Evening journal., 1889-02-26
A TALE OF A DUKE.

VIC ~ hNANo SObhNhts HAS pttA pFlubluR
for few weeks;
The Duke Of Yorkshire had a thousand men;
He marched them up the bill and be marched
them down again;
And when they're up they're up,
And when they're down, they're down,
And when they're half way up, they're neither
up nor down.
A clamorous public demands an expla-
nation.
''Why the twelfth verse, the one
hundred and second verse and all the
other verses are Just the samef" said q
q subscriber.
An explanation is wanted.
1t is given.
The virtues of poem are not in its
length or in the number of words it
manipulates, but rather in it's sentiment
Who will say that there is no sense in
the above first verse; II is full Of sense
At any rate to keep thousand men 1t
would be necessary to multiply the cents
into dollars. Having proved the cents,
meant in the poem proceed.
Many, many years ago, before you and
supported ourselves land impoverished
others) through the spiritualstic
medium Of the public press, or before
even there was public press and when
the only press was the clothes press, or
the two souls with but an unmarried
thought, press-at any rate, long ago,
almost as far back as the oldest inhabi
tant remembers a winter like this. there
lived man.
He was q single man although married.
He had son whose name was "Ducat,
which was lengthened into the Duke of
Yorkshire" Some esteemed writers have
thought that he was moneyed man, but
like all titled Dukes he was too poor to
90 on the stage.
So he lived and ate just like the com
mon people, indeed he seemed to thrive
on It.
List ye Prohibitionists
Yorkshire always told the truth
Take heed We License Applicants.
He told the truth in all ways either by
lying low or otherwise. When it becomes
too warm for us we cannot sleep, but the
Duke would lie there just the same
Exceptions were made of Lodge nights.
At this point the patent thread of
fact is broken off-Did the Duke have
wife7 or rather was he married, and if 50
to whom, and II divorced who had he
married2
know not.
But even the most ignorant would
know that a man to lie successfully to
1000 men, as, reading between the lines
the Duke did, he must have had some
practice at home. Ill say then that he
had a wife or that he was married.
Wen divorce this from us and move off
the corner.
The story Of the Duke Of Yorkshire
lacks another point,
The line:
THE Duke Of Yorkshire had thousand
men,
is full Of unexpressed meaning, or per
haps it was expressed G. o. d. AMI was
not paid for-but pass that.
Where did he get these menu
Did he let them escape from the New
Castle jail, so poorly provided as a peni-
tentiaryf Don't know.
Were they street car driyersq Don't
know.
Does anybody know
Does Addicks2 No.
It may be they were ex-dukes whose
wives had cut off their allowances, and
they were now reheaFsing for the cross
country tramp.
The Duke Of Yorkshire had been re-
hearsing these men for
"He marched them up the hill, and he
marched them down again."
A merciful writer
He did not say as less modest men
would have done He Marched them
Fourth.
Now the esteemed writer Of this valu-
able poem of-any number Of verses, no
two of which are diiferent-makes a
statement that should be noted by all
who behave in the concise aad the cor
rect. Notice the clear cut sentences, as
10 s.s.iaved;
"And when they're up, they're up"
less careful and more p-esuming
writer would have gotten them up there
and left them TO be eaten by the savages
but our friend does not, for he adds
"And when they're down, they're down.
And now for the finale, in which the
climax having been reached, the author
chops the verse off they're with.
Neither at the top nor at the base, for
"But when they're half way up they re neither
up nor down."
A rude person arrayea in FIRE clothing
might scoff at this because he fails TO see
the point, but that is not the point, there
is none to be seen. II Is covered by the
Osborne fat" foot Of the well-knowr
and much talked Of Duke, above men.
toned
II now remains for some one to add the
result Of this conference at the Halfway
House, as it were Whether they were
waiting for an electric car and then did
not get on because Of that extra cent fol
fair, is not known. Neither is it known
whether they were awaiting the inaugur
alton Of "Who is that MANI Harrison,
but do state, without expecting to ado
to my salary, that they were just hal
way up the hin and almost the same dis
lance from the other end. 4
This is the end c. B. P.