The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-03-28
UNCLE SAM AND HIS TWO KIDS.

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UNCLE SAM AND HIS TWO KIDS.
BY DANIEL FOWLER DE WOLF, 55rH OHIO, sueAl
/ CREEK FARM, GA
"owad some power the giftie gle us."
| Chapter !, Section 1.-Descriptire.-Dirie.
| Our Dixie maiden fair
With graceful, winning guisei
Tresses of glossy. raven hair,
| Flashing tmiobic) eyes;
Constant in her Conservative prayer,
| ct insure her future bin of fare,
! Which here was what brer Tom would spare
| And what aunt Dinah would prepare,
| Chickens done gone and butter rare.)
She loved King Cotton, loved Grand-Pere
Loved royal Bourbon ease to share
| In Southland, wild fruit-sceuted air.
| MOI forge nor lathe shuttle's rattle.
| Nor sight Of well-bred swine or cattle.
Nor promise rich in school-boy's prattle,
Delighted her like talk Of battle.
With cotton and curled wool TO spare,
She sat on Fortunes topmost stair
And dealt our statecraft by the squar'
Or on her housekeeping mare,
"a Peg'sus flly fed on air)
Lacking wild boar and bear, chased fox 10 lair,
The Brush" the longed-fo prize
Section 2.-StM Descriptire.-1hc Cousin
Way up beneath the "Greaier Bear"
And sometime clustering skies,
Her cousin "Tank,m deboDair.
With speculative eyes.
Tills of their Uncle's farm share;
A1ocks at hard work and sturdy fare;
In crisp, night sleigh-rides courts the fair;
Sports with his BARNS by hearth-fre's glarcs
Builds cities DER the wildcats lair;
For human progress joins in prayer
With forge and lathe and shuttle's rattle,
With generous low OF well-bred cattle.
With scholars theme and school-boys prauies
Thus fighting life's ambitious battle.
Thus ma king brain and Drawn to do,
Thus scaling nights for prospects new,
Thus bringing Gods answering law to view:
Through talents used ye rise"
Section 3.-Aa Episode.
For room e exploit her curled- ware
Casting about her eyes.
Dixie gins crowd This debonsire,
Vastly TO his surprise.
Cries Yank. al swow, do declare,
who could have thought she'd ever dare!
I've a foot of land pIi spsre.
Wait. Cous, I'll buy perhaps. your ware"
Her answer is the cannon's blare.
Yank gropes awhile. then hits her square
Aud knocks her headlong off her stair.
While Uncle Samuel charges up The fare:
While school and church are broadening, grow
ing;
New engine. rhistling. forges glowing;
New gold from Gods rock treasure-houses fow-
ing;
Woman the seeds Of juster, larger manhood SOW
ing;
Rush of sIl human interest showing
YRuk siill has Drawn and brain to spare.
And spirits hot TO join in forceful prayer
ThHt all his tribes may rise.
Section z.-Episode 2.
Gone King gone ivory and curled-wool ware.
Gone somewhat her surprise,
Dixie remoun;s her mettesome mare.
With old-tme winning guise.
Sroking with ILL., y-hand Ynuk's hair,
Wed make, !" she Hsps. "a wInsome pair;
Chnse jaclali tariff schemes TO hair:
ofkecping honse I've notions rare.
Wilson's Academy. al Mount Fair.
Has craftsmanship all needs to straddie.
Experience. spurned, pure brains in saddle.
You'll see reform spite business twadde;
Money shall fly. hard times slxedsddle."
Ysnk. tumbing finds bor wiles snare.
She plays nlone leaves him 10 stare.
JacSsls weren't in it anywhere.
'Statecrafi" soon sweeps the cupboard bare.
One morn she wakes Yank Is not there.
His tribes ali kss an "au revwair"
And leave her "pondering" on the golden
STAIR?
While "cuekoos" squint their eyes.
Chapter 2-The Eew South.
Old needs gave class an easy race
Toward patriarcha power and place.
Now apt 10 judge awry
BY what they hear in passing by.
Southland has modest spirits. brond Of view,
Who leave the old ways to build the new.
For leaders' blunders these have bled
With courage. They're no longer led.
To fbese the old "conservative" {" track
Is echoing Of old wheel and rack.
While "manor born and 'old regime"
Unmeving gage the moving stream.
TO esch " old light I" their beavers tip.
BE 1t Hespcrus tallow-dip.
Browns. Inmaus. Fisglers, Plants have WAYS
ofshowing new dogs have their days.
The South has vast unused domain,
or easy tilth for generous gain.
Need urges work. 'Gainst work TINT comes
7" enrich the State with schools and homes,
These never set up claim. minute,
Denk owns th' whole farm because born IN Il
In short. subtract the "a Sta,ecrsft" few,
~ rest are much like me and you.
Proud that young Columbia leads
In enterprise aud Christian deeds,
And mol disposed To stay behind,
These spurn old spleens that make men blind
To personal interest. public veal
Ali generous joys that wise men feel.
Ysluing III unnapkinned pound. the "nimble
penny"
These strike for forge. for lathe and jenny;
For arts with ordiy power lift;
Beor culture, lofdiy fruit of mastery and ihrih.
t1Ien know bcejays from soaring eagles
Sophomores with howery wales " from Edsons,
Wcbsters. Bcgels.l
These know a fcliow-worker when they meet
him.
And. with an eye TO business run 10 greet him;
Not ~ = flock OF geese look into the jugs,
But with frnternsl, patriotic hpgs
Such the New South. with living interests striv.
ing;
Such fair Columbia in her children thriving.
While some sing Dixie Darling, some YaLkee
Doodle Doc,
| The mighty throng, with purpose strong. shout
old Red. White and Blue.
Bloomsrs Cause Trouble.
Nee Fork World
The masculine style Of dress sometimes
causes a deal of trouble to the wearer
thereof
Said a deacon to young person who
| leaving n wheel in the lobby. was steal.
ing into the back seat OF country church
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