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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-22
TELLS LOVE IN LEGAL FORM.
Wooer of Washington Widow Makes
Deposition He Adores Her.

OF a score or more of prominent
Washington widows, one of the most
conspicuous is Mrs Albert Clifford
Barney, who sailed for Europe few
days ago, after receiving the most ex-
traordinary declaration of affection
ever bestowed on mortal woman. Mrs.
Barney has the assurance that she
possesses all the charm of her girl
hood days, despite the fact that she is
the mother OF two daughters to all out
ward appearance as old as herself, for
one of her adorers-she has several
has just gone before notary and
made solemn deposition in legal form
that he loves her for herself alone and
furthermore, that should she consent
to marry him he will never accept one
penny of her fortune in life or make
any claim on her estate should he sur
vive her
He has proposed orally so many
times without getting any results that
in desperation he has at last resorted
to this method. And even after this
Mrs. Barney sailed away without en-
couraging, much less accepting, the
suit of so disinterested lover. The
latter is, however, not wholly discour-
aged, and proposes following his
adOred one to Paris.
The object of this disinterested af-
lection was born a Miss Pike, of Gin
cinnati, the daughter of that wartime
manufacturer of a whisky which laid
the foundation of the vast fortune this
twentieth century knight treats with
noble scorn. She is handsome wom-
an possessed of great talent, as por-
trait painter, several of her pictures
having received distinguished notice
at the exhibitions of the Corcoran art
gallery. AS practical illustration Of
artistic temperament, she has taken to
architecture, having built herself a
wonderful house, combining in de-
lightful fashion the purposes of a
home, a garage, and studio.
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orluin of the Sedan Chair.

Perhaps some expert in the Siamese
language will tell us what is it's word
for sedan chair" When the king of
Slams ministers, protecting against
his majesty's favor toward motoring,
suggested recently that ''the royal Sc.
dan chair" was always at his disposal,
it is improbable that they used word
reminiscent of the French town.
For it is from the scene of Napc-
leon Ills collapse that the sedan chair
takes it's name, and perhaps remote
posterity will suppose that it had some
connection with that event. But Sc
dan first produced these conveyances
centuries ago, and they were seen in
England in 1881. One used by James
rs Buckingham provoked great popu.
lar cutlery against the employment of
men as beasts of burden. Sir S. Dun.
combe is credited with having intro
duced them to London in 1884.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-22

cebu. With only little tightening OF
the materials throughout and the ad.
dition of pneumatic tires, it would
look for all the world like modern
sulky, which drivers use for their
speed trials of fomous trotters like
Lou Dillon or Major Delmar.
The bicycle as a means of transpor-
tation has by no means the vogue it
once enjoyed in the United States, but
in Europe it is as popular as ever.
In many countries of the Far East
the palanquin is the favorite form for
travel of the gentry. This is the case
especially in China. The palanquin is
a sort Of carriage without wheels.
Long poles run horizontally along its
the palanquin.
They stand behind the poles, one
front, and the other back, and go
along at a lively clip.
Visitors from the Occident who
have had chance to ride this way,
comotion, easy and lulling, save for
the pity that is bound to be extended
to the carriers by those who have not
become accustomed to the idea Of man
doing the work of beast of burden.
The automobile is making it's way
in every part of the world with rap
idity that is really astonishing. Po-
tentates of the Far East have become
victims to the craze and some of the
maharajahs of India own as many as
a dozen cars, and are experts in
handling them.
In fact, every newly discovered aid
to rapid locomotion on land is sure to
be welcomed, for at the present time
the human race is faced with the diff
ficulty of finding means to get around.
Progress is really dependent on i'm
proved transportation.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-22
Heavyweiaht Kitchen Folks.

ct will do you more good to smell
food that is being cooked than it will
to eat it after it is cooked" was the
astounding statement made by a res.
taurant man.
THAT is the reason why so many
professional cooks are heavyweights.
You never saw any one who became
chef and stayed at it any length of
time but became fleshy. Cooks never
eat to any great extent, except to taste
the food at times while it is being
cooked in order to see if it is done. It
is the odor of the food in the kitchen
that makes them fat.
The same will apply in the case OF
the housewife. Continuous work in the
kitchen makes fleshy women and
healthy women. Cooking is the
healthiest occupation in the world"
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opposing the sale of all household
sdry for patients to knoa0 the c0mp0-
Sition of the remedy prescribed By q
physician? Does any sane person be-
1ieve that the opium in a physicians
prescription is less potent or less like
ly to create drug habit than the OPT
UNI in proprietary medicine? As q
matter of fact, more OpSan1-dddictS
and cocGin-1fendS haze been made
through the criminal cdrelesSneSS OF
ignorant physicians than 0y any other
means
Unquestionably, there are number
of proprietary remedies on the market
the sales of which should be prohibit
ed, and no doubt they will be when
the requirements of the Food and
Drugs Act are rigidly enforced; many
are frauds, pure and simple, and some
are decidedly harmful. Of the aver
age proprietary remedy, however, it
may truthfully be said that it is dis
tinctly better than the average physi-
clans prescription; for not only is it's
composition less secret, but it is pre-
pared for the proprietor by reputable
manufacturing pharmacists in magnifi-
Gently equipped laboratories and I'M
der the supervision and advice of able
chemists, competent physicians and
skillful pharmacists. It should not be
considered strange, therefore, that so
many physicians prefer to prescribe
these ready-prepared proprietary rem
edies rather than trust those Of their
own devising.
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The Wise Course.

Sir said the tramp, 81 have not
tasted food for seven days; another
half an hour of fasting and l must
diet"
Then said the philanthropist, "you
shall live. Take this ticket; it will ad.
nit you, in my stead, to sumptuous
banquet; course after course, meats,
wines and dessert-a feast three hours
long; glorious company-Mr. Talkfor-
hours, Mr.. Toofew, Mr.. Longyard and
other eminent men,"
will there be any after-dinner
speeches?" asked the starving one
Columns of EN-" said the phiIan.
thropist
Then the tramp handed back the
ticket and crawled YEARLY away into
silent lumber yard to die.
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PICKETT'S OLD FRIEND.
A Story Told of Abraham Lincoln's
Visit to Richmond.

A Story Told Of Abraham Lincoln's
Visit to Richmond.
The day after the great fire follow
ing the fall of Richmond, Lincoln,
with small bodyguard, walked
through the streets of the charred city.
AS he approached the corner occupied
by Gen. Pickett's residence he direct
ed the guard to wait, and to their as
constituent ran two steps at time
up to the door and raped. The serv
ants had fled. The baby bride" had
never seen President Lincoln, but she
had read his letter to her husband and
from it had learned to hold in the
highest esteem the great Northern
President. With her baby in her arms
she opened the door, says The World
To-Day, and looked up at the tall,
eaunt man with the sad face and I'M
couth ways.
Without a word of explanation he
asked:
'Ts George Pickett about?"
To hear the husbands name bereft
of it's title by Yankee at that mo
ment was almost the limit, especially
as a rumor had floated about Rich
mond concerning the fate which await
ed the leaders of the confederacy.
With all the proud dignity she
could command the baby bride re.
piled:
Gen. Pickett is not at home"
The stranger seemed disappointed
and as he turned to go remarked:
Il am Abraham Lincoln, an old
friend of Georges"
mot President Lincoln!" Mrs. Pick.
EFT exclaimed. The tall man shook his
head, repeating:
mo. Just Abraham Lincoln, George
Pickett's old friend"
Following the instinct promptings
of the heart which still governs her.
the baby bride thrust her baby boy
into the arms of the gaunt Yankee, as
her best effort to express her venera
ton and confidence, saying:
81 am George Pickett's wife and this
is George Pickett's baby"
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China, especially in the sea coast
cities, and one of the first acts of
foreigner when he comes to these
sites is to see what ride in man.
pulled wagon is like.
France finds excellent service in
dogs as a medium of travel. Ere
gueutly they are trained to draw the
wagons that deliver milk, fruit and
fish. From France to the far North,
the frozen stretches of that country to
which Polar exploration turns. is
long cry, yet were it not for the sledge
drawing dog of the arctics, Peary,
AbruZzi and the others of present day
explorers would not have been able
to make their famous researches. So
the miner in the Klondike is depend
ent entirely on the dog and sledge to
go from place to place.
The OK has always been a favorite
motor power Way back in Biblical
days he was used exclusively, and in
almost every country of the world he
bends his patient head to the yoke and
hauls freight and passengers as of
yOES- III inc ulllpplhO lole'hAS ChiOJ
have oxcarts of primitive construction,
which have room for market products
and for the owners family. The water
buffalo is also trained to do similar
duty in those islands which became
part of Uncle Sans domain as re-
suit of the Spanish-American war.
Travel in the United States is pain
fully conventional 1t is either take a
railroad car, get in the automobile,
use the trolley, or perhaps go back to
the 'antedated OLD horse car that still
survives in many cities despite the ad-
vent of steam and electricity.
But the American who wants new
sensations can get them in Africa.
Here they have broken the ostrich to
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How can the world get from place
to place is problem that is now en-
gaging the attention of lawmakers
and transportation experts.
Railroad rates, determinations, 2
cent fare bills, and a host of other
knotty questions, are bringing wrink-
les to the brows of railroad presidents
and forcing lawmakers into statutes
whose value is questioned by many
and warmly praised by others.
But not all countries have to wrestle
with this knotty issue. Some people
are mercifully delivered from railroads
and never know what the corruption
of railroad companies is. They are
still going along in the primitive fash
ion of centuries ago, with the vehicles
passed down to them from half doz-
en- generations back.
Ireland has never swayed in its 10y
altp to the jaunting car. The pictur-
esque old wagon, with its two wheels
and its fiery little pony dashing gaily
on its way, has been the subject of
many songs and poems, and it can still
be seen on Erin's isle, in any part
from north 10 south.
The jaunting car is especially well
suited for travel over the hills and
boglands of the Emerald isle.
Just as distinctively Japanese as the
5aunting car is Irish, the jinricksha of
Japan has also defied the passage of
time This is the favorite vehicle of
the japanese man of means for him
self or his lovely daughters. 1t takes
a muscular wheelman to dash over
the roads pulling the light buggy-like
wagon, but though the work may seem
hard, it is somewhat eased by the
shade trees that line all the roads in
far-off Nippon and make it only in oc-
casional stretches that the runner has
to expose himself to the sun.
The jinricksha is also in use in
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FOOD
FACTS
Grape-Nuts
F 90 ID
A Body Balance

People hesitate at the statement that
the famous food, Grape-Nuts, yields as
much nOurishment from one pound as
can be absorbed by the system from
ten pounds of meat, bread, wheat or
oats. Ten pounds of meat might con-
tain more nourishment than one pound
of Grape-Nuts, but not in shape that
the system will absorb as large pro-
portion of, as the body can take up
from one pound of Grape-Nuts.
This food contains the selected parts
of wheat and barley which are pre-
pared and by natural means predi-
gested, transformed into form or
sugar, ready for immediate assimila-
ton. People in all parts of the world
testify to the value of Grape-Nuts.
A Mo. man says: II have gained ten
pounds on Grapo-Nuts food. can
truly recommend it to thin people"
He had been eating meat, bread, etc.,
right along, but there was no ten
pounds Of added flesh until Grape-Nuts
food was used.
One curious feature regarding true
health food is that it's use will reduce
the weight of corpulent person with
unhealthy flesh, and will add to the
weight of a thin person not properly
nourished. There is abundance OF
evidence to prove this.
Grape-Nuts balances the body in
condition of true health. Scientific Sc
lection of food elements makes Grape
Nuts good and valuable. It's delicious
flavor and powerful nourishing prop
critics have made friends that in
turn have made Grape-Nuts famous.
There's a Reason" Read "The Road
to Wellville," in pkgs.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-22
MANIA FOR DANCING,
Whole Family Had Irresistible Desire
to Walk on Hands.

Whole Family Had Irresistible Desire
to Walk on Hands.
A strange scene was witnessed the
other day in the office of a Paris Pc
lice superintendent.
A woman of middle age named
Nine. Brerotti entered his bureau to
lodge a complaint on the subject OF
her house. She could not, she said
enter her apartment without an ire
sistible temptation to walk on heI
hands.
Concluding that he had to deal with
a lunatic, the officer sent for the wo
mans son, whom he told to have his
mother placed under care.
"But she is sane" said the young
man. What she says about walking
on her hands is quite true, and l feel
it myself, as does an uncle who lives
with us"
The uncle, man of so, was sum
moned and he had not been talking
to the officers many minutes before he
declared the temptation was master
ing him. Without more ado he began
careening about on his hands, mother
and son followed suit, and the superin.
tendent watched all three move easily
about on their hands with their heels
in the air.
Seeing that it was a case of family
1unatics, he hastily promised to ''have
the house disinfected," and drew up a
report to the asylum authorities.
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The troika Is the Russian form OF
carriage, pulled by three horses and
driven by picturesque Jehu, who
looks more like priest in his whis-
kers and long robe than. the kind OF
man who usually holds the reins.
In the Bible country, along the tor
tuous, narrow highways OF Palestine,
it is no rare sight to see native women
riding muleback, and often a double
saddle is fixed that one woman can
ride on each side of the long suffering
animal.
Some of the ancient wagons bear
an amusing resemblance to vehicles
that are to-day hailed as the very last
word in modern ideas of locomotion.
For instance, in the Philippines,
primitive cart is very much used. 1t
has two wheels and is drawn by
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-22
FIRST SULPHUR MATCHES
They Were Considered a Daring and Dangerous
innovation.

''Now you may throw away the tin
der box" he said.
''No such a thing" responded the
prudent woman. Matches which
light themselves will find no place
here Why, some night we might be
burned in our beds! Give me the
finder box"
A Salem, Mass, newspaper of June,
1888, speaks approvingly of one of the
inhabitants of it's town.
Notwithstanding the convenience
of those dangerous little articles
which are in almost everybody's
hands, but which, with all their
charms, bid fair to prove a heavy
curse to the community, we learn
there is one man in Salem, a respecta-
BILE tradesman who keeps a store
where we should generally expect to
find such things, but who has never
sold them or allowed them to be used
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SAVING Further Trouble.

Ambassador Bryce at dinner in
Urbana, ILL.,, gave a young lady some
tips on European travel.
"And above ALL" he said, don't fail
to tip your cabman literally. Han
SONS and four-wheelers would be
cheap in London if one only paid the
legal fare for them, but he who tries to
pay the legal farewell, he doesn't
try it more than once.
zone day l saw an old lady stop a
hanson, look up at the driver and say
timidly:
Driver, l want to go to Ludgate
circus. see by the book that the le
gal fare is two shillings. If give you
three will you promise not to swear at
me afterward?"
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In these days of rapid progress it
does not take long to make an appli-
ance old fashioned and out of date.
Not more than seventy years ago the
match was considered an innovation
of daring and dangerous type. The
conservative still scraped away with
his steel and flint, holding the sulphur
dipped stick in fear and trembling,
says the Youths Companion.
One Robert Gibbs tells the story of
the first match he ever saw. A school
fellow who had visited London brought
back with him, besides his stories of
that wonderful town, box of the new
sy invented matches. He exhibited
them to his wondering mates, and, as
a great favor, presented one to Gibbs.
The boy took his prize home, struck it
IN the chimneypiece and gleefully
watched the surprise of his mother.
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never gets in trouble with the authori-
ties, brides legislatures, permits a sys-
tenn of rebates, or discrimination or
fails to run on time. The sacred re-
bra also has to do it's share of the haul
ing, and the elephants are also press
ed into service that man, lord of ere
alton, may have his burdens eased.
Besides the jinricksha the Japs have
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could not do housework, and for two
years did not get out of the house.
The kidney secretions were irregular,
and doctors were not helping me.
Doan's Kidney Pills brought me quick
relief, and finally cured me. They
saved my life"
Sold by all dealers. so cents box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
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Secretary MoseIey's Device.

Secretary Moseley of the interstate
commerce commission has perfected a
device which is unique and which may
eventually be widely copied in public
Offices of the capital. Just outside OF
the door of his room on the fifth floor
of the American bank building he has
placed a sign on ground glass, which
ordinarily is ornamented with the sin
Gle word Secretary" The purpose OF
this sign is not understood by passers
by except when Mr. Moseley wishes to
enjoy the privacy of his room for i'm
portant public business which will not
bear interruption. Then he presses an
electric button on his desk and the
door flies shut with a bang and the
mysterious sign becomes ineligible
by the addition of the word Engaged
in red electric letters just beneath the
word Secretary" Then the secretary
is closed in as tight as drum until
the important state business has come
to a close, when the pressure of an.
other button makes the door fly open,
eliminates the caution contained in
the word Engaged" and the genial
secretary is ready to see the public
generally.
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Narcotics in the French Navy.

The extent to which the narcotic
habit prevails in the French navy was
illustrated a few days ago by the pro-
ceedings of a court-martial at Brest.
The defendants were half a dozen
seamen of ordinary rating who were
charged with a considerable number
of robberies. All the men were vic
tins of the opium or the ether habit
or both combined, and were in the
habit of bemuddling themselves daily
with these drugs, and the robberies
had been committed to crafty their
passion. Severe sentences were
passed.
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The Chief Trouble.

''It is a sad fact" said the statisti-
clan, chat the ordinary waste of food
in an English middle class family
would be sufficient to maintain wholly
a French family of similar station"
True" said the epicure "And ii
is also gratifying fact that the aver.
age French family couldn't be hired to
eat it after it had been cooked by the
average English middle class family,
SO that, after all, it is not wasted as
far as France is concerned"
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A Center Shot.

A good country mayor found him.
self at table in a large restaurant
between two young men who began
to make fun of him.
81 see, young sirs," he said ''that
you are making fun of me. But | as
sure you that am neither stupid nor
an ass"
"Ah," said one Of them, perhaps
you are between the two
Exactly" was the prompt renly;
81 am between the two"
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Her Limit.

Eva-I don't think Ethel would ever
make a successful woman Spectator.
She could never remember when to
say Buy wheat or BUY copper"
Katharine-No, indeed. About all
she could remember would be BUY
soda or BUY ice cream
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WHERE PRIMITIVE METHODS
OF TRAVEL STILL OBTAIN
People Who Do Not Haze to Worry ODer Rate LauOs
and Determination Topics.

harness, and find him fully as useful
as horse. An ostrich has enormous
muscular power in its long legs, and
can go at a speed that many a good
horse could not duplicate.
The camel, the famed ship of the
desert, is another reliable medium of
transportation in the Far East that
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Amusement for Sheep.

O'Neill brothers, who have sheep
near Montrose, have rugged up queer
contrivance to brighten coyotes away
from the sheep pens.
It is a small windmill to which is
attached bullseye lantern which
turns around. When the lantern turns
it's glare on a coyote the animal runs,
much to the amusement of the sheep.
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Miss SMITH see that the legisla'
ture has passed a law prohibiting the
women from wearing stuffed birds or
feathers on their hats.
Aunt Maria-It amt fair. I've heard
of how the men in the cities wear
swallow-tail coats, and they never say
a word against it.
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from kidney trou-
bles. My back panied
me terribly. Every
turn or move caused
S h arp, S h o o i n &
pains. My eyesight
was poor, dark spots
appeared before me,
and / had dizzy
SPELLS. For ten years
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The Motor Face. {

A few days ago a we'll known per
sonage was motoring in Derbyshire
when policeman stopped him.
you'll have to take off that mask,
said the officer, cts frightening every
one who sees it."
'But I'm not wearing one!" explain
ed the unfortunate offender.