Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-12-26
Waterloonacy.
BIZ A wArERLooxArIc (pro tenn.

BY wATERLooxATIC (pro teml
Town-treasurer Ysger is taking in the PEG.
pies hard-earned circulating medium at the
rate OF eyer-so-many dollars. Farmer Spa, ks
! was the first man in the township to pay his
| taxes this year. Re came with his currency
| il hand even before thc Town Clerk had the
roll ready.
The Rev. Gilmore, of Potosi, will preach
here every other Sunday the ensuing winter.
He is popular with our people, and all are
glad that be will again minister to their spirit
usl wants, as of old His services are to be
literally rewarded in everything having value,
| from National Bank notes to beans and buck,
wheat fosr.
Many cisterns are in the condition of the
average householder's wallet during the holi.
day season and at tax-paying time-low, dis.
tressingly Iowa condition, by the way, which
makes some of our citizens (Schulter for in
stance) seriously think of changing the name
of the township and calling it Waterloo, from
this time forward until it rains again.
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late bridging Grant river in many places.
The ford at this points still open, though the
crossing is good and safe only few rods be-
| low. Before the snow came the skating was
superb. In the woods the sleighing is excel.
lent, and the young people seem disposed to
make the most of it,
Occasionally somebody kills deer and
then we all live riotously on venison and
mashed potatoes with homemade gravy.
day or two ago several men-heads OF
families all engaged in discussion concern
ing the relative merits of rye, corn, wheat and
| graham bread. Said one: 1T you want bread
to do hard work on, take half rye and half
wheat -four" Another: "Flour mixed with
bran makes good bread, just as the best hog
feed is said to consist of cracked corn and
| sawdust." TO this third responded, saying:
Yes; and have noticed that the more corn
is taken in proportion to the sawdust the bet>
ter it is-for the hogs" Then one Dragged
about the nutritious qualities of rye bread
remarking that his wife could make rye bread
you'd better believe. That may be so. said
| another, but I have never eaten any rye bread
that was not spolt in the baking, or some>
thing. 'Tisn't every woman that can make
rye bread fit to cat. Whereupon another
man, who had maintained a grave and re.
spectfu silence up to this point, said, by way
of settler: Some women can't make good
bread out O. nothing" Thus endeth, for the
present, really instructive lesson in political
economy The subject may be resumed in
my next.
That Lyceum is still in a hourishing con
dition. Last Saturday evening the question
debated was the justifabeness, or something,
of the execution of Major Andre. Your cor
respondent had been chosen one Of the dis
putants, but as he didn't know the first thing
about the question he ddn't appear on the
rostrum when his name was called. In fact.
he had urgent business way out in the woods
about that time. Catch him entering the lists
against such accomplished parliamentarians as
wager, Eddy, Page and Schuter Let me
see-Major Andre. who in the deuce was he,
JuoNt huu Wudk III Juc HltScuCl WIS he PH-
ecuted for, anyway?
Here are few points for that Shakespeare
club at Lancaster to think about; also one
for the consideration Of newspaper publishers
King Lear's trouble was not owing to the
cruelty and ingratitude of his daughters nor
was the old mans mind "all tore up" over the
loss of his possessions Ii found himself in
the levil of state described in the play be-
cause his subscribers wouldn't pay up. Did
he not say, that stormy night:
tax not yOu' you elements. with uDkindness.
Ioa subscription.
There you have it. Lear was an editor-pub
Usher and proprietor of the Britain B,sy,e,
BuAdoser or some such name as that. When
| get out an edition of Shakespeare's plays
the substance Of what have just written will
be found in one of the copious marginal notes
which are to illuminate tie work
The points |. want the Lancaster club to
take up are these: Did Shakespeare whoop it
up for the boys on the greenback side in polls
tics? IL not, why did he make one OF his
characters say-"there's your press-money"
Also, Shakespeare was undoubtedly a Grant
man, for in much Ado About Nothing" Act
|, sc. /, occurs this remarkable language
" Grant is the necessity" l know the reader
will smile, and say
Here's that COMPOUNDED mail-carrier, and
this Waterloonacy has to go into the ponch Of
Uncle Sam forthwith. Lick tha stuff into
shape, Mr.. Editor, and you will oblige your
readers and your correspondent at the same