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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-03-08
MAIL IN COLD STORAGE

This paper has frequently spoken
Of the cold storage method now be-
ing employed by the post-office de-
partment in the handling of much of
its business. Some time ago termin-
ais were established in the larger
cities, where papers, parceI-post pack
ages and mail of like nature was as
sorted, instead of having the work
done on the trains. Possibly the par
cel-post business has grown to such
an extent that it is difficult to handle
the business on the cars, but the
other mail should be handled more
promptly. Newspapers and other
lines of business have received many
complaints. A few days ago at the
Minneapolis terminal, Minnesota news
papers were found in the cold storage
hhilding and other mail was there
which had arrived ten days before.
All this is in the line of economy, but
there is such a thing as false econ
omy. The blame does not seem to
be with the clerks, but with the heads
of the department. If you do not re-
ceive your mail regularly, whisper
something into the ear of your repre-
seDtatives i'll congress or the post
master general.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-03-08
DEBT A NATTER OF HABIT
RATHER THAN INCOME

Getting out of debt is matter of
caring enough-in most cases." says
a writer in the March Woman's Home
Companion. II put in the qualifying
clause advisedly. I know that there
are families where ill-health and de-
pendent relatives and business re-
verses have piled one upon another,
where debt is simply unavoidabha
But in most cases, l repeat, debt is
habit, just as saving money is habit
I know twenty families whose expert
ence has been the same as Jim's and
mine, so far as the debt part is con-
-cerned. Most of them have even larger
incomes than we; most of them are
still In debt, and always will be. Sim
ply because they have formed the hab-
it Of living today on tomorrow's pay
check. Simply because they don't care
enough to get out"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-03-08
CARELESSNESS

Col George w. Burr, commandant
of the Rock Island arsenal, has had
the following "sermonette" placarded
in all the shops there:
/ am more powerful than the COM
bined armies of the world.
/ have destroyed more men than all
the wars of the world.
I am more deadly than bullets, and
/ have wrecked more homes than the
mightiest OF siege guns.
l steal In the United States alone
more than 800 million dollars each
year.
spare no one, and find my victims
among the rich and poor alike; the
young and the old; the strong and the
weak; widows and orphans know me.
/ loom up to such proportions that
1 cast my shadow over every field of
labor from the turning Of the grind
stone to the moving of every train.
/ massacre thousands upon thou
sands of wage earners in a. year.
Turk In unseen places, and do most
of my work silently. You are warned
against me, but you heeE not.
am relentless. / am everywhere;
in the home, on the street, in the fac.
tory. at railroad crossings, and on the
sea.
/ bring sickness, degradation and
death, and yet few seek to avoid me.
/ destroy, crush or MAIN: / give
nothing, but take all.
am your worst enemy.
am Careiessness.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-03-08
GET THE HABIT

Now while you have your pencil In
hend, will you read the following list
of good habits and check off as many
as you can eonscientiously subscribe
Cd and say, THAT I do"
Get the habit-of early rising.
Get the habit-of retiring early.
Get the habit-of eating slowly.
Get the habit-of being grateful
Get the habit-of being punctual
Get the habit-of speaking kindly.
Get the habit-o9 radiating sun
shine.
Get the haSit-os seeking the sun
SHINE daily.
Get the haasb-ee speaking cor
feetly.
Get the habaa-es pronouncing cor
rectiy.
Get the hahat-tf closing doors
gently.
Get the hassit-of neatness in ap-
pearance.
Get the hsasia-of gelying ON self,
saaways.
Get the habN-of forgiving spirit.
Get the haAi4-of being industrious.
Get the habat-of experimenting no
gn.
Get the hsasit-oe anticipating only
good.
Get the hssit-o9 always being pro
gressive.
Get the habit2of always paying az
YOU go.
Get the habit-of daily physical ex,
ercise.
Get the habit-of being accommo.
dating.
Get the habtt-of being a good Lis.
tGnar.
Get the habit-0 economy r- not
ainginess.
Get the habit-of eating but one
hearty meal day.
Get the hahif-oP having on and
hoping sveT.-Bdward B. Warman. IN
Nautilus.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-03-08
GOLD IN YOUR GARDEN

With onions, potatoes, carrots,
rutabagas and parsnips selling at
several cents pound, there will be
gold In a garden next summer. Con-
gresham Esch is sending the voters
packages Of seed and the wise thing
to do is to plant them. Miss Anita
Moore has the following to say in the
st. Louis Republic for the national
Clean Up and Paint Up" campaign
bureau concerning a thrift garden:
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-03-08
CAUSES OF FIRES

The State fire department has been
investigating the causes Of fires, and
Rnds that many strictly preventable
ones are from defective chimneys,
defective fiues, pipes from stoves,
aarnaces and boilers, matches, smok-
ang tobacco, open fires, hot ashes,
and others. The partly preventable
causes are electricity, explosions, In
sSndiarism, sparks and spontaneous
combustion. Fires from these causes
cost the property owners of the state
more than two million dollars In 1915.
so use little care is worth while.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-03-08
TITS 0nd O6of

A previous issue of this paper con-
tanned an account of a meteor fash
ing across the sky and striking the
earth in the southwestern part of the
state. A copy of the paper was sent
to Prof. A. S. Flint, Washburn OBJ
servatory. Madison, who forwarded
the copy to Prof. Frost at the Yerkes
observatory, who has been investi-
eating the phenomenon. He reports
to Professor Flint that the fall Of
the meteor to the earth evidently
originated In some Chicago newspa-
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-03-08
quantity and bad In quality.

quantity and bad in quality.
If such facts should ever become
widely known and seriously consid-
cred there might not be any room for
an Association for Improving the
Condition of the Poor-to the separa-
ton of several gentlemen from their
jobs that now support them. Mean
time the rest of mankind ought to be
interested deeply in the revelation
that the cure Of poverty lies in the
medicine chest. Which will you have
a pill or a plaster?
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-03-08
Ballad of the 'Simmon Tree

Corner Nv Pine an North Spring
street,
Jist where hill and holler meet,
A 'simmon tree stands by tn wall,
Thet wuz loaded down 18th fruit last
fall,
Eff thet ole 'simmon tree could talk
An tell whut's happened on tibet walk
/ guess twould make some people
smile
SO loud you'd hear 'em fer q mile.
Dill Wyatt wuz in love you know,
An Young Bud Hackett wug her
beau,
But Dill she KEEP a holdin' back,
Jist tew keep Hackett ON the rack,
Until they met one day, yo' see,
Right ondernead tibet 'simmon tree.
When Hackett, like a bum shell AZ.
zin',
Asst Dill Wyatt to be hizzen.
Says she-"Yo' know / luves yo' Bud,
But hain't got a weddin' dud.
But when the fruit draps off thet
tree,
Then I will wed yo' Bud,"-saya she.
Bud watched tibet tree 18th anxious
eyes,
TIL he wuZ guy great surprise,
Fer all tn 'simmon trees aroun'
Wuz castin' fruit upon the groun'
While this here tree jist hid ON
tight
So every 'simmon wuz in sight,
TIL leaves fell off, tn winds did blow,
Then cum rain an then a snow,
An yit them Simmons hung In view
Jist like they wuz stuck on 18th glue.
Sech atchions made young Hackett
sick,
An so he guv tibet tree kick
Jfst tew remind IL of it's sins,
But yft he only barked his shing,
An never Jared 'simmon loose,
An soon he found hit wuz no use,
An then great long pole he got
lew send them simmons all tew pot,
But 'twus no use, for Their they stuck,
While Bud he raved and cussed his
luck.
An guy hit up ontil one day
Tz he by chanst did pass thet way,
lie saw tn last ole 'simmon fall
OFF frum tibet tree beside tn wall.
Bud guv a yell. an people sed
they Guessed Bud Hackett'd lost his
he'd.
,ut guess'd again when Bud did say
Jill Wyatt n ] WIN wed tew day.
90 H. @. ABBOTT.
Eureka Springs, An. ~ e
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-03-08
RATHER BE A BOOSTER

I'd rather be q booster,
The smallest one In town.
Than the biggest knocker
And try to tear it down.
I'd rather be booster
And only boost a mite,
Than to be a knocker knocking
At everything in sight.
I'd rather be a booster,
And wear a pleasant smile,
Than be grouchy knocker,
Complaining all the while.
I'd rather be booster,
With purpose good and true,
Than sit around knocking,
Now, really, wouldn't you?
Exchange.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-03-08

a New York society that bears the
good, round title Of the Association
for Improving the Condition of the
Poor, seems by all accounts to have
dug up some grand new dope about
poverty and what causes it, says the
Medison Journal. It isn't low wages.
unemployment, the unequal distribu-
ton of wealth, or anything of that
kind It's sickness. Sickness ac-
counts for 96 per cent of the poverty.
How does the association know?
Why, in So per cent of the families it
visited sickness was found to be the
root of the trouble. Other things do
sometimes make poverty, the associa-
tons annual report admits, "but all
these causes combined produced
small burden as compared with sick
ness and its consequences"
It IS profound thinking like that
that skaters the brain and wrecks
many bright young life engaged in
the associations line of goods. We
advise it to go slow and think about
its health.
Otherwise, IL it pursues it's pres
ent violent exertions, 1t may some
day come upon the fact that the sick
ness it has. to its amazement, dis
covered in New York tenement houses
is not an unavoidable visitation Of the
gods. but results from bad living
quarters, foul air, no sunlight. cheer
less lives and food that is scRnt IN
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-03-08
BREVIIY THE RIGHT KIND OF
LUBRICANT

The machinery of the circuit court
at Monroe has been fabricated in the
right way to please the taxpayers. At
the last session just closed there were
thirteen jury cases on the calendar,
and Judge Grimm, by the aid Of the
attorneys. SO managed affairs that all
OF them were settled out Of court.
The record is unique In the history of
Green county and one that should be
emulated elsewhere.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-03-08
Hastings or the Kaiser

When, two years ago, Mr.. Paul o.
Hastings. man from one of tho.
lake shore districts Of Wisconsin, OF
whom few of us had any knowledge
whatever, was elected to the United
States senate over Mr.. McGoverns
we who had voted for the Republican
party for great many years were
greatly cast down and at a loss to-
know what our republic was coming
to. Many of us felt that Republican
government had proved a complete
failure and as we used to say in 1S4Ec
United we stand,
Divided we fall;
Four years more low fees
And the ID take us all"
was about as good a way to look as
the matter as could be found. Like
good American citizens we submitted
to the will of the majority and watt.
ed to see what would come next.
Well, it was the European war came
next and after two years, our senior
senator having failed to distinguish
himself as a leader or a Pro-GermaN,
mpathizer-American born and ed
ucated as he vast was left for
our Junior senator, born of German
parentage and living In strongly
German portion of our state, to pro-
nounce an eulogium on Mr.. Wilson'S
course and standing as an American
citizen and president, that covered
both himself and the president with
glory that will last as long as king
doms stand, and will place his name
well up towards Lincoln's or others
Of our great patriots Of former gem
erations.
Mr.. HusH'ng's letter to the La
Crosse man has set our minds as
ease by coming out fairly and square,
Iy as an American citizen withouS
any hyphenated connection, and plaes
ing himself firmly behind our good
president as one of his dependable
supporters. leaving us in no doubt as
to what will happen when Mr.. HuSe
tings has a chance to show his hand
A more patriotic and statesmanlikG
stand could not be taken by the best
American citizen.
Fifty years from now American
school boys will be tlecIaiming those
words, as for a lifetime past they
have delivered the speeches of our
great men. thereby thrilling and elics
iting applause from their hearers.
Let us not wait flftv years nor Ave
before Mr.. Hastings shall be acknowI7,
edged as a patriotic American deserva
ing the honor and profound respect
Of HIS fellowmen. ranking with ouf,
great men-Patrick Henry, for fn..
stance. whose wish was for Liberty,
or Death.
Senator Hastings and President
Wilson's preference was for an hons
orable and righteous peace, won by
the triumphant Of Right over Wrong
In an everlasting and heavensenS
Victory. PETER RICHARDS.
Lodi, Wis, Feb. 26, 1917.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-03-08

Through the kindness Of Senator
Paul O. Husting special bin has been
passed at Washington giving r.. e.
Dake Of Baraboo s46 per month pen.
sion. 49, s
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-03-08

In case you do not hear from your
congressman, there are bright seed
packages peeking at you from at
tractive boxes In the seed, grocery
and flower stores. Buy seed, root up
the ground. and reduce the Fl. G. OF
L. as soon as angleworms are busy.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-03-08
FOOD PRICES

Thrse in America who think food
prices are high should scan and con-
bemplate the figures compiled by the
British board of trade, based on sta
pie articles of food. The advances
since the beginning of the great war
have been as follows:
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-03-08
$ $$s$s$ssssssssssss

A Thrift Garden in the Back
5 Yard, 25x50 feet, will
At cost not exceeding $500
5 for the best seeds and $500
for fertilizer
5 II properly cultivated very
5 materially reduce the cost of
living.
Supply a family of six with
S fresh vegetables throughout
5 the season.
$ 1t can be made to yield
8 produce, in cash value, from
$50 to 800 per season.
5 It will provide wholesome
and profitable exercise of mind
and body.
5 1t will make more content
5 ed people.
It will teach preparedness
and economy.
5 1t will conserve the resources
5 Of the country.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-03-08

OF these countries, London notes.
Norway and the United States are
neutrals, Germany and Austria are
under maximum price systems, and
England has just entered that system.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-03-08

In looking over the Daily Indepenaa
emit OF Grand Island, Neb., a day on
two ago, came across the following
clipping:
WILDCAT JUMPED AT AUTO
Wisconsin Judge Brings Home Proof
Of Encounter on Tour
Milwaukee, Wis.-Municipal Judge
A. G. Backus, his wife and four chill
dren narrowly escaped with their
lives when wildcat Jumped at the
automobile in which they were tour
ing through the state near Athens,
Wis. The animal struck the frons
left tire so hard that its skull was fracs
tured, and 1t fell backward dead On
the road.
/ was driving toward Athens when
/ noticed dark object on the left
side Of the road" said Judge Backus.
AT first thought it was a large dog,
When saw that it was a cat and too
large for tame cat put on speed.
The cat jumped straight for the car,
and turned the wheel so that the
cat struck It. It's skull must have been
fractured. AT the time had no
means of defense. It was q lucky
thing that the cat was In front Of
the car instead of at the side. or IL
could have jumped into the machine"
Judge Backus took the dead animal
from Athens to Marshfeld, where he
Is having 1t mounted. 1t weighed be,
tween forty and fifty pounds and 10
OF grayish-brown. color.
Now, our people nave all heard
about the beer that made Milwaukee
famous, but such wildcat stories are
few and far between. I used to be-
something Of nimrod in my boyhood
days when in Wisconsin, and cap
tured many wildcats and lynx. bus
never had such an adventure as comes
rom Milwaukee. Our troubles with
was mainly to get TO them
Often times they would leap from the
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-03-08
smoke.

evidently vanished into very thin
smoke.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-03-08

sCsssaaass u nan sasAs
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1917-11-29

ings mount up TO high figure ever,
week. Many millions Of dollars hnv,
been poured into the Golfers ~ N,
British Red Cross society. and n
SIN asking for more. one OF M
newspapers, the London Tgw, hg
raised money for II at the rate of SO
900 day over u long period Ali"-,..
cr readers Of the Tines have g.. .,
contributed more than SIi,OOutoO .
the Red Cross fund. Yet there hu
never been more thnn enough ~ pro
vide for the dny.by day needs ~ III,
socictys splendid activity
mo one can fully appreciate IN,
enormous value of this activity To- m,
soldiers In the field who has not nc.
tunlly seen II. What happens to n
wounded man when he Is too hudl!
hurt 10 walk IL something like this
lie Is put on n stretchcr and carried .
short way 10 the rear In the third
line Of trenches leach position conSis,
ing of three lines. one behind the 9th
cr) there Is a deep dug out | vii
give you short account ut what
saw In one ~ these underground hos
pltuls, or rather dressing stations, III
heavy sul-y afternoon not far from
the town OF pcronnc In France, around
which there was foy such n long time
hard aud costly Hghting There wn'
no Sgu of anything In the nature OF
n hospital, II tent. or Of anything abov,
ground. was getting somewhat
weary Of being told TO lie down flu,
every few seconds to avoid bursting
shells, when I saw couple Of stretch
cr.bcnrers coming through the haze ~
from nowhere aud then disappear I'm
dcrground. II Is underneath there,
was told by my guide, whose dali,
duty Il was to inspect these medlca
outposts.
Blocked With Wounded.
AS quickly 40 possible We got dowr
into a trench, following tho stretcher
bearers. There. 10 darkness liz by
few cnndles. 40 gradually made on
q very grim scene. Talking was dlf
hcu'', Cor one Of svr batteries had jus
com into action q few yards away.
"unna to the heavy enemy shsl
rrp ~ noon found to DO m under
....sn ksa hos>avnn S>.,svss.lut al
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1917-11-29
TOWN SPROUTS OVER NIGHT
Modern Mining Town Springs Up Sud-
denly In Coal Region In
Kentucky.

Knoxville, Tenn.--Like towns built
In the West during the wild gold fever
rush Of the days Of 40, O model mining
town has grown up over night In
the center of the virgin field in Harlan
and Letcher counties, Kentucky.
Sixteen hundred houses will be COM
pleted within fifteen months, say Off
Gals of the United States Coal and
Coke company. subsidiary Of the Unit
ed States Steel corporation. which is
behind the project.
At present 100 eight.room houses
are under construction. After these
are completed the building of the 9TH
ers will begin. Forty-eight million feet
OF lumber altogether will be used.
A total Of 250,0OO,OOO feet Of lumber
was bought at cost Of approximately
$4,000.
A temporary commissary building.
240 feet long by 60 wide, is also now
being erected. The permanent COM
mlssary will be constructed after the
construction Of the 1900 houses Is
completed. 1t will be OF brick and
will cost between 100000 and $685.
600.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1917-11-29

by subscribing TO the Red Cross
Americans are not only ensuring TO
their wounded soldiers quick and skill.
iui treatment; they nrc helping TO
make their homes and their lives snfe.
Mhstcyer part OF the country they live
-, ~
No man Is better titted or more lust.
= entitled TO speak about Rcd Cross
work aud la plead liz clHlm upon pub.
lie generosity thnn Lord Northclie
who Is now in this country n. head Of
The British war mission. In the sen.
tence quoted above he summed up,
In an Interview granted 10 n newspn.
per representative. his view Of the M.
peal for funds which the American
Red Cross society Is milking to the
people Of the United States.
For the good work which all the
allied Red Cross societies have done
on the battlehclds on every front"
Lord NorthclifIc said, Il have the
"nrmcst admiration. have seen their
hmbulnnces aud their hospitals In the
French and Italian war zones. have
been under IRE with them. The cour.
age aud devotion shown by their
stretchcr'bcarers, drivers. doctors,
nurses and ordcrlles cannot be too
highly praised. In France came
across American nmbuanccs working
with steady disregard Of danger and
saving great numbers Of lives. When
the American armies take the field.
they will need huge Red Cross or.
gnnizntion. II Is UP 10 the American
people TO see That they get It.
Much Money Needed.
"Iied Cross work costs n great deal
OF money. Hospitals are costly TO
equip. Motor ambulnnccs must be-
provided In large numbers. and mus,
constantly be- renewed The bills for
surgical Instruments drugs. and dress.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1917-11-29

advocate, Allein-herrschaft. sole lord
ship The dream was that the Ger
mans under Prusslan guidance should
treat the whole world as they treated
French Alsace-Lorraine as they treat.
ed Danish Schleswig Holsteln. as they
treated Polish Posen.
The German Doctrine.
Germany, under Prussian guidance
has challenged the right Of men and
women to live as they choose to live
their right to freedom to develop In
their own way, their right to pursue
happiness according to their own
ideas. BE German or we Will crush
YOU the Prussinns said to the people
OF the conquered territories which
have mentioned. That Is what they
would say to the people Of the United
States If they could. They did their
best TO GerInunize the United States
during peace. If they We're TO be vic
torious In Europe, they would soon be
attempting 10 accomplish TINS Ny max
Ing war.
American soldiers are being sent to
Europe to prevent the invasion Of the
United States. They will fight the
Germans In France In order to avoid
having TO fight them at Boston or Chi
cugo or in California. BY subscribing
to the Red Cross fund you can help 10
safeguard your home aud your right
TO live as you wish To live. These can
not be safe while the prussiHn threat
Of world domination throws n dark
shadow across the sun of liberty. Give
all you can afford, in your own Inter
est. as well as to mitigate the suffer
Ing OF your brave soldiers. The help
of everyone is needed II the peril Is
10 be turned forever aside"
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1917-11-29
HELP RED CROSS
IS URGENT PLEA
OF N0RTHCL|FFE
Speaks in Warmest Admiration
OF Work Of Society.
MANY MILLIONS ARE NEEDED

Do Your Little Bit Toward Victory OF
Troops by Giving Financial Support
to the Red Cross, is His Appeal
English Editor Tells OF Bravery and
Devotion Of Red Cross Workers.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1917-11-29
QUELLS PANIC WITH PISTOLS
Captain Of Ship Bombed by Zeppelin
Holds Control Of Frightened
Crew.

Stockholm.-The Swedish steamer
Flandria was attacked by Zeppelin
on its latest trip homeward. The first
bomb which was dropped narrowly
missed the ship. The engines were
stopped and the crew ordered into the
boats. Four more bombs were dropped
dangerously near the vessel. Before
ali those on board had entered the
boats there was panic, and the cap
tain had to use his revolver to enforce
discipline. Tie shsp'S eHdpAhys after
hremaiRins for about swd ihs,iss in the
boats, reqrn sssdf t9 theIr yesSellu Sew
erol hours later another ,ilfSlSp ap-
peAFed iandnhSereti aSoaf Tor time.
but, dspartsSi,sitaost diving .,uls charm.