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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-08-28
A PROSPEROUS STATE.
How Iowa shows Up under the Forthcoming
Census Report

How iowa SHOWS the Il
Census Report.
The forthcoming Iowa census report will
show that this stale how has a population of
not less than 10000, which is 4 gain Of
about 100000 over the census of two years
ago, when the total population was placed at
Pol, 333. OF the 90 counties IN the state, &c
have already made their reports TO the secre-
tary Of state, leaving % yet to hear from.
The gain over 1872 in the counties having
made returns is in round numbers $4,000, so
that if the ratio of increase is maintained in
the remaining % counties the gain will be
over 10000. The gains have, for the most
part, been made in the newer counties of the
North and Northwest the older ones in the
Eastern and Southern portions of the state
having in several instances barely held their
own. But three counties report falling off
in population, viz: Black Hawk, 223; John
son, 1860; Emmett, 1872. The latter was one
of the severely stricken by the grasshopper
plague of a year ago and It's depOpulation is
readily accounted for many OF Its people
being forced By successive disasters 10 leave
It's borders. In the cases of Black Hawk and
johnson, il is thought there must have been
u mistake either in this or the previous
remuneration. The most populous county in
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-08-28
THE LOAF-GIVEK.
BY LUCY LARCOM.

Is there lady yet
Under the SUM-"
Danes Of Olympus
Called down, one by one.
"If true lady
Be left, OF earth's race,
Seats of the goddesses
Offer her place"
Answer came slowly
From hemisphcres two;
Dead seemed the Old World,
And needless the new.
II am lady, then!
See, for | wear
Latest Of bonnets,
Last twist of hair;
French gloves and laces--
What more can | need"
Laughed mighty Juno,
:" \ lady, indeed"
Il am lady born!
have a name!
An unbroken ancestry
Settles my claim"
Weakm said Minerva;
Irrelevant, too!
Substitute ladyhood
Never will do"
81 am a lady!
No token of toll
Is on my line fingers
Vulgarity's soil!
! mix with no workfolkm
"AhW Venus exclaimed;
" | welded blacksmith,
And was not ashamed.
What face, bright as Hebe's,
llluuincs yon street,
That beautiful maiden
Gives beggars their meat:
Her graceful hand leads them
To honor and peace.
Ny sigh for lost ladies'
Said Venus, e cease"
81, too cried Minerva;
And pointed to where
In dreary log school-house,
i girl, young and fair,
Spent life, strength, and beauty
She scatters life's seed.
She works in wild thOught-felds,
The starved soul to fecd.n
Cried Juno, "Yon farm-wife,
With white arms like mine,
Round, snowy loavc shaping,
To me seems divine.
She, moulded IA goddess,
Who yet can prefer,
To be useful and helpful
What lady like herr"
Nodded the sky-women,
Glad, one by one,
"Still there are ladies left
Under the sun.
Counterfeit creatures
May borrow the name;
But the deep-seeing heavens
Accept not their claim
LADY is loaf giyer,'
Echoed the tree,
"Who stays the worlds hunger,
True lady is shew
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-08-28
PLAIN LANGUAGE.
BY FAITHFUL JANE.

Which l wish to repeat,
And my language is plain,
That in ways of deceit,
And in tricks that are vain,
The girl OF the period is lively
Which the same would rise to explain
Lily White was her name,
And need not deny,
In regard to the same,
What that name might imply;
But her cheeks were prov1kiingly rosy
And bewitchingly penciled her eye
Twas in Lent, week third,
With most penitent skies,
Which it might be inferred
Iily White was llkewise;
Yet she humbugged Johannes, my lover,
In way shall always despise.
Which we had a small game,
Called by some hide.and.seek;
twas Irritation. The same
She thought sinful and weak;
But smiled, as she ogled Johannes,
With q smile that was sanity and meek
Yet the game 1t advanced
In o way detest.
And my sorrow enhanced
At the state of Johns vest,
which heayed like q wave Of the ocean,
When the same has a turbulent breast
But the tricks that are played
BY this girl of the p
And the progress she maze
Was alarming to see.
Till She twirlcd on her left iorefinger
What Johannes had promised to me.
Then looked up at John,
And he looked not at me;
And rose with groan
And said. What do see?
We are ruined by harmless Irritation,
And went for the girl of the L.
In the scene that cnsued
John amazed did not speak;
For the floor was bcstrewed,
In the height Of my piquc,
With the card" Lily White had been playir
In the game she thought sinful aud weak"
OF those exquisite charms"
laid bare in a trice
"Paddings," "panies" and FORM
OF most cunning device;
And there fell with her tresses so airy,
What is frequent in hair, rats and mice.
Which is why repeat,
And my language is plain,
That in ways Of deceit
And in tricks that are vain,
The girl Of the period" is lively,
Which same am free to MAINTAIN.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-08-28

Trials before Justice-If important, nature
of case, names of parties, the Justices decis-
ion
Violations of laws--Whereby parties are
arrested and fined, what otlensc, when, where.
Wcathcr-Touch the weather very gently,
If at all-never merely to "fll up"
Wrangling-Never wrargle or dispute in
print with anybody, and especially with cor,
respondents of some other journal. Avoid
unpleasant personalities, and never send an
item the force of which is understood only
by youl self and one or two others. A news
paper is in no sense an ambuScade from be
hind which to pepper somebody with small
shot
GENERAL HINTS.
Write proper names very plainly.
Write on only one side of the sheet.
Give the time and place ofevery occurrence
BE brief in statement and spar:ng In com
ment.
Write with ink-not with pencil, when i,
can be avoided.
The most convenient sized page (manu.
script for eompOsitorS' use, Is what is known
as commercial note"
When you have nothing to say on any sub
ject say nothing. Don't string words TO-
gether for the purpose Of filling pages OF
manuscript.
Avoid "puiTs" for this one and that, and
save the editor the trouble Of cutting out
of your letter. ~ puff that he doesn't write
himself is abomination to the editor
Don't attempt fine writing" don't Or you
have any regard for other peoples feelings
say eve for evening scholar" for pupil
pant" for pantaloons, gents" for gentlemen
or Sabbath" for Sunday
You can keep the authorship as nearly a
T,D, Nnhli,, oc ylnnGp IplppI
nobody need know that you write for the
newspaper, unless you choose to let them
know yourself. The editors won't tell-rely
on that.
Always give the editor your real name, il
you expect to see your production IN the col
umns Of his paper.
Don't be influenced too much by the advice
(Which will be freely oifered-depend upon
thatD of people who don't know any more
about it than you do, as to what you shall
put in your letters. BE sure you are right
then go ahead.
Always calculate upon your letter reaching
the the editor at least two days before his pa
per goes to press; theE, if anything impor,
tant occurs, and you can send it in time for
that weeks issue, send it as postscript or
appendum. Manga good letter has been lost
to the word because it reached the editor too
late to have it put in type.
Remember that it is the privilege of the
editor to omit any portion of your letter he
may not care 10 prlnt-that whoever writes
whatever appears he is responsible for it,
and has the right to say what may and what
may not go into his columns His views of
rropriety or expediency is from standpoint
altogether dlffereht from yours, and however
he may misjudge, he will be pretty likely to
assert this prerogative.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-08-28
$40 FOR THE ROUND TRIP,
FARM FOR SALE,

Situated twelve miles southeast of ottawa, miles
south Of Marsees, and six miles east OF Grand Ridge
ton in the town Of Grand Rapids containing $50 acres of
the best farm land two good houses, barn. cribs large
orchard and ueveraing water Terms easy. For partic
ulars apply TO Dr. h. CURrI on the premises, or H. A
SCHMIDT, South Ottawa, III. aug9l 3mos
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-10-21

ADAMS OFFERS HOWE HIS Hat
A correspondent of the Wisconsin,
writing from Oshkosh, after com
menting on the speech of Charles
Francis Adams, jr., at the Northern
Wisconsin Fair, which he says "was
listened to with undivided attention,
the railroad men showing no uneasi-
ness at his utterances till he urged
the need Of more light and 'publici-
ty' in railroad transactions" adds:
After be had finished, Senator
Howe, who was in the carriage, was
called upon and spoke in his dry, apt
way for ten minutes. Among the
rest, he paid his respects to the
adams family" saying the dead
Adamses had given us two Of our
bes: Presidents, and that there was
material enough in the living Adamses
to give us half dozen more /! The
compliment was too much for Mr..
Adams, and he could only extend his
hat as far as he could reach to the
Senator, in acknowledgment
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-10-21
Bloomington, October 10, 1873
on TIE POWER OF CUSTOM OVER PUB
Lie BODIES.

ON TIE POWER OF CUSTOM OVER PUB
Lie BODIES.
EDITOR HERALD THE power of
custom or habit over the individual
has long been known and commented
on. The man who has long been &C
customed to take his daily walk or
his btters at certain hour will find
it hard to break the custom. This is
perhaps law of our nature, and as
we cannot explain it will leave it.
But that there is any necessity for
this law of custom to rnle in legsla-
tive bodies we deny, yet we find 1t
rules in many things, often subjecting
the people to great waste and loss.
Take for example our custom OF main
tang roads, which | contend is just
as absurd and ruinous as it would be
to attempt to maintain our schools IN
the same way. Suppose instead of
paving a school tax the law allowed
the person to 60 into the school and
teach it out at a fixed price per hour,
what would be the consequence ?
Would you expect your school to
prosper under such circumstances?
Perhaps you will say large part
Of them could not teach. Granted ;
and now we seem to be coming to the
point. for that is precisely what we
say of the majority Of the road mas
tiers: but the fact that they are not
capable of engineering and laying
out the work necessary to be done
upon each portion of the road is no
fault Of theirs, it is simply fact, just
as it is a fact that am not capable
Of running a locomotive, and the rail-
road company that would employ me
for that purpose would be running a
great risk, for there would be danger
of the 'biler BUSTING" and making as
big a ruin as your average road mas
ter can make when he can engineer
so as to bring a dozen rivulets togeth
err at the top of hill, then by pillow
ING a furrow give them a fair start,
and they will be as irresistible as an
armg with banners, and will often ex-
cavate faster than a hundred men
The folly OF maintaining roads in this
way has often been pointed out, but
the power Of custom is so strong that
the folly is still maintained at the
price often of very poor roads and
great loss of time. But the old Gus
tom of putting stone in one end Of
the bag to balance the grain, ha:
been finally abandoned, and this gives
us reason to hope that this equally
great folly viii, IN time, be given mp
but es This is uncertain, permit me L
point out some of the most common
faults of repairing roads. Take
road along a side hill, with gradua
assent for half a mile, your average
road master will plow and dig ditcl
all the way on the upper side; then
! in heavy shower, the water that vii
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-10-21

gW~One hundred and sixteen
years oldl Mr.. Lemsr Griffin, of
Lodi, Ohio, is said to have been born
in 1859. He has voted for every
President except Washington. He
had objections to the Father of bis
Country. What these objections
we're he now refuses to say. He has
but one arm but still reads the news
papers; disIikes the 'botheration" of
visitors, but consents, like sensible
old gentleman, 20 talk with newspa.
per men. They speak of putting
him to death by taking him down to
the Centennial Exhibition, probably
from an idea that he has lived long
enough.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-10-21

initiating the motions of beasts or
birds, mechanical labors, etc, are
alternated with those quieter occu-
pstions, and give grace and agility.
These exercises are directed and en-
livened with songs.
"The teacher by constant question
ing, calls the childs attention 70
every point of resemblance and con-
trast in the objects presented to it
and encourages it to relate it's little
experience, or explains its invention,
SO keeping it's mind awake and in
agreeable activity"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-10-21
WHOLE NO. 1901.
Now is the Accepted Time.
From tn. Republic.


is to such that these III lin words
are addressed now make up bic
mind upon which side of this ques-
ton the election of 1876 will find
him. 1t is the duty of every con-
scientious voter TO decide note for
this reason:
BY choosing now you can CON-
mence now TO affiliate with the party
of your choice, and to impart in .
greater or less measure, your notions
aud ideas to it's position upon the
other issues which must come before
the country, and as TO men whom
you prefer for candidates. You all
desire to have good men nominated
and you equally wish that your
party may be purged, as far as it can
be, of its bad men. You wish to see
your party pledged to sound fnsn-
cial policy, and to all possible re-
forms. Can you best attain these
desires by waiting in silence to dis
cover what The parties Will do2
Do not delay your choice, in the
vain hope that third party may
spring up between now and election,
which will be less Objectionable to
you than either the Democratic or
Republican party, for neither of
these parties contemplate disin:egrs-
ton; both are we'll organized, and
both claim TO hope success at the
Presidential election. A third party
may spring up; the piques and
caprices OF men are outside of the
province of prophecy; but this much
may be foretold. without any gift
beyond that Of common sense. The
utmost that a third party can now
accomplish, is injury TO either the
Democratic or Republican party; and
the history of our national pClltlcs
is, that third parties have always
injured the better of the other two
parties which had any chance TO
succeed You will be told that the
doctrine of secession is dead issue,
and no lorger before the people 1t
his be true, then you may wait; you
may defer deciding whether you will
help the d mocrats or Republicans,
until they have announced their
creeds and set up their men. If not
true, however, if the doctrine of
secession be still vital Issue, and
one upon which the Parties will
clearly differ, then it is as plainly
your duty to choose now as it was
your duty to choose when Sumter
was fired upon. How did you choose
then? If you then said, "Let the
maynard sisters depart in peace, |
can fiud no right in the constitution
to coerce a State" then depart to the
Democratic ranks, where you be-
long, for the constitution of this free
land has scarcely 3 hope for such a
citizen. Bat il, on the contrary, you
took up your arms and joined the
patriot bands who went to die if
need be, to preserve from destruc-
ton our glorious heritage if you
merely huzzshed as our soldiers
marched forth, then come to the
Republican party. Come aad help
US purify it, need be, but come and
sustain it until nowhere in this broad
land shall there remain u man so
foolish or so dangerous as to pro-
claim our nation q mere confederacy
of States.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-10-21

swI am proud to say that tohile the
Republican party may hare erred, 1t has
not prcred false to any great principle,
nor copardly in the presence Of any
great question. It's aims are noble and
patriotic, and it does not seek a contin-
uance in po,oer By panderingto uice and
prejudice, butrefers to IFS past record
of great actions in behalf of the Union,
9f liberty, education, equality and the
material grOwth and improvement Of
the nnt;5a, as an earnest Of phdt 1t
seeks to accomplish in the future
Senator Morton.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-10-21

accumulate in this ditch will have
power before it reaches the bottom OF
the hill, if it is not rock, to dig a
ditch large enough to bury regiment
of horse in. This | have often seen,
when if he had left the upper side of
the road four inches the highest, the
water would have drained across the
road without leaving amark. Again,
another is sent with his team to a
smooth piece of prairie road to pillow
out his tax; they are thinking now OF
turnpiking-have, in fact, got turn.
piking on the brain. He plows up
half an acre of beautiful green turf
and that pays his tax. Circumstances
prevent its being scraped in, and 1t
is well they do, for the road was per-
feet before they touched it, but now
the pedestrian, instead of beautiful
green grass to walk upon, will have
to go through mud in wet weather and
dust in dry for year or two, till the
earth gets settled back to its original
position, when it will be ready for
another to plow out his tax on
Who says man is not a strange AMI
NAL? LUTHER Brown.
Patch Grove, October 10.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-10-21
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
GRAND MASTER C0CHRANE'S ADDRESS
VS.. INTER.OCEAN.

EDITOR HERALD The Chicago
Inter Ocean, in an article entltl'
ed ga Word to the Republican
Changers Of Wisconsin" criticlses
the issuing of an address OF
the Changers of Wisconsin by Col.
John Cochranc, Master Of the State
Grange, for coming out squarely in
favor of the Potter law, and legisla-
tive restriction, claiming that his adj
dress to the Changers as an attempt
to hood wink the he lest Republican
Changers Of Wise onsin into the sup
port of Gov. Taylor that this at
tempt had ought to be exposed and
denounced in the press and on the
stump" The Inter Ocean claims that
farmers of Wisconsin did not ask for
the passage of any such law, but says
it was TIE "work of a few uneasy
politicians and demagogues in the
legislature" who were willing to sac
rifce great commercial interests for
temporary success. This caution of
the Inter. Ocean is being published by
tho press of the Republicans in Wis
consin throughout the State andis do
ing more to drive Changers over to
the support of Taylor, tenfold, than
Col. Cochrane's address.
The Republican platform Of Wis
consin endorses the policy of legisla-
tive control of railroads by legisla-
tive law, and if the party platform is
drawn up to catch Granger votes and
the Republican party do not intend to
carry out the principles of legislative
restriction, and protect the people
from railroad monopoly, the sooner
the voters of Wisconsin find it out
the better. The article attributes the
the shrinkage in values, the financial
and commercial distress and the
stopping of railroad building to Grange
legislation. Who cannot see that the
same financial and commercial dis.
tress and shrlnkage in values in every
State in the Union. where no Potter
law exists and no legislation has been
had restricting railroads, and why
this attempt to throw dust in the peo-
pies eyes? Is Granger legislation of
Wisconsin to be made the political
scape goat of all the sins Of both
political parties? Do the Repubh-
cans Of Wisconsin wish to be under
stood as endorsing the article of the
Inter- ocean, and do they intend to
deceive the people by their platform
pretensions Do they propose when
once in power in the State to give the
people up to the railroads, giving
them all they ask in substance, while
they give the people shadow of
law and not the substance of protec-
ton. The article of the Inter- Ocean
says, ''Let the Republican Changers
of Wisconsin be on their guard"
This admonition we heartily endorse.
GEO. w. LEE.
Bloomington, October 10, 1873
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-10-21

~ Some gentlemen were recent
" at a street corner, when little girl
approached and ratified off her re-
quest for dime. care you an or
phan ?" asked one of them Eve are
only interested in orphans" no,
sir" replied the little parrot, thrown
on her own resources to amplify her
part, "we are too poor to be orphans."
The maladroitness Of this explanation
was too much. She got dime from
each member of the party.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-10-21

sA-An observant exchange says !:
"When man wants plug of tobac-
co, the grocery three fourths of a
mile off is only step, but if his WIZ
wants a drink of cool water from a
neighbors's we'll opposite, by some
mysterious agency that well suddenly
becomes removed more than mile
away"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-10-21
~ To the eTtent |

s- To the ertent that Congress has
conferred po,oer upon me to preUent II,
neither Ku-Klur Ktans, White
Leagues, nor any other association
usino arms and violence to execute their
unldwtm purposes, can be permitted IN
that ,Ddy 10 govern any part Of thaS
countrv; nor can I see Nth tndifer-
ence Union men or Republicans ostrd-
cised. prosecuted and murdered on &C.
count Of their opinions. President
Grant
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-10-21
Banks.


HIRST MATT ONALBANK OF B0SCOBEL, GRANT
L Co. Wis A II Meyer, Cashier. b. VI Coates, Pres
Directors-B. NJ. Coates. j. II. Sarles Edward Meyer,
Geo. F. Hildebrand. Joseph Walker Transact Gen
eraI Banking Business; buy and sell Government Sc
curities Gold. Silver Bullion, &c. Draws direct
all prueipa cities of Germany, England. Ireland
scotland Scandinavia France, Italy, the Orient and
Australia Special attention given TO the collection
Of monies and legacies in foreigncountres. Passen,
AR Tickets for fnmAn and Guyon Lines 3l-42
~ EO. " RYLAND. BANKER, LANCASTER. WIS.
u Deposits received Foreign and domestic exchange,
gold and United states bonds bought and sold
Loans negotiated and collections atte died TO 81 -
HUMPHREY i CLARKE, BANKERS BLOOMING
IL ton, Wis Buy and sell Gold and Government
Bonds aud Eastern Exchange. Prompt attention Civ
= 10 collections At All points, and tho payment of
taxes. Deposits received ard loans negotiated. Ad-
yaucts made upon approved securities Interest al
lowed special deposits at best current rates, 3042
HODGES a Co. BANKERS AND DEALERS
in Exchange and Government Securities. Platte
vilie Wis. Particular attention given to Collections
and proceeds promptly RENTED on day OF payment
Refer d Henry Clews Co, N. Y u. Edgerton, n "
Second National Bank, Chicago, National Bank OF
GalcHa. 80
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-10-21

em- p Offences is the mother of peace.
She keeps familiarity and impndence
from being kicked TO death, and often
saves herself broken head.