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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-17
White Lies.

Not day passes, probably, in which
we do net listen to several of those polite
fibs which usage sanctions. For in
stance: "Cigars do not affect me In the
least; indeed. am quite partial to the
aroma, says the white-lipped gil to her
gentleman friend, who smokes constants
~ at her side; her suiferings only eqnaled
by those of the other girl who persists
in riling with her back TO the hors! S.
and says that the motion does not affect
her in the least, though knowing that
many times before she has been reduced
to state Of miserable sea-sickness by a
similar proceeding. Not as home to-
day, Joiln;" and the footman receives
and delivers the message to visitors as
unconsciously as though there were no
moral wrong involved in the transaction.
/ recently heard an animated converse
ton concerning the propriety and moral
ity of polite lying. Several. including a
minister, asserted that both politeness
and kindlincss demanded that we FREE
auently say that which We dynot mean,
admire that we do not hike, assent to
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-17
Second Iife

Men may inquire solemnly AMI with
many doubt whether any other world
than this awaits the human race but.
once admitting a second life, the darf
cloud of punishment must be seen on
that remote horizon. There can be no
second life without memory Of the
events OF this career. II is the chain OF
memory which makes a resurrection from
ere de q possible. If person should
arise from the grave and have no con-
sciousi ess of ever having lived before,
that wouid be no second life only in a
most trif ng and unjust sense. DIR. Ed
ward Beecher once published quite a
volume to show that man is now in his
second Grid, and at death will pass to
his third and last. But if we have most
utterly forgotten any such first life this
IS mao our first existence by the very
fact Of such forgetfulness. Ii we did all
i've orce before in this planet or in some
other planet, that fact has been forgot
ten with an amazing uniformity and
thorough ess. Memory makes this our
first life. A thousand volumes from all
the wise men of all nations could not in.
ttryene, with their learning and elo-
quence, and oppose the simple evidence
Of memory in this strange case. 1t is
your first world. Your memory can
pick up its twenty or thirty or forty or
sixty years, and can hold them all in it's
grasp and say | { nee lived one of these
summers and wiz tiers. We can all look
at that bunch of frded flowers and s4y
saw them when they were fresh and
beautiful. This recollection is. there
tore, that mental n,tri' !. re which alone
will make possible a resurrection from
the dead. The only immortality that
can be thought of is, therefore, one
which can look back III on this first ex-
perience of being. Tn ess friends shall
know each other, there v i'll be no meet
ing of friends, for take away the recogni-
ton and all else is empty. Thus the
future world awaits wholly upon mem
ofy-the creator of immortality. Prof
David Suing.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-17
Back to Back.

A rowdy cannot endure the sight of
well-oressed man. 1t acts upon him as
red shawl upon bull. Some years
ago, as two young gentlemen were going
home from q party in PHILADELPHIA. they
were attacked bya gang of rowdies. The
youths were brothers, and noted for their
skill IN boxing. Standing back to back,
tney knocked down their ASSISTANTS as
fast us they came at them. In few
minutes the rowdies fled. Similar tactics
once saved two English anglers from be-
ing bitten by pack of fierce dogs. As
they were passing farm house, large
dog, whose barking and glazing eyes am
nounced his rage, dashed at them.
Catch up some stones and stand
back to back, or he'll worry us, cried
the elder
Armed with as many stones as they
could pick up, they put themselves in
position and waited the charge. But
the dog did not attack. He evidently
thought the position too formidable for
him to carry by assault. After circling
round the men two or three times, he
returned to the farmhouse.
The anglers, congratulating them
SNftNS VA tA4C CtlStSS6 VI IilEiE
pressed onward They had just passed
over the brow of hill when chorus of
" Ielp, yelP. yelp I" announced another
and more dangerous attack.
We are hunted" shouted one to the
other; more stones, and stand firm. or
we are dead men"
Filling their pockets and hands with
stones, the two men again stood back to
back, and waited anxiously the attack.
On came the large dog, with four other
dogs, all open-mouthed and barking
furiously.
They, too, had their tactics. They
began by cireling round the anglers, and
gradually drew nearer and nearer.
A well-aimed stone struck the leader
of the pack on the head and rolled him
over. Another stone hit a second dog
on the side and sent him out of the circle
howling with pain.
Then the pack halted, retreated some
distance, and again began to circle round
the men. Sulenly they went round and
round, until, seeing no chance Tor an as
sault, they went slowly off over the hill.
The anglers went their way. specu-
lating as to the method by which the
large dog persuaded his four com
paniors to join him in assaulting his
enemies.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-17

ever known throughout the Western States, and
in heavy raias, consequent floods, and extern
sise damage In the Eastern States. The rains
IN the E Ist, following tue partial thaw, swelled
the rivers, and all the principal cities along the
Potomac, the Pennsylvania rivers, and Other
streams, had their streets turned into tempo
rary canals. The extraordinary sight was wit
messed IN Washington city of t0w-boats en-
pl1yed in transferring passengers along Penn
sylvania avenue. Three spans OF Long bridge
were asheda away. At Toe do, Ohio, the water in
the streets was five feet deep. Boats, bargcs
and rchoeners we're caught in the ice gorges,
and many OF them sunk. Trains could not leave
as the tracks weIe flooded or strewed with
debria, tue bridges dangerous or
swept away Several freight cars lying
on the tracks were submerged and their con-
tents damage From Trenton, N. j., it is re-
ported that the ice On its way down the DelL-
are river crushed everything in its track.
Bridges on country roads and railroad bridges
were swept 2wAyby thousands throughout Ohio,
Pennsylyanis, New York and New Jersey. An
IRON span 200 feet long and weighing 400 iofis,
belonging to the Pennsylvania railway brIjged
at Toledo, was thrown by the ice directly into
the CHANNEL of the Maumee river. Re-
ports on Monday are as folio IS "The foo e
dttcts report material Improvement in col
dluon. The streets Of Washington are again
phssable. The Maumee hes fallen neally two
fe ct I0iedo. but trains are forced 10 take
\ crcutoIs route. The OHIO river touches the
curb 1t the foot Of Main street in Cincinnati.
Gen Cyrus Bussey urges that 1900 men lie
set at work ON the levees at New Orleans.
DeadwOod reports three feet of snow and u
bl nding storm. On tue Burlington road ia
Iowa the snow is as high a. the car-tops." -.
The poi,e of Montreal have traced out several
mysieroJs burglaries by finding grocer's
wagon d tie door OF q who'll sale houie at mid
gnt. The grOc.ry proved to be only fence
tor the stolen goods Of which large quantiti, 8
were lecoYered.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-17

that with which we do not agree, and IL
many ways speak and act lies 10 ayoid
wonnding the feelings Of other p..opie.
One lady present, who Immediately re-
ceiyed the sobriauet of Puritan, main
tanned til It, while it is not necessary TO
say all that we think; while we need
never give adverse opinion unless 1t Is
positively called for; while we need not
obtrude our likes and dislikes, nor ex-
press our unfavorable criticism; while,
indeed. we should seek for something
which we can honestly admire and praise
in every one, all shams and subterfuses,
esneeially all words spoken with intent
Ia deceive are. in plain Saxon, lies, and
no amount of kindness OF purpose can
change their moral character. A lie is
a lieonothing more. nothing less.
change.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-17
The Aifectionate Son

!. It IS all very well to be polite to Ia
dies. but some people IN this country
carry 1t too far. There vera sa.
erai persons in Galveston ayenna cor
and one of them was smoking which
was allowed, as there were no ladies n :,
the car. A rough-looking country cu :.
toner; with an expression that reminded
one OF an Irish potato, scowled time ~
50 at the smoker, and finally said =
-, lou amt got no right to smoke
when there are ladies' in the car y 'o
don't see any ladies'" replied the
as.onished smoker, looking around
Maybe not, but my mother wos !
woman, and You sha'n't smoke w dss 7 I
memory p00s 70 her
Inc smoker gazed at the homelv faat-
nfes OF the man with mother and s iss,,-
SAID 49, ~ ne Win low,
5, why didn't you tell me sooner vo,,r
mother ON, was woman, if You knew :, y',,' !.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-17
COllecting,Debts in New York State.

Like most other civilized States, New
York long ago abolished Imprisonment
for debt, but, also like most others, her
statutes permit special proceedings for
detention of debtors who are believed 10
be about to go beyond the limits of the
State and the jurisdiction of her courts,
or who are charged with fraudulent
practices. 1t appears that the laws gov
erning cases of this kind in New York
are so construed as to permit very gross
and barbaTous abuses, and a movement
has commenced which will doubtless
result in such modification of the law as
may remove this reproach. 1t is said
that in the jail in New York City there
are nine men who have been imprisoned
for long terms-one for four years
without any other charge than the
creditors alleged belief that they in
tended to leave the State. Being unable
to give bail to the amount of creditors
claims, these unfortunates are detained
at the pleasure of those upon whose suit
they have been committed. Such
practice is, of course, intolerable, and
now that its existence is exposed, meas
nres for its suppression will not be long.
delayed. Perhaps the law would not
have been left till this late day in the
present form, but for the somewhat ex-
ceptional relations which New York holds
with the general business of the country.
The city being the commercial center
and general supply point of nearly the
whole country for many important lines
Of trade, her merchants are naturally
large creditors of non-residents, and the
tcla IS he A.,
framed for the purpose of giving them
rs much security as possible in their
dealings with persons living beyond the
limits. The law under which debtors
are imprisoned in the manner complained
Of was designed to bring reluctant or
dishonest debtors to terms, in case they
should venture into New York iurisdic-
ton; and it is possible that the amend
ments which are now sought will retain
something of this sort of moral suasion.
While the State assumes to enforce
the obligations of debt contracts, there
can I've no very strong objection to means
of enforcement which will at least ex-
haust the property, open or concealed,
If debtors. The fault with the present
law of New York seems to be that it
leaves the poor debtor at the mercy of
the creditor, instead Of requiring prompt
proceedings to test his ability to pay.
If fraudulent concealment or diversion
of debtors assets is made crime, he
should at least be allowed fair trial
when charged with it. The existing law
in New York practically permits sentence
for imprisonment for life upon the mere
affidavit of creditor, without jury trial
nr any other Judicial proceeding to de-
termine his guilt or innocence of fraud.
1t is strange that system capable of
such barbarous abuse, and which, as the
evidence shows, has been made the in
strument of most atrocious oppression,
should have received SO little public at
tention heretofore, in q city whose news
paper writer's and reporters are supposed
to be always on the lookout for matters
of sensational character. Minneapolis
Tribune
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-17
How 10 Keen Warm.

The most sensible way Of meeting a
cold spell is to make the system stove
OF itself, and this may be done by eating
largely of highly carbonaccous food. In
cold weather you ought to ent plenty Of
fat food--fat ham, pork and beans, ba-
con, fat beef, pork sassages--in fact, all
manner Of greasy aliment may be in
duiged in when the mercury has sunk
into the basement of the thermometer.
Food Of this kind is slowly burned in the
interior economy Of the eater, but the
a inal heat evoked is greater than that
produced by any other kind Of animal
TODD. Wear plenty Of clothing. not
necessarily in heavy outer wraps, which
only keep off the wind, as in garments
which cling closely to your skin and re-
tain your animaa heat-the heat you are
making IN your personal stove. Cloth
iug by itself does net warm, but by It's
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-17
Mo Music In Themselves.

An amusing incident occurred in
Client while the American and British
plenipotentiaries were forming a treaty
of peace between the two countries. A
locker on might have seized it to quote
against the Americans Shakespeare lines
beginning:
The man that hath no music In himself
The authorities of the city, anxious to
honor the representatives of the two ma
tions, proposed to give a grand musical
entertainment. The leader of the band
called upon the Americans to get their
national air. The question was imme-
diately raised by the three Minister
Adams, Clay and Bayard--as to whether
Hail Columbia or Yankee Doodle"
was the national air. Having settled
that to the latter belonged that honor,
the gentlemen we're requested b. the
band-master to give him the air.
Mr.. Adams, looking at Mr.. Clay, said.
I" | can't do it; / never sang or whistled
tune in my life. z
g Nor /, said Mr.. Clay.
Nor /, repeated MIR. Bayard.
"Call John r exclaimed Mr.. Clay.
referring to his negro servant.
John entered. John, whistle Yam
kee Doodle for this gentleman r
JOHN whistled it accurately, the lead.
er wrote down the music, and the next
day tkc Grent band played Yankee
Doodle" as the national air Of the Unit
ed States.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-17

non-conducting power prevents animal
heat from passing away from The body
too rapidly, or the outside temps nature
from reaching the body Then, as to
sleeping arrangements. Lots Of people
fill the stoves in their chamt ers to red
holiness, till the air is almost suffocating.
This is a great mistake. The room
should be no warmer than usuil but
extra bed-covering should be used. He
who goes to bed with an easy conscience,
just enough food in his stomach to
keep the gastric juice out of mischief,
his room not warmer than 10 degrees,
and enough clothes on him to keep the
animal heat from passing off too rap
idly, win sleep the sleep of the just
whose notes are provided for. Ec
chance
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-17
THE BUTCHERS LOVE.

A butcher loved q tender maid;
To WOO her we're his designs:
Ard be sent her copies Of gushing vcrFe--
In fact, real telder.oine.
The girl, a'as! he could not suet-
She would love him as a brother:
Bnt, when implored to marry, fa,d:
Tripe, please, and find another
The butcher Fti pursued the girl;
His peas became much holder.
The girl at last, 10 find relief,
Gave to him cold shoulder.
He knew then that his hopes were vain,
Put, as he eft, he said:
Since you hake caused me such distress
I'll haunch you when I'm dead"
He p;ned and grew so thin aud pale
He felt his end was nigh;
But his woe was such he did not know
Whether TO liver die.
He t-ied to drink TO drown his cares,
And there found no relief,
BIT daily grew more wobegone--
You never sausage grief.
At last his weary soul found rest:
His sorrows now are Ger.
No fick maid now troubles him
Pork reacher, he's no morel
dtpaTd MattpdeT.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-17
WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW.
THE EAST.

In Is given out in Wall street that
Gould and Vanderbilt are hereafter to work to-
gether in the development of Southwestern
railroads and in the construction OF line to
the sxican capital.
THE weight of snow and the with
drawal Of SUPPORTS caused the south wah OF the
old portion of the Lake Shore depot at Buffalo
TO fall, the roof burylng a train. Five persons
were crushed to dealt aud several Others seri-
ously injured. There were several CASES Ct
miraculous escape, two persons having broken
windows and ieaped into Exchange street. The
loss VIII be $4,000.
GRS. GRANT, Logan q. Murray and
H. V. Nowcomb propose to establish in New
York, at an early date, the United States Bank,
with capital Of S40O,001.
A PASSENGER train on the North Penn.
sylvania railroad collided with freight train
at Rock Hill station. Two men were li''ld,
four fatally injured, and FIVE bad ..Jured.
The . & station was demolished and the tele-
graph operator seriously, If not fatally hurt.
PRoF. FRANKLIN CARTER, OF Yale Col
lege, has been elected President Of Williams
College.
THE button shop Of the Scoyille Man
udctulnS company, IN waterbury, Ct, WIS
destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at
$4,000. President Hayes was the guest Of
the BALTIMORE Press Association at its annual
banquet ... Charles Edward Forbes, Judge
OF tho Supreme Conra Of Mass husetts
IN 1913, diel in Northampton, aged So
Tho venerable Judge Ezra w laiusoiI, Of tue
Superior urt of Massachusetts,. Is about 10
resigu.. The Canal Boat Owners Assoc
atom VI New York har adopted a rus-
olniion urging upon the Legislature the a o.
hton Of al tolls upon west-bunId freight.
The Northampton banbs rUbbrrs-Draprr Red
Leary and BILLY COnnera--are constantly guar -
ed by armed men. The bank will give the
thieves 500, 900 for the return Of tie ether St
cprlties..... Gen. Herman Uhl. business manager
OF the New York Stats Zettung ucci !.ntaily
shot himself while cieanlug loaded revolver.
lie cled within half an hour. Charles Cotton
treasurer of the Dollar Savings Bank at Hart
40rd, Ct, whose death is ainoulred was the
seventh In direct line from one OF the pll2runs
WHO came TO Massachusetts bay IN l6IO
iettr Coopers 9Oth birthday rec elscd hitting
celebration IN New York. he serlt a check for
SlO,JOJ t. the trustees OF the Cooper Ins.i-
tute. "A tank Of the Standard OH Com, aiiy.
at BAyonneport, y. j., exploded and took ire.
several thousand barrels OF naphlha icing con-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-17
What Is q Cold

In the first place, we must be PARA
doxical, and affirm shat it is rot a cold
at all. 1t is rather a heat, ii I might
so express myself that is, it is form
OF fever, but. Of course, Of very mill
type, when it is uncomplicated ny other
diseases. It is certainly, in the ma
lority of instances, due to the effects Of
cold playing upon some portion Of the
body, and reacting upon the mucous
membrane through the Intervention If
the nervous apparatus. What il called
cold. then, is in reality n fever; and
though, in the majority Of instances, it
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-17

is Of such trivial nature as to necessi-
tate few precautions being taken during
its attack, yet in some cases it runs a
most acute course, and may be followed
by great prostration. Even when the
premonitory symptoms of cold are de-
veloping themselves when, for exam
pie, what medical man calls rigor,
or, as it is popularity designated, SHY
ering is felt, when we would naturally
suppose that the animal temperature is
below par, it is at that very moment
higher than the normal; thus showing the
onset of fever. Chambers Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-17
Only Words.

1t is an unfortunate fact that with
many authors words are almost the only
care; they make it study not SO much
to produce new sentiments as to recon-
mend those already known in fairer
decorations. Thus the reader searches
Tor information in vain he finds moth
ing but words.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-17
WASHINGTON.

INFORMATION has been conveyed To
the President from the secret service agents Of
the British Government that the Irish svrnpo-
th'xers with the Homc-Rule movement i'm Ire
land are contemplating an armed movement
upon Canals.
In reviewing the scheme of NJ. de
Lesseps, the House Committee ON InteroeoApie
Canals argues that an investment of foreign
capital nader foreign charter cannot be dis
connected from an assertion of forei. n mower
and that the Panama route offers To
our commerce no advantages over
that of ofher nations The committee
expresses the opinion that Do Lessons
scheme would cost $500. 000.000, and would
not he completed IN less than twenty wears.
The Nicaragua route i, held to be not free from
opeenon, and Inferior in advantages to re.
huantepec. The praotcability of Eads' ship
railway has been proven, and it can be con-
esructed at one-fourth the cost of n canal With
locks, and completed in five years.
Mr.. Roman T. PORTER, chief of the
wealth, debt and taxation division of tho
Census Bureau, has issued a preliminary report
upon 800 cities having a population Of oyor
! I,oo0 each. The statement * a startling one
The bonded debt of these cities nssrees 10
SOS, oOl,V0a, and there are 5000 snisller
clsles AMI towns yet 70 he heard from. Tho
OF those in the Middle States s76. AMI IF t6os,,
IA the SOUTH $50, while IN the West the per
capita debt 4 only about 532 Mr. Porter esti
macs the entire local indebtedness State
county ard city -of the United States al over
SL1no,OlO O0O. The Senate Committee ON
reIri ores VII report IN favor Of creating the
lsrstoty OK Psmbina from the northern half
u Dakota. ''''''
Ut IS reported that Speaker Randall ia
firmly opposed to any greater rate Of interest
than 8 per cent in the rounding measure. and
mat IA the inference committee appointed by
MN no compromise will be thought Of.
POLITICAL
The Republican Executive Committee
OF Virginia adopted, by vote of 10 10 7. an
address calling upon Republicans to stand
~ the party organization. This action il con-
n1ertd victory for those who oppose an al
Nance with the Readjusters.
GENERAL.
TIE peach-growers in Delaware are of
the belief that the crop this year will be cut OF
oy the en- c.s Of the recent cold weather.
NO LESS than three new trunk lines
between New York ana Chicago bid far to be
srransed within the present vear. The Va
lasii system, having traffic contract with the
Nfeat We tern, Of Canada. will run ITS
nAins over that road from Detroit 10
Buffalo. whence New York can be reached
BY tue extension Of the Delaware, Iacka-
1apna and Western An alliance between the
oia Atlantic and Great Western and the New
York, Ontario and Western roads viii conncc,
Chicago aud Cincinnati With New York. The
thru fchome is backed by subsciia ions Of
1885,, 900, and embraces the Lake Erie and
Western and the Ohio Central road,, reaching
NNv fpf'Sby the Central New Jersey.
IHE extraordinary weather of the cur.
rent senson eliminated on Saturday, the I2th
nst, ID ore Of the most furious snos-s:orms
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-17

An experienced matron says: "a
man will eat soggy biscuits twice a week
without a complaint when his girl in
vites him out to tea, but when the girl
becomes his wife, if there is the faintest
suspicion of saleratus in them the neigh
bors will think the district school is out
for recess b. the racket he makes.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-17

A YOUNG fellow in Iowa City objected
to paying Justice 80 as a marriage fee,
and walked off with his girl to find some
body who would perform the ceremony
for $l.50. That chap had what Or.
Collyer would call ssclear grit.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-17

YOUNG Mr.. Ecru has a very sallow
complexion. He says he isn't proud.
and he doesn't care at all about his
looks, but what bothers him ia that his
complexion is naturally SO yellow that
he can't tell when he is bilious.