Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1858-01-05
CARRIER,s ADDRESS


3" would have been ten wears AFRO
Just at the place were leaving now,
II you not been a stingy poke
But traS eled same as other folk
len years, at least, think it is.
Since ambitious towns and cities
ere drawn around Times circlinp coprss
On cars propelled by OK or horse.
AND here ii make slipht confession
ifray do not fly into passion,)
when all the world was pushed bv steam
could not bide your poky team
90 slipping from my leaders back.
left you standin by the track
10 play the joke, and keep you there,
l called around once every year;
As other towns went flying by.
1 could net help but laugh when I
would hear some noddin fool expressin'
hfo'o rapidly you arere progressi,e'
i had no face to ask for milage
From such an unpretending village.
here cards and nine pins were passion
And Courts had never owned the fasbio,
u Jurys. witnesses and laws.
they give such bias to cause y
Hnt went to trial by inspection,
And gave the merits full dissection.
Then Justice nad single eve.
(But twas an awful one for lookinN
'Iwould ravel out a mystery.
As q unravel an old stockin'-
Tell by the look mans intention,
with nieeties l Will not mention,
Down 10 the turning Of an oat.
"But now you've cut your country traces,
And hold your head with chartered places,
Screamin', putin, ,antin', tcarin
Connecting through bv way of Warren:
Divided into Wards and Mayors,
With cabs,aud hacks, and carts and drawers:
Boards Of health and poor directors,
StoVe-plre and other flue inspectors
a g Cast House" which is never LIGHTED
With several shops where heads are fIac-
tured,
And one for ccffins manufactured,
And other undertakers where
The subject may procure a bier;
With drug shops mounting awful mortars,
To see which cures all slight disorders.
As fancy hears the dry roots crackle;
Cfhere's 10 end 10 these fast inventions,
Since vessels of such vast dimensions
Are hoisted up with block and tackle1
And Photographic ambrotyTing,
Which minds one fnrcibly Of snIpinc:
Stone coal that makes the air taste gritty,
And other things just like a city;
Withal I'm somewhat apprchcnsiye
At first you'll count this steam expensive !;
1t always has been mans delusion,
When waiting for 4 long conclusion,
If t does not come up to the mimnit,
To swear that there Is nothing in it
But when you've counted all the ills,
And cursed the tax of eighteen mills,
And proved by cipheriug in equation,
Rail Road stock poor speculation
just drop your books and look upon her
Your moneys well spent for the honor
"Who would have thought one year ago
What things the town was coming to;
That ere the end of fifty-seyen
Old Shake would be so smoothly shaven,
And have his gray hair smoked coal black,
With nerve to walk rail, or crack.
The village, I'd have sworn it then,
Could nc'er produced such proper men
For passing laws and ordinances
just suited To the circumstances.
"For many years I've been regretting,
To see Your county building setting,
As if it would sink In the ground
And hide away something unsound;
And oft I've wished the honest squire
Had built the walls little higher,
Or kept away his 6re-proof,
That you might raise or burn the roof;
y city it but poorly suits;
r ,coadd DO a place like DodgcriHc credit,
And keep the frost out of their roots,
So for your sake I've wished they had it.
But bless my soul there is no spearin'
What comes of charts and engineering;
To raise the root house there was none,
But John can dig the city down;
He's ta'en one stope, and with one more he
VIII have exhumed quite half story.
The world is going Eow by steam,
Still | must hold my course the same,
What with the cars and telegraph
dare not stop to chat and laugh,
For fear some new discovered force
Might throw the world off from its course.
l Md me of the years gone by
CAnd mind them with tear and sigh
Fer bells and knockers were invented,
Or city government was limited;
OFT when l only meant TO call,
And wish a.happy year to ali,
The boys would press their slings and
stews
Until ! could no more refuse;
Twas not IN one door, out another,
But with the lodge, and outside meetings
Fiddlings, dancings. drinkings, eatings,
They a keep me with them weeks together
Once off l did not care splinter,
Though New Yes : lasted half the winter
There's many a striking change since then
But not so much IN things, as men;
The streets, the houses, still remain
To me their melancholy traees-