The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-27
"lRISTODEMUS,"
A POEM By H. N. DOAK, OF THE
"AYALANCHE,'
Which Is shortly to Find the Light
Of Day, q Surprise to the Crit
zeal Public.

Louisville OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES on
the subject Of Memphis newspaper
men. Ii is more than with ordinary
pleasure fbat with q very considerable
measure OF trepidstion, meanwhile),
that youf correspondent first makes
public sliterary secret which the mod
esty Of the author has kept for several
years scu%pulouslY confined within
the nsrrowest possible circle OF his
immediate friends. Several months
q / got hold OF the nestly bound
volume, printed in clear Characters on
the type writer, and read with con-
SANITY increasing interest as page after
page disclosed the touches OF a master
hand. Ieutled tnersfrom afew choice
&c ections merely for my own gratid-
cation, without intending any pablo
M ntion, aad none will be more sur
prised than the author himself TO read
This expression OF the merits OF his
work. Candor compeis the admission
that / perhaps viola'e a confidence
which thould be vigorously main.
tanned, blu. ! trust 10 Mr.. Docks good
sense and good temper no. TO be 10,
hard on one who is sorely tempted. !
hardly know whether that natural in
81 net OF the correspondent Is alto.
getherrepIehensib e which impels him
10 venture the more boldly even
into "pcsted" fslds and private pre-
serves the more luciously temp ing
CLEANS the fruit from owe the priva'e
wall. He has kept his secret well for
several years, until now / hold the
public has a right by expiIat on OF the
statute OF limi ATOMS. At all events /
can suggest but one method by which
he could have maintained a perpetual
lien on 80 coed a thing rs aristotle
mus, aud that is ID have LhIo - aside
his lyps writer and gone into his own
Carbohydrates OF p or Blots and
Horace Greeley! Bat what printers
cssa, or what ''rule in Shslley's case"
csuld have unlocked treasures 80
hidden away beneath hier0glyphics
I ON out whose pages would forever
rise ID faocy's eye the marble features
Of the Egypt an Sphinx with irgsr
laid securely on her lips!
Mr.. D3aE has long bern known ae
one OF the most delightful readable
and vjooroua editorial writer's in the
emit re country, North or South; few
have thought OF him as n who,
even for his own anu ement aud pas.
time, has entered the province oil
dramatic literature and eomro,ed two
works NJ the highest order tf merit
His first venture was Nydia, which, II
mt on the stage ss a spectacular
| dr.ma. wou'd shame the tolinQ pro.
dncdons which are patron zed nov
in shear wan of tomething better and
more tleyat ny. Ngdia is based OF
Rnlwe,,s Last Davs of Pompeii. the
Mot h we'll c,neeiyed and sustained
tnTou,hout-,he moral IL ennoblinf
and nan ring. and would Thrill anc
All an an, rec alive audien,e. I can,
didIv c5mmsnd II to the the itrica
manaoers of the country II, perad.
vsn,nre. thty might pieysil on il!
suthor 70 trust ia FORTUNES TO III,
modero audience. surfeitsd with th,
Ynm Yam. Yum and the high.dey
didd,e the cat. and.the.fiddle the COW
Observation-Disclosures spe,imsns O
nioblv refined rhap ,ody.
But nv purpose only is t, quote
few asleetinns from Aristodemus.
traoic noem. writ an nut with an Nv,
~ drsmet,c affect. hut in winch To,
oenins NJ a .John Mccullough woult
hsva ionnd tc1Le and verge for stris
no and totcinie atua ions. Follow
iDv is a SYNOPSIS OF the histor ca
aveots on which thepoem IA fonnded
an the fourth wear of the frst Mes
sen,an war (bstween the Spaitans an,
The Messen,ansl the MeNenisns. site
msnv ,eveIseg are said TO have gath
srad nav 1onraoe. Int their KING
Enptms. ttill aid not venture to fac
tne spa,tans on even prouud, He in
trencntd himself In a stropg lositiou
hnt dis st.r III owed disaster. Me
asnias a'aves ioinad the S~partane-
famine and disease invaded The couu
,rv. The Messpniaps fut fy Ithon1e
To enlist the Gods theJ sent To consul
the oracle M DAlphj' when declare,
an upsnlLed virgin of tine blood q
FnStus, selected bv lot, mu I oemsd
,bs v,c,im az anocuurna sacrifce /,
the nowa,s n allow. Should me lot fal
WONG one willingly mus, sufTer in
sad The Lot was drawn. and fell o,
The dauoh,sr of Lyciacus. bat a trick,
saothssver forbade the sacrifice, Tor b
knev Ior pretended Ia know that IN
maid Was moi oi The lineage OF Epy
the Meanwhile Lyc,scus ian OF wi,
her m snarta.
dUarpnnoo Arit demu,. an Epvti
sl.o. sMetsanian General OF renowne,
y.lor and natrIoIi.m. freely offered hi
own dauvh,er nvoisl 10 The cod,
thonoh the dav had been fixed whp,
aha sSonld marry Lvsan0eT. To saw
her from death Iyssnder forged a tai
aOainst her honor. TO wit. hat SD
wonld soon become a motner. Their,
mon Aris,odemus slew her with b
own hspd-hsr henor was cleared
, hut the soothssyers said the murde
was NOT a s,criiics. AID that anotht
/ victim mu,t be sought. But Eupha
persuaded the people that the orscl
had Mean du'v oheyed.
"This satrihcal rite much discou.
ape5 the Spartans. and IL was on,y i
the sixth wear that their King. Toe
nompus led his army against ithom,
Ennbms slain. Arist "a. INNS was q ec
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