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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-01-09
For the Grant County Herald.
Siabduing Horses.

Mr.. Editor-Your readers might perhaps
find the following, in regard to subduing hor-
lses, interesting. If you win put chain, Cor
in lieu thereof, something that is non-elsstic, }
around the horse about where the girth of the
saddle would come, and with a lever twist it
lup as tight as can be done without giving pain,
lyou will find the horse is incapable Of making
consequently be able to handle with perfect
safety the feet of the most vile dispositioned
horse. The knowledge of this fact is quite
important to blacksmiths. l have seen the
worst dispositioned horse that ever known
of, shoed with perfect safety in this way.
Those Spaniards and Indians that are accus-
toned to the use of the lasso generally break
the wild horses that they have captured by
ASKING rawhide strap around the animal,
and without the aid of any thing else but a
small lever win mount them and regulate their
actions at their viii by Tightening the n-elas-
tic girth, tbs aorse bess@s unable to contract
his muscles only il proportion as they swell
in diameter
The muscles of the body cannot contract in
length only in proportion as they expand in
diameter and hence if the muscles are pre-
vented from swelling, action is prevented.
If your horse gets loose with the saddle on,
bucl<led tight, and goes to jump fence, al
though the girth is quite elastic, yet if he does
not burst the girth and loose the saddle in the
effort, he will not clear the fence.
STEPHEN BARTON.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-01-09
WH1rEwAsHINe BABIES AND Pics.

WHITEwAsHINe BABIES AND Pics
The Rev. James Williams, the well
known missionary, SO long resident in
the South Sea Islands, taught the natives
to manufacture lime from the coral of
their shores. The curious effect it pro-
duced upon them, and the extraordinary
uses to which they applied it, he thus
facetiously describes:
After having laughed at the process of
Burning, which they believed to be to
cook the coral for their food, what was
their establishment, when in the morning
they found his cottage glittering in the
rising sun, white as snow-they danced,
they sung, they shouted and screamed
with Joy. The whole island was in a
commotion, giving up to wonder and Gu
riosity, and the laughable scenes which
ensued after they got possession of the
brush and tub battle description. The
bonton immediately voted it a cosmetis
and kalydor, and superlatively happy did
many swarthy coquette consider her.
self, could she but enhance her charms
by dab of the white brush. And now
party spirit ran high, as it will do in
more civilized countries, as to who was
or who was not best entitled to prefer
ence. One party urged their superior
rank; one had got the brush and was
determined at all events to keep it; and
a third tried to overturn the whole, that
they might obtain some of the sweepings.
They did not even scruple to rob each
other of the little share that some had
been so happy as to secure. But soon
new lime was prepared, and in week,
not hut, domestic utensil, war-club,
or garment but what was as white as
snow, not an inhabitant but had skin
painted with the most grotesque figures
not pig but was similarly whitened,
and even mothers might be seen in eve
ry direction, capering with delight at the
superior beauty Of their white-washed
infants.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-01-09
WIN. CHAMBERS VIEW OF THE
ETNETE.D STATES.

The venerable Edinburgh publisher
and author, William Chambers, ESQ,
who has recently made brief tour in
the Northern and Eastern States, has,
on the eve of his return to Europe, pubs
lished letter in which he says:
IL leave the United States with much
regret. | carry with me the conviction
that great and splendid future is before
them. Contrary TO the opinion of most
travellers from England, | see here a
young but rapidly growing nation offer
ing an example to the oldest commune
ties in Europe. 1t is far from my wish
to tiatter: but what do / not feel vast
delight in seeing? I am overcome with
the stupendous proportions and capacity
OF the country-its far-stretching fields
Tor human subsistence and happiness
Of the American people, so little under
stoodiand often misrepresented, candid
ly own that their remarkable love of or
der, their energy and perseverance, their
love OF independence, their self-respect
OF even the humblest classes among them,
their striking sooriety, their admirable
educational systems, their many excel
lent libraries and universal fondness for
reading; their press, free from fiscal ex-
actions their flourishine religious insti-
buttons, untampered by civil polity; their
economically and spiritedly -got-up rail-
ways, now pushed halfway to the Pa
cifc; the neatness of their dwellings !;
their wonderful, and to an Englishman
alarming, progress in the mechanical arts !;
the marvellous growth of their cities. and
| will add, their ciyility to strangers-I
say all this gives me unqualified pleas
ure. And when find their cities,
free from pauperism and vice in its most
loathsome forms, with what meets the
eye in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow land
other large cities in Britain, l feel that
travellers from the old country have re-
ally little reason to speak disdainfully Of
America, or to exaggerate faults which
at most are only partial and of no sort Of
account.
"such being my impressions, it will
be my duty to represent, in my own
poor way at home, things as they de-
serve to be spoken of. Nor shall I fail
to speak of the advantages to be derived
by an emigrat ion of the laboring classes
generally to this country-feeing, as
they will do, from perishing and I'M
| improveable condition to state of COM
fort and boundless prospects of well-do-
| ino.3
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-01-09

! Having had little experience in GU
ring the founder in horses, / take this
method to give you fact tina. may give
to others through the columns Of your
valuable journal. 1t may be Of great
service to some, and save many fine
horse from premature death and much
suffering.
The fact shall give you is Of horse
worth three hundred dollars because
of his feetness. He came into my
hands in August, about eight o'clock
in the evening, after being driven only
twenty mine miles with two persons in
a very light and easy buggy. The
horse for some time had been fed all
the grain he would eat. For two or
three days he had not liked his grain,
but the night he came to my hand he
had eaten to the full Of all he liked; and
when he came he was so stiff he could
not step over six inch pole, and when
he attempted to turn round would
nearly fall. | put him into water near
Ilyssknee deep, and kept a wet blanket on
him nearly all the time for four hours.
then put him into the stable, put ano-
Ither blanket on him and left him for the
might. The next morning / found
him sweating, took him from the
stable and rode him a mile, led him
back and put him in the brook again for
an hour. During the day | exercised
him about five miles, and about sunset
let him stand an hour in the water and
again in the morning.
About nine o'clock he was started
on his journey of forty-twe miles and
performed it with ease before sunset !;
he laid over the day, and went home the
hext, forty-fve miles, and was returned
ito his owner, and he being farrier, sold
him in few days, perfectly unable to
describe any difficulty or damage done
to his horse, being ignorant of what
had happened. The horse was allowed
all the food and water he wanted, as usu-
al, was not bled in any part, neither
was there anything given to him except
his usual food. The second day he was
as timber as ever, and has shown no in
Jury from his founder since.-T Water
Cure Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-01-09
THE PERT YOUNG MAN.

The N. O. Delta contains description
Of a specimen in natural history, varie-
ties of which are not unfrequently met
with in this latitude:
There is period in the life of young
man which may appropriately be called
the age of puppyism. 1t is at that pc
riod when he is little more than a boy,
and good deal less than a man !;
when the hand, stroked across the chin,
detects sort of downy inequality, and
. visions of barber and razors rise up
constantly before him; when the tailor
suddenly becomes person of vast i'm :
portance, and he begins to talk Of the
men of our college, and the ladies of our
acquaintance Very tight pantal oons,
displaying immense moral, and ph ysical
courage in venturing into the world
with such slender supports as they con-
tains cravst of great proportions a
knowing, half-joceey, half-gentleman
hat fancy vest, gold chain, and quiz
zing glass make up the external qualifi-
cations ofthe pert young man. He sets his
legs apart in addressing men old enough
to be his grandfather, twirls his cigar,
and calls him my dear fellow or my
bey.' His paternal parent he always
calls 'the Governor and never thinks
of him or refers to him except when he
wants the governor to come down hand
some,' who, he maintains has no right to
expect man. to be able tie pay his bill
lard expenses. He walks the streets
as though he owned them, salutes the
ladies with a fascinating smile, and takes
off his hat to them when he passed them
as though he did not wish the courtesy
to be observed, but then he had observed
older men do this, and he thinks it
'demmn'a gentlemanly' to do SO likewise.
His conversational powers are very IL
mited, never having fathomed anything
deeper than the bottom of brandy
smash, or extended his inquiry beyon d
the bill of fare of his favorite restaurant.
In his manner to ladies, he is rather pa
tronizing, and at the same time very hui
name for in the first instance he acts up
on the conviction of the inferiofity of
the sex, and in the next with con-
sideration with regard to the killing
effects of his own beauty and manly ac-
complishments. He cannot possibly
marry them all, and to show Partially
would be unfair. His head is the only
place where Nature acknowledges
perfect vacuum.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-01-09
MusH.-A friend writes as folio

MusH.-A friend writes as foil
-"In late number you lave something
about mush. Let me suggest for the
comfort of those who stir it for an hour
or two and then labor a. great while 10
wash out the pot in which they boiled
it, that all this trouble may be saved by
cooking it in a tin pail set in pot Of
boiling water, and after it has cooked
letting it cool in the same, after which it
will Slip out in mass, leaving all clean
behind it. Whosoever tries this plan,
will never try the old one again, for it
prevents the possibility of burning the
mush, and dispenses with all the care
and trouble except occasionally to re-
plsnish the water in which the pail is
set to boil. AS to the length Of time re-
CURED, the. rule is, .sthe longer the bet
er.n-F Prairie Farmer. W
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-01-09

FEMALE PR1NrERs.-We see some Of
our contemporaries are employing young
ladies to set type. We have tried ii
nearly four years. Our two Oldest
daughters are competent type-setters.-
We are making arrangements for having
both our papers set up by female opera
tives.
We therefore shall carry out what we
consider as an essential element of sswo-
mans rights" viz /; The rightsto labor
in any employment, consistent with hon.
or and integrity, and to receive therefor
compensation according to the quality Of
the work done, and not the sex of the
worker. We shall probably employ
three or four more than our present force.
= Watertown Home Circle.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-01-09

IThe proposition to appropriate the
SUM Of 5000 towards monument tc
Mr.. Calhoun has been laid on the table
in the South Carolina House of Repre-
sentatives by vote Of 90 to 40. 1t was
objected that such distinction in favor
of Mr.. Calhoun ould be invidious, since
Sumpter, Marion, and other distinguish
ed Carolinians had not been equally hon
ored.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-01-09

LATEST CoJETEnFETT.-Ten's on the
Rochester Bank of New York, letter A
vignette, male portrait and female each
side of same; New York State arms on
the left, and large < at upper corner
large portrait at center Of right end, and
ten at upper and lower corners; eagle
between officers names, swell calcula-
ted to deceive Milwaukee Free Dem.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-01-09

How TO MAKE MuRDERERs.-The
Wheeling Intelligencer says that twen-
ty-fve years ago the father Of M. Ward
who killed Prof. Butler, of Louisville,
was with difficulty, restrained from at
tacking teacher who had moderately
chastised his son. That son is now a
confined criminal, charged with killing
the teacher Of his younger brother. It
seems that he is twenty FIVE years of age.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-01-09

EUcATloN IN TURKET.-The Boston
Atlas gathers from late English work
some facts in regard to the diffusion of
popular instruction in Turkey, which
will probably he new also to many of
our readers. In 1916 a council was
formed, by imperial decree, for the man.
agement of all questions of public instruc-
ton and the supervisory. The state
of the primary schools under their charge
is satisfactory beyond descriptionElemen-
tary instruction in turkey is not only free,
but obligatory The law requires every
citizen as soon as his sons and daugh-
tiers have reached their sixth year, In
scribe his name, in the books Of one Of
the public schools unless he can prove
his means Of educating them at home
In Constantinople the most recent re-
port shows the existence of eight hun
dred and ninety-six free schools, fire.
quented by twenty two thousand seven
hundred children of both sexes. After
five years passed in enc Of these schools
the pnpil can enter secondary school
where instruction on all points, with al
SO gratuitions. There are now six Of
these schools with about thousand pu-
pills. There is also high school for
young men intended to fill public ap-
points, college founded with the same
view, normal school for the education
of professors, the imperial college Of
medicine, military, naval and an ag-
ricultural school. The Sultan is himself
the superintendent Of the schools and
visits in person at their examinations.
The pupils are said to be devotedly at
tached to him. The public libraries
Of Constantinople contain eighty thou
sand volumes. During the reign of the
present SultaA protection and liberation
have been extended to all religions
Chistrians hsve been permitted to take
their position among the servants of the
State, and to share in the administration
Of public affairs; some have been at
tached even to important embassies
Old abuses in levying taxes have been
done away with, monopolies have been
abolished. a national bank has been
established and is now in successful
operation. Railways are in course of
construction. Polygamy is on the de-
crease, and slavery has been suppress
sed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-01-09
A PROPHECY FULFILLED.

There were great many wise people
in our country when Louis Kossuth was
among us preaching his crusade against
Idespotism. True he was considered a
pretty fair speaker-bu when it came to
the solids of the man, as statesman and
popular leader, with these wise all-know-
ing people, who always know thing
or two more than the wisest, nothing
was more often applied to him than the
term s'humbug." 1t would be somewhat
curious, if not very flattering to the judg-
ment, modesty and candor of these wise
people, to recur to his speeches. upon Eu-
ropean politics, and compare the pres sent
condition Of Europe, and recent events,
there, with the predictions of the Hun
garian Chieftain. The Westminster Re-
viaw makes the following allusion to the
matter:
"When Kossulh was in America, he
again and again announced an impending
attack of Russia on the Turkish empire.
"On May Goth, in Faneuil Hall, Bns-
ton, he assigned it as his main reason for
fastening back to Europe yet statesmen
have been quite surprised and have ex-
claimed, (what Cicero declared,) Who
acossld haze thought a."
But perhaps our wise people, will now
say they knew that Russia would attempt
the conquest of Turkey, long before Kos
suth predicted it. What glorious thing
it is to be -Tuhio Statesman.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-01-09

IIDunleath is the name Of a new
city begun at the termination Of The
Illinois Central R. R., opposite Du-
buque. Considering the advantage Of
its position, p ossible it may realize the
anticipations of its projectors, and rap
idly 81 rirg up into town Of importance.
BeIoit Jour,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-01-09
The REroRrCouRrEous.-1

The REpoRTCouRTEous.-The Louis
vile Journal speaking about the late
arrival of the Message in that city,
thus gives the President slap IN the
face:
Perhaps Gen, Pierce thinks that
Louisville is no great thing of aeity. Oh,
well. louisville thinks he is no great
thing Of IA President-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-01-09

I5When you see a girl SO weak that
she can't sweep her own seven by nine
chamber, and then goes to ball and
dances all night with the power of a To-
connective, make up your mind that she
is ssgct on bad principles" The soon
Ter you take your hat and departure the
better. Such sort of calico has been the
everlasting ruin of many a man.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-01-09
How to Make Money Fast and
Honestly.

Enter into business Of which you
have perfect knowledge. In your own
right, or by the aid of friends on long
time, have cash capital sufficient to
do, at least, a cash business. Never
venture on credit business on COM
mencement. Buy all your goods or ma
terials for cash you can take every ad :
vantrge of the market, and pick and
choose where you will. Be careful not
to overstock Yourself. Rise and fall
with the market, on short stocks. AL
ways stick to those whom you prove to
be strictly just in their transactions, and
shun all others, even to a temporary
disadvantage. Never take advantage of
a customers ignorance, nor eJuivocate,
nor misrepresent. Have but one price
and a small profit, and you will find all
the most profitable customers-the cash
ones-or they will find you.
If ever deceived in business transact
tons, never attempt to save yourself
by putting the deception upon others !;
but submit to the loss, and be more eau
tious in future. According to the char
acter or extent of your business, set "a
side liberal per centage for printing
and advertising, and do not hesitate
Never let an article, parcel, or package,
go cut from you without handsome ly
printed wrapper, card, or circular, and
dispense them continually. Choose the
newspaper for your purpose, and keep
yourself increasingly before the public !;
and it matters not what business of util-
ity you make choice of, for if intelligen-
thy and industriously pursued, fortune
will be the result.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-01-09
THE ELECTIVE JUDTCIARY II
MISSISSIPPI.

The people Of Mississippi have refu.
sed BY their votes TO return to the bench
a most upright and able Judge, Mr.. Yer
ger, because he pronounced himself by
judicial decision in favor of the obligato-
ry force of State debt. This is SIM
pie statement of the fact, though rot
narration of the circumstances under
which the debt was created or in what
shape it exists. This is immaterial, and
for our purpose unimportant; for the fact
is, he was not reelected, because, as
judge, he is too upright and too much Of
a lawyer for his position. This, then,is
the upshot of the elective Judiciary sys-
TEN in an important Southern State. A
judge is repudiated for having done his
duty as a lawyer and a man. Repudia-
tors Of honest debts, who have brought
disgrace upon their State by their acts,
found themselves defeated by the bench,
who had even in that State too much hon.
or and too much legal knowledge to de-
eide unjustly, and the people revenge
themselves by depriving them Of places,
and in this instance certainly one of them
was filled by one competent. Now, what
is the benefit of the elective system in
that State ? Does the new Judge 60
upon the bench pledged in advance Of q
hearing that he will decide differently
| from Judge Yerger? Has it really come
to be the fact in Mississippi that Judge
must be miserable partisan or lose his
placer Q, shame to ouch people!--
They are unworthy the high trust of g
Letting judges, and can expect nothing
for themselves but the terrible evils that
flow from an imbeoile, unlearned, and
trucking Judiciary. What commenta-
ny upon the elective system in that State
How does it fulfill the worst auguries of
the most bitter opponents of the creation
Of judges by the popular vote! Not the
most shameless pert of this transaction
is the open avowal of the cause Of Judge
Yerger's defeat not the most alarming
part of it that the avowal could be made
publicly, and carried about as motto to
stimulate and increase political oppose
ton. No charge of dishonesty, incom-
potency, or indecent haste nothing at
all Of any of these grounds of complaint;
but upon charge Of having declaredthe
law 10 Oe WHdt every human DelDH Clu
enough to distinguish between the pro-
perry Of another and his own property
knows that it is, and feels it to be by in
stinct upon charge SO honorable to the
Judge and disgraceful to his opponents
the ablest magistrate on their bench has
been driven from his place.
And what of ourselves may be a sug-
gestion proper enough as we read about
all this, which all men viii be sorry to
learn who take pride in their own re-
spectability-what of ourselves ? Is this
the little cloud, now no larger than a
child's hand, lowering far off on the no.
rizon, which is destined to increase UNI
til the whole sky is overcast2 Will the
time come when the judges of this State
will be not so much the expounders Of
law and the firm defenders of the truth
as the mere tools of party? The pray
er of all good citizens will be that hea-
ven may avert the sad catastrophe.-
Buffalo CONNER cial Advertiser.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-01-09

The Pubic SENTIMENTAL man BY
the name Of John e. Murray was shot
it Cincinnati few days ago, BY a girl
named Elizabeth Clay. The ball ente-
red,the head, killing instantly. Cause
seduction and desertion. The Grand
Jury found no bill against her.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-01-09

Coon TlME.--One of the editors of
the Press left Prairie Du Chen, Wis,
on Monday morning at 8 o'clock, and
arrived in this city on Tuesday evening
at l1-only thirty-eight hours. This is
probably the shortest time ever made
between that town and Chicago. When
our railroads are finished to Madison
and the Milwaukee and Mississippi is
completed to Prairie du Chen, it will
be an easy matter to go through "by
day light" Hurry up-we beg pardon
we mean put down the track, gentle
men. We don't want to travel eighty
miles on that route by back and stage
the next time we have occasion to trav-
ell Wisconsin. These roads will pay,
mark that Chicago Dem. Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-01-09

EBayard Taylor, VINO has just re-
turned from tonr through Europe, A
STA. and Africa, has been gene two years
and four months, during which time he
has travelled some 90 600 miles.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-01-09

HORRIBLE ArFAIR.-The Telegraph
informs us that an old man residing il
the neighborhood of Tuckahoe, upwards
of eighty years of age, recently had a
quarrel with his wife, when in fit OF
desperation he went out and-chopped
some wood.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-01-09

T7-In about six weeks the Chicago
and Rock Island Railroad will reach the
Mississippi River. Cars are new run
ming to Geneseo, within 20 miles of it.
This will be the first connection Of the
kind made between the Mississippi and
the Atlantic.