Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-02-09

are busily engaged in filling the ice
house formerly used by Q. Thomas q
Son.
/. &. Dewitt went to Platteville last
Friday and returned Saturday.
DIR. James went TO Highland Tues
day to do professional duty. The
doctor has good practice at that
point.
Mr.. Erickson, OF Inwood, Iowa, is
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Hunt this
week.
The minister, during his discourse
last Sunday evening, dwelt at length
upon some of the evils of Montfort, OF
its profanity, drunkenness and its
gambling. / am sorry that he didn't
broaden out and take in the set OF
men who defile women and young
girls. overheard fellow explod-
! ing his Imagination the other day and
| it was only pure cowardice that saved
him a good slap across the mouth.
/ You wretch, You say of young girl
that she is not what she ought TO be;
YOU criticise her for actions that
| spring from thoughtlessness and an
1 Overlooking merry heart. You blast
her future irremediably by Judg-
ment based purely upon some trivial
| circumstances which has no more to
do with the coloring OF her soul than
garden fence has to do with the tint
OF lily. The girl you condemn may
be as pure as an angel, as indebted
as the snow that drifts at midnight
over Chilkoot, but because you are
under bonds to Judge by the visible
YOU blacken her reputation with
false estimate. BE at least as careful
in your judgment Of personal repu-
tations as you are in sampling but
ter. You don't judge butter by see
ing other people buy it, nor by hap
hazard flavor; no more should you
pass judgment upon women merely
from what other people say about
her. Get to know her and understand
something about her disposition be-
fore you pass verdict, and then be
careful
This reminds me. Did you ever
stop to think that about two-thirds of
the scandal OF a community is the
product of Imagination That some
and others tell il for the truth? 1t is
true that there is some profanity in
Moutfort, yet its citizens are not all
profane. 1t is true we have had our
unfortunates. gamblers, and saloon
buns, but the percentage is small
compared with towns we happen to
know. The greatest fanlt we have to
find with our town is the promptness
TO picture the dark side and airing
scandle, true or false, forgetting en-
tirely the good deeds. | should hate
to live here if thought the town was
really so corrupt and, where crime and
immortality reigned supreme. 1t
certainly does not speak well for the
school and churches, does it? | re-
peat, much of the red handed crime
for which this town seems to be re-
puted is perhaps the outcome of those
who feed and fatten upon what
they hear. There are many good
deeds done in Montfort unnoticed,
which should be noticed aud praised.
even by the most depraved; their
brightness Is attractive and their saw
or is sweet; and the more surrounded
BY vices. follies, crimes and ungodly
deeds, the greater should be the lus-
ter and the more strongly they should
be admired. But they are not. There
are those who visit the fatherless in
their Affections to cheer and help
them upon their lonely and helpless
career looking after the orphans,
whose clambering minds need assist
ance and care, to prevent their young
tendrels from clinging to poisonous
and dangerous objects. These and a
thousand others are good deeds that
are rarely il ever known; but let a
girl speak to n person who may be an
acquaintance. though an apparent
stranger in town, and the act is at
once caught up and stirred up until
il causes stencil in the nostrils of
all, from the highest angel in heaven
down to the lowest robber in . 1t
is said a little candle will devour
darkness million times its magni-
tude. So it is, that il we are charit-
abe, honest and benevolent in our
judgment OF people. the luster that
will surround this town will as much
out-shine the little candle as the
MONDAY sun snrpasses the feeble
glow emenating from the tail-end of a
lightning bug.