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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-06-24
MEAN TRICK ON GOOD LIVER
Fearing Uric Acid, Victim Had Dieted
Unnecessarily and Lost Much
Weight.

l.. w. BuSbey, secretary to Speaker
Cannon, was complaining Of a severe
pain in his knee when Sam Blythe, the
magazine writer, happened in and
heard the complaint. II know what it
is, Bus" said Blythe. Its uric acid,
and if you don't get rid of it you will
be laid up with rheumatism or the
govt. I've had it myself and / know
what the cure is. You want to go on
strict diet-cut out red meats and
all that and live principally on vege-
tables. Mighty serious thing, and you
take it from me the only way to get
rid of it is by dieting" Blythe pre-
scribed a proper diet in detail and Bus.
hey, Thoroughly alarmed, agreed to live
on it. For a month he adhered rigidly
to the list of permissible food, but the
knee still bothered him, and finally he
went to doctor. This knee has been
bothering me for month, doctor,
said Busbey, 'and the treatment ap-
parently has done no good. Queer
can't get rid of the trouble. l kept
strictly to the diet for a month and
have lost Is pounds in weight, but the
pain continues" "Diet?" said the doc
tor, after he had carefully examined
the knee, what do you think is wrong
with you?" why, uric acid" replied
Busbey. Uric acid nothing, You've
sprained your knee severely, that's
what's the matter with you" said the
doctor. Busbey now suits his diet to
his taste and is trying to make up that
Is pounds.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-06-24
Three-Eincered Jack.

This story is being told around
Washington on Senator Curtis: Sena
tor Curtis came upon two of his fell
low members of the upper house play
ing chess, and offered to bet money
on either one of them winning or
losing the games. He was willing to
bet any old way. Neither had the
nerve to wager against the other or
for himself.
"You fellows" said the senator
from Kansas, remind me of man in
nv state who was always anxious to
bet on his game of checkers. Only
you remind me of the one time when
he backed down.
HE was about to play game for
$40 with a fellow called Three-fn'
gered Jack Suddenly one Of his
friends exclaimed:
Don't bet, Charlie. Don't you
know that fellow wore off two fingers
playing checkers? That's why he's
called Fingered jack
THAT settled it. The bet was never
made. A man who had worn off two
fingers by brushing them up and down
the checker board was too much for
nv friend. kansas City Journal.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-06-24
Chased and Killed by BuzzsaW.

Walter Terry, a woodsaw operator,
was pursued and cut down by a wood
saw insecurity fastened that broke
away from a wagon bed on which it
was mounted at Ashland, Or
The saw was whirling at high rate
of speed, and when it broke from its
fastenings it ran at Terry, who fled.
The saw overlook him and ripped his
back for a long distance and COM
pletely severed his right leg just be-
low the knee.
Terry was taken to the hospital at
Ashland, where everything possible
was done for him, but he died within
thirty minutes.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-06-24
Using a Life Preserver.

"The worst trouble about a life
preserver," said an Old sailor on the
steamer l.. c. Hanna not long ago."
lis that few people know what to do
with one when it's thrown to them.
Many a man would drown in trying
to get life preserver over his head.
The average person struggling about
in the water should try to lift up the
big life ring and put it over his head.
That only causes the man to sink
deeper and take more water into his
lungs.
"The proper way to approach a life
preserver in the water is to take hold
of the side nearest you and press
upon it with all your weight. That
causes the further side to fly up in
the air and down over your head,
ringing you as neatly as a man ring
ing a cane at a county fair. After
that mister drowning man can be res
cued."
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-06-24
PRECEDENCE A SACRED THING
wherein Assistant Secretary of Stat:
Adee Is Friend of Washington
Hostesses.

A Washington correspondent says
that Assistant Secretary of State
Adee has certain social functions that
are not included in his official du-
ties, but that are rated at a high
value by hostesses who wish to avoid
the faux pas that are reckoned among
the objectionable sins. Mr.. Adee has
devoted much time to a study of pre-
cedence. Presumably such reconcile
learning is necessary to him in his
duties, and being a good-natured man
ne places 1t freely at the service Of
MS friends, who are numerous. The
lady who wishes to give a function
submits the names of her guests to
Mr.. Adee, who obligingly separates
the sheep from the goats and places
each guest in the exact position to
which it has pleased the god of social
things to call him. A Washington cor
respondent says:
MI. Adee knows more about rank
and precedence than Uncle Joe Can
non does about the rules of the house.
AND IL you are not thoroughly posted
IN the intricacies of official prece-
| dence you would best restrict your
guest list to plain individuals who
have never risen above the rank of
mister. Your dinner will be irretriev-
| ably ruined and you will make enc
mics for life if you happen to seat a
senator at your right hand and a JUS
tlce OF the supreme court at your left
Or it would be just as bad if you
were to give the place of honor to a
reverend jurist, with a foreign min
| lister present"
The same correspondent regrets
| that dinner-giving in Washington is
not what it should be. 1t is "a sad
stilted proceeding. There is but one
caterer here, and he has charge OF
| most of these functions Naturally
they become more or less stereotyped
| in character. A popular diner-out is
confronted evening after evening with
the same cut-and-dried fare 1t is
| served by the same hired walters
with whom before long he acquires
unconsciously, almost a speaking &C
! quaintance"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-06-24

AS for food, frogs will eat minnows,
insects, spawn of their own breed, tad
poles and-each other The frog Is an
inveterate cannibal. One man who
attempted the various phases of frog
culture all in enc pond found present
ly that most desperate war Of ex-
termination, dictated by the necessi-
ties of gastronomic demands, was be-
ing carried on. After peace had been
declared but several vigorous old bulls
were discovered to survive. They had
swallowed the whole tribe.
From frogs to alligators is not going
so far. And the alligator is well worth
investigating, for certainly for those
who know how, he is moneymaker.
A half-grown alligator will fetch more
in the market than the primest steer
that was ever shipped into the stock
yards at Chicago, Omaha or st. 10.
seph His teeth alone are worth from
two to four dollars a pound. The
legislature of Florida has recognized
the gators commercial value by civ
IHS H4HL q SIOoOu SOtIoOh against
hunters.
The sun is the natural agent that
fetches the young from the shell
Man has substituted the incubator foI
the suns rays and has found the
method most successful. Several al
ligatOr farms already have been es
tablished in various parts of this coun
try. Florida, Arkansas and California
all have such farms within their boun
daries. The largest of them is at Hot
Springs, Ark. H. ]. Campbell the pro
prietor, owns 500 of the reptiles. He
raises them just as rancher raises
stock for the market. The young and
the eggs find a ready sale. One pair
of alligators will breed 200 or more
young in years time.
In the quest for breeding still more
satisfactory draft animals, the bureau
Of animal industry, located near Wash
ington, has produced curious cross
between the Mexican burro and an
African zebra, presented to Theodore
Roosevelt during his presidency by
King Menelik of Abyssinia. The de
partment expects to develop an idea,
breed from the combination. Perhaps
some day, in the near future, too, the
farmer of Missouri will raise his
"burro-zebras just as today he rears
his mules.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-06-24
Isn't II a Fact

That cavalry man endorsed is the
most easily cowed?
That one can show his temper only
after he has lost it?
That a contractor should be called
upon to expand a house?
That no young man ever rose rap
idly till he had settled down?
That the plo wmust be soiled before
the soil can be plowed?
That a susceptible fellow is hard
est hit by the softest glances?
That in everything Except base
balD you mus strike out to make
hit?
That many students cannot state
bald facts without splitting hairs?
That the papers often refer to
mans double life as a singular career.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-06-24
SORE EYES CURED.
Eye-5alIs and Lids Became Terribly
lnfIamed-Was Unable to Go About
ALI Other Treatments Failed, But
Cuticura Proved Successful.

about two years ago nay eyes got
in such a condition that I was unable
to go about. They were terribly in
famed, both the balls and lids.
tried home remedies without relief.
Then I decided to go to our family
physician, but he didn't help them
Then I tried two more of our most
prominent physicians, but my eyes
grew continually worse. At this time
a friend Of mine advised me to try
Cuticura Ointment, and after using it
about one week my eyes were con-
siderably improved, and in two weeks
they were almost well. They have
never given me any trouble since and
am now sixty-five years old. shall
always praise Cuticura. G. B. Halsey,
Mouth of Wilson, Va, Apr. 4, 1908"
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp, Sole Props Boston.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-06-24

Edwin Booth was in his younger
days a member of g. minstrel COM
pany, and unless l am mistaken ap-
peared in some of the variety shows
of that period, writes James l.. Ford
in McClure's. He lived to become one
of the most noble and dignlhed
figures of his day, as we'll as one OF
the most distinguished actors that the
English-speaking stage has known.
Joseph Jefferson was also a min
strel in the early part of his career,
and prior to that he and his sister
both mere children-had been wont
to perform on Boston Common and
pass the hat among the bystanders.
Lolita was known in the mining camps
of California and in the early varE
ETY. theaters of San Francisco long
before she came East in the SOS to
win money and fame-''a dramatic
cocktail John Brougham called her
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-06-24
VAUDEVILLE GRADUATES
Edwin Booth Minstrel-Jefferson passed the nat.

in the legitimate houses of Broad
way.
William H. Crane used to play the
tambourine in a wandering minstrel
company. Nat Goodwin, Lillian Rus
sell and May Irwin came to the front
at Tony Pastors theater. Mr.. Good
win gave limitations of popular actors
and has lived to become an extreme
ly popular actor himself. Miss r.
wins remarkable humorous gifts
were shown in the condensed YER
sions of comic operas that brought
Mr.. Pastors entertainments to a
close, and it was in one of these that
Miss Russell Ieaped into fame in a
single night.
Perhaps the most important recruit
from variety in recent years is David
Warfeld, who used to give Hebrew
and other limitations. One might go
on almost indefinitely with this re-
cital. Let it suffice to say that with
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-06-24

wormseed showed an average of 1000
pounds to the acre, fetching twice
the net revenue of a cotton crop
soWn in a similar soil.
LObelia is another valuable plant
Many states have put it on the black
list, the laws requiring that it be up
rooted wherever fond. 1t is quite
poisonous, but is very eff1cacious in
certain diseases. The seed fetches
from Is to 20 cents pound. Then
there is the burdock. Fully $4,000
pounds of the root of this are import
ed annually into the United Ttates
from Belgium The native sta, would
bring a good profit to those who would
root is worth from three to eight
cents a pound and the seed from five
to ten cents. Boneset or feverwort,
jimson or stinkweed, pink root and
pokeweed are but few others of the
medicinal weeds we have so strangely
failed to derive financial returns from.
Some of the native stuff, grown by
the experimental stations of the de-
partment of agriculture, has Melted
more per pound than the imported
products.
Nor are the swamps and lowlands
to be neglected, if farming is to be
made as profitable as possible. The
believing elusive frog may be pressed
into service as moneymaker. The
average annual catch of these cpl
curean dainties from the marshes,
creeks and sloughs aggregate 100000.
We eat more frogs legs in six months
than France does in year. So large
is the demand that without ques-
ton the American market would take
at least 100000 in year.
To begin this industry successfully,
about three acres of land are required.
AS a start one should build single
small pond, about 60x20 feet, where
the eggs may be Matched unmolested.
AS for the ''stock" itself, that costs
nothing. The spawn can be found in
ponds and bitches, wherever, in fact,
the matured frogs abound Twenty
or thirty quarts of this will hatch
from 10000 to 10000 tadpoles.
AS the tadpoles begin to turn into
frogs, additional ponds must be avail
to hold the lively youngsters, now too
large and too many for their original
quarters.
Five classes of ponds will eventually
be found necessary; those containing
the tadpoles, the partly grown frogs,
the one year, two year and three-year.
Did frogs respectively. The time to mar
ket a frog is when he is in his third
year.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-06-24

! the message of the twentieth century
Of luxury and Of progress.
| Two hundred white men were Their
arrayed in the garb of convention, th'
! plain black and white Of evenln:
| clothes.
But the glow and glitter of ban
quet service did not take from the
Indian his impressiveness, and eithel
of these redskins, Chief Ironshell OF
his son could admirably have beer
the model for the statue to which the
speakers made reference.
The nodding plumes and painted, i'm
passive faces of the redskins made
curious contrast to the whole note OF
the dinner, yet none could say that the
redskin guests lacked dignity or fail
ed to represent their race with credit
Many Superb Figuses Still.
Even in the present passing condl
ton of the race there are still many
such superb figures in the tribal lands
of the West, and the sculptor who
gets the assignment to prepare the
bronze statue will not find any
trouble to get a model who will ex
press the true dignity and power OF
the Indian as he was in the primeval
days.
The plan as at present outlined is
to have the statue of bronze, to be ex
ecuted by some American sculptor and
placed on Governors island.
Here it would face Ambrose chan
mel and would be right in line with
the route of the big ships as they come
into the inner harbor.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-06-24
Tryinq New Observation-Disclosures.

Trying New Vegetables.-Interest
ing tests Of new vegetables have been
made by H. B. Fullerton at the rail
road experiment station in Long Is
land. Mr.. Fullerton carries on a com
mercial market garden, shipping the
products directly by express to con
sumers, hence is able to get variety
of opinions of the merits and quail
ties of the different varieties, taking
into account, also, the productiveness
He finds the Palmetto asparagus the
same as the Argenteuil and a fairly
rust-proOf variety. The Globe arti
choke he thinks will prove profitable
in competition with importations OF
this vegetable. Among string beans
the Green Pod Stringless and Brittle
Wax are favored
The Fordhook Bush Lima is a IA
vorite shell bean. A good, all-round
table bean is found in Black Redball
Brussels sprouts, especially the i'm
proved dwarf variety, are recommend
ed as profitable, and affording an in.
come after most other crops are done
green cucumber is recommended
Among egg plants the Black Beauty is
considered best.
Golden Queen lettuce is placed al
the head among early kinds, and
Warehead for later. Improved to-
matoes include the Early Pink, Match
less and Dwarf Stone. Golden Ball
turnip is recommended for its deli
cate favor.-American Cultivator.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-06-24

abused by those who have had causes
of grievance against him.
In picking out a model for the
statue to be erected in New York it
will not be found difficult to get he
roic models from among Indians who
are living today.
The primal virtues of men living
in the open and close to nature came
to the red men as a gift of his life,
and in the tall, straight, powerfully
muscled men of the forest were to be
found century ago some of the finest
specimens Of manhood in the world.
Heroic in Native Garb.
The fascination the Indian has eX-
erted over the grown up boy as wen
as the small boy, undoubtedly results
in part from the heroic appearance he
presents in his native garb. By con-
trast nothing could be more pitiful
than a redskin wearing the garb of
civilization. 1t is an effort as gro
tesque as to put evening clothes on
statue of Apollo.
Before the government by a policy
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-06-24
Viii nemolish Old Fort.

Fort No. z, an old fertilization at
the naval academy, built in 1910, is to
be demolished. This decision has
been about reached by Assistant Sec
rotary of the Navy Winthrop, who
can see no use for the old structure.
There have recently been suggestions
that the place be restored, but, upon
investigation, the navy department
found that the cost would be $4,000.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-06-24

of branches of contract and sane
tioning of graft and plumber, gradually
stripped the Indian of all he pos
sessed, the race in this country pre-
scented a notable display of virility.
At a recent dinner in New York
which Rodman Wanamaker gave in
furtherance of his project to rem
der tardy tribute to those whom the
whites dispossessed of the land of the
republic, there were present two In
dams.
In the white and gold banquet hall
of Sherry's they might have been ex-
pected to look singularly out Of place,
for everything else there was modern,
and spoke the white mans civilization,
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-06-24

Eighth St, canon CITY, Colo, says:
Three years I suffered with rheuma-
tism, dropsy and kidney complaint,
and became utterly helpless. found re-
lief after using two or three boxes of
Doan's Kidney Pills and kept on until
cured Doan's Kidney Pills have
been a blessing to me-
Sold by all dealers. so cents box.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-06-24


northeast corner of your farm, unfit
for cultivation, too poor for pastur-
age, given over to nothing but weeds
and a sheltered horde of grasshoppers
and chirping crickets-may be turned
into as profitable a piece of ground
ter section.
"And those very weeds which in
summer time overrun the little patch
in thick rank growth, impregnating
from which you turn in disgust, and
in Indignation, too, that these several
acres are going to waste, can be made
the source of this revenue"
So spoke an old botanist to one IL
linois farmer who was grumbling over
particularly sterile piece of soil, says
writer in the Pittsburg Dispatch IL
Illustrated Magazine.
And the old botanist spoke truly.
For instance: Every year at least
10000 pounds of digitalis is imported
into this country from abroad. Digi-
tails is universally applied by the
medical profession as a remedy in GER
tain forms of heart trouble. The
source of this drug is the common
weed, foxglove, also known by score
of other names. 1t sells at a good
price, too Yet none of the home
product has ever. been used, despite
the big market for it.
The United States department of
agriculture is alive to the economic
value of our despised weeds. The bu-
reau of plant industry has established
stations where several crops of di-
verse species of weeds have been
raised at a good profit. At the South
Carolina station a plot of American
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-06-24
Nurse Crop for Grasses,

Barley stands relatively high as a
nurse crop for grasses. It does not
shade them for so long a period as
some other nurse crops, nor is the
shade SO dense. Since the growth of
barley is not SO tall as that of other
cereals, more sunlight is admitted dur
ing the maturing period of the barley
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-06-24

Thus every incoming steamship
would come close to the great statue
where the Indian would stand forth
in his native garb, d memory of great
ness that once was.
When the white man first came tc
the new world, the Indian met his
ships. Many of the red men came in
kindness, and but for wrongs executed
by the newcomer, would have lived in
peace with the white man.
But the page of history has been
written. The Indian has gone the
way of the buffalo. A memorial OF
what he once was would seem little
more than poetic justice.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-06-24
A Lover of Humanity.

what are you doing here?" said
the woman to the tramp who had got
over the wall just in time to escape
the bulldog.
Madam" replied the dignified va
grant, Il did intend to request some
thing to eat; but all ask now is
that, in the interests of humanity,
you'll feed that canine"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-06-24
OPENING of Western Country.

A friend writes from Spokane that
$1,164,000 is to be spent for the open.
ing of the Columbia river through
that country. This will add millions
of dollars to the resources of Oregon
and Washington and will afford cheap.
er transportation facilities to hun
dreds of farmers and orchardists
dairy and poultry men along the river
The stories of opportunity in that
golden country are tantalizing, but
no man who is doing fairly well ir
the east should be tempted.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-06-24

bloating, etc., are
troubles that COM
monty come from
sick kidneys. Don't
mistake the cause
Doan's Kidney Pills
have cured thou
sands of women af-
f1icted in this way
by curing the kid
neys. Mrs. G. r.
Foresman, 113 S.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-06-24
Better to Be a Mummy.

They were strolling through the
museum.
and here are the Egyptian mum.
mics remarked Mrs. PLAYHOUSE,
"Just to think! They haven't moved
for over 1000 years"
Lucky dogs!" said Mr.. PLAYHOUSE.
"And just to think we have to move
every spring"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-06-24
To Tie Vegetables.

A convenient material for tying
vegetables is the strands from burlar
mating or bran sacks. These are cut
into convenient squares, and unrav
eled, and tied in large punches unit
needed. Eastwood mating is also con
venient for this purpose, and budding
and grating.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-06-24

the exception Of those players who
like Miss Barrymore, Miss Adams and
Mr.. Sothern, are of theatric lineage
there are but few stars on our stage
who cannot bark back to variety OF
minstrelsy
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-06-24
Unanswered.

"And now said the eminent lee,
turer on economic subjects, Il would
be glad to have any one in the audi
ence ask me questions.
There was silence for a moment,
and then a gaunt man in the last row
slowly arose.
"Id like to know, Mr.. Lecturer he
said, "why it is that the Cleveland
team amt hitting harder?"
But the lecturer couldn't tell him