The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-09-12
LAZY MANS COLUMN,
His Sensibilities Stirred
over M0Onlighters.
WHAT A CORRESPONDENT SAYS,
Wagonetts at Midnight Called to Taw.
About the Noise Made. Other
Matters.

A perfect night,
In heaven bright
The moon floats fair, dream OF light
Each vagrant sound
To sumber bound,
The world reefs calm, in peace profound.
Through sleeping trees
A tender breeze
Softly nestles each each leaf to ease.
While faint aut true
In ether's blue
A ghmmering star is peeripg through.
breathe prayer,
And an instant there
A spirit floats ia the moonlight air.
A form ! trace
vi wondrous grace
One moment see ia!r sweet face
The visions shifts,
The SD adow lifts
And the moon floats IN in silvery drifts,
The shade las fed,
The glory sped
AND ny soul makes wall for dream
that's dead. P. II.
merely want to show by these lines
that the Lazy Man thoroughly appreciates
moonlight nights and even has a soul tina,
is tuned TO sentiment, but in the name Of
the great jumping jebosephat is that any
reason Why high rolling swelldom should
make poor unoffehdisg moon and 8
wsgoDette pretext for securing the streets
OF Marietta in the wee sma" hours whoop
ing and bowling like band of Comman,
che Indians on the war path or drunk.
have no objections to your riding, IL
fact am always glad for you to have 6
good time, but you may well say tina
whether you ride or not it is none of m,
bpsiaess and / grant that you are right.
! Bat, my dear young friends, know
have right to protest and (when | say
nov. | mean the public when a gang O
yon pass by making night hideous an,
sleep impossible by your extraordinar,
vocal gymnastics
hat negro band that made the parl
worse than boiler shop every night fol
! SO long was nice quiet time compared te
the pancemonium raised by party of Ma.
rietta society people OF note" that were
abroad in the land one night week before
last
They drove in every direction screaming
and singing and waking every BODY but
the night watchmen by their hurrah and
as they got to the park they grew "wusser. y
Now won't make any remarks about
dignity and good taste, for youth and ex>
uberance OF spirit will crop out even in
the upper tendon under certain circum>
stances and its ancient piece of informa>
ton as old as the latin language that the
moon has great effect on certain class
OF people
l know you are going to sing, "a moon
light ride is mighty poor thing without
it, but you certainly cover enough coun>
try roads where your vocal gyrations won't
disturb anybody but the man in the moon
and your teams, to work off your high
pressure and completely exhaust your air
reservoirs without coming into town and
disturbing the rest of whole community.
plead for men who have earned the right
to rest, by hard days work, tor nervous
people who find morpheus always coy
person too WOO for that poor, tired mother
whose fretful baby is awakened by your
noise and has to be rocked the rest of the
night, and plead for the sick, those peo>
pie you don't know, that are not your
friends, but who are always to be found In
cities and towns The poor you have
with you always" and pain and suffering
is not as it should be, the peculiar prerog.
alive OF the rich, and that poor suffering
man or woman that dozes off into semi>
anconciousness has but little appreciation
Tor the mirth and gayety tina. startles them
back to realization Of their suffering
Be more considerable, youngsters.
IT. you will sing modulate your voices
and put out some of those parties that
have voice like cat fight and at least
put up something that is akin to melody.
To Lazy Man, Caliph of Marietta, Most
Exalted and Illustrious Commander of the |
Faithful have read with pleasure in |
your official JOURNAL, of the many abuses
and irregularities which you have discov>
cred while roaming about and minglipg !
with, incognito, your loyal subjects of the
fair city of Marietta, the western Bagdad.
AS faithful subject of your Majesty,
interested in the impartial administration
Of justice by your officials and the observ,
ance of order and decorum by the people,
feel constrained to report to your Maj
esty the following grievances which have
come to my notice
While reposing on my diyan, wrapped
n slumber, when the moon shed her sil%
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