Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1888 — Lines to Hon. D. W. Voorhees. [ARTICLE]

Lines to Hon. D. W. Voorhees.

A common man might travel ou tho road As for as vou liav, an, no one ’utl know, Es he denied it, just which trail he tuk, Er wiier 4 * it was he crooked it years ago, But, Daniel, from the first, you put a blaze On-ever’-eiiplin’ ’lotuf tlie hull blamcil- way. They ain’t growedjover yit. an’ it aint strange That that Jayliawkcr struck it the other day— And you denied it, Daniel! O, ter shame, An’ done it like a common blaggard too. Went square back on the tana-marks ye have made, —t~ An’ like a coward said it wasn’t yon. Es that ain’tlyour trail Daniel, where is your’n? Show me hut one pore little faded mark, Ye made-in loyal mood on stump or Stone, Er tree ; tplyC out your knife and peel the bark. Ptg down into the after-growth an’ find A single hatchet mark ye placed there then, y To aid your country in her time o’ need. Hunt out the foot-path trod by loyal men And fit a single heel-mark to yer shoe That.don’t pint t’other way along the track, An I’ll be half inclined to side with you An- make that Kansas cowboy take it back.J _ But Daniel, that’s yer trail, an’ where’s the use O’ you, er me, er anybody try-tn’ To kiver u;) the land-marks that ye’ve made With such » blamed pore job o’ liuUsale lyin’;. ... And Daniel, I liev liggeredon it some, Ana kind o' reckon mebbe ye’d as well Just sort o’ let that Kansas feller be, And let them marks bark over yit a spell Alt mebbe in a hundred years from now El you sliud live nu’ Ingalls he slnwt die, You may succeed in kiveriug up yer track, But until then it ain’t wurth while to try. Indianapolis Herald. I’IXKAMiNjt.