Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-05-03
WASHINGTON WAITS.
The Capitol City As an All the Year Round
Resort For Pleasure Seekers.


WASHINGTON, ID. c., April &c, 1888.
Bright sunshine and April showers
are carpeting lawns and parks with
richest green. Long lines of shade
trees skirting our beautiful avenues are
putting on their brightest splng-time
verdure. Avenues and streets are filled
with hansome, coupes and carriages,
drawn by prancing steeds. The city is
full of visitors, and our entire popula-
ton are stimulated by the new life of the
budding spring-time. To one familiar
with the Washington of ante-bellum
days, the changed appearance of the
city is most marvellous. Then those
who were so unfortunate rs to be COM
PEELED to visit it found so much dirt,
filth and discomfort that they turned
their backs upon it, and with the great
est possible dispatch. Now it is
TIE WINTER SARATOGA
of this country-a city of which every
American has just reason to be proud.
Delivered from the smoke, SCOT and dust
of manufacturing town it has instead
art, culture, gayety, fashion and wealth,
potent influences which are growing
more and more outreaching every year.
The cost of living is no greater than in
any northern city, while the winters are
vastly preferable to those of the frigid
north. The attractions of society, the
sessions of Congress, receptions, levees,
&c, make one continued round of
pleasure, charming and enchanting our
winter residents. The drives in sum-
mer to the Soldiers Home, Arlington,
Washington Heights, or through our
57,666 trees along $50 miles of shaded
streets, are most attractive. Surely it
is not strange that, more than ever, the
people of this land are learning to think
of this as their capitalize Paris of
America.
A sight of the new two-cent postage
stamp, to be introduced October LIST,
calls to mind the changes in the postal
system of the last forty years. Then
Abijah, if he had
A SWEET ABIGAIL
500 miles away, had to pay Uncle Sam
twenty-five cents to carry the tender
missive to his absent dulciana, and if
she made reply the ardent Abijah must
be gallant and pay q quarter more.
Counting was expensive in those early
years, and when a gallant swain won
fair damsel the twain were joined to-
gether for better or for worse The d.
vorce market was very dull in those
staid old years. Then every letter sent
was entered on a way bill which was
transmitted with the letter.
The changes in the rates of postage
and methods of distribution are no more
marvellous than those that have oc-
CURED in other departments of the
natural and scientific world. Railroads,
steamships, telegraphs, gas-lights, sew
machines, steam-plows. dynamite,
nitro glycerine, friction matches, steam
monitors, vapor engines. California
gold, oil wells, canned fruits,
ELECTRIC LIGHTS,
telephones, and the other ten thousand
helpful aids to labor and are all inven-
tons or discoveries made during the
last few years. These but the
hitherto undiscovered thoughts of God
and the generation now living has been
assuming dominion which was given
when God said centuries ago. "Let Us
make man and give him dominion over
all the earth" We may well ask: In
what direction the footprints of mate
rial progress will tend in the coming
years? In what fields are to be found
the inventions that are yet to startle the
world during the life of the present
generation? The thoughts of inventive
genius to day are the pulsations of new
born material forces and adaptations
tomorrow The cumulative thought of
all past discoveries is outreaching into
the pregnant future.
THE ULTIMA THULE,
is so far outlying that generation, yet
unborn will find that the field for new
discoveries is an ocean as vast and
measureless as eternity.
The Democrats at the capital are not
happy over the little unpleasantness in
Chicago 1t was not kind in Mayor
Harrison to fire off his columbiad load
cd with anti-democratic free trade aEgu-
ments at the meeting of the Iroquois
Club. The gathering was intended for
sort of mutual admiration society
assemblage of wet nurses who have had
an experience of more than twelve
years trying to keep this party alive.
The occasion and place was thought to
TO be
JUST THE TINE
to stir the sluggish pulse of the party
by stimulating injections of free trade
taffy for the workingmen. The scheme
though well conceived, did not work
well, even in shat wicked city of Chi
cago. The laborng men of this country
are too intelligent and too well employ
ed to be hoodwinked by demagogues
into the idea that it would be for their
interests to take off duties from foreign
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