Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-01-10

only once or absent only half day last
term. They deserve credit for their
record, and we hope it may be petfect
this term.
1t is highly important to commence
right this new term and year. Regu-
larity and punctuality of attendance,
good department, and good lessons
should be the aim of all.
Ii there is any one in the community
who will wilfully or willingly do aught
to hinder the success of the lecture
course; or who does not consider a
piano for the School an object worthy
of some interest and effort on his part,
we pity the public spirit and individual
liberality of such one
Prof. Richards delivered a course of
lectures at Chautauqua. N. Y, last
summer, and gave great satisfaction
1t is high commentator for Chau-
taaqua audience to become enthusiastic
over lecturer; for they have the best
talent of the country, and so much of
it as often almost to cloy the mental
appetite.
COMMON ERRORS IN GRAMMAR
''When a person talks like that, then
ought to be ashamed of it, II hain't
forgot" $50 many spoon$fuH;" They
came to see my brother and II 1.-The
man aotom they intend shall do the
work. II thought it was him. II
knew it was herr lone of the balls
aoere struck EITHER of them are too
DID, Everybody has a right to ex-
press their mind;'' 'sTheSe kind of
grapes are not good;" II shall go and
lay down. "The books are laying on
the fioor;'' 81 laid abed;' ''He set on
the bench till sundown;" II should
have Ueut;'' You done wrong" Il
have drunk" ''They have began;"
'They hadn't ought to- ''Says L." and
81 says" Il meant to hare called there
last night" "If you had hare sent me
word;" 81 have got the book in my
library" 81 like it equally as well;'
1--WE are going to town for to see the
pictures;'' 1.-The student said it and
repeated it again." OF course these
inaccuracies are of different classes and
degrees. Some of them may be excus-
ed in common talk, as betokening a
kind of playful or humorous familiarity,
the incorrectness being intentional, and
as well understood by the speaker as
the hearer. -InStitute.
WHAT TO READ.-In this age of the
world taste for reading is a most valu-
able acquisition for young people. If,
however, the appetite is only for the
lower kinds of (so-called) literature, it
becomes a curse instead of blessing
Recent events at Milwaukee, Philadel-
phla, and elsewhere, show the effects
of the vile and sensational trash that is
flooding the country. What Peck's Sun,
the Police Gazette, and dime novels are
doing for the youth of the land, are
but examples of the evils of the press.
That such publications weaken the
mind, produce discomfort, passion, and
vice, arouse false notions of life, and de-
grade the noblest impulses of the soul,
needs no proof. Why will SO many
young men knowingly debase them
selves in this wayl There is also another
kind of mental dissipation found in
the excessive reading of third rate
novels and 'story papers, which,
while not as Objectionable as the former
is yet harmful, because it wastes the
time, weakens the mind, and lowers
the taste There is an abundance of
history. biography, travels, description,
popular science, and tirst-class fiction,
whose reading is wholesome interesting
and instructive. Why should it not
supersede the other in all our public
and private libraries? Why should any
one spend his time at reading that
which can be of no possible benefit, and
at the same time is likely to do real
harm? These thoughts are suggested
particularly by the fact that literary
trash is receiving, from some of our
students, the time that ought to be
devoted to their studies and the best
literature The springs of knowledge
are two deep, the field of higher thought
and composition is too broad, to allow
us to waste our time on mere folly.
But, worse still, the reading of the lower
destroys taste for the higher. 1t is a
mental intemperance that soon requires
a constant excitement to satisfy it, and
repels whatever is instructive, thought
full. or elevating. 1t is subject that
| demands careful consideration by both
parents and the young. In room f. a
list of approved books Selected from
those reported by pupils)is hung in a
conspicuous place, and ought to be fire.
auently consulted.