January 7, 1922 
clover, and we will make another tree. 
Tomorrow I will scatter these ashes 
around the peach trees in our lower or¬ 
chard. They are free from borers, and 
there is a little mound of coal ashes 
around each trunk. The coal ashes are 
for protection; the wood ashes for feed¬ 
ing. Now. there is a strange thing which 
many people do not seem to understand. 
The ordinary coal ashes do not carry any 
amount of plant food, except for the small 
quantity of wood used for kindling or 
brightening the fire. Good soil out of the 
garden will give more plant food than 
coal ashes. Wood ashes, on the other 
hand, give a supply of lime as good as any 
other form, aud also potash in the hest 
form of fertilizers. It would he about the 
worst thing you could do to mix wood 
ashes with chicken manure, because the 
lime will drive away part of the am¬ 
monia. On the other hand, coal ashes, 
well sifted, make a good “mixer” for ma¬ 
nure. The coal ashes may be useful for 
walks or roads, bat it would he almost 
criminal to use wood ashes for any such 
purpose when our farms are suffering for 
lime and potash. What u sermon some 
minister could make out of this, could he 
sit hero and «ee the llame slowly eating up 
these great logs. They crumble away to 
a mere handful, and yet Ju that handful 
of ash may he found the essential, inde¬ 
structible elements which life has put into 
flic tree and commissioned it to carry 
along to an unending series of trees which 
are to come in the future. I would have 
the minister show the difference between 
coal aud wood, and why the latter retains 
potash and lime and phosphorus, while 
these elements have been leached and 
worked out of the coal. Then he might 
go on and make a fair comparison bc- 
tweeu men and women who retain their 
faith and hope and joy of life, and Lhose 
who permit trouble and disappointment 
to leach the things of the spirit out. of 
them. One class will leave the world 
little hope or encouragement, while the 
other class will leave a legacy of hope to 
cheer others on their way. There is a 
chance for a sermon in this, bnt this chair 
of mine is not a pulpit. 
HOPE FARM NOTES 
Those Who Dance 
Must Pay The Fiddler 
The holiday week, now ending, was a 
lively one at. Hope Farm. School was 
out, and the two hoys came home from 
college. That let. eight youngsters loose, 
and they surely ended the old year hap¬ 
pily, and will start the new one wiMi all 
the faith and courage of youth. Mother 
and I took a hand in the festivities—as 
far as mature years can follow youth— 
and it did us all good. Home is, or should 
he, built on such celebrations or memories 
of them. As I write this the air is turn¬ 
ing colder. There has been rain and sleet, 
but now, evidently, we are to hnve a 
freeze-up. Let it. come; we are all pre¬ 
pared for it. Downstairs are two fat 
geese waiting to sail us into the new year 
on a boat of gravy. My daughter has 
made a great, dish of mincemeat. There 
seems to me nearly a bushel of it, hut it 
will give you a peck of trouble to find a 
scrap of it iu 48 hours hence. On the 
night before Cln-istmas little Rose scraped 
the last of the dough off the hoard, f >und 
a spoonful of mince, and made a pie about 
two inches in diameter. She left this by 
her stocking with a note for Santa Claus! 
In the morning the pie was gone. Quite 
likely Santa Claus went home and told 
his wife about the pies “mother used to 
make." The apples are still holding out, 
after a prolonged aud vigorous assault, 
and there are a few nuts left. The chil¬ 
dren are all here, gathered about the roar¬ 
ing lire. They have been singing some of 
the old songs, hut now we are all silent, 
looking at the lire. I would like to know 
what they are all thinking about. AI oue 
extreme of age, T imagine mother is think¬ 
ing of the two older hoys, who cannot he 
home. As to the other extreme of age, 
little Rose, her thoughts are rather more 
material. She borrows my pencil, and 
finds a piece of paper. Then I see her at 
the table screwing her little face about, as 
if to wind tip her thoughts, as she writes 
her message; 
'■1 like to eat apples!” 
A very timely suggestion, it seems lo 
me. So she trots out to the kitchen aud 
brings iu two apples, I can cut them up 
aud we eat them together. Cherry-top 
lends me his hunting knife for the carving. 
The doctor has told Rose that she must 
always eat the skin. Like the bran of the 
wheat, the apple skin contains most of the 
minerals and hone-formers. That doesn't 
interest Rose. All she knows is that, the 
doctor tells her the skin is “healthy.” 
She has confidence in her adviser, and 
that is enough. I think, as I sit here, of 
the millions of grown-up men and women 
who seldom try to reason for themselves, 
but accept advice without question. Some¬ 
times" rhe advice is sound; at other times 
it is all wrong, llow the destinies of this 
old world have been swung to aud fro 
through this blind following of advice and 
the fierce reaction which comes when wc 
find, or think we find, the advice is 
wrong! 
There's a settlement in profit or loss, for 
nearly every indulgence. 
Sometimes the pay day is long deferred, and 
in that case the settlement may bear compound 
interest. 
Often a payment in ill health is required for 
the dance had with tea or coffee during earlier 
years. Sometimes the collection comes in sleep¬ 
lessness, sometimes in headaches, sometimes in 
high blood pressure, or in nervous indigestion— 
sometimes in all these penalties. 
Nerves won’t always stand the whipping of 
tea and coffee's drug, caffeine. 
If you’ve been dancing to tea or coffee’s fid¬ 
dling, why keep on till payment time comes? If 
you’re beginning to pay, now, why not cancel the 
contract? 
here's an easy and pleasant way to avoid 
tea and coffee’s penalties, as thousands have found 
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for what may happen to sensitive nerves. 
Instead of paying penalties for your meal¬ 
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natural health a full chance—and begin the new 
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made instantly in the cup b}' the addition of boiling water. 
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There is another member of the family 
here tonight—that is. Crowder, the hound 
dug. lie has pushed his way iu between 
mother and one of the girls, and now lies 
with one eye open looking lazily at the 
fire. Crowder is what you may call an 
expert at hunting rabbits or conns, You 
ought to see him get his nose to the trail 
of a rabbit, and then go loping through 
the woods, now and then letting out that 
deep cry which is like music to a hunter’s 
ear. For most of his life Crowder was 
denied the house. He made his bed as 
best he could in the barn or in the shed, 
for our folks were strict in saying that 
they would not have a lazy dog in the 
house. But a strange and abiding inti¬ 
macy between tbe buy and the dog has 
developed. Crowder has shown himself 
to be a clean and faithful friend. By the 
exercise of what you may call genuine 
character he seems to have overcome 
prejudice, and here he is with us, looking 
at the fire as seriously as any other Hope 
Farmer. I wonder what he sees there. 
There was a time for back in the ages 
when his ancestors were sworn enemies 
iff all humans. Fire was the only thing 
they feared. When night came those old 
ancestors of Crowder’s were masters. < fin* 
own human ancestors grouped in half ter¬ 
ror around their fire, not daring to pass 
out of the range of the light, and without 
weapons to drive away the slinking figures 
which eyed them from the shadows! Some¬ 
where along the line our ancestors made 
slaves of Crowder’s forebears, and here 
he is one of us, ready to fight aud die for 
us. if we were in danger. I would like 
to know what he sees in the fire. Fire! 
Once the chief enemy of his race, now his 
best friend ! 
Postum for Health 
“There’s a Reason” 
So Rose and I sit in the firelight, eat¬ 
ing nur apples and thinking opr thoughts. 
I know a man who will not decide any 
important question until he ran have a 
chance to "milk over it.” He wants to 
milk about a dozen cows and think over 
the scheme w hile his hands are busy. The 
milking stool is his personal throne of 
judgment. Another man likes to lake an 
old horse he owns and work him en the 
cultivator or in the woods, lie thinks 
Peter, the veteran horse, somehow influ¬ 
ences his mind to think clearly and come 
to a decision. Both those men are sound 
and sober-minded people. They might 1 1 
offended if we suggested that their minds 
sought companionship with cow or horse; 
but milking and driving do help to clear 
their brains. A« for me. 1 would rather 
not settle any great question until I can 
"eat an apple over it.” A good mellow 
Baldwin or a spicy McIntosh will usually 
put flavor into thought, and help us think 
things nut straight. And you may judge 
a man by his taste iu apples. I had a 
visitor once who wanted to see the or¬ 
chard. 1 took him up the hill, showing 
him the different varieties, and telling 
about them. It was a little late in the 
season, but I found a beautiful McIntosh, 
red and mellow, and fragrant—just right 
for eating. I thought I was handing my 
friend a wonderful gift, and I followed 
it with a perfect Northern Spy. My 
friend took a bite out of each, aud I saw 
on his face that message which has caused 
near heartbreak to many a housekeeper. 
“Shall I swallow this unpleasant thing to 
oblige my both or shall I follow my own 
inclination and spft it out?” 
As we went, on he picked up a green 
Ben Davis windfall, and hit into it. The 
thing may seem incredible, but he 
promptly threw the Spy and the McIntosh 
away, and went on eating the Ben Davis, 
including the core! Now the question is, 
would you trust any such man as that? 
If you were going through a dark wood 
with bin, at night, it is a ten-to-one propo¬ 
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There is another thing about Crowder. 
Wliut will be the effect of this change of 
life upon his character aud usefulness? 
Nature arranged that he should ho a 
hunter. Down through a long line of an¬ 
cestors Hie has handed him instinct, fine 
scent, strong lungs, courage and stout 
muscles. All these belong to outdoor, vig¬ 
orous life. The snap of the cold, the urge 
of self-preservation, the sense of responsi¬ 
bility, all are necessary if he is to hunt 
successfully. What effect will this soft, 
indoor life have upon the dog? Will he 
grow lazy and timorous willi ease? Will 
this warmth and comfort make him more 
and more dependent on man, and less aide 
to fight for himself? Can a dog lose the 
self-reliance which belongs to bard con¬ 
ditions, aud thus become less of a hunter 
ns be enters a softer life? On the other 
hand, will not instinct and habit still force 
hirn to hunt, and will not association with 
human* give him greater inducement to 
fight for them? I think this over because 
I have just been told by an old teacher 
that the trouble with our modern young 
people is that their lives are made too 
easy. He says they lack self-reliance and 
fighting spirit, because they do not. have 
to work and endure as he and I did. Well, 
I am not quite so sure as he is about that. 
That fire is not hot enough to suit me. It is much like Crowder and his easier 
Nlother is afraid of sparks, and in ordi- life. Perhaps I could tell better if I knew 
miry weather -he throws ashes on the what the dog sees in our fire through 
blaze when it reaches the chimney. On hie half shut eyes. Life is a hard problem 
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