Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-06-16
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SYNOPSIS

small Ramsey MilholiRad In watching the
Decoration Day Parade" In the home
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 vividness.
CHAPTER u.-tn the schoolroom. a
few years afterward. Ramsey was not
distinguished for remarkable ability,
arithmetic and "Recitations" In sharp
contrast to Ramsey's backwardness Ia
the precocity of little Dora Yocum, q
young lady whom In his bitterness he de-
nominates Teachers Pet"
CHAPTER HIN high school. where
no 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 hts intense surprise. appears to
MIlla 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 la only some three
feet deep. but Milla's gratitude for his
heroic act Is embarrassing He Ia In fact
taken captive by the fair one, to his great
CONSERVATION.
CHAPTER v.-The acquaintance ripens.
Ramsey and Milla openly keeping COM
pany," while" the Formers parents won
der. His mothe. Indeed goes SO far as
to express some disapprQval Of his choice,
even limiting that DorssYocum would be
a more suitable companion, suggestion
which the youth receives with horror<
CHAPTER VI.-At this period our hero
gets the thrill of his first kiss" Milla
being very willing partner in the act
Her hippancy over the matter discon-
certs Ramsey immensely, but shortly aft
erward the girl departs for visit to
Chicago. She leaves an endearing missive
for Ramsey, which adds to his feeling of
melancholy.
CHAPTER VII.-Shortly after Millas
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 q few months Ramsey
and his closest friend, Fred Mitchell,
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 finds she Is also student at the
university. Induced to join a debating
society, Ramsey Is chosen as Dora's op-
ponent In 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 a miserable
showing and Dora carries off the honors.
A brash yOungster named Lnski 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 I4fnski a peach of
punch on the snoot."
RE advanced toward the chairman's
platform, shaking frantic fist. 'Well,
If you do, you got another think
COMM my capitals frien'! You went
and give out the question whether it's
right fer OhOimuny to go through Bel
gium and what do you do fer the
Choimun side? You pick out this here
big stiff"-he waved his passionate
hand at the paralyzed Ramsey-"you
pick out a boob like that fer the Cho-
nun side, a poor fish that gifts stage
fright so bad he don't know whether
he's talkin' or dead; or else he fakes
1t; because he's speaker so bum 1t
looks more to me like he was taking.
You git this big stiff to fake the Choi-
nun side, and then you go and stick
up a goil agains' him that's got brains
and makes a pacifis' argument that
wins the case agains' the ChOimuns
like cuttin' through hog lard! But
you amt a-gunna git away with 1t,
mister. Lemme tell you right here
and now, may be a mix blood, E 2
got some Choimun in me with the rest
what / got, and before you vote on
this here question you gotta hear
few woids from somebody that can
talk This whole war Is a capitals
war, Belgium as much as Choimuny,
and the United States Is sellin' It's soul
to the capitals right now, tell you.
takin' sides agains' Choimuny. Orders
fer explosives and ammunition and
guns and Red Cross supplies Is comm
into this country by the millions, and
the capitals United States is fat al
ready on the blood of the workers Of
Europe! Yes, 1t is, and I'll have my
say, you boorjaw faker, and you can
hammer your ole gavel to pieces at
me ~
He had begun to shrek; moisture
fell from his brow and his mouth the
scandalized society was on it's feet,
moving nervously into groups. Evil
IDENTIFY the meeting was about to dis
integrate. 'Tl have my say" the
frenzied Linski screamed. "You try
to put up this capitals trick and work
a fake to carry over this debate agains
Choimuny, but you can't work 1t on
me, femme tell you I'll have my say !"
The outraged chairman was wholly
at loss how to deal with the "un-
precedented situation"-so he defined
it, quite truthfully; and he continued
to pound upon the desk, while other
clamors began to rival Linski's: shouts
Of "Put him QUIT" "Order!" "Shut
up, Freshman "Turn MN over to
the sophomores p
This meeting is adjourned" bel
lowed the chairman, and there was a
thronging toward the DOORS while the
frothing Linski asseverated: I'm
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