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The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-27

We thought when we came to
Africa we would be near to nature,
where the natives were simple and
honest but Pa has found that the al
most naked negroes can give the white
men cards and spades and little casino
and then beat them at the game
Pa has been blackmailed and scared
out of his boots and lot of money,
by an injured husband as natural as
he could have been film TANNED in
New York
We noticed that Pa was quite inter.
ested in a likely negro woman, one OF
20 wives of a heather, to the extent
of having her wash his shirts, and he
would linger at the tent of the hus-
band and teach the woman some
words of English such as, you bet
your life," and mot on your life and
a few cuss words which she seemed to
enjoy repeating.
She was a real nice looking niger,
and smiled on Pa to beat the band,
but that was all. Of course she en-
joyed having Pa call on her, and evil
IDENTIFY showed her interest in him, but
that seemed only natural as Pa is
nice, clean white man with clothes on
and she looked upon him as a sort of
king, until the other wives became
Jealous, and they filled the husband
UP with stories about Pa and the
young negress, but Pa was as innocent
as could be. Where Pa made the mis-
take was in taking hold of her hand
and looking at the lines in her palm,
to read her future by the lines in
her hand, and as Pa is some near
sighted he had to bend over her hand
and then she stroked Pas bald head
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-27

them onto me-" so we had to kill Pas
green zebras and feed them to the
negroes and the animals. Mr.. Hagen
bach told Pa plainly that he couldn't
stand for such conduct He said he
was willing to give Pa carte blanche,
whatever that is, in his love affairs in
South Africa, but he drew the line at
being bunkoed on painted animals. He
believed in encouraging art, and all
that, but animals that wouldn't wash
were not up to the Hagenbach stand
ard
Pa went off and sulked all day, but
he made good the next day.
Our intention was to let elephants
alone until we were about to return
home, as they are so plenty we can
find them any day, and after you have
once captured your elephants you have
got to cut hay to feed them, but Pa
gets some particular animal bug in
his head, and the management has to
let him have his way, SO the other day
was his elephant day, and he started
off through the jungle with only few
men, and the negro wife that he horn
swoggled the husband out of. Pa said
he was going to use her for a pointer
to point elephants, the same as they
use dogs to point chickens, and when
we got about mile into the jungle
he told her to "hie ON" and find an
elephant WE'LL sir, she has got the
| best elephant nose l ever saw on a
woman. She ranged ahead and bea,
the ground thoroughly, and pretty
soon she began to sniff and sneak uI
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-27

wives went off and left Pa and the
young wife alone, and they called the
husband to put stop to it.
Well, | never saw a giant negro so
mad as that husband was when he
came into the tent and saw Pa, and
Pa was scared and turned pale, and
the woman had a fit when she saw her
husband with a baseball club with
spikes on it. He took his wife by the
neck and threw her out of the tent
and then closed the tent and he and
Pa were alone, and for an hour no
one knew what happened, but when
Pa came back to our camp, wobbly in
the legs, and with not much clothes
ON, we knew the worst had happened
Pa told Mr.. Hagenbach that the
negro acted like a human being. He
cried and told Pa he had broken into
his family circle and picked the fairest
flower, broken his heart and left him
an irresponsible and broken man, the
laughing stock of his friends, and
nothing but Pas life or his money
could settle it.
oiiSiou " SlEe up Ills he, DuI
the injured husband had rather have
the money, and after an hour Pa COM
promised by giving him SIG and his
coat, pants and shirt, and Pa is to
have the wife in the bargain. Pa
didn't want to take the wife, but the
husband insisted on it, and Mr.. Hagen
bach says we can take her to America
and put her into the show as an un.
tanned Zulu, or missing link, but he
insists that Pa shall be careful here.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-27

and made me feel like a new person,
and it shall always have my praise"
Mrs. w. p. VALENTINE, 002 Lincoln
Avenue, Camden, N. j.
Gardiner, Me. ct was a great suf-
ferer from a female disease. The doc
tor said I would have to 60 to the
hospital for an operation, but Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound COM
pletely cured me in three months."-
MRS. s. A. WILLIAMS, r. F. D. No. IA,
Box 80, Gardiner Me-.
Because your case is difficult one,
doctors having done you no good,
do not continue to suffer without
giving Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound trial. 1t surely has cured
many cases Of female ills, such as in
llammation, liberation, displacements,
fibroid tumors, Irregularities periodic
pains, backache, that bearing down
feeling, indigestion, dizzNess, and ner-
vous prostration. It costs but trifle
to try it, and the result is worth mil"
lions to many suffering women.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-27

A peculiar custom obtains in the
Twelfth Lancers-the playing of the
Vesper Hymn, the Spanish Chant, and
the Russian National Hymn every
night of the year after the Last
POST has sounded. 1t is said that the
playing of the Vesper Hymn orig
mated in one of the officers wives pre-
senting the regiment with a new set
of instruments on condition that the
hymn was played every night after the
Last Post" The playing of the
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-27
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CLEANLINESS IN FEEDING.
Keep Troughs for Hogs as Sweet and
Clean as for Other Animals.

The hog responds as readily to
cleanliness and care as any other AMI
NAL on the farm. Not long since l was
greatly impressed with the lack Of
sanitary conditions around the yards
and houses of a man who had been
growing hogs more or less success
fully for ten years. His feeding
troughs were foul with decayed food,
the floors were damp and ill-smelling,
and the yards were wet and full of
mudholes that good drainage would
have prevented.
All fixtures in a hog house should
be movable, declares the Farm and
Home. 1t is advantageous to have the
troughs where they may be washed
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-27
MIX FOR RHEUMATISM

The folio wing is never failing rem.
edy for rheumatism, and IL followed
up it will effect a complete cure OF
the very worst cases: mix one-half
pint of good whiskey with one ounce
of Toris Compound and add one ounce
Syrup Sarsaparilla Compound. Take
in tablespoonful doses before each
meal and at bedtime" The ingre.
dents can be procured at any drug
store and easily mixed at home.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-27

on the game, and all of a sudden she
came to a point and held up one foot,
and her eyes stuck out, and Pa said
the game was near, and he told her
to Charge down. and we went on to
surround the elephant. Pa was ahead
and he saw baby elephant not big
ger than Shetland pony, looking
scared, and Pa made lunge and fell
on top of the little elephant which
began to make noise like baby that
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-27
The Cow in Winter,

The COW has every chance to do
her best in winter when she is not
bothered with fighting flies. At this
season there is more time to give her
regular attention. and make the bust
uesS count
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-27
Dairyinu Paws.

Every farmer who goes at dairyine
right soon becomes prosperous, and in
every region where dairying becomes
extensive farms increase in value and
all the people have plenty. There ia
some work about it, to be sure, vel
there is some pay, too.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-27
English Regimental Customs.

Spanish Chant is declared to be a
penance for the sacking of a convent
during the Peninsular war. No reason
is assigned for the playing of the Rus
sian National Anthem.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-27
Manias Are Epidemics.

Manias and decisions are mental
phenomena. but they are social. They
are diseases of the mind, but they are
epidemic. They are contagious, not
as cholera is contagious, but contact
to others is essential to them They
are mass phenomena-Prof. w. G.
Sumner, in "Folkways."
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-27
Used Dolls to Set Fashions.

Long before women's newspapers
were started, and fashion plates in
their modern form were thought of,
women derived their knowledge of the
fashions from dolls dressed in modern
costumes, which were sent from one
country to another, more especially
from Paris, which then. as now. was
the leading center of the mode.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-27

a horse when CIV
ing the animal
feed while away
from the stable.
1t Is simpler to
make than the
round basket, and
has an added ad-
vantage; when
not in use the
two sides press
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-27
Not Worried,

Doesn't it make you nervous to
have your son play football?"
ooh, no, don't mind it bit He
is only my stepson, you knoW."-Chi-
cago Record Herald.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-27
Feinting.

Statistics-Of the 1,001 young WON.
en- who tainted last year 9S7 fell into
the arms of men, two fell on the floor
aud one into a water butt-Life.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-27

this valuable meQ1-
cine, Lydia E. Pink
hams We getable
Compound. I suf-
fered from terrible
headaches, pain in
my back and right
side, was tired and
nervous, and SO
Weak1could hardly
stand. Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound re-
stored me to health
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-27
A HANDY FEED BASKET.
You Can Make One Out of Canvas and
Wood.

Here is described a way to make a
feed basket to strap upon the nose of
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-27
MORE
PINKHADl
CURES
Added to the Long List due
to This Famous Remedy.

Camden, N.J.-'1t is with pleasure
that add my testimonial to your
already long ist-hoping that it may
induce others to avail themselves Of
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-27

ONLY ONE "BROMO QUININE"
That is LAXATIVE BROMO QUlNINE. Look fos
the signature of II. W. GROVE. Used the World
over to Cure q Cold in One Day. 25c.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-27

It Is not what we intend, but what
We do makes US useful-More.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-27

Many man has lost his good name
by having it engraved on the handle
Of his umbrella.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-27
Much less would be
satisfactory. The gen.
eral average is above
twenty bushels.

tract from correspondence National Editorial
Association of August, 1908.
It is now possible to secure a homestead Of 100
acres free and another 100 acres at SO 90 per acre.
Hundreds have paid the cost Of their farms III
purchased) and then had a balance Of from $1,000
% $1,000 per acre from one crop. Wheat. barley.
oats, Rax-all do well. Mixed farming is great
success and dairying is highly profitable. Excel
lent climate. splendid schools and churches. rail-
ways bring most every district within easy reach
Of market. Railway and land companies have
lands for GALE at INV prices and on easy terms.
Last Best West" pamphlet and maps sent
free. For these and information as to how
to secure lowest railway rates, apply to
Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa,
Canada, or the authorised Canadian Govern
ment Agent:
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-27

Petttt's Eye salve for Over 100 Years
has been used for congested and inhamed
eyes, removes film or scum over the eyes,
All druggists or Howard Bros, Buffalo, N. Y.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-27
r1n0rfanf to Mofhera
He's No PLAYER

Bronson-I'm sorry the golf season
has closed.
Woodson-Why?
Bronson-1t is better to have people
go and play the game than to have
them sit around and talk about it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21
MASON AND DIxoN's LINE

MOT long ago Mason and Dixons line be-
tween Pennsylvania and Maryland was
surveyed for the third time. This survey was
for the purpose of restoring to their places
many of the historic monuments along the
line, and it is reported that they were all recov-
cred and put in their proper places.
The first survey was made by Charles Mason
and Jeremiah Dixon between 1868 and 1867 at
the instance of Lord Baltimore, proprietor of
Maryland, and William Penn, proprietor of
Pennsylvania. The line was two hundred and
forty-four miles long. At the end of every
fifth mile stone was planted bearing the arms
of the Penn family on one side and on the other
the arms of Lord Baltimore The intermediate
milestones were marked simply with and NJ
The first revision of the survey was made in
1S49, and found, as did the last revision, that
the original survey was substantially correct
Mason and Dixon's line, commonly known as
the line between the North and the South, runs
on parallel 800 49, and should be distinguished
from the line of the Missouri Compromise on
parallel 36o 3O. Mason and Dixon's line never
had anything to do originally with the question
of slave and free States; but achieved an acct
dental association at the time of the Missouri
Compromise in 1921, when John Randolph in
Congress referred to it as separating freedom
from slavery. After that it was commonly re-
ferred to in all controversies on the slave ques-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21
A PECULIAR IMpOssIBILITY

TT is impossible to throw few drops of water
on redhot stove. The water can never
touch the stove at all. What is seen is few
drops rolling rapidly over the surface, gradually
getting smaller until they disappear If the
drops are on perfectly level place one can see
under them to the other side of the room, thus
proving that they are not in contact with the
stove itself.
What actually happens is that the bottom of
the drop changes at once to steam or vapor on
coming close to the hot surface, and this vapor
is supplied by the drop it gradually goes
away. So the drop rests on cushion of vapor
until it is entirely disspated. This state of
water is known as the spheroidal state, and is of
interest simply on account of its popularity
and seemingly paradoxical behavior
The reason why the drop is not Immediately
evaporated or changed to steam is also very in
teresting. The water vapor that intervenes
between its under surface and the redhot stove
is very bad conductor of heat and conse-
quently the full intensity of the heat cannot
get to the water itself, only the amount trans
mitted through the vapor being available for
this purpose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21
TRUTH AND FICTION

A I the Lambs Club one night were number
OF literary men as dinner guests, when
some one gave utterance to the bromidiom:
After all, gentlemen, truth is stranger than
fiction
Perhaps it is" said Wilton Lackaye, with a
sly glance at an Indiana novelist, but not so
successful One never hears of it's going into
the tenth edition in six months"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21

it was always twilight, and the scent of white
in the air.
Ali now had the odor of the roses, the
haunting odor! For halfway down the street,
Set back in an old fashioned garden, stood a
large white house, and over in one corner by
the street doomed great white magnolia rose.
And that was not all. For standing behind the
fence pickets gazing wistfully out at the pass
erby was the lonely white-clad figure of little
child.
1t was that of little boy, and he was my
First Lowell
My First Love! 1 never really knew my
FIRST Love. / never saw him outside the gate,
and l never spoke to him. Forward enough in
other things, l was spebound at sight of him.
l think he must have lived in the village one
summer only; for l have never been able to
remember him in anything but white, with
white roses blooming in the dusk and white
cata1pa blossoms floating down to the sidewalk.
My mother had the pleasant custom of walk
ing up and down the pretty street on summer
evenings, and when l went with her l always
hid my head in the skirts of her dress when we
passed his house. But | could see that he had
dark hair and pathetic dark eyes, and always
wondered if he liked little girls with yellow
curls. They told me in whispers that he had no
mother, that his dear mother had gone to live
away off somewhere beyond the stars, and /
wept many hot grimy tear over his loneliness,
and wet if the day was warm and kissed him
under the chin afterward, just all mothers
did.
Sometimes 1 found courage enough to roll
my hoop by his house alone in the afternoon.
And how fast I went, flying chit of a child
with gay ribbons and blond curls streaming be-
hind, and stubby shining black slippers all
a-twinkle! l should have died then and there
if he had spoken to me- and yet somehow l was
always wishing that he would.
Sometimes again l would sit on the long gal
lery of our house and play alone with my favor
lite little doll and look down the street where
doomed the white magnolia rose and dream
fairy dreams. / was the little Cinderella and
he was the fairy Prince, and we were going off
together in wonderful coach of gold. And
had on beautiful dress just like Cinderella $
only must wear the lovely new hat my aunt
had just brought me from Baltimore how
fine his dark locks looked with my yellow ones!
And here some overcautious aunt or cousin
would come to the window and call, Mary
Louise, Mary Louisei What are you doing? Go
out and roll your hoop, so at least we shall know
what you about"
What was doing indeed? Only dreaming,
only dreaming of my First Love!
But would take my hoop and run down the
shaded street and fly gaily by the house with
the lonely figure at the gate-yes, little Edgar
Ames was standing behind the fence looking
out on those happy children with mothers and
freedom
And l would turn my hoop round and fly
back, with a heart full of love and longing
And when night came and knelt down to say
my prayers and have my sins of the day for
given, always finished my petition for bless
ing with " God bless Edgar Ames and his dear
mother!'
Lessons on the First Dream
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21

those of us who have not yet made our wives
widows"
The widow Withdrew futteringly into her
usual silence.
"How does it come, Mary Louise" asked the
Burgomaster, that you who have lived IN the
thick of the fray for 10 these many years, have
nothing to say?"
The Bishop looked at me kindly. MARY
Louise has been thinking all the evening of her
first love-" he said. by and by she will think
of her last. Of the rank and file that have gone
between there is scarcely more than a remem-
brance."
Wise Bishop! How did he know?
"Well, the dreams of youth are sweet, muir
injured the Dreamer.
well, do not know if they have the monop-
oily on sweetness" answered the Bishop cheer
fully. 1.-The dreams of youth are sweet, l adj
NIT; but may also add that sweet too are the
dreams of old age. Youth kicks up good deal
of dust. 1t has itself and everybody else sur
rounded with haze. Maybe after awhile life
does seem almost over for us. Maybe it does
appear that there is nothing more to look for
along and by judicious use of that magic wand
again. And tell you that when we begin to
dream this time-why, we know how to do it,
Fine, fne!" exclaimed the Burgomaster.
Yes continued the Bishop. 1.-The deli
cate flowers of spring are very sweet, perhaps
partly because they are the first, and sweet too
are the gorgeous roses and lilies of that later
time of the year, summer; but very sweet IS
that flower that is hardy and strong enough to
bloom with frost all about and grim winter not
very far ahead-and Nature does give US such
fowers!"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21
The Sweet Present

I LOOKED out that night on the silent shad-
ows of the garden. Outlines of hedge and
shrub We're blotted out and everything was
vague and dim.
The past seemed vague and dim too. There
was only the present. My heart was singing
within me. l was thinking of letter l had
which was not many hours old. 1t was very
simple. 1t only said, Dear, see you every
where, in everything!"
All! do we love more than once?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21
Lessons on the First Dream


marry Beatrice" he said. He tells us that he
saw her first in flame colored gown, and then
he gave the world that immortal love poem,
Vita Nuova.' He married Comma, though,
and, while he dreamed and wrote of Beatrice all
his life and never once dreamed or wrote of
Comma, still it was Comma that he married
and lived with"
Exactly" said the Burgomaster. MAYBE
he wanted Comma only to keep house for him
and take care of him when he Ill and laugh
with him when he well in short, be faith
full friend to him. And do not know but that
kind of love is just as good as the kind he had
for Beatrice"
Except of course" replied the Dreamer
"that it is never the kind of love that gives us
poem like Vita Nuova.' Only Beatrices in
spire those"
"Michelangelo did not marry Vittoria Col
onna, nor did Petrarch get to pass his life with
Laura. l cannot that first love is of any
more value in itself than the first time we eat
an apple or the first time eat an orange"
The Burgomaster looked round at us triumph
ant1y. II think first love gives the lie to itself
on the face of it. With whom do we fall in love
first? And do we marry first 1oves?"
ct is not first love that l am defending
and again it IS, responded the Dreamer. g
am maintaining that there is one affection that
comes into every mans life that is different
from anything that has gone before or comes
after. And if that is the only thing of its kind
then is it not, after all, the real first lover"
There was stir at the end of the table where
sat the widow. She was moving glass nerv-
ously. Had she anything to say? Had she
loved more than once7
Il have thought about it." she said fa1ter-
ing1y, land it seems to me this way"
"Yes?" said the Dreamer encouragingly.
cit has seemed to me" she said, that if all
men married widows they would like to think
that the widows loved them more than they
did their first husbands"
THAT is puzzling; but am afraid true, re-
piled the Bishop, "even if it is little hard on
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1909-12-17

sx,r. r.,r~ - h>~red Jes~i>
u e.rrx . rarro az s>asfles. said the
spa = tinr rrinc~~s .yhere do | hail
frnmvs
The little girls guessed and guessed
ana NJ last the prsnrcSs said.
Thar wasn't a fair one, really. for
nv castles are castles In Spasn.~
Then. with Jessie IN her arms. she
told them OF her own castle building.
ana when she had rniShed she said.
And 50 your mother shall have an Of
INV sewing. aud that will keep her
busy unit. spring.
~oh. Won are going 10 be married
aud live happy ever after sighed lesr
size raceueeuseys Its lust what =
fairy princess should do"
And what you should do. said the
princess, looking at the clock. lis 20
60 10 bed. bed. bod, so that You can
wake UP early In the morning"
She tucked them IN aud came back
later In a fascinating pink kimeno.
with her hair In a thick yellow braid.
and she kissed them both. But II was
little lame Jessie that she kissed last.
And then she went away like a glo-
rious vision. and the little girls sank
into slumher.
In the next room the princess open
ed the door cautiously. and there was
Peter with snow all over him. and