Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-05-22

way through bis seedy coat, and who
has tried to help himself, and who can
good naturally endure this, has philos-
ophy in his soul. When bcuntiful Ma
ture gets ready to smile upon him and
lap him in EIysium, he'll be sure to APP
prsciate a feast of nectared sweets, where
no crude suffeit reigns. And so when
/ read Of this suicide, / mourned-
mourne6 that this friend could not look
on the threatened waves of the waters
with more fortitude. The sand bars and
snags that obstruct all who engage ia.
business were more fatal to him than the
fierce lions that appeared in the way OF
the Christian traveller that John Bunyan
wrote Of. Soon the watsrs OF Lethe
viii be gathered over him, and he will
be forgotten by all save those friends who
loved him. 70 the world, it's only one
passenger lost off the frail timbers RATED
together in the rivulets of youth, and
strengthened as it approaches the wide
river of manhood, bounds on to that
shoreless sea on the great chart OF etsr-
nifty.
We find the following open letter up
on several things in the Wabasha Her
aid, 1t is from the pen of that successful
writist. FRAME (642) DAeeErT, and is
addressed tous, with several compliment
tary phrases, which our native modesty
compels US to omit.
INTRODUCTION AN ''sIcH."
A new suit of custom made plug hat,
and few pantaloons and a coat, rieces-
itated a wandering. So wandered up
the raging Chippewa as far as Eau
Claire.
From hence to Reads, found con-
yeyance on board the fast running CITY
of st. Paul, Of whom MouIton is which,
like" is bis title page, and be is known
far and wide at the Ladies' favorite."
and the longest whiskered Captain on
the river.
Disembarking at Reads fell 10 with,
among our good friends and fellow cit.
liens, McMaster, Of the Lake CITY Lea
der, whom after little dligent labor
persuaded to make this missionary trip
with me.
GAN ASTRONOMICAL ENGINE"
On the levee at Reads is a green
looking machine, resembling horse
power placed IN a perpendicular attitude.
An old man. grey headed and bent
with infirmities of mind as well as body,
spends nearly all of his time, working or
it. hammeriDg rod here, removing q
a cogwheel there. tireless, seemingly as
Fate, and working away with insane en-.
thusiasm pittiable to behold. He calls it
IAN astronomical engine" and says that
the Black Arts, Legerdemain and other
spirits of evil are in league against him.
AT times he is confident of success, and
again he despairs, but labors necessarily
for that be can never attain.
What a curious machine is the hu-
man mind, how subtle in its workings,
how rare and strangely strange is its
mechanism. Powerful enough to grasp
the most intrincate problems of science,
and solve them, the greatest questions Of
State, and political economy are CRAP
peeled with and subdued. But let lit
tie thing come between il and the day,
let but a mote obstruct its workings and
it is at sea, the world real, vanishes, and
it dwells in world imaginary, peopled
with strange fancies and queer dreams.
THE NoLlIE MoHLER
pronounced no HE er) was-the craft ON
which Mac and l sought refuge and rest.
Harry Holmes walk. the top floor aud has
n heap TO say about the boat. Judge he
is Captain, and VIM. MohIer, (same
pronunciation as before) stands in n
little cage, writes his name on bit Of
card board and says "ihrse dollars"
with great ease and dignity. The Nellie
is as neat as can be. runs Ike a race
horse, and "feeds" well. She excels in
Stewards and cooks, and the grub
disbed up" on her is worthy of our APP
preciatiye stomachs, and more thorough
bred bowels than it sometimes finds.
At.precis.ly 90 minutes to 8 o'clock,
P. N. We weighed our anchor Il have no
memorandum of its. nvOirdupois, or I
would sent t you,) cast loose our fast
erings, uudid the sails, "spliced the main
brace" as it was too short, tied The bow
line loose, hauled in the PLANK and
steered nor-west by north. Joe Ehle,
"a youth to fortune and to Famo" not
unknown in this region travelled with US.
His name is sometimes.written EhIeson,
but this is only done by bad and design
ing nren who have no music concealed
about their persons because Joseph is
musical individual and lo Snowman.
Up THE CHIPPEWA.
sped the mo he Ter like race horse with
a chestnut burr under his crooper, only
more so, andin far more jolly frame
Of mind, if steamboat can have mind.
McMaster, Ehle and Harry Holmes or
ganized a glee club and sung sundry
secular songs sweet.y, and thus did the
hours pass swiftly by until Mac and
retired to No. .l2, where Mac requested
me to take the lower bunk, while be
should occupy the upper, as he had some
business unsettled, and had no desire to
be crushed to death, towenst. | turned
in rs ii wished and sDowered sweetly rs
/ always Co, until the bright sun chased