Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-01-25
QUIET OBSERVATIONS.

mustache, dressed simply and wore
the regulation Stetson Of the west
Take look at that man. said the
one sitting near: "In some measure, he
! is the most famous man in Texas and
when he dies there will have passed the
last of the great dime novel heroes OF
ITeXaS. He is the man, who at the
time of the Brownsville riots, went in
Ito the town with his repeating rifle
and disarmed and arrested 13 negro
soldiers fully armed and after an orgie
of shooting and murder. There were
! other stories of the mans daring. They
have said in Texas for years that Bill
| Mcdonald would fight hell with a
bucket of water He died few days ago
and with him goes the exciting TO
nance of the old Texas Rangers of
which he was captain and commander
| for years.
When Secretary Baker told the
senatc committee that he was not
worried over the war at its beginning
| because .'the war was 1000 miles
away" it must have been Il great re-
! lief to the country to know that the
secretary at least was safe.
Rome dispatch: THE enemy was
arrested 1t is to be doubted We
hadn't missed Len LoZier from town.
| hot
stork is busiest in war time. Why
this is so. he does not know. Neither
do we.
Whenever the foreign governments
denies anything in reference to the
traitorous activities of some of the
European diplomats, the Nick Carriers
and Old SleuthS, of the cold storage
department of the Z. S. Secret service
look over the files on the ice and pre-
sent a few deadly documents that
causes sick and gone feeling across
the pond
The motto of the Ladysmith high
school basketball team is. Let 'em all
come
Somebody ought to send Fuel Adj
ministrator Garfield load of poverty
wood and ask him to see if it might be
called fuel
| Whenever we read the news from
Russia, we wait until the next day to
find out that it isn't So
when / want fiction" says Uncle
Hiram Haversack, Il don't go to no
public library to get it; | just read
railroad timetable during zero
weather.
| Golfers has short editorial Oh a
man who was talking pneumatic tools in
the Pullman. He. was put down as
one utterly without sentiment, only
knowing steel and iron and machin-
cry. and a soul vibrant only to the
CULVER Of high-speed drills" But later
one heard him say, as he looked from
the vestibule into the white night of
| the Mohawk Valley: Anyhow, if
your heart is with someone who is
dead. it is safe. No going back on it
while you live" And Golfers editor
says. "the real world, which is all too
| little with us. is the world where the
treasure of a mans soul abides, not
| seen often and not to be lightly re-
vealed, but outwearing time and the
things of time How little the aver
age person knows the real man with
whom they are in contact each day.
Holland has stopped making gin.
Do not care: any drug store can make
a fair article from the bottles on the
shelves.
With eggs "A cents dozen in Chi
cago. the term "Old Hen is no longer
one of opprobrium.
Gen Foltz at Camp Lewis has asked
the newspapers not to call our soldiers
"Smamies" These columns have sew
eraI times voiced a protest against
this name for the rugged men from
America in our armies. In inaninity
and appropriateness it would be
hard to beat except that we called
them "Harolds' or "Percys.' But
"Sammies" These columns have sew
lemonade with dish of lady fingers
on the side. Let's have name with
some pep in #.
We believe Old Doc Cook must be
writing the news from Russia.
Now that the government is doing |
well with operating the railroads, we
suggest it take over the postoffice de-
M rf rnant and relieve Mr. RllrlRSan