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A Boy Again

A couple of gentlemen in Eano were,
not long since, Willing an evening away
by singing songs and relating anecdotes,
when one asked for the sony "Would |
Were Boy Again." at which cid Pi
Ule" John K Lovejoy.) WHO was pres,
ent. broke Oh. as follows: "A boy again
Who would be boy again # he could?
to have the measles, mumps and itch, 10
get licked by the bigger boys and scolded
by older brothers. to stub your toes, to
have the belly ache from swallowing
cherry stones, to have chapped hands and
frozen toes, TO slip up on the ice, to do
chores, To get your ears boxed, to get
wha;ed hv a thick headed schooImaster,
tn he made to stand up as the "dunce
for the amusement of the school, to have
visitors come to the school aud tell you
how miserabIv weak and stupid you were
when YOU were born, and to ask you
what would have become of you at that
Interesting time in your life it your pa
rents had not been SO patient with and
kind to you tit was all ONES fault he was
born and his parents were in no way
concerned or interested in the matter.)
to eat at the second table when company
comes, to set out cabbage plants because
you are little, and consequently it won't
make your back ache much. to be made
to 90 to school when you don't want to,
to get spelled down in school, to lose
your marbles, to have your sled broken,
to gei bit in the eye with frozen apples
aud soggy snowbrIIs, to cut your finger,
TO lose your knife, 10 have hole in the
rear of your only pair of pants when
your pretty cousin from the city comes
to see YOU, 10 be called coward if you
don't fight at school, to be whsled at
home if you do fight at school, to be
struck after girl and dare not tell her,
to have boy too big for you to lick tell
your sweetheart squuts, to have your
sweetheart cut YOU dead and affiliate with
that boy John Smith, whom you hate
particularly because he set your nose up
the week before, 10 be made to GO to bed
when YOU know YOU Amt sleepy, to have
no fire crackers nn the Fourth Of July,
no skates on Christmas, to want a piece
of bread and butter with honey and get
your ears boxed, TO be kept from the cir
Gus " hen it comes totown and when all
the other boys 60, TO have canker rash
and stone brui>e, to be called up TO kiss
all the old women that visit your mother,
to be scoIded because you like Maggie
Love better than your sister, 10 be told
of what searching time little boys will
have who tel lies and are not like George
Washington, to catch your bg brother
kissing the pretty school ma'am on the
sly apl TO wish you was big so you could
kiss her tor, and oh bah on being a
boy again"
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-09-10

[ believe to be very essential in all well
regulated families. Whether | should
write from my experience or quote the
views of others would be i,nmateriaI, If
it was news for your readers; and if |
should take a different view of things
from Sc the whole world and his wife" /
will risk the consequences. But like the
old Scotch minister. baYing " said few
words before begin" | will here lay down
the first plank of my platform which is;
" In order to have sound mind we must
have sound body" You will preceive
that the plank is borrowed but it is like
A. MoRsE's fiue wash boiler, at IS made
for to lend.
Another plank is, that in the absence
of hereditary ailments no person mood be
sick; AID with proper treatment from in.
fancy even these can be mitigatel and of
ten cured. A third plank is, that disease
is not an enemy, but the SICK PERSONS
friend, aud should never be expelled by
force, but as soon as the cause is removed
the disease will quit the prem SIS with
graceful good bye. NJ fourth plank is
that Nature has provided no remedies for
diseases, which - itsel! will create a fifth
plank, namely: that drugs, in any or all
Of their muItfarious forms can never cure
sick person.
But fearing, as consequence of the fol-
lies and ignorance ofny youth or the mis-
directed zeal of my riperyears, that may
not live to improve what ,err,Jorv have
pre- empted, l will submit my propo sition
aud position for your acceptance or re
fusal. REFoRMER.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-09-10
"Josh Billings"

Josh Billings (Henrv w. Shaw is thus
written of by one who knows him: He
is certainly quite as ugly as 'Nasbv.' In
many of his articles in broken English,
he surpasses all who have tried that class
of writing But to fully appreciate him,
one must see and know him. He is
about forty eight years old, and is the
qnaintest specimen of humanity with
which we have ever met. Five years
ago he was an auctioneer in Poughkeepsie
New York. He has since moved to New
York city, where he keeps a boarding.
house amused by his irrepressible oddities.
As he passes down Broadway he can
not escape observation. His broal, bent
form, his immense hat, and large eagle.
like features are always noticeable.
His weakness is for chewing TOBACCO
and telling st'ries. There is no such
story teller in the land. Such quaint
laughable yarns as he can spin are not
easily put IN print. The only lounging
place he has is in the Office of the New
York Weekly. for which paper be con-
tributes weekly articles When the lec-
ture season is at hand he sends out a
humorous prospectus. He makes from
three to four thousand dollars q year
from his lectures, and as much more from
his newspaper work. Always cheerful
and genial, always witty aud yet kind. he
is liked exceedingly by his circle of
friends. Perhaps some of our readers
viii remember the publicity that was
given little time ago to the marriage of
one of his daughters, whose beauty had
become notorious. She was rs hand
some as be was ugly.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-09-10
Family Government.

EDIroRs JoURNAL:--It was the boast
of the fol mer editor of The JOURNAL that
it was % The Family Paper" and l sup
pose it is still intended for that very ion.
portant society. But in order to merit
that endearing cognomen, i should have
at least one column devoted to family
government. But here fhe good house
wife NAV take exception to the word
government and say 81 know how to
govern my own famil, aud want none
of your meddling in things that don't
belong to you" NY view, however, of
family government, may have Q broader
signiication than is generally attached to
it and if it should meet your appreciation
and that of your readers, l would cheer
fully contribute semi occasionally of what
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-09-10

had been drinking hair wash, or scent,
or anything hut rum, was only equalled
by their misgivings TO poison.
In society or at home Charles Reade
is always the same; his manners are a
happy blending of affability and dignity,
and calculated to put strangers at their
ease with him. He possesses in an un-
usual degree erudtion without pedantry,
wit without sarcasm, candor without Bit
terness, kindness without weakness-re-
finement, modesty and simplicity. Even
while enchanted with his numberless
mental gifts, one almost forgets the dis.
tinguished author in admiration of his
high qualities as a "good man."
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-09-10
Legend of a Musket.

Mark Twain tells the following story
related by fellow passenger, who, be
ing hantered about his timidity, said he
had never been scared since he loaded an
old Queen Anne's musket for his father
once, whereup On lie gave the following:
"You see The old man was trying to
learn me how to shoot blackbirds and
beasts that tore up the young coru and
such things, 50 that | could be of some
use about the farm, because | wasn't big
enough to do much. My gun was single
barreled shot gun, and the old m n car
ried an old Queen Anne musket that
weighed about a ton, made report like
a thundercap, aud kicked like a mule
The old man wanted me to shoot the old
musket sometimes, but | was afraid. -
One day, though. l got her down, and
so took hel to the hired man, aud asked
him how 10 load her, because i was out
in the field. Hiram said: "Dye you see
those marks on the st6ck-an X and a
V on each side of the Queens CROWN
Well, that means ten balls and five slugs
that's her load"
But how much powder?'
"Oh," he says. sit don't matter; put
in three or four handfuis."
$50 | loaded her up that way, and it
was an awful CHARGE had sense enough
to see that, and started out | eyeled
her on good mary black birds; but
every time | went to pull! the trigger, |
shut my eyes and winked. was afraid
of her kick. Toward snndown fetched
it up at the house, and there was the old
man resting on the porch.
''Been out hunting, lave ye?"
ayes sir" says l.
"What did you kill 2"
Didn't kill anything. sir-didu't shoot
her off--was afraid she would kick-I
knew blamed well she would"
Gimme that gum" the old man said
rs mad as sin.
And he took aim at sapling on the
other side of the road, and | began to
drop back out of danger. And the neyt
moment | heard the earthquake, and
heard the Queen Anne whirling end over
end into the air, and the old man spin
ming round on one heel, with one leg up
and both hands on his jaw. and the bark
flying from that old sapling like there
was nail storm. The old mans shout
der was set back three inches and his
jaw turned black and blue. and he had
to lay up for three days. Cholera, or
nothing else, can scare ne the way was
scared that time.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-09-10

FLowERs.-Lovers of the beautiful
arc lovers of flowers. There is a dainti.
ness about flowers that touch one ike
poetry. They breathe their lives unob
trusively, like as hearts whose beauties
are too gentle for the world. If our
young lady admirers of tho mystic Ian
guage could but acquire fondness for
the cultivation of flowers, and practice it,
we would have less i'll health, more
blooming cheeks a:d flowers indoor as
well out. And why shonld they not I
What on earth ought to he more con
genial to their natures and tastes? We
never yet knew young lady who was
fond of cultiyating flowers, or of botany,
that was not sensible, and who would not
make good bousekeeper for any worthy
gentleman.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-09-10
George ID. Prentice Painted by Don
Piatt

From the Cincinnati Commercial
was wandering through the hot
rooms, at midnight, in search of proof
reader, when stumbled upon that of the
man whose magic name yet gives sig
nifcance to the Journal he founded and
made famous 1t was lttle room, lit
by one gas let. that flared over low cot
bed, one table and few chairs, all of
the severest style of upholstery. From
amid pile of newspapers knee deep,
scissors in hand. rose up the poet jour
nalist. | could have then aud there EN-.
braced the dear old gentleman, had l
not been shocked into sense of plopriely
by his unexpected appearance. | had
not seen Mr.. Prentice for years, and was
not prepared for the change he present
ed. Never, at his bes; caring fig for
appearances, he had, in the heat of this
July night, discarded all wearing apparel
except his linen p'htaloons and slippers,
while bis hair stood like quilts upon the
fretful porcupile. He welcomed me
heartily, and l was glad to learn that bis
health is better now than it has been for
years. Few men have yielded wider
influence, in bis Gay and generation, than
George D. Prentice, and even now the
shadow of his name seems to breathe
over, and give character, to the journal
be originated. But looking back over
his brilliant career, an edmirer could wish
be had other surroundings than these.
Perhaps, however he would not be hap
pier. Berranger like, he probably clings
10 his old ways from choice.
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%o+teA/lonOientA' RoAl7n1.

rive invite the attention Of our readers to the
heading of this column Any communication sent
US, deemed worthy Of insertion, will receive
from this department kindly, cordial well
come Send US notes of local or miscellaneous
character but re member that they should be short
and to the point People dislike long, dry disser-
tations, for everyday reading, no matter what the
subjects be; and we have no room for such, any
way Correspondents will also bear in mind that
we require the name of the writer not necessarily
for publication but for our own information.1
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-09-10
H.sRV.EsT HOME.

The Harvest j. overt let farm bell and churcn bell
| From valley and hin Top the tidinss proclaim:
Till the air shall be laden with noses oil thahhssV-
And the mountains shall echo the good Givers
name.
Throw omen the halls of the farmers great man.
And landlord and laborer draw near the board
Where fair hands have scattered IN tas'eii proiu-
The viands. the choicest the farm can afford.
And feasting and lest and the halfforgot story,
And bumper and song fora season had sway
For the hands chained TO toll are lOf once liberated,
And hears strange freedom are iree Tor to-day.
Let the SWANS. Drowned with sum- and with hands
hard from labor.
And bring with them jewels from grain-held and
To Sc; in the crown that the fairest shall wear.
The wheat plume the oat plume, and sweet clover
And sprays of soft meadow-grass showing be-
Oh weave them in chapieis, their colors contrast
iDg.
The green with the gold, and the gold with the
And out OF the throng of the brown rustic faces.
Let the maiden choose him who was true to the
Whose courage failed not when the battle was hot
toll;
And TO him the choice of the purest and fairest,
And hers be the honor the chaplet to wear:
Oh. tendeTly place il upon her fair forehead,
And let it rest lightly upon her dark hair.
And TINS clad in beauty, hertresses the shadow.
The oat plume the sunshine. enlivened with
green,
Let the woodlands rcsound with answering echo
or = Hail Queen of Beauty and Hail, Har-
vest Queen"'
And the dear little children--o, tell them the It'd
ings.
And LET them AXE turns at the old iron bell.
Till the stroke answers stroke, and the spirit OF
music
Shall mock their sweet laughter from woodland
and dell.
Oh. I, II il We bells till il reaches the city;
Ee quivering wines swift bear il away;
And whisper the word 10 the INDECENT millions,
And cheer them with hopes OF u happier Gay
For the harvest is full, and the great barns are
bursting;
Let a million of voices the glad nc VS. proclaim.
Till the air shall be vocal with songs of thanksgy-
ing.
And the mountains shall echo the good Giver's
name.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-09-10
ST, NICHOLAS HOTEL.
(On the Levee,)
Prescott, Wisconsin.

FINIIIS HOUSE has just been opened for the ae-
cOmmodation Of the public. Everything IS
new aud commodiOus-the furniture being Just
brought from the east.
This hotel Is Pleasantly located commands fine
view up and down the river and i especially adapt
ed for those whose homes are in the hot and dusty
city aud who desire a summer residence in the
country. -
Respectfully invite the farmers of Pierce and
surrounding counties TO give me call when in
Town. Good stahling.
NAY II. 1863 GEO. sHAsER, Prop.
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VVTHOLESALE and Retail Dealer in Foreign
w and Domestic Wines. Liquors and Cigars.
Third-sf.. second door above JacksOn-st st. Paul.
Mimi Also. agent fer Jnlius Balke's Excelsior
Billiard Tables, with Phelan's Patent Combination
Cushions. lift
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D,EALER in Millinery and Fancy Dress Goods
= All kinds of Millinery and Dress Making done
to order. Store on the corner ~ Orange and Broad
Streets.
agent for the Leavit Sewing Machine, the hest
family machine in use. 81
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PETER M. SiMONS,
Proprietor of the
PRESCOTT HOTEL.
South side of Orange ST.,
Prescott, Wisconsin.

This house has been renovated and prepared for
che spring trade. and the proprietor feels conf
dent OF his ability tn render satisfaction 10 all Who
favor him with their custom. Good staolng at
tached. 13-Itf
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WHITE & HUTTON.

a TTORNEYS and COunSelors at Law. B-oad-st
n All business intrusIed TO us will he promptly
attended to.
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BRILL g. WEIGH,

0tENERA AL dealers in Drugs Medicines, Wines.
III LiauorS. Paints. Leads. Oils. Narnishes. Glass,
Putty. Toilet Articles. Fancy Goods stationery,
Picture Frames. Moulding>, Wall Paper Tobacco
Ci-ar<. &c.. BrOad->t.
sS- Physicians Prescriptions carefully pre-
pared %
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CARROLL g. yyIGGINs,
d. wESTFALL,

DLACKSMITIS. All kinds OF work i'm our line
ID promptly executed and ON reasonable terms
Shop ON Broad-st. -
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CHAs. o. BOUGHTON,

nEALER i'm Confectionery. Canned Fruits,
IL Lemonade lee Cream. Soda Water, cider.
Fresh Strawberries and other fruits in their season,
cor. Broad and Kinnickinuick-sts. 81
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/ have just received large and we'll selected
stock of rALL and WINTER GOODS; pur-
chased in the Eastern market. which / will
sell low for Ready Pay.
Thankful for past favOrs. / ask a continu-
ance Of The liveral patronageI have had for
the last year.
lam agent for the American Scale Co. All
sizes. from small balance to the largest Hay
and Stock Scales.
DAN,L j. DILL.
Prescott, Sept25, les 81 IT,
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WALTER w. WEBB & CO.,

DANkEIsS. Do n general banking business
ID Second story Dudley's block Main-st.
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MEACHAHf g. CO
MRS. \. VI. 5IARKLE,

of Sash, Doors, Blind
vi MOuldings. Sc.. BrOad-st.
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nEALER i'm School. Miscellaneous and BLANK
4 Books. Stationery, Frames, Mirrors. Toys. No
tons Toilet articles, at New Book Store on Broad
street 81
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Drugs, Medicines, &C.
CARIOS NTeCRAY.

NACNAAAs
DEALER in Drugs. Medicines. Pure Wines and
IL Liquors. Notions, &c, Brick block, foot oil
Orange-st- 81
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Misc ellaneous.
g. IL. NICHOLS,
n. II. PORTER,

TTyEACHER of Vocal and Instrumental Music
Piano FOrteS Organs and MelOdeons furnish
ed To order. Satisfaction TO customers guaranteed
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c. l.. BARNES & CO.,
ENORwARDERS. Steamboat and Express Agents
A. Levee. ii
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HARNESS MAKER Custom work promptly
il I'll attended to, Broad-st. 81
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BARBER SHOP.

~ MAURER, Proprietor. Shaving. Hair Cut
". ting, &C., &c, neatly done. 81
The Democratic advocate., 1869-07-01
The Descent from the Cross.

Last week it was announced in this
paper that Mr.. Weigandt intended to
exhibit this painting here. We have
received letter from him stating that
on Friday next, at the Odd Fellows
Ball it will be placed on exhibition.
Price Of admission % cents.
From St. Louis contemporary we
make the following extract:
A few days ago, we did ourselves the pleas
ure OF going into Max kuner's, 10 see the
magnificent painting which Is there on exhibi.
ton, and which was executed BY the accom-
pished artist, Mr.. Weigandt Its well known
70 the lovers OF the fine arts, that the original
OF this deservedly celebrated painting was
conceived, and executed By Rnbens. more than
two centuries ago, and after its completion. il
was placed in the cathedral at Antwerp, Rel.
gium, where il still remains. and from which
Mr.: Weigandt made his copy.
Numerous have been the attempts at variou,
periods of the Christian era, by artists Of no
mean skiiisto produce scene descriptive OF
the removal Of the body of cur Lord from the
Gross, but all have fallen far short Of this grand
masterpiece OF kubens. Considered as work
OF art, the drawing is bold, and in some in
stances 1t may appear too much so bat IL the
Flemish models do not admit of as much ideal
ism rs is generally found in Italian paintings.
he makes full amends by his vigorous and
brilliant style Of coloring, which forms char.
acteristic feature Of the Belgian school OF paint
ing to this day. And then, in point Of noble.
meas, and grandeur of conception, and force Of
expression, the Descent from the Cross ranks
with the finest works Of art ever produced. AZ
the Transhguration by Raphael, and tho Last
supper by Leonardo da vinei.
inregard to the painting now on exhibition,
the artist claims nothing irore for 1t, than thai
y Is . true copy Of the celebrated original
But Il requires but glance at the principal
points Of the painting,-the lirid and deat6ly
appearance Of the body Of Christ,-the palIor.
and agony portrayed in the countenance of the
'Crow-stricken mother,-together with the
Earnest, yet tender anxiety and care exhibited
BY those who are engaged in lowering the
body, 10 see at enee the unmistakable evidence
y superior talent in the artist. And although
here may be parts which by many NAV be re-
'arded as exaggerated, yet as his great object
vas to give a faithful representation OF The
'risinal, be has not felt at liberty 10 vary from
IN The slightest particular.