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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14
HUGE LOGS FOR CHINA

When the steamer M. S. Dollar left
Linnton, Ore, for China recently sac
had on board one of the most singular
cargoes of lumber that has ever left
the port. Her deck load is composed
of huge unsawed logs which are des-
tined to go into Chinese temple.
There are about 25 of these logs
and they range in length from los to
LOG feet. They average about 43 inches
at the butt, and each weighs in the
neighborhood of Is tons. They will
be discharged somewhere along the
river between Shanghai and Hankow,
after which they will have to be
taken long distance into the interior
of the country, where they will be
used in making repairs TO a Buddhist
temple which is many centuries old.
The work of transferring them
from the coast to Heir destination will
be an enormous task, as for most of
the way they will have to be trans.
ported by the most primitive methods
and it will be the work of months to
get them to their destination.
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the cherry tree, ETC., were performed.
After George Washington and his
brothers had left this farm and after
the marriage of Betty Washington to
Maj. Fielding Lewis of Fredericksburg,
Mrs. Mary Washington bought cot
tage in Fredericksburg, close to ken
more" the home of her daughter, and
resided there many years. She died
in that cottage August 25, 1889.
The cottage is a plain two-story
frame dwelling standing at the corner
of Charles and Lewis streets-two vii
lage streets deep in dust or mud ac-
cording to the weather The house is
heavily shaded by old sycamore trees
and is furnished with Washington
and other Virginia relics. 1t is owned
and cared for by the Society for the
Preservation Of Virginia Antiquities.
The superintendent is R. G. Beals.
who, with his wife, occupies the house.
The big living room on the ground
floor and TO the left of the entrance
is that in which Mrs. Washington
died. AS nearly as possible it is pre-
served as Mrs. Washington kept it. A
rare old mahogany tester bed stands
on that part of the floor where stood
Mrs. Washington's bed. The original
bed is owned by member of the
Washington family. The walls are
lined with steel engravings which be.
longed to Mrs. Washington, and some
of these were her property when she
was Mary Ball, before her marriage
to Augustine Washington, and came
from her girlhoods home, "Epping
Forest" in Lancaster county, about
thirty miles from Fredericksburg. The
room in the rear of this living and
sleeping room was the dining-room,
and the same table around which the
Washingtons ate stands in the middle
of the floor. The dining-room is bare
of carpets or rugs and was in Mrs.
Washington's time. The furnishings
are plain and simple.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14
SAMOA'S LIVELY VOLCANO

In the Island of Savaii, in the Sa
moan group, during an August nigh
in the year 1905, there arose from the
midst of a peaceful cocoa plantation
a volcano that in the four years of it.
still ceaseless activity has sent forth
more molten lava than has any other
volcano of which there is any human
record. To-day this flow of lava, ir
some places 700 feet in depth, is films
up the sea along frontage of more
than seven miles, and has destroyed
about fifty villages and as many
squares miles of what was once the
most productive area in all Samoa
From Apia, about so miles away or
the Island of Upolo, it is sometimes
possible to read at night by the glare
of the Savaiian volcano. whose twin
pillars of vapor by day become trans
formed then into columns of red.
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Aerenh of the
prophesied
St
minister diplomats
of
Office Vienna
a Russia
Goluchowsk
to have loved hard
Aehrenthas
middle
family
citizens
lot of starting insurance
Johann bought lands and became
Bavaria
Bapiste
otherwise
AustriaIungary
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14
Concerning the Eskimo.

The Eskimo is affable, brave and
loyal. He speaks language which
is highly infected-many primitive
people do-and has certain rudimen-
tary ideas of warm and habitable
heaven and a cold and cherries hell.
And in knowledge of ways and means
to fight cold, ice and darkness and
wrest subsistence from a frozen des-
art he leads all other children of the
north and south. But he lives his
life in a realm of ideas intellectually
remote from civilization. Peary tells
us of tribe of less than 100 people
who, cut off from their fellows for
several generations and out of the
tracks of whalers and explorers, be.
lieved themselves to be the only in
habitants of the world-a world of
berg and foe, of naked rock and
mighty glacier, of wheeling stars and
uuivering aurora, Of immeasurabie
reaches of ice and snow, all existing
for The empery of race OF few
score human beings in few iglscs OF
stones and ice.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14
eadski Praises American Art.

Chicago-"Why is it your Amer
lean girls must take their mary.
elous voices to Europe? There is
more love of art here in Chicago, in
New York, than there is abroad. Sing
ers with great names in Europe, who
come to America and are nobody. 1t is
because the Americans know the best
music and must have art. But you
need grand opera in English in all
your cities. Without that you will
waste all this rich talent that is yours"
Nine. Johanna Gadski paid this tribute
to American art.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14


Smelling Sebastopo Knburn
medal
Chinese
Chinese rebels 1862
at the of rs a commander
from n Arctic expedition
Egyptian 1882
aidedecamp the
1901 Admia
Chinese
of
directly interested is said that
the Pekn giving the command Germans
'front.'"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14
LARGE PIKE IN SCOTLAND

Notable captures among the pike
are reported from some of the loughs
of Scotland, one of SO pounds being
cantured in the Ballina district by Mr..
Cutley. 1t was forwarded to Lon
don for preservation. Pike are be-
ginning to move well on Loughs Mask
and Corrib. Clonbur, and Mr.. Spar
rows on these waters has captured a
fine brace of fish scaling respectively
90 pounds and Is pounds. 1t is also
renorted that a 33-pound pike has
been taken on Lough Mask.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14
BREAKS SWORDFIsH RECORD

Ex-Congressman c. G. Conn of In
diana broke all previous records at
Avalon, CAL, landing a 339-pounder
while fishing for tuna. Conn was
trolling when a swordfish took the
bait and made off for fight lasting
an hour and 80 minutes. This is the
largest swordfish ever caught on that
coast. The fish measured ten feet
seven inches from the tip of it's tail
to the tip of it's long spike sword. The
tail measured four feet across.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14

across the street. The old house
stood originally hundred yards or so
from it's present location and was sur
rounded by extensive farms and groves
of trees. New York was eight miles
away, and it was an hours drive out
the pike from the uptown hotels for
the parties of public men and aspi-
rants for office who sought Hamilton's
counsel after he had been shorn Of
place but not of power. And when
the bullet of his enemy removed him
in his forty-seventh year, the patriots
body lay in state in room on the
first floor of the house to the left of
the entrance to the porch.
Attached to the pillars of the ver-
anda is a tablet on which may be
read this inscription:
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14
HISTORIC VIRGINIA HOMESTEAD
House Where George Washington's
Mother Lived and Died at Fred
ericksburg Still Standing.

Washington.-Not many tourists
visit the house in which the mother
of George Washington lived and died
in Fredericksburg, Va. The Washing.
tons, or the branch of that large
Washington family which played SO
great a role in American history, left
the Pope's Creeks farm, later called
Wakefield" In Westmoreland county.
about three years after the birth of
George Washington. The family re-
moved to another Washington farm in
Stafford county on the north bank of
the Rappanhannock river, opposite
Fredericksburg. 1t was there that
much of the boyhood of Washington
was spent. 1t was there that the
mythical exploits of chooping down
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14

his mother In a short time his wife
gave birth to a son, who. naturally,
was his fathers step-brother and, at
the same time, his own uncle, since
he was his step-mother's brother.
In due time his fathers wife also
gave birth to boy, who was his
brother and also his grandson, as he
was the son of his daughter. His own
wife was now his grandmother, as she
was the mother of his mother. Thus
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14
IS HIS OWN GRANDFATHER

It is seldom that man claims to be
his own grandfather. However, that
is the position of an Italian sailor who
some years ago married widow with
one child, a girl. His father fell in
love with this girl and married her.
Consequently. his own father became
his son-in-law, and his step-daughter
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14
HEADS BANKERS ASSOCIATION
Lewis E. Pierson, President of Big New
York Financial Institution, Hon.
ored by Chicago Convention.

Chicago.-Lewis E. Pierson, presi
dent of the Irving National Exchange
bank of New York, was unanimously
elected president of the American
Bankers association at the convention
recently held in this city.
President Pierson is SO years of age
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14

and native of Metuchen, N. ]. He
was appointed cashier of the New
York National Exchange bank In 1898
and subsequently was made vice
president. He assumed the presidency
January IL, 1904, at the age Of 33
years. The New York National Elk.
change bank absorbed the Irving Ma
tional bank in 1906, and Mr.. PiersGn
retained the presidency of the en-.
larged institution.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14

Barnard has Authorizations anything When
lotto, think ought o for
good candidate take kindly to
trust president
thought there wisdom in that and did let Barnard alone
short chairman
would
he put Barnard
conferences with
committee he looks like with
resoue penetrating the
a lot of thinking
He is mixer
political though really
AS o
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14

he was at one time his wife's husband
and grandson. Now, as the husband
OF persons grandmother is naturally
that persons grandfather, he is forced
to the conclusion that he is his own
grandfather.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14

The trackless trolley is under dis
cussion in street railroad circles and
it is quite possible it will be tried in
the United States in the near future.
1t originated in France but is much in
use now in many parts of the CONT
nent This picture of it was made
near Vienna 1t is used on suburban
routes. AS the picture shows, it is an
omnibus run by electric motor, getting
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14
FROM BARON TO a COUNT

In raising the Austrian foreign minister A!ois
Won Aehrenthal from the rank of baron to that of
count, Emperor Francis Joseph marks his appre-
citation of the minister's services in bringing
about the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Not many months ago Baron Aehrenthal was one
If the most abused men in Europe He &C.
cused of the basest treachery in regard to his
dealings with his diplomatic colleagues and was
even said to have lied direct to more than one
ambassador in Vienna. Recent diplomatic dsclo
sures have shown, however, that in this much
vexed question of the Bosnian annexation Aus
trials hand forced by the precipitate action
of the crafty Prince Ferdinand in declaring the
independence of Bulgaria, and that the Vennese
statesman was not to blame as much as had been
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14
COMMANDED BRITISH SHIPS

Admiral Sir Edward Hobart Seymour, the
British officer who commanded the big squadron
at the Hudson-Fulton celebration in New York
harbor is one of Britain's most distinguished Off
GERS. He is particularly persona grata to the
United States because he commanded American
forces as part of the allied army in the Chinese
expedition of 1900. Since 1905 he has held the
title of admiral of the fleet" being one of the
six officers bearing that title.
The admiral has his title through long
and arduous service Though the son of clergy
man. he comes of a line of seadogs and is the
grandson of baron who his honors in naval
service.
Entering the navy in 1852, Sir Edward, at the
nf fret in, no Crin ua
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14
COLLAR NEARLY KILLS HIN

A high stiff collar cut an artery in
the neck of Edward Lateril, when he
was playing baseball in one of Sar
Francisco's parks the other day. He
almost died from loss of blood.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14
ANTl-AIRSHlP MOTOR GUN.

The accompanying photograph
shows one of the two specially built
motor-c ars equipped with quick-firine
guns, vhich are being shown at the
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14
Hat of the Future.

Stella low will you have your ha
trimmed?
Bella-I haven't decided between
the merits of a monoplane and biplant
wing effect.-New York Sun.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14
HEADED "DRY" PARADE

A literary controversy of considerable magni-
tude is growing out of the action of Gen. Freder-
lex Dent Grant in leading the temperance parade
in Chicago in the uniform of the United States
army.
Following the letter written to Secretary of
War Dickinson by w. r. Michaelis, an official of
the United Societies for Local Self-Government
in which he severely criticised Gen. Grants ac-
ton and demanded to know what stand the war
department would take in the matter, two ardent
temperance workers to the defense of the
assailed officer.
DR.. H. C. Newton, secretary of the temperance
and law enforcement parade committee and A. P.
Balou of the Hamilton club are the men who
take Issue with Mr. Michaelis They also wrote
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14

its power from a trolley wire. AS it
uses no track, it does not interfere in
the slightest with the operation of 9th
er street traffic and the line can be
constructed quickly and cheaply. In
places, arrangements are made by
persons operating private electric
vehicles to use the power of the track
less trolley line and private automo-
biles with trolley attachment are not
a novelty in France.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14
NOMINATED FOR MAYOR

Otto fremont Barnard. the Republican candi
date for mayor of New York. is probably the
worst election campaigner ever nominated for
that Office. That is said without any Election
whatever Mr.. Barnard a man OF culture
and as an astute business with ra, e capac-
ity for organization and genius for the direc.
ton of important undertakings. But he cannot
make speech. His best friends frankly admit
he is probably the worst speechmaker in New
York
So il he takes the stump, mayoralty candi.
dates usually do, and attempts to tell the voters
from public platform his conception of prop.
erly governed city his well-wshers will be over.
joyed if he doesn't get into hopeless maze OF
oratorical tangeS
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14

Michaeis
the be setto rising generation
partisan
needs
had the right in the
lis
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-08-25

Fraa}- Work, the venerable New
York millionaire. discussed in his dis
tinctive way international maria ges.
Our girls dent marry men any
nore,' lse said gTimly- "Thcy marry
titles. tGiTiS haven't changed. it seems,
since TIE middle ages. IAcre was
once, You know, 4 lady of Touraine
who was welded TO medieval count.
The count went out from his castle
one fine m''rning TO meet the foe, but
the foe defeated him and took him
prisoner. Then the counts castle was
besieged. The countess Was summon
ed to the battlements. From below
herald shouted 10 her:
LADY, your lord has been defeated
and is now Qua prisoner. Surrender
the castle to us. and he shall be re-
stored to you in @afety.'
But tie countess answered without
an inStaniS hesitation:
"'No, Tli do nothang of the sort, for
l csn easily obtain another husband,
but getting another castle is quite a
different matter Exchange
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-08-25
"Conop Into tbs Garden

WcelS are ly about confeSSing their
anccSrry. liz youth they have the
charm of freshness and promise dc
only when gripped to the earth with
roots oi iron and ready to set their
progeny in delectable grounds that
they show their true col,2i's.
l. is Il puzzle how tO tell friHnGS
from enen,ics. flowers from weeds. An
observing eye. long about the business,
may be gifted With an Instinct and
power to detect at once What promises
to be ,candy1uft, what grass, what I'M s.
turtiun. what rue. or plantAan. or pop
ny. or dandciion, anl far into the SIP,
cics losing themselves in the disguise.
uf similarity.
Ify taking thu gardel seriously there
is IIariety enough to enlivcn the days
\ package Of f1wn grass seed on a
well prepared lawn will in time
arouse all 5hc eplOtiOnS latent IN the
humnW character. According to well
laid plans ard premises, it should be
clover and lawn Grass. An English
pinch of daisy seed. and az the hour
of the first wedding teIHlcr heart
suggested that no lawn was perfect
without dandelion gold.
One who would write book with
many pictures on the distinguishing
traits Of first sprouts should be re-
warded with the privilege of making
many editions to follow the first
sweeping sales. Plants have curious
ways of beginning life. Those that
start our rosettes become tall ana
spindling later: those that send forth
threads develop woody stems.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-08-25
FOR THE CHILDREN
Shin Alphabet.

The players sit in Il long row, as IL
in class at school, The one who acts as
schoo!mastpr asks sharply. beginning
at one end: "The name of the letter."
"a" says the first player. The school
master turns to the next player: The
name of the ship!' and begins to
count ten very quickly and sternly.
''Andromeda," is perhaps called out be-
fore he reaches that number. The
name of the cnptain:" ALLAN" What
is the cargo|' Apples The port
she comes from?' "Amboy." THE
place she is bound for!' Amsterdam"
The next letter?' "B," and so on. If
the schoolmnstcr is very strict and
abrupt with his questions and count
ing he can drive every idea from the
mind of the person he points at If
he counts ten before an answer comes
he passes on to the next, and the next.
until the answer is given. The one
who gives it moves up above those
who failed. The game should be
played rapidly.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-08-25
The Whizzing Globe.

Among the latest vaudeville novelties
81 Paris is Il bicycle ACT which is re-
fered to on the programme as "the
whizZinS globe" In great wire cage,
EloBular in form and about twenty
feet in diameter, 4 man SITS. mount
cd On bicycle. His wheel rests ON a
rim Of narrow wooden Stats which ex-
tends in circle around the inside of
the globe. The man pedals vigorously.
and the globe. resting on an axle and
free from the f1oor, is set in motion. the
revolutions being in kceping With the
-apidity Of the wheel on the inside.
The show is not half over, however,
when the man emerges and makes his
bow, for in the second act another
wheelman takes his place on the top
of the globe, and. while the great cage
is whiZzing, impelled by the bicycle
rider inside, the man on top msintains
his place, the wheels of his machine
spinning around in harmony with the
globes motions. The whole thing is a
globular trehdmill so novel as to make
it wonderful to look at
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-08-25
Amount of Grain For Cattle.

The differences in practice between
fine amounts of grain that are fed to
cattle that are being fattened is vcry
great.
The following rules will be found &C
some service to those who are feed.
ing: First, aim to feed coarse foods to
the greatest extent possible consistent
with good increase, as they are the
cheaper foods second feed enough con
centr0tes to make the fattening roa-
sonably rapid in order to save in the
food Of maintenance; third, when
the droppings show that the food IS
not being we'll digcsted by the offensive
odor that comes from them the grain
should he reduced; fourth. when the
anima! gets off feed the grain should
be at once cut down or the trouble Is
likely to get worse. At such times con
dimcntal food may aid in bringing o.
stomach back into tone.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-08-25
UNCLE SAM'S N-.'N f.E,-Cl.
De,ieeey From 2eur1;;s " ,icn WiIl
De CecNY. |. re.

De Grew, IRE.
The department Of Ga:icui.>uc t. III.
ways alcrt for soHlctn.a- 3.,},. aj' lhc
diplomatic and consular o...r""% 3D.. the
United States have sprr' ,.s..'' t.'' '.p
on the lockout fer low tiu.t H'd
vegetables.
So well have these crlcra nHcu Ga.
ricd out that many new and s;rln"2
fruits and vegetables have found t't,ir
way to the tables of the American
housekcepcr.
one of the latest ana best things il
this line has been the intiUdu ,tiCn iI,u
the United States uf the ..'uGlan..n
watermelon. This WAS The result O. Il
deal consummatcd by the late minister
to RUumania, Horace G. Knowles.
When Mr.. Knowles found this melon
growing among the foothills of Car
pathia he realized that it would he
Just the fling to serve individually III
America, and instead of hotels scrv
ing huge slices of watermelon it would
he possible to serve whole uncut
watermelon of the Roumanian variety.
t'luill III every way W lhe DcSI ht'l Sl'l
melon
The new melon has 81 thin skin, and
the meat which is less flbrOuS than
the American melon, is both yellow
and red in cdior. The flavor is deli
cate and delicious. but the chief char
acteristic of fEe fruit is it's size, which
is about that of good sized grape
fruit ,or shaddock.
After a thorough test by the argicul-
tural department, which found that
the RCumaninn melon could be success
fully grown wherever our own melons
would grow, ahl having bccu assured
Of its royal reception by the American
public, Mr. Knowles was anxious to
repay the gift He had noticed that
corn in Roumania was one Of the chief
articles of agriculture, but that sweet
corn was unknown. Accordingly he
obtained quantity of seed, l&red sew
cral plots of ground and instructed the
Roumanians in its culture.
The result was so successful and the
corn so thoroughly enjoyed that the
king called Mr.. Knowles 80 a private
tHutcncc anu thanked nlul IoT llilhi,lE
it possible for the Roumanian people
to gain this delicaey.
This mdlon has received such a wei
come and so great has been the de-
mand for it that two large hotels in
New YORK and Philadelphia have
agreed to take all rilat can be grown
in the United States during the next
year, and ii is their intention to fea-
ture them ol their menus.