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WHO WAS COMTOSER OF "THE BEAUTIFUL SNOW Pronounced by the London Spectat to be the Finest American Poem Ever Written. "The Beautiful Snow," which n: with such universal favor and h been so eagerly sought for, at t special request of many friends, republish. "The Beautiful Snow" w bear reading every month in the ye, It has been pronounced by th-e Loud Spectator to be the finest Americ poem ever written. This opinion think is not far out of the way. E here is the history of "The Beauti Snow," taken from the Omaha Rept lican: How many thousands have let tho tears fall over these lines, as ti touching pathos call into recollecti the sad story of other and simil victims to man's wanton cruelty! point of smooth versification, ea flowing rhythm, through which is , most heard the plaintive wail of R, man's ruined honor, our knowled of English literature brings to mi no single poem of such thrilling sen ment as this. We have lately seen an article flo; Ing the rounds of the press, purpo ing to give the authorship of this i markable effort; but the writer of t statement, who indulged his inspi: tion "amid the cool breezes of La Erie," seems really to know son thing of its real history. The wrii gives Miss Dora Shaw, an actre and author of "Out in the Rain," t credit as author of this poem. TI is a mistake. Dora Shaw has writt some pleasant lines, but her br, never flashed that sparkling gem, "T Beautiful Snow." In the early part of the war, o dark Saturday night in the dead -winter, there died in the Commere hospital in Cincinnati, a young v man, over whose head only two a twenty summers had passed: S had been once possessed of an env ble share of beauty, and had been, she herself says, "flattered and 'soul for the charms of the face," but alh upon her fair brow had long been wT ten that terrible wcord-prostitui Once the pride of respectable parn tage, her first wrong step was t small beginning of the "same old st< over again," which has been the 01 life-history of thousands. Highly ec cated and accomplished in manne she might have shone- in the best 'society. But the evil hour that pr< ed her ruin was thle door from chi: hood, and having spent a young life disgrace and shame, the poor frier less one died the melancholy death a broken-hearted outcast. Among her personal effects a found in manuscript "The Beauti: Snow," which was immediately ci ried to Enos B. Reed, a gentlemen culture and literary tastes, who a at that time editor of the Natioi U inion. In the columns of that pap on the morning of the day followi rthe girl's death, the poem appeared print for the first time. When 1 paper containing the poem came< on Sunday morning, the body of I victim had not yet received buri "Ihe attention of Thomas Buchan Read, one of the first of Americ poets, Nas soon directed to the new publish-ed lines, who was so tak ~with their stirring pathos that he i mediately followed, the corpse to final resting place. Subh are the plain facts concerni her whose "Beautiful Snow" sh long be remembered as one of 1 brightest gems in American literatu "The Beautial Snow." Oh! the snt'ow! the beautiful snow, rilling the sky and the earth belo 'Over -the house tops, over the stree Orer the heads of the people you me Dancing, Flirting, Skimming along; Beautiful snow! It can do nothi wrong; Flying to kiss a fair lady's cheek, ClInging to lips in frolicsome freak Beautiful snow from the heav4 above, Pure as an angel, gentle as love! Oh, the snow, the beautiful snow, flow the flakes gather and laugh they go WhirlItrg about in their zaaddening f it plays in its glee with every onl4 Chasing, Laughing, Hurrytag by; it lights on the face and it spark the eye, And the dogs 'with a bark and a bou snap at the crystals that eddy arou: The town is aliie and its heart ir glow, T o welcome the seminag of beauti Uwildly the sew4 goes swayi I along, " Hailing each other with humor and song! or How the gay sledges like meteors flash by, Bright for the moment; then lost to the eye .et Ringing, as Swinging, Lie Dancing they go, ve Over the crust of the beautiful snow; ill Snow so pure. when it fal, from the r. sky, : To be trampled in mud by the crowd in 1 rushing by, ye To be trampled and tracked by the ut thousands of feet, fu Til it blends with the filth in the b- horrible street. sir Once I was pure as the snow-but I Lis fell! :n Fell like the snow-flakes from heaven ar to hell; In Fell to be trampled as filth in the sy street; 1- Fell to- be scoffed, to be spit on and o-1 beat, ge Pleading, ad Cursing, ti- Dreading to die, Selling my soul to whoever would buy, Dealing in shame for a morsel of r bread; .Hating the living and fearing the heI dead; a Merciful God! have I fallen so low? ke And yet I was once like the beautiful snow. :er Once I was fair as the snow, he 1 With an eye like its crystal, a heart . like its glow; LlS en Once I was loved for my innocent . grace he Flattered and sought for the charms of my face! Father, ne Mother, of Sister, all, ial God and myself, I've lost by my fall; o- The veriest wretch. that goes shiver nd ing by, he Will make a wide swoop lest I wander ia- too nigh; as For all that is on or above me, I know, ,ht There's nothing that's pure as the '! beautiful snow. it .e! How strange it should be that the n-beautiful snow he Should fall on a sinner with nowhere Iry to go! Lly How strange should it be, when night u-comes again, rs, If the snow and the ice strike my ofdesperate brain, >-Fainting, -Freezing, in Dying alone, dToo wicked for prayer, too weak for of! a moan To be heard in the, streets of .the as crazy town, ul Gone mad in the joy of the snow com - ing down;I of To be and to die in my terrible woe, as With a bed and a shroud of the beau l tiful snow. nTo the Author of Beautiful Snow. mn Sorrowing victim of terrible wrong, he Wihy do the srrains of thy beautiful he 1Strike with such poweronteey a!. of the soul, onteky anAs over the spirit its harmonies roll, an Ringing, ly- Thrilling, en Lingering there, mFilling the heart with a wail of .de its! spair? Down from the judgment seat haste ng 'we away, all All we can do is to pity and pray; he All we can see is thy form at our feet,I re. Frozen to ice -with the snow in the street. y; And where is the hand that betrayed t,thy young breath et, And pushed thee from beauty and gladness to death? Courted by fashion, by wealth, and the gay, g Only again to deceive and betray. Smiting, Flirting, Charming his spell, nsOnly to drag down our loved ones toI hell. Father and mother and brothers and all Joining to fiatter the cause of the fall. asHow long-0, ye heaven of heavens- T bow long, un Must we stagger and faint 'neathi this A burden of wrong? TI "'Snow so pure when it falls from thef les fTramped in the mud by thecrw iTrample'd and tracked by the chous-dB d anda of feet,T a Blends with the 111th in the horrible street.'' Nllling, ~Whirling, Is Binking away, ng Crmit& at at4thtness besotted wi& CALDWELL Great X On Tuesday Morning Goods Sale ever known of White Goods, Laces, I etc. Every yard special Table No. 1 Contains hundreds of yards beautifully embroidered at 5c. Table No. 2 Hundreds of yards fine em broidery up to 25c. values at 10c. Table No. 3 About 1000 yards embroidery some on the big pile worth 50c yard, buy all you want at 15c. 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Aland sngular the creditore fall by the are hereby notified to present theds claims duly attested to Clarence I. W, as mist Werta, executor, and all parties fa debted are required to make paymn - d our task to the undersigned on or before said Df Beautiful Susan M. Werts. Executrix. Clarence F. Werts, Executgr. .1. Doty. O M ). K. A. E. Werts, Deceed.