Show 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 essay he the for a floods union I 1 goo by a salt lake paper that there Is a movement on f 00 t to roeln d up the poets of and form an or palled body for the purpose of mutual protection against the cheaper and u rk of foreign poets I 1 have often wondered m by something of this kind was not done and thought its shanie that all other del of trade and traffic had something up preaching pro aching the systematic la the way of joint action and fellow feeling while we poets i ere at tile mercy of the world this filing 01 your system to lacerating macerating mace rating till you are corked up inspirational aien keeping it in check with a tion of bromide of pota until you have ground jut a poem which few ece and none read Is vc ry discouraging cou raging and chows the want 0 cratem sra tem yes there is too much poetic talent scattered throughout tile territory with no organized condition and no guide like a herd of mave rikes and I 1 feel to rejoice that the end is near as a 1 1 i I nger than as a composer that I 1 have achieved fame still in occasional out burst of rhapsody from my trone bant pen has caused many a good mart and woman to wonder why I 1 was torn files of the beaver dan and I 1 of a to valley union will bear me out in this those who have never read my poem in tile monthly beginning M father n 1 list not drinker smoke or roun d the rum shops hang my mother must not tattletale tattle tale my sister must noa bang lier hair will agree that a great deal of uprightness can be compassed into the narrow of homely lines but the following in the pastoral style was universally admired by alcho read it and I 1 a 11 r myself rewarded with th pol ti A deputy justice of the peace of precinct san pete county 19 vl ere my hair not quite so golden and my style less understood it I 1 owe a dollar and I 1 if I 1 could I 1 if id never seen a cocktail never pulled a cigarette and I 1 asked yoa then to have me would your anser be you batill those lines inculcate a high moral principle princ ivle as the reader will have discovered wore getting thus fare if indeed he shall be BO reckless as to have got thus far idere is one from the cedar creek clarion softly wath the dawn of night comes the sunset of the morn comes the warmth of va antry winds comes tile calmness of the storm I 1 think this Is very nice but even it is not my beat effort alere is something in the obituary line which I 1 once wrote for a friend on the occasion of the loss of his attle 11 I 1 boy at my feet lie willies stockings J before the big arm chair II 11 8 ont need them little darling AS lie climbs the golden stair yes hes left us sad and lonely and our hearts are filled ith pain never more with little comrades will be marbles play again night by night drinking deep of sorrows cup while he drank the doctors lotions till at last they gave him up then the angels came and took him from this world of doubts and fears to live in a alner mansion and his age was seven years this was framed and now occupies a conspicuous place on the louth wall of my friends room it is a diploma in itself the following Is my chef dau rrt F rench it was written at the reat que of the editor of the logan leader who was living a life of indol unitary total abstinence at the northern end of the territory and who was troubled with visitations ofa neighbors tom cat and myself ODE TO A TOU CAT you sizzled fu r tv m P with voice attuned unto poets lyre why desecrate iny habitation thus and make yourself at borne before my fire why do you in the dead of night to other cats such loud strong love profess abid fight and spit and growl and tear which means more cats instead of less go get thee hence and come no more thy hine doth irritate doth make mae in least desired when squatting at t he fire and most admired when pasted on a flask of gin i could furnish a great many more equally as bad as if not a little worse than the foregoing but deem them sufficient to establish my right to membership in the circle of sweet songsters Song of utah please address enclosing stamp for yours metrically metric alty 0 I 1 ESSAY |