Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-01


the river to the west was very much
as nature had made it. Since sthen
many fine homes have been erected in
the addition.
Reading about the peace proceedings
at Paris reminds one of planning for
the Madison Prairie du Sac-Portage
electric road
From present indications, it will be
long time before the former kaiser
and crown prince will be on intimate
terms with the home folks.
: 4 X
Wonder If the allies will serve a
menu with crow meat when the Ger.
man delegates visit Versailles.
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Edwin A Romelfanger has brought
a good story from France He says
while wounded soldier, with badly
wounded arm, was being carried from
the field, shell burst near. The
stretcher bearers were too slow for
the injured one, he gave jump, and
ran for thu rear in hot haste The
boys are still laughing at the remark
able speed he made, wounded arm and
all.
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n G. Abbott, Eureka Springs, Ark,
says:
4 am sorry to hear of friends Sim
monds' death, for although a stranger
to me, appreciated his love of nature
as exhibited in lbs contributions to
Ollapodrida. and will miss his articles
much
A chinese woman, Miss Tcheng, is
J. en- route to Paris to report the peace
conference for the associated press OF
Selma. Miss Tcheng, who is well
known in her own country, is the first
Chinese lawyer, and she holds a
certificate from the University OF
5 Paris giving her right to pratice law
in the French courts.
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The woman's party organized in
Argentina by Sonora Julieta Lanteri
de RenshaW has published it's plat
form, demanding equality with men
in national and provincial govern
mental offices as well as voting. Argen.
tine women are enrolling in the party
| under the slogan Universal Suffrage
4 for Women
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: | had a dream the other night:
: | dreamed that the umbrella
/ loaned away back in the fall
To a careless sort OF fellah,
/ Had been returned by him at last
To save unpleasant scandal
Re covered neatly, and my name
! Carved quantity in the handle
Cartoons Magazine.
s. - y
2 A friend who regards these verses
: as both "clever and good sends t.
| this department, ascribing them simp
9 ly to an Etonian:"
! IF the good were only clever,
And the clever were only good,
The world would be better than ever
We thought it possibly could.
But, oh! it is seldom or never
!, That things happen just as they
should;
The good are SO harsh to The clever
The clever so rude to the good!
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A Southern subscriber to an eastern
magazine records the following Incl
! dent as illustrating the fact that 1--WE
are big enough and broad enough t.
know the real meaning of the wore
'brother,:" "To prevent the burial IL
the potters' field of an old Union sol
der who recently died in our town
the Daughters of the Confederacy OF
l fered his body resting place in the
| Confederate Cemetery and buried hin
! with Confederate honors. The Bsue
and the Gray was read at The grave
: and an emblem of crossed palms tied
with the Red and White of the South
ern Confederacy rested on the mound
;. under waving American flag placed
there by Southern daughters"
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In Recollection of California Pic
neer'' Carlisle S. Abbott, at the age oil
: eighty eight, tells of crossing the
Great American Desert in 40. His
party's horses all succumbed to the
: heat and the canteens were empty
: One man, who had been notable fol
his profanity, had a change OF hear
and began to pray: 20 Lord Almighty
! send us just one drop of RANT T6
: the establishment of everybody, scat
: tering raindrops soon began to fall
! These were caught in rubber blanket
: and greedily Tapped up, though there
), was not enough to satisfy the travel
!, ers. "The fool!' cried one OF them
: looking daggers at the miracle
!. worker; "he might just as well have
: prayed for barrel of water as for
drop, for he got ten times as mucf
! as he asked for,"
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