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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 2S, 1022 
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Pastoral Parson and His Country Folks 
By Rev. George B. Gilbert 
A Great Day.— New Year’s Day was 
certainly a great day down in the old 
church. No one lives in sight of this old 
church, and anyone coming suddenly 
upon it would exclaim why anyone should 
ever have built it there. Hut in the old 
days there were eight occupied houses 
right in that vicinity. The last one is 
now falling to pieces. As the l’arson 
turned the key in the church door the 
thought came to him: Will there lie any¬ 
body here today? There weren’t a great 
many the last day the Parson was down, 
but when those who did come went home 
everyone was saying: “What a good 
time we had today.” Such a remark is 
apt to bring results. At time to begin 
church there was practically no oue there. 
Wouldn’t that discourage you? 
They Came.—B ut they came. We 
began service when we were good and 
ready; as we were there for the day, 
what did if matter? The Parson looked 
at his watch as lie stepped into the ves¬ 
try room to pot on his vestments—we 
were beginning an hour and a quarter 
late. As the service went on, and more 
kept coming in, and the Parson talked 
to them about the Christmas spirit— 
about peace and co-operation, instead of 
jealousy and quarreling, etc.— it seemed 
to the Parson that it was one of the 
greatest days he had ever had in that 
church. We have hud days with many 
more people—city people come to be with 
us, and 'blessed clays they have been—lmi 
here ^ were these people—-poor people, 
farming people—coming together as the 
Parson's family used to go together when 
he was a hoy. lie counted them as they 
sung ”<) Utile Town of Bethlehem,” anil 
there were dfi there, 20 of whom were 
men and boys. And as for church unity! 
Well, there they were — five Episcopal 
inns and IS Homan Catholics and Jews 
nnd Salvation Army, German Lutherans 
and what not! There were two Ameri¬ 
cans in the whole lot. There they were, 
all sitting together, so happy as we had 
the service and celebrated the Lord's 
Supper. 
The Violin. —Little Clossie went with 
the Parson, and little Clossie's violin 
went with him. And when it came time 
for the singing he stood out front alone 
and played the hymn through and then 
Ifid the people. < )f course liis playing 
isn’t what we hope it will he some time, 
but it was marvelous how pleased the 
people seemed to lie with il. What a 
comfort and joy the hoy had been all 
I lie way down. We ate away on a lunch 
most of the way, and had some 
Christmas candy in a bag down in a 
corner by the dashboard. And there lie 
stood helping so in the service. The jov 
and comfort that people might have in 
their children, and do not! I low often 
as we go along the Parson’s long arm 
goes around to bring the blanket tighter, 
and wo two will cling close together one 
mile after another through the lung 
woods! 
The Dinner. —After Ihc service we 
had the dinner. Such a fine dinner as it 
was! We can sent about .'50 at a time, 
and the o I hers waited for the second 
table. There was an abundance of good 
things for everybody. One family of six- 
had walked three miles and a half. Would 
your church send a family like that back 
home—up the long hills on the icy road— 
with nothing to eat? Perhaps so, and 
then wonder why they didn't come again. 
^ A Country Tnir.— As the. Parson and 
f’lossie Came along homo we glanced over 
a pasture fence, and there stood a big 
seven-passenger automobile by an old 
apple tree. It looks so attractive and 
easy when you are down in the city just 
to lake the car and run out in the coun¬ 
try and spend New Year's with your 
relations! But you better put in an ex¬ 
tra can of engine oil. for it isn't a trunk 
line all the way, with gas und oil every 
few rods. This party ran shy of oil 'way 
out in the back roads, and they pushed 
along, as there was noue to he had. until 
by (lie time they got to the relation’s 
house they had two burnt-out hearings. 
They worked on the car practically all 
the time they were there, for it was seven 
or eight miles from any repair shop. Then 
they took out one piston and tried to go 
to New York with five, but it. did not 
work! Three limes iu one day they 
started out, and each time had to he 
dragged hack with the horses. The Par¬ 
son found them one cold night down by 
the woods trying to turn her around by 
bund. The women folks had to go back 
to New York, and the men worked oti 
her a few days longer; then they left her 
by the apple tree and went back. Well, 
storage charges will lie reasonable there, 
anyway! 
Christmas in School.— Of all the 
Christmases the Parson had this year 
none was more merry than one he bellied 
to celebrate 'way down in n little country 
schoolhouso. It was six below that morn¬ 
ing. and the Divinity Student, the Parson 
had with him got a good deal of fresh 
air before Old Jim finished the 14 miles 
on a slow road. We got there about one 
o'clock. Many declared it was too cold 
for the Parson to come, but others as 
stoutly asserted that lie had come through 
many a worse day than that. The coffee 
was ready when we arrived, and the Par¬ 
son drew forth a big bag of ‘‘hot dogs” 
from under the wagon seat. They weren’t 
exactly hot at that moment, hut they 
soon got hot oil the coals of that old box 
stove. What a good time we all had! 
Cakes and goodies of every description to 
eat, and the children had trimmed the 
place up so nice, and a great big tree in 
the corner—a pine tree. The teacliei 
here carries her dinner, and so at the 
noon bony she and the children have lime 
to get up surh nice entertainments. The 
Parson told stnries and spoke his old 
standby. "The Church l-'air.” The 
Divinity fttudent gave them “Cohen on 
the Telephone.”. They gave the Parson 
a fine warm pair of home-knit mittens— 
just what he wanted to wear inside of 
his big leather gauntlet mittens. The 
teacher in this school loves her children, 
and they think everything of her, and all 
want to go to school. She seems to un¬ 
derstand the country and the ways of 
country, childhood. How far must xve 
(ravel in the country today to find a 
teacher or a country minister who does 
not. look Jit his job ns merely a stepping- 
stone to something better in the town or 
city ! Why must the experiments take 
place in the country? 
The Country ’ Store. — While (he 
country school, has come iu for a great 
deal, of discussion, there is another coun¬ 
try insl il ul ion. and a A ery important one, 
of which we rend very little, and that is 
the country store. Some would hold that 
the auto has killed the country store, 
carrying the people off to the‘city to 
trade, others have id,•rimed that the It. 
E. D. has put the country store, with its 
attendant postotlice, out of business. 
Still, the country store holds on. and the 
Parson knows of two that have recently 
started up right on State roads to town, 
and also on It, E. D. routes. Then, too, 
there are the mail order houses to com¬ 
pete with. 
Some Helps.— But the Parson has 
been reading about some things the store 
Could do (hat seem so reasonable. One 
country store slaps the latest mail order 
catalogue* light on the counter. “There 
they are; look at them all you please! 
Sit on the store steps i.ad read them at 
your leisure! Compare their prices with 
this store's prices. When you get goods 
fnuu them, bring them right into the 
store and compare them with ours. [f 
yon think .von can do better buying by 
mail, jltst let us show you interest in your 
welfare and mir honest appreciation of 
you wanting to buy the best goods at the 
lowest prices by writing out checks for 
you. and thus saving yon the expense and 
trouble of a money order.” < >ue store¬ 
keeper did this very thing, and nothing 
ever so won him the confidence of the 
people and so much trade! Some fellows 
working over in a tool factory iu a near¬ 
by city, on getting notice that the mill 
was to shiir down mi account of hard 
times, decided to lake a Kurd ear and 
shirt right out on the road nnd sell the 
tools they themselves had been making. 
They met with rather poor success until 
they found a large hook beside the road. 
Which proved to he a mail order cata¬ 
logue. Naturally they looked up their 
own line of goods, and there they were— 
the very same make nnd brand as they 
had in the auto. But the prices were 
decidedly higher than they asked. Con¬ 
sidering the distance traveled to and fro, 
and the handling, why shouldn’t they 
be? Well, sir, those fellows just took 
that catalogue and a handful of tools 
right into the fanner's house and spread 
theta right out on the table. “Finding 
that catalogue was the greatest stroke 
you ever saw," said one of the men to 
the Parson. "We are just being cleaned 
out." Even the Parson fell for a chisel ! 
No Loafer's Ha no-out, — No, of 
course not ! But lmw many stores have 
been llie only open forum that the farmer 
ever knew! Here questions ranging from 
the fatnilj to the nation has been thrashed 
out—and sometimes settled. One store¬ 
keeper had the good judgment to realize 
this. He arranged easy chairs around 
the old stove in Winter and along the 
front porch in Summer. He was more 
than pleasant ; sociable to those who 
might linger awhile. One old man spent 
‘practically all his time at. the store. His 
honesty was beyond question; it was 
often very convenient to have him sitting 
there, with a lip to watch tilings a hit 
while the storekeeper worked down cel¬ 
lar or in the shed. This storekeeper 
knew that while a man sat by (lie fire 
warming up lie would feel the need of a 
little crackers and cheese, and then a 
bottle of soda to wash them down, and 
the cheese being so good "a pound to take 
home.” Then the conversation would 
take the turn of a new cultivator or plow 
in the Spring, winding tip with at least 
an order for a couple of sets of m>\v mow¬ 
ing machine sections. This social fea¬ 
ture would seem to the Parson a very 
valuable asset to the store, which few 
now seem to realize as they did iu the 
old days. 
A Great Sameness. —There used to 
be an old fellow up home who spent most 
of hi-S time for years at Fargo's store, 
with its great high chunk stove, girt, 
around with an iron rail for you to put 
your cold feel on, and this in turn cir¬ 
cled around about with a row of easy 
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