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The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-12-27
LAND OF MAKE-BELlEvE.
BY Walker Kennedy:


AS the Christmas festival reeurs, il
| is observable that certain somber gen
tlemen of academic mien have begun
to inveign against the pagan absurd.
ties and NEUROLOGICAL utilities of the
season They tell us that we make of
the Christ Child's birthday time OF
Make-BelieVe, in which we lose sight
of the realities of life and the sacred
significance of the occasion. These
pundits would send Santa Claus, the
good st. Nicholas and Kris Kringle
with their sleighs and reindeer, flying
into the land of nowhere and oblivion
They would strip the Yuletide of all
its accumulated charm of legend and
fancy They would abolish the silly
traditions that have chung for ages to
the holly and the mistletoe They
would eliminate the Christmas tree,
with its lighted candles and its fragile
toys. They would teach every child
not to believe in Santa Claus because
there never was any such person, and
children ought to cultivate scientific
accuracy Of thought, and not have
their curly heads stuffed with fairy
lore and the moonshine of myth and
legend.
And all this they would do because
we live in an age of science and sub
stance and reality, and not in Land
of Make-Believe. Life" illustrates
pointedly the effect of such philosophy
in its Christmas number, when it de-
picts wise little girl in her nightie re.
ceiving Santa Claus and telling him:
"You know l don't believe in you
any more, but you may leave the
things"
And so this is not the Land of Make.
Believe? Could any explicit declara-
ton contain greater solutie n of un-
truth than that? Why, from the cradle
to the grave our lives are dominated
by Make-Believe. The pleasures of
the senses entrance us while they last
but they do not linger; and when they
go they often leave the gray ashes OF
vain regret and chill remorse.
1t is only in the Land of Make Be.
lieve that we find our noblest and
truest joys. Little children make ex.
cursions into that enchanted domain
when they play among the flowers, OF
send mimic fleets of battleships out
upon the brook that rambles through
the forest, or listen, as did Peter Pan
to the call Of the wandering Tinker
Bell. Their education begins with the
telling of stories by the winter fire
and even when they are sent to school
the appeal must first be made to the
spirit of Make-Believe that haunts ev
cry tiny head And then, at the other
extreme, is the old man doing by the
fire, not unmindful of its warmth, per
haps, but with his head full of dreams
and memories, ghostly Implications o.
the days that are no more, faint crop
ings into the land of light beyond thu
western hills. Unrealities, phautoms
visions, it is true; but the only things
in life for one who staLds, patient ant
serene, before the grave waiting tn,
inevitable summons.
| 1t is not what we eat and drink, wha
we wear and where we life that con
stitute the essentials of life. Home
says the poet, is where the heart is
Yet, sifted to it's last analysis, tits /
Ionly piece of make-5elieve that mus
be sorely offensive to those of cole
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-12-27
JOSEPH A. BABB,
G.. A. WATERMAN,
Temporary Secretary,
MODERN WOMEN BEAR TRACES
OF THE SAVAGE.
Temporary President

(From "On the Bench" by Pierre de
Coulevain).
The other day, as | was watching
these worldly women file by with their
handsome furs of sable, chinchilla,
black or blue fox, one of them caught
hers up with gesture that made me
start. Her gesture gave me instantly
a vision of the far-off ancestress, who
at once appeared before me, tall,
strong and majestic, with wild
beasts fleece or skin over her splendid
nudity. l saw her standing at the
threshold of her cave watching for the
return of the man. gazed in a sort
of stupor at this descendant Nature
has continued her work of improve
ment through the long centuries and
has arrived at this! Yes, she has re-
fined the body of woman, given all
kinds of shades to her soul, but within
her are the primordlal instincts still
jealousy, envy, ruse and cruel coque-
try. Her winter garment is different,
the wild beasts skin has become a
beautiful fur, but, as formerly, so the
irony Of the gods has willed It, this is
ornamented with tails, claws, little fe-
rocious heads And in spite of my
self, in this elegant creature, taking
her tea there and putting the dalnties
delicately between her painted lips, l
could still distinguish the ancestress.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-12-27
teChamber
of Commerce

To the Press and People of Louisiana:
Louisiana needs all the desirable
new citizens she can get The State
can not spend money more wisely
than in inducing the right sore OF
people to come here. Individuals work.
ing to that end should cooperate more
closely
Keenly realizing these truths and
acutely feeling the desire for action,
a recent For Louisiana" conference
was held at Shreveport. Delegated
representatives of parishes, cities and
commercial organizations from Shreve-
port to New Orleans, from Monroe to
Lake Charles, put forth call for the
legislature to provide $4,000 q year
for colonization and immigration work,
for the people throughout the State to
insist on such a measure, and advised
permanent statewide organization
to effectively formulate such demand
as one of its chief aims.
Temporary organization was effect
ed. The committee on constitution
and bylaws and on organization are
ready to report, and it falls to the tenn
porary officers to call a statewide
meeting to receive these reports and
to organize permanent statewide
machinery for the increased manufac-
ture Of statewide welfare.
The name proposed is State Cham.
Der of Commerce"
Because mid-winter live stock fair
splendidly illustrates two of Louisi.
ana's greatest adVantages-her eli
mate and her ability to produce SUI.
perior live stoock-and strikingly pro-
claims her attractiveness to the home
seeker, and because such fair is an
assured fact at Baton Rouge, on the
border of the high lands and the allu-
vial, it is deemed peculiarly appropri.
ate to call the organization meeting of
the proposed State Chamber of Com
MERGE for the city of Baton Rouge on
Saturday, January II, 1914, the clos
ing day of the Mid-Winter Fair.
To this meeting we invite represen-
tatives of every municipality, of every
parish police jury, of every CONNER
cial organization in the State, and ev-
cry man in whose character there is
response to the watchword, For
Louisiana" We believe it is not nee
essary to dwell at any length on either
the Importance or the necessity of
such a movement. Its Importance is
limited only by Louisiana's unlimited
opportunities; its necessity is meas
ured by the fact that sections far less
blessed have done relatively much
more for themselves.
JOSEPH A. BABB,
Temporary President
G. A. WATERMAN,
Temporary Secretary
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-12-27
INCENTIVE OR WARNING?

Five hundred cats and a peck Of
twenty dollar gold pieces was the re-
ward of w. G. Bailey, who recently
purchased an old house in Wesson
which had been an eyesore to that
town for many years.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-12-27
NEW ORLEANS EuPHoNY.
Shreveport Journal:

Shreveport Journal:
Two big New Orleans banks, already
hyphenated institutions, have been
merged, and the Crescent City news
papers are hailing it as "the birth of
another great bank" Strikes us that
more appropriate headline would
have been "the passing of another
great bank"
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-12-27

Those, however, who look beyond cru
eibles, retorts, solutions and measures,
know that there is an underlying
truth in this aphorism. The million.
aire lives in his palace, surrounded by
all the Injuries and ministered to by
all the arts. Yet he is not at home,
The place that will always be home to
him is memory perhaps an old
farmhouse on the hill, long since torn
down and replaced by modern man.
sion, or left to ruin and the bats and
owls. Yet this place that has no tan.
gible or material existence is the only
home the millionaire can ever have.
On the other hand, the house that one
has built from the fruits of honest toll,
where the dainty She Who Must Be
Obeyed presides, where loves young
dream has reached its fair fruition,
may well become a true home, for
lueIc, Ilue6u, lnS neaFL is.
And now, you who are inclined to
take material and practical views of
life, come into the library. A shaded
reading lamp stands upon the table.
An old arm chair invites you, The
walls are covered with books, favo.
rites OF yours, perhaps. You are in a
chapel consecrated tip Make-Believe.
About you are the ghosts of Shake
speare, Goethe, Homer, Moliere, Dante
and the long, illustrious line. And
there are volumes telling you of the
strange, eventful history of the worlds
great men. Wonderful songs lie i'm
prisoned and silent in the dark recep.
tacles that men call books. You have
but to turn the pages and many voices
speak and sing to you. You open
Shakespeare, and you hear Hamlet de-
claiming upon the snowy ramparts of
Elsinore, and you follow Shylock
through the -bathed ways of Ven
ice and stand with him before his
shadowy home, where nothing but
emptiness answers his knocking upon
the door What somber tragedies, what
marvellous histories, what forgotten
songs, what side-splitting comedies,
what stately epics are all crowded into
one small room! And yet, so far as
the senses are concerned, it contains
nothing but voiceless books.
| Go to the theatre, and you enter
again the Land of Make Believe. Here
we have personages that never exist
ed enacting stories that never were.
But though the play is only Make-Be-
lieVe, the emotions portrayed, if por-
trayed well, are true to truth. The H.
lusions of the stage have become a
part of modern life; and when one re-
views the years that have passed he
realizes that many of his most pleas
ant memories are associated with the
theatre. A fugitive air from the "Bo-
hemian Girl" drifts across his mind,
recalling some white night in his ex.
perience. Edwin Booth as Iago, or
John Mccullough as Spartacus, or Joe
Jefferson as Rip Van Wrinkle, step be.
fore the mythic foot-lights and a de
lightful experience of the past is lived
again. Music and the play are among
the vital needs of men. Poetry anG
old romance are factors in the well
rounded life. Art, too, plays its par
to some purpose.
Yet these things, strictly speaking
are futile and unnecessary. They al
pertain to the Land Of ake-Believe
! What is art but an imagination, ;
counterfeit presentment? OF wha
. avail is "a painted ship upon painte,
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-12-27
F.. UPHOLD THE LAW.
Abbeville Meridionai:

ADDeVIIle M6rIuIOnaf.
Human life is too cheap in Louisiana
and apologists for bloody crimes are
too numerous. Yet there is hope that
reason and law will maintain firm
hold upon the people who are charged
with executing the laws of the land.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1913-07-04
ADDITIONAL NEWSIES
What's What And Other Happen
ings That May Interest
Our Readers.
And the next day it rained.

And the next day it rained.
Conrad Myhre is assisting the
the Ekalaka Drug Co. barber
shop during the 4th.
DR.. E. j. Potterton accompan-
led a number Of Bakeriets over
from that railroad town Monday.
Today is the day, and a good
crowd are enjoying themselves,
that is, they are all endeavoring
to do so.
e. A. Ballinger and A. E..
Haines of Camp Crook passed
through town the fore part Of
the week enroute to Baker.
The Sykes and Camp Crook
ball teams crossed bats on the
Box Elder diamond Sunday, the
final score ending up 9 to 10 in
favor Of our neighbors on the
south.
Alex McNab Of Camp Crook
was married in Bowman this
week to Miss Ruth c.. James of
Bowman. Mr.. McNab is in the
employ Of the forest service at
Camp Crook.
Reasons why you should list
your land with Grant and Fuqua:
Because you want to sell it; be-
cause they are doing: lots of ad-
vertising in the east and will
have more buyers during the
next year than land sale. adv.
A "whopper' of a hail storm
struck the town Of Miles City
and surrounding territory last
week and from all reports there
sure was some hail. Many of
the stones that fell weighed a
pound, just heavy enough to at
tract ones attention should it
strike in the vicinity of his
noodle"
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1913-07-04

Miles City Sunday by Judge
Welch. The couple will make
their future home on the home
stead of Mr.. Burt west of town.
Send the Eagle back home tu
your friends.
Stock Inspector VIM. Richard
son of Miles City was a visitor
in town this week on official
business.
Chas. laval, Oscar Ferguson,
l.. N. Arpan and A. F. Strain
were among the Box Elder visi-
tors in town Tuesday,.
Z. Sommerville, the govern
ment special land agent went to
Miles City Wednesday for few
days visit when he will return
here to spend the summer.
The Cottage Hotel at Camp
Crook is again open for business
where you may secure the best
of meals and good clean beds
and rooms. When in Camp
Crook come and stop with us
once. Mrs. L. A. deBelloy, prop.
adv.
Bert Glass who was lmplicat-
ed in the murder Of Tom Corco-
ran at Marmarth about two years
ago was last week sentenced to
serve twenty-five years in the
pennentiary. Tom Carberry
who was also mixed up in the
deal received a sentence of thir-
ty years about 18 months ago.
The Secretary Of the Interior
has contended that land that
will raise crops profitable with
out water is not desert land and
a short time ago ruled for a con-
testant who had contested a des-
ert land entry on those grounds.
1t begins to look as if it is going
to be a hard problem to secure
and hold desert claims in this
section where it is claimed many
entries could be successfully
farmed without irrigation.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1913-07-04
new MANAGEMENT
Stockholders Of Telephone Com.
pany Again Assume
Control.

The stockholders Of the Eka-
laka Telephone Company have
again assumed full charge of
their lines. w. A. Rauch of
Camp Crook has had the lines
under contract for the past six
months but was this week retir-
ed. We understand that all bills
incurred during the past six
months are chargeable to Mr..
Rauch and that he is also entitled
to all receipts for that time. C.
=. laval of Box Elder made a
trip to Baker during the past
week and repaired the entire
line which is now in better con-
dition than at any time during
the past three years. The line is
being removed near Baker to
follow the new county road into
town and therefore no communi-
cation can be had from here to
Baker tor at least a day and a
half while the repairs are being
made. We understand that
hereafter all the business of the
company will be transacted
through the Ekalaka central Of
flee and that Miss Stella Olsen,
the operator has been authorized
to receive and pay out moneys
of this company.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1913-07-04

have been training their animals
during the past few days are of
the opinion that it ranks with
the best in the state.
John McNarie was in town
Tuesday from his ranch on Box
Elder.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. NJ. Sweeney
were visitors in town this week
from their ranch on Box Elder
''Dick" Long was taken to
Deer Lodge this week to begin
his sentence of five years for
horse stealing.
The Firemen's State Conven-
ton will be held in Miles City
at the time Of the county fair on
Sept. 10, II and 18th.
John Hall has returned from
the Box Elder country where
he has been doing some carpen-
ter work the past month.
U. S. Commissioner F. M.
Dworshak returned Tuesday eve-
ming from a visit in NorthDakota
and elsewhere with friends and
relatives.
There will be a dance this eve-
ming and also one again tomor-
row night at the Elite Hall
where the visitors may enjoy
themselves during their stay in
town. Everyone is cordially in
vited to attend. adv.
The Thompson House. Hay
ing thoroughly renovated this
house from cellar to garret, l
solicite share of your patron
age. Meals, Csc; beds, 25c and
Tickets, $500. - Mrs. Wesley
Thompson. adv.
A. w. Neff, better known as
Banjo Neff" will celebrate the
4th and several more days there
after in the county Jail at Miles
City. While in the county seat
this week he imbibed a little too
freely in the Snort jug and
got a little rolicky with a pistol
that he happened to be carrying,
consequently the Judge said
thirty days. for carrying con-
cealed weapons.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1913-07-04

Philip Bootsma and Charles
Speiser went to Miles City Tues
day where the former will make
application for his final natural
ization papers.
Bruce J. Burt of Ekalaka and
Miss Laura B. Shafer Of Benton
Harbor, Mich, were married in
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1913-07-04
TODAYS PROGRAM.
MORNING PROGRAM.

MORNING PROGRAM.
Boys contest for boys years. distance
81 yaros. Purse $4.O0 Three monies
Ladies nald1vng contest 10 nails to each ladv Purse
81 90, monies
Rescue Race, 2G0 yds. Purse $780,
AFTERNOON PROGRAM.
Harness Race Ist Heat Purse $4,000
Saddle Horse Race one half mile Purse $4,000
End Heat Harness Race
Onehaf Mile Three-year Old Race Purse $50
3rd Heat of Harness Race
Three-eighth Mile, Free ForAl, Purse, $75
4th Heat Of Harness Race
Dog Race, 200 yds., Purse, $780,
Mile Saddle Horse Race, Purse $780,
Protest against horse may be made any time up
until time OF race to the Secretary.
Entrance fee charged will be 10 per cent of purse only
in horse races 0' '
Purses will be divided 6o 80 10 per cent except in
Rescue race.
All will he paid by Secretary his office at any
time after o'clock p. m
All entries to races close at o'clock p the day be-
1ore race. Enter with Secretary.
Morning program starts at 10 o'clock on Main sreet
Afternoon program commences at 1:3Q at track.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1913-07-04
EKALAKA BRIEFLETS
Local Happenings and Other Item,
Of Interest to the Many
Eagle Readers.

Eagle Readers.
Bert Maxwell! has rugged up a
lunch counter for the 4th.
DR.. W. G.. Wendell went to
Miles City Wednesday on a bus
mess trip.
We are in need Of copies of
the Eagle for May 2nd,: 1913.
Bring us a few copies.
Joe Dowell is down from Miles
City attending the 4th of July
celebration in Ekalaka. }
Highest cash market price paid
for butter, eggs, vegetables, etc.
at the Ramme House. .-adv.
For Sale-A good as new. six
lid range. Will be sold reason
able. Inquire at this Office. -
Adv.
Albert Marshall and Robert
Saddler Of Guthrie, KY, are
here visiting with. Mr.. and Mrs.
R. V. Fuqua.
For Sale-A 50.gal. barrel of
the best grade roofing paint. -
At bargain if sold at once.- -
Grant & Fuqua. adv.
There will be a dance tonight
at both the I. 0. 0. F. and Elite
halls. A dance is also scheduled
for the Elite tomorrow night.
The people of town have been
busy the past week cleaning up
their yards and otherwise i'm
proving the looks Of their proper
ty for the 4th.
The "joker" club has been
busy the past week and many
''jobs' were executed. Vincent
Fuqua seems to have been get
ting the most attention.
For Sale Good young Halnil-
tonian Stallion cheap, also a few
good young mares at my place 10
miles north of town. Jack Dill
Ion, Willard. ADV.
For Sale-One mare with colt
by her side, and two geldings.
Can be seen at Munro & Fergu-
son barn. Mrs. R. F. Law -
adv.
B. M. Davis returned Tuesday
evening from Rochester, Minn.,
where he has been confined in
the Mayo hospital fer some time.
Ben is looking fineasId says that
he feels like a p&w man again.
Floyd Clark went to Camp
Crook yesterday to take in the
4th of July celebration at that
olace. Floyd will then take up
his residence again on his home
stead near Midland where he is
DONG farming stunts this
year.
Chas. Whitneyhsae released
from the county pm this week
on the charge Of. 1erjury and we
understand was Immediately re-
arrested on another charge, that
of altering ahd ::defacing brands
belonging to G. +. Bradshaw of
Chalk Buttes. His trial is set
for July Goth.
The track on the fair grounds
is in better shape at this time
than ever before and those who
The Washington herald., 1913-08-09
NOTES OF THE GAME.
Again We say SOME FINISH.

Jimmie CalIshan's gang made the Elephants do
without PEANUTS for supper. while We were pickins
Nick CullOp for one.
l. Those hitting Cleyeanders started thing, going
in the very first round. but did not hold the ad-
vantage long. for the Climbers came right back and
made the count one all
Upon two occasions Chick Gandil star clouter
vas at bat when a sacrifice hit needed. Milan
being the sack. Both times the big hryt-sacker
did his little act TO q nicely.
1t is not often that johnson appears as anxious
to win his game as he did yesterday In the fifth.
while the bases loaded with Laioie at bat, he
called upon his buddy. Clyde Milan to change his
POSITION, and il turned out TO be a ifesaver the
Frnchman hit 4 line drive which Milan turned into
double play. 1t would not have been possible
for him to make the catch had not johnson r.
qucsted the change Of position.
Again while Johnston in the hatter's box the
king motioned to Laporte to come in. but this did
not have any bearing the play. Doc was an
easy victim falling via the strikeout route
There many expressions Of disapprural heard
in the stands when johnson purposely passed Joe
jackson in the fifth. Those who gave vent TO such
expressions probably did not realize that it not
submission to the pTuwess Of the hardest hitter in
the league. but exhibition Of scientific ball
playing, which had its good results.
While jackson is recognized as a great hitter, the
sams<pplay would have been made on most any
batter in the league. 1t made possible play at the
plate at any base and also gave the defensive team
a chance to pull q double play. Cleveland did the
same thing in the sixth, when with out, second
and third occupied, Prank Laporte not allowed
to look over any good ones.
Those two veterans of the Maps certainly gave an
excellent exhibition Of defensive play. each saving
the game upon several occasions with marvellous
fielding plays.
Larry Lajoie did himself proud in the fourth when
he leaped into the air and down with McBride's
| hard-hit liner in his glove II was one Of those
back k-handed catches
In the very first round LAjoie. displaying all hi.
old time grace. grabbed hportes grounder with his
bare hand, touched the bag. and doubled Frank al
| first.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-09
MILAN KNOCKS
HIMSELF OUT

Clyde Milan, the opportune
centerneld of the Nationals, was
the victim of overplaced energy
and an interfering knee, not to
mention his chin, In the fourth
inning. Wnh Turner perched
ON third and Graney at second.
arriving mt said stations by .
combination OF Terry's single
and Jacks double, Carisch came
to the bat. He jostled one OF
Walters neat ones, and hit II
straight at Milan. The specta-
tors watching the hit were sur
prised to see Milan take a head
long dive at the ball, stop 1t for
an instant. and then lay prone
on the grass. Considerable con-
lecture as to the nature of MI
Ian's injury came mp, and the
$500 spectators were busying
themselves wondering how he
was Injured. Many thought that
he had wrenchcd his neck, but
Rs a matter of fnct he knocked
himself out. In shooting head
foremost mt the ball, Clyde's knee
came into coIlision with his chia,
and he was . lay object Of the
fatal ten" that m counted in the
prize ring. Turner and Graney
scored and Craisch reached third.
while the ball players all gath
cred about the stricken WASH
ington player. Milan wns 'sout1
for five minutes, hut came to and
then proceeded to "bust- up the
ball game. Milan lost conscious-
ness in the conflict between knee
and chin, and also was charged
with an error that should have
been called q physical disability.
The nobby Outfielder gathered
four hits. and In willing to swap
knowledge Of this mundane
sphere any day when he can
gather four hits in so doing.
He also fractured his left ear
while taking the tumble.