Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-04-24

on time or several hours late. This
may never come to pass, but here's
hoping.-Norwalk Star.
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do you remember the line Like
! that above?'" is the question which
Oliver Wendell Holmes is said to have
asked his classmate, Samuel F. Smith,
about his poem America" DR..
Holmes went on: What does the
word that refer to?" Smith replied,
"To rapture" No doubt other read
ers of the hymn have been puzzled by
the line. The stanza in full is as
follows:
MY native country, thee,
Land of the noble Free
Thy name 1 love;
/ love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and tempted hills;
My heart with rapture thrills
Like that above"
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One often hears or the glacial epoch
or ice age at Baraboo and vicinity,
since the terminal moraine lies to the
west and south Of the city. Strictly
speaking it is not correct to say "the
glacial epoch" or "the ice age for it
is now established beyond all reason
able doubt that this planet has expert
enced not one but great many
glacial periods. Evidence has been
found which proves that the latest or
Pleistocene glacial epoch has several
important subdivisions, and that all of
the present continents have experience
ed glacial epochs at different ages.
Great ice sheets were formed at diff
ferent periods back to the Proterospic
age; that is the age of the Oldest
known sedimentary rocks, great
many million years ago.
One of the most recent discoveries
of the old glacial deposits was made
by Prof. w. w. Atwood of the United
States geological survey, near Ridg-
way, in southwestern Colorado. These
deposits were found beneath tertiary
lavas of the San Juan mountains, and
They have, it is believed, been formed
in early Eocene times. A long time
before the last ice sheet advanced over
the Baraboo region. Prot. Atwood,
with Prof. r. D. Salisbury, worked
for some time in the BaraboO region,
the result of their investigation being
an interesting volume.
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Why is it we wish we were some
one lese we are not?
When a man has a good thing why
does he not know enough to keep il?
Why do some men and women not
open the door when opportunity
knocks?
What would happen if mice were as
big as elephants, retaining their agility
and fecundity?
What incredible magic leads a child
to talk while it's playmate's puppy re-
mains dumb.
Why does man get frigid look
if he tells you you are a rare soul
and loud applause is given when he
speaks the same thing in public
ball?
81 s. !"
The Pathfinder of Washington, d.
c., for years has been showing UP the
ground hog, along with other impos-
tiers. The editor says: 1--WE have prov
ed, as the years have gone by, that
the grounding is wrong oftener than
he is right. This year on grounding
day-Feb. 2-he saw his shadow and
hence, according to him, we were to
have six weeks more of winter. The
six weeks elapsed WITHOUT any winter
weather Undertaking. at all Score
one more knockout against Mr.. Z.
Several readers call attention to the
fact that they have heard Feb. IA
spoken of as the true grounding day,
and some of them declare that the
grounding or woodchuck really comes
out of his hole on that day, takes
look around and then goes back into
his hole for six weeks if the sun is
shining and he sees his shadow. we
can find nothing to warrant Feb. ii
as grounding day, as all the books
give Feb. 2. Feb. 2 is Candlemas day
which was observed even by the
ancient Romans, who burned candles
to the goddess Februa, the mother OF
Mars, to appease her. Feb. ii IS 81
Valentines day. The effect evidently
is to make grounding day coincide
with some recognized feast day
either Feb. or Feb. Ia. 1t is quite
often the case that two or more holi-
days will be merged, in the EFFORT 10
reduce their number. 1t doesn't really
matter what day is set aside Tor the
grounding to do his stunt on, for ne
is a fraud at best. 1t stands to reason
that if grounding day was sunny the
grounding would stay out, instead OF
going back into his hole. We re1use
to put any faith in a weather prophet
who would show no more sense IMAM
TO do just the opposite of what wouia
be reasonable: and the weather re-