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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 27, 1020 
Jhe Satisfying Sweetness 
of the wheat and barley food 
Grape*Nuts 
is a matter of economy as 
well as delight these days. 
Grape-Nuts pleases without 
the addition of sugar, as is 
not the case with most cereals. 
Grape-Nuts is economical 
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THE WAR TAUGHT FARMERS NEW LESSONS IN FARMING EFFICIENCY 
They will not go back to old methods, but will maintain their war 
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They will help you 
maintain iaiproyed 
farm-prod notion 
methods. 
5-A-14 
No. 3S-S REVERT RLE 
HILLSIDE PLOW 
Tbe 5-A Eddy Plow 
'looks good” to wise 
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Its ease of handling 
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Standard firmly bolted to beam. Moldboard, share and 
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While designed 
primarily for hill¬ 
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SPLITDORF ELECTRICAL COMPANY 
95 Warren St., Newark, N.J. 
Established 
1858 
! 
Pastoral Parson and His Country Folks 
By Rev. George B. Gilbert 
Was It Right? —No. of course it was 
not right. There is really no need of ever 
getting profane and swearing a round like 
a house afire. Many men will yell and 
swear at their children and then, if one 
of their children swears, they will beat 
him unmercifully. It has never seemed 
to the Parson much to he proud of for 
a great, big man or woman to pound or 
beat a little child. But the man the 
Parson heard today was not swearing at 
a child. lie was not swearing at any¬ 
thing in particular—he was just swear¬ 
ing. The roads about here are badly 
drifted—no denying that. This man had 
loaded a cow and her calf in a big char¬ 
coal body which rested on heavy sled 
“bobs.” lie was riding in this high- 
sided body with the cow and her calf. 
The Parson drove around the curve be¬ 
hind him just in time to see something 
happen. The sled struck a drift. In an 
instant, the whole thing went over—man, 
cow and calf all in a heap, and all mixed 
up together in the snow. The cow 
emerged first. Then followed the man 
with his cap in his hand. Last < f all 
came the calf also. The calf uttered a 
low blat. The cow shook her horns as 
though looking for trouble. The man— 
well, no matter. Circumstances do seem 
to alter cases at times. 
Strange: Weather. —Here it is the 
10th of March. Day before yesterday 
the town shoveled out a cross road so 
we could get the children for school. 
Tomorrow morning we will have to take 
a wagon to go through this same road. 
The thermometer stood about. 50 degree; 
today, and the sun was warm and sum¬ 
mery. Autos broke through Ibis morn¬ 
ing for the first time, and one sees as 
many wagons as sleighs. A neighbor says 
we have had 12 weeks of first-class sleigh¬ 
ing, a most remarkable thing in Connec¬ 
ticut. Last year we never got the sleigh 
out of the shed. We read in tonight's 
paper of a train up in the northwestern 
part of the State that is still practically 
and start it that way. The man sat. on 
tin* seat to better manipulate and pedi- 
pulate the machinery while all the Parson 
had to do was to push the car! For¬ 
tunately several small hoys happened 
along and helped out on this. We pushed 
her clear down the street, over a bridge 
and down the next- street—and never an 
explosion. Then the man went off after 
spark plugs, and. it being now after six, 
it was very hard to find one. 
Grounded. —Before his return, how¬ 
ever, the Parson found the ground wire 
was disconnected and by fixing this up 
he had her rum ing. after a fashion. But 
we put in the plugs and started, skirting 
the city to avoid cops. Suddenly she 
produced a noise as though there was a 
puncture. “We have a blow-out,” said T. 
"Oh, no; it isn't, that,” ho said. “I 
know that noise. It is the insides all 
giving out. This is the fourth time this 
Summer!” It was dark now, and just 
beginning to rain. “Would you lot me 
take her?” suggested the Parson, and he 
was glad enough to shift seats. Well, 
we yanked and jerked along for several 
miles, and the matter grew worse. “She 
will never make a hill.” he remarked, and 
soon she couldn't make the level! Then 
the Parson got out and worked on her 
again. As he did so he couldn’t help 
thinking of the warm, light trolley, the 
interesting book and how that by now 
he would he sitting down to supper. By 
some accident or special Providence after 
ft while she ran better and like a horse 
with the colic—the more sin* traveled, the 
better off seemed her insides. -We had 
only been three hours and a half making 
the 15 miles! Some lift, mused the Par¬ 
son to himself, as lie stumbled along down 
the hill toward the house. 
Auto or Furnace.-— The old car has 
seen most, nine years of service, and is 
about gone, except for farm work. Cars 
were certainly well made in those days. 
While the frame of the radiator is about 
gone, the radiator itself is perfectly tight. 
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The Sunday School Class Returns from Its Cellar Session 
buried in drifts. The smokestack of the 
engine is about all that can be seen. The 
passengers and crew have abandoned it, 
walking three miles to a village. 
An Auto Ride. —Last Saturday fore¬ 
noon was one of the worst half-days that 
the Parson ever saw in his life. Men 
who had to be out suffered more than 
any day this Winter. Towards night it 
v. as better, and the Parson went to town 
to take a jitney car to one of his mis¬ 
sions. 25 m’les away. We left the town 
at about -I :50. and such going as it was! 
Water and slush and ice and snowdrifts. 
It was a big. powerful car, hut the ele¬ 
ments were too much for it. After about 
10 miles we all had to get out and some 
shovel abend while others unshed behind. 
Then one chain got lost. The driver tried 
to get along with one chain, which is 
worse than none. Then, in a fearful 
drift, after dark, with a terrific biting 
wind and the snow tilling in all the time, 
we had to put on another chain. It was 
impossible to jack up the car. It was 
some job to get that chain on. We must 
have been in that drift nearly an hour. 
At last we got to the mission. There 
were five autos headed hack for town at 
this place. 10 miles out. The Parson has 
since heard that they made it in just 
eight hours, or at a speed of two miles 
an hour! This does not pay—it takes 
too much out of a car. 
Giving a Lift. —This car ride reminds 
the Parson of one lie took last Fall, be¬ 
fore Winter set in. He was in a neigh¬ 
boring city, and about to start for home 
in the middle of the afternoon, lie had 
just got hold of a magazine lie longed 
to read and was counting on a nice quiet 
time at it. poking along in the trolley. 
But a friend hailed him : “I have my 
car in town.’ said lie. “I will give you 
a lift. It is down this street here, and 
I am glad you are going with me. as it 
starts terribly hard.” He was right. It 
did start a hit hard! It was cold, and 
we worked away for about half an hour. 
Then the man went to a house and got 
two kettles of hot water—to uo use. 
Then it was decided to push the car along 
and is the same that first came with the 
car. Someone asked : “Does a Ford car 
ever wear out?’ Like the human body. 1 
suppose, it does not though ordinarily 
there would ho mighty few original parts 
on it after seven years. Quite likely we 
will go without a car this Summer. Mrs. 
Parson has her heart set on a furnace— 
one of the pipeless sort, that she reads 
about in Tut; R. X.-Y. Those who have 
them around here arc all carried away 
with them, and they do seem to be great, 
especially if tin* house is arranged fairly 
suitable for them. In putting up a num¬ 
ber of houses a big factory in a near-by 
town is arranging the rooms with the 
pipeless furnace system in view. Any¬ 
thing that spoils a cellar for keeping po¬ 
tatoes in should he avoided, if possible: 
but this style of furnace seems to heat 
the cellar much less than any other. It 
would save a lot of work and dust in the 
house, and I guess it will have to go in 
this Summer, if possible. The Parson 
feels about an auto about as lie used to 
with a bicycle. At first you want to go 
everywhere—to all the towns _»”d places 
round about. But after a while you get 
sick of this, and im.es.; you i .msi- 
ness you do not mire to go. The Parson 
has done so much running around that 
he fairly longs for the time when he can 
just stay at home. Probably like a child, 
if lie did not have to go Sundays. In 
Would want, to he off; hut as it is lie 
could only he at home. He can do most 
of the real country work with horses. 
While the small town work is certainly 
in need of being done, yet ther” a re so 
many churches in every village and the 
work is so cut up that it is not very ap¬ 
pealing. 
The: Harnesses. —The Parson is look¬ 
ing for a warm, sunny day now to go to 
work on the harnesses. Work it might 
be called, but really such jobs are the 
playtime of the Parson. The main occu¬ 
pation that has to he done and done on 
time, is the work, and all other things 
become play. What is work one year 
may become the play for the next. We 
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