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E*/>e  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
November  IS,  1910. 
HOPE  FARM  NOTES 
Make  your 
hay  fields  pay 
“Ike  Sawyer’s  Hotel”  b?  to  f^oy 
place.  As  tun  b 
The  Tiiankfullest  Day.— It  was  In ~c  the  room  with  w; 
year,  as  I  recall  it,  at  about  tit's  .-.ison,  tlie  snarl  furled  o 
one  of  the  children  asked  s  e  ,t  .  uangc  the  old  lady  wit! 
question  :  went  to  her  room 
“ What  nas  the  thank fullest  t ley  you  fttinO  back  to  sit 
ever  saw?”  the  sweet- faced  ol 
Now  I  have  seen  somewhere  around  l', 
20,000  days  come  and  go,  and  evorv  one  j‘f  ,  1 
Of  them  had  n  dozen  things  to  he  thank- 
fill  for.  I  sometimes  think  as  the  hands  •  .  el  uv>H. 
crawl  around  the  clock  at  llopc  Farm  Feet  anti  Ha 
that  the  day  they  are  recording  right  now  cook  in  a  quick 
is  about  the  best  of  all.  I  have  passed  his  little  box  and 
Thanksgiving  Day  in  the  mnd,  in  the  I  have  seen  »  c 
snow,  in  a  swamp,  on  a  mountain,  in  a  much  as  the  Frc 
crowded  city,  on  a  lonely  farm — under  in  his  great  kitchi 
about  all  the  conditions  you  can  men-  seem  to  equal  the 
tion.  I  have  given  hearty  thanks  over  pared  when  Anni 
baked  beans,  salt  pork,  bread  and  cheese,  played  feet.  Ike 
turkey  and  all  the  rest,  but  before  the  tire  jn  front  of  his 
to-night  somehow  they  all  burn  away  ex-  brought  floor  a  in 
cept.  that  experience  in  Ike  Sawyer's  needed  for  makin; 
Hotel.  side  her  chair  as  I 
Tottgh  Lecic. — They  were  stuck  in  the  work.  Now  and 
mud — with  a  broken  axle — in  a  swamp  in  upon  hcr  shoulde 
Northern  Michigan.  No  one  had  dreamed  her  beautiful  heat 
of  an  auto  in  those  days.  You  forded  the  her  guests  Annie 
•swamp  and  stream  in  the  primitive  old  — a  beautiful  sn 
way.  It  was  a  rich,  middle-aged  lumber-  strange  look  to 
man  and  his  young  wife.  How  this  woman  who  sat  \ 
tough,  hard,  pine  knot  of  a  man  ever  so-  it.  seemed  like  ai 
leeted  this  soft-handed  and  selfish  girl  I  there  came  a.  pti: 
cannot  see.  She  had  come  with  him  into  first  faint  glitnme 
the  woods  on  one  of  his  business  trips,  this  old  man  an 
and  the  silence  by  day  and  the  whispering  trouble,  out  of  tin 
of  the  pines  at  night  had  filled  her  with  and  preserved  th 
terror.  The  rough,  sturdy  man  suddenly  earth's  blessings— 
saw  that  unlike  his  first  wife,  this  girl  f?tTPi’R Whei 
was  not  a  helper  and  a  partner,  hot  a  toy  more  tJmn  uo.Ooo 
— a  hothouse  flower  who  could  not  live  „ 
his  life  or  help  fight  his  battles.  TTe  had  ?n  tint  line  to  stu 
»  >"»!"»  dr.nl  °"  »*jd*  7:  « 
q mred  all  his  energies,  but  this  girl  could  l)ovor  fn 
not  understand  or  help  him.  She  had 
begged  and  cried  to  go  back  to  “riviljza-  Kic  Saved  hj 
tion,”  and  they  were  oa  their  way.  And  ,.1  ,. 
in  this  lonely  piece  the  axle  of  the  car-  mi  .  .  '  i'T.  ,d  t 
riage  had  snapped  and  left  them  in  the  and  A]m;e 
D1U<^  ing.  1  le  came  wit! 
Desolation. — It  had  been  one  of  those  and  cut  slices,  mu 
gray,  melancholy  days  which  seem  to  fit  ing  with  her  thin 
best  into  the  idea  of  n  New  England  were  not  too  tliii 
Thanksgiving.  Now  twilight  was  coming  herself,  selected 
on  and  there  were  dark  shadows  in  the  mixed  the  gravy 
swamp.  The  woman  had  climbed  out.  of  the  sputter  in  the 
the  mud  and  stood  on  a  log  by  the  road-  done,  Ike  pushec 
side.  She  had  been  crying  in  her  disap-  table  so  she  coal 
pointment,  for  she  had  expected  to  reach  arrange  the  servo 
the  railroad  that  night,  and  spend  pushed  her  chair 
Thanksgiving  in  the  distant  city — far  half  a  dozen  plan 
from  this  lonely  wilderness.  Her  husband  cut  two  little  nos 
was  bargaining  with  an  old  fanne*  who  side  the  plates  of 
finally  agreed  to  haul  the  broken  carriage  in  the  ham  and 
back  to  the  blacksmith  shop  for  repairs.  baked  potatoes,  t 
“I’ve  got  entertainment  for  beast.”  he  the  apple  pie.  1 
said,  “but  not  for  man — so  I  can't  put  vant.  would  have  1 
you  up.  Quarter  of  a  mile  down  the  gently  announced 
road  Ike  Sawyer  runs  a  sorter  hotel.”  “Dinner  is  servi 
ne  hauled  the  carriage  out  of  the  mnd  Ike  Sawyer,  w 
and  started  back  along  the  road.  There  proval,  simply  inv 
was  nothing  for  us  to  do  but  hunt  for  the  “Set  by  and  eat 
hotel.  You  may  have  seen  some  strong,  Qtvtng  Thank 
capable  man  come  to  a  crisis  In  his  life  and  human  that 
where  it  suddenly  flashes  upon  him  that  natural  thing  to  d 
the  woman  of  his  eboieois  after  all  made  and  pepvish  by0un; 
of  common  clay,  Avith  little  of  that  spirit  nfti„  2  j 
or  courage  which  we  somehow  think  $ Lg*  f  mV 
should  belong  to  the  thoroughbred  It  -  ld  m.  f 
was  a  very  doleful,  unhappy  little  woman  •  ,v>  ;',n; 
and  a  sad  and  silent  big  man  who  walked  'Ti  «  i„. 
through  the  mud  and  up  the  little  sand  inectach 
hill  in  search  of  the  hotel.  They  bad  ‘ 
nothing  to  be  thankful  for,  and  yet  did  ,  ......  pa 
they  but  know  it,  they  were  to  find  the  J°u  £  < 
most  precious  thing  in  life  in  this  lonely  for  Thanksgivin,  ,! 
solitude-  Then  in  the  de< 
TnE  Hotel. — Around  a  turn  in  the  popping  of  the  fi 
road  we  came  in  sight  of  a  long,  rambling  of  the  night,  as  1 
building,  weatherbeaten  and  out  of  re-  man  bowed  his  he; 
pair.  Over  the  door  was  a  faded  6ign,  lie  prayed  that  tl 
“Farmers’  Rest.”  On  the  little  porch  gates”  might  find 
.lust  under  this  sign  sat  a  white-haired  go  on  his  way  th? 
woman  in  a  wheel-cbair.  In  front  of  the  ings  of  life. '  Fr 
house  a  little  man  with  a  bald  head  and  eyebrows  the  eye 
a  pair  of  great  spectacles  perched  at  the  man  glowed  with 
end  of  his  nose  was  chasing  a  hig  young  wife  glance 
Plymouth  Rock  rooster,  about  the  yard,  faded  away  from 
The  old  people  had  not  noticed  11s,  and  became  the  land! 
we  stopped  in^  the  road  to  watch  them,  bustled  about  tern 
The  old  man  finally  cornered  the  rooster  more  of  this  or 
by  the  garden  fence  and  carried  him  and  at  every  won 
flapping  and  squawking  to  the  old  lady,  upon  liis  stock  ex] 
She  examined  him  carefully,  and  evident-  “It’s  her — Ann 
ly  approved  the  choice,  for  the  old  man,  play  feet.  Every! 
still  holding  the  rooster,  pushed  the  more  skill  than  fe< 
wheel-chair  into  the  boose  and  then,  Their  Story  — 
picking  up  his  ax,  started  for  the  chop-  ll);m  '  ,  Vis  jf 
Ping  block  just  as  we  turned  in  from  the  lnoldn®  out  illfo 
road.  We  startled  him  so  that  he  ,, 
dropped  the  rooster.  The  gray  bird  did  gcntly  ‘arotmd  her. 
not  stop  to  welcome  us,  but  darted  ofr  ,i,a  am  ... 
into  the  shachnvs.  lie  mounted  the  roost  L  ' 
in  the  l,onho.r  from  which  the  old  Ban  Aftwl! 
easily  pulled  him  a  little  later.  djshes  and  caught 
.  The  ITotel-Keepeb. — Yon  may  have  rooster  we  all  tn 
seen  old  pictures  of  country  hotel-keepers  talked.  With  a 
bowing  and  scraping  as  their  guests  nr-  the  lumberman  d 
rive.  Ike  Sawyer  could  not  play  the  part.  Years  before  he 
He  just  peered  at  us  over  his  spectacles  a  good  farm  in 
and  rubbed  his  hands  together.  they  beard  of  tlir 
"Walk  right  in,”  he  said.  “Me  ami  that  was  to  be  bu 
Annie  can  put  you  up.”  Then  he  led  the  gan.  A  city  was  l 
way  into  the  shambling  old  house.  It.  road  was  coining  a 
was  dark  now,  and  the  old  man  lighted  ont  golden  wings  < 
a  lamp  so  that  we  could  look  about  us.  It  is  strange  how 
The  old  woman  did  not  rise  from  her  Annie  cannot,  see 
chair,  but  she  smiled  up  a  welcome.  home  and  old  frio 
“Ain’t  walked  for  10  years,”  explained  make  life  satisfyin 
her  husband.  “I  play  feet  and  she  plays  of  the  stuff  used  ii 
hands  and  between  us  we  make  out  fine.-’  they  cannot;  rcalizi 
The  old  man  bustled  about  and  started  plausible  dreams 
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