Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1869 — Deceit of Song Writers. [ARTICLE]

Deceit of Song Writers.

__ BY THK *rXt PONtRIBt?TO'R.” Tins, man who wrote “ Home, 8 wed Home,”aever had a homez- Exchange. ' No, of pourae not . AIL his folks at homeaay he didn’t. Nobody who ,wrjtes about anything* ever has it. If a-man is sw “-headings” as the man who is out of his head. Certainly he didn’tevrr have any home. The man who wrote “Ola., Arm Chair" neve&’bM an’ arm chaff M all his lifaThe best he had was an old split-bottom chstrwlthoui any hagglet it. The author bT'TAe Me’Back ttTSwitzerlaad?* never w*s th Switzerland The neacet* he: ever came to K was sitting in the WUHms Telt saloon eating Switzer kase— ka»e why, that Wat the best 1 * he I’ve Come Home to Die," I hasn’t spies to the old woman for years, and wouldn’t go near the noose. Besides, he lione of that class oflriflriiualiiu who* don’t belters they ever* will die.--His ‘health whs never better. His mother is tiMhfhg hot a plotter itt-law; and Ao is dead anyhow.. ‘ Thejtf is the Wrthdr “Old* Oaken Bucket,” too. There wasn’t a backet ’ on the whole form, water being -drawn with privately to his friends that he would be perfectly contented with half that sum, as he wasuolng chore/jusifor pis board and. three months* schooling in the winter. •• Shells of Ocean ”is a humbug. The; plaintive •pbetwho reurietonts, himself as wandering, one summer* tore, with beat thought, on a penrive chore, was raised -in the interior rtf JPennsylvania, -anflmevar was ten miles away fhona home; in all Ms life. ** Gathered shells,’’ he F The man who wrote the “ Song es the Shirt," htoto’ta ahjrkto hip wearing a wampus foi the most part, “ Oft in theritilly Night" used to «et on a spree and make ktosttUy'night hows till daybreak, < i--The author of “ We met by Ohanoe ’** knew wary V*Q tt wsa»l! arranged before hbnd- He had been woeka. in contriving it—and she admired his contrivance. The anther of ** I know a bank,” etc 9 didn’t knew oae where he would get hie note discounted. ■ The only check he ever held wA a white •• cheek * r on a fore bank. He never ted’a red check tn atihts life. “What are the wild wnVeosaying*’.’ knew very well ttey were reproaching hlm'for A>l»* % stw »-!Mb foA I .

•••' • r . running away from Long Branch without paying his hotel b(Hz “ Hear me, Norma,’: ,waa deaf And dumb.. Hecouldn’t make hispa hear, nor ma. ' The author of " R«n on the Roof’ aithe. basement, except when he slept out of doors. J"Letmeklsa hithforhl* mother*’’ got because. his mother woultfat have him, and .whipped her little boy within an inch of his MftTi” *' I dreamt I dwe Ufa marble halls,” used to cheat at marbles when a boy, and his* dream was a horrid nightmare, brought on by remorse at the recollection of fraudulent martyt havlt. “ I’m saddest when I stag* was tickled ahtjost to death if invited to. ’.>'■••■ . »* Happ/ibe thy dreams,” sold benzine whisky. Yon can fancy what kind of “dreams’' were pfoduced.— -Gincinnati limit. , . . ■