Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-02

wares, which also serves to express his
intentions.
], too, can WOO the MUSES..
4, too, can odes tndttea
When my affiatus chooses
II gets poetic quite.
I'm not an idle s%coffer,
But this I promise YOU
Poetic goods I'll offer
with rhyme and meter true.
Poetic Justice werremeyer confronts this
situation Just at the acme Of his glory.
Last month he married seventy-seven
couples-his record. He had one triple we'd
ding and three doubles, TRIPPING and doub-
ling on the sonnets that went with the
certificates.
Poetic Justice werremeyer. It should be
explained. calls all sorts Of poems SON
nets. whether OF fourteen lines or four. As
a rule in his haste he supplies only four
lines. Here Is the sonnet that went, in
month
When I was running my grocery store
on the olive road out there,
1 used to hold two pairs In a little game,
But never three pairs.
Lyrical Justice Campbell scoffed, though
by no means idly, when he read this
e%ffusion. He sat down to his foolscap and
produced this sacastic lyric:
Now, by the saints, including Peter,
I swear this justice Of the peace
Breaks every law OF rhyme and meter
Whenever he tries to write a piece.
II was pointed out to Poetic Justice
Werremeyer by one of his stanch ad.
herents, who resents the advent Of the
Lyrical Justice. that Campbell's peace
and piece" are not passable in any poetry
shop where the laws of verse are not
violated.
Justice Campbell himself should be ar
rested for a breach of the peace SAID
this adrerent, who induced the poetic
justice to come back ut the Lyrical viii
this ring:
reckon Campbell imaglnes he car
But / can get the money every time:
There's nothing like that little old $3.50
10 make a fellow fee, thrifty.
JinsIes His Coin, Too.
"How's that for hitting off the correc
thing In rhymes" the Poetic Justic,
asked, trlumph1ntly iingliug two siive
dollars and a half dollar just paid to hin
By a bridegroom from Kerry Patch, whit
had escaped an angry mother-in-law-to-b
by first taking a car for st, Charles wit
the girl and changing to. a Clayton ca
WncH ne learned tlat tle Nemesis Wa
bound for st. Charles. The Poetic Justic
handed the happy youth this one:
Be mighty good to this girl. O'Leary;
Always cherish her and love her.
For you sure had a hard time gettinI
Mary
Away from her loving mother.
The Lyrical Justice had hired a runner Il
full evening dress, working hours iron
s a. m. to 6 p. m. The runner is a whit
man and he wears his swal,owtail no les
gracefully at 8 o'clock in the morning tina
at 6 in the evening.
IL reckon" says the Lyrical Justice
my gentleman in full dress will appea
to the average couple better than We're
meyers n~egro-hey? Couples looking 70
,yrics and licenses are entitled to the hes
pilots to be had
TIL Lyrical Justice declares he won
hand out any stock poetry, as the Poeti
Justice is charged with doing in rus
hours. 1t is alleged by a former clerk 1
the office of the Poetic Justice, who say
he quit because Werremeyer insisted upo
msking him an understudy poet, that thi
is one of the stock pieces presented t
couples who are reasonably sure to depar
from the office before another pair ar
rives, so that the two pairs cannot com
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