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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-11-30

Minnie is In the Kitchen.
Never mind began Tom, as the
seven-year-old girl flung open the
kitchen door. He had d lively re-
membrane OF Minnie's untidy appear
ance on the hast occasion when he
had surprised her SO. early In the day
and he did not desire to catch her
again. ,s4 @ @ss h
The morning d flooded the big
kitchen and the whirr of the sewing
machine made a pleasant, nomely
sound. The cat on the braided mat
glanced up sleepily as the tall young
man hesitated on the threshold Il
beg your pardon" he began as the
girl In the pink-frilled frock half
turned. Il thought Minnie was here"
Minnie rose, cycling him LII perplex-
ity: whats the matter, Tomf" she
demanded. S8s J
'"Why you look so pretty" he STAN
mered, keen eyes surveying the trim
little slippers, the dainty gown and
the shining brown hair Of his sweet
heart. II thought you. didn't dress
up much unless you we're going some
where, and / fancied you had a guest
here. Minnie" his gaze rested on the
heap Of lavender dimity with tiny
purple sprigs, "is that a party dress
you. are sewing onT a.
"That's just a little house dress I'm
running up for mother; she loves
lavender" said Minnie slowly. "I'm
glad you stopped in, Tom, because
want to tell you that I'm going to cut
out dances for a bit. THAT is-Tm
going to be busy" -.
The young mans face grew radiant.
With a long stride he reached her
side and picked up the little be-
sashed figure II like your plan," he
! said, turning up her flushed face un-
til the soft red lips were very close.
II wanted to let you get your fill of
dances, but I began to think you
would never be ready to settle down
and be just a poor mans wife. Your
dresses of silk and satin scared me. A
man needs a girl who will make a
home, not one who thinks Of nothing
but guiding. You look sweeter in" that
thing you are wearing now to work
than you ever did when tricked out
for a party. Suppose we go to Acacia
Row tonight and speak for n OF
those cottages? Want to?"
EYES," agreed Minnie shyly, and
her mother, passing the open door,
took off her glasses and wiped them
as she saw Minnie's brown head
against Toms blue overalls.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-11-30
FALL FLOWING FOR INSECTS
Multitude Of Pests May Be Killed
After They Have Gone Down and
Prepared Winter Homes.

There are a multitude of field in
sects that may be killed by fall plow-
ing if it is done after they have gone
down and prepared their winter home,
which they do before frost. Amy time
after they, become dormant they may
be turned up TO the weather and will
be destroyed, and eve if they are not
dormant blowing win. give the birds
and other natural enemies a chance
at them. IF the blowing is done pri-
marily as an insect campaign 1t is best
to wait until as late as possible. The
plowing Is coed for the land anyway.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-11-30
Leoends of the Birch,

On midsummer night, according to
old Legend, in old London town "Every
mans doore was Swallowed with green
birch, st. Johns wort and other beau
tiful flowers and had also lamps of
glasse with oyle burning In them all
night" to brighten away the fairies
which on midsummer night at least
dared to play their pranks even in
the heart Of the town.
Another north European legend has
it that the dwarf birch has been
stunted and made to crawl upon the
earth as it literally does in Lapland
and other countries up under the
Arctic Circle as well as IN the sum-
mits of mountains otherwise treeless
because 1t furnished the rod with
which the NaZareme was scourged.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-11-30
A Profitable Ruse.

A physician was walking up Broad
way when he saw a dentist friend look
ing at some shirts in a show window.
Just then a panhandler stepped up to
the dentist and began to unravel a
hard-luck story. To the physicians as
ton1shment the dentist lifted his hand
to his ear and said, raising his voice
considerably
Flows that? You'll have to speak
louder. I'm hard of hearing" The
~panllandler hurried away, g%rulnbling
to himself. The physician walked up
and laid his hand on the dentists
shoulder. "Jim," he said, "you seem
to have a trouble"
"No, perfectly normal" was the re-
ply. + "But that chap was a profess
sional, and playing deaf is the best
way I know to get rid Of that kind"
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-11-30

had put into words what she had been
thinking about. For two years past
she had stinted on everyday clothes
so that She would be able to afford
elaborate party gowns. She worked
afternoons in the dry goods store
and bought all her own clothing. She
could have had all-day work, but she
was needed to help at home.
After the children had been sent to
school and grandma, now somewhat
appeased by a good breakfast, had
settled down In the south bay Win
dow, where she had q good view of
the street, Minnie began the baking,
no small task for such a large fam
lily. Mother" said the girl as her
chine, II am going to get some every
day clothes. Sam was right; I've
been going around in horrid things"
The whirr of the machine paused
for a moment. Eyes," said the other,
"you have. I felt sorry when Tom
caught you the other morning in that
ragged apron. Your slippers are torn
and you look really shiftless."
"Oh," Minnie's cheeks grew pink,
"'I've been spending too much on par
ty frocks and satin. slippers, and I'm
going. to stop it. Money is too hard
to earn to fool away On. such things.
Even buying materials at wholesale
at the store counts up too much. I'm
going to buy some pretty dimities and
cretonnes this afternoon and some
patterns, and we are going to have
some dainty house dresses. The
dances will have to go for a time.
f" she paused suddenly and the
older woman looking at the brilliant
cheeks and wet eyes, made no com
ment. She guessed that her girl had
had "a disappointment at the party
and she thought it wiser to let 1t
blow v Q without her interference
unless Minnie, asked definitely for adj
vice. e. Ss@ENz u l.
"Don't you think It is better to look
fairly nice right along than to save
everything for D grand display for an
evening? r. asked Minnie as she cut
out cookies. sas# s43Et
Decidedly" her mothers gray head
nodded decisively, "to my mind 1t
lessons one-self-respect to go about
In ragged aprons ven II nc one else
sess them. But I don't want you TO
get anything for me because my
house dresses are all whole and"
faded and of ugly gray colors,'
cut In Minnie, wondering why she
had not thought Of all these things
sooner. Now that she really surveyed
her parent she saw how patched and
faded was her neat frock.
Tom did not call up after the dance
as he sometimes did. It was the fol-
lowing Saturday morning that he
stopped on his way 10 work at the
Friedly home and asked Tor Sam.
- Sam has &ona.n said Rita, hut
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-11-30
Morning After the
Dance
u U MONTGOMERY
E0MIMIiYMMEalE0

D 1924. BY Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.
Minnie's round face wore an express
zion OF vast disappointment as she
dressed the morning after the dance
ct Resale Hall. She had been going
with Tom Miller for three years and
the girls were beginning to ask her
when she was going to wear an en-
gagement ring. ~ .y..u. >*$ II
s'It seems queer" she unused as she
eyed distastefully the wornout gray
gingham house apron, that he doesn't
propose. He never goes with any
other girl, that Is, steady, but he new
er speaks of settling down any more
and all the cottages in Acacia row are
going so fast. / thought once" here
the soft, red mouth dropped until the
happy curves were almost gone, chat
I would have one Of those dear little
houses with the sunshiny south
Kitchens and"
Hurry, Minnie, there is an east
wind and grandma feels badly and"
The rest of the speech was lost as an
outside door slammed noisily shut.
Minnie hurriedly buttoned the ugly
gray garment about her and ran down.
stairs. Grandma was apt to be difficult
J when an east wind blew and her
brother Sam was home with a bad
cold.
"Say," greeted Sam Grossly, "you
take your ease letting ma get up and
get breakfast. Where did you dig up
that dress?"
Minnie went to the dance last
night" excused Mrs. Friedly placidly,
"she got up the minute 7 called her.
If all my children were as helpful
as Min I'd have n cause for COM
plant"
Sam flushed and drifted out to the
woodshed to return presently with an
armful of short kindling cut the way
his mother preferred: "Guess the east
wind bothered me, too" he grinned,
and sat down to the fluffy griddle
cakes that Mrs. Freddy had just
baked.
Minnie ate her breakfast thought
fully. Sans criticism of her frock
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-11-30
Canoe Birches of Choeorua.

On a southerly slope offChocorua Is
q massed regiment Of white canoe
birches that seem vertically to charge
the base Of the pinnacle cone They
stand, Of course, yet to the eye they
seem to be swarming up the slope
like a regiment in charge, leaning
forward, grasping eagerly, swaying
and pressing onward with the enthusi-
asm Of a mighty purpose, a grand
rush onward toward the bristling, de-
faint height. There are places on
Washington. where the white birches
charge upward in the same, way. At
greater heights they decrease in num-
bers and size yet 60 on, finally creep
ing almost vinelike In the tundra moss
near the summit.-Christian Science
Monitor.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-11-30
Ii, the Beauty
Parlor
BY JOHN PALMER


Copyright, 1922. Western Newspaper Union
"What, Mrs. Rintoul? Her that used
to come in here to have her face mas
saged pretty nearly every day Fine
looking woman she q wasn't she!
Yes, there's a story about that, and 4
don't mind telling 1t you, now that
she's left these parts.
.asYou remember Freddy Laurie, who
married Squire Embree's daughter7
Good-hearted fellow he was, but wild,
and couldn't resist women. He hadn't
been married more than a year before
Mrs. Rintoul and newell, don't
want to speak hare Of any one. but II
was easy to see how things lay be
tween those two. Fascinated with
each other from the starr, they were
and poor Mrs. Laurie crying her eyes
ont ID the sLaurfe place.
might after night he'd be zen driy-
I'M about with Ara. Rintoul. Freddy
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-11-30

Darn PeterT / hate him. He's
as bad as you and dad. "A prig from
the last century. Takes me to task for
being jazz crazy as he calls 1t, FOR
bobbing my hair, for making eyes at
the boys-why, the most innocent
little things that all the other girls do
nowadays. And last night, on the way,
he said unless / cut it out and was
engaged to him, and him only, he was
going away. / could see afterward
he didn't like my dancing so much
with Freddy Cole. And when he
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-11-30

dear girl before him.
$50" said Margery at length, "my
beloved parents brought mix here only
to deliver me into the hands Of"
"Don't say, 'enemy'p begged Peter.
swell, perhaps mott" said Margery
with the tiniest of smiles. Then she
held out an inviting, nut-brown hand.
"Come, Peter. Paddle me home to
supper. Jim has promised us ban
nocks and dried-apple puddingp
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-11-30
SHIPPING SWINE IN SUMMER
Fat Hogs Are Liable to Suffer More
or Less En- Route TO Market
During Hot Weather. NJ

Hogs, II FIJI, are likely to suffer
when shipped to market during hot
weather, It peanires considerable care
To ship daf8ns Tie saIaslner, but It can
be done ifTs 3asfa aysa tases GOOD iiudg-
naent ant' ssRssslt3e service
from the fslsilay's Of
hcials.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-11-30
AS Ii ANYBODY Knew.

Life is filled with disappoIntments,"
sighed Senator Snortsworthy.
whats wrong?"
Here's a letter from one Of my
most prominent constituents. I hoped
he would say my hold on the dear
people was as strong as ever, or at
least compliment me for the hard
work I've been doing lately, but he
wants to know, What About
Armeniu?"-Birminghom Age-Herald.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-11-30
HOPELESS.

First Woman-How do you like our
new neighbqr? ~ g.. .
Second ditto--I never saw such an
ignorant person as she is. She can't
talk about anything but painting,
books and music. She doesn't know a
word of gossip about ganybody.-Bos-
ton Transcript. T.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-11-30

An Expensive Thing.
Son-I intend to marry Sibii,
Father--You can't afford to support
a wife. Why, Won wouldn't even be
able to buy her complexion,
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-11-30
No EYES tor Them,

No Eyes tor Them.
The golfer must keep his eye On the
ban. Perhaps that 10 why pretty girls
don't 50 N much for golf.-Boston
Transcript.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-11-30
Depends on Degree.

"tA-No iii think you could care
4 cap like me?
T.. / think so-if he wasn't
20 you!
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-14
Days Happenings
in Washington
Briefly Reported

The senate continued consideration
of the administration shipping bill
Hearings on the various rural cred
its proposals were continued bg two
senate committees
Opening the annual meeting Of Red
Cross directors, President Harding
in brief address expressed gratifica-
ton at the accomplishments Of the
organization during the war.
Federal action on bill which would
authorize federal investigation of the
Columbia river basin project was
urged by Director of Reclamation
Davis, testifying before the house ir-
rigation committee.
of California. former Attorney Gen
eral Wickersham and President Com
pers, of the American Federation of
Labor. testified at the house judiciary
committee hearing on the Keller i'm
peachment charges against ATTORNEY
General Daugherty.
President Harding was understood
to be planning to lay before con-
gress shortly governmental reorgani-
zation plans which call for the consol-
dation Of the war and navy depart
ments and the creation of a public
welfare department.
Confirmation of the nomination of
Pierce Butler, st. Paul attorney, as
an associate justice of the supreme
court, was recommended by senate
judiciary subcommittee after an in
quiry into charges filed by Senator
elect Shipstead, farmer-laborite, Of
Minnesota.
Calling Of another international
conference with a view to limiting
construction of smaller war vessels
and aircraft was recommended in the
navy supply bill reported by the house
appropriations committee. The meas
ure carrying S2o3. .S06,53S. provided
for $4,000 enlisted men.
Representative Burton, republican,
Ohio. member Of the foreign debt
commission, declared in an address
that the remedy for European CON
ditions was not in debt cancellation
but in more rational fiscal policies,
decreased military expenditures and
more amiable relations between ma
tions.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-14
VEAL AND WOE
FOR SHIP BILL
IN ARGUNE ENTS
raised as Boon to All;
Denounced as Raid
on American Treasury
AdministrationMeasure
Under Heavy Fire for
Four Hours in Senate

Washington, Dec. 13.-The admin
istration shipping bill was held UP be-
fore the senate Wednesday as a meas
ure 'for the benefit of the Am merican
farmer, the American business man
and the American nation" and on the
other hand as direct raid on the
treasury to pay some people to do
what they ought to do without. pay
ment''
The measure was before the senate
for more than four hours and during
that time was praised by Senator
Jones of Washington, chairman of the
commerce committee, and was attack
ed by Senator Fletcher of Florida,
ranking democratic member of the
same committee. While the discus
sion proceeded on the floor. foes of
the measure and advocates of rural
credits legislation further cemented
their alliance designed to displace the
ship bill in favor of the farm measure.
Indications became increasingly appar-
ent, however, that this move could not
be made in the near future, as no rural
credit bill possessing any considerable
degree of support appeared in sight
in the senate committee work rooms.
Senator Jones. in concluding his
opening statement on behalf Of the
shipping bill, which he began Tuesday
appealed for the support of it by the
farmers and by labor. He emnhasiz-
ed the national defense Disabilities CT
a firmly established lmerican mer-
chant marine and de Jared that the
German merchant marine won the war
for the allies. When senator's ex-
pressed surprise at the declaration he
figures to show that Ger
man ships which were seized in Ameri-
can ports carried 100000 American
soldiers to France, whereas. Ameri-
can ships transported only 24S.O00
troops.
Why, senator's" he exclaimed. If
we had gotten only about 10000
troops overseas. the result of the
world war would have been different"
Senator Fletcher quoted Chairman
Lasker, of the shipping board. as hav-
ing said that '.it is pure bunk" to
charge that the cost of operating Amer
lean ships was increased materially
by the LaFollette seamen's act. He
asserted that his investigation had
convinced him there was no practical
difference in the cost of operating yes
sells under the American flag as com
pared with those under foreign flags
Continued on Page Twelve>
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-14
Impeachment Action
a FizzIe, voIstead
Tells House Pr0ber$
William j. Burns Denies Charges Brought Incl
dentally With Those Against Daugherty;
Accusations Cover Period of Time From 1905
to Present; Oregon Land Fraud Cases Aired.

Howland as a character witness for
the investigation bureau director. Sem
ator Johnson declared he had known
Mr. Burns intimately during the graft
prosecutions in San Francisco after
the fire of 1906 and had urged his ap-
pointment to his present post by Mr..
Daugherty. He said he had commend
ed Burns to the attorney general as a
man of integrity and as possessing the
qualifications essential to the office to
which he aspired
"Hounded" by Gompers
In his testimony, Burns not only
dealt at considerable length with the
Jones case, but charged that since the
arrest of the Mcnamara brothers,
Samuel Gompers had ''hounded him"
at every opportunity. He also charged
that A. 2. Macauly, an American eiti-
zen living in Toronto, Canada, who
wrote to President Harding protesting
against his appointment, had been ar
rested in st. Louis on information OBJ
Continued on Page Tweiye>
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-14
Philadelphia Mourns
Death of Wanamaker

Philadelphia, Pa, Dec 13:-In re-
spect to the memory of John Wanna
maker the city council will meet and
adjourn its regular weekly session
Thursday afternoon and the Phila-
delphia stock exchange will close its
doors for the same period. The pub
lie schools of Philadelphia will be
closed for one session in memory of
the famous merchant who was long
actively identified with the city's edu-
cational system. The leading com
petitors Of the Wanamaker depart
ment store will close for the first five
minutes of the funeral service, which
will begin at 2 O'Clock in Bethany
Presbyterian church, where Mr. Wana-
maker was a familiar figure.
Preparations have been made to al
low thousands OF persons to view the
body as it lies in state from 10 a. IN.
until Thursday noon in Bethany
church. The funeral service and the
interment in the Wanamaker mauso-
leum will be private.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-14
Farmers Are Losing
in Grain and HAY,
|. G. G.. Is Informed

Washington, Dec. 13. = Farmers
have played a losing game in pro
ducing grain and hay in the west dur
ing the last two or three years, spe-
cialists in farm economics testified
Wednesday before the Interstate Com
merce commission. The estimates of
the losses were brought up by rep
resentatives of western states. who are
seeking from the commission reduc-
tons in railroad freight rates on the
agricultural commodities named. and
We're given by +. w. Peck. professor
of farm economics at the University of
Minnesota and G. L. Holmes of the
Iowa agricultural experiment station
In both these states careful cost
studies of the production of wheat.
oats. corn and hay Justified the eonclu-
sion. the witnesses said. that the
average farmer had only registered a
net loss in the two years of work
Rate reductions. they contended, would
assist in relieving the situation
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-14
DIAMOND ROBBERY
NETS S1OO,OO0 To
CHICAGO BANDITS
Two Holdups Take Sparklers
i'm Daring Raid Near
Busy Corner.

Chicago, Dec. I3.-Whiie thous-
ands of Christmas shoppers hur-
ried past the worlds busiest cor
ner' at State and Madison streets
late Wednesday, two bandits in an
office building seven stories above
the street, held up James E. Har-
rison. a diamond merchant, SCOOP
s4asls up zi4 trays ef set s,aad unset
diamonds valued at 100000, and
$4,000 In cash and made their es-
cape in the shopping throng.
Harrison bound and gagged.
was found and released some time
later by other occupants of the
building. He said a man called
him during the afternoon and
made an appointment to match
some diamonds which he said he
wished to send TO his wife in
Kansas City for Christmas. The
man entered the office at $50
o'clock, was admitted to Harri-
sons private office where the safe
containing the diamonds stood
open. Suddenly he drew pistol.
warned Harrison to make no out
cry and went to the door and ad-
mitted a companion who bound
The diamond broker. In ieisureiy
fashion, the robbers then emptied
the trays into a black bag, made
futile attempt to reach COM
partment of the safe where other
jeweiry was kept, and then fled to
the street.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-14
SELECTION IS URGED
To RAISE STANDARD
OF U.S.|N|N|GRANTS
Present Restriction Method
Admits Alien Scum,
Says Sconce.

Chicago, Dec. 13.-An immigration
law based on selection rather than re-
striction, was advocated Wednesday
by Harvey J. Sconce of Sidell, ILL.,,
speaking before the American Farm
Bureau federation's annual meeting
here.
The 8 per cent clause of the IN
migration law was severely criticized
by Air. Sconce. formerly delegate
riculture at Rome. as we'll as other
speakers on the afternoon program.
What this country needs is more
producers and fewer peddlers. Mr..
Sconce declared. The way to attain
this result is first to repeal this )
per cent immigration law and then
en@ct an Immigration law similar to
the Canadian law. with its new regu-
lations This selection should take
place as near the point of origin as
possible and the administrative au-
thority should be centralized in one
federal agency.
The present law is permitting the
country to be flooded with a class of
producers who are taking up the
quota Of countries that would fur
nish laborers who would be glad to
come to this country if it were possi-
bic to do So
We welcome the skim of immigra
ton, but positively object to the
scum of immigration.
Modification of the present law
was urged by James 4. Emery. of
the National Association of Manufac
turers Washington, who declared
emigration should be charged against
immigration in determining national
quotas and that admissible and de-
sirable labor should be admitted in
excess of quotas where the necessity
Of such labor is clearly demonstrat
ed and is not obtainable in this
country