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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-26

We have gone into war in which
our avowed purpose is to make de-
mocracy safer for the world without
thought of material reward for our
selves, but two great prizes will come
to the American people as a result
of the great war, says the Emporla
Gazette. The first will be control of
the South American markets. The
next half century will be a period OF
great agricultural and industrial de-
velopment in this part of the world.
And the South American markets are
ours to have and to hold, if we live
up to our opportunity. The second
great prize is a closer commercial re-
lationship with Russia. Russia, if the
democracy endures, will come out OF
the war with great hope for advance
ment, and it will need our farm
tractors, our harvesters and our
industrial machinery. Russia, more
than South America, will need our
college-trained men, to lead a will
ing people, to teach them modern
methods and modern government
With Russia our relations will be
friendly and paternal. Other allied
powers will enter into close com
mercial relations with Russia, but
our job is to help Russia during the
years when the other war-torn powers
are bending every effort to bring back
the settled cond tons Of peace and tC
rebuild the ruins of their own national
lives.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-26
THE WOMEN--COD BLESS EN-

In considering the nuisance, who
at the moment is mayor of Chicago,
we must not forget this big whopping
fact: That when he was nominated
on the Republican ticket there was a
majority of seven thousand good wom-
en- and true registered against Thomp-
son and for Judge Olson, and only a
fool ten thousand majority of the men
in the mems ballot boxes-for the two
boxes were kept and counted separate
ly-let Thompson in.
A woman's judgment of men is
likely to be pretty correct. The wom-
en-God bless 'em-will straighten us
out if only we will let 'em. They have
married us many times and oft to save
US; and if we will follow 'em in poll
tics as we do with the Saturday night
envelope, we'll come through all right.
William Allen White.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-26
THE FAREWELL

The farewell" given to the soldier
boys proved to be an unfortunate af-
fair. The authorities have promptly
acted, a small fine has been paid, and
due notice given there are to be no
more "farewells.'' The majority Of
the voters of this city have decided
that liquor is not to be sold here, and
to give it away is equally as bad.
What kind of a town would this be il
persons were permitted to bring liouor
from Ableman, Kilbourn or other
places by the automobile load and
have big drinking bouts in public
places? 1t would be winking at the
law with a vengeance. Some Of the
soldier boys thought it was not very
patriotic for the affair to get into the
courts and especially into the news
papers, but still older heads remarked
to The News that if such affairs as
the one at Vogler's are patriotic, they
cared to have nothing to do with them.
If the companies in this county want
support such affairs as the one at
Voglers should be omitted. Of course,
not all of the soldiers were at the
Saturday night affair, but it was given
for them. according to the court pro-
ceedings, and there you are Some
of the boys got a little excited over
the publicity of the affair, but it is to
be remembered that when case gets
into court it becomes public property
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-26
SWAPPING AT THE NEW SYSTEM

It is the scandal of democracy that
often promotes cheap mediocrity to
high places. The system that makes
is possible is the product of a vicious
circle We send cheap men to con-
gress, and they in turn influence the
appointment of cheap ment to import
ant places.
We muddle along with this sys-
tenn in time of peace without caring
enough, perhaps, to. remedy it. But
with a great war on our hands the gov.
eminent must get men of high ability
to assist it or else prepare for disso-
luton.
The cheap men in congress, how
ever, remain just as cheap as they
ever were. 1t is as impossible for
them to respond to high motive or a
high responsibility as it is for the Hot
tentots to comprehend the philosophy
or BergSOn.
Without pretending to know the
facts of the controversies that have
centered around Gen. Goethals and
Mr.. Hoover, we may assume that the
attacks on these gentlemen are chiefly
the outcropp:ngs of selfish stupidity
the whining complaints of cheap men
bewailing the new system. But it is
only by adopting and supporting the
new system that we can hope to prose-
cute this war successfully. We cannot
do big things without big men to di-
rect them. Big men make mistakes
Gen. Goethals and Mr.. Hoover prob
ably will make mistakes-but they are
, far less costly than the inefficient, and
often corrupt, administration by little
men.-Chicago Tribune.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-26
ASKED FOR $1,OO0 AND
THREATENED TWO LIVES
Letter Indicates Confessor Is De-
ranged; Man Had Domestic
and Money Troubles

Erwin L. Shaffer, 80, Madison, en-
ployed in the mailing room Of the
state assembly, Friday night confessed
to an attempt to blackmail Mrs. Will
liam F. Villas, widow of Colonel Villas.
Shaffer, whose sanity is quest oned,
was taken into custody at o'clock
Friday night at the bridge on Univer-
sity drive, where he went to look for
81 900 which he demanded that Mrs.
Villas coachman, Mike Burke, leave
there in a tin box which Shaffer had
placed under the southwest corner Of
the bridge.
Shaffer sent typewriter letter to
Mrs. Villas, who is confined to her bed,
threatening her life and Burke's un-
less $1,000 in bills were placed at the
Designated spot. Mrs. Villas received
the letter Friday morning. She con-
suited Burke who took the matter up
with Chief OF Police Shanghnessy.
He VIII be examined as TO his san.
ity.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-26
THE |. w. w.

One of the menace that confronts
this government now is the organiza-
ton sprung up in recent years known
officially as the I. I. W., says the
GAINESVILLE Gazette This organiza-
ton, which is hostile to organized la
Dor and the best interests of the gov
eminent the world over, has grown so
rapidly in the past few years that it's
anarchistic following can be found in
the woods of the north, the mines, the
harvest fields, and in fact in all lines
of industry. Recently Rockford had a
taste of this organization and sent a
considerable number to jail for oppos-
ing the regular draft ordered by the
president. Later these same men were
given stiff Jail sentences and are today
serving out their terms with a fair
prospect of being sent to serve in the
army when they are released. Arizona
is having a taste of the same sort Of
tarred birds, and deports them by car
load lots, only to have them driven
back by indignant citizens of some
other community. These men are op-
posed to the government, to all or
ganized rules of society as generally
understood, and stand by themselves
as unique in the history of the world,
lust as famous as the A. r. u. stood
on it's bottom in '94, until President
Cleveland broke off it's power by send
ing regular troops to cope against the
violence of the mob. Sooner. or later
regular troops will have to be sent
against these lawless men who are
banded together as bands Of pirates
against industry, and if permitted to
continue unmolested, will be one of
the most serious menaces to trade
and commerce that exists within our
borders. This is period of necessity
and radical steps should be taken to
alleviate any social cancer that exists
by absolute eradicate on. The sooner
the government takes up the question
of the I. w. w. the quicker the prob
lem will be settled.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-26
Smiles

Ed. L. Luckow, formerly Of Bara-
boo and now auditor of the navy de-
partment at Washington, sends the
following smiles:
"Of course, women should vote" he
said. Women deserve the suffrage
as much as men-more, because their
minds are purer and cleaner"
cleaner" cried the sweet young
thing he had taken in to dinner. "Of
course they are, ever and ever so
much cleaner! But how do you know
that?"
Because they change them so much
oftener," said he solemnly.-People's
Home Journal.
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Critic-Well, old man, if you want
my candid opinion of your picture, all
/ have to say is, that if that's art, then
I'm an ass.
Artist-Oh, that's art right enough!
Passing Show.
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When Lincoln was still an ms gnif-
cant country lawyer he had occasion
to travel to a small town to take
charge of a case. 1t was a drive Of
some IA miles from the railroad sta
ton to the town inn where he was to
spend the night. Wet and chilled to-
the bone, he arrived at last, but, to-
his dismay, found only a small fire
built in the crate, while standing
about it, so as to exclude the heat
from the traveller, were the other law
yers interested in the case.
At length one of the group turned
to Lincoln.
Pretty cold, eh?" he asked.
eyes," replied Lincoln, cas- cold as
it is hot in Hades."
ever been to Hades, stranger,
asked another
"Yes," replied Lincoln, solemnly.
This raised faint smile among the
other lawyers.
What does it look like there?"
they asked.
Every much like this" said Lin
coin, dryly. Gail the lawyers nearest
the fire. ILLUSTRATED World
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The United States is far and away
the richest nation on earth. Of every
91O0 of the worlds wealth, they own
225, and are worth more than
France, Germany and Italy together.
We take a good second place, with
about 93 for every 95 Uncle Sam
possesses.-London Tit-Bits.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-26
REMEMBER THIS
AS TO DRAFT

Since the largest district in Wis
consin has 4,509 registrants, every
number above 4,509 will have no in-
terest in this state, because no one
in it bears it. In Sank county the
highest number is 1852.
/ + + +
Since every person Of the 10000
900 registrants will be affected every
number will be drawn in the draft.
/ i + +
The scheme is simple. At Wash
ington are capsules containing the
numbers corresponding to the num-
Der of registrants in the largest dis
trict in the county. AS each number
is withdrawn it automatically draws
the corresponding number in every
district in the country.
/ + + +
The local exemption boards will do
no work until they receive the official
record of the drawing.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-26
THE PROSPERITY WAVE

The prosperity wave has struck
Sank county and all of Wisconsin. In
some sections of the eastern states
the wave is felt in the coal mines, in
the iron industry and in the factory.
In Wisconsin the great wave is felt
sweeping over the farms. This is the
beginning of the seven fat years in
Badgerdom. Last year the food prices
went soaring, but not until the pro-
Queer had parted with his crops to
the wholesaler. This year it will be
different The tide has turned Good
crops and good prices are here.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-26
JOHN BURROUGHS ON THE
PURPOSES OF NATURE

1t is we'll to read closely and attent-
lively such writer as the great natur-
alist, John Burroughs. A passage
from his book Birds and Pests" is
here quoted:
''It is we'll to let down our metro
politan pride a little. Man thinks
himself at the top and that the i'm
mense display and prodigality Of Ma
ture are for him. But they are no
more for hims than they are for the
birds and beasts and he is no more at
the top than they are. He appeared
upon the stage when the play had ad-
vanced to a certain point and he will
disappear from the stage when the
play has reached another point and
the great drama will go on without
him.
The geological ages, the commissions
and parturition throes of the globe
were to bring him forth no more than
the beetles. Is not all this wealth
of the seasons, these solar and side
real influences, this depth and Vitality
and internal fire, these seas and
rivers, and oceans and atmospheric
currents, as necessary to the life of
the ants and worms we tread under
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-26
WAR HAS MADE ENGLAND
PROSPEROUS

Business has been good in England
despite the war. B. G. Forbes says
in the August American Magazine:
''The people, as whole, are earn
ing more, spending more and saving
more than ever before. Wages were
never so high nor work so plentiful.
The rich who are not interested in
favored manufactures are suffering
through heavy taxation, but the work
ing classes are prospecting. The lead
ing department store in London has
had record year.
''That is what comes from England
Cuisines conditions continue to
indicate such industrial and CONNER.
cal activity as the country has not
hitherto experienced
"That is the message great Ca
madam bank sends.
els it time to get scared to death
l don't believe so at all. l believe firm
ly that it is going to have an expan
sive effect on banking credits and
bank deposits. know we are going
to see vast industrial expansion. II
isn't going to be 100 per cent employ
ment; it is going to be 120 per cent
employment. There will be need not
only for every man who worked be
fore; there will be need for all the
men and women. The unskilled work
er will step into the place of the
skilled worker, and women will be
called upon to take greater place in
industry. 1t is going to mean the
greatest wage fund that was ever
paid OUT
THAT is the verdict of Frank A
Vanderlip, head of Americas largest
national bank"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-26
WHY COAL PRICES ARE HIGH

In the senate debate recently Sen
ator Pomerene of Ohio said:
81 received a very interesting letter
this morning from a friend who lives
in Kentucky. He gives a statement
as to the dividends which a man re-
ceived in one little company. He says
this man owns $4,000 worth of stock
in a mine (coaD in the Guyan valley,
which is now paying him $3.50 per
month in dividends, or 800 per cent
per year, and the mine has only been
in operation something over a year"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-26

foot as to our own? And does the
sun shine for me any more than for
yon butterfly? What l mean to say
is, we cannot put our finger on this
or that and say: Here is the end Of
Nature" The infinite cannot be meas
ured. The plan of Nature is so i'm
mense-but she has no plan of
scheme but to go on forever. What
is size, what is time, distance to
the Infinite? Nothing. The Infinite
knows no time, no space, no great, no
small, no beginning, no end"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-26
obs and 66at

The city has been placing oil on
the streets and the product is blacker
than stack of black cats at mid
night. Sticky? 1t is worse than cen.
trail Illinois mud in March. After the
oil has been spread with machine
sand is applied by hand. The need is
for machine that will scatter sand
like a manure spreader. This would
complete the method of oiling the
paved streets, the oil and sand pre-.
vent ng wear.
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Many automobile travellers are at
tracted to the pavilion and resort on
Mirror Lake recently improved by
Mrs. AL Ringing. The pavilion is
commodious, has a superlative floor,
is beautifully decorated and is sup
piled with player piano operated
with electr' city, SO that music is al
ways at hand. There is a convenient
porch overlooking the lake, where ice
cream may be served and an elevated
place at the end Of the hall for the or
chestra. The interior and grounds are
lighted with electricity, as we'll as the
cottages owned by Mrs. Ringing.
Dancing parties are occasionally Civ
en-. o. Manning has charge of the
grounds in the winter.
i / i +
Mrs. r. S. Miller of Eldorado, Kan,
active in Kansas club circles and wife
of ex-Mayor r. S. Miller, was arrest
ed on charge of violating the Kansas
bone-dry law. Fifty-seven bottles of
beer, it is alleged, were found in the
basement of her residence, one of the
finest homes in the city. Mrs Miller
and her two daughters were arrested.
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A lank MiSSOurian walked into a
woman's exchange in st. Louis. A
cantankerous middle-aged woman STEP
ped up and asked him what he want
ed. "Be this the woman's exchanged"
he inquired. "It isl" she snapped.
can be We the woman?" he persisted.
81 ami" she replied in no gentler
tones. He looked around thoughtful
ly, transferred his tobacco from one
cheek to the other, edged toward the
door, then remarked casually, wall,
l reckon I'll keep Sail"
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The Timme dam at Mirror lake is
nearing completion and the water is
about two feet from being as high as
it normally is. New timbers have
been used and a big bite out of the
sandstone has been quarried for the
filling. Some of the fishermen along
the lake think but few fish went down
with the water. They state that fish
always want to go up creek or river
and when the lake lowered they
turned their tails down stream. The
belief is current there are more fish
there now than there would have been
if fishermen had been taking them out
during the past few weeks the dam
has been out. There are deep holes
in the bottom of the lake, SO the fish
had plenty of places to which to re-
treat.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-26
A SUCCESSFUL
MEDICINAL COMBINATION

And one that had long been needed
and had not seemed to be possible, is
Hoods Sarsaparilla taken before
eating and Peptiron Pills after eat
ing. These two great medicines;
supplement each other in purifying
and enriching the blood, strengthen
ing and toning the nerves, putting
life into the body and color into the
face. Taken in conjunction, they
are the ideal remedy for the blood
and nerves. All druggists.
G. l. Hood Co., Lowell, Mass.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-26
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1917

Some of the inventors who are
focking to Washington with devices
to end the war in two weeks, are
gradually lifting Darius Green into
the Edison class.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-26
A GOOD CATECHISM


For fairly clear view of the polit-
zeal situation we commend the fol-
lowing from Chester H. Rowell, of the
Fresno California; Republican:
Q. What is the Republican party?
A. The party of Lincoln and
, Grant; the party that preserved the
, union and freed the slaves.
@. What is the Democratic party?
A. The party of Jefferson and
Jackson; the party that substituted
nineteenth century democracy for
eighteenth century aristocracy.
@. What have these issues and
, leaders to do with the present time?
A. Nothing.
Q. Is there now any difference of
opinion on either of these issues?
A. No.
! Q. Then why do the American
people divide on these lines?
A. Because their grandfathers did.
@. Of what does the Democratic
party now consist?
A. Of the white people of the
| South, of certain foreign elements in
the larger cities of the North, and of
| numerous other groups who for one
reason Or another have acquired the
habit of acting with them.
@. Of what does the Republican
party now consist?
A. Of the conservatives, who be.
lieve that the government should let
business alone, and of the progress.
| sives, who believe that government
; should regulate business. Also of the
, sons of Union veterans.
@. For what does the Democratic
party now stand?
A. For Woodrow Wilson.
@. Why?
A. Because he is a winner.
@. On what ground do they sup
port him?
A. Last year because he kept us
out of war; this year, because he led
us into war.
@. For what does the Republican
party now stand?
| A. Against the Democratic party.
@. Why.
A. Because it is the Democratic
party.
@. Is there another party?
A. There was.
@. What was it's name?
A. The Progressive party.
@. What did it stand for?
A. For the twentieth century poll
cies which are favored by all the
| thinkers and most of the voters, but
not by the party managers of Ameri
ca.
i @. What was the matter with it?
| A. It's name was not the Republi
can or Democratic?
| @. Why was the new name an
objection?
| A. Because our grandfathers did
not know it.
O. What is there to do about it?
| A. Just now, nothing; after the
war, try to make both parties progress
sive.
Q. Which is the most likely to sue
coed?
A. The Republican.
| @. Why.
A. Because it is the most nation
alistic and most efficient; because its
progressive element is most progress
sive and because it's react:onary ele
/ ment will put up the most direct fight
and can be most conclusively beaten
! Q. Is this good Republican doc
trine?
A. One element of the party says
! it is party treason. In California,
i it is the official doctrine of the Re
publican party, made so by the vote
! of the party members.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-26
FREAKS OF HEREDITY

So far as his work is concerned,
we remember rascally poet named
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-07-20

ing school plays in the education OF
the modern nurse should be realized
by the prospective nurse, in order that
she may wisely choose a school IN
which she may get sound and ade,
quate foundation upon which to build
the professional training necessary for
the special branch of service she de-
sires to enter
The training school is the most i'm
portant factor in the whole problem Of
professional nursing, for it determines
the character of work that shall be
done in every one of its branches. If
this be true it is necessary that our
training schools be organized on an
educational basis and become endowed
institutions Tor be provided suitable
state or city aid for educational work.
which use the hospital as laboratory,
instead of being used by the hospital
as the chief means of giving large num-
bers of patients nursing care. 1t IS
therefore clearly obvious that the posi-
ton of head of training school for
nurses is one that demands broadly
educated woman, who has qualities of
leadership, high educational ideals, a
knowledge of what the community will
demand of the nurse and determine
ton to get, in one hospital or several,
the training that will fit her student to
meet this demand.
When we get large numbers of well
educated, scientifically trained women
in charge of the work of educating
nurses, every branch of the profession
will meet its needs more quickly and
with more efficient women.
1t would hardly seem wise to close
even q short article without offering a
few suggestions that may be of prac-
teal use to the young woman who may
contemplate entering school of nurs-
ing.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-07-20
United States Government

United States Government
Army and Navy Nursing Service.
American Red Cross.
In time of peace, for public calamity,
floods, fires, etc.
In time of war, hospital service.
$1,000 per month, maintenance
and travelling expenses.
Town and Country Nursing Service:
In rural communities, as visiting
nurses.
$75-$l25 per month, transporta-
ton, horse or automobiles.
Missionary Field
Principals of Training Schools
Teachers.
Assistants to Physicians and Surgeons
In offices and private practice
$75-$150 per month without main
tenance.
Prison Reform
Nurses are to be introduced into pris-
on hospitals, as part of the re-
form in treatment of prisoners.
Probation, Parole and Protection
A new field, rapidly developing, in
which the nurses training is con-
sidered valuable.
For all these fields the nursing pro-
fession needs reinforcements; recruits
are needed from the large body of
educated women who are yearly leaving
our colleges. A great many of the
problems before us are extremely prac-
teal, but SO many radical changes must
be made, such extensive reorganization
of the old, as well as organization of the
new lines of work must be accomplished,
that we must have women well trained
mentally, who have executive ability,
who have the vision to see far ahead
and who have boundless courage and
enthusiasm.
1t is important that the role the train