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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-09-20
Tender Hearts Inside the Rurr,

In pottery factory here there is a
workman who had one invalid child at
home. He wrought at his trade with
exemplary fidelity, being always in the
shop with the opening of the day. He
managed, however, to bear each even
ing to the bedside of his ''wee lad,"
as he called him, a flower, bit of rib
bon or fragment of crimson glass
indeed, anything that would lie out on
the white counterpane and give color
to the room. He was quiet, unsenti-
mental man, but never went home at
night without something that would
make the wan face light up with Joy at
his return. He never said to a living
soul that he loved that boy so much.
Still he went on patiently loving him.
And by and by he moved the whole
shop into positively real, but uncon-
scious. fellowship with him. The work
men made curious little jars and cups
upon their wheels, and painted diminu-
tive pictures down their sides before
they stuck them in the corners of the
kiln at burning time. One brought
some fruit in the bulge of his apron,
and another engravings IN rude scrap
book. Not one of them whispered
word, for this solemn thing was not to
be talked about. They put them in the
old mans hat, where he found them,
SO he understood all about it; and,
believe it or not, cynics, as you will,
but it is fact, that the entire pottery
full of men, of rather coarse fibre by
nature, grew quiet as the months drift
ed, becoming gentle and kind, and
some dropped swearing as the weary
look on the patient fellow workers.
face told them beyond mistake that the
inevitable shadow was drawing nearer.
Every day now some did piece of
work for him and put it on the sanded
plank to dry so that he could come later
and go earlier. So, when the bell tolled
and the little coffin came out of the
lowly door, RICH. around the corner,
out of sight, there stood 100 stalwart
wOrkingmen from the pottery with
their clean clothes ON, most of whom
gave half days time for the privilege
of taking part in the simple process
sion, and following to its grave that
small burden of child which pro-
badly not one had ever seen" Cincin-
natl NeUS-.Jouyndi.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-09-20
Cr0ss.bred Corn.

Director Startevant, of the State Elk.
pertinent Station, infers, from observa-
ton of over 100 different varieties OF
corn, at least 80 per cent. of which
showed naturalization, that most of the
kinds raised in our fields are not pure.
but eross-bred. Concerning the few
exceptions he SAYS: In the small per-
centage of seed which appears true
we may notice that the majority are OF
those varieties which, through EARL.
ness, bloom far in advance of the
varieties ordinarily grown. and through
this accidental relation have been able
to preserve their variety intact Thus
the Golden Pop may be grown with
almost any variety, il planted at the
same time. without danger of mixing.
as its pollen has already disappeared
before other varieties commence to
to show their bloom.n
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-09-20
Fire Screens.

For sitting-room fire screen, silk,
satin, velvet or plush to match the pre-
vailing color is appropriate. Crimson
silk, vandyked at the bottom and edged
by ivory-tinted lace, the stitch being
run in hem about six inches higher,
over which, to prevent it looking too
plain, may be worked crest. mono
gram, or spray of flowers, in shades of
gray and ivory, or else the paint brush
may Ee brought into use A miniature
window frame may be added. A most
economic: style of decoration is Ven
etian blind, which, with fresh coat of
paint will last many years, and may be
opened and closed as desired. A large
sheet of perforated zinc looks well
worked in long stitches in bright-coI-
ored wool, and then filled in by a small
bolt at the top. Screens to stand in
the fender are very convenient. The
large Japanese medallions look quite
handsome when mounted on wire or
wooden frame, fitted into a weighted
wooden stand, having gilt knobs screw
ed in for feet. The border round
screen. made of velvet, stamped leather
or else beading, such as is used for
small picture frames, either of dark
wood or gilt glued around; also a few
gilt or wooden spikes at the top look
well. A child's wooden hoop, with
delicate tint of pink or blue sateen,
puckered fully on. and drawn together
in the center, under bunch of ribbon,
is novel and easily made. A broad
boarder of peacock's feathers, white
ducks or pheasant's round the edge, at
taching large handle at one side, of
either twisted wire or cane, gives the
appearance of u gigantic hand-screen.
Three small hoops, when fastened at
the back by a narrow slip of tin have
an uncommon effect. There should be
a prop at the back, like in a photo
graph frame, and each hoop may con-
tain picture OIL work, according to
fancy. If a picture, it is better TO COW
er the hoops by dark purple cardboard.
leaving the prettily-shaped space for
the picture at the back. A fireplace
in card-room looks well studded all
over with large hearts spades, clubs
and diamonds, made on cards. These
should be made large, about four inches
long; red hearts. black spades, yellow
diamonds, and dark green clubs.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-09-20
Curing a Bad Memory.

Your memory is bad, perhaps, but
can tell you two secrets that will cure
the worst memory. One-to read a
subject when strongly interested. The
other is to not only read, but think.
When you have read paragraph or a
page, stop, close the book, and try to
remember the ideas on that page, and
not only recall them vaguely in your
mind, but put them into words and
speak them out. Faithfully follow these
two rules and you have the golden keys
OF knowledge. Besides inattentive read
ing. there are other things injurious to
memory. One is the habit of skimming
over newspapers, all in confused jum-
BILE, never to be thought of again, thus
diligently cultivating habit of careless
reading hard to break. Another is the
reading of trashy novels. Nothing is
so fatal to reading with profit as the
habit of running through story after
story. and forgetting them as soon as
read. know gray-haired woman, a
lifelong lover of books, who sadly de-
clares that her mind has been ruined by
such reading. Nicholas.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-09-20

Don't be afraid of killing yourself
with overwork, son, is the facetious way
The Burlington Hawkeye has of coun-
selling young men to thrift. Men sell
dom work SO hard as that on the sunny
side of thrifty. They die sometimes,
but it is because they quit work at 6
p. M, and don't get home until a. m.
It's the intervals that kill, my son.
The work gives you an appetite for
your meals; it lends solidity to your
slumber; it gives you perfect and
grateful appreciation of a holiday.
There are young men who do not work,
my son-youug men who made living
by sucking the end of cane, and who
can tie necktie in eleven different
knots, and never lay wrinkle in it;
who can spend more money in day
than you can earn in a month, son:
and who will go to the sheriff's to buy
a postal card, and apply at the Office OF
the commissioners for a marriage lie
ense. So find out what you want to be
and do, son, and take off Your coat
and make a success in the world. The
buster you are, the less evil you will be
apt to get into. the sweeter will be your
sleep. the brighter and happier your
holiday, and the better satisfied will the
world be with you.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-09-20
A Real Nice Girl.

saw girl come into the street car
the other day, who had, was ready to
bet, made her own dress, and how nice
she did look. She was one Of those
clean, trim girls you see now and then.
She was about Is years old, and to be-
gin with, looked well-fed, healthy and
strong. She looked as though she had
a good senaible mother at home. Her
face and neck and ears and hair were
Iclean--absolutely clean. How seldom
you see that. There was no powder,
no paint on her smooth. rounded cheek
or firm. dimpled chin; none ON her
moist red lips; none on the shell-tinted,
but not too small ears; none on the
handsomely set neck-rather broad be-
hind, perhaps, but running prettily up
into the tightly corded hair. And the
hair! 1t was light chestnut brown, and
| glistended with specks of gold as the
sun shone upon it, and there was not a
smear of oil or pomatum or cosmetic on
| it; there was not spear astray about it,
and not pin to be seen in it. As the
girl came in and took her seat. she cast
an uneasy embarrassed glance around
the car, from well opened gray eye,
bright with the inimitable light of .'good
condition." such as you see in some
handsome young athletes who are ''in
training" There were no tags and
ends, fringes, furbelows or futtering
ribbons about her closely-fitting Dat
easy suit of tweed, and, as she drew off
one glove to look into her purse for a
small coin for fare, noticed that the
| gloves were not new, but neither were
they old; they were simply kept, like
the owner and their owners hand,
which was solid hand, with plenty of
muscles between the tendons and with
strong but supple fingers. 1t would
have looked equally pretty fashioning a
pie in home kitchen or folding band
age in hospital. 1t was hand that
suggested at the same time womanli-
ness and work land was sorry when it
found a five-cent piece and had been re-
gloved. One foot was thrust out lit
tie upon the stats of the car floor-a foot
in good walking boot that might have
splashed through rain and storm with
out fear of damp stockings and an en-
inently sensible boot on two and one
half foot in high instep. a small round
heel, and pretty broad tread. The
girl was picture from head to foot as
she sat erect, disdaining the support of
the back of the seat, but devoid of all
appearance of stiffness. Perhaps the
whole outfit to be seen, from hat TO
boots, did not cost $40; but have seen
plenty of outfits cost more than ten
times or even twenty times that
amount which did not look one-tenth or
even one-twentieth as well. If our
girls only knew the beauty of mere SIM
plicity, cleanliness and health, and their
fascination. Washington Capital.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-09-20
First Impressions Of London.

1t seems almost an Irish bull to say
that one can be in London only once
for the first time. In other places YOU
may renew first impressions. A city
on. the Continent always remains a
foreign city to you, no matter how often
you visit it; but that first time in Lon
don is an experience which can never
be made to repeat itself. Whatever is
alien to you fades away under your
earliest glances; the place suddenly
takes home-like aspects; certain streets
and courts where you never set foot
before strike you Familiarity. 1t is a
place where you might have lived-this
great seething metropolis where per-
haps you once did live, in hose and
doublet OF knightly harness, in some
immemorial century. l doubt if an
American ever visited England without
feeling in his bosom the vibration,
more or less distinct, of these visible
threads of attachment. Everywhere in
the lucid prose of Hawthorne's .Eng-
fish Notebooks and "Our Old Home
this sentiment hes imbedded, like a
spray of fossilized fern.-FrOm Pom
kdpOg TO PeSth.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-09-20
Aunts at PLAY.

The old story of ants indulging in
games and play was for a long time
thought to be fable, but grave scien-
tine gentlemen Of our day have seen it.
and we shall have to believe it now.
queer as it seems. The old story was
told by Huber, who saw the ants on
line day assembled on the surface of
their nest, and behaving in a way that
he could only explain as Stimulating
festival sports or other games. They
raised themselves on their hind legs,
embraced each other with their fore
legs, seized each other by the antenna
feet, or mandibles, and wrestled, but
al. in friendliest fashion. Then they
let go, ran after each other, and played
hide-and-seek. When one was VIC
torious it seized all the others in the
ring and tumbled them over like nine.
pins.
So much for the old writer; now saws
the news: The players caught each
other by the feet or jaws, rolled over
each other on the ground like boys
playing, pulled each other inside the
entrance of their nest, only to come out
again, and so on. All this was done
without bad temper, or any squirting Of
poison, and it was quite clear that al
the rivalry was friendly.-ET.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-09-20
On DisappOintment.

If we allow ourselves we can indulge
our thoughts on the small and petty dis
appointments that beset us day by day
until we feel that our whole life is a dis
appointment, not only to ourselves, but
to all around us. 1t is only he who
looks ahead, above the cloud of petty
annOyances that surround us all, who
will find true happiness. We pass from
childhood to youth, from youth to mid
die age, and then to death; and as each
change is made we feel that we have
lost something that is never to be made
up to us in the future, however bright q
future that should be. No matter
how dark the present, how dead our
once bright hopes, it is useless to grieve
over them-it is also wicked. live can
look ahead and build new future, set
up new objects and bury old ones deep
out of sight, we do, indeed, belong TO
the sensible people of the world. What
is the use of saying we have nothing to
live for, because our highest aims and
brightest hopes have been dashe d to the
ground and trampled on by those whom
we held dearest and best? If we could
see the foolishness and absurdity of
longing for what we cannot attain, of
weeping over our fallen hopes and as
pirations, we perhaps could forget. with
few less tears and more smiles, what
we once hoped for and expected.
We cannot go through life without
disappointments, and if we steel our
selves so that they pass of without leav-
ing deeper wound, we are infinitely
superior to those who give way to gloom
and morbid feelings; who doubt the
truth of all goodness in this world; who
hope for nothing because they foolishly
make themselves believe there is moth
ing to be hoped for.
In youth we have every thing to hope
for, and it disappointments come upon
us, then in age we have heaven to work
for and win. We have read some
where that God never made heart
without one tender spot, and we know
God never gave life without some
thing to live and hope for.-E1.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-09-20
Successful Agriculture.

The Rural World truly says ''there is
not one of the departments of agricul-
ture that if young man will study
with view of making it life work,
giving himself Intellectually as thorough
a training as he would be compelled to
have if he became successful in the
professions or mercantile pursuits, but
he can make money with ten times
the certainly he can in any of the pro-
fessioDs or mercantile pursuits. We
are constantly hearing of the struggle
for wealth by those who live in cities.
There is rather an interminable strug-
gle for existence, and not one in q
thousand of the population in all our
cities has the least reason to believe that
he will ever be wealthy, or regard
wealth at all. except as he might long
after the unattainable. F"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-09-20
What is the Use.

What is the use OF this impetuous hastef
The end Is certain. Let us take our time.
And hoard the vital forces that we waste
Before our day has reached its golden prime
What Is the nse OF rushing with spent breath
After old age, Its burrows, its white hairf
Why need We hurry so to welcome Death
Or so half way with hands stretched out, t.
care!
There Is no use. Dear heart, IL we but wait
All things will find us. Let us pause, say
We cannot go beyond the silent gate
That lies short days journey down the way
SO let us take our time in youths fair bowers
The summer season Is so brief at best;
Let us look on the stars and pluck the flowers
And when our feet get weary, let us rest.
Let us take time for love and its delight;
IL Is the one sweet thing that pays for all,
The bitterness OF life, for sorrows blight.
For pains despair and Deaths funeral pail.
In that lost era when the world was new,
Love was mems first pursuit and life'e excuse.
Now has that time come back to me and YOU
Why should we seek for more? What Is the
usei
Ella Wheeler.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-09-20

An old negro passing along the street
stepped on torpedo ingeniously placed
in his way by a boy. When the thing
exploded he turned and said: Huh!
neber see such town as dis. Da's
been tryin' ter blow me up eber since
l come heah. White folks mus take
me for the Gar of Russia-Arkansa
IrdUcier.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-09-20
He Lived in the Suburbs.

ibid you see that big meteoric dis
play last night?n asked Gus De Smith
of Gilhooly. "When did it come off?''
"About 9o'clock. Didn't you see it?''
mo, of course | didn't. l live out in
the suburbs of Austin. and never get a
chance to see anything that is going on
after dark in the business portion of the
city. n-Teras SJtinqs.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-09-20

The following is a good recipe fol
stewed tomatoes: Pour boiling water
over six or eight large tomatoes to re-
move the skin, and then cut them into
saucepan. When they begin to boil
pour away little.of the juice; add a
small piece of butter, pepper, salt,
and very little sugar. Let them cook
for about fifteen minutes. stirring in
well the seasoning. Some add a few
bread or cracker crumbs.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-09-20

A young lady. who has been married
over a year, wrote to her father, saying:
1--WE have the dearest little cottage in
the world ornamented with the most
charming creepers you ever saw" the
old gentleman read the letter aud ex-
claimed: Twins, by thunderr'
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-09-20
Leave the Frogs.

A veterinary surgeon says the cutting
away of the frogs of the feet of thu
horse in shoeing should never be per
mitted. Nature has. placed them there
for useful purpose. They are elastic
and give the animal light. springy
step. Besides, they aid the horse very
materially in keeping his footing or
icy roads. The frog should be per-
mitted to remain intact, as it prevents
many defects and diseases of the foot
incident to use on hard roads.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-09-20

A French naturalist says: The AL.
mighty created birds to protect the
grain, vegetables, trees and fruits
against the ravages of the insect tribe.
For every bird that dies. millions of in
sects are spared from death. and mil
lions of insects mean famine
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-09-20

We saw specimen of modern polite
ness, the other day. Two gentlemen
were going up in an elevator. A lady
came aboard, and both men took off
their hats, but continued to puff the
smoke of their cigars in her face.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-09-20

LADY IoDoER-"Your dog, sir, is I'M.
bearable. He howls at night" Male
lodger-" indeed Well, he might do
worse than that; he might play the
piano all day."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-09-20

Timothy is, doubtless, the most nutri-
tious and valuable of all the meadow
grasses.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-09-20

A New Hampshire farmer accuses
red squirrels robbing birds nests.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-09-20

In India 100000 acres of the best
land ale planted with the poppy.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-09-20

The Home Guardian says this is true
story. Three crows We're watching a
dog eating piece of meat, and tried
to snatch it, but in vain. They Their
flew off short distance, and seemed
to be consulting. Then they flew back,
and two went as near as they dared f.
the meat, while the third gave the dogs
tail a sharp bite. OF course he turned
with a yelp, when the two seized the
meat and rose in the air. and the three
crows eat it on wall.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-09-20

HAVE AGENTS
in basement theMas
ian-Wi Sign running from the Hall to the thestet
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-11-21

steamer Morgan, which responsible position
he has held for year or longer, giving the
best of satisfaction to his employers.
The wedding WAS attended by quite a
number of invited guests who comfortably
filled the parlors of the residence, and who,
when the ceremony was over, deluged the
happy couple with congratulations, and
then heartily participated in the usual &C
cessorles to such occasions.
The presents were numerous, and many of
them fine. We were unable to obtain a
full list last night; but this, with a more
detailed account of the wedding, will ap-
pear in our next.
TEE BULLETIN Joins the many friends Of
Mr., and Mrs. Shumaker in wishing them a
long and happy life.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-11-21
THE PLANTERS WIFE

is an innocent, unfortunate, suffering wO-
mon, entanged 10 web of untoward cir
cumstsnces, and the audience is properly
taken into confidence at once. She fights
in the right and everybody wants to help
her; she conquers, aud all rejoice at her
victory. The play is clean and bright and
the interest in the story never flags. AS
the injured wife, striving against great
wrong and a complication of unfortunate
circumstances, which apparently point TO-
ward her guilt, Miss Emily Rigl certainly
comprehends and acts the part with most
perfect conception Of what is expected OF
her. The part is intensely emotional, and
fitted to the genius of u Clara Morris or 8
Rigl.
Mr.. Lacy, the manager Of the combina
ton, is painstaking and gifted, and get
everything out OF the character Of Col. Ora
ham which there is in it.
The piece was purchased last season by
Mr.. Lacy from Tillotson for six thousanc
dollars, and here.wrote the greater part of it
and after securing the excellent company
by which it will be presented here, started
out on the road, gathering fame and for
tune as he went.
Secure tickets of Buder at once.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-11-21
= D. 5. c. at New York Store.


The Illinois Central pay car was in yes
terdsy evening.
Mrs. N. Boyle advertises furnished
rooms Tor rent, 10 special locals.
Rooms to rent at Mrs. Wilhamson's
with or without fire. 81
The passenger on the Texas and ST.
Louis road was twelve hours late yesterday.
Mr.. J. Burger will be here from New
York city toward the end Of next month, to
look after his business interests here.
ID s. c. and present at New York
Store. 81
"A new metallic roof on the building oc-
cupied by Messrs. J. & L. Burger was fn-
ished JUS. in time to proven, the late rains
from damaging the stock.
The bad negr1 known as "Brandy" was
again in limbo, this time for carrying con
cealed weapons, He is in the habit of
wandering about the streets late at night,
and his character is such that bis presence
in the street at such time is dangerous 10
any stranger who may chance to pass or
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-11-21
CUPID'S VICTIMS.
Secure tickets of Buder

The wedding Of Miss Annie Ford and
Mr.. Samuel Shumsker took place last
night at the residence Of the brides parents,
at the corner Of Fourteenth street and
Washington avenue. Rev. ]. W. Scarritt,
Of the Methodist church, performed the
ceremony. The parties to the pleasant
event are well known in the city, and are
among our most estimable young people.
The bride is the youngest daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. +. G. Ford. Her wedding day
was also her eighteenth birthday. The
groom is head engineer on the transfer