The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-07
How Foot and
Mouth Disease
Had Its Start?
The ''Mr. Dooley'' of Montana
Has an Original Explanation,
Which Should Appeal to Devo-
tees of Miss Nicotine; Good Of
the Corrupt Practices Act.

chewing tobacco that could have been
left there by no one but A. M. (Early
Morning) Anderson, off the top step,
"yis, sor, it was gr-r-reat day for
this glorious country av ours whln
the c'rupt practisin' statoot whit into
effect an put tn campaign cigar UNI
der tn ban. Olive seen tn day, week
afther ELECTION, Wen t'irteen bushel
baskits wouldn't hold tn stumps that
KEN out av tn historic halls av this
imposin' eddifuss. Since tn asspir-
unit for offuss has been obliged
slay thin he suspecks av bein' for
his rival with some less deadly wep-
ION thin tn campaign cigar, bushel
or two av stumps is all ! git, even
with legislachure comm an tn lame
ducks gallopin' up an down tn stairs
from mornin' till night, chasin' tn
governor fer a job. Blessed be tn
mon who envinted the c'rupt practls-
in ack; fer he shud be rights be the
Patron Saint av Capitol House JAM
thors.
"Yis, sor," the Head Janitor con-
tinued, as he made dash with dust
pan and broom for the swing door,
where Seth Maxwell, the versatile
commissioner of publicity, had Just
dropped the butt of Dukes Cameo.
''yis, sor," turning suddenly IN MS
tracks to give Maxwell, who Just then
appeared at his window, a look that
would turn limburger green, "yls,
sor, If cigar stoomps n clgaretty
butties an guilds av foine-cutt or
Harsheshoe plug or Climax or Star
Chewin' cu'd talk, w'ot lot av tales
they could tell. Fer his butts or his
quid, moine ye, is usually all man
takes wen he disappears beholnd
some av these oak doors in there, fer
a chat with tn powers that be. Faith!
win we've swept up mountains av
'em. as OF hove, yell see charakter
in butts. I moind IRE Dick P. Sutton
ay Butte cloimbed these steps wan
day. Dick, dye know, is thayatri-
cal king, a movin' pickshure maggot,
and all koinds av an OIL Teller. They
call i'm 'Th' Man Behoind tn Stogie'
because he's niver without pound
or more av tn weed in his face, made
up in the forum av stogle about
nome feet long.
When Dick Sutton Came.
s'Dick P. was wit newspaper
man, whose name Oh cannot raycall,
but whom OF raymimber as tn only
raypother in Montana who nlver nad
been minshuned for commissh> ner av
publicity. This rayporther an another
Teller, who niver paid his debts, had
come over firm Butte with DICK +.
to see jynt commity av tn mouse
an sinate raygardin' law author
lin Sunday shows in MISSOURI
witch, as all the wurruld KNOWS
thinks movies av girruls wrigglln' In
So oil irh g
in TIL week but shawkin' bad forum
av Sunday
"Dick P. passed in, wit tn stogie
in his face-although now ne go'
t'ru tn swingin' doors wit 1t ray
names mystery to me, THIS Gay
and sasshayed grandly down tn
corridor to TIL commity room, puffin
away like small tug pullin' first
class battleship aft sandbar. Byme
by, me telephone rings. It's tn
gov'ner: az,
.Moike!' SEE tn gov'ner-an' it,
the on'y tonne OF ever knew i'm tt
be cross-.Moike, FER tn love aH
Satan who t'rew thot rubber int tn
furnace?'
IT luked out firm me windy an
the stately av Gin'ral Meagher wa
chokin' bechune tn ears av nj
harse!"
"Butts!" concluded the Head Jan
itor, dexterously tumbling a bushe
basket of them into his incincerato
cart. s'butts, is ut? Hist! Dye moin.
TIL fut and mouth disayse they tall
about. Olive me theory av how
arridg'nated. Somebody dumpe
a bushel av butts out av some stat
house or hotel lobby or clubroom
some sim'ler place where tn harru
workin' lawmaker spends sixteen o
seventeen av his leisure hours, iv'r
day-somebody doomped tn butt
onto a city doomp where COWS graZet
After a butt or two in their cud, the
cud nayther stand on their tut nc
open their mouth. An there y'are!
"What do you do with the SWEEP
ings?" asked the reporter.
"Hist!" he replied, with a twink
Of the eve. "Me brother-in-law owr
a chewing tobacco factory an nothi1
goes t. waste. An iv'ry tonne "
hear of an Anglo-maynic congris
man, we sind i'm plug free, wi
our compliments"
Montana Maid in Montana Made.
9TH campaign cigar" he muse
sprinkling the top steps with waite
ing pot before going to it with
huge broom, "has been better boo
ter fer tn unthertaxin business tn
war ever was. raymimber g,
come here durin' tn sission av Noin
teen Hundred, peddlin' cher-root
call .Th' Montana Maid It WI
Montana made, he Explained; and
limited that ligislathers who want
tn stand roight wit Montana lab
wad do we'll to come t'ru wit t
price av box piece.
Thin was the era win labor. u