Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-12-11
special HraaIp Correspondent.


prepare for your ThanksgivIng-d day
issue, will be warmed over for the
HERALD readers this week, will en-
deayor to add little something to
the dish by the way of an appendix
or supplement OF seasoning.
Thank. giving Day was observed
by every body here in one way and
another. Everybody ate turkey
some went to church. Many didn't
The young folks skated. We old
people nibbled Rhode Island green
ings and read novels, going to Rad
ways recherche restaurant tor oysters
fried, in the evening Down in Ken
lucky the people also had a good
time. Henry Watterson had a sump.
suous dinner. The feast lasted sev
ersl hours, and when it was ended,
the editor went to his sanctum and
wrote an article which appeared the
next morning, iouble-hea,ied, the ii
tie is "Some Breakers. Ahead" and
the concluding paragraph read as
follows:
So while the turkey. fragrant with oysters
and cele'y, smokes on the mahogany and the
rosy blush Of the wine nantes the crystailic
sides Of the drinking glass and the sound Of
laughter is heard in the land, let it not be
forgotten that few who are pacing the deck
YEARLY and auxiously overhead know that
there are breakers ahead. and the prov of
the ship of State is pointed toward them.
There il trouble here with the pom.
toon bridge, interfering somewhat
seriously with travel aud trade both
ways. The river Is filed with fi,at
ing ice, and the stream is already
firmly bridged from either shore to
the deepest ami swiitest channel near
the middle This gives the ferry a
rest and is source OF supreme salts
faction to The anal; boy with skates.
1t seems that floating ice is too much
for that part OF the pontoon which
swings open, down stream, to let
boats pass, the machinery not being
powerful enough to withstand the
pressure to say nothing of closing the
'draw" after it has been opeued -
That the railway company loses
heavily by this state of things cannot
be questioned. For the present, how
ever, they will have to endure the
annoyance ard the expense inasmuch
as Mr. Lswler's contract holds them
to existing arrangements until the
summer OF 1881 And then there
will be new deal. A bridge like
the one at La Crosse will be built, the
money therefor being already appro.
priated. 1t will be placed q mile or
so above the pontoon, and if all the
company's buildings are moved, as
they are likely to be, certain editor
Of this town, who owns land up ihat
way, will become rich man by the
contemplated undertaking. I am in
debted to Major VIele for thus bit of
news. There IS more behind, but for
the present it is quite beyond the
reach of the most iuq iisitive report
ers in the city.
Who is it that says that most men
will be found sufficiently true to
themselves 10 be true to an old ideal I?
This may be true,generally speaking,
but in the case OF Arthur Cleunam.
who loved Flora so nsdly in bis
youth and was loved so passionate
by her n return, the "old ideal" the
DRY was failure-a I'D barren
,dea'ity," in word IL was a fail
ure because will let Mr D,cs ens
give the reasons: "Flora, always
tai, had grown TO be- very broad too,
aud short OF breath; but that was
not much. Flora, whom he had left
y lily had become peony that was
not much. Flora, who had begn en-
chanting in all she said aud thought,
was d,tfuso ard silly. That was
much. Flora, who had been spoiled
and artless long ago, was determined
to be spoiled and art ess now. That
was fatal blow Sad enough, YOU
say, but where does the moral come
m or the application apply? There
ought TO be something Ut that kir d
here, sure enough, but am not able
to furnish it started out with a
moral in mind, bat noa when wan,
TO use it, it seems to elude me-crawl
into its hole and h,de. Maybe I'll be
able to give 1t next week, and maybe
again a majority of your readers will
have wit enough to solve t. cir own
moral, and apply tneir own applica-
ton,
| want to ask onr energetic and
enterprIslng friend, Mr. Doug. Oliver,
who writes rafting letter now and
then from and about Ellis county,
Kansas, what he thinks of the follow
ing by one of the best correspondents
OF one of our foremost daily news
papers:
WARNING ~ iaXfdRANrs
The evil effects of the wholesale living that
has been INDUCED IN for the past few years
concerning tar Western Kansas are this year
disasti ously apparent The greed and cupid
.s.- all