The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-01-03
1882. 1887
NEW YEARS ADDRESS
FROM TnE oARRrER or THE
TIPFIN WEEKLY TRIBUNE
10 MS pATRoNs.
TO ms PATRONS.
Januarr lst. 1ee7.

A~tr9~
ran out
And as watched alternately the clock and
stars without
Aad mused npon the New Years catalogue
Of care, f
I fell to doing IN my rocking chair.
I dreamed a am--'lwas like the DEvL's
Dream" Sci t5-F
Possessing for It's base, a weird theme.
| thought for suniry things wherein I'd
erred,
| was, In clouds Of fire and smoke trans
ferrcd, a' at "a
To that mneh talked Of spot--if such there
he
Where Time hob-nobs with blark Eternity.
When / had reached this queer suburban
place, isfrf ft.'
! saw fence dividing Time from Space,
And in that fence ! saw the usuni bars, =
And on these bars there sat and here's the
Joke f
Old sixty-six, with bd, i've minutes more to
croak. e.s
Right by his side, fresh as a new blown rose,
Sat sixty-seven, Cupid.like without his
clothes.
Old sizty-six, lcan-faeed, with hair as white
as lime,
Sat with his back toward the bounds OF
Time
Young slxty-seycn. red-hced, full Of infant
grace,
Sat with his chcrub back 10 all Eternity and
Space.
While ! lay close, and watched this wondrous
pair,
The one so Of ,he other young and fair,
| heard sound celestial The song Of morn
ing stars.
l looked--the Old Year vanished from the
~ barsy
The New Year then descended to the earth
Mid sounds Of revelry, Of festive joy and
mirlh.
The clock struck ,welve--I started from my
chair,
10 end, upon their ends, respectively, my
hair.
At certain times, my friends, the ''Prin,er's
Devil
By custom queer, is brought unto level
With frst-class speakers; he is then expected
70 speak his piece on topics gravcly resu-
rected.
That time has come-,his morning-Nsw !
Years Day,
Aud If you'llread, you'll know what I've to
say. tst
III not be sentimental, eloquent or weary,
presyr r
Ny speech win be but short so don get dozy.
Fscts--iacts compose it--stubborn and con-
else,
No gem shall glitter here in shape of "rsp
Aud should they do So friends, III say, ere / |
begin Il,
That Il ! cgotistc seem, "there's nothing in
IT," el.s. i
Dur city has, within the year now past and
dead,
70 use an apt but common phrase, held up
her head .e. -,ss..,la.f
With first class cities, in enterprise and trade,
10 politics, art and science-every grade
You'd scarce expect, friends, one of Tifin's
age ,,5n-
70 place her Generals on the New York
stage, ~en.@
y welcome Buffer and his compeers wiser
han FInefrotk, the great Clay Dean, orr
yes the Advertiser.
ut hess are facts and facts compose my
srory
r to my duty else Id be a recreant and tory.
ur citizens, in every branch, trade and pro-
fsssion,
lave prospered alli not by their own confess
sion,
ior by their published incomes for Internal
2 Tax
ut frOmtheir chcerfOlness and well clothed
backs. Es |;
1e'ye built up dwellings, splendid business
blocks,
rec,ed churchesi It's true our river docks
ave fallen TO decay; bu. in their stead, in
turn,
e see factory for the Union Churn.
ur Wooden Factory by night and day is run,
ur Stove Works turn out stoves by gross
and ton,
achine shops, foundries, agricultural works,
ach keeps up constantly noise, and jerks ,
rom out Of crude material, each after its
own kind. 5Aaed
he shapsly caliivator, balance wheel and
blind. L
q College HnL and at our Union Pablic
Schools,
70 turned out Lawyers Doctors, Preachers
even fools
; steady drill, attention, nerve and aPpliea-
tion,
,me from these halls blessed With an avo,
cation.
have been rife and joy, and
mirth sfi
.,orpdsa , ia the lsn and round the qals,
hearth.
usIe, tina, charms and soOihes the savage
breast
as been to US dear, familiar, welcome
guest
= owe to "BOOs cornss' and 10 "eIdeOn's ,
Band
nat money cannOtpay, 50 shores our heart
and hand"
ar hearts are with you through the year :
now started,
ssrr,s and tears viii follow should. we ere
DO parted, X nefi H
le ladies, Of course, aGod bless them y, tho