The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1853-12-29

! never ieei what II Is tu be c0id;
Oh! how much Of food and how much Of warmth
There is IN a small piece of Gold!
SATURDAY NIGHr.-What blessed things Satur
day nights are, and what would the world do without
them. Those breathing moments in the trimpna
march Of e those little wilights in the broad and
garish glare OF noon, when pale yesterday looks beau
tIiui through the shadows, and faces Z" changed long
ago smile sweetly again in the BUSH" when one re-
members the old folks at home,' and the old arm
chair, and the little brother that died and the E,,e
sister that was Z" trans;tted''
Saturday nights make people human; set their
hearts to beating softly, they used do, before the
world turned them into war drums, and iarrod them
to pieces with tatoos.
The ledger closes with crash the iron doorcd
vaults come to with a hang; up go the shutters with
will; click goes the key in the lock. 1t is Saturday
Night, and business hrcathes free again. Home.
ward, no! The door that has been alar all the week
gently closes beAnd him, the world is shut OUT
Shut out Shut III, rather. lieie aro his treasures
after all, and not in the vault. and not in the book
save the record in the old family bible-and not in
the bank.
May be you cl,elor, frosty and forty Then
poor fellow Saturday Nights nothing TO you Just as
you are nothing to any body. Get a wife, b.e-eycd
back-eyed but above ALL true eyed--get . little
home. matter how little, and little sofa lust to
hold two or two and half, and then get the Two or
two and a half in II, OF Saturday night then read
this paragraph by the light of your wiles eyes, and
thank God aud take courage
The dim and dusty shops swept up; the ham
mer Is thrown down, the apron is dolted and Labor
hastens with light step, homeward bound.
Saturday Night icebly murmurs the languishing,
as she turns YEARLY upon her couch g and is another
TO come!'
6 Saturday Night, at last.'' whispers the Weeper
above the diving, 50 and il is Sunday Tomorrow and
-----to-moroM!' !''-N. Y. Tribune.
How TO GET CoSrFNr.-The best remedy for
discomfort is try and estimate things at hat they
are really worth. We should remember that Abbot
Lawrence is forced content himself With the same
sky As the poorest mechanic, and the great capitalist
cannot order private sunset, or add 10 the
magnicenoe of night. The air swcIs all lungs.
Zach Dne possesses really, only his thoughts and
his senses, soul and bodythcse the property
which man owns Ill tha, Is valuable to be had
Ia this world, genius, beauty, and life, bought
aud sold. on may buy rich bracelet, but no,
welturncd arm to It'd pearl neck lace, bu; not
pretty throat with which it shall vie. The richest
hIan m the United States would vamv offer fortune
/ 10 write like I.onscIlow. One comes nto
the world naked and goes naked-the only differ
ence an the tineness Of bit of linen for 4 shroud is
much. Man is a han.iu! of clay hich turns
quickly back AGAIN into dust.
| HOME. SWEET HoME.-lIome--lTome! How
sweet, how tender the word. How fail Of the aSso-
Citations tina, the heart loves! How deeply ucrwo-
ven the golden illamens Of these associations
with all the ibcrs Of aflec,onae natures form
ing the gierng Of the hearts golden life, Here
father mother child, brother, sister, companions,
all the heart lovcs-and that makes eai th ovey-all
that enrchcs the mind with faith aud the soul with
hope! What language is meet for home use, bear
the messages OF home feelings, to be lreshed with
the diamond treasures OF home hearsl Should ii be
any other than the refined and purc--any other
than that breathing the sacred chastity of affection
lise to perform. The storm Is much better than the
calm, it declares the preScncc cfa living principle.
Stagnation is something worse than death 1t is cor
ruption also.
When the plough first introduced into South
Africa one of the C,iirc Lords exclaimed: See how
the thing tears up the grouni with its mouth Ii is
worth more than five wnes!'
The talent of turning men into ridicule. and expo
sing 20 laughter those with, the gat-
ifcation Of little minds and unsencrous tempcs -
Addison.
FRIENDs.-Tp possess a true-hcarted friend is
good but to be enabled 10 endure, without rerscnt-
mcut the conduct of false hearted friend is still
bitter; the former temporary goodthe latter etcr-
nal,
MYsTERv.-RcliSon is full Of mystery: we are a
my sety to ourselves. We dare not say where mys-
terry begins, religion ends but this we Will say,
that where mystery begins, dogmatisn should end.
A GOLDEN RuLE.-A golden rule for a Young
lady is to converse always with your female friends
as if gentle Of the party and 18th young
men. as il your female companions were present.
IL love Is not really required to be blind to demer-
its, it cannot he too quick-sighed in discovrins
constant in dwelling upon, equalties Of real value.
lie who would acquire fame. must not show himself
afraid OF The dread OF censure the death
Of genius.
The snake may reach the eminence as certainly as
the eagle, but he reaches it by crawling, and still
mains a snake.
The man that would call every thing by its right
name, could hardly pass through the street Mithou,
being knocked down as "A common enemy.
! We understand that the man who was g fired with
indignation has been extingushed.
! PATEKSAL.-'' Ny son what would you do il
your dear father should be suddenly taken away from
you!'
| Son" Swear and chaw tobacker.'
! Heavens gates richly archcd prince
palaces; they that enter there must 20 upon their
| knees.-W ebster,
! The man whose conscience smote him, has had the
darned orittcr bound over TO keep the peace.
Our possessions are wholly in perfpimances.-
He nothing 10 whom The world owes nothing.
Time is a fragment of Etcrnity-cut off at both
ends.
The Cincinnati Nonpariel has been discontinued.
Out of nine hundred officers in the United States
| Army, thirty -one have died since January.
A buck was killed in Springfield few weeks since
which weighed 225 lbs and had twenty-one point
Oh his horns.
The " Old Guard paper started by Mr.. Burke
( in New Hampshire, to oppose President Pierce, ha.
- gone to the shades"
JENNY LrSD's CHILD. - The name of Jenn,
I,ind's child is Otto Walter Goidschnidt. julie,
Benedict, the composer, was us godfather. 1t Wa;
bsptised at Dresden.
20 Ex-Prcsicnt John Tyler closed the Virgins
state fair at Richmond, IN valedctory address
which was much apPlauded.