Prescott Paraclete, The (Newspaper) - September 21, 1855, Prescott, Wisconsin it HI m Enterprise Education tMe Elements of Civilization YOUNG GIBBS I PRESCOTT PIERCE WISCONSIN FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 21 1855 EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS NO 31 M CO HV VOUMJ AT WIS Marion's Building Front SJ Me landing T K H M one TWO cento bo to i to tbe ensure OF in unr taper the fallowing uo 00 15 00 00 00 n S nut eight nt M une for the insertion fur insertion i one Column OIK unit year FRESCO TT HO TEL C P BARNAUD PROPRIETOR STREET FRESCOTT WIS New House and Furniture taken to nnd from the free of leave dally fur na er fur la price to weekly boarders Jards MILL U K COX constantly on hand the best article of Flour and Merchant Mill Bent of goed sale also superior kinds of need Corn Cash paid fur wheat Pierce Co 14 1855 JJJJ J W CARDS I n i x in v 1 v t o v STORE N N O S on more Dry Woods Huts Capi A made Cloth than which are cr store in being Hold ut prices Feb Hth 1855.1 far the Punctate My Father's Prayer Dedicated to I The wd and dreary of life LcaH and I aiding tear The bitterness of worldly The struggles of mortal here To me would too drear and cold and Did not my memory My my prayer Around my early childhood Soft slumbering in post whose income A mellow sweetness o'er my breast And mid their floating angel throng The dreaming there la that which fondly clings around My prayer my father's prayer MILL At Millcun found nil the of nub butternut and wishing a superior il can bo as well here as other mill in the Feb H 1855 Paul Curds ir SHOP AND DAY in Drugs and Oils Window Hoods Third Culur St I'll k return In lii i i i I In: tinio I tlic f -an ami work Mill t it to nil business in Ms line with which In S I n OOK I ER y r In: inny Ue in n bound in Feb 1st Houks Pc tor tho it Ur it t ill nl I i nit A I tyle A mi wUI j in I-VI R A O 7 E L i Third und Judmon i TUTS u tlic reception of I Ii witli ami si Fub i v E DEALERS I- HI ft ill 1.1 i d if v I I limns ami Bonks v ol tin price to A etc opposite Post M St Feb I La Crosse Curds From the Knickerbocker Magazine Harfang on Birds We birds When the first soft days of spring come on in nil their gentle sweetness and woo us with their warmth and soothe us with their then come the birds do re- joice that Winter's reign is ended No one the seasons that come to rule the varied abdicates his throne more to hiv subjects joy than Winter While ho rules we lose all re- spect for the the mercury in our Whent we remember how high it stood in our estimation only a few short months ago we did uot think that it could get so low We resolve to have nothing more to do with it for there is a point beyond which ance ceases to be wcr con- that point to be thirty-two degrees above zero at the very least perhaps yo- look upon this season of the year too coldly It has its joys Tho cold without drives us to seek within the pleasant social pipe smd jovial friend And then the snow BO I falling down so soft and with soft down covering the fuce of earth There is more ant way of killing time than sleighing Then too the perfect luxury in winter peasant little people the blue bird and the wren They appear particular confidence in man Nor is confidence misplaced for every hails with joy these harbingers of spring Their company ia peculiarly agreeable and they seem to know it Tor every year they come again to py the boxes or perchance old hats which were put up for them nnd in build their nests and there they live rent-free yet not exactly BO for they pay us with their notes Sometimes these little people have a deal of among themselves about these The martens come and find the have taken all these ces and there is a fuss directly just aa when the Browns go to Saratoga and find the Smiths have all the best rooms in the house or in town the Smiths find the Browns occupying the choicest boxes in the opera After some erable scolding and twitting upon facts the martens take possession of a certain portion of the and keep it too for not a pigeon dare them while the smaller wren content selves with some spare corner of the tivio where they forthwith proceed to their houses with tural skill derived from their great sake the builder of St Paul's There their strength to our weak and weary bodies and to our souls sweet Hope think it was By Apollo Blessed is that and thrice blessed the Well a good day to I should go We had some fun with them one It is and old joke A quantity of con was soaked in spirit and scattered in Uw field By-and-by a dozen vagrant crows came down and look they began to feed By the time their crops were full their also and they were literally corned never tries to be poetical It is a Such a spree They reeled about ran gerous experiment Years ago when we were but a small boy we remember walking out one pleasant morning in the in our suit of gray and a fit of the blues Returning to the p domicil we put on a standing collar took a sheet of paper king a pen behind oar sat down and wrote some lines about the birds and flowers and spring and so on With modest hesitation we sent them to the village newspaper In an ded moment the ill-fated the Gazette and Note of published our lines as The very next day this unfortunate editor failed ran away and was never heard of or from again From that time forward we forswore the muse The word and the signal of alarm or caution among tho crows or it is the dreadful note of HIV VI I is a spice of waggish deviltry about the the lawless from the wren amusing when depths the from yonder the and gone from the a inquest felting to market or the wren peeps on the body of a defunct steed down by in amV finding no one there proceeds j the from far-off forests to amuse himself by pulling out the come and help pull up into and Yell over one and a series of ground and lofty blings beautiful to behold In vain did one old crow the patriarch of the flock an years of age at attempt to reason with the rest He was toe worst one of them and afterward the old reprobate tried to sing a song At list by some evolutions they mode out to get vp in a tree and there they sat cawing and cursing at the corn There was an for Shanghais happened down that way and what corn the crows had left they speedily appropriated There was time then The boys rushed down to drive away the Shanghais but they were bound not to go home till ing any how Altogether what with the incoherent cawing the in- crowing on the ground a tumble-down from off the tree the crows trying to roost above and the roosters trying to crow below there wai confusion worse confounded The next day our best of straws and feathers in the nest but perchance the come in just blade All a field of corn to put forth its tender these and more come should perchance come in blades ana more come sight the wren remembers there is for s no one erstin oin on around the was blown down last night till l willi in UO USE WM This i- n Class tbu corner of and Stale ami is a Tim Stable is served with an To be son indignantly exclaims is said he this very line -in bed luxurious pill not roan Why of course he But if he is a sensible manj lie will lie awake awhile and think the over ere ho rises It is pleasant to lie and imagine how cold you will bo when you do get up thing very interesting going on around of the boTn the gun is lent the boys haw gone to ition school the farmer tumbled off the tl marten mow yesterday and broke his leg and the so tnc crows proceed with the his and immediate attention These and the birds the blue wren powers sweet songs warm you are just mny of pleasure also in lying S This commodious Honse cm tlic corner of State is kept by an oUI nml widely known landlord i it till i Clunk i Inui V I 1 LA LOTS revolt i to nil acre will ue II DI- in i nnd dime in style nml cm terms No 100 1 Si j j o n o w ATTO U V A X X 3 Kt LOR AT L AW Territory H AT I tV Wi All of surveyed N WHITE AND AT LAW 21 ATTEND the Courts in in Minnesota Pierce County Wisconsin Will attend trials in contested tlie Ucd Wing rv To flov W A St U Min C Ucd SS ing L W N 1 M A NO I r ft wn HOI WISCONSIN hiving hto ve to d i will St the lib JOll OFFICE kinds uf HAYS ATTORNEYS AT LAW Ii M t iVill Attention to nil In the mul in Wisconsin Will times nnd know how There is much looking at the wondrous pictures pointed on the windows There arc clouds and trees and towers and tured most fanciful nnd beautiful Formed from they seem our sleeping thought and dreams breathed out ami photographed Certainly Jack Frost ia a most painter But enough when spring and summer greater joys arc then it will pay to rise right early It will even do to take a long walk be- fore breakfast The air is pregnant with the perfect a thousand flowers and Jeuves and buds And then beside the pleasure of seeing jocund day go through that difficult gymnastic feat described by Shakespeare of ding tip toe on the misty we have a glorious morning con- cert to which we have ft songsters in the Of leaves modulations the pure out- llim lows barn and chimney and the honest who as quaint old ton has it mankind both alive and half love to live near man T he and the robin are the only two among them whp appear to have paid much at- to the their vocal They salute me wmi The wren and other small O 1.1 Ml 7 birds garden breakfasting on j perfect little when the corn comes he devotes himself to its de- struction with a perfect ruthlessness listens to the concert as a anj own crop the farmer's critic or of the for he j in Perchance should sits up in his private box now and then nny onc appear UpOn tbe premises he uttering an approving note as if I gets the fence and whistles very plause Indeed the marten is not very unconcernedly just as if he hadn't been musical Sometimes in the bosom of j As for that his family when he feels very social he standing in the centre of the field tion With dread of to flight or foul retreat The crow and both are ar- rant scoundrels The last indeed ders somewhat of service in the early part of spring for following the rows of the field devouring countless worms which would be most destructive to the coming crop or corn all daylong he gleans behind the plough worms or as we sometimes express it getting their The marten takes up his ppe But he never and then essays a gets beond the first few notes of f Hi Betty and then goes off on But here we have a jolly little fellow j who makes up in sociability for what he moment pulling corn for dear life lacks in song Tho small to gee gct his row tlie row or as Jie is generally known the anci educated dressed in old clothes and bearing some faint resemblance to a returned nian ha ha What fools men are to think that they can cheat the black bird J Why there are five of them at It GIBSON St Co Hit tuiy sell on the South lunacy on current interest on and wll to collections nient o on good to builder will their B Mil kef on H STONE No 19 Horth Chicago 111 U for of tone warranted V and in 3l ATTORNEY AT LAW mae f joy and light It is the expression of perfect praise in extasy of song YOB indeed we love birds cock broiled on a toast or deviled snipe comes to our very in hat Of tnat identical old doors He hops along the piazza crow T0 be sure when it was first set ering crumbs of comfort and of bread I jt curiosity and knows that not a soul within the even that unfeeling a feather of his tail He keeps a careful eye however on the cat for he is perfectly aware that she would consider him only a swallow and he does not like to lose his There is in history single instance where thia bird seems to have forgotten his character and been a destroyer rather than as he is called by boys a Every juvenile of five years who is at all read in the literature of his age knows tragic story of the and uf cock-robin That interesting individual was found one morning lying on the ground with a murderous weapon through his heart as dead as Julius with pork talma rail yes we all original quail or stricken birds assembled The A will ready re- once more to his book and chaum There is a pleasure as well as profit and advantage with amusement to be derived from studying the habits and the character of is the study Of all the lower Jeta of they freely the homea of men so they us in intelligence They have their labors and amusements their like us build with taste and skill their houses they have society moreover and the opera In apoy things our and in and what in other at is only in- in inquest was The first inquiry was of course Who killed in There was a momentary silence and then tbe sparrow the last one in the crowd perhaps to be suspected con- fessed the deed He then proceeds to state how it was done and owns he did it with his bow and arrow It is ably in the truthful candor of this noble little bird that once upon a time a child afterward the father ol his country was induced to witl to a mutilated tree he if it with hb little hatchet Among tbe first from the South in returning and take a stroll let us This is indeed a golden day in mere living is a perfect luxury which From spring are those the eagle perched upon nearest the skj down to the est insect upon the air all the crated world to-day rejoice in the win Oh it is such days u bright and bring upon haps mistrust but it never entered into their heads that it was intended to re- semble a man or if it did it soon became a standing joke with them And yet old Ginger going home from the tavern one day across stopped nnd asked the returned Californian if he knew time o was Well to tell the truth the was very well got in fact while stood by it somewhat cult to say which was which They were two perfect Every farmer hates the crow and we must acknowledge he not a very lovely bird lie has neither beauty nor song for his eternal caw caw is a note renewed so often as to be at a deci- ded discount Nor has he civility of manners and his ideas concerning vate property arc extremely Yet of ail the he is by far the most intelligent Nor is he an hypocrite lie robe our fields and he es the corn Ah be is a cunning There he sits on that old tree by the clothed in his sable suit and as you go by looks as demure as interesting and melancholy aa a with the bronchitis about to sail for Europe But should there be a gun in the bottom of the wagon though it ia covered carefully with a bundle ol straw a blanket over that and a large fat boy sitting on top of all he knows it is there and trusty sentinel alarms the whole community of crows in the region round abont and away they wing over the hill and fcr Caw 1 caw r caw You didn't catch him that time He is wy well aware that you intend to kill you can He j ost wants to ace you do it that's the of and his successor full uf rumination sad Laments the weakness if these Utter times We have said that early rsing is a good thing although we candidly confess we think late rising ia a great deal ter but it is a sermon hag been preached to youth from the time when Soloman so soundly berates the gard nnd advises him to take from some others particularly his aunt and be down to the present day We think it is poor Richard who the rhyming proverb in which there is more poetry than truth Jet not not very much of either Early to bed and early to rise Makes a man healthy and wistc How many times we have heard old women utter this proverb as nn oracle we should not like to say If it be it accounts most satisfactorily for the im- mense quantity of health wealth and wisdom disseminated among butchers and who are notoriously early risers and get up in the morning as the Ethiopian poet so touchingly expresses it before de broke ob day It ia easy enough to vise with the sun but we must get up verv caily indeed if we would rise with the birds For long before the sun sees fit to show his face when the first faint merings of dawn make repetition of re- sponse to that ALMIGHTY fiat that first called light into the while breathing Morn is putting on her clothes while we arc still sleeping such sleep as the truly virtuous only Know and snoring sonorously by the quire the birds have left their nests have dipped their wings in the ing dew have breakfasted and now arc wailing for the day And soon the crayon landscape turns to a warm and glowing living painting and then the birds in every and and llm tons of trees all in choirs with their Salute and welcome up rising sun Their matin music ended then begin he labors anil amusements of the day They liave enough to do Perchance have their house to build and fields both far and near are searched or straws and sticks and they pick up lero a hair and there a thread to weave into the nest Or else they have a ly to cater for or if the young are they must be taught to fly learned to find their the vagrant who rob bird's nests are pointed out and the old birds devote themselves to teach the young idea how being shot Then there are calls to make gossip to interchange rehearsals to attend excursions to adjacent ties and so time flies with birds And when the evening comes they all return from their discursive flights and seek their homes Yes For they all have their lio and there are no local beings more domestic or home-loving than the birds Home from their wanderings our wrens and marteus sisd ly in the every box taken The croaker crow stuffed to the forest and we prophecy will before morning be obliged to call m the or die of The come in a complete cloud and after describing
