Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-11-14
"Your smiles | court not,
Nor your frowns ! fear;
Your distrust of Inc is naught
As is your naughty sneer.n


| write this in Gutenberg, funny
little German town, where there is a
lager beer saloon at every corner and
another between them, and where the
ladies have no waists, but everybody
here is round, rosy and good natured
and they all have their little yellow or
red houses with front yard full of
flowers, and nobody seems to get in
ebriated. There are four Yankee
families in this town of fifteen hun
dred inhabitants; the rest are all Ger
mans, and it is the suggest, bright
est and contest place that / am ac-
quainted with on the Mississippi.
The 1nfar. keeps diary. SO do l.
We religiously spend half an hour
every afternoon in writing up the &C.
count of our previous days travel.
This is done for the benefit of our pos.
terity, in evidence of the bravery and
recklessness of their ancestors. Can.
didly, think the infants journal the
better one of the two. His meaning
is never obscured by unnecessary let
tiers or words, and he writes directly
to the point every time. Here is a
specimen page:
Munday, Sept. 9th, 1878.
81 cooked brekfust. Had pork and
bred and tee. Then l washed my
red shurt. could not get it dry SO
hung it up on a poal at the end of the
bote. Harry sed it was signal of
distres, and asked me if / did not
fele distresfull. / did becus | ct to
mulch pork for brekfust. We stopp-
ed just before dinner and got sum
milk. There wus dog but he did
not bite becus | looked at him rite in
his ize. At mite thare was muskee-
toes. Tha are awful troublesome. I
hatem EN-.
Even the infant mind can express
its contempt for these pests, you see.
Now | will give you my account of
the same day:
ut is astonishing how early we
rise. At about four we awake and
the kid pitches into his work immedi-
ately, Of cooking breakfast, while
gently but firmly lie still and give d.
rections. The pork yoa pine (not
originaD for in doors tastes not like
this fragrant ana ielectable hogs
flesh fried, though it is in coneIom-
Grafton OF ashes and sand which we
invariably find in the frying pan. AT
ter breakfast the sun grows hotter
| fear headache, and again gently
but firmly lie still and give directions,
while Lely washes the dishes and
then his flannel shirt, using our single
bar of soap for both In the forenoon
| read in K. K Hale's book, SHOW TO
do it, and singularly enough found
that he describes his attempt to make
just such a trip as ours, only on an
eastern river, and how he was deterr.
ed from starting by the identical ar
guments that were used upon us I
am glad to find that l have more
strength of mind than E. E. Hale.
Lely bought quart of milk just be.
fore dinner. Twenty cents, young
man. the Norwegian farmer told him
was the cost, and the youngster &C.
tually paid it without saying word.
Dinner in the boat was a magnificent
spread of sardines, bread, pickles,
milk, and some cold boiled ham which
| bought at McGregor. The letters
from home which we received at that
place have made us feel as if we were
after all not entirely cut off from our
friends and kindred. During the af.
ternoon tried my hand at sketching
the bluffs as we passed them. One OF
my finest efforts was pronounced by
Lely to be a real good pig and
| drew no more. He has taken TO NAM
ing and writing out the names of the
bluffs from some fancied remem.
brance, and has already discovered a
| scoopelo,' ssteem engin,' sBabtist
| church, CHEESE and sburd's nest.
| We made our beds under the lee of q
huge round bowlder, and laid like pa
thence under rock, smiling at nous.
quitoes, until the wind rose in the
middle of the night and we slept in
peace. .
At Prairie du Chen we discovered
an artesian vel, or, rather, precise.
ly eighty.one residents pointed it ou1
to Us. 1t is really pretty sight bu
there is no occasion, for the citizens t.
make such row about it as they d.
lit doesn't begin to come up to Nj
agara, and the water has taste Xix,
a mixture of coal oil and sulphurette,
| hydrogen boiled down and stralne,
through city sewer. True, they sa,
| it is healthy. but should prefer sick