Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-21
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of public interest. He seldom allows
any of the worlds great men to do
anything great men usually do with
out telling the people about it in |
verse-or worse. There are a good
many newspaper poets. Each has his
own peculiar style and that style
seems to be a very part of the writer
who adopts it.
Why is it that the newspaper
rhymesters have failed to pick out
some verses on Togos approaching
visit to the United States? when
Togo comes to Town" fairly rings
with music. 1t is full of tuneful, jing-
ling possibilities and 1t is hard to un-
derstand why the newspaper verse
mongers have not improved the splen-
did opportunities it offers. They
could at least say of him what John
Kendrick Bangs said of Dewey:
1T isn't grammar. oh, my son, but
wish I'd did what Dewey DONE
Long before this the public should
have heard something from Frank L.
Stanton. the 'possum' poet of the At
lanta Constitution. What ails Mr..
Stanton? This is about what we ex-
pected from him:
De sun shines down in Geo'gia,
All natures smilin' sweet;
Dere amt no time fo' trouble,
Wild lots q possum meat.
Come hyar yo' piclSaninnies,
An while de 'possum stews
I'll tell y'all O. Togo
At Newport News.
Out at the foot of the Rockies sits
venerable poet of an entirely different
style from Stanton's soft Georgian
lays. James Barton Adams has not
been heard from, but now. that he is
syndicate" with manager, he may
be too busy to take professional cogni-
zance of Togo's visit, but If he did it
would be in this strain:
Say, Bill, I've rid from Denver
On this here yaller mare.
To put you Cross Bar outfit wise
To what's doin' there
They say that maverick, Togo,
That licked them Russian chaps
Is comm over seas to show
His game of fightin' Japs.
And I'm right here to tell you,
You fellers must come down,
For there'll be hell in Denver,
When Togo comes to town.
In Chicago Sam Kiser Is considered
no SLOUGH with the fountain pen He
has free and easy style BETTING the
optimistic character of the paper he
works for Initiating himself with
lake breezes, Kiser would pursue the
elusive muse thus:
We like you, Mr.. Togo, and all your
| gallant crew.
| You've got to see Chicago, it's the big
gest thing in view.
OF course you'd check your battle
ships while you remain on land,
But we've got lots Of water, Tog, fire.
| works TO heat the ha nd
You might give demonstration Of how
| you won renown.
Well keep you from the strikers If
you'll only come to town.
Frank P. Adams, of the New York
Mail, is a ready rhymester who doub.
les in prose. Adams could take one
of his latest masterpieces and make it
read like this:
Admiral Togo far deeper fountain
pens than mine
Have paid you tribute. Poetry and
prose
Unite for you. The English lang
uage flows
For you-the simple is old-like wine.
No special muse I call. heed the
Nine
To help me write one sonnet, good
| ness knows,
And when tits done I doubt not
|
| To say / could have said 1t in line.
*Note.-This one will do for Mark
Twain, Battling Nelson, Dowie or
anybody else.
They take things very seriously in
Boston, where the muse would drop
into dignified swing on this order:
Low means the heaving bosom Of the
sea
Athwart the cold gray channel OF
Japan,
We see the awful ships in grim
parade,
Avenging sons of Nippon thus arrayed
To meet the sullen Russians, man to
man.
Brave Togo comes to these United
States,
He says for fun, but in reality
To view great Boston's consecrated
| scenes
And learn the occult wherefore of her
| Comes he to this municipality.
| Perhaps, after all, the one man best
qualified to whoop it up for Togo is
William j. hampton, of the New York
Sun. We can almost see this sort of
literature struggling down like a row
/ of misfit Stats:
Hello, Togo,
How are you, and tow's
All of your honorable ancestors?
Here's our hand
Banzal for all your band
| They're grand.
How'd you leave Oyama, and his nibs
the emperor?
| What did you say?
Not going away?
Well, Togo, we're sorry if you have
| Togo
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