Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-04-09
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and small expenditure that pays so
largely as setting out ornamental and
fruit trees.
A poor man purchases a small
square of land in the village suburbs.
He sets out evergrecns along the en-
tire outer line about six feet within
the fence Near the probable builds
ing spot he sets out some fancy trees,
shrubbery and vines-wild and do
mesticated. The rest of the lot en-
tire he sets with selected fruit trees,
and cultivates the land every year in
corn and potatoes. In four years his
place attracts some attention as being
place Of promising beauty some day.
In five years it begins to be look
ed upon as a fortune to its proprietor
Men Of taste and wealth who antici>
pate retiring from business are max.
ing him respectable offers for it
The sixth year the women have all
been out to admire that beauty Of q
place, and they are advertising it to
their husbands as the most delightful
upon earth. Why my dear hus-
band, those pines are a dozen to
twenty feet tall, the orchard is baar-
ing loads Of fruit; the vines are pur~
pie with clusters of grapes, and the
currents, the raspberries, and other
small fruits are abundant! Oh, if we
owned that gem of a place. We
could be so happy =
The seventh year half the people
in town are after that block OF land
which at first cost but 500, it would
now bring twenty to thirty times its
cost, though but tor the trees and
vines the utmostit would sell fol would
be $500 The owner has made at
least 100 per cent on his capital and
labor.
1t matters but little as to the lay
ofthe land for such speculations, only
that it be not too hat or marshy.
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the license" and ''no license" issue
was up in some shape. There is no
question, unless the liquor sellers
greatly mend their ways every town
will soon support 'no license" ma
jority. And under the late decision
OF our Supreme court, unlicensed or
clandestine liquor selling will be next
to impossible. Dodging will be too
expensive. The drug stores even will
be held off from their labelled or fan
cy stufs. No way but for drunkards
and sellers to reform-that very
materially. Clandestine or illegal
liquor selling is among the worst Of
nuisances, as it leads men, even such
as regard their word rs binding, to
retail and wholesale perjury. Men
who get their liquor of some unau~
thorized seller will too generally
swear lie before their God to secure
that seller from the penalties. We
should prefer and 1T would certainly
be better, would the liquor dealers
50 far respect the moral public opin-
ion as to carry on their business in
more orderly and respectable way
and thereby secure public acquies-
ccnse in licensing.
No man has right to get drunk, or
even become noisy. QuarrelsOme. dan
geFous or profane and lewd from the
effects Of liquor nor has any seller
the least right to sell such disorder
ly person or persons the liquor to
make them devilish.
AS this thing is up before the peo>
pie we want it settled in way that
it will stay settled andwe can think
Of no way it can be firmly settled but
by such reforms as we have briefly
noted.
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