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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-06-15
He Didn't Make 1t.

A man read a newspaper article upon
the duty and necessity of making wills.
1t told of the evils and embarrassments
which frequently follow neglect of this
important though disagreeable duty, and
impressed it upon the reader that will
making was something that should not
be postponed. The article produced o
deep effect upon this man at once. The
thought of making will had never en-
tered his head before, and he was on the
down-hill side of life, too. He turned it
over and over in his mind. True, he
was in good health then, but he did not
know what might happen. Men in per-
feet health, apparently, had been known
to drop down dead. Yet he shrank from
making will. 1t looked too much like
winding up ones worldly affairs for the
final iumpinto eternity. But the thought
haunted him. He couldn't sleep at night
on account of it. He was sorry that he
knew anything about wills, and regret
ted that he had ever read the article.
After growing nervous and thin and pale
over the matter he finally screwed HIM
self up to the determination to make his
will, when he discovered that he hadn't
anything to will, andnever had. He felt
better.-C Cincinnati Saturday Night.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-06-15
.Anld Lang Syne.

All the old settlers of Grant county
are earnestly requested to meet on
Thursday. june Is, 1882, at the court
house in Lancaster, to hold their annual
reunion. tits hoped that all viii attend.
All persons who were inhabitants of
Wisconsin on or before May. 1913. are
considered old settlers, gentlemen and
ladies.
Our annual meeting last year was al
most failure, growing out of many
causes which we were unable to avoid
or prevent.
We trust we shall be favored with an
opportunity of meeting with very many
of our old settlers on the 10th of June.
1882. Don't fail to attend. and let MS
have reunion that will renew old ac-
quaintances and friendships that will be
pleasantly remembered in days of future
years. JOHN II. RoCNTREF.
Pres of Old Settlers Association.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-06-15
Vile Abuse.

Says the Chicago Morning Herald
In the Chicago News there appeared
yesterday as shameful an editorial as
ever disgraced the columns of the Quin-
cy Herald when it gloated over the as
sassination of Garfield. Like the utter
ances of its only American prototype.
the venom of the News was directed
against the dead, and those of the dead
whose graves last Tuesday were strewn
with flowers to mark nations graft
tude.
After saying that from the utterances
of the orators of Decoration Day one
might be led to believe that the dead
soldiers offered up their lives, Of their
own free will, that their country might
live, the News continues:
= Totally unlike the beautiful
pictures drawn by the orators of Decora-
ton Day are the facts connected with
our own civil war There was rush of
men, it is true, when the war was de-
clared, Lut of these few had the small
est idea as to what the action really
meant. 1t was thought that there was
going to be a grand military picnic.
1t was a gala occasion-such a
thing as saving the country, of dying
for the Fatherland. never entered the
souls OF these young patri IS who rallied
around the flag when the first summons
came for men to put down the outbreak. y
Then this malinger of the dead, with
the bluntness which the slanderer ALWAYS
employs to conceal his cowardice, gives
his view of the way in which the Union
army was recruited:
There were drafts by all the states:
bounties for enlistment grew TO princely
dimensions; substitutes became as com
mon as air, and as necessary to the COM
fort of the well-to-do masses. There
were exceptions, it is true, and many of
them, but the majority of all those who
went to the front after the close of 1861
went there most unwillingly, or because
they had been induced to 20 by the
bounty, OF had hired themselves to serve
as substitutes. Men who
went to the front for scores OF reasons.
among which the saving the country,
the putting down of the rebellion, the
wiping out of the ''stain of slavery" and
all that had no part. Men went be-
cause they were drafted and had to 90;
because they were tempted by the bounty
because from poverty or some other
cause they had sold themselves as SUBJ
stltutes; because they saw in the service
Z route to subsequent political prefer
ment. All these were prominent among
the inducements to enlist; few, if anV.
went to save the country, or to die for
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-06-15

hoping that his own hang dog counte-
nance may thus pass unnoticed
Yet this villainous sheet and still more
villainous editor has been for the past
two years posing as Republican
and. under false pretenses, has in
yaded many households which, had they
known the color of the skin beneath,
would have as soon warmed viper at
their hearth-stones.
Disgrace the brave boys who now
sleep in grass covered graves in shady
nook, under tropical sun or northernsky
il cannot. They have passed on to the
ranks of the immortals. The disgrace,
if it falls, will fall on the land which can
father so foul mouthed, so outre and re-
pulsive a changeling as the leading spir-
it of this defamer of the soldier dead.
1t was supposed the country could
produce but one sheet so grotesquely
vile as the Quincy Herald, the defendero Of
the fiendish Guiteau and defamer of the
martyred Garfield. Chicago has seen
the hand and gone it one worse in the
Chicago News, the robber Of the patriot
graves and desecrator of the highest and
most sacred feelings of a nation.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-06-15

the Lord of the universe would do what
was right We honor ourselves by re-
membering them. There is some talk
of forgetting them. Well, if anyone
thinks so. the next time let him do the
dying himself. The graves real chill
is feeling that the life is wasted. Ayear
ago Yesterday an old man, stranger
TO me, walked up Illinois street, Indian
apolis, by my side, and said to me, '.to-
morrow is decoration day. and | said
YES, and he said, ''going to celebrate
Il! and l said Eyes, we'll do some
thing, and he went on to say: Il had
a boy in the army. He was killed at
Shiloh and | went down and found his
body and brought it home, and me and
his mother buried it. And by, there
Is one gravel will keep green if L have
to paint it.''
The children are very observing.
They have heard good deal about love
of country, they have read of the in.
scriptions on the monument of the three
hundred dead men of Greece; go and
tell Sparta that we lie here having obey
ed her word They have read the
high saying of our Warren: 1T is
pleasant andisweet for ones country to
die. They are looking now TO see if
there is anything honorable and honor
ed in this love of country of which they
read such proud stories. Suppose they
seeia soldiers grave smothered and sown
In the weeds of unremembrance, made
common ground, while the brazen
| monument of Vanderbilt towers. Will
they not say with Falstaff: 1.-The next
Prince you may kill yourself | wish
| the children to know and see that there
| IS difference in graves. We not only
do right but prudent thing to re-
member benefit, and remember it not
grudgingly, but gladly and proudly
On Concord Green the statute of the
soldier of the Republic standsi in marble
Stands at an eternal parade rest and
the children of the village on their way
to and from school look up at the steady
| figure, and ask their fathers, and their
4 mothers, and teachers, what it means
that this marble should be so white and
so tall? And they have fathers and
mothers who can tell them why the
marble is so white and tall Great
love hath no man than this that man
lay down his life There is borne in
on the living an influence from the
heroic dead. An impulse that lifts us
up and bears us on. Words are weak
in honor of the dead and brave. They
are safe shrouded in the sweet sleep OF
duty done. They have exalted Ameri-
can manhood in the face of all the
world they have wrought out the sal
walton of the foremost Nation of the
earth. They have gone on high. The
ranks being opened, they have marched
through and taken their place at the ex-
IRENE right of Plutarch's battalion.
We give them now rosemary; that's for
remembrance; and pansies; that's for
thoughts, and thank God, that He has
in his goodness, continued language
for love, and carved beauty for ashes
The flowers on their graves will till up
what is behind hand in this wreath Of
words which have hastily braided as
well as could, and now lay not, on
their heads as crown, but at their feet
as my worship.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-06-15
NilcneSS persOnlnCh.

In another column is printed an ex-
tract from the Chicago Morning Herald
giving few choice specimens from an
editorial published in that nondescript
literary curiosity, the Chicago News
This abnormal and grotesquc journal
i>tic eNcrescncc, which is fish, flesh, or
fowl, according 10 the quarter from
which the wind blows, after having box
cd every part of the political compass
and raised alternately every flag that
would, for the time being, make safest
its schemes for plundering the people,
now comes ont in the character of camp
follower, and. waiting until the battle is
over advances to its congenial task of
rohbing the dead.
Not that it would plumber the resting
heroes Of money or clothing as did the
hideouS vampires who lowered in the
rear of the armies This were a task
which wouid take certain modicum If
courage and be Joined with the most
inlinitcsjmal amount of danger such a.
is not possessed 10y the Kaleidoscope ex-
ample of dcpraycd humanity at the head
Of this foul sheet. whose name Stone
Is emiuently characteristic of his feel
iues so far SregardS every one but him
self or anything which does not serve to
advance hi. own interests.
Torob ,hc dead on the field Of battle.
revolving as that was, could not arouse
one-haf the damnable adherence which
williMi 80 Tie lot Of him who would
reach out His gauHt. lrperols fingers. to
iilcil from the brow of the dead the fair
and immortal crown Of glory 50 dearly
won on the bloody battle fields of the
South.
In uniqucnesS Of hideous dcpravity
these debased utteranees will stand as
said 10y our contemporary. alongside
the blasphemous shrieks Of the Quincy
Herald after the assassination OF
Garfield. While one would poison. with
the gangrcne Of malignity. the wounds
Of dying president. the other with a
icndishncs> born OF heart reeking with
an untathomable and brutal de-
pravity, would pluck from the cold
shoulders of the dead heroes the knight
" mantle Of glory to hide from view the
leperouS sores and revolving ulcers of
moral rottcnneSs which make the sacri-
legiouS thief an outca>t among men-a
worse than whited Sepulchre that good
men avoid and bad men detest AS they
would the plague.
This brutal bounty jumper and thug.
who maintained safe position in the
rear by a mastery activity in eluding
having, by continued and in
duStriouS pursuit of his own peculiar
tactics, obtained quasi standing, now
seeks to reduce the loyal legions of boys
In blue 10 the same level with himself. |
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-06-15
What Should be Worn.

Dress hats for Spring are of pearl
gray cashmere with bell crown five
and a alfinches high, and round curved
English brim that is nearly two inches
wide. The felt hat for business and
general wear is an English Derby,
larger than those lately worn; the crown
is five and afourth inches high, and the
rolled brim is two inches and an eighth
in width. Cocoa brown is the stylish
color, and there are navy blue and
English green Derbys importedto match
suits. American Derby hats have more
tapering, crowns, and are not so high
as the English shapes; thay come in
pearl color, black and brown. Harper S
Roz0r
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-06-15
Handling Harness.

A harness that has been on horses
back several hours in hot or rainy wea-
Their becomes wet, and if not properly
cleaned, the damage to the leather is ir-
reparabie If, after being taken from
the horse in this condition, it is hung up
in careless manner. traces and reins
twisted into knots, and the saddle and
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-06-15

Many years age, it is related, Emer-
son and Theodore Parker were walking
in Concord, when a well-known leader
of the Second Adyentists rushed up to
them in great excitement. The world
ceases at midnight he cried out.
Well" replied Parker. cody. Il am
not concerned; live in Boston ..As
for me, added Emerson. equally undis-
turbed, II can get along without it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-06-15
Air Your Houses

Too many houses are built up the
back in America. There are no through
draughts. Front and back open, and a
current set a-going-that's fresh air.
Air stagnates, and curtains drawn, blinds
down, carpets on floors, doors closed
and one bit of window just opened
goodness where's the life to come from
to breathe in SO many cubic inches even
of oxygen7 Now then, in the morning
open the street door for an hour and
set something airing, some current into
those stagnant air layers, that stuff each
other up, and can neither move up nor
DOWN, nor in nor out. Ladies are faint,
children droop, babies die, men swear
and all for want of little fresh air Just
passing through the house. Look to it,
and open your house door the first thing
in the morning, and if you can set cur.
rent going do it.-F0od and Heath.
Not That Kind Of Donkey.
A GOODNESS has arisen between Mr..
and Mrs. Fitznoodle, one of the most
respectable families in Austin. One day
last week a Mexican donkey was run
over in the outskirts of Austin, and
killed by freight train on the Interna-
tional Railroad. Next morning, Just as
Mr.. Fitznoodle was about to start down
town, his wife threw her arms around
his neck aud said:
Dear Alonzo, promise me not to 90
near the railroad track. How can the
engineer distinguish between Won and a
donkey, IN time to stop the tramp
76rds .SiftiaQs.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-06-15

AKRINE At LANCASTER.
No 3, PAssESGER-Leayes Woodman at ego a m,
" Arrives at Lancaster at 9;oOpmnl
No !, PAssEHGER-Leayes GalcRa at 4:50 q M
Arrives at Lancaster at 1918 p m.
No 5, FRHIGHr-Leaves Galena at GOO a m, and
" Arrives at Lancaster at / :30pm
A train leaves Chicago at II 30 m, and arrives
at Lancaster at 1910 pm.
June 1882 W. II. DECKER, Agent
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-06-15
C.&N.w. B.-ArrivaI and Departure or aims.
LEAVE LANcAsTER.

No 6, FREIGHr-Leayes Lancaster at $50 a m
Arrives at Madison at rs. pm, Milwaukee
al 80, p m Chicago at :3Opm
No 4. PAssESGER-Leaycs Lancaster at lao m.
Arrives at Woodman at 3Opm.
Noe. PAssESGER-Leaves Lancaster at AS NJ
Arrives at Gaena al II :45pm:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-06-15
HERALD AGENCIES.

The following Agents have been appointed for The
HERALD. Subscribers or parties wishing Printing or
Advertising obtain the same terms from these
gentlemen as they would at this Office as they have
full authority 70 make contracts and transact bust.
ness for this paper.
HAzEL GREEN AND vIcIN1Y: Mr.. Geo. Mills
Headquarters north of Empire Hotel
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-06-15

Mt. 1pA Mr.. II. Bugglns AZ THE HERALD
agent for the town Of Mt. Ida will transact bust
ness at the postoaice in .aid town
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-06-15

FESSiNc RE- Asp WNGvuLE Mr. Joe Morrison.
Headquarters at Squire Rooney's. FennmoTe. where
all orders may be Jeff in his absence.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-06-15
Not That Kind of a Donkey.
Commercial Statistics.

Uncle Mace and Jim Webster got into
q dispute on Austin avenue. Uncle
Mace is one Of the wealthiest colored
property owners in Austin, and puts on
style accordingly, while Jim Webster is
comparatively poor
II kin sell y'ou out forty times befoah
yer kin sell ne out one time said Mace
ponIronsly.
sol course yer kin Who am gwine
ter make me an offer for SIGH wuf,ess.
knock-kneed, google eyed moke as you
is. - Teras Siftings.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-06-15
POOR Irishman applied for relief

a POOR Irishman applied for relief
and, upon some doubts being expressed
as to whether he was proper object for
relief, he enforced his suit with much
earnestness. Och yer Honor" said
he, I'D be starved long since but for
my cat. !" But for what ?" asked the
astonished magistrate. "My cat" re-
piled the Irishman. "Your cat-how
SOP" "Shure, yer Honor, I souId her
eleven times for 1sa time. ana she was
always home. before could get there
myself"
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-03-10
More Attractive.

A French a2tor named Hyacinthe
once illustrated the saying, 1.-The better
part of valor is discretion" 1t was
during the days of June, and q company
of the National Guard, of which Hya-
cinthe was sergeant, was engaging q
body of insurgents behind = barricade
at the other end Of short street.
One Of the insurgents in particular
from corner of the barricadc was
making remarkably effective practice
on the assailants.
AT that moment up came general,
who was informed Of the state of things.
1--WE must get him to expose himself, "
said the general; zone of YOU must
Chamber up on top of the barricade;
then when our friend Mt the other end of
the street shows himself to take aim,
two or three of you fetch him down. Up
with you sergeant!
beg your pardon, general. but per-
haps, you see, an insignificant, non-com-
missioned officer like my self may have
no attraction for him. But n handsome
distinguished man like you, in that styl-
ish and becoming uniform---hc'd DO
more than mortal II he could resist
the temptation! I'll lend you hand,
gencral!"
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-03-10
A Comfortable Room.

"Fhis Is Old Point Comfort said
friend as she led the way to her sitting
room. 1t was her private room, but
each member of the family understood
well that II he or she wished TO be en-
tirely at ease, a place was provided
!. where this desire might be realized.
The chairs, sofas, cushions and foot
stools were all for comfort first .nd for
good looks afterward. though there was
a delightful air of home and happiness
pervading the room. Approaching the
fact that nothing is less ornamental
than faded or soilcd fancy work tho
tides, pn-cushion covers, and mats
were all OF some material which would
not show dust and wear readily. Drab
Turkish toweling, frightened with
shades of red, was much used. A pref
ty mantel lambrequin was made OF scar
let, Atwood Java canvas, with scroll
worked in yellow and black on it.
There was enough of ''woman's handi-
work. to give character to it, but it was
not OF the elegant and painstaking kind.
which cannot be used every day without
being ruined. A few books and ono
good picture were in the room, and al
together il gave the impression that its
name was appropriate, and that its sug-
gestion Of rest and good influence might
be adyantageously carried out in other
houses
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-03-10
Christine Nelson's Husband.

Auguste Rouzaud, Missions husband.
who is reported insane, is rather
pleasant-looking French gentleman,
with kind, open features, and of me-
dium height. He was born in the Isle
of Bourbon, and is half creole. His
grandfather married creole woman
and amassed Il great fortune. His faith
or married the daughter of Admiral
Bosg, and. after retiring from business,
resided In Paris. NJ. Rouzaud had a
fortune Of from 100000 to 100000
francs. He Is the eldest Of four children
three boys and one girl. lie was
married to Mile. Christine Nilsson, the
famous Swedish prima donna, In West
minister Abbey, London, on the 9th of
July, 1872, Nohappier or more dcvot-
cd couple could be found. and the great
artistic was model wife, Mr.. Rouzaud
was exceedingly popular during his
visit to this country, aud his amiability
and rare conversational powers, united
to his frankness of manner and his ster-
ling qualities Of heart, made him a gen.
cral fayOrltc In society and secured him
many li{e-long friends. MG
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-03-10
Oyer-HastY.

A hasty judgment is rarely correct
one. Nothing, therefore, Ia more unjust
than to Judge Of man by too short an
acquaintance, and too slight inspection;
for it often happens that in the loose
and thoughtless and dissipated there IL
a secret radical worth, which may shoot
out by proper cultivation that the
spark Of Heaven, though ebstrucied and
dimmed, is yet not extinguished, but
may, by the breath of counsel and ex-
hortation, be kindled into flame. To
imagine that every one who is not com
pletely good is irrevocably abandoned,
is to suppose that all are capable of the
same degree of excellence 1t is, indeed,
TO exact from all that perfection which
none can ever attain. And, since the
purest virtue is consistent with some
vice, and the virtue of the greatest num-
Der with almost an equal proportion Of
contrary qualities, let none too hastily
conclude that all goodness is lost, though
it may for time be ciouded and over
whelmed; for most minds are the slaves
of external circumstances, and conform
TO any hand that undertakes to mould
them, roll down any torrent of custom
in which they happen to be caught, or
bend TO any importantly that bears hard
against them.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-03-10
An kDecdote OF Patti,

The following anecdote has recently
gone the rounds of the Partisan press,
its starting point being Ihe society
chronicle Of ''Lc Gauloish People may
remember the brilliant matinee given
last spring b. the Baroness Adolphe de
RothstSi;ld, which was one Of the most
elegah; entertainments OF the season.
Patti VAS to sing there her last song l-s-
fore taking her flight toward distant
shonn. The kind and gracious hostess
had Invited the diva to come the day
before 70 try the tone OF the piano and
the acoustic properties of the gallery.
She awaited the arrival of Patti with
her husband. but rs they had been
especially careful not 10 mention NJ.
Nicolini in their note Of invitation. what
was their surprise TO see him follow the
prima donna into the room. As we'll
bred people, they limited all tokens. of
disapprobation TO marked silence and to
u complete ignoring Of his presence;
but the gentleman, incapable Of endur-
ing this mute reproof, went up to Baron
dc Rothschild and said: Il hope. NJ. de
Baron, that you do not object to my
coming here this evening. | always
accompany my little wife--in fact, /
never allow bcr to 90 out without me-
The Baron looked tire speaker full in
the face and turned his back upon him
without replying. Next day La Patti
sent word that she had cold aud could
not sing.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-03-10
A Cough. Cold or Sore Throat

should be stopped. neglect frequentl 70
suits IN An Incurable Lung disease or on
sumption. Browns Bronchial Trochcs do
not disorder the stomach like cough syrups
and balssms, but act directly on the inflam-
ed parts, allaying irritation, give relief in
Asthma. Bronchitis, Coughs, Catarrh, and
the Throat Troubles which Singers and
Public Speakers are subject to. For thirty
years Browns Bronchial Troches have been
recommended by physicians, and always
give perfect satisfaction. Having beer
tested by wide and constant use for nearly
an entire generation, they have attained
well-merited rank among the few staple
remedies of the age. Sold at 90 cents Q
box everywhere.