Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31
HARRY DANIELS
MINOR
OBSERVATIONS
copyrisht. 1902. by Harry DaHiei

man who called me liar Last week.
Clear and continued warm!
"Bunion on left foot inclined to be
quarreisome. Signs of SPAWN in right
kree. Left leg again growing stiff.
Will limp till noon, and will then get
out crutch. Heavy winds in Texas and
Mississippi; rain throughout middle
west. Temperature falling in, east.
"Have crick in back, causing return
of desire to use language which would
be harsh, to say the least. Left leg
still stiff. Would like to swap 1T off
for stem-winding shot gun or some
thing else with which I could secure
little unused immortality in exchange
for a similar amount of rheumatism.
Falling temperature through out most
of the United States and China. High
temperature under my collar. WINDS
west by southwest, with hail in Kan
sas City and heavy frost on the Gulf
of Mexico"
But science, with it's characteristic
progressiveness has stepped in, and
is to-day attempting to usurp the au-
thority in all matters pertaining to the
weather. But up to this time the ma
tional weather bureau, while being
thoroughly trustworthy and honest
itself, has experienced more or less
annoyance in securing just the style
of weather which it orders. For this
reason the weather bureau bulletins
have popularity come to be regarded
as almost as romantic in their dis
position as our railroad time tables,
and to-day thousands of proud Ameri-
cans daily read and reread them be-
cause they can see in them the traces
of literary merit just as plainly asthey
can see the finger prints of the hurried
and over-worked postal clerk who
prints them and who, scarcely given
time enough TO read the postal cards
which pass through his hands, is COM
PEELED to go to press from day to day
on door jamb or a yielding and I'M
certain stove lid. But science is not
discourse ed, and the time will come
when our gentlemanly and courteous
weather bureau will be able to prog
nosticate with such accuracy that a
person who has borrowed an umbrella
can, by watching the bulletins, teH
Just the week or month when he will
be through with it and ready for the
owner to come and get it back.
And thus we see that science, while
It possesses a past of which it may
we'll be proud, still has many achieve
ments ahead Not content with the
horseless carriage and the porous plas-
ter, the phonograph and the feather
renovator, the flying machine and the
straight-front corset. science stands
to-day with one hand resting lightly
upon the shoulder of the patent at
tornev and the other pointing hope
fully into the future.
Science has met with many discour-
agements, but she has at last succeeded
in getting a foothold. Calico, who
made the first successful telescope. and
who worked up a lot of long haired
theories in regard to the solar system
which have since been found to be
about 1000 miles from the truth, was
put in Jail. tortured and banished, and
finally died with the unanim Gus and
hearty approval of the entire commu-
nifty in which he resided. Columbus,
who discovered America and the way
to make soft-boiled egg stand on
one end, was chained to himself,
leased. Inundated, and finally died
without public. interference, detected,
broken-hearted and with his name still
on the delinquent tax list. The man
who invented the hoopskirt has been
forgotten, and unmarked is the final
resting-place of the author OF the coal
scuttle. Fulton, the inventor of the
steamboat, died unappreciated, un-
honored and in comparative poverty,
while the genius who gave the cork
screw to the world will go down
through the ages unrewarded.
And vet, in spite of all these ADVERSE
ties. science is to-day the conqueror.
What the future holds we know not.
Perhaps some barefooted and and bay
haired boy, who to-day runs at will in
street or meadow or watermelon
patch, unknown, untaugbt and un-
spanked will, ere many years walk
calmly up the heights where even fic-
ton to-day lays back her ears and re-
fuses to venture AS Thomas Edison
said few days ago, the time will come
when there will be an automobile fast
enough to take a mans breath. Per-
haps they will be fast enough even
to take book agents breath, and,
perhaps the day will come when the
man who wears his hair decolette will
be able to secure a successful hair re-
storative but even then science may
only stop long enough to readjust her
spectacles and see if her switch is on
straight.