Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-12-04
LANCASTER WISCONSIN, THURSDAY DECEMBER 1873

out the sum. And you can't q,
over 1T the second time and max
1T square. II won't balance nohow
that's the wust Of it, There nevel
IS no extra time lynn round LOOSE
between sunrise and sunset. There
10 only just so many hours day
and blme by there wont be any more
days and when they go the chance.
go to. The acorn that wanted to
be an oak tree didn't like to be
covered up In the ground, because
it was bright and pleasant outside
and so waited till the next day, aud
the next month, till bime>by the sun
aud the wind. aud the rain soaked it,
and split it, and rotted it, and the
acorn was nOthin' but an acorn, and
a poor specimen at that, when some
one kicked il out of the way for
what is an acorn good for if faint
going TO be tree? It's very easy
to lie round in the sun dom nothin'
out seeing how trees are gittin' on,
but there amt no sun OF wind TO
waste: What they don't sprout
they'll spoil; so il you're going TO
drink out of that ere skinner, You
know how you'll have to do it.
"To0 much of a good thing may be
good for nothin', but health amt one
of them things. A man don't gener-
ally have much more'n be wants, and
it amt hard to get rid of it, provided
be is overstocked. If a man wants
his bank robbed, all he's got to do is
to leave bis vaults unlocked. with the
doors and windows wide open only
be mustn't growI if, some day, when
be wants ready money there isn't
none there.
Sound lungs and good liver, and
a stomach that knows the right kind
0. food and how to take care of it !;
strong muscles that will carry one
over the ground on his two legs /;
strong arms that will lift a wagon
out of ditch, if he got stuck in one
hands that know a pitchfork and a
plough from a pipe or pistol, and
can manage something besides clothes
and cards and cane they are con.
venient to have, but they're kind
of property that wants considerable
looking after. No mans lungs are
going to be cheated out of fresh air,
and pay hundred per cent on what
they don't git. If you hang ropes
and chains up in woodhouse. where
there ain no sort of use TO nobody,
and let EN- hang and hang they'll
rot and rust, and break when you
pull on EN-; but to my thinkin'
there's more profit in 'em than a
mans muscles that havn't been used,
for old iron is allus worth methin'.
"Twouldn't be very good economy
to PIT that watch of yours a.soak in
salt water, but | don't know as on
the hull its any more val'able than
the machine your cloggin' with ter
hacker, and coffee, and canoy, and
smoke that spiIes your eyes and
hides every thin with sein'. When
the watch runs down, you can set it
goln' again though 'talnt no special
improvement to let it run down
but its better than diggin' hole and
coVerin' 1t up, provided its with any,
thin. But when blood and bones
give out, there Amt nothin' much to
do with en- except git EN- out OF the
way as soon as possible"
The ragged straw hat was pulled
over the gray hair and wrinkled fore.
head, and the old man rose sliff1y.
"My chances are about overall /
had, and l never had no great show
in this world But / amt agon' to
find fault. | says to myself, "David
Sharp, mebbe you'll git better start
over yonder, bu, before you go, sou
might speak word or two to them
that has got it here and don't make
no use of it," If the Lord wants us
to wrap our talent IN napkin, He'll
send the napkin along with il; but as
near as / can calculate, that amt the
way He wants his property used
faint that He's a hard man, who
bears down pretty heavy on His cred
itors. He only wants 'em to do
the square thing by themselves, and
see that they don't cheat themselves
in their own bargains.
$50, young man, when you're look.
ing over them ere papers, you might
kinder just give little 'tention to
some OF your private accounts, and
see how much interest you'll have to
add to the Lords principal when He
happens to call for it; and just re-
member that all I've been a sayln'
comes from the hankerln' l have for
my own sisters child, who hssn't had
no one to remind him that if he's got
to drink from skinner, he's got to
drink quick"