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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-12-25
For the Grant County Herald.
Schools of Good Hah;ts

Which is the more important: that
child learn geography, or that he learn t.
90 as ne would be done by? that he learn
grammar, or learn to be kind? aOb. the
latter OF course you will say; "but he Is
TO do that at home" I grant that he should
do 1t at home; and every family should be
school of truth, kindness. and every v;r-
tue. But are all the families in your dis.
trict such schools? Can you depend on
every child's learning those virtues at home !?
Is there not more likelihood Of their learn
ing the vices of lying, unkindness. &c. at
some homes, than those virtues ~
Where shall the children Of yicious ma.
rents learn virtue, if not at school? Will
the swearer teach his children that swear
ing IS ungentlemanly and wrong? Will
the liar teach his children to speak the
truth2 81 A aa SILL ff Al 49,
g. But these children come into our dis
trict schools, and there may learn the les
sons Of virtue which their homes do not fur
nish. And should they not be taught
there? How can those children who have
contracted bad habits at home, fail to com
municate them to others and so corrunt
the whole school, if they are not restrained
from the practice of them while there a.
Is the teacher, and are the better part Of
the parents, to give up the ground to the
vicious, and let lying, stealing, swearing,
DC, become the common practice of all the
children? If not, how is it to be proven
ted! Have not l a right to send my chill
dren to sci Dol without subjecting them to
the influence of lying, swearing, fighting,
DC. We know well that such vices are
very apt to be adopted by children if they
are practiced among those they associate
with; and therefore our only security a.
gainst them, for our children in school.
must be in the prevention of the practice
OF them among the scholars.
A GREAT OBJECT FOR TEACHERS. is the
prevention of bad habits among their scho-
lars. Impress the mind of child with
sense OF the meanness and wrong of lying,
and you have done great work for him
one for which he will probably remember
you with gratitude as long as he lives
Lead one who has the habit of using pro-
fame language, to forsake it, and he will be
far more apt to have his place among the
respectable and useful members of society.
You very probably save him from vice and
misery, and make him respected and hap
py.
And now, teacher, will you not pause
and consider what you shall do for the pro-
motion of good habits in your school? Can
you not SO speak with your scholars about
lying, and so keep the truth before them,
that before your school closes they will be
getting well established in the habit of
trnthfulness? Can you not so discourage
profanity, and unkindness, that the habit
of them shall be broken up, in those that
have it, and your scholars all be against
them4 WI you try an earnest to do st9
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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-12-25

MARRIAGE ExTRAoRDINARY.-Ar rather
singular marriage contract was few days
since entered into in Tennessee. The wife
is worth cool fifty thousand. The bus
band is the rightful owner Of magnificent
goatee. The contract was "a follows:
Art. 1st. The husband is to have no in
terest in the wife's estate.
Art. I'd. He is not to collect any debts
of the concern.
Art. Sd. The beloved husband is not to
chastise or control any Of her servants with
out the wife's consent.
Art. 4th. The husband binds himself to
pay the wife one hundred and fifty dollars
per annum for board, and to have lodging
gratis
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-12-25

DIR CIoUDs.-Two boys among the
blackberry bushes, some mile or two out
Of town, saw cloud rising and heard a
sound like thunder. One, who was lit
tie timid, said to other, "Co1ne, Fred, let's
90 home-it thunders." The other, not
wishing to return home 90 soon, denied that
it Numbered at all. Directly the rumbllng
noise was again borne on the freshening
breeze. What's that, thenY inquired the
other. "Why, don't you know what that
isl If you don't, I'll tell you. You know
it has been dry weather for q long time
What clouds there are floating about are
| as dry as old sheepskins, and when the wind
blows it rattles them.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-12-25

ET Mr.. Prentice editor Of the Louisville
Journal, has been eomplimented by the
good citizens Of Memphis, Tennessee, with
public dinner, at which Ex-Governor
James G. Jones, presided. "The occasion,
says the Boston Chronicle, was one highly
complimentary to Mr.. Prentice, and yet
one which be well merited. There have
been politicians and statesmen who have
gained wider renown in this country than
Mr. Prentice, yet none Of them who as edi-
tor of daily political paper for the long
period Of twenty-six years, could have writ
ten as much good party politics and bio
graphy as George D. Prentice. Hi
speech at Memphis, in reply to toast
personally complimentary, is in exceeding
good taste, and in parts quite eloquent
About one hundred persons sat down a
the tables. Politics were for the presen
forgotten, and Democrats and Wings wet
with each other in doing honor to the We
teran editor.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-12-25

JOB PRrNTnR.--At late Printers
Festivalin Minnesota, Judge Goodrich made
a speech, in which he referred the inven-
iiiia.a Of printing to q higher antiquity than
hin the following passage ~ 6ii"9 1'1y
words were now written! Oh, that they
were printed IN a book, that they we're gra.-
ven with an iron pen, with lead in i,sf'as
foreverw Here we have undoubted evi-
dence that Job understood the arts of wri-
ting, printing, engraving, stereotyxi'ag and
lnhogrophtng,;-he mentions them in their
regular order as they have been discover
ed Banner of the Cross, Phila.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-12-25
Banking.

/ In all other matters except banking, til,
American people learn wisdom by expert
ence. But the repetition, every ten or ff
teen years, Of a period Of great commercial
and monetary distress, like that under which
the country is now laboring, the direct con
sequence Of over issues of paper money
all ISSUES are 0Uer-issues-has, az vet, NJ
effect to teach them that paper currenc,
is not real and substantial element in The
nations prosperity. They either. will moi
or cannot see that credit is not wealth
that the excessive use of credit has the same
EFFECT upon nation in the aggregate, that
it has upon an individual; they will moi
see that bank paper gives rise to wild spec
ulation, great over-trading, enormous inn
lportations, mountains of foreign indebted
ness, and, at last, to widespread and una
voidable bankruptcy! They will not be-
lieve that bank notes are no more money
than notes Of hand signed by John Doe OF
Richard Roe; that the multiplication Of
these notes adds not dollar to the wealth
Of the country, though every man should
have hat full Of the pictured promises to
Ipays
We do not expect that every man III the
country will be a political economist, well
read up in the workings of the modern ma
|chinery by which capital controls labor;
but it is not too much to hope that the day
may soon come, in which all men, who can
|either read, see or hear, will understand
and believe the following plain statement:
Banking is system under which the bor-
rover gives his note with security and in
terest, to the lender, for the lenders note
aoithout security and INTEREST," When this
fact is universally eomprehended in this
country, banking we mean the issueing
Iof paper money-will take its place along
side Of Astrology and Divination, among
the lumber of the past; and men will won
der why their predecessors bore, for SO ma
ny years, with system so totally useless
land radically absurd.
Then, the country will enter upon ca
reer of prosperity, from which nothing ex-
|cept visitation of Providence, can cause
it to diverge. In the mean time, the mas
ses will be content to bear the alternate ex-
elements and depressions of the times; to
be rich one decade, and poor in the next,
With the hope of being rich again during
the third; and what is worse, they must
endure the mortifyiug refection-although
conscious of its truth---that if the foreign
debts of the country-those contracted long,
ago and those Of a more recent dete-al
the result Of excessive bank issues-yere
paid, the United States would be stripped
of the last dollar. Not dime would be
left Galena JEFF.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-12-25
a-yHorace Greeley recently delivere

Horace Greeley recently delivered
an address before the Franklin County Ag-
ricultural Society, and by request furnish
ed the editor of the Cambersburg Repos'-
tory and Whig with manuscript copy fol-
publication. Poor fellow he soon found
himself in a sad fix! he couldn't read it.
He thus states his case: ave Immediately
went to work to decipher the ten pages be-
fore us, and, with the aid of a magnifyins
olass. three dictionaries, several agrlcultu
raj periodicals, history Of eminent agrl
culturists, standard work on chemistry
another on hydraulics, large street com
mite, several Know othingss and on
compositor on unintelligible copy, we mas
tered the first three lines in the first hal
day. We were happy within the first hcu
to ascertain when we had the manlserIp
RIGHT side up-for it looks as much Ink
writing one way as another. 1t is now l
the hands of a competent committee to dc
eide in what language it is written; and
It is ascertained that it is neither Hebre'
nor Greek, we must infer that it was inter
| ded for English, and shall proceed to dec
pher it, Home Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-12-25

BENEvoLENoE AND HAPp1NEss.-A life
| of passionate qualification is not to be COM
pared with life of active benevolence.--
God has SO constituted our nature, that a
man cannot be happy Unless lie is, OF thinks
he is, means of good. Judging from
our own experience, We cannot conceive d
picture Of more unutterabie Indebtedness
than is furnished by one who knows that
he is wholly useless in the world. Give
man what you please, surround him with
all the means 81 qualification, and vet let
the conviction come home to him, clear and
irresistible, that there is not a being in
Gods universe, a whit the happier for his
existence; let him feel that he is thus a
blot upon, because a blank in the universe,
and the universe will not furnish more
unhappy being. Herein lies the solution
of that to many inexplicable fact that the
schemes of mere selfishness, however wise
ly laid, however Anergetioally and success
fully prosecuted, never add to the joys
but always to the pains Of those who origin
ate and are engaged in them. 1t is not SO
with man OF opposite characteristics
Take from him what you please, and you
do not take from him tire elements Of his
JOY, if you leave him the conviction that
in shy way he is usefal If you contract
the circle, and diminish the sphere Of lf
influence, YOU :asatract frord bis nls..a;y =,
doing good. And as we cansn ona who
Of more wretcheo, beinc - Co., ,,n onu
feels himself TO be the ->'s OF u.oon ! h..s
nier he;no thar - man Of truly benevolent
heart. who's wishes describe the circle and
bounf4 ne sphere Of his influence, and
whoso means are ample to give those wish
) f,ll eynression.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-12-25

How 10 JUDGE A HoRsE.-A cores
Ipordent of the Prairie Farmer, contrarily
/ c old maxims, undertakes to Judge the
character Ct horse by outward appear
ances, and Offers the following suggestions
as the result Of his close observations and
long experience.
If the color be light sorrel or chestnut,
bis feet, legs and face v hite, these are marks
lof kindness.
Il he is broad and full between the eyes,
he may be depended upon as h. rse OF good
sense and capable Of being trainel to al
most anything.
AS respects such horses, the more kindly
you treat them the better you will BE trea-
ted in return. Nor will horse Of this
description stand the whip if well fed
If you want a safe horse avoid one that
is dish faced; he may be SO far gentle as
not to scare, but he will have too much
go ahead in him to be safe for everybody.
If you want fool, but horse of great
bottom, get deep bay with not Wnlte
hair about him if his face is little dlshed
SO mu S6u tbs b '. Mo Use Let Nc MAJ rae sue
never buy q large overgrown one. A
black horse cannot stand heat, nor white
one ccld.
If you want gentle, horse, get one with
more or less white about him, the more
the better. Many suppose that the parti-
lcolored horses belonging to circuses, shows
&C., are selected for their oddly. But
the selections thus made are on account Of
great docility and gentleness.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-12-25
aEThe Christian Times, (Englan

gThe Christian Times, Englan d
has an article on street preaching, in which
it saws. that after the first generation OF
Wesleyan open air preachers passed away
+bosa who held forth in streets or highways
too frequently proved themselves unfit
Some were grossly illiterate; some were,
and still are, the mere larvae OF nobiel
race. They are vulgar, heartiess; ana Il
a devout person confronts one Of them, ne
looks half ashamed of his vocation. lire.
verance, delusion and immortality are pro-
paoated by unknown orators in the streets
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-12-25
Kansas TERRITORY.

Whitfield, who is reported to be in fayo,
LOT the extension of slavery over Kansas, il
Ielected Delegate in Congress, by a large
majority. Personally, he is popular man
Being an old Indian agent, he knew almos
every voter. Also Senator Atchison d
Missouri, has been very busy in his behalf
and has neglected to take his seat in The
Senate, in order to head foray of Nilsson.
rians upon Kansas in order to vote for Whit.
field. The Parkville Luminary, journal
published in Western Missouri, thus uncov-
ers the plot;
important Increment Just before 30
ing to press we were informed, that i'm
mense crowds Of Missourians have, within
the last two or three days, been going over
into Kansas Territory. The numbers are
ESTIMATED to reach 5000 or 1000, most of
whom have passed through Independence,
Kansas City, and Westport.'
It's not yet certain that Kansas will be-
come slave State. Coy. Reeder has for
tunately Fefused to order the elections Tor
the State Legislature to take place this
winter, but has concluded to defer the cleo
ton until spring when the Territory will
have larger population, and thus fairer
representation of the people who are to oc-
cupy Kansas. Reeder is denounced by
the Atchison gang, who fear that in case
immigration continues, the plot to establish
slavery in Kansas may fail. Wehave fear
ed from the first that Kansas would be a
slave State. The political organization is
in the hands of men who favor it's extern
sion. Mil. Wisconsin.
REMARxs.-So it is Id the hands Of those
who favor ths lxynsion of Slavery, but
then you know * .were told before election
that the Douglas bill merely left the peo-
pie free to say whether they would have
Slavery or not; this was tho popular sov-
ereignty doctrine Of Douglas,-yet now we
are told to fear after all that Slavery will
go into Kansas, because 4ttho political or
|ganization is in the hands Of those who ia
vor the extension Of Slavery. A fig for
your "Squatterology"
The Wisconsin, opposed however the
Douglas doctrine SO that we are merely re-
plying to those who shaped the Mineral
Point platform, and the like, and whose
every prophesying is failing, especially in
respect to freedom in Kansas.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-12-25

REASONS FOR NOT DANCING At close
of fair held by the Free Will Baptist So
ciety, in Manchester, N. H. after evening
service, the pastor Rev. MIR. Davis, was ask
ed whether dancing would be allowed
His answer was No; for dancing did nc
good, it was barbarous custom, and the
first Baptist of whom he had any account
lost has head by dancing! The audience
was satisfied
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-12-25

w Upwards of forty million gallons OF
whiskey, six and half million gallons OF
rum, and upwards of one and three-quarter
million barrels Of ale, are annually manu-
featured 10 this country, requiring the use
Of fourteen million dollars worth Of grains,
hops and apples.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-12-25
A0btrtisinq BATES

! column, do. Is sosre. n.r r rss ses''Sao
Transient Advertisements of . lines Or ,.s. !,
foi the first and IS cts. for each suhseanan, ,nas
s,nsss Cards, 9 lines or less, peryear, ss
10y suss.''aers VIII be allowed four changes
80. aassi.,s'nen's inserted at statute prices.
..'''es u s'leys' published four weeks, 4, rs
Advertisements sent IN witao~s tas t,;r,s 49,. :.
insertions indicated, win be contihass IN, o.s.s
wise ordered. s.i o'hess
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-12-25

REVOLUTIONARY RELIC GoNE.-H will
he seen by our Telegraphic despatch, that
Il very destructive fire in Philadelphia,
Thursday night, consumed among other
building in which Thomas Jefferson wrote
the Declaration Of Independence. Fiie
Ishould have spared that relic milwaukee
Sent.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-12-25

T"Mike, can you account for the ex<
traordinary curve in this horse's back f-~
aSure, and can, sir You see, before
the haste wae your property, she ives back
ed again an Irish horse, who bate her hollow
and She never got straight since"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-12-25
The Hoe TRADE.--The Louisville Jour-

THE Hoe TRADE.--The Louisville Jour-
nal Of last Wednesday, says:
The market is decidedly flat, occasioned
by the great pressure Of money matters
We heard of but one sale Of between 400
and 600, averaging about 100, at $3.50
cash. This we continue to give as the cash
price for fair corn-fed hogs.
At ST. Louis 81 net continues to be The
ruling rate. The News Of Saturday even
ling says:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-12-25

AEThe Australians have an original
way of getting verdict from "hung" ju-
|rv. The foreman comes into court and
says the jury cannot agree unanimously,
but that majority have agreed, where
upon the counsel on both sides consent
to take the opinion OF majority for 3 YER
dicf
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-12-25

A CRIs1s IN THE IRON BUSINESS OF Penn
srIvAN1A.-s.We regret to learn" says the
Columbia Spy" ofthe suspension and failure
Of many Of the heavy companies engaged
in the iron business in this State. Some
Of those regarded as the most stable have
rome and the indications are that we arr
now but in the beginning Of one Of tn
greatest financial crises ever known to TN
country.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-12-25
Cool AND REFREsHING.-The Madisc

Cool AND REPRESENTATIVE Madison
Argus speaks of the 100000 borrowed
money owed by the state, as debt contrac
ted by the supporters Of Gov. Farwelrs
administration. 1t is enough to say that
money is borrowed by act ofthe Legislature
and that Gov. Farwelrs supporters have
never been fortunate enough to nav
a majority of the legislature, since the es
tablishment Of the state government
| [Kenosha Telegraph.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-12-25

EThe English Temperance ALI
ance proposes to raise $4,000 to aid in
the passage Of the Maine Law by Parha-
ment.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-12-25

FoRE1GN.-A United States officer who
visited Japan in connexion with the recent
expedition, says, in respect to the religion,
that great liberty for conscience exists, ev-
cry Japanese having the right to profess
whatever faith he pleases, provided only il
be not Christianity. Religious sects are
said to be as numerous as in the United
States. There is deadly hatred to Ro
manism, on account of the intermeddline
with political affairs of the Ronish mis-.
sionaries who visited the country in the
18th century. And the custom is in vogue
even at the present day, in some parts Of
the empire, Of annually trampling on the
cross. -------
the following ODE the properqualifcations
for a juror:
eff the juror has formed an opinion that
prisoners are guilty, and entertains that O.
pinion now, without waiting to hear the
testimony, then he is incompetent. butif
from reading the newspapers or hearing re
ports, he has impressions on his mind I'M
favorable to the prisoners, but has no opln
ion or prejudice which will prevent hln
from doing impartial justice when h
hears the testimony, then he is compe
| tent
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-12-25

a@Tailors flourish by covering up
people, and politicians by covering up the
truth.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-12-25

OVER JoRDoN.-We find the following
In the Detroit Advertiser of the 18th:
Observation-Disclosures sTRAIN.-The ex-
press. train over the Underground R. r. arri-
we'd this morning, at an early hour, bring
ing fourteen of the "chattles" that the man
stealers attempted to arrest in Chicago
The four who are reported by telegraph as
having beensmuggled of, arrived on Satur-
day having been Struggled in the right direc-
tion--so that the whole seventeen are stan
ding to-day on soil guarded by the flaming
cross of st. George.
The total number of fugitives that have
crossed the river at this point since the 9th
of May last, is four hundred and eighty
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-12-25

aEA Politicians Colors: Before cleo
tion. red, white, and blue; during election,
entirely blue; after election, black and
blue.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-12-25

H"Justice Green, of Mass, has decided that
swoman has no right to uppear as Council at
Bar. The uress of that state are quite lndig-
nant at the decision. The strong minded wo-
men will have to hold Convention on the
subject
hS~Lord Elgin, of Canada, is reported to DC
stefau,ter, and is detained in consequence OF q
efficiency in his accounts.
G-It is stated that the disposabie income o.
ne Duke of Sutherland is greater than that o.
queen Victoria.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-12-25

When are girls apt to catch fire -
Ans-When they are surrounded by
sparks.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-12-25

How TO Do Up SHIRT BosoMs.-We ofteu
hear la,lles expressing wish to know by what
process the gloss on new linens, SHIRT oosoms'
etc., is prepared, and in order to crafty them
We suboin the following recipe;
'Take two ounces of fine white gum arabic
powder-put 1t into a pitcher, and pour on a
pint or more of boiling water, according 10
The strength you deslre-and then having COW ".
cred it, let it stand all night; in the morning
pour it carefully from the dregs into clean
bottle, cork il and keep it for use. A table,
spoonful of gum water stirred into "a pint OF
starch made in the usual manner, will give to
lawn, either white or printed, lock OF new
ness, when nothing else can restore them alter
hey have been Washed.N