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Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17

family were invited in to see us in the pa
ternal abode The host was formerly the
sheik OF the town, and in more troublous
times than ours a mighty man OF valor in
the region. He sat upon a cushion near the
door, fine looking patriarch In white tur-
ban. white tunic and fun. white trousers.
His beard looked the whittier for the black
eyebrows drawn strongly above a pair %
piercing dark eyes. He was in holiday
mood and dress full Of pleasant courtesy
to US and good humored banter to the others
present We were hardly seated upon tho
divan running around three sides Of .hs
room when he ordered his wife to bring
him bottle of native wine and a glass. in
which he drank 90 my sons health. Syrian
etiquette forbade him to drink to the health
OF a woman or to name her over a draught
Of wine. but he hedged cleverly by tossing
off n second bumper and. holding the
empti"d glass in his hand. expressing the
hope-still addressing my travelling COM
panon-that Madame. your honorable
mother will have safe and prosperous
journey to her distant home" For the next
five minutes he kept his gentle wife, his
daughter. who had the face of a Madonna,
and his beautiful daughter-in-aw busy in
making ready for the inevitable coffee
drinking.
brazier OF charcoal stood beside him
but his wife blew up the Goals and added
fuel: tho daughter brought the raw coffee
berries in a round, shallow vessel with a
long handle, like a straight-sided frying
pan, in which the former sheik himself
roasted the grains as a special compliment
To us. To brother-in-law who had
dropped in was assigned the task of pound
ing the coffee to powder i'm mortar of olive
wood-"an heirloom" as the host told us
pridefully, "and over 100 years old" The
pcstle was, likewise, of olive wood: both
were as hard as llgnum-vltae and black as
ebony with age and use. In po:nding the
coffee "A tune is rung by beats Of the pestle
against the sides of the mortar When this
is done skillfully every part of the rim is
touched in turn by the pestle in rhythmic
resonance. The hostess put the coffee pow
der into a copper pot, added water, sugar
and a pinch of allspice and set it to boil
her lord directing the process and watching
the pot until the contents foamed up to the
top, when he lifted it off, waited until the
bubbllng ceased and put ii back over the
Goals After three boilings-up the beverage
was ready for use. The daughter brought a
tray on which were tiny handeless cups
Her father filed them and she passed them
to the guests.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17
Christmas Down South

Christmas times, Observation-Disclosures times
down south,
All de richest juices moltin' in yo' mouth,
heap; "
Dancin' in de cabins till de chillun des
can't sleep!
Christmas times believers
Hear de house doors slam!
En- best of all de darkies
Dey drinks de white folks dram,
Christmas times. believers-fiing de white
sand down!
Here come all de iiddlers dat gvine ter
wake de town!
All de ole-time dancers from fur befo' de
war
Wen dey hear fiddle, know what dey
Twin for!
Christmas times, believers
OATS de word I say,
Even de grayhead deacons
VIII dance the WORT away!
Lissen at dem fiddles Amt dey singin'
sweet.
En- dar's de table loaded wild fines 'possum
meat!
Balance to 20 partners when de fiddle
SCUM;
Glory hallclujah! Swing de gals aroun'!
Christmas times. believers
OATS de times fer me.
Cabin floor d-creakin
En- music fowin' free!
FRANK L. STANTON
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17

bay and along the shores of Lake Superior.
About five years ago exploration parties
were sent outlby the Ontario government
to investigate the country from Quebec to
Manitoba They have reported that there is
a wide strip of fertile soil running from one
end OF this wilderness TO the other, about
100 miles north of the Canadian Pacific rail-
road. This region is of different forma-
ton than that farther south. The land is a
clay loan which will raise wheat, and 1t is
now known as the great clay belt The belt
is several hundred miles wide and alto
gether is estimated to contain in the neigh
borhood of 100000 acres or about as much
as our state OF West Virginia. 1t is COW
cred with timber which will have to be
cut off; but this may be done by the lum-
bermen when the country is opened. Other
wise the settlers will have to undergo the
same hardships and difficulties which were
common to the clearing of our eastern
states.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17
(Copyrlght,

west of the Ontario We know on the oppo-
site sides of Lakes Ontario, Erie and Huron
The country near those lakes is about as
thci.ly settled as Ohio 1t has a popuia-
ton of about 100000. II has some of the
best farms of North America, and enough
Of them to be worth $500, 100000 and to pro-
duce grain, vegetables and fruits to the
amount Of eco a year. Old Ontario
has good cities every few miles, with street
cars, electric light and all the surroundings
OF our best settled districts. 1t is cut up by
railways and the country roads are such
that one can go in an automobile through
any part of it, Great factories are spring
ing up in some of the towns, and the whole
region is one of industry and thrift.
The new Ontario is the vast frontier
which belongs To Ontario province. 1t lies
above and beyond the latter. II is the
great northland between the Georgian bay
and Hudson's bay and between Lake STU
periOr and the Albany river extending on
into the Rainy river country further west
clear to Manitoba.
The vast region is more than twice the
size OF the state OF New York and il con-
tains 100, 600 acres. The Thunder bay and
Rainy river districts in the west, which are
now being opened to settlement, are alone
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17


Until within few years this vast terri
tory was looked upon as valuable only for
its timber 1t was thought to be all rock
and swamp covered with ice the greater
part of the year Its only inhabitants were
the Indian hunters. Hudson's bay fur trad
ers and lumbermen, who have been cutting
down the trees along the streams and float
ing them down to the great lakes. Then
the Canadian Pacific railroad was put
through, the great nickel mines about here
were discovered, other mineral regions were
opened up and the Canadian and provincial
governments began TO look upon the coun-
try an available asset.
Within the last few years towns have
sprung up all along the lines of the rail-
ways, settlements have been started here
and there upon the ottawa river, which
goes up into Nipissing, and there are mining
towns and lumber mills with farms about
them on the streams above the Georgian
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17

quite as long as from Philadelphia TO Bos-
ton and as wide as from Washington to
New York. The Algoma district farther
eastward is almost wide, and it extends
from Lake Superior TO the Albany river
and Hudson's bay, while the Nipissing dis
trict where | am now writing, runs from
Lake Nipissng, not far from the Georgian
bay north to James bay. II borders the
province of Quebec on the east. just as the
Rainy river district at the other end of
New Ontario borders Manitoba
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17
CoIOniEing Plans.

The Ontario government is now planning
TO open up the clay belt TO settlement. 1t
will give 100 acres free to settlers on GER
tain conditions and they can buy 100 acres
more at 80 cents an acre. | am told that
some tracts have already been taken but
these are along the streams which give an
outlet to the south. No real colonzng or
settling can be done until the railroads
have opened up the country.
1t is different in the Rainey river region
and in the Thunder bay districts. They lie
across the way from Minnesota and are al
ready accessible by the Canadian Pacific
and the Canadian Northern railroads.
As 20 the colonization of the clay belt it.
self, one should take all the statements
concerning it with a grain of salt. Much
of the land is probably good, but the cut
ting of of lGO acres Of trees to make a farm
is an enormous undertaking, and without it
can be done for the timber upon it the pio-
neors expected will not speedily appear.
Vast Areas of SwnmPs and Rocks.
Much OF the country between here and
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17

about the latitude of Lake Abitbi, and
going thence on to the Atlantic giving
short haul for the wheat to the seaboard
and Great Britain.
The Ontario provincial government IS
building a railroad northward from Lake
Nipssing, a few miles east of Sudbury,
which will cross the Grand Trunk Pacific
in the neighborhood of Lake Abitihi. 1t
has already laid it's tracks for about 40
miles, and it is now within few miles OF
the clay belt. It's surveyors are working
farther northward, and they will continue
their survey of the line to James bay.
Another project is the James Bay rail-
road. to run from here, at Sudbury, to
about the same point, and third is the
Algoma Central railway, from the Canadian
500 to Hudson's bay. The AlgOma Cen
tral was begun by +. H. Clergue. and is
now the property of the Lake Superior
corporation, an American company which
owns vast properties about Sault Sainte
Marie. Canada. The road has already been
built seventy-five miles from the 500, and
IT has been graded for about ninety miles,
1t will eventually cross the clay belt, and,
like the other roads to the northward, will
give that region an outlet to the Great
Lakes and TO Hudson's bay.
II the clay belt turns out to be as rich
wheat country as is predicted, 1t may be
that the wheat will go to Europe via Hud-
sons bay. The distance is much shorter
than by the lakes or farther south along
the Atlantic, the chief difficulty being that
the straits which lead into Hudsons bay
are open for vessels only about four months
in the year. This might perhaps be rene-
died by larger steamers or ice breakers
which could penetrate the ice foes.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17
Railroads Through New Ontario.

Both the Ontario and the Dominion gov
ernments are anxious to make this country
accessible. The government of Canada has
undertaken to build its transcontincntal
railroad through it, and by this time next
year an army OF track builders will be
grading the route and laying the rails. The
eastern end OF the Grand Trunk Pacific,
which is to be built entirely by the govern.
ment, will begin at Winnipeg and traverse
the clay belt, passing through Nipissng at
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17

large that you can hear their rush as they
go by your camp at night. Moose are found
in great numbers in the forests farther
south. They are browsers rather than
grass eaters, their necks being so short
that they have TO get down on their knees
when they eat grass.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17

Top OF buf continent
This great clay belt is just about on the
roof OF the North American continent. 1t
is near the dividing of the waters and on
the Hudson's bay slope. There are seven
good-sized rivers flowing through 1t, which
arc about 800 miles long, and it is well
watered throughout The streams Oh this
side of the ridse flow down into the great
lakes, and little west of Lake Superior to
the Gulf of Mexico. on the other side they
flow into Hudson's bay or by the Macken-
zie and other rivers into the Arctic ocean.
The country here seems high. 1t looks as
though 1t were the crown of mother esrth's
head and here about Sudbury and all tho
way along Georgian bay and Lake Superior
the old lady's head is covered with gigantic
wens in the shape of rocks. There are some
farms, but they lie between the stones. The
same character of country extends for
many miles northward. save that the rocks
are in the woods.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17

The soil is so thin in most places that IL
can be ripped off like a strip of carpet and
almost everywhere the Scared rocks show
out above IT, Half the rocks one sees are
boulders; some the size of an elephant and
others approaching that Of great apart
ment house. Even the Hat rocks are ground
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The Canadians claim that they have as
good climate as the United States They
say their winters are not as bad as ours ana
that the long. steady cold makes better
wheat and better men. / am told that the
country grows warmer a hundred miles or
so north Of the great lakes The cold in
crcases until you reach the height of land
the great lakes from those which flow into
Hudsons hay. When YOU get over that
ridge the weather mode'atos all the way
down Ia Hudsons bay.
The clay belt is just rr. oud the height 81
land Al midsummer il Is as hot there as
in lower Canada or iu the United states
Everything grows faster than in the sta tes
for the days are fifteen or sixteen hours
long owing TO the high latitude, the sun
rising little after and setting between
s and 3 Wheat has been grown. J am told
by the Hudsons Bay company agents about
James bay, and the people here predict
that THE clay belt will be one Of the wheat
regions OF the future.
In talking the other night with man
who had been through the country he
spoke Of the immense herds OF caribou
which roam there saying that the existence
OF these animals IL evic nee OF good
land, as they need rich vegetation TO sup
port them. The caribou are seen in droves
Of hundreds and sometimes thousands.
They have. he says. cut trails across the
country and the drovss are sometimes SO
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17

1t. 1906. by Frank G. Carpenter)
New Ontario, Dec. IA
Especial Correspondence of The
Bee.)- have been travelling for
the past week through the new
Ontario. This is the wild north
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17

T7T Is difficult to trace the origin ~
|sYs the Christmas tree and almost
ISA-- every mythoi,s,st has q little dit
IQ3HN0I fercrt manner of explaining why
e@Gs-N tho nN.rlr..m WINS uhnsnu Lnr LL-s
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17
Christmas i'm Bethlehem

he little city Of bethlehem is set
upon a hill which is crowned by
the Church Of the Nativity, writes
Marion Harland in the December
IInnIncntf, 1,Ln lrnAA. .-L---L-
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17

Vast Areas of SwnmPs and Rocks.
Much OF the country between here and
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17

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The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1905-03-15
FAIR EXCHANGE
A New Back For An Old One.
How Ii Can BE Done In
B raboO.

The back aches at times with a
dull indescribable feeling making
you weary and restless; piercing
pains sho t across the region of
the kidneys and again the loins are
so lame to stoop is agony. No use
to rub or apply plaster to the
back in this condition. You can
not reach the cause. Exchange
the bad back for a new and strong
er one. Follow the example of this
man.
SC. Bucev 906 East Gorham St.,
Madison. Wis, says: I'm 1858 [
was in the Cd 70 e. in California.
While doing a little prospecting in a
gorge the walls of which we're per-
pendicular, some squirrels playing
about me started some rock to roll
down. I managed to dodge the
large pieces but one piece struck
me in the back and knocked me
down. I was laid up for three
weeks and for two months more
was unable to work. The doctor
who attended me said that if the
rock b Id struck me an inch higher L
would have been a dead man. Since
then I have always had trouble
with my back and the symptoms
we're those of effected kidneys. The
secretions from the organs were
thick and dark colored. Learning
Of Doan's Kidney Pills procured
them from a drug store and used
two boxes of them, They gave me
such complete relief that I have
had no occasion to use any remedy
since"
Just such emphatic endorsement
can be had right here in BarabOo.
Drop into Evenson's Pharmacy 5O4
Oak street and ask what his Gus
toners report.
For sale by all dealers; price soc
a box, Foster Milburn Co., Buff
falo N. Y. sole agents for q. S.
Remember the name Doan's and
take no other.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1905-03-15
From Thursdays Daily)

Mrs. Murrel Foster, aged 28 years,
6 months and 28 days, died at her
home in Lyons, Wednesday, March
8, at 1870 a. m. Consumption was
the cause of death. A husband,
Boyd Foster, and two children sur
vive her. The funeral will be held
Friday afternoon at the house, con-
Quoted by Rev. F. E. Ross of the
First M. E. church, Baraboo. At
2:10 o'clock p. m. 'he bcdv will be
ia zen to Narrows P -airie for burial.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1905-03-15
His Start.
portage Democrat.)

Clint. g. Ford, who is with the
David Harum company, is a son
of that unreconstructed Kentucky
colonel who quarter century ago
established The Sauk County Dem
ocrat, doomed Colonel Villas for the
presidency and shouted the rebel
yell weekly il unterrifed fashion in
the very face of the amazed Bara-
boobians. The son began his career
as an actor by putting on that
emotional drama, Over the Hills to
the Poorhouse, while at Baraboo,
and the initial tour was far away
to Reedsburg and Kilbourn. In those
DAYS a bright lot of tousled headed,
rough and-ready urchins of the
town was composed Of the Ringlinp
bjys and Mr.. Ford recalls how one
of these lads came around earl V and
timidly intimated that be would
like to be sonnet hing in or about the
play.
"All right" said Manager Ford
coDdescendingly, I'll tell you what
I'll do. If you'll be property man
and take care of things Tl!give you
a part"
Ringling's ewes now opened wide.
"Will you?" eagerly.
"Sure."
W ?"
"Well, you can be sheriff
And young Ringling was coached
in the rcll, did his stunt creditably
aud made that distant tour t.
Reedshurg, Kilbourn aud back t.
Bara boo!
And thus may be said to have be-
gun a career which has resulted IL
him becoming one of the greatest
showmen of the world.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1905-03-15
Council g I
|ProCeedllle|
\HTTTTT T7T7q4tF tFgID
(From Thursdays Daily.)

| NGAOA 4AuAoOcSJ . 16Ay
Mayor Marriott presided and al
of the aldermen were present
except Foley.
Petitions of Joseph Snyder to
have special sidewalk tax remitted
of M. McGann for refunding of a
certain sewer tax; of FL. L. Barber
to have sewer tax refunded, were
all referred to the finance commit
tee.
The city water commission was
granted permission to make i'm
provements not to exceed six thou
SAND dollars, such improvements to
to be the changing of the course of
Draper creek, putting in new fumes,
repairing the pumping station, filing
in grounds, protecting the wells,
Etc.
The city engineer reported the
estimated cost of the proposed
sewer on Barker, East and 18th.
streets to be $5, 142.
Contracts we're made with Sherm
Luce and Arthur Kellogg tofurnish
teams for hauling the hook and
ladder truck and the hose wagon to
night fires at $6 per haul, the con-
tracing parties agreeing that they
would alwaY provide teams, and in
turn are to have the exclusive
right.
AL. Ringling was granted the
privilege of moving a frame dwelling
from lot /, block 21, to lot 10, block
21.
The following claims were al
lowed:
M. W. Degan, extra com. work. .$11. 20
City Pay Roll .27.28
L. W. Stone, cleaning off snow, 95
Eugene Bietzgen, supplies, -, .1.20
f. Rote, work and wood, .....14 90
Baraboo City Fuel Co., fuel, 1875 80
J. G.. Seaman, labor on fire
dldrm, ,......... S.UO
Fire Dept, fire Feb. 20, ..... 40 80
John Saare, attending sick, -. 63 90
Baraboo Lighting Co., lights, ,28O 25
Welsoach St. 1t. Co., lights, ITO 50
The special committee to invest
gate certain alleged gambling
places, was granted more time to
continue it's work.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1905-03-15

Mss May Johnston of this city
and Percy Alexander of the town of
Testfeld, we're married last eve
ming at half-past seven o'clock in
+be presence of a few relatives. The
ceremony was pronounced by Rev.
Meek, pastor of the German M. E.
church, at the home of the brides
narents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Johnston,
IN Eiehthavenue. There we're mum
her of presents and a delicious re-
mast was served. For a number of
YEARS the bride was one of the
successful instructors in the schools
Of Sank county and both have many
friends who extend congratulations.
They will reside on the Henry
Alexander farm in the town of
Testfeld.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1905-03-15
OFFICIALS
Of a Reedsburg Bank Assume
Queer Roles.

Reedsburg, Wis, March =
Cashier Norman Gill, President
Stone and other officials of the State
bank presented a strange picture
at 9 o'clock in the morning. The
front door of the bank refused to
open. Cashier Stone worked for an
hour to get out key which had
become caught in the lock. All the
windows were found locked from
the inside, and three of the officials
finally pried the door open with
their combined strength, while
much of the population of the city
watched them in their unique role.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1905-03-15
T-@ ~
ERI)e:EZ2l:::lIt ItIIS !

Stephen W. Emery, who was a
resident OF this city from 1868 to
1877 died at Waco, Texas, March
1st., aged II years. He established
the first omnibus line here, after
the railroad was built, having pre-
viously owned a stage route running
into Raraboo. He was actively in
terested in the introduction of Per
cheron horses into this country, and
was public spirited and exemplary
citizen. Upon leaving Barabco in
1877 he went directly to Texas
where he has since resided.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1905-03-15
1Trom Wednesdays Daily.)

last Saturday afternoon at four
o.cIock Miss Mable M. Grub and
cooroe Anaker we're married atthe
bome Of the brides parents Mr.. and
Mrs C, Grub in the town of Gale
donia Rev. Stone, pastor of the
R.ntist church in Portage, pro
ronnced the ceremony in the pre-
oarce of a few relatives. There
more a number of presents and a
DELICIOUS repast was served.
Asit was the twenty-third we'd
dino anniversary of the parents of
the bride it added not a little to
the pleasure of the occasion. Mr..
and Mrs. Anaker will reside in Fair
4oId Both have many friends who
wish for them great prosperity and
happiness,
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1905-03-15

Jacob Siberz died at his home in
the town of Greenfield, March 8,
1905. Death resulted from a hem
morhage of the brain which was
caused by blow on the head from
falling tree about eight years ago.
Deceased was born Dec. 9Th 1880
in Cologne. Prussia. He came to
Wis. with his parents, two sisters
and one brother in 1849 and lived in
Milwaukee until about 1860 when
he took up homesteadin st. Mary's,
Monroe county, where he lived un-
til he was called to serve IN the
Civil War. He was married to
MARGARET Ankenbrandt in 1867 and
has been a resident of Greenfield to
the present time where he has been
highly respected and loved by his
family and a large circle of friends.
He leaves a wife and the following
named children survive him; Anton,
Henry. and Joseph Siberz, Mrs.
L. E. Holl, Katherine, Frances,
Marie. Rose aud Constance Sioerz.
The funeral will be beld from St,
Joseph's church, Baraboo, at ten
o'clock, March the 18th.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1905-03-15

Had it not been for the moderate
weather for the past few days, there
would have been very few fish left
IN Long Lake, a favorite fishing
place in Caledonia, two miles from
Portage. Fish have been dying by
the hundreds and are being hauled
awey in wagon loads by farmers,
who feed them TO their hogs. The
extreme cold weather caused sew
eral feet of ice to form on the lake
and then followed an extensive snow
storm which covered the lake in
such a manner that there was no
possible chance for the fish to get
air and the top of the lake is now
covered with dead fish such as black
bass, bullheads, sunfish and carp,
some weighing over twenty pounds.
The attention of Game Warden
Hlldebrand was called 10 the mat
ter by residents in the vicinity OF
the lake, believing that some one
was dynamiting the lake for fish.
After an investigation the facts
developed as above stated.