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■Uhe  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
August  19,  191G. 
Frank  of  Peach  Hill 
By  Geo.  B.  Fiske 
(Continued  from  page  1083.) 
“Say,  F rank,  old  man,  is  there  much 
in  what  the  preacher  was  passing  out 
this  morning?” 
“1  think  there  is,”  I  replied,  ‘’It’s 
plain  enough  to  me.  You  believe,  for  in¬ 
stance.  that  honesty  is  the  best  policy 
don't  you? 
“Yes;  but  that  isn't - ” 
“Well,"  I  continued,  “I  feel  just  as 
sure  that  the  whole  thing,  the  system  of 
life  the  speaker  advised,  is  just  as  much 
good  policy  as  honesty ;  including  honor, 
generosity,  kindness  and  all  such  things. 
Anyhow,  I  know  I  never  enjoyed  any¬ 
thing  like  the  steady  life  and  what  little 
good  work  I’ve  done  with  the  church 
folks,  and  what  suits  me  and  makes  a 
man  of  me  I  believe  in  keeping  up.” 
“How  true,  my  young  friend,”  he 
mocked.  “Most  likely  the  good-looking 
girls  down  there  help  keep  you  con¬ 
tented." 
As  that  was  something  of  a  hot  shot 
for  me.  I  said  no  more.  It  was  no  use 
moralizing  to  that  young  scatterbrain. 
Hi*  seemed  as  much  a  heedless  boy  as 
ever,  just  the  same  as  when  we  used  to 
lain  wild  together  in  the  city,  while  my 
hard-working  life  and  lonely  thinking  in 
the  Peach  Hill  moonlight  made  me  feel 
years  older.  I  concluded  then  and  now 
that  city  boys  get  too  much  of  picture 
shows  and  theatres  and  general  excite¬ 
ment.  for  a  boy  must  think  somewhat  to 
take  <m  a  full-grown  mind.  Put  Harry 
is  a  dear,  bright,  likable  fellow  with  all 
liis  nonsense.  It  takes  many  sorts  of 
folks  to  make  the  world  interesting. 
S.  me  people  must  think  before  they  talk, 
and  some  must  chatter  away  delightfully 
and  think  seldom  for  themselves.  Charm¬ 
ing  company  are  our  brothers  aud  sis¬ 
ters.  and  no  two  alike. 
One  night  as  I  was  trying  to  get  to 
sleep  I  heard  Harry  chanting  to  the 
few  hut  forceful  mosquitoes  that  ven¬ 
tured  so  high  as  breezy  Peach  Ilill. 
“Mow'd  you  like  to  be  a  skeeter  aud  with 
the  skeeter  fly. 
Ho  sucks  the  blood  of  all  the  world,  it 
tastes  to  him  like  pie, 
He  makes  his  roost  upon  my  nose,  he 
jumps  into  my  eye, 
II ow'd  you  like  to  be  a  skeeter  and  with 
the  skeeters  fly. 
He  never  needs  to  hire  a  cook,  nor  has 
to  pay  the  rent. 
lie  never  buys  new  clothing;  for  lodging 
not  a  cent. 
Food  is  cheap  and  plentiful,  all  the 
earth’s  his  lunch. 
Pure  blood  or  blue  blood  he  pays  you 
with  a  bunch, 
He  hovers  'round  a  sweet  girl’s  lips,  he 
takes  her  by  the  hand, 
I\1  like  to  play  the  skeeter  aud  join  the 
skeeter  band.” 
So  hummed  my  city  bird,  while  I,  plod¬ 
ding  chap  that  I  had  become,  commenced 
to  scheme  how  I  could  check  the  mos¬ 
quito  pest  ou  my  lot  by  using  a  litzle 
kerosene  on  the  pond  hole,  a  plan  which 
worked  out  very  well,  so  far  as  con¬ 
cerned  the  mosquitoes,  hut  the  scum  it 
made  proved  almost  too  much  for  old 
Red  aud  White  when  she  tried  to  drink 
it.  I  thought  something  better  than  mud 
pond  water  would  be  appreciated  any- 
lu.w  by  all  bauds,  so  I  sent  to  the  city 
for  a  cheap  pump.  It  cost  around  four 
dollars,  including  pipe,  well  point  aud  ex¬ 
press  charges.  I  drove  the  pipe  in  a 
springy  place  not  far  from  the  pond  hole, 
coupling  on  pipe  and  sinking  down  to 
the  rock  or  ledge.  I  blocked  up  the 
pump  aud  set  up  half  an  old  liquor  bar¬ 
rel  for  a  tub.  It  worked  all  ri:;kt  in 
Summer,  but  my  water  supply  was  al¬ 
ways  a  bother  until  in  late  years  the 
town  water  pipes  were  extended  up  the 
road  and  gave  me  supply  under  pressure. 
Harry  made  matters  lively  for  us  iu 
more  ways  than  I  had  expected.  He  was 
one  of  those  boys  who  never  think  care¬ 
fully  before  they  do  things,  and  he  had 
no  bent  for  farming,  anyhow ;  the  kind 
of  city  chap  that  supplies  funny  jokes 
for  farmer  boys  to  tell  about  him  for 
years  afterward.  He  took  to  our  cook¬ 
ing  pretty  well,  even  if  he  did  burn  out 
my  rin  kettles  and  singe  his  hair  over 
the  quick  flaming  camp  stove.  It  was 
not  so  amusing  to  me  when  he  found 
some  of  my  nitrate  of  soda  and  tried  to 
salt  our  food  with  it,  or  when  he  nearly 
poisoned  my  chickens  by  watering  them  in 
an  old  paint  tin.  He  tried  to  milk  old 
Red  and  White  sitting  ou  the  wrong  side, 
and  got  her  leg  in  the  pail,  and  little 
else. 
“She  gave  a  few  quarts  and  a  kick,” 
he  explained. 
(To  he  continued.) 
EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
DOMESTIC.— The  deaths  due  to  in¬ 
fantile  paralysis  in  all  boroughs  of  Creat¬ 
or  New  York,  up  to  August  8.  numbered 
1.143.  On  August  0  there  were  102  new 
cases.  New  Jersey  reported  a  total  of 
044  cases.  It  is  believed  the  epidemic 
will  continue  through  the  warm  weather. 
Ou  Aug.  8,  when  excessive  heat  and  hu¬ 
midity  accompanied  by  destructive  thun¬ 
derstorms.  caused  much  suffering  in  the 
city,  there  were  183  new  cases,  and  52 
deaths  from  the  disease. 
The  Interstate  Commerce  Commission 
has  reported  to  President  Wilson  that  its 
regulations  regarding  the  parking  of  ex¬ 
plosives  were  complied  with  and  that  re¬ 
sponsibility  for  the  Black  Tom  explosion 
at  Commuuipaw.  N.  .1.,  rests  on  the  State 
or  municipal  authorities.  Railway  ofli- 
cjals  are  protesting  agains  the  action  of 
Jersey  City  in  establishing  an  embargo 
on  explosives,  which  are  not  now  per¬ 
mitted  to  go  through  the  city  on  their 
way  to  tidewater. 
August  5  a  general  ear  strike  was  or¬ 
dered  by  union  officials  throughout  Creat¬ 
or  New  York.  For  a  few  days  much  de¬ 
lay  and  inconvenience  resulted,  though 
the  strike  was  an  orderly  one.  without 
the  violence  often  resulting  from  a  trac¬ 
tion  strike.  The  strike  was  settled  Au¬ 
gust  S  by  an  agreement  effected  by  Mayor 
Mi toh el  and  Oscar  8.  Straus,  chairman  of 
the  Public  Service  Commission.  The 
mou  obtained  practically  all  they  asked, 
including  the  light  to  organize,  to  ap¬ 
point  committees  to  treat  with  the  com¬ 
panies  on  points  of  difference,  and  to  ar¬ 
bitrate  ou  questions  involving  wages. 
Twenty-five  freight  cars  in  the  Clare¬ 
mont  grain  yards  of  the  Lehigh  Talley 
Railroad  in  Jersey  City  were  destroyed, 
Aug.  6,  by  n  fire  which  the  railroad  and 
police  authorities  believe  was  incendiary. 
Among  the  cars  destroyed  were  two  con¬ 
taining  nitric  acid  in  drums,  which  were 
pulled  off  the  pier  at  Black  Tom  after 
the  great  explosion,  July  30.  The  roofs 
of  these  cars  had  been  burned  off  and  it 
is  suspected  that  somebody  thought  the 
tanks  were  filled  with  picric  acid,  which 
makes  great  havoc  when  it.  goes  off. 
August  7  five  sharks  were  killed  off 
Oyster  Bay,  Long  Island.  One  of  them, 
11  feet  long,  caused  a  terrific  battle  be¬ 
fore  it  was  killed. 
Three  mysterious  fires  were  reported 
recently  on  the  battleships  Oklahoma  and 
Maine,  lying  in  the  New  York  Navy 
Yard.  There  are  now  stringent  rules 
against  civilian  visitors  at  the  Navy 
Yard,  and  all  employees  are  supplied 
with  badges. 
A  case  recently  passed  on  by  the  New 
York  Court  of  Appeals  was  au  action 
brought  against  the  Rochester  Lime  Com¬ 
pany  by  \Y.  J.  Perry  for  the  death  of 
liis  eight-year-old  sou.  The  company  had 
stored  a  chest  containing  nitre-glycerine 
caps  on  public  property,  without  a  per¬ 
mit.  These  caps  were  stolen  by  boys, 
and  the  Perry  boy’s  death  was  due  to 
playing  with  them.  Both  the  Appellate 
Division  and  the  Court  of  Appeals  de¬ 
cided  that  though  the  lime  company  had 
no  right  to  store  the  explosives  without 
a  permit,  the  theft  of  a  large  wooden 
box  containing  53  smaller  boxes  was  so 
clearly  au  act  of  wrong-iloing  on  tlie  part 
of  the  hoys  that  the  company  was  not 
responsible  for  the  death  of  a  hoy  half 
a  mile  away  whose  playmates  were  guilty 
of  this  theft. 
FARM  AND  CARDEN. — The  World’s 
consumption  of  American  cotton  during 
the  year  ended  July  31.  was  14.813,000 
bales,  an  increase  of  070,000  hales  over 
the  preceding  season  aud  a  new  record, 
according  to  the  New  Orleans  Cotton  Ex¬ 
change.  The  former  record,  made  three 
years  ago,  was  14.715,000  bales.  Con- 
sumption  at  Stbuthoru  mills  was  4,047.000 
bales,  against  3.1G3.0OO  the  preceding 
year;  at  Northern  mills,  3,005.000 
against.  2,018.000.  and  at  foreign  mills. 
7.701.000.  against  8.053,000.  The  total 
visible  and  invisible  supply  of  American 
entton  July  31  last  was  3,035.000  hales, 
against  5.029,000  the  preceding  season. 
The  total  visible  supply  was  2,129,000 
bales,  against  3.282.000. 
Dr.  J.  O.  Wills,  of  Albany,  was  elected 
president  of  the  New  York  State  Veter¬ 
inary  Medical  Society  which  concluded 
its  twenty-seventh  annual  meeting  at 
Ithaca,  Aug.  4.  Other  officers  chosen 
were  George  A.  Knapp,  Millbrnok,  vice- 
president ;  Dr.  P.  Fitch,  Ithaca,  secre¬ 
tary  and  treasurer;  Dr.  Walter  L.  Wil¬ 
liams.  Ithaca,  librarian.  Brooklyn  was 
selected  as  the  meeting  place  for  next 
year. 
Isban  Hess,  seventy-six  years  old.  Col¬ 
lector  of  Internal  Revenue  under  Presi¬ 
dent  Cleveland,  and  Senator  from  the 
Albany  district  for  two  terms,  was  gored 
to  death  by  a  hull,  Aug.  3.  in  the  barn¬ 
yard  of  his  large  farm  at  South  Durham. 
Greene  County.  N.  Y.  Mr.  Hess,  who 
was  one  of  the  wealthiest  men  iu  Greene 
County,  practiced  law  iu  Albany  for 
many  years. 
Aug.  29-30  the  Connecticut  Vegetable 
Growers'  Association  will  conduct  a  two- 
day  auto  tour  to  the  market  gardens 
around  Providence.  R.  I.  Autos  will  be 
assembled  at  the  New  Haven  Green  at 
6  a.  m.,  aud  at  the  Hartford  City  Hall 
at  7.30  a,  m.,  Aug.  29.  The  New  Haven 
section  will  travel  via  Norwich,  and  the 
Hartford  section  via  Willimantic.  The 
afternoon  of  this  day,  and  the  morning  of 
the  following  will  be  spent  in  visiting  the 
gardens.  Those  who  expect  to  make  the 
trip  are  asked  to  notify  the  secretary, 
Howard  F.  Huber.  123  Huntington  St., 
New  Haven.  Conn.  This  trip  is  also 
open  to  people  who  are  not  members  of 
the  association. 
Dr.  IT.  A.  Surface.  State  Zoologist  of 
Pennsylvania,  has  resigned,  and  will  be 
succeeded  by  Dr.  J.  G.  Sanders,  who  is 
at  present  State  Zoologist  in  Wisconsin 
and  a  professor  in  Wisconsin  University. 
Prior  to  his  accepting  these  positions  he 
was  in  the  Government  service  at  Wash¬ 
ington  for  a  number  of  years  iu  charge 
of  tlie  Department  of  Inspection  of  Im¬ 
ported  Plants. 
Newspaper  reports  from  Salina,  Kan.. 
Aug.  8,  state  that  disastrous  fires  and 
bomb  explosions,  believed  to  be  part  of 
the  retaliatory  measures  adopted  by  the 
I.  W.  W,  because  of  the  arrest  of  many 
of  their  organizers,  continue  to  cause 
thousands  of  dollars  loss  to  western  Kan¬ 
sas  farmers.  These  thrashing  machine 
separators  were  destroyed  by  bomb  ex¬ 
plosions  near  St.  John.  The  bombs  were 
placed  in  the  machines  at  night,  and  ex¬ 
ploded  when  Work  was  started  next  morn¬ 
ing.  Two  stacks  of  wheat  and  a  thrash¬ 
ing  outfit  were  destroyed  near  Dodge 
City.  A  farmer  near  Glasco  lost  a  $4,000 
barn  by  fire  of  mysterious  origin.  In 
the  same  vicinity  John  Butler’s  barn, 
containing  5.000  bushels  of  wheat,  corn 
and  oats,  was  burned.  There  has  also 
been  trouble  in  South  Dakota. 
WASHINGTON. — A un o u n come n t  w a s 
made,  Aug.  4,  by  acting  Secretary  of 
State  Polk  that  the  treaty  by  which  the 
United  States  is  to  purchase  the  Danish 
West  Indies  had  been  signed  in  Now 
York  by  Secretary  Lansing  and  Minister 
Constantin  Brim  of  Denmark.  It  was 
stated  authoritatively  for  the  first  time 
that  the  price  stipulated  was  825,000,000. 
The  treaty  provides  for  the  transfer  to 
the  United  States  of  three  islands,  St. 
Thomas,  St.  Croix  and  St.  John,  which 
have  been  the  subject  of  negotiations  be¬ 
tween  the  United  States  and  Denmark 
for  many  years.  The-  Administration  will 
ask  the”  Senate  to  ratify  the  treaty  at 
an  early  date. 
The  Senate,  Aug.  8,  passed  the  bill  to 
exclude  from  the  channels  of  interstate 
commerce  the  products  of  the  labor  of 
children  under  the  age  of  14  years,  and 
under  10  if  the  child  he  worked  more 
than  eight  hours  a  day.  The  bill  as 
passed  would  prohibit  interstate  com¬ 
merce  in  the  product  of  any  mine  or 
quarry  in  which  children  under  10  years 
<  f  age  have  been  employed,  or  in  the  pro¬ 
duct  of  any  mill,  cannery,  workshop,  fac¬ 
tory  or  manufacturing  establishment  in 
which  children  under  14  have  been  em¬ 
ployed,  or  in  which  children  between  14 
and  16  have  been  employed  more  than 
eight  hours  a  day,  more  than  six  days  a 
week,  before  0  o'clock  in  the  morning  or 
Inter  than  7  o’clock  in  the  evening. 
The  Federal  Trade  Commission  has 
completed  its  final  report  on  tlie  causes 
for  the  rise  in  gasoline  prices.  This 
final  report,  it  was  said,  will  go  iuto  de¬ 
tails  regarding  an  apparent  lack  of  suf¬ 
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producing  gasoline.  No  recommendations 
for  the  prosecution  of  any  concerns  are 
expected.  None  has  been  made  to  the 
Department  of  Justice.  It  is  understood, 
however,  that  Congress  will  be  told  that 
the  remedy  for  present  conditions  lies 
in  some  sort  of  regulation  of  gasoline 
manufacture  to  insure  real  competition, 
or  as  a  last  resort,  in  the  creation  of 
Government  machinery  authorized  to  fix 
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