Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-03-21
MOUNT HOPE.
Political Crecd-situa tion-About Mud, Riset
Gutter, Corn Plows, Stores, etc.


simple, embracing only love OF whis-
key and hate of the Negro"
Now it is certainly not rashIy pre-
sumptuous TO chronicle that Mt.
Hope lies in no such outlandish place,
and that it's people have no such Pc
culiar and liberal political doctrines.
Reform and improvement go on there
continually, and of the taste of whis-
key many Of the bucolical inhabit
ants are yet as ignorant as Adam
was of the virtues of soothing syrup
before the days of his stupid trans
gression.
Mt. Hope is not built on san eleva-
ton Of land little higher than a hill"
1t has, in some respects, a singular
situation. One half of it don't know
where the other half is. Persons
journeying thither are sometimes
most outrageously fooled. They APP
proach the town, let US say, from the
east, and confident that they must
be nearing the Mount, begin staring
into cloudland in the vain expecta-
tion of beholding it's summit Then
they find a guide post, which tells
them that the Mecca Of their pilgrim
age is only about so many rods dis
tant down a ravinc through which
sluggish streamet crawls in lazy
quest of some fellow brook. They
ride ahead, and enter the town by
turning into lane running east and
west. This is the main th0roughfare
1t is wide enough TO be ,med broad
way, and muddy enough at this time
of year to be just like any other
place "out in the country" And this
very original statement brings to
mind tho fact that we have not had
our roundabout say about the most
absorbing theme Of the season-mud.
This beastly material, then, (hoping
Mr.. Boffiu will excuse the depression
is not modern invention. 1t was q
deuced familiar thing to the old
Greeks, who had dreadfully hard
name for it, which, however, simply
meant something damp or clammy
Phidias and Praxitiles made mock
cry men out of the plastic substance,
and the sagacious Chinese fenced in
their cabbage patches with it. In those
good old days of rustic happiness
and simplicity the term mud was
frequently employed by young ladies
in their kindly criticisms upon one
another's personal attractiveness
Thus we'll meaning but sadly mis-.
guided youth would remark tina,
Miss Curlypated was rather goodish
looking whereupon, some half 6
score Of her dearest friends would re
ply ia concert that she was as-hand
some as mud fence. And that, Oh
You know yourself, was felicitiou'
for the misguided youth, But let al
now get down to a dictionary defini
ton Of mud, which is, Earth or sol
mixed with water moist, soft earth
such as is found at tho bottom of riv
ers, ponds, etc. the slime and uligin-
GUS matter at the bottom OF still wa
ter; dirt" There, our good Mr.
Worcester, that will do. Nothing
canst thou to definition add deepel
than that, oxide "OtheIlo'O. Moral
Not discovered at this writing.
Taylor & Son have machine shoI
at Mt. Hope. They have q sort o
infantile engine in it, which puff
away necessarily, in it's successful
and praiseworthy feed grinding eff
forts. This is also bolt and rivet
cutter mandatory, as well as gen
eral blacksmithing shop. These riv
ct cutters are not large and notheavy
but they have in their infexible stee
jaws a concentration Of powor thai
makes them the most effective in
struments of the kind now manufac
tured. BIacksmiths find them very
useful.
Gilliard makes iron corn plows, O
the double shovel variety. They arr
durable and adjustable, and make
you regret, if you are man, thai
they were not invented in your boy
hood days. One must feel glow O
satisfaction and pride in having such
a tool to work with. That the corr
will look greener, the June clouds
heecier, and the meadows fairer to :
farmer that works with one of these
plows, than to him that uses an sold
wooden plug" must stand within the
prospect of every reflective mans
belief. Made entirely of iron, and
being we'll painted, they will last
even unto the third and fourth gene
rations and being perfectly adjust
able, they can readily be adapted to
the diminutive stature of small boy
or the vast proportions of the Car.
diff Giant. The double shovel plow
as corn cultivator will always hold
its own, and that too in the very
face of all the really useful "sulkys''
in the market.
That octagonal building with a
ventilator on it, is also blacksmith
shop. 1t belongs to Messrs Fox &
AhOhoo' huhuo, Guo buOetndkeF,
has his shop near by, and is said new
| er to be out of work.
Nathan, Oswald & Co. are in the
mercantile business here, as is also
the p. NJ, Mr.. A. B. Lyman. Each
store contains a full assortment of
goods, aad has plenty of paying Gus
tom. The former establishment is
one of the largest in this part of the
country.
Mr.. Clark's hotel looks well with
out, and glimpse of the clean inte.
rior assures you that it is all right
within. A tree is known by its fruit,
and an hotel by the odor that pre-
walls in its vicinity about meal time.
1t has not yet been found recorded
on bit of imaginary palimpsest that
Tom Moore, was boarding at coun-
try hotel when he sang, "And, oh !!
if there be an Elysium on earth, it is
this, it is this" Nor is it a matter of