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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-05-02
Ilown and County News.


oscar Bidwel shipped q car load of
hogs 90 Wednesday.
oar Drum Corps held its first prac-
Sire of the season Friday evening.
All the freight trains were laid of
Tuesday to give the boys holiday.
Thomas 4 Mccoy received a car
load Of -four from Madison on Monday
Tuesday being legal holiday the
HERALD force took 3 day off to go fish
ing.
Earnes. Damn. of Boice Prairie sold
fourteen hogs to Baxter & Schreiner
Friday
Dir. Hassell was called to Montfort on
Friday morning to attend very sick
patient
On Monday car load Of lumber was
received from Oshkosh by George
Muesse.
Twichell & Osborne shipped car
load OF Silver Brand Excelsior to Chica-
go Monday.
+. NJ. Lowry has bed of dwarf tu-
lips in bloom that are almost a solid
mass Of red.
On Friday Gates 4 Willis and Bax-
ter and Schreiner each shipped car
load of hogs
r. G. Hawlev 4 Co. received car
load Of shorts on Thursday which they
sold to jos Wright.
The regular communion service viii
be held in the Congregational church
next Sunday morning.
George Milliean received car load
81 fruit and pine trees on Thursday
from Charles City. Iowa
Post Master, I. A. Burr has been
having his residence re.shingled and
other improvements added
Hon. A. r. Bushnell's residence has
colored blinds and trimmings.
Prot G. r. Showalter has moved his
place al residence to Nelson Thomas 5
house in the southern part Of the city
Charles Barber has been giving the
house owned by J :. Wright. north Of
The depot. a coat OF cream cnlored paint.
Baxter and Semeiner purchased
twelve hogs of Henry Macke of Potosi,
on Friday. Tor which good price was
paid
Born 10 MIR aud Mrs Erskine Nc
Coy, on Friday morning. April 26th. 3
daughter Mother and child are doing
well
The weather the past week has been
iue with cold wind Nature is slow 10
nut on her spring bonnet under such
circumstances
Alopzo Wayne and family have
move to Manchester. lows, where Mr..
Wayne win engage in the sewing ma
chine business.
Rev. Witherbee, % Fenaimore, occu,
pied the III + pulpit on Sunday morn.
ing snd evening during the absence Of
Re> Marcellus in Chicago.
G. w Longdon has new and hand
some show case in front of his srt gal
ierN Ii is TILED with pictures, th'
artistic work Of MIR l.ongdon.
Rev Carter. u Plattevlle, exchange,
pulpits with Rev. GrinnelI on Sunday
Mr. Carter preached 10 we'll tille'
houses both morning and evening.
The Normal Review school 10 be he'll,
here IN july and August by Prot. Clyd
X. Showslter will be great addition
10 our city from sn educational stan,
point.
WIN. Dyer has made \ vslnabl
sddition 10 his stables in The pnrchas
of King Butcher. handsome stallion
See bis advertisement in snothe
column
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-05-02

POTOsI STATION
doing North and West
Exprerr, except sunday ......... .... G:0T Il. IN.
accommodation, except sunday ... l0:s7 a. III.
Going Sonth and East.
Express. except Sunday ...,........... 3:43 y. m.
Accommodation. except sunday. le SO .. Ill.
trains 8 and !, run daily; / and ?. daily
except Sunday.
Through ticketr to all points IN the United
rates snd Canada on sale at Csssyille and P0tosi.
Hsggage checked ia rough TO destination
Peerless Dining Carr and Pullmau Sleepers on
.li through trSins.
For rates tickets. time tables, etc, apply 10
). l.. PLATT. POtosi.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-05-02

TeIre Hau.c Express; She couldn't
help il: Cashley of course I'll
60 with you, but il does seem 10 me a
wegulah boeh that as soon as Il girl is
engaged TO tellah she wants 10 eter-
nally dwag him awound on exhibition
like like a His fiance Like A
prize caIf?'
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-05-02

Washington Post; Speaking about
the President and The office seekers, :
said ex-Congressman Cumback. 81
course, where there are three applicants
for every position two are going to be
disappointed lie can't give them all
places. That reminds me. When Lin
coin was President he was takenill, and
the doctor told him he had varioloid.
what is it9' he asked
E" 'Varioloid, said the doctor.
Good enough said Lincoln; We
got something now can give every
body.
New Goods being received daily.
Furnished rom yard up.
john JEInE
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-05-02

Two points Of view: Mamma. YEARLY
"My. wish this miserable rain would
cease. Tommy. who has played 10
all afternoon-Why mamma
| think a rainy day is just boss. I've
had dead loads OF fun. "-Terre Haute
EXnrass
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-05-02
TOMATO AND cAssAcE eLAnrs

Persons desiring unusually large and
thrifty tomato and cabbage plants can
receive them either IN Lancaster OF
PlntteyiIle BY sending their orders 10
Colhurn i Son. gsrdners. l0w2
Platteville. Wis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-05-02

At the residence of MIR. Rob't Ora
ham in Livingston. April %, 1889. by
Thomas Watson. Esq. Mr. John John
son. To Miss Tanner Bewick. both Of
Mifiin. laws Co.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-05-02

Am selling goods and doing work at
he lowest bottom prices. Call and see
me to be co WINGED j Ohm JEIpE.
j !, Case Threshng machines, horse
power and for engines.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-05-02

II PROBATE GRANT CotNTY COURT
IT, the Matter of the Estate 81 Gabriel Mills,
deceased
on reading aud filing The petition 81 PHO A.
orion administrator Of the estate 1T said de
ceased. representing among other Things that he
has fully administered said estate and praying
and allowing bis account Of h- administrations
it l. ordered that said acroun' be examined and
residue ~ Estate hc ASSIGNED hy his court
on Tuesday he forth day % j iuc next ensuing
% q o'clock. N. at Lancaster. Vi -sid county
AZ the Court House room.
And 30 i fnrihered ordered thar LOtce thereof
be given 10 all persons interested, by publ shing
a copy Of Ibis order for three successive weeks
prior to said day oi hearing, in the GRANT
COUNTY HERALD, weekly newspaper. printed
and published in said county.
by The Court;
GEO y CARTER
County Judge
Dated A. Lanraste. the ~ day Of May. A. u.
1850 i0-i3
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-05-02

rtiu q. ~ 10 : p. m. - .
CHAs HuRg. Assistant.
STAGE ROUTES.
LANCASTER 4 PLATTEVILLE STAGE.
(Daily.)
.EAvEs Lancaster a. p. 10. and Arrives Al
plsttsVile al ; p. IN.
sAVEs Plattevlle at 8. 10. aud Arrives 81 Ian
caster ~ l1 IN. >. K GREEN. Prop.
LANCASTER 4 sPECHTs FERRY STAGE.
(Daily)
g4vEs Lancaster ST 8 s. m. and Arrives st
Potosi at ii 10.
.skvEs Potos 81 2 p. m and Arrives az
Lancaster at $50 .. u.
HARCLERoAD & DYER, Props
LANCASTER BURTON STAGE.
'ELVEs Lancaster every Tuesday, Thursday and
saturday at = m. and Arrives at Burton ut
..AgEs burton 81 80 D. N. on same days and
arrives at Lancaster at $3.50 2. N.
sNCA4'rER. BEEToWN 4 BLOOMINGTON
STAGE
LE4vEs Lancaster every Tuesday. Thursday and
snd saturday st q. 10. and Arrives 81 Bloom
iugton AZ IL IN.
IVES Bloomington at p. m. on same days
4Gt Arrives At Lancaster at 8 p. N.
.. JOHNSON, Prop.
CAItt GO. BURLINGTON q NORTHERN u. \.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-05-02
SCHOOL REPORT


Report of Graham School Joint dis
tricl No. Is, MI Ida and Lancaster for
month ending April 26:
No. Of pupils enrolled, y Pupil
neither tardy nor absent eddie Frey.
Pupils tardy but not absent Nancy
Graham, Ralph Baxter Average
daily attendance > Average standing
for month Lille Baxter. o.; Emily
Bollard, 9l Matte Frey. s93; Ralph
Baxter, SO! Maggie Sitter, 90: johnnie
Bul!ard, 49, Martha Boilard, 90: Eddie
Frey, %. Mary Baxter, SO; Nancy
Graham. 81 Mertic jarrett. 81, Cora
jarrett s9I BESSIE ARNOLD.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-05-02

Merchant Tailoring of any desired
pattern NJ short notice.
john JEIDF.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-05-02

Having rented my Central Hotel at Glen
Haven. Wi--. 10 Bishop & Thurmer. Of BectOWn.
Wis, ana purchased the European Restaurant 10
Dubnqne. lows. and Won take charge between
no. snd March !. 1889. / thank my old patrons
in Glen Maven. and trust my successors will
merit their constant support Any who may
cOme 10 Dubuque will end = cordial welcome 81
the European where viii have go0d furnished
rooms YoRrs traly
sy' 8E0. DAsuTP.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-05-02
HOOK AND LADDER co

Pursuant TO call number Of citizens
met in Register Oswald's office Thurs
day evening. TO organize = hook and
ladder company. mucn need organizes
ton in this city. MIR Oswald called
the meeting To order and on motion w.
ii. Decker was chosen chairman and
W. b. Miner secretary.
On Motion Maltin Oswald. Aug.
Michaels, Henry Aluesso and Reube
Black were appointed committee on
BY laws
On motion the chair appointed Chas.
l.isherness, Renbe Black, w. A. John
son and II & Nsthan committe 10
solicit membership.
1t being decided to postpone the
election of officers until the next meet
ing when full attendance of all in
ierested was expected, the meeting
adjourned TO Thursday Of this week,
meeting to be held in Knapp's Hall
pro@ptly At Z o'clock.
The inaugural celebration in Polosi
was observed in an appropriate manner.
Service was held in the church in the
morning; addresses were given by Hon.
j, w. Seaion, Rev. + NJ. Cory and
Prot + Shuttleworth. paper was
also read by Mr.. rhos. Davies. Of
British Hollow.
Charles Lisherness and Anton Schmitt
visited Madison Monday
Miss l.. Lavilla Trowbridge will
commence to teach school IN the Elm
dale school Monday.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-05-02
DELINQUENT Tax SALE.
nFFICIAL.l

SI'ATE or WISCONSIN.
CUpSrY or GRANT. =
THEAsrgGEs OFFICE, GRANT Co.. Wis
LANCASTER, April II, 1880
Notice j. hereby givcn 10 81 whom Il may con
teia. that viii. on the Third Tuesday, being
THE 2tST DAY OF MAY 1893.
AZ the County Trcssnrrr's office IN Lancaster
the county seat Of laid county between The
hours Of o'cl0ch q. M. and O'Clock D. ~ Of
said day and he next succeeding days thereafter
sell al pnhlic auction or So much OF each OF the
following described tracts OF land and town
village and city lots situated in said Grant
County, rs may be necessary for the payment af
taxes. interest, costs snd charges thereon for
the scar 1858. which may remain due and nm.
paid on the third Tuesday Of NAV. 1899
tAEBEENtArioNs.. e. east; nc. northeast: Se
southeast ". west; NV. nOIthwest Wv, south.
west z. north; :, south com, commencing; beg
beginning; run. running: &C, acre blk. block II
feet; III. links; CHI, chains; adm, sdditlon; ut
part ADJ. adjoining ex, EXCEPT; md undivided
cor corner frac, fractional; I'D. bounded: H.
thence
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-05-02
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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-05-02
TOWN ]. RANCE JAMESTOWN \.
TOWN j. RANGE ~ PARIS

Com - rds WIS OF neil Of m
Of ne cor Of u OF mel.
nwi4 OF sei4 IA Nwlt Of net, ~
20 rds tn 10 nel4
rds tli e g rds Ia Scl4 Of mex
10 ride 10 place Middle y q Wa
Of heg iI.ots and innel.
Com SO rd~ OF ne Lot of nwl4 81
cor Of nels OF sell
sei4 tn 20 rd. NV cor or nwi. OF
tn : A ids Ia sela
10 rds ia "a rds oS side Of lOt il
NJ Of nj ofsia OF SELL
-, nf nwit Of III Of lot being
-wl4 81 nwla Of swL.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-05-02
&~EQM ,aas G
LlcAen. NonrnwrsrrKs r. \. rlnr-rApLE

.mICAGO L NORTHWESTERN X. X. TIMETABLE
LEAVE.
MI. and Chicago Passenger. No. 100. $40 A. M
freight No. H.. t-'.' ~ - ~
.ialena Passenger No. IN. ...+......-. 4:l0 r. N.
ARRIVE.
ialena Passenger. No. 12i ...,......l II ~ a. NJ
Madison Freight No. 49,. .......... 1855 p. N.
Nil and Chicago Passenger No. lOl N7:l0P. NJ.
Trains on Narrow Gauge make close connec.
ions with traits on Milwaukee 4 ST. Paul II. X.
VIII. DECKER, Agent.
,HR,vtl AND DEPARTURE OF NAILS AT Ian.
CASTER. WIS.,, POST OFFICE.
MAILS ARRIVE.
.'i'sg63 GaenA. ..s................l2;So 6 m
Milwaukee Chicago ................. 7:l5 N
Dubuque sia p0tnei .. =. SEQ p IN
1laiteville ............ ). ......... l2:W IN
Bloomington ....... 600 p m
.nrton. III. 5O0p m
MAILS CLOSE.
Milwaukee h Chicago 1890. ..... S;OV N
a,ica0o u CSaIens ....... 500 p m
lnhn1ua via pnfo.i ............ 7:4o q IN
slsttevilla ........... 100 p N
gIonminrton .......... z 90 m
,nft0n ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 200 III
Office hours from 8. m. to $3.50 p. m. Money
order Department domestic and torelgn) open
= RI "a
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-05-02

TOWN ). nANan Nv wArLnLoo

.ANNE B. N LANNA4TER
I &C y side orncl,
near nv cor

, &C OF sside OF vs. 81 Of sci. Of sel.
OF swit OF sci. 10 scr. OF mel
VIZ Of swl6 OF swl. 30
Village of Flora Foants,n
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-05-02

New Advertisements.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-05-02
TOWN Z RASGE 4, " woonNAN
TowN = kANan ylLLAaN on aLAN

TOW n y, KA Nuk D, lLLANE OF tANNNtLiE
sift on SIDE ~ lot n
lot n
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-05-02
roWN !. RANGELLIMA
Village Of Annaton.

Lott block a !SIctlsaS -
Lot u ana IL A ~
TOWN !, RANGE /. WlNGGlLLE.
und Of nwii % Els OF swls 4.
nei4 1--WE az mel. 81
Sci. 81 nwi4 1sEI5 OF NV, h
Lcadheitcrs add to Montfor
Lot I Of block 9
Johnsens add To Nontf0rt
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-05-02
Johnsens add 10 Nouifort
TOWN :. RANGE cASTLERock
TowN :. RANGE Is NrsCona
Village Of Muscod.

W. u nwl4 GINS OF swi4
w 81 swl- dSeia Of nwi.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-05-02
,sRtytL AND DEPARTURE or NAILS At Ian.
CASTER. WIS.,, POST OFFICE.
CHAS. HuRg. Assistant.
STAGE ROUTES.

Office hours from s. m. to $3.50 p. ~. Money
order Departing of domestic and foreign) open
'-nm N 10 : D. m.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-04-03
Do People Die Of JOy?

A few weeks ago the international
press mentioned the case of a poor Ger.
man widow who died in the arms of o
son who had just returned from America
and hoped to make his sudden arrival a
joyful surprise to family who had long
mourned him dead: and the presence OF
several hundred thousand spectators
seems to leave no doubt in the truth OF
that famous episode IN tie history of the
Olympic festivals, when cd Diagoras,
the Rhodian, sank down dead in the
moment when the shout of an assembled
nation greeted the announcement that
his two sons had won the entire pen.
tathlon, l. e., carried of the five prizes
for which the Grecian athletes of Europe
and Western Asia had been training for
four years.
A more remarkable, if we'll established,
case would be the story of the Moslem
hero who had risen by personal bravery
to ever prouder heights of military re-
nown. but who died from emotion, in
the flower of his youth, on receipt of his
promotion to the supreme command of
m army gathered for the conquest of
Armenia. Such at least is the account
of contemporary chroniclers, though
subsequent historians incline to the
view which traces the tradition to a
fiction of the Caliph Valid, whose jeal.
ously had encompassed the death OF his
ablest ieutenant-probably by the same
means by which the despot Tiberius con-
triYed to terminate the career of his
popular kinsman.-Qpsn Court.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-04-03
Temperance News and Notes.

The ladies of the w. G. T. .. in Crete,
Neb., serve ten cent lunch every Saturday
DR., H. Grattan Guinness of London, in an
address delivered before the Congreg ational
min ;ters of Chicago recently, sa d that the
friends Of Africa even dread the building OF
the proposed Congo railroad because OF the
greater facilities it will provide for trans.
porting the awful curse Of run into that
country.
1.-The League of the Gross" is {. society lust
organized in New y orls. It's members pledge
themselves not to treat or accept 4 treat ia
ANYTHING to drink. 1t is believed that the
league will be powerful temperance factor,
besides saving its members good deal OF
money The treating custom is responsible
for much OF the intemperance in this country.
The Popular Science Monthly gives the
following: "M. Marambel reports that OF
5000 convicts in Franco examined with re-
soect to their habits of drunkenness or tenn
perance. seventy-nine per- cent. OF vagabonds,
from fifty to fifty-seven per cent ot assasslns
and incendiaries, tifty-three per cent. OF
offenders against morals, seventy-one per
cent. of thieves and sharSers and seventy y-seven
per cent. of offenders against property were
drupkards. Drunkards are nearly as num-
erous among youths under twenty as among
adults
The New Repu5lic, says: "It takes about
fifteen cents worth of corn TO make fift,en
dollars worth Of whisky. and the farmers
share of the outcome of the whisky business
is too small to warrant any very extensive
stretchings Of his conscience. The distiilers
only use a little over one per cent of the corn
grown and what they do use takes the place
Of other corn for fattening hogs and cattle.
II tho world can get away with ninety nine
bushels of good corn and one bushsl Of slop,
we think they will be able to manage the
whole hundred in sound corn without any
break in the market"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-04-03

Once was pure as the snow, but I fell
Fell like snowflake, from heaven to hell
Fell, to bc,tramplcd as filth in the street
Fell 10 be scoffed at, spit OIL and beat;
Praying, cursng, wishing to die,
Selling my soul 10 whoever would buy,
Dealing in shame for morsel OF bread,
Hating the living and fearing The dead.
DO not give up. One like unto the Son OF
Col comes to you to-day, saying: 'Go and
sin no more,n while he cries out to your as
saiants: "Let him that is without sin cast
the first stone at her." Oil there is no reason
why any one in this house, by reason
of any trouble or sin, should give up.
Are you q foreigner, and in strange land!
Nehemiah was an exile. Are You penniless!
Nehemiah was poor. Are you homesick?
Nehemiah was homesick. Are you broken.
heartsd2 Nehemiah was broken-hearted.
But Just see him in tho text, rid
ing along the sacrileged grave of his
through the fish gate, and by the Kings
pool, in and out. in and out, the moonlight
falling on the broken masonry, which throws
q long shadow at which the horse SHES, and
at the same time that moonlight kindling up
the features of this man till you SOC not
only the mark of sad Renaissance,
but the courage, the hope, the onthu.
siasm of man who knows that Jerusalem
will be rebuilded. pick you up to-day out
of your sins and out Of your sorrow, and I
put you against the warm heart OF Christ.
"The eternal God is thy refuge, and under.
meath are the everlasting arms"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-04-03
Temperance Among the Ancients

Temperance Among the AnclentS
The history of Europe, for long series of
centuries has, indeed, been history of mer,
tai regeneration by science, and physical
degeneration by alcohol. The frequent bold
denia!s Of the latter fact Justify brief re-
view of the deyelopment.of the alcohol vice
among the nations of the Caucasian race.
The often repeated assertion that our pagan
forefathers contrived to combine a robust
physique with habitual excess in the use Of
Intoxicating beverages, is founded upon q
twofold delusion. In the first place, the
testimony Of contemporary historians fur
nishes abundant proof that the alcohol orgies
of the latter centuries of pagan civilization
avenged themselves by rapid decline in all
the essential endowments Of that physical
vigor that had made Rome and Greece al
most invincible bulwarks against the lnroadS
Of Eastern barbarism. In the century OF
Leonidas, when temperance lessons went
hand in hand with the athletic training of the
Spartan gymnasia, one Spattan warrior was
considered a match for two wine-drinking
Athenians, and for at least dozen wine and
beer guzzling Asiatics. In Magma Graecia
Sicily and southern Apulia) where Greclan
civilization attained its zenith of material
prosperity, absolute abstinence from intoxl-
eating drinks was enforced by the precepts
of Pythagoras, whose philosophy had &C
ouired almost the authority of an established
religion. The athlete Milo who could break
O bulls head with blow of his fist and use
bis arms as props for the pillars Of a falling
temple, was disciple of that school, and his
native city, Cro.ona, recognized temperance
as chief condition of election to numerous
Offices Of public trust. Similar laws pre-
vailed in Agrigentum, and in Syracuse, the
champion city of the southern Caucasians
and the last refuge of freedom when the
hordss of Africa attempted the conquest of
the Grecicn colonies. A thousand years later,
when all southern Europa was sunk in alco-
Eolism, while the temperance lessons of Mo-
hemmed had stee,ed tie manhood of the
Semitic races. the descendants of those Sici-
Ian keroos were varquishe1 again and again
by small detachments of Saracen warriors.
Voice
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-04-03
General Grants Self.Reliance.

General Grant was an eminent illus
tration of self-reliance from his boyhood.
His wonderful tact aided him in this
direction, and, at the same time, his
self.reliance gave expression to his tact.
He was only eight years old when he
took his fathers unbroken colt, put the
harness on him for the first time, and
drew brush with him all day long, with
out any fracas with the unframed ami
NAL. At another time, he was drawing
logs from the woods for the frame of
the new Jail. Several choppers were in
the woods, who loaded the logs for him.
But one rainy morning, he went to the
woods, and no choppers were there.
Should he return without the logs?
Never. That would not be like the
Grant family. He looked about for mo-
ment, and resolved what to do. Seeing
a half-fallen sugar maple, with its top
lodged in another, its trunk slanting just
enough for him to haul the hewn logs up
to proper height upon it, with the
horse, he proceeded to load. Hitching
the horse to the logs, one after another,
he drew them up, resting one end OF each
on the inclined plane, which the fallen
tree formed. Then backing his wagon
up to them, and fastening chain to one,
the horse drew it into the wagon easily;
and so on, until the load was complete.
His self-reliant spirit appears moro re-
markable when the fact is stated that it
had taken four men to load the logs
hitherto. and they accomplished it
by taking the wheels off on one side, and
letting the a1les rest on the ground;
then, lifting the logs on with hand
spikes, raised up the axles with levers,
and put back the wheels. The self-reliant
boy Showed more common sense than the
four men together possessed. Self
reliance will thus make tact and push
tell.
He was but nine years old when he
used twenty dollars, which he had laid
by for the purchase of colt He did it
with his fathers consent; and the latter
thought that the bargain was a good
one.
Less than two years afterward, his
father sent him to another town to pur-
chase horse ..or him. He was but eleven
years old when he drove pair of horses,
carrying passengers to Cincinnati, forty
miles distant, going one day and return
ing the next Yankee Blade.