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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-20
THE ORIGIN OF "SHOW Me-"

ocrat, a gentleman with fondness for
delivering in the dust laden records of
the Historical society has appeared
with the information that the challenge,
you'll have to show me-" is a-corrup-
ton of the name of a famous Indian
chief of the Sioux tribe. whose grave
is in the western part of the state, old
Yumus Shome having led the tribe who
crossed the lowlands below the mouth
of the Illinois, carrying their canoes
on their heads from the Mississippi to
the Missouri and thus giving the name
to the historic old French town, Por-
tage DIES Sioux. Yumus Shome, it is
averred, is buried at Westport, in Jack
son county, and his name, carelessly
pronounced "You mus show me- has
passed into the vernacular of the state.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-20
Quaker Philosophy.

We are never too old to learn the
latest wrinkle.
Many a man has won his spurs only
TO find them thorn in the flesh.
Reputation and character are about
as synonymous as the north and south
poles.
Many q man never does anything
worth while because he thinks it isn't
worth while.
This would be a much more pleasant
world if there weren't so many ways
of making people unhappy.
Hard luck is the kind that comes
easiest.
Fools and children tell the truth, and
generally at the wrong time.
Any man who can make money can
make friends, but he can't always keep
either.
F1atter a woman and she will believe
you. Tell her the truth and she won't.
It's all right to love your enemies,
but don't do it at the expense Of your
friends. Philadelphia Record.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-20
BIGGEST SHIP DUE IN 1855.
Will Be Half Milo In Length and
Carry $4,000 Persons, Is Prediction.

Will Be Half Mile In Length and
Carry $4,000 Persons, Is Prediction.
An Atlantic steamship half mile
long, registering 100000 tons, having a
beam Of 24O feet and carrying 10000
passengers is the astonishing leyidkhan
predicted for the year 1866 by the stat
istician S. c. Gilfillan, says London
newspaper-that is, if the growth in
continues at the same rate for the next
forty years.
BY means of plotted curve he indi-
Gates the growing size of modern lin
ers, which begins with the Great West
ern in 1910 and rises with steadily in
creasing ascent to the Olympic and I'm
perator of today.
If this curve is projected in the most
conservative path to the year 1855 you
have ship 1900 feet long and in two
decades more one of 1850, or five times
the length of the Olympic.
'Ships have been growing larger" he
says, ever since Mr.. Paleolithicus, or
more probably his young son, sat on
log and padded himself across a creek.
And the growth has been perfectly
continuous except for one break at the
close of the Roman empire, when CIV
ilization declined. The extremely rap
id development Of material civilization
today will surely not be so much halt
cd in bo iaI1 w
since the speed of progress is accelerat-
ing.
And one of the characteristics OF
civilization has for a century been a
universal growth in the size of things
buildings, railroads, ships, machines.
''It is hard to ina gine ship whose
cable links each weigh two-thirds of q
ton being launched in two decades and
a half. But the curve Of growth has
been steady and sure, except where the
Great Eastern exceeded 1t.
"If we say that it will not continue In
the future we but echo what has been
said time and again in the past, and al
ways the curve has continued. Objec-
lions that greater ships would be I'M
wieldy or too deep for our harbors
have been made in the past and blotted
out by the next leviathan.
The advantages Of having such large
ships will be the greater speed they
will afford, reduction of the dangers
at sea and the provision Of greater
comforts and amusements, not to men
ton the practical absence of seasick-
ness
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-20
A Self Imposed Sacrifice
BY MARTIN L. HIBBINS

will. In that will he surely made pro-
vision for my return, for he had no
proof of my death. AS to proof of my
statement respecting my supposed sis
ter, | have provided myself with the
sworn statement of Rachel Duprey,
who carried the babe to the chateau"
The citizen judge looked at the young
man who proposed to give his life for
another with astonishment, then read
Rachel Duprey's statement.
Arrest this man and stay the execu-
ton of CitiZeness Fayette.'
Jean was imprisoned in the concier
gerie while the court investigated the
truth of his statement. The will Of the
late duke on file verified Jeans state
ment as to the missing heir, and Rachel
Duprey stood by her written affidavit
that she had carried Louise to the cha
teau. The court was too busily en-
gagged in it's bloody work to probe the
matter and decided to consider Jean
the rightful heir to the Favette estate
The next question was, should he, hav-
ing voluntarily given himself up, be
executed. He had fought in the cause
of liberty in America and. had acted
nobly in presenting himself to save
Louise. But he was the Duke de la
Favette, and the revolutionists wisheH
to exterminate his family and to
possession of his estate. Therefor :
after a spirited debate it was voted to
execute him.
One morning soldier entered the
conciergerie and read the names of a
number Of persons there who were to-
be taken out for execution. One Of
them was Citizen Favette
Louise, who supposed that the man
had made an error in reading citizen
instead of citizeness, was trying to
get up from her chair to go to her
death when she saw a young man rise
and. take his place among the con-
demned. The next moment the soldier
read:
She who was known as Citizeness
Favette is free to 60"
When the batch was completed and
the prisoners were filing out, Jean,
passing Louise, whispered in her ear:
II die for you because I love you"
After the restoration of the Bourbons
the Duke de la Favette returned to
France. He had been left for dead on
a battlefield, taken by trapper west
ward and captured by tribe of In
dams in the then wilderness Of Ohio.
In Paris he found his sister, who had
learned something of the plan by
which she had been saved from death
Nothing that had been done by the
revolutionists stood under the new re-
gime, and the duke found little difficult
ty in regaining his estates.
Louise de la Favette never married,
considering herself the wife of the man
who had died for her. So long as she
lived she made pilgrimages to the
cemetery of Pere la Chaise to place
flowers on the grave of Jean Truville,
and when she died she was laid beside
him.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-20

A little while ago a we'll intentoned
critic of st. Louis informed the bust
ness men that their city had outgrown
It's stick-in- the-mud slogan, You'll
have to show me-" and that the first
step in the direction of progress must
be the selection Of less slow slogan.
A few Of those who read his speech in
the daily papers protested that "show
me" was never in any sense the prop
erty of st. Louis. They were not sure
whence it had come nor why. They
could remember only vaguely the first
time they heard it, but they were posi-
tive it belonged to the state of Missou-
ri and not te~any one city. assuredly
not to the metropolis on the Missis-
sippi.
Now, states the St Louis GlobeDem-
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-20
DO OLD PASTURES PAY?
Generally Found to Be Good Only For
Places For Exercise of Herds.

We are fast coming to point where
the pastures will not be relied upon at
all except as place for exercise and a
little extra feed during the height Of
plan to raise enough of green foliage to
feed the herd ali summer. Five acres
of ensilage would produce as much
feed and support as many COWS in sum-
lner as the average fifty acre pasture.
Some hay should be fed with the silage
BY this plan, instead of a pasture
fast growing to wood lot the farmer
would have smaller acreage of tillage
land devoted mostly to the hay crop
and corn for ensilage. A small pasture
would need to be saved to furnish ex-
erclse and a little feed. BY the ell
silage plan there will be uniform
flow of milk not affected by the
drought of late summer and early au-
tumn.
Some grain still needs to be fed in
summer with ensilage, but not any,
where near SO much as with poor pas
ture. quart of cottonseed meal with
the hay and ensilage will keep up a
good milk flow. Glover hay is better
than any other to feed with ensilage.
This plan requires quite an acreage
of tillage land in order to keep up the
yield of the ensiage corn. which does
best on land only one or two years
from sod. AS compared with summer
soiling the summer ensilage is cheaper.
requires much less labor and corn is
more reliable than the crops grown for
summer solllng.-American Cultivator.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-20
Live Topics For Farm Readers
SUMMER HEN FOOD.
Rations Recommended by the New
York State College Of Agriculture.


York State College of Agriculture.
The New York State College of Agri-
culture at Cornell university, Ithaca,
n. Y, recommends the following whole
grain mixture, fed morning and after
noon in straw litter, for laying hens
By weight, 60 pounds wheat, 60
pounds corn, 80 pounds oats.
BY measure, 30 quarts wheat, SO
quarts corn, 80 quarts oats.
The following mash is fed dry in a
hopper kept open during the AFTER
NOON only:
BY weight 80 pounds cornmeal, 60
pounds wheat middlings, 30 pounds
wheat bran, 10 pounds alfalfa meal, 10
pounds oilmeal, so pounds beef scrap,
1 pound salt
BY measure, 81 quarts cornmeal, II
quarts wheat middlings, 81 quarts
wheat bran, 20 quarts alfalfa meal, 8
quarts oilmeal, 43 quarts beef scrap,
half a quart of salt.
The fowls should eat about one-half
as much mash by weight as whole
grain. Regulate the proportion Of grain
and ground feed by giving light feed
ing of grain in the morning and about
all they will consume at the afternoon
feeding lin time to find grain before
dark.
In the case of pullets or fowls in
heavy laying, restrict both night and
morning feeding to induce heavy eat
ing of dry mash, especially in the case
of hens.
This ration should be supplemented
with beets, cabbage, sprouted oats,
green clover or other succulent food,
unless running on grass covered range.
Grit. cracked oyster shell and charcoal
should be accessible at all times.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-20
Fertilizer Facts.

No very definite rule can be laid
down for the fertilization of any crop.
Soils and climates vary enormously,
and the variations of the soil and soil
tillage have a great influence on the
methods of fertilization. Furthermore,
the tastes and ideas of different men
vary, and these personal factors have
also to be taken into account. They
are of the greatest significance in
fruit growing. for the man is more
important than the soil or the climate.
Country Gentleman.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-20
Keep the Engine Firm.

Whenever gasoline engine is
mounted for use either on truck or
permanent base a heavy timber base
or concrete base should be supplied.
The experienced mechanic who is in
terested in the successful working Of
an engine invariably advises con-
crete base in which heavy bolts have
been imbedded for fastening the motor
securely. thus removing all vibrations
and adding to it's efficiency.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-20
Make Your Acres Yield More,

Professor Hopkins of Illinois says
land that will produce twenty bushels
of corn to the acre is worth $21.S1.
while land that will produce forty
bushels of corn is worth $11636. This
of course is intended to show the
value of the production over and above
the necessary cost in labor, seed, etc.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-20
Farm Butter the Puresf.

A German scientist has examined
large quantities of butter for the pres
ence of bacteria causing tuberculosis.
None of the samples of butter made on
farms contained tubercle bacilli,
whereas 1876 per cent of the samples
of creamery butter contained these
germs. The author maintains that all
such milk should be pasteurized to pre-
vent the contamination of the entire
mixture by one lot.-Farm and Fire
side
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-20
HOW BIG SHOULD A FARM
BE?

In Farm and F'ireside the edi-
tor reports the opinion of j. f.
Sparks, an Iowa farmer, that the
farm of 12O acres in the corn
belt is the ideal He has had ex-
perience on farms of 50, 12O, 100
and 400 acres and believes in
the 100 acre farm. Following is
an extract from the article:
How much clear money can a
man make on this sort of farm:
The ideal farm of 120 acres de-
scribed by this 100 acre farmer
should sell, he says, products on
the average to the amount of
$4,000 a year. Feed to the value
of $1,000 year would be bought.
This would leave the farmer, as
interest and wages, $4,000. He
deducts the $500 for incidentals
and gives $4,000 as the net re-
turn.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-20
FOUR FOOTED MEN
Humans Used to Walk on Their
Hands, Says Scientist.
LOVER A MILLION YEARS AGO.

! English Psychologist Calls Our Fingers
Proof of Theory and Suggests Sims
pie Test to Bear Out Practicahility Of
Such Locomotion. u
Did you ever hear that you walked
on your hands over a million years
ago?
1t happened some little time back
maybe million years, perhaps a trifle
more, perhaps not at all, though fat
nous scientist says it did.
His idea is that once we used to
stand and walk on our hands. Here's
the theory as expounded in the Chicago
STribune:
Do you know why all your fingers
are not the same length, why you were
born with finger nails and why you
are a much better language student if
you are right handed than If you ara
bleft handed?
An English psychologist has given us
an interesting series Of answers tu
/ these questions.
''The fact that all our fingers are not
thessame length has always been q dis4
advantage to u.s." he says. "And the
reason that our little fingers and our
ring fingers are so small and weak
might be difficult to account for if we
took into consideration the present use
Of the hand. But we can find good
reasons when we consider the history
of the hand and look at the finger of
many kinds Of the lower animals which
have fingers more or less like ours"
Our hands, he goes on to explain,
were probably used for standing and
walking, as we seem to inherit them
from our -four footed ancestors" Sure-
ly we were never given them in the
first place, since our grasp Of things
is so materially lessened by our in.
equality.
But If we put our hands~on table
as If we meant to walk on the tips of
the fingers we can Immediately see
what we'll balanced support it makes
with the middle finger the longest
and the little finger and the thumb
falling behind and balancing the whole.
Nature this same physiologist
says, decided on five fingers for each
hand long, long ago-indeed, ages be-
fore man ever appeared on this earth
at all. 1t does seem at first as though
there were some obvious exceptions to
this, for we find only one finger or toe
for each limb in the horse, two for the
pig, and so on. But the original figure
was five.
''The hen, for instance, has only
three and half toes, and when we
examine the skeleton Of its wing, which
Is really its arm, we find three and q
half fingers there. With the chicken
it is the same. Only the birds appar-
emily have found that they could do as
well with three and a part Of fourth
and so have stopped developing, for
it Is the case with man and animals
the world over, and through countless
generations, as soon as they discover
that they can do without a particular
part Of their anatomy they begin tai
dispense with it and finally lose it alto
gether."
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-20
Jokes Our Shears Took a Shine To


did the prisoner strike you between
the arguments?'
NO. sir; he didn't. He struck me
between the eyes" baltimore Ameri-
can.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-20
Other Crops With Buckwheat

Glover and timothy are sometimes
seeded with buckwheat, and good re-
suits are frequently obtained, but as
this crop is usually put in early in July
the new seeding is subject to the dry
weather which SO often comes in July
and August.-Rural New Yorker.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-20
The Drawback.

ut is a restricted neighborhood in a
very fashionable suburb
'Think [ could get in?''
why not? You are able to build a
$4,000 house. Your character is good.
You have charming wife,
Yes, but there's no use trying to
conceal it. We have a baby."-Pitts-
burgh Post
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-20

College Maud by
college, yielded
Maid
College
would
feed that intelligent provide
kind OF will dollar
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-20

my grandma said the office boy
TREMENDOUSLY. Nothing doing" said
the manager shortly. Died before |
was BORN the boy went on, land
amt never had an excuse for going to
the opening game - Detroit Free
Press. ..
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-20
Dawn of Bright Scholar.

Johnny. don't believe you've stud
led your geography"
mo, mum; l heard pa say the map
of the world was changing every day,
an | thought Id wait few years till
things got settled. brooklyn Eagle.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-20
How CareIessI

Old Lady (Who has been lunching
with her son)-Here. William. you left
this quarter on the table by mistake.
It's lucky saw it, because the waiter
had his eye on it.-Life
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-20
Egasac city.

Never count your chickens before
they are hatched.'
"Of course"' sneered Mr. Crosslots.
you're another of those people who
want to take the chief pleasures out of
the poultry business" : Washington
Star.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-20
Up to Mother.

Small Edgar was in the pantry, and
his mother called and asked what he
was up to.
us up to the third shelf with the
jam OH it. mamma" he replied.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-20
Her Worst Fears Confirmed,

Il know I'm not very attractive. but
had no idea | was beginning to look
old as we'll as plain,' she said
But you're not"
Yes. | am. A man offered me his
seat in the street car today, and that's
the first time that has happened in
years. detroit Free Press
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-20
A Correct Surmise,

"You look sleepy, Jones. You must
have been up with the sun this morn
ing"
Eyes; was up with him all night
Judge.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-20

Kitty Cooington-All the girls in our
suffrage club went on strike and
agreed to accept 10 attention from any
man unless he was pledged to vote for
woman suffrage.
Mrs. Henballot-That was nice. And
was it successful!
Kitty Cooington No. So many
strike breakers showed up that we all
went back on the job.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-20

Collector-Ive been coming to this
Office for this bill for the past five
years.
Mr.. Nopay-I want to compliment
you. You dress so stylishly some peo-
pie think you're wealthy customer Of
ours-NeW York Globe.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-20
GOOD INFLUENCES.

Do not think it wasted time to
submit yourself to any influence
which may bring upon you any
noble feeling Ruskin.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-20
The Family SUPPORT.

docs Palette make any money by
having his work hung on the liner
mo, but his wife does. Baltimore
American.
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1T WILL.

@ Each year one vicious habit
q rooted out in time ought to make
g the worst man good. -Franklin.
(.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-20

The Monologist-lve just been asked
to present my monologue before the in
mates of the state reformatory.
The Head Bdlancer-Go to it, old top
There's an audience that can't get away
from you. Chicago News.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-20

And He Deserves IL!
He that abuseth his colts may ex-
pect to be kicked by his horses.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-20
CUT GRASS SOON.
Letting 1t Grow High Is Not a
Good Farming Practice.
FOLLOW IT WITH CORN.
n Much Corn Fodder Is Not Wanted
Fields May Be Made to Produce Tur-
nps-Presence Of SorreI Indicates
Land Needs Application Of Lime.

The common daisy or whiteweed, as
it is often called, is not pest, as many
consider it. 1t does not take posses
sion of fertile fields to crowd out clover
and the better grades of English grass,
but when those grasses die out from
lack of fertility in the soil then the
whiteweed will come in if the land is
not too wet and sour.
When it does not start sorrel is apt
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The Keota news., 1913-07-18
ROAD PETITION GRANTED
Pawnee and Hightower People to
Get Better Way to Town

The Helphrey petition for two miles
Of road. from the southeast corner Of
section 81 to the southeast corner Of
section 3s. township 10. range So. was
granted at the July meeting Of tho
Board of County Commissioners. This
road Crosses Pawnes ditch and Pawnee
creek, and bridges will be required to
make it passable with loaded wagon at
all seasons.
July Is was fixed - the date for
viewing the road asked for in the Lin
Rslbach petition. This road begins at
the e corner of section l6. 1857. and
runs six miles west to Of l6. 1888.
From there it runs two miles north and
one mile south, connecting with the
Hslphrey road. Its course from the se
corner Of 33, 1888, is as follows: 3 miles
west to Of l, $50; miles s. l ", l
., 2w, ., and " to n Of 25, $50;
l mile 8. ", and to the corner
Of section "a, which is the section on
which Ksota is located. In addition.
four miles Of road are asked for. run
ming from . 6. 9-5s, one mile 8, 2 ",
and . to the " of section Is, $50.
The total length of tho Helphrey and
Lingslbach roads is 80 miles. The far
end 10 II miles east and miles north Of
Keots. The north end IL IL miles east
and II miles north Of Keota. With ex-
ception Of the Pawnee crossings it will
bs comparatively inexpensive to build
and maintain.
The Keota news., 1913-07-18

Childs of Spokane. their grandchildren,
Lyn and Opal Hollembaek of Cheyenne,
Nrs. Cronk, Mr.. and Mrs. Wsleh. Mr..
and Mrs. Haworth and children, Mary,
RAIDER. Paul and Wayne. Mr.. and Mrs.
Sehoonover. Mrs. Stewart and daugh-
ters, Pauline and Grace. Mrs. Hughston
and son, Gerald, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Nc
MILAN and daughter. Kathryn. Fred