Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-09-12

his dIngy, lnk-grlmed den, hndS his
work like a woman's, never done.
He has TO write politics, elections. re-
ligion, history, statistics, business, fl
nance, railroads, steam boats, i'm
prcvements and disimprovements.
He has to write distinguished ar
rivals, stray mules, notices, crops,
weather, market, crimes and rascali-
ties. wherein is mbraced much Of the
politics of the day. He has to write
personal notices, often of numb-skulls
and nobodies, births, deaths, mar
riages and other calamities, removals,
sales, trades, exchanges and failures,
pre-eminently conspicuous among
which come most of the statesmen
and craftsmanship of those latter
days. He has to write puffs of new
exchanges and new advertisers, puffs
of middle headed speakers and MINI
ble-footed dancers, puffs of reopened
theaters; ball rooms and churches,
puffs of sermons, ballads, bishops,
and puffs of people that puff him.
He has to write descriptions of balls,
picnics, concerts, revivals and smash
ups extravaganzas and barbecues, rail-
| lies, reunions and mass meetings;
dissertations on fashions, essays on
morality and criticisms on the follies
of the day, and subscribers who don't
pay. Daily and hourly he must run
the whole gamut of emotions and tear
the last feeling and sentiment to
tatters. He must be glad to hear
this and panied to hear that; delight
ed to meet such one and distressed
- know of accident to another; over
| joyed at this arrival and sad to mer-
tion that departure; pleased to state
one thing and grieved to announce
another; shocked at this and enrap-
tured at that; sympathizing here, con-
graduating there; mourning today,
rejoicing tomorrow; and now jingling
merry wedding strain. He must
be ever ready to entertain his elderly
female constituents with information
in regard to the prices of butter and
eggs, cure for measles, Group and
chicken cholera, the condition of the
heather and the prospects of charity
fairs and festivals. He must always
be prepared, like a self-winding,
double back action, automatic hurdy-
gurdy, TO dash off, at a moments
warning, in any tune or key, any,
thing flom congregational poetry and
imported swine to supreme court de-
cisions, ruins of Egypt, Greece and
Rome, gubernatorial tickets and size
of cabbages aud pumpkins. And,
worse than al, at the bidding of any
and every inebriated mob of partisans
and jobbing hucksters known as a
convention be must increasingly blow
and puff political toad-frogs and les
ser vermin into majestic lions of state
craft, and transform stupid and thiev-
ish nonentities into colossal giants of
wisdom. learning, eloquence and vir-
tue. Alas, alas! If there glow no
holy, patriotic fire upon his sitsr of
daily sacrifice, if he be not Hum nat
ed and consecrated with pure and he
roic am bition to advance the welfare
of his country and his people, if over
all OF his work exalted love of liberty
and right and ardent desire to serve
his age cast not their sacl ed halo, his
labor is but ill-paid slavery and his
life weary failure.
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A party of our citizens went down
to Kansas and Missouri a few DAYS
ago to investigate and look around a
little in view of putting in cold
water plant in Joplin or some other
city where lead and zinc mining is
the principal occupation and indus
try. thought this was funny
proposition and did not see where
any money could possibly be made in
the cold water business in a mining
town, but a friend gave me a
| few words of explanation and now
can figure it out without book. He
SAYS everything in that country is
either lead or zine and the people are
afraid to construct a sewer or any,
thing else for fear of striking lead.
Several wells have been started there
but each time a fine lead vein has
been struck instead of water and the
owner found it more profitable to