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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
May 24, 
Hope Farm Notes 
THE NEW HOME. 
The poets have found the home and its 
relations to the family a favorite theme. 
Longfellow took the beginning of a new 
home in “The Hanging of the Crane.” 
“Oh fortunate, oh happy day. 
When a new household finds its place.” 
Will Carlton took another side in a way 
that appeals to many old farmers: 
“Out of the old house Nancy 
Moved up into the new. 
* * * * 
Only a bounden duty 
Remains for you and I, 
To stand by the old house, Nancy, 
And bid the old shell good-bye.” 
I knew of a man in Colorado who had 
lived for years in a poor shanty in a 
lonely comer of the hills. He finally made 
his “stake” and could easily have built a 
new house or moved to the city. When 
some one asked him why he did not do 
so he said: “It would he too far from, 
home/ 3 There was a farmer in Iowa who 
went out as a pioneer and got hold of 640 
acres of land at $1.25 per acre. When his 
children grew up to be young ladies and 
gentlemen they finally induced him. to sell 
half his farm at over $200 per acre. Then 
they built a fine new house, but somehow 
father and mother could hardly fit into it. 
One of thh girls wanted to tear the old 
original log house down and make a lawn. 
She could not understand her father's anger 
at the suggestion, but it frightened her. 
I remember an old soldier in the far 
West who had bought a farm. This man 
had been wounded in the head—the bullet 
still lodged in his skull. It was one of 
those peculiar pension cases where a spe¬ 
cial act of Congress was necessary. Just 
as this soldier’s mortgage came due his 
wife fell sick and wheat began going down.. 
There was no other cash crop and this 
man borrowed money at the bank at fearful 
interest, putting up his wheat at the local 
mill at about 70 cents per bushel as secur¬ 
ity. He satisfied part of the mortgage and 
sent his wife to a hospital. Then the price 
of wheat began to drop down, down, and 
the bank had most of its money out on 
the crop. Old western farmers will remem¬ 
ber these days- when there was a great 
over-production of food and no one had the 
courage of Joseph to provide against the 
coming lean years. If wheat kept on going- 
down this old soldier without any pension 
would lose his crop and his home, for all 
would be needed to satisfy the bank. I 
have often tried to imagine the thoughts 
of this old veteran off alone in his poor 
farm shanty. Then of a' sudden some mad¬ 
men—a group of them—in Chicago under¬ 
took to “corner” wheat. They boomed the 
price up to $1.25 or higher, and just be¬ 
fore the “corner” crumbled this farmer 
sold his wheat. Almost at the same time 
Congress gave him his pension. When the 
news came, that man walked out of the little 
postoffice, held up both hands and shouted: 
“Titanic God! Thank God! Jehovah has 
triumphed — his people are free!” 
Wery likely he had not thought of it for 
years, but his mind went back to the Sun¬ 
day school in some old New England 
church where he had learned about the 
deliverance of the Jews from the Red Sea. 
There flashed before him the picture of a 
woman shouting and singing in savage joy: 
“The horse and his rider hath he thrown 
into the sea ” 
The grain gamblers in Chicago had 
ruined themselves and their friends, but 
their gamble had saved this man's home, 
and every man on the street said : “That's 
right! That's so !” That old soldier paid 
his mortgage, and built a better house, 
which was ready when his wife came from 
the hospital. When she, still nervous and 
feeble, saw it she fell right on her knees 
and cried: “This is home! Think of it, 
I’ve got a home !” 
These things and many others like them 
came into mind as I looked out of the 
front window of the old church which is 
now the The R. N.-Y. building. This is 
not to be a description of the place. Wo 
shall come to that later with a good pic¬ 
ture, which will show it far better than 
I can write. It is enough to say now 
that little more than the shell of the old 
building remains. The interior has been 
made over—not unlike putting new and 
modern works inside of a valuable old 
watch case. 
The Chelsea Memorial Methodist Church 
is a strong organization, and it erected a 
strong and unpretentious building. It was 
a church without a steeple, just a square, 
solid edifice, which brings to mind the 
typical Methodist of half a century ago. 
This was a solid, earnest, rather stubborn 
man of the middle class,, sound and sen¬ 
sible, fearless and straight to the point. An 
ornamental steeple on this man’s church 
would seem as much out of place as a 
high hat on his own sensible head. Yet 
perhaps this man’s religion would have been 
more mellow and more adaptable had there 
been more beauty in the service and its 
surroundings. 
As it happens The R. N.-Y. was started 
the same year that this building was erect¬ 
ed, in 1S49. At 64 most men begin to 
feel that they are getting along the road, 
if they have not felt so for some years. A 
church and a paper may be considered 
active young sprouts at a century if they 
do not let the shell of old habits or 
prejudices grow inward and absorb the real 
life and power of growth. In a way the 
church and the paper may well be treated 
now and then somewhat as this old church 
building has been handled, with new 
Works and modern organization, without 
changing the strength and power of the old 
essentials. And so, in a way, we may also 
keep youth and hopeful labor in a man. 
At any rate, the church outgrew its old 
home, or rather its people moved away, 
and the church followed them. Perhaps 
I should say these worshippers took their 
church with them. You see, the flow of 
life on this wonderful island of Manhat¬ 
tan follows the well-worn channel which 
runs from every crowded section out into 
a new country." At first there was a hand¬ 
ful of Hutch men at the southern point of 
the Island with Indians camping on land 
now worth $50,000 per foot. As the city 
grew the upper part of the island became, 
in a way, what Ohio or Indiana were to the 
New England people one hundred or more 
years ago. The rush has gone on, and 
year by year the big dollar of the landlord 
has chased more and more people across 
the river into New Jersey and up the 
island and across to the mainland. I have 
a friend who thirty years ago lived in the 
house directly across Thirtieth street from 
the old church. His people moved about 
three miles north and he has not seen the 
place for twenty-five years. So the Metho¬ 
dists followed the human tide and went 
north. The R. N.-Y. has done much the 
same thing, for manufacturing and business 
are also being chased away from the 
crowded corners of lower Manhattan, as 
the old residents leave their homes in the 
middle of the island. First there will come a 
newer class of tenants, and then, slowly 
but surely, here and there a business 
finger works in, rips out a block or a 
single house and up goes a solid new 
building. In all its years The It. N.-Y. 
has never until now had a home of its own. 
It has moved about here and there in 
rented quarters, somewhat like a tenant 
farmer. Now, after 64 years of work and 
wandering, the paper and the old church 
come together. Sometimes a man farms 
as a tenant for many years. He is a good 
farmer and he grows good crops and raises 
a good family, but somehow there is no 
definite, permanent home. Finally, almost 
by chance, this man finds a farm which 
he may own. It can hardly be called an 
abandoned farm, yet it has been deserted 
by the former owners and is on the road 
to the hands of strangers, who cannot fully 
appreciate either its sentiment or its pro¬ 
ductive power. Let us suppose this tenant 
farmer takes this old farm and starts in 
to fit and adapt it to the needs of his 
family and to their future. Such an 
illustration will be clear to most of you 
who read this, and it expresses as well as 
anything can the motive and hope of The 
R. N.-Y. as it settles into its new home. 
Our tenant farmer puts his foot on his own 
soil with a new sense of dignity and cour¬ 
age. As he looks out over his own fields 
there comes to him the desire to be a bet¬ 
ter farmer than ever. He is to write the 
record of his years upon his own farm 
and try to make his home headquarters for 
good farm citizenship. And so in a larger 
way this is just the feeling of The R. 
N.-Y. as it makes the abandoned church 
over into its first real home. 
You will hear all about the material side 
of the business in the future, for you are 
to have a share in the business plan’s. This 
is only a sketch of impressions—something 
to carry in mind. There is one human linn 
which stretches across the gulf of 64 years. 
A man who helped build the original build¬ 
ing also helped with the remodeling. This 
man is a lather, now over 80 years old. He 
put lath into the building 64 years ago 
that were good for another round when 
they were uncovered. Some of our kindly 
disposed readers have referred to the edi¬ 
tors and publishers as “thundering from 
the pulpit” oftlie old church. I fear that 
their best effort would seem but a feeble 
clap of thunder, and the truth is that the 
offices are about as far as they could be 
from the old pulpit. The editors and pub. 
lishers„are close to where the old organ 
stood. They will silently pump wind into 
the paper under as high ^pressure as pos¬ 
sible and let the big press do the thunder¬ 
ing. From the rear of the building one 
may look out over the housetops to the new 
Pennsylvania Railroad station and the new 
postoffice. In a nearer view is the long row 
of city backyards, with lines of fluttering 
laundry, monotonous back fences and feeble 
attempts at little gardens and shrubbery. 
In the front we look down into Thirtieth 
street. Here the ebb and flow of the 
human tide goes quietly on. On pleasant 
days babies are brought out of the houses 
and wheeled up and down the sidewalks, 
While old people sit in sunny corners and 
watch the quiet street where boys play ball, 
dodging among the wagons and trucks. The 
other day as I stood watching the street 
an old, white-haired man came feebly along 
the way with two young boys. The old 
man stopped in front of our building, 
straightened himself and pointed with his 
cane, like one who tells his grandchildx-en 
the proud record of some great achievement. 
The boys listened and then the old man, 
shrugging his shoulders like one who is 
sure of his past, but doubtful of the future, 
walked slowly on with his boys. They 
looked back at the building with many a 
headshake. I pictured him in mind as 
one of the old ■worshippers of years ago 
when to his eye this building stood like a 
city of refuge to those who needed help. 
With his white hair and staff this man 
seemed to me like one of the old prophets 
telling his younger generation bow the 
shrine of his early faith had fallen into 
strange hands. As he limped sadly away 
I felt like running after to tell Mm that 
while there is no pulpit left in the building 
we realize what it should stand for. 
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A Rake all the time 
A Tedder when you* 
need it. 
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Eastern Branch: 
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in 
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This convertible Side Delivery Rake and 
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of one tool, and makes it possible for you to 
air-cure your hay so that you can haul it in 
the same day it is cut. 
A very attractive, feature of this machine 
is its simplicity of operation. By means of 
a single lever driver can raise or lower entire 
machine without leaving his seat. 
Change in Five Minutes 
To change the Rake to a Tedder, take out one 
bolt, shift the gears and reverse the forks. A 
wrench is the only tool you need. 
Either as a Rake or a Tedder it is a complete 
and substantial tool that will give good service. 
With exception of tongue it is built 
entirely of steel. 
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Look for the Flying Dutchman Dealer 
He will gladly show you any of the Flying 
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machine. Yielding deck pre¬ 
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Adi-ianca 
Mower 
The Adrianee has many spe¬ 
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5*00 
Make $4 to $8 more per acre from your Peas, 
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Don’t knock oft the seed and leaves with a 
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BUNCHER AND WINDROWER 
Saves all the seed aDd leaves and half the 
labor. Does away with extra trips over the 
field with dump-rake, side-delivery-rake and 
tedder. Crop is deposited to side out of the way 
of mower and team on next round and is left 
in loose hollow bunches or windrows, heads 
and leaves In center and the stems, which 
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NO BLEACHING—CURES QUICKER-F1TS ANY MOWER 
NO SEED OR LEAVES WASTED 
If you are not one of the 100.000 satisfied 
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Dept. H BOWLING GREEN. OHIO 
Saves a Man and Team 
Operated 
by the man 
on the lead. 
Operated with 
gasoline 
engine. 
Drum holds 
240 ft. of rope. 
Ireland Hay Hoist 
A powerful machine that saves time and labor in 
storing hay and in other hoisting. Used in con¬ 
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your own engine. Works strongly and steadily. 
Safe and easy to operate. Under Instant control. 
Pulley to suit your engine. Guaranteed as rep¬ 
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IRELAND MACHINE & FOUNDRY CO., Inc. 
Box 14, Norwich, New York. 
HAY CAPS 
Stack, wagon and implement covers; 
waterproof or plain canvas. Plant bed 
cloth, tents, ete. Circulars, samples. 
HENRY DERBY 
453 Y St Paul’s Ave., Jersey City, N. J. 
A GENTS— $173 in two weeks, made by Mi. Wil 
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JACK COMPANY, Box O, Bloomfield, I ml. 
It pays to bale your hay in 
DEDERICK’S 
STANDARD 
Baling Presses 
Catalogue Free 
P. K. DEDERICK’S SONS, 
42 Tivoli St., Albany. N. Y. 
FENCE 
1V/TOST durable fence 
Iv-L made. HeaviestwiresN 
Double galvanized. Stock'! 
strong. Chicken tight. 
13 to 35c per rod. 
Sample free. We pay freight 
The Brown Fence & Wire Cc 
Dept. :>!) Cleveland, O. 
90 FOR THIS 
—DANDY GATE 
These gates are not 
a special lotbuiltdown 
to a low price, but are' 
full of the same qual- 5 
ity, satisfaction and?' 
durability which can J 
bo obtained in any of our 
triple-galvanized, high- 
carbon steel 
Iowa Gates. 
The filling of this serviceable and ornamental gate is 
extra close diamond mesh. Gate has strong frame, pat¬ 
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Style E Farm Gate, illustrated below, is another 
lender sold at a much lower price than asked for other 
gates of its kind, l’ainted or galvanized. Ail sizes. 
The best lumber dealer in your town has those 
? atcs on sale. If you don’t know hia name, write us 
or booklet, name of dealer, special prices, etc. 
IOWA GATE CO., 4 5 Clay St.. Cedar Falls, la. 
