Year: 1875

lruStiliEysal1 II Ilcy CudAS0 " PAOAoo JOo,


You'll reward him with your dimes.
Let rs look back q moment Ger
The chief events of Seventy-four,
And see if anything there be
Of interest in its history.
First on the varied record made
l see the Temperance Crusade,
Which stands confessed on History's page
The grandest movement of our age
With pride our Model Town may claim
Th exalted honor and the fame,
That on this favored spot of earth
The mighty movement had its birth.
Here first was Woman's tender prayer
Borne upward on the wintry air,
From out the crowded public street,
Until it reached tine Mercy Seat
Pleading that Gods all powerful hand
Would drive Intemperance from our land,
And touch each liquor sellers heart
And make him from his sin depart.
AS runs the fire DER Western plains
Till not spear of grass remains,
Or as the swollen rivers tide
Spreads DER the valley far and wide,
So did this mighty Reformation
Spread far and wide throughout our Nation,
And cen to Britain's distant shore
Its blessed influences bore.


Let sneering skeptics scoff and jeer,
And, railing, ask s What good is here?"
But Temperance people see quite plain
Their labor has not been in vain.


When has the public mind before
Been stirred aid agitated more
About Intemperance andits sin


Than in the past year it hath been?
From agitation comes reform,


Just as IN Nature, by storm,


The atmosphere is purified


And its health giving power supplied.
Then let US bless the heroic baud,


The noble women of our land,
| Who set this Temperance ball in motion,
And have displayed such rare devotion
In laboring for the good of man,
As loving Woman only can;


Aud may the happy time soon come


When whisky, brandy, wine and rum,
And ale, and filthy lager bier,


May from our country disappear
The 'Panic," which SO scared us all
1 ! About a year ago last Fall,


Passed off as supposed it would,


And on the whole has done much good.
People have learned to be more wise,
And in their ways economize,


And thus what then seemed SO distressin
Has in the end turned out blessing.


lis good lesson, if we'll learn it,


Not to spend money till we earn 1T;


If all will practise on this rule


Taught in experience valued school,


And live up to its very letter,


Times soon will change, and for the better
Of all strange things that have occurred
In this our land, I never heard


(Did you p of anything that's stranger


Or more perplexing than the " Granger.
'Tis but a year or two at most


Since first he came, and now host


Unnumbered as the oceans sand,


Or Kansas ''hoppers," fills the land.


They're down on middle-men," tbs said
!, And bound to thrive and GO ahead.


Well, for my part, I've no objection,


Their object being self protection,


Besides their mental elevation


And pleasant social recreation;
With such good aims, in joy and peace
Long may they prosper and increase
} The last elections were so queer
, The queerest held for many year;


Indeed twas really quite surprising
70 see the terrible eapsizing
Of politics in nearly all
The States that voted in the Fall.
The only satisfactory reason


That can give for such season
OF rousing Democratic gains
Is one that partially explains


The mystery-so please take note
REPUBLICANS FORGOT TO yoTEl
At least the figures plainly show
, That to the polls they didn't go,


And you're aware, as well as I,


That Z" figures never, never lie"


Between ourselves, think tbs clear
Twill all be right another year.


Abroad, the war in poor old Spain
Still RACES fierce, mid heaps of slain


such is its sanguinary hue,
s If half the papers say IS true.
/, 'Tis hoped the Carlists soon will be
q Placed hOrs de combat, and will see
The uselessness of further fighting


'Gainst odds SO very uninyiting.


In Germany the lively fight
. 'Twixt Church and State still moves arigt
0 And time still aggravates the bias
/ 'Twixt shrewd Bismarck and Papa Plus;
4 Ere long events will plainly tell


Which is the more "Infaihble."
~ In hapless Cuba fire and slaughter
Still keep the island in hot water,


And little hope of peace is near,
o Unless our arms should interfere.


Our ''Model Town" still keeps her moN


ment
'i Upon the highway of Improvement;
IS New buildings still their walls uprear-
v Two score at least within the year
v And in the year we just have entered


Our plans for many more are centered.


Our new Town Hall comes first on dock
J. And will deplete the public pocket
1r Some twenty thousands, true, tbs pity,
s, But twill adorn our fair young city.


And then the new Masonic Hall
= Will be structure grand and tall,


And when all finished and complete