Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-07-27

eE- " Reader stop and think !" N. B
That impressive sentence is not original will
this family paper. 1t was first coined by DIR
Baxter in his =" Call to the Unconverted." Of
by the able writer of d. b. De Land d. Co..
Chemical Saleratus notices, we forget which
now
We viii say before proceeding any further
that the foregoing explanatory paragraph has
no direct and particular relevancy to the
main drift and purpose of this article which
we are about TO write, but was thrown in there
to give the reader time to stop and think.
But 10 resume. Reader, stop and think j
you remember how you felt, when, a small
boy. with nary dime, you. hung around the
outside of a circus tent with a passionate
longing to be on the other side of the canvas
or how, few years later, you used to follow
some girl home from an evening meeting, and
muchly desire TO have her left hand within
your right arm. but want quite gritty enough
to ask her to do it or when later still in life
you were on crowded Mississippi steamer
with no wife or sister along, how you envied
the lucky fellows who belonged to some piece
of calico or crinoliAe, and by virtue thereo
could sit in the ladies' cabin, eat at the first
table, and get waited on in short, impatient
reader, do you remember how you generally
feel, when you greatly "hanker after some.
thing within sight, but just out of reacb2
You remember, do you +? Well, that's us
That's our photograph Wednesday event ?
July 81, 1867, on board steamer Key City, in
transit from Wabasha to Prescott.
We were the lOnesomest individual on rec.
ord. We could not strike an affinity" and
the idea of an editor of ten years experience
on the Upper Mississippi, riding sixty miles
without forming limited copar tnership with
some congenial spirit, was too narrowing to
entertain. Not that we cared so much per-
sonally. but what would the world say if the
fact were known? OF course the officers
were attentive. CHARLEY MACARTHUR, the
young gentleman who rides on the boat very
much, aud has a state room in the fore part
of the canoe, with desks and drawers, where
he keeps register of the other passengers
he welcomed us cordially, and said pass
as promptly as if he was playing euchre with
not trump. JOHNSON, too, the amber hair
ed, who plesides over the dispensary, he
greeted us with much spirit, and seemed to
indulge in pleasing anticipations of mercan-
tile transactions. in which a moderate profit
would accrue to him by reason of our liqui-
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no affinity"
We found the party We wanted to know,
FIVE or six genial gentlemen, our sort OF
folks" but they were Unconscious of our ad
miratlon and our wants, and how to delicate
ly make them known. and decently join that
society was the difficulty. That's where the
misery come in. That's the time when the
loneliness which poets aud editors and other
noble souls sometimes feel. was most hefty.
We did it. We ''iined." We grew into
the confidence aud fraternity of those
gentlemen, after we really set about it, Just as
naturally and easy as a woman spends mo-
ney. We begun this little story with view
of telling how we won those manly affections
but have concluded not TO do it. Suffice il
to say that the latter portion of our journey
was much better than the first. and that
among the pleasant memories laid away to
brighten days of gloom, and Tighten hours Of
toll, is the remembrance of that night with
DIR. f. z. TRoxELL, of Allentown, Pa, and
JOAN NEWMAN, of New York. Dr., may il
be many years before you have TO take any
of your own medicines ; and JoHN, when by
and by, the ledger of life is pasted and the
account closed. may the showing be as hon
Orable for you then, as your list of orders
from confding customers. is now. Au Re
uOir.