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The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1871-12-14
SNOW BALL1NG.

The soft loose gold Of her tresses
Is strayi1g about her face,
And the wind through its slksn msshes,
Is running frolicsome race,
Her violet eyes how they darken and flash,
Her rose red checks how they glowl
Al she stands ankle deep in tho milk white drift
Pelting me with snow.
She tosses tho soft fakes around her,
In her pretty hoidenish way,
Till she looks like sea nynph rising
Through the billows of foam and spray.
She moulds the balls with her little bare hands,
Do you think she would pout or scold
II nestled the pink palms down in my breast,
To warm them' they look go cold.
Her white woolsn mitteus are flung on the snow
Each one in itself flake,
And hor silksn scarf beside them lies,
Coiled up like crimson snake,
All about mo tracks of her soft brown feet
Have printed the downy snow,
And know by them where another spring
Tho prettiest flowers will grow.
She laughs aud SCOTS when my snow balls fly
harmless over her head,
And she flirts her curls in saucy way,
And couches in mimic dread.
And she calls ME sorry marksman
An awkward fellow-and still
The sly little witch knows we'll enough
It isn't for lack Of skill.
She knows would sooner think
OF tearing butteray's wing, Ii
Or beating lily, or throttling 49,
The first sweet robin Of spring,
Than Of aiming at her in earnest,
Or hitting her if could,
Or harming so much as tassel
Of her little scarlet hood.
Gay, beautiful Madgel oh, what would she do
If my mouth was half 10 bold
A. the crystals which fall on her lips and her hal
Like pearls among rubys and gold,
Will her pride and her wilfnl]ness trample my low
As her light feet have trampled the snow,
That the missilessh hings which areice to my fac
Are fire to my heat does she knowl
Sweet tease does she guess am wondering now
Whether rhe'l over be
In tho long, long future before US both,
Any thing else to mo
Than little hoyden with Wild gold hair,
And red cheeks all in glow,
Who stands ankle deep in the milk-white drifts
Pelting me with the snow.
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Pumps! Lightning Rods

II. MUNSIN GER
1s still engaged in manufacturing the
WOODEN PUMPS which have given
such universal satisfaction throug ghout
Northern Minnesota.
He is also agent for the
Sta1: Copper
LIGHTNING ROD.
And IS prepared to promptly attend to
al orders for
Iron Pumps and Lightning Rods.
Also, Well Cleaning done.
Shop on Warrington avenue, next door
10 the File cher House.
St. Cloud. Fehr. 21. 1871. vl8
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FOR SALE.

The above lands will be sold very cheap,
and on very favorable terms. Parties
wishing either or all the pieces, will please
address the undersigned, stating the terms
desired.
Apply to P. L. GREGORY.
Railroad Land Office, st. Cloud.
Or CALVIN F. HOW,
S-tf Box 2216, New York
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IL WISH you would not get into the
habit, Lenorc, Of loading your CONVEX
alton with French phrases; it reminds
me so much of the Journal dcs Demo-
ieelles."
This I say in the weak effort to turn
the conversation into a new channel !;
meanwhile 1 endeavor to signal "dan.
ger " to Mr.. West, cough, and wave
the white flag; but, as be is not looking
at Or thinking of me, it is all in vain.
IL don't think he had any idea that
l was so much alta, so intimate, l
mean, with you and Miss Jemima, as I
am" replies Frederick, earnestly. "Iu.
deed, Miss Lenore, I must DO him that
ustice."
"Who cares whether he has justice
done him or not ?" cries Lenore, i'm.
patiently "what did he say? what did
be sayY"
'1t really would not at allamuso you,
Miss Lenore" Enormously koeading his
soft hat); "on the contrary, 1 am afraid
it would make you very angry"
"You may as we'll tell me at once,'
says my sister, composedly sitting down
on an armchair aud hands in her lap,
"because you shall never leave this room
alive, if you don't p
swell, since you insist upon it.
please Miss Jemima" Cunning piteous
Iy to meg, "please, Miss Jem,ua, bea,
witness that it is not my fault-tha,
Miss Lenore has brought it on hersel
he said-1 dare say he did not meau
lt-that-that-he could not have be-
lieved that any English lady could have
lowered hereelf to such an extent as te
do such thingl"
The blush on Lenore's face grows
paiotul-spreads even to her soft
creamy throat.
"Oh, indeed Any thing more Z"
"He said," pursucs Frederick, de-
ceived BY the apparent quietness with
which his hearer takes the u1Aatterlug
comments made upon her, "tbat if he
had ever caught his sister plying such
trick he would never have spoken to
her again as long as he lived.'
"Oh, indeed j.! what loss for her
Any thing more 2"
"He said he did not doubt that you
we,e good fun, if one went in for that
sort Of thing, but that you were not his
STYLE"
mot his style ! am I not ?" cries
henora, rising suddenly from her chair,
quivering from head to foot with pas.
sion ''and what is his style, pray
Whatever it is, thank Heaven that
am not like it Frederick, 1 wonde,
that you are not ashamed to insult me
by repeating such speeohes-Jemima''
Cunning eagerly to meg, "you can have
no conception how ugly he is; I only
wish you could see him. Little eyes
like pigs, and huge nose, and such
a villanous cxpression! What fool l
am to care what he says! I don't care
1t amuses me immensely-ha, ha
Wretch :! I wish he was dead i!
And to prove low little she cares,
she bursts into tcmpast of tears, rush
es out Of the room, and bangs the guilt
less dooe behind her.
"There, Mr.. Wcst," say I, not with
out a certain sombre triumph, "perhaps
you will pay some attention TO me next
time" Aud I rise with dignity, and,
shaking out my brown-holland dress,
prepare to follow and comfort my affiict-
ed relative. AS reach the door
canon against Madame Lauge.
"Peroline, Peroline ! where art thou,
dear friend? Come and try thy new
body.-Pardon, mademoiselle, a thous-
and pardons p
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st. Cloud Quadrille Band.

The undersigned will furnish frst-class
music for Balls. Special attention given to
supplying private parties, with from two to
i've pieces, as may be desired.
Charges reasonable.
GEO. E. FULLER.
st. Cloud, Sept. 7th, 1871.
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ner s,,,ro for the first insertion, and 81 cents per
sauare for each subsequent insertion.
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regarded accountable for tho cost of the same, un-
loss there is IL special agreement to charge tho same
to another party Paymentn all cases to be made In
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10 cents per line to regular, advertisers
4. Notice ofdeath [simple announcement % cents;
obituary notices, cents per line; marriage notices
30 cents.
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Strangers must pay in advance, or give satsfae-
tory references.
JOB PR I'm TIN G
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ing done in German and Norwegian, as we'll ~
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THE. JOURNAL. -.

Published every Thursday Afternoon,
AT ST. CLOUD, MINI.
-"
Omeo-Corner + Washington Avenue
and Chapel street.
w. 3. MITCHEL
BD1roR AND PROPRIETOR.
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~ Repairing Neatly DoAs Oh 3 hort Notice "a
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WEST HOUSE,
ST. CLOUD, MINNESOTA,
@. WEST, Proprietor.

rhe undersigned having purchased tho
lewiston House (located on Washington
avenue, near Clarke T. Co.'s store) has
made many alterations and improvements,
and now offers superior Accommodations to
travellers and all who may stop with him.
The table is supplied with the best that can
be obtained in the market, the rooms are
tidy and the beds clean and comfortable.
D~ Good Stabling is attached to the
House.
st. Cloud, Nov. 7, 1870 v1Snl7
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1871-10-18
Singular Practice.

The York penn Democrat tells
a tough story to explain several ac-
cidents which it says have occurred
recently on the Northern Central
railway. 1t appears that the flag
men are required to go along the
road some distance from any train
which may be delayed in order to
warn approaching trains. It is
often necessary to wait some time,
"and in order TO get some rest in
this time it is said they lay their
heads on the track and so to sleep,
waiting for the noise and jar of the
approaching train to wake them
up,"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1871-10-18
COntentmeRt.

Content is the gift Of Heaven
and not the certain effect of any
thing upon the earth and it 10 a0
easy for Providence to convey &c
without wealth as with it; it being
the undeniable prerogative of the
first cause, that whatsoever it does
by the meditation of second causes.
it can do immediately by itself
without them. The heavens can and
do every day derive water and re-
freshment from the earth without
either pipes or conduits: though
the weakness of human industry 10
forced to fly to these little assis-
tances to compass the same effects.
Happiness and comfort stream i'm
mcdiately from God himself, %
hight issues from the Sun, and some
times looks and darts itself into
the meanest corners, while it for
bears TO visit the largest and noblest
rooms. Every man ID happy or
miserahles as the temper Of bis
mind Isskees Bish either dircttly ~
der or beside the Influences Of the
Divine nature, which eDlighten
and enliven the disposed mind with
secret and iDeffabIe joys, and so 40
the vicious or unprepared mind is
wholly unacqnainted with.
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Newspaper Decisions.

l. Any person who takes a paper
regularly from the post office
whether directed to his name or
anothPr's or whether subscribed or
not-is responsible for the payment.
2, If a person orders his paper dis
continued, he must pay all arrear-
ages, or the Publisher may continue
to send it until payment is made,
and collect the whole amount,
whether the paper is taken from
the Office or not. 3. The courts
have decided that refusing to take
newspapers and periodicals from
the post-office, or removing and
leaving them unealled for, is prima
facie evidence of intentional fraud.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1871-10-18

to The Supreme Court of Ten
nessee, at Knoxville, has hsd be-
fore it case involving the right of
possession to certain property be-
longing 10 the Methodist church, in
which that tribunal announced q
new principle. On the trial in the
court below counsel objected to
any juror sitting in the cause who
belonged TO either the Southern or
Northern branch of the church,
The court below refused to sustain
the objection. The Supreme Court
reversed the Judgment rendered be-
low, because the challenge of jurors
was not allowed, saying that the
members of both branches had such
a beneficiary interest in the result
as made them incompetent 10 sit in
the cause.
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Il, in that instant. and in the
dead stiffness of the night, 1 heard
the tramp of the policeman. II
was some distance off.
"You will fnd," I said, "some
clothes of mine in the press; they
will, however, be too small for YOU.
Good night; the keys are in the
middle drawer"
lie turned to the drawer indiea.
ted, and, as he did so, with one
tremendous bound I cleared the
space behind my bed and the door,
slammed the door and locked it up
on him. Oblivious of my dishabllle,
| sprang to the steps. / had two
flights to descend and the door to
open before | could reach the yard.
but it Was hardly possible for him
10 descend the ladder more quickly,
Bounding rather than running
down the stairs. | flung back the
bolt and dashed into the yard. He
was half way down the ladder.
Shouting s.elieet's lastly I seized
the ladder at the bottom, and, using
all my power, brought it and the
burglar to the ground with q crash.
The pistol he held in his hand fell
from his grasp. | made a dash for
it, and he, sp'inging to his feet like
a cat, rushed at me, and, as stoop.
ed, seized me by the nape Of the
neck. l turned the pistol upward
and pulled the trigger. 1t merely
snapped-there were no more
charges in it. With a terrible oath.
the baffled villain wrenched the
weapod from my grasp and raised
it aloft to deal me what might have
proved fatal blow, when there
wss rush behind him and he was
felied to the ground. This police
man had heard my shout, and was
just ia time TO rescue me.
The burglar was soon secured.
and in my excitement [ was about
to relate the story l have here told,
when the policeman, with a smile. /
suggested that I might "ketch cold |
in them clothes"
l then remembered, for the first
time since | bad sprung from bed, |
that was sboeless and stocking |
less. and had nothing On but my /
night shirt, and l beat hasty re /
treat. With 4 long drawn breath
/ took my fine gold repeater, which |
had had such narrow escape, and /.
was not at the watchmaker's after /
all, from under my pillow, looked |
At the hour, turned in, and after a !
little while fell asleep.
1t is almost needless TO add that
the above story, narrated afterwards
to-a jury, when l was in better
trim for story telling than l was
when the policeman interrupted |
me, had the effect of giving the
visitor lodging in a public institu- /
tion, and secured me against a
repetition Of his call for at least
en years.
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Gently Flow.

hintly flow thou falling river,
Z Like dream that dies away,
Itwn TO ocean gliding ever
keP thy calm, unruffied way.
'Ime, with such silent motion,
Floats along on wings of air,
u Eternity's dark ocean
Burying all its treasures therel
Ioses bloom and then they wither-
Cheeks are bright, then fade and die
SaApes oflight are waited hither-
| Then, ike visions, hurry by.
quick as clouds at evening driven
II O'erthe many.colored West,
ears are bearing US to Heayen--
Home of Happiness and rest.
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The First.

a girl forced By her parents into
a disagreeabIe match with an old
man whom she detested, when the
clergyman came to that part of the
service where the bride is asked if
she consents to take the bridegroom
for her husband, she said, 'Oh,
dear, no, sir; but you are the first
person who has asked my opinion
about the matter"
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Rfngs.'' -

There can he little doubt says the
Hearth and Home, that the greatest
danger Of the country lies in the
ease with which corrupt men. by
skiiiful combination. can secure and
retain political power. We seem
to be threatened. from one end Of
the land 10 The other, with a uni
versal reign ot'.rings." Every city
and village pays trlbu to q clique.
Every State capital is the home
of a combination, organized for
parposes of pIuhdtr. Even in
national affairs, investigating com
mi'tees sometimes discover ugly
transactions, indicating the exis
tnce OF rings whose purpose it is
TO rob the people at large as the
smaller cliques are robbing them
10 detail.
These facts are trite in the telling
Our ears have become used TO their
liberation. We all see and feel the
danger in n general way, and yet
we do no'hing to purify polit c.
and this, not because we are indit
ferent or careless or corrupt as a
people, but because we are kept
constantly misinformed by those
who profess to enlighten us.
Whenever the fraudulent prac
tices of clique are exposed, the
newspapers, not content with de-
nouncing the wrong for its own
ke. and pleading for the right,
pure and simple, at once make a
partisan affair of it. hasten 10
tasten the responsibility upon the
party tn which this particular ring
happens to belong. As a result, of
course, the honest members of that
party repudiate the exposure as
Republican or Democratic false>
hood, as the case may be, refusing
to believe that there is any purpose
in il, other than the advancement
of partisan interests. And thus we
lose much OF the good which ought
TO come from the exposure.
Now ii is evident that the men
who manipulate primaries, trade in
conventions, and br. be caucuses. do
SO simply that they may steal
money from the public purae
They have no political or. other
principles of their own, and they
espouse those OF the party which
happens to be in the ascendant in
their particular fl Ill of operations.
To change their frauds upon that
party is not only often unjust but
always impoIitic. 1t gives 70 the
plunderers strength which they
could not otherwise command. 1t
makes that partisan movement
which should be a popular one.
We all know that there are thous.
ands of honest men in each OF the
two great political parties of the
country-men who will not know
ingly support corruption or tol, rate
dishonesty. But partisan expos
ures of fraud fail to convince them,
and they vote year after year for
the candidates of their party, be- |
lieVing them to be maligned when |
their viilainies are exposed.
The existence of party lines, of
course, is unavoidable, and within
certain limits the advocacy of par
ty measures is right enough but
there are interests far above these |
considerations, and it seems unfor-
tunate that they should be sacri-
feed in q struggle for partisan
success. !
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Drilling Wheat,

In drilling in fail wheat some
advantage may be gained by the
direction in which the drills are
run. The prevailing winds in
winter are from nOrtherly direc-
tion. 1t tie drills are arranged to
run similarly, when the ground is
frozen and tue winds are violent
much earth is blown from about
the roots, aud they become some
times dangerously exposed. If the
drills run in an easterly direction,
the winds will blow across them,
and all loose earth, dust, and float
ing matters, and, most important
OF all, the snow, will be dirifted
against the rows of wheat plants On
the eide where they need protec-
ton. The roots will thus gain
covering which is useful not only
during the cold weather but also
during the growing season.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1871-10-18
The Prayers,

H.
Z Still as glass was the ocean,
in calm light and pale,
hundred ships lay on it,
Each with a MINDLESS sail.
y
HUNDRED shippers were fre,ting,
e af.aet search'J The sea and the skies,
Each for wind was praying,
But never a wind would rise.
The prayers rose up 10 Heaven,
IL English. German. Greek,
Each CT the hundred shippers
In his own tongue did speak.
Each of the hundred shippers,
10th in the calm to stay,
Wanted the wind to waken,
To blow him on his way.
Each in his own direction
Would have his good ship blown,
i nd hundred winds we're wanted
Ifeach was TO get his own.
Each on the deck was pacing
With DISCONTINUED mind,
4 nd when the wind would come net,
All though: the Lord uHkind.
Poor fools Had he granted their wishes
Sad wete the end TO see 'heu
The hundred winds you'd have hurrie,
10 The bottom Of The sea.
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A GOeG.SjZe Deed,

A deed of mortgage was placed
on record in the clerks office of the
County Court of Norfolk county,
Virginia, by an agent Of the At
lantic, Mississippi and Ohio rail-
road, involving a consideration of
S15, 600, 900. The State tax paid
on the deed at Petersburg amount
ed to SIS, 900.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1871-10-18

AZ A householder in Florida,
in filing up bis census schedule,
under the head ''where born" des-
cribed one of his children as "born
in the psrlor," and the other "up
stairs" a strict return.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1871-10-18

~ Tue upsetting of kerosene
lamp set pleasure yacht on fire in
Long Island Sound on Monday
night. A child and its nurse were
lost, while the remaining eight per-
sons on board had a heir breadth
escape.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1871-10-18

w Ann Riding is an English
girl who lost her appetite sixteen
months ago, and has eaten nothing
since. She is blessing to the
newspapers.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1871-10-18

The wretch who perpetrated tho
following was taken out of jail by
the Ku-klux and hung without the
benefit of clergy:
Why is a minister near the end
of bis sermon like ragged urchin ?
Because he's toward (tor'd) his
close (clothesl
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1871-10-18
"A Prophet is Vol Without Honor Etc.

The New York Express Gays
that General Albert Pike, of Mis-
souri,. the distinguished Mason, re-
Gently visited New buryport, Mass,
the place of his birth. A little
supper, to be givon him by his
friends at one Of the hotels, was
spoiled by the landlord saying that
there was not money enough IN the
city to buy supper of him fer q
rebel general. Another publican
was found, however, who was not
go ardent, and in his house the
supper took placesas proposed.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1871-10-18

Mrs. Victoria G. Woodruff has
announced herself candidate for
President of the United States, but
her biographer, Mr.. Theodore Til
ton, puts her age at thirty-two. II
correct, this fact disqualifies her for
the Presidency for the next three
years. So she may hang up her
fiddle and bow.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1871-10-18
REGULATOR.
EAST TENNESSEE INSTITUTE.

THE TRUSTEES ARE HAPPY To an
L Hounce that . Is Institution f"-organized in
sept. last unuer tie present Board Of Instruction
has had t'te Ho-t g atifyrng suCce-s More than
one hundred pupil, eTc in atT-ndauc- the last
30 si1u fhe Principal ha~ .ng been known ia
tbs TcEitn a. uns uTIassed in rNpeficnc tnt -
prize and ski. aS an -oucator ard his associate
teacl'ers are a emin+htl, capable. earnest AID
thorough.
he Trustees and Faculty intend 70 afford
Young iadiir ia this Institute ;acii icS for thor
ough cGnFlCt" and harmonious degC IopmeHt Of
their physical intellectual moral and social
ture; -uch sn education a. j. demanded by he
rapidly Increasing culture and refinement Of the.
SOuih aHd thus Oh'itrs the necessity of sending
our daughters to distsnt and expensive schools
at the North.
The Fall session Of 1871 viii commence OH
"Wednesday. September fth, and continue twenty
weeks
For further particulars, address J Es II.
Cow ~. President Of the BOARD Of Trustees;
i, On /. NcCLt Ne, sec etaTy or NJ e BUTLER,
PRINCIPAL uugJ-ZIn
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1871-10-18

s@- A malicious report has been
circulated among the Arkansas
freeman, that Horace Greedy has
Joined the Kuklux Khan.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1871-10-18

w hat IL It that slicketh closer
than a brother % said a Sunday
School teacher 10 one OF his class
"A postage stamp. by gum p said
the incOrytpt BIZ,
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sa- At Mnll. a messenger having

B2- At Null, messenger having
requested London clergyman to
announce that ''if DR.. Leach was
among his audience he was urgent
Iy wanted" the clergyman added
from sympathy, "and may God have
mercy on the poor patient!'' !'' The
doctor, in a rage, demand and re-
ceived an humble apology.