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The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1922-09-06
AMERICAN FARMERS.
ARE cheerful now

* ~
Ask a farmer about his crops.
"What about your wheat?"
"Came through much better than
1 expected. One of the best wheat
crops 1 ever raised"
Sand corn?"
swell, you ought to see it. Tall
| and sturdy and dark green. Looks
as if | were going to have more BUSH
els TO the acre than a jackass could
drag down a hill on ice"
pastures and livestock?"
"Never better. Pm making money
now on every load 1 ship to Kansas
City, and Pm shipping plenty. Hogs
at 10 cents, you know, is pretty near
equivalent to dollar corn. The pas
lures are green, there is plenty of
water for the stock, and the hay crop
is fine"
"Did you do we'll on fruit?
"Great. The berries have been
thick. Apples and peaches are in
splendid shape"
That is the sort Of conversation
that is boing on all over this terri
tory when a farmer comes to town
and gets to talking. This isn't 1929,
| of course, when everything went up
) in a balloon. People who keep COM
pairing conditions with that year will
? never be happy. 'Them days." as
4 the song says, "are gone forever"
/. But when farm conditions as a
whole are compared with the gen.
S eral average-well, the west can
throw up its hat. 1t is used to hav-
< ing a big wheat year, with the corn
o half burned up; or a partial wheat
r failure and a good corn crop; OF
plenty of corn and an improbable
o livestock market. But this year il
has everything, wheat, corn, livestock
berries, fruit, hay, pasture, In ar
d abundance that rarely happens. Also
prices are good. They aren't wa
IS prices, to be sure, but they are prices
Ie that would have satisfied the highes
d ambitions of every farmer in the pre-
; war days. They are prices that meal
prosperity to all this vast agricul
tural area.
is "Never the time and the place an
II the loved ones all together" the poe
complained. Looking about thes
a wide horizons, we tell the poet t
10 chase himself. At least this yea
n what with yields and prices, the tim
and the place and the loved ones an
IN all on hand at once.
Id There is nothing artificial aboU
g. such prosperity. The west is pourin
en- a great stream of goods into tn
IS markets; goods manufactured in IL
Iy. | factory of the soil by application
ell sunshine and rain and the farmer
IS labor. The country is hundreds
ge millions of dollars richer by the MAJ
ok ufacture of these products that a.
being produced on the western pra
I'm ries and shipped through the Kans'
tie City gateway.
RI No wonder the farms and the citi,
ar built ion their trade are looking 70
ng ward to a cheerful winter!-Kanst
rts City Star.
Evening star., 1922-04-16
Has a Little
Bermuda" of Easter Lilies

the cultivator of the Easter lily works
fine straw or strawy stable fertilizer
into his soil, sometimes mixing Il
with little sand. This strengthens
and moistens the roots.
Lily plants are no more uniform
| than are children in growing. Some
Of them grow slowly and look like
huge rosettes. Others shoot up fast
| toward the sunshine and bud and
blossom right away, so that all sum
mcr long the field of lilies is con-
stantly growing more and more
beautiful.
WHEN the blossoms appear the
W florist has chance for fasci-
mating experiment, the sort of cX-
pertinent that has made the name Of
Luther Burbank famous in the horti-
cultural world He watches the flower
until he sees that the tall stigma
which stands up in the center dis
plays sort of glutinous fluid. Then
he chooses a fine anther from an
other plant, all downy with its yell
pollen. and dusts this powder ~.
the stigma.
That is the beginning Of seed de
pelopment The petals wi.her and
fall off The green sepals close up
tightly. and in this secure little case
! the seeds grow and ripen. Some OF
the plants use all their strength in
growing leaves and do not get around
to blossom at all through the sum
mer. But the florist does not mind.
He knows that he can pot them be
fore frost comes and take them in
side, where they will blossom through
the early winter He cuts the stems
of those that did blossom and sets
| out the bulbs in small pots. so that
by Easter he will have another crop
| of flowers from them.
| We know that crocus and tulip
bulbs thrive when left in tho ground
through the winter. even in the north
| ern states. But we naturally feel
! that the Easter lily is too sensitive
| and delicate for such rigorous treat
ment. Yet its first home was in the
regions of China and Japan. where
! there was heavy snowfall
| 1ne bureau OF pldnl INDUSTRY mas
| been as successful with bulbs that
were left in the ground through the
winter as with those that were potted
| indoors. They plant the bulbs from
| four to eight inches deep, having the
| earth very rich, and cover the ground
! with thick mulch, or protection OF
! fertilizer.
This wonderful flower bed is not
even blessed with good soil. The dirt
| is hard clay that bakes down SO that
| IL has to be mixed with a great deal
of sand and dressing. Yet results
have been remarkable. The florists
have found that just one plant will
produce an average of more than
eight bulblets in year-sometimes
even thirty.
As for blossoms, we are told that
| these homegrown lilies have far out
| distanced the imported variety. 1t
seems to be verified when on fairy
| like photograph displays a seeding
| eleven months old gorgeous with its
| eleven fragrant, snowy Easter lilies.
Evening star., 1922-04-16
Gems From Whistler's
Treasury of Wit.

-aE last has not been said of
high hated James Mcneil
Whistler, painter and wit. 1t
will not be said, We imagine
until he has been psyche -analyzed in
thousand pages-and perhaps not
even then. But there has been pub
lished lately volume of anecdotes,
epigrams. tales told by the illustri-
Gus artist TO Elizabeth Robins and
Joseph Pennell, THE Whistler Jour
nal" The leisurely reader of this
charmingly bound volume will dis
cover therein treasures of savage wit,
ironical comment upon men. women
and affairs of those flamboyant days
of the nineteenth century when the
select wore sunf1owers in their but
tonholes and led Holsters about on
ribbons
WHISTLER had promised to come
to a dinner at Solferino's, a Lon
don restaurant, and did not come in
time.
THE others would not wait. In
stead, his empty chair was solemnly
asked: Mr.. Whistler, will you have
some of this?' And he was served
with everything from the soup, one
course piled in the plates after an
other, and his glasses were filled. At
last he arrived-with the dessert
was shown his place, took it all in,
and, without a word. ate his cold din
ner backward"
On another occasion the master had
just come to town and was staying
at the Heinemann's. At dinner were
the Pennells, Mrs. Chalmers Mitchell.
a Marchesa Something-an English
woman-Arthur Symons and Walter
Armstrong.
"At dinner Armstrong was full of
official swagger; you could see how
accustomed he was to playing the
director at the dinner table as in his
gallery, and telling people all about
art generally. He began to tell Whis-
tier there was never such thing as
an artistic period or country. Dear
me- said whistler. it's very flateer-
ing to find that have made you see
at last, but, really. you know, think
1 shall have to copyright my little
things after this."
During the greater part of his life
painters looked not unlike an old
fashioned American barkeeper. He
wore a white waistcoat with sleeves,
Evening star., 1922-04-16
BY FRANCES A. BLANCHARD.


n famous ocean resort can be
observed in the summer
months by fitting across the winding
Potomac. almost under the shadow
of the Arlington amphitheater.
All through the long, cold winter
tiny brown, round winged seeds were
Transforming themselves into frail,
willowy green leaves; and as
soon as the danger of frosts was
past, out they came into richly fer
tilized earth that has been prepared
for them-just out in the eld, like
cornstalks or sugar cane.
There they grow and bud. some
. fast. some slowly. until the ratchlcss
Easter lily displays itself to aston
ished eyes.
! The bureau of plant industry has
been performing what seems almost
like a miracle in successfully pro-
ducing out of doors, from seed, in a
country of winter frosts and SHOWS,
both bulb and blossoms of this choic-
est of lilies. And they feel assured
from the experiments that it is pos
sible TO raise Easter lilies success
fully in the open much farther north
than Washington. and possible to
| raise them for home culture in bor-
ders and garden plots.
X x x
lone is accustomed to associate the
Easter lily with one particular
anniversary of the year. We even
| have the feeling that this is the only
time at which il cares to bloom. Yet
| the truth is that it is perfectly possi-
/ Bile 10 have Easter lilies at Thanks
! giving, at Christmas, on Washing
tons birthday or even for the glori-
Gus Fourth 1t depends merely on
| the time when the seed is planted or
the bulbs start to grow.
Then. too. we scarcely think of the
| Easter lily as coming from see,i. our
acquaintance with it has more prob
ably begun with the bulb But these
clever experimenters astonish us
| with photograph of a plot of tight
| ly closed seed cases-in fact, they
| have, tucked away on some myste-i-
] Gus shell. a big box full of the mag
| ical seeds
1t seems almost like fairy story
| TO hear how these seeds are planted
! in a box of moist earth when they
are six months old, probably about
| the 1st of January, and how, three
! weeks or SO later. the first fragile
leaves begin to appear. As soon as
| two leaves have grown strong
| enough to be moved the plant is pat
F, by itself into a tiny pot. where il
| stays until the warm srrirg days
! come. Then it is taken out with the
other little. new lilies and trans
planted in the field
| When Dame Nature sows a lily seed
! she is apt to hide it away under some
soft bit of loose grass. where the
ground will keep moist, or beneath
a sheltering canopy of brush, through
| which the graceful blossom po:ses its
head. So in order to initiate nature
Evening star., 1922-04-16
A Ne,u Story BY Arthur Train

other miscellaneous Eisenmuller rel
atives, advanced threateningly upon
him, He made one desperate, final
effort to speak, failed ignominiously
turned and ran! Ran until he had
left Hackensack. the Eisenmullers,
carlotta, the baby and the ring far,
far behind him.
Jersey farmers gathered that even
ing at roadside hostelries told strange
stories Of an escaped lunatic with a
long nose, who, in frock coat and pat
ent-leather shoes, hatless, his hair
and coat-tails streaming out behind.
had been seen sprinting at high noon
northward along the country roads. 20.
Evening star., 1922-04-16

her. 1t was indeed wonderful pearl,
and Obadiah felt inward surprise at
so much well concealed sentiment
He had a vague suspicion that pearls
were not set in wedding rings nova
days, but Eisenmuller merely shrug-
ged his shoulders. He was the
brides father, wasn't he? Well. it
was his wish that the pearl should
be used for that purpose! Moreover.
on grounds of expense, they must
have a very quiet wedding at the
house. This suited Obadiah very we'll
The fastening OF the Day. he ex-
planned rendered it impossible for any
of his friends to attend.
X
OBADIAH carried the pearl back
with him to the city and next
day took it to a jewelers. and had it
set in plain gold band. But in spite
Evening star., 1922-04-16

and he had the thick curly hair SO
fashionable among bartenders. He
had also, and this is a point Of dis
tinction between him and the lost
, tribe of glass wipers, innumerable
monocles in his pockets. and would
replace one by the other in the pas
sage of repartee.
The Duke of Marlborough wanted
to be painted by Whistler, and in
vited him and Mrs. Whistler to Blen-
helm. where, the duke wrote. they
would "all work like niggers.' And
then the duke died.
"'Well. you know Whistler said.
L accepted the commission. the first
of that sort L ever had, and l wrote
him so-one of, my charming letters
and now l shall never know wheth-
er my letter killed him or whether
he died before he got it,
iI11HISTLER'S method of making his
enhancing nocturnes. he cS-
planned to Joseph Pennell. was as
hard as training for a foot race. He
would note an evening effect and
come back from dinner by the same
spot with his friend Way One niga,
the nocturne would be there. the er-
feet he wanted. And he would stand.
leaning on the embankment wall.
looking. And when he had looked
long he would turn around. with his
back to the subject and begin to re-
cite the subject, in sort of chant.
"The sky is lighter than the water,
the houses darkest. There are eight
houses, the second is the lowest, the
fifth the highest. The tone of all is
the same. The first has two lighted
windows, one above the other; the
second has four" NO said Way.
Then Whistler would wheel about.
look, and correct his mistakes. turn
his back and begin again. And so it
would go till he was right; then he
would say Good night" go straight
home to bed, and the next day would
paint his nocturne.
whistler laughed at Ruskin as he
laughed at the academy" the Journal
continues. "A Ruskin story that we
believe has never been printed 10 of
an old lady who met him once at din
,'ner and was impressed at meeting an
artist-she knew little of artists,
having always lived in the country,
she confided to him. But she add
ed. have q cousin who is an artist.
Perhaps you have heard of him
John Ruskin' whistler leaned over
Lsympathetically and said: Really.
madam, you must not let this distress
you too much. We all have our 70.
| lations of whom we are ashamed
Evening star., 1922-04-16

these things. He had escaped! BY a
mysterious miracle fate had snatched
him from Carlotta and her father!
Rescued him from the Sussmans and
all the rest of them. The purity of
the Terwilliger strain was to be pre-
served!
That night in the hall bedroom OF
his boarding house. as he kicked off
the remnants of his wedding finery.
the ring jumped from the turned-up
bottom Of his right trouser leg and
rolled in a matter-of-fact way under
the washstand.
Copyright, sll rights reserved.)
Evening star., 1922-04-16
THE ROMANCE OF OBADIAH TERWILLIGER

Would he help her to read? Show
her the true meaning OF things?
Obadiah assured her that she must
teach him. At the ferry he. bought
her three magazines. a fve-pound
box of caramels and 81 worth of vio-
let's "to match her eyes" 1t exhaust
ed his weeks salary. She promised
to meet him again the following Sat
urday. At parting Obadiah kissed
her hand.
Two Sundays later he called. by in
vitation, at her home in Hackensack
Evening star., 1922-04-16

the afternoon. after a sound Of clat-
tering and rumbling in the rear yard.
her father returned. But the inter-
vening period was the most ecstatic
in Obadiahs life.
From now on the two met at the
candy shop each week, and every
Sunday Obadiah dined in Hacken-
sack and gradually was introduced
to the family their social friends,
all of whom agreed that he was a
real gentleman II ever there was one
and So refined! Occasionally Car
Evening star., 1922-04-16


which he as man of honor felt
bound to go through with.
The train was almost empty, and
Obadiah found himself alone in the
rear car with the Italian woman and
her baby, She had turned over one
Of the seats, elevated her feet, and
was allowing the baby to waliow
about on the floor. in the aisle. every
where. Presently 1t dragged itself
over and clutched his trousers, gooing
at him vacuously. Obadiah, glad of
some distraction, exhibited first his
watch. then his keys. and finally
fumbling in his pocket drew out the
morocco box containing the ring.
The baby gooed again and extended
Its hand. Obadiah foo1Bhly opened
the box and held It so that the pearl
Evening star., 1922-04-16


of his successful courtship he was
not happy. He had. with all his 10y
atty to Carlotta, refrained from an
nouncinE his engagement or ap-
preaching marriage. During the next
few days he fuctuated between de-
spair and recklessness. One moment
he saw only the vision of Carlotta's
loveliness, and the next heard only
the echo of the vulgarity OF her
saueech. He had horrible convic-
tion that he was selling his birth
right of New England culture for "a
rag. a bone. and a hank Of hair
He would have given all his saw
ings Of the past fifteen years to be
out Of the tangled web Of circum-
stances in which he found himself.
Loves young dream had developed
Evening star., 1922-04-16

and that he would marry Carlotta
that very week. Then his heart sank
out Of sight.
After the meal Eisenmuller depart
ed mysterfously and shortly return
ed with a small black morocco box.
which he laid on the dining table. 1t
contained he explained, the wedding
ring OF Carlotta's mother, in which
was set beautiful pearl costing
many hundreds of dollars. He was
going to give the pearl to his daugh-
ter. and Obadiah should have 1t set
In the wedding ring he was to give
Evening star., 1922-04-16


CHE raised her violet eyes. saw hin,
~ there mute before her. trembied
and dropped her spoon. In an in
slant he was upon the floor, had res
cued 1t and she had thanked him pret-
tily.
II JUS love soda! Don't your she
remarked brightly. In tones that en-
meshed his heart.
.T-I-love it, too." he stammered,
furiously red.
Haven't we met before?" she in
ouired, raising naive, smiling face
to his. I'm sure / seen you some
where
She had spoken to him! A wave of
manly confidence swept over him.
sense of having mastered opportuni-
ty as IL she were his already. She
allowed him to negotiate her soda
check and escort her to the street.
apparently seeing nothing extraordi-
nary in an acquaintanceship formed
In this fashion. He adored her inno-
cence. Soon they had walked three
blocks and were giving themselves to
zach other unreservedly.
Her name was Carlotta Eisenmul-
Ter and she lived in Hackensack, N. j.
What was his? Her father was in
the livery business. Her mother was
dead Obadiah looked panied, but
she gushed on steadily. Did he really
want to walk to the ferry with her?
~>~e-+--,in~ whole h,ocksi He was
awful good to take all that trouble.
She looked shyly at him from under
meath the lashes and the hat Oba-
diah was delirious with love-. He
told her all about himself. his work.
his ambitions. She was deeply Inn
eressed. What could he SEQ in an
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-06
REDUCTION IN
PRICE OF ICE
Ten Cents Hundred Less for Fam
lilies. Beginning April 5-Whole-
sale Price Also Reduced

A reduction of 10 cents a hundred
pounds in the price of ice for families
and reduction of from two and half
to five cents a hundred in the price of ice
for Wholesale buyers, was decided upon
at meeting of the proprietors of the
Crystal Springs Ice company Tuesday
night. This reduction went into effect
Wednesday.
The former price of ice was 60 cents 2
hundred to families, but it will be 80
cents if coupon books are purchased and
paid for in advance. If coupon books are
not taken the price will be % cents, and
go cents for all ice which is charged. The
wholesale prices have been reduced two
and one-half cents to five cents hundred.
depending to a.considerabIe extent on the
amount of ice used.
The ice company housed about $500
tons of excellent ice the past winter. This
is a large crop, and there will be no short
age unless this summer is an unusually
warm one. The company also has stacked
some ice which it is using now.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-06
DAY WILL TELL
OF KILLING BECK
Finds Wife Struggling In Arms of Avi-
atOr - Struck Aviator With
IOaded Revolver.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. April g.
Jean =. Days story of the killing of
Lieut. Col. Paul Ward Beck in the fash
ionable Day home here early Tuesday
will be told at the coroner's inquest Sat
urday, he announced last night
Day. wealthy oil operator and attor-
ney, who is held under bond, declared he
would take the first opportunity to relate
under oath how he found his wife strug
Cling in the arms of Beck and then struck
Beck with a loaded revolver
Il will tell the truth the very first
chance l get" Day declared in reply to
reports that he would decline to testify.
\ survey of the Day home was believed
to have located the bullet fired when Beck
was struck by the revolver. Officials
said it appeared the bullet was imbedded
in the ceiling of the drawing room, about
10 inches from the entrance to this room
from the dining room, and almost in a
line with the center of the entrance.
where are hung the portieres in which
Beck was said to have hidden,
County Attorney Forrest Hughes said
he was endeavoring to check up the pos
sibility that fourth person might have
been in the Day home when Beck was
slain. He added that he was seeking the
names of other persons said TO have at
tended Il party there preceding the trag-
edy He said that unless new evidence
was brought out, his only recourse would
be to file either murder or a manslaugh-
ter charge against Day.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-06
BECKMANS DEMUR
TO MARCH BILL.
Say He Has No Right to Go Into Equity
Until He Has Pursued His Rem
edy at Law to Full Extent

II. O. Beckman and wife, Jeanette
Beckman, formerly proprietors of the
Brattleboro bakery on Main street, have
fled through Attorney A. f. Schwenk' ;
office demurrer to the bill in chancery
filed against them by Hal l.. March a
short time ago.
The complaint filed by Mr. March said
that the Beckmans were owing the Brat
tleboro Trust Co. balance of S3,959 on
a mortgage which they assumed when
they bought of him the Main street bak-
cry, and that since the bakery building
had been bought by l.. r. H. Wagner the
house at the junction of Linden and vii
liston streets which was bought by Mr..
Beckman has been transferred to his wife
with the intention of placing it out of the
reach of Mr.. Beckman's creditors Mr..
March complained that the Beckmans in
tended to sell the house and leave the
state and that he would have to pay the
balance on the mortgage, wherefore a
temporary injunction was issued against
the Reckmans restraining them from dis
posing of the house
In their demurrer, which asks to have
the injunction removed, it is stated that
the plaintiff had no right to go into equity
in the case until he has pursued his rem
edy at law to the full extent also that
there is no allegation in the bill that the
regular monthly payments have not been
made.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-06
SKIRTS DOWN; NECKs Up.
The "Two i'm One" Bathing Suit Popular
at Atlantic City Fashion Show.

ATLANTIC CITY. y. J.. April g.
Longer skirts and higher necks; brilliant
colors for the bah and black for the
boudoir, and low heels for evening cos
tune. are the new styles foreshadowed
at the Atlantic City spring fashion show
which opened yesterday.
Evening gowns. especially, showed the
tendency toward longer skirts. For
sport wear the short skirt is still in vogue.
The evening costumes are to have high
necks and higher backs. but no sleeves
Three-piece costumes We're most in evi-
dence for sport wear. Some were of vel
vet with caracul collars and georgette
waists. Knickers were not in evidence.
Red heels on afternoon slippers are to
be worn widely. Judging by the numbers
which appeared at the exposition. Bro
caded slippers for women and children
were popular The bathing suits are to
be more daring in color and more closely
fitting. according to the styles exhibited
here The Two in one" was the popular
model