12 
January o, 1918 
"Ghe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
HOPE FARM NOTES 
1 )ot'iw.F; Power. —I want you to look at 
iliat ))('acli stuiiii) and root I liavp just 
luit on fho firp. T will call that the text 
lor ihe New Year’s talk which we are to 
have, on the last night of the old year. 
’I’hat was a big tree—it lived about 15 
years, and gave us a dozen crops. I doubt 
if you ever saw anything quite like that 
I'oot. 'I’here are big .side roots about like 
the surface roots of most trees, but at the 
bottom of the stump you see those big tap- 
loot.s, going straight down like the roots 
of Alfalfa and clover! ’I'here is no mis¬ 
taking them—there they ai'e. The tree 
had a double sy.stem of roots. That was 
line of old Stringfellow ti-ees. Some 
yeais ago we took little .Tune buds and 
<-ut the roots all off and cut the stiun back 
to about 15 inches. Then w<‘ punclu'd 
holes in the ground with a crowbar, put 
the little stems down into them and tilled 
in wilh sand well packi'd down. 'J'hey 
grew, and this severe iviot-pruuing d(“v<'l- 
<iped the root which you now see burning 
uj) as a New Year's text. They were 
strong, long-lived tr(>es, and 1 think their 
great vigor Avas due to these big tap-roots 
Avhich went down hunting for water. They 
had double power, and as they buiii away 
T think of the double ])ow<‘r of manhood 
which so many of us never make use of. 
A Hard Y^kar.—No use talking, this 
year which oj)ens tomorrow will be filled 
Avith trouble and great ])roblems for all 
of us. The opening of the year 1804 Avas 
a Idack outlook for many )a‘oi)le, for the 
Civil War seemed dragging on and the 
lirospect Avas cruel and hard. People did 
not know Avhat Avas coming, and it needed 
great faith and patience on the ])art of 
common people to stand fast in the place 
assigned them at home. I talked Avith a 
man the other day Avho seeim'd hopeless 
because he said no matter Avhich Avay the 
Avar goes the plain people Avill have no 
chance. If Germany Avins. this man says, 
not one of us will have the right to say 
Ave are free. I agree Avith him there. If 
Germany is beaten, he says this great 
army Avill come back and dominate the 
country. They Avill no longer be men and 
boys of peaceful, quiet dispositions, but 
men trained to kill and determined to rule. 
After our Civil War it AA’as easy to break 
up the army and divert the attention of 
those soldiers by opening up the great 
stretches of Western land. There is 
nothing of that sort noAA'—and Avhat are 
Ave to do Avith the sold'ers Avho Avill not 
settle doAvn to work? I am afraid my 
gloomy friend has not considered this 
double poAver of manhood ! 
Old Sim hit. —Then I have another 
friend—an old soldier. He is noAV nearly 
80, Avhite-haired but still erect and full 
of fire, lie reads bis paper and sees hoAV 
day after day nothing .seems to be doing. 
The other day he threAV doAvn his paper 
in disgu.st and hit the table Avith his fist. 
“If I could only have my old regiment 
back once more Ave Avould shoAV them Avhat 
Ave did at Malvern Hill. AVhy. Ave Avould 
march right through this Ilindenburg line 
they tell about, right across the Ithine to 
ITerlin, hog-tie the Kaiser and the CroAvn 
Prince and bring them back Avith us! 
'I'hese young felloAvs are too sIoav I” 
There are probably not 50 of the old 
regiment left. They fought in blue uni¬ 
forms, Avhich simply made a good target 
for the enemy. ■ They had muzzle-loading 
muskets and bayonets Avhich seem like 
toothpicks beside the murderous Aveapon 
of today. Imagine this old regiment of 
feeble Avhite-haired men lined up in the 
path of machine guns and great shells 
Avhich dig a hide in the ground larger than 
a cellar. That journey to the Ilhiue 
Avould end abruptly, I fear. The old .sol¬ 
dier is Avrong in his idea of the single 
l)ower of material things, but he is right 
Avithoiit knoAving it, for the double poAver 
of manhood Avould do Avhat he says. Do 
you knoAV that if that remnant of the old 
regiment should line up in front and nnwe 
forAvard the Avhole army Avould folloAV 
them Avherever they Aveut? For these 
younger men Avould see in these old vet¬ 
erans the spirit of the past fighting at 
their side—leading them on. That’s it— 
the spirit of the past—the double poAver 
of man. Bret Ilarte brings it out in his 
poem, “John Burns of Gettysburg.” You 
have no doubt read hoAV during King Phil- 
ili’s War the people of Hadley, Mass., 
Avere being driven by the Indians Avhen 
suddenly a Avhite-haired man, Goffe, the 
regicide, aiipeared and rallied them. It 
is this siiirit—the ftld life of the past— 
Avhich gives this double jjower—like these 
peach roots going doAvn straight after 
water. 
A Great Battle. —I have been think¬ 
ing of this and applying it to a personal 
vicAV of the New Year after reading an 
account of the Battle of the Marne by a 
FT’enchman. At the opening of the Avar 
the Germans Av<‘re ready and the French 
AA'eri' not. The great German army rolled 
in upon France like a tidal AvaA’e, and the 
French army steadily moved back before 
it until a point Avas reached Avhere France 
must stand or die. It is a strange thing, 
but such moments liaAm come to France 
in her history oftener than to other na¬ 
tions. Perhaps it is due to the peculiar 
nature of the French people, but again 
and again France has been at the point 
of desti’uction, and has been saved only 
Avhen her people gi-asped this double 
poAA’ci’ of manhood and jierformed the 
miracle. 
For that is Avhat hajiiiened at the Battle 
of the IMarne. The Germans expected to 
Avalk right into P.aris—Avhy not? The 
French had i-etreat(‘d before them. The 
Frenchman Avas a “nice little man,” but 
Avithout discipline, and a iiea.sant and 
dancer r.ather than a lighter. The Germans 
made tAvo mistakes in this. They thought 
the Fi'ench Avere running because they 
Avei'e falling back for a good place to 
stand, and they could not realize this 
doul)le j)OAver of manhood. At last, on the 
banks of the river ;Marne, the French 
stood in line. Then Gomu-al .Toffre issued 
his famous order: 
“The hour has come to hold at ail costs 
and allow onrselres to he slain rather 
than dire way. - * * We have hut 
one business on hand—to attack and repel 
the enemy!" 
And then the French army, as other 
armies before it have done, took on the 
double poAver of manhood, brought back 
the spirit of other days, performed the 
miracle and droA'e the Germans back. 
IIiSTORY.^—As I huAm said. French his¬ 
tory is full of ju.st such instances. At 
Orleans France Avas in ruins. Her sol¬ 
diers had been beaten so often that it was 
said that all they kncAv about Avar Avas 
hoAV to run aAvay. Then appeared .loan 
of Arc— a young gi)-l Avho brought back 
the spirit or faith of the French, and 
they sAvept the enemy aAvay. At Yalmy 
the fate of the iicaa' French GoA’ernment 
hung in the balance. !\Ien had given up 
hope and were running Avhen a small 
French army stood up against the in- 
AM'ulers in Avhat se<'med hopeless battle. 
As the enemy came on this little army, 
determined to fight or die, sent up a great 
.shout, “Lony lire the nation!” The very 
sound of it struck terror to the enemy 
and the advancing host actually stopped 
and then reti-eated. At the battles of 
Tour.s, Denaine and Bouvines much the 
same thing haj)pened. A great Avave of the 
enemy SAvept in U])on France and it seem¬ 
ed as if the man proAver of the nation 
<'Ould not ('iidure. It nev'er could have 
done so on the single man poAA’er of ma- 
t(M-ial or brute strength. In each case the 
spirit of France came to these soldiers, 
and with the double poAA’er of manhood 
they iierformed the miracle, stopped the 
enemy and saved their country. 
ArPLicATioNs.—N oav Avhat I am get¬ 
ting at—here at the close of the year—is 
this: All history and obserA’ation shoAVs 
me that every successful nation or every 
successful human life has its Battle of 
the Marne. There Avill ahvays come a 
time Avhen the pressure is .so great that 
the single poAver of material things Avill 
I)rove too feeble to hold. Then, like these 
soldiers at the l^Iarne, or at Orleans, or 
at Tours, A\m must find the double poAA'er 
of manhood, rise up out of the ordinary 
strength of life and make one supreme 
eflort to get hold of the spiritual side of 
our cause. This coming year of Avar is 
to make this all the more necessai'y for 
each one of us to do this. I could give you 
dozens of instances out of common life 
Avhere this .serene, strong, unflinching, 
spiritual .side of human character has 
Avorked out miracles. Let me tell you 
that no miracles .are CA'er performed Avith¬ 
out it, Avhile Avith it everything is pos¬ 
sible. I could tell you some inside history 
of the great fight made by the dairymen 
Avhen they Avon the advance in price of 
milk. There Avas a Battle of the Marne 
fought in a room of this city Avhere this 
same double poAver of manhood turned the 
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