned to
 bestow An abundance of all tho good things here be-
 low. should not walk thro the world too conceted
 and vain, Or regard ali the iowly with naughty disdain. They may fall from the top to the foot of the
 stairs. And crush all the.r proud. superclious airs.
 t,l1suf 4 fillI m fh(euUO Inter thcQfl.