The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-05-20
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From the Boston Carpet Bag.
Y 0ung A sai in.


From the Boston Carpet Bag.
Young Again.
RY GEORGE CANNING HILL.
An old man sits in his hish-backed chair
Before an open door,
While the sun Of i summer afternoon
Falls hot across the floor,
And the drowsy click Of an ancient clock
Has notched the hour Of four.
A breeze blows in and a breeze blows out
From the scented summer air,
And it hutters now on his wrinkled brow,
And now it lifts his hair,
And the ieaden lid Of his eye drops down,
And he sleeps in his high-backed chair.
The old man sleeps, and the old man dreams
His head drops on his breast.
His hands relax their feeble hold,
And fall TO his lap in rest;
The old man sleeps, and IN sleep he dreams,
And in dreams again is blest.
The years unroll their fearful scroll;
He is child again,
A mothers tones arc in his ear,
And drift across his brain;
lie chases gaudy butterflies
Far down the rolling plain.
lie plucks the wi!d-rose in the woods
And gathers eg aniae,
And hold the golden butter cups
Benca,l, his sisters chin,
And angles in the meadow brook
With u ben, and naked PIN
lie iolters down the grassy lane
And by the bri'nnns pool,
And Il sigh escapes his parted lips
As he hears the bell for school
And he wishes it never were nine O'Clock
And the mornings never were fall
\ mothers hand is pressed on his head,
Her kiss is on his brow
A sulnmer breeze blows IN at the door
With toss of Il leafy bough,
And the boy is Witch red man again,
And his cycs aye tcur -iiied rou
The MoRMoNs i he flies of the Desc
ret News coutaiis graphic local letters
written by the SAINTS located IN these noun
tam fastnes,eS whore the woods are vora
with the howl of " olives, and alive with th,
tawny ahoriynals 4 littk. hand goes forti
led by an elder stops among the forks o
rivers, or clamhers up the sides of noun
tain-, build cahsus, aud commences Il towu
There Is letter from 'Su,n,nit CIV"
place "u IA n,nnui between ,u II an! Uta!
valleys; IN IL s,iuatnn picturesque and beau
uiul. Seven houses and ten or Twelve mel
compose the strength OF the town. says III,
letter: 81 short distance above oar town
there are many ait'ti.ia ruri site s--a,, an
cient cnihhuknent ot >iuItnIou- magnitude
having "A beautiful basin betw cen IL a,id tl.
mountain. In the mouth # the kanynu
which opens Inlo It, there are muiilsudt-, u
h.erngly phic> eugraVeu on the rorkS Of M
;utert rt>ting an! curious character. Auoth
er saint writes from Little Cuitonwuo,
w ard, a year and half old, where there ha
never been 4 trIal ot Il church ue,nber
where there Is IL ''.uod -rhUuIhou>e ui a.io
hrS," aud thirty Eve cniliiren bttweeu tiv,
years and twenty five years 60 regularly {,
sch,ol; here thefe j. paper nianu;actory
AMI regular church meetings, "peace an'
unlon," and whrre "the brethren keep tn
>rhnolhou>e we'll supplied with good fire
wood Let those who can, do hptt-r"-
ch ses this saint. Another saint writes tro,
Provo City, aud tells Of The "Genei al tin
of health, of meetings crowdeh To excess, q
/ 4 Il,
hundred saints coming forward. renewing
their covenant, aud going down into tn
water and ben. rehaptzed, in one day, q
there being COOS feeling Of refornat'nn i
all classes; and Oi the saints strictly a'iher
ing IN every prinrii'Ie which tends to theI
exaltation IN the Kingdom of God" Cpo
this letter, the Deseret News breaks fort,
INTO a spirited eXhorta;Ion--a sample Of III
way in which column upon column of ever
number Is filed up, To stimulate: the saint
to he Industrious, frugal, contentesl, an
make themselves independent OF easter
merchants aud manufactures, aud build U
the tabernacle:
"Good! good! good! for Provo. Better
better! better! What better, Whit ca
tee do that's betler! Brethren at Prove
Use in your might, in your majesty, in you
glory, and carry your hides, and skins t
Mir. Samuel Clark, tanner; and with thef
25 or 80 cords Of bark. Lumbcrmen, han
him over 5000 feet Of plank; carpen.er
and joiners. set your tools IN motion. an
make the watts; lahorers, put in the spade
and sink those vats, aud draw a few load
of clay 10 pack around them, timers an
ropper~nithS, make q heater, AMI tell Nj,
Clark he is welcome. Best. best! hes,
two weeks from he first blow, if all will {!
as counsriled, the tanner may have 10
hides in the watts, aud IN one hundred day
Provo City will have leather OF their G."
manufacture, at 100 per cent, less cost tha
they will now have 10 give the merchant:
for if you bless your tanner to co'unencs
he will bless YOU in turn with good an
cheap leather. And then, when you coul
out of the waters Of baptism, you wlll hav
the pleasing consolation that you have no
got TO run TO New Ycrk to get a pair {
shoes 20 keep your feet dry While you ar
walking home.
Brethren. will you do it: We say do !
We have the best SCI OF inhabitants 10 Cta
there is in the world, but there is room f.
improvement, and we want you to imprOv