Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1859-01-04
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CARRIERS AEDRESs---JaNUARY !. 1859.


| tARiIERS AtDRESS---JANUARY !, 1859.
TO TuE PATRONS ~ TIE TRIBUNE.
| Ok NEW YEARS day the custom sfill prevails
An ancient custom, in good feelings founded,
That in the Ladies' parlors we'll bred Males
Should meet, drink, eat, and pay respect unbounded
This was an honor 10 each lady due,
Her aweetmeats cakes, and wine not in question
Though tables oft frequented, tried (tis true.)
Sometimes, tie wond'rous powers Of digestion.
At s-ch time, 10 Husband can we meet
He makes his visits too, TO prove his breeding,
And while be coldIy treads the street,
His Wife and Frien 5 bowling, smiling, feeding
But still he finds at sv'ry social call
Good cheer, smiles, welcome, all his expelng,
And though he quits his comfortable Hall,
He feels himself at Aome in evry dwelling.
Not so the News-5oy. tramping through the snow,
He leaves no hall, no wife, no sons, daughters
For him no tables groan, no fresides glow,
He visits Patrons, and he calls for quarters.
Patrons his claims are strong-award his dues
Though weekly is his task-and oh remember
From all the world, for you, he gathers News,
And tolls from New Years until December.
Receive him kindly-ist to plI he says
He VIII not t.re you, past events rehe arising
But spread before you some poetic lays
Hear him, as if old friends were now conyersing
''Time in his coaseless course, again
Restores Deeember's gloomy reign
The Ice-king str, +ches forth his hand
And snow envelopes all the land.
His magic sceptre chains the food,
His breath ds-obes the leafy wood
Tie fields where yellow harvests smiled;
And rudy labor daily toiled,
No longer bloom with 1ow'rets fair,
No longer yield their balmy air
But wintry winds blow fierce and keen,
Der prsiries lately clothed in green
Such change the varied seasons give
To Natures face, and all that live.
But net IN vain such changes come
To those who wisely weigh the doom
That waits erca ion, from It's birth,
From Man, to ali produced by Earth !
Spring, Summer, Autumn, ali must die,
or fade beneath the wintry SKY;
zen Kan, TIE brave, the good, the saga,
Bows II The weishty ills OF age.
Tet though he yield 10 winters tomb,
Immortal Spring restores his bloom
Nature, her tender plants will save
And man must wake beyond the grave
Bat harL-methinls our Patrons cry,
g \ News-boy moraIist Oh fe J"
Wei, then, dear friends, our parting draws near,
(we can't have a sociable chat till next year,
For a moment, the Land OF our choice let US view
And yield TO its merits the praise justly due.
All han Wisconsin Prairie land,
In summer deck'd with flowers
As scattered by Fairy hand
Midst sylvan shades and bowers
Thy soil abundant harvests Yields
Thy rocks give mineral wealth,
And ev'rv breeze that sweeps thv fields
Comes rcdolent of health.
Perennial Springs, and inland seas
Give other beauties zest
Long may thy dwelers live in case
Gem OF tic fertile West
* general view'-say our Patrons-"But pray
Ofthe Mineral region, what have You to say ="
Kind friends the Newsloy feels that proper phrases
To him are wanting, if homes he praises
But on one taeune he offers seme advice,
lTis wrong, but rnotest, to be oyer-lice-)
ourfot Is cast far in the west
Where Indians lately trod,
Science now rears her lofty crest,
And Christians worship God
Peace, health. and plenty bless the soil
Who're freeman love to DWELL
Rich the rewards that wait On toll
Le: thanks our Josoms swell
Tor not alone, the cuiturd field
Our gratitude confines
Ger lead ard Copper regions yield
Rich product OF the Mines.
But alas, on my dulcet sounds comes dead stopper
Whenever I rrention Lead and Copper.
These products are worth the best money afloat,
Look out for the hard, then, look shy a E0te:
Ye Miners beware CT promise TO pay,
For a Bank Is n more than the child ofa day
And funds, so ealrd enrrenf, this your sorrow
Nav be found in the broken bank list of tomorrow.
OF our Banks in Wisconsin, t1olh g-aFdcd by Law,
There are soe hose Projectors steer vide Of its claw
And having 30 office no Clerks, Books unknown,
Their existence is prov'dby their issues alone.
They are promising creatures that boast OF tirth
with kate fging faculties, scorning the earth
IN vain you NAV seek for their mundane location,
They have each got name although 10 addiction.
The New.bov concludes for whilst Writing his lay,
He 6nds that December has finished his day.
Then trusting that harmony, peace and good viii,
Pervadiug, ami filling, and guiding Us stiu,
That knowledge of each freemsn's duty a5d right,
To differ in peace, but n 'se- to unite,
Nav spread DER the land the Lakes to the Sea,
And that under all R9lers sin shall be free,
lie wishes has Patrons more joy, less Of sorrow,
Farewell TO the past. and hearty good morrow
have finished good Patrons. it's time should
I've more visits 10 pay and trudge thro the
fwish to present You, respects, Que and all
NY reasons are good for j separate call
\ little chat here and q shake of the hand,
A hearty laugh there, aud ''yours % command =
Is all that the NeSs-boy give you to-day
What goa gre 10 Ism, GereI osity, say
E1P When a young woman behaves
her parents 10 a manner particularly ten
der and respectful, from principle as wel
as rlat,1re, there is nothing good and gen