Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — An All-around Genius. [ARTICLE]

An All-around Genius.

I sing the wonders of the deep, where monster serpentsswim and creep, where billows high and awful sweep; but I have never seen the sea. I tell of wild and awful deeds of men who fight for heathen creeds, and trumpet forth tho heathen needs, but little do they worry me. I make the blood within you boil by writing of the crimsoned soil where soldiers meet in mad turmoil, but I would dodge an empty gun. I prove that death is but repose, this fitful fever’s gentle close, but when my stomach painful grows I seek the d< ctor-on the run. I praise the poor man's homespun ecat and grasp the wealthy lordling’s throat; out when the lordling hands a note to mo I take it in, of course. ' I preach at length of wedded bliss, the wifely smile, the husband’s kiss; and, tell me, is there aught amiss that I’m applying for divorce? The farmer's colt and calf and lamb in mellow verse I do embalm, nor doos it hurt my little psalm that I despise the rural sod. In fact, I write on every theme from addled eggs to frozen cream, and people really dohot seem to know a genius from a fraud. —Evening Wisconsin.