The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-10-14

the sterner sex. The village post-Otfice
circulates large number Of popular magc-
zines and journals. Twice has the local
agricultural society held its annual fair
here; twice have the men, women and
children of Kinnickinnic, without respect
to condition, politics or creed, met in a
neighboring grove of stately oaks and
celebrated in joy and gladness, with music
and banners, by speeches.. dinner and
toasts, the anniversary of American free
dom.
During the late presidential canvass,
the adherents Of the several candidates
held simultaneous meetings in the same
hall, and there discussed without discord
or bitterness the principles at issue ana
the merits of their great opponents. Bu-
CHANGERS measured swords with Black Re-
publicans, and Know Nothings pitched
into both. AS we listened to the argyll
ments. and jokes, and glees Of the COM
batants, we compared these meetings to
the popular assemblages of old Athens,
and felt that it was good to be there.
Thus fairly, and peaceably, and democra
tically, did the men of Kinnickinnic 60
through the great contest of ffty-six.
Kinnickinnic has nc bar for the sale of
spirituous liquors, nor saloon for the sale
of malt beverages. Her people are not
ma that ale and lager beer are beneficial
to health and conducive to longevity, and
being Yankees they know too well the
constituent parts Of foreign wines and
brandies to permit their lives to be shor
tened by slow poison. The common
arguments in favor of all these beverages
have no weight with them. They quaff
physical health and intellectual inspiration
in the limpid water of heavens distilation,
and in the bracing, balmy breezes which
are waited from the lakes and prairies of
the great Northwest; while they derive
sufficient stimulus to exertion from the
wealth of Western opportunity which is
spread so lavishly around them.
The people of Kinnickinnic and the
settlers in all the region round about, re-
member the Sabbath day and keep it holy.
Not in severe and purtaaic spirit do
they remember it; not as day for the
display of the latest fashions and for the
indulgence of doubtful pleasures, is it well
coined. Tho children are not catechized
to stupefaction, but after the exercises of
the Sabbath-school have ended, are allow
ed to ramble in the fields and in the
groves, to gather flowers, and to build
harmless air castles. Their parents pro-
TESS and practice religion of reason and
of earnestness; not of fear and trembling
nor of empty ostentation. They worship
the God of Love, and the Father of all
Goodness and none other. They observe
tho Sssb55;:,;;h as day OF rest, and thanks
giving, and quiet recreation, and not as
one consecrated to gloomy thoughts and
rueful countenances.
One other particular in connection with
Kinnickinnic deserves favorable mention.
We refer to its beautiful Yankee girls.
For beauty and accomplishments and
downright smartness they might well defy
all creation. But they don't-they don't
defy anybody, but move on in the even
tenor of their way, strewing flowers and
scattering blessings wherever they 60.
Heaven bless them!
We might say mora in praise of our
modelvillage and some things to its discred-
it, but space forbds. With all their virtues
its inhabitants have their faults, and their
village its disadvantages. 1t is but an
oasis in the desert of Western ESaygera-
ton; not a garden of Eden.-"Eaitoria
Breuities."