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The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1911-05-26

Some men will do anything for the
sake Of a little newspaper notoriety.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1911-05-26

A girl is always sure her latest love
Is the real thing.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1911-05-26

The ocean is crossed in lovely a
number of bridal parties.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1911-05-26

lions. Again they be-
came scanty, were
very thick and attend
ed by burning and
scalding. Soon a drop
steal condition be-
came manifest and I
hapon to Nv
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1911-05-26
A
Are Often Responsible for Untold
Suffering.

Mrs. w. H. Kaiser, Whitney, Nebr.,
says: MANY times during the night
I was obliged to arise because Of too
frequent passages of kidney secre-
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-27

sudden glory arising from sudden
conception of some eminency in our
selves by comparison with the infirm-
ity of others. or with our own for
merly"
If "a laugh is a benefaction and the
provoker of laugh a benefactor, why
are there more statues to dull people
than to witty ones? Who was the
greatest laugh promoter in history?
1t was said of Sidney Smith that he
was the father Of 100000 laughs.
''Laughter,' said Lord Rosebery re.
Gently, sis physical necessity. We
live lnder a sunless sky, surrounded
by melancholy ocean, and it is a
physical necessity for the English ma.
tion-even for the Scotch nation and
the Welsh nation-to laugh. 1t ex-
hi'ssates all social relations. Was
not" his lordship added, "the laugh
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-27

crease of pension for the widow of soldier
There were papers forwarded to him which bore
on the case, and these he turned over to the
committee on pensions after his bill had been
introduced.
The widow did not get her money, and it was
not long before the whole house knew why. The
member who had espoused the Widows cause
had been in congress for years. and the joke at
MS expense was too good to keep, and one after
another of his colleagues walked up to his desk
and congratulated him on the wisdom shown in
the plea which was in written, form, he had
turned in to the committee to win the widows
case.
1t is perhaps needless to say that the mem
per had never read the plea 1t set forth the
fact that while the amount of pension increase
the widow of the soldier hero asked for was
large, it must be understood that she came of
good family, moved in the best social circles and
was in need of large sum of money to keep up
appearances.
Upon occasion senators and representatives per-
init their constituents to do their talking for
them in congress- Petitions come in floods at
times, with the object Of securing legislation by
external pressure. In the Smoot case, and in
the pure food and army canteen matters the pleas
OF the people came in by the tens of thousands.
The members of both houses present these let
tiers, call attention their import and then allow
the petition to do the rest if they are potent
enough.
Senator Latimer of South Carolina once intro
duced good roads bill calling for the expend-
ture OF government millions for the improvement
of the highways. The automobilists all over the
country began sending letters of approval They
pressed their friends into the writing service but
that they did not always pass upon the persuasive
merits OF the friends productions is shown fair.
ly we'll by one letter the good roads subject
received by Senator Cuom. 1t read like this:
Dear Mr.. Cuom: Please vote for this id
bill, and you will obge a fool friend of mine
who runs an automobile. Yours less
sincerely, --'
1t was Chicago who wrote this appeal
There were others like unto it. The good roads
bill still sleeps.
In the older days the school readers contained
the story of I'll Try Sir Miller" Probably
everybody knows who "Tll Try Sir Miller" was
Certainly everybody ought to know. Gen. James
Miller then a captain, the hero of Lundy's
Lane. He said he would try to do the thing
necessary for the thrashing of the enemy and he
did it, and "Tll Try Sir" took the place of his
Christian name James.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-27
The Shepherd Of the Black Sheep

a more intense form of the smile In
extreme cases the eyes are moistened
by the etfusion from the lachrymal
glands
There you have scientific defni-
ton. But it is clear that mankind
would hardly take the trouble to go
through that experience if that is all
that laughter consisted Of They
would not regard Dickens or a
Mark Twain as a benefactor merely
because a perusal of their writings
produced that. No; even the philoso-
pliers know that laughter is something
better than that-something Internal
that there is such thing as silent
laughter. Hobbies calls laughter "a
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-27

For years several representatives in congress
tried to secure an appropriation to be used for
the building of monument to General Miller at
Peterboro N H., near which town "Ill Try Sir
lived on a farm before the Of 1912, and for
years after it's close. The representatives who
had the matter of pushing the bill in hand used
the words of Captain Miller at Lundy's Lane to
express their determination to secure vic.
tory. They certainly did try, and the speeches
that We're made before the library committee OF
congress held patriotic appeals in every sentence
Apparently, however, 1t was easier for Miller to
capture battery against odds than 1t was TOR
members of congress to capture the dollars neces-
sary to build a monument of enduring stones
to his memory.
1t was case of try and try again. While the
cause Of Miller whose heroism worth
dozen monuments, being pleaded, congress
voted money for memorials to other men less de-
serving. Finally, however, a New Hampshire
member who had been digging into history found
out something about "I, Try Sirs" career which
was not generally known. Congress had been
told time and again that Captain Miller not only
had shown conspicuous gallantry at Lundy Lane,
but that prior to that fight he bad thrashed
superior force of British and Indians at Managua.
Congress had also been told that Miller had COM
manded the center column of General Browns
army which routed what was apparently
overwhelmingly greater force Of the British at
Fore Erie.
These things didn't make an impression Con.
gress seemed to think that inasmuch as Miller
was soldier that 1t his business to defeat
superior forces of the enemy every day in the
week without imposing any monument-raising
duty on posterity The New Hampshire member
however, found out that after the war of 1912
Miller went back to his farm near Petersboro
plowed fields, chopped wood and MIXED the COWS
instead of going to Washington to ask the gov.
eminent to do something for him on account of
his record.
Miller's popularity was such after the treaty of
peace that the government probably would have
been glad to give him anything that it had to
give. When TN Try Sir" was asked why he
was playing Cincinnatus instead of taking a Job
in Washington, he replied: when men begin
leaving the farms for the cities the nation will
begin to decay
Congress was told Of this saying of Miller's,
and either admiration for his choice of a farm.
er's life or else belief that he was a prophet
who before long might have the truth of his
prophecy proved, brought favorable report
from the committee on library in the matter of
the monument at Petersboro.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-27
A SPOON SHAKER.
Straight From Coffeedon,

Coffee can marshall good squadron
If enemies and some very hard ones to
overcome. A lady in Florida writes:
II have always been very fond OF
good coffee, and for years drank it at
least three times day. At last, how.
ever, I found that it was injuring me.
II became bilious, subject to fire.
quent and violent headaches, and so
very nervous, that / could not lift a
spoon to my mouth without splitting
part of its contents.
my heart got 'rickety' and beat so
fast and so hard that could scarcely
breathe, while my skin got thick and
dingy. with yellow blotches on my face,
caused by the condition of my liver
and blood.
II made up my mind that all these
Affections came from the coffee, and
determined to experiment and see.
$50 | quit coffee and got package
of Postum which furnished my hot
morning beverage. After little time
| was rewarded by complete restora.
ton Of my health in every respect.
II do not suffer from biliousness any
more, my headaches have disappeared,
my nerves are as steady as could be
desired, my heart beats regularly and
my complexion has cleared up beauti
fully-the blotches lave been wiped out
and it is such pleasure to be well
again." Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle Creek, Mich.
Read the little book, 1.-THE Road ia
MELVILLE" in pkgs "There's reason"
Ever read the above letter. A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, aud full Of huma1
interest.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-27
Professor Sir Charles Bell in the
Strand Calls It a Convusive Ac-
ton of the Diaphragm.

'Laughter,' says Professor Sir
Charles Bell in the London Strand, lis
convulsive action Of the Diaphragm
In this state the person draws full
breath and throws it out in interrupt
ed, short and audible cachinnations
This CONFUSION of the diaphragm is
the principal part Of the physical man
ifssation OF laughter; bit there are
several accessories, especially the
sharp vocal utterance arising from the
violent tension of the larynX and the
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-27
An Eight Years Walk.

Hiram Davis of Newburg went for
a walk with his father eight years
ago. The father stopped to talk with
friend, and Hiram, then about 10
years old, walked on. He was never
seen after that until he walked into
his parents home recently.
The police all over the east were
on the lookout for him, the Hudson
river was searched and finally he
was given up for dead. When he
greeted his mother it was some hours
before she could be calmgu.
Davis has been out West.-New
York Sun.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-27
Their Native Heath,

DR.. Eugene Fuller, president of the
American THEOLOGICAL association, said
Ut dinner in New York, apropos of
Independence Day:
I'VE must all try to be as truthful
as George Washington was. am
afraid We have not, of late years, up
held the reputation for truthfulness
that George Washington gave us.
am afraid that we have published to
the world, by our yellow press and by
other means, good many tall stories.
"Thus an English teacher once said
to pupil:
"'What is miracle?'
Please, SIR the little pupil an
swered, it's something that happens
In America"
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-27

OF Sir Frank Lockwood something that
would make stuffed bird rejoice?
And those who listened to the splen-
dor OF merriment which he could i'm
part by that laugh realize the intense
value of that emotional exercise"
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-27

Do you ever think of the irrevocable
nature of speech? You may find
years after your light word was
spoken spoken, that it made whole
life unhappy. or ruined the peaca OF
Observation-Disclosures Brooke.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-27
Prudential Reasons.

$50 you are going to send your
cook off. But isn't her name Ara
bella Gunn?"
Whats that got to do with our
getting rid of herr"
"But, my dear boy, isn't there an
ordinance against discharging A.
Gum within the city limits?"
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-27
Grandfather's Fault.

Father-Why, when l was your age
] didn't have as much money in
month as you spend in day.
Son-Well, pa, don't scold me about
1t. Why don't you so for GRANDPA.
Their ?-Silent Partner.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-27

The aluminium of this country from
a production Of SO pounds in 1868, it's
consumption in 1900 amounted to 3d..
100000 pounds.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-27
AIibi.

AIibi.
Father (having caught his son in
a lie)-HAven't | always told you to
tell the truth?
Son-Yes, father; but yeu also told
me never to become the slave of
habit
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-27

Love, which is the essence of God
Is not for levity, but for the total
worth of a man.-Eme
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-27

Polly-So Mrs. Highmere's husband
has developed bad habits. How did
you hear about it?
Dolly-Oh, Mrs. Highmere invited
US all to an afternoon tea so she could
tell US how she suffered in silence!
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-27

ORCE, picturesquenesa aid abil-
ity in congress knows 40 sec
lions. Northerners, southern
ers, fasteners and westerners
have their strengths and their
weaknesses, their likes and their
dislikes, their physical manner
is1ns and their mental ldiosyn.
crasies just like all other human
beings.
There have been men in con.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-27
lood s
Sarsa pariIIa

Acts directly and peculiarly
on the blood; purifes, enriches
and revitalizes it, and in this
way builds up the whole sys-
tenn. Take it. Get it TODAY.
In usual liquid form or in chocolate
coated tablets called sarsatabs.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-05
Ways That Are Dark.
From Outing.

GIOul OOStuHs
II you own a car in a small city or in
the country. you have doubtless tested
h joys OF night driving, and already
realize how the pleasure Of motoring Is
doubled when even familiar scenes are
travarsed after shutdown. Trees.
hedges. and roadside buildings assume
an entirely new aspect when touched
by the soft moonlight or the Pickering.
fiaring headlights that bring approach
ing objects into a relief all the more
strong because Of the contrast with the
shadows n which they quickly fade.
Such pleasure IL missed by your cousin
Of the large city. whose only know
ledge of night driving consists Of q
short run to the opera. theater, or a
party. or a whirl along some brilliantly
lighted boulevard to a nearby road
house for a midnight supper: this man
loses half of the value and enjoyment
that he otherwise could obtain from his
ear.
When selecting the night driving
equipment for your car. 1t must be re-
membered that the more plainly the
road can be seen. the less wear and
tear need there be on the machine and
on b tires: consequently what may
seem at hrst like a large investment.
Will In the end prove q money saver no
far a. b repair bills and garage ex-
penses are concerned. Many q q and
passenger ave received an all too &C.
we're and unnecessary jolt because the
dim headlights have failed to illumin-
ate . thank you ma'am or q boulder to
tto proper proportions.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-05


If you can keep your head wi en- all about
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you:
IL you can trust yourself when all men
doubt you.
But make allowance for their doubling
too;
II you can wait and not be tired by watt
ing,
Or being lied about don't deal in lies.
Or being hated don't give way to hating.
wise;
II you can dream and not make dreams
your MASTER:
II you can think-and not make
thoughts your aim.
II you can meet with Triumph and Dis
And treat those two impostors just the
same,
II you can bear to hear the truth you've
spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for
fools.
Or watch the things you gave your life
to. broken,
And stOop and build 'em up with worn
out tools:
II you can make one heap OF all our
winnings
And risk 1t one one turn of pitch-and-
And lose. and start again at your begin
nfngs
And never breathe a word about your
loss;
II you can force your heart and nerve
and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are
gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in
Except the win which says to them:
-Rudyard Kipling.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-05
Tn. Lur. Of th..Lonssoms Traits.

Tho Lure Of the. Lonesome Traits.
Comes a call from the plain to the work
tagged brain.
Oppressed by the smoke dimmed mart:
Ills a sweet. low cry like the night
winds sigh.
And it whispers to the heart.
''Come out. come away from the weary
day
Where the soul's last comfort fails:
Come away from care to the wine bright
And the lure of the lonesome trails"
There the red suns ray. at the close of
day
Sets fire to the low flung hills
And the soft delight of the silent night
To the depths of the tired heart thrills.
Away from the dust and the sin and lust
And the city's useless strain,
There close to the sod. to commune with
And be free from cant's disdain.
Out under the stars. away from the cars
And the din and confusion of light.
FOrgetful OF all save the wild plains call
And the gentle caress of the night.
Meath its smokeless skies. the prairie
lies.
AND the JOY of It never fails: :
To the souls that feel, comes its soft APP
And the lure of It's dim. lone trails.
o. the vast. gray waste. where so family
The still road winds away
To the golden west. where the sun seeks
rest,
ANQ Sllence nOlGS IT'S sway.
Yes it's wild and hare. but it's free from
care
And from sham and proud deceit:
There q man is himself, no, a thing of
pelf,
Nor the plaything of conceit.
1t IS good to lie meath a stainless sky,
Holding converse with Your soul.
To Judge as you can. your fellow man
Nor be swayed to a selfish goal.
To the heart that is pure. comes the rest
less lure,
The lure Of the dim. old trails.
And 1t leave the grind where it's close
confined
And it's soul to a master quails.
You leave the gloom OF the office room
And rack through the lonesome land,
Where men fight fair. and the game is
square.
And you win by the strength OF your
hand.
It's a far. clear call that entices all
With the lure of the f~ootless sod:
From the city's ban. and the works OF
man.
Go out to the place OF God.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-05
10 DAKOTA COUNTIES
MAKE FINE EXHIBITS
Al CORN EXPOSITION
Object Lesson Answer to the
Knockers Who Spread the
Crop Failure Dope.

Mitchell. s. d., Sept. 2S-The big fea-
eure OF Mttchell's corn palace is the
county agricultural displays. in which
IA counties show the products OF the
farm. In this respect South Dakota's
are bling attested In a way as
10 lmpress the eastern visitor that the
state has been u~njustly libeled. when
the report was e broadcast aver the
east during the summer season that
the state had received a hard blow as
= result OF the absence Of moisture.
The contest among the county exhibit
e"rs for the prize money is marked, as
every exhibit has been put up with ex-
rene care. together they present a
most attractive appearance.
Arrangements are being made by the
northwestern railroad company to Sc
cure some OF the exhibits with which
{" stock up a coach for exhibition pur-
pofscs In the east during the winter
season,
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-05
The Mystery Of Lost Ship.

Robert Welles Ritchie. In Harper's.
The big fretghter Naronlc was one OF
these boats who's fate the insOlence Of
the Atlantic keeps secret. The Naronic
on the day of her launching was the larg-
est and strongest ship OF her class in all
the merchant navies. Twin screws. then
an innovation in freighters. gave her tre-
power. Eight bulkheads were
counted as perfect protection for her hull.
The biggest. safest. swiftest s~ea-carrier
was what shipping men called her. The
Naronic made six round trips from Liver
pool to New York. iustifying the boasts
OF her owners on each trip. Then one
day In February she nosed out OF her
berth on the Mersey, full aden n fully
manned. bound for New York. Capt. Will
liam Roberts was her commanding officer:
q crew OF 60 worked her, and "a cattle
men were booked as passengers. The $3.50
ton ship was weeks overdue when the
first whisper OF disaster came sitting In
from the Atlantic. The British steamer
Coventry put into Bremen. out OF Fernan-
dina. with word that when about 500
miles southeast Of st. Johns, N%ewfound-
land, IT had one morning passed a life
boat, riding bottom up on the long swell.
The lame on the stern OF the capsixed
boat was hidden by the water. Later on
the same day the Coventry passed a sec
ond lffeboat, floating upright. but almost
awash. A sea anchor made of oars md a
p q was dragging astern at the end Of a
painter. On the stern. just above the
wash of the waves. were the black letters
"Naronic." The water-logged lifeboat was
u~noccup.ed. No other trace OF the Maroon
ic was found until five months later. when
another of her lifeboats was picked up off
the Azores. This, too. was empty.
Steamship men tried to reconstruct the
momen Of disaAser that had blotted from
sight the biggest and safest BOAT OF her
class. The place where the Coventry had
sighted the drifting lifeboats was approx
imately 100 miles northeast Of New York
and % miles south Of the eastbound win
ter track across the Atlantic. There could
not have been a collision, because no 9TH
er boat plying in that vicinity had been
missed, not even q Banks fisher. Ice
bergs had not been sighted on the winter
track, consequently It was not probable
that the Inflated steamer had rammed one
In a fog or s~now-sQuall. The sea anchor
on that second lifeboat sighted by the
Coventry gave the only faint support to
speculation.
Those oars and that bit of spar shipped
over the stern. mute testimony to some
despairing effort of men in peril. meant
only one thing-a storm. or rather, the
spending of a storm. for no lifeboat could
keep upright in q winter storm on the At
lantic. A storm then. 1t had been. said
the men who tried to read the rebus of
the sea: such a storm as raises the waves
of mid-Atlantic to q height of 80. 60, even
20 feet from crest to trough. The Naronic
had been overwhelmed by one Of these
waves and. stanch as she was, had wal
lowed for a while. then dropped like q
plummet.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-05
The Case Of tho Learned Woman.

f1eien Ray Wilson In Harper's.
Inc held OF woman's work is become
today very wide. and though Latin and
Sreek and such. serious studies NAV
0 be indispensable to the deyelon-
ment OF all the feminine qualities Din
ueeo, q experience has taught man
OF us that these have sometimes a
aepiorable effect on the feminine phys-
que). still a serious training ia
indispensable to the woman who ia
gong to undertake a serious occuna-
.lon. whether 1t be novel writing or
factory inspecting, or the possibly more
onerous task of marrying a genius. The
women who have done most have nan
ally managed to get such a training
Whatever the opinion Of their age r.,
respect to 1t. And in the interests ~
the domestic heroine let US remark that
among the o capable the practicai
FACULTY does not. when II il cailed
upon. come behind the intellectual.
fanny Hurney. when she became N1a.
aaine d'Arblay. was kept 80 busy mar
ing ner clothes that she had not time
20 produce a second Evelina. And .Iane
austen: who had not especially orrans
lxed education. was an omnivoro,.
reader. Her favorite books were thu
spectator. Richardson, Johnson CrahS
De. Cowper. Scott. She was mora
over. an excellent needlewoman .na
was especially great at satin stitch ;.
Did not h practice of satin stitch hoir
70 point that other inimitahIe weannr
which h used with such exnTis;ta
skill, touching the portraits az he-
friends and neighbors, with the most
deiicate satire In the world?