Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-01-06
THE RUIN OF oALvERT's CORNERS
How Sol Lciiin's BIszes Beat his Backers.

The following from the pen o
Petroleum V. Nasty is too good tc
omit from print. We hope that it may
teach valuable lesson to many who
are disposed to bet, and generally lose
upon the supposed Swimming horse. ,
In horse racing, as in foot racing, OIL
in any other sports that are subject tc
the control of jockeyism. it is not
always 'money that makes the mare
60" Nasty says:
| Calvert's Corners wuz to hev bin a
large and flourishing town, and wood
hev ben, only it was nipped in the
bud one DAY. or ruther in one week.
One man filled what it had taken
many men to accomplish. 1t was a
boss that rooined that promisin town,
and made a miserable hamlet NV wat
otherwise wood hev bin prosperous
city.
Hoses! Hoses hev made and
rooined more men than any other
instooshun the Lord ever created.
Hoses hey bin my room three sever
al times, witch is twixt ez menny times
ez a avridge man OF to be rooined.
Wimmin kin stand it offner, but three
times is too many for a man. | hev
talent in that direckshun.
Thirty years ago lived in Calvert
Corners, wioh was promisin village,
witch wuz to be promisin city. 1t
he'd all the elements We he'd
churches to bnild, skool houses to
erect, plank roads to construct, and
a raleroad or two wuz promist us.
1t wuz hos' that rooined it ala
boss that soved salt on that garden
and made it howlin Wilderness.
Thirty years ago wuz not the ven.
cradle bein | am now On the con.
trary, | wuz as green yooth ez ever
bet his last, lone dollar on the little
Joker, on the race-track, and imme.
iitly walked home becoz of irremedi-
BILE impecoonlosity.
In them days | knowed Sol Lofin
and envied him. Sol wuz the owner
of dozen bosses, witch he run, or
trotted, eZ the case mite be, agin
watever sp0r: who he'd the possibles
to risk on sicn events He wuz the
most onlucky man / ever seed-he
lost otfner than he won-but somehow
he KEEP on gittin richer and richer,
and addin boss to boss, and farm to
farm. How did he do it? Let the
sekel show.
Sol lived in Calvert's Corners, and
the people wuz proud of him, becoz
he had done so much to improve the
stock NV the country. He wuz so
public spirited ez to import boss
from England, wich his MAJORS yoosed
| to improve their stock-at six prices.
Their wuz an eggscitement when that
boss arrove. He was blanketed from
his nose TO his tale, and wuz taken off
the cars with ez much care ez tho he
he'd bin the Prince nv Wales. Men
cum fifty miles to see that boss, and
Sol made a small forenoon out Nv him.
Ez Sol he'd did so much for the
Corners in the way of furtherin its
material interests, the Corners bleeved
in Sol, ard stedfastly refoozed to
bleeve in anybody else. They bleeved
in him all over. They alluz bet on
Soils horses, and seemed better pleas
ed to lose with him, than to win with
them ez wuz agin him.
Sol he'd a boss NV WITCH much Wuz
expected, becoz Sol he'd a printed
pedigree NV him framed in his stable,
and besides he alluz KEEP him blanket
ed. Sol limited to the Corners that
he wuz holdin Blazes till he Good git
suthin with enuff money behind it to
make it with while, and then he
wantid his trends to go in regardlis.
He didn't have long to wait, for over
in Bulger ther wuz man very like
Sol witch he'd a boss called Calico,
witch he intimated Good git away
with Blazes. The Corners smiled,
and the upshot NV it wuz match wuz
made. Sol told us to git all the bets
we Good, and wat Blazes Good do, and
he ashoored us he he'd the softest
thing in the world.
SO we did go in, and when we
coodent git bets even we gave odds,
ontil every dollar that the Corners
he'd, and all the promissory notes
that Good be drawed, wuz venchcred
on the result Deekin Adams bet
$40O, and then stopt. He sed that
Bulger deserved punishment, but il
wood be onehristian to completely
room the entire commodity. Elder
Smith thot diffrent. Eff Bulger he'd
faith in Calico, let it show its faith by
its works He shood take all the bets
he Good git and smite the Phillistines
hip and thigh. That wuz the kind oil
saint he wuz, haleloojer. He thot
Deekin Adams forbearance wuz a
culpable week.-mrs.. He wuzn't shoor
that he hedn't OF to be churcht for it.
1t wuz wilfully keepin capitle out Nv
the Corners, and he who woodent
pervide tor his own household wu2
wuss nor an middle. Besides, he
lacked bout $1,000 of enuff to complete
| ne church,, auu now EOuiu ~ NC idlnoo
teasier ? 1t wuz throwing away ar
opportoonity, which he woodent be
guilty nv, nohow.
1t struck some Nv US as ruther Gu
rus that the people nv Bulger wuzn''
bettin, themselves, but it wuz all beir
dun by two or three fellers with big
boards wich saed they wuz represent
ing that village, but SIGH was the con-
| fdence in Sol, that this little circum'
stance wuz past onnotist, and we
took all they offered, goin so fur ez te
give three for one. FINELY we hed
kivered all that we Good Nv the money
nv them fellers, and the race cum orr
To our onmitigated establishment, anc
and our great grief Blazes didn't per
form jest as we expected. In short ht
didn't perform at all Calico walk
away on the first heat, tied him
F on the second, and beat him witt
neatness and dispatch on the third
The big whiskered fellers who repre-