The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-21
CEIALONER TAKES ANOTHER
WHACK. AT HIS RELATIVES
WHOSE CHAsTENETH WITH RODS
JOHN ARMSTRONG CHAsTEN.
ETH WITH SCORPIONS.


ETH WITH SCORPIONS.
Reaching down Into his trunk,
John Armstrong Chaioner, master oz
Merrie Mills, Va, and also Of Roae
noke Rapids. North Carolina, former
ly OF New York. and later Of Bloom-
ingdale. falsely so-called." has ex-
tracted half a hundred sonnets, conn
posed in the aforesaid Bioomingdale.
and has bound them together into
book form, said book being published
in Roanoke Rapids and distributed exc
tensively in New York. under tho
title Of Ccorpio, No. /.
Scorpio No. . and then numbee
three and 30 on are promised later,
for that trunk contains several hum
dred sonnets yet.
Mr.. Chaloner calls 1t q book Of
sonnets and 1t does contain sonnetA
several OF them-forty-seven to BE- ex.
act--but 1t contains prose also and
the prose is AZ ''scorpioriflc" A. the
verse; and OF both prose and verse the
family Of Mr.. Chaloner IL the chief
recipient. Mr.. Chaloner Is q good
hater. a fact which his family knows
well enough by this time. They lock-
ed him up for insanity ana he
escaped. but If the law ma1e pro-
vision for the Incarceration OF hatera
1t Is doubtful II Mr.. Chaloner could
ever become a ''trusty'' and thus md
opportunity for escape.
The forty-seven sonnets ana tho
several pages OF prose in Scorpio Ma
are vitriolic. Being vitriolic is ono
Of the easiest things Mr.. Chaloner
does. although this time he does de-
vote a few pages and one or two son.
nets to praise. AS already said. 4
Is his kith and kin that he smtteo
with the greatest bitterness. but q
few unfortunate reviewers also re-
ceive some attention at his banda He
did not like the notices Of hts latest
verse appearing in a number Of news
papers and says 10. There Is no
doubt OF Mr.. Chaloners opinion OF
those reviewers. Not wishing to
come in for 1ashings from tbs
Scorpio No. ., this reviewer contonts
himself with reproducing ono OF his
sonnets, leaving Judgment to tho
reader. who being unknown to MT.
Chaloner. wifi DO safe from censure,
though missing the opportunity for
praise. ''The Love Of Money Is the
Root Of All Evil'' In the unoriginal
title OF this sample. The lines which.
whatever they may be arc not un-
original. are as follows:
But lust for lucre and a ranking spite
Which they had nursd 'gainst ma
for many years
Their feeble principle o'erbalancd
quite
And made them prison risk with All
It's fears.
My million and half quite turned
their brain
They lusted for II with all a rniser's
lust.
Tho all and several had about ths
same.
Each and all decided my gold have
they must.
So as black a plot as e'er IN brain OF
man J.
Did terminate. gestate and anal
rise
My family did plot--and plotting. plan
AS shrewd a plot as e'er did fright
mems eyes.
Thus love and hate contoined COM
hatted me:
Twas love Of gold and hate Of me,
In the first scorpio the author.
apostrophizing Columbia, confessed
that he was not singing:
my country. It's OF thee"-I do not
sing.
You're in too sad a plight. believe
me. dear.
For plaudits to have aught but false
ring.
In the latest sonnet to Columbia Mr..
Chaloner requests her to vote two
battieships and rise as one man:
Some mighty lessons in these facts are
found
-
land OF wealth.
Where love Of country is today foul
drown'd
In one mad feverish frenzied rush
for pelf.
Two battleships a year we may noe
Because, forsooth. some Solons ara
so mean
That all appropriations they must
shave
To fat the pension iist--that has
obscene!
The willy Japanese are at our gate.
These crafty Orientals lust our isles.
Fore e'er we know Fate's voice win
cry TOO late
To crush with cannon daring Nip-
Columbia. vote the warships! Rise a.
one man!
Let the Star-Spangled Banner awe
Japan.
In an address to Walt Whitman he
says. among other things:
Bold old Walt Whitmant Good
galumphing Walt!
As dry nurse took thee In poesyi
Here is turkey trotting in the sonnse
measure:
vulgarity. debauchery. hand In hand.
Now whird their way down
Gotham's gilded halls.
The spectacle so shocks 1t makes IN
And gaze IN horror. 30 the sight Gp--
pals!
Debauched cads enticing maidens on
To ..'trot' and hug in most un-.
seemly maze:
And all the meretricious airs to don
That meet the cabaret's licentious
gaze!
To writhe and squirm and wriggle.
turn and twist:
To faint and languish In their part
ner's grasp;
To obey the guidance OF an amoroua
wrist,
As hip to hip their yielding forms
thay clasp. ------------ =
This sight in New York's seen most