People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — Conquered at Last. [ARTICLE]

Conquered at Last.

There used to be a smart young man who bossed his old papa, And who at times forgot to heed the wishes of his ma; And all his doings were so real Impulsive-like and bold That folks all shook their heads and said he couldn’t be controlled. Wherever he might go he seemed to cut a lordly sway, And all the people bowed to him and granted him his way; Of everything he always claimed the choicest and the best; He seemed to think he had a right to lord it o’er the rest He married, but his wife, alas! as wives too often are, Was sometimes sadly bossed around by this domestic czar, And neighbors talked about the pair, as neighbors sometimes do. And said they’d like to see this man brought down a peg or two. Fate moves in a mysterious way its wonders to perform— This man who couldn’t be controlled, this roaring thunderstorm, Is whipped and limp and weary as he goes his nightly rounds; He’s now the father of a boy that weighs about ten pounds. —Nixon Waterman, in Chicago Journal. “It’s a lucky thing,” said the sad-eyed humorist, “that the magazine editor didn’t accept my verse.” “Why?” “Because common decency would then have compelled me to let up on sarcastic remarks about his not knowing good poetry when he saw it”— Washington Star.