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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-04-02

the boy had always been under con-
corning the vague headaches he com
planned of on school days, but which
We're noticeably absent on holidays
and in vacation.
I wish that l could write a happy
ending to this tale, but inasmuch as
l am reporting an actual case, l can
not do SO yet. Too many years had
been wasted and the boy was too
old to be Inundated by being sent
back to the primary grades. In many
respects his information far exceed
ed that of most boys of his own age,
He has left school now and is do
ing as well as does the average boy
with an undisciplined mind. His
greatest hope for the future lies in
the fact that he is beginning to real
ize his handicap and is doing some
night work and correspondence study
to bridge the gap in his schooling;
but he will have to pay a heavy
price for what would have been
cheap in his childhood.
MORAL:-If you have a child who
is not displaying normal curiosity
to see for himself what is inside of
books, have his eyes examined before
an irreparable injury has been done.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-04-02
PUT CREAM IN NOSE
AND STOP CATARRH
Tells How To Open Clogged Nos
trils and End Head Colds.

You feel fine in few moments. Your
cold in head or catarrh will be gone.
Your clogged nostrils will open. The air
passages of your head will clear and
you can breathe freely. No more dull
ness, headache; no hawking, snufiing,
mucous discharges or dryness; no strug-
Cling for breath at night.
Tell your druggist you want small
bottle of Ely's Cream Balm. Apply a
little of this fragrant, antiseptic cream
in your nostrils, let it penetrate through
every air passage of the head; soothe
and heal the swollen, infamed mucous
membrane, and relief comes instantly.
It is just what every cold and catarrh
sufferer needs. Don't stay stuffed-up
and miserable.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-04-02
Office of County Clerk.

Ladysmith, Wis, March %, 1915.
To the Electors of Rusk County:
Notice is hereby given that a Jul
dicial and County Superintendent
Election is to be held in the sew
eral towns, wards, villages and cleo
ton precincts in the county of Rusk,
on the 9Th day of April, 1915, at
which the officers named below are
to be chosen. The names of the
candidates for each office to be voted
for, whose nominations have been
certified to or filed in this office,
are given under the title of the office
and under the appropriate designa-
ton, each in it's proper column.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-04-02

Order for Hearing Petition for Ad-
ministration
State of Wisconsin, County Court for
Rusk County:
In the Matter of the Estate of c..
w. Daniels, Deceased.
On reading and filing the petition
of Ella Daniels, representing that G.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-04-02

Farm Insurance; Fire, Lightning
and Tornado for SITS for years.
Largest Agency in the City. Larg-
est and oldest company in the world.
& Falge. Adv
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-04-02
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Vote for One

The election will o'clock in the morning
a $50 o'clock in the evening of that day.
The polling booths for all wards will be located in the hail.
my seal this Oath day March,
E. A. KIRVAN
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-13
BEE2CHI<1LD.

Count Leopold von Berchto1d, the author of the Austrian ultimatum to Servia which precipitated the war,
 comes of an ancient family and has long been reckoned as among the ablest of Francis Joseph's dipIoE ats and statesmen. As minister of fer eign affairs and de facto chancellor of the dual nnonarchyTa post he re- signed last month-Count, won Berch- told was in charge Of the proceed ings which led up to the most mo- nentous conflicts in the worlds his tory Emperor William, Czar NicIl- olas, President Poincare and Premier Viviana were all at sea-IiteraIly f not hguratively and Emperor Fran-; cis Joseph was on hunting trip when BerchtoId's peremptory ulti- matum to Servia startled the whole
 world. The declaration of war on Servia, which resulted in the call to arms resounding over Europe, was issued by Count von Berchtold over his own name. Just how far he act ed on his own initiative, to what ex- tent he was inspired by others, is not known, and may never be known. As matters stand, however. Count von Berchto1d is, at least from a su- perhcial view, the official author of the conflict Many reasons are given for his retirement, but the most plausible is that he favored the
 abandonment Of the Austrian often
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-13

O'ConneIl was away during those first days until late at night.
 He found a school for Peg. She did not want to go to it, but just to please her father she agreed. She lasted in it just one week They laughed at her brogue and teased and tormented her for her absolute lack of knowledge Peg put up with that just as long as she could. Then one day she opened out on them and astonished them. They could not have been more amaz- ed had bomb exploded in their midst. The little, timid looking, open eyed, Titan haired girl was veritable Virago. She attacked and belittled and mimicked and berated them They had talked of her brogue! They should listen to their own nasal utterances, that sounded as if they were speaking with their noses and not with their tongues! Even the teacher did not go unscathed. She came in for an on- sIaught too That closed Pegs cancer as a New York student.
 Her father arranged his work so that he could be with her at certain peri ods of the day and outlined her studies from his own slender stock of, knowl- edge.
 One wonderful day they had an ad- dition to their small family. A little, wiry haired, scrubby, melancholy Irish terrier followed O'Connell for miles. He tried to drive him away. The dog l. would turn and run for a few seconds and the moment O'ConneI1 would take his eyes off him he would run along and catch him up and wag his over 1 long tail and look up at O'Conneu witE l fnI1 him l all the way home, and when O'ConneI opened the door he ran in. O'Connel l had not the heart to turn him out, st I he poured out some milk and broke III | some dry biscuits for him and theI 1 played with him until Peg came home | She liked the little dog at tonce, ant then and there O'Connen adopted hin 1 and gave him to Peg. He said th' 1 dogs face had a look of Michael Qufn 1 Ian. the Fenian. So Michael he wa l named, and he took his place in thu I little home He became Pegs booI companion They romped togethe
 like children, and they talked to eacl
 other and understood each other.
 The days flowed quietly on, O'Con nell apparently satisfied with his lot l But to Pegs sharp eye all was no l well with him. There was settle
 melancholy about him whenever sh
 surprised him thinking alone Sh T thought he was fretting for Irelan
 and their happy days together and s
 said nothing.
 He was really worrying over Peg
 future He had such a small amour
 of money put by, and working on l salary it would be long before b
 could save enough to leave Peg suff
 cient to carry her on for awhile !
 ssanything happened.' There was a
 ways that If anything happened'' run
 ming in his mind.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-13

sive against Servia, which the Hun garians loudly demanded. Count Berchto1ds patent of nobility against Servia, dates from the fifteenth cen tury For several years he sWas at stached to the London embassy, where he was close friend of the late King Edward He came into prominence as Austrian ambassador to Russia in 1908. when the annexa- ton of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria made relations between that government and Russia very critical Count won Berchto1d was charged with responsi bility for the consequent humiliation of Russia, and returned
 to Vienna. where he was made chan cellor and minister of foreign affairs.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-13
IN LOVE WITH
 HER WRITING

Dear Miss Libbey:
 have a strange story for you. am a, young girl and have an adnirer. He fell in love with my writing before he knew me. When he saw me he seemed to be fairly bewitched, called me over the phone, wrote almost daily. His letters were full of praise for my abi1- fty in writing, compliments on my beauty, goodness, etc. answered part of them. It was amusing to get them. He was jolly and interesting; told me that my letters were like roses strewn in his lonely path. He is not married. Having no fellow here didn't see any harm in just writing
 Did do wrong to encourage him? He gave me a beautiful, costly Christmas gift this year. Should have accepted l it? He asked my company to places
 Of amusement often. always A2fused.
 Shall answer his letters2
 vL l If he has been properly presented to
 you there is no harm in attending g places of amusement with him if you wish to go and have your parents
 consent. Do not become too hastily 1 interested in him. Quick to fall in Hove is soonest out. .'' The adnirer may be most worthy. Encouraging his
 writing may be satisfactory if your relatives advise this.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-13
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on insects, taking vegetable food only when other subsistence fails It is thus evident that in the course of year birds destroy an incalcuIable number of insects, and 1t is difficult to oyeresdmate the value of their services in restraining the great tide of insect life
 In winter, in the northern part of the country. insects become scarce or entirely Adfsappear. Many species of birds. however, remain during the cold season and are able to maintain life by eating vegetable food, as the seeds of weeds. Here again Is an other useful function of birds in de- stroying these weed seeds and there by lessentng the growth Of the next year.
 The new publication discusses the food habits of more than 50 birds belonging to 12 families Many are eastern forms which are represented in the west by slightly different spe- cies or subspecies, but unless the food habits differ they are not sepa- rately described. Among the popu- lar birds included, are the robin. blue bird, wren, brown thrasher, cat bird, bobo1ink, or1oIe, crow, cuckoo. and the American sparrow.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-13
TAsHUA AND LONG HILL.

Mrs. LeRoy Clark is caring for her daughter. Mrs. Lester Sherwood of Bridgeport, who is ill
 Dr. Charles N. Gallup is improving but not able yet to be on the road to care for his patients.
 Miss Alice GabIer and little niece went to New York last Friday to see Mrs. Dilliston, who is at St. Luke.s hospital.
 Miss Nellie Wolf is at the Post Graduate hospital, New York. where she will have an operation for the re- mova1 of tonsi1s.
 Mrs. H. Edward James and two, daughters of Hartford, are visiting at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Charles N. Gallup.
 Master Samuel seeley is suffering with grip.
 Mrs. Arthur Jones is spending a few days in Greenfield with her aunt, Mrs. Thomas Perry.
 Mrs. EsteIla Benedict has been vis- iting two weeks in Bridgeport at the home of her friend, Mrs. Miller.
 Mrs. John Treadwe11, who has been i'll, is somewhat improved.
 Mrs. Franklin Ma11ette and daugh- ter, Miss Frances Mal1ette, were Sun day guests of MT. and Mrs. Harry Greennan of 'Co1d Springs New town.
 Mrs. Lavinia Bradley is nicely situ- a.ted in Bridgeport, where she will spend the rest of the winter. MT. and Mrs Lorenzo wi1dn1an are receiving congratulations over the birth of a bouncing baby boy weighing | 10 pounds, born Wednesday,. 1 Miss Rose Jones spent Sunday with her parents and returned to her duties at Bridgeport Monday. Her sister has been spending a week also at the | hom estead and returned to her home l in Bedding, Sunday. ! Isaac sherman, who was operated on l at Bridgeport Hospital is doing as well as could be exported
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-13
ToDAY's POEM
GR1GGsBY,s STATION.


 Pap's got his patent-right, and rich
 as all creation; But where's the peace and comfort
 that we all had before? Let's go a-Visitin' back to Griggsby's Back where we ust to be so happy
 and so pore! The likes of us a-livin' here! It's jes'
 a mortal pity
 To see us in this great big house,
 with cyarpets on the stairs, And the pump right in the kitchen!
 And the city! city! city And nothin' but the city all around
 us ever where's! Climb clean above the roof and look
 from the steeple. And never see a robin. nor beech
 or ellun tree! And right here in ear-shot of at least
 a thousan people, And none that neighbors with us or
 we want to go and see! Les go a-vis1tin' back to Griggsby's Back where the latch-string's a.
 hanging from the door. And every nei6hbor round the place
 is dear as a relation Back where we ust to be so happy
 and so pore! want to see the w1ggenses. the whole kit-and- -gilin.. ,A-drfvfn' up from Shallor Ford to stay the Sunday through; And want to see 'enn hitchin' at their son-in-law's and pilin' Out there at 'Idzy E1len's like they ust to do! I want to see. the piece-qui1ts the
 Jones girls is makin'; And I want to poster Laury bout their freck1ed hired hand, And joke her bout the widower she come purt' nigh a-takin', 1 Till her Pap got his pension lowed
 in-time to save his land. Les go a-visiting back to Griggsby's Back were they's aggervat Back where they's nothin' agger- vatin' any more, Shet away safe in the woods around the old location- Back whers We ust to be tso happy
 and so pore! II want to see Mirandy and hep he1
 with her sewin' And hear her talk so 1ovin' of he1 man that's dead and gone, lAnd stand up with Emanuel to show
 me how he's growin', And smile as T. have saw her for,
 she put her mournin' on. And want to see the Samples, ol
 the old lower eighty, Where John, our oldest boy, h
 was tux and buried-for His own sake and Katy's-and wan
 to cry with Katy
 As she reads all his letters over
 writ from the war. Whats in all this grand life and hig
 situation,
 And nary pink nor hoIIyhaw
 a-bloomin' at the door ?- Les go a-vfsitfng back to Griggsby
 Station Back where we ust to. be so happ
 and so pore!
 James Whitcomb Riley.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-13


 Injurious to Humanity.
 
 Washington, Feb. 11.-How birds which destroy haru1ful insects and weed seeds may be useful to the farmer is described in new Farm CTS Bulletin (No. 6so1 of the U- S. Department of Agriculture entitled, Some Common Birds Useful to the Farmer" The new publication has 2T pages and 23 illustrations Cnot colored) of the birds described. It contains much of the information in- ciuded in one of the departments former publications entitled, Fifty Common Birds of Farm and Orch ard.' The departments supply of this latter pamphlet has been ex- hausted and it can now only be ob- tained from the superintendent of documents, Washington, D. C., where It Is sold at 15 cents a copy It contains numerous colored ilIustra- tions of the birds mentioned The new bulletin Some Common Birds Useful to the Farmer will be fur nished free to all applications by the department.
 Whether a. bird is beneficial or in furious depends almost entirely on what it eats. says the introduction to the new bulletin. In this case of species which are very abundant, or which feed to some extent on the
 
 their average diet becomes one of supreme importance, and only by stomach examination can it be satis- factorily solved. Field observations | are at best but fragmentary and in- l conclusive and lead to no final re- suits. Birds are often accused of eat ing this or that product of cu1tiva- ton, when an examination of the 1 stomachs shows the accusation to be l unfounded. Accordingly, the Bio logical Survey has conducted for some year spast systematic investi- gation of the food of those sE ecies l which are most common about the 1 farm and garden
 1 Within certain limits birds eat the kind of food that is most accessible, | especially when their natural food is scarce or wanting. Thus they some times injure the crops of the farmer who has unintentionaIly destroyed 1 their natural food in his improvement of swamp or pasture Most of the l damage done by birds and complain ed Of by farmers and fruit growers arises from this very cause. The berry-beartng shrubs and seed-bear- ing weeds have been cleared away and the birds have no recourse but to attack the cultivated grain ol fruit which have replaced their nat ural food supply. The great majori ty of land birds subsist upon insect during the period of nesting ana mou1ting, and also feed their youn, upon them during the first few weeks . Many species live almost entirely up
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to happen to them both. At last O'Conneu spoke, and his voice trembled and broke:
 Peg, do ye remember one moFnin'. years an years ago, when I was gO- in to speak in County Mayo, am WE started in the cart at dawn, an we thraveled for miles an miles, an we came to great big crossin' where the. roads divided an' there was mo signpost, an we asked each other which one we should take, an we couldn't make rp our minds, an left it to you, an ye picked a road, an it brought US out safe and thrue at the spot we were maxim for? Do you re- member it, PegT' eeFajth do, father. remember 1t we'll Ye called me yer little guide and said ye'd follow my road the rest of yer life. An it's many's the laugh we had when I'd take ye wrong some times afterwards' She paused. 'sWhat makes ye think of that just now, fa- tber?''
 1 He did not answer.
 asIs it on account O that letther2H che persisted.
 .sIt is. Peg" He spoke with dfmcul- i ty, as if the words hurt him to speak L. we NG SO( q 8ANd&@ lAAef AAAt9s--A4 l place again where the roads branch off, an I don't know which one to i take.1
 # Are ye goin' to lave it to me again. father?'' said Peg.
 That's what ' can't make up me mind about, dear, for it may be that yell go down one road and me down i the other''
 -tNo, father,'' Peg cried passionately, 'tthat we won't. Whatever the road we'll thrave1 it together"
 "I'll think it out by meself, Peg. Lave me for awhile alone. want to think it out by meself alone"
 -'If it's separation we're thinkin' Of make up yer mind to one thing-tAat I'll never lave you. NeverF
 s'Take Michael out for a spell and come back in half an hour, and in the meanwhile I'll bate it all out in me minds
 She bent down and straightened the furrows iu his forehead with the tips of her fingers and kissed him and chen whistled to the wistful Michael. and
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-13
CHAPTER Ix.
Pea,e Future.


 ~ NE day the chance of solving the
 whole difficulty of Pegs future was placed in O'Connell's
 hands. But the means were so distasteful to him that he hesitated about even telling her.
 He came in unexpectedly in the early afternoon of that day and found let ter waiting for him with an English postmark. Peg had eyed it curiously off and on for hours. She had turned it over and over in her fingers and looked at the curious, angular writing and felt little cold shfver run up and down her as she found herself wonder ing who could be writing to her father from England.
 When O'Connen walked in and pick ed the letter up she watched him ex- citedly. She felt, for some strange req son, that they were going to reach a crisis in their lives when the seal was broken and the contents disclosed. Superstition was strong in Peg, and all that day she had been nervous without reason and excited without cause.
 OsConnell read the letter through twice, slowly the first time, quickly the second. A look of bewilderment came across his face as he sat down and SLaI061 aL tue 4CtIGE HI HIS
 tsWho is it from at all?" asked Peg very quietly, though she was trembling all through her body.
 Her father said nothing.
 Presently he read 1t through again. ssIt's from England, father, isn't it9' queried Peg. pale as a ghost.
 ''Yes, Peg,'' answered her father, and his voice sounded hollow and spirit less. 'sI didn't know ye had friends in Eng land,'' said Peg, eying the letter.
 s'I haoen't,'' ,'' replied her father.
 EsThen who is it from?'' insisted Peg now all impatience and with strange fear tugg1ng at her heart.
 O'Connen looked up at her as sht stood there staring down at him, he big eyes wide open and her lips part ed. He took both of her hands in on of his and held them all crushed to gether for what seemed to Peg to be long, long while. She hardly breath ed. She knew something was goipl
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-13

together they went running down the street toward the little patch of green where the children played and among whom Michael was a prime faYoEite. Sitting, his head in his hands, his eyes staring into the past, O'ConneH was facing the second great tragedy of his life.
 While O'Connen sat there in that lit- tie room in New York trying to decide Pegs fate a man who had played some considerable part in O'Connell's life lay in splendidIy furnished room in mansion in the west end of Lon don-dying.
 Nathaniel Kingsnorths twenty years of loneliness and desolaticn were com ing to an end. What an empty, arid stretch of time those years seemed to him as he feebly looked back on them!
 After the tragedy of his sisters reek- less marriage he deserted public life entirely and shut himself away in his country house, except for a few weeks in London occasionally when his preE ence was required on one or another aE the boards of which he was directOs. | The Irish estate, which brought about l all his misfortunes, he disposed of at ridiculously low figure. Re said he would accept any bid, however ] small, so that he could sever all com nection with the hated village
 From the day of Angela's elopement he neither saw nor wrote to any meM- ber of his family.
 (To Be Conttnusd.5
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-13

host of relatives. say him nay, that he needs his own home and a wife in it now, if ever. Even the opinion of his closest friend will have no power to turn him from his purpose He is aware that the most precious posses sion that comes to a man in this world is wornan's heart. The man who has steered clear of Tnarriageable women al of his life is very prone to engage in the love game and to make a better and more considerate husband at forty than at twenty.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-13
SHORT JACKET OF QUAINT DESIGN

and belt are cut in one piece, while the back is stitched to the sides in such way that it has the effect of an ap- piled panel. Narrow silk braid Is used to trim the front and cuffs- The en- tire costume calls for 814 yards of 54- inch material If the coat is lined I yards of s6-inch satin will be needed
 Two styles of sleeve may be used the long. e-htting coat sleeve nIus- trated, or three-quarters length, finish ed in flare effect and plainly henmed.
 As the first step in the development of the jacket, join side front ana side back as notched. Press open seams carefully, but do not stretch them In the operation. Following the perfora- tions, turn under the edges of the front and back. To the side front baste the front. overlapping the edges so that