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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
April  28,  1923 
SAVE  THREE 
PROFITS 
We  manufacture 
TANKS,  TOWERS,  SILOS, 
WATER  WORKS 
SYSTEMS 
Cypress  Tanks 
Any  size  or  shape  for 
Water,  Cider,  Vinegar, 
Spraying,  etc.  100-gallon 
size  for  .  .  .  $1  OQO 
Can  also  be  sup-  A  0= 
plied  with  head  or  other  equipment. 
500-gallon 
Cypress  Tanks 
and  20-foot  painted 
Steel  Tower  guaran¬ 
teed  to  withstand  high 
winds  and  give  real  ser¬ 
vice.  Com-  $1  QOOO 
plete  for  .  .  X  U(J= 
This  includes  all  plans 
directions.  Other  sizes  upon 
0.  Y.  0.  Self-Oiling 
Wind  Mills 
Operate  on  Ball  Bear¬ 
ings.  Built  in  all  sizes 
as  required.  30-foot 
Galvanized  Steel 
Tower  and  8-foot 
wheel,  com-  $QO00 
plete  for  .  .  */0= 
Built  in  all  sizes  for  all  purposes. 
Shallow  or  deep  well  sources  of  sup- 
ply  can  be 
operated  by 
Hand  Power, 
Gasoline  En¬ 
gine  or  Electric 
Motor.  This  Hand  Power  outfit  for 
shallow  well  supply,  com‘  $CQ00 
plete  for  .  = 
[ARUNDEL] 
The  kind  that  look 
good  many  years  after 
they  have  paid  for 
themselves.  We  make 
300  different  sizes.  Our 
s,i8o'folon$186= 
The  above  items  give  you  an  idea  of 
our  extensive  line  of  manufacture.  Our 
prices  are  the  lowest  for  the  high 
quality  goods,  and  our  reputation  as 
selling  only  the  best  for  the  past  26 
years  guarantees  you  real  satisfaction. 
SEND  FOR  CATALOGUE  No.  35 
This  is  just  from  the  press  and  con¬ 
tains  numerous  articles  to  interest  you 
with  illustrations  and  prices. 
™  Co- 
Factory  Block,  154  W.  Os  tend  Street 
Baltimore,  Maryland 
U.  S.  A. 
Pastoral  Parson  and  His  Country  Folks 
By  Rev.  George  B.  Gilbert 
Easter  Day. — Well,  we  had  a  nice 
Easter,  but  it  did  not  seem  like  Easter 
Day.  On  the  evening  before  the  windows 
began  to  coat  over  with  ice,  and  in  the 
morning  the  boys  reported  it  10  above 
zero.  We  had  to  make  about  00  miles 
that  day  in  the  car,  and  were  certainly 
cold.  There  was  a  biting  wind  all  day. 
We  had  large  congregations  and  good 
times  everywhere.  The  Parson  had  for 
his  text:  “I  came  forth  from  the  Father, 
and  am  come  into  the  world :  again  I 
leave  the  world,  and  go  unto  the  Father.” 
We  all  came  from  God  ;  all  souls  come 
forth  from  God.  lie  is  our  common  an¬ 
cestor.  IIow  proud  that  makes  us,  proud 
in  a  good  sense,  too  proud  to  be  low  or 
mean.  IIow  it  sustained  Christ  to  think 
Who  was  His  Father.  IIow  like  us  He 
needed  this  help.  For,  like  us.  He  was 
— ■ 
*  Y* 
Putting  Up  a  Backstop  in  the  Churchyard 
rejected,  despised,  misunderstood,  mocked 
and  jeered  at.  Nay,  they  wagged  their 
heads  at  Him.  Those  head-waggers — 
wouldn’t  they  have  made  you  mad !  A 
whole  crowd  of  head-waggers,  even  while 
He  was  dying  on  the  cross. 
In  the  World. — He  came  into  the 
world,  stayed  awhile,  and  then  went  out 
of  the  world.  While  we  are  in  the  world 
we  make  many  mistakes  and  do  many 
foolish  things — perhaps  many  wicked 
things.  How  can  we  get  rid  of  the  re¬ 
membrance  of  them  all V  Jesus  has  made 
it  possible,  in  the  words  of  Paul,  nailing 
them  to  the  cross.  Yes,  frake  them  out 
and  nail  them  to  the  cross.  No  tacks  or 
shingle  nails,  or  even  clapboard  nails  or 
twenty-pennies,  but  a  good  sixty-penny 
spike  is  what  is  needed.  The  old  winds 
of  habit  will  blow  and  twist  and  wrench 
and  try  and  try  to  get  them  off,  and  send 
them  scuttling  after  us  to  trip  us  as  we 
go.  Having  nailed  our  sins  upon  His 
cross  and  thrown  away  the  hammer  and 
filled  our  hands  with  those  sheaves  we 
used  to  sing  about  in  the  little  red 
schoolhouse  we  are  ready  to  go  on  “unto 
the  Father.” 
Do  We  Go? — He  was  the  sample  man 
— the  Son  of  Man.  What  happened  to 
him  happens  to  us.  Something  happened. 
Christianity  was  dead;  it  was  shut  up  in 
the  tomb  with  Him.  Shut  up  and  sealed  up, 
and  a  guard  put  around  it  with  spears. 
The  disciples  were  locked  up  in  an  upper 
room,  and  were  crying  with  grief.  The 
whole  thing  was  dead.  The  spectators 
mocked  at  all  their  life  and  asked  about 
those  thrones  the  Man  was  going  to  give 
them.  It  is  hard  to  be  twitted.  Then 
something  happened.  There  is  a  perfect 
transformation.  The  scared  and  the  cry¬ 
ing  become  the  bravest  and  the  happiest. 
Nothing  can  daunt  them.  They  go  out 
to  face  and  conquer  the  world.  Some¬ 
thing  happened.  What  could  it  have 
been? 
Another  Easter. — And  yesterday  we 
had  another  Easter — you  know  it  is  a 
movable  feast.  So  we  move  it  around 
along  the  various  missions  to  suit  our¬ 
selves.  Yesterday  it  was  in  the  old 
church  down  country.  The  Parson  went 
down  Saturday  afternoon — some  16  miles 
— with  old  Jim,  as  the  roads  are  very 
bad.  The  men  were  working  on  some 
new  horse  sheds,  and  we  talked  it  over 
and  decided  to  have  a  party  that  night. 
So  the  Parson  pushed  on  the  mile  and  a 
half  further  through  the  mud  to  tell  a 
large  family  about  it,  and  to  talk  over 
Sunday  and  the  possible  baptism  of  a 
baby.  Here  the  Parson  stayed  to  supper 
with  the  nine  children  round  about,  and 
such  hustling,  getting  ready  for  that 
party !  The  Parson  helped  out  by  cut¬ 
ting  one  girl’s  hair — she  had  beautiful 
hair,  and  the  Parson  did  himself  one  on 
a  Dutch  cut.  Seven  of  us  went  back  in 
the  dark  and  mud  to  the  party. 
Jim  Does  His  Part. — Old  .Tim  has  to 
do  his  part  in  the  work.  The  Parson 
walked  home  with  the  people  where  he 
was  to  stay  all  night — about  a  mile — and 
let  this  man  take  .Tim  and  carry  the  chil¬ 
dren  home  and  keep  Jim  all  night  to 
bring  them  all  down  to  church  in  the 
morning.  We  had  10  down  from  that 
family.  The  baby  was  baptized,  and  we 
had  our  Easter.  Easter  Communion,  and 
such  a  nice  service  and  nice  time  as  we 
had  !  It  began  to  pour  about  half  through 
the  service.  Twenty-four  of  us  stayed  to 
dinner.  Then  old  Jim  and  the  Parson 
took  the  family  home.  What  a  night  and 
a  day  it  had  been  for  them.  The  father 
follows  the  sawmill.  And  how  it  poured  ! 
We  had  an  open  express  wagon,  and  the 
Parson  was  well  soaked  when  he  got 
home,  and  more  than  happy  with  the  trip 
he  had  had:  After  church  one  woman 
dreaded  a  long  trip  home  in  the  rain 
with  her  best  new  Spring  coat,  so  the 
Parson  stepped  into  his  supply  room  and 
brought  a  big,  nice  coat  to  put  on  over 
hers,  and  another  woman  dreaded  ruining 
her  hat,  so  the  Parson  brought  her  out  a 
hat — a  big  wide-brimmed  one — to  wear 
instead.  She  left  hers  in  church,  and  the 
children  can  come  down  and  get  it — 
nothing  like  a  church  being  prepared  to 
do  a  good  turn  for  her  people  ! 
Another  Reason.  —  As  the  Parson 
writes  there  is  a  man  over  in  the  lot 
loading  up  cornstalks.  It  is  the  first  time 
the  Parson  ever  had  stalks  out  all  Win¬ 
ter.  But,  he  was  away  all  the  Fall,  and 
they  did  not  get  seen  to.  He  found  a 
man  on  the  trip  yesterday  who  was  all 
out  of  fodder,  lie  told  him  about  these 
stalks.  He  has  to  come  seven  good  miles 
over  the  hills  in  the  mud  to  get  them 
with  his  pair  of  steers.  Luckily  the  old 
collect  says  the  Lord  will  give  more  than 
we  “desire  or  deserve,”  for  the  Parson 
certainly  deserves  nothing  for  giving  the 
man  the  stalks — he  has  looked  at  them 
up  in  the  lot  far  too  long  a  time  as  it  is. 
It  is  surprising,  however,  to  see  how 
bright  and  good  these  stalks  were  after 
having  been  out  all  Winter. 
The  Geese. — The  two  geese  laid  24 
eggs,  and  then  both  went  to  sitting  on 
the  same  nest.  Now  it  will  never  do  to 
set  two  geese  anywhere  near  each  other. 
'Phe  Parson  did  that  once,  and  one  day 
lie  found  one  goose  with  18  eggs  and  the 
nrher  with  six.  In  the  end  he  never  got 
a  goose  out  of  both  hatches.  So  he  set 
one  of  these  geese  and  broke  the  other  up. 
She  ought  to  lay  again.  A  woman  down 
country  broke  up  a  goose  three  times  last 
year.  The  Parson  has  three  hens  sitting 
on  goose  eggs.  Eggs  sell  around  here  for 
all  the  way  from  20  cents  to  35  cents. 
Some  people  never  have  any  luck  setting 
geese,  but  the  Parson  has  always  had 
good  luck.  You  want  to  take  away  the 
little  goslings  as  soon  as  hatched  till  you 
take  the  old  mother  off  the  nest,  as  she 
Where  the  Geese  Lire  X ear  the  Brook 
is  apt  to  step  on  them.  One  woman  tells 
the  Parson  she  has  put  seven  goose  eggs 
under  a  hen,  but  this  is  too  many — five 
is  enough  for  any  hen.  One  woman  has 
put  hers  in  an  incubator,  and  it  will  be 
interesting  to  see  how  they  come  out. 
Last  year  a  woman  down  country,  when 
the  hen  left  the  nest  after  10  days  or  so, 
put  the  goose  eggs  right  in  the  incubator, 
which  happened  to  be  running  at  that 
time,  and  hatched  every  egg. 
Trucks  and  Wood. — IIow  far  does  it 
pay  to  carry  wood  to  market,  and  at  what 
price  if  you  can  use  a  truck,  especially  a 
one-ton  Ford  truck,  worm  drive?  That 
is  a  question  well  worth  discussion.  Those 
who  live  not  further  than  eight  miles 
from  market  on  a  fairly  good  road  seem 
to  have  done  well,  but  if  you  get  much 
further  than  that  on  a  common  country 
dirt  road,  does  it  pay?  The  Parson 
talked  it  over  with  a  woman  down  coun¬ 
try  last  Saturday.  He  lunched  away  at 
some  fine  sauerkraut  and  other  good 
things.  In  the  former  days  she  and  her 
man  had  worked  hard,  sent  the  two  boys 
to  school  and  paid  off  every  cent  of  the 
heavy  mortgage  with  the  one  old  horse. 
Now  they  have  a  truck,  and  both  boys 
are  out.  of  school  and  working  at  home, 
and  hard  workers,  too,  and  she  and  her 
man  work  just  as  hard,  and  there  is  noth¬ 
ing  but  bills  and  debts.  The  truck  takes 
it  all.  These  people  live  about  two  miles 
common  road  and  seven  miles  State  road 
from  market.  They  got  around  $14  for 
wood,  stove  length.  She  figured  it  took 
every  other  load  to  run  the  truck.  In 
other  words,  it  took  half  the  wood  to  get 
if  to  market — for  transportation.  They 
take  half  a  cord  to  a  load.  It  would  seem 
that  where  one  is  really  going  into  the 
wood  business  like  this  a  big  three-ton 
truck  that  will  take  an  enormous  load  of 
dry  wood  is  often  a  paying  proposition. 
But  it  ought  to  be  dry.  It  chrtainly 
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