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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-08-07
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THE H0RSEMAN.

MARES IN FoAL.-Mares that are in
foal should be allowed the freedom of
an open field or wood lot during the
warm sunny days that appear OCCASION
ally at this season of the year. They
need the exercise, and the sun will be
beneficial.
HORSE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATIONS
In some of the older sections of the
country farmers have found it an adj
vantage to organize for the pursuit and
recapture of stolen horses and other
stock. The rule is for each farmer to
pay 81 yearly, which forms a fund
which Is used in tracking any animals
that have been stolen, or ferreting out
parties who have stolen grain or other
produce. Certain men volunteer to do
the work, and these are paid with all
their necessary expenses from the fund.
The effect of these associations is to
greatly decrease stealing, as the thieves
are pretty sure to be captured. Those
who have tried it say they have saved
more in losses from stealing many times
over than the fee for joining the asso-
citation, besides feeling much greater
ueBfee OF security.
EQUALIzING Work HORSES. 1t is a
matter of economy as well as mercy to
properly mate horses that have to work
side by side through the siege of hard
work during the spring. While two
horses may be about the same size and
appearance in their general makeup,
one may not be able to do near the
amount of work without injury that the
other can do with ease. Every farmer
should know enough about his horses
to know how to avoid this trouble, if
possible, by placing horses of equal en-
durance in the same team, or by equal
izing their labor in scme way in which
they are attached to the burden which
they are to draw. This may be done
by giving the weaker horse the advan-
tage of the long end of the doSble-tree,
or some other way that may be devised
by those having the matter in charge.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-08-07

and shameful attacks have generally
failed of their purpose. The ISLANDERS
hurled at Mr.. Blaine represent scarcely
a 1.-THE of the wickedness that was
charged against George Washington
and Abraham Lincoln, and James A.
Garfield. But the names of the Father
of his Country, the great emancipation.
and our later Martyr, shine forth with a
lustre undimmed by the foul breath of
calumny. There Is no need to defend a
statesman like James G.. Blaine, whose
going and coming has been before the
people in high places of the nation for
twenty-five years. His name and fame
are in safe keeping. And why should
Republicans with the unselfsh aim to
exalt and perpetuate an ennobling and
a beneticient public policy, erase from
their efforts to ditfuse the knowledge of
its Importance and its advantages in
order to contend with the clackers of
"a conspiracy for plumber and spoils?"
Can anybody tell?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-08-07

How a Lady Should Mount.

The most graceful way for lady to
reach the saddle, and one that is taught
in the best riding schools, is by the as
sistance OF a gentleman The rider 5
education will not be complete until
she has learned this method of mount
ing which, accomplished easily and
gracefully. is delightful to witness. In
it the rider will have three distinct
points OF support, namely, the shoulder
OF the gentleman, the united palms of
his hands, and her hold upon the POM
mel. The stirrup having been placed
across the shield of the saddle in front
OF the pommels, the lady, holding the
reins and the whip, with its point down
In her right hand-which must rest
upon the second pommel-should stand
with her right side toward the horse $
left, about four or five inches from it..
her left shoulder being turned slightly
back! Then, taking firm hold upon
the secondpommel with her right hand,
she should, with the left, lift her riding
skirt enough TO enable her to place her
left foot squarely and fairly into the
gentleman's palms, which should be
clasped firmly together. This done.
she should drop her skirt, place her left
hand upon his right shoulder, bend her
knee, and give the word ''ready" for a
signal, and at once spring from her
right foot up and little toward the
horse. The gentleman, at the same
moment, must raise his hands and move
them toward the horse. The lady must,
when rising, press or bear lightly on
his shoulder, and also keep firm hold
on the second pommel. which she must
not relinquish until she is seated. The
gentleman should then remove the stir
rup from the front part of the saddle,
while the lady transfers the reins to her
left hand, passes her right knee over
the second pommel, and her left under
the third. She will then be ready to
have her foot placed on the stirrup.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-08-07
Kill the Late Needs

The fight with the weeds in the corn
field, says the American Agriculturist
for August, should not stop with the
cultivator. We have frequently seen
farmers strive manfully against the
pests until midsummer. and then.
through negligence. subject themselves
to annoyance through the next season.
Some weeds have limited season of
growth, and il kept rooted out until
midsummer, will rarely come up again;
others continue growing until severe
frosts come. An old Illinois farmer
said IA cockleburr would come up in the
morning, grow until four in the after
noon, and mature seeds before the frost
could kill it that night This is an ex-
aggeration. yet the cockleburr must be
fought until there are heavy frosts. The
velvet-leaf, Unison. and rag-weeds, will
commence growth almost as late.
Weeds are very prolific. and an occa-
sional one gone to seed in the cornfield
will insure a good crop the next season.
Corn should not be cultivated after it is
tasseled, but the weeds can be cut out
without disturbing the soil. For this
purpose we have seen short scythe
used, but we much prefer hoe with
sharp edge.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-08-07
A" Just Like Mother"

The wind was blowing regular gale,
large snow-fiakes were borne along
helpless in their lightness, and lodged
here and there only to be again picked
up by the wind and piled together in
great drifts. 1t was bittar cold, and
pedestrians hurried along the streets,
intent, seemingly, only to reach the fire.
side of home and family.
In stairway little ragged fellow,
with bundle of papers under his arm,
had crawled out of the storm, but not
out of the cold Crouching in a heap
upon the steps, teeth chattering, too
cold to call out his papers for sale, he
tried to get warm. His skeleton arms,
his pinched features, told only too
plainly that he was a child of misfor-
tune. Poverty, thou wouldst not be so
cruel, We're it not that the world looks
upon thee as a culprit, and to be in thy
company crime.
No one observed the little fellow as
he sat there in the cold. Presently an
old lady, warmly, but not richly, clad,
came along, and CHANGED to see him.
She turned into the stairway, but the
boy, used evidently, to cuffs and kicks,
tried to escape her. A reassuring smile
on her face and kind word from her
lips held the lad. She, dear old soul,
knelt down, pinned up his tatters, tied
q scarf about his neck, gave him piece
of silver, and, with parting words of
cheer, started to leave him. Turning
again, she clasped the boy to her bo-
som, kissed him, and then went on her
way. The boy, with tears on his cheeks,
looked after her, as she passed down
the street, and said: THAT is just the
way mother used to kiss me before she
died. I wonder if it is her again. :"
Then, as if new impulse and new
life had been born in him, the little
newsboy started to dispose of his stock
in trade. That act of kindness, that
kiss, so much like mothers, in chart
ty given, so warmed his heart that the
cold winds of winter had no terror for
him. And who knows but what that
old lady's kindness to that ragged, for
lorn newsboy will be the turning point
in that boys life, that will, in the fut-
ure, give to the world man of honor,
and man of whom Milwaukee may
well be proud
There are hundreds of boys all over
this great country, who are going to
the bad just for the want of kind word
or act, like that given by this kind
hearted old German woman Kind
words and acts, with few dimes, will
do much to reform the world, and re-
claim those who are, by force of cir
cumstances, going to the wrong
Peck'S Sun.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-08-07
Can Anybody Tell.

The Chicago Times, and Herald, the
New York Times. Post, Herald, Harper ;
Weekly, and all the sanity crowd who
have gone over to Cleveland, under the
pretcnse that they are too holy to vote
the Republican ticket, profess great as
Constituent because Republican speakers
and writer's bestow little or no attention
upon the charges with which jealous
back biters aud professional liars have
sought to defame the Republican nomi-
nee. These fellows feign amazement
which they do not feel. They know bet
tcr. The day for that sort of lighting
has gone by. TO our shame it mus: be
said that the greatest and best men
whose lives adorn the history of the Re-
public, have been assailed in like dis
graceful manner. And yet these mean
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MIR. BIaine,s Early Record.

The New York Mail and Express, of
July %, had telling article on the at
tacks on Mr.. Blaine's early record which
have begun in the Democratic press
1t says: such journalism is not good
politics, in the case of any man, like
Mr.. Blaine, who has been fighter from
the start, who has conquered by open
methods every inch of the ground he
has won, and who has achieved sort
and extent of popularity with Ameri-
cans, OF all creeds and races, that no
bigot, whatever his abilities, ever won
in free and enlightened country. The
game of overhauling and reproducing
the early utterances of men of real pow
er and fairly won popularity has always
been losing one 1t was tried on Peel
and Disraeli, and Gladstone, and in each
case was dismal and disastrous fail
ure. Yet the glaring Inconsistencies
and early political follies of these great
leaders were enough to invite the ex-
pertinent. The illustrations in Ameri-
can politics of the same unwillingness
to obscure the mature largcn9ss, sagac-
lty and libcrality of great men by the
shadows of forgotten mistakes, or OF the
hot controversial expressions developed
by peculiar times, are SO plenty that we
need not give them"
After noting the position in which the
Democratic party is placed in the mat
ter of early records by reason of Hen
bricks nomination. and drawing Il COM
parison between his action and that of
the men who formed the Republican
party, it says of Mr.. Blaine's part in
that work:
drawer, or better, or wiser political
work was never done by any politician
in the country. And the common sense
of the Irish or German American will
judge of the spirit in which, and of the
ends for which, these reyolutionists and
party builders worked by the general
results they accomplished, and by the
spirit they have shown since they
brought out the magnificent organiza-
ton that elected Lincoln, saved the Ma
ton, cnfranchiscd labor, and opened to
the poor men Of all foreign lands, not
only the North, enriched by Republican
politics, but the South, surrendered by
the Democracy to owned labor, and the
new West which the Democracy want
ed to surrender to slave labor
The editorial concludes us follows:
Great public careers are moi Judged
by the microscopic examination of dis
honestly selected specimens The
American people know a great leader
after they have had him before them
for twenty years in a large wa, and
neither sensational journalism nor vic
ious personal politics has ever harmed
such a man. Mr.. Blaine, certainly, has
nothing to fear, and great deal to
gain, from assaults that bring before
Americans, native or adopted, the be-
ginnings of his career as public man.
Keep up the examinations OF the files
of the Kennebec Journal, gentlemen of
the demoralized and wretchedly led OPP
position. The more completely you can
awaken and enlivcn the public interest
in this chapter of Mr.. Blaine's career,
the more we shall be pleased"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-08-07
Third Congressional District Convention.

The Republicans of the Third Congressional
District OF Wisconsin. comprising the counties
OF Dane, Iowa. Green, Lafayette aud Grant will
meet IN convention at Dodgeylle on TUESDAY
SEPTEMBER ., 1881, at u O'Clock NJ for the
purpose OF nominating candidate for member
OF Congress to be supported at thu ensuing fall
election. Each assembly district viii be entitled
TO two delegates and each senatorial district to
four delegates in the convention
BY order Of the Committee
NJ. p. RfNDLAUB,
a G.. DODGE.
ORIN BACON.
$. W. REESE,
GEO. w. RYLAND
G. f. OSBORN,
w. II. CHANDLER,
HENRY :. MACON
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-08-07
One OF ,IprroId,S.

One morning Jerrold and Compton
proceeded together to view the pictures
IN the gallery of illustration. On enter
ing the ante-room they found themselves
opposite to a number of very long look
Eyeglasses. Pausing before one of
these, Compton remarked to Jerrold,
You've come here to admire works of
art Very we'll: first feast your eyes on
that work of naturel" pointing to his
own figure reflected in the glass. @Look
at 1T; there's picture for your "Yes, ="
said Jerrold, regarding it intently,
very fine, very fine, indeed!" Then,
turning to his friend, Wants hanging,
though "-Lddg'S Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-08-07


and, lastly, the following verses were
printed underneath these legends:
hope behind:
+ en- 10 the charms Of maidenhood our blood
stained pup is blind.
After fully assuring himself that no
dangers lurked in the hidden recesses
of the highway, the reporter boldly as
cended the stairs and entered little
office at the head of the first fight.
A middle aged man, who sat before a
desk smoking, was the sole occupant.
Il have come" faltered the reporter,
with nervous glance around him,
with little"
"Ah, yes" interrupted the gentleman
smilingly; yes, yes. Tom" lin very
low key, will you let Michael loose
for few moments?"
With a superhuman effort the report
er explained that he had only come up
stars with little request. He wished
to know why that sign had been placed
in the hallway.
"Oh! that is different thing" re-
marked the gentleman; 'sit down and
L will tell you all about it. That sign
is placed there to inform would-be lit
erary people who haunt publishing
houses that their illusions are not re-
quired. / have counted as many as 500
persons in one day who have visited
this office with manuscripts for consid-
GRAFTON. Aspirants for literary fame
are of both sexes, all ages and condi-
tons in life. Lately we got so wearied
out with people coming up with matter
that they wished to submit to us that
We had to do something in self defense.
You will observe that our lcathsome con-
temporaries have adopted the canvas
sign. All through this vicinity you can
come across them. They are very eff
fective. or instance, young lady
graduate comes tripping down town
with romance which her mother de-
clares an ideal composition. She reads
the allusion made to the blood stained
pup" on the sign down stairs. Fear
overcomes ambition and she retreats in
tears. Yes, we still receive illusions
through the mails. Every morning we
send handcart over to the postofiice,
and twelve or fifteen sacks of manu-
script are delivered to us. Do we ex-
anime them? Why we should have to
employ ahort thirty readers to do so.
1t would be .a'her an expensive under
taking. But there is moral to all this
And it is, writing as means of sub
sistence is played out. We could get
all the manuscript we wanted without
paying cent for it. We receive excel
lent contrihut ons daily. whose writer's
ask nothing Int that their names APP
pear in print All the waste manu-
scripts are tu led over to our poet
that thin gent an in the next room.
We feed him on them.-N. Y. Mail.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-08-07
A Correct Diagnosis.

Dumley came into the dining-room
and, casting sweeping glance over
the table, jammed down into the chair
and muttered under his breath: Liver
again, of course. We've had liver every
morning for two weeks. What's the
matter. Mr.. Dumley?' asked the land
lady; "aren tyou feeling well this morn
ing?" mo, madam" he replied,
shortly, II am suffering from liver CON-
plant. ~ Philadelphia CAL.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-08-07

The circulation of the New York
Daily Tribune has increased Is. 600 since
Blane's nomination. 1t went up 5000
in one day. 1t would he interesting to
know how many thousands the Times
and Harper's Weekly have lost in cir
culation since they joined the party of
''reiined and moral ideas.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-08-07
eO6""l U""Ny gEEdIH.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1884.
Republican Ticket.
For President
j AMES G.. BLAINE.
OF Maine.
For Vice. President
JOHN A. LOGAN.
OF Illinois.
Republican Electors.
COYIIl AND SEE Uy

HEADQUARTERS REP. STATE CENTRAL Con-
MILWAUKEE, June Is, 1884.
Inc Republican State Central Committee has
opened convenient and commodiOus headquarters
on Wisconsin street, near the post-oflice in Mil
waukee All Republicans, and especially those
OF our state, cordially invited to call when
N the city. All Republican papers published in
the state and many of the leading journals OF
the country. will be kepton flle.
Come and see us. II. A. TAYLOR. Chm.
17tf II q PAyNp Soc
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-08-07
Call for Republican State Convention.

The Republican electors of the State Of Wis
consin are requested to elect delegat es to state
Convention to be held at Madison. " EDNESDAY
SEPTEMBER 3D., 1884 at u clock noon for the
purpose Of placing in nomination candidates Of
the Republican party for the several state offices
The last Republican State Convention having
changed the basis Of representation for future
conventions. delegates VIII be elected, not by As
scnbly and Senatorial districts as heretofore but
by Counties. The Convention win consist of 299
delegates, and the several COMMITTEES are entitled
10 delegates as follows: DELEGATES.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-08-07

A powerful syndicate, consisting of
Russell Sage, August Belmont, Jay
Gould and other rich Nav Workers. are
about to raise, it IS reported, 800. 600
600 to purchase the island of Cuba.
We suggest that these monopolists wait
until after election before they buy and
then purchase it for u place of refuge
for their candidate Cleveland and his
over sanguine heuchmcu
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-08-07

Hon. George r. Vending, of Hi
nois. one of the most eloquent orators
in the west, and noted for his lectures
against lngersolism, has come out
strongly for Blaine and Logan. Mr..
Vending has heretofore been strong
Democrat
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-08-07

Speaker Carlisle is sucely goou Demo
cratic authority, ana these are the words
he used in expressing his approval of
the tariff plank reported and adopted
for the Democratic platform: "rhis
plank contains an honest declaration in
favor of revenue reform 1t is not all
that we ask, but it is enough. No man
can mistake the meaning Of the phrase,
Federal taxation shall be exclusively
for public purposes N meoas "A TAR
IFF FOR REVENUE ONIN.'ti
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-08-07

A correspondent at Morris, H.. write:
to the Times, excitedly demanding that
the ISLANDERS from Buffalo that are
being published about Grover Cleve-
land should be ''slenced at once But.
unfortunately for Cleveland, they are
not ISLANDERS" If they were ISLAM
ders, they could be ''silenced at once. !"
and would have been ere now Cttca-
90 EreHi,g Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-08-07

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, Franklin coun-
ty paper champion, Iowa. saws:
Among the 459 persons who follow the
lead OF Mr.. Curtis in saying they are
too good to vote for Blaine is Stokes,
who Killed Fisk because the latter had
supplanted him IN the good graces of
Josephine Mansfield. OF such is the
sect of the Pharisees.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-08-07
II. {. PAYNE, H. A. TAYLOR.
Secretary. Chairman
Milwaukee, June IS 1884.

Gov. Cleveland was formally notified
of his nomination for the Presidency
Tuesday. He will be informally noti-
fled of the general result IN November.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-08-07

Judge lIoar, Of Massachusetts, in =
speech a few days ago, answered the
question. "Who is the Republican can
didate for President?' rs follows:
''Mr. Blaine, a Republican journalist
fearless and true. Then member of
Congress, prominent in all the party
councils When he made his dignifed
and touching farewell speech in the
House, not a Republican in the United
States but said h was among the most
trustworthy aud gallant OF her leaders
Since then he has been i Senator aud
Secretary of State When our murder
ed President lay on that deathbed, our
whole country looked to Mr.. Blaine
with honor, confidence and trust. In
the past three Republican conventions
Mr. Blaine has been leading candidate
if not the leading candidate. Defeated
twice. he has always accepted the result
faithfully, and given his best service to
make the party Triumphant y
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-08-07

The So-called bolt against Mr..
Blaine among Brooklyn Republicans
has gone to pieces already. The Brook
Ign Young Republican club, with n
membership of over 1000, has been
claimed by the Democratic papers as in
favor Of Cleveland The club, before
taking sides in the campaign, appoint
ed committee to investigate the charg-
es against Mr.. Blaine's official career
Taking it for granted that the report
would antagonize the Republican can
didates the Cleveland papers have been
insisting that Brooklyn's young Repub-
licans were all for Cleveland. 1t is
now announced that the investigating
committee favor no endorsement of any
candidate, but simply give the evidence
IN the Blaine case, and suggest that
each member of the club vote as he
may deem proper. The members of
the club are requested to decide by vote
whether a majority favors an endorse
ment of any presidential nomination.
A few of the officers of the organiza-
ton who have been trying to drive into
the Cleveland ranks will probably re-
sign and go where they belong. This
Is the outcome of the much-vaunted
Brooklyn bolt
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-08-07
No Manuscripts Wanted.

During stroll IN the vicinity OF
Rose street the attention of reporter
was directed to an enormous canvas
sign swung just inside the doorway Of
large publishing establishment.
Fuller investigation disclosed the fact
that the inscription which was painted
upon the canvas warned those who
entered the building that there were
=.
Positively No Manuscripts Wanted
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .,............
and that, furthermore, all intruders
should
Beware of the Bloodhound