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The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-04-27
Card of Thanks


W. Hall for singing at the funeral.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. W. Jones,
Dodson, Montana.
Charles Carlson of Chicago,
reached Malta the latter part af last
week and filed on a claim south of
Wagner. Mr.. Carlson will return to
Chicago and take advantage of the
six months time allowed by the gov
ernment before returning here to his
homestead.
G. E. Hess of Saco, was in Malta
Thursday. Mrs. Hess who has been
with the children in Malta for cou-
pie OF weeks, and Miss Mary and the
other children, returned to their
ranch with him. Valleytown, Mont,
only two miles from their home has
lately been established a post Office
town and in future will be their ad-
dress.
Corpus Christi church was the
scene of wedding Monday morning.
At a few minutes after 500 O'Clock,
Rev. Father Vermatt united in mar
riage Plasius Munich and Miss Kat
rina Elbinger. After the ceremony a
reception was given the couple at
the home of Nicholas Schmitz. Mr..
Munich and his bride are from Crooks
ton, Minn., but expect TO build a
house in Malta soon and will make
Montana their permanent home.
Mrs. Harry Gibbs met with pain
full accident last Friday afternoon.
Her little son, Carl, was to leave for
Wheelock, N. d., that evening and
she had driven upto the depot plat
form and alighted from the buggy.
She was about to lift suit case from
the vehicle, when, owingto a rise in
the ground, she made a misstep, fell
backward and broke her left arm just
above the elbow. She was taken at
once to DR.. Hamilton who set the
broken bone. The injured arm is
reported to be mending rapidly.
Mrs. Gibbs and little Harold have
been at the home of Mrs. G. W.
Powell but are now with Mrs. Fred
Bellinger.
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fording a spur to continuance of effort
in specific direction. Thus the man
of imagination possesses a distinct
and obvious advantage over the man
with purely practical turn of mind.
The former, for example, unconscious
~ perceives the intimate relation to
social progress of a retirement scheme
for civil service employees The full
significance of the movement, how
ever, and its appropriate place in the
cause of civilization are not at pres
emit generally apprehended. 1t is new
ertheless true that the scheme for
adequate and humane treatment OF
superannuated civi1-service employees
is an essential although incidental step
in the evolution of society"
Among some legislators of national
prominence and among some tax
payers there is opposition to the es-
Enlistment of civil pensions. Presi-
dent Taft believes that this opposition
has naturally grown out of the heavy
burden of military pensions. But he
is strongly convinced that no other
practical solution of the difficulties
presented by the approximation of
civil servants can be found than that
of a system OF civil pensions. Nor is
there one which will be fair and just
to such employees.
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DIFFERENTIATION PROBLEM.

Since President Taft came out so
strongly in his regular message to
congress for the establishment of a
pension system for superannuated en-
ployes in the civil service there has
been much discussion of the PROPOSE
ton. 1t seems to be the consensus of
opinion among all thinking people
that the matter is one of justice and
right, and that some step of this kind
will have to be taken If the govern
ment service is to be improved by the
elimination of those faithful servants
who have outlived their usefulness.
As President Taft pointed out in his
message most of the great industrial
organizations, and many of the we'll
conducted railways of the country, are
coming to the conclusion that a sys-
tenn of pensions for old employees, and
the substitution therefor of younger
and more energetic servants, promotes
ministration.' Similar conditions
would no doubt prevail If a system of
civil pensions was established by the
federal government.
An interesting and instructive
article on this subject was printed in
one of the recent issues of Putnam's
magazine. It was written by Alcott
w. Stockwell and was entitled 1.-The
Problem Of approximation in the Civ
| il Service" 1t contains a most in
telligent discussion of the question and
would seem to prove beyond cavil
that it is the duty of the government
to itself and it's employees that such a
pension system be put in operation. In
conclusion Mr.. Stockwell said:
THE idealistic is not usually the side
of Immediate Importance. In contrast
with the actual, however, the ideal
may be of practical advantage through
the activity of the imagination by at
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-14
QUAKER fluctuations.

rFrom lie Philadelphia Record.l
The average man won't admit he has
enough till he has too much
The only way you can get some men
to respect you is with a club.
Electric fans will soon be here. The
baseball fan has already arrived.
It's the unexpected that happens.
especially when we bring 1t on our
selves.
The divorce epidemic would seem 30
prove that few women take a man
seriously.
If a~woman's husband doesn't worry
her about staying out at night, she
generally has a cat that does.
Few men stick to each other like
postage stamps that you have carried
in your pocket for couple Of hours.
Even when a man gets the better OF
you in an argument you can often shut
him up by offering to bet dollar.
The man who suffers from insomnia
has at least one thing to be thankful
for. He doesn't have to depend on an
alarm clock.
Thirsty Thingumbob-"Gee! wisht
I had some hard cider" Rollingstone
Nomoss-"Cider amt no good. It has
to work before it's fit to drink"
Wigwag-'Bjones is an awful bore"
Guzzler-"Oh, 1 think he says lots Of
good things" Wigwag-"6uch as
what?" Guzzler-'TWell. seldom meet
him that he doesn't say Come and
have something
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
From the Atchison Globe.

GFrom the Atchison Globe.1
The trouble with luck is, 1t is most
ly of the wrong kind.
There is doormat in almost every
family, and in your family Is it pa
or NAV?
A woman is immensely f1attered If
her husband tells her she is broad
minded"
AS soon as we get rid of one diff
Guilty, we usually find another waiting
to take its place.
The only people who really have a
good time, are those who enjoy being
imposed upon. :
An Atchison man is noted only for
the roar he utters when he catches
a heart in a heart game.
There are good many devils in the
world, according to the man who al
Forgiveness doesn't rush around
and show the same disposition to vio-
late the speed ordinance which char
acterizes Revenge.
If Father grumbles a good deal
around home, he is regarded as a
Brute; if he doesn't, he is claSsed as
henpecked husband.
Take this pointer: If man is sick.
his howl Is greater than his pain, and
If a woman is sick her pain is greater
than her howl.
1t is Mrs. 'Lysander John Appleton's
housekeeper a black ant that once got
in her pantry. Starved to Death.
There is always in every town no
matter how small, one girl with hair
so long that she makes a good God
dess of Liberty in Decoration day
parade.
If girl is romantic to the limit she
consults the Language of flowers, :"
and a man may find he proposed
marriage. all because he sent lilies,
because they happen to be cheap.
We were never intended for an idle
life: we feel so tough as a result of
loafing on Sunday, that we are rea-
sonably certain it was never intended
we should be a gent, or a man of leis-
ure.
Once upon time two brothers
lived in Atchison. One worked him
self to death before he was so, and
the one who was lazy took care of
himself, and lived to inherit his
brothers money
A great many years ago when there
were Indians and bears, a woman
wore her bonnet fastened on with
strings; nowadays with a policemen
at every corner to scare the Indians
and bears away, she wears a hat pin
foot long.
Hereafter. instead of hating the
devil, we intend hating those people
who are impolite and unfair, and
who make a speciality of making life
as uncomfortable as possible. And.
instead of worshiping angels, We will
in future always admire people who
are nice.
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any sort If fool of myself you want
me to, so long as you will marry me-
Dorothy we were made for each other
from the beginning Of time and there's
no use trying to get away from II.
Dorothy had given q little gasp and
now turned to look at the unhappy
man beside her. IT don't see why you
need make q fool of yourself, Robert.
or why it is any disgrace to want to-
to marry me-"
"Oh, it isn't Just marrying a suf-
fragist. it's the other part-having 70
give up my career, and go into politics.
and fight for g. cause don't care about
simply couldn't; but suppose that's
the penalty have got to. pay. If youli
let me -
why I don't see what you mean"
said Dorothy, with tears in her eyes.
'1 think you are making fun Of me-"
Robert had taken a well-worn pam
phlet from his pocket and handed IL TO
the girl. Here IL is" he said pointing
to a clause in heavy print. It's that
awake nights for the last month. It's
the pamphlet you gave me the first
time ever came into this room"
Dorothy read with tears still shining
in her eyes: THE members of this So
ciety, In order to bring about the
achievement of woman suffrage in this
generation, pledge themselves not to
marry any man unless he promises 10
devote his life to the cause OF woman
suffrage in politics"
'.I'II give you my solemn promise any
time you want it," said the young man,
as he watched her read the clause.
why, Robert said Dorothy, with
the sweetest smile Robert had ever
graph before. I'm not really. truly
suffragist, you know-if you'll marry
copyrighted, 1910, by Associated
Literary Press.)
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ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT NEEDED

by what law, God-given or man
created, have the denizens Of the cities
a greater right to the comforts, the
luxuries, the pleasures of life than have
the tillers of the soil2'' asks Senator
McCumber, of North Dakota, IN the
Columbian Magazine for May. THE
wonderful prosperity of the last dozen
years has developed a life of reckless
extravaganza in this country. The
great number Of wealthy people now
present in every large city has set g
pace of high living with which the less
fortunate are trying to keep up. Econ
omy and self-denial seem to have be-
come almost a lost art. The city gait
is entirely out of relation and proper
tion to the more rigid economy prac-
ticed by the rural population. There
must and should be an economic ad-
justment upon a plane of closer equal
ity, and this means that we must
eliminate some Of our most extrav-
agant habits; that we may not satisfy
all of our expensive desires We make
living expensive because we submit to
excessive charges rather than deny
ourselves some useless luxury. Let US
begin our economy at the right point.
Let those men who need some express
SIOn TOT Inelr excessive DOyCOLL spirit
turn against the SIS to $50 per day rooms
at their hotels. Let those ladies direct
it toward the $25 to $50 hat that has not
81 actual worth of material on it. When
they have done that they will have ac-
complished a double good-they will
have brought these and kindred articles
down to q reasonable basis, and they
will have saved sufficient means to pay
the farmer and the retailer fair and
honest compensation for their food
stuffs. They will have given new
strength and power to the principle of
live and let live"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-14
AYHAWKER JOTS

Paul Lovewell thinks it will be all
right for Kansas to take UP the raising
of tobacco, provided it does not in
volve raising a crop of night-riders and
Stemmery-StrlkerS.
Business in the police court in Be-
lott is so dull, the Call is afraid the
police department will get to arresting
people on general principles just to
keep their hand In.
And now the faddists are making
flour out of alfalfa leaves ground to
a powder, notes the Parsons Sun, and
it adds IF this thing keeps up some
one will yet find use for onion tops
and hedge roots"
This really happened in Downs Mon
day. saws the Times. The telephone
doctor answered the call, a female voice
asked, "Is this the butcher shop?" The
doctor replied, well don't suppose it
is the one you want"
Commenting upon the fact that a
piccolo player at Wellington was struck
by a stray bullet and three fingers
taken off, rendering him harmless for
life. the Parsons Sun concludes that It
isn't always the innocent bystander
who gets hurt r
A little Hill city boy was taken to
church by his mother and at the meet
ing several parties were baptized. The
little chap naturally thought the parson
was giving the parties q bath and he
said right out in meeting, Gee, I'm
glad I got washed before 1 came.''-
Hill City New Era.
1.-The girls nowadays" says the Solo
mon Tribune, wear the most curious
things imaginable in their hair-rauS
or crowns for fillers-1n. 1t is an actual
fact that one girl uses golf glove. and
no one would suspect for a minute that
a dignifed looking girl, when she
wanted to become a little more stylish,
simply added q stocking to her rat. AS
too advanced for Solomon, and has
since gone to Abilene
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[From the ChicaRo News.l

[From the Chicago News.l
Circus employees are subject to ring
rule.
The two-faced individual is apt to get
it in the neck.
BY the time you see where you made
your mistake it is too late.
The happiness handed over a oar
lasts only till the foam disappears
Perhaps a bulldog gets but little
sympathy because he doesn't need IL.
The girl who doesn't appreciate her
father is likely to acquire a mean hus-
band.
Some women won't be happy IN
heaven unless they can clean house
twice q year.
If a girl is all the world to a man he
should marry her and engage in the
real estate business
You may be able to give a good iuni-
tation Of a man thinking, but can you
deliver the goods7
Once there was a woman who admit.
ted that she talked too much--and most
OF the time she was kept in a padded
cell.
You will never succeed II you spand
half your time telling what you are 70
ing to do and the other half in explain
ing why you didn't do IL.
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TAETs ECONOMY.

There has been one notable achieve
ment OF the administration of President
Taft concerning which not much is be-
ing said. Perhaps that is because of Its
excellence and important concern to
the people of the country. Therefore,
it doesn't appeal with much strength
to the Insurgents and their friends.
Like all opponents of the unfair stripe
they treat whatever of good may be IN
their adversaries with silence that
often borders on contempt.
But Notwithstanding its wellnigh
impregnability efforts have already
been made in some quarters to belittle
the program of economy which has
been instituted by Mr.. Taft. Such
charges and attacks are even more
unfair and unjust than many OF the
others which have been directed
against the president. The fact is that
President Taft and his heads Of de-
partments are giving the country the
most economical administration of its
affairs that has been enjoyed in many
years. 1t is estimated that the
economies which have been projected
by President Taft viii mean saving
this year in the conduct Of govern
mental affairs of at least $55,00o,000 as
compared with the expenditures of the
past year. Added to this is the pros
poet of wiping out 100000 of the
SIT, 200, 900 postal deficit of last year.
Yet this Is a matter which is either
passed over lightly or to which not the
slightest attention Is paid. If the presi-
dent is able to make as good show
ing during the four years of his term.
1t will mean a saving to the people OF
the country of a quarter billion of dol
lars That's not an insignificant sum
either It demonstrates conclusively
that Mr.. Taft is an administrator Of I'M
usual ability who Is working for the
peoples interests all the time.
The people of the country have rea-
son to congratulate themselves that
they have a man in the nations execu-
tive chair who was not slow to ap-
preciate the fact that it was time 70
call a halt In the governmental ex-
travaganoe of the past decade. And
recognizing such a state of affairs, he
has shown the capability not only to
call this halt but also to effect a saving
on a rather monumental scale. Presi-
dent Taft has done this, too, without
destroying or impairing the efficiency
of the departments of government
This may be a small accomplishment
in the eyes Of some but it is one that
will rebound to the great credit Of the
Taft administration,
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The people who like to hear them
selves talk generally haven't much of
value to say.
Besides being a convenience, an
alarm clock Is also likely to be quite
bothersome- on occasions.
y
The imagination of some poets is
limited to the idea that they are cap
able of writing real poetry.
4 y
This is also the season of the year
when a man has a few rugs and car
pets to beat after he has finished a
days work.
According to popular opinion, Diog-
enes would have quite as hard a time
today finding a thoroughly honest
man as he did some centuries ago.
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HU1NOR OF THE Day

She-The educated woman ashamed to
admit her age-absurdi He-All the same,
I never saw one who put her college year
Newlywed-what. $50 for hat! Why.
is simply ridiculous my dear! Mrs.
old; but you said it was all we could af-
ford.-Lippincotts
Solomon was being transported on his
magic carpet. THE Wright brothers can't
claim any infringement" he chuchled.
Herewith he flew over a cloud.-New York
Sun.
Goodness. what a frunpl who is she?''
Margaret Westwood's Courtship' and
The House Divided % You don't mean
ments about her books that she had
beautiful style."-Chicago Record-Herald.
do you have to go through all these
novels?' asked the caller. II do" sighed
the literary editor. Doesn't IL overwork
MOI 1t overworks my conscience" How;
II praise so many of them. "-ChicagO
Tribune.
IT felt so sorry when heard your house
was burned down, Mrs. Jones'" said Mrs.
Jones, "but it had its bright side. John
and were both afraid to discharge our
cook. but now that the house is gone. OF
course we don't have to."-Harper's
Weekly.
II saw you dancing with Jones just now.
never touched the floor" How d'you
mean?" HE danced on my feetr'-New
York Evening Telegram.
ST ask that a recess be taken at this
93&oree ease What ErouRRds I'M
quired the Judge. my client wishes to
change her gown. She hasn't displayed
half her costumes as yet."-Washington
Herald
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHE1oR
Iron the J

LFrom the New York Press.1
Reform is always headed for re-
action.
A girl is awful smart to be cross
with man so as to make him think
he is the one.
The good investment is for the fell
your money.
A woman spends her. money for
what she wants; man for what he
thinks he wants.
A little cold nerve will get a man
bigger reputation for ability than a
head full of brains.
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FRON OTHER PENS

MORE WEST POINTERS NEEDED.
OF the many good things that may
be truly said of the West Point Mill
tary academy, the best is that it takes
lad whose only recommendations are
a sound mind in a sound body and,
having trained him, sets him on a
level exactly equal to that of lads born
to the largest wealth or highest social
position. Since the competitive ex-
animation method of choosing cadets
has been almost universally adopted
by congressman, the two national
academies serve a most excellent pur-
pose in breaking down caste distinc-
tions. No one, at home or abroad, in
quires the pedigree of the officer of the
American army or navy; however, a
great proportion Of the officers in both
come from the "plain people"
Accommodations for 125 additional
cadets have been provided at West
Point and the number of graduates
from the academy falls far short of
supplying the army with commissioned
officers. Congress should not delay to
provide for the enlargement of the
cadet corps, as provided in the pend
ing bill, and indeed, the policy of the
country should be to expand the ac-
commodations of the two academies,
so that they might educate a larger
rather than Il smaller number of off,
GERS than the army and navy need
Columbia (S- CD State.
WORKING BEES OVERTIME.
Honey bees are remarkable for a ca
pacity to organize for the common de-
tense, while their intelligence generally
is one of natures maTvels. Yet such
is their relish for sheer work that they
appear to take kindly to an oppressive
arrangement which has been success
fully experimental win between honey
men in southern California and in
Utah. In Utah, as in all sections where
the seasons change from hot to cold,
the bees stop working during the win
ter and doubtless, too, many of them
succumb to its rigors- But southern
California, where it is always warm
and sunny, being conveniently at hand,
the Utah honey men have hit upon the
scheme of shipping their bees there at
the approach of winter, thus keeping
them busy all the year around. From
one county alone six carloads of bee
colonies have just been shipped back
to Utah after their winter Sojourn. The
Journey is made at an expense of less
than $50 q carload, and the thrifty
Utah apiarists find that it pays to let
the bees take it. Did their aptitude
for organization enable them to form
a trade union. the bees might some
day go on strike against this ingenious
arrangement and administer a singing
rebuke to the greedy apiarists.-Provi-
dence Journal.
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KANSAS COAAENT
THE HAIR-TRIGGER MAN.

THE HAIR-TRIGGER MAN.
ouInnonlnS the neighbors to take
charge of the body of his wife whose
head he had just blown off, a Sumner
county man explained that a noise
he heard In the room persuaded him
that burglar was there. He found
out afterward. that his wife was up
attending to the baby, but this was
TOO late to call back the shot.
incidents like these are common. A
good many of them get into the news
reports every year: And yet in the
face of all the evidence and all the
common sense that applies. men who
otherwise are able to keep out of the
lunatic asylum will surround their
war, liable 20 accidental explosion at
any time, or certain to produce tragedy.
by fool handling in response to fool
1sh alarm-as though life, liberty and
property depended upon this sort of
thing.
The chances are about 5000 to one
against any suspicious noise in the
night being the noise of q burglar.
d II was about the same proportion
OF chance against the Sumner county
man being robbed of more than SO
If the burglar scare really had de-
veloped. Ana any man of sense would
rather part with $40 to burglar than
muss up his home with blood, and
disturb his conscience with the reflec-
ton of having killed or crippled
man, even though he had every OPP
portunity to shoot a burglar.
Why, then. in the name of all that
is reasonable, men will continue to
keep loaded blunderbusses by their
pillows and go whanging away at ev-
cry noise in the dark. is a question at
which philosophers may well balk.
1t seems that fool element in hum
an nature rises most easily and in most
colossal proportions, to the inspiration
of shooting iron of any sort.
The tendency to act first and think
afterward is dangerous enough under
any circumstances, and the man who
is subject to outbursts of this sort
ought to be separated by law from
any association with guns.-Ottawal
Herald.