Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-01-14

/ last lNcHly years ludl SOlu DOoAc "
/ the men and / have known several
tote teamsters" in the past ten
years that have lost perfectly good
| jobs by smuggling booze into camp,
in fact the lumberjack has very lit
tie to fear in that line from his bus
mess, his greatest danger is from
the miserable renegades of the
town who haven't manhood enough
in themselves to recognize a good
| impulse in another.
Now l will tell you what makes
an epidemic of the grip, or any
other disease SO serious in a lum-
| Der camp-bad sanitary conditions.
| If you want to know what [ mean
| by that, go on tour of inspection,
| put on an old mackinaW, high top
rubbers, etc, take your turkey on
| your back and go out to the camp
of some jobber and get job at some
real work so that you will not be
obliged to sleep in the office, but
will be allowed the glorious prlvl-
| lege of sleeping in the bunk shanty
| like a true lumberjack. At noon you
will come in all sweat from your
| forenoon exercise to find that you
are only one of thirty or forty that
| have discovered this abode of lux
ury, you wash in one of two greasy
wash dishes and wipe on one Of two
or three towels that do service for
| the whole crew, then you may re-
cline gracefully on the deacon seat
Ca board about eight inches wide
placed along in front of the bunks)
with your elbows in your stomach to
discourage that knawing sensation,
till the dinner bell rings.
At the first call you will rush in
to the cock shanty, which feels about
like a cold storage and endeavor TO
fill up on fat pork. greasy beans,
greasy stew, soggy potatoes, heavy
bread, and greasy pie before the
sweat on your back freezes so stiff
that you can't bend your neck.
Then you go back to the bunk
shanty and take your after dinner
siesta on the deacon seat, sitting up
straight with your hands on your
knees to keep your balance. soon
you hear the welcome call to roll
out and donning cap and mittens go
out to disport yourself with an ak,
saw, or canthook, till darkness falls.
On arriving at the shanty and
washing, you have trouble finding the
towels which were hanging on
rack over the stove to dry, but at
last you find them under thirty or
forty pairs of sox and as many nit
tens that have been hung on the
rack for the same purpose. OF course
you don't mind the trouble of hunt
ing up the towel but if you are in
clined to be particular you don't just
like the smell of them.
After a short rest on the deacon
seat you go to the cook shanty for
supper At first you think that you
have made a mistake and that it is
still the dinner hour, with dinner
still before you, but a careful scru-
tiny discloses the fact that the po-
tatoes have been warmed up IN
grease" so all doubts allayed you
proceed to fill up as at noon.
Feeling that you have completed
the work of the day and are there
fore entitled to a little recreation,
you go back to the bunk shanty
thinking you will read a magazine
or daily paper couple of hours be-
fore retiring. ''Ah,'', the plot thick
ems; there is neither magazine or
paper to be found; you are deter
mined to read so you dig out the
Memoranda of Useful Information in
the back of your diary and study up
on how to resurrect a drowning per-
son. After sitting in sixty-three diff
ferent positions on the deacon seat
sent even the first letter of com
fort, you give it up and ask the
bull cook to show you to your room.
After making a few inquiries he
shows you a bunk that is located
about three feet west of and about
four feet above the stove which is
a low rakish craft with red hot
temper, kept so by the teasing of the
lean party who sleeps in the lower
bunk in the far corner.
After poking the sticks, hay wire,
blankets, ETC. of which your bunk is
constructed, around so that they
will conform to the general outline
Of your frame and waiting for the
dust to settle, you take up the job
of finding out how to finish bring
ing the drowned person to life, only
to find that the sox, mittens, etc.
over the stove obscure the light |
from the one lamp so that you can't