The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-09-10

ed rail fence new.
With growing children grew the school hous,
/ too,
And churches followed In the panoramic view
For through the wilderness as through the night
The voice of God is heard, " Let there be light
The lonely cow, without sheltering shed,
Grew into dairy herds, we'll stalled and FED.
The bleating lamb of mother care bereft,
By prairie wolf was soon no longer left
Alone, for bleating iocks instead
We're grazing in the pastures soft, green bed.
How fast those homely childhood pictures come.
Ihe broken " rosin" weed to make the gum,
The little by path where the cows came home,
Grandfather long legs who should tell the wa,
they came. or else be killed that very day.
The little pond where flags and rushes grew
To make the cat stairs and the swinging era
die too.
The winter evenings spent In homely Joys,
The father. mother aud the girls and boys.
With one detached, the apples, quartered well
With mothers hands festooned, above the dre t,
| swing.
One helps the hickory OF. bows well to bend,
One pops the corn, and one the FIRE must tend.
While one, with duties ever intermixed,
Must clear the table, wash the dishes, and when
fixed
The last, must be the reader, scribe,
To lead the hearers, wandering with each tribe
From Genesis to Revelations end.
With the Apocrypha between new found.:fr
Or roam with Milton, through those labyrinths
|
His sightless eyes illnmed at times, with fame
| and spark,
Or with the fresh new Shakespeare, gift of good
To first begin that Drama. which is life, and SC
Or with Worcester's Dictionary near at hand.
And one small reference book. without special
But better both than Webster, unabridged.
In velvet case, on rosewood stand, ifnever ridged
By eager fingers, or than row on row,
OF Cyclopedias which are kept so clean, you
| know,
And thrown in, too, the weekly papers, N. Y.
That told an Era, National, begun.
With Little Dorrit printed on one side.
While over here. across the water wide,
Grim Uncle Tom. in his old " cabin" small
Was lifting from his race the leaden pail,
Nor was the filling of the little book shelf done
Till speeches, that Charles Durkee sent from
Washington
Were duly read, and with all papers put on file,
To be compared some time with those of later
style,
And never missed that weekly TELEe aArH whose
Is dated back of Morse's first short Zine" on
earth.
And thickly peopled. too, that early time and
place,
With memory of many yet familiar face;
But with that inconsistency, which near and
We find in that which people have to do, with
what they often are
For who would ever guess that little children
In fear, at sight of such kind. faced gentleman
As Hiram HolbrOok, with his one-horse shay?
But 1t was true, for any time of day.
That old white horse was seen, they quickly
All scamper off, the naughty" ana the " good, 1"
Not thinking that the constable" had any way
to know
Which ones he ought to leave behind, and which
ones ought to go;
And just as queer to fancy that any should begin
to cry
But signal sure it was, that some dear pet must
The white-aeeced lamb, the petted calf,
The meek-eyed COW, that half and half,
That halved again, an interest small
To be the just return to owners ALL
And like those things we strive for, and 80 love,
The life in scales with money will the heavier
prove.
One day of days shines out In Memory's book,
The page is numbered, and know just where
to look;
At early hour the oxen. Buck and Bright.
A yoke between them, they were harnessed quite
To good farm wagon, without robes and springs,
Or any of those late superb uous'' things.
That Journey started which of great Importance
And tnded where the lakes pure water cleaned
Beyond the street, where one broad sign, in
letters white,
Because 1t had 80 many SIS In 1t, that The one
of all the letters, from the A to &c, was begun
In schO0lish art. And in the door below, a calm
benignant face,
Who left behind a name not soon to die,
But better known as other years go by.
Within, counter, and a little country girl
Standing before 1t, with her head awhirl,
mil fnpQrQ
In cOFnered handkerchief. with all the lot
Of pennies in 1t, which would add to household
joys,
To make the needed doll clothes. Then with
time to spare
Through the great street, it seemed great then,
twas here and there
We spelled the words out, Allen, Towslee, Newell
and Northway,
Of crosit, Foster, Lathrop, many more forgotten.
A picnic in the woods, a great event.
For long before, we heard there would be sent
Out from Kenosha, one, the kindest, best
Old man; who knew Just how to interest
60 did the speaker Father Deming was the
We heard him called +; and ere his kindly talk
was done
To which the children sat and listened, every
one,
He told us stories of his daughter Kate,
w no mas gone with MIN through the sunset gate,
Toward which his finger pointed us that day,
And left the glowing path ne pictured, all the
way,
And never once forgotten in Kenosha county's
OF true, brave-hearted pioneers, who would be
sadly missed,
Whose generous hand and heart for all will
never once Conflict
With selfish purposes, although he Is q Benedict
Another time. odd sayings of kind of queer
In which some people half believed. and at
which others laughed,
kind of laying on Of hands, by which man
could know
By that which was outside the brain, the wit
and sense below,
And to the little scho0lhouse hocked the people
large and small,
To hear Entomology discussed, and heads ex
amined all.
And like each new thing, ridiculed by some the
| moment you begin 1t.
Because they hav'nt eyes to see the good there
One picture. still familiar of those early days
Was one, whose form at present, upon cur street
His talk was education," and the free school
By help of bis true thought and deed was
| launched uron its way.
And il, in course cratic, this monster good has
strayed
Those eyes as clear as then pee how 1t might be
| better made,
For in the march of progress. found in the fore
INST rank,
When schools are In the question, is Colonel
/ Michael Frank
And no white crown of glory at setting of the
gun
Shall shed a cslmer, pu.er light upon life's
swell done"
And how that list. unnamed by deed, because l
| Is 30 long,
Would swell the pioneer phalanx into an arm!
strong,
From north to south, from east to west tn
county's width and length,
| Would CLEAN from E" SILENT homes as well
living ones its strength.
There's nothing in this world more truly CRANE
Than for the silver haired, with feeble limbs
to stand
With one hand pointing to the dear old Past,
That as, on seawafd ship, fades out the mast.
Who're last faint glimpse is dear because OF
board,
Are loves, and hopes, and faiths from lifes mos
sacred hoard,
: The other, raised In benediction, sweet,