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Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-20
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1.-THE recent death of Madame Emma
Lake recalls to me a most thrilling Incl
dent in that energetic lady's early career,
when her circus was travelling overland
in northeastern Missouri" remarked j.
w. Murphy of Burlington, Ia, in a recent
talk. 1T was in 1867. when l was a lad
of 10. the age when boy thinks the man
ager of a circus is an infinitely superior
being to the president Of the country
1.-THE battle started at Luray, Clark
county, where Madame Lakes circus
gave performance and a 1O-cent concert
following the main show. 1t was this con-
cert that caused the trouble. The round
top was crowded at both afternoon and
evening performances. The great civil
war was just over and the land was full
of Impetuous youths. Something at the
evening concert didn't set well on the
spectators and they became turbulent AS
the constabulary Of the village was not
large the circus people had to do their
own fighting. A free-for-all scrap fol-
lowed outside the tent in the darkness.
THE battle went on savagely until dawn
and continued in the glare of day. 1t was
conducted by companies, by squads and
individual combats II seemed that every
fighting man carried wound somewhere
about him. In some of these personal en-
counters the spectators-there were great
crowds attending the free show after
daylight-would form a ring around the
fighters and cheer them on to the highest
endeavor. All! That was a time of slug
ging that would have made light the heart
of the prizering devotee.
The boys from the army are game
the gamenst fighters I ever saw. They
brought to bear all the experience and
skill they had acquired in hand to hand
fighting over breastworks and charging
abattis. I doubt whether ever before the
stake-drivers and fighting men of a circus
had 20 go against a sterner proposition.
During a sort of lull the wagon men
managed to get their teams hooked up
and start was made westward TO Mem
phis, the county seat of Scotland
Madam Lake was a Prominent figure
in a carriage drawn by eight white
Arabian horses. With dozens of Other
boys I stood about on the roadside while
the circus was evacuating under fire.
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fellowship. | never Sound cut how much
Dick really lost mat night, but 1t vas
enough to cripple aim for two years at
least.
No further reference vas made to the
house uptown. BY chance discovered the
cause of Dicks subiusd ardar. and
gave him his congo. \ man who will
make love subservient to good felton, ship
is not eligible as a husband no matter
what his personal charms may be.
Eventually" continued the Maid with
a sigh, Dick married a dear, delicate
little rosebud OF a girl IN her first sea
son. She adored him, hung on his every
word and was in a perfect acstacy when
he was particularly aattentive. They took
the house next 10 sister. For a while it
was all billing and cpoing The pcN es, >
they were nicknAmed.
Just when Disk began ia drft back
into good fellowship TO one 81 ems to
know, the return was so gradual But
drift he certainly did, as the lat, cabs
and midnight lights told only too plainly
People began to nOIice that Mrs Dick
went about a great lea alone Hoy
many times did I. returning in the wee
sma' hours OF the mu-iint from dance o.
party, look across The dividing exEanse
Of snowdrifted lawn and see Mrs. Dick,
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Martha, isn't Dick Jamison the best
fun?" tentatively asked the Best Chum.
exchanging condolences over the teacups.
You know. I think some artist should
use him to epitomize the popular idea OF
a good fellow. He is a good fellow the
very best fellow in the world, and don't
understand why you weren't perfectly
mad about him"
Goose" said the Maid Who Never
Married. "a woman marries a man for
his husbandly qualities, not for his good
fellowship. II you want 10 know the
true reason didn't allow myself to be
perfectly mad about Dick. you should
stop at sisters town house with me for a
few weeks. The Dick Jamisons live next
door, you know, The only reason I'm not
playing the heroine of the aching heart
and paying all night electric bills in place
Of Mrs. Dick is that I happened to get a
peek behind the curtain OF the future,
and what saw there closed my ears to
all Dicks happy sallies. keen wit con-
tagious laughter and protestations of I'M
dying devotion. Absent treatment Of the
affections never did appeal to me anu I
couldn't bring myself 10 take a chance
on long distance loving, Result: Exit
Dick. vowing his permanent retirement
from the silly world of pleasure and cry
ing 20 high heaven his determination to
dahble only in the serious things OF life
from that day henceforth forevermore.
with Dicks renunciations ringing in
my ears was half sorry for my sum
mary dismissal of him. Perhaps, after
ALL his good fellowship was but the nat
ural outchopping OF a merry nature,
three-fourths generosity and one-fourth
mischief. determined to give Dick an
opportunity TO get q more favorable an
swer the moment he gave evidence OF
having been sOzeFed by his desires TO set
tie down.
Certainly. told myself. man with
hope OF a home and the woman he loves
win ind no time for the card table,
bachelor parties and other typical amuse-
ments beloved OF man creatures
1T seemed every one always counted
on Dick. He'd Mi table at bridge. com
plste a dinner party, lead a ootillon a.
lend a hundred dollar hill at a moment
notice. He was the life OF every party
he graced and was known to have pa.
the seal Of friendship ON more quarrels
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-20
Lorettas Looking CLASSIFIED Up to Girl With the Dog

the family by sending costly gifts. He
may evidence his disapproval in all the
silent ways by which men express their
dislikes; BUT he is instantly suspicious
of girl who shares his dislike for babies.
And here's the pathological or not, it's
a fact!-a girl with dog, especially one
of the lap kind. summons into a mans
mind picture OF a fat matron who hates
babies and adores her poodle.
A delightful girl I know has three of
these rakish, devoted, intelligent dogs
with hair in their eyes. A man who rec
ognizes the charm of the girl often plays
with her and the dogs. The other morn
ing he met the dog, with the girl on the
string trotting along behind.
by Jove! It's an insult TO a decent
dog he exclaimed with a look at the
girl quite unlike any he had cast toward
her before. II wouldn't have thought it
of you!'
The girl famed into a becoming anger.
II thought you liked dogs" she cried
Il do, but not on stringsl'
And the pretty girl is wondering at the
inconsistency of men. She cannot see
why a man will enjoy girls possession
Of three dogs at large on the lawn and
resent her taking one out on a string
You, with your canine wad of white
wool rolling along in front of you,
tanging up the legs of unwary pedes-
trians, behaving generally in a way that
ought to embarrass you, but does not
just learn of me. You are running down
the value Of your own goods. You are
disgusting the kind of men who make
good husbands. You are putting yourself
in the class with women who are fast
women who hate babies and women who
insult dogs! I'd like to know how you
expect anything masculine worth having
to want you. You will have to hunt up
one of the with-all-your-faults-
you-still kind Of men. And they are
scarcer than hens teeth. Men do not
have to De tolerant. There are too many
girls busy with all their energy at lex
actly suiting'' them. l should cut the
dogs string. If were you!
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-20

Told by the Troubled Tourist

Handing somebody a lemon may not
be 50 foolish IS Il looks II we are TO be-
lLave the latest returns from some sec
tons Of the country" remarked the
Troubled oTurist Il observe, for in
stance. that tourist with a pronounced
southern accent, who he'd been riding on
a train through Illinois. alighted at St
Louis and handed the conductor a lemon.
The conductor though he saw the Joke
and put the lemon in his pocket, but a
short time afterward he became aware
that the lemon was leaking He investi-
gated and perceived that there was an
unmistakable odor of whisky about that
lemon. and closer inspection disclosed
that sure enough, real double distilled
corn juice was oozing from a hole in
tho lemon skin.
1t appears that since the Illinois leg
stature passed a law making It a INSIDE
meanor for any one to take drink Of
liquor on a train, even from his own
bottle, the conductor has had the power
TO arrest said drnker. Hence the lemon
subterTugc.
Reminds one Of the happy days in
Maine when we winked one eye in order
ing chocolate soda, or down in old North
Caroline when we laid a dollar on
stone by the roadside, retired a mile or
so up the road, and came back to find
a jug where the dollar had been. And
there was something Ia the jug, too.
The handy bunch Of rubber grapes is
also strong in memory. You could carry
a bunch Of those to the theater with you
and not have to go out between the acts.
atnsIyr ,f
them burst.
About this train law, though it looks
as though dry times were ahead when
you can't drink water because there
aren't any cups, and you can't use your
own particular pet flask. A car fun of
dry drummers eating lemons ought to be
quite a sight.
However, the train prohibition so far
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only exists in certain states. so that If
the genial traveller only restraints his
thirst until the state line is passed he
will not have to resort to the lemon or
any other subtle device.
Some states are so big, though
man might perish before he got through
the desert,
"a road with plenty of tunnels ought to
be a popular one in dry state like that,
only care would have to be exercised in
order to avoid the little mistake of Forty
Rod Jones, who was travelling next a
veterinarian in dry state. In the first
long tunnel the train came to Forty = a
made a dive for his overcoat pocket and
extra ting a bottle, took long pull at it,
The next moment there was a riot in the
car and Forty Rod was the center of It,
He had dived into the veterinarians
overcoat by mistake and seized bottle
OF horse liniment."
Copyright, 1911, by the N. Y. Herald Coz
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-20
A Quick Cat.

The grayness Of evening was creeping
over the little suburb. Far away the
shrili voices Of newspaper boys could be
heard calling the $3.50 editions, and the
moon cast its pale beams on the worried
woman who stood anxiously leaning over
her garden gate.
Il can't make out where my husband
has got to-" she remarked to a nelghbor
HE went out nearly three hours ago
with our cat, bag, two bricks and the
clothesliHe' He was going TO the river
TO drown the cat. Oh. what can have
happened 10 nlmr'
Don't worry. dear. said the synpa.
thetic neighbor. Cats take an awful
time to drown you know"
But It can't be that keeping him. 4"
sobbed the distracted wife, because the
cat came back more than an hour ago. -
Tit-Bits.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-20
Mr., Woodpecker is a Wise Bird.

Many birds show very great inteln-
gence, but the wisdom of the wood
pecker is certainly wen worth a little
careful study.
Some persons are Of the opinion that
reason is no more than keen instinct; but
there is a difference when we come to
study some of the habits of few Of the
more intelligent birds
The woodpeckers that inhabit some Of
the western wooded districts show a
wonderful reasoning power They
actually plan for months ahead for what
they consider a very delicate morsel of
food. They provide certain food for a
season when that particular kind is very
scarce and they make the work of secur-
ing it quite easy. too.
While acorns are falling in the autumn
months the woodpeckers climb all over
the trunks of trees and peck hundreds
of small holes In the wood They carry
acorns to these cavaties and in some
manner pound OF push them into the
holes they have made, with the point of
the acorn in the hole, leaving exposed
the larger end Of the acorn,
Months after. when winter has passed
and the spring has come. these wood
peckers return to the scene of their
autumn labors, and there in each acorn
they find a nice plump worm feeding
on the kernel of the acorns they had
placed in the holes i'm the trees. The
birds fit from one acorn to another. peck
open the shell and extract the delicious
morsel OF food. The birds evidently knew
the worms would be there.
Men who have watched the work OF
these birds while placing the acorns in
the holes they made in the trunks OF
trees declare the birds will carefully
examine an acorn. and II II is found to
be one that promises worm life in the
months to follow It is carried to the
cavity and deposited but If the acorn is
a perfectly sound one the birds will dis
card 1t and pick up another
Most acorns. like chestnuts, are polluted
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hunched up by the fire in her torecir,
gazing in the glowing Goals to see the
ashes of her dead hopes. How she ran
to the window At the sound of every
tardy cab or taxi, hoping il woLld dis
gorge the figure OF her husband away on
good fellow escapades. Night after night
she sits there, longing and wauting,
alone.
NO, my dear, l have no desire 10 bern
the midnight oil Cor husbald given TO
good fellowship. 1t means nerves, and
nerves mean age ana have the greatest
respect for youth ana beauty"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-20
Jealousy Age Limit.

Lady Duff-Gordon. at a dinner in New
York, praised the beauty doctor.
1T has put back the clock at least fif-
teen years for woman" she said. THE
woman of 80 years today, thanks to the
beauty parlor, hardly looks So years old.
In fact, l might almost say that there
are no old women any more"
up to what age can woman still be
called young?' a pretty grandmother
asked pensively.
No matter what her years" said
Lady Duff-Gordon, "a woman Is still
young so long as she can make a man
Jealous"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-20
"InsDiratiOn,O

Beranger is best known for his bac-
chanallan songs One night he was at
supper with Dumas the elder. The
younger Dumas, who was present, was
passing through his college course and
at that period was exhibiting those
characteristics which unfortunately de-
veloped later in life.
Noticing that Beranger had drunk only
water, he somewhat indiscreetly asked
Where do you obtain. NJ Beranger, all
the wine which we find in your songs?''
The poets reply was From the
fountain at the corner, my boy, and you
would do well to make that the source OF
your Inspirations "-LOndon Globe.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-20

with a germ in the earlier stages of the
nuts life, and this germ matches out
worm In the very flesh of the nut and
and the meat is food for the worm
1t is very evident the smart wood
peckers know all this, and much more,
and they simply reason that it would be
wise to secure a plentiful supply and
this is the reason they are so busy peck
ing the trees full of holes Each hole
will hold an acorn and each acorn will
contain a worm.
II is said the food supply of these birds
would be quite scarce at the spring sea
son If they did not resort to this method
of storing away good supply of meat
for that season.-San Francisco Chronicle
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stands for the womanly tenderness, the
especial brand of affection that every
man believes is essential to the character
of woman.
The man may positively fear the red
and squirming morsel that represents the
future man He may avoid the house
where it appears as he would the plague.
He may assauge his conscience for ceas-
ing to visit the home of his dearest
friends because OF the new member of
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-20

A dog on string leading a married
woman may be regarded as a misfortune.
But when it is attached to the leash that
drags a pretty young girl like you at the
other end it is an abomination.
It's an object of i'll omen. In the eyes
of men, | mean.
1t makes no difference how you try to
crawl under or endeayor to overlook it.
men like women who like babies. 1t
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-20

The kangaroo, which is noted for its
enormous appetite. can eat in a given
time as much grass as six sneep would
consume in the same period.
Sealing wax does not contain a particle
of wax, but consists of shelac. Venice
turpentine and cinnabar.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-20
soar RuhhIen.

Fill a quart bottle full OF distilled water
and sift into it four-fitths Of an ounce Of
ivory soap which has been finely shaved.
Allow this TO dissolve. then shake ana
leave TIL all bubbles have disappeared.
Add one third pint OF glycerine and after
thoroughly mixing the two pour into a
basin and give each child a clean glass
or clay pipe. The glycerine makes the
bubbles very strong and they will soar
longer than Others.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-20
WHY RahY Crieh

Why is babe crying. john" asked
mother. coming into the room hastily
HE doesn't want to get into the bath
tub without his rubbers on" said John.
Hes afraid he'll get his feet wet."-St.
Louis Republic.
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notice.!

TO the Stockholders Of the Lower
Milk River Water Users Associa-
tom
Yonand each of you are hereby
notified that the regular annual meet
ing of the stockholders of the Lower
Milk River Water Users will be held
at two O'Clock in the afternoon on
Monday, December 4, 1911, in the Of
flee Of b. w. Brockway at Malta,
Montana, being the head office of the
corporation, for the purpose of elect
ing Board of Directors and other
officers of the Corporation, and also
for the purpose of authorizing the
proper corporate officers to execute
and deliver for and Oh behalf of the
corporation the vested water right
contract between the United States
and the various appropriations and
water users from the Milk River and
the Lower Milk River Water Users
Association and for the transaction of
such other and further business as
may legally come before the meet
ing. r.. NJ. Trafton, President of
the Lower Milk River Water
Users Association.
b. w. Brockway,
{ Secretary.
Malta. Montana, November Il, 1911.
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Notice Of Contest

Department of the Interior, United
States Land Office, Glasgow, Monta.
la, November Z, 1911.
10 HENRY Nj. REVETTE
OF Malta, Montana, cOntestee:
er n. Breshears, who gives MELVILLE,
North Dakota, as his post office adj
dress, did on September so, 1911, file
in this office his duly corroborated
application to contest and secure TIN e
cancellation of your homestead, EN-
try No. Serial No. O!'523 made
April I'd, 1910, for east half Of sec
ton 81, township 81 north, Range 30
E. Montana Meridian, and as
grounds for his contest he alleges
that the said Henry M. Revette has
wholly abandoned said land for more
than six months last past, that he
has never established his residence
upon or cultivated said land as re-
quired by the homestead law,
You are, therefore,, further noti-
fled that the said allegations will be
taken by this Office as having been
confessed by you. and your said en-
try Will be cancelled Hereunder
"IHllOut , OuA uilHCl A4SHU W ne
heard therein. either before this Of
flee or OH appeal, il you fail to file
in this office within twenty days af.
ter the 4th publication of this notice
asshown below, your answer, under
oath specifically meeting and respond
ing to these allegations of contest, or
II you fail within that time to file in
tins office due proof that you have
served copy of your answer OH the
said contestant either in person or by
registered mail. IT this service is
made by the delivery of a copy of
your answer to the contestant in
person, proof of such service must
he either the said contestants writ
ten acknowledgement of his receipt
of the copy, showing the date of its
receipt, or the affidavit Of the person
by whom the delivery was made,
stating when and where the copy was
delivered; if made by registered
mail, proof of such service must
consist of the affidavit of the person
by whom the copy was mailed, stat
ing when and the post Office to which
it was mailed, and this affidavit must
be accompanied by the postmaster's
receipt for the letter.
You should state in your answer
the name of the post Office to which
you desire future notices to be sent
to you.
Truman NJ. Patten, Register.
Date of first publication Nov. Q, 1911
second - Is. g
{" s. third ' &c %,
60 s. fourth I" 30. "
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-11-16
Almost, But Not Quite

Work was almost resumed OH the
irrigation canal near Dodson last
Thursday, but the weather man, per-
haps in sympathy with the powers
that be, introduced extra bad wealth
er and the force of twelve men who
went from Malta Wednesday to 60
into camp at the AL. Shultz ranch,
returned TO this city Thursday. The
situation was so pathetic that our
Cub Reporter could not refrain from
the following:
Where is the Summer Booster?
Crawled into his hole till spring?
We need him here with his words
of cheer.
TO take away winters sting.
We planted the crops with the
greatest faith,
IN the promises he made then,
That we'd all be rich, from the
Comment ditch,
When winter came round again.
Oh, editor dear, the winter is here,
Send the Booster out to take hold,
And make the dirt fly on the
Comment ditch.
Bat leave Savage at home while it's
cold.
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ALIAS SUMMONS

STATE OF MONTANA ss
COUNTY OF VALLEY 90
In the Justice Court of Malta
Township in the County OF Valley
and State Of Montana, before b. w.
Is, ockway. Esq, Justice of the Peace.
r. M. TFAFTON. Plaintiff
NICK aoI z;1;si p.fsne.,, Alias Summons
THE STATE or MONTANA TO
THE ABOVE NAMED DEFEN-
DANT, GREETING:
You are hereby summoned to be
and appear before me B. w. Brock
way, a Justice of the Peace for Malta
Township in the county of Valley and
State of Montana, at my office in
Malta Township, Valley County,
State of Montana, on the 9th day Of
November, 1911, at two O'Clock p. m,
Of said day, then and there to make
answer to the complaint Of the above
named plaintiff in certain action to
recover the sum of one hundred and
three Q03) dollars and thirty 500
cents with interest thereon at the
rate of eight per cent per annum
from and after the 23rd. day of
December, 1910. on al account for
goods, wares ana merchandise SOLD
and delivered to the defendant upon
his request by the plaintiff at the
town of Malta, Valley County, state
of Montana. between the 18th day of
November, 1910, and the 23rd. day of
December. 1910, which is alleged to
be due and owing, for further par
ticulars YOU are hereby referred to
plaintiffs complaint on file herein.
and if you fail to appear and answer
as above required, Judgment will be
taken against you according to the
complaint.
Given under my hand this goth day
of October, 1911.
b. w. BROCKwAY,
Justice of the Peace.
John A. Tressler,
Attorney for the Plaintiff.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-11-16

Montana day at the United States
land and irrigation exhibition which
is to be held at the Coliseum in Chi
cago from November 18th to Decem.
Der Sth, has been set as December s,
and the cooperation of all Mon
tanians is asked. 1t is planned to
have special exercises in the coliseum
in honor of Montana. Governor
Norris has been asked to speak at
that time and other prominent
citizens will have a part in the pro-
gram. A great many Montana peo-
pie are planning to attend as it is ex-
peeted this exhibition will eclipse
anything of similar kind heretofore
attempted. Montana day will be a
good advertisement for the resources
Of the state.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-11-16

Some one has said that woman s
character is likened to postage
stamp one black mark ruins it. A
man S character may be likened to a
greenback -n no matter how many
stains there are on it, still it passes
at par. This is certainly not just,
yet it has been established by society
the world over.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-11-16
Teachers' Examination

Miss Flora Sims. superintendent
Of schools of Valley county, announ-
ces the next regular teachers exam
ination to take place November gath,
25th at Glasgow, Culbertson, and
SacO.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-11-16

For Rent:-Four room house in
good location. Reasonable rent.
Inquire of F. w. Hall at The First
State Bank.
Anyone desiring the services Of q
competent trained nurse, call OH or
write Mrs. Otto Munson. Malta,
Montana.