Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-03-02

IA 80, tneH nc VINO causes TWO hogs TO |
grow where once hog couldn't sprout,
is just too utterly too too for any thing.
The woods are full of such men down
here. Verify he that maketh a farm in
the woods is greater than he who taketh
a city.
To many the boundaries of the Hurri-
cane are SO uncertain as were those of
our country and the British possessions
in the days of Fifty four, Forty or
Fight
Ancient history tells us that Carthage
was built on SO much land as could be
measured by a string cut from the hide
of an OK. 1t would take big OK hide
to encompass the Hurricane, and don't
you forget it. Who shall say that in
that respect it is not greater than was
Carthage? In yonr humble correspon-
dents opinion, there are dust begrimed
farmers amongus who are more deserv-
ing of praise than Hannibal who led her
murderous armies, or Scipio Africanus
who reduced it to ruins. Uncertain as
are the boundaries of the Hurricane,
certain 1t is that scope of country sew
eral mites in extent is known by that
tltle-given ii by the earliest pioneers.
Fertile farms and thrifty farmers abound
therein. Wide tracts of woodland still
remain as formed by nature, and nature
was never stingy in the Hurricane.
All around, and dividing us from the
cold and cruel world, are rocks and hills
interspersed with wild romantic glens,
which at times are filed with torrents
rushing down to join the great Father
OF Waters. To the amateurs geologist
the beds of these torrents furnish a world
ofawonders; locked in eternal letters of
stone thousand forms of a prehistoric
world are brought to view. Forms that
breathed, and moved, and We're endowed
with life, perhaps when the human race
was but dream of the ages to come.
Among these hills and wales the lover Of
nature need be at no loss for matter or
interest in an afternoon ramble. Yet
would say to the unsophisticated resi-
dent of the urban districts, that dogs are
numerous in this vicinity. If so be it,
you should conclude to take a ramble
through these border lands, arm Your
self with good hard club, and slip
joint of stove pipe on each leg Thus
equipped you can wander at your own
free will, and be prepared to say with
Byron.
To sit on rocks, to muse DER flood ard fell,
To slowly trace the forests shady enc.
This is not solitude It's but to hold
Converse with natures charms and view
her stores unroled
Dwelling so near to nature, what won
der should there be that nature has
many ardent admirers among us? That
exquisite and superlatively too too con-
dition represented by Oscar Wilde has
not yet been attained but the romantic
and poetic has its disciples for all that
Learning that one OF our poets was
soon to produce a grand epic of the
present age, your correspondent by al
most superhuman exertions has sue
ceeded in obtaining, not the poem it
self, but the incident on which the plot
is based.
Trivial as it may seem in itself we feel
assured that from it the mind of gen
ius can such tale unfold as will make
each individual hair stand on end like
quilts upon the fretful porcupine.
Judge for yourself.
A young lady who lived in Dubuque
Put out bait for to catch young duquc,
At the bait on her hooque,
And he gave her some words of rebu-
que.
Tho he tried very hard to keep calm
His words to her soul were not balm
For he said tho, salm
A dnque I'm no claim
TO be caught by SO silly u shalm.
Then she called in the rest of her beaux
And she told what he said unto theauX
And they tramped on his teaux
And twisted his neaux
And put him out doors where he freaux.
The Hurricane is known, not so much
for brilliancy as for force, which think
you will admit is true of all Hurricanes
and we expect to see its reputation sus-
tanned when this epic is produced
1t has often been said that this portion
of the county is behind the times. 1t is
just possible the critic has compared it
with some place ahead of the times. Al
most invariably it is the irresistible inn
pulse of the reserve forces that wins the
the great victories of life, while those
who lead the skirmish line seek to COB
BILE up the honors. That's all right, he
who draws the first blood should have
the hide is maxim among hunters and
a good one. But | tell you now
when the grand army of progress has
scaled the heights of perfection and be-
gins to look around it will find the Hur-
ricane browsing around as contented as
a Lieutenant General on the retired list
Blow bugle, blow, set the wild echoes
flowing
Blow bugle answer echoes dying, dy-
ing, dying.
FENNIMoRE, WIS, Feb. PHO the
many kind friends who met with us on
the 25th of February, the 44th anniver-
sary of the day when we two were made
one, we extend our sincere thanks for
their kindness in helping us to get away
with the good things provided for the
occasion, and also for the many valua-
BILE presents left behind. The glassand
silverware will be very convenient when
we want to put on little style. That
nice looking glass will be a constant re-
minder that we are growing old, and
when we sit in that big rocking chair
we shall remember the kind donors who
made such provision for our comfort in
our declining years. To one and all
kind friends we say, God bless you and
bring you with us to meet at the great
marriage supper of the Lamb in the
sweet bye and bye. Very truly.
H. II. and Roxy EARL.