Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-17


ration TO write many of her earlier
girlhood poems, one of which. brought
her public recognition. For several
months, in 1886, there ragged a curl
Gus cor GrOversy in the press of the
: United States relative to the author
ship of the poem, Solitude, which Miss
Wheeler (now Mrs Wilcox contrib
uted to The New York Sun in 1888
| Col. John A. Joyce claimed to have
written it and to have scratched the
words with a diamond on the window
! pane Of hotel in Washington. In a
book which he published in 1866, he
included it as his own. Miss Wheeler
gave abundant proof that she was it's
creator. It includes the following we'll
known lines:
, Laugh, ard the world laughs with
: you;
Weep and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must bor-
/ row its mirth,
But has trouble enough of it's own.
: Miss Wheeler was educated at the
married Robert M. Wilcox. Her home
is now at Short Beach, Conn. Among
her best known books are: Poems of
Sentiment, Poems of Progress and
New Thought, Sailing Sunny Seas,
Woman of the World, and others.
| According to a letter from DR.. A.
B. Stout, a former member Of the
Baraboo high school faculty, he con-
tinues his Investigations at the New
York Botanical gardens. He has made
trips along the coast in New Jersey,
Erie, Pa; Seneca river, New York,
Pittsburgh and Washington. At Erie
he saw Perry's battleship and says it
looks like sailboat armed with toy
cannon. His visit in Washington was
very interesting He tells Of new
army hospital of 100 buildings erected
near his home and says that some of
his friends who have been in bleeding
France predict the war will last ten
years. In Washington he found that
preparations were being made for no
/ less than five years. He does not
! expect to visit Wisconsin next sum-
! mer, and reports the family, wife and
| two children, in fine health. He also
| says, Someone has written that Bar
aboo is dry! I am glad for the sake
of everyone and especially for the
young folks. 1t ought to be one of
the best places on earth now. 1t
looks as though temperance is coming
everywhere. Perhaps it will be forced
on New York city. 1t went into eff
feet at Washington few days before
my visit; everyone seemed to be salts
fed
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! DR.. Stout is the author Of a number
of new pamphlets, with titles given
below, copies of which have been re-
ceived here:
Notes Regarding Variability Of the
Rose Mallows."
"Observations on Tulips"
Fertility in Cichorium Intybus"
"Self- and Cross-P ollinations in
Cichorium Intybus with Reference to
Sterility."
He says he has several contributions
in mind, one finished and ready for
the printer. He has planned to write
two books during the present year,
one a Botany Reader and one gen
eral presentation of the question of
fertilization in plants. The reader, as
contemplated, will be a series of es-
says or lectures on the principal top
les or phases of botanical science,
treated so the high school pupil or
the general reader can grasp the es-
sentials. Dr. Stout intends to make
it book of human interest-cOrrect
our present knowledge into the his
tOrical development involved and give
to the treatment a spirit of inquiry.
Huxley emphasized that science was
not infallible, and DR.. Stout says that
few scientific books give the stimulus
to build further The typical text
book idea Of settling all points prevails
too fully. A book man has been after
him to reduce his ideas to print.
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One often hears harping against
England. Here are a few words from
Hall Game, the well known author, an
Englishman. which every American
should read:
I love America and the Americans.
| love America because it is big, and
because it's bigness is constantly i'm
pressing the imagination and stimu-
lating the heart. I love its people
because they are free with freedom
which the rest of the world takes as
by stealth, and they claim openly as
their right l love them because they
are the most Industrious, earnest, act
i've and ingenious people on the earth;
because they are the most moral. reli-
gious, and above all. the most sober
people in the world: because. in suite
of all shallow judgments of superficial
observers. they are the most child-like
in their national character, the easiest
to move to laughter. the readiest to
ha +orobnd RI tears the most aDSO-