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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-23
CHAPTER VIII
FL CAPTAIN.

Stillwelrs interest in the revolution
across the Mexican line had manifestly
increased with the news that Gene
Stewart had achieved distinction with
the rebel forces. Thereafter the old
cattleman sent for FL Paso and Doug
las newspapers, wrote to ranchmen he
knew on the big bend of the Rio
Grande, and he would talk indefinitely
to anyone who would listen to him.
There appeared to be no doubt that
the cowboy had performed some dar-
ing feats for the rebels. Madeline
found his name mentioned in several
of the border papers. When the rebels
under Madero stormed and captured
the city of Juarez, Stewart did fight
ing that won him the name of Ell Capt.
tan. This battle apparently ended the
revolution. The equalization of Presi-
lent Diaz followed shortly, and there
was a feeling Of relief among ranchers
on the border from Texas to Califor-
MIA. Nothing more was heard of
Gene Stewart until April, when a re-
port reached Stillwoll that the cow
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The Light Of Western Stars



NO. There's no use. I'm done for.
Please leave me-thank you for
He had been savage. then sullen,
and now he vas grim. Madeline all
but lost power to resist his strange,
deadly, cold finality. No doubt he
sneW he was doomed. Yet something
halted her-held her even as she took
Ii backward step. And she became
conscious Of a subtle change in her
own feeling. She had come into that
squalid hole. Madeline Hammond.
earnest enough, kind enough In her
own intentions; but she had been al
most imperious-a woman habitually.
proudly used to being obeyed. She d.
vined that all the pride, blue blood,
wealth. culture, distinction, all the i'm
personal condescendIng persuasion, all
the fatuous philanthropy on earth
would not avail TO urn this man a
single hair's-breadth from his down
ward career to destruction. She was
going to fail to help him. She expert
enced a sensation Of impotence that
amounted almost to distress. The sit
uation assumed q tragic keenness.
Stewart, look at me-" she asked.
He shuddered. He was abject,
crushed. He dared not show his
swollen. blackened face. His fierce,
cramped posture revealed more than
his features might have shown 1t be-
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-23
Had Peculiar Nicknames.

Sir Matthew Wood, who in 1921 was
a stanch supporter of the unhappy
Queen Caroline, was for a consider
able time known as Absolute Wis
DOM and nearly all the wits OF the
time made him the butt of their at
tacks. Being at n time ~reproached
with having iIl-adyised the queen, he
diffdently admitted that his conduct
might not be absolute wisdom" He
had the unusual honor of being twice
lord mayor of London. Shortly after
her accession Queen Victoria created
him a baronet. in acknowledgment, ii
Is said. of his liberallty in making
large money advances to her father,
the duke of Kent. when greatly dis
tressed by debts and hunted by cred
itors.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-23

stations in the valley, and from these
he returned with a gloomy face. Made
line got the details from Alfred. Stew
art was going from bad TO worse
drunk, %disorderly, savage, sure to
land In the penitentiary. Then came
a report that hurried Stlllwell Off to
Rodeo. He returned on the third day,
a crushed nan He had been so bit
terly hurt that no one, not even Made
line, could get out of him what had
happened. He admitted finding Stew
art, failing to influence him and when
the old cattleman got so far he turned
purple In the face and talked to him
self, as if dazed: but Gene was
drunk. He was drunk. or he couldn't
hev treated old Bill like theft"
Madeline was stirred with an anger
toward the brutal cowboy that was as
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-23

trayed the t%orturing shame of a mar
of pride and passion. a mar who had
been confronted In his degradation by
the woman he had dared to enshrine
in his heart. 1t betrayed his love.
Listen, then" went on Madeline.
and her voice was unsteady. Listen
to me, Stewart. You can shake Off
this desperate mood and be a man."
NO" he cried.
Listen to me again. Somehow l
know you're worthy of Stillwelfs love.
VIII you come back with us-for his
sake?"
no. It's too late, l tell you"
Steward, the best thing in life is
faith in human nature. l have faith
in you. l believe you are worth it,"
You're only kind and good-saying
that. You can't mean It,"
= mean it with all my heart" she
replied. n sudden rich warmth suffus-
ing her body as she saw the first sign
of his %softenlng. viii you come back
If not for your own sake or Still.
welrs-then for mine?s
what am l to such a woman as
you?"
"A man in trouble, Stewart. Bur I
have come TO help you, 10 show my
faith in you"
IF I believed that, I might try" he
said.
Listen she began, softly, hurried
". My word is not lightly given.
Let it prove my faith in you. Look at
me now and say you will come.n
He heayed up his big frame as If
trying to cast off a giants burden, and
then slowly he turned toward her.
His face was a blotched and terrible
thing. The physical brutalizing marks
were there, and at that instant all
that appeared human to Madeline was
the dawning in dead. furnace-like eyes
of a beautiful light.
I'll come" he whispered. huskilv.
Give me a few days to %straighten up.
then III come"
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Five stars upon the ribbon that he wore,
One a ~citation-but he would not tell
What he had seen and done, nor how he
bore
The rain of shot and shell.
No woman knows" he said. nor ever
should,
Tn horrors that We had to undergo
There in the Argonne and in Belieau
Wood:
Thank God. you need not know"
We need not know the he'll in which they
earned
Those stars. the hell through which they
must advance,
We need not know what other women
learned
In Belgium and france.
we need not know, because they gayly
went,
Leaving behind them all for which they
cared.
Nor asking what their fate would be.
content
If only we were spared
We thought we knew. we drank our cup
of tea
Without much sugar, and We learned
10 knit.
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CHAPTER VII.-Continued.

Sometimes she thought of her par
ents, sister, friends, of how they had
persistently refused to believe she
could or would stay in the West. They
were always asking her to come home.
She wrote that she would return to
her old home some time, of course, for
q visit; and letters such as this
brought returns that amused Made
line, sometimes saddened her. Her
fathers business had been such that
he could not leave 1t for the time re-
quired for a western trip, or else,
according to his letter, he would have
come for her. Mrs. Hammond could
not have been driven to cross the
Hudson river; her un-American idea
of the wilderness westward was that
Indians still chased buffalo on the out
skirts of Chicago. Madeline's sister
Helen had long been eager to come, as
much from curiosity, Madeline
thought, as from slsterly regard. And
at length Madeline concluded that the
proof of her breaking permanent ties
might better be seen by visiting rela-
tives and friends before she went back
East. With that in mind she invited
and bring as many friends as she
liked.
No slight task indeed was 1t to over
see the many business details of Her
Majesty's Rancho and to keep a rec
ord of them. Madeline found the
course of business training upon which
her father had insisted to be invalu-
able TO her now. 1t helped her to as
simulate and arrange the practical
details of cattle-raising as put forth
by the blunt Stillwell. She established
an extensive vegetable farm, and she
planted orchards. The climate was
superior to that of California, and,
with abundant water, trees and plants
and gardens fiourished and bloomed
In a way wonderful to behold. Here
in the farming section of the ranch
Madeline found employment for the
little colony of MeXicans. Their lives
had been as hard and barren as the
dry valley where they had lived. But
as the valley had been transformed
by the soft, rich touch of water, so
their lives had been transformed by
help and sympathy and work. The
children We're wretched no more, and
many that had beer blind could now
see, and Madeline had become to them
a new and blessed Virgin.
Madeline looked abroad over these
lands and likened the change in them
and those who lived by them to the
change in her heart. 1t may have been
fancy, but the sun seemed to be
brighter, the sky bluer, the wind
sweeter. Certain it was that the deep
green of grass and garden was not
fancy, nor the white and pink of bios
som, nor the blaze and perfume of
flower, nor the sheen of lake and the
f1uttering of newborn leaves. Where
there had been monotonous gray there
was now vivid and changing color.
Formerly there had been silence both
day and night % during the sunny
hours there was music. The whistle
of prancing stations pealed in from
the grassy ridges. ~Innumerable birds
had come and, like the northwaru-
journeying ducks, they had tarrled to
stay. The song of m~eadow-lark and
blackbird and robin, familiar to Made
line from childhood. mingled with the
new and strange heart-throbbing song
of the mocking-bird and the piercing
blast of the desert eagle and the mel
ancholy moan of the turtle-dove.
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NELLIE GWYNNE WAS NOT ALL BAL

charming wit, and universally popular.
She pleased every one, from the king
to the charcoal seller. Songs were
written about her, styles of dress were
named for her, and her portraits were
painted.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-23
THE UNKNOWING

We danced with soldiers where the world
could see.
and p~rattled Of our bit"
We thought We knew; when they came
back again,
We crowded round and welcomed them
in state.
We lionized them for a w~hile-and Their
War stud' went out OF date.
Why should we know that they are poor
and i'll?
That ought TO be the governmeat's at
fair.
They sought to spare us-why not spare
us still?
Why should we know or care
We need not know, We dance along our
way.
Play golf n bridge. attend the latest
show.
Meanwhile they die. God pity Us today
Who are not fl to know
Margaret King Moore.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-23

A swimming bath at Huh, England,
has held the same water for months,
purity being obtained By a constant
process OF filtration.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-23

Half the misery Of human life
might be extinguished. wauld men al
leviate the gene al curse they lie IN
der. by mutual offices of compassion.
benerolence and neutrality-suspicious..
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-23
"But, Majesty. remember he's
a composite of tiger breed and
forked liehtning!"


ITO BE cONTINUED9
The Delta independent., 1923-02-23
Diversified Fruit Growing

or plums and prunes, rather than
grapes. The people at Delta, Mont
rose. Grand Junction and Palisade
would do well to avoid the berries,
making their choice from the othe.
fruits mentioned
There are many advantages in di-
versification. One of the most inn
portant has already been suggested; !;
that is, there is less chance of com
plete crop failure. If the apples or
peaches are frosted in the spring or
hailed later, the grapes and berries
may be very good crop Another
thing, many people put practically all
their money into getting their place
started with nothing left to live on
until their trees come into fruiting
Berries and grapes will bear sooner
than tree fruits, thereby making the
waiting period shorter. These two
fruits will bear a profitable crop in
three or four years after setting Ber-
ries and cherries ripen early in the
season and are therefore out of the
way before the later fruits come on.
This gives the grower cash to handle
The Delta independent., 1923-02-23
Prospects For Agriculture In 1923
Agricultural Conditions and
Prospects From Secretary o Agriculture Wallace

- wEIyE months ago most of the
long hard climb out OF the
of attained the
bahed in the grateful sunshine OF prosperity
still the
bit and look backward we can see hat
majority and
which really making
speaking farming in l9l2
the
farmer in the near future promise both
him has fuGment promise Speaking
generally better than both for
and for industry
crops have been good of
While
o the total
the of this is greater
by that which they received
certainly better times
forced practice the preceding year
the 1922 sii
reductions freight
VIII be
This who rather heavily
themselves in condition
through
rbee are still some dark spots
short farmers these
it. Freight still too
long haul to market
largely due to the increase in local
exercise control
growth in farmers cooperative market
them being organized sound
basis.
which has been given by legislation and by
keeny realized by
is
being be done safely to help the farmer
considered have good reason to expect still pe
agriculture in the year 1873
The Delta independent., 1923-02-23

Fort Collins that the tops from ten
tons of beets when pitted green make
about five tons of ensilage. A regu-
lation silo is not required for storing
these tops as they keep perfectly
when placed in trenches with alter
nate layers of straw.
When dried in the field the tops are
worth from Sc to $40 per acre for
pasture.
When the subject of beet raising
comes up many farmers argue that
they impoverish the soil and in a
short time make it unfit for beets and
many other crops; but the experience
of many who have raised them for a
number of years proves that this is
not the case. 1t has been found that
on good land beets may be raised
The Delta independent., 1923-02-23

year after year by the addition of
little barnyard fertilizer every two or
three years. They also make an en-
cellent crop where the plan of ro-
tating is carried out.
Many who raised few beets this
year are increasing the acreage for
next year, and others who have never
tried it are signing up few acres.
The company does not advise begin
ners to sign up for a very large
acreage.
Compared with the big money that
is sometimes realized from an acre of
onions when onions happen to be
trumps. the returns from an acre of
beets look very small; but the old
adage of the bird in the hand still
holds good.-Olathe Criterion.
The Delta independent., 1923-02-23

berries below 5000 feet. The Eu,
ropean grapes and some of the cane
fruits need slight winter covering.
This is not a heavy expense if proper
ly handled, and can be done late in
the fall after the other crops are out
of the way.
Except for the plums and grapes
the early winter apples or even the
peaches ripen. Thus the same equip
ment and help can be used as for the
later crops. 1t probably would not be
advisable for small district to go
into berries or cherries so heavily
that help for harvesting could not be
obtained at least in Western Colo
rado.
Some people do not grow this group
of fruits because they think there is
not a market. But isn't there de-
mand for good cherries, berries, and
such, when well grown, graded and
packed? With these fruits as with
most things, they sell very largely on
their appearance. Don't you buy the
food that looks best first? Colorado
berries and sweet cherries come in at
later date than these fruits from
California or the Mississippi Valley
districts. This gives Colorado very
little competition with resulting good
prices. Besides the larger cities and
towns in the Mississippi Valley,
Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico
The Delta independent., 1923-02-23

essential unless the fruit was to be
held or sent beyond the state boun-
daries. 1t is true that each fruit sec
tion would need to have a large
enough acreage so the fruit could be
/ shipped in car lots. car being moved
at least every alternate day. In this
case the fruit would have to be iced
! Mixed cars could be made up of diff
J ferent berries where they ripened to-
gether.
1t is always hard to predict returns,
/ in a district for some time Let it
suffice for the present to say that
those men who have cared for these
fruits properly and have put up a
/ good package have very little COM
plant regarding returns. Car lots
usually attract more buyers than eX-
press shipments, and a better price
can be paid as there is less overhead
expense per package. A high class
product with organization and adver-
tising will be sure to bring good
market with reasonable returns.
Some one will say that these fruits
when grown in Colorado do not COM
pare well with the same fruits as
grown on the coast. Even if this were
true it would not be so important
| since our fruits do not compete to
any extent with the coast fruits, due
to the fact that they ripen a little
earlier. Then, the writer has seen
sweet cherries from all the western
f,h
place have they surpassed the fruit
| from our we'll cared for cherry or
| chards. California does beat Colorado
on the European varieties of grapes,
but not on the native American varie-
ties when grown on good soil and
well cared for. At the present time
! there seems to be an increasing de-
mand for these American varieties.
Colorado dewberries are equal to any.
What few well cared for plum and
prune trees we have are yielding high
class fruit. Our Strawberries and
raspberries are good.
When we consider that nearly every
fruit farm has half an acre or more
that would grow good cherries, some
kind of berries, plums, or grapes, when
, these crops will bring in returns
earlier in the season with less waiting
after planting, when the work is dis
tributed better throughout the year,
when we have the proper growing con-
ditions in most localities, when there
! is a good market for high class pack
ages of these fruits, and when the
returns are as good and most cases
much better than the fruits now
grown, wouldn't it be a good plan to
think these things over pretty seri-
ously? Aren't Colorado fruit growers
missing good chance to make more
and surer money? How about it?
(Note-Because of limited space no
attempt has been made to list adapted
varieties for the various fruit sections
or to give methods of culture. This
information can be obtained by ad
dressing the author of the above ar
ticle)
The Delta independent., 1923-02-23

The report on the sugar beet crop
for 1929 shows about $500 tons raised
in this end of the county on approNi-
mately 400 acres of land. giving an
average yield of about 101a tons per
acre The actual yield. however, on
land that is adapted to raising sugar
beets, is more than this, and on the
best land is great deal higher. Every
year more or less absolutely worthless
land is planted to beets and often
these are never harvested, but the
acreage is taken and so brings down
The Delta independent., 1923-02-23

would chickens or hogs, though there
are some advantages in these com
binations.
Some one will ask: What other
fruits can we grow on the Western
Slope that we can sell and that will
work In well with those we are now
growing The fruits that we are sure
will do well in our Western Colorado
orchard districts are cherries. both
sweet and sour. plums and prunes.
most berries and some grapes. a
given grower can choose among these.
For example. the grower at Cedar
edge. Paonia or Grand Valley ttown)
would do well to select from cherries.
dewberries. raspberries, strawberries
The Delta independent., 1923-02-23
Crime On Retrograde In County;
Less Than In Previous Years

The past year is notable for its lack
of crime in Delta County. In the
county court only nineteen cases We're
filed in 1922. Twelve cases, of which
ten terminated in convictions, We're
for manufacture. unlawful possession
and Illegal sale of intoxicating liquor.
There was one case for open LEVIED
ness which was discharged: two cases
for infringements on the game laws,
which resulted in convictions; two
cases for contributing to juvenile de-
linquency. one of which ended in CON
viction and the other is not yet tried,
due to the escape of the defendant;
one case of malicious mischief, the
The Delta independent., 1923-02-23

his later crops and permits him to
keep his help employed for a longer
time This latter condition usually
means lower wages and a better sup
ply of help.
Most Western Slope soils are well
suited to cherry. plum, grape and
berry culture. Some of the heavy
soils. especially those below 5000 feet
elevation. do not give the most desir-
able soil conditions. nevertheless
there are some good vineyards and
berry patches in these sections. Cher
ries and plums will do well wherever
peaches will.
The summer weather is we'll suited
to these fruits. except perhaps for
The Delta independent., 1923-02-23
BY H. ID. LOCKLIN
State Department of Horticulture,
Fort Collins, Colorado

Fort Collins, Colorado
A T the present time apples. pears
~ and peaches are the main fruit
~ crops on the Western Slope.
The question has come up: Is
it the best policy to depend entirely
on one crop for the yearly income?
Those who believe in specialization
say, yes; those who realize that any
crop will fail sometimes say, no. The
truth of the matter is there are good
arguments on both sides. However,
there is a strong tendency in many of
the tree fruit sections to put their
eggs in two or three baskets" After
a person has decided that he is going
to diversity, he must further decide
whether he will grow other fruit crops
or branch off into other lines of agri-
culture such as grains, hay or live
stock. Since the general methods of
culture are similar it is logical to
suppose that an apple grower would
on the average have more success
growing berries, for example, than he
The Delta independent., 1923-02-23
1922 Sugar Beet Crop Shows
Big Returns To Slope Farmers

the average yield.
AS high as 10 tons to the acre have
been raised where the land is good
and the best of care is taken in every
step of their culture. An average
yield of IA to Is tons is quite often
obtained.
The cash outlay for an acre of beets
is $22-S19 for Mexican labor (Which
includes transportation charges for
the workers) and 50 for seed.
1t is estimated by the experiment
station of the Agricultural College at
The Delta independent., 1923-02-23

defendant pleading guilty; and one
case for non-support, which was dis
missed.
In the district court were filed only
twelve criminal cases and four were
carried over from last year. Six cases
consisting of two larceny cases, one
assault. one case for non support, one
case for receiving stolen goods, and
one incest case, We're dismissed. One
charge of assault, three for larceny
and burglary, one for receiving stolen
goods. and two for forgery, were con
victed Three cases with larceny
charge are not yet tried.
The Delta independent., 1923-02-23

our berries and cherries especially
could be sold in Colorado mining
camps. 1t so happens that our fruit
districts and the mining districts are
not far apart. The transportation
charges to these camps would be rela-
lively small. No iceing would be nee
essary In fact iceing would not be
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1923-12-20

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