The Opelousas courier., 1885-01-10
The Poetry Market.

A timid, but really rather pretty
young man came stepping softly intothe
Howkeye sanctum yesterday afternoon,
when nobody was in but the ADVERTISE
ment solicitor, who was writing a half
column puff of Slab & Headstohe's new
marble shop. The young man took of
his hat and said: .tGood morning. and
the advertising man snarled. ssWhati is
poetry worthS: asked the timid, but
pretty young man.
..Forty cents a line said the adVer-
tisement man, promptly and rather
tenderly, sand you can't do better any
where in America. The advantages we
offer for the publication of poetry are
unsurpassed on either side ofthe Missis-
sippi. Our circulation, standing in five
figures the first year, has steadily ins
creased three times an hour ever since,
and poetry published in this paper is
placed in the hands of 80, 600 families
before night. How much have your"
Perhaps said the timid youngman
fairly reeling with delight, lit is a little
too long
ssMakes no difference" said the adj.
man., beaming upon him kindly; ssweIl
put it all in if we have to issue a SUPP
plement. And everything over 5000
lines goes at thirty-five cents"
The timid young man looked disap-
pointed.
1T isn't SO much them" he said,
s'when it's very longPn
Never replied the ad. man,
unanimously. Never less room, more
pay; that's the way you make your live
ing. Gotyour copy with you?"
Eyes, sir" replied the young man,
joyfully: would you like to read it, sirb
or shall / read itg'
mo, don't care to read it just now.
Sit down and we'll count it,
So they sat down and counted it.
.tMy heart, my heart in throbbing
numbers tells read the ad. man.
Heart medicine, young nan?n he
asked, in the patronizing way OF a man
who knows everything.
mo sir" replied the young man, in
amazed tones, while the adj. man count
ed away for dear life. mo, sir; a
rhapsody, SIR"
"Oh, yes; yes, of course said the
ad. man, in reassuring tones. "Hun-
bred nine, humid ten, hund 'leven-
course, hund COMMENSURATE done
much in rhapsodies since HelmboldJ
failed-hund twent-thee-good things,
though; we took q gross of 'em last
spring on Pad & Lotions column
hund for -two-and I wore one myself
two weeks and it made-hund ift' -four
man of me. One hundred and sixty
eight lines, sir, and we'll throw In
a four-line head and won't count the
odd half line-S65. 20; call it an even
$50 cash down. just step down to the
business Office and Ill give you a re-
ceipt.n
: We don't know what happened inn
mediately after that. We only know
that when the footman opened the door
of the carriage to let US out at the mar.
BILE steps of the Haa0kgye Office, the ad.
man was leaning on the heavy bronze
balusters, gazing Wonderingly at the.
figure of q young man, walking nn-
steadily down the street, holding a fut-
tering manuscript in one hand, and
into The other clasping his pallid brow.
You may take my double-column
head for d football, sir, z said the ad.
man, respectfully raising his hat and,
standing uncovered as we assembled one
broad stairway, ii that young fellow
going down street isn't a ~three-square
unatic from GRANVILLE. Wanted me
to pay him s~ixty-fve dollars for a long
rhyming puff without a line of business
in il, sr. n-Barlington Hawkeye.
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