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be that you can find some old chap round 
that in his younger day helped his father 
in the business. Go and get him and you 
do everything yourself, only have him 
round to watch you and tell you how. 
Striking tiie Match. —But we will 
light it just the same if we cannot get 
anyone to show us. We will take a paper 
bag and put in fine kindlings and saturate 
it Avith kerosene, and standing over the 
cob house we will light it drop it down 
the chimney-like hole. We will follow it 
up with more kindlings, and then short 
wood, and it will burn and roar, and we 
will fill the hole full of wood, and when 
it is going well we will cover the top with 
sods and dirt, leaving only a few vent 
holes, such as would be be made with a 
crowbar. _ Smoke will seep out through 
the covering till a haze hangs over the 
whole valley, but it is all right as long as 
the flame does not burst out. You will 
encourage the fire to move about the pile 
from place to place by making holes 
through the dirt, the size of a crowbar 
bole. Be sure the fire works clear down 
around the edges. It will probably take 
a good week for you to burn your first 
pit. 
Wasted Wood. —It is wood that can¬ 
not be sawed into lumber, or the tops of 
trees that have been sawed, or tops of 
trees from which ties have been hewn, 
or slabs from where the sawmill has been, 
that is generally used for charcoal. Be 
sure not to put in wood that is worth 
much more for something else. Lumber 
is very high, and, if you have chestnut, 
be sure you save out plenty of posts for 
the farm, as with the disappearance of 
this valuable wood it will be hard to get 
good fence posts without buying iron 
ones, and these will be very high for 
some time. 
Hewing Ties. —Hewing ties on the 
Lonely Road has taken a great boom this 
Winter, as the railroad has suddenly 
given notice that it will take many kinds 
of wood that it would never touch at any 
price before. For instance, it will now 
take practically anything but poplar and 
one or two other woods. It will take 
white birch if big enough, and all kinds 
of ash and even swamp maple. 
Get Directions. —If you have any ties 
to spare and intend to get them out be 
sure to get the printed directions from 
the railroad. They are very particular 
about everything. They must be just 
such a size and just so long, and must be 
marked in just such a way. They must 
be piled so far from the tracks as not to 
obscure the engineer’s view, and must not 
be piled over 12 high. Each kind of wood 
must be piled by itself, and so on and so 
on. But there is nothing but what any¬ 
one can comply with easily enough, and 
there is good money right now in ties, 
and it is not at all likely that they will 
be any cheaper. 
A Regular Godsend. —The railroad 
treats the ties now by dipping them in 
huge vats of hot creosote substance to 
make them last much longer. That is 
why it takes about all kinds of wood. 
Swamp maple has been a veritable eye¬ 
sore and waste for years in the far back 
country. Farmers who owned it groaned 
over the perpetual taxes, and let it go 
at that. But now it is quite a different 
story, for the trees grow tall and slim 
and will bring good prices for ties. The 
man who built and owns the biggest 
hotel in a nearby city made his money 
in the tie business, starting as a hewer 
at 10 cents per. Of course green ties are 
heavy things to draw and handle, but if 
it can be done on a sled it is not so bad. 
This work can be done in the Winter and 
the charcoal burned in the early Spring 
and Fall. The burning has to be done 
when not so cold that the earth for cover 
freezes. 
Taking Out the Coal. —But there, 
we 'most forgot to fake down that coal 
when we got it burned and put it in the 
crib. We will take the potato hooks and 
carefully rake off any chunks of dirt or 
stones; what goes through the fingers of 
the potato hook may stay on the pile. Of 
course the hay and leaves have disappeared 
altogether. Then we will begin at the 
edge and begin to rake out the coal: this 
fine dust on top simply sifts through to 
the ground. We will take rails and poles 
as seen in the picture and make a “crib” 
and put in the coal and cover it over 
with boards. Do not let it get soaked 
with rain. And be careful the fire is all 
out of it. for more than one such crib 
has caught fire and the whole thing been 
lost, crib and all. Now we are ready to 
bag it up for delivery or let the retailer 
come and get it right from the crib. We 
will pile up the dust for use on the next 
pile; we will throw a few bushels of the 
finer coal into the wagon to throw into 
the henhouse, and then we will go home 
and do what may seem the biggest job of 
all—wash the black from our hands and 
faces! 
New Year’s. —And here it is New 
Year's again, and a greeting from the Pas¬ 
toral Parson to bis many friends— espe¬ 
cially of the Lonely Road. This will 
certainly be a wonderful year—nearly 
the whole world to be fixed up and ar¬ 
ranged all over again. It will be a won¬ 
derful peace table, and may those that 
sit there ever remember that nothing is 
ever settled till it is settled right. ITow 
many peace tables of the past have been 
made dreadful failures from forgetting 
that simple truth! And the Parson some¬ 
times thinks of that other peace table 
where One greater than a Wilson or a 
Lloyd George or a Clemenceau shall pre¬ 
side. and the wrongs and cruelties of all 
the battles of life shall be settled, and 
forever settled right. 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Sparc the Rod and Spoil the Child 
Do children need correction and some¬ 
times punishment? I think you will all 
agree with me that they do. Now tell 
me why you correct and punish your own 
particular children. Is it from selfish¬ 
ness, anger or ambition? A child of six, 
we will say, pulls a cherished piece of 
china from the table and it is destroyed, 
lou seize him and give him a good hard 
shaking. “You naughty, naughty bov, to 
break my best plate.” With the accent 
on the “my.” It was an accident, the 
child was passing and the piece of china 
was too near the edge of the table. The 
child is given the same punishment he 
would receive if he had deliberately 
thrown the plate to the floor because of 
its value to you. If you shake him hard 
for a plate knocked to the floor by acci¬ 
dent how much harder must you punish 
him to be consistent if he should climb 
up on the bureau and break the best mir¬ 
ror, which is a genuine heirloom? 
The child, we will say. starts the toy 
engine just in time to trip you up as you 
come through the door, giving you a hard 
bump.. You jump up, seize the fire shovel 
and give him a good warming, especially 
if he laughed at the fall. Ten to one he 
does not know what the spanking is for, 
and you in your anger probably do not 
tell i.L,i why you are laying on while 
his cries of surprise and fear only in¬ 
crease your anger. “But.” you say, “he 
should have known I was coming just 
then.” . But could he know? Has he 
ever tripped you up in this way before? 
Have you ever warned him not to run 
the toy. too near the door where an un¬ 
suspecting person might step on it? If 
you, a grown person, possessing all your 
faculties, have not the foresight to see the 
boy and the toy near the door will be 
liable to cause a catastrophe, do you give 
the child credit for greater wisdom and 
foresight or do you punish him in just 
plain everyday anger? 
Now to turn to ambition in connection 
with correction. First we should remem¬ 
ber that “lie that ruleth his spirit is 
greater than he that taketh a city.” 
Never under any circumstances whatever 
punish a child in any way, shape or man¬ 
ner unless you are in full possession of 
your faculties, which you have not in 
control when angry. Next, do not let any 
personal likes or desires govern the 
amount of the punishment. Let the de¬ 
gree of correction fit the crime, as you 
might say. 
Remember the “child is father to the 
man.” . You wish your boy to be the best 
and . brightest man in the country. You 
realize that as he goes through life he 
will meet hard knocks. You wish to 
stand between him and all harm, but you 
cannot always be at his right hand ; he 
must learn to think and act alone. There 
are many things if taught him while he 
is young will save him many a heartache 
when older. A child admires and appre¬ 
ciates justice. Be firm and especially 
truthful to him. Do not promise him a 
whipping unless you mean to give it to 
him if he disobeys. I have a little boy 
friend who told me one day: “My father 
says he is_ going to lick me if I go home 
row, but I will wait till supper time and 
he will forget.” I fear for that boy’s 
future. His father will have lied to him 
if he does not punish him. In this par¬ 
ticular case the boy needed the correction. 
Is there any wonder the boy gets to be 
untruthful? 
Then be sure the punishment fits the 
case. One of my boys was using a new 
hatchet to chop down a tree. His brother 
tried to climb the tree at the same time, 
with the result he chopped brother’s fin¬ 
ger off. Should I whip the boy who 
chopped, off the finger? lie was almost 
sick.as it was, and I said almost nothing 
to him except to tell him to be more care¬ 
ful and not to use the hatchet when others 
were near. . This sort of an accident hap¬ 
pens once in a lifetime. All the whip¬ 
pings in the world will not put the finger 
on, and the boy certainly could not be 
hired to cut off another finger. 
If the boy in a fit of anger should have 
grabbed up the ax and chopped his 
brother I should have given full punish¬ 
ment, not for the cutting but for the 
anger, and I plan to have the deed and 
the result thoroughly understood before 
the punishment begins. 
I have six children, the oldest eleven, 
and five of them boys. So far I have not 
had to use corporal punishment more 
than twice on any one of them, simply 
because they know I shall not punish un¬ 
less they are in need of it, and they know 
that if I tell them I shall punish them 
for an act if repeated I shall surely do so. 
We are often complimented on our 
well-behaved, loving, clear-eyed children. 
It is indeed surprising how a little fore¬ 
sight and self-control on the part of the 
parents helps make the home peaceful 
and starts the boys toward manhood with 
the right outlook. 
So I say have ambition for the boys. 
Study to direct their boyhood and to cor¬ 
rect their mis-steps so that they may 
grow up into strong, honest, God-fearing 
men, « P 
Children and Dogs 
As I was reading The R. N.-Y. this 
evening, my mind was attracted by the 
headline “Dogs and Children.” As i read 
a few lines more, my mind reflected back 
to the time that I read the advertisement, 
referred to by A. J. Hill. I first glanced 
over the advertisement in silence, then 
laughed aloud. My children had been 
playing about me, and they looked up and 
exclaimed, “What did you see. Daddy?” 
I r.ad the advertisement so they could 
hear, and the little boy remarked, “Some 
lover of kids, don’t you think?” and the 
little girl added, “I expect ‘Advertiser’ 
can do enough growling, and they don’t 
need any clogs.” I formed the same con¬ 
clusion. I am looking for a position as 
farm foreman or would lease an equipped 
farm on shares, or would consider a 
monthly proposition if I can get the price 
and other privileges. The location must 
be in the northern half of Ohio. I have 
five children, but no dogs; therefore my 
application would not appeal to “Adver¬ 
tiser.” I hope we are judging this adver¬ 
tiser wrong. I hope his affections are 
greater for the human race than for the 
canine, although we have just such peo¬ 
ple. Some would rather fondle a poodle 
than to hear the cooing and laughter of 
a playful infant, but “Advertiser” wants 
neither, so there you have it. 
Ohio. GROVER C. FORD. 
R. N.-Y.—We have had a flood of let¬ 
ters about that advertisement classing 
children with dogs. We do not believe 
the advertiser meant it just as these par¬ 
ents take his meaning. 
“In reconstructing matters, what shall 
we do with the weaker sex?” “Winch is 
it?”—Kansas City Journal. 
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