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The HOME BEAUTIFUL
aivd
and Cultivatioiv
Tulips Make Attractive Flowers for Home Decoration.
THE TULIP IN POTS.
> Some varieties of tulips are well
' adapted to the flower pot. The Clu
siana vent grows to a height of 20
inches, with a slender stem. The
leaves are very long and narrow and
•the flower sometimes measures two
inches across. This variety is of the
funnel form, with bright lemon-yel
low flowers, with light shading of
green or white, sometimes streaked
Kith pink. It is very fragrant, and
when properly cultivated is one of the
most beautiful of all the tulip family.
The tulip is easy to cultivate, as it
thrives well in either heavy or light
soil. It does better, however, in rather
light soil, well-drained and fairly rich.
Those grown in heavy, black soil pro
duce smaller flowers, and the colors
are not nearly so bright. In some of
the uplands of Virginia the ideal tulip
soil is found for the growing of bulbs,
and It is said to be almost identical
with that of Holland, where this
flower is so successfully grown.
THE CARE OF YOUR PLANTS
By L. M. BENNINGTON.
Some persons labor under the delu
sion that water must be applied dally
to their plants In the window garden.
More plants are killed every year
through this process than by any other
itfeans. Plants watered every day nre
literally drowned out, unless they hap
pen to have the best of drainage.
Others go on the “llttle-and-often”
plan—that Is, they apply water In small
quantities whenever they happen to
j%lnk of It.
The result Is the surface of the soil
Is kept moist, and from this the owner
takes It for granted that the soil be
neath must be properly damp.
Nine times out of ten examination
will show that an Inch or two below
the surface the soil Is dry. Of course
the roots of the plant cannot do their
work under such conditions. The plant
soon sickens and eventually dies and
the owner wonders what caused the
trouble.
Now, In watering plants several
things have to be considered. First
the nature of the plant. Some like a
great deal of water, others only a mod
erate amount.
X Qeod Example of-the Beauty of a Well-Kept Lawn.
Second, the soil. A close, loamy soil
dries out slowly, therefore It will not
require as frequent or as large appli
cations as a light porous soil from
which moisture evaporates rapidly.
Third, location and exposures must
be taken into consideration. Plants In
the sun or a very warm place, will
need a good deal more water than
those in full or partial shade or a low
temperature.
Fourth, the size of the pot must be
reckoned with. The soil In a large pot
will not dry out for two or three days,
but the soil In a small pot will become
quite dry every day. Little moisture
needed.
Fifth, a dormant plant requires but
little water. It Is not in a condition to
make use of much water, and an over
supply of it will surely result in harm.
When the plant begins to grow then in
crease the quantity and proportion this
to the development made.
All these things must receive due
consideration by the amateur who
would know how to care for his or her
plants intelligently.
Study them. Experiment with them.
In this way you soon become familiar
with the individuality of each one and
you will be able to give to each the
care it needs.
We are often asked for some rules
for watering plants. It is Impossible
to make any rule that can be followed
strictly.
The only rule I have ever been able
to give is this: “When the surface of
the soil looks dry, water. Use enough
to thoroughly saturate all the soil in
the pot.
Yon can tell about this by the
escape of some at the bottom of the
pot. Then wait until the dry look ap
pears on the surface again and apply
water as before.
But, as I have said, one will have
to modify this rule to fit the condi
tions. It is a general rule, subject to
such change as may appear necessary
to the Intelligent plant grower who
does not believe in treating all her
plants exactly alike.
Give fertilizers to growing plants
only. A plant standing still needs
none, and will be injured by the appli
cations of the food it is not in a con
dition to make use of.
THE CHEYENNE RECORD.
MACMILLIAN TRIP ARCTIC ROMANCE
American Explorer in Frozen
North Makes Important ,
Discoveries.
DIDN’T KNOW ABOUTTHE WAR
Party Wat Cut Off From Civilized
World for Four Years—Rescue
Ship Appeared When Food
Ran Very Low.
New York.—The return to civiliza
tion of Daniel B. MacMillan, American
explorer, brings to a successful close
one of the most remarkable stays in
the ice of the roof of the globe record
ed in the annals of Arctic exploration.
Unusual good and unusual bad luck
marked the expedition's history. No
less than five ships were used to get
the party into northern Greenland, and
on the two unsuccessful and one suc
cessful attempts to bring MacMillan
back home again, but not a single
person involved lost his life, and
there was no more serious casualty
than the loss of frozen toes. This is
a unique record for an Arctic expedi
tion lasting four years.
Although the enterprise cost about
$250,000 and was one of the most, if
not the most, costly ever known, sci
entists of the American Museum of
Natural History here are frankly de
lighted today with the wealth of new
information and the specimens of min
erals and the fauna and flora of the
frozen North which MacMillan brings
back.
Worked All the Time.
Most uninitiated persons think an
Arctic expedition consists of periods
of intense labor Interspersed with long,
aggravating waits in absolute idleness,
while the weather prevents traveling
far.
But this is a mistake. MacMillan
was working all the time. Even when
forced to stay near his main base at
Etah, he kept busy, very busy. That is
why, says MacMillan, he found the last
four years the shortest of his life.
Many times he went 36 to 40 hours
without sleep, pursuing his scientific
studies. And he had considerable time
to devote to these studies, for actual
exploring can only be done in three
months out of the twelve.
MacMillan is eager to return to this
bleak but interesting region of the
north pole and will undoubtedly do so
as soon as he can find sufficient finan
cial backing.
Will Fly Over Ice.
His next trip will be something en
tirely novel In Arctic exploration, for
he proposes to use an airplane to widen
his radius of action. “I expect to do
as much in a day with an airplane as
I can do In 20 days with the dogs,” he
explained.
MacMillan was greatly pleased to
learn of the progress In aviation
which has taken place on account of
the great war during his stay away
from the world. He thinks airplane
construction has now been carried to
a point of perfection where he can
rely on certain types of flyers as fully
as he does on his "huskies” and his
snnwnhnpfl
MacMillan left Sydney. N. S. t aboard
the Diana In July, 1913. The ship was
wrecked off Barge Point, Labrador, but
was finally pulled off and taken to St.
John's, where the supplies were trans
ferred to the Erik.
Three Rescue Attempts.
In the second ship the party reached
Etah, on the west Greenland coast,
August 20.
It was more than two years ago that
the first relief expedition was sent out.
Doctor Grenfell’s Labrador missionary
schooner, the George B. Cluett, started
In July, 1915, for Etah, but was unable
to go through the heavy floes of Ice en
countered.
Dr. Edmund O. Hovey of the Ameri
can museum then fitted out the Den
mark, but this ship failed also, and Is
believed to be still frozen In the Ice
off the Greenland coast. It was Capt.
Robert Burtlett, companion of Peary
on the trip when he reached the north
pole, who finally succeeded where the
others hud failed. He used the stuuncli
sealing steamer Neptune, and by Ids
feat he adds considerably to the repu
tation he made on his several voyages
with Peary. Bartlett says the Ice on
this trip wus the heaviest he had ever
met. MacMillan was also one of
Peary's lieutenants on the polar trip.
Many of the things MacMillan has
accomplished in the far North will be
appreciated only by the scientific
world. But even the layman can un
derstand his work In mapping a great
stretch of the coast of Ellesmere
Land, across Smith’s sound to the
west of Greenland; discovering the
second biggest glacier in the northern
hemisphere; locating two new Islands
and disproving the existence of two
more, showing that Crocker Land, seen
by Peary from the summit of an im
mense cliff, is only a mirage, and pene
trating many miles over the frozen
ocean beyond the point where Crocker
Land was supposed to begin.
Reached Just in Time.
When rescued by Bartlett at Etah.
MacMillan and the members of his
party were .living on dog biscuit nnd
I ducks' eggs, but were In good health.
1 They would probably have endured
! severe hardships next winter, however.
If they had not been reached In time.
I MacMillan crossed Smith’s sound
once every year he spent In the North.
I and every time came through without
1 a mishap, a remarkable feat In Itself.
He found rich mineral-bearing rocks
and extensive coal fields. The exact
nature of these discoveries is not yet
entirely disclosed. A complete report
will be given out by the American
museum. The expenses of the trip
were borne by the museum, the Ameri
can Geographical society, the Univer
sity of Illinois and various persons in
terested in Arctic exploration.
With his thousands of specimens so
valuable to the scientific world, Mac-
Millan brings back an insignificant tin
box, which to one person in the world
means more than a hundred nar-whale
skeletons. MacMillan told the story
of this little box as follows:
*T gave this box to a little Eskimo
girl, who will cry her eyes out over the
loss of it. She Insisted upon coming
with us up from Etah. Forty miles
from there we had to chase her off the
boat, and in her hurry she left this
tin box. She can comfort herself with
the other treasures priceless to her. I
gave her a little silver watch, a tooth
brush, bits of gaudy cloth, a rattrap,
some parufln which she used as
chewing gum and a piece of soap. I
first saw tjie child when I came north
with Peary on the trip when he found
the pole.”
W. Elmer Ekblaw and all the mem
bers of the party gave high praise to
Dr. Morton P. Porslld, a noted Danish
scientist, head of the Danish govern
ment scientific station at Godhaven,
Disco Island, Greenland. Ekblaw was
the first American scientist to spend
any time with Doctor Porslld, although
OUR TWO LEADERS NOW WITH FRENCH
Intimate Sketches of Sibert and
Pershing by One Who
Knows Them.
THEIR RECORDS AS FIGHTERS
Both Generals Careful Planners and
Each Has an Enviable Record for
Getting Big Results by
Hard Fighting.
By EDWARD B. CLARK.
Washington.—ln a recent news arti
cle cabled from the field headquarters
of the American expeditionary force
in France, there was given a study of
the temperament, characteristics,
methods and personal attributes of
Maj. Gens. John J. Pershing and Wil
liam L. Sibert.
Here is one thing thnt was.said of
the senior major general:
“Pershing is of the qulck-on-the-trlg
ger style. He te of the dashing type,
nervous, always on the go, like a sur
charged battery, stirring up everybody
he comes in contact with, forcing them
along at top speed.”
Here is what is said of the Junior
major general, who commands the di
vision in the field:
“Sibert Is a deliberate, methodical,
tireless worker, watching every detail,
Insistent that reports of his young of
ficers be accurate, comprehensive, cov
ering every angle—of the type that is
persistent and sure . . . He Is an
engineer with a training for accuracy
that figures down to thousandths of
an inch.”
AN ORDERLY JOB
Miss Hannah Patterson of Pitts
burgh, well-known suffragist, is the
efficiency expert of the woman's sec
tion of the council of national defense.
When she came to Washington her co
workers were laboring under misfit
conditions in an unsuitable building.
Miss Patterson in two days had laid
out a plan covering the entire work of
the committee and quarters were
found which exactly fitted the commit
tee's needs. She is executive secre
tary pro tern for the organization
now. She is a civic worker and a suf
frage campaigner.
students from several European coun
tries have been sent to the station for
instruction.
“Doctor Porslld Is doing work In bot
any, geology, astronomy and zoology
and in the study of Eskimo culture
which will gain recognition from the
whole scientific world," said Ekblaw.
"He and his wife have been at God
haven since 1905; their daughter was
born there and has never been out of
Greenland. He initiated his work and
the Danish government was so Im
pressed by its value that they allow
him 10,000 crowns (about $2,880) a
year to carry it on. It extends
throughout the Bafiin Bay region and
along the east coast of Greenland.
"Doctor Porslld is forty-five years
old, but looks older. He has a beauti
ful home, an extensive library and a
well-equipped laboratory. The numer
ous hot springs at Godhaven render
the climate and vegetation similar to
those some 600 miles to the south."
Denver Sends Pershing Smokes.
Denver, Colo. —Gen. John J. Persh
ing, commander of the American forces
in France, will soon be puffing ‘‘Den
ver made" cigars. The biggest and
best box of "smokes” secured in the
recent "Sacrifice Day” offerings will be
sent to the general.
The "Sacrifice Day” was conducted
under the auspices of the local chap
ter of the Navy league, and nearly
S6OO worth of tobacco, cigars and
cigarettes was obtained for the Sam
mies. Girls were stationed at every
cigar stand In the city and boxes, bar
rels and other receptacles were rap
idly filled by the patriotic smokers.
The assortment is being prepared for
shipment to France.
Now, In order to show that there Is
no thought on the part of the writer
that he has appraised these men too
lightly, he says this:
“There are two big Jobs with two
big men to fill them. The dashing Per
shing and the methodical Slbert make
a team that will be hard to beat when
their machine once starts.”
American military officers from
Pershing down to the last second lieu
tenant realize that this Is a war of
method, a methodical war In other
words, and that It Is also largely an
engineering war. The picture that one
gets of Pershing from the cabled ar
ticle Is just such as one carries In his
mind of Custer on the plains, his yel
low hair streaming In the wind, a Colt
revolver In his left hand, a dazzling
saber In his right hand, charging head
long, regardless of bullets. Into the
heart of a Sioux horde.
In a methodical war army men say
that this dare-devil gallantry does not
win, and nobody knows It better than
Pershing. If the war department had
believed that Pershing was “quick on
the trigger” In the sense In which that
expression usually Is employed, he
would not have been sent to France.
The campaign which John J. Per
shing led against the enemy In the
Lake Lanac district In the Philippines
was a methodical campaign. It was
conducted on strict military lines, and
there was no “forcing them along at
top speed.” It was this campaign
which promoted Pershing from a cap
taincy to a brigadier generalship. He
will not sacrifice American lives In
France by a recklessness which is for
eign to his nature, and absolutely for
eign to modern methods of fighting.
Now as for William L. Slbert, I have
said what I have about Pershing from
a study of his career and from a hun
dred or more expressions of opinion
which, concerning him, have come to
me from army men who know him well
personally.
In the recently printed, and I think
misleading, although unintentionally
so, description of Sibert’s characteris
tics as a man and a soldier, he is de
scribed as deliberate and methodical,
giving close attention to the tiny
things and In fact having a purely
and mathematically methodical mind.
Bluntly speaking, it makes Slbert a
student rather than a soldier.
Now for the truth of this thing.
When William L. Slbert was a junior
officer of engineers serving in the Phil
ippines he did both engineering and
fighting work so well that it called
forth the praise of the general com
manding. Theodore Schwan. The rec
ord of it is in the war depnrtnlent
today. General Schwan said that this
engineer insisted on having a place
on the firing line at all times.
It was William L. Sibert who stood
alongside of-Reilly’s battery, the Reil
ly who afterwards was killed at Pe
king. at the front of a battlefield In
the Philippines, and there stood like
a rock against the furious close-range
fire of the enemy. It was Sibert who
under fire on this same battlefield,
knelt beside the gallant MaJ. Wood
bridge Geary, who fell at the first fire
and died within a few moments.
The methodical Sibert Is ns quick on
the trigger ns any man ought to be.
He Is a fighter of the first rank. Ido
not think that contradiction will come
from the war department If I should
put into words something which I long
have suspected. It Is my belief that
a certain military report, a fighting
program report which In effect de
clared that there was no such thing as
the impossible where a real military
end is to be gained, a report which
it is said was made by Sibert.
caused this fine junior brigadier gen
eral to be jumped over the heads of
eleven men to n major generalship
and then sent to France in command of
the first division.
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Big Set of Bells Is Being Made for
Chapel at United States Military
Academy at West Point.
What Is said to be the most costly
chime of bells In America and one of
the most musical sets In existence la
now being made at the foundry of the
Meneely Bell company of Troy, N. Y.,
for the massive tower of Cadet chapel,
Rev. H. P. Silver, chaplain, at the
United States military academy, West
Point, as the gift of Mrs. James M.
Lawton, In memory of her father, the
late Maj. Gen. Robert Anderson, who
was graduated from the academy In
1825, and whose brilliant command of
Fort Sumner at the outbreak of ths
Civil war has thrilled millions of read
ers of American history, says the
Watchman-Examiner.
There will be 12 bells In the chime,
the largest weighing nearly two tons
and measuring 5G Inches at its mouth.
The cadet chapel is of stone, quarried
from rock found on the military
grounds and cost to build about half
a million dollars. Its commanding po
sition on the hill back from the Hud
son river makes an Ideal place for
bells, and the patriotic airs from the
chime will sound throughout the beau
tiful highlands. In the midst of which
the military academy Is situated, and
prove a source of inspiration to the fu
ture generals of the United States
army that will always linger with them
pleasantly.
An Illuminating Postcard.
A young girl of plebeian ancestry
achieved fame as an actress in Lon
don. Feeling the necessity, however,
of a rest from her labors, she wrote to
her uncle, a police sergeant of a coun
try village, asking him If she might
come and stay with him to recuperate.
She ended her note: “Please send a P.
C. to say If I may come.”
A few days later her landlady rushed
upstairs with an awestricken coun
tenance —a policeman wanted her I The
girl descended with an ominous feel
ing at her heart, says London Ttt-Blta.
“If you please, miss,” said the stolid
being who confronted her, eyeing her
with stern disapproval, "Pm the P. CL
what you asked your uncle to send,
but I may as well tell you straight
away as I’m a respectable married
man. Your uncle’s prepared to take
you In If you’re willing to make you**
self useful —feed the pig, clean his of
fice and the two cells.”
Left Them Outside.
“Where are your manners, sir7“
asked the crusty business man of a
stranger who unceremoniously rushed
Into his private office.
“I left them out In the main office,”
answered the Irate caller, “where I
was Insulted by two or three of your
Impudent clerks.”
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