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The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-07-28
CHICAGO JOURNAL.

Tho Chicago Journal is one of our
most valued exchanges, It's political and
news department are ably conducted, and
the literary department, under the charge
of B. F. TAYLOR, gives to the paper rare
freshness and value. The Journal has
recently put on new dress, and we ex-
tract portion Of its salutatory:-
We have put on new face, but it is
the same old matter of human rights, that
wears it STILL Names have changed, in
deed, but things remain the same; for as
we turn over our brief chronicles of the
time we find no erasures in the record
we are not off with the old love, and
wears have only deepened it, while the
principles we find proclaimed in the first
leader that ever appeared IN these col
umns, on Monday in April, 1914, are
those we have enumerated since the last
full moon was new. And should we eel
citrate sthe silver wedding between the
writer and the reader, they would still be
found craven on the heart and blazoned
on the banner.
If we have ever changed front, it has
only been that we might face the foe; we
have shrunk from no known duties, and
in our humble efforts to discharge them,
our readers will bear witness, that we
have found no time for self-laudation,
while they have left us no cause either
for envy or complaint. 1c
We wrote of that first, leader. Alas
though principles be imperishablc, their
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-07-28
4 Kansas Editors Platform.

A new paper just started at Doniphan
Kansas, called the Free Press" LAYS
down the following programme:
'sWe will claim charter to blow on
whom we please. We will puff Doni-
phan City if we think it deserves putting !;
puff all merchants IN the city who will re-
member the printer; puff steamboats, that
will let us ride dead head; puff boarding
house keepers that don't bother us about
our till, and will promise to pnff any
decent political party that will promise
not to make Congressman of lis.
We fear God, hate the Lecompton Con
stitution, despise all our cotemporaries,
respect the city government, don't ask
any favors Of the town company, love
ourselves, and will take Atchison money
for subscription. We will make war a.
gainst the devil, against the admin stra-
ton, and anybody that says "boo" to US.
We won't tell les, won't take clubs of o.
yer one thousand to one address, and
won't join either division of the Free
State party until we find which is going
to be the strongest. We believe in mat
rimony, believe that there are very many
great men in Kansas, and believe the
Dutch are going to be the salvation Of
Doniphan.'
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-07-28
SABBATH BELLS.

The following from Douglas Jerrold's
st. James and st. Giles, breathes beau
tiful sentiment and pathos, that will &C M
mand the admiration of the reader:
"There's something beautiful in the
church bells; don't you think so, Jem!"
said Capstick in sudden tone. "Beau-
it'll and hopeful they talk to high and
low, rich and poor, in the same voice;
there's q sound in them that should scare
pride and envy, and meanness of all sorts
from the heart of man; that should make
him look upon the world with kind, for
giving eyes; that should make the earth
seem to him, at least for time, holy
place. Yes, Jem. there's whole sermon
in every sound of the church bells, if we
only have the ears to rightly understand
it. There's preacher in every belfry,
Jem, that cries, Poor, weary, struggling,
fighting creatures, poor human things |!
take rest, bequiet. Forget your vanities,
your weekday craft, your heart-burnings |!
And you, We humble vessels, gilt and
painted, believe the iron tongue that tells
ye, that for all your gildings, all your
colors, ye are the same Adams earth
with the beggars at your gates Come
away, come, cries the church bell, 'and
learn to be humber, learning that, how
ever daubed aud stained, and stuck about
with jewels, you are but grave clay.
Come, Dives, come, and be taught that
all your glory, as you wear it, is not half
as beautiful in the eyes of Heaven as the
sores of the accomplishing Lazarus p
And We, poor creatures, Gvid and faint,
stinted and crushed with the pride and
hardness of the world, come, come, come,
cries the bell, with the voice of the angel
Come and learn what is laid up for ye;
and, learning, take heart, and walk among
the eruelties of the world calmly, IS Dan
lei walked among the lions.'"
Here Capstick, flushed and excited,
wrought beyond himself, suddenly paused
,Jem started, astonished, but said not a
word. And then Capstick, with q firmer
manner said -" Jem, is there finer
sight than stream Of human creatures
passing from Christian Church =
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DOUGLAS JERRoLD ON WoMEN.-Vir-
tues beautiful thing in women, when
they don't go about like n child with a
drum, making all sorts of 1oises with it.
There are some women that think virtue
was given them as claws were given to
cats-to do nothing but scratch with.
What women would do if they could
not cry, nobody knows. They are trea-
ted badly enough as it is, but if they
could not cry when they liked, how they
would be put upon-what poor defence
less creatures tEey would be.
Nature he's been very kind to them.--
Next to the rhinoceros, there is nothing in
the world armed like q woman. Ard
she knows it.
Cultivate your nerves. You can'tpet
them too much. Something will always
be happening in the house, and, unless
yonr husband be worse than stone, ev-
cry new fright will be as good as a new
gown or a new trinket to you. There
are some domestic wounds only to be Gu
red by the jewelcr.
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LAWS OF THE RoAD.-There are some
very pretty, but unhappily, very ill-bred
women, who don't understand the laws of
the road with regard to handsome faces.
Nature and custom would, no doubt agree
in conceding to all males the right OF at
least two distinct looks at every comely
female countenance, without any infrac-
ton of the rules of courtesy or the sentl-
ment of respect. The first look is neces-
sary to define the person of the individual
one meets SO as to avoid in passing. Any
unusual attraction discovered in first
glance is a sufficient apology for second
mot prolonged and impertinent stare,
but an approaching homage of the eyes,
such as stranger may inoffensively yield
to passing image. 1t is astonishing
how morbidly sensitive some vulgar beau
ties are to the slightest demonstration of
this kind. When a lady walks the streets,
she leaves her virtuous Indignation coun-
tenance at home; she knows well enough
that the street is picture gallery, where
pretty faces framed in pretty bonnets are
meant to be seen, and everybody has a
right to see them.-AHantae Monthly.
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KISS THOU ME.

The fountain mingles with the river,
The river with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix forever
With sweet commotion.
Nothing on earth is single,
A II things by law divine,
In another's being mingle,
Why not I with thinef
See the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No leaf or flower would be forgiven,
q If it disdalned to kiss its brother.
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea,
But what are all those kissings worth
If thou kiss not mea-[ Shelley.
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EFFECT DE OLD PERSONS SLEEPING
WITH YoUNG.-A habit which is cousid-
erably prevalent in almost every family, of
allowing children to sleep with older per-
sons, has ruined the nervous vivacity and
physical energy of many promising
child. Those having dear old friends,
whose lives they would like to prolong at
the sacrifice of their innocent offspring,
alone should encourage this evil; but eve
ry parent who loves his child, and wishes
to preserve to him a sound nervous sys-
tenn, with which to buffet successfully the
cares, sorrows, and labors of life, must
see to it that his nervous vitality is not
absorbed by some diseased or aged relae
tive. m a.
Children, compared with adults, are
electrically in positive condition. The
rapid changes which are going on in their
little bodies, atundantly generate and as
extensively work up vital nervo-electric
fluids. But when by contact for nights,
with elder and negative persons, the Vi
talizing electricity of their tender organi-
cations is absorbed, they soon pine, grow
pale, languid and dull, while their bed
companions feel a corresponding invigo-
ration. King David knew the effects of
this practice, and, when he became old,
got certain young persons to sleep with
him, that his days might be heightened.
DR. tHufeland, the German physiologist,
attributes the frequent longevity Of teach
ers to their daily association with young
persons.
Invalid mothers often prolong their ex
istence by daily contact with their chill
dren. | once knew a woman who by
weak lungs and mineral doctors, had
been Frustrated with incuaable consump-
ton. Her infant occupied the same bed
with her almost constantly, day and
night. Tbs mother fingered for months
on the verge of the grave, her demise
being daily expected. Still she fingered
on, daily disproving the predictions of
her medical attendants. The child, how
ever pined without any apparent disease.
Its once fat little cheeks fell away with
singular rapidity, till every bone in its
face was visible. Finally it had impart-
ed to the mother its lart spark of Vitality
and simultaneously both died. Irecently
saw it state in a newspaper, that a man
in Massachusetts had lived forty-one days
without eating anything, during which
period he had been nourished altogether
by little cold water, ard by the infiu-
ences absorbed by him while daily hold
ing the hand of his wife.-Dr. E. p
FOote.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-07-28

A THouGHr OR Two.-This life can
not be lived over again. The moments
that pass pass forever. Inow behold the
clock-three, that tick is past, and st:ll
another, and yet another. So pass days
months and years; so pass opportunit IS
neglected, and half Of our time witLolt
the proper effort. Young man, a word
with you-you CO mot rub out the tigur-
es of fe asthe boy does the arithmeti
cal question upon his slate. The great
blackboard oflife it is upon with you
make the mark, in tie sight Of God and
men, and once made it is there forever.
If we make wrong mark it will not
serve us to sit down and repent because
we cannot rub it ou+. The true pine
pie of life is to go on, not with the mis-
takes, but with the corrections. The
mark you made yesterday, improve it to
day. Let every day be witness of some
greater goodness.
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undistinguished before the Judge of all
the eal th, and his moral sense quickened
by such considerations, makes poor sub
jects for kings-for it makes sosereigns
of all. 1t does fit them to govern them
selves. 1t is leYeller and levels up
wards.
5th. The christian religion il.s an iin
portant and indispensable place in its III
| fluence Upon general Intelligence.
| The connection between general INTEL
| ligence and national prosperity, we need
not argue in this presence. All admit
the Importance oft What the christian
religion has to do with it, we may indi-
cate. The bible, which is there opened
and whose truths are enforced, is for the
intellect as well as for the heart. Ths
book opened in the presence of the peo-
pie gathered in the assemblies contains
the noblest poetry ever written, the high
est specimens of eloquehce-tle first and
best of all history-the most affecting
narrative, in word, all the different kinds
Of writing there can be found in perfee-
ton.
Moses Job, David, Isaiah, and the E
vangelists, and Paul must stand alone,
confessed by all of true taste ard feelings
as without thsir peers.
What is it worth to the child from its
earliest years, to have its understanding
familiar with such various excellence.
We glory in this facts The SANCTUARY
in this land belongs to the people. 1t Is
for the masses. And | thank God, that
whilst the sanctuary has nobler end, it
is school for the intellect. This day in
the hearing of thousands, the poor as well
as the rich, the very noblest specimens OF
literary excellence are presented. Multi
tudes cannot have books, the halls of sci
ence are not opened to them, and the
sanctuary is the only quickening influence
upon the mind. A people with the
christian religion can never be ignorant:
Scotland stands first for the diffusion OF
knowledge, and where else are the poo-
pie 80 generally church going. A gen
tleman once walking in cemetery Id
Scotland, observed upon one of tho tomb
stones, the words of Shakespeare, admired
ever since they were written.
The cloud capp'd towers the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inhabit, shall dissolve.
And like the baseless fabric OF a vision,
Leave not wreck behind.
He turned to a humble Scotch peasant
who stood by his side, and remarked, -
"Is not that sublime s"-"Yes said the
man; and I think | have heard something
not unlike it,
'sAnd saw a g;cat white throre, and
him that sat upon it from whom the
earth and heavens fed away, and there
was no place found for them.
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CRINoL1NE.-The way the ladies ale
going into the crinoline is perfectly awful.
The noted firm of DOUGLAS & SHERWOOD
of New York advertise that during the
next three months they will make 24oo
skirts per day' The Tribune says:
"There is now in the city of New York
one mandatory douglas & Sherwood's)
of hoped skirts, that will use, in the
year 1858, over two thousand two hum
dred miles Of hoops. They are giving
employment to small army of sewing
girls, and at least corporaps guard Of
men and boys. Indeed, they now en-
ploy five hundred and fifty hands, nearly
the whole Of them bright and intelligent
American girls and widows, who receive,
every Monday, about $4,000 for the pre-
vious weeks work. In these rooms we
listen to the continual buzz of one hun
dred and eighty sewing machines, which
with the hand sewing, use up every month
two thousand dozen spools Of cotton
thread"
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5f(1stell
AN ADVENTURE AS Is AN
ADVENTURE

u NEVER attended but one temper
ance lecture" said our friend b with
a peculiar smile, "and l don't think l
shall ever attend another one"
You probably found it dry!"
Well, yes-but that isn't it. The
lecture was well enough, but l got into
such an awful scrape after it was over,
that [ never think of temperance meet
ings without a shudder. I'll tell you all
about it. 1t was in jersey City where |
was something of a stranger, and the
night was the worst of the season. Be-
Teas! how it blew! it was enough to take
away your breath. Well, sir, the lecture
was over, and making out with thecrowd
fingered in the doorway, contemplating
the awful scene, when somebody took my
arm.
"sWhere have you been?' said the
sweetest voice in the world. Il have
been looking for you everywhere
Every much surprised, l turned my
head and saw-but | can't describe her.
1t makes me mad now to think how pro-
digiously pretty she was! With her left
hand she leaned on my arm; she was
arranging her veil with her right and did
not notice my surprise.
"'You have been looking for mes' |
faltered.
Come let us be going was her re-
ply, pressing my arm.
"a thrill went to my heart. What to
make of my lady's address, l did not
know, but she was too charming q crea-
ture for me to refuse to accompany her.
We started off in the midst of the tenn
pest, the noise of which prevented any
conversation. At length she said in a
scream
"'Put your arm around me- shall
blow away
81 need not describe to you my sensa-
tons, as 1 pressed her to my side, and
hurried on. It was very dark, nobody
saw us; and allowing her to guide my
steps, 1 followed her motions through
three or four short streets, until she stop
ped before IN elegant mansion.
az Have you your key? she asked.
"'My keyp I stammered, there must
be mistake a4sa
"'Oh, l have one.'
"And as she opened the door, stood
waiting to bid her good night, or to have
some explanation, when turning around
quickly, she said
"'How queer You act tonight; amt
you coming ing
''There was something very tempting
in the suggestion. Was going in? A
warm house and a pretty woman were
certainly objects of consideration, and 1t
was dreary to think of facing the storm,
and of seeing her no more. mw
: "It took me about three quarters of a
second to make up my mind, and in |
went. There was dim light in the hall,
and as my guide ran rapidly up stairs,
why L thought l conld do no better than
run up too. | followed her into very
dark room.
'"sLock the door, john said she.
ANEW as if l had been the only John
in the world / thought she knew me. l
felt for the key, and turned it in the lock
without hesitation, wondering all the time
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-07-28

WE do not know that Nature COMES
any nearer laughing, than in n bright
winter morning, when the earth is a gilt
ter with garment Of diamonds, and the
woods are all set with new pearls, and
the air is a-twinkle with the keen ar
rows Of frost, and the smoke from the
chimneys turns to glory and gold.
But Nature never laughs. In her
sweetest moods, she is pensive; iii hsr
Hottest, solemn or sad. In dews, she
bursts into tears for the day that has gone,
but they make her a garment meet to
wear in tie presence Of morning, a
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4 ANA
suspicion of some horrid trick flashed
upon my mind, for I had often heard of
infatuated men being lured to their de
struction by pretty women, and I was on
the point of re-opening tho door. when
the lady struck light. Then-being an
excessively modest mani discovered to
my dismay that / was in bed room =
with a woman in a bed room alone
with woman in her bed room Il can
not describe my sensations. I said some
thing, don't know what it was, but the
lady lighted her lamp, looked, stared at
me an instant, turned as white as pillow
case, and screamed
"'Who are you? How cano you
here $50, quick-leave this room-E
Thought you acre my Ausband' and
covering her face with her hands she Sob
bed violently. '
g was petrifed. Of course was quite
as anxious to leave, as she was to have
me do so. But in my confusion, instead
of going out at the door | came in, l un-
locked another door and walked into a
closet. ,t..
"Before could rectify my error, there
came terrible laundering at the front
door. The lady screamed, the noise in
creased and felt peculiar, knowing very
well that now the lady's real husband was
coming, and that I was in rather a bad
| fix. as
"Well aware that it would not do to
remain in the closet, and convinced also
of meeting man who might fall into the
vulgar weakness of being jealous, | was
trying to collect my scattered senses in
the dark recesses, when the lady rushed
to me and whispered to me in a very mild
manner
"'What shall do' If you do not
go he will kill men
"sO-but consider
"The laundering at the door drowned
her voice. She flew to open it. AS the
wrathfuI husband burst into the room,
thought | felt a little cold, and crept under
some garments hanging in the closet.
GA gruff voice roared and stormed.
A tender, silver voice demonstrated.
| Othelo was jealous and revengeful; Des-
demona innocent and distressed; then |
heard an ominous sound as of some one
looking under the bed,
81 know he is here! saw him
come into the house with you'll You
locked the door! I'll have his heart
outr .-:5. A. e4
6 'Hear me hear me! l will explain ,
"As I was listening very attentively
for the explanation, the garments under
which / was concealed were quietly lifted,
and fancy my feelings, discovered in such
a situation by such husband"
"WeIl, B." we cried, deeply in
terested, for we knew that every word of
his story was true, show did you get out
of the scrapee"
Il used violent remedy torso violent
complaint. Driven in a corner-my
life in danger-perceiying at a glance that
Othello was not as strong as l was, l
threw myself on him, felied him to the
floor and held him there, until l had
given full explanation Of the error, made
him hear reason, and tanned him to be
as quiet as lamb. Then | left rather
unceremoniously, and l have never seen
Othello or Desdemona since" 4I
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A BEAUTIFUL OBJECT. Il Extract
from on unpublished Romance -'Theie
is no object so beautiful to me as con-
scientious young man, | watch him as |
do star in heaven" Miss Caroline
Gilman.
"That is my view-exactly," sighed
Miss Josephine Hoops, as she laid down
the volume-"in fact think there's no
thing SO beautiful as young man, even
if he amt conscientious. Goodness knows
that I watch the dear creatures a good
deal more than l do the stars in heaven
and mean to, as long as live.
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THE author of the ''British Naturalist"
never penned more beautiful thought
than this: "sound is the wall of weak
ness"
The report of the rife harms nobody !;
it is the little unseen bullet, singing soft
iy as bird, that bears death as it flies.
The thunder is but the shrek and tho
groan Of the wounded and shivering air,
but the spark that rendB it-that tiny
twinkle Of Comprehension AID play-
tul, dries up the life with its ''touch ethe-
real"
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The poet, Barry Cornwall, thus refers
to philopenas:-
~ greatly object to this one sided game
this finding double almond, sharing
it with lady, and then having to pay d
forfeit when she next encounters you
IF YOU say it first, the little devils have
funny ways to get rid of paying; some
times they will give you kiss-that's
something; sometimes they will let you
bear them to bah or party, and some
times they will pay up like men-very
unwilingly. / philopenaed a girl; she
acknowledged the debt, and promised me
an annual. The next day she sent NE
an almanac.
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A YOUNG Mrss.-A father question
ing his children, one Sunday evening, on
that portion CT sacred writ in Genesis,
descriptive Of the construction Of the Ark
asked;
allow was light admitted into the Ark,
glass was then unknown .ts
: "Ohl Noah just lighted the gas an
swered one of the girls.
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MaIps AND WIvEs.-Wo are all
alike. When they're maids they're mild
as milk; once make 'em wives, and they
lean their backs against their marriage
certificate and defy you.-Jerrotd.
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The diver for pearls in the Indian
Sea may not always return pearl laden,
but at least he Will come up purified
So in the study Of the Natural Sciences,
the STUDENT may not bring to the light
some new truth, some crown jewel, he
will at least return made purer and hap.
pier by his contact with the elcincnts Of
sinless nature. H
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"WuAr are you doing, Biz"

"heepIug pTUher OII1ce'
possible! who gave you lift?"
s.My old employer. He took his right
boot and lifted me over the door-sill.--
Having nothing else to do bought five
dollars worth of broken bank bills, and
opened an exchange office"
.sDoes the business pay"
"Eirst rate. I buy pistareens for six
teen cents and pass them off on blind
fiddlers for quarters:
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H "Mynheer, do you know what
for we call our boy Hans!"
"Do not really"
"Well, I will tell you. Der reason
what for VIC call cur boy Hans, it ish his
name.'