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November 23, 1918 
TShe R U RAL N EW-YO R K E R 
HOPE FARM NOTES 
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.Satvirday aud Sunday (November 9-10) 
were anxious' days with us, as w’e were 
waiting to learn the outcome of the first 
negotiations for peace. We read bow the 
Gorman envoys came inside the Allied 
lines and how ^larshal Foch read the 
hard terms to them and gave them 72 
hours to ans\yer. I have a picture show'- 
ing Bismarck and the Emperor Napoleon 
III. at Sedan. The boys and I studied 
that with great interest. At Sedan 48 
years ago the hopes of the French nation 
were crumbled in the dust. My picturej 
shows Napoleon after he had surrendered 
trying to make reasonable terms with 
Bi.smarck. What a contrast between the 
two men. The Emperor who had driven 
his country into an unjust and uncalled- 
for w'ar, slouches in his chair, a cringing 
and beaten man. Bismarck sits unriaht— 
proud and arrogant, for he has this Em¬ 
peror and 80,(K)0 of his soldiers like an 
egg in hLs iron grasp ! As we looked at 
this picture news had just come that our 
.\merican soldiers had driven the Ger¬ 
mans out of Sedan. I wondered how Bis¬ 
marck and the Emperor would regard this 
last scene—if spirits are permitted to re¬ 
turn and view the scene of their earthlv 
labors! There must have been a mighty 
contrast when Marshal Foch stood up and 
read those tei-rible peace terms to the 
(Jerman envovs. It is hard for my boys 
to realize it, but Marshal Foch seems to 
me greater than Napoleon, Hannibal, 
Alexander or the other gi’cat captains we 
read about. Time paints a hero in rosy 
colors. The present puts up the drab 
commonplace tints, but it seems to me 
that Ferdinand Foch is one of the world’s 
great captains. 
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No news came on Sunday and I settled 
down to a reading of Watson’s “Story of 
France.” Long before daylight the chil¬ 
dren came running into my room shouting 
■‘The war is over !” Even the baby. Rose, 
who probably knows as little about this 
war as anyone, danced and jumped about 
as the fearful sound of bells and whistles 
and gongs came sweeping up the valley to 
( ur hills. Something had certainly hap- 
[leued for, in all their history, these 
rough hills of New Jersey never were 
called upon to echo back such an awful 
.sound. Right in front of our house stands 
a big iron gong which serves as a fire 
alarm. Cherry-top called up the mayor 
and got permission to sound that gong. 
.\s long as I live I shall have in mind the 
picture of that boy marching out of our 
yard and taking up the big hammer. It 
meant much to that boy—for he real’.zes 
what this war is for and how it affects 
our family. I can see him yet swing that 
big haminer and bringing it down upon 
the iron with a sound well calculated to 
make the Kaiser shiver as he_ fled from 
Germany into Holland. Oh, it was an 
awful noise, and no time for “silent con¬ 
templation. At night we had a groat 
bonfire on our hill. It represented the 
primings from the orchard—accumulation 
for three years. The children had agreed 
not to burn it until “peace came,” and we 
let it off with a great blaze. Little Rose 
sat beside the fire on a carriage robe with 
furs around her and wmtehed the fire, 
while Mother fried bacon for our peace 
sandwiches. Little Rose sat silently look¬ 
ing far off across the great valley, her 
eyes full of wonder—not knowing what it 
was all about. She is now three years 
old and may live to be 100. I^t us hope 
.she may never*see another world war! 
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Our whole nation went crazy. Flags 
appeared on every house. On the train 
the young people organized a chorus and 
marched through each car waving flags 
and singing “America.” We all stood up 
and took off our hats as they sang—and 
every man and woman who is worth being 
classed as an American felt a lump in the 
throat and found a mist coming before 
their eyes as these fresh young voices rose 
above the roar of the flying train. 
‘‘Long mag '\land he hright 
With freedom's holy light.'’ 
It was great—it was wonderful—this 
fine outpouring of the national spirit. 
Some crusty old cynic (if such there be 
left in the country) may sav that this wms 
only a reversion back to the old barbaric 
days when savages danced and yelled 
around their conquered enemies. Let him 
talk. If he could only have some sort of 
a thrill that would make him stand on his 
head or dance like a madman there would 
be more hope for him. It will do any of 
you good to skip back into the old bar¬ 
baric days of your ancestors now and then 
and take a large bite out of elemental hu¬ 
man nature. And so, carrying this sing¬ 
ing and flag-w'aving crowd, with bell ring¬ 
ing and whistle screaming, the _ train 
rushed on to iff: destination as solid and 
steady and resistless as fate. 
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This great city was wild with joy. 
There was a “fake” celebration only a 
few days befor>‘—but this was merely 
practice or exercise for the greater tumult 
which came with the real thing. _ Every 
possible device for making a noise was 
utilized. Stores were closed, factories 
shut up, and l'0,'()fl0 bells a'nd whistles 
were ringing and screaming at once. I 
saw one man in a fine car dragging a milk 
can, a bath tub and a string of tomato 
cans over the pavement. Great bells were 
mounted on trucks and driven about, with 
boys and girls founding them with ham- 
mei-s. Yet I saw nothing to compare^ in 
noise with the iron gong on our lonely 
road, which my boy pounded into its awful 
cry of victory. It was a wild celebration 
which no human power could have 
stopped. The war is over! The Kaiser 
has run away! Victory! America has 
won! -r 
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Yet there w’ere some in that wild and 
noisy throng who went about in thought¬ 
ful silence. It is true that this means vic¬ 
tory. But what sort of a government will 
be found in Germany? Can it make a 
t; permanent peace, or will it go as the Rus¬ 
sian nation has gone? What is to be the 
future of all this upheaval? .Vill these 
wild-eyed and shouting people prove as 
calm and strong under trial as they are 
now excited under impulse? Does this 
wild outburst of noise really represent 
,the ruling force of America? No one 
could answer. As the sign on one truck 
stated, "The Kaiser is in Dutch," and 
Sthat settled it. * * * And there were 
others to whom this wild celebration 
brought regret mingled with a holy joy. 
These were the men and women who 
must go through life with a golden star 
on the service flag and burned into the 
heart. For it has cost the life and blood 
of nearly 75,000 of our American youth 
to make this victory possible. Thus it 
was that in the midst of all this riot and 
outburst of s.nvage joy there were men 
and women who went softly through the 
round of their duty thinking of what 
might have been. They had made a 
mighty sacrifice, but in their hearts they 
could feel a joy which these wild cele- 
bators could not understand. 
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One of our boys is in Arizona on a 
surveying outfit. He writes us that not 
long ago, while at work near the moun¬ 
tains. they saw a group of Indians coming 
up the path. An Indian woman carried 
a small black bundle while five men fol¬ 
lowed with blankets and tools. What the 
woman carried was a dead baby, and that 
silent group wms marching up into the 
eeci’et, silent places among the mountains 
to bury the child. That is the Indian 
custom. I do not 'know what their 
thought is, or why they seem happier that 
their dead are buried far back from the 
sight of man. but that is their habit, and 
it brings them comfort. As the boy 
writes, "you know an Indian never cries!" 
They have other ways of expressing their 
grief, and the mental picture of that silent, 
tearless group, marching far back into 
the mountains that they might find a 
nameless grave for the child, impressed 
me deeply. There came to mind the first 
verse of wdiat I regard as one of the 
noblest poems in the English language, 
“The Burial of Moses”: 
“By Nebo’s lonely mountain, 
Gn this side Jordan’s wave. 
In a vale in the land of Moab, 
There lies a lonely grave. 
And no man knew that sepulchre 
And no man saw it e’er. 
For the angels of God upturned the sod 
And laid the dead man there.” 
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I have just heard from several people 
w'hose boys have been killed in Europe. 
During the long and bloody march across 
France when the Americans pushed the 
Germans back at - the point of the bay¬ 
onet, many a beautiful youth was left be*- 
hind in a nameless grave. There is a lit¬ 
tle white cross on a lonely hillside in 
France. That is all there is left of the 
happy, promising life which so cheerfully 
entered the service. These poor printed 
words will go into many a home now in 
mourning for just such a priceless youth. 
The Indian woman, following some 
strange old mysterious custom burys her 
child in a nameless grave where only the 
God of her understanding may knov/. To 
us, that namele.se grave in France would 
seem more than w'e could bear to think of 
were it not for the gl-oi\v and devotion 
which we know is buried there. So what 
can I do better than to quote the last 
verse of that poem ! 
“O lonely grave in Moab’s land, 
O dark Beth-peor’s hill. 
Speak to these curious hearts of ours 
And teach them to he still. 
God hath his mysteries of grace. 
Ways we cannot tell; 
He hides them deen—like the hidden sleep 
Of him He loved so well.” 
H. W. c. 
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Marketing Cottage Cheese 
L. r. Baird, De Soto Co., Fla., asks 
several questions in regard to the manu¬ 
facture and sale of cottage cheese. As I 
have been in the business for the last five 
yeai’S, will try to give some information. 
I live midway between two villages, one 
of about 1.200 inhabitants, the other 
some 600. I keep two cows, make butter, 
and use the sour milk for cottage cheese. 
I find a ready sale for all I have, hardly 
over coming home with any left. I have 
sold since .January 1, 1,504 packages. I 
put it up in %-lb. packages, which sell at 
10 cents each. I use ice cream or oyster 
pails, first wrapping the pail in parch¬ 
ment paper. I get most of the pails back, 
so as to use the-i'second time, which is 
quite an objeetj with the price of pint 
pails at $7.50 per 1,000. S. T. s. 
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