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THE RURAI» NEW-YORKER 
December 31, 
Hope Farm Notes 
Florida Notes. —Our folks report de¬ 
lightful weather. While in the North 
the mercury is hovering around zero, the 
Southern Hope Farmers are out in the 
sun without coats. The nights are cool, 
and in that part of the State the orange 
growers are always apprehensive at this 
season. During the day, however, the 
sun is bright and warm, and it seems 
as if Nature had turned back the clock 
from Christmas to May. The boy gave 
them radishes from his garden on De¬ 
cember 10, and other cold-blooded vege¬ 
tables are coming on. Fish is plentiful 
at seven to 10 cents a pound, with new 
shad at $2 each. Needless to say our 
people eat fish and dream of shad. The 
hunters get an abundance of quail in 
the woods close by. Bacon is 35 cents 
a pound and milk 10 cents a quart, “with 
not a speck of cream in it.” The dairy 
business ought to Dav well in Florida, 
and we intend to look it up. Our folks 
buy flour and groceries in large lots and 
make over 30 per cent by doing so. Very 
little coal is used for fuel, but wood is 
to be had for the hauling. Prices for 
hay and horse feed are high. I think I 
can grind feed here at the farm and ship 
it down for less than we would have to 
pay locally. Frank, our old horse, is 
doing well. He is naturally a “high 
stepper,” and that quality carries him 
well in the sand. Including the three 
new children and a nurse there were 17 
in our party when they finally reached 
their destination. One young man went 
farther South and got a job packing 
oranges. The others have finally been 
organized and tucked away in good or¬ 
der for Winter. Mother had made 
arrangements for some boarders, but 
she realized that some people do not 
like to go where there are little chil¬ 
dren, so when the new ones came these 
boarders were notified at once. They 
would be made welcome, but if for any 
reason they would not like to come into 
a family with all these little folks it is 
fair that they should be told. These 
children will be taught to mind right 
from the start, and will not become an 
annoyance, but it is fair to give your 
customers all sides of the game, whether 
you are selling a horse, a farm or 
“board.” It looks like a happy Winter 
for our folks. 
Curing the Drink Habit. —Naturally 
we get all sorts of questions. During 
the Winter man}' of them relate to mat¬ 
ters outside of the ordinary bread and 
butter problems. Here is one which is 
often repeated: 
Can you tell me if there is anything 
that can be given a drunkard that will 
cause him to dislike the drain? There is 
a young man here whose wife’s life is a 
burden by reason of her husband’s convivial 
habits. There are many who advertise 
such remedies, but as they do not adver¬ 
tise in The R. N. Y. I am inclined to think 
they are fakers. 
No. I do not believe there is anything 
which will cure drunkenness in that way. 
I regard such things as fakes—many of 
them the meanest kind of frauds, because 
they attempt to work upon the feelings 
of a wife or mother to sell their stuff. 
I read some years ago of a woman who 
bought one of these “prescriptions” and 
had it put up and put .the stuff in her 
husband’s coffee. Some mistake was 
made and she poisoned her husband. 
Some years ago I talked with a man 
who was once a hideous character. He 
got down to be a mere brute. In some 
way he became interested in the Salva¬ 
tion Army, and finally stopped drinking 
and began doing what he could for poor 
and homeless boys. You might say that 
here was an expert on the subject of 
drunkenness. If I wanted to know about 
war I would go to some old soldier, or 
if I wanted the' facts about farming I 
would go to some successful farmer. So 
I asked this man who had “made good” 
what would cure drunkenness. I give 
you his answer just as he put it—it is 
the opinion of an expert: 
“There ain’t nothin’ but the grace o’ 
God that kin cure the taste for rum!” 
My conviction is that this man is 
right. Unless a man can get the “grace 
of God” in his heart your chemicals and 
your fine philosophy will fail. And, 
further, you cannot keep the “grace of 
God” alive unless you are willing to do 
freely and without complaint some fair 
and unselfish work for other people. Is 
it not possible to awaken in this young 
man some strong and worthy ambition? 
Give him something to work for. I have 
known people who wanted to give their 
friends some medicine to cure drunken¬ 
ness when what the poor fellows needed 
was moral medicine, which they could 
only get from those who ought naturally 
to set them an example. 
Get Right. —This is a great big ques¬ 
tion, particularly right now at the close 
of the year, when so many people make 
a balance of their money and morals. 
On Sunday night some of our folks 
went to a meeting at the little church in 
Florida. There they were in that lonely 
place, far from town and city—yet the 
great problems of life were much the 
same as those on Broadway. And the 
choir sang that song taken from the 
first chapter of Isaiah: 
“Come now and let us reason to¬ 
gether, saith the Lord; though your sins 
be as scarlet they shall be as white as 
snow; though they be red like crimson, 
they shall be as wool.” 
You remember how the song breaks 
forth into a genuine note of triumph: 
“ He’ll forgive thy transgressions and 
remember them no more!” 
I might go on with a long sermon 
with what 1 have in mind at the close of 
the year, but it seems better to let you 
think it out in your own way. The 
coming year will be a hard one for 
many of us. There will be hard prob¬ 
lems to meet and many wants to be pro¬ 
vided for. Young people with youth 
and all it means before them may think 
this new year and those which follow it 
are to be met and conquered by physical 
strength or intellect alone. Tho^e of us 
who are older know how weak and 
feeble these qualities are after all unless 
they be dominated and guided by the 
moral and spiritual. 1 would wish you 
all good things for the New Year. 
Wealth, power, ease, health—they would 
all be yours if 1 could have my way. 
If, however, I desired to do really 
great things for you and give you the 
spirit which alone can make these things 
really worth while, I should wish that 
you might have what my reformed 
friend called "the grace o’ God”; that 
would make your work, on the farm, 
in the shop or school, in the office or 
store — anywhere — no matter how 
humble it may be, a glorified and worthy 
offering. 
A Hard Winter. — I am well aware 
of the fact that Winter on a northern 
farm can be made a dismal and gloomy 
season if we care to make it so. While 
our folks in the South are out in the 
open air with the orange trees in full 
dress, I look out as I write upon a very 
different scene. The hills are covered 
with snow and clouds in the north show 
that we are to have still more. The 
orchards are bare and desolate. The 
turkeys go across the lawn as if they 
had chilblains. Across the valley a thin 
wreath of smoke is rising from a farm¬ 
house chimney. The sun is going over 
the western hill like a man who seems 
glad to get away and go home. It 
would not be hard for one to dwell 
upon the scene here at the close of day 
and almost wish he were a woodchuck 
and could sleep the Winter through. 
But I have been out looking at my trees. 
The brown wood on the peach tells the 
story of hope. The fruit buds on the 
apple make me know these trees are 
merely having a pleasant rest and that 
when Spring comes they will be out 
radiant as ever. The fact is that Spring 
will seem far better to us when it does 
come than it will to Florida people, who 
never see the desolation of snow and 
ice. Just as the apple tree is made 
stronger and better for its Winter rest, 
so I think a farmer and his family may 
be the better for the Winter season if 
they will look at life as it really is. 
Winter is the time for study and reading 
and thought. These things are . neces¬ 
sary to farming as plowing or milking, 
and they are genuine Winter crops. 
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