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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26

A woman sat in unwomanly rags
Plying her needle and thread.
A newspaper man said to me the
other day: There must be sad condi-
lions among the families of many Of
the men who have gone to the front.
Ten to one their wives and children
are on the border of starvation If the
soldier has found any hitch in getting
his pay home to them promptly"
'YOu do not know the spirit of moth
erhood," 1 answered. "Come, let us
do little investigating today and see
for ourselves what the helpmeets of
the soldiers are doing"
He readily agreed, with the proviso
that we should draw lots as to which
might write up what we discovered
when the days investigations were
over. 1 won.
At the first home to which we, d.
rected our steps we were met at the
door by d comely young woman with
four little Cnes, who appeared to be
about of one size, 'clinging to her
skirts.
Eyes, my husband has gone to the
border" she said. HE was a clerk,
with a good position in a department
store, where / was also employed be-
fore we were married. He thought he
would be able to send money home
after the first week, but there was a
delay in receiving it and in conse-
quence we were reduced by the end
of the second week to dire want. Then
| put my shoulder to the wheel. /
got girl l had known to sleep here
at night with the children while !
went to work among the night shift in
the factory near by. Taking care of
my little ones by day and working all
night is strenuous-I get so little sleep
and rest-but a woman never knows
how much Sc can endure for her loved
ones sake until she is put TO it"
The wife of a mechanic who had
thrown up an excellent position to an
swer his country's call was in quite as
sorry plight for lack of money to
care for a still larger -amily and a
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26

spoken in a low tone, and they fell be
hind with rifles at trail. Once in the
open became, for the first time.
aware of irregular rifle firing, and OBJ
served In surprise men posted upon a
narrow staging along the side of the
log stockade.
SIS the fort being attacked" I
asked.
There has been firing for some
days." he answered, ''but no real at
tack. The savages merely hide yon-
der amid the rocks and woods, and
strive to keep us from venturing down
the trail. Twice we have made sor-
tie, and driven them away. but tbs
a useless waste Of fighting" He called
to a man posted above the gate: How
Is it this morning, Jules?"
The soldier glanced about cautious
ly, keeping his head below cover.
- (TO BE CONTINUED)
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26
Nothing Like Preparedness.

AS Mary was clearing the table she
remarked shyly to her mistress:
please, mum, I'm thinking I'll have
to give you notice"
Notice, Nary" exclaimed the lady
Of the house, in surprise. But what
for? Why do you want to leave?"
"Oh, num-" said Mary, twisting her
fingers coyly together. ''Tm thinking
about getting married! !"
And wh0 is the happy man. may
ask" questioned the mistress, her in
terest in love story promptly reused.
"He-he sits across the chapel from
me-"
And what's his namef"
II don't-don't known" confessed
the maid.
what You're surely not engaged
to marry a man whose name you don't
know"
mot exactly engaged, num-" cor
rected Mary, ''but he's been lookin' at
me, and / think he'll soon be speakin' r.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26
Joan of Arc as a Revelation.

Orleans recently held, with modified
festivity, the annual commemoration Of
Joan Of Arc. Founded in 1929, this
fete was suspended during the Revo-
luton, but revived by Napoleon when
first consul on the suggestion of Chap
tall the brilliant chemist, who became
his minister Of the interior. Chaptal's
memorandum, preserved among the
national archives, bears the following
autograph footnote by Napoleon: ''The
illustrious Joan of Arc proved that
there is no miracle which the French
genius cannot perform when the indie
pendence of the nation is threatened"
Which appears to be felicitously ap-
prcpriate for the present moment
London Chronicle.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26

bedridden mother-in-law. '.The girls
in the shops admired my blouses and
turned my hand to making blouses
for them. l have no sewing machine
and my fingers must fairly fly to earn
bread and roof for so many of us,
but do not complain. ! want my
husband to be proud of what l have
done when he comes back to u.s." she
said.
OF the thirty-odd homes of soldiers
now on the border we found every wife
genius in one line or another in
supporting the family when the mans
pay was not forthcoming. Such wom-
en- never realize their strength until
they stand at the helm. Not one wom-
an had sunk powerless at the In
creased burdens laid upon her.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26

legally the wife of Francois Cassion,
my sympathies now are altogether
with the Sieur d'Artigny. / would
have you ask NJ. de Tonty to confer
with me-"
Yes, madame"
"You have served with D'Artigny?
You know him wellw
Three years, madame; twice he
saved my life on the great river. NJ.
de Tonty shall receive your message"
l could not eat. although l made the
endeavor. and finally crossed to the
window, opened the heavy wooden
shutters. and gazed without. What 8
marvellous scene that wasl Never be-
fore had my eyes looked upon so fair
a view. and l stood silent and fasci-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26
Musical instrument Output.

American manufacturers of musical
Instruments, with an annual output
valued at about S100000.000. export
only 100000 worth annually to for
eign countries. American pianos are
chiefly exported to Canada, where they
constitute about 90 per cent of the to
tai imports of that class to Great Brit
ain. for reshipment to other parts OF
the world. and for reshipment to Cen
trsI and South America. Our player
pianos are sent in about equal mum
bers to Australia, England, Italy anC
Argentina, and in much larger quaint
ties to Canada.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26
CHAPTER Xxx.
The Court-MartiaI.

De Tonty took the paper from my
hand. glanced at it, then lifted his eyes
inquiringly to mine.
"'Tis in the governors own hand.
How came this in your possession
81 found it in Cassion's private bag
last night, under the berth yonder.
Later he came and carried the bag
away, never suspecting 1t had been
opened. His commission was there
also. Read it, monsieur"
He did so slowly, carefully, seeming
to weigh every word, his eyes darken-
ing, and a flush creeping into his swar-
thy cheeks.
MADAME" he exclaimed at last.
'T care not whether the man be your
husband. but this is a damnable con-
spiracy, Matched months ago in Que
bee"
l bowed my head.
Beyond doubt. monsieur"
"And you found nothing moreno
documents taken from Hugo CheyetT
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26
quito Far Above Sea Level.

Quito is the worlds nearest ap-
proach to an equatorial city. The cap
ital of Ecuador is situated almost ex-
actly on the equator, but her sur
roundings and her climate are far
from equatorial. As soon as the little
train leaves Guayaquil it begins to Ia
3or and complain over what 1t seems
to regard as a grade too steep for the
most long-suffering locomotive. That
ride from Guayaquif begins in the
dense rich verdure of the tropics,
climbs up through half dozen zones
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26
Literary People Long Lived.

Three score and ten has been a mere
nothing so far as ages go among prom
inent American literary persons, 6
leading instance being Mrs. Amelia 10
sephine Barr, who published a move
at eighty-fve. Among others, Charles
w. Eliot is eighty-two, John Burroughs
seventy-nine, Col. Henry Watterson
seventy-six, Henry Hills Alden and
William Dean HoWells eighty, Lyman
Abbott eighty-one, and George w. Ca
BILE seventy-one.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26
All Great Men.

Once upon time, so tie story goes.
a Frenchman visiting the tomb Of Ma
poleon wrote on convenient wall the
lines:
"'Bony' was a great nan, soldier
brave and true"
An Englishnan. coming along a lit
tie later, read this and added:
But Wellington did beat him at
the battle of Waterloo"
The next visitor was an American
who, seeing the foregoing contribu-
tons, rushed into the competition with
all OF the. restraint that characterizes
E,embers of our great nation:
But Drawer still, and truer far and
tougher than shoe leather,
WAS Washington, the man who
could have licked them both
together"
he wrote, and doubtless went away
quite satisfied with his climax.-Phila-
delphia Public Ledger.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26

lie WOulu HOT nave
his jud G m e n t
overruled and his
theory go for
naught. A letter
from the heart OF
the West has just
reached me which
topples over a pet
theory of mine
that an accepted
lover should do
his counting be-
tween the hours
of eight and ten
thirty, promptly
taking his leave
of his lady love
at that suspicious
hour.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26
Is There a Moral Here7

In Friday mornings fiction story a
young woman and her lover had quar-
relied: she sat moodily under a tree
on the creek bank. The lover hap
pened along on a high ledge above
her and stumbled oSer big stone.
The stone rolled down the bank and
struck the moody young woman in the
back. She sprang up, recognized her
lover ana forgave him. Moral: When
she won't listen to reason. soak her In
the back.-Kansse City Star.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26
Defined.

Freddie" said the teacher. Gan
you tell me the meaning of the word
dessert?"
"Sure I can" replied Freddie. "Des-
sert is the stuff you get little bit Of
for eating whole lot of things you
don't like"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26

of vegetation and ends in Quito, in
land of northern barrenness and cold
The great plains of Quito, where the
palace of the archbishop looks across
at the administrative buildings of the
republic, is more than nine thousand
feet above the level of the sea.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26
IT'S Always There.

We like to read society novel
once in awhile; there is always sure
to be some good old-fashioned slang
that everyone has Representatives.
kee journal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26

The man who weds an old flame Of
ten finds that she has red hot tenn
Der
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26

The worlds sugar production is
about equally divided between beet
and cane origin.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26

Even the wisest of judges must
change his opinion once in a while If
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26

Lalr6a7aElbqyS
= TWN)N =
fl[ApN)pI(S
SITTING UP NIGHTS.

In hours of bliss we oft have met,
They could not always last;
And though the present ] regret,
I'm grateful for the past.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26

Face powder has put more men down
and out than gun powder.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26
WOMEN AT THE HELM.

With fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
A woman sat in unwomanly rags
Plying her needle and thread.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26

OF the idle and brainless the world has
enough,
Who eat what they never have earned:
Who hate the pure stream from the foun-
tain of truth,
And wisdom and knowledge have
SDlrned
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26

"And you found nothing moreno
documents taken from Hugo CheyetT
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-10-12
Was Good Once.

A certain we'll known composer now
in the full vigor OF his established
reputation was at one time when he
was comparatively unknown engaged
in writing the music for prodliC ton
fatllered by two managers who knew
exactly what they wanted. IN addition
to knowing next to nothing of the
musical classics After having burned
much midnight oil and worked him
self into a state of scnlicOllapse in
vain endeavor to produce finale
which would please them the compos
or tore up page after page of rejected
manuscript and in despair took to the
theater an entire section of Faust" to
which he had somehow managed to fit
the words assigned to him. He played
it over, and one of the managers said
quite unfeelingly, "Well, Gus, the 9th
ers were pretty bad. but this one is
the rottenest Of them all" "So?" re-
marked the weary musician dryly. ct
was considered good when Gounod
wrote itv'
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-10-12
FAMILIES SPLIT
ON e., ,..I p,1ll(1N
Wives of Wilson Supporters
Will Take Stump For
Gov. Hughes.
D|VERTING CAMPAIGN PHASE

aslilgton.--E' Families are being di-
Nlaeu Dy the present political issues.
Here are a few examples. J. 4. I'll.
Hopkins of New Jersey is treasurer
OF the Progressive (genllile) national
committee, and has announced that
he personally fayors The reelection of
Wilson. Mrs. Hopkins is member
OF the Woman's party and will take
the stump and do all she can to
prevent the election of Wilson.
Clifford Pinchot is for Hughes and
all the militarism Hughes and his
backing can secure. Amos Pinchot,
his brother, is Il member of the
American Union Against Militarism
and will support Wilson as the lesser
of two evils. Rep. William Kent Of
California is a wild-eyed enthusiast
for Wilson and is heading Wilson
is member of the Woman's party
and will stump for the defeat of Will
son.
George Middleton has allied himself
with the group of writer's who have
announced themselves for Wilson,
while his wife, Fola La Toilette, is one
Of the members of the Congressional
union who will hold Wilson respon-
sble for the defeat of the Susan B.
Anthony amendment. Meredith Mich
olson is Wilson supporter, but Mrs.
Nicholson will write and stump
against Wilson ON account of his at
titude toward the federal suffrage
amendment. Mrs. Louis F. Post is a
member of the Woman's Peace party
and an ardent Tolstoyan pacifist.
Louis f. Post, assistant secretary Of
labor, il for the Adminlstration's
reasonable" program Of prepared
ness.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-10-12
Ways of the Arab.

The ARAB has some curious ways.
He takes off his shoes when he enters
Il house, but keeps on his hat He
reads and writes from right to left
He eats scarcely anything for break
fast or dinner, but in the evening he
sits down to a hot meal swimming in
oil. His sons eat with him, but the
ladies' of the household wait till the
males have finished. The Arab rides
donkey when travelling. his wife
walking behind, and he laughs at the
idea of giving up his seat for woman
The Arab has one strong virtue, and
that is, he is rarely seen drunk. He
is not very affectionate, is very igno-
rant and has so little initiative that
he rarely takes on anything worth do
Ing or attempts to carry out any en-
terpriSe.
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that ms to be managed through the
school The talent secured COM

that ms to be managed through the
school. The talent secured COM
pares favorably with the Chautau-
pua talent, and the curse will pro-
vide five evenings of high grade en-
tertainment. It is but fitting that
the school should be the means Of
bringing such educational features
to Malta.
Yet little while and the new hall
will resound with the shouts of the
basket ball players and the loyal
fans. The Odd Fellows hall,
which is pust completed, was built
with the intention of allowing room
for basket ball The high school has
the material for good team, and
there is little doubt but that the
people of Malta will see sombe holly
contested games this winter. The
boys hardly expect to win the State
championship, but they do intend to
it may be and disastrous in it's ct
play hard clean game, and that in
tention is wost apt to become real
ity
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-10-12
SPIKlNG THE GUNS.
When The Old Fashioned Muzzis Load
ing Cannon Were In Use.

When the Old Fashioned Muzxis Load
ing Cannon Were In Use.
Did you ever remark when you had
cleverly blocked the game Of your op-
ponent that you had Spiked the guns
for the enemy" and then did you won
der why you had thus characterized
the action? That it signifies ito put
the guns out of commission, so that
the enemy is prevented from turning
his fire upon u.s. is obvious. But
what has the spike to do with it?
In the modern breech loading cannon
there is no kind Of spiking that would
do much damage to the enemys guns.
1t is understood, of course, that this
crippling Of the foe is provided in adj
vance, when our own guns are about
to be captured. It is bad enough to
be shot to pieces by the enemy's ar
tillery, but it is doubly distressing to
have our own turned upon us.
The old fashioned cannon was
muzzle loader. the powder and ball be-
ing introduced at the end opposite the
breech. Just above the place where
the charge of powder was located there
was a hole in the cannon, so that
cap for discharging the powder could
be introduced. This percussion cap
was set Off by means OF a lanyard.
which the artilleryman pulled. When
it was certain that the cannon was go
ing to be captured the hole for the in
PRODUCTION of the percussion cap was
closed by means of spike driven In,
which would have to be drilled out be-
fore the gun could be used.--St. Louis
Globe Democrat
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-10-12

AS we intend to leave Montana
temporarily, we have decided to sell
our stock and machinery at public
auction at the II. E. Beavers ranch,
five miles south and two miles west
OF Malta, Wednesday, October 18th,
beginning at 10000 O'Clock sharp,
the following described property, to-
wit:
Four horses, ! smooth mouth work
horse, weight 1905 / black mare,
two vars old; one child's saddle
pony; one bay gelding, one year old J;
20 head of cattle, consisting of sew
eral good milch COWS, some with
calves at side and some to be fresh
in the spring, all young and fat. We
will also sell 20 dozen chickens, pull
let's and hens.
wagon, new; GAINESVILLE sulky pillow.
new; Milwaukee moving machine,
good as new: low wheeled farm
wagon; iron wheel truck; hayrack;
disc harrow; one 12-foot steel drag;
one single buggy, roadster; one 20
hole Monitor drill; 3 hts of double
work harness.
Household goods.-Nearly every
kind of househild furniture will be
sold, also telephone instrument in
good condition and other articles
too numerous to mention
Terms.-All sums of $1,000 or
under, cash; over that amount II
months time will be given on blank
ct notes.
Free lunch at noon.
BEAVER BROTHERS, Owners.
II. V. TUCKER, Auctioneer.
Fl. &. ROBINSON, Clerk.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-10-12
SENECA SNAKEROOT.
Indians Discovered the Value Of the
Plant az a Medicine.


Plant az a Medicine.
The drug industry owes many Of its
products to the efforts Of the American
Indian to combat disease. The Indian
medicine man had plant for every
ailnent. If the disease was of a new
type unknown to him he promptly
found some new roots or leaves and
tried them. If the patient lived he
named the plant and carved it on the
stone which served as his pharmaco-
peia.
A certain medicine man. puzzled by
the strange case Of an Indian who
wouldn't eat, went searching through
the rocky woodlands Of New England
one day for some new dope" He
found little plant bearing a spike Of
small white flowers. He pulled it up
and tasted the root. made wry face
and said, x guess that will fix him"
That's how Seneca snakeroot came
to be used as medicine, and the old
Indian medicine man PLANNED better
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-10-12
Parents are responsible

advanced. Parents are responsible
for this.
Quite number have been absent
from school on account Of the UNI
timely winter and the resultant colds
1t was comfortable at school, but
highly unpleasant getting there
During the first month Of school
there were an unusual number who
were neither absent nor tardy. The
following is list of these pupils:
First Grade.-~Cloyce Cauffman,
Robert Gotter, Charley Gardner,
Earl Garland, Bernard kolle. How
ard Kramer, Lawrence RAIDER
Claude Simmons, Robena Battram
Marion Campbell, Ethel Campbell
Mary Martha Bowen. Ida May Davy
Martha Mason, Beatrice Mclean
Mary Pratt, Marion Shaw, Leila
Rutherskiold Alice Smythe, Bertha
MerkOWltz, Madeline Ilutson, Lena
Lico.
Second James Battram,
Ned Kirton, Roy Shennefelt, Frank
Taylor. Paul Cauffman, Merle Muir
ply, Merle Simonson, Helen Clan
ton. Jack Crawford, Sidney Shaw,
Harlo snuthwick. Agnes LaRoek.
Third Grade Walter Riner,
Edna Brockway, Dorothy Robinson,
Teresa Verzatt, Aubry Shenefelt.
Herman Gardner, Esther Edwards,
Violet Veseth Tillie Reiner, Glenn
Link, Edward Verzatt, Irene John
son, Janet Whitney, Helen Cotter,
Bertha Cotter.
Fourth Grade.--Delia Gardner,
Henry secrest, Lloyd Winkenweder,
Mary RAIDER. Clarence Winkenweder,
Donald McCready, Cleo Howerton,
Melvin Winkenweder, Eby Bowman.
Fifth Grade.-Forest Gardner,
Warren Smyth, lone Morton, Essie
Battram, Georgia Smith, Sheridan
Kramer, Ora May Combs, Bessie
Smith. Homer Sherlock, Iva Combs,
Alice Taylor.
Sixth Grade.---kenneth Liskum,
Henriette Battram, Edna Clanton,
Emma krohn, Anna Mae Vande-
Mark, Audley Simonson, Bessie Bow
man, Dorothy Edwards, Wilma Pet
tenger, Carrie Wolfe, Bessie Clanton,
Kathleen Jones, Pearl Richards,
Bertha Krohn, Iris Slime.
Seventh Grade.-Lily Edwards,
Virginia Rust, Georgia Tressler, En-
ma Smith, Lily Trezie, Vera Erick-
son, Vera Smyth, John Garland,
Edna Robinson Mona ST. Hill, Trew
Unselt
Next month instead of printing
the names of those who were Meth
er absent nor tardy during the month
the names of those who have not
missed nor been late during the first
two months will be printed.
Miss Cain is planning special
Latin program to be rendered the
9th of this month. This will be in
teresting to those listening and par
ticipating and will, no doubt, be in
structive to all.
Miss Tormey's room, the seventh
and eighth grades, are also prepar-
ing program for the last afternoon
of the month, that is October 27th.
More baout these special events will
appear later.
Judging from the way in which
Malta supported the ChautauQua, it
is unnecessary to urge the commu-
nifty to support the lyceum course
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-10-12
GREAT FALLS STAMPEDE.

Malta will probably be represent
ed in the Moose stampede in Great
Falls on October lola, by George
Hackett. the well known horse man
and riding expert A number of his
friends are urging him to enter
"A. G. Stevens, manager of the
show, declares that Hacket has as
good chance to get in on the $685.
prize money as any as there'll be no
uai contestants, all having an equal
chance to win.
A general invitation to cattle men
of Malta and vicinity has been is
sued by the officers of the Moose
lodge, to enter the show. Excursion
rates are to be offered by all rail
roads running into Great Falls.