Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1887 — From Charlie Benjamin. [ARTICLE]

From Charlie Benjamin.

C. R. Benjamin, who is still staying at Asheville, North Carolina, for the benefit of Mb health, writes us Under date of Feb. 10th. The weather was mild, like May, and no frosts or cold winds for a month. Buds on the fruit trees just ready to blossom. The health of his family is good, but for himself, not so good as lie hoped for, but he feeis confident that a summer’s stay there will 'benefit him so much that he can return to bis home m the fall. A wish which will be echoed by many scores of friends. A COLORED PRODIGY. Mr. Benjamin encloses a couple of, verses, composed impromptu, by a little colored boy only ten years oldj and unable to write a word. The little fellow went into Mr. Benjamin’s room, and having heard of Ins poetical proclivities, Mr. Benjamin told him the name of his baby and asked him to compose a piece of poetry upon the baby. The gifted little son of Ham lodked at the baby a minute, then spoke the following verges, Composed on the spot: Mci-l fteafitmin Ira baby fair With rosy eiifc!;;'. anil goblm bait, A b.;.jtuti7fil baby, M<rl. you.an 4 . With < 4 y» sas bi/iyaC a; a twiiikliiif?: ? tar. Kv-ee «Mutv- ty.Jaßjtb. liUtl.piay, Nevur weary, bat always jfay. May jv<! ev iv. see thy pal mvay, nTiill.lllt- 88-ffit SCO it iumv. Wearing vU 4 tue.s brightest laurels, on thy faipttuil Kentbi bniVv.