The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-07-09
THE ANNUAL OEM,
Delivered before the Editorial Conyen.
ton at Milwaukee by Hon, A.
NJ. Thomson.

THE NEWSPAPER.
The famous poets of the olden time,
Chose many subjects for their classic rhv,ne.
A country churchyard was the dolefuI law.
That made the name immortal of Turn GRAY.
And singing thus of our poor common lot
His has hallowed many lonely spot.
Gowper selected for his musics theme,
The sofa where he used TO sit and dream:
John Milton had the devil and his clan.
And made him famous DER the fall of man;
II aught was needed to inspire muse,
Each one of you mi ght such suhjec. choose.
say what we will no honest son of Faust
But must admit, though at his souls dear Goss
That he has kept the devil" by his side,
And lent willing ear whene'er he cried.
burns drew his inspiration from the brook:
Or mountain pine whose top the tempest shook;
VI stopped his plow to moralize awhile
upon the rose that grew beside the stile
AND have chosen, as perhaps You guess,
10 say word upon the printing press.
A hackneyei subject yet tbs ever new
As summers passing cloud or morning dew
The printing press! what power within it lies:
Look at the sheet that from its bosom flies;
Scan well its lines and tell me as you gaze
How much you see gifts life's active phase?
Look ut its leaders filled with double leads
That treat grave subjects under proper heads
Perhaps of reconstruction of gold
Or financial crisis is foretold
May be the tariff is just too high
And this free trader tells you how and why:
Perhaps impeachment is the dreadful theme,
That haunts the writer like a horrid dream:
And every aspect of the noted case
Is viewed and tested with scholars grace
No subject that enlists the mind of men,
Can miss the stroke of his most facile pen:
From him, religion, politics and law,
Can each their JUNCTION and their methods draw
He Searches all the wide domain of thought E.
Nnere poets worshIped, or where sages wrought
here freedom has been wrouged, or light denied
lie plants his banner on the injured side;
He draws the swift-winged lightning to his aid,
And makes it labor for the ends OF trade
You find the price that England pays for bread
The prince just born-the statesman who is deal
The speech that last night thrilled the Tory host,
Xou read next morning DER your tea and toast
Or il you seek for news you'll find il there
The last divorce-the newly welded pair;
The style OF dresses worn at last night ball
With comments on the mode since Adams fall
w hen, If the creed be true, we sinned all.
The latest notions thought of at the Hub"
The latest speeches at the woman's club;
You learn how hanglnen tied the fatal rope:
Or what's the matter with the poor old Pope;
What Bismark thinks concerning this or that
The shade of ribbon on Eugene's hat;
What ships have sailed away from foreign port
The shoddy snobs just introduced at court;
How Congress voted on the whisky tax
The latest humbug brought out by the quacks;
You read of hurricanes that swet't the sea-
Or how some men take snuff and others -neeZe:
Here is the latest rupture in the church,
And there a teacher who applies the birch;
A careful critique some authors book
Or, may be, one less careful on Black Crook
Perhaps two youths whose souls are all aflame
with passions that their reasons cannot tame
Are sure they the future full Of hope
And from paternal nests they both elope;
Wedding in haste, at leasure TO repent,
Thus home Id lost and love forever spent.
LOCAL REPORTER.
A thousand themes that locals skill engage
with pen and ink he photographs the age;
Sometimes IL is q sermon, now the stage,
lie passes some, puts others in rage.
nat p4,ase OF life is not recorded there,
horrid II, lrder stands beside a prayer;
A confiagration with the loos OF life,
The story of man who beats his wife;
A row that happened in the bloody Third
The lates news that Mrs Grundy heard;
The details of Il noted scandal case
That covered all the parties in disgrace.
lie goes to church where lovers plight their love.
And call to witness Him who reigns above,
That he viii cherish her, and she obey,
As ON they go until their dying day.
tie weis much dry goods, silks and plated hair
Ana bridal gifts of German siiver-ware;
Some Lave been borrowed of trading jew
For fear the real gifts would be too few;
pretty waterfall without ii dam
tThe dalnns coma after when the hollow sham
Is fully felt, and Angelina and Sam
Look in each others faces and are known)
Size webs a mansion built of The browuest stone
carriage and pretty span of bays.
(Thoush honest debt her husband never pays)
trip to Europe and perhapsa dance,
Or gay Irritation Ut the Court of France;
ms trade is nearly even each side
The bridegroom gets a fool, so does the bridel
And III i twelye-month our reporters pea
is busy with this shoddy pair AGAIN.
But not within the church where VOW and PRAYER
And sob and whisper filled the perfuIned air
IL
Where fine distinctions men are learned TO draw:
And if the wedding gifts had not been plated
They might have paid the lawyers who lnisrnated
the pair that then each other stoutly hated
It's well that Justice holding up the scales
Between these two whom mutual hate assaiIs
Should wear Il hanaSe tied across hen eyes,
And never see the tricks that Cupid plies!
THE ATLANTIC cAILE.
Let pen and press their grateful t9i,,ula yield
And give all honor to the ualne OF Fiaid
W no iaid the track of thought from mole to Dole
In spite of sweepiug storms, or oceans raHi
mat frlnmphs nature ever shall rehearse,
And science weave its praises into verse
As yonder FURNISHED steel on cross or si,ire
Disarms the threatening cloud Of hulttui hre
20 that magic wire stretching through the sea
heeis the worlds peace and fosters harmony!
Peace hath her victories as well as war
AND love IS stronger now than ancient Thor
Two war ships meet upon the mighty main,
But not to fight their battles Ger again;
The lion bears the spirit of the lamb
Tho eagle carries in his bea1 the palm;
No British flag Ger deck and booming gun,
Boasts of the victories that Nelson Won;
No star-bespangled banner floats in air
TO tell of deeds that Yankee seamen dare;
But each bears there novel wedding ring,
And yonder on the oceans restless tide
W 18th stern old Neptune giving up the bride
The old has wooed and won the blooming new;
so let them live forever side by sidel
THR LATE HON. c. C. sHoLEs
] drop my numbers to a minor KEY
10 speak of him whose tender memory
Is like a brothers to us every one
But now since he has gone and death hath won
Shall we not keep forever our rolls
And make immortal there the name of sholes.
he was my friend and yours, the friend of ALL
Whose car was ever open to the call
OF human sympathy and human love.
lie stood upon our soil pioHcer.-
| How much We owe aim doth not yet appear;
| One of the first to WELD trenchant pen
Its stroks was ever for the good of men;
| He was an honest, sturdy, truthful soul,
| As true 10 right needle to the pole.
We lay the cypress on his vacant chair
And turn to our own work with earnest prayer
| That each may be as patient, strong and good,
| As he whose absence mars brotherhood