Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1836-09-21
MISCELLANEOUS SELECTIONS.
From the Knickerbocker.
crNfMER AND WINTER.

81 remember, SAID an oiu uiaAi w"
wa, shiyering with cold, and pinched
with hunger, 4 remember when our
land was under the dominion Of a beau
t;f.l and munifcent princess. She
was of radiant looks, and lofty rnien,
and her people lived upon her smile
they persisted under her frown. Flow
ers burst around her footsteps. Her
breath gave its perfume to the violet !
her cheek lent its blush to the rose
Her approach wasevery where welcom-
ed by songs Of giadness. TheApoor man
opened the door of his solitary cottage
to greet her. and the sick man raised
his dropping head to the uncurtained
window, to feast his happy eye upon
her retinue.
But the heart of Avarice is ice. From
his mountains in the north, the tyrant
saw and coveted her fair dominions.
He donned his robe, and grasped his
icy sceptre. He gathered his rnfiian
arnnies-ss*iift as the winds, terrible . q
the tempest, numerous as the missiles
of the Storm They burst upon the do
minions Of the princess. On they drove,
blighting the poor mans harvest, and
locking the water-springs under fetters
OF adamant.
They made our land naked, asa plain
over which the fire has run-mournful
as shrond enyeloping the dead.
The princess dropped her garlands,
and gathered up her robes for flight.
Far, far to the south, she fed before her
pursuer, like morning sunshine chased
by an April cloud, over mountain and
valley away. But there is a land where
her reign is perpetual. On its limit
she paused: she turned and bent upon
her pursuer an irresistible smile.-Iiis
spirit drooped--hs foot began to falter.
His sceptre dropped from his power
less hand. His sparkling diadem fell
from his head, and his robe from his
shoulders. Back, back he fed, and
resumed his throne on the iced noun
tain-top. His armies followed in swift
retreat to their northern Businesses.
Our favorite returned, bringing hap
piness and life to her realm, which is
thus soon desolated by winter, and
soon again will revive under the life
giving smile of summer.
To PARENTs.-The following most
excellent suggestions to parents, are
contained in an address lately deliver
ed in Ohio, by d. p. KING, ESQ.
Fathers and mothers, you stand at
0Rtain; with the lightest trace Of
er on the yielding soil, you
direction to theinfant stream
gRn send it gliding down through
verdant fields and nowery lawns, i'm
parting new fertility and beauty, and
anon contributing its strength to pro-
pei the complicated machinery of in
dustry; or you can send it dashing,
foaming over precipices, to join with
other impetuous, headlong streams, car
rying devastation in their course; or
you can suffer it to roll its sluggish way
into some stagnant pool, afiording a
refuge for loathsome reptiles, and poi
sonlng the atmosphere with its pesti-
lentlal yapors. Iainfancy and at home,
the deepest and most lasting impress
sions are made; your children may
have able and faithful instructors, but
there are many lessons of practical wis
dom which are not taught in the schools
The mind of your child is constantly
busy-he will be learning lesson Of
you when you least think of it. To
your child, your remark is wisdom;
your observation, experience; your O.
plnlon sound doctrine, and your word
law; your child is learning lesson
from every look and action--but most
OF all, your example is educating your
enid. Its book constantly open be-
tore him, and which he is constantly
studying. BE careful, anxious father.
iond mother, that you insert no page
which hereafter you may wish to tear,
no line you may wish to blot; be care
lul that you admit into that much read
volume, no sentiment which YOU are
unwilling your child should tran.cribe
on the fair tablet within his own ;nno-
cent bosom. The great secret Of han
piness consistsain never suffering the
energies ostagnate. II you can acc,,s.
tom your children to patient and cheer
iul labor, you have secured for them
the means of happiness and indepen-
dence.
EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD. There is
a period in the life ofevery young man.
over which to pass safely, requires the
mostskilful navigator To double this