Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-10-27

a few stacks to be threshed now.
Byron Abbott has been threshing for
Fifty days and has several more jobs
before the work is done. Oats are
light and Of poor quality.
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In days before chlOroform was dis
covered they tied d man, held him
down, then cut off his leg, if they
thought it necessary. All he could do
was look on and yell.
Uncle Sam is in that position to-
day Two classes of dOctors-railrOad
owners and railroad workers-have
made up their minds to remove both
of Uncle Sans legs for little while.
taking away the railroads on which
he travels. All he can do is look on
and feel sorry for himself.
It ought to be possible for great
nation to have more than that to
say about its own affhirs.-Arthur
Brisbane in Milwaukee News.
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I Speaking of golf balls, here are
strange happenings. Two citizens re-
port the loss of tulip bulbs and blame
the loss upon the genus homo. By
carefully investigating, however, it
would probably develop they were
carried away by the genus sciurus
migratorius. Squirrels are not only
liable to take them away but rats are
very fond of them. The bulbs are
sweet, good eating, and why should
they not make a meal of them. Pos
sibly the squirrels buried them in the
come to life with the balmy days of
spring.
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DO people come in here to read
books as well as to buy them?' a Gus
toner asked New York City dealer
in secondhand books do they!" was
the reply. "Why man yesterday
stood so long at ten cent stall have
ON the sidewalk that one of my clerks,
an Irishman, went out and politely of
fered him chair so that he might
read more comfortably! And young
girl came in here one evening about
six o'clock not long ago and picked up
a novel. She read steadily until nine
o'clock and then my assistant turned
off the lights just as she was getting
to the end of the story. She gave him
look as if he had picked her pocket. |
Some people think bookstore is a |
free library"
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Miss Mary NJ. Ruggles, 326 G street,
San Rafael, Cal. who has been with
her sister in Seattle since leaving
BarabOo writes that she is now teach
ing at the above place and enjoys the
change from Washington to that re-
gion very much. Continuing she says:
II like the summers in Seattle but
the winter weather is too gloomy for !,
me. The scenery around here is very
beautiful. can see Mt. Tamalpais
from my class room window Last |
Sunday I went with party to BOlimes
on the Pacific ocean. We had to drive
over q very narrow, winding road in |
order to cross the mountain. Have |
times. We can reach the city by means !
Of ferries and electric cars in seventy |
minutes"
One hundred years ago the first
delegation of New York Indians, mem
bers Of the far famed Iroquois con-
federacy, came to Wisconsin to treat
with the Winnebago and Menonlinee
nations for an extensive tract Of
land on the Fox river near Green
Bay that they might transfer their
people to the west A white man who
was closely related in an educational
way was Eleazar Williams, supposed
to be the lost dauphin of France Miss
Deborah Beaumont Martin, librarian
at Green Bay, has written a pamphlet
which deals with the migration of the
Indians and the life of Williams The
story is most enchantingly told, one
pursuing every page with pleasure.
The life Of Williams is a human in
terest story Of the most romantic ma
ture and the author has used a pen
that has brought out the threads in
highly entertaining manner. Many
do not believe that Williams waE
the lost dauplt'1 yet the mystery
remains unsolved.
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Louisiana is the first state to enact
a mothers pension law. Any woman
whose husband is dead, permanently
invalided, or imprisoned, and who is
the mother of child or children un-
der sixteen years Of age and has lived
at least one year in the parish, is
entitled to a pension proportionate
to her needs and the number Of chill
dren that she has. She can draw as
much as SIS a month If she has one
child and as much as SO a month
for each additional child-Youths