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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-31

culois, he said that not less than 20, 900
lives year are saved today by pre-
ventive measures and methods of cure
that were formerly sacrificed to this
disease.
Cancer can be cured by operation
if taken in the early stages" he said.
"When it is considered that one VIC
man in seven and one man in thirteen
died from cancer, one can get some
idea of the frequency and deadly
character of the disease. 1t is shown
by the reports of Guys hospital of Lon
don that in one of eight autopsies the
death was from cancer. Cancer has
been known from the earliest
times.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-31
SPRING GREEN

E. G. Hood made business trip to
Chicago last Tuesday.
Miss Carrie Jost left Monday for
Presho, South Dakota, to spend the
holidays with her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. George B. Holmes at
tended the funeral of Mrs. Hodge at
Mazomanie Monday.
B. F. Davies lost a valuable horse
last Thursday. A rupture caused the
death of the animal
Frank Barnard spent last Thursday
at the county seat in connection with
some business.
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Gasser Of Prairie
du Sac were in the village last Tuesday
to visit friends and relatives.
Mrs. g. A. Stafford and little son left
last Wednesday for Michigan in re-
spouse to telegram announcing the
illness of her sister.
Miss Lena Yonker, who recently I'M
derwent an operation at Milwaukee,
has returned home and is at her post in
her millinery store having completely
recovered
Mrs Henry Blumberg and children,
who have been visiting Mrs. Blumberg's
parents in Milwaukee for some time,
have returned home
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Sherwood
and little daughter of Ontario, Cali
fornia, are here for a short visit with
relatives. Mrs. Sherwood has been at
North Freedom for some time while
Raymond is attending to some busine IS
in connection with his fathers farm in
Big Hollow.
Milton McCready, who has been in
Missouri the past season with a show
company, is home for the holidays.
A pretty wedding took place last
Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock at the
home of J. F. Morrow. The contract
ing parties being James Whites ard
Miss Edith Pulvermacher. J. M. Prouty
of Spring Green andMiss Edna Sham
phier of Richland Center were best
man and bridesmaid. Rev. Tracey of
the Congregational church officiated
using the ring ceremony. Only i'm
mediate relatives of the bride and
groom were present. A wedding sup
per was served after the cerem ony.
| Nv op1 Mrc Wbi+aio will yoo1yo 4bic
village their home.
Mrs. Knud Knudson died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Ole Elefson, in
Big Hollow last Tuesday morning. Mrs
Knudeon was about 80 years of age
and lived in Big Hollow for many years
The funeral was held Saturday from
the Norwegian Lutheran church Of
which she was lifelong member. She
was the mother Iof State Treasurer
elect Fred Knudson of Minnesota.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-31
HOW'S THIS?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re,
ward for any case of Catarrh tina
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrl
Cure.
F. ]. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0.
We, the undersigned, have known
F. J. Cheney for the lasts15 years ano
believe him perfectly honorable in az
business transactions and financially
able to carry out anysobligations made
by his firm.
NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE
Toledo, 0.
Halls Catarrh ICure is taken inter
nally, acting directly @@upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
Testimonials sent free. Price Is cents
pei bottle. Sold by all druggists. Take
Halls family Pills for constipation. =
Adv.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-31
FLOATING Stun OF CANTON
Where the Poor of a Great Chinese
City Live.

Stand beside the imperial custom
house at Canton China, and let the
eve rance down the river toward
Hong Kong. AS far as the sight
can reach lie boats, boats and again
boats. These are no ordinary Iraft,
mere vessels Of transport plying
hither and thither, but the countless
homes of myriad Chinese, in which
millions have been born, have lived
and died. They are the dwellings OF
the very poor. who live in them
practically free from rent, taxes and
the other burdens of the ordinary
citizen.
The Tankia (Which means boat
dwelIers), as the denizens of these
floating houses are called, form
sort of caste apart from the rest of
the Cantonese. The shore jewellers
regard them as belonging to a lower
social order, and indeed they have
many customs peculiar to them
selves which mark them as a sepa-
rate community. How the swarm
ing masses of them contrive to sup
port existence is a mystery, but their
chief mode of employment is in car
rying merchandise and passengers
from place to place. In some cases
the daughters of the family go
ashore to work in factories; but the
years earnings Of a Chinese factory
girl would scarce suffice to buy a
single hat for her western sister
Of course as against this low rate
of pay the standard of living is cor
respondingly different.
The houses which make up these
vast floating slums are of all sizes.
Some are but fifteen feet long. From
these cramped dimensions, however,
they range up to a length of fifty or
sixty feet. A boat large enough to
accommodate family Of moderate
size can be obtained for $40, and
since the anchorage is free it is OBJ
vious that the Tankia effect many
savings impossible to the shore
dWeller
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-31
In Philadelphia.

Hammerstein' new opera house
is the civic pride.
There are 181 doctors signs in six
blocks Of Chestnut street.
A row of black men washing a
row of white marble doOrsteps gives
a fine effect in chiarOscuro.
There are not nearly so many sky
scrapers as in Buffalo; except in a
few buildings the elevators run only
when you ring for them.
The sidewalks are brick as New
York's were a hundred years ago.
There are still some open sewers in
the middle of the streets. On wash
days they run full and visibly soapy.
The Schuylkill water is always
muddy. Part Of the city now has a
filtering system. The rest buys
spring water
There are almost no larger-beer
saloons. There are no French and
Italian restaurants. There are only
few hotels.
The. many lighthouses in Fair
mount Park along the Schuylkill are
built solidIy of stone.
Most of the dwellings are of red
brick and nearly all small. DR..
Weir Mitchell in his new novel calls
Philadelphia "The Red City" A
fair house in a fair quarter rents for
$25 month.
Negro children attend all the pub
lie schools and the white people send
theirs to private schools when they
can raise the money.
A New Yorker can find more
things different in Philadelphia than
in Chicago or Denver
The men average ta,llr than H.
New York; there is loss imIigrat1o On
Of the small races.
Family and descent are taken
serioU-s~ Money will not buy So
cial post. s0n-not at once.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-31
WiSConSin'S Time Of Stress

The Madison Democrat finds that
Belgium sent 81, OOO to Wisconsin for
the relief of Peshtigo sufferers at the
time of the great forest fires of 1871.
Examination of the old archives alsC
reveals that on the same occasion Lon
don (EnglandD sent at least three re-
nittances to Gov. Fairchild of 900 sterl
ing each and that Glasgow, Liverpool
and other places (even little places in
the rural districts) in the British Isle 8
sent large sum in the aggregate
And people of Mexico made up and sent
to Wisconsin at least one remittance OF
1897.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-31
Bill of RIGHTS.

The Declaration of Right-168S-
89-next to Magma Charta, the
greatest landmark in the constitu-
tional history Of England, introduced
no neE principle into the British
Constitution. Lord Macaulay says
of this famous document that though
it made nothing law which was not
law before, it contained the germ
of every good law that had been
passed during more than century
and a half, of every good law which
might thereafter be found necessary
to promote the public veal. The
Bill of Rights was the reaffirmation
of Magma Charta with more empha-
sis.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-31
Hc@ Would You AnSe0er
T6FSe?

The Literary Digest of New York
has sent the following questions to
many newspapers of the United
States:
Do you thinkrour national defenses
now adequate?
Do you favor a stronger standing
army?
Do you favor a stronger navy?
Do you favor stopping by law the
expectation of war materials to belli-
gerents?
Our answer would be not to spend
much money at this time in preparing
for war. The countries of Europe are
expending from thirty to fifty million
dollars day at the present time and
the indications are their resources will
be 80 exhausted by the time that peace
comes that there will not be another
great conflict within the next half
century. Under these circumstances
why should Uncle Sam spend lot of
money on guns and ships that will be
out of date long sbefore there will be
any use for them.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-31
MerrimGck Not Merrimac

Merrimack should have final k
despite the circumstance that the Chi
cago & Northwestern railway officially
omits the letter in the legend at the
depot. 1t is a we'll authenticated fact
that the place was named by Mrs.
J. G. Train, long since dead. She came
there when it was nameless from her
girlhood home at Merrimack, New
HAMPSHIRE, and it was in honor of her
New England birthplace that the Wiz
onsin Merrimack got it's designation.
1t is we'll that this error should be
set Alright before it becomes chronic,
The newspapers of Columbia and Sank
county use the name indltferently
with or without the k, whereas OF
course uniformity is desirable. One
is led to marvel what the good Peter
Richards, Lodi's venerable journalist,
has been doing all these years that
ne has not sailed forth and called al
tention, with characteristic persistence,
to the looseness with which Merrimack
aas been treated respecting its NOM
enclature. But it is not too late even
now to get busy about this matter.
Let it be understood that Merrimacb
) to become altogether more of
jlace as time wears on since now ii
5 located on a magnificent lake twenty
niles long and three miles wide at thai
oint. 1t is there, just across tbs
oroadened river, that Magnus Swensop
has offered gratis to the state 5000 0
5000 acres of submerged land as
bird and wild fowl refuge. When the
st; te has accepted the tract, Merrl-
ms OK will look out from its picturesque
elevation upon one of the most inter
astjng and animated preserves existing
anywhere. All up and down the river
a the neighborhood are to be cottage.
ere long, perhaps villas too, and OF
AXE Swenson are sure to ply launches
,alore. There also, one of these days,
viii be located wagon bridge, and tn
establishment of this refuge is one Q
he factors which must hasten that de
slred end.
So before Merrimack becomes more
distinguished let there be reestablish-
ed the photography respecting tht
name which the pioneering Mrs. Train
gave it exactly sixty years ago; anc
8 first move in that direction i
obviously becomes the duty of the
Northwestern railway company to desig-
nate its station correctly.
Also that final 50 has no fit place
in Ablemans, notwithstanding the
graphic art that disfgures the depot. =
Madison Democrat.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-31
Sufficiently MARRIED.

You want to get dan ages, I SUP
pose" said the lawyer to whom Mrs.
Donovan's husband escorted her on
the day after she and Mrs. Leahy had
INDUCED in a little difference of
opinion.
Damages!" echoed Mrs. Dono-
van, shrilly. Haven't I got dam
ages enough already, man? What
I'm after is satisfaction"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-31

The Department of Agriculture an
nounces that alum may be used for
picking purposes, but regular custom
ers will probably stick to rye and
Bourbon as long as they last
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-31
Fixity of Purpose.

The man who succeeds above his
fellows is the one who, early in life,
clearly discerns his object, and to-
ward that object habituany directs
his powers. Even genius itself is but
fine observation strengthened by fix
ity Of purpose. Every man who OBJ
serves vigilantly and resolves steae
Easily grows unconsciously into gent
-Bulwer-Lytton.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-31

It is strange how little space is oc-
cupied in the war news columns by the
accounts of the Servian campaign, and
yet there is where the whole trouble
started.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-31
HoO Much DO
YOU Knott?

Recently the students of Chicago
university were asked to tell about the
persons, places or expressions named
below. A few days ago the same were
propounded TO the pupils ia the Barabco
high school and needless to say that
neither in the university or the high
school were all answered by any one
pupil. How about your education, dear
leader? Here 10 the list:
Louvain
William Tell
Will O. the Wisp
Herculean Labors
Levant
Golden Horn
Crossing the Rubicon
Oxford Movement
Three Rs
Fourth Estate
Lake Poets
Cassandra
Peter the Hermit
Sour Grapes
Triple Entente
Chauvinism
Pan Germanism
Sancho Panza
Sophocles
Shelley
MOlipra
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-31

BY doing the Christmas shopping
early the family pocket bcokl has
title Glance to recuperate before
Christmas, thus addingE to the. merri-
ment of the occasion.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-31
Three Plaques Of Mankind

In an address on Cancer" before
the University club, in Chicago, Sun
day, DR.. William J. Mayo of Roches-
ter, Mimi, stated that the three grea'
plaques of mankind are syphilis, tuber
culosis and cancer. Speaking of tuber
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-31

Soldiers Of the opposing armies are
intrenched almost clOses enough to one
another to exchange Santa Clause
visits on Christmas night.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-31

Many persons wonder whether Eu-
rope will retain its standing armies
after the war, provided they ara able
to stand.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-31

The world needs society for the
conservation of heroes. The supply is
being sorely diminished Thy the battles
User and Vistula.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-31

Despite the handicap of Russian
Royalty, Grand Duke Nicholas seems to
be qualifying as one of the military
genius es of the war.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-31
seaweed as a Water Filter.

Seaweed may be planted in the
Schuylkill river in Pennsylvania as
an experiment to attempt to filter
the water which is used for drinking
purposes in Philadelphia
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-31

Why should Mexico appeal for foreign
capital when ithas about four capitals
of its own?
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-31

Meanwhile it is much more import
ant to know how to cook than how to
manipulate a typewriter.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-31

Sometimes it seems hard for the war
censors to make the stuff at hand
measure up to what is expected.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-31
THURSDAY, DEC. 81, 1914.

Most of us would be satisfied with
the silver lining without the cloud.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-31

Gen. Carranza's resignation appar-
emily has several stout cables tied to
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-31
DANGEROUS to Author

Perfidy often recoils upon its au-
thor-LN FOntaine,
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-31
Licensed to Marry

Anthony Gomber of Gillette, Wis,
AID Tilda Draeger of Kilbourn.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-31
GRAVES & HUGHES
AutO Bus and Baggage Line

Fjrst CIas,
Hacks and
Carriages
For Wedding
Parties,
Funerals, etc.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-10-23
DiIemmas Of Welsh Postmen.

The postal departments of certain
districts in Wales are in we'll nigh
chaotic condition owing to the pre-
pcnderance of families bearing the
name Of Jones. For example, the poor,
unfortunate Swansea Valley postmanI
Is to be pitied when he finds that he
has to deliver correctly seventeen let
tiers, all addressed confidentially to MR.
JONES'" where there are nine different
families of the name within radius
Of 500 yards in district where the
houses are erratically numbered and
most of the streets are nameless. So
numerous are the Joneses in this part
Of the principally and so rapid is the
growth of the places in the valley that
it is now almost impossible for a post
man probably Jones himself to give
the right letters to the right Joneses
every time.-London Cor. Washington!
Post
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-10-23
Flowers on I.eeberas.

Flowers blooming on icebergs would
certainly be a rare sight, but travellers
In the northern portions of the Pacific
and sometimes in the north Atlantic
have witnessed this strange but very
beautiful spectacle. 1t appears that
some animals carry on their feet a
growth Of moss. which is,deposited on
the ice while 1t is attached to the main
land in polar regions. In time this de-
Gays and forms shallow'soil, in which
the seed Of buttercups and dandelions
often find lodging, borne by currents
Of wind that doubtless caught them up
In Ss0me southern cline These take
root and bloom when the great CLEAN
ing iceberg floats out to sea- and is car
ried southwark. where the.soft winds
melt the surface and giveethe plants
the moisture they, need.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-10-23
An Odd Problem.

Can you place ten Jumps of sugar in
three teacups so that there is an odd
number of Jumps in each cup? A
statistician to whom this problem was
once propounded declared it was i'm
possible to accomplish such a feat, but
the following explanation shows that
it is not only possible, but very easy
to accomplish: Put one lump in one
cup, two Jumps in another cup and
seven Jumps in the third cup, and then
put the cup with one lump in the cup
with the two Jumps. By placing the
cup that holds one lump inside the one
that holds two Jumps it can be correct
" stated that every cup contains an
odd number of Jumps. for If cup CON
tains another cup it also contains the
contents Of that second cup.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-10-23
An Early Underground Road.

London's underground railway sta
lions are decidedly different frem
what they were when first built. A
writer in London Society Of May, 1868,
describes harrington street station as
resembling "a family vault on large
scale, with a series of hip baths In
troduced diagonally into it for light
and ventilation. The hip baths are
lined with glazed tiles, and to keep the
resemblance to their prototype we find
the leakage drained off at the end into
a vessel something like soap dish. A
dense fog filed the place when was
there, and. as the people waiting for
the trains We're seen wandering up and
down the platform. one might have i'm
agined them ghosts of the great I'M
washed condemned to linger in sight
of those lavatories they neglected in
their mortal life"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-10-23
Governor 6oIdsbcrough Appoints
Delegates To Road Congress.

Governor Goldsborough has named
delegates to represent the State at the
Fourth American Road Congress which
will assemble in Atlanta. Ca, during the
week of November 9. According 10 ad
vises delegations have been named for
most Of the States and preparations are
being made for an unprecedented
attendance.
The problems of city street construc-
ton and maintenance will this year re.
ceive exceptional attention as the con.
struction of high class roads now approx
imates the methods adopted for street
paving.
Many difficulties have arisen in conuec-
ton with contract work in the construc-
ton of bridges and highways aud il Is
expected that the Congress will devote
much attention to ways and means of
improving the methods aud conditions
under which contract work is being done.
Colleges and universities will take an
active part in session to be devoted TO
ways aud means of frrtheriug and i'm
proving the courses Of instruction in
highway engineering at educational
Institutions
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-10-23
Vote For the Safety of Childhood
and Good citizenship.

The children in this county under
twelve years of age have no acquaintance
with bar-rcoms. They have lived under
system that-tells them the traffic in in
toxicants is outlawed because it is an evil.
They are growing mp in safety. They are
not led into the temptation to acquire the
drink habit. The continued safeguard
ing of the lives Of these little ones
means much for the future of this now
quiet corner of the Lords footstool. 1t
means, too, the warding off of many
heartache from many mother aud faith.
er. Let your ballot be cast for the safety
of childhood and for future good citizen
ship.-North East Star.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-10-23


The liquor interests Of the country are
much disturbed over the prohibition con-
ference held at Niagara Falls recently by
the Catholics. This is said to have been
the first Catholicl organization in the
United States TO go on record in favor OF
nationwide Prohibition. Aside from eff
fecting an organization, resolutions were
adopted which. for comprehensiveuess,
seem to leave nothing nnsaid or implied
in denunciation of the liquor traffic.
Among the resolutions were the fol-
lowing Favoring nation wide Prohibi
ton, exclusion of liquor advertisements
through the mails. making it illegal to
ship liquor through dry states, barring
liquor dealers from jury duty, making
abstinence one of the civil service re-
quirements, excluding drinkers from po-
litical Office, making temperance snb-
ject to be taught in public and private
schools. and favoring equal suffrage.
with the provision that all persons con.
victed of intoxication be diskanchised
for Eve years.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-10-23
A laundering Yarn.

A year or two ago, in North Of Eng
land city, writes Mr.. ]. a. Elgir, f. r.
A. S.. in the Yorkshire Weekly Post,
man told me that during very vio-
lent thunderstorm all the windows Of
his club were thrown wide open. To
let the lightning in!'' remarked mot
exactly" he replied. ''but to let it out
again if it did get in." AS a fact, it
accepted the invitation to enter the
club with alacrity, and though it mag
unanimously spared the fooIhardy peo-
pie responsible for the invitation, It
wrecked large safe in an adjoining
room. The person who related this to
me said he would ever after look upon
lightning as the "'cutest thing in Gre
alton" 1t is the fash that murders;
the poor thunder never harm'd head.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-10-23

The. plan of the ST. Louis banker to
assist the cotton farmers of the South is a
further indication of the nation wide in.
terest which is beipg manifested in the
problems of the men who follow the
pillow.
The movement is not intended as a
plan for purchasing cotton, but is de-
signed rather to make available fund OF
$3.50, 900, 900 10 loan on cotton at not to
exceed six cents per pound, for the pur.
pose of making cotton a liquid asset,
stailizing its price and bringing about
normal conditions again.
1t has been said that it takes great
calamities to develop our friends and the
present crisis is proof positive that the
farmer has friends in every line of in
dustry who are willing to share his mis-
fortunes and Tighten his burdens. Strong
men are strong only as they cooperate
with other men, andths spirit of friend
illness on the part Of the business man
towards the farmer augurs well for the
future OF the agricultural interests of the
nation.