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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-30
SUCCESS AT Is AND SO

A writer in the September Ameri-
can Magazine says:
tfSuccess at twenty-five and sue
cess at fifty make different demands.
In few months am going to marry
a man l met in college, sanitary en-
gineer, now with state board OF
health. His salary is just twelve hun
bred dollars a year, yet that means
happiness to us. At twenty-five he
has three degrees, and the fact that
he was chosen for this work means
the beginning Of success to us, too.
1t is enough to live on while he is
proving his theories of publ health,
and it gives him an opportunity for
original work. But if five years from
aow he has the same salary (only he
will notD and his work has not been
recognized, we will not think of twelve
hundred dollars in the same way"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-30
THE IMMORTALS

Following the lead of other warning
countries, the United States is estab-
fishing a big plant i'll France to Sc
cure war photographs of American
troops, including motion pictures. The
war has demonstrated strikingly the
peculiar value of the latter.
How greatly we would value today
motion pictures showing Napoleon's
retreat from Moscow, a gala review of
the Old Guard, or an intimate glance
at the thousand and one absorbing
sights of former periods of history!
Future generations VIII have this
privilege Which is denied up. There
is satisfaction in the thought that the
golden lads" of the present war will
be immortal in new service. They
will march before the centuries!-
Montreal Star.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-30
COSTS $3.50 A YEAR TO LIVE

From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
In the various disputes now pending
between employers and employees the
increased cost of living appears to be
the principal cause Of the workman's
disaffection. While the general level
Of business is good, employment is
plentiful, and profits to producers are
larger in many lines than is usual, the
employees wage has not, IN many
cases, been readjuted to the new level.
The New York bureau of personal
service has investigated the cost Of
living in the metropolis, and finds that
$3.50 a year is the minimum amount
upon which workman's family of five
can maintain standard of living con-
sistent with American ideas, at pres
ent market prices.
Itemized the New York estimate al
lows $14 a month for rent, $947
week Tor 1000, SI21.lV a year Tor the
family clothing, $42 year for light,
and fuel for cooking; $40 year for
doctors attendance, $22SS for insur-
ance and $73 a year for sundries.
Among the sundries are included such
items as SIS for furniture, equipment
and moving, SIS for church, SIS for soap,
washing materials, stamps and small
items of personal need, and SIS a year
for newspaper reading. The sum of
$40 year is allowed for recreation,
covering occasional trips to the beach,
moving picture theatres, holiday pres
ents and vacations Seattle Post-Intel-
Hgencer.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-30
WOMEN ARE GETTING READY
TO REPLACE MEN !. :.

The September Woman's Home
Companion says:
Women are preparing to take the
places Of men in almost every line of
work. A New York corporation,
whose clerical force has been depict
ed by the call to arms, advert sed for
fifty intelligent women capable of
earning twelve dollars a week. Ten
thousand letters were received from
as many women. The ages ranged
from high school girls to grandmoth-
ers. The best papers in the test were
turned in by college graduate and a
grandmother, respectively.
"In many of the larger cities young
women with steady nerves and taste
for mechanics are being tested as ele-
vator operators
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-30
HOW TO KEEP YOUR FRIENDS

An editorial in the September Wom-
ans Home Companion says:
at is almost impossible to be gen.
timely friendly with a person who in
sists on being too close to you, on
knowing all your thoughts, feelings
and affairs, and on claiming your time
and attention on the excuse of affec-
ton lone.
"The bonds of true friendship must
be easy and it's demands must be for
something real and vital. The woman
who calls on you perpetually because
she has taken q sudden fancy to you
is blind and selfish egotist, in a
mild way. Her calls may interrupt
your work and bore you intensely, but
if you are a polite and courteous per-
SON you bear with her until she di-
reefs her attention elsewhere. She
will probably tell the new friend that
you are very unresponsive.' Some
women clutch at every new acquaint-
ance and then complain that they
have so few friends. The reason is
that friendship is not built on trivial
tiles and whims, but by giving such
valuable things as true consideration,
real interest and manifesting decent
reserve as to the other persons con-
fidences and non-confdings."
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-30
Oak Blight Disease

This summer Nj. G. Crandall, who
makes his home with his aunt, Mrs.
j. G. Train, noticed the oak leaves
on the lawn were diseased. Concern
ing the disease he wrote to the Col
lege of Agriculture, University of Wis
consin, and has received the follow.
ing in reply:
II judge from your description that
the oak trees in your vicinity are suf-
fering from the oak blight disease.
This is a fungus disease and not
caused by bacterial parasite, as is the
case in fire blight Of apples and pears.
The fungus in question lives over VIM
ter in the fallen leaves, and the only
control which we can suggest as Of
fer;ng much satisfaction is to rake
and burn all these leaves as soon as
may be after being cast in the fall.
This trouble is quite widespread ia
this section of the country, but so far
as we have observed is not killing the
trees-simply holds them in check to
a certain extent If the trees were
small and of unusual value because
oil, their location, it m ght be possible
to prevent the blight from spreading
BIZ spraying them thoroughly with
Bordeaux mixture. However, owing
to the difficulty of applying the spray,
this is hardly practical thing to do
Trusting that these suggestions
will be of value to you, am
"Yours very truly,
"R. e. VAUGHAN,
Assistant Professor Of Plant Path.
ology, Madison, Wis"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-30
HOW TO REMEMBER THINGS

In an article about a man with a
great memory in the September
American Magazine, a writer says:
Any test which trains your mind
to really see things at quick glance
will help a lot.' returned Horgan.
One of the best tests know is to
stand in front of the show window of
a store and glance quickly at all the
articles in the window, and then turn
away and see how many you can re-
member. Practice will make anyone
pretty adept at this.
0Look at the passengers opposite
you in a street car. Then shut your
eyes and try to visualize each one of
them. Glance at the advertising pla-
cards over their heads. Close your
eyes ard see how many you can re-
xoember. All these things will help
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-30
AMERICAS CAUSE FOR WAR

1.-THE military masters of Germany
denied us the right to be neutral.
They filled our communities with
vicious spies and conspirators. They
sought to corrupt our citizens :. :.
They sought by violence to destroy
eur industries and arrest our COM
merce. They tried to incite Mexico
to take up arms against us and to
draw Japan into hostile alliance with
her. They impudently denied us the
use of the high seas and repeatedly
executed their threat that they would
send to their death any of our people
who ventured to approach the coasts
OF Europe.
''This flag under which we serve
would have been dishonored had we
withheld our hand. Woodrow Will
son, President OF the United States.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-30

plants were noticed. On digging up
a few of them, they were found to
have come from peanuts. Many Wis
itors to the capitol park bring pea
nuts to feed the squirrels, which are
SO tame that they will eat from the
hands of the visitors. On some days
when visitors are numerous, the quir-
rels have more peanuts offered them
than they can eat, and upon such oc-
cas;ons they take them to a conven-
lent nook and bury them. Seemingly,
somebody must have treated them to
lot of unroasted ones on one of
those flush days, and when squirrels
planted green peanuts they sprouted
and grew, and that accounts for the
peanut plants now being found in the
shruobery beds about the capitol park.
Wisconsin always a grand old state,
but it will be grander still when it
breeds its squirrels up to the stage
where they will go to gardening on
their own account.
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Read this from Aberdeen, the me.
tropol's of our dear sister on the
south: 1.-The rattlesnake season is
on in the western part of the state
One of the most recent adventures is
that Of man being driven out of his
buggy by a rattler. The snake had
wrapped itself in the spokes of one of
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-30
War and Criticism

The easiest thing in the world to
do is to criticize or find fault. THIS is
true in every department of human
activity. Emergencies are all the
time arising and must be dealt with
at once Differences of action are
expected to appear, but when the
government adopts what seems to be
the best and noblest course to pursue,
it must be sustained by the people.
There is no other possible way, if we
are to have a government at all.
United thought means united effort,
which is the greatest power on earth.
A united front discourages the enemy.
We are in this war because we could
not possibly avoid it. No man could
have tried harder to keep us out of
the war than President Wilson. And
now we must fight. Any person living
in these United States, either native
or alien, that has made home here
he can call his own, cannot make
greater mistake than to become a
stumbling block in the government eff
fort. Now, we must go to Europe to
fight, because England and France to-
day stand between us and Germany
so it is not good argument to declare
we are willing to fight an invader of
our land, but not to fight in Europe.
You forget that Germany is not fight
ing on her own soil, SO is the agrees
sor. All the battles are being fought
outside of Germany, and her subma-
r'nes invade the freedom of the seas,
and the mighty Atlantic reaches our
shores All! the world is closely
united. The world today is very small.
The knowledge and ingenuity of man
has made it SO that one who strikes
a blow anywhere it is heard over all
the earth, and Germany is fighting us
today with her submarines as certain
ly as if invading our shores. The sol
der at the front deserves good back
ing at home. BENZ. SIMONDS.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-30
HAMPERING THE GOVERNMENT

Those men who are doing SO much
to hamper the government at this
critical time should taken down their
American histories and read of the
days of the Civil War, when northern
copperheads were lending their best
efforts to the rebellion by denouncing
Abraham Lincoln and the brave boys
in blue. The name Of Lincoln has
become immortal, and the boys in blue
have lived to see the nation and the
world honor their patriotism and their
valor. But the hated copperhead sunk
into Oblivion as soon as the war
closed, and when afterward discov-
cred, always attempted to prove an
alibi. We have the Grand Army Of
the Republic, the Women's Relief
Corps, the Veterans Legion, the Sons
of Veterans, and numerous other pa
triotic societies, whose foundation
was laid upon the noble work of the
Union soldier, but in all the fifty years
which have elapsed since the Civil
War closed nobody has the temerity
to attempt to organ re grand army
of copperheads.-Sec of State
Merlin Hull in Black River Falls Jour
nal.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-30
Pioneer Days

/ read with interest early Wild
Life in Sank County" as written by
Brother" Hugh Kelley in a recent
story for The Baraboo News. 1t was
a fine article. | have have read and
re-read it, as it was crowded full Of
thrilling incidents and hardships OF
pioneer days. 1t was surely long,
hard trip for little boy, and his
mother, over roads that were non,
too good He was lucky if he haj
shoes to wear. Perhaps after tn
city was reached, there was no letter
for his poor mother who must return
as soon as possible over the road that
was just as long and more dismal,
after hearing about panthers, and the
man that was killed near, on the same
road. The experience Mr.. Hirschin-
ger had with panthers was surely ex-
cit ng. 1t reminded me of those trials
of hunting cows, too. When we
cleared up piece Of land, it was
first enclosed with brush fence.
which was constructed by chopping
small tree or sapling on one side
about two feet from the ground and.
one side being left uncut, would ben
over and sustain life as the tree was
pushed over on the line of trees, form
ing barrier which would keep cattle
out OF the crops, if trees were plenty
Few cows were kept then, and the
roamed for their summer feed. They
seemed to like the grass around Oh.
Bakers Hollow. and many time
went over there barefoot after cow.
Sometimes they would bunch witk
other strange cattle and run the ops
posite way leaving me to come hom,
alone There were no creaneries
Barbed wire, or woven wire was noF
even thought Of then. How Thankful
young people ought to be in ther'
modern times, since they begin where
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-30

the hind wheels and was tipped into
the buggy beside the man, who did
not, wait to see what the snake would
do, but took to the prairie. This
frightened the horse, which ran some
distance, then overturned the buggy
and threw out the snake. The man
obtained piece of wreckage of his
rig and killed the intruder"
And South Dakota has been bone
dry since July beach Advance.
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Rattlesnake den, south of North
Freedom, is being invaded by rock
company. Unless the reptiles scent
trouble and move they will have a
hard time resisting dynamite, drills,
picks and shovels. This spot is known
the country over as rattle snake
stronghold, and the residents there
will be glad to have them routed.
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Speaking of rattlesnakes, Professor
Lawrence Martin of the University OF
Wisconsin, Madison, was bitten by
one of the reptiles while in the Bar
aboo region few days ago Gu a ge.
ology trip. The strike was through
the covering of his leg and he paid
little attention to the matter. as the
skin was barely pricked. The next
day the place began to swell and as
sistance was sought.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-30

at the present time. Farmers who
have kept their fiocks are realizing
excellent dividends from the same.
The president of the Wisconsin Sheep
Breeders association is making an eff.
fort to assist farmers in every way
possible to get started again in the
sheep industry. Any farmer inter-
ested in buying breeding ewes may
write me their wants, and shall d.
what can to place. them in corre-
spondence with reliable persons hav-
ing sheep to sell. GEO. w. DAVIES.
North Freedom.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-30

whole matter may be summed UP in an
article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
1t follows:
Radical changes in the foreign lam
guage curriculum of Cleveland's public
schools, with much less emphasis on
the teaching of German, but not the
entire elimination of that language,
were indicated in a statement by DR..
Frank E. Spaulding. school superin-
tendent-elect.
while Doctor Spaulding would not
commit himself specifically on the
question of eliminating the study of
German, from his statement it was in
ferred that the subject would not be
taught in the elementary grades here
after, and that about thirty German
teachers in the grades would be asked
to teach other subjects.
at am giving careful consideration
to the language situation in the schools
here he declared. i am of the opin-
ion that modern languages should be
offered in both the junior and senior
high schools rather than in the grades
Doctor Spaulding pointed out that
the junior and senior high school or
ganization permitted the offering of
foreign language courses without
much additional expense. French and
Spanish, it was indicated, will be par
ticularly emphasized in the Cleveland
high school hereafter, as being as i'm
portant, if not more so, than German.
ut is expected that Doctor Spauld-
ing, within the next ten days, will or
der the complete elimination of Ger
man from the grammar grades, but
will retain it as junior and senior
high school subject At the same time,
it was indicated, he will see to it that
French and Spanish are given as much,
if not more emphasis than German in
the high school curriculum"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-30
The Boys in Khaki

We are landed now in France
A bunch of sturdy boys;
We are landed now in France,
And not afraid of noise,
We like the smell of powder
And hope to have a chance
To meet up with Kaiser Wilhelm
On the battlefelds of France.
CHORUS
oh! What's the matter with Sammie!
With Sammie, Samuel;
oh! What's the matter with Sammie!
TITS an easy thing to tell;
Oh! What's the matter with Sammie?
Well, the kaiser'll think it's He'll,
If we get the chance to meet him
On the battlefields of France.
We are sailing DER to France
Five hundred thousand strong;
We are sailing Ger to France
To help to right wrong.
And like Texas tenderfoot
Well make the kaiser dance,
If we have the luck to meet him
On the battlefields of France.
CHORUS
We are going DER to France,
Five hundred thousand more
We are going Ger to France
And might have gone before.
If we catch old Kaiser Wilhelm
We sure will warm his pants,
And tell him then to run along
And get away from France.
CHORUS
Yes. we're going DER to France
And there's millions more to come:
We are going DER to France
And leave our friends and home,
And we'll make that Kaiser Wilhelm
Regret the circumstance,
That caused the dire necessity
OF going DER to France.
CHROUS
Oh! What's the matter W tn Sammie?
etc. N. G. ABBOTT.
Eureka Springs.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-30

you in remembering a mans features
from quick glance: it would be i'm
polite and usually impossible to stand
and stare in mans face for three or
four minutes.
Meet all the people you can.
Watch them. Keep lists of their
names. Sit down at night and check
~p the people you have met that day;
see how clearly you can call up the
Image Of each
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-30
Tbs 0nd O6af

At a Baraboo home the husks from
green corn are rolled in paper and
given to the milkman in the morning.
1t conserves food, is an easy way to
get rid of the husks, and makes a
horse glad.
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Japanese lilies are not plentiful in
this country, but a fine display may be
seen in front of the residence of Mr..
and Mrs. E. B. Trimpey. They all
came from one bulb and in a way ex-
emplify the assertion that the owners
are able to make several lilies grow
where but one grew before.
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Have you noticed that many travel
ing by automobile this year carry
camping outfits? At Mad son and Kill
bourn there are places where travellers
are provided with camp ground,
and such a place would be a great con-
venience in Baraboo. The automobile
will bring more and more who desire
to sleep on the green sward beneath
the skies.
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Many of the excursionists who come
from Chicago pay visit to Bum the
Baker of Baraboo. They always ask
the proprietors of the hotels where
Mr.. Bum bakes his buns, and hurry to
find out if there is really such per-
son. Mr.. Bum has been made IA
nous by B. L. T. in the Chicago
Tribune.
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L. III. Hill, proprietor of the New
Warren, reports that visitors contin-
ue to come on the trip from Chicago
which costs $3.50, and all are more
than getting the worth of their money.
The Wis tors have day in Madison,
three at Baraboo and Kilbourn and
one in Milwaukee. A few days ago two
Chicago people thought there must be
some graft in the offer, and concluded
to try for themselves. Long before
they left Baraboo for Milwaukee they
had spent over $40, and had not seen
the city on the lake. Such excursions
as the ones coming is a feature that
should be encouraged more and more.
Baraboo should be a center from
which sightseeing and fishing trips
may be made.
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Many are asking for substitutes for
wheat -four in making bread. The ag-
Z Tras
versity of Wisconsin, Madison, has is
sued a bulletin on "Other Kinds OF
Bread in which barley. rye, rec, po-s
tatoes and rolled oats are used as par
tial substitutes for wheat -four. The
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-30
LANGUAGE IN, THE SCHOOLS
ligencer.

Evidently from the discussion going
on in many publications, the German
language to great extent will lose
it's foothold in universities, colleges
and the public schools. There will be
much less time given to German in the
University of Wisconsin in the future.
it is believed. The attitude of the
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-30
Only Twenty Years Ago

Operations were rare.
Nobody swatted the fly.
Nobody had seen silo.
Nobody had appendicitis.
Nobody wore white shoes.
Nobody sprayed orchards.
Cream was five cents pint.
Canteloupes were muskmelons.
Advertisers did not tell the truth.
Milk shake was favorite drink.
You never heard of "tin Lizzie"
Most young men had livery bills"
Doctors wanted to see your tongue.
Nobody cared for the price of gaso-
line.
Farmers came to town for their
mail.
The hired girl drew $3.50 week.
The butcher threw in" chunk Of
liver.
Folks said pneumatic tires were a
joke.
Nobody listened in"o a telephone.
There were no sane Fourths nor
electric meters.
People thought English sparrows
were birds"
Jules Verne was the only convert to
the submarine.
You stuck tubes in your ears to hear
a photograph, and it cost me.
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Although statesmen shake their
heads the stars appear to indicate
that the end of the war will not be
many months away. Astrologers de-
clare that Saturn and Neptune will
plague the kaiser so successfully that
the final scenes of the confist cannot
be far off, remarks an exchange.
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On the bathing beaches, it appears
many wearers of fussy costumes do
not care to swim, but merely place
in the sun, says an observer.
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1t is strange how the currents of
fe run in opposite directions. Some
time ago a young man in Baraboo
purchased quantity of bananas and
ate them in order to weigh enough to
join the army. A La Vale citizen tells
a different story A young man came
to his house and remained for supper.
during the meal he remarked: Gosh,
am enjoying my meals again.
At this the host pricked up his ears
and desired to know what meant-if
he had been sick.
mo, / have not been ill" said the
visitor, "but | did not eat anything
for several days so that | would be
under weight"
The citizen says he will vouch for
the story.
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Speaking of the draft, here is a
story from Milwaukee:
Milwaukee's own Rip Van Wrinkle
has been found! He is registered in
the Fifty district and works in Wau-
watosa When called for examination
he strolled into the district headquar
tiers at the Walker street school
What do you want me here for?"
he asked.
When told that he was to be ex-
amined under the seIective draft act,
he seemd surprised saying:
What's the idea? Is there a war
or something's"
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Here is another from the Richland
Center Observer:
One of the boys up before the ex-
aiming board wanted to make out a
case for exemption on account of i'll
health. At the medical exam nation
he began to complain of all sorts of
trouble, and the physician told him
he had a case of "cold feet"
eyes, yes said the boy, II know
it: been troubled for couple Of years
and had ought to be lone in bed
right now"
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A story comes from Madison that
even the squirrels in the capitol park
have become impued with the idea of
food, and are rails ne their
own peanuts In some of the corners