St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-11-22
a Poem by a Cheneyville Poetas.
ter, Entitled LOTTERY Tactios,"

at First and last we have read at lea
20 some OF tho rhytlmical effusions
m about one hundred ack flow edged Poe,
ir We have on our own shelves the poen
70 OF thirty odd. running from Sophncle
l. Terrence and Homer down to the pre-
J. ent time. But the Poet of the Farmer
IN Vidette has. hy the publication of I'll
" above entitled production, entirrl
" ecllpsed all our little ideas of lan2uaR
or rhetorlc-rhymo and reason. II
"a breaks forth thus:
~ "The Lottery came down like VOL
+, on the fold" The conception of tn
g s'mllltnde of the Lottery to the vol
!, might have been inteiigible in . rIe,
"rIcal view. it one could grasp the ide
! OF the use which Il wolf would have fu
million of silver and gold. The privi
lege to loot which it seeks to con
? tinue-"is one which we have vaipl,
endeavored to understand. In fact. W,
confess our English ie defective in NO
comprising the verb to loot What i.
meant by the expression, continuing +.
loot the people of virtue," surpasses on,
understanding. But the poet had to
find something made up of lett4ra, to
rhyme to tbs word boot. He migh,
have taken, moot, foot, sootv toot and
thus have rhymed within the Compass
OF an ordlnarys knowledge OF tie En-.
glish language.
| "Ihey 1--WE suppose the Lottery and
possibly we ought not to object to the
pionoun, since in the poets fight, j.
may as we'll mean the it that offered the
silver and gold, brought to their, the ito
| aid sleek jobben to plea" We have 40
acquaintance with sleek Jobben, but
take it for granted the Poet is mo,r
fortunate than We. How he makes pisa
and men rhyme wo fail to conceive.
The next flight the poet takes is appa-
rently inspired by the New Testament
account of the Savior's temptation by
the devil, but hs llats in his fight by
putting these words 10 the devils
mouth:
Bow unto nle ana these things bestow."
Here again our knowledge of the |
Poets annalogical rhetoric is confused.
When the Devil took OUT Savior on the
mountain lie told him if lie would wor-
ship him, he tie devil, would give unto
him all tho things he had pointed out TO
him. But our poet. makes the Lottery
Say:
Bow unto ME, and these eiings bes-
tow Now it we understand any En-
RlIsh at all, the very reverse Of wisat the
devil proposed to do. with our Savior.
s what the Lottery requires of the uu- ,
thinking. For it the line can fairly be- ..
'ald to- mean anything, it coaveys the
dea that the DEVILS Offer was that If l
Christ would bow to him, he Christ,
should bestow "these things below" a
'erhaps the Poet in q moment pf divine =
apture up set the offer, and spelled the e
rope. .
The next line he terminates with =.
modei''-then he tries to supply i;
hyme to with "boddIc." which we pre- q
ume he intended for bodle, but speit 1t G
trong to make it jingle with model. If I
e really wrote b0ddle he must find THE II
sdix of it in the vicinity of Cheneyvillr CO
] NJ. s. edition of a new Lexicon in =
purse of preparation for the Press and II
} be edited by the Poet Laureate of the ia
'idette, under the auspices Of the Ia
Alliance. an
He says Jonnie may he an angel, "be- ta
ause good people tell, of one kind from dc
eaven and another from hell" He o.;
ext calls him ''tliis protector of levees. as
'ylums and schools" and thus he never pu
lts his pen to paper without the crea. ur
On of myriad similitudes which be- ha
ilder the imagination in it's effort to ba ba
asp the poetic treasures with which ssai
} loads his musical lines. vi,
The concluding lines show an effort rh
make "bribe" and pride" rhyme, Fr
ecedent for which, we know not of. ar,
We suppose the bard of Chtneyvillr Fis
sires to win a lasting fame ~ Il poet
he has cluscn fruitful theme ant r.'
sighted with all the elements anu !'c
arms of iuventioii-and we suppose. y,
,. le is aware OF the fact that "TiIl and
tics blame and judges praise, the san san
pt cannot claim his bays" ia hul
fsjend LafarRue! persuade your poet lara
sndeavor tD rein dngp lis yoiant 'Is. y.
gasus. and>h0ld him somewhere with eve
the Visions scope of the English Ian repl u
age. Your interesting paper may the. the
ID a p0st's embellishments, but en- Ci
at him to write something your s%aI s%I
ders can understand. Gu
Hun
"a my reply to Mr.. J. w. Jackson's r
{ communication On plates does not deeE
,aar r., hn V<. convincaa hin, ,,f his or sell
"a i, - ..,o.,,,5 n..it .t. barr
ne Calls tOr more proofs reaprcf- ers,
y submit the following which Ought n til
~ conclusive at least, if not satisfac. unbr
ITO bln. sucs euns
J reply to q letter of mine on this SEC
j4ct. the American Press Association ever,
Dallas. Tex, writes under date Of n,als IN i
:. 9Th. 1890: aInou Me n
= . We .ell our plates always to the pa. Cia
and not to tho proprietor If the paper and
ges hands. We always hold the new propri. shall
responsible for what plates may be left in Cta
,flce We loaned the bases To the Demo- Thou
and nobody has any right to take them dred
7, unless with the permission Of the Demo- shall
Thuui
me there In apparautly a dispute as to who dred
wusrship w @ Of % tie Dsmocrat belonss. That enty- :.
nrse cannot Settle But one thing is Ger n "a ca
the plates belong to whoever the proprie- Dol. Doila
are loaned fo the Democrat Whoever lars,
he control Of that paper has the right to C!a.
ne of the bases. Hoping this la clear, Ie ipOlal