Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-05-07
TIE BoYs.-Aim not at setting

TIE BoYs-Aim not at setting
them at the professions, which are
already over supplied, and to be even
more SO. The industrial pursuits
I'll unsuppied, especially with skilled
operatcrs. Ifyour boy have tact
Tor any nleehahical work, set him to
tat cnco' Education is a good thing,
but henceforth will be more use
ful for industrial operations than any
others. Education and educated in
dustry belong together, and will war;
rant any possessor of them great
fame and wealth. We do not know
of any educated Importing man Of
whatever calling that has turned out
i failure or that turned out fool,
knave, drnakard' or villian-but in
every case such all are doing well.
re respected and happy.
Boys should be schoaled til about
.welye, then set to work on. a farm
i'll fifteen or sixteen, then put to
!. trade till nineteen, and then sent to
the academy aud college till their
heads are az well crammed with
learning as they will bear-and their
intellectual and physical parts llgde
70 balance, after which all dangers Of
physical and moral deformity from
any cause will no longer exist.
Give boy any trade ho may want
the blacksmithipg being the best
as it is the door to all machine busi~
ness. The boot and shoe making is
also a good trade, but the carpenter
ing and touso building excellent
Anything however that will dcvel
ope the muscles, beget habits OF in
tlQstry anG <eeo the head clear Of
juvenile doviltry. Let a boy seem
to have his own way, but bend it the
right by reasoning with him. Most
boys will desire a trade some how
ever, whose mothers have an aristo~
cratic turn, may catch that internal
and destructive spirit which says II
am better than some others and must
be above learning4 trade" insuch cas-
es boys are already more than half
gone up, and few further matern-
q words may finish them for fools.
y These thoughts are suggested by
.he following note received lately
= MR. CovER:--GFy '5on, aged sixteen,
1T school since his sixth year, wish.
es place in a store, or as an office
clerk He would learn trade from
choice, but we prefer he should have
some easy business. He is so tired
of SCHOOL, Can you ina him place =?
please answers. 49, = '''t
! Better guess we wrote lecture,
closing with these words: "Allow
your Son TO depart from parents who
would ruin hin. Say to him; go
Thy way my son, take to industry
and be.saved from the ruin Of idle
ness which thy parents would bring
hpon thee. Betake myself to wis
dom and labor, and thus to disobe-
1ience to parents.
PERsoNAL.-Ed. Pollock, Esq, late
s. G1ttcnberg, Iowa and several
years ago assistant adtor of the
Grant County, Owls, Herald, has
purchased the Belvue, (Iowa, .'o,r1a.
d, in company with his father, Col.
Pollock-the latter an old and re-
3pectcd citizen of Cassville. Mr.. p.
is o scholar and lawyer, a graduate.
We believe, Of Albany Law College,
n. T., and is an able writer and of
sound opinions upon general issues,
moral as well as political and INSECT
laneous Col. Pollock, now veneer
able old gentlemen, was once a pops
utar politician in Pennsylvania, of
the SIT ,ct Construction, Jeffersonian
democratic faith, consequently in the
turn of public events an abofitionist,
radical and severe unionist. His
soundncss upon issues now before the
country oauie TO him in a legal way,
Or in the logical construction which
he gave to constitution and dem0c>
racy. IN no sense was he led into
radical opinions by such propelers
IS cla.nQr and q desire for Office
Col. =. IS one Of those who tries
thsnS9 Ly the iron rule, but always
allows the Golden Rule TO decide
measurements of doubtful length and
breadth and in general degree the
sons enental mould and measurement
came to Inn 81 way of the father
They VII ran a'respectable paper, and
one that must carry great weight with
men of thought and intelligence.
LANCASTER CoRPoRATIoN ELECTION.
At the election on Monday for or
p6ratpA o1oers.n Lancaster the IL
censo ticket was su2cessful by a
small majority, as follows:
375r President. J. c. COVER.
f0r Trustees DR.. J. IL. HYDE, J. w.
BLANDING, and HENRY Fox.