Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-08-31


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16iding, panoramas splendid, road,
Forests, and broadmeadowed valleys
THIS REGION in. western Maasachu,
sett9 was Gettted, in, the middle .pf the
seventeentb centIry. when the, hills,
we're the frontier The settlers. came
hfbin the Bay and Plymouth colonies
and possessed those sturdy elements
which characterize. the FOUNDERS, of
New England ItAwas here in these
Ereyes that JonOthau Edwards thun-
dered against human wrongs for
more than generation. - 81. = =
AMONG the natives Of the Berkl
shires are oGIafa Barton, founder Of
inc Red Cross, and John B. Cough
apostle Of the adTys Here 81 Dwight
n Moody. en- his native heath, gave
a great tneetas to- evangelism q and
here the visitor may see his tomb.
o. Some 'Sf1 the fine eastern schools
ere here and anumerO1si fsmflierG pro-
hdacts comic, from tho factories along
the desceW diag Tstfeama. Il 7ns,atH -
Deer6eid. isra. Berkshire village of.
y.
eaAs5 noteds afsL Lowell a0r LAawrenee yet
Ghere areklSgt aCfew 1peeple residing
.Gaheres rTiEe VILLAGERS ara engaged in.
making siau&meae articles and auto
Ssts from the cities buy theme mf0r
js4nuYeniBsl la each house a1diffefent
ihrtiele i9Fypade sueA az baskets, bed
nSpreadse and1 rugs. Il and to shthese
Fox txfa .l.s.ax
- a leanstn describes the industries
The houses are small unDainted
ami the SURROUNDINGS are mot InvitL
ing. Woods thrive in many quarters
and qHietPesa tOn Sunday broods7 over
she village. The MOFldiSs we know dt
has SHOT AHEAD of DeegaeId aud II the
,RIace RInOrgv the hills has been lett
rusty yet, most. interesting. ada
Civil War Relic az Il ybsl ,
In theicagitol. building ae sPhovil
.dence, Rhede q Island. lis, an unusual
Civil war relic. During one of the
.FngagemeRty IN the south several
soldiersr1we making an effort, 10
,jiUdd q, cannon. The powder had been
sent to the bottom and the bail WAS
Just half way on the mouth of the
piece; Rhen y, shot from the, eueply
4sr7ick the gun. the hit being at the
SIDE Of the mouth. The metal Of the
sun pinched tn, BAH being driven in,
stopping it DALI exposed. There, it re-
mains TO, this dey The powder is
stln in the piece and the shot can
not be taken from the mouth without
rnining the relic Part Of the artillery
men never knew what happened for
me shot from the enemy snuTed out
@heir liTes as they, were, doing their
iuty on The Geld Of battle ..'., 49,.
-a' fAou1es OF me Literat
Mention has neen. mad, Gf come e.
she fine old tonnes in New England
rhe most interesting from .wbi,h
some Of our litersti have come. We
listed number OF these and found
one OF the most fascinating to be that
of Thomas Bailey ,Aldrich in Ports
mouthG''thc oid town by the sea. %
The Nutter house. 1t Is called, Thorn
as Bailey kidrlch living, when a
BOY, with Captain Nuttef in reality
MIS- grandfather Bailey The house
rs kept just as it is described by the
author in "The Story OF a Bad Boy,
copies of the authors edition. being
.16tainable ON the premises.
The visitor takes pleasure in
mounting the wide staircase to Toms
room, the wall paper swarming with
birds Just as he describes in his
book. There. too is the little bed
in which Tom slept, the small shelf
M books an the wall, and boys coat
.zcross the back of a chair II was
interesting to go into Aunt Abigars
room and mediate that she came as
Tom said, with a bandbox and faded
umbrella lat the time OF the funeral
* TOMS. grandmother, expecting to.
remain out few days. her VISIT
.luwcvef. beng terminated by her de-
mise afler SeVentsea' -FEaEs, She was
sistef az Toms grandfather and
how mdels longer she would have re-
manned mad not death overtaken her
is mere conjecture, according TO
TOMS narrative
One eas Tom conceived the idea
IF Griug a battery OF old guns which
lay as regcs on the bank of the har
Dor, not Gar from the Nutter shouse.
Several kbpys in the village were in
me schenle and when all was ready.
me lot foil to Tom to fire the fuse.
There wese about a dozen OF theVold
guns. rusty with age. and these were
loaded ane connected in such a way
that one Mould explode at time. At
minight qbm esSapadl frOm hfsarooR
ut the head of the stairs. as, he had
done maHf times before when there
was laGl in the wind 5ld Jhastenad
70 the guns lying in, the darkness,
After tossching the SLOW fuse with a
yHa2ch lie skeds5aieJ tpObb rooms
eSoon there was a boom, then another,
M Tho .sboia t2a.S A.sS gba;tlJ l3re,,s