V* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1137 
von could find an old copy of the paper. 
Those great editorials which I climbed 
into the clouds to write were evidently 
too thin and light for this world. They 
have all sailed away far from the mind of 
ninn. The little building where we 
started the candle flame which was to 
burn up all the prejudice and depression 
in the South seems to he occupied as a 
negro hotel or boarding house. The little 
shop where (with Sol on the crank of the 
press and I feeding in the papers) we 
turned out what we felt to he a mental 
feast, is now a kitchen where cow peas, 
bacon and greens and corn bread form a 
more substantial food than we ever served 
up in printer’s ink. Tt was no longer a 
molder of public opinion. 
“To what, hour uses y-e mail return, 
Horatio.” 
And yet the sky was blue, the day was 
fair—the vision had come true. I wished 
tiiat Colonel O’Brio a and Sergeant Hill 
might stand in front of the old building 
and look about them. No longer a sea of 
in ltd. but smooth, firm pavements. The 
sidewalks were lined with cars. Beauti¬ 
ful trees shaded the streets, until the 
town seemed like a New England village 
with six generations behind it. Outside, 
stretching away in every direction, was 
the thick, beautiful carpet of Blue grass 
and clover. Here and there was a young 
man in the uniform of the American 
Enion. In the vaults of the banks were 
great bundles of Liberty bonds. And a 
gray-haired man on the street corner told 
rue this: 
"Ton trill fnni that the very States 
which sixty years ago tried to break ny 
the Union will, in the future, pro re to be 
the very ones erhieh must hold it to- 
fiether 
Yet let me toll Henry Barkman and 
The millions who felt as he did about his 
oration, that no one in all that town re¬ 
membered my former editorials or the 
great work of the Journal. My literary 
work has been blown away as completely 
as the clouds among which it was com¬ 
posed. At the end of the great college 
exercises a man came on 
a great bunch of flowers 
my direction. T am not 
much in the habit of having verbal bou¬ 
quets fired at me. but T will confess that 
T thought: “Here is where my soul-inspir¬ 
ing editorial work is appreciated. All 
things come round to him who will but 
wait.’’ 
But this orator, like the rest of them, 
never dreamed that T ever tried to “uplift 
the South.” TTe said T entered into the 
young life of the town and was remem¬ 
bered with affection because T played 
baseball with skill and taught that com¬ 
munity how to pitch a curved ball! 
And let me say to all the Henry Bark- 
mans who read this that the lesson of dll 
this is the truest thing 1 know. Many a 
man has gone out into life like a knight 
on a crusade, armed with what he thinks 
are glorious weapons. In after years 
people cannot remember what his’ weapons 
were, but he got into their hearts with 
some simple, common thing which seemed 
foolish beside his great ideal. Nobody 
remembered my brain children, though 
they were embalmed in ink and cradled in 
a printing press. But I put a tw-ist on 
a baseball, overcame the force of gravity 
and made the ball dodge around a corner, 
and my memory remains green for 40 
years! Not one of my old subscribers 
spoke of the paper, but seven of the old 
baseball club, gray <>r bald, near-sighted 
or rheumatic, yet still with the old flame 
of youth, ont together. 
I think you older people will get my 
Point. For the benefit of Henry Bark- 
man and his friends perhaps T can do no 
better than quote the following: 
"(lad hath ehosen the foolish things of 
the world to confound the wise: and God 
hath eliosen the weak things of the world 
to confound the things that are mighty 
rr. w. c. 
commencement 
the stage with 
and ho wed in 
Improving a Lawn 
ill you tell me the easiest way to 
change the grass on a lawn, containing 
about ij.000 sq. ft., from Timothy to a 
kind that will grow more thicklv to- 
? E. L." M. 
(doucester. Mass. 
i be usual procedure would he to plow 
f ius 1 imothy sod under, grade, fertilize 
and resow with lawn grass. This is ex- 
pen-ive. and where the grade is satisfae- 
ony and the surface is fairly smooth, 
'be labor and expense involved in the 
'louil method of procedure can he greatly 
ieduced and still have a very satisfactory 
/V! If ,. vou J1,v satisfied the grade is all 
"“bi and that the surface is smooth 
•mough to pass muster. T would advise 
yon to give the plot a liberal coat of 
coarse manure late next Fall, allowing it 
. ''omain on the sod until Spring; then 
in the early Spring, say in March or as 
'■HI.' as it can he done, rake off ill the 
n ii£liage. allowing as much of the fine 
lannre as possible to remain., When 
is !s done, sow good lawn grass mixture 
j 10 ,P> ^ Uis. to tlie acre: use a 
nne-toothed scratch harrow, with the 
beth points set to trail so the Timothy 
^toois will not be torn out. Go over it 
I 1 wa Y R < then roll with a light, one- 
h use roller or a oOO-lh. baud roller. If 
t c job is done early, before the Timothy 
..I ", s U P> or before it gets much start. 
f.,i - ! "vn grass will come very close to 
•mg possession the first year. h. 
. t TlL AC,r , ERS "Gan you tell me how many 
fommnndments there are?” Pupil: "Ten." 
'’“I "hat happens when you break one?” 
t pr iln> nine left.”—Melbourne Ans- 
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