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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-08
AGlance at Current Topics and Events

Cottonwood Falls, Kan, Aug. 5.-Ac-
cording to stock raisers and farmers of
this county, the coyote seems to be fast
becoming extinct The fencing up of
the big pasture districts in this and
neighboring counties, where practically
every acre is now stocked with cattle,
has robbed the coyote of his once free
and open range. Because of his dep
relations on young and helpless domes-
tic stock a bounty has been set on his
head, and he has long been a fugitive,
hunted and killed by every farmer.
The bounty of 81, which is paid by
the county for every coyote scalp turn5
ed in, probably more than any other
cause, is responsible for the decreasing
wolf population. In order to get the
reward many farmers, and especially
the farmer boys, not only trap and kill
coyotes whenever the opportunity
comes, but have made a practice of
hunting the coyotes dens and robbing
them of their young, for the scalp of
a baby wolf, though only a few weeks
old and innocent of all wrongdoing, is
the same in the eyes of the law as
would be that of a veteran chicken
killer
Only a few years ago the bounty
money paid out in this county alone
for coyotes ran as high as $500 or $500
annually. Now it is said that the num-
Der will hardly reach 500 a year. The
bringing in of a dozen or more scalps
by one farmer, which was once so COM
mon, no longer occurs.
SO persistenly have the farmers car
ried on the warfare of determination
that the coyotes who rear their fami-
lies in safety must be cunning indeed.
Though this may seem cruel, yet from
long experience farmers have found
that in a stock raising country the coy
ote has no place. Were they left to
multiply even for a few years so great
would their numbers become as to be
scourge to the country.
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peveIopinq City Experts.

Madison, Wis, Aug. "A plan for
developing municipal experts is being
worked out by the American Political
Science association, which hopes to
forge the connecting link between uni
versities and cities or other divisions
of government. The plan was placed
in the hands of a committee of five.
It's members are DR.. Charles McCar-
thy, Wisconsin legislative reference IL
brarian; Albert Bushnell Hart, Har-
ward university; Benjamin f. Sham
baugh, University of Iowa; William F.
Willoughby, Princeton university, and
Raymond G. Gettell, Trinity college.
E. A. Fitzpatrick, Madison, Is acting
secretary.
This committee is to list places
where laboratory work in political sci
ence can be done, to recommend to
universities and colleges that credit be
given students for work done in such
localities, to obtain scholarships for
laboratory work of this character and
endowment for building a trained body
of public servants.
The plan is really to carry forward
in a general way throughout the coun-
try the idea that already has been ex-
tensively applied in Wisconsin.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-08
Phonetically Written Bible.

Cleveland, Mimi, Aug. 5.-Judson
Jones of this city has completed a
translation Of the Bible according to
system of phonetic spelling which
he devised himself. Most of the man
uscript is being kept in safe deposit
vault, while the four books of the Cos
pels and the book of Acts are being
put into type.
Mr. Jones began his work twenty
one years ago, when he was sixty
years old, and he has devoted most of
his time since to the translation. He
has acquired considerable fame in his
speciality of phonetic spelling, having
originated a method which eliminates
all silent letters and substitutes. He
is the author of the alphabet of Or
thoepy and It's Application to Mono
syllables," which was at one time the
spelling book used most in the public
schools Of his state Mr.. Jones says
that three dictionaries in this country
and three in England are now using
the system he invented
In speaking of this speller he prophe-
sled that within 100 years it would be
the recognized form of spelling. His
publishers are confident that his Bible
will in time come into popular use.
The Jones system of spelling has
been in use in the English schools Of
China for nine years.
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Belqium's Large Army.

Brussels, Aug. 3.-Belgium, with a
population of scarcely 100000, will
shortly have the greatest army in pro-
portion to the number of inhabitants
of any European country, with the ex-
ception of Montenegro. According to
a bill that recently passed the parlia-
ment, every man of twenty Is to be
trained to bear arms, which will raise
the war footing of the army to 100000.
The main provisions of the new act
are:
First.-Every Belgian will be called
to the colors in his twentieth year
Half of the number will, however, be
subject to exemption in certain cir
cumstances.
Second.-In time of peace the period
of military service will be fifteen
months for the infantry, twenty one
months for siege artillery and twenty
four months for the cavalry and field
artillery.
Third. - There will be $4,000 men
with the colors in time of peace and
34O,OOO men in time of war. OF the
latter 100000 represent the field army
and 100000 to defend Antwerp, Liege
and Namur
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-08
DR.. JEKYLLS AND Mr.. HYDES.
A Human Being Who Had as Many ar
Ten Personalities.

DR.. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde must look
Press. British scientists have uncover
ed instances of human beings who pos
sessed as many as ten different per-
sonalities. One in particular could
change her mood every hour in the day.
A remarka BILE example is that Of Will
liam Sharp. who shook off his male
mental characteristics and became
woman in heart and mind. Sharp when
youth ran away and joined band Of
gypsies. When he returned to society
he took up literature and decided he
wanted to become poet. He found he
could not portray his ideals while plain
William Sharp, and in 1894 his dual
personality came into existence.
He would sit down, take upon him.
self Il feminine tone and write books as
Fiona Mcleod"
He used to say he could write out of
his heart in a way he could not do as
William Sharp Fiona always was
spoken of as a separate person, and he
even wrote letters to her. There was
real difference in the literary style
and even in the handwriting.
Another case was that of a Miss
Beauchamp, who had what is described
as multiple personality. 1t was re-
corded of her that she could change
her personality every hour.
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woods he set out with the diamonds
What diamonds?" asked the unim-
pOrtant passenger, almost with acer-
bity.
The ones the saddle maker showed
him in the Peruvian temple" said the
other somewhat obscurely. when he
reached home Alice's mother led him,
weeping, to a green mound under a
willow tree. Her heart was broken
when you left said her mother. And
what of my rival-of Chester Mcln-
tosh? asked Mr.. Redruth as he knelt
sadly by Alice's grave. When he
found out she answered, that her
heart was yours he pined away day
by day until at length he started a
furniture store in Grand Rapids. We
heard lately that he was bitten to
death by an Infatuated moose near
South Bend, Ind, where he had gone
to try to forget scenes of civilization
With which Mr.. Redruth forsook the
face of mankind and became a hermit,
as we have seen.
''NIy story" concluded the young man
with an agency, may lack the literary
quality, but what | want it to show is
that the young lady remained true.
She cared nothing for wealth in COM
parison with true affection. l admire
and believe in the fair sex too much
to think otherwise"
The narrator ceased, with a sidelong
glance at the corner where reclined
the lady passenger.
BiIdad Rose was next invited by
Judge Menefee to contribute his story
in the contest for the apple of judg-
ment The stage drivers essay was
brief
I'm not one of them lObo wolves"
he said, who are always blaming on
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CONGRESS of Pan Americans.

Washington, Aug. 4-Committees to
arrange for the fifth Pan-American
conference, to be held in Santiago,
Chile, next year, have been announced.
The committee to prepare the program
of the conference include the represent
atives on the governing board Of the
Pan-American Union from the United
States, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Cos
ia RIGA, Salvador, Venezuela, Cuba
and Peru. The committee on regu-
lations is composed of the ministers
from Bolivia, Nicaragua, Uruguay,
Guatemala, Santo Domingo, Columbia,
Honduras, Paraguay and Mexico.
The question of concerted action by
the pan-American countries in cele-
brating in some BETTING manner the
completion of the Panama canal, in
which all are commercially interested
will be taken up at the Santiago con-
ference.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-08
College Education Worth $25, 900.

Chicago, Aug. "A college education
is worth $4,000, according to statis-
tics compiled by the Northwestern
university of Chicago The university
took a census of the class Of 1903,
members of which have had ten years
to get settled"
This showed that for the first five
years out of school the average earn
ing power of the graduates was $S67
and for the next five years S1,S62.
According to the United States CEN
sus bureau, the average earning ca
pacity Of the salaried man in this city
is S1,202. An estimate of the total
value of college education was ar
rived at by multiplying the difference
by forty, which the statistician consid-
cred fair estimate of a mans years
of service.
The cost of a college education at
Northwestern is estimated at $2,4OO.
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FEAST|NC At SEA.
Years Provisions Cost Steamship
Company s4,92O,OOO.
BUTCHER BILL OF $1,685,OOO.
This Was Exclusive of Fish and
Game-TransatIantic Voyaeers Ate
Over a Quarter of a Million Dollars
Worth of Preserves Alone.

In these days, when the high cost Of
living is so much in the public mind,
it is interesting to know what it costs
q steamship company to provide the
necessities of life to the hordes of pas
sengers who cross and recross the At.
lantic. The annual statement of the
North German Lloyd for 1912 throws
some light on the subject. Last year
the company's bill for provisions alone
was $4,920,O00 while during the same
period the coal man was paid $780,
735 for 1,75S,740 tons of coal. For
these two items alone-provisions and
cOal-the company paid the enormous
sum of S12,296,735, and the greater
part of this fortune dropped into the
Golfers of Uncle Sam.
That seasickness does not always
interfere with the appetite of ocean
travellers is evidenced by the expendi-
ture of almost S5,OOO,0O0 for provi-
sions. The butcher, as usual, reaped
the greatest harvest in the matter of
provisions, his bill for the year hav-
ing been $685. OO This does not in
clude fish and game. For the former
the company paid an additional $780,
$50. while the bill for game amounted
to $412, 800, total of S652,020. These
two items, added to the bill for meat
proper, brought the amount up to So
337 900
In our household expenditures we are
not likely to pay much attention to the
cost of preserves, and yet the North
German Lloyd spent $3.50, recover a
quarter of a million dollars-for these
sweets during the year. The bill for
fresh vegetables amounted to $12S,110
while for sundries, including bread,
-four, spices, fruits and the thousand
and one articles that are used in the
kitchen the company paid 81 $780, 500.
More potatoes were consumed during
the year than any other single article,
the total amount having been 17,S75,-
1878 pounds. Flour ranked next with
6.313, 152 pounds, fresh beef third with
$3.50, 1874 pounds, while bread was
fourth with 2,353O S3 pounds.
The passengers consumed 7O9S, $50
eggs, 4,271, 059 oranges and lemons,
707,625 pounds of onions and 9S3,SO2
pounds of salt. They used 465,340
pounds of coffee and 41,729 pounds of
tea and 529,619 cans of steriliZed milk,
to say nothing of 14,91S bottles of
fresh cream
1t was necessary to provide 19,119,242
pounds of ice to keep things cool and
1907 boxes of matches for fires and
flights" In the bakeshops S3,651
quantity of butter necessary during the
year was 1056,057 pounds.
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Education Chief For Exposition.

Berkeley, Cal, Aug. 4.-James A.
Barr of this city has been appointed
chief of the department Of education
of the Panama-Pacific International ex-
position, to be held in San Francisco in
1915.
Mr. Barr was superintendent of
schools at Stockton, Cal, for twenty
years. He has been secretary of the
California Teachers association the
last two years and has been manager
of the Sierra Educational News.
He has arranged for 10 conventions
of an educational character to be held
in San Francisco during The exposition
period. I32 b
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-08
State Education Through Universities

Philadelphia, Aug. 3. - AS a result
of the expedition of the City club of
Philadelphia to the University of Wis
consin it seems probable there will be
a colossal educational movement in
Pennsylvania by an adaptation of the
university extension plan developed in
Wisconsin. 1t has been suggested
that it would be possible to carry the
schools to all the people if the state
legislature would make use of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. State college
and the University of Pittsburgh, each
institution to perform it's extension
work in a district.
If attempted this movement would
mean a large corps of instructors pos
sessing knowledge of the industrial
arts as we'll as drill in theory; resident
experts to conduct the classes in shops
in schools, on the farm and on the
roadside, with all classes of toilers
new textbooks to meet the district con-
ditions and an expert correspondence
bureau with circulating library organ
lied in each institution. DR.. Charles
r. Van Hise, president of the universe
ty in Madison, Wis, said that Pennsyl-
vania's conditions differ from Wiscon-
sins only in extent of territory and the
number of persons to be reached and
that the three district plan would be
admirable
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women the calamitieS of life. My tes-
timOny in regards to the fiction story
YOU ask for. judge. will be about as
follows: What allied Redruth was pure
laziness. If he had up and slugged
this percival De Lacey that tried to
give him the outside of the road and
had kept Alice in the grapevine swing
been we'll. The woman you want is
sure worth taking pains for.
"'Send for me if you want me again.
says Rejlruth He'd have called it
pride. but the meteorological name for
it is azinesS. No woman don't like to
run after man. Let him come back
hissef says the girl, and I'll be bound
she tells the boy with the pay ore to
trot, and then spends her time watch
ing out the window for the man with
the empty pocketbook and the tickly
mustache.
II reckon Redruth waits about nine
wear expecting her to send him a note
by a Niger asking him to forgive her.
But she don't. This game won't
work says Redruth. then so won't l.
And he goes in the hermit business
and raises whiskers. Yes; laziness and
whiskers was what done the trick.
They travel together You ever hear
of a man With long whiskers and hair
striking bonanza? No. Look at the
Duke of Marlborough and this Stand
ard Oil smoker. Have they got 'em?
Nov, this Alice didn't never marry,
I'll bet boss. If Redruth had mar
lied somebody else she might have
done so too. But he never turns up.
She has these here things they call
fond memories and maybe Il lock of
hair and corset steel that he broke.
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South's LARGEST Exhibit.

Knoxville, Tenn, Aug. 5.-Plans for
the national conservation exposition
which is to be held here from Sept
l to Nov. 1 next have been complet-
ed, and they provide for the largest
exposition ever held in the south
There will be eleven main exposition
buildings and a number of smaller
ones. Some of the large buildings
have already been completed and con-
tain each over ten acres of floor space.
Two or more members of the ma
tional advisory board have charge of
the plans Of the exhibits in each of the
six departments into which the expo
sition is divided-namely, land, for
ests, water, wild animal life, minerals
and man. Under these departments
wide range of exhibits from the north
and west as we'll as the south will il
lustrate the latest developments in
scientific agriculture, the improve
ments of forest conditions for the pres
ervation Of the timber supply, the reg
ulation of stream flow for power. navi-
cation and domestic supply and the re-
duction Of foods and droughts, the re-
tention of water power sites by the
government, the improvement of
streams for power development and
navigation, the diminution of waste in
the production and use of minerals, the
protection Of fish and game, the i'm
provement of industrial processes de-
signed to reduce waste in materials
and human energy, child labor, infant
mortality, eradication of disease and
the protection of human life in fac
tories.
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Political Popularity.

what attitude shall | assume dur
ing the campaign?" asked the new
candidate.
Il would suggest an easy posture at
a desk" answered his more experience
ed manager, with Il check book in one
hand and fountain pen in the other
Louisville Courier Journal.
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Up AGAINST 1t.

Gallant Major-Its glad l am to see
you about again, me dear lady, but
what was it that was troubling you?
Convalescent-I was very, very i'll, ma.
jor, through ptomaine poisoning. Ma
jor-Dear, dear, now What with that
an delirium tremens you never know
what to eat or drink nowadays
Punch.
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building, on which to erect an am
phitheater and office buildings. Trux-
ton Beals, formerly minister to Persia
and until recently chairman Of the
board of regents of the University of
California, is the leading spirit in the
new educational movement.
The proposed institution primarily
will be for the study of politics, both
civic, national and international.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-08
Q. HENRY STORIES
Copyright by the Mcclure Company
No. 3
The Sphinx Apple
PROLOGUE.

Stormbound, Bildad Roses passen-
gers take refuge in a shanty deserted
by Old Man Redruth, who had an un-
lucky love affair, Rose informs them.
An apple is found, and the impressive
Judge Menefee, rendering it to the only
lady present, suggests its award for
what she considers the best version of
the blighted romance from the point
where Roses narrative ends. The idea
Is adopted.
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Branner,

ed to succeed him. DR.. Branner Is
we'll qualified for the position. He is
Pacific coast and has a worldwide rep
utation as geologist. He has been a
member of the faculty since Stanford
university was opened in 1891.
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International Congress of Medicine.

London, Aug. 5.-Distinguished ply
sicians are arriving daily to attend
the seventeenth international congress
of medicine Aug. 6-12. The American
delegation is headed by DR. W. s..
Thayer of Johns Hopkins university.
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The Apple Cron,

Cleveland, O., Aug. 1.-THE purpose
of the International Apple Shippers
association exhibit this week is to as
certain by means of the exhibits made
the condition of the apple crop general
ly and just how far it has progressed.
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a scientist says that thoughts car
be seen. Probably most of them will
look so small that the old esta blished
price of penny for your thoughts will
be greatly reduced.-Kansas City Star
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Institution For Study of Politics.

Washington, Aug. S.-Steps toward
realization of the new university move
ment, to be known as the college con-
gress," have been taken. and an option
has been obtained on land in Potomac
park, near the Pan-American Union
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EaoIes Meet at Baltimore.

Baltimore, Aug. 5.-The national con-
vention of the Fraternal Order of Ea-
giles opening here today continues one
week. Parades and scenic displays are
included in the program. The Eagles
convention in 1904 was held in this
civ
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Autos Withstand lntensest Cold.

It has been demonstrat C thoroughly
that automobiles can lie operated in a
temperature as low as 70 degrees be-
Low zero.
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Reward For Services

Washington, Aug. 6-Walter W.
Wick of New Jersey, who was appoint
ed collector Of customs at Santo Do
mingo, was secretary Of the Wilson
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New Head of Stanford University.
San Francisco, Aug. 5.-When David
Starr Jordan announced his retirement
from the presidency of Leland Stan
ford, Jr university DR.. John Casper
Branner the vice president, was nam
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inaugural committee and did energetic
campaigning in his native state pre-
cedng March last. 1t was in recog-
milton of these services and because of
his experience at law that he was
named for the Santo Domingo post.
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INGENIOUS Theories.

'T0HE lady passenger smiled
Il sweetly The apple lay in her
INsSNI lap beneath her robes and
s-sssasJ wraps. She reclined against
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-07-14
ATTEMPT TO POISON
FAMILY DISCOVERED

BAKER, Ore, July 14.-Sheriff
Rand and his deputies are still work
ing to discover the perpetrators of the
attempted poisoning of the Bumgar-
ner family. 1t is quite likely that the
party whom they strongly suspicion
will be taken into custody. as they
have located him. The officers are
reticent TO say whom they suspect in
the case, but from the fact that the
strychnine used was purchased at a
local drug store. their deductions are
well grounded.
When Mrs. John Bumgarner, who
lives in South Baker, went to the
pump, she noticed a piece of white
paper in the spout. Upon closed in,
vestigation, she discovered the entire
wrapping, labelled poison. Some un-
known person had placed pound OF
strychnine in the pipe in such a way
that it would be forced into the pai
as water was taken from the pump
That attempted murder of the Who'll,
family was planned is conclusive.
Mrs. Bumgarner was recently grant.
ed a divorce from her husband. whC
is now on parole from the county Jail
having been convicted OF assault witt
a dangerous weapon.