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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31
RUFFLES ONES BACK

We met a real pessimist the other
day. He was nearly immersed in
black waters and evidently was able
neither to float nor swim. He was a
benighted, poor soul, and not a ray
of sunshine was penetrating his sur
roundings. He did not care picavune
for the opinion expressed by Profess
sor Jastrow on the present state of
the German mind; he believed the rail
roads had been abused, and doubted
if government control would amount
to ANYTHING; the recent coal conserva-
ton edict was a cross to his mental
anatomy; and he doubted if the. sun
would really shine warm again. He
did not care if black were white;
wished the taxes were lower, and was
in dogmatic spirit on things in which
he slightly believed. We told him he
should try living in Vienna at the
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31
THE SENATORSHIP

Concerning the senatOrship situation
the Madison Democrat sets up the
keystone of the situf zion when it
says: There is much discussion in re-
gard to the selection of United States
senator, to the steps that ought to he
taken to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Senator Husting. The solu-
tion of this question ought not to give
rise to any trouble. The consensus Of
opinion of the best men in all parties
seems to be that we need and must
have, man who is, above all things
an American, a man who has brain
enough to grasp the great issues now
at stake, patriotism enough to stand
by the government, and courage
enough to fight the war through to q
successful issue.
The Democrat is eminently right
no more Kaiser sympathizers should
be sent to Washington.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31
CABLE ON SAVING

The thought that / cannot put away
is that whatever I might save now
and fail to save now may be a hum
dred times the worst waste [ shall
ever have committed, though l have,
like most Americans, many a past
wasteful habit to regret.
It will be far the worst because not
to save now is to throw away the CO.
operation of millions Of others; be-
cause not to save now will tend to
prolong the war; because not to save
now will multiply the wars privations,
lengthen it's death-rol and the vast
procession of it's manned men and will
make saving more difficult and less Of
fective by and by when we shall be
compelled to save through cruel con-
ditions from which saving now might
have saved us.-George w. Cable for
the Vigilantes.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31
" Who VIII Win
This Battle ,"

Your kidneys are the filters of the
body. If they become inactive and fail
to eliminate the waste matter, they are
apt to throw the whole mechanism
of the body out of order, thus toxic
poisons can accumulate in the system
and be as deadly as snake venom.
Besides causing the minor ailments
of rheumatism, sciatica, lumbago and
backache, neglect of the kidneys is apt
to develop into more serious diseases,
such as diabetes or stone in the bladder.
Rid the body of toxic poisons-clean
the bladder and kidneys and cure the
twinges of rheumatism with Anuric
and you win the battle of life.
Anuric was first discovered by DR..
Pierce, and has benefited thousands of
sufferers as we'll as appeased and elimi-
mated the ravages of the more serious
kidney diseases. Now procurable for
80 cents at any good drug store, or
send DIR. V. NJ. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y,
10 cents for trial package.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31
Is ANYONE OLD IN NEW YORK :?

In Bruce Barton's novel, "The Max
ing of George ,Groton," which is run
ming in the February, American Mag
azine, the author says:
mo one is old in New York. They
drain in every year from all parts of
the country-millions of men, young
and vibrant. They stay and work,
and grow into middle age; and then
suddenly they vanish One may walk
for blocks on Fifth avenue or Broad
way and hardly see anyone over fifty.
Where do they go to? No one seems
ever to die; no funerals clog the traf
fic. There are plenty of funerals, of
course, but you don't notice them as
you do in a little town. I have wan
dered for hours in the big woods, Won
dering where the birds go to when
they die; and never yet have l run
across the body of dead bird. What
becomes of the old birds? What be
comes of old New Workers? These
twin mysteries to me- l cannot I'M
ravel them"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31
ENGLISH SHIPS ARE
SUNK BY SUBS: 718
LIVES IS THE TOLL

BY the sinking of two steamships
by the enemy about three weeks ago,
seven hundred and eighteen lives were
lost, it was announced officially yes
terday in London.
The announcement was made in the
house of commons, by Thomas Mac
Namara, financial secretary of the ad-
miralty.
Mr.. MacNamaras announcement
gave the first news received in Lon
don of any heavy loss Of life in recent
sinkings in the Mediterranean. A dis
patch from Toxic on January showed
that an attempt had been made by
hostile submarines to attack British
transports conveyed by Japanese war
ships in the Mediterranean on Decem-
Der 80. The Japanese admiralty an
nouncement stated the submarines
were repulsed and the warships were
not damaged.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31
THE BRIGHTEST STAR
ravel them.

Sirius, which astronomers say is the
brightest star, is estimated to be in
round numbers, seventy billion miles
distant-that is seventy followed by
nine nOughts, says an exchange. 1t is
called a fixed star, but it moves about
an inch a century. Yet that move
ment, so microscopical as seen from
the earth, to be visible at all must
represent a movement or speed Of L.
100000 miles day.
If the sky is clear look for Sirius to-
night and think that the light by which
you see it left the star nearly thirty
years ago, yet light travels 10000
miles a second, and takes less than
eight minutes to pass from sun to
earth.
Compared with Sirius the sun is q
mere flicker, a candle to an arc light.
If the two were to exchange places in
the universe the sun would almost pop
out Of sight altogether, being barely
visible to the naked eye, star of the
sixth magnitude. But this earth and
all it's boasted power and wealth would
be shriveled up just like bit of tow
in blast furnace, for Sirius, accord
ing to astronomical calculations, would
fill all the space represented by the
orbit of the earth, being equal to four
hundred suns.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31
SECRETARY BAKERS DEFENSE
into dogma

Where Mr.. Baker utterly fails is
that he mas no project, no settled, def
mite, and complete plan, and he does
not know it. He has no organization
worthy Of the name, and he does not
know it. He knows what the army
is on paper; he has no appreciation
of what it is in fact He cites an in
crease in officers from 1884 to 11O,856,
yet he should know that over so per
cent of the increase are officers only
in name and pay
That much has been done in a year
no one denies. He has had about $10,-
0O0,000,0O0 to spend. If no one had
spent it or contracted to spend it, just
as certainly others would have got It
or had contracts to get it. But that is
not the cruX of the situation. 1t is
not what has been done, but what
could have been done, what was prom
ised and what should have been deliv-
cred, but was not done.
The New Republic is certainly not
hostile to this administration nor to
any member of it. But it's Washing.
ton representative says: "The senate,
if it does not wish to be trivial, if it
wishes to be vital. has to say: Mr..
Baker, resign or reform, resign or re-
organize Duluth News-Tribune.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31
BE PROUD OF YOUR BODY

The building of a sound body and
vigorous health will help to give you
a more normal mental attitude. A
normal physical condition usually
means a normal mind, and this means
an instructive aversion to anything
abnormal. AS rule, anything that
NAV be called a bad habit is a prac-
tice of something that is abnormal.
Not only is it essential to cultivate
pride in your body, but to cultivate
pride in other respects. Perhaps you
will better understand what l mean If
I say seIf-respect, for that is what
pride means in it's best sense. In do
ing this it will help you to cultivate
both cleanliness and neatness of
dress. The old saying that "cleanli-
ness is next to godliness" has a sound,
psychological basis. Just as soon as
you get cleaned up both in respect to
your person and your attire you feel
an increased sense Of respect for
yourself From "How to Break That
Bad Habit" by Hugo Masters in Janu-
airy Physical Culture.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31
WORTH CONSIDERING

In it's statement the other day the
First National bank of BarabOO report
ed the deposits of the institution had
increased $4,000 during the past year,
Notwithstanding 100000 had been
subscribed for liberty bonds. Practic-
ally every merchant about town reports
2 profitable year, more money i'll the
bank than usual. When the town went
dry the first day OF last July there
were a few individuals who thought
that Baraboo had certainly gone to the
bow-wows. Ask the business men
what they think about it. More than
one has said so that it has reached the
ears of our typewriter that they are
getting cash from fathers now where
they extended credit before. Credit
means losses. The idea that booze is
required to make business is all bosh.
Booze is a bank account wrecker, a
business bankrupter and a life de-
stroyer. There are many business
men who do not want J. B. to come
back and hope they have said for all
time, Goodbye, John"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31

Enthusiasm once cold can never
be warmed over into anything better
than cant and phrases. When once
the inspiration that filled them with
benefcient power has ebbed away,
they retain only that semblance Of
meaning which enables them to sup
plant reason in hasty minds
You may make everything else out
Of the passions of men except a po-
!itical system that will work and there
is nothing so pitilessly and uncon-
sciously cruel as sincerity formulated
into dogma
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31
GETTING ON THE RIGHT SIDE

When a great test comes people
should get on the right side. Many
were on the wrong side during the
Civil War, both north and south. Those
in the north, many of them, were never
able to quite adjust their lives to the
spirit that pervaded the union after
ward, and that situation should be a
lesson to be taken to heart by all kali
serists, pacifsts, Instructors and OBJ
jectors in the great war in which this
country is now engaged, 1t is serious
to make the mistake Of being mis-
guided by prejudice, narrow-minded-
ness or seIf-interest. To do so is fatal.
There may be a few cOngenial spirits
noW, but when the war is over, when
Germany has lost the fight, individuals
will be like the German-American
banks-will want to change their
names. A bank can get on the right
side easier than an individual-espe-
eially one that is in the public eye.
Those who have not done so should
manifest their loyalty, should taboo
the kaiser, should get on the right side.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31
NOW THE PACKERS AND
TANNERS
hundred suns

A powerful indictment has been
brought against packers and tanners
by the federal trade commission which
declares that the supply Of hides in
America is enormous, that it has in
creased millions of pounds, and that,
despite this liberal quantity of raw
materials, the price of leather goods
has been soaring. Tanning companies
making two to five times as much as
in 1916 are cited as instances Of great
and unwarranted profits. Figures are
also given by the commission to show
that where farmers have been paid
only II per cent more for their stock,
the price Of hides, as fixed by packers,
has increased 35 per cent
The trade commission virtually
charges the packers and tanners with
boarding hides. While the price or
leather climbs higher and higher, large
lots of hides are kept out of the chan
nels of manufacturing, apparently to
prevent breaks in values.
The American people are entitled to
know why the cost of shoes has dou
bled and tripled. The advance is more
marked than in almost any other line.
If there has been profteering, the gov
eminent should find it out and stop it.
Bringing the price down to fair level
of profits, one consistent with war con-
ditions of doing business, may save the
people enormous sums of money.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31
SOCIALISM'S ROLE

perhaps the most astounding thing
in connection with the worlds war is
the role that Socialism has played in
favor of autocracy and in opposition
to democracy, freedom and the rights
of man." says The Boston Post.
I'm Russia it has brought about the
collapse of the contest against the
grim and INSCRIPTIONS absOlutism Of
Germany. In Italy it has. helped in
the great defeat of the liberal Italian
government by the despotic Teutons.
In France it has done everything in
it's power to weaken the fight against
the Hun. In America it is playing its
game for the kaiser as against the
United States of America. And in
Germany itself it has supported the
war from the beginning and proved
false to it's every profession of few
years ago. Socialism has a moral
creed that is admirable in many ways.
Why must it in practice cleave to the
enemies of liberty and do what.it can
to advance a bullying which
means no real peace at all?"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31
GERMANS PLANNING RETREAT ?

Reports from Belgium are to the
effect that the Germans, not satisfied
with the heavy taxes laid on the in
habitants of that unhappy country and
regularly collected under pretense of
meeting the natural expenses of any
administration, are now Systematically
completing the process of removing to
Germany portable property of every
kind" SAYS The New York Times. THE
ascribed purpose of the robberies is
the utter ruin Of the Belgians in order
that for many year after the war they
may not be industrial competitors OF
theri present masters. The theory is
entirely plausible, if any be needed be-
yond that of a characteristic desire On
the part of the Germans to take from
non Germans whatever they have that
Germans want But the stripping or
Belgium may have another significance
it may mean that the Germans think
or fear that at no remote date they
may withdraw from that country under
military compulsion, and that they are
determined, as much as they can, to
deprive their present enemies OF adj
vantages that might be derived FROM
chance of more or less speedy restora-
ton to prosperity. They may be doing,
that is, exactly what they did in France
before withdrawing TO the so-caGed
Hindenburg line-creating desert r
the never-to-be-forgiven foe to occupy
after themselves. The utter ruin OF
Belgium is hardly compatible with an
intention to remain in it permanently,
or even long"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31
CONCEPTIONS OF STATE

The mere physical defeat of Ger
many would fail to accomplish the
aim with which America entered the
war, for we are fighting not only to
defend democracy, but to spread it..
Our object is to promote those rela-
tions between the nations which will
hasten the federation of the world,
and thus prevent a reversion to bar
barism. This will only be done when
we have accepted Germany's chal-
Ienge and fight the battle on her own
chosen field, according to William
English Walling Of the national com
mittee of public information. Our
task is to demonstrate the superior
ity Of democracy to autOcracy in the
very spheres where aut0cracy has
achieved it's notable successful war,
in industrial technique and in handling
racial and other minorities. AS Mr..
Walling points out, Germany has de-
veloped industrial as we'll as mill
tary efficiency to a high degree. But
because it is an autocratic state, Ger
many lacks what every democratic
state possesses, the ability to give the
Individual fullness of opportunity and
initiative. Owing to it's organization
as an autocracy Germany cannot de-
veIop individual initiative, for it's very
existence requires that it dea4 With
it's people as pawns who exist simply
to further the ends of the state. In
a democracy, however, the state exists
to meet the need of the people, and to
serve their interests.
Starting with these two great al
vantages, it remains for us to give a
practical demonstration of democra-
cy's ability, when properly organized,
to excel the autocratic state all along
the line. In America it is our state,
not the governments and we are fight
ing to show, not only only that it can
do everything that Germany has done,
but it can succeed where Germany
has failed. Only in this way, Mr.. Wal
ling says, can we administer to the
enemies Of democracy lasting phys
ical, mental and moral defeat.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31
EIGHT HOUR SHIFT
ADDS TO RAIL COST
GoethaIs Commission Notes Ma
terial Increase in Operating Ex-
pense---Pay Check Often Less

Abnormal traffic conditions during
the first nine months Of 1917 have
made it impossible for the eight-hour
commission at Washington, appointed
to make a study Of the effects Of the
eight-hour day on the railroads under
the Adamson law, to make any defiin-
it's recommendations Major General
Goethals, the chairman, so declared in
a report submitted on Wednesday to
congress.
r An increase in operating expenses
has been noted and the pay check is
often less.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31
AMERICAN AND GERMAN
SPIRIT

German submarines have repeatedly
fred on small boats loaded with pas
sengers and crews of torpedoed mer-
shant vessels. German submarines
have deliberately submerged while
sailors, victims of the torpedoed ships,
were clinging to the sides and pleading
for their lives. Submarine command
ers have even jeered at their helpless,
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31

Hoover announces a special objec-
ton to doughnuts, because they soak
up fat in cooking Maybe he'll kindly
tell us what life's going to be without
dOughnuts.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31

Cold weather must encourage man
Rfacturers of artificial ice to raise the
price next summer. Next to a mild
winter, nothing so encourages them
as a severe one.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31
e.
HUMAN MIND AND WAR

The president sees, as every think
er has always seen, the fallacy of be
ing prepared for war in order to avoid
war. 1t may be wise in the midst Of
other peoples preparations to be pre-
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31

well at night now, which | couldn't do
before. / certainly advise anyone suffer-
ing from kidney disorders to use Anurlc.'
Mas. L. GILFILLAN, l64 K. Congress %.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31


cessity, but it would be wiser still
if everybody were unprepared, and if,
in consequence, the country conscious
of the greatest fighting force were not
perpetually under the temptation to
use that force. The German army has
been an organization which has been
brandished indefinitely with tut COM
brandished indefinitely without COM
ing in collision with another army or
armies If neither the German army
nor any national fighting force, other
than a. unit of an international police
force, had existed, the war of 1914
would never have been declared. Brt
it has to be remembered by those who
will make the peace at the end of the
present war that the simple reduction
of ornaments will not prevent war.
War is a mental condition of which
armies and navies are but the external
lied manifestations. AS long as man
has mind to fight, he will find means
of fighting. And this will be true,
whether the war be an international
war with cannon or an international
war of traits, or whether it be purely
a national war in which the arms are
the lockout or the strike. 1t is the
autocratic tendency of the human mind
which causes a civil conflict equally
with a military and that autocratic
tendency may be displayed just as
viciously, though in another form, in
intolerance in religion Or persecution
in medicine, as in lust for markets
and in an appetite for territory.-Chris-
tian Science Monitor.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Thursday, January 81, 1918

Charles Schwab forgot he owed 81
100000. Right careless Of Charley.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31

y ca fS. MY TACK
ached terribly, side
panied, and l had
frequent passage.
I let it run on until
Just recently, when
/ read of Doctor
Pierce's Anuric. |
have taken the
Anuric but a short
time, but am now
feeling fine. My
side and back have
stopped paining,
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31
drowning victims.

Recently, it is officially announced,
the American destroyers Tanning and
Nicholson captured a German .suhma-
rine. All the crew rushed on deck
and held up their hands. The subma-
rine sank and they were thrown into
the sea. The American cailors began
to rescue them. One man was in
such condition that he could not
even hold the line thrown him. A
coxswain and the chief pharmacists
mate jumped overheard after him and
secured a line under his arms. And
after all the crew had been rescued,
they were given hot coffee and sand
witches, and many of the crew of the
American destroyer gave up their
warm coats and heavy slothing for the
comfort of the Germans.
Merciless brutality on the one side,
chivalry and generosity on the other!
There is a sermon in a mere recital
of the facts. Comment is superfuous!
Milwaukee Journal.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31

A letter will go just as far for three
cents as for four.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31

We will accept a peace made in
Germany"-bu not by Germans.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31

present time and possibly he would
then be able to find the warm side of
a cake of ice He ruff1ed ones back.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31

40 APPEflTsTE, no ambition.
1Vno strength, are signs that eyour
bleod needs Purifying; that you surely
aeed HOODS 3AnSAPAR' Ia
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31

ST. PAUL, MIMI had been troubled
with disordered kidneys for about two
The Cordova daily times., 1918-03-18
NOTICE

There will be meeting at the resi-. dence of Mrs. Alvah Flames on Mon day afternoon at 2:3O o'clock of the Star of the East Auxiliary of the Red Cross. Everybody welcome. Bring your knitting.
 MRS. SOPHIA SCOTT, Sec.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-03-18
WOOL GROWERS MEET
 ID DISCUSS SITUATION

ALBUQUERQUE, N. M, March IS. The New Mexico Wool Growers As. sociation opened it's annual conven- tion here today with a discussion of the problems of the industry brought about through the war. Among the questions before the convention, which will last two days, are the fixing of prices for wool, restriction of the con- sumption of lamb, eradication of pred atory animals and rodents, contract ing wool in advance of shearing, des- ignation of trails, longer term per mits in the national forests and other matters of importance to sheep men.
 Among the speakers are s. E. Piper, of the United States bureau of Bi- ological survey, Governor w. E. Lind sey and Dr. Ad Grille, president of the state agricultural college.