Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-12-13
PLATTEYILLE.
CITY AND VICINITY BRIEFS.

j. V. Gardner keeps all kinds of
canned goods and bulk oysters.
The ice-bridge on which Uncle Jap
has been crossing Platte river at Ellen
boro, is no more.
There is nothing quite SO popular
Justnow as cold. Aperson without
a cold attracts scarcely less attention
than would woman wearing last
years style of hat.
Gardner furnishes first-class, lunch
for 10 cents. When you come to town
do not go home hungry, but go and get
your dinner.
The people of Wing made Rev. Mr..
Clough present of buffalo robe last
week.
A party was held last Saturday even
ing in the Masonic hall by the Platte
vile dancing club.
A social party was held last Friday
evening at the residence of Rev. III. w.
Carter.
w. j. Jennings has just received his
mammoth stock of holiday goods.
Wyne's are displaying new stock of
holiday goods.
Bill Dashman, Platteville's hard
knocker, is going to fight Fisk, Du-
buque's bully, tonight.
E. w. Chain, candidate for attorney
general on the Prohibition ticket last
fall, speaks tonight on temperance in
the M. E. church. Mr.. Chain is re-
commended as very fine speaker.
II. II. Rountree, of the Platteville
creamery, has just finished filing his
extensive ice-house in connection with
the creamery.
j. w. Murphy, who has been quite
i'll for few days past, is again able to
be out. His illness was not case of
lung fever as at first supposed, but ma
laria.
The Normal Philadelphian Society
which met last Friday evening, pre-
sented the following program: After
Roll Call, Critics Report, by Will Col
burn; Essay, Attention, by Rob Beck;
Defamation, An Aged Stranger, by
John Meinhardt; Reading, Crime its
own Detector, viii Campbell; Persona
ton, Mr.. Smithyman; Defamation,
Love of Life, Tom Grindell; News of
the Week, Frank Williams. After re-
cess the question was debated, which is
as follows: Resolved, that Nature is
Greater Factor in the Formation of
Character than Education" The affir-
native were Ben Robinson and AL
Jeardoe. The negative F. B. Churchill
and Henry Donnison. 1t was decided
for the negative.
Brother Peck, of the Democrat, can
not see any difference, so far as good or
bad is concerned, between placing in
the hands of children an instrument of
amusement that has tendency to in
struct as well as amuse, and one that is
so much used as an instrument of evil.
According to his hypothesis it would
be safer to furnish boy with a set of
burglar tools and teach him the use of
them, than to make him present of
a set of carpenters tools. The burg
lars tools would furnish him amuse-
ment, so would the carpenters tools.
But while the carpenters tools amused
they would also instruct, and evil is not
thought of in connection with them.
Burglars tools are the tools of the
wicked. Cards are the best tools the
gambler has. They are found in every
saloon. The boy who carries off
peoples gates and does all kinds of
deviltrY while the population slumbers,
whose delight and conversation is the
prize fight, has deck. The pugilist,
jockey, gambler, corner-loafer, and all
other toughs better knows the value of
a card of the euchre deck than does he
his own name. What does this class
know about the popular authors?
Nothing. They were not taught that
kind of game. We think we give a
pretty faithful revision of the next to
the last sentence in Brother Peck's ar
ticle when we say: Better allow chill
dren to do some wrong things when
young, for fear that when grown up
they will be mad because prohibited and