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■Ghe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
The Pastoral Parson 
(Coiitimied from pago 82) 
be. The Sunday school kills the oppor¬ 
tunity for a .social and conversational 
period after church. It drives home 
those who won’t stay and half starves 
those who do. The country church does 
not need or want two organizations. 
The matter of teachers drives the min¬ 
ister nearly frantic. One superintendent 
down country ordered the teacher w’ho 
hoarded with him to get a new place if 
she did not teach in his Sunday school. 
Half a dozen teachers expounding as 
many different explanations of a pas¬ 
sage that none of them understands to 
groups of children, hungry and restless, 
having no poiTit of contact with the le.s- 
son whatever, will never build up a coun¬ 
try church. If the Sunday school was 
from heaven it would not go so hard 
and make so much trouble. Have the 
courage to drop it. Those children who 
had walked six miles after midnight did 
not have to stay an hour after service 
and sit .still, hut we went up.stairs aiul 
there we had Christmas stories and a 
big cake and some games, and they went 
off home asking when they could come 
again. 
8axta’s Footprints, —At one school- 
house it was impossible to have a tree 
this year, and when the Pastoral Parson 
went down the going wms so bad not 
many could come out. So we put up .a 
fine tree in the corner of the schoolhouse 
and trimmed it with a box of Christmas 
candy and a picture for every scholar 
and the teacher besides, and went off and 
left it there. You can see the looks of 
those I.onely Road children when they 
filed in on the-morning after New leaf’s 
and found it there waiting for them. 
A Wish For At.l. —And so the Pas¬ 
toral Parson and family had the best 
Christmas they have ever had. with many 
favors from many friends, and far bet¬ 
ter than all was the little giving we did 
both here and there, and may the haj)- 
piuess of the Christmas season last us 
all along the roadway of the coming year! 
Making Pop-corn Crisp 
We run a small farm, hut we some¬ 
times ^'Hestge in some little enterprise 
nut strictly in the line of farming to 
help out tile cash income. We wish to 
make some popcorn crisp. This is our form¬ 
ula. Put seven pounds granulated sugar, 
one i)ound glucose, fuie pint molassc'S, 
one pint water, one teaspoon salt, into a 
copi)er kettle and cook to 308 deg. Add 
one j)ound melted butter ami boil 
through the batch. Pour this over a 
Imshel of itopped corn, stir quickly and 
well, and roll out to desired thickness. 
This makes a well-flavored crisp and 
when first made is nice and brittle, but 
it soon becomes sticky. Y o should like 
to know whether we can improve its 
keeping quality. e wish to make^ up, 
ahead. 100 iiackages or more and sell it at 
the fair, hut we hesitate to do so for 
fear it might become sticky and unsal¬ 
able. / C. c. P. 
.MasiJachusclts. 
We sent this question about from one 
authority to another, unable to obtain the 
desired information until it reached R. 
R. Knott of Roston. He is an expert on 
the preiiaration of popcorn candy. INIr. 
Knott says that this proportion of sweets 
is good, but perhaps C. C. P. has not 
boiled the mixture a.s high as m>eded. 
His advice is to put in the molasses 
after the corn syrup has been boiled up 
to the desired temiierature. First put in 
the .sugar and boil that to as high tem- 
jierature as |>ossible without burning. 
’Then put in the corn eyrup and boil this 
mixture up once more. Then add the 
molasses and again boil as high as pos¬ 
sible. If this mixture is cooked .slowly 
it will heco.ue more sticky than if it is 
Cooked fast. Ho not try to cook it too 
fast, as that would cause burning, but 
apply the heat as rapidly as the mix¬ 
ture will stand. The kettle u.sed for this 
cooking should have what is called, a 
steaming cover. These are made so that 
the steam condeuse.s on the cover and 
runs down the side of the kettle thus 
cleaning it thoroughly. It is well to u.se 
a cover like this even if it is merely 
made of wood. Another thing to be used 
is a swab, that is a cloth wound around 
the end of a stick or brush. Wet it in 
a little water and wash down the s.Jes 
of the kettle. Burning is started by the 
candy that splashes up on the side of 
the kettle. If .vou do not want the candy 
to become sticky you must make it so 
that it grain.s. rorn syrup keeps the 
syrup from graining, provided enough of 
the syrup is u.sed, yet if too much corn 
syrup is used the candy becomes sticky. 
C. C. P. may be able to u.se some brown 
sugar, in which case even le.ss molasses 
would bo necessary. The proportions are 
now right if he u.ses all granulated sugar, 
but in a case of this kind experiments 
must be made in order to hit exactly the 
right operations. Some candy-makers are 
using substitute fats in the place of part 
of the butter, as this gives a little better 
results. 
Disposing of Liquor Circulars 
In regard to sending liquor circular.s 
through the mails to those who do not 
Avant them, I discovered, some time since, 
a very effective way to stop this. When 
the circulars are delivered by the post¬ 
master, carefully preserve the envelope in 
which they came. Take out the circulars 
and throw them in the stove, hut n(ive the 
addressed en velope that is sure to accom¬ 
pany the circulars. Fold the envelope 
containing your name and address, and 
enclose it in the one containing the name 
and address of the Avhisky man. seal it up 
and drop in the post office, hut do not 
put a stamp on it. It now becomes the 
duty of the postmaster to notify Mr. 
Whiskey-dealer that he has a letter ad¬ 
dressed to him that is being held because 
the postage has not been paid. The whis¬ 
key man will naturally conclude that 
some one of his customers has ordered 
.some whiskey and forgotten to stamp the 
letter, so he mails the necessary postage 
and has his letter forwarded. When it is 
received and found to contain nothing but 
the name and address of his intended 
victim he very quickly takes the hint and 
takes your name off his sucker list. 
Ho not put your name on the outside 
envelope or in any way allow your port- 
master to know that you mailed the let¬ 
ter. If he has this information it is bis 
duty to call on you for po.stage. If ne 
does not know who mailed it, it is then 
his duty to notify the party to wb.om It 
is addressed. There are a great many 
liquor dealers and it may require some 
time to get rid of all of them, bbut it is a 
certain remedy if persisted in. 
Georgia. w. i.. wii.i.iam,so.\. 
A Housecleaning Suggestion 
Every time I read anything .about bed¬ 
bugs it gives me the creeps, and the only 
.Tammry 20, 1917. 
real cure I have found is (juicksilver. 
First of all take out everything, springs, 
bed frames, and have a kettle of boiling 
water and pour througb all holes and all 
over where a bug could lay an egg. 
Bru.sh mattress thoroughly. Be sure all 
covers are bung on lines for wind to blow 
through. Mix 10 cents Avortb of quicK- 
silver with the beaten whites of two eggs 
till it is smooth and gray; take a very 
small brush or stick and cover every seam 
rrack or hole just as lightly as you cau 
spread. Pillows as well as mattress also 
floor cracks, picture frames, mop boards, 
in fact any piece of furniture that has 
even a trace of a bug. Make a thorough 
job of it and it won’t take one good trial 
to convince anyone that it kills the worst 
pest on the earth. It took me two Sum¬ 
mers to exterminate the bugs from the 
house I moved into, but have not seen a 
sign of one in eight years. J. E. E. 
“What are you going to make of 
your son Charley?” I asked. “Well,” 
replied Ch.arley’s father, ‘T made a doc¬ 
tor of Bob, a lawyer of Ralph, and a 
minister of Bert; and Joe is a literai’y 
man. I think I’ll make a laboring man 
of Charley. I want one of them to 
have a little money.”—Life. 
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