©>«  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
1235 
Frank  of  Peach  Hill 
By  Geo.  B.  Fiske 
(Continued  from  page  1219.) 
“Go  ’long,  you  young  fool,  you  ain’t  no 
constable !  Lemme  go.’’ 
“Any  farmer  has  a  right  to  arrest 
trespassers  on  liis  own  land.  It's  the 
law.” 
“Well?” 
“I  can  put  you  in  jail  on  a  case  of 
trespass  of  a  very  serious  kind,  and  get 
you  sentenced  besides  for  attacking  us. 
I  can  jail  the  whole  crowd  of  you.  and 
I  have  evidence  that  you,  Bill  Carey, 
planned  the  whole  thing  and  many  such 
other  things.  One  of  your  gang  has  been 
heard  talking.”  I  hinted  this,  that  I 
might  scare  him  about  the  barn-burning 
that  had  been  laid  to  his  door.  lie  caved 
in  at  that, 
“You  wouldn’t  put  au  old  friend  iti 
jail,”  lie  hogged,  “a  feller  that’s  worked 
with  you  and  drunked  with  you,  and  that, 
won’t  do  you  no  harm.” 
I  whispered  with  Harry  a  minute. 
“All  right,  Carey,”  I  said,  “I'll  let  it 
go  for  now,  but  no  more  trouble  that 
can  he  laid  to  you,  remember.  I  can 
jail  you  any  time.” 
“We’ll  pay  for  the  trees,”  lie  replied 
with  a  string  of  profanity.  Jiy  way  of 
emphasis.  “You  let  us  alone  and  we'll 
let  you  alone.  I'm  no  liar.” 
So  the  fight  all  went  out  of  this  crowd 
so  far  as  Concerned  Peach  Hill,  and  I 
have  had  some  of  thpm  working  on  my 
place  at  times,  .veil  disposed  and  glad 
enough  for  the  job.  For  we  had  the  solid 
people  of  the  town  with  us  in  all  this 
trouble,  aud  such  men  as  the  stable  crowd 
quiet  down  very  soon  when  the  town 
really  takes  notice  of  them. 
It  was  about  this  time  that  I  resolved 
that  when  I  should  he  in  a  position  to 
look  for  a  wife  she  should  he  one  like 
Hazel  Frost.  8he  has  the  kindness  and 
the  sweetness  that  a  lone  chap  needs,  aud 
the  firm  character  aud  thoughtfulness 
that  will  help  build  up  a  man’s  life. 
She’s  as  good  as  she  is  charming.  But 
young-manlike,  the  adjectives  I  applied  to 
lit:r  were  other  than  those  of  cool  judg¬ 
ment,  and  her  big  soft,  bright  eyes  were 
more  on  my  mind  than  her  housewifely 
I  could  mate  ’em  up  myself  better  than 
some  of  these  wooden  couples,  or  the 
fightin’  couples.” 
“They  might  get  a  divorce,”  I  sug¬ 
gested  to  lead  him  on. 
(To  he  continued.) 
Apple  Crop  Notes 
Cameron.  N.  Y. — There  will  be  an  av¬ 
erage  crop  of  apples.  w.  F,  H. 
Gardiner.  X.  Y. — Apples  are  light; 
some  large  growers  have  only  one-fourth 
crop.  J.  c.  jj. 
Frewsburg,  X.  Y. — The  apple  crop  is 
fair  in  this  locality.  While  it  is  not 
a  large  crop  it.  looks  as  though  there 
would  be  more  than  enough  for  home  con¬ 
sumption.  j.  p.  p. 
East  Hamilton,  N.  Y. — Apples  are 
good  here.  c.  w.  r.. 
Ivendallville,  Ind. — Apples  will  he  a 
poor  crop  here.  .  G.  f. 
Ilartwick,  N.  Y. — Winter  apples  will 
be  a  very  light  crop.  c.  ii.  M. 
Canandaigua.  X.  Y. — Apples  are  a 
light  crop  and  poor  in  quality.  E,  T.  B. 
Butler.  Tnd. — Summer  and  Fall  ap¬ 
ples  a  fair  crop.  Winter  apples  searce. 
t.  c.  K. 
Canton,  O. — The  season  has  been  back¬ 
ward,  and  the  dry  weather  is  causing  ap¬ 
ples  to  Pall.  Not  more  than  one-fourth 
crop  Winter  apples.  j.  c.  E. 
Chittenango,  N.  Y. — The  present  out¬ 
look  for  apples  is  rather  poorer  than  last 
year.  In  this  section  the  apples  are 
fairly  good  size,  but  not  many  of  them. 
r,  s,  a. 
Bronson,  Mich.— The  apple  crop  is  a 
failure  here;  what  fruit  there  is  no  good, 
and  the  orchards  nearly  dead  with  San 
JosG  scale.  J.  t*. 
Friendship.  X.  Y. — -There  are  not 
many  apples  in  this  immediate  locality, 
but  those  trees  that  come  under  my  ob¬ 
servation  and  from  what  I  can  hear  the 
crop  will  he  very  good.  J.  K.  C. 
Mankato,  Minn. — The  apple  crop  in 
this  vicinity  is  only  fair.  F.  c.  r. 
Belleville.  Mich. — There  are  almost  no 
apples  raised  in  this  vicinity  now. 
J.  F.  B. 
Seneca  Castle.  N.  Y. — The  apple  yield 
will  be  about  (>0  per  cent,  of  normal,  but 
the  quality  will  only  be  about  40  per  cent. 
There  is  a  great  difference  in  orchards. 
The  excessive  rains  about  the  fruiting 
time  developed  a  great  deal  of  fungus  and 
scab  and  only  orchards  that  were  thor¬ 
oughly  sprayed  and  cared  for  have  good 
fruit  r„  A,  i*. 
Grafton.  Mass. —  -7 ust  in  this  vicinity 
1  should  say  that  there  was  a  fair  aver¬ 
age  crop  of  apples,  but  on  a  ride  a  few 
days  ago  across  the  State  to  North 
Adams  then  north  to  Manchester,  Vt., 
and  home  through  Southern  New  Hamp¬ 
shire  I  did  not.  see  any  orchards  that 
seemed  to  have  a  large  crop  on  the  trees 
and  many  orchards  had  very  few.  Sim- 
ply  from  my  own  observation,  I  should 
say  that.  7f»  per  cent,  of  a  fair  average 
crop  in  Massachusetts  this  year  would  be 
a  liberal  estimate.  E.  M. 
26  Extra 
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MID-YEAR 
MODEL 
73  New 
Conceptions 
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A  Car  That  Costs  T  oo  Much 
In  an  Ordinary  Automobile  Plant 
When  you  see  the  Mid-Year  Mitchell  you 
will  wonder  how  wo  give  so  much  at  such  a 
modest  price. 
You  will  see  a  car  which,  inside  and  outside, 
seems  built  without  regard  to  cost.  You  will 
see  26  extra  features- — costly  things  which  other 
cars  omit.  Extras  which  cost  us  $2,000,000  on 
this  season’s  output  alone. 
You  will  ask  how  we  afford  it,  when  other 
like-class  cars  do  not.  And  that’s  what  we 
want  to  tell  you. 
Here  is  a  car  built  almost  without  castings. 
There  are  440  parts  which  are  drop-forged  or 
steel-stamped. 
Here  is  a  car  where  the  margins  of  safety  are 
never  less  than  50  per  cent.  Every  part  is 
stronger  than  it  need  be.  It  is  built  for  a  life¬ 
time  car. 
Six  of  these  Bate-built  cars  have  averaged 
164,372  miles  each — over  30  years  of  ordinary 
service.  One  has  run  218,734  miles  without  yet 
wearing  out.  " 
qualities. 
“Lovely,  lovely,”  I  would  murmur  to 
the  moon  above  my  hilltop,  And  then  gaze 
around  impatiently  at  my  makeshift 
buildings.  “It  will  be  a  couple  of  years 
before  I  will  have  a  living  income  and 
can  put  up  a  bouse.” 
CHAPTER  XVIII. 
A  Chat  With  Baknrv  Frost. 
Somehow  a  chap  always  feels  a  little 
cheap  and  a  trifle  blue  besides,  when  an¬ 
other  man  forecloses  on  a  girl  that  one 
bad  loug  considered  destined  to  be.  his 
own  special  property.  But  when  Lena 
wrote  to  me  of  her  engagement  to  Harry, 
I  hardly  felt  much  resentment.  It  seemed 
like  fate  that  I  half  knew  I  was  inviting 
when  I  moved  into  what  was  in  a  sense 
a  different,  world  from  Lena’s.  She  could 
hardly  have  followed  me  aud  been  con¬ 
tent,  and  what  should  she  naturally  do 
but  take  up  with  a  charming  fellow  who 
could  respond  to  her  lively  moods,  and 
who  was  at  home  among  things  she  loved 
best!  She  and  I.  and  Harry  too.  have 
gone  on  ever  since,  cordial-friends  with¬ 
out  u  trace  of  bitterness  or  constraint,  I. 
which  goes  to  show  that  we  two  may 
have  been  always  less  like  sweethearts 
than  like  brother  and  sister,  as  cousins 
should  be. 
“You  are  well  out  of  it,  my  young 
friend,”  declared  old  Barney  Frost, 
when  he  heard  of  it.  “Mighty  few  city 
gals  will  do  well  as  a  poor  man's  wife 
in  the  country,  and  when  they  do  most 
of  them  like  as  not  came  from  the  farm 
in  the  first  place,  aud  they  lived  in  the 
city  just  long  enough  to  get  tired  aud 
sick  of  it  all;  Country  gals  at  heart, 
them  gals.” 
“Not  all  the  country -bred  couples  do 
well,  either,”  I  objected. 
“Nope;  some  of  them  marry  just  be¬ 
cause  they  are  brought  up  near  together 
and  go  to  Uie  same  church.  -Not  but 
what  the”  church  is  a  line  place  to  look 
for  a  good  wife,  but  a  young  feller,  aud 
a  gal  too,  for  that  matter,  ought  to  move 
around  the '  country  a  bit  and  get  ac¬ 
quainted  some  before  they  settle  down. 
John  W.  Bate  Saves  50% 
John  W.  Bate,  the  great  efficiency  expert, 
has  built  a  new  plant  for  the  Mitchell.  He  has 
equipped  it  with  2092  up-to-date  machines. 
In  this  model  plant,  covering  45  acres,  he  has 
cut  our  factory  costs  in  two.  He  builds  here, 
under  his  efficiency  methods,  98  per  cent  of  this 
car.  Even  the  bodies  are  built  here. 
In  an  ordinary  plant  a  car  like  this  would 
cost  too  much  to  sell  at  rivals’  prices.  In  this 
plant  all  these  Mitchell  extras  are  paid  for  by 
factory  savings. 
*  •  r  *  i  . 
The  Hidden  Extras 
The  Mitchell  embodies  26  extra  features  which 
other  cars  omit.  Our  latest  model — the  Mid- 
Year  Mitchell — brings  out  73 
new  conceptions. 
Yon  can  see  these  things. 
And  they  make  the  Mitchell  the 
most  complete  car,  the  most  up- 
to-date  car  you’ll  find. 
But  the  greatest  things  Mr. 
Bate  has  accomplished  are  hid¬ 
den  in  the  chassis — the  things 
that  mean  .most  to  you. 
Mr.  Bate’s  17th  Model 
Our  latest  design — the  Mid-Year  Mitchell — 
is  Mr.  Bate’s  17th  model.  It  shows  the  results 
of  700  improvements  which  Mr.  Bate  has  made 
in  this  car. 
You  will  see  here  73  new  conceptions,  new 
ideas  and  touches.  Our  experts  examined  257 
models,  European  and  American,  before  this 
was  completed. 
You  will  find  a  power  tire  pump  on  it.  You 
will  find  Bate  cantilever  springs,  not  one  of 
which,  ever  has  ( broken.  There’s  a  light  in 
the  tonneau,  a  locked  compartment,  an  engine 
primer  at  the  driver’s  hand.  There  is  a  ball¬ 
bearing  steering  gear  for  ease  of  driving.  There 
is  a  new  type  of  control. 
When  a  man  buys  a  car  for  a  lifetime,  this 
is  the  car  he  wants.  The  value 
it  gives  will  amaze  you. 
Ask  your  nearest  Mitchell 
dealer  to  show  you  this  new 
model.  If  you  don’t  know  his 
name  write  us. 
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Successor  to  Mitehell-Lewis  Motor  Co. 
Racine,  Wis.,  U.  S.  A. 
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