The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-02-23
MISS BOTTINEAU'S ADDRESS
to her
Guardians and Friends.
Continued from last week.)

But some who do not care for me rush,
Nor for them, as mine, not me, they seek
Before the altar of their God they shrek:
"Our God, o hear us, for our taxes high
Wiring from our bleeding heart our bitter
cry"
Touch not their pocket, 'tis tender spot,
| Nor God, nor man could from them wiring q
groat;
But under pressure of false policy,
The only power which looms up to their eye.
They care not whether look we'll or ill
But in as far as their pockets fill.
One phase Of duty their poor soul will
swell,
The others are but as a tinkling bell;
So let them pass. I turn to euitors true,
Who one and all will stand close review;
Excuse a maiden's feelings if she fail
10 speak of tenderest matters in detail.
There are some private Offices, so called,
In them, we by our mothers were installed.
They ore the bye-plays, at discretion's will,
Implying much, or dwindling down to nil.
More solid proofs Of love do me surround;
Dear souls, no limit to your will is found
To make me peerless, mong my sisters gay;
In solid comfort as in gay array.
You ne'er forget = woman has mind,
A mind her own, as sometimes you may
find,
And an immortal part and all the powers
Claimed by "Creation's Lords. as their sole
dowers
Hence wants are met in wisdom's loving
way,
Supply is not deferred from day to day
When means to reach the end can bs OBJ
tanned;
They'r found when woman's love is to be
gained.
I'll be just what you make me, and my
friends,
Whate'er you make me certainly depends
On what you are yourselves; nor more, nor
less;
Your outer will your inner life express.
Have love for good, aud, for the evil scorn.
l blush, l must confess there may be found
Some blemishes which give to critics ground
''To point moral or adorn tale,s'
With open sneer or sanctimonous wall
Heroic treatment here we sometimes need,
Tis for the common good to check the speed
OF gossip tongue, the impious lip rebuke;'
Foul inuendo crush with whitening look;
Discount the giddy girl, the silly dude,
The loud incessant talker and the prude.
For acting we'll the most debasing sham,
The whining hypocrite deserves the palm;
He acts, yet knows, slave of his hearts de-
sires,
That God nor man his services requires.
Truth marks him as the greatest IN oral fool,
And loathes him in the state, the church,
the school.
The self-sufficlent next to him command
Attention, and imperiously demand
The recognition of their right divine,
In virtue OF wise, supreme design,
To be the first, where place, or power, or
praise
Will seeming honor yield from grand dis
plays
OF their acquired, or of great natures gifts
Whose exercise shall be like welcome riffs
In heavens storm clouds, to tell to puny
The sun still proves primal, settled plan.
Agape on deities liks these we look;
Female, or male, or genderless by book
OF schools, or composite, or rogues, or fools,
Or puppets, and Of greater rogues the tools.
Be true to our best end, and to them say,
The world existed long before your day;
Nsmeless or named, here you are out Of
place,
Go home and mingle with your kindred
race,
The world will move when you are dead and
gone;
Your absence few, if any, will bemoan.
The time has come, whatever you may say,
You must step down and out and 50 make
way r.
For others who may n OF make such loud
claims,
But who have fixed their minds on nobler
aims.
Hide your diminished heads and nurse your
wrath,
Or vent its force on all no cross your path,
Or turn your venom on yourselves, until
It end your wasted life for good or i'll. *.
Next, grumblers are the parasites who stick
To church, or state, or body polite; II.
No pharmaceutic compound yet found out
Will kill or cure or turn them round about.
They're but cutaneous, oft hard pressed by
want; sss
They'll feed on aygbt. although that aught
be scant; 8..ss..
Expend on nothing not Of vital need,
To means and end give wise financial heed;
Then let them bite, not even the itch you Il
feel,
You have your honor in the common veal.
Dear friends. l have not skill to moralise.
But hope my course you'll not dsspiss,