IMS, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
849 
Hope Farm Notes 
Enjoying Things. —The following note 
from one of our Michigan readers is a good 
Thanksgiving sentiment: 
“1 am what young people would call an 
old lady, nearly 04 years of age. But I 
enjoy good, useful and pleasant things of 
life just as well as 1 ever did. and think 
I appreciate them more than I did years 
ago. The Ruby Queen and Crimson Rambler 
rose bushes have done well for me; the Ram¬ 
bler was indeed very beautiful this past sea¬ 
son. and we enjoyed it very much. I think 
it the finest premium I ever saw offered 
with a paper.” 
There is the point exactly. Experience has 
not taken enjoyment away, but has given a 
higher sense of appreciation. The young can¬ 
not appreciate what tilings really mean in 
the way of self denial and work, and it is 
doubtful if they are ever truly thankful, 
because true thankfulness involves a knowl¬ 
edge of danger and toil. As for those roses, 
there will be a little more cheerfulness in 
every farm home this year where one of 
the-' bushes climbs on the house. Ours has 
made a good growth, and it stands at the 
southeast corner of the house, with thorns 
for those who would tear it down and flowers 
for those who encourage it. 
Beauty and Bob. —All the Hope Farmers 
are reasonably thankful this year, if I may 
except Bob. Ills unhappiness is largely on 
account of Beauty.. Now a man is quite dif¬ 
ferent from a horse. Ask a man to go out 
walking witli a young and beautiful woman 
and he would hop at the chance, and put not 
only his best foot forward, but every foot he 
hud. if he had a corn or a stiff foot he 
would never let (lie public know it. All this 
is different with Bob. lie lias been selected 
as a good, steady horse to drive double with 
Beauty. Her highest ambition is to “go" 
and get away from a train or an auto, while 
Bob’s ambition is to stay and reflect about 
tilings. When Bob sees his beautiful partner 
coming out with the harness on lie groans 
inwardly. He is a steady horse, but lie 
doesn’t like to lie steady company for a bunch 
of nerves. lie might get along witli an older 
lady like Nellie, and he could shamble on in 
good shape with old Major, but Beauty is 
too much for him. Site trots him off his 
feet, and he knows that Nature never built 
him for speed in the first place, and then 
never gave him any ambition in that direc¬ 
tion. Unlike our Michigan friend. Bob 
doesn't enjoy this sort of a “good tiling.” and 
certainly doesn’t appreciate Beauty’s society 
in the harness, it is. in a way. a pathetic 
tiling to see this stiff little horse trying to 
keep iij) with the lively little mare. It hurts 
ill's feelings in three different ways to be 
obliged to gallop while she trots smoothly 
along at less than half her speed. However. 
Hob is more of a philosopher than Jerry. 
When that old fellow found that Madge was 
too lively for him he began to nip and hite 
whenever lie could get his teetli near her. 
Bob cannot be said to lie any more thankful, 
but lie says little and does no fighting—not 
a bad example for humans who find them¬ 
selves too fast or too slow for the harness 
partner. Under such circumstances it pays 
“to say nothing but saw wood.” This helps 
the throat and keeps the fire going. 
Cheerfulness. —I have met all sorts of 
people in my time, and I am sorry to say 
that a fair proportion of them complain 
and growl about their condition in life. 
Some of these people have good homes and 
relatives or friends who do their best to care 
for them. Still they growl, magnifying the 
unfortunate tilings and never seeing the 
blessings that lie all around them. Most 
of them are more or less idle, and I fear that 
some of them will come to Thanksgiving 
with anything but a thankful heart. Now, 
experience lias taught me that there isn’t 
much use in reasoning with such people or 
scolding them. The best treatment I can 
think of is to arouse the sense of shame in 
their hearts, and make them see how others 
are enduring worse troubles than theirs in 
silence. I often wish it were possible for me 
to print extracts from confidential letters, or 
tell things I have seen about brave struggles 
that men and women are making for a home. 
Cases have come to me where what would 
have been heart-breaking tragedies have been 
softened and made into blessed things by pa¬ 
tient love and devotion. I know of two 
women who live alone on a little place that 
they may have a home. When money runs 
short or crops fail one of them goes out for 
the Winter at cooking or any other honor¬ 
able employment in order to keep the home 
going. In a recent letter this woman says: 
“It really would be a pleasure to give our 
experience of farming in our small way 
should it be really of benefit to even one 
person, but there has been nothing but hard 
knocks and privations spelled in capitals. 
But there was also the hand of the Lord, 
which led us and is helping us over the hard 
places.” 
I know another woman who was left with 
a farm, a mortgage and a large family of 
small children, so combined that the average 
man would have run away from the combina¬ 
tion or committed suicide. This woman did 
neither, but patiently and cheerfully set her 
face to the future and. largely by her own 
labor, paid the mortgage and raised her chil¬ 
dren, so that they are good citizens. I have 
a dozen cases at the point of my pen where 
men and women have faced great trials and 
unhappiness, and witli cheerfulness braved 
them down. Thanksgiving will mean much 
to them. I wish I had turkeys enough to 
give every one of them a fat bird. For my 
part I would far rather join their ranks and 
do their work than doubt and moan with 
those who have never tried to do their best. 
When I was a boy the woman who brought 
me up would now and then stand me in the 
corner, point a long finger at me, and sol¬ 
emnly ask : “Are you doing rightt” I am 
not prepared to say that this laid the founda¬ 
tion of character, but it helped. I wish some 
power which could represent the possibilities 
that Aunt Mary Ann did to me in those days 
could continually point a linger at these weak 
complainers and keep this statement fingered 
into them : 
“There are many worse off than you!” 
Of course when this is read some will 
say, “This man may talk about .cheerfulness, 
but let liiin have the nip of misfortune that 
I have had, and lie would out-howl us!” 
Strange, isn't it, but that is just what I have 
been thinking about others. If I haven’t 
had my share of knocks I have made a mis¬ 
take in tiie count ! 
Farm and Home. —We are stocking up with 
forest leaves, it is slow business, and takes 
a long time to get a ton. and where other 
work was pressing the labor might not pay. 
These leaves are good for bedding and for 
the poultry, and there is good sense in letting 
Hie forest take care of the cleared ground. 
As for gathering them, we are told that we 
do not work right. There is a road through 
the woods into which the leaves have drifted 
We clean this first, so as to hold back any 
lire in the woods. The leaves are raked 
and stuffed into bags. This is an easy way 
to carry them, but a slow way to load. A 
bag of leaves will make a liorse forget that 
the sad season has come. . . . If a man 
thinks all this talk about the San Josd 
scale is nonsense he should take a lot of 
fro to our local markets. On his way he 
will pass a good many orchards—all of them 
showing dead and dying trees. When he gets 
to market lie will find small fruit, well 
pitted with scale marks, and a price out of 
sight. Seymour sorted over our Greenings 
and threw out a lot of small ones for hog 
feed. When he got to market he found that 
such fruit would bring 25 cents a small 
basket—and the hogs will have less apple 
pie. I teel a little doubtful about working 
WHO’S COMING? 
people into the Apple Consumers’ League 
when I see the prices they must pay for 
fruit. It looks like $3.50 and $4 per barrel 
for our best apples. The local supply is 
very noor and very short, and one can easily 
see how it pays to make a tight for the 
trees. Surely the scale has given us the 
opportunity of a lifetime. Are we large 
enough for it? . . . We have gone over 
most of the larger trees with “Scalecide” 
and kerosene and resin. The trees look as 
if they had been varnished. Will they kill 
the scale? I shall not know fully until 
next year. I have confidence in these soluble 
oils, but if the scale could be killed by con¬ 
fidence alone there wouldn't be one left in 
the country. ... It is time to move the 
mulch away from the trees and mound them 
tip for Winter. We have already found a 
few mice at work on the peach trees. Under 
the mulch we find the soil open and mellow. 
Tramp it down hard before mounding up the 
tree. . . . We are coming nearer to the 
shorter days of the year. These days seem 
too short for our folks to finish all the work 
that comes to hand. We shall all be thank¬ 
ful that we can work this year. An evening 
before the open fireplace is a luxury which 
every farmer ought to enjoy. With father 
and mother at the center of the circle and 
the others flanking them and the fire snapping 
and flaring, we may surely feel that home 
is worth working and saving for. We haven’t 
much use for what tlie town lias to offer at 
such times. . . . The election? Why 
yes—the Hope Farm man Is to stay at home, 
and this fact will cast no shadow on Thanks¬ 
giving Day. i srol IS votes among my neigh¬ 
bors, which is called a good showing. There 
are 25 on our road ! No man can beat that for 
a gain in percentage, for the last time I ran 
I had two votes ! A gain of 800 per cent 
isn't so bad. but I learned long ago that this 
per cent business isn’t worth a cent in the 
final show-down. Our New Jersey ballot law 
makes it very hard to vote an ’independent 
ticket. In some districts voting machines 
are used, but not I think with much satis¬ 
faction. In most of our county voters must 
stick a paster over some other name on the 
ticket and most people will not do this. 
Tiie names on the ticket are crowded so 
close together that tiie paster is not popular. 
Give us the Australian ballot and a good 
primary election law, and Independents will 
do better. As for election expenses, I do not 
hesitate to sav that I spent 14 cents for 
postage. 25 cents for a supper and five cents 
for carfare. . Tax paying time comes with 
Thanksgiving. What is there in that to h« 
cheerful about? Why—that's easy—the 
taxes might be higher. ... By the way 
we must not forget to lie thankful that the 
Alfalfa looks so well. It goes into Winter 
quarters a good deal more than half a suc¬ 
cess It was the careful soil preparation 
heavy manuring and liming and use of in¬ 
oculated soil that did it. Which are we 
thankful for? Ail three! h. w. c. 
THE TEST OF TIME-FORTY YEARS SERVICE 
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Forty years is a long time, isn’t it; and 
it is exceedingly gratifying to me to re¬ 
ceive such a commendation as the above, 
it speaks volumes for the JONES Scale. It 
is a testimonial of its durability and ac¬ 
curacy. Only the best of material and most 
skilled workmanship could justify such a 
testimonial and the fact that the brother 
orders a JONES Scale shows that the price 
is satisfactory. Will you please let us cor¬ 
respond with you with the hope that 40 
years from now you will be able to give 
our successors as good a testimonial? 
address 
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