Sauk County, Wisconsin - The whole text, 1861 (part 11 of 13)

Mli. v>A'I) MHS. OTIS C. W ATKINS. 1 was born in Springfield. Windsor { home to work for myself. On April »;. county. Vermont, Dec. 31, 1*17. and I 1S47, 1 married Louisa Avers at 1 Inworked on my father's farm until I was tonsville. Vt. 1 owned a farm of 1|NI twenty-one years of age. I th**n left..' acres which I had bought of my fathermar the old homestead, and lived on it until; 1849, when I sold out. On May J'lth. ISoO. I .started with my wife and two little boys for Wisconsin. We stopped at Monsequoni^o. Wis., until after harvest, when I bought an ox team and wagon and we came to Bamboo in August. 1830. I bought $0 acres of land in Fairfield. Was justice of the peace two years during the war of the 'Kit's which saved me from the army. I was also town treasurer two \ears. We sold out and came to Baraboo and have lived here ever since. We have been blessed with four sons and four daughters, six of whom are married and have homes of their own. Georgia married Tda Barnes. Fairfield, Wis.: Albert married Mary (.'amp. Baraboo: Orick married Ella Burdick. Baraboo: Olon lives at home: Eliva Ann married Isaac Schulz. Baraboo: Eldora married Oren Getchel. Fairfield; Viola married Henry ('. Douglas. Wonewoc: Emma lives at home.

-Med when nine year-; of air- uistian. Henry. His wM? having -lied he married again in 1^17. Two -bildren. Frederick and Leonard, were ''"rn to them in Germany an I accompmied them to A meric a. They landed M America Mav 4th. Irt-w. an i cime directly to Sink eounty. to old Mr. Phillip Xipp.-rt's. with whose : l.iuis. they were acquainted in < m my. The country was hea timbered when they came here, they took the American ax and fe the big tree-, an i made rail fences atone fences, and cleared the fie Now their children live ingood hou drive goo I horses and ride in earriaj. the result of steady in lust ty. Tti children were horn to them hei -John. Louis and Samuel.

he eame to this nun \-md resided in the early thirties, mining from Merthe vicinity of ftaein. - about three tonethshire. Wales. They resided

Letters From W.M. Stevkxs0N

Sir - Seeing your name in the I larahon News as Secretary of the Old Sit tiers' Association. I make bold to write you a few lines to lee you know lli.it I. Wm. Stevenson, a Scotchman by birth, was one of the early settlers on the Baraboo river and I have always had a kindly feeling for that river since. 1 never had the pleasure of your acquaintance, although I must have seen vou several times, but you may not remember me. I owned a farm at the Narrows which I sold to M. Wilke>on. I married a dau.arh.ter of Nath in Dennimou. of that neighborhood, bought a farm in Caledonia and lived there until I lie war was over, when I moved to Gentry county. Mo., where I still reside. My wife died three years ago, leaving a family of four boys and two girl*. They are all well and doing well. Three of the hoys and one of the girls .are married, and have homes and families of iheirown. The other two live on the old homestead, are raising hoys by the score and poultry by the hundreds and are talcing can- of their old father who is very frail.

Dear Sir: 1 received your kind h-tter and in answer acknowledge myself the author of the rhyme [ wrote for fun tifty years ago, I enclose another one which I wrote about the same time and had a few copies printed In -end to Scotland. One copy being 1' ft | sent! it to you. [ hive written a sMval many such articles both in prose -oid in rhyme, though few of them are in print now.

as though in a few more days, or it may be hours. I too must join the great majority, i am ready, waiting, content to yo when called and have no fear- of the

And every blast laid bare. j (). Scotland, glad was 1 to leave Thy shores where tyrants reign. To seek a land where none should grieve Nor have I sought in vain. ! For now proud tyrants prosper well.

Become a land of -laves. 1 Even yet 1 love my native land With all a Scotchman's pride. ! lint priestcraft, lords and Monarchy .\)>- l Kings 1 can't abide.

The Old Settlers

The anxiety and worry of the officers of the Old Settlers' Association, who had the management of the annual meeting' on Wednesday and Thursday. June 14-1"). is now a thing- of the past. The weather was cold and forbidding and the morning of each day was rainy. The weather was quite pleasant the latter part of Wednesday afternoon and a goodly number were present. Frank M. Kern and wife, of Sparta, were present. (See letter).

Bamboo. Wis. Dear Sir: - Having seen an account of your meeting of old settlers I have made up my mind to attend with my wife. She was horn on Sauk Prairie July. 1842. Her parents came there in 1840. 1 came there in 1*4."> with my parents. My father's name was ( harles Kern and my wife's father's was Zenas Harrington.

(Mrs. Harrington was at my house at the birth of our first. My -my. what a time of taking her home. < >x team, lumber wagon, snow a foot deep, eight miles over the rocky Bara boo mountain. One wheel up. the other down: humpityhuinp. Holding on to the wagon box to keep inside. Couldn't walk, the snow was too deep: and it was who.i. haw. gee. buck, go where you have a mind to. We got there that night. The poor patient oxen earned their Fodder that day. The next day I got home somehow. - YV. If. ( '. |

In the early morning the president visited John Terry, who is (iT years of age: ('apt. Levi Moore and P. P. Pratt. He enjoyed hi> calls and they his visits.

June 18. - Old Settlers' Association in account with Win. H. ( 'antield areported by him at the meeting of the old settlers in Mrs. V. W. Wheeler's Hickory Park.

P. Spreeher. F. E. Brewer. Gea Mertens. J. Hoppe, -T. B. Norton. Carolina Norton, J. Dickie. J. Dodd. Kamrath & Schmidt and A. F. Fisher, amounting to $5.

All-in-all. the 2*th annual reunion of the Old Settler.- was a profitable and pleasant occasion. In behalf of the association the secretary takes pleasure in expressing thinks to those who kindly assisted in the program and to our citizens for their liberality.

MIL AND Mils. Fill I. IP < H KK!v. Philip ( 'heck was born in Silverton. I p irents. l'.iilip and H inn ih C-heek. Somersetshire. England, May II, 15*41: who settle! on a farm in the town <>f «- mi - to Newark. Nc.v Jersey, in! Excelsior. On May 10, 'til he enlisted

Inf.. being discharged on December 8, V>2. on account of wounds received at the battle of Antietam. Sept. 17. 'fill. In November "fi3 he was appointed deputy provost marshal for the third congressional district of Wisconsin, and served until May. 'i>">. when he returned to the farm, and in October. I^TU. was appointed by Judge Alva Stewart clerk of the circuit court for the unexpired term, and was elected to succeed himself three times. During his term of office he studied law and was admitted to the bar in September. l*7f>. Mr. Cheek was district attorney live years and served the state as insurance commissioner four years. He is one of the most prominent G. A. R. men of that order; was commander of Joe Hooker post three years: assistant inspector-general on the commanderin-chiefs staff in '*:!: assistant adjutantgeneral 'x.VS»i, and was department commander of Wisconsin in *!!3-!M. an 1 has done more real hustling for the jfood of the order than any other man in the state of Wisconsin. For several years Mr. Cheek has been special agent, superintendent of agencies and adjuster for the Hartford Fire Insur-| anee Co.. for Wisconsin and Upper; Michigan. He is a member of the j A. O. l\ W. and Masonic fraternities: | he is a republican in politics and an I aggressive party worker. Mr. Cheek was married July -A. 1881, to Miss j Katherine Faller. They have two children living. Arthur 1*. and Mrs. i Henry C. Black. Mr. and Mrs. Cheek reside on Cheek's Hill, in one of the handsome and most picturesque homes | in the citv. I

* * * During the prevalence of the first heavy thunder storm of the season, early this morning, at about four o'clock, the residence of Philip Cheek Jr., on the high hill in the north part of town, was struck by a thunderbolt. Mr. Cheek's eldest son. Robert, fifteen years of age. was instantly killed by the stroke. The clothing of the bed in which he lay was set on fire, and the chimney was torn, a part of the bricks falling on another bed in the opposite corner of the same room where Mr. Cheek's two other children were sleeping, and breaking down their bedstead. Their escapc was wonderful. In the lied room below, where Mr. and Mrs. Cheek wensleeping, the plastering was torn down directly at their heads, and the lower corner of tin- room torn out. Indeed, every portion of the house was more or less torn, and it is almost miraculous that all the inmates were not killed and the house destroyed. But the other children, in the same room with Robert, do not seem to have felt the shock at all.

Robert Cheek was an admirable and estimable boy. a dutiful son and promising scholar, in whom his parents" hopes largely centered. The blow u> their feelings can only be compared in suddenness and weight to that of the death dealing lightning-itsetf. The entire community is stirred to the depths of its tender and sympathetic hear! by their great affliction.

I and collecting data. When returning The United States government I from Portage City on Any. 10, I m< i agrees to make a topographical map IS. E. Granke. leveler. and C ii. /am. of any state that makes a geological rod man. who were running a level survey. Wisconsin has made such a from a bench mark at- Portage to a survey and United States engineers are I'bench mark at the north east corner of the court house in the eity of Baraboo. I f rQ«n which to take measurements A previous level had made the murk at ! The accuracy of the measurements Baraboo 889.031 feet above sea level, made by the engineers from the bench the present level makes it 890 feet | mark at Portage to the one at Baraboo above sea level. A beneh mark is a j is truly remarkable. The variation is starting point adopted by surveyors j less than one inch. - W. H. ('.

On page six of "Wild and J Ionian tic Scenery of Sauk County. " I copied B I. Durward's poem on page 12" of his book of poetry entitled, --Wild Blowers of Wisconsin.'" descriptive of his home at the Glen, in which he gives his home the name of "St. Mary's of the fines." On a page of photographs in a sketch of Greenfield is a small portrait of him. taken in his younger days and a genealogical sketch of the Durward family is given on pages eight and nine.

"City of Ladies fair, fairer and fairest ! City of palaces and spires and towers. Which on thy hills and plains like jewel- How ers l'})on a bosom of a bride, thou bearest ! City of Men endowed with ample power Of love and wisdom, courage, strength and art. Who see their duty in true honest charts When the sun shines, or when the tempest lowers ! Thy sea-like lake and many a fertile land Pour their vast riches in thy lap. - and

(His new home by the rill where speckled trout sport, he lives in. Pines tirs and trembling aspens his orchestra, melodious rich and sweet. sinLT to Ms four score years a prettier song.

Mother. A Poem

The Record. Forty years it stands to-day: Forty years beloved ! nor hated Smallest fraction of the way Night or storm ! C>! never-sated Hungered, yearning, heart-relief. Vestal flame, unmatched, ununited. Light the sight less can perceive. Bit of heaven to earth translated. Woman's might and woman's weakness. Woman's pride, ami lowly meekness. Jealous, 'tho unselfish wholly.

II. . III. IV. V. Mamma's Naughty Boys. He knows the taste of Mamnn's love. And any tricks he'll foil: He does not a'oestake, or salts. Rhubarb, or castor oil. He'd tied her tail: she scratched him some - (Better's Tom - she bit his thumb.' Hut bravely to her side he slid. To hear what naughty Tommy did: - '-Within the oven immured the e it. The kitten in the churn: -Monstrus !' saith Papa,, 'what is that Y' Each face showed much concern. -Was that roast dead?" (this to the cook | Here Tommy slunk away. And pussy from the lire they took. Her nine lives s.tve:! that day." "Now Mamma's boy would not do th it. And singe the pretty pansy eit Until her fur would smell y" "O! no." quoth Johnny cheerfully. --I'll put her in the well !" VI. V[[. VIII. IX. X. XL. XII. XIII. XIV. Conclusion.

Commonplace, poor words I've spoken Of-iny iih u: of hers, slight token: Vet will not. may not disguise Miraele. nor show surprise" If pure gold to mother's eye-;.

Rkv. John Durward

RKV. JOHN DURWARD. Rev. .fohn Dur ward is the pistor ol St. Joseph's church in Baraboo and is hel I in the greatest respect an I esteem by his parishioners. He his held this position for twelve years.- - The Dnrwar.l Familv of father, mother and Christian people, to whom public ecomium is distasteful. They estimate men as copper, silver or gold - copper, those who drift earelesly along: silver, those who at least swim and try to rise: gold, those who stem the current and make circumstances. Their work with pen and pencil makes humanity happier. Rev. Durward like the other members of the family, has contributed to literature. He has published a book of poems entitled. "Sonnets of Holy Land." The pilgrimage to Palestine, which this l>ook commemorates, was made in 1889 and was participated in by one hundred persons. The book contains fifty-four pages and is nicely illustrated. The dedication is as follows:

Dedication

DEDICATION. To the Members of the First American Pilgrimage to Palestine I did not wish the anniversary of the Holy Week we spent together in the Holy City to pass without at least a small harvest of fruit, as an incentive, alike, and an earnest. The history of our Pilgrimage has yet to be written. These sonnets, composed in the localities, are a few of the thoughts those

The moaning sea against a rocky shore: Such art thou. Israel, in thy awful woe. With palm and forehead pressed forevermore Upon those blocks that raised thy story: '-Oh for our Palace walls in desolation - Temple and bucklered tower now overthrown; Oh for the perished glories of our nation. ( )h for our priesthood fat and lazy grown. Oh for our Kings and Pontiffs gone astray We sit alone and weep." Oh restless sea ! Return, return. Jerusalem, and stay The sobbing of thy mournful litany. Jerusalem, April 12. (George Tenny in a lecture remarked: "As I sat and saw the Jewish pilgrims at the Wailing Place it moved my heart almost to tears."* - W. H. C.

Dear Sir. You wanted to know about that snake story. It is as follows: I was mowing brush and weeds about eight rods south east of the house when I heard a snake rattle and before I could step back he sprang and his fangs caught in a leg of my trousers. 1 made about three jumps before he let go. The hoys came running up and Paul threw a Stone and hit the snake on the head, killing him. He had six rattles and a b itton. Bert has his skin and four others. One of them has

! eleven rattles and measures live feet J and two inches in length. You will I find something in tin- Republic about it. Yours respectfully.

St. Patrick has not. as yet. banished ' all the snakes from America, Fifty I years ago the large yellow snakes of | the bluffs and rocks were quite plenty. Mr. Kllis himself lives among the rocks and bluffs!. The dark Mcsaugj er was also plentiful and most to be j dreaded. The large yellow usually 1 gives an honorable warning with his I rattle and then retreats. I experienced | an exception to this rule. I met a very large one on a clean, open lawn. He saw that he had no hiding place and evidently thought the best show for his life was to meet his enemy. He raised his head and neck about six inches high, and rattling angrily he slowly advanced toward me. I almost shook with nervousness. When he got within reach I struck him with a stick and stunned him. I put my foot on his head and with niy knife I cut it off.

Mason Prather was onus bitten by a snake. It was several days before he got the poison out of his system and he was very sick. Mrs. Kli King, 1 think it was. of Sauk Prairie, was bitten and she came near dying from the effects of the poison. Mr. Albert Jamison, of

Sauk Prairie, once killed a large snake that had a mink in it. I once came upon a large yellow rattle snake in the road and about six feet in front of him lay a half grown rabbit dead but .--till warm. An Indian was with me and he looked the rabbit over but could find no marks on it. Judging from this and the positions of the rabbit an 1 snaky it seems that these snakes certainly can charm.

There is an interesting peculiarity about a female snake and her young. When danger threaten.-, them the mother opens wide her mouth and the little ones run down her throat. W. H. ( '.

The Baraboo Vallev

I had contemplated writing1 three short articles upon our picturesque valley. Two of the articles are placed upon pp. 13. 2tl of ( ). S. A. The first is a short geological thesis of the formation of quartzite. A later theory taught of | our quartzite rock formation is that its I metamorphism from Potsdam sand- j stone to its present glass like appearance is that between grains of sand a j selicious concretion has tilled up the interstices between the grains of sand, j theorists acknowledge that there are dikes in the quartzite in which semi- j molten selicious rock has been forced! Up to the surface: hence there must; have been intense heat below. The | different colors in the quartzite reeki can be accounted for by heat producing it. the sandstone being an iron-! bearing rock. Perhaps chemical concretions would make similar colorings. ! Truly there is nothing stationary in nature: science is also fickle. To-day it takes positions that are ignored tomorrow. I shall not notice this point further. This article is to notice the present >urface as apparent ly prepared I for man's occupancy. From the mouth of tlie Baraboo river six miles in direct line to the lower narrows the river keeps near the east end of the great quartzite bluff on the Wisconsin river. When the Baraboo river has a great (ioo.i some of its overflow goes into the Wisconsin river, and where the Wisconsin river is Vi-vy hiudi its overflow emptied into the Baraboo. From the mouth to thenirrows its delta is largely timbered with (dm: not much undergrowth. The remaining area is mar-lies that lay a little higher than the Wisconsin delta: therefore are easily drained into the Baraboo river. It inow improved in many rich and productive farms, especially between the bluff and river. Apple trees do well at the foot of the bluff. Tiie large orchards are a source of much wealth. ( 'ultivated fields are rapidly widening and tine buildings supplanting the old ones. Passing through the- lower narrows the cliffy gateway of -|no-f..,-thigh bluffs on either side SO rods wide. The river is now in the wonderful seini-quartzite basin 10x2U miles. An area of about l'oo square miles (t is safe tosav that there is not ten sounre mill's of light, sandy soil in it. I cap? I not think of even one Lean mile of sandy soil in the --basin" unfit for eul- ; tivation. The rocky bluff's which are i rich, but too rocky for cultivation. I could not exceed forty square miles j and that produces timber. That leaves j 1*><> square miles for agriculture. The I river and its branches of bottom land j might equal 50 square miles with an | alluvial soil from 10 to 200 feet deep: a richer deposit is not in Ameriea. The 1U0 square miles of upland is of a good quality for farming. How much value his it so far yielded to min'/ First.) the mound builders: Their tumuli and ' effigy mounds are thickly located gen- ! <-rally in groups throughout the Baraboo valley. There is upon Charles H. Williams' place, within the corporate I limits of the city of Baraboo, set of sec. j I. T 11 X of R C E. an effigy of a bear j that is an excavation instead of an em- j bankment. S. A. Lapmiui. in his -An- [ tiquities of Wisconsin. " says that these I effigy mounds extend from Illinois north state line 100 miles north, and from L ike Michigan to the Mississippi j river. Hence southern Wisconsin has the honor of an unwritten history of a ! mysterious race of man. Their garden j beds and tumuli and effigy* and numerous groups shows the country once i was densely populated by them. Mother Earth nurtured them as it has all animated existence, each according to its wants. The Indian: We have become acquainted with the character and habits of this race of humanity and they have to their sorrow had an unfavorable acquaintance with their intruding white brother. The one as a rule is honest: the other covetous and dishonest. Which is the truthful honest one'/ Let history speak.

They had their day and enjoyed life until trouble came. It entered in a lamb-like form. ( 'atholir missionaries penetrated the wilds ()f the West and the native received him as an angel into his totem. Following the missionary the French trader and trapper obtained their peltry for tobaccos, blankets, beads, etc. The English followed the French, who not only coveted their furs, but their homes also. They swarmed in upon them until by force and purchase they obtained their homes and lands for a small con-ideration. Alcohol was also a staple. Wars followed. Numbers and superior weapons always conquered. It is only a matter of time that they will be only known by record of history. Mother Earth kindly cared for those child en of of her's. Game, small corn and bean patches and wild fruits was their regime. If a fair money value was placed upon their game the sum would be j great. Heaver and other furs were a [great and profitable staple in early American history and Mackinack a great centre for the fur trade. Heaver dams in Sauk county are upon almost every brook and creek.

The Caucasian, a third race that now occupies this valley, found Mother Earth "s welcome to them. Their wants and needs widely differed from thenpredecessors. Their first citadel was like the two supplanted races on the Moramdam of the valley heretofore described. It was a favored point human Here now stands a li.000 soul city. When lie first entered into this qtiartzite-walled valley to make a home. After the log cabin. A saw mill in 183!». Within three or four years Peck's pinery and Seeley ( 'reek pinery were converted into lumber and shaved shingles. The lumber sold at about *1() per thousand, or hammered into houses and barns at a low estimate would be si.",ii.(iiiii in our quart zite basin. Hardwood lumber *ay an equal sum or perhaps double that *.*HHMMRJ for lumber and shingles.

narrows at time of occupancy could not be estimated Leas than $300,000. For hay. honey. ginseog. wild fruit, tish. game, $100.1)00: maple sugar. $300,000. $1,000,000 would be a low money value that be placed upon the free yifts of mother earth at the time of occupancy by the white race of the 2(>0 square miles lying in this basin under consideration, old settlers are generally spoken of in a sympathetic way as endurers of many hardships in making their new homes pleasant, convenient, comfortable and ornamental. Are not those speeches of sympathy wrong 't Misplaced? Example: A young mail 23. and wife 21, settled in Baraboo Valley. Their household effects dumped off in a pile: not a horse or cow or ox. His hands and an ax his only means of support. He had a high priced watch which he sold for a yoke of oxen. He made a cart without a nail or scrap of iron about it. The wheels were made by felling a large white oak and sawing sections off it for wheels and making a hole through them for the axletree and then shaping it to resemble a wheel having a hub. The axletree was of maple. The cart when finished, with a frame placed upon ii worked nicely when kept well greased up. Upon it was many a curly maple log, cherry, red elm. antl white ash drawn to the saw mill. These kinds of Lumber were valuable and had a ready sale. People came from Sauk prairie and from other counties to this Baraboo mill for lumber and shingles. This home market at so early a day gave the settlement money and supplies. In 1*4.7 emigrants began to come in faster. The land was soon bought up which broke up free hooting, but our land was now paid for and fields made in the new rich soil that gave returns, richly rewarded the labor. Noxious weeds and pestiferous insects or doctors, lawyers and preachers had not put in their appearance as yet. The jolly violin was a panacea that drew away gloom and ill health. These were not hard times. Buildings and fields all new: people most all young. We visited much and the latch string was out for the new comer. No money to let: no lawsuits for entertainment. We had some jolly times in driving --land sharks"* out of our neighborhood (*'claim jumpers'") burning down their cabins, ridinyr them on a rail. &c. Bye and bye foul weeds came - doctor-, reverends, esquires. saloons. haul agents, banks and bank fakirs, mom y loaners. --wild c it times.'" gamblers and hard times. Aj>ostate government, giving chartered privileges to corporations, and taxing high the necessary common commodities for sustenance of life: entering into partnership with distilleries and saloons to support a government that parallels a European monarchy. Formation of trusts. A slave in the year 1900 in the U. S. A. As compared with the times of 1830- "."JO. which is to be pitied ?

Baraboo and its surroundings have been so thoroughly sketched heretofore that but a few words arc necessary here. Its citadel i> that of two prior race- of men. The line.st location in the state. Madison excepted. The next business center in passing up the valley is Xorth Freedom -a pleasant location in its improved condition. [Sul the valley for a few miles either way and the Seeley creek valley was in a >ttt< of nature hideously awful. It was unusually frosty. Seeley creek bottoms that Lay adjacent to the town sin swelled out into an area about as broad as Ion'.:, of about '11 square miles. alniosi on a water level and but a little higher than the Baraboo river, timbered with white elm and blade ash largely. A tamarack swamp, an open marsh surrounded with a tangle of alder antl willow. William H. i'ankiki.h.

Samuel Haekett was born in New Jersey, April 14. 1805, and died in town Freedom. Wis.. Feb. 18, 1873; was married in Chineueha. Upper Canada, July 27. 1825, to Dency Terry, of Palmyra. New York. Her deeendaats were of Scotch origin. Their mirrie 1 life began.on a farm in Upper Canada, and they remained there until 1839, then migrated to Bojne eounty. 111., and from there to Freedom. Wis., where he spent the remainder of his days. He was a good man morally, honest and upright in his dealings with mankind. Hut a few years before his demise he experienced religion in the church of the Latter Day Saints of which his wife hid been all her life a member. He owned at one time the land where now stands the thriving village of North i Freedom, and for years before it was platted into village lot- it was known as Haekett's Corners, and had justice ruled instead of injustice it yet would | have been named for the old pioneer who first broke the so 1. His son. John. ! built the first hotel on th- southwest corner, and another son, Timothy, built a store and dwelling on the northeast corner, and sou. Parshall. a dwelling j on the southeast corner. Samuel had a small family of fifteen children, i ten of whom are living to-day. the i youngest fifty-four years old an I the eldest seventy-two.

Tt Family

I was born Nov. 8, 1844; in Boone county. 111., and came with my parents to Sauk county Wis., in l*4s. where my father purchased UK) acres of land now known as "Old Haekett's Homestead." [\t-i-i' 1 was rcire 1 to the aj-.- of eighteen years, during which I received some very severe accidents. Iti my thirteenth. year* while walking on a log, 1 slipped off. catching my fool between the log an the ice and falling sideways 1 broke my right leg. During the time of six weeks, which 1 w.t-* laid up. i> where 1 learned to knit and sew. After recovering another incident occurred which caus>'il me much pain. While working in the sugar bush Brother Kirb (now known a^

Frank an I Terr, wnv c trrying small sticks to build a (ire. After Frank had cut his. I placed ray stick on a log and asked him for the ax to cut it with, fie says, -no sir. I will cut it." I said, -'no." and placed my hand upon the stick. He said, take your hand off or I I will cut it off. Right here is where j the sand c.une to the surface in each of j us. Do you know which contained the j most? I know who got the most hurt. In 1SH2 I went with my parents to Great Salt Lake City, they having] determined to make a visit to that far j western country to see my mother's parents, brothers and sister*,- who had] been absent over twenty years. Fittel up with covered wagon, one yoke of oxen, two yoke of cows. tent, feather beds. tins, stove and father":- rheumatism, -we left the old home in May and proceeded to Council Bluffs, Iowa. The Missouri river being very hiyh. we had to ford one mile on the low land before we reacheJ the steam-boat to take us across to Omaha. Xebrask a. In getting to the boat. I had to wade by the side of the cattle, the water ran in the WagOD box. one of the oven stepped in peculiar to women that I never shall forget. When on the other side of the river, we waited for the form ition of a church train that was forming to go to Creat Salt Like City, a distance of I040 miles. Forty wagons containing families and drawn by oxen moved westward. A more happy an 1 jolly lot of people it never was my lot to meet again than tao-e were. I having a I violin with me, in my a ni<xht we would I trip the fantastic to.- on the green. After many hardship- and fording of dangerous rivers lbein«; no iaddges in ihosedays' we arrived at the city of our destination after four kmgand tiresoine months* travel. A more beautiful eity and valley I never saw. While in Ftah I attended mv last term of school.

In 1S<;.;. we left Ftah for Denver City. Colorado, with the same outfit that carried us to the Pacific coast. Indians were so troublesome on our returning over the Rocky mountains, we had to travel the new road 150 miles farther south. After visiting my sister for a short time in Colorado, we exchanged our cattle for horses and started back across the plains. Father's rheumatism became more chronic and many a time I had to lift him in and out of the wagon. Having assisted my parents safely home and being impressed with the opportunity of money making that presented itself to me in the far west. I immediately returned to Denver City. Col., following various occupations in Colorado and New Mexico. In 1^'i I I again returned to Wisconsin, (m arriving home I never shall forget my aged pirents. sitting all alone by the old tire-plaee. father smoking his pipe and mother knitting. To say we all enjoyed the reunion would he putting it very mild. I considered my wild oats hail beta) pretty well sown and so decided to purchase a tract of land of IT. X. Souther and settle down. Deciding to build a house, I cut logs, fastened them together and drove them down the Haraboo river. Here is an incident worthy to narrate. I laid down on the raft and went to sleep but was aroused by a terrihe noises I arose, my raft was running up the river, The woods that had been on the right hand side of tin- river wcreon the left hand side, a strange predieamem indeed, as I wanted to get my lojrs dow n the river to the old Lyon's saw-mill. The sequel was the front end of tinraft struck an obstruction, c uising ticraft to swinjj entirely around while 1 was asleep and it seemed to me f could taste of something that resembled fish. In ls<;7 I took up hop culture. In iNti* I was married to Miss Jennie L. Klliof. an I unto us was U>rn one daughter.

Tn 1*71 the cruel hand of death called my dear wife to FFim above, who knows all things best, [n 1*72 the Chicago &- Northwestern R. R. Co. appointed me station agent at Bloom. That year I married .Miss Flattie A. Lamport and had my land platted which is now a part of the village of North Freedom. Having resigned as station agent and disposing of ray village property in 1ST". I moved to Bloomer. Chippewa county, Wis. Here, in L*7!i. I was awarded the contract to carry the U. S. mail between Chippewa Falls and Bloomer for a term of four years. Tt being a daily mail and operating it myself. I found there were some very disagreeable days. Having finished my four year's contract 1 embarked in the grocery trade in Bloomer. In 1*44 the Hood dissolved me and the grocery business as well as **2.(no of capital. Tiie intervening years to 18!)ij h ive been nearly a blank, but in conclusion will say that we have reared a family of ten children, four hoys and six uirls. ( have a home in Cook Valley. Wis., where we give our time to the care of the honey bees, poultry and small fruit.

Frank Hackrtt

FRANK HACKRTT. t was born in Boon county. 111.. 1840 and came with my parents to Wisconsin in 1*4*. where F labored with ami for them as best I could, with all the disadvantages of early pioneer life. (which were many. My chances for schooling were li'.-e those of my other brothers and sisters, iNot so good as they arc at the present time. We had something like two and one-half miles to walk through warm and cold weather, sometimes alone, then we would all be together. Through the rain and snow, tic cold ami sleet, which was hard on the eyes and unpleasant on the feet. ft) the month of Nov. on the b'.th. l*»i|. | enlisted in the |\ S.. service as a private in ( 'o. F. 3rd regiment. Wis.. Vol. cavalry but was seriously injured in the back and spine on June lti, h*l>:2. On account of the injury I received f lost the use of the lower part of my body and limbs to that extent that 1 was unable to move a toe on either foot. The Hesh all seemed to leave my body until I was nothing but a helpless skeleton with the skin drawn over the bones. Yes. F was in such a condition that I could not help myself in the least and had it not been for the intervention of divine power of almighty God. with the attention of a kind and loving brother that came all the way from Money Creek. Minn., to Ft. Scott, Kansas. Ft was my oldest brother, George,, who so faithfully adi ministered to my wants and las earne-r | appeal to those whose cire I was under land with the kind care of Comrade {.', : IF. Kester that I reached home once I more. They brought me home on a J cot in a government train from Ft. : Scott to Ft. Leavenworth, from there to I St. Joe on steamboat up the Missouri ! river, thence to Hannibal, crossed the I Father of Waters on a )>oat in theuight | to Quincy. on to Chicago, and was transferred to another railroil. then i to Kilbourn City and from there by bus to the old log house on the banks of the Baraboo river. Rerhaps iu.those days the above named place woul I b - I better known as tluJf "Haekett Manision." Well to s.iy/i was kindly received and tenderly cared for won d be J puttingit rather mild. It took many a ! lon^ and tedious day and night of patjent watching and laboring, which was done without complaint. Old Dr. Waddell who hid eharge of my i\i>«e said I had been raised from the de i I. for he was sure over half of my bo ly was in that condition. As I began to gain in Hesh an t strength I also began to inedit ire on wh it h id h ipp 'he I and how 1 had been -.pared or saved fro':

-<uentering death's dour, uud of some of ! more thun one or two hundred people. the promises I had made to the Great I and in the following June my other two Giver Of all that we enjoy. I would I sisters came from Illinois. We stopped think of the great plan of life and sal- over night at a hotel down near the vation and study the bible more closely i river which was kept by a man by the and talk with those who professed to be | name of Cole. The next day we went eommunioned to preach the Gospel. I j to the farm of Arehable barker, which found myself in a great dilemma and father had rented for the summer until soon became convinced of the fact that he could build on his own land. In if the bible was true the preachers the winter of f48 father came from were wrong for they did not agree to j Illinois to Wisconsin to get him a farm the most essential parts and gifts of the j and as it was nearly all government gospel and these signs shall follow land he had a good chance to select those that believe bight here let me i such as he wanted, although the snow digress a little and take up another I was nearly eighteen inches deep at the thought on another line, that of the time he happened to get a piece with a domestic part of my life. I shall have j cranberry marsh on and a good hard but little to say, especially that of an maple sugar bush on the south side of early day when [ was young and foolish. | the Baraboo river near where he and thought that all a young man wanted to build and it proved to be the needed was a wife. Well I got one and only cranberry marsh in this part of. she was a failure so far as our getting the county and he used to feel quite along together was concerned. She i proud of his good luck in choosing the bore me one son. \Y. J. Hackett. now i place he did and it was quite a help in a stirring insurance man of Iv.iu Claire. . providing for the family, as tin- sugar On the 10th of Feb. l*i>7. 1 was united j and berries went very well together. in marriage to Ann K. Loomis. which j Late t' e following fall they got the has proved very pleasant and prosper- house finished, so we moved in for the ous so far as raising a family is con- winter and father remained there until cerned. fortuitous was born eleven chil- j he died - the 18th of February. 1*7."! and dren. ten now living, most of them mother died in December, 1883. There grown to man and womanhood. Their j are ten of the children living, all marnames are as follows: George W.. i mied. seven living near the old home Joseph F., Samuel J.. Joshua T.. Mary j at North Freedom and one sister in A.. John M.. Jacob A.. Martha F.. Colorado Springs. one brother in Laura H.. Jeremiah Arthur and Kthel Minnesota and one brother in the Mae. four of which have formed homes j northern part of the state. This is as for themselves. This to v<^ kind | I remember it. although I was quite

NoBTH FUEEDOM, Wis.. March 2',. 111.. June 4. 1*4-7. To them were boru INWH. It is fifty years to-day since in\ 10 children - ti living to be men and father and mother and nine children j women grown, and 4 dying in infancy. landed in Baraboo. then a little town James A., the eldest, bonr Sept. 2tt. of but a few houses, and I think not 1848.

myself I had hut my two willing handto raise enough produce to sustain them. In that matter I have held mj own. [And l(Mi times more. W. H.C] At the age of 2K I took to mvSelf ;t

There are 12 grandchildren, the j helpmate and we started the new comolde.-t 22 years and the youngest two bined life with this motto ever before years last May. j our vision, "never go any faster than

We left Illinois the 1.1th day of May. j the cover will reach. '" and it came near 1849. We moved by team with covered , being a success financially. I have on wagon and drove oar sto.de. crossing j complaint to enter only that I hive too the Wisconsin river on a Hat boat at j much to look after. At this time I am Sauk. That was the first flat hoat I j situated on the same spot on which 1 ever saw and I was very much fright- j first .started life, and by additions to the enexl at fhe idea of "crossing. I thought | 80 acres it now numbers .'JST acres in this was a bad looking country. The : one body of as good land as the sun farther west we came the worse it I shines on in the county, and south of looked. When we came by Devil s ! me a few miles I own two more farms. Lake over the rocks and hills I said, which come handy for sheep growing. ' turn around and go hack: I have seen ' 1 have two sons living within hearing all I want to of this country." They - of the dinner hell and we are living to told me that was nothing, it was not work for each other's welfare and a lithalf as had as i would sec. but I found ' tie for everyone, that we might be that was a mistake. We settled on the called the hippy Hackett family, if place now owned by Timothy Hackett - surroundings and property make happiand lived there about 12 years. We ) ness.

then moved to Houston ( 'o.. Minn. .audi [When I see my neighbors lived there until 1800. and have since i weighed down with overburdened cares lived here in the village of North Free- i it arouses my sympathy for them and 1 dom. We lived together "»1 years and try to plan to help them out. I suggest 5 days. William dying June '.>. after an t hut you give me a warrantee deed for illness of only three days. He was a j one of those southern farms of yours kind and loving husband and indulgent - for a consideration of ¥1.-00. thit will father, and respected by all who knew ; help some: then hunt up the next poorhim.

Timothy Hackett

T left Canada in 183tf. at or about tin time my father and family did, cominj; to the -"states" and settling in EJoon* Co.. III. Tn 184*< we moved into Sauk Co., Wis. When a young i rvniember the times wht-n we drew wheat to Chicago - 1(H) miles and to Milwaukee 12<) miles with an ox team and freighted hack with merehan-

John Hackett

Came with my parents to Hooue county. 111., thence to freedom, Sauk Co.. Wis. 1 lived with and worked for my parents until I was twenty-one. I want to tell you the .start I had when I became of ajre. On the morning of my twentyfirst birthday, when I came downstairs, my father said: Good morning Mr. Haekett, you are twenty-one to-day. and as there are hoys enough at home to do the work. I think you had better hunt a job for John Hackett. I started out with all my earthly possessions, a hickory shirt tied up in a red handkerchief and a three-cent peiee in my pocket, it have that money yet'. I went down the road past Archie Christie's and he called to me asking where I was going. Looking for a job for John Hackett, I answered. Come in. he said: [ went in. He hired me t;; "cradle" grain and [ worked for him until fall work was finished. That same fall I was married to Alvira ( arr. Oct. 1"). 1S.")4: rented a farm of William Martin and lived there one year and then moved on my own farm, the present site of North Freedom. .1 u.-t -"> years from the date of our marriage my wife was burned to de,»th. During these years two children were born to us. Marilla Ann and Sarah Elizabeth. In the spring of 'HO I conceived an idea of trying my fortune in the gold mines of Colorado. Leaving my children with my parents. I started together with my brother. Joel, and my sister, Hannah, to cross the plains: oujfteams were not horses, but oxen and clwsj. Owing to limited space I will only mention one of my many adventures while on this trip. After joining many other wagons. we were called "blue train.*' Xear the Platte river I thought one morning I would try an kill an antelope for a rhangrt of meat. Two of us started after game; after a sliort time they returned to Ramp and left me alone. 1 not being used to antelope hunting kepi time I never slept under a roof. I then . returned to Wis. On our return trip i we were caught in a blizzard. Our , horses stampeded ami we were left j there without food for nearly twentyi four hours. I was married in 18<'2 to j Mary Martin -went into the hop busi- | ness in 'ti.'J. For about 11 years followed i this and then built a hotel at the son-in-law. A. l>. I'oughram who now ; runs the hotel. 1 then built a house in | my grove, one quarter of a mile from I the corners, and am now living in

I... William Henry. Fanny Alvira and j Mamie Deney. Fanny died at the age I of one week, and Mamie D. at the age [of 22 years. Marilla Kiee, my first

Joel Hackktt

JOEL HACKKTT. I was born in Canada, Aug. 27. 1835, and fame with my parents to Wisconsin when I was about 7 years old. One little incident happened on the ship, while crossing the lake, that [ distinctly remember. The stairway leading from the cabin to main deck was partly covered with brass. I put myself on the investigating committee, as boys of that age usually do. and started down stairs, on a tour of inspection, when I lost my balance and fell, polishing each step with my nose, and when I arrived at the bottom, it presented a most beautiful bronze appearance, but otherwise I was none the worse for the fall. After our arrival in "Wisconsin I worked on the farm for my father. until I was 21 years old. and in the spring of '"»7 I went to Minnesota with my brother George (George is living there as a farmer. - W. H. C')« where I resided for about two years. In the year of '.>'.'. in company with my brother. John, and sister. Hannah. [ started for Colorado. We made the trip from Money Creek. Minn., to Denver. Colorado, with a covered wagon and two yoke of oxen in <>2 days, stopping every Saturday afternoon to rest until Monday morning. After a short stay in Colorado I went about i'itt miles into Mexico prospecting for gold, which I failed to find. I again returned to Colorado where I me J an old schoolmate. Henry Danielsf from Illinois. We had considerable sport hunting elk and I had the good luck to kill three elk: alsoa number of deerand antelopes. One day while bunting I killed four antelopes with one shot from a little muzzle-loading rifle. This sounds like a "fish story" but nevertheless is true. While in Denver I saw two men hung according to law. One case seemed verv sad. as it was a \h>\ onlv eighteen years old, who was hung because Inmurdered a man. When on the scaffold he told the people that it was the influence of liquor that caused him to be hanged. His advice was to never use liquor in any form. This is only an illustration to show one of the evil results of the liquor habit. While on my claim at Cherry Creek 1 cut hay and hauled it about 100 miles over the mountains to Central City, where I sold it for $100 per ton. which was none too much for it considering time and risk* The road wound around the mountains and in some places it was just wide enough for a wagon, with a higli bank on one side and a precipice about 2.O0O feet deel) on the other. A short time previous to my traveling on the same ro id a quartz mill and seven yoke of oxen had been dashed to pieces on the rocks below. In the fall of *<>1 I returned to Baraboo and was married Dec. is. lKiil. to Lucinda Emily Cass. Shortly after our marriage we moved to Minn., where we resided for 1~> years, when 1 was induced to return to North Freedom and buy the old homestead where 1 lived for 20 years, but now reside on a firm ah) it four miles from Baraboo. Have live children, one son and four daughters. This is subj mitted to you. kind readers, with due 'apologies for taxing your time and ; patience: also to till up space in the I "Old Settlers' Album."

The children of my parents now living are ten. Five died. Grandchil- I dren. fifty-nine. Nineteen dead. Greatgrandchildren, fifty-nine. Eleven dead and great-great-grandchildren, two are living and two dead.

old settlers was a concieatiou.s, upright ; greafr-gi-andehiUtren; forty-eight ;av ami honest man. There cannot be j now living. Two great-great-grandmany single'couples for prolificacy that ; children, tions. They were married in 1823 and j Frank Hackett is at present presihad born to them 14 children: ten are I dent of O. S. A.. Sauk Co., Wis., and now living". Fifty-four grandchildren: ! has been for two or three terms before. thirty-five are now living. Fifty-nine ' W H C

Mrs. Peck's children. Victor and | is coronated: a senator chosen and all Victoria, desired me to make some re- j places of honor or trust filled, [f the marks at the house to neighbors before ! tree has been properly trained and the burial - a surprise tome. 1 could ' cultivated the fruit is o'ood: it is prenot say no to so oldandgood neighbors, j eisely the same with man. At this a»v vet I doubted my ability to do it. I de- ; with man in his maturing and matured sired them to solicit August Runge. j family, he is in the achme of his glory- Mr. Range's remarks were appropriate j his happiness. The young man and the for the occasion. Fie requested mine young woman have come to an a«'e printed, if the family so wished. I when a father's respect and kindness read the following paper: and a mother's love are deeply cher-

It is autumn, the leaves are falling: I ished and printed indelibly in memory's the forest is stripped of its green sum- ! storehouse (with some exceptions, i In mer clothing: the frost king with bis this age man carries the world upon his chilly grip has changed the green dress ' shoulders, the tree begins to have dead for one more beautiful, still of yellow limbs in its top, the sap pours are till purple, red and green. We look out j ing up and are becoming dozy: more upon the Baraboo Bluffs so tinted and | limbs are dying. Towards the base is exclaim, "how beautiful they are." I* single green limb, it leads a sicklv Besides their beauty can we read from ' life for a few years, when without wind them and other organisms of the plant, or rain or sleet it drops off. and the a utility? Yes. year by yearthey have tree is dead. The dead body of the and are lying by matter, wood, to j tree man uses for various purposes. Is cook our food, build our buildings, and j not the memory of one of our ohl many other purposes for man's pleasure ! neighbors and friends with a life record and comfort: as that the/arth and all I to future generations, of no purpose? things were mad.- for Rim. What a Do we learn from plant life a lesson of mce analogy exMst* between the laws a future life"* We say yes we da of the plant and an animal. Raeh are Thomas Payne, the great exponent of conceived in mystery: are horn to the [ deism, says in his aire of reason, pi* light of day: their babyhood delicate I "I believe in one (»od and no more and and tender: their youth plump and hope Jot" happiness beyond this life." comely; their age of reproduction is On page .>2 of the same book he writes: Bowery and it is always sad to see so i Our ideas, not only of the almightiness many or so much of the bloom nipped j of the creator, but of his wisdom and by early frosts and other enemies. I his henificenee become enlarged in prtn Those that escape pass into a golden I portion as we contemplate the extent and the structure (d the universe. Be- | to know that deists and a class of sides the parallels that exist between j geologists of no superficial thinkers plant and animal life, nature furnishes i agree as to creation - versus developparallels between the mosaic record of j ment. of a designer, of a life hereafter. the creative week, and nature's rock ] Besides what I have in these parallels record of it. Each are and were en- j endeavored to show. There could Ihgraved in the rock. First science ! by careful study many more drawn bidivides our earth crust into six classes { tween his word and his works. Of or divisions, viz: Ideologists 1 will mention the name

2. A rock crust is formed of a con-1 who advocates creation limits that deglomerate rock element termed ae/.ioc i veloimient has not or cannot jump over. or primative.

re she was broken down with disease she paddled her own canoe. At ' I her house the hitch string was ever out. being the first white woman settler in Madison and al-o in Baraboo. Every historian whether quack or professor writing of Wisconsin's ( 'apital < ity or ripening. !f stood as high as the fence about it. it had not The ture in our state. At firs! so hideous j great long waving heads, and wind looking, now so beautiful, especially j waves over the field was to me a grand that Seeley ( 'reek swamp U now may j sight, it was the prettiest sight of be compared to a line picture set in an that kind 1 ever saw. He afterwards ornamental frame as level as a lake, { told me how much it yielded. I have surrounded by well cultivated hills;; lost my memorandum but it was.bearea. two ami one-half *<tuare miles, I tw*-en fifty and sixty bushels to the A year ago. I was at John Dickie's home, jaere. The village of North Freedom must of necessity be prosperous, being located in so tine an agricultural district. It has an Elgin creamery, (the ( "o. is f rom TClgin 111., and have their plants over hundreds of miles of terfi- | lory.) As yet the farmers are satisfied j with their returns for their Cream or j milk. There is a lumber yard and building company with a steam engine shop- - Ellis and Gunnison Bros. I think that Ellis has now bought out the brothers. ! Two hotels, one at the old Hackett Corners by A. Coughran. and the other between the corners and depot by Edward Trumble, old settlers, the landlady a daughter of Dr. James Waddle, of early times. Both inns are strictly temperance. There is not a beer or whisky saloon in the place, nor never lias been. Three blacksmiths, one of them A. M. 1'ettey. who lias a machine shop. I think lie also has a cooper shop connected: one by Edward Histo. and one by Geo. Klein. There are three church buildings- Methodist. German Baptist and Luth" erun. The M. E. an 1 Baptist support local clergymen. The Modern Woodmen of America have a hall amply large. There is a line school building and a fair depot building. On the opposite side of the river, adjoining the village plat. John Hackett has a park in the heavy tall timber. In this grove we have held most of our annual old settlers' meetings. It is a nice place for public meeting and is in about the center of Sauk county. There are two stores - one by Lange & Knauss. dry goods) and groceries, and is doing a large business. The other by James Douglas, dry goods, groceries, hardware and tin shop, and is also doing a very large business. James Blachlcy has a saw mill, stave factory and cooper shop. They have a physician and drug store by Dr. X. F. Wetmore and F. J. Jones. S. A. McCoy sells agricultural tools and has a warehouse. There is a shoemaker and dressmaker. Wm. Randall's new block is now tenanted by If. P. Jones, drugs: Olive Hackett. dressmaker, and post-office. A nice county village, fully equipped for the wants of the district. '1 'hey hue not. as yet. a lawyer or even a pettifogger or saloon, and justices of peace and constables are merely nominal offices. W. H. 0.

Dietetics

DIETETICS. It may be profitable to us to discuss this subject in detail. A look of many pages could Vie written and are written upon it. God created life and for a while sustain- it by a regime adapted to it. By obe«enee to that condition he is healthy find lives out his appointed time in all the beauty of the designer. Improper food and other irregularities produce hateful looking objects. A man traveling a road came t«» a wry poor sandy Held planted to corn, A boy was killing a few stinted straggling weeds. He accosted the hid thus: "Your corn looks small." "Yes. father planted a small kind." * it looks yellow. " Dad planted yellow a half of a crop." The old man planted it on shares. " Our traveler passed on and came into a beautiful valley where I there was a corn field by the roadside. I A young man sat on hi.- two horse eulti- ! vator under an umbrella: among the : dark green hills of corn a foot and a j half high. He said - to him: "You 'have a line piece of corn." "Yes."" I "How much do you expect to get to the i acre V" -"Last year we got lid taishels ! on this same piece of ground." The i yellow, stinted corn had improper plant ; food: the latter its proper food. ! Animal life by naturalists is classed as I -varniverous" 'flesh eating', "herbi- | t'erous" i vegetable-, --omniverou-" ous" (fruit, i For each class are «riven proper food and a construction or nature to assimilate it, Long sharp teeth for the carniveruus. level surrated teeth to the herbiferous. cupped and conical of the swine are but a bomb-shell of trychena when hungup in the .shambles for our city cousins to luxuriate on through the winter. The menu then is buckwheat pancakes, grease and to the frugiverous, with intestinal molasses: in the spring measles. organism htted to each class. Natural- scarlet fever and all manner of skin ists tell us that a carniverous creature . diseases. In the last issue of the Sauk cannot live a month without flesh food ' County Democrat a note is made of $7"> or animal fat. The frugiverous regime j worth of swine in the town of Wintield is fruits. Man's teeth and intestines dying of hog cholera, the germs of places him in this latter class, stillhe is j which had floated down a small creek, in a degree omniverous: being at the A dairy of cows in the town of Merrihead of animal life with power to con- mac was condemned by state authority trol it he can exist on flesh, but it is j as being diseased with tuberculosis. far better for him not to use it. Flesh I I was boarding a few years ago with a is dangerous to eat. especially that of Sauk City widow lady whose husband tame or cultivated animals. Any ani- died with trichina of the brain, a mal. wild or tame, is liable to be dis-j great sufferer. I once visited a slaugheased when slaughtered. A cultivated j ter house of a Baraboo butcher and saw animal is made fat before beingslaugh- an old sow with a litter of pigs on a tered. Fat becomes a disease when in- ! warm dav lying in a pool of rotten. duced by high feeding. The creature stinking blood. It covered the baby must be kept from having exercise and ! swine, their heads only being exposed. fed high: by so doing, in a few days or j They seemed to be a happy family. If weeks, it looses a desire to exercise i one of those infants could have been and is in an unnatural condition dis- j fished out and cleaned and baked what eased. It is the pride of the producer ' a nice toothsome dish.

The Tixkham Family K. T. Tixkham -Vxd Family

K. T. TIXKHAM -VXD FAMILY. In 1X4") three Vermont young men | Wis. Li. T. Tinklmm settled ;it Bara- It. T. Tinkham. Silas .1. Llscomb ami i boo 'see his obituary, also history (if Osgood .Tosling - came to the Raraboot town and city of Baraboo. page 20 1. We

Ellen Tinkham

At her mother's death in !*-><> Ellen estate. To this the heirs say, amen. It assumed the ladyship of the household was interesting to notice that the father lH*ing but Hi year- of age. See I J. 'J'. T. gt*nerall> rounseled with Ellen lirst. and obituary, the last 1:1 lim-s '. Her second with the children in bis business brothers and sisters, now having fain- moves. The daughters have a literary ilies. still reverence Ellen as a mother. , turn of mind and belong to the t'hatau- Her father, in hi* l«?quest. gave this qua -reading society. "The suns aw faithful child a lion's share of his goodly : workers ami good financiers.

Miss Ellen Tinkh.im has consented to five the O. S. her portrait to be placed in O. S. S.iuk Co All urn. She is sketched in the tracing of her father's family ipfthis album. Her time is now divided between her brothers and sisters- ,'and literary clubs that she has for years been active in. Her frequent jrisits to distant relatives have made her familiar with the northern part of U. S. Qucrj : Should she not give to the hungry student of literature or science a chip or two?

Meruit Ti.Nkham And Family

Merrit. the second child, was born I immigrated to South Dakota, while .she Sept. 2.1. 18""»2. After his majority fur a j stayed with relatives in Wis., until the few years by dint of hard labor for his i following year. She lived with her father and others and saving the pro- , parents in Dakota until she was lnarreeds, he took Horace Greeley's advise ried Jani 29,- 187J). to Merritt .1. Tinkaud "went West." j ham. . Mr. and .Mrs. Tinkham made

[n renlv id solicitation thev have sent ! their home on a homestead, taken l>v a short biography to be placed in the | him in the spring of l*7<i. Here they old settlers* album. [W. H. ('.] ' broke up the prairie and planted trees

His wife was [zero K. Knowles. i and built them up a home. Their home daughter of Erastus and Harriett L. ' was situated in (irand Meadow. Min- Knowles. Her mother's maiden name : nehaha eounty. South Dakota. Here *vas Harriett Louise Kim), [zero was I four children were born to them, three b>ru in the town of Kxe.jCior. Sunk ('o.. ! hoys and one girl. In the fall of IS'.'.".

they rented their farm of acres and moved To Sioux Falls, where their ehilt'avalry and died April -">. lSlii Being I d re n could have the advantage of better I be firbt to die in the regiment, his re- schools. July 4. 185)7. another child.

-round. When Izero was six years old another farm six miles east of Sioux her mother was married a second time, j Falls, and are intending to move out to.Foho C. Lot t: after that she lived there where their children can still be with her parents in Lyons until she wa> near enough to enjoy _the benefit of the nft*'en years of nge: then her parents city schools.

Gkougk Tinkham And Family

(ieorge TinUham was born at the old } time, May IT. LHU3, their eldest child. homestead B'eb. 4th. lsx. remiining at i .Mary bl. was born. As a result of the borne until the Spring of ls*;o. then ! division of his father's estate they going to South Dakota and remaining j moved onto the old homestead Dei-. 23. there upwards of two years. On re- 1804. where their younger children turning he married Miss Josephine E. ; were horn. (ieo. Everett was horn Harrison, of the town of Excelsior. July j Jan. 22. I8!l.">. The little twins. Moua 12. 18i)2, immediately settling on th - ! K. and Myra K.. born Oct. 13, W-H. Prothero farm one and one-half miles : Death entered the home Any. -. \s'<~- north of Devil's Lake, remaining theiv separating the little ones by taking t .vn and one-h ilf years, during which Mona E.

/MARY S. TINKHAM. was horn on the j prairies how to shoot. She followed old homestead near Lyons. Jan. .'!. l'fitio. teaching there and in Wisconsin, until Oi*«aeuount of the sickness and death of j her attention was attracted to a farm the mother she was cared for and J in Olenville. whose owner 'needed assist - reared by tier sister Ellen; Of a j anee. Accordingly she was united in naturally home Loving disposition and marriage to Sherman S. Pearson, 1 - never very strong, she stayed 'neath 13. ls'>2. Three children now gladden the home roof uuti I the spring of 'KM, I their home -Lee. aged six yeat'>: when s!ie began to teach the young Euniee. three years, and Lloyd ",,; iile.is of the offspring of the Dakota I yet one yen-. -

S. S. Pearson was liorn in Marquette I thrown. He spent one year in Ft. county, but moved to aforesaid farm I Morgan. Colorado, but concluded there' when only a small hoy. < If a naturally j is no place like home, so still resides in quiet and kindly disposition, he makes ! Wisconsin. linn friends in whatever company j

J. X. Douglas was horn in York | building up a large trade. Since Peb. state and removed to Wisconsin when | 22. '!».'{. his fortunes have been shared he was one year old, witfi his parents ! by Jennie Tinkhain Douglas, a former and settled in Buek»ye. town of resident of Baraboo. and for a humber Kxeelsior. Sauk county, He obtained of years a teacher in Sauk county and a district school education. sUppfe- Dakota schools. Jennie Tinkham was mented by a course in llerdsburg and ! born at BaralKio: educated at Lyons and llaraboo high schools. The family ' 15 araboo city high school: followed afterwards moved to Seeloy (. 'reek Hats, teach ing thirteen years and was princta section t h it was made famous by the ! pal of the North Freedom school iwo Flosseiuer rid lies. After a season of years. Her school here was changed fanning and lumbering. J. X. started I to one for life. Two hoys have since iii the mercantile business at North come to reside with them - Ye<>. Ih»i*ii Freedom, in 1N<7. ami has succeeded in April ti. 'i'4. and Verne, February^!.

I ] Republican Democratic form of government, whether it be for weal or woe. in a large degree eminates from families. If chicanery, rudeness, vulgarity, quibbling, disrespect of parents and old age is allowed at home so will the mass or government be. It may hot be well to indulge in too much pessimistic criticism, but shall we not call atteu- ! tion to some facts ? On the street, near the P. <>.. I recently saw three juvenile thefts; first, a ten or twelve year old buy taking some fruit from an outdoor display of u fruit store: second, two little girls came chatting along and each took an apple. I called the vender's attention to it. She came tiwl looked but they were out of sight. She said "that was nothing: they are all the while stealing. I believe every child in the city will steal." 1 presume she did not believe quite as she spoke. Do poltreinan do their duty? Again derailed at a door and solicited but !h.- landlady did not want any and shut 'In- door. Young America, before leaviriir. went up and gave it a kick. A school teacher in the town of Baraboo enjraged to teach a school and taught a tfiort time but she was obliged to leave it on account of rudeness. The aged all' called old men and old women even by their children, sometimes. They rudely -"jump" wagons and sleighs. A few years ago I passed quietly by. some sixteen or eighteen-year-old boys lying on the grass by the roadside giving rough innuendoes to me anil my "rig.*' I quietly walked up to their leader and spit in his face and walked tjiiietly away, (forgetting for the moment that it was not a very christian act i and he took it without whipping rue. it is a fact that old country children are pleasanter scholars in school and make more rapid advancement than Americans -they get better positions as they grow up than Americans. It is owing to a better home government. Fifty or seventy-five years a.Lro American family government was much better than at present. It has become popular to call children "kids." hence their parents must be goats. 'This may be all right for our times i. School boards should have printed in large letters and framed and hung up in everv school room:

This House

This motto should be put into every house in America, and perhaps in a process of time we might raise our moral standard to a level of some heathen nations. But as long as America is run by "kids" and "^goats." there is little hope and much fear that may lose the high standard that we have gained among the nations of the world. "Old Settlers" love to cast a look backward, but the forward look is hazv.

BY J. W. WoOD. \ pleasant morn, in leafy June, A song of birds in 3 weet attune, A balmy breeze: from dewey fields', A clover mead, iis ("nigra i ee yield ; A brooding haze, rest mil) in.' heat, A trusty team, with will ins feet; Tiii-se all combine, t-> give a elr.irm To morning ride from Skillet farm. White dust lies wet«h'«d u iti/the dew', An. I pleasure calls t<i MarabdY..

< If richest beauty, vale and hill, Kehinri us, lies ihe skillet, vale, lieynnd, its irreen. hold bluffs prevail. The rifted rocks, in dim outline, show where the placid waters shine

Of cultured fields, all clothed in green, Where firms r»l fi nit. and fruitful (arms, On either side, display their charms. Adown the bill, we speed once more, NVw fields of beauty to explore. And turn our willing steeds to where The roundhouse cloud tloats high in air. The distant city, bathed in liuht, In beauty breaks upon our sight. This choicest gem, In all the land, Lies nestled midst ii~ hilts so gratid. Its crowning tower, on northern rim, »*'hich seems like sentiy, armed and gri Docs not bespeak a fear of foes, l'.ut choicest blessings from it, flows. \gain we pause in tallest view

Fkesh Meats Auk A Costly Diet

FKESH MEATS AUK A COSTLY DIET, A bachelor street laborer of San Frauds -o. (.'alifomia. ii>-t t inii' tin- usual price pet- hour, gave in the Simis of the Times at Oakland. < ul.. or tin- Review ami Herald, of Battle Creek, Mich., F disremember which) an account of every article he ate ami its price. The room rent, his i clothing- taking a magazine and two papers. Iff ate no meats. Font- hours per day would coverall of these emuufbrated expenses. His regime, as he piw it. looked like nigh living. Fruits in California are remarkably cheap. Hesh as bought of the butcher would pureh ise of fruit and vegetables font- times in nutriment that is eontuiin u in it. L know a woman that was hrougut up by the side and on tin- mountains of Switzerland. She eats but 51 little flesh and that is beef or niutton: no ehieki'it. or ejjjr. or

Our song is sung, its echoes play, While down the bill we take our way, Till now we reach the sandstone gray, Where Jennings' engine stands at bay. Next Crouch's derrick, drooping stands. To aid the strength of human hands. We mount the hill, which brings in view The bridge which spans the Baraboo.

Here, shrieking engines, bid, beware ! We cross the track- with prudent care. The lofty bridge, on iron piers, With show of strength, allays our fears, And yet. we heed the stern command, To "walk our team trom land to land." Cive dollars fine, the wight must pay, Who, heedless, dares to disobey, We reach the mart of busy trade. Our trip is done, our bow is made.

We are pleased to place in the < ). S. Album the above poem as a memorial of our lite townsman, who is now - in Washington, near Greeley, on the Pacific coast. Our loss was that of a scientist, a literary mind, a religionist and philanthropist. W. H. < '.

fish, or oyster, drinks no tea. at time* a little coffee. She washes clothes three "lays of the week for families in town, three miles walk a day. Onee ;i week, often after her day's work, goes on foot with the young folk's to a prayer meeting one and one-half miles distant, making another three miles: six miles for this day. So much for a vegetarian life. The strongest men in the world for carrying luirdt ns are natives of Central America. They will carry in their Sedan chair, strapped to their back, a heavy 'man over mountains an I dales. Stephens Travelin Central America, speaks of being carried in such a chair for miles. That statement is sihitosi beyond heiief. A man could hardly he foun 1 in our city or country that could cat ry a 201) pound man across a street. Their living is very plain and most entirely vegetarian. Our laborers.

. -]h .-hilly pinery men. think that they . -.iimoT do a good day's work without I be lieve it a mistake. In my ...mi family, which is ;it times quite large, we do not use ten pounds of flesh a year and that is chicken or href. I will give two anecdotes of t'yrus the Mede. whu conquered the ii.ioalonish Empire. "When young he was invited by the Pt rsian emperor to .i feast. He asked the privilege of being one of the servants that waited iijion the table, saying, --that you Persians have a hird way of getting a living/" We Medes live on bread and cress. The children of Medes that were to compose their army were taken from their parents at a young age and brought up by the government rigidly plain. After he was crowned emperor nf Media and Persia, he came before the army and. addressed them. We hive Babylon to Gouquer. In numbers they are two to oar one. < an we do it 'i llts army all cheered and cried out. We ( an ! ! ! Ves says Cyrus We (an. for they are aire idy one-half conquered by their voluptuous. living, and added'. The world never before saw an army like this for strength and courage, I may not have the language quoted quite correct but the substance is. I trust, correct. The Great City and empire fell in a time of a drunken revelry, and Media Persia ruled the world. What a temperance lesson is here taught. Yet a woman may be. a destroyer of life unwittingly by to much highhygenie cooking that continually induces overeating. That also is intemperance of the worst kind. < "heerfulness. fresh air. not too much or too little clothing, labor, and a good deal of it. especially of the mind, is essential to longevity. Paul, of the Christian's Bible, dismisses this subject correctly. 1st Cor. !i-i"i. Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Strong language is used in l'rov. 23-L 2. .'5 and 4. When thou sitteth with a ruler, consider diligently what is set before thee. 1 2) and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man of appetite. {'£). be not desirous of his dainties, for thev are deceitful meat.

Kindness To Animals

KINDNESS TO ANIMALS. In looking down my life's journey, i think I can see a greater sin resting upon me for ill treatment of animals intrusted to my care than any other 1 h tvc ever committed, decently I spent an evening with friends. Our time was spent in story telling. Mr. A. once had a "oilky" horse: it would bilk in the h irness. un ler the s i 1 ll.ynl even in buding. with anyone but.*) i in anl his wife: with them he nevei' balked, ami seemed to love them. They had a heifer that Her bag was nateh coked. Be could hardly get his liand on her. She would hook and kick. Mr. A. tied her legs and then could hardly milk her: in fact did not milk her. His wife said: "I can mill; I'lossr." She hail netted and fed her from a calf. She took a stool and pail and s it down and milked her. Flossy only stepped a little as her hag was somewhat sore. X<> one could afterwards milk her but Mrs. A. She would take her stool and sit on it and say: --come Flossy." and Flossy would come and take her place to be milked.

a sow that had young pigs out in the woods. The sow was ferocious. Be could not go near the little pigs on account of the excited mother. Mrs. - - siid: "I can bring those pigs home." She took a basket and got them, the sow following quietly.

That evening we had many similar stories to tell. I will relate one more that shows that horses have good memories. Mr. raised a colt, broke it and kept it a few wars ;ui<l sold it to a friend that lived far from this place. Several years intervened and the friend returned with the- horse which had been raised at this place. Mr.

his old trick. " So ( 'harley was brought to the pasture and the halter slipped off and away he went throwing his heels into the air occasionally until he had reached the opposite side of the pasture and turned around with a snort. Mr.

voice: "come Charley." and back he came with a rush and put his head into a window and got some relishes as of yore, thus proving that he had a good memory, and probably the horse had as good a visit at his old home as his master.

they never gave off any offensive smell so he stroked the little ones and thej seemed tame already. So he picked up one of them and took it home stroking it as he went. He put it in a large box and fed it richly which his pel seemed to enjoy very much. One evening he took it in his arms and in his caressing teased it a little to see him raise his Hag '.tail; over his b.irk. At last with the little stick that he had in j his hand he struck a little blow thit evidently displeased his pet ami tint J time he did not raise his flag for nothl iny. He sent a stream of his defense. | some of it passing through the candle j which ignited and Hashed like powder. Some struck on his youny master's face and burned like scalding water. This broke the friendship between muster and pet and the pet clisippe.ire.1. The ; family h id nil the tnusk they needed j for a long time. W. H. ( '.

When our ylobe from its birth and growth was fitted for man God gave to his counter part, a quit claim of ALL, with no reverse or respect to persons of animals, vegetables, minerals, coal, oil. electricity. ALL All. Soon SOCIETIES and GOVERNMENTS became a necessity. The first a blessing. The latter in its best form ami state a necessary evil. A bad one intolerable. "The palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise. That which secures the gruAtest blessing to each individual at thy least expense, is the preferable one. Necessity requires a delegation of our rights to persons who represent our wills, God's government for over three hundred years was patriarchal and by Judges. The government instituted by the North American British colonies, that rebelled and declared themselves to be the Tinted State* of North America.

was the nearest akin to God's own jurisprudence of any since the days of Samuel the Seer. It has set kings, emperors, dukes, lords and nearly all titles one side and made of the thirteen states a democratic republic. The officers of government our servants instead of our lords. A seven years' war so settled it. The one hundred twentytive years now elapsed has so procured the bold strike for liimnn right tint the I*. S. A. is the most powerful nation in the world. Now it stand.- upon dangerous ground. Prestige ami wealth always demand homage: the poor equal rights. Money demands a crown, l 'hrist was born in a stable ami his life and teaching was democracy.

--A mass meeting of the people of : he American colony had been held to wh it steps should he taken to avert the tyrannical oppression from rheir mother eountry. A committee of live was appointed to further consider th»- question and report to a subsequent meeting their deliberations. That committee consisted of -George Washington. Thomas Jefferson. Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Hush. 1'iiomas Payne. Able men who were full of the spirit of freedom . At an ;i|i|x tinted day they met in the city of lioston. I think it wis. The first four had spoken. Mr. Payne then burning words that brought tears from their eyes. When he eoneluded the four by turns embraced him. Washington broke the silence, and said: '"Go and write what you have said and it shall h ctrcul ited to every family in Aroeriei. Benjamin Bush a printer sail. I will print it. In a few days a pamphlet entitled "Common Sense"* was ready for the press. It was printed and circulated and thousands "f copies sold. Soon after this Thomas Jefferson wrote his famous Declaration of ludep -n lenee. - A hideous war followed for seven memorable. years. Were there ever in the world"- history another live men so sm-orr>K!> WITH fTLORY. They laid the foundation of a government so l>ig with human rights. Their dark- and doubtful case was won.y A new nation horn with human individual rights better secured than in man's wisdom >ti" world ever had. Washington its lirsl jtresident. Jefferson its third. !'- atilclin. Minister to France. Benjamin Bush 1 cannot trace. The -erond session of congress awarded I 'ay he *.'!.oim. Pennsylvania $&o00. New York state a farm worth *.'!.< ><)(>. I am proud to have in my little library

--common skxsi:"' ami Washington's Farewell Address. p should be again Circulated to every family in America, that we may not lo.se sight of the noble principles in it initiated. Washington's Farewell Address should be read and re-read. In our great riches and freedom marks a time in which we may fall. To keep a good thing requires as much wisdom and care as to obtain it.

The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive I irovvrnment of the United States, being | not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the perse m who is to be clothed with th if important trust, it appears to me propel", especially as it may conduce to a more, distinct expression of the public voice. that 1 should now apprise you of tiit resolution I have formed, to decline being considered among the number of those out of whom the choice is to be made.

1 bey you at tin same time to do me the justice to be assured, that this resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country: and that in withdrawing the tender of service, which silence in my situation might imply. I am influenced by no diminution of zeal for your future intere.-t: no deficiency of grateful respect for your past kindness: but am supported by a full conviction, that the step is compatible with both.

The acceptance of. and continuance hitherto in. the office to winch your suffrages have twice called me. have been an uniform sacrifice of inclination to the opinion of duty, and -to a defei-- ence for what appeared to be your lie- I sire. I constantly hoped that it would have been much earlier in my power. consistently with motives which I was} not at liberty to disregard, to return to I that retirement from which I had been j reluctantly drawn. The strength of my inclination to do this, previous to the last election, had even led to the preparation of an address to declare it to you: but mature reflection on the then perplexed and critical posture of our affairs with foreign nations, and the unanimous advice of persons entitled to my confidence, impelled me to abandon the idea

I rejoice that the state of your concerns, external as well as internal, no longer renders the -pursuit of inclination incompatible with the sentiment of duty or propriety: and am persuaded, j whatever partiality may be retained for my services, that in the present i circumstances of our country, you will not disapprove of my determination to ! retire.

The impressions with which I at first Undertook the arduous trust, were explained on the proper occasion. In the discharge of this trust I will only say. that I have, with good intentions, con- | tributed towards the organization and administration of the government, the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable. Not uneonseious in the outset, of the inferiority of my qualifications, experience in my own eyes, perhaps still more in the eyes of others, has, strengthened the | motives to ditlideifce of myself: and every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more.! that the shade of retirement is as j necessary to me as it will be welcome, j Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, | they were temporary, 1 have the consolation to believe, that while choice and j prudence invite me to quit the political i scene, patriotism does not forbid it. i

In looking forward to the mouu-nl which is to terminate the career of \u\ political life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep acknowledgment of that debt of yratitude which I owe to my beloved country, for the many honors it has conferred upon me: still more for the steadfast confidence with which it has supported me: and for the opportunities I have thence enjoyed of manifesting my inviolable attachment, by services faithful and persevering, though in usefulness unequal to my zeal, if benefits hive resulted to our country from these services, let it always be remembered to your praise, and as an instructive example to our annals, that under circumstances in which the passions'; agitated in every direction, were liable to mislead amidst appearances sometimes dubious - -vicissitudes of fortune often discouraging - in situations in which not frequently want ul success has countenanced the spirit of criticism the constancy of your sti|>- port was the essential prop of the efforts and a guarantee of the plans 1>> which they were effected. Profound i\ penetrated with this idea. I shall earn it with me to my grave, as a strong incitement to unceasing wishes, th.il Heaven may continue to you the choicest tokens of its beneficence tint your union and brotherly affection m i\ beperpetu il that the free constitute -a. which is tin- work of your hands. m:i> be sacredly maintained - that its administration in every department m i.v be stamped with wisdom and virtue thai, in fine, the happiness of the people "' these states, under the auspices ". liberty, may he made complete '>> -" careful a preservation and so prudent a use of this blessing, as will acquire I" them the glory of recommending it i» the applause, the affection, an I the adoption, of every nation which is y«*i a st range!" to it.-

Here perhaps. [ ought to stop. Hut j turning yourselves to think and speak ;i solicitude for your welfare, which j of it as of the palladium of your political cannot end but with my life, and the I safety and prosperity: watching for its apprehension of danger natural to that preservation with jealous anxiety: dis-

Milieitude. urge ine on an occasion like tlie present, to offer to your solemn contemplation, and to recommend to your frequent review, some sentiments.

countenancing whatever may suggest even a suspieion that it can in any event be abandoned: and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of which are the result of much reflection, every attempt to alienate any portion of no inconsiderable observation, and | of our country from the rest, or to enwhich appear to me all-important to j feeble the sacred ties which now link the permanency of your felicity as a i together the various parts, people. These will be offered to you | For this you have every inducement with the more freedom, as you can only j of sympathy and interest. Citizens by see in them the disinterested warnings birth or choice of a common country, of a parting friend, who can possibly that country has a right to concentrate have no personal motive to bias his j your affections, The name of America, counsel. Xor can I forget as an en- | which belongs to you in your national rouragenient to it. your indulgent re- : capacity, must always exalt the just caption of my sentiments on a former pride of patriotism, more than any and not dissimilar occasion. ; appellation derived from local discrim-

Interwoven as i> the love of liberty j i nations. With slight shades of differuith every ligament of your hearts, no ence. you have the same religion, recommendation of mine is necessary j manners, habits, and political printo fortify or confirm the attachment. jeiples. Von have in a common cause