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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-04-01

The department of agriculture says
that the American sparrow is much
better behaved than its English cousin;
ans this, too, when neutrality's the
word
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-04-01

While no general advocacy of the
twilight sleep is yet manifest Enobody
will care particularly how soon it gets
around to.Jack Johnson.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-04-01

The state senate of Illinois has adopt
ed a resolution commencing President
Wilson and congress for the policy of
strict neutrality which they have main
tanned in connection with the world
war
The resolution was introduced by
Senior Jewell, a Republican.
No Republican senator voted against
it. No Democratic senator voted
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-04-01

At the same time the country may
felicitate itself upon the fact that, in
this particular crisis, the administration
of affairs is not in the hands of the ex-
cellent but impetuous colonel.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-04-01
TITS and Obat

A colt he was breaking kicked
Reedsburg editor in the face and broke
his cheek bone. Lucky for the colt he
didn't put that kick against the cheek
of some editors We wot off, Portage
Democrat.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-04-01

Between the Americans who bought
some bales of cotton and Europe that
is buying a good many bales the south
ought to feel cheerful soon.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-04-01

The Hague is still on the map, and
the world waits hopefully for an an
nouncement that it is doing business at
the old stand.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-04-01
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
THURSDAY, APRIL Il 1915.

The situation would be greatly i'm
proved if all those floating mines were
marked stop, Look and Listen"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-04-01

Since a few highbrow Bostonians
complain that baseball interferes with
art, it requires no seventh son of
seventh son to se arts finish.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-04-01

Some men hitch their wagons to q
star and then try to convince the star
that it would never have succeeded had
they not trailed along.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-04-01

Instead of demanding an apology
why doesn't Minister VsnDyke retail
ate by giving the Kaiser volumn Of
his poems?
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-04-01

Agitation in Italy is developing to a
degree that may make riots almost a
much to be dreaded as military opera
tiOn.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-04-01

One drawback about immigration
after the war is that we'll either get q
crippled patriot or healthy undesir-
able.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-04-01

If Mexico were really wise it might
employ one of our ex-president to
be it's president. Either one would
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-04-01

his bride left on a trip to Milwaukee,
Klbourn and Wausau. They will be at
home to their friends at 1409 William
son streetsafter May first. The out of
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-04-01

In certain village down South there
was physician noted for his reckless
automobile driving. One day when he
answered the phone a woman's voice
asked him if he were going out driving
that afternoon.
''No; I hardly think will have time
this afternoon" replied the doctor.
But why do you ask?"
"Well, " replied his anonymous ques.
toner, Il want to send my little daugh-
ter downtown for some thread if you
are not. "-Everybody's Magazine.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-04-01

Commend me to the average wo-
man shopper for real shrewdness," says
the manager of a well-known establish.
ment eve received visit from one
the other day that taught US some
thing.
She was considering the purchase
of yard of silk at eighty cents. The
woman's purchase left remnant of a
yard and half, which the salesgirl
suggested that che should take.
'What'll it cost? asked the shopper
Fifty cents,
I'll take it, was the prompt re-
Spouse, and you may keep the yard
you've torn off.
The Youths Companion.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-04-01

be an improvement over anything it
has.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-04-01

Editors and Proprietors
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-10-01
Somewhat Sarcastic.

An Idaho guide whose services were
retained by some wealthy young East
erners DESTROYS Of hunting In the
Northwest evidently took them to be
the greenest of tenderfeet, since he
undertook to chat them with . reci-
tai something as follows:
1T was my first grizzly. so ! was
mighty proud to kill him In a hand to
hand struggle. We started to fight
about sunrise. When he finally gave
IN the ghost the sun was going down.
At this point the guide paused to
note the effect of his story. Not a
word was sad by the Fasteners, so
the guide added very slowly. for the
second time"
Il gather, then" said m young gen
tleman, a dapper little B%ostonian.
that it required a period of two days
to enable you to dispose Of that griz-
Fly"
1.-TWO days aud q night" said the
guide, with a grin. THAT grizzly died
mighty hard"
chopped to death?" asked the Bos'
tonian.
"Yes. sir" said the guide.
pardon me-" continued the Hub
ste. but what did you trv to get him
to swallow"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-10-01

no you believe n marrying to
,oveY. asked the sentimental gfa
vhoee face was her principal mla1or
tune.
mot necessarily. replied ~ gray>
haired parson- - a~Sae 4 usual1D
marry for money.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-10-01
Where Maekerel Are Cheap.

Where Mackerei Are Cheap.
"Mackerel. Is" Such Is q line on
the club menus. and the supply q
gets for the sum stated is n mack
erel, without bread or butter. sauce.
or vegetables. To q Scot this seems
m extraordinarily high price to pay
for a single mackerel. seeing that In
the North they are considered expen-
sive Just now at IND each. while tons
are daily returned to the e 90 not
worth while taking to any market.
Loeb Tyne ct present 10 packed with
mackerel and free from the Wanted
fresh herring. and the mackerel are
regarded only % . nuisance BY the
fisherman. The other night saw
hundredweight after hundredweight
cast into the sea BY men without
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-10-01
puttino Il Another Way.

1 feminist asserts mat WliiIui IN
fertility to intellectual women % oe'
esr.ible Il they contribute to the world
literature or works Of art more valu-
eh,a than the offspring they might
-oduc Putting It another way. a.
tans,hIe upon the theory that theif
children might have proved . o.o !.
hooks they write Or Inc pactuIe.
thew patnt.-Louisville cour'sr''oul'
naD
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-10-01
Earning His Tip.

Now, guard" said Mr.. Pilkington
to the English railway Official, re
member If | have this carriage all to
myself for the entire journey. you will
receive a whole half crown from me"
Very good, sir" said the guard. and
he locked the door and went to his
brake to think how he could invest
that half crown when he got It. AL
went well till they got to q station
about the middle of the journey. and
then an irascible gentleman pulled q
the door of Pilkington's carriage.
Guard, guard" he called. open
this door! know your tricks. I've
got the right to travel In this carriage,
and l mean to do IT."
The guard hurried up; but. wonder
of wonders. he whispered q few words
to the irascible gentleman. after
which that gentleman went quietly
away to seek room elsewhere.
"How did you manage lit" Pilking.
ton asked the guard at the end Of the
journey. as he pressed the promised
half crown into his hand. How did
YOU manage to get that bad-temperso
old chap to 60 away % QuietlyT'
.Oh, that was easy" replied ne
guard. Il only just told nim You WeTs
. bit wrong in the 'ead.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-10-01
Where the Damage Was.

lyon say the automobile struck
xou?" asked the Judge.
"Yas. Judge. it shure did strike me-
all right" replied the colored mar IN
court.
.Where did 1t strike YOU!
I'm the haid, Judge
.Rut your head seems to be all right
SAM"
.Oh. yas,m nah haid am all right. but
YER tus. oughter SO dat autermioeel'
-udge!"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-10-01

Mrs. Bartlett Boder Of Whitestona
Landing, L. l., who has returned from
France, where she has been engaged
In the strenuous work OF driving an
army motor ambulance. She has come
home to organize her W motor am.
bulance detachment for service with
the allies and will soon return y
Europe.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-10-01

knowledge as to where mackerel could
be disposed of at profit. says .
writer in the London Chronicle. This
Scottish demand for mackerel Is
faint. and 1t seems that there are diff
ficulties In the way Of transportation
to far-off markets. mackerel being =
fish that perishes very soon after be
ing taken from the water.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-10-01
Which Thax q

Which They Got.
II understand the Tw0bbles were
greatly benefited BY Mrs. Twobble's
visit to the seashore."
II can zee how Mrs. Twobble might
be benefited. but how about the other
members Of the family who stayed q
homer"
.Oh. oil they needed wa0 . rest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-27

started in to make sucker of him. Recall ly, he sed, he was disposed to give 'em theere mummy back, cawse it was just like taking candy frum feebul minded infint, but he thought bettur of 1t, and bought few seegars insted.
 He told me, of corse that he newer in- tended to play pokur for the mummy theere was in it, but simply for the pleasure he got out of the game. l told him yes, l had often herd that before, and to go rite ahed and tell me the wurst. We'll, he sed, that he just couldn t be tite- wad and set back and wait for lem, but he sed that he was fond of actsion and was inclined to danse in evvery set, so with this kind of disposision, he sed, he usuelly put lot of expression in poku rgame. He sed that was all rite, too, as long as he confined it to expression but he notised that he had been gradually putting in all his uther assets, as we'll He sed that originelly he had meerly intended to spend his spare time at expression in pokur game He sed that quite frequintly he would drop in for an hour or so, and would latur be verrv em- barrased on arriving home to meet the milk man just arriving at his house in the cold gray dawn of new day. But, he sed. in spite of all this, he had rambulled along. lingering that he was braking evven on the hole, and getting lot of fun by setting in a stuffy room filled with the aroma of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-27

department, and left him total reck. GOV cred with greefe and floating debt
 He told me that he was reportur on an afturnoon paper and had been doing we'll He sed that he pulled down fifteen bucks a week and prospects so far, he sed he had been plllng up moor prospects than the coin of the relm, but he felt plum cheerful about it-that is he did until misfortune overlook him. He sed that menny weeks ago he had started out to improve his grately neglected educasion with reference to the gay and festive game of draw pokur He sed that he reeized that he was diff sient in the manipulation of the paste boards and when it cum rite down to it, he couldn t tell the actuel difference off-hand between Aces-Up and Infint baptism, but he was brite and willing to Tern, and felt absolute confidense in his teachers, so he went to it. He told me it seemed verry simple and seesunabull proposision that if a feler had four clubs, which constituted a bob tailed flush, that anuther club ought to be easy to get provided the vigiint com mittee weer not too active, but he sed sum how it didn't turn out that way in actue practise. He sed that when he furst started to play pokur, aftur the furst ses- sion he felt that he knew the game well enuff to rite book. He won six dollers and forty sents, he sed that furst evening, and felt sorry for the poor boobs who
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-27

could borry enuff mummy on them fore aces to pay off the Nasionel debt. However. theere was nuthing to it but a show down, and then he tryumfantly laid them fore aces face up on the cloth and reeched for the dough-dough hold, sed the persuasive voise of the vissitur who rather bored and sleepy, nevertheless, still look sum intur- rest in the proceedings, he slowly spread out the two, three, fore, five and six of clubs, and obsurved that he guessed strait flush beet flores enny time, and cop- ped the pot. He sed it was sum time before he sufficiently recuvvered to know the way home. Now, he sed, he was dun with pokur and was off mankind gennerely. I am slowly cumming to the conclusion, he sed, that that pokud game was crooked, but it did seem on the levvel. If I evver get into anuther game, he sed, hope get pinched. Pm off the sport for life
 A week latur l saw him one evening all logged up and he told me he was on his way to a little 'pokur partyv and asked me if wanted to sit in. obsurved that | had herd sumthing of him being off tho the game. "Oh'' he sed "theese fellers air. all on the evvel and it is just little frend- ly game no moor of that ruff stuff for me, he sed' That's what they all say.
 Yours troolv,
 BILL VINES
 W.c1t,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-27
Does Asquith or Northcliffe Rule England?

Daily Mail, the Evening News. etc. he vigorously attacked Lord Haldane on the grounds that the Lord Chancellor's g well known admiration for German lit- erature and science made him pro-Ger- man in sympathy. The government made a showing in persisting. but at the last moment surrendered, recalled Kitchener and Northcliffe celebrated his fNst vic- tory of the great war
 It is said in some places that North eiiffe expected his reward from Kitchener IT, the shape of special privileges for his newspapers and has been disappointed in not receiving them. The writer believes that any such story can be dismissed without consideration It is known how ever, that Northcliffe has hsd several heated interviews with the autocrat of the war office. Both Northcliffe and Kitchener are men who have been used to having their own way, and opposition comes strange to them. At any rate Northcliffe, early in the war, set out to yindicate the liberty of the press against ihe absurd and sercet restrictions of the safety of the realms acts under which Tor any infringement of the undefined rules laid down by the war office, an editor or newspaper man could be seized in the night, kept in prison for an in- definite period, tried before secret court martial and shot without anyone being the wiser. No court or other authority in England could save such an unlucky individual Of course. it is not said that the war office acted in such way in any case up to date, but such fate Vas constantly hung over the heads of editors inclined to protest against the ridiculous press censorship set up in this country.
 Northcliffe, in the middle of the retreat from Mons, decided to test the law Sure Of his facts. he printed in the Weekly Despatch. the now famous Would 10 God I did not have to tell. this story account of what a correspondent was able to pick up from the stragglers and survivors of the battle of Mons. As a consequence, Kitchener is said to have given Northcliffe severe word flashing and to have threatened to close up his newspaper offices if he repeated the of fense. c
 Probably no man in the whole world understands British public opinion better than does Lord Northcliffe. HA knows when to lead 1t and when to follow 1t. And he can figure to ricety howl much
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-27

Creemo seegars, and acquiring a thurst for deemun rum, until the ''bow off, cum and he arrived at the painful conclusion that what he didn't know about (the festive game of pokur would fill sevverel large and
 ntulTesting volumes. He sed that at a little gathuring'' of just trends, in which theere was a brite feler from out of town
 who was total strangur to him, he had lost his sallery for the next six munths
 and his gold filled seventeen jewell watch
 He sed that time and time again threes of a kind would not stand up for him, and that two pare looked like dirty dooses in a new deck. His finnish bobed up, however
 he sed, when along in the shank of the even ing, the strangur delt him fore perfectly good aces, and five eagur rubes opened the pot before 1t got to him, he sed that he did his best to appeer plum non-shallant when he elevated it" but in spite of him theere was slite tremmor in his vose, to say nuthing of his knees hooking togethur like a pare of castinetts. However, when the total strangur, who had been playing on him the live-long nite like trombone, 'tilted' him back, he sed, he got so ex- sited that he almost swallered his adam S apple he put up all he could get, he sed. and then asked the strangur to consent to putting up theere hands in escro until he could see the Federel Resurve Board and float loan on his He felt he sed, that he
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-27

1t will be tremendous victory for the newspaper Napoleon
 Who, is Lord Northcliffe? The Brit ish public knows even less than does the American public of the personal ity of this remarkable man. Of course the outlines of his romantic business career are fairly familiar to the man m the street-how he early took an interest in journalism. as a youth pur- chased Answers one of England s penny weekles. jumped it's circula ton and prosperity enormously by means or guessing contest, bought the Evening News and then never look ed back until he controlled couple of score of periodicals of all kinds. Now he owns the powerful Times the Daily Mail with circulation of almost one million copies. the Evening News with a war circulation of a million and a half, the Daily Mirror a morning pic ture paper; the Weekly Dispatch An swers, the London Magazine and two or three dozen cheap weekly publi- cations running from Comic Cuts ;o Home Notes.
 The late Lord Salisbury once said of the Daily Mail that it was writ ten by office boys for office boys but the owner of the Daily Mail lived to be raised to the peerage by Lord Salisbury's nephew, Arthur Balfour. ~. 1. 1dIuHeT, IOTIer eQltOr Of the Daily News and one of Northclirfe's most bitter opponents in London jour nalism. recently called him ''an Of flee boy In control of a dreadnau srht ,' He overlooks the fact. however. that the dreadnaught is of Northcliffe's own construction and that he probably un- derstands it better than does any other living man.
 N Northcliffe has made it a rule never to do anything on a small scale There Is something American in his love of the gigantic and the imposing. Some time ago he attacked what was known as the "soap trust and subsequently he found himself in court charged with libel. There were five or six firms in- volved- One of them secured a Judgment by agreement for S250,000 damag ges the others are supposed to have been dealt with in no less generous spirit and the whole affair is said to have cost Northcliffe something like s1.- 900. 900
 When the supply of paper for his many publications save him trouble. Northcliffe tackled the question in .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-27

sist between England and her nearest neighbor'
 In 1903 he wrote in the same paper:
 Yes, we detest the Germans and we detest them cordially They render them selves odious to the whole of Europe I would not tolerate that anyone should print in my journal the least thing that might today wound France but. on the other hand, would not Ike anyone to in- sert anything that would please Ger many"
 After the war started having landed Kitchener in the war office and Haldane out of it. Northcliffe proceeded to force the government to intern every German of military age in the country Time and time again the government explained that 1t had taken ample measures for protec- tion against possible spys and for the safety of the country. But Northcl.ffe kept after them and finally after the anti German riots which followed some espe- cially strong articles in the Daily Mail. the home office surrendered and agreed to intern the alien, harmless as well as suspicious.
 Early in the war Northcliffe went after F. E. Smith, the censor. and eventually succeeded in forcing him out of the of- flee. When Lloyd-George brought forward his drink proposals, hailed all over the Woriu as the test or BritainS ability to make the personal sacrifices necessary to carry the war through, Northcliffe trained his guns upon the chancellor of the ex- chequer, led the attack upon his pro- posals and finally administered to the lft- tie Welshrhan the most severe defeat of his political career 8s&q
 Northcliffe was an early enemy of Mo. kenna, the former secretary of home af- fairs. and although he started the war an enthusiastic supporter of Winston Church. i'll at the admiralty. he changed his mind when the Dardanelles iasco became pub lie property and supported Lord Fisher in his quarrel with his civilian superior. It Is significant that both Churchill and McKenna have fallen in the cabinet re- shuttle.
 At the present time Northcliffe is all out for universal service. The pres ent government has fought the idea with all it's resources, but lately has shown signs of wavering. Some of the unionist members of the new cabinet are known to be firm believers in some form of service for all. If uni versal service or conscription comes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-27

Mail, which has been publicly burnt on the floor of the stock exchange However, the government could not In the circumstances. face the public inquiry which the public was demand ing and it preferred to practically resign, calling upon the leaders of all parties in the country to rally to its support in the most critical hour of the war.
 This maneuver on the part of As quith saved Kitchener in way, be- cause he remains in the coalition cab met. But it must be viewed as a vic- tory for Northcliffe because, besides bringing down the government and getting rid of Churchill at the ad- miralty and Haldane. both of whom he has repeatedly attacked. he sue ceeded in forcing the prime minister to take the mater of shells out of the hands of the war minister and putting It into the hands of Lloyd-George Kitchener, once almost a dictator, re- mains in the cabinet charged with little more than the raising and train- ing of the army
 One has but to recall the progress or the war so far as 1t has affected the domestic affairs of England to realize Northcliffe's enormous power Tor good or evil. He was one of the main if not the, chief, influence in fore Ing the war upon a wavering cabinet in the crucial days of early August Turn back the, files of the various i'm portant London papers and provincial papers to those of that period and you will discover that practicallys every liberal newspaper was opposed tos the participation of England But North cliffe urged war upon; tho liberal gov ernment morning and afternoon in his various organs.
 For many yeSrp he had been Germany { chief enemy in this country and in wal he saw the culfninatfon and the Justiica- ton of his propaganda. In 1899 he wrote in one of his papers:
 'If the French cannot cease their in. suits. their colonies will he taken from them and given to Germany and Italy The French have succeeded in thoroughly convincing Jchn Bull that they are his In, veterate enemies. England has long hesi tated between France and Germany But she has always respected the German character, whereas she has gradually come to feel . contempt for France Nothing like an entsnte eordtale can sub