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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-10-07

There are in all 356 makes of auto
mobiles registered in the state of Wis
consin Of this number 217 makes are
represented by less than 10 cars in the
entire state. This means that 81 per
cent of the various makes are repre-
sented by less than 10 cars. II makes
are represented by 500 cars and
over and represent 70 per cent of
the total cars. OF these II the Ford
comes first with %, 266; the Buick
second with 5,765; the Maxwell third
with 4,470; the Studebaker fourth
with 2,545 and the Case fifth with
2,074. The above is taken from state
reports. One amusing thing about the
valuation of cars is that in 1914 there
were SO, OBJ cars in Wisconsin with an
assessed valuation of $24, 161, 973 while
in 1915 there were go, SIT cars with a
valuation of only S28, 986, 305.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-10-07

operates. There IS nothing to indicate
it needed influencing" any more than
the other states.
Railroad interests are very fond of
attributing the financial troubles of the
New Haven to political agitation and
hostile legislation. No legislature with
such price mark as the above could
be very hostile toward its paymas-
ter.
The New Haven road was enc of the
petitioners for an increase in freight
and passenger rates because it was not
making any returns to it's stockholders,
If the hundreds of thousands of dollars
spent for debauching the legislatures
and public officials of the states through
which it operated had been turned into
dividends it would have made a hand
some return to the stockholders on
their investment.
Must the people always pay higher
rates to such corporations in order to
furnish the corporations with greater
slush fund for use in corrupting
The peoples government? It is a
vicious circle that justiies any orderly
means, however extreme, being used to
break it. Madison Journal.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-10-07
QUESTIONS YOU CAN'T ANSWER

Why is milk constipating? Do you
know that coffee with milk or cream at
breakfast has laxative action and tea
the,opposite effect? Should constipated
people eat much or little meat and what
vegetables are best?
These and lot of other questions that
everybody should be able to answer are
treated in the pamphlet Constipation,
Its Causes and Treatment which with a
sample of Pinklets, the new laxative,
will be sent free on request by the DR..
Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N.
Y. Pinklets are simple laxative, act
gently but thoroughly and do not grippe.
LIZ you don't want to wait for the SAM
pie your druggist will supply you with
Pinklets at IS cents per bottle but write
Tor the book anyway.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-10-07
Easy to Be q Back Number

One of the easiest things, these swift
moving days, is to become a back
number. A lawyer may school himself
thoroughly in the knowledge of his
profession, but if he is to win, he must
continue his study; there will be some
thing for him to learn every day, and
then he will wish for longer days in
which to learn more. So with a ply
stefan, especially with a specialist.
Every day is sure to add something to
his particular science, and he must
know it, if he Is to lead. What is
true of these two professions of law
and medicine is true of every profess
sion and skilled employment The
knowledge, which is all the time accum-
ulating, one must have as certainly as
the carpenter must have his tools.
That is why it is SO easy to become
back number. Keeping abreast of
the knowledge peculiar to ones &C
cupation is hard work and constant
work, but the reward is abundant for
the man who thus exerts himself.
Years may come to silver his hair, but
he is still the master of his task, and
he will not be distanced by the new
corners in his field of endeavor. More
over, his keen interest will keep him
young, his continued success will con-
serve his health, and he will serve bet
ter and live longer. Don't by any sort of
letdown run the risk of becoming a
back number. Columbus CO.. Dis
patch.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-10-07
TIE Big SPLASH

The automobile is the biggest splash
in the economic waters Of civilization
since the telephone came. The auto
mobile has reorganized the horse bust
ness. 1t has put the buggy trade out
of business. 1t is dealing body blow
to the best seller in fiction; it is cutting
away the circulation Of the cheap
magazine, and is therefore crowd
ing automobile advertising into news
papers, and forcing up the price of ad-
vertieing, which in turn is forcing up
the price of other commodities. More
Saan this, the automobile is making q
big hole in the jewelry trade. Men and
and women who like to flash their
wealth, used to flash it with diamonds
and jewelry. Now they flash their
wealth in an automobile As result
the sale of jeweIry is greatly re-
dGced.
The tractor pillow is coming to the
farm. When the tractor pillow is made
for three or four hundred dollars, it
will crowd the horqe off the farm
When the horse leaves the farm-his
last stand-the land used to grow horse
feed, will grow feed for men. That
will bring lot of land into the market.
And all because some man forty
years ago or so harnessed the kick of
the explosion of drop of gasoline! If
that man had known what he was do
iAg-would he have kept on doing it,
Emporia Gazette.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-10-07
The Life Of a + armerS's
Wife Should BeEaSier

The lot of the average farmers wife
is very hard and at the same time a
very lonely one. She has little or no
society and her life is spent in one per
petual round of hard work which is
never ceasing, and which never lessons
in amount says the Philadelphia Led
ger
Mrs. Nellie Kedzie Jones of Auburn,
dale, Wis, former Kansas woman in
a recent address at bankers conven-
ton, appealed to the bankers to ad-
vance money to farmers wives for
washing machines as readily as they
lend money to the farmer for thresh-
ing machines.
"It is not half as hard to stand all
day on wagon riding from haycock to
haycock as it is to stand all day bent
over washtub, she said. Because
of the drudgery which is the lot of the
farmer 8 wife, the daughters decide to
leave the home acres and seek easier,
more congenial employment in the
cities.
IA vast army of girls pour into the
cities every year. Some find their
dreams fulfilled, but many of them
fifty thousand of them each year, the
statistics show-give up the struggle
and are drawn into the whirlpools
from which there is no escape. All
for want of $14 for washing machine,
or 500 for an improved churn!
Collins are the most expensive COM
modify sold, yet thousands of farmers
today are purchasing thems for wives
and children who have broken under
the strain of hard work, i'll nourishment
and lack of proper facilities.
This is important from the bankers
viewpoint, because when the farmers
wife is given labor saving appliances,
it means not only that she will live
longer and in better. health, but that
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-10-07
TIE Metz Ha0en -Rgdin

The New Haven ilroad is still
furnishing some bits here and there of
good reading, The latest choice one
which comes out in the course of a
judicial investigation, is that since
1911, the New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad has spent $841, 267
$50 influence legislation" in the state
of New Hampshire. The New Haven
officials say there was no itemized &C
count of this corruption fund kept be-
cause 1.-The details were undesirable. :"
New Hampshire ls small state. 1t
is only one of four or five New England
states in which the New aven road
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-10-07
she will raise more calves and chickens
and that means that the bankers in
terest will be paid more promptly
The WorShip of Wealth

Unpleasant as it may be to admit it,
it is at last becoming evident that the
enormous increase in productive power
which has marked the present century,
and is still going on in accelerating
ratio, has no tendency to extirpate pow
erty or to tighten the burdens of those
compelled to toll. 1t simply widens the
gulf between Dives and Lazarus, and
makes the struggle for existence more
intense, The march of invention has
clothed mankind with powers of which
a century ago the boldest imagination
could not have dreamed.
If factories where labor saving ma
chinery has reached it's most won
derful development, little children are
at work; wherever the new forces are
anything like fully utilized. large class
es are maintained by charity or hive on
the verge of recourse to it; amid the
greatest accumulations of wealth, men
die of starvation and puny infants
suckle dry breasts; while everywhere
the greed of gain, the worship of
wealth, shows the force of the fear of
want. The promised land lies before
us like mirage The fruits of the
tree of knowledge turn. as we grasp
them, to apples of Sodom that crumple
to the touch.
This association of poverty with pro-
gress is the great enigma of our times
It is the central fact from which spring
industrial, social and political diff
culties which preplex the world, and
with which craftsmanship and philan
thropy and education grapple in vain.
From it come the clouds that overhang
the future of the most progressive and
self reliant nations. 1t is the riddle
which the Sphinx of Fate puts to our
civilization, and which not to answer is
to be destroyed. So long as all the in |
creased wealth which modern progress
brings goes but to build up great for |
tunes, to increase luxury and make
sharper the contrast between the |
House of Have and the House of Want, |
is not real and cannot be per-
manent The reaction must come. The |
tower leans from it's foundations, and |
every new story but hastens the final
catastrophe. To educate men who
must be condemned to poverty is but
to make them FESTIVE; to base on q
state of most glaring social inequality
political institutions under which men
are theoretically equal is to stand a
pyramid on its apex. Henry George.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-10-07
Wells and James

No sooner has Henry James become
a British subject than H. G. Wells un-
bindly compares his literary efforts to
the struggle of magnificent hippopot-
anus to pick ap a pea it has found in
the corner of it's den. But admirers of
James will continue to believe that
eventually he will pick it up. Toronto
Mail and Express.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-10-07
A WORD FOR MOTHERS

tits grave mistake for mothers to neg
lect their aches and pains and suffer In
silence-this only leads to chronic sick
ness and often shortens life.
Ifyour work is firing; if your nerves are
excitable; if you feel 1anguid, weary or
depressed, you should know that Scott's
Emulsion overcomes just such conditions.
It possesses in concentrated form the
very elements to invigorate the blood,
strengthen the tissues, nourish the nerves
and build strength.
SCOTS is strengthening thousands of
nothers-and will help you. No alcohol.
Scott s. Bovine. Bloomfield. NJ.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-10-07
No One Cares for tie Job

1t is becoming more apparent that
no one seems to care for the job of
running against La Toilette. Gov.
Philipp has had the senatorial bee in
his bonnet, but apparently has little
TOO much sense to gallow himself to be
made the victim of such move -Mer-
ril Herald.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-10-07

Some people do not like to dig pota-
toes. A few days ago a young man
was assigned the task of roofing out a
considerable space and when he came
into the house at noon the owner desir-
ed to know about the yield. The young
man replied: "Oh!what there are are rot
ten and what are not rotten are green.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-10-07

This office has received copies of the
Honolulu Advertiser and Star Bulletin
from w. w. Warner of Madison. Both
papers have illustrations of the raising
of submarine F-4, which was lost early
last summer with twenty-one men on
board. On account of defects the men
lost their lives and the craft remained
below the surface for many weeks. 1t
was raised by means of pontoons and
then towed into dry dock.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-10-07

Many do not realize the attractive
ness of this county. When Professor
A. B. Stout visited here he said that he
would rather live in Baraboo than any :
where but could not on account of his
work in the New York Botanical gar
den. The geological formations and
biological field round about appeal to
the naturalist and in these the region is
rich.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-10-07
(From Wednesdays Daily.)

Miss Clara Alexander of Barron who
has been guest of Mrs Henry Alex
ander has gone to Ableman and West
field for few days.
Mrs. VIM. Stackhouss is attending a
Ladies Aid meeting at her old home at
Westfield, and will visit with friends
there few days.
Mrs. Ralph Bennett and two children
of Council Bluffs, Iowa, who have been
visiting her father. Mr.. Kelley, in
Reedsburg, have returned to their
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-10-07

Even 80 ne Of the most despised wild
animals, birds and insects, have their
good qualities A few days ago while
wandering along the shore of the Wis
consin river at old Newport, places
in the sod had been rooted up. One of
the persons in the company remarked
that it was the work of skunks after
white grubs. Evidently the skunks had
obtained fine meal for there were
many places where the sod had been
thrust aside in order to obtain the deli
cate morsels. No doubt that moles,
hawks, snakes, owls, crows, weasles
and other wild life play an important
part in maintaining the balance in ma
ture Were it not for these the earth
would not be fit abode for man and
the war against supposed enemies
should not be carried too far.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-10-07
Any rattlesnakes around here?',

ANY rattlesnakes around here?"
What's your business?' asked the
boy with the big straw hat.
What has that to do with it?'
"Well the last man who looked
around here for summer board asked
me lot of questions like that, an
when | told him there wasn't any rat
tlesnakes or mosquitoes or anything he
said he was naturalist and guessed the
place wouldn' t suit him. -
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-10-07

Bobby, inquired the mother, Ibid
you wash your face before the music
teacher Gamer"
"Yes'm."
And your hands?"
Yes ma. -
"And your ears?"
wen, ma, i" said 3Bobby, judicially,
II washed the one that would be next
to her. Ladies Home Journal.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-10-07
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1916.

About third of the nations food
bill goes for meat, and the meat and
dairy products combined amount to
more than One-half the total expendi-
tWre.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-10-07

home by way of Monroe where they
will visit for week or ten days.
County Superintendent c. w. Davies
returned to North Freedom this morn
ing after attending the Kilbourn fair
where he acted as Judge. In school
contest of farm exhibits at which four
counties were represented, a Sank
county school won first place. 1t was
Dist No. 2, Bear Creek, and Miss
Mayme Nc Philips is the teacher.
The four counties that competed were
Juneau, Adams, Sank and Columbia.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-10-07
THE CONSIDERABLE KATYDID.

THE CONSIDERATE KATYDID.
The katydid's merry mite; how
cheerily she sings.
Or fiddles, huns, or maybe rasps her
legs across her wings!
She does not blush and coyly tell she
cannot sing note,
Because this awful weather's put q
large frog in her throat.
All, no! The gentle katydid does no
such foolish things,
But whether asked to sing or not,
she just cuts loose and sings
-Tennyson ] Daft
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-10-07

When the smiles of spring appear,
Drag the roads:
When the summer time is here,
Drag the roads;
When the corn is in the ear,
In the winter cold and drear,
Every season of the year,
Drag the roads.
When you've nothing else to do,
Drag the roads;
If but for an hour or two,
Drag the roads;
1t will keep them good as new;
With a purpose, firm and true.
Fall in line; It's up to you
Drag the roads.
The kansas Industrialist.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-10-07

Walt Mason sent Billy Sunday a
card at Omaha the other day with the
following verse on it:
Walt Mason to Billy Sunday:
Bill Sunday, your winner,
You're in class alone!
Round up the blooming Sinner,
"And yank him to the Throne"
In return Billy Sunday mailed this
one to Walt Mason:
Bill Sunday to Walter Mason:
Il m not poet. Walt, you know,
but envy you the smiles,
you've strung around this world of
ours,
For miles and miles and miles
SsOmaha Bee.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1915-04-02
Jail of Dry County Almost Empty

There only three prisoners in the (Whiteside)
county Jail at Morison the smallest number of guests
of the county for long time. Paul Rautert waiting
action q the court fine for bootlegging, which he
failed to pay, John Hass also waiting trial charge
of bootlegging, and from Rock Falls are the
three who living at Sheriff Berrys hotel the
present time.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1915-04-02
GOOD OLD DRY JONESBORO

Here is birdseye view of conditions in dry
Jonesboro reported by of the leading citizens
of the town
Improvements-New walks Paid old indebted
ness contracted under wet administration Built
school house; better light service. Money in treasury
Taxation-Not increased.
Police Records-One of the councilmen told
it hardly pays to keep police. City of 1900, and
policeman, and he hardly has to make arrest
for anything, During the last five years under dry ad
ministraton, night there three in the
city Jail, and that all
Intoxcaton-I have been here months and
have not seen one person intoxicated Men tell it
is seldom known.
Enforcement of Local Option Law-As we'll
forced as any law. We have no trouble in law en-
forcement of any kind
AS to How Our People Feel About Conditions
They would not for moment consider having
saloons back. One election was called by the
vets after the voting GU of saloons, but the
vote light that they have tried again.
Conditions financially morally, educationally and
every other way greatly improved under dry admins
tration.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1915-04-02
Wreckers of Human Happiness

They 1.-THE liquor dealers] pledged them
selves to aid the coal operators all in their
power, morally, financially and otherwise, to
crush us into submission. These are the peo-
pie trades unions upholding while censur-
ing all who are fighting for better Danville;
these are drones on the poor man; these are
the breakers of homes the wreckers of human
lives and woman's honor. Men like these can
have a floral wreath worth 100000 for
their casket, while the country can furnish
yours, for all they care If these are our friends
friends of labor, may God deliver me from
such-James Knox, Union Coal Miner
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1915-04-02
Vets Propose to Amend Election Laws

1t is rumored that the brewers of Freeport have
employed lawyer to frame bill to be introduced in
the present legislature amending the City Election law
to exclude from its operation cities the size of
Freeport. 1t is said that although the bill is being
drafted by wet Democrats it is the plan to have in
troduced by wet Republican.
Everybody in Freeport who favors fair elections
and who has watched the operation of the law thus
far, is heartily in favor of it.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1915-04-02

which is felt everywhere Seldom is on the
streets under the influence of drink.
"While taxes have not been reduced miles Of
streets have been paved and other improvements
made so that Princeton has changed in these eleven
years from the appearance of little country village
with muddy streets of the most attractive little
cities in the The matter of letting in the licensed
saloons is heard here and the moral condition
of the entire community will doubtless equal that Of
any city of its size in the state of Illinois,
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1915-04-02

touch em before And if that size were in wet
state I'd lose my job for stopping off EN-" Same with
me" the other said, who represented adding machine
house. These dry states beef mighty little when business
bad in other parts of the country III bet New Yok go
dry before long"
All the walls of the booze angels who howl about
blind pigs, wood alcohol and allied topics alter
the main facts. The saloon does not get the money
under Prohibition. In time the liquor habit is broken
and as that happens booze to be issue and
people turn to better ways of ving-Collier's Week
ly, March r.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1915-04-02
Hard on the Booze Angels

The somewhat genial F. P. A.. another New
York humorist, is also on the wing. Here's what he
says about Kansas:
There isn't much poverty in Kansas, the kind of
misery that the liquor states abound in is unknown I
heard two travelling riding from Newton Hutchn-
son. discussing it. Snce Kansas went dry said ct
make these little and sell lot of stuff. Couldn't
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1915-04-02
AN UNRELENTING CURSE TO LABOR

sober hborngm mwwhy sloon wath
% manyo his enowsh knows tina
his whea ld and
rob him of his oand hiss
anunen and unnntgat
Banner
The Washington times., 1915-01-21
IN PANIC AS
QUAKE IS PREDICTED
Aged Seeress Says Shocks on
January rs Will Destroy
Many Cities.

ROME, Jan. 21-The prediction OF a
toothless old seeress that central and
southern Italy would be visited by the
most territice earthquake in the worlds
history on January -, caused wide
spread panic among the poorer and
supcrstitious classes today.
A wrinkled faced old woman in a little
village of AbruzZi is held responsible
for the circulation of the report. Claim
ing to possess wonderful Clairvoyant
powers, she told her neighbors that the
coming of another earthquake had been
toretoid to her. While cities would be
reduced to ruins. she said. and the loss
of life would greatly exceed that in last
week quakes.
The report spread quickly through
Avezzano and other towns where res
Cuers were still searching for bodies OF
victims of the recent quakes. Rcfusces
huddleG together in tents and sheds
were thrown into wild panic. Some fell
on their knees, weeping and Wringins
their hands as they prayed. Others con-
gregated near the ruins Of churches and
discussed the story In tones OF awe.
When news of the report reached
Rome, every effort was made to keep 1t
frmo reaching the lower classes here.
Active steps were taken to nave the
clergy and officials in the stricken dis
tricts call the people together and ridl-
Guile the story.
The bitter gale that hindered the
work of rescue yesterday had somewhat
abated today. and the work OF diEg'hS
into wrecked buildings In the wrecked
cities continued.