Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-03-11

famous Essay on Roast zig mas
just been sold at auction in Phila-
delphia for $4,000. The price com
pares very favorable with that of the
pig itself. an eastern exchange re-
marks.
1t is told of family living in Chi
cago that the father and six sons are
bringing over s700 week into the
home. The other day the mother of
the family walked into a store and
purchased fur coat, paying $500 for
the garment She remarked they had
never before been able to have nice
things but now they had the coin and
proposed to have few luxuries.
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The time was when 1t was not con-
sidered polite to discuss the cost of liv
Ing In the presence of anyone save
the members OF the immediate family.
Now the H. c. L. is the most fashion
able topic CT conversation, the price
question creeping beneah the very
hide Of many people. There will be
a general settling down one of these
+, days
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Not since the French revolution has
nation been in such choas as Rus
STA. France went through 1lre and
birthstone at last becoming a land of
peace and plenty and pleasure. When
Lenine plunged into the cauldron ex-
pecting to find justice without delay.
The boiling goes on. France learned
drought much tribulation that force
must come first and justice enthroned
afterward
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Diamonds have gone up and up and
up. They are now selling for several
times what they were before the war.
The young man who paid $3.50 for ring
for his beloved before the upsetting
OF the world would now pay $500 and
possibly $1,000 for a sparkler This is
not because diamonds are scarce or
because they are really worth more
but because people have more money
and therefore the dealers can obtain
more jewels
Malay Is little over half a century
behind this country. It was not until
the Civil War that slavery was abol-
ished in the United States and now
Malay, by an order from England per-
mits no more slavery. The last phase
OF this terrible scourage to humanity,
slavery coming down from the time
when all men were savages, was slav-
cry for debt. II citizen were in debt
his children were made to work to
balance the ledger, the system being
hereditary. England, in her quiet
way to establish justice in that quarter,
has placed Quetus on the system
and there is no more slavery in Malay.
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More than one soldier from Sank
county lost his life or suffered from
| the presence of poison gas in the
trenches during the Great War in Eu-
rope. Now the inventor of poison gas,
is to be given the Nobel prize of $40,-
t 900 and this is creating much fndig-
nation. The professor taught men how
to extract nitrogen from the atmos-
plere and Nobel was the inventor of
dynamite and smokeless powder. So
you see the founder of the prize, him.
self an inventor or mankilling ideas,
provides for another OF his class reap
ing a reward along the same line
Possibly the ghost of Nobel does care
but others in the world do. 1t would
to identifying his surroundings and
making others happy instead of dream
ing of death dealing devices.
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Concave screens for the exhibition
of moving pictures, invented recently
in France, are said to give much more
satisfactory results, than the ordinary
flat screen. A reporter of The Even
ing Sun New York; gives the follow
ing account of private test OF the
new screen before a group of about
one hundred scientists, motion picture
experts and newspapers men. The
concave surface is said to eliminate
the eye-strain and distortion, especial
ly for those that sit near the picture
or at the extreme sides of the theatre
auditorium
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After the Little Journey" article
about the Dells had been printed In
this paper. former Sheriff III. H. HUI
bert recalled that Perry Richardson
confessed to the death Of S. S. Gates,
killed near Kilbourn Pat Wildrick
was in Jail but Richardson had been