The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
1341 
usually  considered  a  luxury  at  Hope 
Farm,  but  what  could  be  too  good  for 
apple  pickers  on  Columbus  Day?  I  soon 
had  a  bed  of  hot  coals  on  top  of  that 
rock,  and  my  daughter  held  that  steak 
over  the  fire,  twisting  and  turning  it 
while  it  slowly  browned.  Pepper  and 
salt  and  butter  went  on  it  from  time  to 
time,  until  our  folks  could  stand  it  no 
longer.  They  just  had  to  eat  it.  Mean¬ 
while  the  girl  had  held  a  frying-pan  over 
the  fire  until  the  slices  of  bacon  which  it 
contained  sizzled  and  curled  in  a  way  to 
make  your  mouth  water.  Then  they  had 
several  Baldwin  apples  pared  and  sliced, 
and  these  were  put  in  the  bacon  fat.  for 
fried  apples  go  well  at  a  picnic  dinner. 
You  should  have  been  there  with  us.  The 
sky  was  clear  and  a  gentle  wind  was 
blowing.  The  woods  were  in  full  Autumn 
glory  of  red  and  yellow  and  green.  Here 
and  there  in  the  orchard  above  us,  red 
Baldwins  and  yellow  Pippins  peeped  out 
through  the  leaves.  All  around  us  the 
yellow  shocks  of  corn  stood  on  guard.  And 
we  sat  just  above  the  spring  with  one 
supreme  ambition,  which  was  to  put  the 
steak  and  bacon  completely  out  of  sight. 
And  the  ambition  was  completely  satis¬ 
fied.  At  the  end  there  remained  only  a 
few  well-picked  bones.  If  my  children 
had  been  there  with  me  we  could  easily 
have  imagined  that  we  were  hunters  in 
some  far  Western  wild.  This  steak  would 
have  been  some  buffalo  or  antelope,  and 
one  of  us  would  have  been  on  the  watch 
for  the  enemy.  This  group  of  prosaic 
teachers  and  housekeeper  found  that  steak 
quite  to  their  taste  as  it  was  without  any 
stretching  of  the  imagination.  There  was 
no  danger  that  any  of  the  present  com¬ 
pany  would  go  to  the  stake  except  the 
steak  itself  and  who  has  any  sympathy 
for  that?  H.  w.  c. 
(To  Be  Continued) 
The  Pastoral  Parson 
(Continued  from  page  1339) 
cost  $64.  A  sheared  pinion  gear  key  and 
new  gear  on  the  Ford  would  cost  some¬ 
thing  like  $1.30 — the  boys  putting  them 
“1-  The  same  on  the  big  car  cost  just 
$3  <.50 — the  garage  putting  them  in. 
Luckily  the  bearing  near  the  pinion  gear 
on  the  big  car  had  not  worn  out.  A  new 
one  would  have  cost  just  $20.50,  while  the 
same  bearing  on  the  Ford  costs  just  $1. 
1  tie  Local  Fair. — We  feel  down  to 
the  country  churches  that  we  must  make 
more  ado  next  year  over  the  big  local 
fair.  It  was  not  talked  up  at  all,  but 
one  of  our  men  exhibited  corn  and  an- 
other  potatoes,  both  getting  second 
prizes.  \\  e  plan  to  get  right  at  the  mat¬ 
ter  for  next  year.  One  got  second  on 
dent  corn  and  the  other  on  potatoes.  Our 
\  eimont  seed  potatoes  turned  out  fine  in 
every  instance.  The  church  jokingly 
awarded  a  jackknife  to  the  raiser  of 
the  best  crop  from  our  church  seed.  The 
agent  has  been  down  and  declared  it  a 
draw  between  two  of  the  bins  So  we 
may  have  to  get  two  knives.  All  this 
seed  cost  them  only  a  dollar  a  bushel- 
buying  certified  seconds  in  Vermont.  One 
man  planted  a  bushel  of  seed  for  the 
church.  He  got  10  bushels  of  No.  I. 
llns  will  net  the  church  about  $17.50. 
A  cheek  for  $10.50  for  six  bushels  that 
the  1  arson  sold  already  was  put  on  the 
plate  yesterday.  It  is  proposed  that  each 
farmer  connected  with  the  church  plant 
a  certain  amount  of  potato  seed-  for  the 
*  u  *  Quite  an  idea.  Why  not?  Most 
of  the  farmers  around  here  are  quite  con¬ 
vinced  that  it  certainly  pays  to  get  cer¬ 
tified  Northern  _  seed  every  Spring.  Es¬ 
pecially  when  it  practically  is  an  even 
swap  as  far  as  price  is  concerned. 
Rowdyism.— It  is  terrible  the  way 
some  towns  will  let  a  certain  rowdy 
element  run  right  over  them.  This  gang 
that  stands  around  in  the  entry  or  look¬ 
ing  through  the  window,  sucking  cigar¬ 
ettes  outside.  Now  that  Hallowe’en  is 
coming,  there  are  villages  in  this  State 
quite  terrified  by  such  gangs.  In  one  vil¬ 
lage  last  year  where  a  man  had  put  up 
a  nice  new  fence  with  gates  to  match 
not  only  were  the  gates  taken  off,  but 
utterly  smashed  to  pieces,  so  that  new 
ones  had  to  be  procured.  It  is  really  a 
night  of  vandalism  and  terror.  Another 
family  in  this  same  village  found  that 
their  well  had  been  polluted — deliberately 
spoiled  so  that  they  could  not  use  it  for 
a  long  time.  What  a  sad  commentary 
on  the  work  of  the  many  churches  in 
these  New  England  communities  There 
is  no  excuse  whatever  for  towns  having 
such  a  lawless  element  year  after  year. 
To  grapple  with  this  rowdy  element  in 
our  towns  is  a  crucial  test  for  the 
churches  today.  It  is  to  solve  such  prob¬ 
lems  that  the  seminaries  must  train  men 
for  the  ministry,  but  right  here  let  the 
Parson  say  that  while  the  minister  is  to 
help  bring  up  young  boys  so  they  will 
not  be  of  that  class  yet  it  is  not  up  to 
him  to  put  the  law  on  the  big'  grown-up 
fellows.  It  is  up  to  the  citizens  of  !he 
community.  The  way  that  the  citizens 
of  some  communities  will  sit  around  at 
an  entertainment  or  lecture  and  allow  a 
few  toughs  to  disturb  the  gathering  as 
though  they  were  afraid  of  them,  is  some¬ 
thing  astounding. 
Practical  Work.  —  In  the  Divinity 
school  where  the  Parson  teaches,  we  are 
trying  to  give  the  men  some  real  practical 
work.  A  week  ago  the  Parson  took  two 
classes  to  visit  a  parish  church  on  Sun¬ 
day.  We  went  through  the  Sunday 
school,  noting  the  lessons  taught  and  ask¬ 
ing  the  teachers  how  they  liked  them, 
etc.  Then  we  all  stayed  to  the  service, 
talking  over  the  whole  workings  of  the 
church  in  class.  Last  week  the  Parson 
had  15  of  the  men  down  country  to  see 
how  we  had  re-arranged  our  churches. 
We  visited  the  people  too,  and  went  into 
the  public  one-room  school  where  the  Par¬ 
son  told  the  children  a  story.  Then  the 
students  went  to  another  church  where 
the  men  were  working  on  the  new  horse 
sheds,  and  the  men  put  in  a  couple  of 
hours  of  good  work  here.  Some  of  the 
men  trimmed  up  the  church  with  Au¬ 
tumn  leaves  and  before  leaving  we  had 
a  short  service  together.  We  called  on 
one  family  where  the  mother  has  had  15 
children.  Four  of  these  children  walked 
two  miles  to  church  each  way  yesterday. 
We  spend  much  time  in  talking  over  the 
work  of  running  a  parish  and  the  ques¬ 
tions  that  constantly  come  up  in  work. 
How  to  deal  with  human  nature  is  what 
the  ministers  need  and  a  good  deal  more 
of  humor  and  humanity  is  what  the  ser¬ 
mons  i.eed. 
Company  in  Church. — 'Such  a  fine 
time  as  we  had  down  to  church  yester¬ 
day.  The  foliage  was  just  perfect  and  the 
Parson  talked  about  the  appreciation  of 
beauty  in  the  country  and  especially  in 
the  Autumn.  IIow  many  of  us  work  and 
toil  amidst  all  this  splendor  and  scarcely 
notice  it  ourselves,  much  less  teach  our 
children  to  enjoy  it.  The  schools  teach 
more  about  wild  flowers  than  they  used 
to;  at  least  they  couldn’t  teach  less,  but 
oughtn’t  they  to  make  much  more  of  the 
joy  and  beauty  which  the  country  af¬ 
fords.  Could  we  substitute  a  walk  in  the 
fields  and  woods  for  a  mad  race  in  a 
Ford  car?  Some  job,  the  Parson  guesses. 
We  had  a  reporter  for  a  magazine  down 
all  day  yesterday  and  a  long  talk  we  had 
here  at  the  house  when  we  got  home. 
Then  there  were  old  friends  to  visit  us 
who  had  been  there  before,  and  who  had 
done  a  great  deal  for  us,  and  they  did 
a  great  deal  for  the  church  and  the  Par¬ 
son’s  work  yesterday.  IIow  good  of  them 
to  come  and  cheer  us  and  worship  with 
us  and  talk  with  the  people  who  live  way 
down  on  the  lonely  roads.  One  family 
had  ten  in  church  yesterday — two  com¬ 
pany  and  eight  of  their  own.  That  was 
not  a  bad  showing.  But  the  Sunday  be¬ 
fore  we  had  a  family  of  10  present.  The 
mother  sat  at  one  end  of  the  pew  and 
the  father  at  the  other  and  eight  chil¬ 
dren  sat  between.  All  the  10  stayed  for 
dinner.  That  day  we  had  14  visitors — 
four  carloads  coming  about  25  miles. 
The  Western  Trip. — Yes,  the  Par¬ 
son  is  planning  to  go  to  St.  Louis  in 
November.  He  leaves  here  the  last  day 
of  October,  speaking  that  night  to  a 
group  of  150  men  in  this  State,  and  then 
filling  three  or  four  engagements  in  Penn¬ 
sylvania.  He  expects  to  learn  much  on 
this  trip.  He  will  immensely  enjoy  meet¬ 
ing  the  people.  On  the  way  back  he  ex¬ 
pects  to  come  by  way  of  Chicago  and 
speak  several  times  in  New  York  State. 
If  he  could  only  tell  the  members  of  The 
R.  N.-Y.  family  when  he  saw  them,  what 
a  host  of  good  friends  he  would  find.  Let 
them  carry  the  paper  sticking  out  of 
their  pockets  and  perhaps  he  will  see 
them.  He  ought  to  be  as  well  off  as  the 
fellow  who  was  looking  for  the  man  with 
whom  he  had  a  bad  mix-up  the  night  be¬ 
fore.  “He  bit  off  a  piece  of  my  thumb,” 
said  the  man  “and  I  am  looking  every¬ 
where  for  him  to  make  him  settle  for  it.” 
“But  how.  can  you  tell  him  if  you  should 
see  him?”  the  man  asked.  “Oh,  I  guess 
that  will  be  all  right,”  said  the  man  con¬ 
fidently,  “you  see,  I  have  his  ear  in  my 
pocket.” 
Spruce  From  Seed 
What  is  the  proper  time  to  plant  seed 
from  spruce  trees,  and  how?  Would  seed 
two  years  old  still  be  good?  m.  e.  r. 
The  cones  should  be  gathered  when  the 
seeds  are  fully  matured.  The  seed  are 
usually  stored  in  a  dry  place  over  Winter. 
If  the  cones  are  tight  in  the  Spring  they 
should  be  placed  in  a'  warm  place,  pos¬ 
sibly  even  in  an  oven,  until  the  scales 
spread.  The  seed  can  then  be  planted 
eiosel.v  in  rows  in  a  well-prepared  seed 
bed.  The  following  Spring  the  seedlings 
should  be  transplanted  to  insure  strong 
trees.  Your  seed  that  is  two  years  old 
will  probably  be  all  right  if  it  has  been 
stored  in  a  dry  place  and  has  been  well 
taken  care  of.  g.  h.  c. 
A  Corn  Crop  on  Shares 
Next  Spring  I  wish  to  plant  my  corn 
on  shares  with  someone  who  will  plow  the 
ground  and  cultivate  the  corn  for  me.  I 
will  furnish  all  seed  and  fertilizer,  will 
help  him  plant  it  and  cut  it  in  the  Fail. 
Will  give  him  all  the  cornstalks  and  half 
of  the  corn.  Do  you  consider  this  a  fair 
proposition?  If  not,  what  would  you 
suggest?  R.  T.  H. 
That  is  about  the  most  liberal  proposi¬ 
tion  we  have  heard  of.  The  other  man 
gets  the  better  end  of  the  bargain. 
Ivy  Poisoning 
I  have  read  so  many  suggestions  in 
The  R.  N.-Y.  for  relief  from  ivy  poison¬ 
ing.  and  wish  to  send  my  simple  remedy. 
I  have  always  rtoisoned  very  easily,  and 
have  tried  everything  recommended  and 
find  nothing  so  beneficial  to  me,  so  sim¬ 
ple  and  always  at  hand,  as  laundry  soap, 
making  a  lather  and  letting  it  dry.  While 
that  may  help  some  and  not  others,  it  is 
very  easily  tried.  Some  get  relief  by 
using  hot  water  and  laundry  soap  and  not 
wiping  it  off.  C.  e.  b. 
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