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Middletown transcript., 1871-11-18

think Of going forward. He woald walk
back and tell the fair creature be bad left
all be had suffered for her sake. trusting
to her generosity to reward bis devotion.
On second thought ho would visit till
evening. Tho lady would probably keep
her room till then. and Il would be sgainst
etiquette 10 disturb her.
Turning into the fields he sought quiet
spot for meditation. He tried 10 imagine
what Dox was saying at that moment
Could he have known that just then the
reputation Of the unfortunate half.sistcr Of
his step-father's unclt's aunt's cousin by
marriage was being ruthlessly sssailed.
and his own absence attributed to . sneak
ing fear Of meeting shst and other j" issucs
Of the hour" hc would have probably fslt
even less comfortable than he did.
On his way back he skirtcd through the
lanes and by-paths. carefully avoiding tho
public road. now thrpnged with people
returning from tho meeting. Al be list.
encd TO ther cheers for Dox. and groans
for Jones. his heart sank. II revived a
little rs he thought ofthc consolation ahead.
His destination reached. he rang tho
door bell
Could he SEQ the lady be had len there
in the morning.
lie could would he please step in
There she was Ms ovcly ss ever the
same matchless eyes. tho same heavenly
smile; but stay, who's that shc's about 10
introduce?
Dox by all that's diabolical!
/" My husband. Mr.. JONES'" said the
sweet voice that had 40 charmed him in
the morning, aud so disbolically 1cluded
him.
Jones rushed from the house with fer.
vsnt curse on Jinglcboncs for not having
cndcd his woes by bro aking his neck. Ol
course Dox carried the district by accla.
| nation, and Jones left to avoid being
laughed ou, Of IT, Tic went into shoe.
pegs, made fortune, and now thanks hi.
stars for having escaped n politicians fate
The obliging relative. we forgot to cx.
/ plain, was no other han the wretch thai
sold sand in his sugar
Jones, we may add. is still bachelor
Middletown transcript., 1871-11-18
TussyMpTOMS Of liver
SIMMONS

tlkSYMpTOMS Of Liver
~. Cpmplnlnt arr unsasincss
SIMMONS and pain In The side. Some
timcs the pain Is In the
nnrnunnnnn.Us shouldcr, and is mistaken
Tor rheunsWtism. The stomach Is affected with
ioss Of appetite and sickness, bowls In general
rossive, somc,Imcs alternating with lax. The
Aead q troubled with pain, aud dull, heavy sem
cation, cuusidcfehlc luss Of menory, accompanied
with painful scusaioas OF
haviag lrn undoac sowr-
hi BN tl,i.r which ought 81 have
ice. done. ufteu crmrein-
Il Of weakness, debility
and low spirits. Sonetuws mary Of the above
,symptoms attend the disease, ana AT other times
very scw Of shcm; bat the liver is Erncsn'iy the
organ srcst In vvl,vd. Cusr the liver with
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-04-04
The Freedmen.

The New York Times examines
the question whether the colored
citizens of the United States have
thus far justified the expectations
formed of them by the people of the
United States, whether, after they
were freed, they had vindicated their
right to freedom by obedience to
law, and whether they had NANTES
ted such spirit of industry as 20
merit the confidence placed in them
by the adoption of the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth amendments to the
constitution. Their conduct during
the war is commended, and the ex-
ports from the South since tho war
tell the balance of the story, and put
To shame those incorrigible advoca cs
OF slavery, who insisted that the ne
gro would sooner die than work an
der the lash. The idity with which
the negroes have sought 10 become
acquainted with the common branch
es of learning, their uniform good
conduct when treated with ordinary
fairness, and even under the grossest
abuse aad persecution, and when
denied common justice in the courts,
is worthy of all praise and entities
them to be regarded as one of the
most valuable portions of the indus
trial chases. The Times also mem
tions quite number ofcolored men
10 New York city, who have become
comparatively wealthy rs follows:
Some Of the cOlored people of the
city are possessed Of very great
wealth among the wealthiest are
Samuel j. Howard, worth $3.50, 900
in money and real estate j. Hav-
dren, of Thompson street, worth
about Sl50,000; Daniel Brooks, in
Fifty second street, near Fifth Ave
nue., public caterer worth over
100000; Mr.. William Downing
worth over 100000; Jacob Day
worth over $75 500; Noel Atkins,
worth about S35, 900; jeremiah Bow
ers, public caterer, worth about $780,
600; Peter Van Dyke, worth about
$4,000; William Patterson, worth
$4,000; Alexander Martin, worth
$4,000, and half dozen others
whose names are not before us, and
whose wealth ranges from $40, 900 to
$4,000.
They own church property in the
city valued at 100000 They nave
Ihirty-two hundred voters; are in
terested in the social, moral and re-
ligious movements Of the day and ia
every respect manifest a commenda-
bic desire to occupy useful and res
Pectablc positions in society.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-04-04
Luther's Monument.

The Prussian church is true
church militant. There is an ele-
ment of defiance and sternness in
German Professionalism, brought
droIp@s a tT1T old tWast TFhieb csg9E
has OF its walls marks of the rapine
of The Thirty Years War Many OF
the puIpits from which in he Rotor
nation such hot resistance was
preached, are occupied by the mimi
ters who give tone to the nations
present religious life "A churches
aud pulpils are the same, So the
words OF the preachers have much OF
the ancient spirit. Over the result
of the R1mish council, heard again
and again last summer outbursts of
most energetic protest. 1t was the
fierce polemic fi.e of the fathers of
Geneva and bort, which has not
even begun TO shoulder in the lapse
Of time. in the midst of the public
square in the old city CT Worms,
where Luther appeared at the ia
NOUS diet. is the magnificent Luther
memorial, one of the finest and most
costly pieces Of modern art, to erect
which treasure was poured in from
ali Protestant Germany, in great
part from Prussia In the first place
there is broad square substructure
of granite, along the border of which
are set colossal statues of princes and
scholars, and categorical figures of
cities famous in the Reformation
Coming from the outside to the CEN
ire you have the great heart of the
thing. Five statues of brorzs are
grouped together on baso of pol
ished sieniLe + ur OF these work 8
represent the great torerunner~.
Huss, Wyckliffe, Peter Waldus, aud
Savonards, the latter figure being
particularly start ing in its lifeIlke
presentment. 10 the midst of all.
from among the princes whose pow.
or shielded him, the scholars who
| held up his hands. and the mighty
martyrs who died that the fuluess OF
time might come and he and his
work live, towers the colossal Luth-
er. The statue il ten feet and half
high A scholars gown draps it to
the feet, one Of which is advanced
His clenched right fist is on the Gov
err of Bible he holds in his left arm.
The head is bare, the face upturned,
the lips parted. That giant Luther
face And beneath are cut the
words which he uttered before the
diet.-the heroic shout, some tone
of which may have been borne in
the air as far as the spot where the
memorial now stands Here
stand | cannot do otherwise Goo
help me. Amen" 1t is very, very
grand, concentrating gloriously {
most manly and consecrated war
fare To erect it conceded thorough
ly with the spirit of Professionalism
IN Germany to-day.-AtlGnt,c Month
ly for april
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-04-04
John Ruokin.

Ia the April number Of Lippin-
colts Magazine is this sketch Of Rus
kim
"Never shall forget the first, last,
and only time ] ever saw John Rus
kin. His picture had hung for many
years just over my study table-that
sweet, almost angelic face, which in
somewhat coarser execution, still the
same IN character, fronts the title
page Of some Of his works. Who
that has seen it has forgotten il? IL
IS almost Il child's face, and has not
a little Of tho charm which invests
one Of RaphGers Sistine cherubs.-
But the real Ruskin, how different !
think he is the plainest man l ever
saw ut any rate, no face has ever
impressed me with so much ugliness.
And rs If to intensity nature, his
manner of wearing his hair and his
rudely-fitting dress only cnaph@e;lvd
the natural want Of charm. Ruskin's
face has neither fincness Of feature
nor winning expression, Ills eyes
it is true, is large and eloquent, but
not enough so TO offset the rest of
the face. He read paper 30 few
friends that ovening-not with much
eloquence, but with q jerky, unnatu-
raj fiinging out Of the words, quite
unlike the flow Of good American
reader. But the charm was under
meath in the thought itself, which,
like everything Of Ruskin's, was or
iginal, paradozical, stimulating
The paper was afterwards printed,
and forms the first half Of his Sesame
and Lilies lie is good American
hater, lives in great seclusion on Den
mark Hill, one Of the suburbs OF
London, is princely in his generosi-
ties, gracious to all young art stu
dents who seek his advice, and, with
all his feudai tendencies. incontesta-
bly, one of the noblest spirits Of our
age"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-04-04
The Judge al Whose Death Bed Miss
Cary Sang.


A very touching story has beer
going. The rounds, narrating an # &c
ling scene at the death bed of Chic
Justice Robertson. Of Kentucky
Miss Anna Louise Cary, i, seems
was requested by the dying Judge [,
sing At his death bed the old song
Way Down upon the Swanee Riv
or. and did 80 And now, with rel
erence to this same Judge. Colonel
Udey, editor of the Racine Journal
aud commander Of the 23d Wiscon-
SIN regiment during the war, has
something to say. The Colonel,
while al Lexington, gave shelter to
negro dwarf belonging to Robert
son, whom the latter had beaten and
maltreated in frightful manner
The Judge sought out his slave, but
the Colonel refused to give him up,
Robertson thereupon sued out writ
IN Kentucky court against the Col
onel for negro stealing. aud, shortly
after the close of the war, obtained q
verdict He has ever since been
bounding Ulley for the collection of
the bill. The Journal thus describes
the scene at the camp when Robert
son came in:
"Perhaps the scene TO which we
have alluded was still vivid in hie
memory whero he stood in the
midst OF thousand Wisconsin citi-
IONS. confronted by the little dwarf
negro, who, after having told hi
master the wrongs he had heaped
upon him (Which the Judge made NJ,
attempt to deny, but simply tried to
excusc), he pointed his title worked
crlpT led finger at his master, and
said: Colonel, that man has hired
me out ever since i was five years
old, and have been heat, bruised
worked and starved. until (lra wit .
mis- little form up) here is all there is
left of me, and now they beat me
because ! cant do more The yell
OF rage that went up from that whole
regiment at the close of the little fell
lows remarks, and the scene that
followed, was, no doubt, quite as
exciting as the one described in the
above article 1t was with the
most positive efforts that we preser-
we'd the Judge from insult and irju-
W before he got out of the camp, for
the boys from Wisconsin were un-
used to such conduct as the Judge
admitted he had performed toward
that little bruised negro boy"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-04-04
The Coming Man.

While our fine girls arc bemoaning
the Lack of youpr men. ani sh8
scarcity OF OeduX who are marriage
able and who mean marriage. there
is class Of young men whom they
do not recognize 81 all, yet who viii
furnish 10 The next generation it's
men Of enterprise, OF power, of posi-
ton, aud of wealth. Il is not the
sons OF The rich, who will, as i rule,
remain rich. The sons of tho poor
will get rich and there are to-day,
drudging in Office, c0un ling rooms.
and manufacturing establishments Of
all kinds, the men who, in twenty
five years, will control the nation So
cially, politically and financially
Every man of them means TO be mar
ried they will, as a rule, make ex-
ceIlent husbands; they are ali at
work, trying to win success They
are men who would DO easily improv-
cd by recognition, and by bringing
them into good intelligent socict, ;
yet they arc as little noticed as if
they were so many dogs. Excellent
young men from the country 60 in
TO the city aud live for years without
any society, and are regarded by the
fashionable young women with in
difference or contempt; but these
young men have hold upon the flu
ture; and when their success is
known, in whatever field Of enter
prise it may be, the fashionable world
will be glad to receive them as be-
longing to their own number. We
regret to say, that as rule, the
young men for whom position has
been won by virtuous aud enterpris-
ing fathers amount to but little in
the world +; and rejoice to say that
companions chosen from those who
have their fortunes to make and
their positions to win, are those to
whom well-bred woman can gener-
ally with safety intrust her happi-
ness and herself. Holland
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-04-04

EO-The Scientific American Office
was recently visited by an individual
who is thus described His name is
Colonel Ruth Goshen, and he resides
at present at Algonquin. Ill. He is a
native of Turkey in Asia, and was
born among the hills of Palestine.
He is the fifteenth, and last child (the
baby of family of fifteen-ten sons
and five daughters-sired by patri-
arch now ninety years old, living in
the valley of the Damascus, and by
occupation planter. This venera-
BILE sire weighs at the present time
500 pounds avoirdupois, and his wife,
aged sixty-seven, weighs $50 pounds
The entire family are living, aud not
one of them weighs less than 500
pounds. The oldest son weighs $50
pounds, and the youngest, our huge
client, outstripping them all, weighs
$50 pounds. Not one of the family
il less than seven feet in height, and
the colonel is a stripping of only sew.
en- feet eight inches in his stockings
He is not an unduly fat man, is mere.
ly what would be called moderately
portly, and is thirty-three years old
His rank of colonel was given him
in the Austrian army.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-04-04

Con AND MAN.-Now, there Is
nothing for God TO find out about us
Tie knows all about you. When He
took you, He took you knowing the
uttermost. And you never will dis
appoint Him by being worse than
He thought you would be. You
never will sin where He did not ex
pect you to sin. Your guilt never
will be greater than He made up his
mind to bear with and pardon when
lie took you. He took you as a
mother takes her child. She thanks
God for it, though she knows it will
be vain, and proud, and selfish, aud
that il will have all the evils Of tenn
per that belong to the race from
which it comes. 1t is hers, and in
spite Of its faults she loves it with
unspeakable love. And God clasps
every soul that he once takes, and
takes it for good or for bad The
wedding between the soul and God
is one that knows no divorce, eitheJ
here or hereafter Beecher.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-04-04

sJ-The UnirersdList has this item
with a demurrer attached "A wo
man makes application to teach
school. The Board of Education
find that she has been divorced. aud
think it prudent to reject her. Her
husband, meantime, though well
known to be Iibertine, is elected to
the Legislature and takes his seat
among the honorable law makers of
the State u Instances of similar in
justice in the DEGREES of society are of
frequent occurrence. There is no
reason Why there should be one code
of morais for woman and another for
man. Let no part Of the code for
woman be abated, but let the cod
for MAJ be brought up to the sam
level. Why should man, all reek-
ing with moral pollution, be taken "a
the bosom of the best society. whils
a woman for one sin is cast out for
ever? We never heard satisiaclo
ry answer given to this question
Let the code of morals for males b,
raised and its punishment for trans
gressions be summary melted out
and there will be fewer fallen one.
| of the opposite sex.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-04-04
esa. A Distinguished German or,

eA-A distinguished German pro-
lessor recently announced the follow
ing:
IF drop Of human blood vas
placed under a microscope, capable
OF mnguifylng twenty millions Of
times. 1t W mid sh " all kinds of ami
mails that ever existed or now exis .
on the earth. In the blood Of heal
thy person the animals are quiet, iu
that Of a sick person they fight
From this he draws the conclusion
that man has within him the ele
ments from which the universe was
created.
He further says if a dead cat was
flung into pond of water and left
TO decompose, the drops of water
would show, when under the micro.
scope, all the animals belonging tc
| the cat species.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-04-04

seg- DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes
thus illustrates the mechanical move
ment of succession ofthought: "My
bucolic friends tell me that our
horned cattle always keep a cud in
their mouths; when they swallow
one, another imme diately replaces it..
1t the creature happens to lose it's
cud, it must have an artificial one
given it, or, they assure me, it will
pine and perhaps die. Without COM
hitting myself to the exactness or,
the Interpretation of the statement
l may use it as an illustration
Just in the same way one thought
replaces another and in the same
way the mental cud is some times
lost while one is talking, and he
must ask his companion To supply
its place. What was | saying, we
ask and our friend furnishes US with
the last word, or its equivalent, and
the Jaws OF conversation begin or nd
ing again"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-04-04
say-Among the dreaded results OF

say-Among the dreaded results Of
the late European war, one of the
most terrible has already appeared.
The poison taken up by the atmos-
phere from the multitudes of battle
fields where the thousands of dead
either unburied or very insufficient
ly so, has commenced to reach the
air of the cities and villages of the
blood-stained country. Recent tele-
grams announce that in many part:
of France and Prussia typhoid fever
and even moro fearful types Of dis
ease, have appeared in very aggra
waited forms and there is muet
cause for the apprehension that, un
less most vigorous measures are EN-
ployed, the blast Of pestilence vii
sweep the face of the continent.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-04-04
ESTABLISHED IN 1843.
sf aaR Vol. %, NO. 2.
A POEM


Read at tho reunion Of the pupils Of the Pat,
Grove Academy, Friday evening, March 18th:
Half in Joy aud half "a sorrow
Will we leave our school 10 morrow,
Till VACATIONS DER
Many bitter tear drops starting,
viii, methinks, attend our parting
As Ia days OF yore
As We bid farewell TO places
We have loved, to well known hces
We shall meet no more.
Many happy smiles will greet as,
Many merry friends will meet ne
Bidding care depart.
Still, methinks, In hours Of gladness,
Sometimes will kind Of sadness
Play around the heart,
As the thought Of bygone hours,
Vanished then like withered flowers
To our memories start.
While the half forgotten treasures
Hidden mid our school day pleasures
Once again appear,
Moments in our lives the brightest,
When our youthful hearts were lghtest,
when a kind OF fear
Let some triCt and new formed measure
should forbid the stolen pleasure,
Made Il still more dear.
Now we leave these halls Of learning,
Some, perchance. no more returning,
Bid long farewell
To the joys that we have tasted,
To the moments we have wasted,
To that hidden well
Whose sweet waters flowing,
II once tasted make one knowing,
50 the legends tell.
Yet mid other scenes and places.
Viewing round US other faces,
These wen not 70 get
But will cast as time advances,
Backward still our loving slances,
With fond regret.
Through the dim years intervening.
To the time when were cleaning
Stores which aid MS yet.
All these sad and happy hours
All these school day thorns and flowers
will return no more.
Stiil the bitterness regrettng,
Ne'er the happiness forget ting,
OF those days Of yore
Which in memery shat linger,
spite Of Times efacing anger,
Round us eyetmore,
Aud when all our tolls arc ended,
All our Joys and sorrows blended
May we meet above
IN world Of JOY and elainess.
with no thought Of sin or ssdnss.
To disturb our love,
But with God our Father dwelling
Join the song Of angels swelling
Christs redeeming love.
Jdfeh Gf0vs March IS, 1871. FANNIE.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-04-04

see. Doubtless, ideas, with money
in them. occur daily to seven out of
'eu IT those who read this paragraph,
The something" wanting seems to
be power of realization. The old
receipt" for removing doubt and
difficulty Is
l Get all the facts you can.
2. Remove extraneous ideas.
3 Calculate the proba bilities.
4 Allow wide margin for acct
dents, etc.
5. Then put on steam and
Advertise until people call you IN
saRe then keep on advertising and
the tickle goddess will smile.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-04-04

EXCELLENCE OF TIE WHEATEN
LOAF -Good wheat bread and butter
is the staff OF civilized life. Take
away wheat bread and butter from
our families tor few generations,
aud who is prepared to say that civ
ilizat;on would not glide easily to q
state of barbarian. There is sound
philosophy in this suggestion be-
cause there is no other ( nd of hannah
food that is so admiral y adapted to
the development of the human frame,
including noble brain, as good
bread made of golden wheat. Civil
ization has seemed to keep pace with
the production of wheat Civilized
and refined society, the world over,
has seemed to exist coeval with the
wheaton loaf, We find the lowest
order Of inteligences stadinng on a
potato. Only one step above this
class, another order is found on hoe
cake. One degree above these we
meet with the class that has risen in
the scale of being as high as tits pos
sible for mortals TO rise on pan
cake. Head and shoulders above all
of these classes we find the highest
order OF intelligences, with large and
well-developed brains and noble and
magnanimOus characters, standing
securely on their wheaton loaf =
There is no other food in the kingdom
of nature that can excel the wheaton
loaf, because it furnishes more and
better material for the human brair
than any other food
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-04-04

Cur THIS oUT.-It is a list of all
the counterfeits known to be in cir
culation, the plates of which have
not been captured. Tens on Flour
City National bank Of Rochester,
New York Saratoga County Nation
al bank of Wateford, n. Y; High
land National bank Of Newburg, N.
Y. First National bank Of Red
Hook, N. Y; Auburn City. N. Y,
National bank Mutual National
bank of Troy, N. Y. :; American Ma
tlonal bank of N. Y. First National
bank of Lockport, N. Y. ; National
bank of Commerce, n. Y. and First
National bank of Poughkeepsie, N.
Y. Twos on Marine National bank
of N Y. Market National bank of
N. Y; st. Nicholas National bank
of N. Y. National Union bank of
Lindenpark, N. Y. National bank
of Rhode Island, Newport, r. l. Ten
OF the eleven $40 counterfeiters
and four Of the five So counterfeit
ers, are printed from the same plates
with only the name of the bank
changed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-04-04

SA.In GaIena, H., the other day
Judge found before him q young
girl arrested for creating a disturb
ance on the street. Judge and pris-
oner gazed at each other for mo-
ment and then the latter said. "You
know that your son was the cause OF
my ruin" The man bowed his head
and when be lifted it again tears
were in his eyes, and he said in q
broken voice "Let her 60. for my
lips can never condemn her."