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Louisiana capitolian., 1879-07-05
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DUGGIES- Alsrge assortment Of Open
ID and Top Buggies, Barouehes and
Jersey Wagons, which viii be sold at
prices which defy competition, at store
If WIN. GARIG.
Louisiana capitolian., 1879-07-05

NO GET BUSINESS, you must adver-
i tise in the Capitolian,
Louisiana capitolian., 1879-07-05

OOAP-Afnll stock Of Proctor T. Gam
y ble's, Haas and Kellers Soap, always
on hand, and which ! am prepared to-
give at bargains in job lots.
VIM GARM.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-04-17
Serious Thoughts.

God is not in haste but his aim is
sure.
Who has deceived thee 80 often as
myself?
Aim high. but not so high as not
to be able to hit anything.
Time is gold throw not one miu-
ute away, but place each one on ac-
count.
Everybody seems to think himself
a mortal half.bushel to measure
the worlds frailties.
Minds of only moderate calibre
ordinarily condemn everything that
is beyond their range.
He needs no other rosary whose
thread of like is strong with beads of
love and thought.
He who thinks he has humility
enough shows that he is far short of
his practice of humility.
Society is a masked ball, where
every one hides his real character
and reveals it by hiding.
/" uou uiCu StoW fIttuOuS Ill tLelT
old age, they are merely making a
sacrifice to God OF the DEVILS leav.
ings.
The taste of beauty and the relish
of what is decent, just and amiable,
perfects the character of the gentle.
man.
No orc ever did designed injury
70 another, but that at the same time
he did much greater TO himself.
Read not to contradict and con-
flute, nor to believe and take for
granted, nor to take and DISCOURSE
but to weigh and consider There
are some men so exquisitly selfish
that they 60 through life not only
without ever being loved, but with
out ever wishing TO be.
The chief art of learning is to at.
tempt but little at a time. The
widest excursions of the mind are
made by flights, frequently repeated.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-04-17
Snakes as Life Destroyers

The loss of life in India due TO the rave
of venomous snakes is almost incredible ~
the disease which is as willy and deadly Sc ~
deadliest India reptile, is winding its cos s
around thousands OF people while the yie,U',
are unconscious of its presence 1t has lon.
been hobby with incompetent physician. =
assume that consumption is incurable af,s.
the formation Of tubercles has begun: and os
every case ,hey fail to effect cure, Of conrsa
tubercles had begun to form and they wer,
incurable. The records of medical scisos,
disprove any such theory. On the cnn,rarv
in cases of lung disease which had been cnrss
and the patients lived forty aud fftv years i
robust heath, post norton examination
showed large cicatrices (scars) where the IN
bercles had been formed and removed. Tba
tubercles are removed by absorption into M
blood An fficient Alternative, DR. Piercs,s
Golden Medical Discovery, must be used n
cleanse the blood of the scrofulous impurities
For tubereular consumption is only fern a,
scrofuIous disease Golden Medical Discov
cry is soverig: remedy for all fornls of scrof.
ulous disease, or king's-evil, such as tumors
white sweiings. fever sores, scrofalous sore
eyes, as well AS for other blood and skin dis,
eases.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-04-17
Learn a Trade.

Stephen Girard had a favorite
clerk, and he always said he s'intend
ed to do well by Ben. Lippincott. :"
So when Ben got to be twenty.one,
he expected to hear the governor
say something of his future prospects,
and perhaps lend helping hand in
starting him in the world. But the
old fox carefully avoided the subject.
Ben mustered courage.
''I suppose am free, sir" said he,
"and | thought l would say something
to you as to my course. What do
you think / had better do ?"
"Yes, yes, l know you are," said
the millionaire !; "and my advice is
that you 60 and learn the cooper's
trade"
This piece of advice nearly froze
Ben out, but recovering his equilib
rum, he said, if Mr.. Girard was in
earnest he would do so 81 am in
earnest;" and Ben forthwith sought
the best cooper in Spring Garden, be.
came an apprentice, and in due time
could make as good a barrel as the
best. He announced to old Stephen
that he had graduated and was ready
to set up in business The old man
seemed gratitied, and Immediately
ordered three of the best barrels he
could turn out. Ben did his prettiest.
and wheeled them up to bis counting
room. Mr.. Girard pronounced them
first.rate, and demanded the price.
"One dollar" said Ben, "is as low
as can live by"
"Cheap enough !! Make out your
BILL"
The bill was made out, and old
Stephen settled it with a check for
$4,000, which he accompanied with
this little moral to the story:
"There, take that, and invest it in
the best possible manner; and if you
are unfortunate and lose it, you have
a good trade to fall back upon, which
will afford you good living"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-04-17
Ar what time of life may a man

AT what time of life may q man
be said to belong to the vegetable
kingdom When long experien ce
has made him sage.
What kind of sweetmeats did
they have in the ark ? Preserved
pairs.
Why was the first day of Adams
life the longest ever known Be.
cause it had no Eve.
Why is cutting off an elephants
head widely different from cutting
off any other head Because when
you separate the head from the
body you don't take it from the
trunk
SOMEBODY says quantity and
beautifully: Gas the small planets
are nearest the sun, SO are little
children nearest to God"
A mules head is not capable of
culture and refined rearing, but it is
wonderful to what an extent the
other end of him can be reared.
Why are lawyers and doctors
safe people by whom to take exam
pie? Because they practise their
professions.
Do not expect others to provide
for you. Exercise forethought. In
health and vigor lay up for old age.
No man hss come to true great.
ness who has not felt in some degree
that his life belongs to his race, and
what God gives him He gives him
for mankind.-Phillips Brooks.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-04-17

The dryest place in this country
is Greeley, Col. The region around
has to be irrigated for crops, and
the men in town have no saloon to
call on when their crops feel parch-
ed.-N. Y. Com. Advertiser.
WHERE was Humboldt going
when he was ihirty-nine years old T?
Into his fortieth year.
WHICH is the most ancient of the
trees =? The elder tree.
WHICH are the most seasonable
clothes? Pepper and salt.
RECORDS of crime furnish the sim
news of many papers.
"Do you drink ?" asked lady of a
peddler. He dropped lis pack, and
remarked: "VeiI, / shust lieve drink
nit you as any oder mans"
The best way for man TO get
out of lowly position is to be con-
spicuously effective in it Req. DR..
John Hall.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-04-17
Sherman's Triumph.

1t is seldom that the opportunity
for brilliant public service opens to
a man in time Of peace. 1t is true
that the existence of "mute ipglorl-
Gus Millions" is denied by many,
who believe that every man is the
architect of his own fortunes, and
that the man makes the opportunity
rather than the opportunity the man.
This is undoubtedly true to a certain
extent. There is always as much
good work to be done as there are good
men to do it; and to say that men
can rise IN the world only by crowd
ing down some one else is to voice a
sentiment as cruel as it is false. We
have heard this very statement from
the lips of most staunch hard-mon.
ey man, while it is properly a tenet
of the Greenbackers, and only an.
other form of their general principle
that q man can become rich only at
the expense of his neighbor. A lit
tie reflection shows that this harsh
principle is applicable only to public
offices, and to tat positions which
have salaries not regulated by the
laws of supply and demand. In the
ordinary avocations of life, one &C.
tive, enterprising man sets in motion
train of interests which furnish en-
ployment to many others.
The success of the Resumption
Act and of the refunding Of the Ma.
tional bonded debt is really a tri-
umph of the Republican party
through Secretary Sherman as an in
strument. There are other men in
the party who might have carried
these measures through to the same
successful issue; but the chance
OF hitting upon another man who
would have done the work with as
little friction must have been slight,
Hence the triumph is largely per-
sonsl triumph of Secretary Sherman.
He is fortunate in having had the op-
portunity to display his talents in So
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-04-17
A Science Note On Farming.

FARMERS, your wagons will wear
out; your reapers, seeders, cultiva.
tors though you care for them SO
we'll, will go to destruction. Your
horses and cattle will not live al.
ways. Everything that grows or
is made by the hand of m an will 90
to decay-to dust. But there is
one thing in your possession that
you can keep good and useful for
ever ; that is the dust itself. And
out of the dust is where you get
your bread and milk and are to get
your wealth. But the dust does ap.
pear 10 decline or 10 give less re-
turns tor the labor put upon it.
When Grant county was new
when its young hills were fresh
turned after the fallow of centuries
it gave 10 the tiller several fold
more in grain than now. Why /?
Why is it less productive now =?
Because it's lands are worn. Like
an old wagon with loose ties and
cracked hubs it cannot carry as big
loads as it used TO- Yet the dust is
here. That which holds the nutri.
tious substances and is the agent to
effect the chemical changes necessa.
ry in the growth of the plant, has
not lost it's potency. The substan.
ces are absorbed but is there not a
way to replenish Is there OF SCI
ence IN farming? Many countries
have been far m ore exhausted than
our county which so early we call
"Old Grant" We read that ia the
last century there was a barren
waste in Lincolnshire, nearly in the
heart of England, so desert that
pillar was erected as lighthouse"
for a guide to travellers. Now, and
for many years the pillar stands in
the midst of fertile farming region,
wnere every Ut of the land is in
high state IF cultivation. The
change was eff cted by the use of
lime phosphate. Millions annually
are expended in Great Britain in
importations of fertilizers, and vast
fields long barren have been made
fruitful and profitable. Science sug-
gested TO farmers the use of the ref.
use of slaughter houses and fisher
les and even bones, flesh and blood
which before were nuisances that
people did not know how to get out
of sight and away or buried
where they would not endanger
public health. We need not recount
all that has been done. The facts
are not disputed. Old, sworn out"
soils have been reclaimed and made
profitable whenever the attempt has
been energetically undertaken
These remarks are suggested by
noticing the fact that Messrs. Strong
& Berger arc offering to our farm
ers perhaps the cheapest article that
can be had 10 this country to save
or renew the soil and make it con-
tinuously productive. How many
of our farmers have given attention
to this subject We are not aware,
but if they have not made it study
it is time they should. The manure
and straw and chip piles are good
but something more is wanted. No
farm reed lose in actual value IN
less, in such deluges as our little
rivera have had the past few years,
The soil is actually lifted and carried
down to the Gulf.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-04-17

conspicuous manner, and to con-
meet bis name with an important his
torical event; and the country was
doubly fortunate in the man selected.
We all remember how the Resump
ton Act as drafted by Sherman four
years ago was CONTEMPORARY re.
ferred to as "Sherman's Sham" For
tunately for the Act and its author
he was subsequently raised to po-
sition where he could prove the pos
Utility of the measure, and raise
Sherman's Sham into Sherman's Fri,
umph. He pays one hundred cents
on the dollar, and no one cares to
present the governments notes for
redemption, because they are as
good as gold.
But Sherman's enduring reputation
rests on double pedestal, and the
twin measure of low interest on the
public debt takes its place beside re.
sumption. The last of the per cent.
bonds have been taken up and three
hundred and forty-eight millions of 8
per cent. bonds have been converted
into A per CENTS, and thus nearly
seven million!dollars of interest saved
annually to the American people, for
all future time. These splendid
achievements will throw a lustre on
the name of Sherman such as bright.
ems the name of Thurgot in France
and OF all in every country who have
successfully extricated their govern.
ments from grave difficulties, by wise
and far seeing craftsmanship.
1t is now believed that the fears
expressed, lest payments for the new
loan would cause stringency in the
money market, are groundless. The
July payments come at time when
money is not in demand, and after
that payments from the treasury for
the per cents. will anticipate paw
ments for the new 4 per cents. As
to the continued success Of Resump
ton, few can doubt it after consider
ing our resources. The worlds
money, which is gold and silver, al.
ways follows the laws of supply and
demand and goes where it is most
needed; proulded, its action is not
disturbed by purely local currencies,
such as '6at" money. This works
by very simple economic law.
Whenever money becomes scarce in
particular country, prices are de.
pressed. it becomes a cheap market
for the rest of the world, and the
worlds money flows in. In any
country holding more than it's share
of the worlds money high prices
rule, and purchases are naturally
made where commodities are cheap
er. This law is as certain and har-
monious in its action as the law of
gravity, where it is undisturbed by
prohibitory tariffs, or by artificial, ir.
redeemable currency, created by
legislative caprice, for the further
ence OF political ambition. The
United States is rapidly gaining con-
troll of foreign markets for all sorts
OF Manufactured as we'll as agricul.
tural products, and there can be no
doubt that we shall receive our full
share of gold. Prices are improv.
ing. The Republicans of the
United States know that prosperity
and resumption, when they come,
must come together" were the pro-
phetic words of lngersoll in 1878
Already this prophecy is ss1siiing its
fulflment.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-04-17


LOANS made by Mr.. Greeley to
Cornelius Vanderbilt, after the lat
YER qusrreled with ais father, were
prominently mentioned in connec.
.. . "a the litigation growing out
W sne contested will. Immediately
upon tho settlement of the Wander.
silt estate, these debts have been re-
paid with compound interest, max
Ing an aggregate of about sixty. one
thousand dollars, and proves to be
the most valuable assets Of the Gree.
ley estate. The kind-hearted old
editor was not 80 foolish in his in.
vestments after all.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-04-17
To Young Folks.

The elopement or unexp ected
marriage of daughters and of sons
are circumstances which pain and
shock society, not necessarily because
OF the incongruity of the social rela.
ton, involved in the mating, but be.
cause OF the gross ingratitude visited
upon the parents. In American So.
ciety, it is we'll understood that great
liberty is allowed to young people in
settling their affairs for life. Girls
marry below them, boys below them,
and other boys and girls correspon.
dinghy above them, without more
than a passing ripple of social gossip.
The American parent is not as arule
very hard hearted in these matters,
but mainly interested to secure his
son or his daughter a reasonable de-
gree of matrimonial felicity and a
balance Of probabilities against go
ing to the poor-house. Time and a
promising disposition in the sutton to
get up and on in the world are likely
to bring the most obdurate parent to
terms. if he young woman is willing;
but it too often and in fact most gem
orally happens in these cases that
the young man has but a precarious
means Of support, if not actually in
dulging in low life. 1t will cost the
object of his affections but a few
months delay to put his affection,
his integrity and his ability to the
test of waiting, while it will proba-
bly, save her lifetime of regret and
misery. Under tfsse circumstances,
elopement and clandestine marriage
lose all their romance and become
mere pastime OF refined brutality to
ward the deserted home, thoughtless
perhaps, but none the less cruel.
We do not say this for those who
have erred, for it would be to late,
but to those who are under tempta-
ton.
American young people very fully
understand the happiness and free.
dom to which in all our vast middle
and upper life they are accustomed
from early youth. Every opportu-
nifty OF education 10 thrown open to
them. and from an early age they
mingle with adult people and with
those of opposite sex, under very lit
tie restraint. This open relationship
imposes personal responsibilities
early, and it necessitates for safety's
sake high degree of confidence
confidential confidence, so to speak,
between parents and children.
There are good many parents who
are less intimate with their sons
and daughters than some Eighty
companions of the latter may be.
1t seems to be necessary to recall to
young people some very elementary
considerations in the premises,-such
as that no new friend is likely to
take deeper or purer interest in
their welfare than those who have
given them life aud watched over
their growth from infancy to maturi-
ty. ln the course OF nature, the
father and mother knew best. 1t is
merely decent to consult them, it is
generally wise TO wait on their ad-
vice and consent, and it costs very
little to do so compared with the
fearful cost of lifelong mistake
Springfield Republican.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-04-17
DUEsTER the Democrat, in Con.
gress from Milwaukee, on financial
questions votes with the Repnbli.
cans,

Two weeks ago we could not tell
from the news received whether Cole
or Cothren was elected. Last week
the news showed that Cole had about
$4,000 majority. Now that the re-
turns are nearly all in Coles majority
proves to be about 10000. Cothren
is thick enough in his own district
but come to spread him all over the
State he comes out pretty thin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-04-17


WAsnINGToN correspondents say
that Senators and Representatives
from the South can take up more
room, and squirt tobacco juice farther
than any other class of men on this
continent. The Ladies' Gallery in
the Capitol has, since the advent OF
the present Congress, been taken
possession Of by peanut cracking,
spple-munching CROWD, leaving ladies
who take an interest in the proceed.
ings to stand on the gallery stairs
The revoluiionists have chosen an
appropriate audience to witness their
proceedings.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-04-17

In one OF Dickens's novels we are
told how a mercenary young lady
vas shamed into recognition OF bet
tsrthings by the complacent approval
Of an avaricious old guardian. In
like manner Jefferson Davis has
given up his melodramatic talk about
che "lost cause" apparently disgust
Cd by his Congressional eulogists,
snd now eounsels reconciliation. mod
ssation, ard burial of past feuds.
Loud praise from blatherskites is
pretty sure to disgust a man with his
own unworthy principles.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-04-17

CELERY A CURE FOR RHEUMATISM.
New discoveries--or what claim
TO be discoveries the healing vir-
tues of plants, are continually max
ing One of the latest is that celery
is a cure for rheumatism indeed, it
is asserted that the disease is impos-
sible if the vegetable be cooked and
freely eaten. The fact that it is al
most always put on the table raw
prevents its therapeutic powers from
becoming known. The celery should
be cut into bits, boiled in water until
soft, and the water drank by the pa.
tient. Put new milk, with little
flour, and nutmeg, into saucepan
with the boiled celery, serve it warm
with pieces Of toast, eat it with pota.
toes, and the painful ailment will
soon yield. Such is the declaration
of a physician who has again and
again tried the experiment, and with
uniform success. He adds that cold
or damp never produces, but simply
develops, the disease, of which acid
blood is the primary and sustaining
cause, and that while the. blood is
alkaline, there can be neither rheu-
matism nor govt. English statistics
show that in one year (lS76) 3,640
persons died of rheumatism, and ev.
cry case, it is claimed, might have
been cured or preyepted nv the adon-
ton of the remedy mentioned. AT
least two-thirds of the cases named
heart. disease are ascribed to rheuma
tism and its agonzing ally, govt.
Smallpox, so much dreaded, is not
half so destructive as rheumatism,
which, it is maintained by many Ply
sicians, can be prevented by obeying
natures laws in diet But if you
have incurred it, boiled celery is pro-
nounced unhesitatingly to be a
specific.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-04-17
GONsUMPTIoN ,UaKD.

An old PHI, stefan, retired from practice
having had placed in his hands By an East
India missionary the formula of simple
vegetable remedy, for the speedy and perma
ncnt cure for consumption, bronchitis, ca>
tarrh. asthma, and all throat and lung affec-
tons, also a positive and radical cure for
nervous debility and all nervous complaints.
after having tested its wonderful curative
powers in thousands of cases, has telt il his
duty to make it known TO hIs suffering fel.
lows. Actuated by this motive. and desire
to relieve human suffering, will send, free
Of charge, TO all who desire is this recipe
with full directions for preparing and using,
in German, French or English. Sent by
mail by addressing with stamp, naming this
paper, w. w. Sherar, 14s Powers Block
Rochester, New York. 6w4
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-04-17

HoRATIo SEYMOUR has again been
nominated as Governor of New
York, this time by solid conven.
ton of self-elected Demo crats who
desire to oppose the increasing
strength of Mr.. Tilden in his party.
1t will be remembered that not long
ago Mr.. Seymour declined such a
nomination from the regular state
convention. He is said to be the
only man in his party who does
not desire an Office, and it is very
hard to convince Democrat of his
since rity in declining.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-04-17

THERE Is an almanac issued annu.
ally, in December, by the Chinese
Board of Astronomy, and bestowed
by special act of Imperial grace on
the Coreans, Lewchewans, Annam-
ties, and other tributaries. 1t con-
tains, says Prof Harrington, sec
ton intended to be practical guide
in the common affairs of life. The
poorer classes watch this part of the
almanac, and marry, bury and do
other things only when it advises,
and the better-educated people, it is
thought, do not start on journey or
enter Office except on favorable days.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-04-17


NEGROES are leaving Louisiana in
large numbers for Kansas and Mis-
souri,. Doubtless many will find it a
bitter change from the sunny South
20 the breezy plains of the West
Yet this movement is the best posi-,
bic solution of existing difficulties.
Once make the colored people re
alise that they can secure just treat
nsnt by going where justice is the
rule aud not the exception, and the
Aorse-whip and shotgun will at once
be relegated to their natural spheres.
Already some districts in the South
ere alarmed lest plantations will be
crippled by the loss of their only
available laborers. AS a remedy for
eatrsges emigration is cheaper than
troops, far more effective, and per.
techy unobjectionsble to the most
Astidious advocate of reconciliation.