Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-06-09
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SYNOPSIS

small Ran. sey Mlholland is watching the
Decoration Day Parade" in the home
town. The old gentleman, veteran of
the Civil war, endeavors to impress the
youngSter with the significance of the
great conflict, and many years afterward
the boy was to remember his words with
startling VlVidneSS.
CHAPTER HIN the schoolroom,
few years afterward, Ramsey was not
distinguished for remarkable ability,
arithmetic and REGULATIONS" In sharp
contrast to Ramsey's backwardness is
the precocity of little Dora Yocum,
young lady whom in his bitterness he de-
dominates Teachers Pet"
CHAPTER III.-In high school, where
he and Dora are classmates, Ramsey
continues to feel that the girl delights to
manifest her superiority, and the vindic-
tivenesS he generates becomes alarming,
eliminating in the resolution that some
day be would show her.
CHAPTER IV-At a class picnic Ram
sey, to his intense surprise, appears to
attract the favorable attention of Miss
Mllla Rust, young lady of about his
own age and the acknowledged belle of
the class. Milla has the misfortune to
fall into a creek while talking with Ram
sey, and that youth promptly plungeS to
the rescue. The water is only some three
feet deep. but Millas gratitude for his
taken captive by the fair one, to his great
CONSERVATION.
CHAPTER V.-The acquaintance ripens
Ramsey and Milla openly keeping COM
pany,'' while the 0former's parents Won
der. His mothe- Indeed goes 50 FAR as
to express some dIsapprQval of his choice,
even limiting that Dora' Yocum would be
a more suitable companion, a suggestion
which the youth receives with horrorN
CHAPTER VI.-At this period our hero
gets the thrill of his first kiss" Milla
being a very willing partner in the act
Her hippancy over the matter dlscon-
certs Ramsey immensely, but shortly aft
erward the girl departs for visit to
Chicago. She leaves an endearing misSlve
for Ramsey, which adds to his feeling of
melancholy.
CHAPTER VII.-Shortly after Milla's
departure, her friend, Sadie Clews, in
forms Ramsey that his inamorata has
been married to her cousin and is not
coming back, so that little romance is
ended. Within few months Ramsey
and his closest friend, Fred NJ tchell,
go to the state university, Ramsey's chief
feeling being one of relief that he has got
away from the detested Dora. To his hor-
ror he findG she is also a student at the
university Induced to join debating
society, Ramsey is chosen a DOra'S OPP
ponent in a debate dealing with the mat
ter of Germany'S right to invade Bel
GUM, Dora being assigned the negative
side of the argument. Partly on account
of his feelings toward Dora, and his nat
ural nervousness, he makes miserable
showing and Dora carries off the honors.
A hrash youngster named Linski' objects
to the showing made by Ramsey and be-
comes personal in his remarks. The mat
ter ends with Ramsey, in the university
vernacular, giving Linsld a peach of a
punch on the snoot."
And, in trutn. Waen he received his
first Assignment" one Monday morn
ing. a month later, he seemed in a
fair way to fulfill his prophecy. The
attention of his roommate, who sat
at a window of their study, was at
tracted by sounds of strangulation.
"What on earth's the matter; Ram
sey?"
Look! Look at this -
Fred took the card and examined 1t
with an Amusement gradually merg-
ing into a pleasure altogether too per-
ceptible:
ASSIGNMENT
Twelve-Minute Debate, Glass Of 1918.
Subject, Resolved: That Germany
is both legally and morally justified
In her invasion of Belgium.
Debaters are notified that each will
be held strictly to the following sched-
ule: Affirmative, 4 min., first, Mega
tive, 4 min, first. Affirm, 2 min, Sec
ond. Neg, 2 min, secondly
Affirmative, R. MILHOLLAND, IS
Negative. D. YOCUM, '1S.
Concluding his reading, which was
oral, the volatile Mitchell made use
of his voice in manner of heathenish
boisterousness, and presently reclined
upon a lounge to laugh the better. His
stricken comrade meanwhile, recov-
cred so far as to pace the floor. I'm
goin' to pack up and light out for
home!" he declared over and over.
And even oftener he read and reread
the card to make sure of the actual
ity of that fatal coincidence, I'D. Yo-
cum, 49,"
eff | could do it," he vociferated,
"If l could stand up there and debate
one O. their darn ole debates in the
first place-if I had the gall to even
try it, why, my gosh! you don't sup
pose I'm goin' to get up there and
argue with that girl, do you? That's
a hot way to get an education: stand
up there and argue with a girl before
a couple O. hundred people! My
goshp'
"You got tor his PROSTATE compan-
ion cackled, weakly. "You can't get
out of it. You're goner ole Buddy!"
'rll be sick, I'll be sick as a dog!
I'll be sick as the sickest dog that
ever"
mo use, ole man. The frat
seniors'll be on the job. They'll know
whether you're sick or not, and they'll
have you there, right on the spot to
the minute!"
The prediction was accurate. The
too fatherly "frat seniors" did all that
Fred said they would, and more. For
%bo honor of tho "fraf - thew coached