lowa County Democrat
MINERAL POINT, WIB.
•SOME DAT.
I have ships that west to tea
More than 6fty yean ago.
None have yet come home to me,
But are failing to and fro.
Qreat the treasures that they hold
Silks and plumes and bars of gold
While the rpioes that they bear
Fill with fragrance all the sir
. , As they sail, as they sail.
I have waited on the piers, "
Hazing for them down the bay,
Hays and night* for many years,
Till I turned heart sick away.
But the pi'ou when they land,
Stop and take me by the hand.
Saying, “You wid live to see
Your proud ve-aels come from MS
One and *U, one and all.”
fio I never quite despair,
h or let hope or courage fail;
And some night when skies are fair,
Up the bay my shio will sail,
I shall buy then ail I need —
Brio’s to look at. book* to read,
Horses, winea and worka of art,
Ererything except a heart,
That is lost, that is lost.
—Barry Gray.
THE TIN SAVINGS R ISK.
Charles Lynford wat a skillful journ
fcymau in one of our large iron works,
in good work and earning good wages.
At the age of twenty-six he married
Caroline Eastice, the daughter of a
neighbor, who although she had no
money dowry, yet brought him many
personal qualifications, combined with
habits of thrift, learned under a sensi
ble, God-fearing mother in an econo
mical household, under the stern
teaching of necessity.
It was well perhaps, that Charles
Lynford obtained a wife of this charsc
ter, since he himself found it very diffi
cult to save anything from bis weekly
wages. . ...
