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thunderbolt; dozen men sprung t
their feet at once.
Amanda had padel, when Ike, pro
voked beyond reason at Bucks de-
votion to her, had stepped from the
doorway and seized her roughly b!
the arm, saying:
"Yer set down, or II! take yer home
ef yer can't dance with nothhin' bet
tern ther low lived fellow, Buck Ed
monds."
The Insult was SO unexpected, sc
gross, that for a moment neither
Amanda nor Buck, on whose arm she
was leaning. grasped the full signiti'
canoe Of it. Then Bucks strong right
arm resented the atfront, and Aman-
da fed into an adjourning room, weep
ing.
No one sympathized with Ike John
son, in fact feeling ran high against
him, who as visitor to the Bend had
dared violate hospitality, and Buck
Ednonds was favorite in the neigh
borhood in which he lived, and his
friends would have severly chastised
Ike but for that provincial code Of
honor incorporated in the terse phrase,
"let every fellow tote his own skillet"
Every one knew that the matter
would not end there, and the end to
such a beginning was always in favor
of the one who shoots first.
Buck Edmonds' friends were not of
a kind to advocate pacific measures,
and when his hot young blood, fired
under the insult, yearned for VEN
geance. no one counseled him to re-
frain from violence. lke's kinship
to Amanda for the moment made him
hold a grievance against her also. and
the love that a moment before had
been ardently avoWed, seemed to turn
and mock him. As he rode away from
gathering up his scattered senses, he
swore that he'd have it out with him
at next meeting, even if he was
Amanda's brother.
The girl tried to pursuade Ike to
return home with her next morning,
their visit, fancying the
affair would blow over. She knew
Buck to be of a high strung, passion
ate temperament, but his anger was
short lived, for his big, generous
heart could not harbor malice for any
length Of time, but Ike thought it
would be showing the white feather
to leave the neighborhood, and as he
had provoked the difficulty he deter
mined to remain on the Bend and
attend "preachin'' on Sunday night.
Amanda, finding her brother in
flexible, hoped that as Buck had al
ready chastised Ike for the insult,
he matter would end there. She was
1ot in a good humor with her brother
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ov me see what he's done yur. An
ef yer think Pm goin' to boos,
up yer grudge yer ar powerful mis-
took. | dunno ez Buck Edmonds amt
more'n a match fur emmy one in ther
country and with a spirit to ag-
gravate lke's grievance she said
"Ther' amt er girl on the Bend that
wouldn't jump at a chance to git
HIM"
Ike looked contemptuous. "All
girls amt ez big er fool ez you,
Amanda,' he said. ITS pity yer
ar SO easily took in by feler with
slick hair and biggetty ways. amt
cot nothin' in perticklar agin him,
but I'm not er hankerin' to be emmy
closer kin to Buck Edmonds an
am this minute
Amanda's face flushed and her lip
| cured disdainfutly, understanding the
prejudice her brother had against her
lover, for Buck Edmonds had all the
physical perfection that Ike lacked,
and to some weak natures, envy
makes superiority in another seem
a personal injury. Ike, with his low
brow, Watery eyes, squat figure, ap-
peared always at disadvantage be-
sides Buck, who was tall and strong.
with those deep set brown eyes that
look intelligent, even though they
are an index 10 an untutored mind.
Amanda looked very sweet and
wholesome in striped muslin that
had pink bows tucked here and there
on the short waist, as was the fashion
in those days, as she courtesied and
bowed in the cotiIlion. They inter-
spersed some rollicking games be-
tween the dances, and it was during
Thread the needle and wind the ball,
that Buck said to Amanda:
"I'd er been over your way right
soon, fur | WIS hankerin' fur a sight
O.. yer, eff yer hadn't er come over
fur ther ball"
ike lowed all erlong to fetch me
fur the ball. ever sence Aunt Nants
sent us word to come over to ther
'rolic."
81 was powerful upset when it
aimed so heavy night afore last,
vas afeared the creeks might get up
m yer couldn't get here 'thout
wimmin'," said Buck.
Amanda looked at him with a
,leam of mischief in her dark eyes,
md drawled: "That wouldn'er up
et yer, | know, fur that big slough
rom Saddle Bayou gifts swimmin'
when it rains, an Ann Tarrant
got here, ez she has to
ross it," she glanced at a short
lonely girl standing opposite to them.
'uck's eyes followed hers, and as
hey rested on AIMS unattractiye face
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and figure, he laughed derisively,
knowing Amanda was only affecting
jealousy to tease him.
"Shucks. yer are a good one! Yer
know | amt carin' bout no other
girl in ther country but YOU, Aman-
da." He pressed her hand tenderly.
and as he bent his head over her, in
their gyrations in the game, he whis-
pered:
Eyer might ez well say yes" Aman-
da, fur III jest ha'nt yer till yer do"
81 amt never had no call to say
yes to nothin' ez I've heard yit,' re-
turned the girl, looking down, but re-
turning the pressure of his hand
"Yer amt no fool, Amanda" he
said confidently. "yer know I've been
er lovin' yer fur ther longest an |
laid off to ask yer to marry me to-
night" His voice, always resonant,
had a queer huskiness in it. Amanda
looked up and smiled. She did not
resist the emotions that swept over
her. She had known Bucks feeling
towards her and had anticipated this
proposal. She had wondered how and
where the avoWal would take place
1t was a matter of fact wooing. but
to Amanda all the romance Of the
world seemed woven into it. it was
the realization Of her rosiest dreams,
il held the poetry, the music Of exist
ence. She thrilled with intense feel
ing as his dark eyes looked into hers
with passionate tenderness. Oh, the
divinity Of love wherever it is found.
The lips may be untutored in its
softest, musical phrases. but the eyes
will speak what the heart feels,
though the lips cannot utter it. The
eyes are the index Of the hearts
thoughts and Buck read his answer
in Amanda's eyes before she whis-
pered:
1T amt needful to tell you that
never have cared about marryin' any
body else, Buck"
Ike, leaning sulkily in the doorway,
1ad been watching his sister and
sending warning glances in her d.
'ection as she again and again accept
I'd Buck as her partner in the games
md dances.
No one knew just how it happened,
he music ceased with sudden crash.
There was startled silence that told
# tense nerves-a silence that was
. forerunner Of tragedy. It was like
he sudden swapping Of string on
'ohn Alsen's fiddle in the midst of
IN estate "break down."
Buck Edwards was white to the
ips with wrath that had leapt into
ne fierce blow and stretched Ike
ohnson fiat upon the puncheon floor.
t was done like the hurting Of al
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nendine Mandy

(Continued from page eleven,
o'ackness Of starlight night. Mand,
Sill sat thinking.
CHAPTER II.
Oid Uncle John Alsen, who sat or
a table in the corner of the jmnro
"sed ball room, was pouring his sou
OUT in the good old dancing tune
lotion Eyed joe" and it was i'm.
possible for young feet to keep still
or the old ones in the company fo,
That matter. His youngest son, jim
was beating time on the upper part
OF the fiddle strings with knitting
needles, which gave the effect of a
banjo accompaniment. Jim and I'm
Gle John were whole orchestra in
themselves, though they had but the
one instrument between them. The
boys and girls in the whole country
said "Uncle Johns fiddle could jest
out en- out talk, an him an Jim was
er whole team by themselves"
They were "whole team" that
night at Catamount Bend, and Aman-
da johnson was the acknowledged
belle of the ball. Partners We'd with
each other in being gallant. She did
not live in the immediate neighbour
hood, but was visiting her cousins on
the Bend, coming a distance of fifteen
miles on horseback the day before
this festive occasion.
She had been dancing with Buck
Edmonds more than any one else
that evening, a tall good looking
youth of the neighborhood, who was
the proud and happy possessor of
crimson satin necktie, which attract
ed the admiring attention of all pres
ent.
1t did not suit the calico shirt 50
we'll as it did the glossy black hair
and sunburned, but smooth, com-
plexion.
Buck had been ser settin'" Amanda
during the past summer, much to the
disgust of her brother Ike, who con-
.eived a great contempt for Buck and
was very unreserved in his criticism
for him to his sister.
When they were on their way from
home to Catamount Bend the day be-
fore the ball he had said:
II wouldn'er mind er bringin' yer
'ver to Aunt Nants' to ther ball eff
It warn't fur that biggetty Edmonds.
He just sets yer from the time yer
strike ther Bend till yer leave"
Amanda was accustomed to these
comments, and had too
much spirit to let them 90 unchal-
anged. "What hev you got agin
Suck Edmonds? l can't fur the life I
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-11-10
pep IN SCHOOL PLAYGROUND
Authority Makes Plea for Games That
Are characterized by Energy
and Vim.

"1cllytisE gymnastics, or stupid. silly
games, played half heartcdly, have lit
Tie place in the proper physical devel-
opment Of the growing child declares
Dr. Il. Blanche Sterling, acting assist
ant surgeon, United States public
health service, In commenting on the
health Of school children. In planning
exercise with II view 10 the promo
tlon OF good posture, she suggests
they should be simple and vigorous
and play full Of energy and vim.
The posture OF school children can
not, however, be said 10 depend chiefly
on any one condition. she holds, De-
rcctive vision, adcnoids and bad tonslls
tend 10 have e bad effect on the child's
posture. Where hygienic conditions
ia IA school are not the best there Is
an increase OF poor posture. Good
nutrition is Il contributing factor TO
good posture. but by no means IN In.
~diSpensau!e condition. Condition OF the
teeth, she claims. has no effect. Doe
tor Sterling's findings are based on n
study OF three elementary schools Mt
Bedford, Ind.
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Rare Find in English Church.

After three centuries OF conceal
ment behind plaster and rubbish. the
remains Of Il Fourteenth century
s~tained.glass window have been dis
coved at Chelsea (England) Old
church. The old glass, which IN Of
immense value, was found between lay
ers Of soft plaster behind a mass OF
old bricks. In one window only "A frag-
ment Of n border was found, but In the
other "A panel two feet by tive was
brought TO light. The panel Is nearly
complete, tho head Of the ngure-ap'
parently that OF ST. Lawrence or st.
Stephens missing. The glass seems
10 be Of a date not later than the mid
die Of the Fourteenth century. With
the exception OF Westminster abbey,
there IL no London church with Its
own glass Of 30 early a date.
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O Gents
PROBABLY DIDN'T GET LOAN
Would-9e Borrower Freed His Mind.
but Remark Poured No OIL
on Troubled Waters.

The story Is told OF n banker who
suffered the loss Of one eye End had
a glass substitute made. The glass
eye was wonderfully fashioned, so
snuch so thnt It's wearer was salts
fed no one could tell II from Il real
organ. a day or SO after he began
wearing it, a customer Of the bank
sought n loan, but the banker was
not quite satisfied with the collat-
eral. After much persuasion from the
would-be borrower, the banker said:
II will make you a sporting prop
osltion. If you can tell which OF my
eyes Is glass. ! viii make you the
loan"
That's easy" replied the other.
IFS your left eye"
How do you knew" asked the
banker.
1T is he more sympathetic OF the
two" responded the borr0wer.-Wall
Street Journal.
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Had One Qualification.

A friend Of mine, with Il son whose
name is Norman, lives in n %ncighbor-
hood where there are but few chill
dren, so Norman. only playmate is
o speak English.
The mother Dndered NJ the attach
ment OF these two and one day said :
Norman, what Is there about Charlie
that makes you want 10 play with
him? You do not understand him. nor
he YOU"
Norman answered, "But. mother, he
laughs In English. "-Chicago Tribune.
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Gives Charming New Shade to Old Lingerie
Births and Deaths in ENGLAND.

The report Of the registrar general
for England and Wales for 1920. JusK
issued, shows the highest markings
rate yet recorded-20.2 per one thon-
sand of population: the highest birth
rate since 1909-25.6 per n thousand !
and the highest natural Increase BY
births over deaths of any period eyep
recorded In the history Of the country
England and Wales added almost 500
900 to their population by natural inx
crease during this year. Tho numb6k'
OF deaths was the lowest since 1862
when the population was half that d
1920.-The Living Age.
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ter staying at home to do it. | have
told a number of friends what it has
done for me and give you permission to
use my letter as a testimonial. Mrs.
JESSE PETERSEN, Route l,Jaspe-. L..2n.
There is no better reason for your tsy-
ing Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound than this-it has helped e.
women. So if you suffer from d;5p,-,
ments, irregularities, backache, ner-
vousness or are passing through the
Change Of Life remember this splendid
medicine. What it ID for Ms. Peter
sen it may do for you.
The Vegetable Compound stands upon
q foundation of nearly fifty years o.
service.
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Exercise.

Two shipwrecked sailors were On q
desert island. They were utterly mie,
cradle, pincbcd with hunger and cold
The one more wretched than the
other said to his companion. "Can you
pray, BillT j
mo" ~
"Can you sing a hymnf" ~
mo" "a,
We'll" said the first, %ets have
something religious; let's have a COZ
decentralization Transcript. 4
The way Of the average woman exaSl
perates the nyerage man. l
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Need for Worry.

Stella-Tm 10 be married next week
and I'm terribly nervous.
Ella suppose there Is a chance Of
a man getting away up 10 tie last min
ute.-LOndon Mail.
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Compound and took
it because was hav-
ing such pains in my
stomach and through
my Back TINT | could
not do my work. :
he'd tgied other med
icines, but none dii
me the good tha.
your Vegetable Com
pound did. Now IAN
able to DO all my
work alone while be.
fore | had my d9upL-
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Bit 10y Bit.

1.-THE rcgimentaI riding school isn't
proving much Of II success"
mot horses enough
"Oh, yes, but the pupils are falling
Off every day."-Amerlcan Legion
Weekly.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-11-10
Who're Marks Are Fagy.

Departing New Yorker-lll be glad
To get out OF ibis topsy-turvy land.
one Of my chauffeurs has bought a
German CASTLE cimplicisslmus (Mu-
niCh).
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FADING Away.

"Do you think the new evening
gowns are becomingY" "Ol, yes-be-
coming less and less.
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At Last.

"IIe was always waitlng-did any
hing finally turn up for himT"
ooh. yes-his toes did"
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DAUGHTER had
TO help Mother
Now Can Do All Her Eouscwovk
Alone Because Lydia (. Pinkham'a
Vegetable Compound Helped lie.

Jasper, MINI. -"I saw in the paper
about Lydia <. Pinksam's Vegetable
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-11-10
Talkina. Not Entertaining.

fixing, not EHttTtdTNTHv.
Mothers Voice-Are you entertain
Ing Haroldf
Daughter-No. we're just talking.
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A Revealer cf fluctuations.
IL thoggit you believed with Oliyi3
that the earth WAS flat.
II did until ] had .0n riding in
S~pringniXe's secondhand car
Judge.
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Literally.
II lei the flatirdn fail on nv hus
hands toes this morning" "lyas hf
madf~ Hopping"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-02-24
~ a. SooNs toAHNrNh NiNeeAi A's7'
Don't Buy Too Much Land
SAWYER COUNTY
IN CLEARING DRIVE

". \. Clark. who has been the asri-
cultural agent at Ojibwa for the Wis
,onsin Colonization Co, has resigned
his position and will leave March ! to
take up duties as a county agent in
Michigan.
Mr. Clark has been leader i'll land
clearing and helped to put on some OF
the first clearing contests i'll the state
in his territory in Sawyer county.
The land clearing work of Sawyer
county is now under the supervision
of County Agent J. II. Hill. They are
launching big campaign for 1922 and
are holding meetings this week at Win
ter, Draper the Code schoolhouse, Bar
Der Lake schooihouse, and at the Hunt
er schoolhouse The Code meeting is
Friday afternoon and the Hunter Lake
meeting will be held Saturday morn
ing at ten o'clock.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-02-24
RUSK co. HAS
GREAT FUTURE
Iowa Man Tells of Rusk COun-
tvs Advantages Over the
Grain Belt

+. ID. Outright came to LadySnlitll
from Rhodes, Iowa. Saturday. He
stated that the roads in Iowa were
very good this winter, being bare and
dusty. The clover crop in that coun-
try will probably all be killed ont as
is the usual case in country where
! there is insufficient snow to keep it
| covered through the cold weather. Land
| there is worth or valued at 5000 TO
| 800 per acre The hay crop of a ton
per acre or less is selling at 5000 to
| $500 per ton, which makes very small
| interest on the land investment to say
| nothing of the expense OF raising and
airing for the crop. The bulk of the
| eo1n hgs been sold al 50 cents per
| bushcl or less and now that the bulk
| Of corn. oats and wheat has left the
| farmers bins, 4 sharp raise III the
| )rico has taken place. The elevators
| n order to play safe sell their grain on
| he board of trade as fast as they pur-
| chase it so that the bulk Of the crops
| If in country arc now owned by the
| ria.n spectators.
The bulk of hogs have been sold at
5000 to 500 per hundred and now
arc worth 5000 locally
AS TO financial conditions Mr. Curtt-
right said that Rusk county was far
ahead Of the grain belt Land here is
low and working toward a higher level
Land there is high and working tow
ard lower level.
lie told of friend Of his who could
have sold his farm and cleaned up
100000 in 1910. He was cleaned up
down there recently and left in debt
$4,000 besides losing ali he had.
Another friend cleaned up $1,000 in
cash. two years ago last fall, purchased
Il fine eighty at $500 per acre in 1919
and has lost it all.
Cases of this kind are very common
in the grain belt said MI Outright.
After 4 man has once accumulated
$4,000 or more ii is harder for him
to lose ont in spite Of hard work than
il is for the man who comes here with
bnt little and fails as he falls SO much
harder The chance here is better and
will be better yet as we have about the
only sure clover country in the United
States. and our land is bound to at
tract good class Of settlers who will
establish dairy farms There are thou
sands of men in the grain belt who are
unable to pay the state auto tax 0nI
their ears In Iowa the tax must be
paid before January / or S1.00 per
month penalty is added. In case a
wheel is turned the owner is liable to
n $500 fine, and later the car is sold
to pay the tax unless redeemed by the
owner.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-02-24
HAY GAVE START
IN NEW COUNTRY

Tom Kast said Saturday that the set
lers around Colby had flocks of young
stock and COWS. when that country was
iirst settling up. Hay went up to S9.0o
per ton and they sold their livestock
for ~ cents per pound and then SOLD
their hay. Then they brushed more
land and raised more hay TO sell.
When they got Il good-sized acreage
into hay they went in for dairying and
Clark county has since developed into
a wonderful dairy country with line
herds, small farms. big farms. silos and
farm houses.
Mr.. Kast said the secret in this coun-
try on n new piece of land is to get the
hay first, and then get the COWS. Raise
hay and grass and let the other fellow
raise the cash crops.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-02-24
CASH VS.. CREDIT
FOR THE FARMER

The News-Budget was Informed that
horses were sold at auction at EXeland
Saturday as follows
The sale started OH cash basis and
q few head sold around $40 each. This
was not money enough 10 pay out and
the proprietor said that he would then
sell for good notes. The prices We're
doubled from that time on.
This brought forth the comment that
farmers would pay most anything for
anything offered if time were given.
This is not true Farmers are careful
in buying us Il general thing and they
must be shrewd buyers TO stay in the
game of feeding the world today.
If these men could have borrowed
!he money they could have saved prob
ably $50 per head by paying cash for
the horses they needed While it is
credit at times it is just as true that
merchants. ana good ones at that often
Duy goods that are q detIiment to them,
and buy them on credit
We have through these columns stat
cd that farmers should buy very care
rully. keep out OF debt as much as pos
sible and clear their land with their
own work. saw it to grass to avoid the
expense of raising cash crops and prac-
tice economy at every turn until they
get to making money on their farms.
This seems hard. but it is the easiest
way out.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-02-24
reel AVIATION ACT
To START IN RUSk co.
SMALL FARM HOME
VS.. BIG ACREAGE

S. Nelson, Of Exeland tells about
pioneering on his land north of that
village. He said that he had but ten
dollars at one time and owed $3.50 on
his house He was not able to do hard
work so he spent the ten dollars for
a shoe making outfit and started TO re-
pair shoes. He made little money to
keep going With and little by little he
paid for his house And he adds that
"The Flambeau River Lumber Com
pany that he owed for the lumber used
him fine
As he got healthy he worked out
and began clearing his first five acres
of land He has added to this until
his present farm consists of 43 acres
with a goodsized clearing.
Don't Buy Too Much Land
Mr. Nelson told of another man who
came to be neighbor to him five years
ago. He came over to the Nelson farm
and a conversation like the following
took place: Visitor-''What are you
going to do with five acres of landi''
Mr.. Nelson answered by asking. What
arc you going TO do with 100 acres OF
land?" He answered: IN keep lots OF
cattle, break up the land, fence it,
and put up set Of good buildings.
Mr. Nelson is still there, has a good
farm, and is in good shape financially
while the neighbor is gone.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-02-24
$40 TO $50 PER ACRE
BUYS GOOD LAND HERE

One man said that when spectators
holding wild land kick on their taxes
they should sell the land to someone
who would improve it. He stated that
wild land adjoining his farm was as
sessed at $500 per acre. He had Of
fered $4,000 per acre for it and the
owner was holding it at 500 per acre.
This is an exceptional case. Most OF
the wild land i'll the county can be
bought on easy terms at from $1,000
UP to $4,000 per acre, according to To-
cation and quality Of tho land.
Only half as much trouble is eXpef-
.enced in starting Il new farm in Rusk
county now as ten years ago.
Ten years more and Rusk county
will have but very little good land that
is not producing clover or crops OF some
kind.