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The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1907-08-28
STATE FAIR EDUCATES
1t is School of Agriculture for the
Masses With Far r-Reaching Re-
suits.

The Wisconsin State Fair, like all
other fairs, is educational in its aims
and in it's results. It is school to
which all people, young or old, no
matter what their pursuits in life,may
attend with great profit. 1t should
appeal particularly to those engaged
in farming and kindred pursuits, for it
is the annual exhibit of the fruits of
farm in all it's varied departments.
Wisconsin is a great farming state and
it's Fairs are the best of fairs. Premiums
amountsng to $28, 800 are offered by the
Fair association for products of the
farm and entries are larger than ever
before. Many new buildings will be
used this year, including a mammoth
cattle barn, capable of housing and eX-
hibiting 800 head of cattle, all under
one roof.
Provision has also been made for
events of an entertainment character
for both afternoon and evening, ,includ-
ing music everywhere, a high class of
vaudeville acts, an airship, relay run
ming races andIa monster spectacular
night show, entitled "The Siege of
Moscow"
| The fair opens Monday, Sept, 8 and
closes Friday, the 18th.
The Misses Gattiker and Mrs. l.. E.
Hoyt have returned from their trip tC
Colorado, California and Yellowstone
Park. At Mlssoula they visited with
Mr.. and Mrs. I'll. w. Battin and fami
ly and saw numerous other BaraboC
people while away. Many tourists are
reported as visiting Yellowstone Parf
this year.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1907-08-28
SCHOOLS OPEN SEPT. 8.

The Baraboo public schools will
open Sept. 8, 1907.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1907-08-28
1S74FirstAnnual Ball 1874
of the

OF UIIC
BrOtherhOOdOf LOcOmo-
tive Engineers
Thursday Evening, May q,
AT Taylor's Hall, Baraboo, Wis.
Committee of Arrangements:
x. Kimmell, III. Watson,
VIM. st. George, G. E. Sherwood.
Tickets-Supper Included-$3 90
Music, Madison Quadrille Band
A. Slyfeld, Ticket Agent.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-09-14
His Wall Paper Lure.

George Tidsell, of SparToWbuA, N.
J., returned from trout fishing With
basket filled with 'speckled beaHies
weighing half pound each His
friends quizzed him as to where he
caught the fish, SO even in size and
how.
Well, you see. last summer was
at the brook during huckleherrY time
and was carelessly throwing some DR.
the berries in the water and was sn
prised to see the trout rise led e
them.
Il ran across piece of wall pa
the other day having huekleb erfes
printed on it. went to the b8ook
and pasted the piece OF wall pape{ On
rock just above a pool. Soon the
pool was full of fish. They eyed the
beautiful clusters of huck1eberries with
mouths watering.
1T didn't take long for a tront to
begin athletic jumps to get the berries
and as fast as they jumped Tor the
luscious clusters and were stunned BY
the contact with the rock picked
them up and put them In my basket
until it was filed
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-09-14

Mr.. William A. Radford viii answer
questions and give advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects pertaining to the
subject of building for the readers of this
paper. On account of his wide sxpe-
rience as Editor, Author and Manufac-
turer, he is, without doubt, the highest
authority on all these subjects. Address
1874, Fifth Ave-, Chicago, ILL.,. and only
enclose two-cent stamp for reply.
A very neat five-room cottage COM
plete with the necessary closets and q
good bathroom is shown in this plan.
1t is "a feet wide through the dining
room section and it is 48 feet long ex-
elusive of porches. 1t has cellar the
full size of the house and convenient
stairway to go down to it from the
corner of the kitchen nearest the din
ing-room. Besides three fair-sized liv-
ing rooms we have two comfortable
bedrooms with a bathroom between so
well arranged that there is not a foot
of waste room. 1t is quite an art to fit
five comfortable rooms into a space of
this size, as many builders have found
out
Only recently have cottage houses
as small as this received careful at
tention at the hands of good architects.
Formerly the rooms were strung along
as the carpenter could best work them
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-09-14
Names That Are suooestive.

When the Seattle high school base
bali nine was in Washington recently
it had as one of its players young
man named Ten Million.
Civil Service Commissioner Greene,
in commenting on the unusual appella-
ton, recalled an instance of a queer
cognomen that had come under his
observation, somewhat in the same
class with D-Cady Herrick, unsuccess-
full candidate for the goyernorship of
New York against the late Gov. Hig-
gins, and w. ]. MCGEE OF the Smith
sonian institution. But while in the
case of these gentlemen the initials
are not really such since they begin
no word and are authorizations for
nothing whatever, in the instance cited
by Commissioner Greene the initial
had a meaning, making the whole
name a parental admonition.
81 remember that years ag knew
a good woman who followed what
used to be the humble occupation of
monthly nurse said the commission
err. "This Mrs. Quick was full of
wise saws and modern instances, and
used to lose no opportunity to give
good advice. Her only son she bur-
dened with name which never let
him forget his duty to the business
world. She named him John B.
Quick.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-09-14
Brought Capital Up to Date.

When President Roosevelt adopted
livery and put the national colors on
his coachman's hat, he gave the finish
ing touch to Washington as an arists-
cratic and up to date capital. Now,
at least the gentry can be distinguish.
ed at a glance from the commoner.
Six years ago, Washington boasted Of
but one state equipage, and that was
the property of the mikados envoy.
Now, Mr.. and Mrs. Everybody, and
those who want to get into the same
family circle, has his coach embellish-
ed with coats of arms, his attendants
bedecked in gay livery and ribbons OF
the same colors, f1uttering from their
horses binders. When the president
goes out to drive, his driver and foot
man wear buff trousers, dark green
coats embel1ished with shiny brass
buttons, and a cockade of tricolored
ribbon in their silk hats. Each of the
horses also has a bunch of glory rib
bon tied to his head dress. When Mrs
Roosevelt goes for an outing the out
fit is made more festive by the use
of tan harness on which the national
emblem appears several times, and
the drivers whip is decorated with
the national colors. The boys and
Miss Ethel have individual ways of u.s.
ing bits of red, white and blue, about
their pony turnouts, and even old
Pinckney, as he goes marketing for
the family, marks his horse with dis
tinction by fastening trf-colored rO-
settle on either binder.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-09-14

much for girls as general rule. The
average girl makes me tired. But
you're exceptional-you can under
stand chap. tell you it means lot
To have a little sympathetic under
standing to man knocking about the
world as / am and continually thrown
among strangers. When l strike Buff
falo and can come up here, it's an in
SEPARATION to me for weeks afterward.
You'll be glad to hear I've done a
smashing old business this trip, and I
expect things will be softened up for
me whole lot the coming year. I've
never before been in position where
I could be fixed just as I'd want to be
and have place of my own, with
automobiles and all that sort Of thing
but It's coming now!
Have you any objection to my call
ing you Belle? l feel as if l had al
ways known you, though / admit our
acquaintance hasn't been of very long
standing. Still-if you really like a
person-you get better acquainted
with 'em in ten minutes than with
others in ten years.
GAS I've said before, l don't care q
rap for girls. Of course you are an
exceptional girl. A little grill know
back home-who, by the way, thinks
quite some of me-says I'm woman
hater. But I'm not, really Just alb.
solutely Indifferent.
"Sav-do Won know nUvor of nuv
er & Co., big hardware people here?
l had lunch with him to-day. Fine
fellow. Closed him up for big order.
l tell you I'm getting the business.
What's my line? Why, thought you
knew. I'm quite sure I must have
mentioned it last time l called up
here.-Door-knobs. L. G. Turner &
Co."
"Door-knobs?" repeated Miss Arnold
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-09-14
TELLS LOVE IN LEGAL FORM.
Wooer of Washington Widow Makes
Deposition He Adores Her.

OF score or more of prominent
Washington widows, one of the most
conspicuous is Mrs. Albert Clifford
Barney, who sailed for Europe few
days ago, after receiving the most ex-
traordinary declaration Of affection
ever bestowed on mortal woman. Mrs.
Barney has the assurance that she
possesses all the charm of her girl
hood days, despite the fact that she is
the mother of two daughters to all out
ward appearance as old as herself, for
one of her adorers-she has several
has just gone before notary and
made solemn deposition in legal form
that he loves her for herself alone and
furthermore, that should she consent
to marry him he will never accept one
penny of her fortune in life or make
any claim on her estate should he sur
vive her.
He has proposed orally SO many
times without getting any results that
in desperation he has at last resorted
to this method. And even after this
Mrs. Barney sailed away without en-
couraging, much less accepting, the
suit of so disinterested a lover. The
latter is, however, not wholly discour-
aged, and proposes following his
adored one to Paris.
The object of this disinterested af-
lection was born Miss Pike, of Gin
cinnati, the daughter of that wartime
manufacturer of whisky which laid
the foundation of the vast fortune this
twentieth century knight treats with
noble scorn. She is a handsome wom-
an possessed of great talent, as a por-
trait painter, several of her pictures
having received distinguished notice
at the exhibitions of the Corcoran art
gallery. AS practical illustration OF
artistic temperament, she has taken to
architecture, having built herself a
wonderful house, combining in de,
lightful fashion the purposes Of a
home, a garage, and studio.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-09-14
1..S,N
EDITOR.

a pall and ratchet so the line may Ds
tightened by turning the esHeIshl
cranks after the loops on f&e osnst
ends have been hitched to pins "
hooks on the posts. Keep thsf 8 rip -
grass neatly CIT with q Law rios 81
If the lines are long mai lsw
clothes-poles long enough to i e1 seIv.
ice and light enough TO be 1aAsaassa
easily. Haye them smooth Win
sand paper sc there are no ahesrs'
and arrange place to keep nn ous
of the wet. Then notice ta sinlle
your wife wears on wash day aseeao
Of the frown you have beeF aecus-
toned to.
| have seen just such gaTsens az
this that supplied all the init the
family could use, besides sIsh veg
etables as lettuce, radishes. tomatoes
pieplant and a good many othe things
that may be easily raised aAer the
ground is put in proper coalition.
The garden will offer many hours OF
pleasure and the work Is vel calcu"
lated to help a n an appreciate home
as he never did efore. 1t is Hot the
house so much as the finishing puehes
that make a good home possihlA The
house should be considered moe as
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-09-14

in as the building progressed. When
the little house was finally finished it
usually was necessary to pass through
one room to get to another, sometimes
two rooms to get to the third, but in
this plan the dining-room takes the
place of a hall and is the room around
which everything centers.
The crate in the parlor is not only
very pleasant when the evenings are
cold in the spring and fall, but it is
sufficient to warm the room except in
extreme cold weather, because there
will be good heating stove in the din
ing-room and good deal of heat will
pass through into the parlor. Such
houses are made very comfortable by
having coal range in the kitchen and
a good heating stove in the dining
room. 1t don't cost very much to heat
a house in this way. The fuel bill
with careful management is very light
and the house may be made coy and
comfortable in all kinds of weather.
This house should face toward the
west or north. If / should build from
this plan facing either east Or south /
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-09-14
CAPITAL IS SHABBY
olsREPUTABLE SURROUNDINGS
OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
Many Blocks Along Pennsylvania Ave-
nue., the Great Artery of the
City, Are Lined with
Wretched HoveIs.


The national capital has for years
been content with the magnificence Of
its public buildings and has endured
shabby dwellings and business houses
as one of the inevitable conditions of
life. Even the filthy and disreputable
surroundings Of the great marble build
ing itself have been tolerated, though
disgrace to decency and menace to
safety and health.
But at last Washington is waking
up from it's Rip Van Wrinkle sleep and
heroic efforts are being made to get
the lawmakers to realize their duty to
the people not only of the District, but
of the entire United States. There is
demand for laws which will clean
out, burn out or drown out the rows of
squalid novels which almost hem in
the great building on the hill, while
the main OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ave-
nue-must be looked after and puri-
fed.
It would be a difficult undertaking
to depict the miserably wretched con-
dition of affairs which exist for several
blocks on Pennsylvania avenue-the
chief boast of the city-extending from
historic Georgetown to the Eastern
Branch bridge. For several blocks at
the foot of the capitol this world-re-
nowned avenue is lined with low sa-
looms, cheap boarding houses, shoes
acknowledgement shops, shoot
ing galleries, Chinese restaurants,
laundries, junk shops, secondhand
stores and cheap lunch rooms.
Perhaps In no city could be found a
prominent street or avenue of more
Washington Bowery." Instead of
growing better and more reputable in
recent years it has grown steadily
worse, though under the strongest pos
| sible police protection. Many of the
buildings are unsanitary and unsafe,
but the owners decline to tear down
and rebuild or to sell at any reason
able price, for the rents are always
good and house is seldom vacant.
On the Bowery can always be found,
day and night, an ever changing pan
Drama Of human nature. Men of all
conditions mingle promiscuously to
gether. Well dressed men and i'll
| dressed ones, men of intelligence and
stupid ones, old and young, foreigners,
and natives, all mix up in a general
| tumble and Of course there is no
scarcity of the other sex. The color
line is not rigidly drawn and every.
one is good fellow so long as his
money holds out, be he white man,
negro or Chinese.
A higher moral tone of the popula
ton may be found in the southwestern
and southeastern sections which sur.
round the capitol, but in many IN
stances the buildings occupied as
homes are just about as shabby and
| disreputable and with not the least
hope of being improved so long as
tenants can be found. Worse still
and burning disgrace to the city OF
Washington, is the fact that several Of
the really respectable-looking resi-
dences are disreputable resorts, but sc
well managed that the police have beer
unable to close them. At any rate
these houses have existed for years
and there has been no interference.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-09-14
What heaIth Means.

Health means happiness, happiness
means beauty, or at least the re-
verse state of affairs is true
Poor health means fretfulness and
discomfort, merging into absolute I'M
happiness and this in turn robs the
face of all it's beauty.
The complexion gets salloW, the
eyes get dull. the mouth gsta lines
around it, dragged and tired and the.
hair becomes dulled and brittle and
harsh.
The most beautiful woman cannot
hope to keep her beauty OF ahs il iii
and unhappy, and the moderateIy
good looking woman becopes abso-
lutely plain.
The quality and quantity d blood Il
the main factor In health and beauty
First then watch health, take aotiee
of the general tone, surprising al
course, there is no actual disease IL
combat.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-09-14
All at Sea.

Gentlemen" recently said a Ger
man professor, who was showing to
his students the patients in the asy-
lum, this man suffers from delirium
tremens. He is musician. 1t is well
known thar blowing brass instru-
ment affects the lungs and throat in
such way as to create great thirst,
which has to be allayed by persistent
indulgence IN strong drink. Hence.
in course of time, the disease you
have before YOU"
Turning to the patient, the profess
sor asked:
What instrument do you blow?''
and the answer was:
1.-THE vio1oncello. "-Illustrated Bits.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-09-14
D. Hobart LingIet Representing a DOor-knob Firm

What's your line?" asked %. Ho-
part Lingillet of the only other occu-
pant OF the smoker. Mr. Lingillet was
sorry for man who preferred "tak-
ing from" and adding to- in a note
DOCK to being entertained by such a
general favorite in society as himself.
u. Hobart was a regular case" when
ne got started. 1t looked promising
"hen the other man closed his book
with a frown. Mr.. Lingillet was
ready with cigar
NO, thanks" declined the man. Il
believe you asked me what my line
is? Why, I'm with the"
Mines door-knobs," interrupted
d. Hobart. IL. G. Turner & Co. Fine
people to be with-treat you white
I've been with EN- now going on two
years, and l couldn't ask for better
treatment. Had lots of chances to go
with other concerns, but My Firm
wouldn't hear of it. Funny part of it
1s I'm independent as a pig on ice. I
say what | think, whether it's to the
Boss or anyone else. And I get away
Win IL, TOO. Why, l.. G. and the
stockholders will take anything from
me! Now, for instance, said to the
Boss, Look a. here
Going? What's your rush? Night.
Turning in myself soon.
"Surly fellow that" remarked Mr..
Lingillet to a young man who just en-
tered. Cant draw him out. One of
those cranks that go around the world
and only speak to officials and watt
ers. l believe you can learn q lot
talking to people.
why, can make friends any
where. l attribute my business sue
cess to this quality. Everything in
knowing how to handle people-for
you can't deal with any two men
alike. I meet some tough PROPOSE
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-09-14
Ree,aimino wife peserter.

A barber named Bunch charged
with deserving his wife was recently
paroled by a Washington court on
the following conditions: He is to
stay out OF the country for a period,
to be determined by his father.in-law.
He has family Of five boys, and he
cannot see them unless his behavior
justices 1t. He has to go to church
every Sunday, work in a first-class
barber shop, and have a recommends.
ton from the minister of the church
that he has been trying to be man.
Should any of the conditions be
broken, Bunch will have to so to
rrison for three months.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-09-14
FLOOR PLAN

should reverse the plan, because like
to see plenty of sunshine In the living
rooms.
The bathroom and kitchen sink may
be easily supplied with water from
tank in the attic and a force pump in
the kitchen or at the well outside. In
building a water tank have it so it
won't leak. This is easier said than
done, but it may be done all right
enough If you use the right kind of
material and go about it in the proper
way. The best possible tank is made
of rough two-inch plank made into a
strong box trussed by two by tours and
lined with copper, but If you don't
want to go to the expense of copper.
galvanized iron "a w. G. works very
well. Instead of double scanning, lap
the joints an inch and rivet with small
timed rivets placed one inch apart
with solder thoroughly sweated in the
whole distance. Make the corners the
same way. This will make tank that
won't leak until the metal rusts
through. 1t win never leak at the
joints.
Place the house near the east or
north line of the lot, make a pleasant
lawn at the side and good garden
occupying the whole back end of the
lot with only just strip of grass wide
enough to spread under the clothes
line reaching from the back door to
two good solid posts at the foot of the
garden. Put reels against the house
under cover to wind up the lines when
not in use, to keep them clean Make
the reels good and solid, each one with
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-09-14

He was little mite Of a chapDy who
grew weary if he lugged his cane siy
blocks.
Darling" he whispered, thew
wandered through the moonIit parE
I love You. Let me be ysar bread
winner for life"
And the great big girl, who woe sey.
eral medals for skill in The eollago
gymnasium, laughed long and laud
MY dear boy" she answered a.
could never subsist on bread would
have to accept some one VINO con,d ~
a beefsteak winner"
And the little chappy never said
word the rest of the evening.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-09-14
Dancer to Consular Service.

There is doubt in my mind" said
an official of the state department,
apropos of a recent examination of
candidates for consulships, whether
the best consuls will be secured, ulti-
mately, by the entrance Of these
young men into the service, as perma-
nent members of it. No matter how
desirable they may be, personally, /
cannot help feeling that with long
service abroad, unless in countries
positively repulsive, they will become
denationaIized, un-Americanized and
willing expatriates. Their only sight
Of this country will be during brief
and infrequent vacations, and imper-
ceptibly their individual interests will
become bound up with those of foreign
countries. l may not take the right
view of it, and my fears appear not to
worry my superiors, but that's the
way feel about it, and can't help it.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-09-14
Label That Hurts.

They stopped to read a large sign
engraved in stone in front of a
home for women in Harlem. 1t read
like this: ..+a
HOME FOR RESPECTABLE, AGED ::
AND INDECENT FEMALES. ::
"They cali it indignant females up
here" said the girl as they walked
on. "They have to pay little some
times to get in there"
81 should think they would call it
indignant" remarked her friend. the
woman. tits bad enough to be
called respectable, but they'd havA to
pay me to live behind sign that
called me an aged and INDECENT fe.
male"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-09-14
DRIVER WAS NOT IMPRESSED.
Ambassador Jusserand Probably Now
Carries Credentials.

Ambassador. Jusserand, from France,
was one of the party of diplomatists
who accompanied the president to
the opening of the jamestown expo
sition.
The ambassador, who is small and
nervous, grew tired of the exercises
before they were over, and concluded
to go back to the hotel. He left, &C.
companied by Nine. Jusserand. Con-
veyances were few. The ambassador
reys standing.
He clapped his hands, whistled and
shouted, but the drivers paid no at
tention to him. Then he trudged over
and said: Il desire to engage this
carriage"
Cant" replied the driver.
Cannot? And why?"
Because these carriages Is re.
served for the presidents friends. 50
The ambassador hoped up and
down. 'But am re presidents friend"
he exclaimed, lapsing slightly from
the punctilious English he usually
employs.
The driver looked the ambassador
over. you one of the president s
friends?" he inquired scornfully.
(which one%
Il am re ambassador from France
re ambassador from France, l tell
you"
The driver grinned. He leaned out
and shook warning finger in the
diplomats face. Now see here" he
said, you can't come that over me,
Alphonse Saturday Evening Post.