Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-03-25

home with married sister and be-
comes the family drudge.
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| Here is some interesting thrift
news. The government experts esti-
mate that $65,00O,OOO of gold ccin
was converted into wedding rings
and other jewelry last year. The
gold mines yielded only s60,000,000
however, hence a great shortage
There is comfort in the thought
the burglars in Chicago are return
ing old metal back to the melting
pot.
The original manuscript of Percy
Bysshe Shelly's poem, Julian and
Maddalo," was sold for $1S,250 to Err
nest D. North at an auction of the
library Of the late Harry B. Forman in
New York. The original manuscript
Of "The Spectacles,' by Edgar Allan
Poe, brought $1,000 at the same sale.
A few months ago the Misses De-
borah and Sarah Martin at Green Bay
found Poe manuscript in the attic
of their home on the bank of the Fox
river. They sold the manuscript for
$3.50 and could have gotten $1,000 had
one or two missing pages been there.
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| On the outskirts of town few pals
may be seen swinging from spiles in
serted in hard maple trees. The re-
ceptacles for the sap are far above the
reach of a deg, cat or other small ami
NAL that might desire to take a drin'
of the nectar as it drips from the
spout. Years ago when the writer
lurked around great iron kettles in
the woods where the atmosphere was
filled with the most delightful moist
odors, the ,troughs approached the di-
mansions Of small bathtubs and every
animal that could navigate the for
est filled himself to the brim with the
delectable drippings. To see few
tin pals dangling in a March wind
from small shade trees along the
street is but feeble reminder of the
glories of the days when sap in
streams flowed from the giants of the
forest.
Nature has many secrets. Man
knows little about electricity and
gravity is mystery. AS to why sap
climbs to the top of a tree he does
not know. Spring after spring in this
latitude trees awaken from their win
ter sleep and as the sap flows they
come to life again. Just why, nature
does not explain and all that man can
do Is to marvel at the wonderful per-
| Torrance.
Mrs. Julia A. Crouch writes from
San Diego to change the address of
her paper to 220 Juniper street.
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A Baraboo man has received a let
ter from a Wisconsin friend, both po-
liticians, and the sender says to come
over and they would have a confer
ence in the cellar.
Charles e. M. Churchill, with long
(appendage of aliases, with delusions
of being millionaire" with a glib
tongue, and with a criminal record
back of him will find spoofing diff
cult in Waupun.
| The five best moving picture pro-
auctions of the year 1919, selected by
William A. Brady, president Of the
National Association OF the Moving
Picture Industry, are, as follows:
Male and Female" eyes of Youth, -
Twenty Three Hours and a Half
Leave" Soldiers o: Fortune and
1.-The Miracle Man.
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| A few days ago a Baraboo man
sent the sum of $75 to q woman in
Germany With the German mark
worth less than two cents the above
sum would purchase more than 5000
marks. In normal times a mark is
worth about "a cents, the depreciation
being a part of the punishment natur-
ally melted out to Germany The per-
son sending this money said he doubt
ed if the woman ever had 5000 marks
at one time before in her life.
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| There is said to be a great stimu-
lus in book buying during the past
few months. There is plenty of money
and people must have something to
do. Many are not working as many
hours as formerly and they have time
to read. More reading means more
writing and it said there was never
a greater demand for manuscripts and
that authors were never better paid
than now. If one has clever pen
there is a gold point to it.