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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-11-28
DIDN'T WANT MUCH.

But Only "Just What Was Comm to
Him."
A story is told in Harper's Weekly
of a farmer who went into the store
of one of his neighbors and asked him
if he didn't want to trade.
"Watchergot?" said the storekeeper.
The man ran his hand into his coat
pocket and pulled out an egg. "This,"
said he.
zone aig ~ said the storekeeper.
"And what you want for that?"
WALL" drawled the man, ''you can
gimme couple of kittin' needles for
it, can't yer y
EFF that's ALL" said the storekeeper,
81 reckon I kin"
The man received the knitting nee
dies, and, looking up at the store
keeper, he said: aren't you going to
treat?" (The custom of the vicinity
demands treat whenever a swap OF
any kind is made.)
WELL" said the storekeeper, what
you want?''
ooh, I'm not particular" said the
man. "Gi me a drink O. sherry
So the storekeeper handed out a
hottie of shedry and a glass.
Help yourself"
The man thought moment and
then said, solemnly: II nevah drink
sherry without breakin' an aig in it.
well, upon NAH SOUL! thought the
storekeeper. But he handed him the
egg he had just received and SAID:
.eHere's yuh aig; you kin hav it,
The man broke the egg into the
glass of sherry, and in doing so dis
covered that the egg had two yolks'
He drained the glass, smacked his
lips. pronounced it fine drink, and
then said to the storekeeper:
'eYou know, you ought to gl me
two more knittin' needles, don't your
''Why?" asked the storekeeper, per
picked.
Because said the man, that aig
O. mine had two yolks!"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-11-28

en- are reading the newspapers. For
these reasons the American woman
and the very young woman at that
who had won a place in Western lit
erature, and had become famous for
her novels, was center of double at
traction The Toxic papers and the
womans magazines devoted pages to
Miss Rives' doings and opinions on all
sorts of subjects; her picture was
put on view at the Uyeno exposition
Just closed, and a Toxic publishing
house is now preparing to issue Jap
anese version of "The Castaway,' her
novel of several seasons ago, founded
on the life of Lord Byron.
Mrs. es-Wheeler tells a story
apropos this personal interest.
One day her rick-a-sha coolie, mis-
taking her directions, took her to the
wrong spot (she had wanted to visit
the tomb of one of the Tycoons) and
she was unable to make him under
stand. A Japanese boy of fifteen or
sixteen years of age, who happened to
be passing, approached, and with a
low, C0ISuOuIdl UOW, Sdiu SIdNSly III
broken English: "You are lost. Tell
me where and | shall find out"
She told him her intended objective
point, and he directed her rick -a-sha
man. Then he astonished her by say
ing:
Il think you must be the American
novel-lady. I have seeing a picture to
you of the newspaper"
Japanese interest in Miss Rives
was naturally not lessened when it be-
came known that she had come to
Japan to marry a member of the
American embassy.
When a man in the diplomatic SER
vice marries abroad, the affair has al
ways it's national bearings, and in this
particular instance the affair had spe-
cial features of real diplomacy. The
event took place at the time when the
San Francisco anti-Japanese agitation
was at it's height. Toxic was much
excited, it's papers were full of war
like fulminations against the United
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-11-28

lister to Japan, sister of Rider Hag
gard, has decided literary tastes. ano
the pair often eniven a glittering state
dinner by literary duel The prime
favorite of Toxic has always been
Madame Bakhmeteff, wife of the Rus
sian minister, who was Miss Mary
Beale of Maryland, and a sister OF
Mrs John Mclean of Cincinnati and
Washington. Madame Bakhmeteff,
who speaks seven languages and
wears three turquoise rings on each
of her ten fingers, is known the world
over for her warm heart and her &c.
centricities and rules the foreign so.
ciety of Toxic with a heavy rod. On
Miss Rives' first evening in the CAPT.
tai, the two found themselves dining
at opposite ends of the long dining
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-11-28
THE CAFE REVOLUT1ONIST.
He Isn't Doing Business Any More in
Havana and Is DISCOURAGED.


Maj. Herbert J. Slocum of the Sec
ond United States cavalry has been
detailed in Cuba for some years. 1t
was he who brought the guardia ru-
rale in that country up to a point Of
efficiency, so that the island is safer
now than ever before.
He and his guard have been very
keen after the persons who plot in
surrection, and as a result the few
remaining recalcitrants have had
miserable time of it recently.
Some one commented upon the fact
that there were no more parties Of
revolutionists to be seen about the
cafes in Havana talking blood and
drinking coffee.
tNo, we've stopped the cafe revolu-
ZIONIST" said Maj. S1ocum.
tHow do they like the changer he
was asked.
'They don't like it at all. They
don't think we play the game fairly
Every we'll conducted revolutionist
thinks that a cafe is the place to plot
in. But since we've driven few Of
them out to the mountains in the
rainy season revolutions have dropped
away off in popular favor.
"It isn't such fun plotting in the
wet and there's no one around to see
whata hero you are"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-11-28
A VALUABLE HOME RECIPE.
Will Break Up Cold in "a Hours or
Cure Any Cough That Is Durable.

Mix one-half ounce of Concentrated
oil of pine with two ounces of glycer-
inc and half pint of good whisky.
Shake thoroughly each time and use
in doses of a teaspoonful to a table
spoonful every four hours.
The renowned throat and lung spe-
cialist who established camp for con-
sumptives in the pine woods of Maine,
and whose remarkable cures there at
tracted international attention, de-
clares that the above formula is one
of the very best remedies obtainable
for an acute cold and that it will
strengthen the lungs, relieve coughs
and heal the bronchial tubes. Also,
that it will cure any case of lung trou,
BILE not too far advanced If the patient
will assist by plenty of outdoor exer-
else, inhaling deep, long breaths every
few minutes.
The ingredients are procurable Of
any good prescription druggist and
easily mixed at home and should take
it's place as one of the most valued
remedies in the family medicine chest.
Inquiry at one of the leading drug
gists elected the information that Con.
centrated oil of pine is put up for
dispensing only in half-ounce walls Sc
curely sealed in round air tight cases in
tended to protect it from heat and
light. The oils sold in bulk and the
patent medicines put up and labeled
"Oil of Pine" are to be avoided be-
cause owing to their impurities they
produce nausea and are useless as a
medicine, besides they sometimes
leave permanent kidney trouble.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-11-28
BABY rTcHED TERRIBLY.
Skin-Doctors No AvaiI-Cured
by Cuticura Remedies.

my baby's face and neck were Gov.
cred with itching skin similar to ecze-
ma, and she suffered terribly for over
a year. took her to number of doc
tors, and also to different colleges, to
no avail. Then Cuticura Remedies
were recommended to me by Miss G..
I did not use it at first, as | had tried
so many other remedies without any
favorable results. At last tried Cuti-
cura Soap, Cuticura Ointment and
Cuticura Resolvent Pills, and to my
surprise noticed an Improvement.
After using three boxes of the Cuti-
cura Ointment, together with the Soap
and Pills, I am pleased to say she is
altogether a different child and the
picture of health. Mrs. A. G. Brestlin,
III N. Lincoln ST., Chicago, ILL.,, Oct.
20 and 30, 1906"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-11-28

room of the Hotel Imperial. Madame
Bakhmeteff studied the slim figure
awhile through her lorgnette. THANK
Cod" she said at last to the tablefull,
there's a woman with originality.
I'm going to like that girl" And she
did-as their present close friendship
vouches.
Indeed, originality is the breath in
Halle Erminie Rives' nostrils. At the
in a unique way. Things American,
she believes, are apt to be the best
of their kind. Her guests on this &C.
casion found themselves seated at a
table which bore no resemblance to
the usual state board. 1t was not
French, but Colonial-American. A
long mirror '1ake" was in the middle,
with a wilderness border of old-fash.
toned flowers. The menu card was
uncompromisingl American, and was
printed in English.
The dinner. so far as Toxic went,
was a new sensation. The Spanish
minister. Senior Barrera, sent his sec.
! rotary next morning to beg for the
recipe of the turnip green's, and it is
still told that his excellency Yank 500,
the Chinese minister, ate three pieces
of hot mince pie.
Imitation is the sincerest fattery.
Ten days afterward the Austrian am
bassador gave a Hungarian luncheon,
and since then ''natiOnaP' dinners
have quite come into vogue.
During the months of her life in
Japan there has been no more earnest
student of things Japanese than Hal
lie Erminie Rives. She has begun
now to understand the musical tongue
that has but siXty-eight syllables. In
the afternoons she rides through the
country, stopping for tea at some vii
lage shrine, generally accompanied by
her Japanese teacher.
All the time her pencil and note
book are busy. Will the successor to
Satan Sanderson" be a Japanese
novel? The Japanese think so, and
audibly hope so, for they know she
likes them, and where liking is there
is sympathy and understanding. Ger
tain it is that she writes half of every
day in her garden, opposite the embas-
sy, where her workshop is a summer
house, by the side of lotus pond full
of golden carp, with an old stone lam
tern from some ruined Shinto temple,
standing guard beside it.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-11-28

A bright morning star of the liter
airy world in the West is now visit
living in Toxic. Of a wealthy and IL
1ustrious sword-bearing family in
America, and one of it's most celebrat-
ed novel-composing persons, she has
left her country for stay-doing in Jap
an, where she lives and is happy in
the Japanese style. Dressed in white
silk, she loves to impart, from her
fancy like the poets, thoughts of this
country. To tell of her in a single
page is like attempting to describe
beautiful woman by drawing her
bones.
So the "Kokumin Shimbun,' the So
berest of the Japanese capitals YER
nacular newspapers, began its write
up of Halle Erminie Rives, the V1r-
ginia novelist, who last December mar
ried Mr.. Post Wheeler, one of the sec
retaries of the American embassy at
Toxic.
The female novelist is not common
in Japan. There has never been but
one, in fact, worth talking about. This
was Murasako no Shillibu, who, in the
year 1904, A. D., wrote a novel called
"Genji Monogatari," the adventures of
Japanese. Don Juan, in fifty-four
books and something under 5000
pages, which remains classic. To
the Japanese, therefore, the advent of
female novelist from America was
something interesting.
Woman, moreover, has always been
the submerged sex in the Land of the
Rising Sun, but since the war, in the
fierce Western wave of mOdernization
that has been sweeping over the coun-
try, she has begun to demand more
social freedom, and a place in the
worlds affairs. Wives of high Japan
csc officials have begun differently to
entertain in European built houses,
wearing European gowns, which lat
ter the court rule demands shall be
worn instead of the kimono at all
court functions. The girls throughout
the empire have taken to going to col
lege like their brothers. and the wom-
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-11-28
CHAPTER XIV.
Loves Confession.

Loves Confession.
| When May came to herself she was
still alone. She had lit the gas before
she had drawn down the blind. She
went to the window at once. People
| passing along the street would be
| able to look in.
Across the road she saw man
He was standing under lamp post
and appeared to be watching the
house.
That alarmed her. She drew the
blind down hastily, and then noticed
that she had the unopened telegram
still crushed in her hand
She tore the envelope open and
nerved herself to read a message from
her husband.
When she found that the telegram
was from Claire Barton, the revulsion
of feeling was so great that she sat
down and laughed Historically.
She was glad that Claire had re-
membered her; sorry that she had
not been at home when Claire called.
The message from her friend re-
minded her that she had overlooked
one means of changing her address
without letting Mrs. Cheney know
where she had gone.
Claire had fiat, and she could find
fresh lodgings and give Claire as a
reference
She had been sent home by the
firm, ill, and told to take rest. She
would stay away from business for a
day or two, and employ her time in
finding a fresh home. She would go
the next day and see Claire, and ask
her is she might give her name if a
reference was required. She was de-
termined to get away now. She felt
sure that the house was being watch
ed with the idea that her husband
might come to her, or she might go
to him.
Probably the man she had seen un-
der the lamp post opposite was de-
tective. She put the telegram in her
pocket and went down stairs to find
TUNA and Mrs. Cheney, and ask them
if any one had called.
TUNA, who had run out on an err
rand, had just come in. Mrs. Cheney
had gone to Camberwell, and 'Tunia
didn't expect her in till past 10.
'Tunia told Miss Wilson that a
young lady had called about 4 o'clock
"a beautiful young lady, ''got up nc
end''-and she had seemed very much
''took aback' as Miss Wilson wasn't
in
May stopped for moment chatting
with TUNA, and then went up stairs
to her own room.
ITO Be Continued.)
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-11-28
How He Won the Title.

Down in the Southern states there
is such surplus of titles the stranger
often grows weary hearing them. Not
long ago a Chicago tourist, who had
halted in little Georgia town to have
the mud washed off his touring car,
engaged the colored boots of the
only hotel in conversation.
Everybody is Judge or col,
oneP or major down here, isn't he,
Sam?" he queried
Eyes, sab" replied Sam with grin.
well, who is that angular gentle
man with the white goatee?"
dat am Jedge Chester, sab"
Judge, eh? What was he ever
judge OFF"
ooh, he's jedge of good cigah,
sab. OATS how he got the title"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-11-28

feet. Indeed, it may be said to have
begun the era of better feeling. In
stead of choosing his best man, by
time-honored custom, from the corps
diplomatique, he chose a Japanese,
Count Terashima, secretary OF the
foreign office and confidential secre-
tary of Viscount Hayashi, minister for
foreign affairs. The count who is a
member of the house of peers, was a
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-11-28

college mate, years ago, as it hap
pened, of Mr.. Wheeler's at the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania. Six of the
younger members of the foreign office
and six chancellors of the imperial
household Mr.. Wheeler invited to act
as ushers and masters of ceremonies.
The popularity thus begun Mrs.
Wheeler has added to. The more
stilted foreign embassies found her
nothing if not original The Baroness
d'Anethan, wife of the Belgian min
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-11-28
A Sound Sleeper.

Della" began Mrs. Newliwed, tim
idly. 81 don't suppose-er-that you
would-er-object to my getting an
alarm clock?"
mot at all, ma'am," replied the
sleepy cook; "them things never dis
turb me at ALL"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-11-28
Aftermath.

Visitor-How are conditions here?
Has confidence returned?
Resident Conditions are slowly set
Ting down to their former basis, but
confidence has not returned. Most of
the people still believe it was the chill
d1en of their next door neighbors that
carried away their gates last Thurs
day night"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-11-28
HALLE ERMINIE RIVES
IN HER TOXIC HOME
The Only Woman Novelist in Diplomatic Lne-What
She Thinks of the Japanese and What the
Jaoanese Think of Her.

States, and the whole situation was
becoming what diplomatists call "del-
icate" Mr. Wheeler made the affair
a soothing salve to smarting Japanese
sensibilities that had a profound ef-
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-11-28
Orthodox Exclamation.

A mother was giving her little girl
a bath when she said: IT wonder
where this dust on the water came
from?'
Small Girl-Perhaps I leak some
where, mamma. You know, I'm made
of dust"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-11-28
From the Deep.

First Fish-What's the latest news?
Second FISH haven't heard, but
there's a man on the shore now who
is going to drop me line.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-11-28

The stress and the excitement had
been too much for her.
She reeled and staggered to 2
chair and fell into it fainting.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-11-28

What grand thing the phonograph
would have been in the days of the in
question:!
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-11-28

Reams of Testimony.
The leaves in Fall are all af1ame,
Likewise aglow.
So many poets make this claim
It must be so.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-11-28
A Well Known Instance.

1--WE are getting up a society for the
suppression of useless noise"
docs noise really hurt town"
''Well, it killed Jericho
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-08-16
SENDS GREETING.

To the Pastors Of the Denver District
OF the African Methodist Episcopal
Church, this comes greeting:
With heartfelt thanks to the Giver
Of all good, we acknowledge manifold
blessings in the conference year now
nearly ended The near approach of
the annual conference admonishes us
that We exert every energy to appear
at the annual assembly with full
rounded reports. This being the last
year in the term, and in the admin.
istratlon Of our beloved Bishop Abra-
ham Grant, previous to the general
conference, we owe it to ourselves to
Bishop Grant and to the work in which
we are engaged, that we do our very
best. Do not forget the collection for
the expenses Of the delegates to the
general conference Western Univers-
ity appeals to us for aid. Some Of us
will have. to double the efforts we
made last year, II the Fifth Episcopal
District succeeds in raising her $4,000
for w. U. this year. In regard to
dollar money, we look for collection
far exceeding that OF any previous
effort In the history of the conference.
| need not stop to enumerate, but
call your attention to the fact that
we need an increase in the reports, on
all lines of our church work. God
bless you and yours, and the work
committed to your hands. When the
roll is called on the 18th of Septem-
ber In Denver, let us all be there.
Yours in His name.
JAS. H. HUBBARD, P. E.,
1924 Stout St. Denver, Col.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-08-16
A GOOD TIME PROMISED.

All the members in good standing
of The Commonwealth Life are n
vited to come out to the meeting ON
Friday, Aug. 23rd. as they are going
to serve refreshments in their new
hall, 17l2 Curtis. Refreshments viii
be free to all members.
The plan of Dunbar Assembly of
giving prizes of hand-paintsd china U
members present is proving great
success. There were double as many
present at the last meeting as at any
this summer.
The hand-painted plate was won b.
Miss Cecilia Walker of Twenty-first
and Arapahoe and the consolation
prize by Mr.. Jno. Jackson.
Don't forget the date and if you az,
not member become one before ine
23rd. Special iispensation on for the
summer months.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-08-16

manded "Misereve," from III Trova.
tore" Mrs. A. A. Waller taking so.
prano, Chas. A. Clark tenor. Then a
solo by Mrs. Lillian H. Jones, "Old
Madrid" also a song Nobody Just
Like You by DR.. T. E. Mcclellan.
The club was then served with re-
freshments consisting of lobster salad
ices, cake and bonbons.
Mr.. Trimble, father of Mrs. West
brook, spent the evening with the
club. Mrs. Westbrook will leave soon
with her father to visit her fomrer
home In Tennessee.
Miss NJ. Thirkles left Thursday for
visit of several weeks to her old
home near Kansas City, Mo The
club will meet regularly every Mon
day night with Mrs. Waller, 2606 Gil
pin street.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-08-16
CLUB NOTES.

The Azalia Hackley Choral Club
met In Fun Session" Monday night
at the beautiful home Of Director A.
A. Waller, 26O6 Gilpin street, and so
pleasantly did the hours glide that
when the announcement time for
owl cara" We heard all avowed with
protest "owl cars are six hours early"
The evening was spent In various
amusements interspersed with pro-
gram consisting OF instrumental solo
by Mrs. ]. H. P. Westbrook. "Of Ala
hama" and "Old Black Joe" with sew
eral Of the sweetest and most dim
cult variations. Remarks by DR.. Har-
per on "Our Splendid Past and Our
Promising Future"
A solo by Mrs. Moore, Rosary"
The club sang the last two Choir
uses from "Belshazsar."
The club becoming reminiscent de.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-08-16
'ris the Heart Within Ysu, Lsl

You may fancy when you read
How some great man OF the past
Led where others feared to lead,
Planning well and holding fast
That the fates or chance. some waN.
Gave the sweet success he hAl,
That Il merely happened-nay,
Twas the heart within him, lad.
Was It chance or luck or Fate
That made Washington persist
TIL another sovereign state
Had been added to the list!
Could some other. do you say.
With such chances as he had,
Have won all his glory?-Nay.
Twas the heart within him, ~
Do you see some rival rise
While you toll away belowf
Do you find that trouble lies
In the hard way that you gof
Do you think you might to-day
You that follow glum and sad
Ls.,d II luck pursued you?-Nny,
It's the heart within you. lad.
3. z. KissF.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-02-28

It costs nearly $4,000 a year to
run Bamberg county, and yet the
tax payers do not know how or
what their money is spent for. An
tented statement should be pub
Iished, showing fully and plainly the
nature Of every expenditure. The
people who pay the taxes should de-
mand this. Our county has been ex-
.tremely fortunate, and her financial
condition is today no doubt as good
as that of any county in the State.
We feel sure our officials are doing
all they can to keep down expenses.
But that's not the point. The peo-
pie ought to know something OF how
their money is being spent and for
what purposes.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-02-28
Both Right.

The Orangeburg Times and Demo
crat republishes our paragraph IN
reference to the vote of J. A. Banks,
a member of the legislature from
that county, on the dispensary, and
says:
''Not so fast, Brother Knight.
There is no question but that you
were right, but we claim that we
were too. On the stump during the
campaign Col. Banks said he was a
good friend of the dispensary, and,
while it is true he voted in the leg
islature for the Carey-C -Cothran bill,
it is also true that he voted in the
legislature for the Richards bill.
So you see, Brother Knight, that
while Col. Banks voted against the
State dispensary when he voted for
the Carey-C Cethran bill, he voted for
the State dispensary when he voted
for the Richards bill, which The
State says was a new edition of the
Raysor-Manning bill, and which was
intended to purify the State dispen-
sary and not kill it. If the votes re-
corded by The State was correct, we
are both right, Brother Knight, as
the same day in the legislature Col:
Banks is recorded as voting for and
againstIthe State dispensary.