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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28
(;To Be Continued.l
TO TRAP A SNAKE is EASY.
Even the Most Dangerous Yield to
the Wiles of the Hunter.


The capture of snakes is simple and
comparatively free from danger. In
the great swamps of India they are
caught in the early morning, when
they are stiff from cold. The natives
use nets for the purpose, or else press
stick against the back of the snakes
neck, thus holding it fast until they
can put it away safely.
Another method is to surround a
spot known to be full of snakes with
nets during the dry season and set the
underbrush on fire. The snakes rush
for safety in all directions and fall in
great numbers into the nets. This
method is often used to catch the
biggest species of snakes. Hagen
beck states that many specimens of
such monsters received by him from
Calcutta bear marks of burning.
The giant snakes of Borneo fall a
prey to the native hunters after they
have gorged themselves to such an
extent on food that they can scarcely
move at all. Nets are then thrown
over them and they are delivered to
Hagenbeck's agents in baskets made
of bamboo.
Some snake hunters of India rely
almost entirely on their sense of smell
for ferreting out their victims. These
hunters set out in the cold of the
morning, knowing, more or less,
where the holes are in which the
snakes live. By means of their keen
sense of smell they can tell whether
snake is at home. They then dig
it out, and, as it is half frozen still,
succeed easily in imprisoning it in
their baskets. Among the snakes Of
ten captured in this way are pythons.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28

dodo. Not only is Washington not
swooped upon with office seekers even
at the outset of new administration
any more, but the present generation
of Washingtonians hardly know what
the old time type of Office seeker in
Washington looked like.
office seekers used to swarm here
by the thousands and go dead broke
while waiting for the Office that never
came and camp out on the park
benches at the finish, and all that sort
of dead and gone thing, but that is an
cient history.
There are people coming here all
the time from all parts of the country
to take jobs in the government en-
ploy, but they're not office seekers of
the type that existed before the civil
service law. They're Office getters.
They've got their billets before they
get here. They've passed their exam
inations, got their rating papers, and
most of them their appointments, be-
fore ever setting foot in Washington.
"Once in a while when man has
passed a particularly good examina-
ton, with an unusual percentage, he
| comes on to Washington, before actu-
ally receiving an appointment, having
excellent reason to expect that the ap-
pointment will be forthcoming in due
time. Most of these people, too, look
around for something to do on the out
side while waiting for their govern
ment appointments to materialize.
They don't haunt the corridors of
the departments or clamor at the
doors of officials and legislators, nor
| sit around hotel Hobbies telling their
woes, because they know just where
they stand, have no woes and are in
| general just as different from the old
| time typical officeseeker as am from
| a Papuan.
Even when the administration
| changes there are no longer any clam
| orous crowds here looking for the
| higher appointive and unclassifed of
| fices-professional place hunters, that
is. Men engaged in business or the
professions come here, it is true, at
| the request Of their senators or repre-,
| sentatives when administrations
| change to be introduced to the new
| president and to have their applica.
lions considered, but after a visit or
| so at the White House these men
| quickly go back to their homes"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28

grew stronger, and within three months
I was a perfectly well woman.
Ell want this letter made public to
show the benefit women may derive
from Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Comp0und.''-Mrs JOHN G. MOLDAN,
2115 Second ST., North, Minneapolis,
MINI.
Thousands of unsolicited and genu-
inc testimonials like the above prove
the efficiency of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, which is made
exclusively from roots and herbs.
Women who suffer from those dis
tressing ills peculiar to their sex should
not lose sight of these facts Or doubt
the ability of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound to restore their
health.
Ifyou want special advice write
to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass.
Shewill treatyOurletterasst strictly
confidential. For 20 years she
has been helping sick women in
this way, free of charge. Don't
hesitate - write at once.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28
DANISH BABY's LONG VEIL.
Son of Count Won MoItke Wears Pic
turesque Garb of His FatherIand.

There is no more picturesque figure
in Washington than the baby son of
Countess Won Moltke, wife of the
Danish minister Before her marriage
she was Cornelia Van Rensselaer,
.Thayer of Boston. Her son was born
since the minister's appointment to his
present post, and it is only within the
last few days that the countess herself
has come to Washington to take her
place as one of the stateliest American
women who have come back to their
native shores to preside over a for
eign home. The baby boy draws
eyes every fine afternoon in Dupont
park. He is arrayed after the fine
fashion of all aristocratic Danish in
fants, and g conspicuous feature of
his attire is beautifully embroidered
lace veil at least six feet long.
This veil is made fast to the front
of the Won Moltke baby's cap and it is
spread carefully over his face and tiny
body when he is in his perambulator
When he is at home it is raised and
lifted to one side, much after the
fashion in which women lay back their
automobile wells when they leave their
cars. The baby's nurse is an equally
interesting figure. She is big woman
from the shores of the North sea and
she wears the elaborate national head
dress of her countrywomen. Her ear
rings, however, attract most attention
They are made Of fretted gold and are
as big around as the bottom of an or
binary teacup. From the rims, hung
close together, depend strings of tiny
pearls in settings of filigree gold. It is
asserted the nurse has received offers
Of fancy prices for her earrings from
more than one society belle, but she
steadily refuses to part with them.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28

forward to furnish the police with some
/ information. 1t seems that on the
night, and, indeed, at the estimated
hour of the crime, Mr.. Grale encoun-
tered, close by the place where poor
Hume was afterwards found man
and woman under queer circum-
stances"
The rector drew in his breath. His
eyes were bent feverishly on the
speaker, UNNECESSARILY startled. The
blind man had spoken! What had he
said? How much was known?
Whoever the man was, Grale swore
he was not Lathom. He knows La
thoms voice we'll. If only we could
find out who that man and that won-
an were, and why they were there at
that hour"
''Then-then Grale could give no
clue?" broke in the rector
"He can only swear that the man
was not Lathom. He is positive of
that. The man, it seems, leapt for
ward, Selling Grale's wrist, and babe
him harshly not linger. The very act
has a suspicious look of guilt. The
woman did not speak at all-but he
is sure a woman was there A very
queer business. But it was not until
the news of the murder that Grale at
tached any significance to it," added
Culverton.
They drove home from the solicit
ors office in Thornton's Panhard.
Hilda could not have walked; she
seemed almost stunned as Thornton
assisted her into the car. For a mo-
ment Stephens gaze rested on her
face; he withdrew it quickly, as
though the pain and horror struck him
with sense of guilt and shame. He
had only to speak a word and Jack
Lathom would be free. Only one
word-but he had left it unspoken.
He wondered if Hilda would ever for
give his silence if she knew.
Scarcely a word was spoken during
the drive back. The hint of tragedy
he had caught in Hilda's face had sud-
denly confirmed for Thornton what he
already had suspected-that this girl
and the man in prison were more
than merely friends, that Hilda loved
Jack Lathom, and with a delicacy of
sympathy he refrained from intrud-
ing on the silence of her absorbed
thoughts. His own anxiety on La
thom's account had been intensified
| by the lawyers words. He realized
how black the case seemed against
! his friend
In Stephens mind was a tumult of
warning thoughts. He had not spoken
the words that would have proved
Lathom's innocence, the words he
alone could speak.
| ITO Re ContjnuedN
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28
COLLEGES Hunting Ideas,

The students of both Cornell and
Chicago are struggling now with prob
lens very much the same At Chicago
the senior council is trying to get a
motto for the university. Not only
have the present students submitted
suggestions but graduates are taking
part in the competition.
At Cornell the faculty wants to get a
new emblem, to be used for letter
heads, programs. embroideries, pins,
stained glass and the like. The new
emblem is not to replace the present
as an official seal. The design is to
leave out the portrait of Ezra Cornell
and the long motto, leaving only Cor
nell -
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28
A Lucky Fugitive.

Ex-Gov. William S. Taylor of Ken
lucky is lucky man. After having
been indicted for participation in the
murder of Gov. Goebel he fed to IN
diana. The chief executive of the
Hoosier state was a Republican, and
when Gov. Beckham made a requisi-
ton for Taylor it was refused. Now
there is to be inaugurated a Demo
cratic governor Of Indiana, and if
there should come a request from
Kentucky for Taylor it would be
granted. But no such request is to
be made. Kentucky has Republican
governor and he is willing that Tay-
lor remain where he is.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28
Mohammedan Serenity.

A Mohammedan people enjoy one
great advantage over all others-they
never suffer from the anticipation of
that which is to come, and, as ma
turaI result, they can always enjoy
the present, although only few hours
may separate them from disaster, or
even from death. Their implicit be-
lief in an ordained future inparts
a dignifed repose and outward calm
to all their actions. Thus in spite of
the trials and troubles which threat
ened The state during my stay at Fee,
a smooth surface of Interchangeable Sc
renity yelled, the inner thoughts of
every individual, from the Sultan to
the negro at his gates.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28

Professor Munyon has just issued a
most beautiful, useful and complete AL
manac; it contains not only all the scien-
tiic information concerning the moons
phases, in all the ATTITUDES, but has IL
Illustrated articles on how to read char
acter by phrenology, palmistry and
birth month. 1t also tells all about
card reading, birth stones and their
meaning, and gives the Interpretation
Of dreams. It teaches beauty culture,
manicuring, gives weights and meas
ures, and antidotes for poison. In fact,
it is a Magazine Almanac, that not
only gives valuable information, but
will afford much amusement for every
member Of the family especially for
parties and evening entertainments.
Farmers and people in the rural dis
tricts will find this Almanac almost
invaluable.
It will be sent to anyone absolutely
free on application to the MUNYON
REMEDY COMPANY, PHILADELr
PHIA,
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28
Reduction in Taxes for Large Families

We joke in this country over the
question of imposing tax on bache
Tors, but in Germany they have taken
the matter seriously. At least that is
what new scheme being introduced
next year will really come to. At pres
ent in Germany the tax on an income
of e325 is about G15.
Next year this sum will be reduced
in the case of the taxpayer who has
two children, with further reductions
for larger families. Relatives for
whose support taxpayer is legally
responsible will be considered as "chil,
dren. London Chronicle.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28
Advice.

Officer" said the stranger, step
ping UP to him, "how would you go
from here to Spotcash & Co.'s store p"
We'll, sor," answered the policeman
on the crossing, looking at the crowds
on the sidewalks and scratching his
jaw reflectively, Il think I'd offer up a
silent prayer an take tn middle of tn
sthreet. Next block, sor.''
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28
a Monster Loaf.

Bakers in Germany are fond of max
ing odd experiments, the following
being reported from Duisburg in West
phalia: At a children's party recent
lv held in that town there was ex-
hibited, and afterward cut up and dis
tributed among the youngsters pres
ent, a bread twist which for size at
least has surely rarely been equaled.
Weighing no less than $50 pounds, it
had a breadth of 40 meters and a
length of 800 meters, and was thus
found sufficient to supply a satisfac-
tory afternoon collation. to as many
as 500 boys and girls.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28
Money-makinq Fernchmen,

If you meet a family party in fine
ly appointed carriage on the island of
Montreal, nine times out of ten it is
French family That the French can
make money when they give their
minds to "the game the fact that the
leading family Of f1nanciers in Mont
real is French indicates.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28
Heard in the Divorce Court.

Your honor, don't think | should
be obliged to live with this woman
any longer" said the dispirited and
dyspeptic little man who was the plain
tiff in the case. Her cooking is some
thing dreadful, biscuits like clods and
her coffee is mud! Why, to every cup
full there is half CUP of grounds"
But the judges ruling was that half
a cupful was insufficient grounds for
divorce.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28
Givinq the Pedestrian a Chance

The street traffic of Paris has be-
come so dangerous since the introduc-
ton of motor cars that underground
passages are being made at several
places where accidents have happened,
notably in the Avenue des Champs
Elysees and the Place de la Concorde.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28
Eatinuinn.

you look tired, Johnny. What's
the matter-social duties too much
for your said a gentleman in a Gin
cinnati elevator the other day, jocose-
ly.
yes, SIR replied the elevator boy,
opening the door at the ninth floor
to let out Mr. Taft, I've been getting
up a large party
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28
A Difficult Position.

A young captain, who was drilling
the awkward squad, commanded thus:'
Nov, my men, listen to me. When
/ say Haiti put the foot that's on lhei
ground beside the one that's in thei
air and remain motionless."
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28
spoHN,s DrsTENrpER CTrRE will

sPOHN'S DISTEMPER CURE will
cure any possible case of DISTEMPER,
PINK EYE, and the like among horses
of all ages, and prevents all others in the
same stable from having the disease. Also
cures chicken cholera, and dog distemper:
Any good druggist can supply you, or send
to mfrs so cents and $l00 bottle. Agents
wanted. Free book. Spohn Medical Co.,
Spec. Contagious Diseases, Goshen, Ind.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28

office seekers who
will be swooping
upon Washington
when Mr.. Taft
takes up the reins
Of government"
said an old time
capitol official. Its
hard to down such
impressions.
"As a matter of
fact the office
seeker as a type
is as extinct in
Washin gtOn as the
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For a True Sport.

Keeper Ito Friend of the Family
If you do see a fox, sir, mind you
shoot 'un, and then just holler out
Arlington! wounded bird!' an I'll be
round an bury 'un up wi leaves afore
anyone's any the wiser-Punch.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28
Clear Instance

SapIeigh Queer fellahs, these
poets. There's the one, for instance,
who speaks of "an aching void" Now,
how can there be an aching void?
Miss Blunt-Have you never had a
headache, Mr.. Sapleigh?
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28

caused a weakness
and broken down
condition of the
system. / read so
much of whatLydia
e. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound
had done for other
suffering women I
felt sure it would
help me, andI must
say it did help me
wonderfully. My
poiT1c oil loft mo r
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28

Girls are gay deceivers; they al
ways try to make a young man be-
lieve they were never kissed before.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28
peedy Justice.

Guilty or not guilty?' asked the
Dutch justice.
Not guilty.
Den what do you want here? Go
about your pizness."
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28

eighteen hours a day a woman fails
to earn lot of money.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28

If a man is honest because it is
the best policy he will be dishonest
for the same reason.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28

The love of a man for his wife may
be the real thing, but it doesn't seem
to interfere with his appetite.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28

PILES CUkED IN TO Ia DAYS.
PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any case
of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protrudlng Piles In
to IA days or money refunded. 5Uc.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28
WANTS Her
LETTER
PUBLISHED
For Benefit of Women who
Suffer from Female Ills

Minneapolis, MIMI was great
sufferer from female troubles which
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28

Ether has nothing in common with
music, yet it is also IA great composer.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28

WE PAY lie FOR cow HIDES.
n. w. Hide 81 Fur Co., Minneapolis, Mimi
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28
ARE SEEN NO MORE
NATIONAL CAPITAL FREED FROM
OFFICE SEEKERS.
Men with "Expectations" Have Ceased
to Flock to Washington, Though
the Old Belief Is Hard
to Down,

You'll have observed that there's
the same old talk about the horde of
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-28

1t Cures While You Walk
Allen Foot for and bunionS, hot Sweaty
callous aching feet. 25c all Druggists.
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The silent watches of the night
have no tick.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-10-07
fFrom Douglas International )

Ine time for voting on the propos. tioa to issue bonds by the city e Douglas to purchase the water s5S> tenn now owned by the Douglas I'm provement Company is now drawing nea-. There are few business men in the city who are not heartily in favor of the bond issue which will mean municipal ownership of the wa ter system in this city. There is op- position to this bond issue but so far no good reason has been offered for it. The price to be paid to the Doug las Improvement Company will not return to the stockholders in that company more than a reasonable price for the physical property and a profit on the investment in it from time to time The company has earn. ed money it Is true from the time it yas incorporated, but that money has practically all been returned for the betterment of the plant. There are those who say that the price for the water plant is too high, but that does not change the fact that at the price proposed the city will be able to make good money out of the water system after paying all interest charges and a sufficient sinking fund for the retire ment of the principle of the bonds as it becomes due. Municipal ownership has been good for Tucson ond 1t has been good for Globe and with a prop CT water commission which is to be ap pointed for the management of the system it will soon be possible to m terially reduce the water tax In this city. the result of which will be more trees and lawns to add be1uy 10 or homes, L.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-10-07
THE FURY
 OF THE FAN

The most ridiculous part of this base ball war is the fellow who lets his temper get the better of his good judg- ment, who roars and fumes and even permits his feelings to interfere with his legitimate business. We appreel- ate good, clean fun. and enjoy the root ing and the jibing and the playing, but with the game over that settles it. It really makes very little difference which lot of hired men win, and the man who allows the result to get into his system to the extent that he feels outraged is really entitled to sym pathy. The fellow who can sit hun dred feet to one side Of the pitching line and think he can do better work than the umpire is another of those misguided chaps who should take a reef in his objections. The umpire is the but of all the fans, every partisan charging him with the defeat of his favorite no matter how poorly the fa- yorite may play. It's very funny bus mess, and the childishness of some portions of it Is really very funny.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-10-07
PINcHoT's FUTURE USEFULNESS

Presidents Taft's letter to Secre- tary Baddinger expressing his full confidence in that official contained no reflections upon the attitude taken by Chief Forester Pinehot. None but Mir. Ballinger's extreme partisian friends interpreted it in that way. Nevertheless. it is a great at-satisfaction to find now that the letter had as companion a letter to MT. Pinchot in which the President duly recognized the service of the later to the govern ment and expressed the hope that those services would long continue to be given.
 The whole West and most of the East will feel that the President did not exaggerate in praising the i'm mense value" of MT. Pinchot's work and policies with reference to flor estry and kindred methods of conser- vation." and all will be glad that he gave ringing expression of his per sonal sympathy for those policies and of his purpose to do everything he could to maintain them. The Presi- dent reiterated his purpose to keep all the activities of his administration within the law, but he asserted at the same moment his intention to press upon Congress the need of changes in the law whereby the execution of the conservation policies could be put on the firmest basis.
 As the case now stands. with both Mir. Ballinger and Mir. Pinchat remain ing in the administration, what rivalry there is between them may very prof itably turn itself out of personal chan nels and into the wark of doing the utmost possible to protect the forests, lands, waters and minerals of the gov ernment from spoilation. Mir. Pin chot will continue to work with all his might Mir. Ballinger will have to struggle hard to make as good a show ing or gain as much credit. But all will hope that he will succeed.
 No one desires either official to go outside the law in the execution of the ro,icy. But every one may prop erly expect both to do all that the law permits and to decide all ques- tions of administrative discretion in the way most favorable to the chosen policies To go beyond the law would be wrong. But to fall an inch short of what the law permits would be equally wrong.