Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-08

IINMsSNs lap beneath her robes and
- wraps. She reclined against
her protecting bulwark, brightly ana
cozily at ease But for the voices and
the wind one might have listened hope
fully to hear her purr. Some one cast
fresh logs upon the fire. Judge Meme
fee nodded suavely. "Will you obllge
us with the initial story" he asked.
The windmill man sat as sits Turk,
with his hat we'll back on his head on
account of the draughts.
well" he began, without any en-
harrassment. this is about the way |
size up the difficulty: OF course Red
ruth was iostled a good deal by this
duck who had money to play ball with
who tried to cut him out of his girl.
So he goes around naturally, and asks
her if the game is still square We'll,
nobody wants a guy cutting in with
hughes and gold bonds when he's got
an option on a girl. Well, he goes
around TO see her. Well, maybe he's
hot and talks like the proprietor and
forgets that an engagement amt al
ways a lead pipe cinch. Well, l guess
that makes Alice warm under the lace
woke. Well. she answers back sharp.
Well, he
Say" interrupted the passenger
who was nobody in particular, If you
rould put I'D q windmill on every one
of them wells you're using, you'd be
able to retire from business, wouldn't
your
The windmill man grinned good ma
turedly!
ooh. | amt no Guy de Mopassong,"
he said cheerfully. I'm giving 1t TO
YOU in straight American. Well, she
saws something like this: MI Gold
Bonds is only a friend says she, but
he takes me riding and buys me thea
fer tickets, and that's what you never
do Amt | to never have any pleasure
in life while | can" Pass this chat
feld-chatfield thing along, says Red-
ruth. Hand out the mitt to the Wine
with creases in it or you don't put
YOUR slippers under my WARDROBE
"Now. that kind of train orders don't
go with a girl that's got any spirit.
bet that girl loved her honey all the
time. Maybe she only wanted, as girls
do, to work the good thing for little
fun and caramelS before she settleu
down to patch Georges other pair anu
he a good wife. But he is glued to the
high horse and won't come down.
Well. she hands him back the ring,
proper enough, and George goes away
and hits the booze. Yep, that's what
done if. I bet that girl fired the cornu-
copia with the fancy vest two days
after her steady left. George boards
freight and checks his bag of crackers
for narts unknown. He sticks to Old
Booze for a number of years, and then
the aniline and aquafOrtis gets the de
cision. Me for the hermit's nut says
George. and the long whiskers and
the buried can of money that ism
there
But that Alice, in my mind, was on
the level She never married, but took
up typewriting as soon as the Wrln-
kles began to show and kept cat that
came when you said 'weeny, Weeny
weenyr | got too much faith in good
women to believe they throw down the
fellow they're stuck on every time Tor
the dough-" The windmill ceased.
81 think" said the lady passenger,
slightly moving upon her loWly throne,
''that that is a char
ooh. Miss Garland" interposed
Judge Menefee, with uplifted hand.
81 beg of YOU. no comments. 1t would
not be fair to the other contestants.
Mr.-er-will you take the next turn
The judge addressed the young man
who had the agency.
''My version of the romance, began
the young man, ditfidently clasping his
hands, would be this: They did not
quarrel when they parted. Mr.. Red
ruth babe her goodby and went out
into the world to seek his fortune. He
knew his love would remain true to
him. He scorned the thought that his
rival could make an impression upon
a heart so fond and faithful. l would
say that Mr.. Redruth went out to the
Rocky mountains i'll Wyoming to seek
for gold One day crew of pirates
landed and captured him while at
work, and
Hey! What's that?" sharply called
the passenger who was nobody in par
ticuluar. "a crew of pirates landed in
the Rocky mountains! Will you tell
us how they sailed
LANDED from a rr,.in," said the mar
rator quietly and not without some
readiness. They kept him prisoner
in cave for months, and then they
took him hundreds of miles away tc
the forests of Alaska. There beau
tiful Indian girl fell in love with him
but he remained true to Alice. After
another year of wandering in the