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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-12-26
The Old Year
and the New
ZINC Old Year sat heside tha hearth

AHo Clu rear SAY beside the hearth,
Lp thoughtful mood: the hour was late:
And ere he vanished from the earth.
The past he Gain would
brought a wealth of JOY for those
VINO had o'erDurdened been with grief"
de said. "and Tor unnumbered woes
Furnished the cordial Of relief.
To some l gave a gardens bloom.
Sweet pansies and forget-me-nots:
To some the cypress and the tomb.
The barrenness Of desert spots.
with love | tarried for a while
Breathing the sweet Elysiau air;
And bidding Hope s~erenely smile
Across the threshold Of Despair. o.,
OF entered on my natal hour
Burdened alike with bliss and bane,
COMMISSIONS by my Lord to dover
Some hearts with ease, and some with
pain,
Where happiness had rich increase;
/ shall be hOnOred long, ! know:
But those | robbed of Joy and peace
They will be glad to have me got
i've followed many a bridal train;
Have watched by many a lonely bier:
With birth and death, with loss and gain,
Made up the record of the year.
And now beside Defenders gate
Where hangs the years alarum bell,
4 pause to scan the past and wait
The sound OF my own funeral kneii.
~One!-HOw the hours have slipped away,
Two!-Some will weep with sore re-
greet;
Ehree!-Could 1 still on earth delay
Four!-Some good l might accomplish
yet.
Efve'-An angelic song awoke!
SiX!-Surely are the letters riven.
Seven.-Soon / shall hear the final stroke
E~ight!-Chime sweetly with the clock of
heaven!
Sine!-I am nearer to my goal!
~Ten!-TIme must eternity begin!
Elevenl-Awake, immortal soul!
Twelve,-Farewell! and let the New Year
M
- come the Old Years debts to pay!
1 come his promises to keep;
TO walk upon the worlds highway,
And deck the grave where dear ones
sleep. ..
Where he gave smiles I may give tears,
Life's path with good or i'll bestrew;
Eor unto him who views the years
The new Is old. the old is new"
Josephine Pollard.
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OilIAb NV gov o.
cillery at the front somewhere in
France"
"Oh, brought in a captive" was his
careless reply. Ran into the skulker,
marched him into camp and left him in
uhe guard house. ANY letters?'
Nary a letter. They say the mail
packs here are our days overdue, but
rhey're rushing holiday stuff TO the
CAMPS"
Dale Webster sighed and his face
grew wistful. I've been expecting one
2etter particularly. You're my friend,
5toy?"
After your carrying me on your
GDack half dead across the worst part
of No Mans Land, with the Boches
plugging away for keeps, / guess so ~
"And you remember Winnie Trask?"
"As a memory sweet and fragrant
as II field of daisies"
well, one night in a dugout | just
home there what l ought TO have said
10 her before we left. Three months,
and no word. / fancy l was toe pre-
sumptuous. If / knew that Winnie was
caring for me, thinking of me, at home,
I'D never get lonesome. I'd fight double
10 get this mix-up over and back TO
Aer-bless her."
Don't lose hope" encouraged Roy
hartley. lone of the fellows just got
a letter written by his sweetheart last
September. 1t has been chasing him
all over the frontier. About your pris-
Ssner-make you any trouble?'
mot a BIT of IT." declared Dale in a
spirited way. 1.-THE bear"
1.-THE bear!" repeated Roy in won
derment.
"Oh, / forgot to tell you that my
catch was a bear spoke Dale. Il
came across him curled up in a pit, a
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-12-26

I'm THE path of the victorious
British expedition in Palestine as
it moved northward lay the noun
tain ranges of the Lebanon, and
Aleppo, the taking Of which city gave
complete control of the Syrian end of
the Bagdad railway and of the i'm
portant port of Alexandretta, the best
harbor in the country. From Damas-
Gus the railway to the north %traverscs
the Beka'a, a long, fertile valley be-
tween the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon
ranges. In the middle of this valley
on the slope of tie latter range is
situated the ancient town of Baalbek
celebrated for its wonderful ruins.
Baalbek is a small and prosperous
town, a large part of the population
being Christian, says Country Life,
and it is the seat of the government
of a province of the same name and
a military center. Ya'kubi, an Arab
writer of the ninth century. speaks of
Baalbek as one of the finest towns of
Syria, and other writer's make allusion
TO this beautiful spot and its wonder
full ruins: 1t is spoken of by the geog-
rapher, Nur Kaddasi, as the coolest
place in Syria.
AS the name Baalbek, which is
Semitic in origin, implies, 1t was con
nected from early times with the wor-
ship of the sun, probably meaning the
city of Baal in the Beka'a, by which
the plain is known. The Phoenicians
here erected a great temple to Baal
constructed with colossal stones after
their n This was afterwards
utilized and reconstructed in the Grae-
co-Roman period, when the name Baal-
bek took the Greek form OF Heliopolis.
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performing bear, strayed from some
:n~ountebank master in one Of the )on.

performing bear, strayed from some
:nountebank master in one OF the Dom.
harded villages. Soon as he saw he
lie acted frightened and humble. and
when l patted him uttered u jolly
growl, turned u somersuult and stood
on his head"
You don't mean it,"
Come, I'll show you"
Dale led the way 10 the guardhouse.
Outside of II vas gathered a noisy
group. Half way up the fiagpole vas
II great shaggy monster who cleverly
reversed himself, Slid to earth, turned
a dozen graceful ~somersaults and
walked around Un his hind feet.
"Oh. Wen put him on our vaude-
Vile program as the one leading at
traction tomorrow - voted a dozen OBJ
servers. whats the row. as cheer
ing echoed from the other end of the
encampment. From IA d~ust-covered,
battered automobile two men were
throwing Off packages.
Related mail" announced the
driver. Section A. Throw of the
plumber, men, and you hungry fellows
grab and distribute"
Boxes, packages, tied-up bundles of
newspapers and letters passed from
hand to hand. Roy BARLEY was most
active in the work of sorting out the
heterogeneous mass.
Something for you, Dale" he called,
posing a square box before hurting it.
Il say" inspecting the marks, IN the
box" it's been up and down the whole
battle lIne!"
See if there isn't a letter" directed
Dale, placing the box beside Il tent,
and his eyes were eager and hopeful.
Doubtless the box held remembrances
from some home group, but his soul
was hungry for something more priced.
Nothing for YOU" called out Roy,
running over the letters in his hand,
"Hey! look out for your box"
Roy spoke just in time. Old Bruin,
unnOticed, had been shifting intrusive
ly at the box. Then he had paved it,,
his claws piercing the frail pastebOard
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-12-26
1an Hat for Petite Woman.

1t is not possible for the too ehort
I'M TO "add a cubit TO her stature"
but the thoughtful girl can do much
by the Aid &C high heels and IL: ',a;..
A new winter ehapeau IL specially de-
signed TO Offset ones lack of inches.
and adds distinction besides. II Is an
artful piIing up of black velvet with
a soft. inspiring white wing mounting
effectively up the front--Betty Brown
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-12-26

Earl W, REYNOLDS, a professional
trapper OF clarno. has succeeded in
catching a red fox. the fist Of It's kind
captured in that section OF the state
for a number OF years.
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New Disease.

UGW disease.
"Eye-work is perhaps the biggest
part OF submarine hunting" writes
William G. Shepherd in Everybody's
Magazine, sand 1t has Its evils and pen
alties. Woe to the man on a destroy
er who Is gifted with that strange, I'M
explainable talent of being able to see
by night. There be such. His is al
most a 24-hour-a-day task. And he
finally gets the 'perlscope eye and is
sent ashore to get well. IL he can His
eyes weep tears of pus by day and.
after sleep, his lids are glued togeth-
er with granulation. 1t is a new dis
ease of this mad century.
"sYou keep looking through those
high-powered binoculars like an old
lady reading through her s~pectacies.'
n Of the boys explained to me, 'un
Z: finally they seem TO pe pulling your
eyes out of their sockets"
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New Years at
the Front
BY
SAtDEE ESTELLE BALLOON.

ell, what have you
done for your country
today?"
1t was the eve of
the new year and Dale
Webster, hailed by a
companion r,
threw his %knapsack
within their tent just
behind the heavy ar
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circular sanctuary Of exquisite work
manship; this was once surrounded
by columns, but only traces of these
remain. 1t has been turned into a
Christian church. and was so used tai
within ecent times by the Greeks.
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Melancholy Admission.

McIdHcHcIy NumIssIoH.
'Don't you think you talk entirely
too much. when you have been drink
mgy asked Uncle Bill BottIetop. II
fenr I am very much 1nolin0d~ton
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-17
WONEN jlJB|LANT
OVER SUFFRAGE
VO {

Woman suffrage by federal consti-
tutional amendment won in the house
last night with exactly the required
number of affirmative votes.
While members of the suffrage or
carnations in their seats in the gal
leries waited with eager interest,
the house adopted by a vote OF 274
to 1876 a resolution providing for sub
mission to the states Of the so-called
Susan B. Anthony amendment.
But for the promise Of Speaker
Clark to cast his vote from the chair
for the resolution if needed, the change
of a single vote to the opposition
would have meant defeat. Republ1-
can Leader Mann, who came from a
Baltimore hospital, where he has
been under treatment, and Represen-
tative Sims of Tennessee, just out
of a. sick bed and hardly able to walk
to his seat, brought the vote which
settled the issue.
The house had hardly adjourned
before the suffrage champions began
their fight for favorable action in the
senate. Recent polls there have in
Dictated that the necessary tWo-thlrds
vote could not be mustered, but en-
couraged by the house victory and
counting upon the influence of Presi-
dent Wilson, the suffrag ists hope to
bring the senate into line. They feel
sure at least Of forcing a vote in the
senate before the present session ends.
Advocates of the amendment had
been supremely confident of the re-
suit in the house after President Will
son advised the members who called
upon him the night before to support
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-17
MOnDENS IN
TRAIN WRECK
Locomotive Strikes a Landslide and
a General Shake-Up FoIlows---
Not SO Cold in Washington

The following letter has been re-
ceiyed at this office from A. J. Morden
of Mead, Washington former resi-
dent Of this city:
Have just returned from a trip east.
My wife and left Spokane, Wash, on
December 3, via the o. W. r. & n to
PendeltOn, then took the Southern Pa
cifc through Idaho, passed over the
Blue Mountains at night and the next
day didn't see much but sage brush
and rocks. The mountains looked
pretty rough until we struck Nebras-
ka. We went through Omaha and
Council Bluffs to Ames, then to Des
Moines. We stopped at Des Moines
for twelve days, but didn't like it
there. They burnt soft coal there,
and it was enough to choke a white
man. it also made the streets very
dirty. We then visited at Linden for
three or four days, and went on to
Charles City, where we lived two
years before moving to Washington.
Then going to Woodman and Millville,
Wis, where l lived for 48 years, | saw
my old home and hosts Of old friends
and neighbors. We had a good time,
only the weather was so cold.
We went to Mount Hope and BOscO-
bel and saw a lot of warm-hearted
friends there who seemed glad to see
us, and we were certainly glad to have
the opportunity of seeing them.
We intended to visit Baraboo, but
it was so cold, 20 below. That's too
cold for me, after living in milder
climate. We got a hard cold, felt al
most sick, SO thought we had better
return home. On our return on the
Chicago e Milwaukee 20 miles east OF
/ Spokane, two miles from st. Joe, we
ran into a big landslide. The acct
dent happened about $50 a. M. II
! was just around curve SO the engi
neer didn't see it until he was right
on it. About eight feet of dirt and
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-17
WHO WILL TURN
OFF THE SP|GOT?

An unusual condition is said to pre-
vail in this city. There is wall and
a hole in the wall. A tube is said to
extend to somewhere" on the other
side. Like the wonderful clock at ST.
Louis (when a visitor attempted to
wind found that liquid refreshment
came from the works., this wall has
an arrangement which supplies liquid
very much sought for in dry territory.
1t looks as if a policeman, alderman
or federal official might throw bomb
into this mysterious arrangement. 1t
is said that only certain customers
know the combination and that when
an enemy appears the whole thing
collapses. A parent remarked the 9th
er day that he preferred to have his
son join the navy than to have any
more first-hand knowledge Of this de-
vice. Turn off the spigot, Mr.. Proprie-
tor, or the COLLINS may get you.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-17

been in training are gone others will
AXE their places in the camp, and the
number will probably be increased
from $4,000, the number there now,
to $4,000 or 10000. There are about
5000 fathers, mothers, sisters, broth
ers, sweethearts and other strangers
in Waco all the time. There are SO
many people it is often hard to find
good accommodations At a first-class
restaurant one has often to wait two
hours before being served. Waco has
population of something like 100000;
the camp is northwest of the city. Jit-
neys charge two bits twenty-five
cents) to ride out and the camp covers
tract five miles long and one and
one-half miles wide. Living is high.
A warm room with a bath brings $3.50
per day and not many places have
even hot air or hot water bottles.
When the cold arrived at Waco the
travellers decided to hurry home,
where they knew there was warm
house and home accommodations.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-17
Arrest German
Navy Man As Spy

up the magazine at that point and was
fired on by the guard.
He got away, was not identified,
and appeared as usual the next morn
ing to perform his duties as time
checker.
He was arrested by an agent Of
the naval intelligence bureau who has
followed him for more than three
weeks.
Armed With Dagger
The government agent found the
man checking material near the
magazine. He told him he had met
him at social function in Baltimore
and the lieutenant spoke pleasantly
The American then showed a gun iH
his face and compelled him to take
off his overcoat. In the inside over
coat pocket of the German he found q.
dagger.
In his apartments the government
agents found letters from Boy-Ed and
Won Bernstorff, including a receipt for
$4,000 from the latter. There was
also long list of German names and
printed posters intended to create pro-
German sentiment in America, and 81
German leutenant's uniform.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-17

rocks were on the track He said that
he was running about 35 or 40 miles
an hour. The engine and tender
jumped the track. He pulled the emery
ency brake and brought the train to a
dead stop. 1t gave us all a great
shaking, up broke lamp shades and
looking glasses and piled things UP
in the dining and baggage cars, but no
one was very badly hurt. 1t was al
most a miracle. They wired for an.
other passenger train to take the crew
to Spokane Then we all transferred
on the st. Joe river.
We came to ST. Maries mountain
where there were two big lumber mills
all under water. Large piles of lum-
Der had tipped over, making loss of
millions of dollars.
We arrived home at Spokane seven
hours late, and everyone and every
thing o. K. The weather here is fine.
No snow and the ground isn't frozen
yet. The apples are on the trees as
firm as ever It is quite change to
get back from % degrees below zero
to IS above freezing.
Best regards and happy New Year
to the News force and our friends in
and around Baraboo.
A. J. MORDEN.
Mead, Wash.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-17
MOTHER! DON'T TAKE
CHANGES IF CHILO'S
TONGUE Is COATED
If cross, feverish, sick, bilious, clean
little liver and
bowels

A laxative today saves a sick child
tomorrow. Children simply Will not
take the time from play to empty their
bowels, which become clogged up with
waste, liver gets sluggish, stomach
sour
Look at the tongue, Mother! If
coated, or your child is listless, cross,
feverish, breath bad, restless, doesn't
eat heartily, full of cold or has sore
throat or any other children's ailment,
give a teaspoonful of California Syrup
of Figs" then don't worry, because
it is perfectly harmless, and in a few
hours all this constipation poison, sour
bile and fermenting waste will gently
move out of the bowels, and you have
A we'll, playful child again. A thor
ough inside cleansing" is oftimes all
hat is necessary. 1t should be the
first treatment given in any sickness
Beware of counterfeit syrups. ASK
)ur druggist for bottle of California
syrup of Figs" which has full direc
ions for babies, children of all ages
ind for grown-ups plainly printed or
he bottle. Look carefully and see
hat it is made by the California Fis
syrup Company"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-17
Lieutenant on United States Pay
Roll; Tried to Blow Up Powder
Magazine

What is considered the most impor'
tant spy arrest since the war with
Germany began was made at the avia'
ton field at Hampton, Va, few days
ago by government agents. A lieu
tenant in the German navy was TAX
en- into custody.
The German had been wearing the
Uniform of an officer of the American
army and had attended several So
cial functions which were also attend
ed by other Germans accused of being
connected with propaganda work.
He secured a position as time check
er with the government contractor
engaged on cantonment work.
Tried to Explode Magazine
On January 1 he attempted to blow
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-17
FOOD WlST Nc
TO Be CRIME
If BILL PASSES

Legislation to make observance of
wheatless and meatless days compul-
sorry throughout the United States will
be taken up by congress this week.
Food Administrator Hoover went to
the capitol to confer with Senator
Pomerene Of Ohio, member of the
committee on agriculture, and Repre-
sentative Lever Of South Carolina,
chairman of the corresponding COM
mittee in the house.
They at once began preparing bill
directed at hotels and restaurants
which have not voluntarily observed
wheatless and meatless days, many
operated by pro-German sympathizers.
The bill will bring every home I'M
der food restrictions, forcing observ-
ance of wheatless and meatless days.
It will strike at individual hOrding and
the extravaganza use of food.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-17

it. They were so confident that the
close vote was received with amaze
ment
When the first roll call was finished
an unofficial count put the result in
doubt, and before the speaker could
make an announcement, there was a
demand for a recapitulation. Then
the name Of each member and the
way he was recorded was read.
Only One Wisconsin Vote Against
Wisconsin congressman voted 8 to
1 for the amendment, with Congress
men Weight and Cary absent. The
Badger vote was as follows:
For Amendment
Henry Allen Cooper
John NJ Nelson
James H. Davidson
John J. Esch
Edward E. Browne.
David G. Gleason
James A. Frear
Irvine L. LenrOOt.
Against Amendment
William H. Stafford.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-17

Bassett-BrandenbUrq

Miss Catherine Sarles Brandenburg
and Mr.. Norman Douglas Bassett were
married Monday evening at the home
of the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
o. D. Brandenburg, % Langdon street,
Madison. The ceremony was perform
ed at half-after eight o'clock by Rev.
James Craik Morris of Grace Episco-
pal church, in the drawing room, the
young people standing before an altar
of great cathedral candles in white
candIesticks among palms and aspara-
gus ferns with Easter lilies in high
white standards.
While the Lohengrin wedding march
was played the bridal party descended
the long straight stairs, turned into
the drawing room and to the altar.
Little Catherine Brandenburg, five
year-old niece of the bride, led as
flower girl, dressed in white net and
carrying an old-fashioned bouquet OF
sweetheart roses. Miss Sara Verify of
Middletown, Ohio, maid of honor, and
school-day intimate of the bride in
New York, wore white tulle and car.
ried Ophelia roses, while Mrs. Beula
Heddles Kemp of Upton, Ind, herself
a bride of but six weeks, as matron OF
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-17

honor, had gown of white satin and
net and carried Killarney roses. The:
bride was charming in gown of white
satin and silver with a court train
lined with silver cloth and tulle veil
caught with orange blossoms. Her
bouquet was of Easter lilies.
Mrs o. D. Brandenburg wore white
brocaded satin with silver lace
The groom's brother, Mr.. j. B. Bias
sett of Chicago, acted as best man, and
Mr.. Frederick Sarles Brandenburg,
brother of the bride, her cousins, Har~
old G.. Simpson and John Douglas;
Simpson of Minneapolis and Charles
R. Carpenter, an Alpha Delta PHI
brother of the groom, were the usherS
The decorations for home we'd
ding were unusually elaborate. On the
mantle of the drawing room at the
side were great white baskets filed
with Easter lilies and gold and crystal
candlesticks with white candles. Walls.
were hung with southern smilaX, lights
with asparagus ferns, while American
beauties were in the library and Ophel-
ia roses on the table in great white
standards. Crystal candlesticks con-
tanning white candles and Boston ferns
were all about. The staircase was en-
twined with southern smilax, among
which were high white candles and.
Easter lilies.
Among the guests were Mr.. and
Mrs. w. A. wager of Chicago, Judge
and Mrs. d. F. Simpson, Mr.. w. l..
Bassett, Mr.. and Mrs Harold G. Simp-
son of Minneapolis, MIR. and Mrs.
George M. Verify and Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles r. Hook, who came from Mid
dleton, Ohio, and were on the road
siXty-five hours, mostly at Richmond.
Ind, thirty miles from home, where
the great snowstOrm overlook them.
More than hundred tOwnsfolk also
witnessed the ceremony.
Mr. and Mrs. Bassett will reside at
Rogers Park, Chicago suburb, until
Mr.. Bassett is called into the army bal
loon service, first in a training camp
at Omaha, then in Europe, where duty
calls. He is an alumnus of the Univer-
s1ty of Wisconsin and is now connect
ed with the Chicago Journal.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-17
HEAD ANO N0STRILS
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