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1882 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
T'"'-.-.fr/M- O; 
HOPE FARM NOTES 
“Love comes like a Summer sigh, 
Gently o’er me stealing— 
Love comes and we wonder why 
All of life revealing!” 
You may think it strange that a man 
of my age should sit here alone before the 
fire, late in the night, and close to Christ¬ 
mas, with a song from a light opera run¬ 
ning through my mind. Well, the hu¬ 
man mind is a very strange mental ma¬ 
chine. Sometimes a mysterious hand 
puts forgotten disks into it, and strange 
old memories come back. That song 
brings to mind one of the most remark¬ 
able things that ever happened to me. It 
occurred at about this season of the year, 
and it may give us a new thought for our 
Christmas. I think most of my folks ai’e 
asleep upstairs, so we can sit. here un¬ 
disturbed and consider what I have to 
say. It is true—every word of it. 
* sje * . sjc 
The first time I ever heard that song 
was years ago, when mother and I tried 
our first experiment at baek-to-the-land- 
ing. That experiment was a failure 
financially, but something of a success 
in experience. Years ago, when I went 
about giving “entertainments,” and the 
audience was slim, I could always say 
it was “an artistic success.” We had 
as a member of our family in those for¬ 
gotten years a young girl. She was a 
natural musician, full of life and energy, 
incapable of realizing what care and 
trouble mean. She was ready to dance and 
sing through life—like a sunbeam gleam¬ 
ing on the wall. I well remember how 
at Christmas time, when the tax col¬ 
lector had taken just about my last dol¬ 
lar. and Santa Claus seemed to have 
bought a bag full of unpaid bills, this 
girl came dancing in singing— 
“ ‘Love comes like a Summer sigh’." 
Well, it hadn’t come to her then, and 
life had not been revealed to her, and so 
with the sublime confidence of youth she 
sang the song and danced away from 
doubt and worry. 
* * * * * 
Years after that she came back to us, 
broken in spirit and clouded in mind. 
Love bad come to hex'—not like a Summer 
sigh—not gently stealing over her, but 
more like a biting blast of Winter. Yes, 
indeed, life had been revealed to her, and 
with her two little children she came back 
to us. That was why we tried our sec¬ 
ond venture at back-to-the-landing. We 
went some 20 miles from New York and 
rented a little sandy farm on which there 
was a big old stone house, without any 
comforts except its thick stone walls. 
That was before we moved to where we 
now live. This girl and her children 
came with us. She sang no more, except 
now and then, when her mind would be 
for a time clouded. Then she would for¬ 
get' her troubles, for. strange to say, a 
darkened mind often walks in the light. 
During these pei’iods she would at times 
imagine hei*self some great musician 
about to give a concert—and the music 
she would bring out of our poor old piano 
was enough to make that antiquated in¬ 
strument stand on its hind feet and paw 
the air. And now and then during these 
periods of mental trouble her unclouded 
youth would come back to her in the old 
song: 
“Lore comes like a Summer sigh 
Gently o'er me stealing. 
Love comes and we wonder why 
All of life revealing .” 
As I tell you this you will realize how 
that song comes back to me tonight. 
***** 
I hope you will never feel responsible 
for a person with a darkened mind—as 
mother and I were during that hard sea¬ 
son. It is astonishing how cunning and 
“wickedly wise” these unfortunates may 
be. They usually have some mania or 
intense desii'e to do some extravagant 
thing, and they will often di-op all moral 
balance in their desire to carry out their 
crude plans, at the same time exhibiting 
quite a little mental shrewdness. We 
could always tell when these periods of 
her trouble were coming on, and it 
meant constant watching. One night in 
the early Winter we felt that there was 
dangei’, and we planned to take turns 
watching through the night. Nothing 
happened up to three o’clock in the morn¬ 
ing, and we both fell asleep. I remember 
waking suddenly with an overpowering 
feeling that something was wrong. There 
was! The woman had disappeared ! The 
two little children lay asleep in their 
crib, but their mother had gone. The 
great house was empty, and the kitchen 
door was open. I remember standing at 
that open door, looking out into the dark¬ 
ness of the Winter morning and thinking 
of the hopelessness of finding this poor 
woman wandei’ing through that cold, dark 
world. As if in mockery there came to 
me then the words of her song: 
“All of life revealing .” 
***** 
In the soft sand where our walk turned 
into the road I found the tracks of a 
woman’s shoes, and I could follow them 
along the road in the direction of the 
railroad station. Then it came to me 
that she had started for the city to carry 
out her plan for a great concert. I got 
a bite of breakfast and caught a train 
for New York. Half way to the city it 
occurred to me to get off and wait for the 
return train, which would bring the con¬ 
ductor who must have gone down on the 
train this woman took. Sure enough, he 
remembei’ed her. She had no money and 
had borrowed the price of a ticket. She 
was going to give a concert and was on 
her way to the old Fifth Avenue Hotel, 
where she was to meet her manager. 
While I was waiting for another train to 
the city, I got on the ’phone with that 
hotel. They said that such a woman had 
called there, and tried to engage an ex¬ 
pensive suite of l’ooms—stating that she 
was to give her great concert. These 
hotel men have a way of getting rid of 
such people. “Every room was engaged,” 
and the -woman had driven away in a 
public cab and they knew not where! 
***** 
Can you realize what it meant to hunt 
for a penniless woman with a darkened 
mind in a great city like New York? A 
needle in a haystack would be easy com¬ 
pared with such a search. A person may 
wander off in the country and be lost in 
a swamp or forest, but finding them 
would be easy compai’ed with discovering 
a single human unit running from her 
friends among the millions who crowd the 
lower part of Manhattan Island. I must 
confess that I did not know where to go. 
When I got to .Tesey City it suddenly 
flashed through my mind that the fugitive 
would be hungry, since she had eaten 
nothing at home. The cashier in the res- 
taurant instantly recognized the woman 
from my description, and produced two 
little pieces of silverware which I recog- 
ognized as family presents which had 
been given our poor girl! She had eaten 
breakfast and then calmly announced 
that she had no money, but that her 
musical agent would soon come and settle. 
When they demanded security, she had 
produced a silver napkin ring and her 
baby’s silver cup! You may be sure that 
I quickly redeemed these pawns. As I 
put them into my pocket again the words 
of that old song rang through my mind: 
“Lore comes and we wonder why 
All of life revealing /” 
For was I not for the first and only 
time of my life playing the part of “mu¬ 
sical agent”? 
***** 
When I got over the river into New 
York City I concluded to follow my first 
impulse, and that was to hurry across 
the city to the office where I worked. 
Those of you who know New York will 
i-ealize that Chambers street runs directly 
across the city from east to west. So I 
took off my overcoat and ran along the 
street without any particular plan for a 
seax’ch. As I ran the conviction began to 
force itself upon my mind that I had en- 
tered upon a case where human power 
alone would never carry me through. I 
have no doubt that you, too. have come 
face to face with hard problems-—so fierce 
and overpowering that only a form of 
miracle can solve them. Once a dninken 
man staggered out of hi6 room, collared 
me and dragged me back inside with him. 
I thought he wanted to fight, but instead 
of that he commanded me to help him 
pray that he might be a man and let 
liquor alone! So I had a great but crude 
prayer in my heart as I ran up Chambers 
street. I crossed Broadway and passed 
the Court House and came to Center 
street. I remember clearly that this 
street had been dug up for laying a new 
sewer, so that only one track was left 
for vehicles. A policeman stood there 
handling this traffic. I can shut my 
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