Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-06-28
Letters from the Shore-Early Season
Crops Fruits - Polite, Do
nestle and Arctic.

earlier than usual. This year we
had the poets May. The pastures
and meadows were as far advanced |
on the latter half of May as they |
usually are at the middle OF June.
Peach trees, cherry trees, apple trees,
and every manner of fruit shrub and
fruit tree were boquets Of blossoms
it seemed as though the bar posts
and fence stakes would blossom out
too, it was 80 fashionable this year to
bloom. The same shrubs and trees
now under their leaves, hid away,
have clusters and lunches OF baby
fruits. On our Sickle pear tree the
little red checked fellows are begin
ming to show themselves from under
their coverlets OF green leaves. By
and-by the the sturdy young tree
will droop under it's back load of ba
bies. There are any quantity Of
strawberries, wild and cultivated.
Yesterday saw in a shop window
heaping plate Of luscious, .melting.ber-
ries, almost as large es black walnuts,
and over them notice, "These ber-
ries raised from vines set last fall"
The country is charming. The
bills are huge pillows Of foliage, and
the fields and meadows are o smooth
sea of emerald. The towns look in
significant now. What is q hand
some block Of stores, with their taste
ful display Of poplins. compared with
my garden? What is the stone
church, with its tall spire pointing so
gracefully up to heaven, compared
with that hill across the water there
with its crags and iuts OF rock, and
its green slopes delicately tinted, SO
far away, with blue? "Man made
the town and God made the coun-
try" One thing that helps to keep
the country looking 80 fresh is the
fog; we have had twenty-one days
of fog, SO. young lady who has
kept the count says. The peculiar
ity Of the fog is that while you can
see your own position clear enough,
everybody else seems to be wrapt
up in fog. l don't suppose there
has been any fog in my vicinity, but
everything and everybody has GER
tainly been mistyfied these twenty
one days. We mortals are not apt
to be much in the dark, but, oh, how
terribly enveloped.with mist and va
por our neighbors are politically,
morally, socially and more especially
religiously.
The two largest cities in this part
of the Stat have just had their city
elections a-d have both gone Demo-
cratic. One of them, Norwich, has
never before in its history been Dem.
ocratic, but owing to post Office
troubles it has gone for that party
Leading Republicans bolted the
"ring," as,they called it,and gave the
victory to Democracy. The Demo.
Gratis tell the truth about it, and &C.
knowledge that it was owing to Re.
publican allies. Parties get power
begin to lord it, and then burst al
apart. Our people insist upon coun.
terbalancing Capitalization with cen
trifugation.
Yesterday we gave up one of the
best representatives of New England
womanhood to Wisconsin she mar
ried q Fon du Lac lawyer and has
gone from society here, where she
was loved, to shed her sweet infu.
ence on the prairie. The West il
getting the choicest OF our New Eng.
land manhood and womanhood.-
Young men come from the West
and take their pick. Beecher makes
one of his characters in Norwood
say that young ministers take their
pick for wives, but that will havo tc
be changed, Westorners have tht
first choice.
There is no end to the cireuses anC
caravans that are travelling about
the country this season they follow
on one another's heels. The sea side
watering places are beginning to I'll
with deserters from the cities. The
warm weather is making profits fol-
the landlords. Boating will begir
very coon, and then we shall have
yacht races and rowing matches and
besides that, innumerable champion.
ships for base ball honors. The sons
OF rich men must have glory of some
kind, SO let them have bats and boats,
poor fellows! Commend us to the
young man who Yields sledge ham
mer. The time has gone by when q
young man who WAS born in poverty
is to be praised because he makes q
man. That ought to be reversed,
and man ought to be Landed if he
sprouts up through the mulch of an
cestral riches. There is some vitali-
ty about that man.
Charles Francis Hall, the Arctic
explorer, has got an appropriate on
on its way through Congress of a
hundred thousand dollars TO fit out
an expedition to the North Pole.
lie is confident that he can reach the
pole with the proper means for such
a voyage. Should the bill pass Con-
gress in time, he will leave the port
OF New London early in July. Those
who know him feel confidence in his
scheme. His plan is to live among
the Innuits and subsist as they do.
The dangers from the scurvy are
thus entirely removed. Expeditions
heretofore have failed for three
causes first, the scurvy second, the
cold third. the inhospitableness of
the natives. By fraternizing with
the natives, as Mr.. Hall does, all of
these causes are removed. Mr.. Hall
has by his plan, alone and unassist-
ed, been able to prosecute discover
les in two former expeditions-one
TO Frobishers Bay in 1s60-62; the
other to Repulse Bay and King Will
liams Land in 865-69-which Eng
land and America, on the old plan,
have lavished hundreds of lives and
hundreds Of thousands of money up
on.
The fog is lifting az close this
letter there is little sparrow sing
ing the same old tune that the spar
row family have sung for thousand