Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31
Local JOttings.

ter over Sunday.
Richard Falley is visiting his
father in Wahpeton, Dakota.
This is the farmers busy season
and visits to town ere few and far
between.
Mrs. Oliver Smith and children
of Dakota are guests Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Abe Decker.
Jas. Townley has given his sa-
loon new name. 1t is now known
as 1.-The Club"
When women talk about their
proposals of marriage they are as
unreliable as men when they talk of
fishing or hunting
Miss Mabel Burr of Ellenbo1o
was a guest of Miss Mary King last
week while in the city attending
teachers institute.
When a man asks you for adj
vice first find out the KIND he wants
and then giveit to him freely and he
will be convinced that you and hln.-
self are two Of the smartest men
that ever lived.
This has been one of the best
years for flies ever known and this
pestiferous rascal seems to be pro-
vided with a sharper bite than ever.
Especially bad is he on cattle and
horses. Some cattle raisers say their
stock is so bothered with them that
they cannot pick up any flesh.
1T seems almost impossible that
nearly $40, 900 in cash should have
been confined to misdirected letters
during the last year, and harder
still to believe that the most eXhaus-
tive efforts have failed to find the
owners Of one-fourth of this amount.
The envelopes which are addressed
are kept on file for four years, blank
ones not so long, but in either case
a liberal margin of time is allowed
claimants to appear before the mon
ely is finally turned into the treasury
to the credit of the postoffice depart
ment. in addition to the money
contained in letters during the same
period, something like SO, 900 was
found loose in mails It is officially
styled loose money"
Don't v Try about something
that you think may happen tomor-
row because you may die tonight
and tomorrow may find you beyond
the reach of worry Don't worry
over a thing that happened yester
day because yesterday is hundred
years away; if you don't believe it,
just try to reach after it and bring
it back. Done worry about any
thing that has happened today be
cause today will only last fifteen or
twenty minutes Don't worry about
things you can't help, because wor-
rying only makes it worse. Don't
worry at all. If you want to be
penitent now and then, it won't hurt
you to go into the sack-cloth and
ashes business little; it will do you
good But worry, worry, worry,
fret, fret, fret why, there's neither
sorrow, hope, patience, penance,
reformation, strength nor resolution
in it; it's merely worry
Man born in the mountains Of
Kentucky is of feud days and full Of
virus. He fsheth, fiddleth, cusseth
and fghteth all the days Of his mis-
cradle life. He shunneth water as a
mad dog and drinketh much mean
whiskey. When he desireth toraise
h he plantest neighbor and 10!
he reapeth twenty fold. He riseth
even from the cradle to seek the
scalp Of his grandsire's enemy and
bringeth home in his carcass the am
munition of his wife's ,leighbor's
wife's cousins father-in-law, who
avengeth the deed. Yes, verify, his
life is uncertain and he knows not
the hour when he may be jerked
hence. He goeth forth on a journey
half shot and cometh back on a
shutter, shot. He riseth in the
night to let the cat out, and it taketh
nine doctors three days to pick the
buckshot out of him. He goeth
forth in joy and gladness and cometh
back in scraps and fragments. A
cyclone bloweth him into the bosom
of his neighbor's wife and his neigh
Dor bloweth him into Abraham's
bosom beforeshe hath time to ex-
plain. He emptieth a demijohn in
to himself and shot gun into his
enemy and his enemy's son ieth in
wait for him on election day and lol
the coroner ploweth up fo,ty-acre
field to bury the remains of that
man. Woe, woe is Kentucky, for
her eyes are red with bad whiskey