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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-01-28
THE RATES OF INTEREST.
A World Of Financial Philosophy for Money.
borrowers and Money.Lenders.

FROM tne Louis hepubuchn.
The usual rate of intetest in the
West is 10 per cent, and it is gener.
ally believed that this is the correct
measure of the Value Of money. Ii
the measure of the value of a comod-
ity is what it will bring, this is true;
but If the true measure ofvalue is what
the article can be made to yield, it is
not true. Experienced capitalists and
business men give it as their mature
opinion that there is no kind of prop.
erty as profitable as money loaned at
10 per cent. which is tautamouIt to
saying that the average yield of in
dustrles, enterprises and specuIations
is less than 10 per cent. on the amount
invested, or in other words, that mon
ely is not really worth 10 per cent.
There are several considerations
that strengthen this conclusion.
Money loaned at 10 per cent. will
doible itself in seven and half years;
$4,000 will grow into $40, 900, and
in that time $4,000 will grow into
$4,000. That the average invest
ments in business ventures and in
dustrles will not do this is too well
known TO need a demonstration.
While 100 men who loan money at 10
per cent. compounded will, with pru-
dent management, double their for
tunes in seven and half years, loo
men who borrow money at that rate
Will fail in spite of all the prudence
and foresight they may exercise, to
double theirs. So far from it, fifty of
them, if not more, will break. There
is nothing more clearly established by
the experience of business than the
fact that man who conducts his en-
terprises on borrowed capital-whose
only resources, or chief resources, are
the products of bills drawn on his
shipments, will, in four cases out Of
FIVE, come to bankruptcy, and far
mer who mortgages his farm for half
its value to secure money at 10 per
cent. in hope that its net yield will
pay the interest and principal, will, in
four cases out of five, be sold out.
These plain and well kno wn facts APP
pear to prove that the average annual
product of money industry and agri
culture is not 10 per cent. and that,
while it may bring that price, it is
really not worth it. If all classes of
borrowers in the West could be
brought to appreciate this important
fact, it would be worth millions to this
region. There is world of financial
philosophy in it. Nothing is more
absurd, and, in the long run, more dis
astrous than the delusion that man
can get rich by borrowing money to
speculate on; it is the secret of four
fitths Of the cases of bankruptcy that
occur in business and of the sheriff''s |
sales that take place in the country.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-01-28
The New York Times and the Wis
consln Senatorshlp.

The following editorial appears in
the New York Times of the 18th inst;
Senator Carpenters recollection
ought to be a matter of certainty,
and we hope the people of Wisconsin
will not fail TO send him back to the
Senate. At such time as this we
cannot afford to loose one who is in
many respects the most powerful de-
batter now on the Republican side in
the Senate; the state q the country
and the aspect of the Southern ques-
ton call for the help of our ablest
men, and among them Senator Car
penter stands in the very front rank.
His speech on Louisiana affairs was
the clearest and most exhaustive
statement Of an intricate question
ever placed before the public. Mr..
| Carpenter is not one of those ex-
treme and violent men who would
justify any wrong which happened
to be committed in the Republican
name, but be is faithful TO the best
interests and aims Of the party, and
be can defend il like a statesman and
advise it with the wise freedom and
sagacity of friend. The people O.
| Wisconsin have now the credit O.
sending TO Washington enc OF The
strongest men who mas sat in The
Senate for many years We hope
they will not deprive themselves o
that credit by depriving the country
of the services of Mr. Carpenter.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-01-28
The Transportation Question Some
Sensible Suggestions.

S. Lester Taylor, John j. Hender-
son, James J. Hooker, and Alexander
Mcdonald, delegates appointed by
the Cincinnati Board of Trade to at
tend the Cheap Transportation Con-
yenton at Richm nd, Va, wrote a
letter to the President Of that conven
ton, stating that they would not be
able to be present, giving their views
as follows upon the transportation
question:
They have, however, carefully CON
sidered the question of cheap trans.
portation, and the many and various
schemes that have been presented to
promote the desired end, and while
they hope that the National Govern
ment will, as heretofore, improve ma
tural water lines of national impor-
lance, as fast as the revenues Of the
country will permit, they are opposed
to governmental interference with
railroads, beyond holding them strict
ly to the provisions of their charters, or
to its lending any further aid, by
grants Of land, bonds, or endorsements
to these great highways Of commerce.
They also believe that it is not posi-
BILE for long and artificial water chan
nels to compete successfully with
railroads and are opposed to RECON-
mending large outays of public mon
ely for any such works. 1t is, no doubt,
desirable that canals which have been
constructed should be maintained, as
they measurably prevent railroad mo
nopoIy, but the time has passed for
the construction of any more, unless
it may be short links connecting large
and navigable rivers forming the
boundaries of states, or to overcome
the distractions ola river thus situat-
ed; and even in extending aid to these
the reduction of taxation, and the ma
tional debt, should be kept steadily in
! view, and none should be undertaken
unless it shall appear that the COM
merce will maintain it, and that its
construction will be an unmistakeable
national benefit.
The modern idea, which was horn
since the late civil war, that the Ma
tional Government should impose
taxes to construct gigantic works of
so-calIed public improvements of
doubtful national character, when they
may DO clamored for by interested
parties, is utterly repugnant to the
spirit of the constitution, and at war
with common sense; and lift be adopt
ed az a principal of legislation, will
surely lead to the Capitalization Of
power, the promotion of enormous
schemes of public plumber, and the
emasculation of that spirit of individ-
ual and corporate enterprise for which
we have been so distinguished as a
people, and which has contributed so
largely to the rapid and unexampled
development of the resources of the
country
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-01-28
The Southern Troubles,

No man in Congress or out of it, in
/ none Of the n wspapers nor the end
less discussions of the subject have
we seen 50 clear and comprehensive a
review OF the causes OF Southern dis
turbances, nor SO compact an express
sion of the remedy to be applied as
in the remarks of the president on
that subject. They are worthy of a
place alongside the broad and humane
views expressed by Lincoln. He
says:
II invite the attention, not of Con-
gress, but of the people OF the United
| States, to the causes and effects of
these unhappy questions. Is there not
disposition, on one side, to magnify
wrongs and outrages, aud, on the 9th
er side, TO belittle them or justify them?
If public opinion could be directed
to correct surrey of what is, and to
rebuking wrong, and aiding the prop
er authorities in Furnishing It, better
state of feeling would be nculcated,
and the sooner we would have that
peace which would leave the states
free indeed to regulate their own do.
nestle affairs. | believe, on the part
of our citizens of the Southern States,
the better part OF them,-there is a
disposition to be law-abiding and to
do no violence either to individuals or
the laws existing; but do they do right
in ignoring the existance of violence
and blood shed in resistance to con-
stituted authority? | sympathlze with
their PROSTATE condition, and would
do all in my power to relieve them;
acknowledging that, in some instan-
ces, they have had most trying gov
eminent to live under, and very OPP
pressive ones in the way Of taxation
for nominal Improvements, not giving
benefits equal to the hardships impos
ed. But can they proclaim them
selves entirely irresponsible for the
condition? They cannot. Violence
has been rampant in some localities,
aud has further been justified or de-
med by those who could have pre-
vented it.
"The theory is raised, that there is
to be no further interference on the
part of the general government citi-
zens within state, where the state
authorities fail to give protection.
This is a great mistake. While | re-
main the executive, all the laws of
Congress, and the provisions of the
Constitution, Including the amend.
ments added thereto, will be enforced
with rigor, but with regret that they
should have added one jot or little to
executive duties and powers.
''Let there be fairness in the discus
sion OF Southern questions, the ad-
vocates of both or all political parties
giving honest, truthful reports of oc-
currences, - condemning the wrong,
and unfolding the right-and soon all
will be well. Under existing condi-
tons, the negro votes the Republican
ticket, because he knows his friends
are of that party. Many good cit-
zen votes the opposite, not because he
agrees with the great principles OF
state which separate parties, but be-
cause generally he is opposed to ne
GRO rule This is most delusive
cry Treat the negro as citizen and
voter, a. he is and must remain, and
soon parties will be divided, and not
on the colored line, but on principles.
Then we shall nave no complaints of
sectional Interference.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-01-28
VOL. 30, NO. 46.
THE EVERYDAY DARLING.

She IS neither beauty nor genius.
And no one would call her wise;
Ia a crowd of other women
She would draw no strangers eyes;
Even We who loved her are puzzled
To say where her preciousness lies
She Is just an every day darling;
In that her precionsHess lies.
She is sorry when others are sorry,
50 sweetly, one likes to be sad;
And IL people around her are merry,
She is almost glsdder than glad.
Her sympathy is the swiftest,
The truest a heart ever had
She IS just an everyday darling,
Ths dearest that hearts ever had.
Her hands are so white and little.
It seems as fit were wrong
They should ever work for moment,
And yet they are quick and strong.
If any dear one needs helping,
She sill work the whole day long
The precious every day darling.
Every day and all day long.
the is loyal as knights were loyal.
Ia the days when no knights lied.
4 nd for sake Of love or of honor,
II Il need be- trRe knight died;
But she dreams not she 10 Drawer
Than the woman by her side.
This precious every day darling.
Who makes sunshine at our side.
All envy her. Beauty and Genius,
And women the world calls wise;
The utmost Of all your triumphs
Would be empty in her eyes.
TO love and BE- loved is her kingdom
In this her happiness lies.
God bless her, the every day 5arling,
Is this her preciousHess lies
-Christidn On
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-01-28
nMeThe North Fayston. VI

The North Fayston, Vt, vol
cano, which, by the way, is declared
by some of the papers to be huge
fraud, is described as conical peak
about 800 feet high, riddled with
crevices, which have been measured
10 the depth of 100 feet, and from
which a vapor about blood heat con-
siantly rises. The top is covered
with spruces, and the limbs of those
nearest the largest holes are warped
and twisted by heat On the south
side of the eminence is a natural ca
nal of rocks, twenty rods long, three
feet wide. and from thirty to seventy
feet in depth, the sides of which show
the action Of intense heat.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-01-28

s Apropos of the general in
terest in "spirituar' phenomena, the
Hartford C0urdnt tells of young
man who came to that city from the
country some years ago, who was sur
prised to see table which was fas-
tened to wall, and upon which he
leaned his head, break away from its
fastenings and dance about, and to
see box of files, so heavy that two
men could not lift it, float in the air
at his touch. lie himself could not
explain the phenomenon, which was
accompanied withtwitchings and con.
WILSON'S Of his body, and, one morn
ing, after having exhibited his powers
the night before, he was found dead
in his bed, his limbs drawn up and
his countenance distorted, as they
appeared when exercising his power
to amuse his friends.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-01-28
ReA The Hon. Cnrl

asa The Hon. Carl Schurz in "a
recent lecture on educational prob
lens, stated lone of the greatest
curses of modern society was the
pernicIous habit OF having married
couples board at tolel or board
ing house. 1t was the custom which
weak ed marital and home ties
because it removed mutual care, and
left the mother not q queen, buv sim
ply q dweller in her own household.
Every wife ought TO be the queen Of
her own house. Why then the GUS
tom SO much INDUCED in? Because
girls were not trained in youth to
household duties, and they shrank
from them.
This was great error in the early
education of the female sex. Some
girls were led to believe that they
were more attractive when they
made themselves frames for the ex
hibition of silk and satin garments.
In answer to the questions why
do you not marry ?-are YOU not
able to feed wife p the young man
of to day would reply: Eyes, | am
able TO feed wife, but not to clothe
her" That might be very vulgar
but it was very true, and bachelor
clubs fourished upon the modern
extravaganza of woman. Until girls
learned that it was an error to think
more of the value they carried on
the outside of their persons "a her
than in their minds and hearts, bach
eIors ould increase, and marriages
would daily grow less.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-01-28
Saw Mill for Sale at Glen Ha-
ven, Wis.

Ii raby Offer Tor SAFE the New cam Saw Mil at
ften f.vtu. WIS The Mil coattius one double ro-
t,-1 4ei a gang eiser. T5iWmer. ; al saw. Single
4a, with iaiuter aud Su0t saw and Shingle psckerl
f34ne LAth aiiii aud haltiug saw. Planning mill and
Siigre mill The whole Is driven 10y new steam
Fngine Of f5ecb cylinder aud two boilers &@x33 -
Es the beet mis- ever baiit ~ tbls county aud y
eettte cnttiue p 800 feet 90 Lamoer 70 bte SHIN
e sfIj i50ao iath per cay. and Is IN perfect run
niuE ller. AMI Is situated at coed Polnt = sell
iun4aer ana IL procure logs. 1 viii also sell one or
t0o million teyt Of logs IN reasonable terms Time
Ntit IS z ven up7p portion Of the purchase money
"sntA preter % SELF half interest 10 some good
in al who would take charge o! the mill and
~. 7'r further particulars enquire Of the sub
Soi q. W. KING.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-01-28

KING OF SPAIN.-Alf, the new
King of Spain, is the son of his mother
Isabella Ii, who was dethroned Sept.
Both. 1868 H is seventeen years
old, being born on the 28tb of Nov
ember, 1857. He is commonly sup
posed not to be the son of his father,
Isabella's late lamented husband.
This circumstance is rather in bis
favor than otherwise, as it makes
bim the creature of the popular will.
and his accession equal to Isabella's
formal remuneration ofalI claims. The
Carlisls and uItrsmontaneists who
would have preferred the regular old
Bourbon branch, are glad to compro-
mise on Aft.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-01-28
sw%The original manuscript COP

~ The original manuscript copy
of the Declaration of Independence,
which has hung in the Patent Office
for many years, is fast fading away.
A correspondent writes from Wash
ington to the New York Post, that
unless means are taken to restore the
writing, not vestige will remain by
the time of our centennial The
managers of the British Museum are
said to be familiar with the art of re-
storing cid manuscript, and have
been very successful in several cases,
and it is suggested that somebody in
this country may perhaps have a
knowledge of the English method.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-01-28
Read Consider and Ponder.

From the Washington National Republican.
/. In the election for President in
1916 the 81 states Of the Union will
choose 500 electors. Those states in
which slavery lately existed will
choose l3s of them. The New Eng
land States, together with New York,
Pennsylvania and New Jersy, will
choose lis; and the II states lying
west of the Ohio, in which slavery did
not exist, will choose the remaining
rs. The following table shows the
vote of each state and of the sections:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-01-28

sG.A surgeon who lolgesa over a
butcher shop in Paris feels much az
grieyed at the announcement on the
shop window that 'killing takes
place daily in the establishment" The
doctor considers that his professional
skill is impugned by the notice, and
resents it sufficiently to go to law
ahnnf Il
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-01-28

ngA young man at Mt. Vernon,
Illinois, published 'personal"
soliciting correspondence with 'young
cultured ladies'" But the type fend
set it up colored ladies, and now that
unfortunate youth is receiving tender
missives from every dusky maiden in
the land
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-01-28

aa-The present system for penal
servitude for women in England is
one of solitary confinement, and it
is asserted that not one woman IN
twenty undergoes imprisonment of
over a years duration without show
ing signs of temporary insanity.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-01-28

s1. The seats of b echer's church
sold for s7o,3I9 the other day They
sold last year for s58,346 The scale
ranges from $3.50, bid by Chasles Dem
mis-, $50 by II. B. Claflin, s455 by
Henry G. Bowen, ETC., down to $40.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-01-28
? by means chiefly of the Whit,

~ means chiefly Of the White
League and its teachings aud prac-
tees the $50 called" Democrats of the
South have already got control of
most OF the late slave States, and they
are determined to have all of them
before the election for President in
1876, and thus cast the one hundred
and thirty eight votes of those states
as a unit for their candidate. Vic
lence and fraud in every form and
phase are the means by which the in
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-01-28

ea-An Ohio youth is to be hanged
next March for killing a small boy
to get possession of pound OF
brown sugar. 1t was the principle
of the thing, not the sugar, which
Influenced the Jury.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-01-28
BANKS.


I1IRST Natl 0NAL BANK OF BOSCOBEL, GRANT
L Co. Wis. A Meyer, Cashier, b. NJ Coates, Pres,
Directors NJ Coates J. ii. Sares, Edward Meyer,
Geo. r. Hiidebrand. Joseph Walker Transact a Gen
sral Banking Business; buy and sell Government Sc
cnrties, Gold, Silver, Bullion, &c. Draws direct on
All the principal cities Of Germany, England ireland
Scotland Scandinavia France, Italy, the Orient and
Australia Special attention given to the collection
Of monies and egacies in foreign countries. Passen
.ar Tickets Tor tnmap and Guron Lines 3l-42
~ 70 W RYLAND, BANKER LANCASTER WIS
~ Deposits received Foreign aud domestic exchange,
gold aud United states bonds bought and sold.
Loans negotiated and collections attic nded to 81 70
HUMPHREY 4 CLARKE, BANKERS. BLOOMING
ton, Wis Buy and sell Gold and Government
Bonds aud Eastern Exchange. Prompt attention Civ
collections AZ all points, and the payment of
taxes: Deposits received ard loans negotiated. Ad-
vauc.s ma0s upon approved securities Interest al
special deposits az best current rates. 3042
I HODGES 4 co, BANKERS AND DEALERS
- in Exchange and Government Securities Platte
vile, Wis. Particular attention given to Collections
aud proceeds promptly RENTED on day OF payment
Refer to Henry Glews Co., n. Y L. E6gerton n y;
3eeoud National Bank, Chicago, National Bank Of
sfHleHa Jt-+Z
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-01-28
WHOLE NO. 1868.
Select Miscelle neous.

Happiness is unrepented pleasure
Morality is but the veslibule ofre.
ligion.
Our enemies are outward con.
sciences.
The great artist is the slave OF
his ideal.
Purity is the feminine, truth the
masculine Of honor
What is virtue hut a medicine
and vice but a wound.
There appears to exist a greater
desire to live long than to live well.
Secrecy is for the happy-misery,
hopeless misery, needs no veil; under
thousand suns it dares act openly.
We take greater pains to per-
suade othersithat we are happy than
in endeavoring to think so ourselves
The wheel of fortune turns inoes-
family round, and who can say with.
in himself, | shall to-day be upper
most.
Light as a gossamer is the cir
oumstances which can bring enjoy
ment to conscience which is not it's
own accuser.
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can
write volumes; yet what is wisdom
without memory? A babe that is
strangled in its birth.
The best of lessons for o good
many people would be to listen at
keyhole. 1t is a pity for such that
the practice is dishonorble.
The way to conquer men is by
their passions; catch but the ruling
foible Of the heart, and all their boast
ed virtues shrink before you.
Emulation locks out for merit
that she may exert herself by a victo-
ry; envy spies out blemishes that she
may have another by defeat
He who freely praises what he
means to purchase, and he who emu
merates the faults of what he means
to sell, may set mp a partnership with
honesty.
-Common sense IS an element in
which many persons are sadly want
ing. Common sense implies sound
perceptions, correct reason, mental
capacity, and good understanding.
The man only is truly educated
who has been so trained in his youth
that his body is the ready servant of
his will, and performs with ease and
pleasure all the work that, as o mt
chanism, it is capable Of doing.
An easy observation of the most
common, sometimes Of the meanest,
thipgs in nature, Will give the trues;
lights, where the greatest sagacity
and industry that lights such observa
ton must leave us in the dark, or,
what is worse, amuse AMI miSlead us
by false lights. In an inquiry, it is
almost everything to be once in a
right road.
Among the numberless contradict
tons in our nature, hardly any is more
glaring than this, between our sensi-
tiyeness to the slightest disgrace which |
we fancy cast upon US from without,
and our callousness to the grossest |
which we bring down on ourselves
In truth, they who are the most sen.
sitive to the one are Of the most cal
lous to the other.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-01-28

ag- The Pope has sent his blessing
upon the new King of Spain and up
on Isabella, his mother. And yet
Alphonso does not know who his
father was, and neither does Isabella.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-01-28

DEN ".
IiOTELa.

nR. + + COOdES DENTIsr. B0S 0REL, vs. is :
~ once over sawyer 4 Favor's store. Can be ioun,
curing hours from . A, till5 z. n 30
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-01-28

This year began and ends on
Friday-a fact that occurs once in
about so years.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-01-28

1LAKEIY HOUSE. DARLINGTON, WIS THIS
old aud fayorite hotel having been entirely re-
ntted throughout is open for the reception q;
,utz,- Travellers viii meet with every attention,
tni VIII find il a pleasant house t. stop 81. FIRST
o.as4 commercial room Good statling and livery.
I0aN MI tCKgURN Proprietor. 32-lly1
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-01-28
TIE ACHER.
TONS0RIAL.


D AKBER AND HAIR DRESSER. GEORGE GIBBS,
u Lancaster. Shop In basement Of uorsemsn ;
sIark 32-4i