The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-03-11

"Not in the least. BY the time YOU
get out there Mr.. Gillian will have lie
hayseed all brushed Il of his bair.
and the price of the farm will l- 81
WO. You say there are Il thousand apple
trees. and you propose to make the
number 100000"
II do. l may even double that num-
ber.'
Have you figured on the cost of
nine or nineteen thousand young apple
trees and the cost of setting them
out?'
Mr.. Bowser hadn't. Therefore he
began to turn red and white and glare
at Mrs. Bowser and finally said:
There you 60. just as I thought you
would. You've always got to drag in
some outside matter"
II think it quite necessary to drag
In the apple trees. Do you know how
many years it is before a young apple
tree begins bearing at all, and how
long after that before you could pick
a bushel to a tree?"
"Why don't you say that an earth
quake may uproot every one of the
trees?"
"That may possibly happen, but is
not likely to. And has it occurred to
you to figure on how many apples Mr..
Gillian will have to sell next season."
Anywhere from $4,000 to $4,000
worth naturally"
Apples Are Uncertain.
"That's where your naturally Is
way off, Mr.. Bowser. This was the
bearing year with that orchard. Next
year it will be hard to pick five BUSH
els; also apples are scarcer this year
than for ten years previous. Another
time he may have to pick his apples,
barrel them and send them to mar
ket."
"Anything more to get off"
"You always figure on income and
not on outgo. Doesn't it cost anything
to keep up a farm? Isn't there lots Of
work to be done in an orchard of a
thousand trees? think it would keep
two men pretty busy at grating,
spraying and cutting out. Then there
are seasons when apples are SO plenty
that it don't pay to barrel them up.
Asu4A, Il AOSL VIA ~ ~ NAC OuNo vi
a drought bake the young apples IN
the trees. Aren't you going to take
contingencies into consideration
mo, ma'am, I'm not. Did Napoleon
take contingencies into consideration
when he crossed the Alps?"
But you and Napoleon are two diff
ferent men,"
ooh, we are? That's another per-
sonal shot at me-"
mot at all. Your objects also differ.
You want to go out to a point near
Buffalo to raise apples. He wanted to
get into Italy to raise Cain. If you
wish to sit down here with pencil and
paper and fig
But l don't!" he shouted. 1T has
been already figured"
"And how does it come Out?"
II make $4,000 a year, as l told you
in the beginning. Now you hear me-.
If l have q million different enter
prises on hand after this, not one sin
gle II of them shall you know m
thing about. If I'd have gone ahead on
my own hook, I'd be worth ten mil
lions today. What in blazes is that old
cat trying to do:"
"She's chuckling."
ooh, she is! You've pitched into me
so often that she thinks I'm weak in
the head and is %chuckling over it.
S-s-s-c-a-t!"
The feline jumped over two chairs,
darted under the lounge and out again
and then went down the hall like a
shadow. Mr.. Bowser followed her to
the hall tree and then put or his hat
and overcoat and went out. He knew
that his family butcher used to be a
farmer, and he went over to the shop
to tell his story. The butcher heard
him through without interruption and
then laid a hand on his shoulder and
said:
"You can hide when they come after
you, If you want to-"
Hide! Hide! What in thunder dol
want to hide fory"
$50 as to keep out of the lunatic asy.
lum" NJ. QUAD.