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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-26

The Overdue File.

1.-The average business man. said a
well-known bank official, Hooks upon
the position held by the manager OF
cashier OF bank rs veritable bed of
| rosesn
isn't it quite. desirable position?"
asked the reportorial caller
II know of no position in the BUSH
ness world which is more exacting in
It's demands. mentally, and SO wearing
upon the feelings of man. I'll show
| you one phase of it'-and the man
went TO desk and returned with a
small package .now this is the over
due iile. Here, in sums of from 500
10 s6OO are notes aggregating perhaps
$1,000. They have gone over and are
under protest. yet there is not one
note among them which is not, we sup
pose, safely Endorsed.
How do You happen to loan 10 mon
who can't or won't pay.
That's where the wear comes. A
man. friend of the cashier or mana
ger, comes in and wants a small loan
for ninety days. He does not approach
you on the business basis, but on the
score of friendship. He has no bank
account anywhere. he has no security
TO offer and wants the money. He
wants it badly. and while You know
his situation in a business way YOU feel
that he needs the hundred or more dol
lars worse than some business man
needs thousands.
And yet you advance him the
loan?n
How can one invariably refuse such
cases. The applicant is a good fellow.
he is friend. aud be brings supposed
good Endorsement There are bank
officials who have sympathetic impul-
ses-ln fact | believe as rule bank
officials are the most sympathetic peo-
pie in the world on financial matters
and often, very often, they take the
chances.
with what result?n
Nine times out of ten with bad re-
suits. There is seldom an evening that
do not go home and to bed turning
over in my mind the overdue file. /
dream of it sometimes. 1t is this ono
and that one whose note has gone TO
protest, he is my friend and am his
feel sorry for him and would do ali
In my power to help him. but strange
as it may seem to "A majority of people,
the manager Ola bank is not usually
the owner OF the institution
Il presume there are Il number of
bank managers VINO are not million
aires.
YES, there arc several; and yet in
the eyes OF the average citizen the po-
sition makes the manager million
airc. As | was saying. worry all the
time about the overdue file, about how
| can keep my friends good opinion of
me and ut the same time get the
money, how can get my dues with
out putting my friends to inconyen-
fence. 1t is twist, scheme, excuse,
plead and devise with myself until
sleep spoils the debate aud / get a bit
of rest.
do you lose much money in that
way?"
mo, the losses on the loans made
on personal grounds are comparatively
small, but in 20 per cent. of the cases
friend is lost Tor every protested note
collected.
linen it is not paying invest
ment
No, it isn't: but what can you do?
I'll venture to say that there is not n
bank in the city which does not have
the same experience, and do not be-
lieye any bank official of Detroit is.pre-
pared 10 advise the summary positive
and entire abandonment OF making
loans on personal grounds. -DctroH
Free Press
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-26

Chicago Times: A woman in Boston
is suing for divorce because among
other things, her husband kicked her
outof bed on her wedding night. The
amount of marital infelicity in Boston
and the early period in married life at
which it sets in suggest the necessity of
scientific investigation to discover
whether it is not in some way related to
baked bean diet. AS the matrimonial
troubles of Boston exceed those of all
other cities of the country combined,
they must be due to something in which
that city differs widely from all others.
A baked bean diet is distinctive char
acterstic of Boston, and it may be the
bean that is breaking up so many Bos-
ton homes and estranging so many hus-
bands and wives. IL that little yegeta-
BILE, too freely taken, is an enemy to
sweetness of temper and the happiness
of the home, science is of little account
if it fails to reveal the fact.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-26
Drunken Poetry.

1t was in the dark days of the war,
and Governor Curtin, who had been
called to Washington to confer with
president Lincoln on the disheartening
news from the front, arrived at the ma
tional capital full of foreboding for the
future of the Union. Early in the day
he met Colonel Forney in the drawing
room, and they sat down by the win
dow TO discuss the gloomy situation.
While they sat there the inner door
opened and Thomas Buchanan Read,
the brilliant but erratic poet painter,
pushed his way in and staggering
across the floor, threw himself into a
chair by the table. Without a glance
at the earnest men by the window, he
dropped his head on the table and fell
into heavy sleep. Quietly the great
war governor and the great journalist
talked on the terrible losses in the
South, the sickness, the disaster and
death among the boys in blue. the
heartrending scenes in the North
when the news of battle filed every
home with dread, and the dying hope
of ultimate success in the suppression
of the fratricidal war OF rebellion. Sud-
denly, as if by inspiration from heaven,
the sleeping poet raised his head from
the table. aud with a gaze that seemed
to penetrate to the PARKWAY field of the
Southron. said in voice that quiyered
with emotion:
Oh that some bird from the sunny South
Might build its nest in the lannon's mouth,
And stop its terrible roar!
Then, like weight, he fell back into
the chair-his head fell forward on his
hands, and the poet was again asleep
insensible. Pittsburg Telegraph.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-26

The poet Whittier in resent letter
10 political club of Boston says:
when labor shall everywhere have its
just reward, and the gains of it are
made secure to the earners; when edu-
cation shall be universal, and, North
and South. all men shall have the free
and full enjoyment of civil rights and
privileges. irrespective of color or form
er condition; when every vice which
debases the community shall be dis
couraged and prohibited, and every vir-
tue which elevates it fostered and
strengthened; when merit and fitness
shall be the conditions OF office; and
when sectional distrust and prejudice
shall give place TO well merited conf
dence in the loyalty and patriotism OF
all, then will the work of the Republic
can party as a party be ended and all
political rivalries be merged in the one
great party of the people, with no other
aim than the common welfare and nc
other watchwords than peace, liberty
and union.n
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-26

The investigation now going on, into
the management of the Cock county,
H.. insane asylum is indeed sad COM
mentary. Many reliable witnesses
swear that the drug room of the institu-
ton was literally turned into saloon,
where the physicians, attendants and
county commissioners of the asylum
held the widest of Bacchanalian orgies,
while the patients were suffering from
insufficient clothing and the scurvy,
caused by the vile character of the food.
Patients who were in the least violent
were dosed with a sleeping mixture"
-of whisky and choral, by unskillful and
brutal attendants, while even more her.
rible abuses existed in the female wards.
The place seems to have been a yerit-
able sheol upon earth, and the lady
physician, DIR. Della Howe, long ago
left in disgust. Central Africa, we
trust. will see the crying need that
exists of sending missionaries to Chicago
and sending them at once. The case is
urgent.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-26

The execution of Louis Riel shows
that British justice is still tinctured with
barbarism. The execution of this man
makes martyr of very Insignificant
outlaw, and raised him at once to an
Importance be never could have at
tanned had be lived No act Of our
own government had greater efficacy
in extracting the venom of treason from
the South than the liberation of JEFF
Davis. JEFF Davis alive and free is no.
body and nothing; but JEFF Davis hang
ing on gallows would have been a
mark for Southern parents to point
their children to, and to which the ig-
norance of the South would always look
with the effect of intiaming its hatred
of the North. The execution of Riel
has maddened very large element in
Canada to the verge of treason, and
has even brought cut the antipathy OF
France against England. Had Riel
been pardoned or banished, he and bis
cause would have sunk out of sight and
the majesty Of the British governm IN,
beer fully as well sustained.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-26

Morosini. the New York millionaire,
is dealer in moneys and stocks, who
should. after years of experience, be
able to do his business well. vet he lost
100000 with Heath & Co. Ernest
Schilling Hulskamp, his son-in-law, is
the driver of a New York street car,
and he drives we'll.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-26

j. Z. Wetherbee, running for the
legislature on the Democratic ticket,
and one of the most prominent men,
bers of the Suffolk county. Mass, bar,
committed suicide on the 18th because
of the campaign abuse to which he was
subjected.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-26

Says Washington dispatch: In re-
gard TO the presidents appointments te
office the republican senators show nc
desire to act otherwise than fairly. They
will vote to confirm the good nomina.
tons. and oppose only such as are un.
doubtedly bad.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-26

Alderman Boss Hinsey. of the Mil
waukee common council, who has been
endeavoring to have an electric light
ordinance passed, has incurred the
enmity of the employees in the gas
works, and one night last week he was
hanged by them in effigy.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-26

A tramp entered the postoffice al
Baileyville, H., near Freeport, one eve-
ming last week and in attempting to
rob the Office seriously shot Mr.. Meyers,
the postmaster, in the shoulder. The
villain made good his escape.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-26

What strange creatures we are, to be
sure, A sailor soon forgets the terrors
of the sea, and ships again ere he has
been ashore month; the convict is al
most certain to return to the prison
from which he was released but short
time back, and the widow will marry
second time if she gets a chance, and
she usually gets the chance. Boston
Transcript
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-26

Miss Carrie j. Bartlett, one OF the
brightest newspaper workers of Mime
apolis, has resigned from the Tribune.
to accept the city editorship of the Osh-
kosh Times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-26

The latest from the warning princi-
palities of Bulgaria and Servia is to the
effect that the Bulgarians have got the
bulge on the other fellers. and are hurl-
ing the invaders back.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-26

H. ID. Berkeley, an old colored mes
senger in the house of representatives.
has been given gold-headed cane for
his services to the democracy in the re-
cent campaign in Virginia.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-26

The truly good Mr.. Cleveland has
kindly asked the Republican senators to
assist him In discovering any bad APP
pointments he may have made, in his
guileless innocence, and he will with
draw them of his own accord. This he
does in order to avoid any unhappy diff
ferencss. 1t is quite evident to us that
it was Mr.. Cleveland who wrote those
sad, sad verses. The Little Boy That
Died. .
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Grant County Teachers Meetings.

I
Fennimore, Muscoda and Hazel Green:
Methods of teaching Common Fractions,
Denominate Numbers, Language, Hy-
giene Under Physiology give number
of bones, their uses, shape, composition
and different kinds of joints General
queries and discussions.
Topics for Bloomington, Boscobel
Montfort and Lancaster: Methods Of
teaching the different cases in Percent
age illustrated by black board work
Historical Analysis of the Declaration
of Independence, Diagrams as helps in
teaching Grammatical Analysis illustrat-
ed by blackboard exercises, Hygiene
Under Physiology take up the organs Of
circulation and respiration, and be ready
for discussion concerning the nervous
system. General discussions and queries
Topics for Mt Hope, Platteville
Cassville and Potosi: Hygiene, Value
and use of different kinds of food ma
terial, Organs of Digestion, Process Of
Digestion; History of Missouri Com.
promise, considering its cause and effect
Taxes, Commission, and Interest; How
to teach Language and Grammar. Gen.
eral queries and discussions.
Work will commence at 10 A. NJ. Of
each day appointed and efforts will bt
made to secure intelligent assistance to
aid in conducting these meetings Tn
der Hygiene the discussions viii
hinge on the effects of stimulants ant
narcotics on the human system. TIL.
object of these meetings is to secure, il
possible, more uniforrnity of methods o.
teaching, and to create a deeper inter
est on the part Of parents, teachers ant
pupils in all educational work. Earn
estly hoping that all friends of educa
ton will kindly encourage this work b,
| their presence and support, and trusting
that these gatherings will prove Of last
| ing benefit to the county, | am,
Very respectfully,
CHAS L. HARPER.
/ p determinations of pupils in tn
schools throughout the county, in lin
with the work laid down in the Cours
Of Study for Country Schools, will b
held February "a and %, 1886. TIL
regular Spring series of Teachers Elk
aminations will commence March ]
1886. Teachers will do well to bear i
mind that Physiology and Hygiene wi
be branches in which all who secur
certificates must be examined.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-26

America has never yet failed to give
British cannon warm reception, and
Canon Farrar has not been made an
exception to our hospitabls rule.
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DARTITIoN sALE-kLriNprrl

II
Otto Kleinpell, plaintif VS. Elizabeth Schuerer and
Phillip Schuerer. her husband and Christina Klein
pel defendants
In Circuit Court for Grant County, Wisconsin.
Notice hereby gwen that by and in pursu-
Of judgment of par on and order of sale rem
dered at the general Sep ,ember term. .GS5 of the
Circuit Court for Gram county. Wisconsin and bear
ing date September 7ze 1896 the undersigned sheriff
OF Grant county, Wisconsin, will the 9th day of
January, 1886 at the hour of one O'Clock in the alter
noon Of said day. at the front door of the court house
in the city of Lane in said county, offer for sale
and sell to the highest bidder bidders for cash. the
following real estate all situate. being and lying ia
Town Three 80 NoT-h. of Range Five 81 West
(Cassville), in Grant county Wisconsin: The north
half of the southwest quarter of Section five 90 in
Township three go North of Range Five 81 West
OF the 4th P. NJ. in Grant county Wisconsin.
Dated Sheriff S Office. Lancaster Wis, November
24th, 1885. ORA RICHARDS,
Sheriff Grant County, Wis.
ORR & Lowry. Plaintiff S Attorneys.
r. o. Address Lancaster. Wis. sow6
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CITY GUIDE.

LAScAsTERIoDeEA.F "a NJ. meets hrst and
t9ird Saturdayin each msnth at p. m, in Budd
Block
GRANT CHAPTER. Regular convocation second
"a fourth Tuesday OF each month at D. m in
Bndd block.
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY LODGE l. o. o. F. Meets
every Wednesday at 7:3op. IN. in Odd Fellows
uau. Maple street.
LANCASTER Lopez l. o. G. T. Meets every
Tuesdayat p. m. in Budd block Madison street.
LANCASTER CoUNcIL r. t. Meets first Thurs
DAY OF each month In Bndd block. Madison street.
FIpELITY LODGE A. 0. U. W. Meet first and
third Mondays Of each month in Bndd block,
Madison street.
SYLVAN CAMP. NJ. w ORA Meets 1st and Sd
Fridays Of each month in Budd Block, Madison
street.
CossREGATIONAL CHURCH Corner Madison
and Cherry streets. Services at 10 80 a. m. and
p. m. Sunday.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH Corner Mons
roe and Cherry streets. Services 1890 a. M and
p. m. Sunday.
BAPTIsT CHURCH. On Madison street, Ser
vices 1880 An. and Z 30 NJ. on the second and
third sunday o. each month Bible school every
Sunday as2
CATHOLIC CHURCH. COrnerJ eRerson and Cher.
~ streets. Services at 1920 a. m. and D. m
sunday.
CITY LIBRARY Court house. Open Wednes-
day afternoon and Saturday afternoon and even
ing.
PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH Corner JEFF
Iersen end OAK streets. Services, at 1890 H. m.
aud p. m. Sunday.
llYDE's OPERA House. Corner Madison and
Cherry streets.
GERMAN EvANGELTcAL CHURCH. Madison St.
Sunday School a. N. Services Joan, Singing
school , I'm.
GERMAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURcH Rev j A
HingOld Pastor. Services every Other Sunday
sabbath school every Sabbath a. y a. m Social
Meeting Wednesday evenings
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DIR. FENNER'S Improved Cough
Honey relieves any Cough in one hour
or less 31y1
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CHOICE Maple Syrup and home
made sorghum, at Joe Nathan's. ATT
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A NEW line of Clocks just recei, ed
at j. H. Baldwin's. 32,f
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Grant Cnnntp Merald,

The father of Vienna Ream died on
Sunday last.
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BOsCOBEL.

J~-0SNSrN~~ @~'Jr~~ - - - N~~~~~c~o~NO~O~ON~~~N
Dentist-W. y. HURD, Boscobel, Wis.
ONCE over Ritter & Hubbells. Can be found
in his Office ~ all times except Mondays and
Tuesday His assistant cen be found there Mt all
times. Dr. Hand will be at Varrell House Fen
nimore, the 2pd Monday and Tuesday of each
month.
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BEETOwN.

Agent-R. S. MORSE. Beetown, General
Collecting Agent and Notary Public. Business
promptly attended o. Agent for Continental
end other In. nranee Co.'S.
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Mt. IDA.

Agent-R. BUGGINs, Mt. Ida, Grant Co.,
Wis. Notary Public and Couveyaucer. Collec-
tions a specially.
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Agem-JEssE BROOKS. COnveyancer,
Collecting AGENT snd dealer in Real Estate. I'll
Ties inves ge ed Loans negotiated. Blooming
on, Wisconsin. 49tf
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St. Nicholas.

An illustrated monthly periodical for boys and
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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-26

Calena Gazette: MISS Lizzie Abrams
and Miss eastman. of Lancaster, Wis.
are visiting Prof. Needham, principal
Of the East Dubuque scaocls.