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Evening star., 1924-09-21

year Geo. contributed that 25 cold
cakes to the fund when Joe Bush
of the Hawthorne Club was running
for selectman and was selected, why
that is how we come to know Joe
Bush.
AS a matter of all too plain fact
through the campaign stage of their
life is when / and George have made
a lot of our swellest acquaintances,
some of who are now holding public
offices with all their might And
while it is undoubtedly true that since
election day we amt seen as much
of them, and in some cases they amt
as much as seen us, still we can say
with truth and assumed casualness,
Oh. yes, indeed, we know dear Rep.
and Mrs. Cornfed, we've known them
for years.
Well anyways, I certainly do en-
joy these rosy days of promise, and
these rosy nights of red fires in spite
of the mosquitoes and politicians they
bring out.
No matter how dark the actual
day may Of been, with the sponge
cake falling on me, with the electric
lights going back on us again and
no kerosene in the house with the
minister coming to supper, well, with
all that going on, why all l got to
do to cheer up is to realize that il
] ask it of him any candidate on any
Evening star., 1924-09-21

~ IGHT about now the rear enos
of railroad trains is certainly
F having hard time of it.
During q Natl. campaign
for Pres. and all offices south,
why the rear platforms of trains get
wore to a mere shell. not to mention
what happens to the audiences which
gathers around them.
In our town, every two or four
days, one Of these back platforms
will pull into the depot, the candi-
date who is parked on it will pull
his line, and the train will pull out
Then the crowds who have been lis
tening 10 the talk will pull for nome
and little fresh air after the heated
atmosphere around the X. X. station.
During this point of the campaign,
we got every reason to believe, if we
believe everything we hear, that there
will never be any more coal strikes
after the new Administration, OF any
denomination. gets elected.
Also. ] have got a clear under
standing from listening to candidates
talking that beginning with March
4th, next, we will either have pro-
hibition or we won't.
| got the solemn, personal word of
all brands of candidates. the Rep,
the Dem. and the La Fol, that my
taxes is coming down. that my pub
lie buildings is going up, that the
roads is going to be a whole lot
easier on my Henry-car and the end
of my spine, and that the weather
in our neighporhood is going to be
absolutely perfect.
No wonder US crowds turn out in
great numbers and rush down to the
depot to hear things like that!
And that amt all these candy-dates
are telling us. No stree! They are
telling US all about ourselves in ex-
actIy the terms which We most love
to hear.
OF course both I and George, that's
my husband, are aware, 365 days per
year, that we are away ABOVE the
average when it it comes to thing
like brains. We admit. to ourselves
if not always to each other. that
We are intelligent voters. Also, we
are always sure we are stanch
Americans, that is, if stanch means
what 1 think it does, and that we
constitute the real govt of this, in
some respects. broad land.
X x x x
DUT of course when Mr.. Jas T.
- Goofnah, who is running for dog
catcher, gets right up in public and
tells us so, Hot Bozo! why naturally
we at once realize what a fine, strong,
intelligent, public spirited citizen he
himself is, even before he goes on
to explain that part of it to us. And
when election day comes, We feel
sorry there amt two dog catching
jobs in town SOS we could elect him
to both of them.
Another thing which makes the
stretch from the Natl conventions
to the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in November such a happy
time for all is the way many of our
prominent citizens will commence to
get long sighted on the street and
recognize you half block away. The
Evening star., 1924-09-21

$4,000 troupe OF cape-haunters from
Seville, to give a private show, where
he himself was spada-more reckless
and as skillful as any professional
All Biarritz- San Sebastian society
was at his show: but, they say that
in a rage, he riskcd his life TOUR
times. by pure despite, when he per-
ceived finally that the king was not
coming, The king frowns on Spa
gentlemen going down into the -ing
too many have been killed or main
ed of late Years. But it was the frs,
time that Alfonso had gone against
such chivalry. riskins, even, d;asI.-
proval of the populace
Evening star., 1924-09-21

No. it amt by any means as rule
the fault Of candidate if they don't
always carry out their platform. I got
very distinct idea that il is mostly the
fault Of we voters.
You see, the trouble is, we don't
check up on them candidates after cleo
ton.
1t amt enough to insist on good
promises. We got to insist on good
govt. But If we don't take no trouble
to get it, why we better quit COM
planning, that's all.
Also. come to think Of it, once in
while a party platform is kept
pretty good. We got some names
in our history to prove it. Also,
come to think of it, occasions can arise
where, owing to natl. situation, it
becomes necessary for the party in
power to throw over, for the good of
the nation, every old moth -eaten
plank they got in on and start some
thing new. And we got also names
to prove that
In case we ever get a lady, or even
a woman, up for Pres. why 1 will
vote for her. That is to say, if I
can get her to promise me that if she
is elected, French perfumes will be
all made in America, and kids will
stop getting the measles and Whoop-
ing cough!
Copyright. 1o.4.i
Evening star., 1924-09-21
Science DETECTS Tour of Rambler
and Differences Among Pine Trees Delay Consideration Family History
the Junction of the Naylor Bowen Roads,.

]" HE work Of collecting old ma
terial for this ramble has been
impeded by the struggles OF
i the Bucks at Philadelphia, De
troit and Clcveland: by the
boxing bout between the Wild Bull
and the Brown Panther. by the races
1t Upper Marlboro and other national
events. The Rambler's old friends,
Bert LyteI, Walter HERS. Jack Holt.
Tom Meighan, Dick Barthelmess,
Ecbe Daniels and Viola Dana, have
been in town, and it was asking too
much of human nature to sit around
the recorders office reading dry and
prosy deeds.
The Rambler sat for some time yes
1erday on a point of land in the
angle OF the Naylor and Bowen roads.
y bit Of the lard had been washed
bare and was thick-sprinkled with
yellow gravel from the size of an
egg to that OF . pea. Each pebble
was irregular in form, but every part
"f its surface was worn smooth.
Some of the gravel was nearly white
l took up a painful of the earth
or soil through which the pebbles
were scattered and looked at it
through microscope. That which
Is dust to the sight and touch of
man became q mass of fragments
Elarp, Jagged and crystalline--of the
Fcbbles. Much Of the dirt became
finely broken. crystalline rock. but
nuxed with ii were granulated and
roW dered fragments of sedimentary
rock. The nearly white pebbles are
'lartz the conmonest mineral of the
"arth and universally distributed. It
occurs in hexagonal crystals, or crys-
tails that have six sides and six
eaSles.
Every boy knows that when one of
these pebbles is broken the new ex-
posed part has a CLASSY luster. The
yellow gravel consists of quartzite, a
SllIceous cement-holdinf quarry crys-
tai and classed as a metamorphosed
sandstone. which is a sandstand tha.
has undergone change during the
ages.
How these rocks were created. how
long ii has taken to reduce noun
7aIns of rock by natural mechanical
and chemical means to such tiny bits
as gravel and sand, and when this
Evening star., 1924-09-21

blushing in girlish perturbation,
begged permission to lead her own
lambs from the ancestral estates;
my sirlhood's pets" she gurgled.
Like Mary in the English poem"
admired Alfonso.
"Girlhood's pets" the jealous gran
dees sniggered, as out waddled two
vast old sheep. insolent in their
grease, their wool kinked tight with
curling-irons. But the king counted
on his fingers. They are good, fat
seven year-old sheep. he said (for
Alfonso is a farmer also).
Can YOU beat it"' ragged the
grandees- Where did she get them"
Trained sheep are unknown in the
Evening star., 1924-09-21

circus business: yet these specimens
marched, wheeled, stopped, started
and moved in circles, at command.
Once again Spain was beaten Oh her
own ground!
The grandees ragged
A hidalgo twho spends nine months
in his moldy castle, eating beans and
oil, to scatter gold for three months
at BiarritzSan Sebastian) rented the
bull ring at Pasajes, imported $1,000
worth Of bulls from Cordova and
Evening star., 1924-09-21
Good Judsment.

Teacher-Now, Bobby, which would
YOU rather haye-one apple or two
halves?
Bobby-Two halves.
Teacher-Oh, BoooIe! Why should
you prefer two halves?
Bobby-Because then 1 could see il
it was bad inside.
Evening star., 1924-09-21
A CHARACTERISTIC BIT OF SCENERY.

been 4 great chopping down of pines
in those counties. This yellow pine
the botanists have named "Pinus
echinata," and the name is curious
and appropriate. The IAatins called
u hedgehog "echinus." because of its
spires. and the botanists, because the
yellow pine is more spiny than 9TH
ers called il "Pinus echinata' or
Spiny pine
Evening star., 1924-09-21

Lafayette formation is given its fair
measure of consideration.
Time is getting short. but I will
hand you An extract from that docu-
ment. Here goes: "Following the
post-Chesapeake erosion there came
a moderate amount of submergence
during which the great sheet of
Lafayette materials was spread from
the Piedmont Plateau far out to sea
Evening star., 1924-09-21
His Reason,

Il rejoice that the world is filled
with sunshine"
IAN optimist, eh?"
NO; awning manufacturer"
Evening star., 1924-09-21

"HEN your ancestors left the
w Court of St. James, kissed the
king and queen goodby and came to
Virginia with a royal patent to 10000
Evening star., 1924-09-21

IGHT about now the rear ends
of railroad trains is certainly
having d hard time of 1t.
During Natl. campaign
for Pros and all offices south,
Evening star., 1924-09-21

THE work of collecting old ma
terial for this ramble has peen
impeded by the struggles OF
the Bucks at Philadelphia, De
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-09

A four foot pet grass snake, in
saving a neighboring house from
destruction by fire, has given the
usual dog, cat, and parrot heroes
something to shoot at, even If it
has not hung up a record for fire
discoveries by the. lower animals.
The snake in infancy slept at
the foot of the owners bed, but
the latter was never able to &C
custom himself to the snakes habit
crawling under the covers when
cold, so for some months it had
been locked out each night.
Then a neighboring house
caught fire. The snake, which evil
IDENTIFY had been prowling about
the garden, became alarmed. 1t
crawled up the ivy to the bedroom
window of it's owner and, know
ing the best way to arouse him.
crawled into the bed
The owner was aroused by the
repeated knocking of the snakes
cold head against his cheek. Star
tied, he jumped up and saw the
glare of flames through the win
dow. He was able to save the
occupants of the burning home
and his own house.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-09
THE PERIODS IN A MANS
ITEE

The tWenties are the moulding
years of the life, when the young
man forms those habits that shall
direct his career. Then he finishes
his school work, stands before the
altar, establishes a home and
looks the world in the eye.
The .thirties are years of dis
couragement. 1t is a hard and try
ing time for all. 1t is a time of
battle without the poetry and
dream of youth.
The forties are the years Of Wis
ion, when a man finds himself,
finishes his castles in the air and
knows the value of his dreams.
Life comes to it's ripening in the
fifties. These should be the years
of jubilee and he should do his
best work then.
At sixty, a man has committed
enough mistakes to make him
wise far above his juniors. He
should live better and do better
work than in any decade of his
life. No man has a right to retire
in the sixties; the world has need
of his wisdom.
Some of the best work in the
world is done in the seventies. No
man has a right to retire at any
age unless he wishes to die. A
word of congratulation to those
who have reached seventy and be-
yond: You have almost finished
your course; we trust that you
have fought a good fight and that
there is laid up for you a crown
Of righteousness George.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-09
WARNING GIRLS

Tell young girls, fresh from
schools of journalism, not to
come to New York for jobs, un,
less they have friends there or
have plenty of money to support
a prolonged situation seeking cam,
paign!
The other day a young woman
from the middle west, who had
seen only few weeks of service
on small town daily, following
graduation from a journalism
school, called at Editor & Publish
er office. Her small capital had
dwindled to the vanishing point
and her pursuit of a job had been
met on every hand by surly re-
iections of office boy protectors of
the gate" She had just manag-
ed to get an interview with a
Sunday editor who had, in gen.
uine kindness, told her that she
was not far enough advanced to
write for his publication. She
told us about it, and wept, as
every schoolgirl has right to
weep in such circumstances. Do
not think her a coward-she had
been fighting the impossible job
battle for weeks and was earn
ing her meals In a restaurant.
Not long ago the city editors OF
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-09
AUTOMOBILES AND PRO-
GRESS

More than fifteen million motor
vehicles are in use in this coun-
try, 4,O86,997 having been produc-
ed last year, according to new
statistics revealed by the National
Automobile Chamber Of Com
merce.
There is a thrill of national pride
in the single fact that of all the
motor vehicles in the whole round
world SO per cent are owned and
used by the American people. II
is almost unbelievable that there
are more motor-propelled vehicles
in use in this country than tele-
phones. There is one for every
seven persons. In California every
third person owns a car.
The average price of new cars
is $S11. The wholesale value of all
the new cars and trucks produced
last year, with replacement parts
and tires, is $2,252, 1896, PSF. The
motorists federal, state and local
tax bills in 1923 exceeded $470,-
100000. Nearly 100000 trucks and
cars are owned on farms. Some
100000 persons are employed in
the automotive industry. A million
motor vehicles are scrapped an
nually. The traffic has brought
into use 100000 miles of surfaced
highways.
In such terms do Americans
speak of their wealth, is the COM
ment of Editor AID Publisher.
Such figures seem to indicate a
state of development approaching
maximum possibility, but imagi-
native men know that even now
the mere edge has been touched.
This is typical of the American
people. 1t should make optimists
OF us all. Every man and wom-
an owns or wants a car. Those
who have cars want better ones.
There isn't any end to the increas-
ing and intensifying demands for
the purcnasable elements of com.
forts and economy. The flying ma
chine is the only threat against
doubled or tripled automobile in
dustry.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-09
OBITUARY
Anna GIennon

The funeral of Miss Anna Glen
non, one-time Baraboo resident,
was held On Wednesday morning
from the Powers undertaking par
Tors in Madison, the Rev. George
E. Hunt officiating, and the re-
mains were afterward taken to
Milwaukee for burial.
Miss Glennon died at a Madison
hospital Monday morning. Miss
Glennon was born in Baraboo. in
August, 1849. She taught school
in the vicinity of Baraboo for %
years and for two years in North
Dakota. Later she went to Spokane
where she remained until the
spring of 1924, when she returned
to Baraboo. She is survived by
one brother, Daniel c. Glcnnon of
Huron, S. d.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-09
LITTLE BLACK BEETLE BOR-
ES THROUGH LEAD

A wonderful little black beetle,
about three-sixteenths of an inch
long, with a square-cut, blunt head
and very powerful jaws, is making
life miserable for telephone men
in certain parts of the .. S. by
eating holes through lead-covered
cables, apparently just for sport,
as its natural diet is dead oak
wood. Government entomolOgists
are trying to find a poison that this
beetle won't spit out. They have
tried lead arsenate, creosote, car
bolinum, copper, nicotine, sui
plate, napthaline, moth ball COM
pounds, spar varnish, and num-
Der of other materials. But the
beetle eats past them, spews them
out and goes on through the lead.
Fort Atkinson Union.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-09
CHICAGO FOR BIG THINGS

Chicago, which already has two
great terminal projects under
way, has a fair promise of third
one which would cost $400,000,000
and be the most extensive in the
world, remarks an exchange. Fifty
blocks would be acquired, and the
terminal itself would be used by
II railroads, of which the New
York Central is the most familiar
eastern line. G. A. r. HARDWOOD,
vice president of the New York
Central is chairman Of the joint
committee of engineers in ch|arge
OF the plans. Chicago probably
will not feel flattered at the possi-
bility Of having -four times as
much expended on a railroad ter
minal as the Pennsylvania station
at New York cost, but it will take
certain prideful satisfaction in
the prospect.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-09
Madison Square GardenInNew
York is Scheduled to Pass Into
Memory With End of This Year

Old Madison Square Garden, n.
Y. the home of the horse show
from time immemorial; the amphi-
theatre of the circus from the days
of P. T. Barnum to the present
days of the Ringing Brothers, and
the scene of the greatest boxing
matches, to say nothing of the IA
nous political gatherings of the I'm
tied States; the setting of fashion
shows, of balls and parties and
fetes of the Four Hundred of Faith
er Knickerbocker, is scheduled to
pass into memory with the passing
of the present year.
This is not the first time that
the fate of the Garden has hung
in the balance, but it is the first
time that serious consideration has
been given to the permanent pass
ing of the old landmark.
The Garden was the greatest
temple of amusement that New
York had ever known, and was UNI
ique in the pleasure palaces of the
world when it was presented to
the public through Stanford White
its creator. 1t was among the first
of roof gardens which afterward
become so popular, not only in this
city but throughout the country.
The tragedy OF the. fatal night
when the death of White crowned
the comedy and MUSIC of the roof
and capped it's bright lights for
evermore has been often rehearsed
and reset and retold.
The royal box in the second gal
lery, which was long occupied by
Stanford White and his friends
and later by the Goulds, the AS
tors, John NICE. Bowman and
their guests of the Horse Shows,
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-09

Fourteen men on a dead mans
chest or THE Mystery of the
Sunken Cornfield" issthe story that
is agitating the residents around
Oregon, Wis, since the bottom of
the cornfield on the Charles Faivre
farm, seven miles west Of Oregon
on the Belleville road, dropped
into a cave variously estimated
at being from 65 to IS feet deep.
The area which has sunk is about
twenty feet wide and one hundred
feet long.
Mr.. Faivre was blowing the corn
field last week when he noticed
depression which seemed to be of
more than ordinary size and depth,
He remarked to his family that
hight that he had not noticed the
sinking while seeding and on the
next day planned to investigate
further and even off the ground
with his plow. On the next morn
ing he found that the ground had
given away entirely and a large
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-09
A SAD WEEK

The year had gloomily begun
For Willie Weeks a poor mans
Sun.
He was beset with bill and dun,
And he had very little
Mon.
This cash." said he, won't pay
my dues;
I've nothing here but ones and
Tues.
A bright thought struck him, and
he said,
1.-THE rich Miss GoldrCcks l will
Wed.
But when he paid his court to her,
She lisped, but firmly said, mo,
Thur.
"Alas!" said he, then | must die!
I'm done! I'll drown, I'll burn, I'll
Fri.
They found his gloves, and coat,
and hat;
The coroner upon them
Sat-
Pathfinder.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-09
Big Cave on Oregon Farm
Fomdt to Be Only First OF
Underground Passages

cave had been formed. Upon in
vestigating further the family dis
covered that the cave was only
the entrance to a series Of larger
caves many of them so large that
it is estimated that a number Of
automobiles could be stored in
them.
Searching parties who have ex-
plored the caves found a sandy bot
tom on most of them indicating
that water formation might be
located in the vicinity and that the
undermining had been going on
for a number of years. z The re-
cent heavy rains might have wash
ed down through an underground
passage into the marshy lowlands
nearby and caused the collapse, ac-
cording to old residents who are
familiar with the territory. The
entire length of the largest cave
has not been found due to dark
ness.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-09
Married
1chwarz- Drescher

The wedding of Harry Schwarz,
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. George Sch
war;, town of Freedom, to Miss
Elise Drescher, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Carl Drescher, also OF
Freedom, took place at the Lu-
theran church in North Freedom
at three o'clock i'll the afternoon,
Sept. q. The Rev. Freund officiat-
ed and the couple was attended
by Miss Vera Wetzel and George
w. Schwarz, brother Of the groom.
The bride wore white silk can
ton crepe, trimmed with lace and
beads, and carried white roses.
Miss Wetzel wore burnt Grange
silk crepe du chine.
After the ceremony, some 80
guests were entertained at a re-
ception at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Drescher.
The couple will reside on the
farm of the groom's father in the
town of Freedom.
Mckinney-MarshalI
Charles Mckinney and Della
Marshall of LaValle were united
il marriage at the home of VIM.
A. Mckinney CD Wedneef ay, Sept.
Gath at high noon The Rev. T. S.
Beavin of the Methodist church
performed the ceremony. A we'd
ding dinner was served after the
ceremony.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-09

The death is reported from st.
Louis Of Frederick Stitzel, an in
ventor of railroad semaphore sig
nails. While this class of devices
has been brought to a high stage
of mechanical efficiency, the day
of the semaphore now appears to
be coming to an end. New develop
ments in signaling do away with
the movable semaphore, which
requires expenditures of power,
and employ the current simply to
form, different combinations OF
lights. One advantage of the light
signals is their greater visibility
in the daytime in bad weather,
particularly snow. OF course, the
light signals may disclose imper-
fections, but they are now being
installed with success. While
they are not likely to replace
semaphores on lines already equip,
ped with automatic devices, the
light signals are favored for lines
hitherto lacking signal installa-
sions.-Sprfngfield Republican
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-09
George O, Pietzsch

George o. Pietzsch, prominent
Mason and resident of Monroe for
A years, died at st. Mary's hos
pital in Madison ON Sept. &c, fol-
lowing a short illness. He was
aged IS years and was born Feb.
%, 1916, in Saxony, Germany, and
came to this country at an early
age with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Oswald Pietzsch. The family came
direct to Wisconsin, first settling
in Reedsburg and Baraboo, and
later moving to Monroe. He was
married 40 years ago to Miss Mary
White on Dec. %, 1880, in Monroe.
At the age of Is Mr.. Pietzsch
enlisted in the army and served
the final year of the Civil war. He
was at one time commander Of the
o. F. Pinney Post No. 1O2, G. A
R.. for a term of four years. 9th
err offices held by him in the pa
triotic organization since, were adj
jutant, patriotic instructor, in
spector and trustee. At the time
of his death he was patriotic in
structor and trustee of the Mon