The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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dropped out of mind entirely, but now, 
strapped to that bed, in the darkness and 
silence, on the border line of insanity, it 
suddenly came back to me in full mem¬ 
ory. And there I lay, repeating it over 
and over in that awful darkness: 
“77(0 Lord is my shepherd—I shall not 
want. 
He muketh me to He down in green pas¬ 
tures; he leadeth me beside the 
still waters. 
He restoretli my soul; he leadeth vie in 
the paths of righteousness for his 
name’s sake. 
Yea, though I walk through the valley of 
the shadow of death, J will fear vo 
evil, for thou are with me; thy 
rod and thy staff they comfort me.” 
“I presume you know that these words 
came back to you out of the subconscious 
mind, as such things do under excitement 
or severe emotion.” 
“I do not. know where they came from, 
or how they made their appearance. I 
only know that I said them over and over 
as I lay there, until a great peace fell 
upon me. Those hideous shapes faded 
away and that figure of the little child 
seemed to lead me back from that awful 
gateway. I lay there in the darkness un¬ 
til I felt a new hand on my head and 
some little hand got hold of my finger. 
They loosened those straps, and those 
hands which I seemed to recognize gently 
took that bandage from over my eyes. 
When the beautiful light blazed in upon 
me it was just as I knew it would be— 
my wife had taken off the bandage, and it 
was the baby clinging to my finger!” 
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I told this story to Hiram Cl ambers as 
well as I could. He sat and looked at me 
without saying a word. Then he looked 
off from the hill where we were standing 
—off over the beautiful rolling country— 
off to the hills where the sun was shining 
in late afternoon. He never said a word 
and never offered to pay his bet. but he 
knew he had lost, and as we walked down 
the hill I went on : 
“Hiram, when I was a young man we 
used to sing a song with this chorus: 
“ ‘Wait till the clouds roll by. Jennie, 
Wait till the clouds roll by. 
Then we shall stand in the sunshine. 
Wait till tiie clouds roll by.’ 
“I’m no singer, and I never had a girl 
named Jennie, but it’s a good song; bet¬ 
ter. perhaps, for some moods and occa¬ 
sions than the ‘Doxology.’ Brace up. Hi¬ 
ram ! The next time you think you have 
‘spots on your liver’ sing it. 
“ ‘Wait till the clouds roll by, Jennie,’ 
“And then go to work and wait.” 
n. V. C. 
Propagating Grapes from Layers 
Near me is a vineyard where the sand 
and dirt has washed up over the vines 
which are lying on the ground. They 
have taken root and look like nice thrifty 
vines. Would these be all right if taken 
up and transplanted to start a new vine¬ 
yard, and should they be started or set 
out in the Spring or fall? C. E. N. 
Alamo, Mich. 
Vines propagated as the above will 
produce just as well and true to the 
variety from which the layers arc taken 
as from cuttings. There can be but one 
exception to this, namely, the layers in 
the event that the desired variety had 
been grafted on a resistant stock might 
come from either the stock or scion, but 
as grafted grape plants are rare there is 
little likelihood that such is the case here. 
If the plants had been previously grafted 
one familiar with grape varieties should 
easily select the desired plants from the 
plants coming from the stock. The layers 
should be dug in the Fall after the 
leaves have dropped and then separated 
into the number of plants as is deter¬ 
mined by the number of joints that have 
sent out roots. In most instances there 
will have been sufficient root development 
so that a plant can be obtained from it. 
On the other hand, with a scant growth 
two joints or nodes should comprise the 
plants. After the division has beeii made 
they may be bundled and heeled-in in a 
cool cellar in sand or light soil. In the 
Spring they are ready for planting out 
in the vineyard. Fall planting is not ad¬ 
visable with layers. r. e. gladwix. 
Shrubs for the Seaside 
Could you tell me anything about a 
shrub called “tamarisk?” We have a 
place right on the shore in the sand, and 
are having a hard time to get things to 
grow. We have been told that tamarisk 
is one of the things that would do well, 
and would like to know if it grows very 
tall, if it would be good for a wind-break 
or make a hedge. a. m. v. 
Keansburg, N. J. 
The tamarisk is one of the best sub-' 
jects for seaside planting. It has a 
graceful, feathery growth, with tiny 
leaves rather like a juniper, and attrac¬ 
tive pink flowers in spikes. It is decid¬ 
uous. dropping its leaves in Winter. The 
Chinese tamarisk, Tamarix Chineusis, 
flowers in September, the African variety. 
T. Afrieana, in May. Both grow from 5 
to S feet tall, and are admirable for 
hedges and wind-breaks. They grow in 
sea sand, where nothing else succeeds, 
and you could not do better than plant 
tamarisks in the most exposed situation. 
The common privet (Ligustrum vulgare) 
also does well near the sea. and if left 
to attain full growth will protect other 
plants from the salt winds and spray. 
Other shrubs that do well near the sea 
are the groundsel tree, Baccliaris hali- 
mifolia, which is very ornamental when 
covered with fluffy seed vessels in Au¬ 
tumn: the 'Carolina bayberry, Myrica 
Carolinense, and the dwarf sumach, 
Rhus copallina, which turns a brilliant 
red in Autumn. If you can get a wind¬ 
break of shrubs, you will be able to start 
other planting. The brilliant little Por- 
tulaca, clinging close to the sand, will 
give you a show very quickly, and you 
can also plant orange milkweed, prickly 
pear and perennial pea. In some placds 
right along the shore the native beach 
plum is very useful, and is a sheet of 
white when in bloom, but the tamarisk 
is our first choice. 
Cooling Off in Florida 
A limited number of Northern people j 
have any true idea of what the Summer j 
season down here is like, even the thou¬ 
sands who come to spend a few weeks or 
months of Winter included. Should it 
happen to warm up a bit before they go j 
home they conclude that the months to | 
come are “just too hot to live.” Not so, 
for situated as we are, with big bodies of 
salt water to east and west, we get the 
most pleasant breezes day after day. It 
is hot in the sun during the middle of the 
day, from 11 a. m. till 4 p. m., should the 
mercury climb into the nineties, but so 
it is in Portland, Me., or Minneapolis, 
but the old settler “lays off” during these 
hours, finding real comfort anywhere in 
the shade. Best of all, the nights are uni¬ 
formly cool. During the two years we 
have spent in Florida a thin blanket has 
been needed at the hottest season. One 
wakes up refreshed and willing to turn 
out. at daylight. 
'It is true that the birds get down to 
business; among the feathered chorus the 
. mocking bird is easily the Melba or 
Caruso, varying his trills and twitter with 
“Get up, get up, do, do, do,” which he 
caught from the red bird, that was chief 
singer through the few months in Winter, 
when Mr. Mocking Bird l’ested and sang 
not. Pitch in, get a couple of hours good 
work before breakfast; by the time that 
is eaten, with a relish, the “day breeze” 
has sprung up from ocean and gulf. There 
are very few days that I perspire half as 
much at the hardest work as was the 
case “up North”; a two-hour nooning, 
some light work in the “shop” or at the 
woodpile in the shade, and then the field 
again until 0:30. 
The soil works easily; one horse or 
mule will answer for the small farms that 
are the rule. There is no time that the 
ground is too wet, or too hard to work to 
good advantage. Work goes on each 
month out of the twelve, so there is no 
time lost. We get three crops growing at 
the same time in the same field. Corn for 
the horse, peanuts in the middle of the 
rows that are 7 ft. apart, for the peas 
and cow peas close to the row, after last 
cultivation to plow under for soil im¬ 
provement. 
Right now (July 1) we are enjoying 
our best watermelons; a big “Irish Grey” 
or “Halbert’s Honey,” 30 to 40 lbs. in 
weight, ripe to the core, is good eating. 
The blackberries lasted from April 30 to 
•Time 19, the peaches about four weeks. 
Figs are ripe, guava bushes hanging to 
the ground with weight of fruit, while the 
orange trees speak promise of a golden 
crop, lasting from November to April. 
We sometimes envy the Hope Farm man 
as he writes of his apples, that we know 
are so enjoyable, but be usually connects 
them with “Winter blasts” and the “fire¬ 
place,” and we say to ourselves, “Never 
again.” The writer and his family lived 
for years in New York and Pennsylvania, 
Orange and Bucks counties. We all agree 
that there is more comfort and enjoyment 
in the “good old Summer time” right 
here in Pasco County than we ever ex¬ 
perienced before. b. m . G. 
Where Irrigation Paid 
Will you give me space for a few lines 
on the experience I had with strawber¬ 
ries? We had dry weather for weeks and 
weeks, and no rain in sight until the ber¬ 
ries began 'to ripen. Seeing I was about 
to lose the crop of berries, a neighbor 
offered to bring his sprayer pump and 
water them. The berries were on the 
east shore of Seneca Bake. We placed 
the pump close to the lake. The roadway 
was between the patch and the lake. We 
had to lay pipes and with hose attached 
we watered the berries every evening for 
a while, then we skipped one or two 
nights, but, counting the hours, we wa¬ 
tered them 12 hours in all, and we found 
the results were worth the effort. I had 
five rows. Four were 105 ft. long and one 
row 117 ft. I sold from these five rows 
992 quarts. Before my neighbor offered 
to bring his pump I was advised to draw 
water with a team, so I started to fill 
three 50-gal. casks, and drew 22 casks, 
but the cracks in the ground were so large 
one could not see where the water was 
put. The sprayer pump did the work 
with less labor, with better results. This 
may help someone else. F. a. ir. 
New York. 
Young Patrick (kidding red-haired 
girl) : “Say. Susie, don’t come too close 
to me: I might catch fire.” Sue: “Don’t 
worry, Paddy: green things don’t burn 
easily.”—Houston Post. 
Mental butterflying at 2 a. m 
A great indoor sport for 
thoughtless people 
One of the surest ways 
to become physically in¬ 
capable of doing your best 
work is to get only snat¬ 
ches of sleep—broken by 
disturbing dreams. 
If your sleep is being 
disturbed by drinking 
tea or coffee, you may be 
sowing the seeds of a 
nervous breakdown. 
Do not wait until your 
nerves are affected by the 
drugs, thein and caffeine, 
in tea or coffee. Protect 
your strength, vitalityand 
endurance. 
Have sound, restful 
sleep, and wake refreshed 
and fit for any task. 
Postum, the delicious 
cereal beverage, with its 
golden-brown richness 
and coffee-like taste, will 
let Nature restore your 
coffee-irritated nerves, 
and bring you sound, re¬ 
freshing sleep. 
Postum is wholesome 
and acts in a normal way. 
It possesses the advan¬ 
tages of a hot drink, with¬ 
out the ill effects of tea 
or coffee. 
Drink Postum for a 
week or two. See what 
a difference it will make 
in you! 
“There’s a Reason.” 
Postum comes in two 
forms: Instant Postum (in tins) 
made instantly in the cup by 
the addition of boiling water. 
Postum Cereal (in packages of 
larger bulk, for those who pre¬ 
fer to make the drink while the 
meal is being prepared) made 
by boiling for 20 minutes. 
At all grocers. 
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