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avoided is shown by Michigan man
who has invented a skirt guard for
the purpose. The guard is very
Simple in construction, consisting OF
a pair of wheel tenders in the form
of quarter-circle. These Tenders
are supported on brackets which ex-
tend from the body of the baby car
riage and from the axle. They are
positioned just back of the rear
wheels. Instead of the skirt brush
ing against the wheel, it strikes the
fender or guard, being thus protected
from the dirt which naturally ad-
heres to the tires of the Wheel
Washington Star.
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The story has long been firmly cred
tied by the middle and lower classes
in Russia, and it has even received
a measure of counteuance from the
best Of Alexander's biographers, Gen
eral Schilders. OF this legend the
Grand Duke has made a careful
study, with the result that he shows
conclusively by documentary and
other evidence that it is a legend and
nothing more.-Daily Graphic.
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ar curve. Whether that material be

lar curve. Whether that material be
asphalt or wood, it often lacks any
special depression for gutter What
has been done along the Jamestown
Boulevard, as this avenue is called;
is to make true gutter and also to
combine it with the curbstonc. They
are made Of concrete, a material the
use of which is steadily finding new
applications. His drawing tells the
story so we'll that little comment :s
necessary.
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Russian Parallel to the Druce Case.

Russian Parallel to the Druce Case.
The Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhail-
ovitch has lately issued in ST. Peters,
burg a little work entitled THE
Legend of Alexander I. in Siberia.
One finds in it curious parallels to the
sensational mystery which Mr.. Plow-
den is endeavoring to unravel. Thus,
like the fifth Duke of Portland, the
Gear Alexander 1. is alleged to have
led a double life and also to have
arranged a bogus funeral of himself.
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Archbishop Invested.
Archbishop O'Connell was invested
with the sacred palllum by Cardinal
Gibbons at Boston.
Feminine Notes.

Philadelphia schoolgirls have been
warned not to annoy people by
glggling in the trolleys.
Lady Showing Ichijo, mother of the
Empress, died at Toxic, Japan. She
was eighty years old.
Mrs. McKenna, the wife Of Colonel
McKenna and daughter Of R. c. ker'
ems, of st. Louis, died in Paris,
France.
Marjorie Conley, a hello girl, OF
New York City, was married to ID.
Perry Wilson, of Lock Haven, Pa.
who saved her from drowning at AT,
iantic City two years ago.
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Concrete Gutter and Curb.

From Norfolk to the grounds OF
the exposition held in commemora-
ton of the settlement OF jamestown
there runs wide street, six or eight
miles in length. In its construction
some new ideas have been tried. In
a letter to Engineering News V. ".
Dow, who has had some experience in
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Skirt Guard.

One of the nuisances in connec-
tion with propelling baby carriage
or go-cart, as every mother knows,
is the impossibility of preventing the
skirts coming in contact with the
dirty wheels; consequently, in time
running it. How easily this can be
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James Estate to Be Settled.

AS the result of compro mise ef-
lected with the contestins heirs, the
estate Of Z. w. James, OF Norfolk
ya., who left S250,000 to the Uni
versity of Virginia, will be settled at
pnce. The will contest was decided
adversely to the heirs.
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Seven Burned to Death.

The home of Anthony Franklin, a
negro, of Bedford City, Va, collapsed
and was burned. His entire family.
consisting of himself, his wife and
five children, was burned to death.
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also admits of the handles being set
at right angles, and at other angles,
giving the workman a wide range OF
adjustment, and making it possible
to set the handles in positions best
suited for special kinds of work. The
means for locking the several ad-
justments assures rigidity, it being
impossible for the handles to slip.
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BRYAN Favors Roosevelt Policies.
w. J. Bryan, while in Washington,
told the Democratic Senators that the
party platform should be framed to
embody the Roosevelt policies.
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Victory For Haitian Government.

Haitian Government forces at
tackled and recaptured the town of
st. Marc. the insurgents offering
slight resistance.
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Moroccan Policy Sustained.

The Chamber of Deputies, at Paris,
by a vote Of 42S to 90, sustained the
French Governments policy in Mo-
rocco.
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Socialists Husband Arrested.

John A. Jones, husband of Eliza
beth Flynn, the girl Socialist agitator.
was arrested at Aurora, Minn.. on a
charge of incendiarism.
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Trust Publicity Wins,

Claus A. Spreckels won his fight
for greater publicity in the affairs of
the American Sugar Refining Com
pany.
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Vote Confidence in Japan's Cabinet.
Japans House Of REPRESENTATIVE
voted confidence in the Cabinet.
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Money Easy, Mills Start.

More manufacturing plants have
resumed and money is abundant at
Rsy terms.
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such matters, describes them. Very
often the pavement of modern
street Is arranged so that the mater
ial covering the surface reaches from
the centre to the curbstone in a regu-
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-09-10
Union Labor Vote.

Hon. william III. Buchanan 10 one Of
the leading union men of western New
York and In 1907 was the Democratic
candidate for assemblyman in Chau-
tauaua county. This is what he has to
say of the effort Of Mr.. Gompers to
turn the labor vote over to Mr.. Bryan I:
81 am union labor man, and I want
to say further that no man can carry
the labor vote into the Democratic
camp. I know how union labor men
feel in this city, and three-fourths of
them will stand by the Republican
party because only In that way have
they the assurance Of freedom from
the business disturbance that Mr.. Bry-
an promises fer at least four years II
he can he elected. We workingmen
can't earn wages If statesmen are put
In Office to disturb business and make
trouble"
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TAFT'S RELIGION.
Fl b
A Consistent Christian with No Spot
Upon His Record of Private Con-
duct and Public Service.

A Consistent Christian with No Spot
Upon His Record of Private Con-
duct and Public Service.
To dispose Of questions which should
not be asked as speedily as possible let
us say that Mr.. Taft Is a member Of
the Unitarian church. That was the
church of his parents, and he has never
separated himself from it. His wife,
however, is an Episcepalian, and he
worships more often beside her In her
church
These are the facts, which are utter
~ and absolutely unimportant The
matter of mans religion has no right
full place In consideration Of his fitness
for the presidency. The constitution
Of the nation, ordained and established
ito secure the blessings OF liberty to
ourselves and our posterity," expressly
places the very suggestion Of such
thought outside the pale Of patriotism.
No words. can be clearer than these
from our country's fundamental law,
mo religious test ever shall be re-
CURED as a qualification to any Office
or public trust under the United
States"
The numerous queries about Mr..
Taft's religious belief shows simply the
extent to which his enemies have gone
to rouse some prejudice against him.
Since there was no spot upon his whole
clean record OF private conduct and
public service to which they could
point to Taft's detriment they display
ed their willingness to descend to any
depth of petty, cewardly, contemplate
attack that might do him HARM
Philadelphia North American.
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ly conscious Of a wound. such action
on the part of a visitor is inevitably
more or less ungracious, and coming
from so Well-bred a man as Judge Car
roll, it was. to say the least, chilling.
Pardon me, Miss Dean,' he OBJ
served with elaborate courtesy, ''but
the charms of your society have made
me forget an engagement at your
neighbours. Uncle Ike is to come
around with his violin and we are to
dance, | understand"
He arose, hat in hand.
Alicia forgot her mourning, which
might account for the fact that she
was never invited to these juvenile
festivities; she only remembered that
here she was considered passee-she
whose partners were in the habit of
overrunning the limits of her pro-
gramme!
"Do not keep the young folks wait
ing on my account, judge!" she re-
joined easily, rising, too.
George Carroll glanced at her keen
ly, with vague disquiet Once, SO
far as man may know woman, he had
known this charming, elusive, rather
contrary person. AS she stood now
leaning lightly against pillar in the
bright moonlight, that battling smile
on her lips, her eyes eyading his even
as she herself had evaded him in the
past, the attractiveness of her person
atty, subdued to some extent and as
rule by her present false social posi-
ton, was unusually in evidence.
He made a sudden movement to.
ward her. In former days these at.
lacks of impetuosity had been for this
woman one of his chief charms.
"Alicia!". he exclaimed, "tell me
something. Was it all-the big world
| mean-as good as you expected?'
Her eyes, no longer evasive, but
bright and hooking, met his full.
"Do you think if it had failed me
would tell your" So spoke those eyes
The glow in his face faded. Then
in low voice George Carroll spoke:
81 am not of the coming-back kind
I think you know that-you must
know it, Long since you told me you
had no further use for me. Yet here
| am-once more at your feet! Alicia,
give up!"
Then, as she made no reply, he ad,
ded:
81 await your verdict"
With hands spread in a gesture OF
depreciation he stood in silence.
At last she faced him, lips trem-
bling, cheeks scarlet, and dignity in
| tatters.
There seems, indeed, to be no help
for it," she began desperately, then
stopped.
In a moment she was in mis- arms,
| and the struggling words were sealed
| upon her lips.
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THE VERMONT ELECTION.
Result Of Victory Indicates Undi-
unfinished Majorities for Republi-
cans in November.

Result OF Victory indicates undl-
minished Majorities for Republi-
cans in November.
Raymond, the Washington CORE
spondent of the Chicago Tribune, who
Is regarded as one Of the most reliable
political writer's in the country, regards
the result of the Vermont election as
presaging absolute victory for Mr.. Taft.
IN recent special dispatch to the
Tribune Raymond said:
practically speaking, the result of
Tuesdays election liz more favorable to
the Republicans than they had any
right to expect because there has been
NJ determined campaign for the purpose
of making a good showing in Vermont
and few Of the big guns OF the party
have been put on the stump there this
year.
There ia, Of course, a slight falling
off in the vote Of both Republicans and
Democrats, as compared with four
years ago, but this was entirely to be
expected, because at that time ROose-
welt was the nominee Of his party for
president, and the result in Vermont In
that year was merely forerunner Of
the tremendous landslide which took
place nj. over the country.
"As it is, the plurality Of over $4,000
at yesterdays election Is taken to be
an indication that, while the campaign
this year is not to be sensational one,
the election Of Mr. Taft Ia foreshadowed
by safe majority.
eff Vermont can be taken as an in
dex Of the condition of public opinion
throughout the country, 1t means that
In the November election, whatever
strength the Independence League de-
velops in the other States will come
almost exclusively from Bryan and not
from Taft
1.-THE Vermont Democrats, while few
IN number, are extremely rockribbed In
their sentiments. They make point Of
going to the polls year after year and
carry on hopeless fight merely be-
cause they want to set good example
to the Democrats in other States. In
1896 they repudiated Bryan and the free
silver heresy, and they did 1t largely
by staying at home on election day.
The result was a plurality of little
ever 10000 for Mckinley, which has
been record in Vermont elections. In
the State elections of 1900 and 1904
fha Democratic vote was ORA ctically
stationary"
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THE
OLD LOVE
By EDITH NJ. NICHOLL
EOOUUUU UUVVOVVVOU
(Copyright.)

When Miss Deane returned to her
old home, after playing her part for
eight years with some distinction in
the great world, she found herself in
somewhat ambiguous situation. En-
lowed with fine figure and charm
ing face, keenly alive Intellectually,
and barely in her thirties, she was
uncomforttably surprised to learn that
her age, socially speaking, laid her on
the shelf In the eyes of a society
composed of recently emancipated
schoolgirls and boys, she posed per-
force as a disappointed old maid. This
was amusing, in view of the actual
facts; but it was also tiresome.
Her girlhood's friend George Car
roll, was her elder by several years,
although he was still safely on the
right side of 40-at which age, in
crude social circles, man verges on
decrepitude. However, he maintain
ed his high standing as a bachelor of
repute owing to the fact that he had
been recently appointed one of the
the rumor that his abilities and his
ambition would shortly translate him
to a wider sphere; otherwise, in a
community in which marriage is the
chief duty of man as we'll as of wom-
an, he might have lost caste. That
he had in the past been engaged to
Alicia Deane was an occurrence which,
in accordance with conventional ira
ditions, had never TRANSFERRED; there.
fore that she, in the natural restless.
ness of gifted youth, had discarded
him, remained equally, of course, I'M
known.
Miss Deane's ostensible reason for
tearing herself away from her mum.
erous friends and admirers was that
in this rural retreat she might the
more conveniently await the long-de-
layed settlement of her fathers af-
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Genius and Ohe si+N-

The annals of genius are filled to
overlooking with the names Of men
who toiled and achieved fame under
a full habit. Nothing can be more I'M
just than the give about 'fat and
folly" and fairness and incidence.
Martin Luther was as fat as Calvin
was thin; Ernest Remains obesity did
not obscure his insight and brilliancy.
Many writer's and speakers have too
long spoken invidiously of fairness, but
the best retort we have been able to
CLEAN in our researches into this
weighty subject is that of G. H. pur-
geon, the famous preacher. People"
said Sturgeon, "say | am fat I am
not fat | am bone and flesh. My
limbs, thank God, are amply clothed,
and | am in my right mind"
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fairs. For some months after his
death she was prey to what she told
herself was inconsistencies, and wheth
er this was it's real name or no, it is
certain that she was conscious of a
pleasurable excitement as she stepped
off the train to be welcomed, not only
by the, elderly kinswoman inhabiting
the Deane home, but also by a select
circle of old friends, Judge Carroll in
Guided.
Not long thereafter enSued the re-
action. In addition there were other
discomforts. Miss Deane was an eX-
cellent housekeeper, but exhaustive
discussions on the subject wearied her.
She enjoyed the companionship of
bright children, but not the too minute
relations of their teeth and stomach
troubles, and of their infectious dis
eases She entertained regard for
her own sex, but was not habituated
to open and detailed descriptions Of
it's physical ills. She was replete with
human interests, but would have made
a poor reporter for village paper.
Accustomed to intelligent and imper-
sonal intercourse with both sexes, she
was now to discover that any kind
of intercourse, however impersonal,
with a married man was promptly fol-
lowed by hurried and suspicious
tightening of the domestic apron
strings. Any attempt at like asso-
citation with the few still extant bach
elors of her own generation resulted
equally promptly either in matrimon-
ial symptoms on their part, or in
eager and critical expectancy of such
on the part of the village Mrs. Grundy.
She also found that her experience of
the world and her inalienable interest
in it's affairs gave rise to vague dis
trust of her "womanliness." In short,
like other women before and since,
she partook of all the disadvantages
of increasing years without a single
one of it's advantages.
All these things should, with Miss
Deane's humorous disposition, have
merely amused her. She was shocked
and COMPOUNDED to find that they hurt
her. For them-and for something
else-she had not been entirely pre-
pared.
Judge Carroll called upon her at re-
spectful intervals. In the summers OF
the rcet they had strolled or sat be
side the running creek at the foot
of the grove. Now they sat discreet
ly on the porch in chairs. Their con-
versation related almost wholly to alb
stract subjects-the news of the day,
books, music and kindred topics.
Carroll, though of later genera
ton, was both in appearance and adj
dress Virginia gentleman of the old
school, to whom social intercourse with
a lady implies courtesy of the &nest
type. Therefore when one evening, in
| the midst of an animated discussion
| in which Miss Deane was bearing well
] her part, he drew out his watch and
consulted it. his hostess was impatient
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A Brave Hunter.

Jones was one of those conceited,
make-believe bold hunters, and was
always spinning his yarns about his
experiences in Africa, and he general
ly wound UP by saying he never saw a
lion he feared. One night, after he
had finished EARNING, he was little
taken aback by one of his audience,
who said:
That's nothing. have lain down
and actually slept among lions in
their wild, natural state"
Il don't believe that. I'm no fool, .
said the bold hunter.
tits the truth, though"
"You slept among lions in their
wild, natural state?"
Eyes. I certainly did"
"Can you prove it? Were they AT
rican?'
"Well, not exactly African lions.
They were dandelions."
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Too Personal.

A trolley car had collided with a
heavily laden milk car, and sent can
after can Of milk splashing into the
street Soon a crowd gathered. A
man, coming up had to stand on tip
toe and keep lodging his head about
to see past a stout lady in front of
him. "Goodness!" he finally eX-
claimed, what an awful waste!"
The stout lady turned and glared at
him. mind your own business" she
snapped.
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LEGAL NOTICES
SUMMONS
STATE OF WISCONSIN !
CIRCUIT COURT RUSK
COITNTV

COUNI1
Wayland University, Plaintiff,
Milo Bell, administrator of the estate of
James Bell, deceased, Elizabeth Bell,
Perry M. Bell, State Bank of Lady
smith, Milo H. Bell, J. w. Bell, Mi
cheal Bell, Clifford Bell, Grace Bell,
Murril Bell, Mahlon Bell, defendants.
The State of Wisconsin, to the said de-
PENDANTS, and each of them:
You are hereby summoned to appear
within twenty days after service of
this summons, exclusive of the day of
service, and defend the above entitled
action in the court aforesaid; and in
case of your failure so to do, judgement
will be rendered against you according
to the demand of the complaint; OF
which copy is herewith served upon
you. }. h: WILDlSH,
Plaintiffs Attorney.
P. O. Address, 1O11-1012 Pabst Build
ing, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County,
Wisconsin. 1876
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QUITE TAM E.

Jimmy-How was the show last
night?
Arthur-Tame; the hero swan the
Niagara falls, jumped off railway
bridge, lodged some cannon balls, had
a scrap with a tribe of Indians, but
there wasn't any real excitement in
the play.
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and forgotten and the Fourth Of July
dotn fhn 1onHAN3

Ono of the most ridiculous Of these
prophecies was contained in a speech
Mr.. Bryan made in support of Judge
Parker during the campaign of 1904,
when he attacked President Roosevelt
bitterly. This prophecy had 1t that
military despotism was sure to follow
the decrease in the size Of the standing
army. In this speech Mr.. Bryan also
emphasized the fact that he was then
and always would be firm believer in
the principle of free silver. He sum-
med up his position on this question in
the following sentence:
II believe to-day in the principles set
forth at Chicago and Kansas City (16
to l. and shall continue to fight for
those principles"
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"T would like to take my wife a
souvenir CT Mentone."
1--WE have mosaics from Florence.
olive wood from Sorrento, corals from
Naples"
81 should like something local.n
every wei, I will show you some
English objects"
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SUMMONS
STATE OF WISCONSIN J
IN CIRCUIT COURT For !

STATE OF WISCONSIN
IN CIRCUIT COURT For
RUSK COUNTY:
Hiram A., SERVER and Cliff w. Gress,
Plaintiffs,
Hans Ness and Karen Ness, his wife,
Defendants.
The State of Wisconsin to the said de-
PENDANTS:
You are hereby summoned to appear
within twenty days after service of this
summons, exclusive of the day of SER
vice, and defend the above entitled
action in the court aforesaid; and in
case of your failure so to do Judgment
will be rendered against you according
to the demand of the complaint, of which
a copy is served upon you.
KIRWAN & MICHAELsON,
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
Post Office Address, Ladysmith, Rusk
County, Wisconsin.
Note: The complaint in the above en-
titled action is on file in the office of
the Clerk of the Circuit Court in and
for Rusk County, Wisconsin. 1876
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THE LESSER EVIL.

Constable-Now, then, don't you
think it is time you were home? / ex-
pect your wife is waiting up for you.
Brown-All ri, policeman, dear. Do
you reallysh think my wife's waiting
for me?
Constable-Yes, I do.
BroWn-Then run me in.
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Nearly a Billion.

Secretary H. F. Cellarius of Cincin-
natl in his annual report says the
building and loan associations of the
United States have increased approx
imatnly $55,000,000 in assets in 1907,
so they now care for $728,000,000 of
thee peoples savings.
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Where Il Eelonaed.

Botanical Youth Tin park you
tell me if this plant belongs to the ar
butus family?
Gardener (curtly)-No, young man,
it don't; it belongs to the county coun-
Gil