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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-10-06
Learn a Trade.

1t is very evident that a great dis
proportion exists as regards education,
between that kind which is needed and
is of practical Importance, and that
which is not; but which thousands ac-
quire without any definite purpose; and
if they decide upon some purs nit it is
not chosen with that regard to THEN
qualifications and deficiencies which the
importance of the question requires.
The young man who thinks he will
be lawyer, doctor, or minister, and
hopes to attain success, must decide
on his choice of any profession by some
thing beside his own ambition and con-
ceit in the matter as to his fitness and
ability for the same. The desire to fill
high and influential position is land
able only when it is not disproportion'
ate to one% ability.
One of the strongest incentives that
influences many to rush into the pro-
fessions without that careful delibera-
ton which the subject demands, is the
idea that those avocations will reflect
more honor and credit upon them than
trade, but instead of such honoring
the profession, the reverse is glaringly
apparent, that large proportion of them
are sadly out of place.
1t does not require much sagacity to
see that one had better be good lum-
herman than third-rate lawyer, a first
class mechanic than a quack doctor.
There are those who have spent
great deal of time and money in study
ing Latin and Greek. aud many other
things, which never did them any good,
practically speaking, and have learned
too late that their time might have been
employed to far better advantage.
Many young men, after years spent in
misdirected effort, have had to resort to
anything that offered. OF this there are
instances too numerous to mention
! The world is full of so-called educated
men who don't know ANYTHING Of any
| importance, considering tic kind Of
knowledge which the needs OF the country
| demand There is a need Of skilled me-
chanics, capable, active men, instead Of
/ doctors, lawyers, ministers and clerks.
II is a question Of great importance
not only to the young, but to the parents,
| this of preparing their children for
| business wherein they can not only earn
their daily bread, but secure to them
selves some of the comforts and conven-
fences of life, and an honorable position
| in the world.
When people get out OF the prevailing
| but foolish notion OF thinking that il is
more honorable to have a profession
than a good trade, and when the reverse
of this rather is taught to the young, it
cannot fail 70 have judicious tendency
toward correcting an error viii h las
been fostered long, and lies close to the
| interests of al.
If every man had an occupation that
was chosen because he was better fitted
for it than for any other, he would be in
a condition to enjoy much IN life, and
| his sphere Of usefulness and influence
would be greatly enlarged. Practical
| education, with careful consideration
of ones abilities and deficiencies, with
an adaptedness to the wants and needs
of our land, cannot fail to maxi our ron
dition much pleasanter and orr laboI
more renur0eratIve.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-10-06
Wonders Of the Creation.

The following paragraph is from the
eloquent Chalmers:
about the time of the invention of
tue telescope another instrument was
formed, which laid open a scheme no
loss wonderful, and rewarded theinquis-
tive spirit OF man. This was the micro
scope The one led me to see a system
n every star; the other led me to see a
world IN every atom. The one taught
lne that this mighty globe, with the
"hoie burden Of its people and its coun-
tries, Is but grain Of sand Of the high
immensely; the other teaches me that
every grain Of sand may harbor within
tGe tribes aud families OF q pussy popula-
hon. One told the insignificance Of the
world l tread upon; the other redeems
II from all insignihcance, for it tells me
tlNt IN the leaves of every forest, and
the waters OF every rivulet there are
worlds teeming with life, and number
less are the glories of the armament.
Inc one has suggested - me that, above
and beyond all that is visible to & man.
thtre may he fields of creation that
sweep lmmeasurably along. and carry
'ae impress of the Almightv's hand TO
the remotest scenes OF the universe: the
H'her suggests to me that, within and
beneath MI that minuteness which the
Alied eye of man has been able to ex-
o're' there may be a region of invisi-
g. "n0 that, could we draw aside the
Nt~'enous curtain which shrouds it from
D''l senses, we might see a theatre Of as
10y wonders as astronomy has unfold
universe within a compass of a
P,.'u' 50 small as to include all the DOW
~ y the microscope, but where the
Noluer-worklng God finds room for the
exercise OF all the attributes. where he
{ IN ralse another mechanism Of worlds
"Ad MI anu animate them all with the
evidence Of his glory
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-10-06
Who win Follow
riterarr Worldl


I4ongfellow, Emerson, Whittier,
Holmes, Lowell-what are we to do for
authors when these are gone? Who is
In the succession? On whom will their
nantes fall? These questions are often
asked in a Respondent tone, as if Ameri-
can literature we're to die with these.
For one answer to them, ii is enough TO
ask whether American literature died
with Irving, and Cooper, and Por9 And
if this is not enough, other answers are
by no means wanting.
One such other is that III literature
achievement is seldom repeated, and,
therefore, fame is seldom duplicated.
There has been but one Homer, one
Dante, one Chauneer, one Spenser, one
Shakespeare, one Milton. Each midi
vidual genius makes his own mark in
his own place, and passes away. No
one copies it. He who attempts 70 copy
1t proves himself not genius. 1t is
not to he desired. that we should have
new Longfellows, Emersons, Whittiers,
Lowells, Holmeses. We do not want
their sacred touch TO become common
performance. Their followers must
strike new paths for themselves
There is another thought. Great
flames may be rising around us which
we are too near to measure. The older
generation of Amer can authors. of
which Bryant was one, have been be-
fore us so long as to become invested
with some shadowy grandeur of the his
toric parsonage. The present public
has grown up, as it were, into their
presence. 1t found them in possession
of the field. They were already of the
past, and the past is venerable. They
were before the war, and the war has
showed the years that preceded it back
into an honorable antiquity. Ours is a
new era. 1t cannot yet be that the men
who belong to the new era should seem
to be of the same stature with the men
of the old. They are too near us. We
touch them daily. They are bone of our
bone and flesh of our flesh. But for the
generation which shall come after, thew
may be looming up into the proportions
which other figures wear to-day. They
have not yet assumed the historical
perspective those lines alone determine
fame.
But there is another thought still.
We shall never know, as a wise and
thoughtful scholar said to us the other
day, how much the civil war decimated
our literary ranks. Ours is a thinned
out generation. We are the one-armed
soldier. Our best members are missing.
Poets, essayists, historians, philosophers,
in the embryo, highest promises OF
future performance were cut down in
the days of 1S6l-65. We shall never
know what American literature lost in
the losses of those terrible years. Per-
haps there must be an interregnum of
mediocrity until the youth of to-day
have attained their capacity of to NOR
row.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-10-06
A Cold. Cherries Ride.

Probably the most cold-biooded affair
that ever occurred took place at GER
tain summer resort In Wisconsin. There
was going to be picnic, and young
man and the girl he was engaged to be
married to started in a row boat to cross
the lake, taking an ice-cream freezer full
OF frozen ice-cream for the picnic. just
before arriving at the picnic the boat
capsized. The boat was bottom side up,
and the young man helped his girl on
to the ice-cream freezer, and he got on
the boat, and after floating for half an
hour they were rescued. The girl did
not complain at the time she was put on
the freezer, as she was glad enough to
get on anything that would float, but,
after they got ashore, and she had
chance to reflect on the matter, and talk
with the other girls, she concluded .hat
his getting on the boat, which was nice
and warm, and putting her aboard the
ice-1sam freezer, which was so cold and
cheerless, was breach of etiquette that
would stamp any man as being selfish,
heartless villain, aud she refused to
speak to him, and declared the en-
gagement off. He was very much
mortified over the affair, and tried
to explain that he was more &C customed
to boat than she was, while he rea-
soned that she would naturally be more
familiar with an ice-cream freezer. 1t
certainly looks to us to have been cold
blooded transaction, and while the young
man might have been ratified, and pow
erless to grasp the situation as he would
If he had 1t to do over again, the girl is
certainly justified in being indignant
An ice-creanI freezer is cold and cheer
less companion even when empty, but
filed with CONCEALED cream and pounded
ice, and in the water, it cannot but have
been an Arctic exploration on a small
scale. Beside the ice, it is a notorious
fact that ice-cream freezers are made OF
zinc, the coolest metal in the world, If
we bar women's feet. "Sheridan' s Ride
has been spoken of in poetry and song,
but it pales into insignifcance by the
side of this girls ride on the ice cream
freezer. If the young man had exhib-
tied foresight, and had a side-saddle
buckled on to the ice-cream freezer, the
experience would have been robbed of
much of its frigidity, if there had been
a thick blanket under the saddle, but he
failed to take even that precaution. As
it is we do not blame the girl for break
ing off the engagement. In addition we
think any court would decide that be
should pay for the ginger tea and cough
lozenges that she had to take to cure her
noId = pecE's ,C3fyl
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-10-06

get out Of The yard Way" continued
Biinkum, warming up, "Ler butter has
taken first premium at the Oxford coun-
ty fair for the last dozen years" "ls
she a farrow or a new milci- COW ?"
" Wei, said b.. scratching his head,
sAe's-well she's (which do you
want y"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-10-06
The East River Bridge.

The following dimensions Of the vari-
Gus parts Of the great bridge spanning
the East river at Brooklyn and New
York will prove Of interest:
Length of river span, 1886 feet
inches.
Length Of each land span. 990 feet.
Length of Brooklyn approach, 81
feet
Length of New York approach, 1852
feet inches.
Total length of bridge, $3.50 feet.
Width of bridge, s. feet.
Number of cables, four.
Diameter of each cable, Is. inches.
Length of each single wire in cables,
3,578 feet 6 inches.
Ultimate strength Of each cable, H.
200 tons.
Weight Of wire, II feet per pound.
Each cable contains 5, 296 parallel (not
twisted) galvanized steel, oil-coated
wires, closely wrapped TO solid cyiin-
der 15i inches in diameter.
Size Of towers at high-water line, 140
x59 feet.
Size of towers at roof course, 136x53
feet.
Total height of towers above high wa
ter, 27o feet.
Clear height of bridge in center of
river span above high water, 1876 feet.
Height Of floor at towers above high
water, 119 feet 3 inches.
Height Of towers above roaifwTayA I -.
feet.
New York tower contains 46, 945 cubi,
yards masonry.
Brooklyn tower contains 1924 cub,e
yards masonry.
New York caisson weighs 1000 tons.
Weight Of concrete filling, 5000 tons.
Size Of anchorages at base, 129xlI9
feet.
Size of anchorages at top, 117xl04
feet.
Height of anchorages, SO feet front.
s. feet rear.
Weight Of each anchor plate, % tons.
First wire run across May 20, 1877.
TAKE of love as sober man takes
Il -
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-10-06
Memorial Services Elsewhere.

All over the United States, in Canada and in
many parts of Great Britain, business was
wholly suspended, religious services were held
in the churches in the morning and were very
largely attended. La the evening there were
meetings in halls and churches at which the
great public services of the illustrious dead
were referred to, and in which his character
was tittingly eulogized. The funeral
procession i'll Chicago was the largest and. all
considered, the most remarkable which ever
occurred in that city. 1t consisted of all the
military organizations, all the principal
secret bodies, the postoffice and other
Governmental and municipal officers and
subordinates, national and benevolent So
clet1es numbering not less than
$4,000 men, and by some estimated at twice
that number. The grand array took nearly
two hours to pass given point. The city of
Chicago never before experienced what may be
termed total suspension of business. There
was not transaction in financial or
commercial circles; the Union Stock
yards were utterly closed, for the
first time in their history scarcely saloon in
the city opened its doors during the hours oc-
cupied by the procession, and even drug stores
added TO the general quiet by ceasing to do
business. In truth, in every city and village
in the United States-Ncrth, South, East and
West-the solemn ceremonies enacted at CleYe-
land were remembered with lesn imposing, but
not less earnest and regretful services
In Great Britain, from one end of the island to
the other memorial services and meetings were
held, bells were tolled, flags were displayed at
hal:-mast, shops were partially closed, and
private residences and hotels had drawn cur
tans.
The bells at Windsor Gaelic were tolled for an
hour, and there were services in Westminster
Abbey, at which Canons Farrar, Duckworth
and Cheadle assisted. The city of London was
literally draped in mourning and the Manehes-
ser guardian appeared with mourning borders
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-10-06
Rlinknn's Cow.

Blinkum put mp notice IN the post
Office advertising a COW for sale. Now
on a square trade Blinkum can't be beat.
A neighbor wanted to purchase a COW,
saw thenotice. and called upon Blinkum.
81 understand Won have COW to sell, .
said the purchaser. Yes, eir, and she's
as good COW as ever whisked her tail
IN mosquito time" said Blinkum.
" How old is she ?" "Just years old
last spring, and not q day older.
" Breachy?" inquired the purchaser.
Not breach, said Biinkum. What
kind Of milk does she give Z? +" I" 1t AIM
milk. 1t is clear cream, and forms into
butter balls all stamped before You can
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-10-06
hadn't Faded.

A big, fat colored woman went to fhe
Galveston Chief of Police and told him
that her step-son had run away, and she
wanted to know where he was. sit
bodders me to know why he left. He
had everything he needed to make him
cumfatle. / done all / could for him, =
she observed.
HAS he any marks by which he may
be recognized?'
'.Well, ] don't reckon all de marks |
made on him with bed-slat while de
old man was holdin' him has faded ous
vet.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-10-06
The Last sad Rifes-An Imposing
Pageant.

The funeral obsequies of the lamented James
Abram Garfield occurred at Cleveland, Ohio,
on Monday, Sept. &c. The ceremonies began
at the pavilion, in Monumental Square, at 1890
o'clock. The immediate members of the fami-
ly and near relatives and friends took seats
about the caskst, and at each corner was sta
toned a member of the Cleveland Grays, each
of whom stood like statue during the entire
programme. Tho members of the committee
about the pavilion we're almost cloaked in
Grape, their draplngs being very heavy.
The audience assembled to hear the last SER
vices of religion included Grandma Garfield
Mrs. Garfield, Miss Mollie, James. Harry,
Abram and Irving Garfield. Following them
were Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph, Colonel. Mrs. and
Miss Rockwell, Gen. Swain, DIR. and Mrs.
Boynton, Captain and Mrs Henry, Mr.. and
Mrs. Sheldon. Private Secretary Brown, and
MIR. Warren Young and Gil members Of the
Cabinet and their wives, 20 well as general
officers of The army and navy foreign Ambas-
sailors Governors OF fourteen states, with stats,
and prominent citizens representing the large
cities OF the United States. Beside these there
were an immense army, composed of the regII-
lar army, the citizen soldiery from various
States, and countless throng Of secret and be-
nevolent organizations.
The service commenced with singing the
hymn, Thou Art Conc to the Grave " (bv
Heber), followed by three portions OF HOW
Scripture read by the Rt Rev. DR. Bedeli.
Bishop of Ohio. Rev. Ross G. Houghton, pas
tor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church,
Cleveland, then Tered prayer, after which the
Rev. Isaac EIret:, Of the Church Of
tile Disciples, Cincinnati, delivered an eloquent
address. DR.. Errett was listened to with a
close and earnest attention. lie spoke for for
" minutes, and rhen he closed hush for q
moment hung over the vast audience.
The Rev. Jabez Hale ti.en read Garfield's "a
vorite hymn, which Was beautifully sung by
the Vocal Society as follows
Ho. reape-s Ct LIES harvest,
Why stand with rusted blade
Until the night draws round thee
And the day begins TO fade?
Why stand ye idle waiting
For reapers more 10 come?
The golden morn il passing,
Why sat ye idle, damb?
Thrust in your sharpened sickle
And gather In the grain;
The night is fast approaching
And noon viii come again.
The Master calls for reapers.
And shall He call in vain {?
Shall sbeaves lie there ungsthersd.
And waste upon the plain?
Mount up the heights Of wisdom
And crush each error low:
Keep back words of Knowledge
Thai human hearts should know
Be faithful to thy mission
In service OF tls Lord.
And then golden ehap,et
Shall be thy just reward
Rev Charles s. Pomerov delivered the Anal
prayer and bendecition, after which the VI asi,.
ington Marine Band played Nearer, Nv God
10 Thee"
A few minutes before u O'Clock the military
bodyguaFsI. from Washington moved NJ the
east incline, entered the p2 siou. halted at thu
bier, lifted the easket containing the nation
dust, ornsmenied opiy BY the Queen yictoris
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-10-06
VOLUME xxx.
BITTERSwEET.

walked along the hedges row,
Where tangled vines and milkweed grow.
The sun was blazing overhead;
Each ragged leaf with dust was red.
No flower doomed along the line,
On either side the land lay parohed.
said, This way is like to mine;
No flowers along my pathway shine;
Nor grace nor beauty meet my eyos,
But uphill paths and scorching skies
Later, wake the hedges way
The birds were gone, the pasture gray.
What sudden glory greets my eyesl
The borrowed hues Of sunset dyes.
The graceful vine twined round and round
With beauty all the line has crowned
Scarlet and gold, the berries glow
With splendor summer could not show.
Again the likeness holdeth fast;
The glory came to me at last
And beauty in these later days
Makes up for earlier rugged ways
The happy tears shut out the sight
Father, Thy way is always right
Hartford Times
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Opposition.

certain amount of opposition is |.
great help to a man kites rise against
the wind and not with the wind even a
hard wind is better than none. No man
ever worked his passage anywhere in a
dead calm. Let no man wax pale, there
fore, because of opposition +; opposition is
what he wants and must have. to be good
for anything Hardship is the native soil
of manhood and self-rehance. He who
can not abide the storm without finching
lies down by the wayside to be over
looked or forgotten.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-10-06

OK the Colorado desert a species OF
tortoise grows to a weight of twenty-five
pounds, and the meat of this is consid-
cred great delicaey among the Indians.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-10-06

TAKE of love as sober man takes
wine; do not get drunk,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-10-06

Charles Vincent, h S1,tsS noo oTs w vi
lectoI Bnaness attended to promptly in all parts 81
Grant county.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-10-06

w Rotn,1on Licensed Aucuoneer located
~ OuVOl1ldllf at North Andoyer, Gran
county. Term, reasonable.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-10-06

Mt Hope Hotel, b. To hso 5Fa's RSeP Pas
H. will take Notice that ! prepared to accommo
date them with board aud lodging. Attentive host
lers and good stabling
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-10-06

Bloomington Hotel, n si@en p1 %SoS-
tor, y oonnngt6r, Wis. Having rehttcd and bull
ample room for the accommodation OF guests, / an
now prepare 10 accommodate them with wel-fur-
nished rooms, good beds and wel-supphed tables
Hdnpe room. Attentive hosticr. Good stablng.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-10-06

Smalley House, 1 1Ps9ol $ M s@slsy T P5o
attached. Meals at all hours. Rooms well fur
nished.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1881-12-16

Henry Bailey and John Davis. Adj
administrators with the will annexed,|
and Joseph Bailey, Trnslec under said
will Of George w. Bailey, deceased.
Henry Bailey, Joseph Bailey. Jane Goss.
Ann 5. Bailey. Jennie Bailey Louis b..
Bailey, George s. Goss. George r. Adams :.
Samuel 4. Perry. Orrin Perry, Ida Perry.
Aaron Perry. Nalvina Perry. Alyah
Perry, Hannah b. Healey, Frederick
Bailey, Gertrude Bailey. Ann G. Hall,
Sarah Xix. Abigail Wilson and Trustees
lofthe cemetery IN the city Of Manchester,
IN the State Of New Hampshire, whose
names are unknown.
u tho Circuit Court, OF Dubois County,
Indiana, January Term, 1881.
TO Henry 3. Bailey, Joseph Bailey,
Jane Goss. Ann s. Bailey. Jennie Bailey,
Louis b. Bailey. George 5. Goss, George
Il. Adams, Aaron Perry. Malyina Perry.
Alvah Perry. Hannah ID. Healey. Fred
erick Bailey. Gertrude Bailey, Ann G..
Hall. Sarah Rix. Abigail Wilson. and the
Trustees Of the cemetery in the city OF
Manchester. State OF New Hampshire.
whose names are unknown: Yon are
severally hereby notified that the above
named petitioners, as Administrators
with the will annexed, and Trustee
under the will OF the estate aforesaid /,
have filed In the Circuit Court Of Dubois
county. Indiana, q petition, making you
defendants thereto, and praying therein
\ for an order and decree OF said Court.
authorizing the sale or certain Real
i Estate belonging to the estate Of said de-
'|cedcnf. and in said petition described !: